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  And thirty eight. All Bills can win it here, Wake puts it down.
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  The kick is on the way out and he's got on the bill.
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  Good one, hell good one. He one. They won a party one
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  up thirty eight Incredible. What a combat by my Bill Jackson Bills perfect record
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  Family Friends, loved One's Enemies, Friend of Mees Wizards which is Muggles
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  Mudblood's People of Middle Earth. To a special postgame edition of Disguised Coverage,
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  show on. I'm your host, Anthony pro Haska. Find me on Twitter
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  at Pro Underscore Underscore ant that's Pro two Underscores a nt in tonight's episode of
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  disguised coverage slash potential group therapy for those who are oh, pretty disillusioned after
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  the poor performance for the Buffalo Bills in Week two of the preseason against the
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  Pittsburgh Steelers. I'm looking in the live chat right now and some of the
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  comments are not great, which is understandable for some, and we're gonna dive
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  into all that in tonight's episode. I don't think there's any mystery to lead
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  into what this episode is going to be about, similar to what it was
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  last week after the Colts game, diving into you know, Bill's postgame,
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  who they just played, the who's the what's the how's the wise, the
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  good, the bad, the positives, the standouts, the structural pieces,
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  players, coaches, anything and everything. I just looked really quick, and
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  I just see the two comments back to back. I just see ooof and
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  then I see that was brutal and yeah, it was less than ideal,
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  and we're gonna dive into all of it, but as we do here on
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  the show. This is funny because AJ also tweeted this at me. AJ
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  says, I'm here for the group therapy. I like it, well done.
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  I respect it as we do here on the show. I love the
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  engagement. I love the back and forth, whether it's the engagement in the
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  chat with you know you guys, with you guys and girls with each other
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  or with me the back and the fourth Any questions, thoughts, comments,
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  concerns, philosophies, ideologies, maxims, anything that you folks have, throw
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  it up into the live chat, especially after a game like this where emotions,
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  maybe even though it is the preseason, emotions may be running high for
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  some. So whatever you got, throw it up into the chat. I
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  will bring up anything and everything as much as I can throughout the entirety of
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  this episode. As always, super chats get priority because one I respect the
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  monetary donation. Two, I see the color and it attracts me away from
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  my notes and I pull it up asap. And again, before we dive
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  into the detail analysis pieces and all that, I want to start with some
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  mopening thoughts and really questions from the live chat from you folks. So I'm
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  just going to kind of scroll back and go through and see where's where's your
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  heads at before I really get into kind of what I think. In terms
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  of breaking this down. I always like to gauge the temperature of the room
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  and see where everybody is right now, Kyle coming in and saying that was
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  certainly something. Oh, this is se and this is where the takes go
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  very far. This comment here is says nice carry over from the Bengals playoff
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  game dot dot no defense. That's a bit man, we're getting into that
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  already. Okay, okay, okay, Oh what an experience to say what
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  today was in the least lmao. Kayer Elam is a bust. Wow,
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  we're going hard. Okay okay. Oh, Rich with some positivity saying that
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  game was perfect for them. Mcdermia to tell them their crap and they will
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  work harder to get ready for the season. Oh. Shout out here to
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  Tommy Doyle taking off the field on the cart in the air cast. Dude
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  who went down last year with the torn acl looked like he avoided serious injury
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  last week, came back played this week and I don't like to see injury,
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  so I closed my eyes. I saw him down on the ground.
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  I looked away at the replay or when the replay came, so I don't
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  know how bad it potentially looked. But shout out to Tommy Doyle. Hope
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  he is as good as possibly can be. You know, it's never good
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  to take get taken off on the car to let alone in the air cast.
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  So prayers and hopes and well wishes out to him and hopefully it's somehow
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  nothing and if it is something serious, you know the best of him for
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  potential speed recovery. And hope he gets back as healthy and as strong as
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  possible. What else, Yeah, you know, poor Doyle just got back
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  from the injury. Aiden coming in and saying it's preseason and I already need
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  a hug. Nick says, I'm not too optimistic on the old line.
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  Walter saying the rookies were good. At least another another person who's here for
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  the group therapy. I respect it, and I respect it. Marty,
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  Marty just going for the throw, burning all down and fire everybody. That's
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  fair. That's very fair. Elizabeth coming in and saying the old line is
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  more concerning to me than the defense, Nick saying they look out coached.
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  Most of the penalties were pre snapped. The refs buried them too. Steelers
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  got all of the calls, Patty asking why why so sloppy In terms of
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  the performance for the Bills. I appreciate Teddy. Teddy coming in and saying
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  I love Anthony's intro more than anything in the world. I appreciate you,
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  Teddy. I love that you love the intro. Fantastic. Dobb's coming in
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  and saying Dawkins nearly got Josh killed twice. Aiden, I'm trying to think
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  optimistically, but I'm hoping the offensive line penalties and poor performance can begin to
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  fix themselves with time as they Gell sal coming in, trying to be a
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  voice of reasons, saying there's no prizes for preseason wins. L ol,
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  Relax everyone, Oh, Marty going for the throat again. Set a point
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  spread Coward Spencer Brown versus turnstyle. Oh oh, Cole coming in. I
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  think it's Cole. I found out from mispronouncing that. Apologies, but Cole
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  coming in saying it may bee preseason, but looking that bad is unacceptable.
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  Walter sayings similar thoughts here. I don't care if it's the preseason. Thirteen
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  penalties is a concern, and most of them were with the starters. Tiny
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  Van Living say I'm just here. I'm just here to overreact. Carl saying,
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  Aunt keep talking about the offensive tackles in the old line, is don
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  that bad? We're going to get into it as we start to roll through
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  here on this episode. You know a lot of the comments that I've gone
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  through already reading from you folks, and I don't think it's any I don't
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  think it's any shock or any type of novel idea at this point. The
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  performance of the offensive line and oh awesome. I'm glad to pronounce it right.
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  I think it very much cool, awesome. I think the performance of
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  the offensive line was and I shouldn't say offensive line. I think a lot
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  of it gets grouped in together. But I don't want to say as always,
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  as I said last week, and as I say all the time,
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  consistently offensive line and defensive line play as well as run fits as well as
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  secondary play. I always like to reserve final evaluation until I've seen the All
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  twenty two tape you can really focus on everything. Getting a proper view from
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  a value and getting a proper view and or evaluation from broadcast tape is not
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  ideal and in my eyes, not appropriate for offensive line play, defensive line
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  play, run fits in secondary play. So I do want to say,
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  you know, take all this with a bit of a grain assault from that
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  perspective, I appreciate this, and as a brave, brave man, you
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  know, the night is dark as before the dawn, and so I figured
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  I'd just throw myself out here to the wolves and see what we got from
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  everybody in the live chat my live comments. But I appreciate you recognizing my
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  courage and my strength in this moment. But yeah, I don't want to
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  think it's any surprise if anyone is concerned about the offensive line. And I
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  say offensive line just as a broad term, but I think the tack will
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  play again. Not a shock of surprised anyone was extremely concerning tonight. I
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  think we'll start there on the offensive side of the ball. Man. It
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  just for me, and if you are a regular watcher or listener of this
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  show, my concern for the right tackle position has been noted since last offseason.
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  Oh, this is a really good comment or question here from effort and
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  saying biggest concern right tackle or middle linebacker. That's a for me. I'm
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  gonna say right tackle. But that would be an interesting poll to have.
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  I might put that on Twitter. I'll try. I'm gonna make sure I
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  give you credit if I do that, that's a very good potential juxtaposition there.
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  You know, I've been banging the drum for support at the right tackle
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  position all off season, and not just from a Spencer Brown perspective, but
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  from an overall depth perspective. You run out a group that you know,
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  until Shell was signed, it looked like you were rolling out Spencer Brown and
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  then Questenberry was going to be the backupver Tommy Doyle was going to be the
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  backup. And then you're sitting there and looking looking at that group from top
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  to bottom and it's not ideal. Then they bring in Brandon Shell, and
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  Shell wasn't great with Miami, but it's like, okay, you know,
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  I guess serviceable as an upside, has played in the league, has some
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  starting reps under his belt, but still not ideal. Right tackle has been
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  my biggest concern for this team back to back years. And the question or
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  the caveat that has been thrown in with Spencer Brown left and right when anytime
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  there's been evaluation or critique of his play. And this is what I'm about
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  to say, as I've noted on the show before, it has been and
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  is fair. You know, last year's performance, the back injury. Injuries
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  throughout the off season in preseason didn't get to gel with the rest of the
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  offensive line. The injury carried into the season. It affected his offseason prep
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  and the chemistry with the offensive line, It affected his in season performance,
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  so on and stole forth. The YadA YadA, YadA, YadA YadA.
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  Okay, understood. But the point with it, with all of it was,
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  Yes, he was hurt. Yes, it's understood that he played eight
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  man football in high school. Yes, it's understood that he went to the
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  University of Northern Iowa. Yes, it's understood how raw and green he is
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  and how much of a high ceiling Spencer Brown has as a player. That's
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  all been very understood. But the pushback for me, anytime I've had those
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  comments given back, or when I've received pushback on my evaluation or fear of
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  Spencer Brown at the right tackle spot has always just kind of been, well,
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  what does his floor look like? You know? If you if your
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  thought is while he was hurt last year, it's like, Okay, I
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  agree, that's fair, But if he wasn't hurt, what would his performance
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  have looked like? What would his floor be That's been my biggest cause for
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  concern with him. I think the ceiling is still there for Spencer Brown.
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  You see the size and the athleticism and some of the traits and tools very
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  fun right, the ceiling is there. The question for me with Spencer Brown
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  going into last season, going into this season has consistently been what is the
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  floor? His play has been very mercurial. The up and down roller coaster
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  way that he has performed at the right tackle position gives me very large cause
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  for concern, especially at a position that you need consistency because it's a premium
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  position and it protects the most valuable asset on the offense and arguably probably the
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  most valuable asset on the team in your quarterback. And in this instance,
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  Josh Allen and arc Oman says, you know, guys, it's preseason totally
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  meaningless. There is, you know some of that to a degree. I
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  don't want to blow everything completely out of out of prop portion here. You
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  know, the Bills not showing up great today or tonight in any way,
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  shape or form against the Steelers, the penalties, poor special teams play,
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  poor offensive play, not I don't think the defense was as bad as some
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  people are making it out to be, but not necessarily what you want to
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  see. Overall, I don't think this performance means the Bills are done and
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  the Bills are terrible. It just in the same manner that if the Bills
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  had blown out the Steelers in this game. I don't think it means the
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  Bills are guaranteed for the Super Bowl under the best team in the league.
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  So it is the preseason, But I disagree with the comment here that says
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  it's totally meaningless. You do get glimpses in the preseason of what players can
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  be and what they will be for the season. And in this instance,
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  in a game where your starters went up against the opponents starters at a position
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  okay, just staying on the offensive line right now, and just speaking of
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  the right tackle position right now, you went up against and actually the offensive
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  line in general, but you went up against the T. J. Watts
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  and Cam Haywords and Alex Highsmith's of the world in Pittsburgh, a very formidable
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  defensive line. And yes, the sample size was small because you know,
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  they only played well, the Steelers starters only played one like half of the
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  first quarter if that on offense and defense, but I think the defensive starters
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  played more than the offensive starters. But it's not totally meaningless because you are
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  getting real reps against high caliber opponents. And while that performance from tonight's game
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  may not be the end all be all for the season, it means something.
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  Right. You want to test your metal against the best of the best,
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  and you go into a game, even if it's only for one rep,
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  even if it's only for drive, you are going up against other NFL
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  talent. You want to see what you got. And maybe it's a little
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  too much to take one individual performance in a vacuum and extrapolate it and use
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  it to say this is what this team is going to be for the entirety
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  of twenty twenty three, which I don't necessarily agree with, but I won't
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  sit here and say that, you know, just because it's a preseason game,
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  the performances tonight we're meaningless, especially in regards to some one like a
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  Spencer Brown, who his performance tonight mirrors what we've seen from him previously,
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  and so I think it's fair to see the performance tonight and think, okay,
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  kind of we're strapped into another up and down Spencer Brown roller coaster mercurial
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  performance in twenty twenty three. I think it's fair to Deon Dawkins. I
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  think is a bit of a different card because we have seen him bounce back,
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  we have seen consistency, we have seen good tackle play from him at
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  the left tackle spot. I don't think Deon Dawkins was good tonight by any
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  stretch. But writing him off completely again in a preseason game, I think
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  is a bit too dramatic. And that's where you kind of have to draw
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  the line. And I'm granted maybe some of it is arbitrary, but and
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  see this is the comment here from Coal saying we're all worried about Spencer Brown,
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  but we may have to worry about Deon Dawkins now too, And Low
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  comes in and says Dawkins look bad man, And I agree, like he
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  had several really rough reps wanting high Smith that is in my brain. One
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  against Nick Herbig, who shout out to Nick Herbig, whose tape I liked
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  at Wisconsin, But like a lot of people like kind of worried, like,
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  well, his size and his frame, where does he play? Is
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  he gonna have to play off ball? Can he live on the edge at
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  his size and weight and frame and lengthen all that man Nick Herbig had himself
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  a night off the edge for the Steelers. He was an absolute terror.
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  Dawkins did look bad, but again, you can at least point to performances
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  from him in the past that make you think okay like and also there are
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  different situations. Deon Dawkins is a legitimate veteran in this league. He's been
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  successful in this league. We've seen good baseline tackle play from Dion Dawkins.
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  I think it's fair to be concerned anytime someone has a bad game. You
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  don't want to see anyone on your team performed bad ever, let alone have
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  a very bad performance where you just get whooped and worked in a variety of
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  ways. Nobody's trying to see any of their starters go out and get molly
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  whopped in a game like Nobody wants to see that. But I think for
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  Dawkins, as non ideal as this performance was for him, you can try
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  and play a silver lining game, and I think there is I think it
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  is fair to realistically fair to see the performance tonight, take it as it
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  is in a vacuum and kind of put it in that vacuum and think that
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  he won't be that poor come regular season time. And again you can point
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  to performances that he's had in the past. Even when he's struggled, he's
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  rebounded nicely at times. Lowe says, I'm just afraid for Josh Allen.
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  I understand I'm afraid for him too, But I think Dawkins you can at
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  least point to and say, we know what he can be, we know
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  the baseline of play that he has. Everyone has a bad game from time
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  to time. And also, as much as I hate to say this,
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  it is a preseason game. Sometimes maybe dudes just don't show up. And
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  not to give Dawkins a pass at all, because he had several really really
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  rough reps, but this team didn't really show up at all in this preseason
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  game, which you know, when they mentioned on the broadcast a bunch it's
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  really odd for a Sean McDermott team, really ever. To not see them
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  show up in all three phases of the game, especially early on, was
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  very odd and a bit concerning, but again not a regularity for this team.
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  But you know, I think you look at Dawkins' performance and I think
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  it's fair to be concerned right, especially because there's a decent amount of tape
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  and sample size at this point going back to last season where he's had some
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  rough performances and he's had some up and down performances. But I think you
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  can trust in him to a degree to kind of level that out and be
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  more of that baseline tackle that he's been, that above average tackle. I'm
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  not saying he's a top ten dude, but a guy who is a reliable
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  piece at left tackle, you know what you're going to get. You have
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  that consistency, you have that stability there. Again, not a great performance
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  tonight from Dawkins at all, but you can hang your head on to a
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  degree on what he's been in the past. Granted, his more recent play
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  going back to last year towards the end of the year and throughout the entirety
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  of the season has been more inconsistent. But the bigger current concern for me
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  still is on that right side at right tackle. And I don't this isn't
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  also like and I told you so a moment, because again it's preseason.
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  We'll see what happens come regular season. But I was very concerned coming out
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  of free agency, coming out of the draft that the Bills didn't address the
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  right tackle position really at all. I thought they did a very good job
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  addressing the interior of the offensive line. They go out and they sign Connor
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  McGovern, Mconnor McGovern. They bring in David Edwards, they draft O Cyrus
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  Torrance. They reinforce that interior. They gave quality attention. They addressed potential
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  starters, and they addressed it. They addressed it. They addressed depth.
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  Like David Edwards, who is most likely going to be your second string left
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  guard, has been a tackle or tackle you like some falling apart early here.
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  He's been a starting guard on good football teams in this league. Him
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  being your second string guard, grandis had some injury pieces, Right, That's
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  fun having that there, right, Okay? Cool? Like good on the
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  interior. You draft O Cyrus Torans and then you get to play the game
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  of Okay, does Torrents went out and he's your right guard? Or does
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  Bates went out at right guard? Bates isn't above average right guard, not
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  a stud not in all pro, but a quality dude there and above average
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  piece. They reinforced the interior, the right tackle spot. In the tackle
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  spot as a whole We really didn't see anything. They in essence ran back
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  the same group with Dawkins and Brown. They bring back Quest and Barry.
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  You've got Tommy Doyle in the mix. Now I know you've got Vandamark and
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  other pieces there. They bring in Shell, but they essentially ran the same
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  group back as last year and essentially ran back the group that would indicate this
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  is funny. As I stumble over myself and Cool says, don't worry that
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  you can't be worse than the Bills were. That's brutal, but I appreciate
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  you bringing in Shell for running it back with Quest and Barry, running it
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  back with Doyle, all these guys. What we essentially were told was Spencer
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  Brown is going to be that right tackle. They believed in him, whether
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  it's you know, because they really believe that the injury hindered him, or
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  they believe that Aaron Kromer could get the best e of him. And again,
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  tonight's performance does not mean for anyone, but specifically we're talking about Spencer
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  Brown here. Tonight's performance does not mean that Spencer Brown is dead in the
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  water. He's gonna have a horrible twenty twenty three and everything is off.
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  And I say that as a person who has been very, very very concerned
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  about this right tackle spot for two years. But at this point it's extremely
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  concerning. And if you are still on that position, or on that hill
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  or on that pillar saying that, you know, Spencer Brown's going to turn
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  it around and he's going to start to scratch that ceiling and he's going to
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  become more consistent. Like I've said all offseason, you basing that your your
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  statement there, You're basing it on hope more than you are actual evidence of
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  what you are seeing. And hope is not a plan. And it seems
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  like Spencer Brown being the right tackle of the future or of twenty twenty three.
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  From a consistency standpoint, it just seems like with every game it becomes
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  more and more hope based. He struggles with technique, he got lifted off
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  the ground in this game by Marcus Golden on a really bad rap, he
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  gets beat around the arc, he gets beat in a variety of ways.
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  It's concerning. So again, I don't think you can see this game and
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  right off Spencer Brown completely and say this is who he is for twenty twenty
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  three. It's over he's done, But man, his performances continue to be
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  concerning. From a past protection standpoint, I thought he had several really good
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  run reps. From a rum blocks standpoint. Last week against the Colts,
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  he and Osyrus Torrence worked well in tandem with one another. And I think
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  Spencer Brown's run blocking has always kind of been a plus for him. That's
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  where you really get to see him lean into his physicality. You see him
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  get to lean into his strength and his size. I love what he does
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  in space as a run blocker. But then even in this game tonight against
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  the Steelers, he pulls on that tackle rap play, goes to lead through
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  I believe through the garden tackle, you know, wraps around from the right
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  to go through the left, and he just gets popped by a linebacker and
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  stop dead in his tracks and I think false backwards, flat on his back.
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  And I've just never seen him get blown up like that. Now,
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  maybe he didn't see the backer coming, maybe it was just a wrong place,
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  wrong time type of thing, but he's always been able to hang his
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  hat on his performance as a rum blocker. When I saw that, that
• 22:15
  maybe even more concerned. But the past protection piece has always been the biggest
• 22:19
  thing for Spencer Brown, and I think seeing that performance tonight, you can't
• 22:22
  help but continue to worry, like the Bills are in need of a consistent
• 22:27
  starting right tackle and they do not have one on the roster. Right now,
• 22:30
  I'm gonna stop because I see a super chat from Carl. I appreciate
• 22:33
  you being here first and foremost like the comments you've been cycling in throughout the
• 22:37
  entire episode and make it very much of the super jat. You're awesome.
• 22:40
  I appreciate you. Carl says the right tackle is in front of Josh,
• 22:42
  and he sees when Brown gets beat and scrambles out and makes plays. Left
• 22:48
  tackle protects his blindside. Josh does not have eyes in the back of his
• 22:51
  head, and bad left tackle play can get him killed. That's a fair
• 22:56
  point. Also, yeah, it's not great either way. Like, at
• 23:00
  least if you're getting you know, burn at your right tackle spot in your
• 23:03
  right handed quarterback, you least, in theory, are able to see it
• 23:07
  more, whether peripherally or with more of your vision as you said, so
• 23:10
  you can adjust accordingly. Left tackle is more blind side pieces, so you
• 23:14
  know, I think that's a fair point. That's usually why Traditionally, quarterbacks
• 23:18
  are usually right handed. That's usually why the left tackle spot is the more
• 23:22
  premium of the tackle positions, because they are protecting that blind side and the
• 23:26
  quarterback is in theory kind of defenseless if you get a clean rush off that
• 23:30
  left tackle spot. So fair point there, Carl, But it's concerning either
• 23:36
  way, and I think that's where we are with the right tackle spot.
• 23:41
  And again, I say this as a person who's been very worried about Spencer
• 23:45
  Brown and very critical about Spencer Brown throughout the entirety of these past two seasons,
• 23:48
  off season, in season, offseason, and preseason thus far. So
• 23:55
  again I'm not completely writing him off. I don't think you can do that
• 23:59
  about anyone for any one performance in a preseason game. But I'm going to
• 24:03
  keep banging this drum that I banged all offseason. The Bills are in need
• 24:06
  of a starting right tackle, and as I said on Twitter earlier, what's
• 24:08
  concerning with that? In a vacuum, it's not great because you've got somebody
• 24:15
  who you penciled, you spend a third round pick on, and who you've
• 24:18
  believed in, despite evidence to the contrary, you have that person not performing
• 24:25
  well. Again. But what's also concerning is, given where we are at
• 24:30
  this point in the NFL calendar, finishing up with two of the preseason,
• 24:33
  you don't have a ton of options. It's not like you can say,
• 24:36
  you know what, let's go in free agency and bring someone in. You
• 24:38
  know what, let's go into the draft, let's make this position a priority.
• 24:41
  Now you're hoping for a camp cut or some casualties. From a roster
• 24:47
  standpoint, you're hoping that somebody is dangling somebody that you can maybe trade another
• 24:52
  body of yours for, or trade maybe a Day three pick four around four
• 24:57
  round five type of pick and bring somebody. And there's no ideal solution that
• 25:03
  exists out there. From a free agent standpoint, I see Jason Peters as
• 25:07
  a name that's getting kicked around. I know he performed admirably given the expectations
• 25:11
  for him last year when he stepped in from a Cowboys standpoint, but I
• 25:15
  have to go back and really watch his tape to give a firm evaluation of
• 25:19
  whether or not he can come in and be the guy. But it's worrisome
• 25:23
  at that right tackle spot. I don't think the Bills have a starting caliber
• 25:27
  right tackle currently. On this roster and I really really, really really really
• 25:33
  wanted to be Spencer Brown, and I think the ceiling is still there.
• 25:36
  But my question with him has never been the ceiling. My question with Spencer
• 25:40
  Brown has always been the floor, because he gets really high highs and they're
• 25:44
  impressive, they're awesome, but he gets really low lows and it's that roller
• 25:48
  coaster replay, that roller coaster performance that we get from him, especially in
• 25:52
  past protection. His run blocking, again, I want to say and put
• 25:55
  it out there, his run blocking has been pretty consistent from a from a
• 25:59
  positive standpoint. We saw it in the preseason game last week. We've seen
• 26:02
  it consistently throughout his tenure with the Bills. Run blocking. I don't think
• 26:06
  he's a concern. I think he's a plus run blocker. The question has
• 26:08
  always been with his past protection, and right now it's worrisome. And you're
• 26:14
  going into a year where a lot of the teams that you're going up against
• 26:18
  have real quality guys on the edge. You look at what the Jets are
• 26:23
  going to be in Week one, You look at what the Patriots have with
• 26:26
  Judon and oocha. You look at even what the Dolphins have with Jaleen Phillips
• 26:32
  and Bradley Chubb. You play the Eagles this year, what they have?
• 26:34
  You play the Cowboys this year with DeMarcus Lawrence and Micah Parsons. You're you're
• 26:40
  still gonna have to go up against the Bengals again, where they've got Sam
• 26:44
  Hubbard and they've got Trey Hendrickson. Like, a lot of the teams that
• 26:47
  are on your schedule this year have quality on the edge and quality defensive lines,
• 26:52
  and especially in your own conference, and as handcakes or handcakes here says
• 26:57
  the whole division has a great front seven. Yeah, Like you're going up
• 27:00
  against quality defensive lines week after week. For the most part, I think
• 27:03
  the Steelers have arguably the best defensive line in football. You know, you
• 27:07
  have an all Pro in Cam Heyward. You have an all Pro in t
• 27:10
  J. Watt. I love Alex Highsmith. I'm super glad for him that
• 27:12
  he got paid. He's been a quality dude off the edge, really stepped
• 27:15
  up when they had to let go of Bud Dupre and be in that kind
• 27:18
  of edge number two. But its functioned as a low end edge one when
• 27:22
  t J. Watt has been out. So the Steelers got a squad up
• 27:26
  front, but you were going to play teams that have really good edge edge
• 27:32
  play and have really good defensive lines. And then that's that's in your schedule
• 27:34
  in twenty twenty three for the Bills, both in your division, in the
• 27:38
  conference, and in the schedule as a whole with who you're playing from an
• 27:41
  NFC standpoint as well. So, and I tweeted it earlier, like,
• 27:45
  it's not like the Bills are going to be playing the Steelers every single week,
• 27:48
  so you have to consistently worry about that caliber play. But you're playing
• 27:51
  a lot of good defensive lines weekend and week out. And if you cannot
• 27:53
  protect your quarterback and if and if Brown is that level of a vulnerability to
• 27:59
  the point that he gets pinpointed and he gets gamed up, like Luana Rumo
• 28:03
  and the Bengals did to the Bills in the divisional round. They attacked Spencer
• 28:07
  Brown with delayed blitzes, with stunts, with games. They knew that he
• 28:10
  was a vulnerability, and they attacked him as such. If you are unable
• 28:14
  to mitigate that spot, it's worrisome and it's concerning. So as poor as
• 28:19
  the performance was for Spencer Brown tonight, and again I say all of this
• 28:22
  as a person who has been very, very very concerned about Spencer Brown as
• 28:27
  a right tackle, and I still don't believe there is a starting right tackle
• 28:32
  currently on this Bill's roster. Don't write them off just for one performance.
• 28:37
  He can turn some things around. But if you are firmly believing that,
• 28:41
  and I say that because you know, I don't want to deal in absolutes
• 28:44
  now, But if you are sitting there believing, you know what, Spencer
• 28:47
  Brown's going to turn it around, He's going to become that prince that was
• 28:49
  promised at the right tackle spot, I really just think you're hanging your hat
• 28:52
  on a lot, a lot of hope because there's not a lot of positive
• 28:56
  tape from a consistency standpoint and a large sample size standpoint to point to when
• 29:02
  it comes to Spencer Brown and say, you know what, He's going to
• 29:04
  clean things up in pass protection, and he struggles in a variety of areas.
• 29:08
  It's it's odd to see a guy get beaten so many ways. It's
• 29:15
  not like he you know, he struggles on the inside move or you know,
• 29:17
  he struggles around the edge. He gets beat in variety of ways.
• 29:18
  He gets beat around the edge, he gets beat inside, he gets beat
• 29:22
  through his chest, he gets beat with poor feet, he gets beat with
• 29:25
  poor hands. It's just it's rough to really watch him struggle. And it
• 29:30
  looks like we're on board for another roller coaster ride unless the Bills can somehow
• 29:34
  swing a trade or find some diamond in the free agent rough to bring in
• 29:41
  to answer that right tackle belt. But based on what they did this entire
• 29:44
  offseason, someone said earlier like they had an entire at what eight months or
• 29:47
  whatever to address the position they believe in Spencer Brown, So it seems like
• 29:52
  he's going to be the ride or die guy at that right tackle spot.
• 29:56
  Teddy comes in, Teddy, think you very much for being here. Oh
• 29:59
  I think I started to read this as I spoke. This is really awesome,
• 30:02
  Teddy. Thank you very much for being here. Thank you for the
• 30:03
  super chat. In your comment earlier as well, Teddy says, I just
• 30:07
  wanted to give you a shout out. My favorite dude on the network and
• 30:10
  always knowledgeable. More than that, though, a legit good dude. Cheers,
• 30:12
  bro. I appreciate you, Teddy. That's awesome. There's nowhere to
• 30:15
  go from for this show. There's nowhere to go from here but down.
• 30:18
  So I feel like I should just end the show and end the stream right
• 30:21
  now because nothing's going to top that. So I appreciate you, Teddy sincerely.
• 30:25
  Man, that's awesome. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it.
• 30:27
  Oh and Devin, I see your comment as well. Thank you very
• 30:30
  much. I appreciate you. So. Yeah, I don't want to dwell
• 30:33
  too much on the negative. I think we've spoken about it ad nauseum.
• 30:36
  I honestly like I didn't feel like I didn't even have to speak too much
• 30:37
  on it, like probably just gonna pulled all the comments coming through in the
• 30:41
  chat. So no offensive line concerned worried, yes, and yes, left
• 30:48
  tackle somewhat worried with Dion Dawkins's performance, but at least you have positive play
• 30:52
  to look back on and hang your hat on and believe that he can get
• 30:53
  back to that level. Spencer Brown, if you're believing that he's going to
• 30:57
  become a consistent right tackle, I still think it's more hope based than anything
• 31:02
  else. So I'm very concerned at the right tackle spot I was coming into
• 31:07
  this year, and again maybe this is a little bit of you know,
• 31:11
  fulfilling, you know, self fulfilling prophecy. But I really put my objectivity
• 31:15
  up against everything when it comes to evaluation and man of performance like this tonight
• 31:21
  has not quelled any of that for me at the right tackle spot. But
• 31:22
  we'll see what we get going forward. On the positive side, for the
• 31:26
  offense, Dalton Kincaid right looked really good. I think we got to see
• 31:33
  a glimpse tonight of what Dalton Kincaid can be in this Bill's offense. No
• 31:37
  Dawson Knox tonight a finger injury. I believe he was dressed in uniform.
• 31:41
  Saw on the sideline, saw him on the bench, but he was not
• 31:42
  active to nights. This is a good comment here from Cole. Cole say
• 31:47
  mcdermotts glasses or the reason the Bills played so bad. Sean McDermott's glasses.
• 31:51
  These pastor preseason games have been a bit more trendy in hip story for him
• 31:56
  than I thought he had. They have been very much like, you know,
• 32:00
  like he's a New Yorker like hipster living in like meatpacking, and he's
• 32:02
  wearing those glasses and a Carhart Scully. But the hat isn't all the way
• 32:06
  down. It's like propped up on his head. It has been a bit
• 32:08
  of an interesting turn for him with his glasses. So I second second that
• 32:12
  notion Dan coming in and saying Dalton was great. Yeah, I was pleased
• 32:15
  with Dalon Kinkaide last week's performance against the Colts. He was lined up more
• 32:20
  inline, more is that tight end that was attached to the line of scrimmage,
• 32:22
  and we saw that a bit tonight as well. But we got to
• 32:25
  see more of him this week against the Steelers in that slot as more of
• 32:30
  that receiving tight end than the blocking tight end role, and he had several
• 32:34
  really good reps. He had one early on with Josh Allen, a nice
• 32:37
  little, uh you know, sit down route over the middle roughly out of
• 32:39
  the slot. Alan found him nice catch, got forward a bit, and
• 32:43
  then we saw two other routes, one against man coverage, the other I
• 32:47
  believe it was against zone, but I'm not completely positive. The first of
• 32:51
  his next two catches he had three total. The first one was with Alan,
• 32:54
  the next one after that, the second catch that was against man coverage.
• 32:57
  Steelers brought a blitz. He comes out of the slot, hits a
• 33:00
  head fake at the top of his route, plants that left foot gets inside,
• 33:04
  creates instant separation, catches the ball, gets up field. And then
• 33:07
  he had another one lined up against Holcombe, the linebacker for the Steelers.
• 33:10
  Similar deal. Sticks his foot in the ground, head fake, gets inside.
• 33:14
  By this time we see him clear the contact with a little swim,
• 33:15
  clears the hands, gets inside, plucks the ball out of the air,
• 33:21
  doesn't have to adjust his gait or his stride, keeps moving forward. Dalon
• 33:23
  Kinkaid look good tonight, looks and you know, this is something that I've
• 33:29
  stayed on the show, and I think a lot of people have echoed based
• 33:31
  on what he showcased thus far in training camp. He just looks. He
• 33:37
  just looks really smooth and polished already for a rookie, and at a position
• 33:39
  that traditionally does not see a lot of high end performance from rookies, that
• 33:45
  position being the tight end position. He looks to potentially break that mold a
• 33:49
  little bit, especially especially with how he fits into this offense and with how
• 33:52
  he can be used. So very very very very encouraging performance from Dalon Kinkaid.
• 33:59
  And again I think this was just a glimpse, you know, getting
• 34:00
  to see him line up in the slot, and part of his success tonight,
• 34:06
  I think that's even more encouraging is you're getting to see that matchup bind
• 34:10
  that teams are going to be put in. I especially the one where he
• 34:14
  was lined up against Holcomb, who's a linebacker. Believe the Bills were in
• 34:17
  eleven personnel, so he's in that slot to the left. The Steelers have
• 34:22
  to match that with a linebacker because if the Steelers, which I believe,
• 34:23
  they were in a nickel, so their slot corner is on the other side
• 34:29
  with whoever was playing in the slot receiver spot for the Bill. So the
• 34:30
  Bills are in a two by two look, which means if your slot receiver
• 34:35
  is on that side and Kincaid's on this side, you have to match him
• 34:37
  with a linebacker or spin a safety down if you're not comfortable in what your
• 34:40
  linebacker is going to do. But if you spin a safety down, then
• 34:43
  you potentially already give away what kind of coverage you're going to play with a
• 34:45
  single high piece. You don't necessarily want to do that against Josh Allen and
• 34:47
  the Bills, so on and so forth. But it's an example of the
• 34:51
  bind that you can put defenses in the Steelers sit there. They leave Holcomb
• 34:53
  on Kincaid, and Kincaid works him. It's going to be a problem for
• 34:58
  almost any linebacker in the NFL to match Dalton Kinkaid in space with his fluidity,
• 35:04
  his size, his athleticism, his quickness, his speed, and his
• 35:07
  route running polish in technicality. So really nice performance from Dalon Kinkaid. Really
• 35:13
  encouraging on a night that the offense looked disjointed and inefficient and turned the ball
• 35:19
  over a ton, especially with you know, the second and third team units.
• 35:22
  He looked really good. So very very very encouraging performance from Dalton Kinkaid.
• 35:27
  I want to see what o Cyrus Torrence did again. I'm gonna I'm
• 35:30
  gonna reserve the evaluation once I see the All twenty two and can really get
• 35:34
  into the tape and grind away and see what's up with Torrance's performance. But
• 35:37
  from my initial eye test, I think he was okay. Shout out to
• 35:42
  Gabe Davis. Tonight's several good catches for Gabe Davis coming from Josh Allen,
• 35:47
  including the one that it got called back because Brown held on the play.
• 35:52
  It was one more golden kind of lifted Brown off his feet got into his
• 35:55
  inside shoulder, but then Brown held him with his inside arm. It was
• 35:59
  like that second and twenty four Alan found Davis brought it over his shoulder,
• 36:04
  got both feet down. Nice to see what Gabe Davis did, and I
• 36:07
  think we got back last week. We saw more of a strong performance from
• 36:13
  the death receivers. Last week against the Colts, we saw what Andy Isabella
• 36:15
  did. We saw Keyshawn Johnson, we saw eight men, We saw a
• 36:20
  nice touchdown from Patman. Shavers had several jobs but then had some nice plays.
• 36:24
  I think in this game we saw more performances from more strong performances from
• 36:29
  the guys that are in theory towards the top end of the depth chart.
• 36:34
  So we got to see a nice performance from Gabe Davis, saw a really
• 36:38
  nice catch from Sherfield, kind of going up and getting it, and then
• 36:44
  us being able to see the benefit of him having that bigger and thicker frame,
• 36:47
  which we talk about all the time here on the show, that it's
• 36:50
  an advantage for him as a run blocker, as that power slot guy,
• 36:52
  because he can dig out safeties, he can crack down on nickel corners and
• 36:57
  linebackers and even edges because he's big, he's strong, he's got a good
• 37:00
  solid frame, and he's a willing blocker. But you see that size and
• 37:04
  frame also paid dividends for him as a pass catcher. He goes up,
• 37:07
  he is in a completely vulnerable state. He's up in the air, he's
• 37:10
  focused on the ball. He's coming down to the ground. In theory,
• 37:13
  he's a defenseless receiver. Safety comes down, pops the hell out of him.
• 37:19
  Shurefield gets right up, shakes it off. Safety stays down because he
• 37:22
  feels like he kind of ran into a brick wall. So nice encouraging piece
• 37:24
  from Shutfield. Last week we saw him execute more in a run blocking standpoint.
• 37:30
  This week we see him pull off a nice nice catch for him as
• 37:32
  well. So I was very encouraged, granted small sample size, but by
• 37:37
  that catch from Surefield. Also saw nice catch for Deontay Hardy out route.
• 37:47
  I think on that drive that ended with an interception in the red zone for
• 37:52
  Barkley. Hardy in the slot, leans in to his man, gets to
• 37:57
  the marker, puts his foot in the ground, shakes outside, creates separation
• 38:00
  and gets up field a bit. We saw some quickness from him, so
• 38:05
  again more performances from the top of the depth chart wide receivers in this game,
• 38:09
  whereas last week or saw performances more towards the depth ride receiver area of
• 38:15
  the group. So encouraging performances from the weaponry in this game, but again
• 38:21
  I think the positives are largely outweighed right now, largely outweighed by the concerns
• 38:28
  that we saw on the offensive line, particularly at the tackle position. But
• 38:30
  again shout out to Gabe Davis for several strong catches in this game, really
• 38:35
  really really encouraging performance from Dalon Kincaid. Nice catch from Surefield, nice route
• 38:39
  run from Hardy, even justin Shorter too, someone who I think everybody last
• 38:45
  week was kind of like wondering why he didn't see as many snaps. He
• 38:49
  didn't see any targets. People were literally asking like did he even play last
• 38:52
  week? This time we saw him get more burned and more snaps on the
• 38:54
  field. We saw him work several catches, a couple of nice routes him
• 38:58
  using that size, and some questions as well in terms of you know,
• 39:01
  creating separation and getting inside guys and making some catches he took out. He
• 39:06
  took a nice hit on a little in route or a little slant route got
• 39:09
  banged inside. But that's again, bigger, stronger, thicker dude. He's
• 39:13
  able to survive. That hip popped right back up. So nice piece from
• 39:16
  him as well. So and some nice performances from the periphery tight ends and
• 39:22
  receivers as well in this game. But looking at the offense, biggest takeaway
• 39:27
  here, And again, I know it's preseason, so shouldn't be making any
• 39:30
  definitive statements about anyone or this team at all after a preseason game, positively
• 39:35
  or negatively. If the Bills came out and won this game sixty to nothing,
• 39:37
  I'd be saying the same thing. It's it's preseason. But I think,
• 39:40
  yeah, it's very very very fair to have a ton of questions around
• 39:45
  Spencer Brown and be concerned and worried about that spot. I've already been on
• 39:50
  that train, and can I continue to sit firmly in my seat and hold
• 39:53
  my ticket up because I am very worried about that right tackle spot. I
• 39:58
  think the floor for Spencer around is still low. We're still going to see
• 40:01
  that mercurial performance, and it's concerning and you can correct for that, you
• 40:06
  know, whether it's with Josh Allen or whether it's you know, with tight
• 40:08
  ends or running bats to chipping and giving him help. But it's just annoying
• 40:12
  to have to do that and it does handcuff you a little bit, and
• 40:14
  we'll see what happens. Dean Dawkins not a performance tonight as well, but
• 40:17
  has a history of being a more consistent stable player, even if he hasn't
• 40:22
  been recently towards the back ended that last year and this year, but more
• 40:27
  confidence than him going forward, But we'll see what happens. That's the biggest
• 40:30
  takeaways for this offense. Scariness upfront with the offensive line, and then some
• 40:36
  strong performances from the periphery guys. Nice catching run for Andy Isabella tonight.
• 40:40
  We'll see what happens with that battle and that storyline in terms of whether or
• 40:45
  not he can make this team, make this roster, how many receivers they
• 40:47
  keep, how many receivers they don't. Him getting looks as the number one
• 40:52
  returner tonight, which is interesting as well. So we'll see when Andy Isabella
• 40:58
  is and if he can crack this lineup, which you know, I think
• 41:02
  if you if you really want any's about to make this team that means probably
• 41:07
  Shorter is not, or Shakira is not, or they're keeping seven receivers,
• 41:10
  which seems like a long shot. So we'll see what really happens. This
• 41:15
  is a good comment. I was gonna tweet this earlier and I didn't.
• 41:20
  This is fantastic from Lauren Lawrences. Get Andy Isabella play right tackle. I
• 41:23
  saw one earlier two that was asking if Andy Isabella could play linebacker or no.
• 41:29
  Somebody just said, put Andy Isabella it in middle linebacker. Problem solved.
• 41:31
  So this is very funny. I like this. I like this a
• 41:34
  lot. Maybe you know, we know he's got speeding quickness and maybe he's
• 41:37
  got enough strength. He's the goat, so I don't doubt that he could
• 41:40
  do anything. This is a very good joke. I like it. Fair
• 41:43
  to be concerned overall with this offensive offensive performance. We'll see what happens next
• 41:46
  week. But don't panic, don't freak out. This game is not indicative
• 41:51
  of who the Bills are going to be on the whole for the entirety of
• 41:53
  this season, but that comes with a caveat. I do think it is
• 41:58
  fair to be very concerned with the forms of Spencer Brown and worried about what
• 42:01
  he's going to be for twenty twenty three. And for my money, I
• 42:05
  don't think the Bills have a starting NFL caliber right tackle currently on the roster.
• 42:09
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  YouTube or whichever podcasting app or platform your list to this show on. Now
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  let's pivot to the defense. I'm I'm going to start with the linebacker spot
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  and starting more with a notice than anything else. So we had that first
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  whatever sixty sixty four year touchdown run for Jalen Warren early on in the game
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  for the Steelers. I want to confirm with the tape, but because again
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  this is a runfit issue and you really need to be able to see it,
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  probably from all angles. I'm fairly confident. Again, take this with
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  a grain of salt, because it's from broadcast angle. I'm fairly certain that
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  Dodson was supposed to scrape over and force that back inside. When Warren gets
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  through, it looks like Dodson gets grabbed and he gets turned and sealed,
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  and Warren goes through that outside spot. Milano and Dodson end up effectively in
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  the same gap, and there's that whole Warren gets the corner and turns it
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  up. It turns it upfield. But again I want to see the tape
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  to confirm for that. Regardless, he comes out. I believe after that
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  series, starters stay in. Aj Kleine takes Tyrell Dodson's spot at linebacker.
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  Kline then continues to see the reps with the ones. Then we see Matt
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  Milano come out for Dorrian Williams, We see Dorian Williams playing with Klein,
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  then we see Dodson eventually go back in. Dodson was playing late into this
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  game, late into the second half, which is a significant development for someone
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  who what two weeks ago, before the preseason game, Bobby Babbitts was saying,
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  you know, Dodson and Bernard were kind of the head of the linebacker
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  competition and they were trying to figure out who was going to win that job,
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  and they had a plan and they wanted somebody to show themselves sooner than
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  later. And then here we go last week, Bernard goes down. Looks
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  like everything is kind of lining up for Tyrell Dodson to be that guy at
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  linebacker. Doesn't have a great game last week, did not look to have
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  a good game this week. Again, want to confirm, especially from a
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  coverage standpoint and that runfit perspective in this game, but it almost seemed like
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  again this is purely speculative, but it seemed like AJ Klein lead frogged Tarrell
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  Dodson on the depth chart in this game, like the fact that they put
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  Klein with the ones and Dodson played into the fourth quarter man. Again,
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  it's speculation in terms of narrowing down with this linebacker competition is But for my
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  money, at this point, I don't care. It's all just a concern
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  the fact that we're sitting here, the fact that AJ Klein could potentially And
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  this is no disrespect to A. J. Klein. He has been a
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  quality linebacker in the league for a while, his time with the Panthers,
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  his time with the Saints right like, he was a quality dude on multiple
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  teams. He's just not that guy guy anymore. With how many miles he
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  has on the tires, with how long and the tooth he is, and
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  his skill set. He was never holistically a coverage guy. The longer you
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  get, the more your wheels kind of diminished, the harder it is for
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  you to function in coverage. I still think A. J. Klein is
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  good coming forward and playing against the run, but he's not going to be
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  that coverage guy. He isn't that guy who really, for most teams,
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  should be in the running for a starting linebacker spot. The fact that he
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  is for the Bills potentially is concerning. I think Dodson is a backup kind
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  of dude, and not even necessarily a second string dude, more like a
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  third string special teams kind of linebacker. So this position has had me concerned
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  since before the draft. That's why, even though I didn't think linebacker value
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  was great in this draft, I would have been very fine if the Bills
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  took Jack Campbell in Round one of this draft, but that option never even
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  became available because the line stook Jack Campbell, and Cambell's actually been playing pretty
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  sweet for the Lions. Shout out to Campbell and what he's been doing there
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  for Detroit. This linebacker spot is a concern. We'll see what happens when
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  Terrell Bernard comes back from his injury. You know, it's funny he and
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  Dodson seemed to kind of be neck and neck, with Dodson a little bit
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  ahead of him potentially, but then with Bernard being injured and being out,
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  it almost seems like Dodson being given the keys has caused Dodson to kind of
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  spiral a bit in his performance, and maybe he's dropped a bit on that
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  depth chart. I still think Terrell Bernard is the least of all evils when
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  it comes to the linebacker options. Who can potentially start next to Matt Milano
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  this year. I know he's under size. That's the biggest red flag for
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  me. I don't think he's necessarily a plus starter at any one specific spot
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  in his skill set. I don't think he's a stud. I still don't
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  love the pick from last year's draft. I just think Terrell Bernard is the
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  least of all evils when it comes to that linebacker competition because he's the only
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  one in that competition who doesn't have a glaring vulnerability or a glaring weakness.
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  Klein and Dodson are both liabilities in coverage, and to be honest, if
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  I had to pick between Klein and Dodson, I would take Aj Klein,
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  and I think that tells you all you need to know about Terrell Dodson and
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  about where this linebacker competition is. I like some of the flashes I've seen
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  from Dorian Williams. I still think it's just he's still too far into the
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  infancy of his career in terms of learning what this defense is, learning what
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  NFL linebacker play looks like, and learning how to play these coverages, let
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  alone call them in the huddle, what to do pre and post snap and
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  all that stuff. I just don't think he's ready. His skill set is
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  fun. I like the arm length, I like the burst, I like
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  the speed. I like all those pieces, right. I like how he
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  can mirror tight ends and running backs and all that. But he needs to
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  get coached up. I never thought he was a realistic option for twenty twenty
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  three. We'll see maybe if he is become I don't know, week five,
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  six, seven, eight, nine, ten, something like that,
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  we'll see what his trajectory looks like. You know, you can never predict
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  what someone is going to be based on who they are between the ears.
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  This linebacker spot is worrisome and concerning. Similar to what I said with regards
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  to the right tackle spot, I don't know if there's a starting caliber linebacker
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  in this competition between Dodson and Klein and Milano or not Milan and Bernard right
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  now. Again, for my money, if I had to start one of
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  them, I would start to Rob Bernard right now. I think he is
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  the least of all evils. I think he knows the defense. I think
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  he's smart as hell. He's got experience in this kind of scheme and in
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  match coverages and knowing how to pass off and clamp down and push and all
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  the things that you need to do. And I think he has enough quickness
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  and athleticism and processing ability to get it done. I think that's the piece,
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  right. Regardless of how fast you are or how athletic you are,
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  you can only play as fast as your mind can allow you to. So
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  if you're a slow processor, or if you're an inaccurate processor, you're not
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  gonna be able to play fast and you're not gonna be able to play efficiently.
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  Bernard is able to play to a certain degree because of how good of
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  a processor he is, because of how smart he is. We heard this
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  about him at Baylor. We heard it last year from Leslie Fraser talking about
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  how easily he's able to take what he learns on the whiteboard and translate it
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  to the field almost instantaneously. So mine, for my money, I'm starting
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  to rob Bernard. I've thought that all offseason. I think it even more
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  so now. Dotson just does not look like a dude who can start at
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  this level. And if I had to, I'm starting aj Client over Dodson
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  and I don't want to do that. And for me, I think that's
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  what it kind of like. Man. No, again, this is no
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  disrespect to a j Clent, but he just is not a starting caliber linebacker
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  anymore at this spot, and if we're in a position where he needs to
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  be. In that conversation, I think that says a lot about your linebacker
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  depth and of your position. Connor says, in all seriousness, this just
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  means that Rap is going to get a significant snapshare. That's fair, But
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  what's interesting is not necessarily interesting. But so here's what you get because Rap,
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  I love the idea of Taylor Rap as your dime linebacker, but how
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  much you go to that and how much you want to use that sub package.
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  Offenses can start to dictate to you by putting you in certain situations with
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  their formations, with their personnel groupings, and then potentially make you vulnerable and
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  you and a team knowing again, I'm just making it up. Say Dotson's
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  the guy, or say aj aj Klein's the guy? Right, say aj
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  Klein as you're starting linebacker, but he comes off and passing downs for Taylor
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  Rap, and Taylor Rap places your dime linebacker spot. Offenses can kind of
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  build around those tendencies, knowing what you want to do, knowing that maybe
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  on first and second down or more run defense downs, you want a J.
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  Klein in there. So okay, maybe you give you more of a
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  run look with your personnel grouping your formation, and then you pass out of
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  it to take advantage of AJ clin at that linebacker spot, or or vice
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  versa. You know, if you're in a passing down or a certain situation,
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  you come out in a spread look or information or personnel grouping or alignment
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  that indicates more of a past tendency. The bill sub in and bring Taylor
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  Rap, and then you run the ball. You run it right at him,
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  and now Taylor Rap has to fit up against a guard or a tackle
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  who's running down the pike at him coming downhill. When you get into hard
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  siloed sub packages and platoons, it's just worrisome because it's potentially worrisome because defenses
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  or offenses, i should say, can put you into a bind by using
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  that tendency and using what you want to do against you given situations, personnel
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  groupings, looks down in distant situation area of the field, so on and
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  so forth. So I like that idea. It just worries me that I
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  want to be able to go to Taylor RAP because I want to go to
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  Taylor RAP, not because I have to, not because the other guy is
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  a liability and a deficiency. Because if I'm picking up on that and noticing
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  that NFL teams are and they're gonna be able to exploit it to a degree,
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  and that's where the worry and the cost for a concern comes in.
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  But again understood, And you know, I echo some of these comments,
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  you know, Williams saying I'll take aj at least he's never out of position,
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  Nick saying, start client the best we have. I'll take experience.
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  That's a fair piece, right, And I think that's what the conversation is.
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  We'll see what happens when Bernard comes back from injury. Now it's this
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  whole wildcard situation in terms of Client going in with the ones tonight dods and
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  playing late into the game with the threes, Bernard being injured. We'll see
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  what happens when Bernard comes back from injury, but man, the linebacker has
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  become a worrisome spot as well. Linebacker and right tackle are both cause for
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  concerns at this point, and I think also fair let's talk about the corner
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  position. It's funny too thinking about you know, maybe we should This is
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  funny because Paul says, can Spencer Brown play linbacker? I would say it's
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  funny. Just flip, just put Aj Cline at right tackle and Spencer Brown
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  at linebacker. Boom, there you go. What what I think is interesting
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  with I wanted to grab these two comments saying that you know, I'll take
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  Aj at least he's never out of position, and then this other comment that
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  said star client best we have, I'll take experience. I wanted to pivot
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  to the conversation around corner two because it's funny to see those comments for Aj
• 53:46
  Klein and how those comments are not echoed in a similar sentiment for Dane Jackson
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  most of the time, not necessarily by those two people, by William and
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  Nick. But I just wanted to use those comments. Well, this is
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  good from Chris Chris as is a two late devise Edmunds. Unfortunately, I
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  think so Chris and actually know two I wanted to do. While Chris says
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  this, I never wanted Tremaine Edmunds to leave. I never thought he was
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  amazing in an all pro but I thought he was an important piece of this
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  defense and better than he was given credit for it. That being said,
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  I just want to put this out there because I've said it before. I
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  would not have paid Tremaine Edmunds what he got from the Bears. I don't
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  think he was worth Fred Warner Shack Leonard Roquan Smith type of money. I
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  don't think he was worth that average an will value. I don't think he
• 54:29
  was worth that level of money. So I want to say that I wanted
• 54:34
  Tremaine Edmund's back, and I maintained it all the time. If he left,
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  you'd really start to see what he meant to his team. I mean,
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  hell, even with Milano dropping into the middle with a split high look,
• 54:44
  Pat Friar makes a touchdown in the middle of the field. We saw
• 54:46
  a big completion last week from Anthony Richardson over the middle of the field.
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  You're already starting to see some of the vulnerability in the middle of the defense
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  without Tremaine Edmonds. So I wanted Edmunds one thousand percent to come back.
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  I would not have paid him what he got from the Bears, So I
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  don't as much as I wanted him back and I knew the defense would suffer
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  without him. I don't blame the Bills for not signing him to that money.
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  I thought that was way too much, and good on. Good on
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  him for forgetting it and chasing it. He might see another big contract with
• 55:16
  his age. I'm not even trying to make a joke. So again,
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  I wanted to put that out there in case anybody is, oh, well,
• 55:22
  you know, good job being bringing Edmund's back. Edmunds got paid big
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  time. I would not have paid him that money as much as I wanted
• 55:29
  him back and I thought he was important to this defense, I would not
• 55:31
  have paid him that much money to come back to Buffalo. So but the
• 55:36
  Bears did good on them, Kudos to them, Kudos to Edmunds getting it.
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  But I wouldn't have paid Edmunds to that money as much as I wanted
• 55:42
  him to come back. And looking at the corner two spot, you know,
• 55:47
  Elam had a bit of a rough night. I don't think it was
• 55:51
  a past inference. I thought the past interference on Darna Washington in the corner.
• 55:54
  I thought that was a bit tiki tack. I didn't think. I
• 55:58
  know, his hands got around and on the shoulder pads. I didn't think
• 56:00
  necessarily grabbed him. And then the touchdown against Hayward, Hayward just looks like
• 56:05
  he's blocking him and drives him into the end zone and then sits and turns
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  around. Really physical play. Kind of an unfair matchup. Hayward is listed
• 56:10
  as like a tight end but is more of kind of like an h back
• 56:15
  fullback type of role type of thing, so he just gets out physical and
• 56:20
  outmuscled and was right there at the catchpoint, just doesn't get his arm in.
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  I want to see on the tape what the fadeball looked like where he
• 56:25
  was called for PI on Washington, to see if he really grabbed him,
• 56:29
  clutched him, got really too much on him. The big one for me
• 56:32
  that the not bounds the biggest cause for concern, But there was I think
• 56:37
  it was a third down, and oh, I obviously there's other kind of
• 56:42
  multiple times Dane did not get abused early. He got beat underneath on the
• 56:46
  catch by George Pickens. The other catch where he was towards the bottom of
• 56:52
  the screen. That was more on Taryn Johnson, I believe than Dane.
• 56:54
  And then Dane popped the hell out of the receiver and dropped him, and
• 56:58
  then Dane had a pass break up later. I don't think Dan got abused
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  at all in this game. He gave up an underneath catch and then I
• 57:05
  don't think the other one was necessarily his fault. And also like underneath catches
• 57:08
  when you're kind of just letting things going and no cover zone, I don't
• 57:10
  necessarily think is your fault, or I wouldn't classify that as abused. You
• 57:15
  know, I guess he got targeted to a degree depending on how you want
• 57:19
  to look at it, but I wouldn't say abused at all. He had
• 57:21
  a good PBu on one play another I don't think it was necessarily his responsibility
• 57:25
  and coverage, and the other he got, you know, pick pick and
• 57:28
  sat down on a little hitch route underneath and got some space there. But
• 57:32
  I don't think Dan got abused at all. The rep that I really want
• 57:37
  to see on tape was Elam against Calvin Austin, who I really like last
• 57:44
  year coming out in the draft. Man coverage. I think it was on
• 57:45
  third down. If you're watching it on the broadcast or trying to remember it
• 57:49
  from the broadcast, steelers are on the right side of your screen. The
• 57:51
  builds are on the left side of the screen. Evam is up in press
• 57:53
  Man, which is his bread and butter, where he likes to live,
• 57:57
  where he is most comfortable. And Austin's a good out runner, especially in
• 58:00
  close quarters. But Austin just he runs a little slant on him and it
• 58:04
  just hits him completely, turns him around, gives up, the inside gets
• 58:07
  him. It was similar to, ironically, the route that Dane Jackson got
• 58:12
  beat on against aman Ross Brown last year against the Detroit Lions. And it's
• 58:17
  just it just seems like Elam is sometimes in the right place but not at
• 58:22
  the right time, and then it's sometimes at the right time but not in
• 58:25
  the right place. And oh, there you go. Jim Oh So I
• 58:28
  was Jim Kelly coming in and saying Elim got cooked on that third down release
• 58:30
  by Austin. Yeah, I think it was a third down, But I
• 58:32
  do want to see it on tape and see what's up. I don't think
• 58:37
  Elam was completely awful. I know everybody's saying some comments earlier saying he's a
• 58:43
  bust see it, saying that he's awful, that they should trade him,
• 58:45
  that they should get rid of him, so on and so forth, all
• 58:47
  these other pieces. I don't think you can write him off at this point.
• 58:51
  He's going into his second year. I really like to hold out firm
• 58:52
  evaluation and concrete statements on a guy until they have exited year three of their
• 58:59
  NFL career. But you know, oh, and as Cole says, you
• 59:01
  know Elm was poortally coached at Florida. Yeah, there was a whole bunch
• 59:05
  of nonsense going on with what happened at Florida and all those pieces, and
• 59:08
  then the scheme changed, YadA, YadA. I will say, you know
• 59:12
  when I'm on record saying, and I didn't love the kier Elam pick.
• 59:15
  I had him a tier below several other corners. I didn't have a first
• 59:17
  round grade on him. But I didn't think the pick was bad last year,
• 59:21
  especially when you hear him speak and you know what he's got going on
• 59:23
  between the ears and how he approaches the game and the tools and the skill
• 59:28
  set and the traits and all that. Like I liked it from what it
• 59:31
  could be long term. I didn't love it in the moment, and I
• 59:35
  didn't I didn't love him necessarily holistically as a prospect based on the most recent
• 59:38
  tape. I know years previous tape was better, YadA YadA, so on
• 59:42
  and so forth, but seeing him struggle early is a necessarily complete surprise to
• 59:46
  me. And even though I did not love the pick, I don't think
• 59:50
  you can write him off at this point. And again, even some of
• 59:52
  his reps tonight, like where he got beat, they weren't awful. He's
• 59:55
  not out there being completely abused and looking like a guy who shouldn't be on
• 59:59
  the field. But you are seeing that inconsistency. And I think that is
• 1:00:02
  why, going back to last year, going into this office's, going into
• 1:00:07
  all these games, we keep seeing this conversation. Or I shouldn't say we,
• 1:00:10
  but I see it a lot on the show here in the comments.
• 1:00:13
  I see it on Twitter a bunch where he should be starting and Dane Jackson
• 1:00:15
  should be benched and Elam should be starting at YadA YadA. Elam just has
• 1:00:20
  inconsistencies in his game. I think part of it is adjusting to the NFL.
• 1:00:22
  I think part of it is adjusting to the scheme, and I think
• 1:00:25
  some of it is just, you know, him trusting himself or trusting his
• 1:00:30
  ability. Even last week when he got called on that hold in the first
• 1:00:35
  quarter, I believe against the Colts. Right at the top of the route,
• 1:00:38
  he's in phase, he's watching the hips, he's mirroring the receiver,
• 1:00:43
  and the receiver breaks down. Instead of breaking down with him, he just
• 1:00:45
  breaks down and he grabs, He reaches, he grabs and he pulls on
• 1:00:50
  that collar and the corner tries or the receiver tries to come out of his
• 1:00:52
  break and he gets tugged this way and you see the flag get thrown.
• 1:00:57
  There's just those little pieces where his technique is off just a little bit,
• 1:01:00
  or he doesn't trust his eyes or he doesn't trust in his technique and what
• 1:01:05
  he's seeing. And then you do see at times where he does trust in
• 1:01:07
  that. You see him break on that smoke screen to Tyreek Hill on that
• 1:01:13
  Saturday night game against Miami. You see him with the pass break up against
• 1:01:15
  Mike ga Sick. You see him with that tremendous interception against Mahomes in Kansas
• 1:01:20
  City last year in Week five, Like you see those flashes from Kaye Elam
• 1:01:24
  from a positive standpoint, but then you also see some of the flashes from
• 1:01:28
  a negative standpoint, and man like, I think that's just where he is
• 1:01:34
  right now. I think I don't think Elam's a bust. I also don't
• 1:01:37
  think he's ready to be the corner two for a team. And if that
• 1:01:39
  means he needs to be in a platoon, so be it. If that
• 1:01:43
  means I know, I know everybody's gonna be super pissed and upset with this.
• 1:01:45
  But if that means he has to sit a little bit more and watch
• 1:01:49
  from the sideline again potentially, so be it. I'd rather have him be
• 1:01:52
  a strong, solid corner by year three than necessarily rushing him out and having
• 1:01:57
  to be a vulnerability in year two. And for the people who keep clamoring
• 1:02:00
  for he needs reps, he needs experience, he needs reps, he needs
• 1:02:04
  experience. He keeps getting those reps and getting that experience, and he keeps
• 1:02:07
  showing that inconsistency and keeps having certain failures that are repeated over and over again,
• 1:02:14
  and that isn't on the coaches. Some of that is on him.
• 1:02:16
  At a certain point, you have to take what you're taught and take what
• 1:02:21
  you are showed and put it into practical application yourself, especially when we look
• 1:02:27
  at the biggest thing that's a cause for concern with me for Kaye Eelam is
• 1:02:31
  Sean McDermott's tenure in Buffalo. His track record with the secondary has been tremendous.
• 1:02:37
  He gets Trey White at the end of the first round, who granted
• 1:02:39
  as a first round pick. I don't remember seeing a lot of people saying,
• 1:02:43
  oh, man, the Bill's just got a lockdown all pro corner in
• 1:02:45
  Tradavious White. That's not what happened. He helps turn Tray Writing on an
• 1:02:49
  all pro. He brings in Micah Hyde, who was a jack of all
• 1:02:52
  trades dB in Green Bay and a punt returner, turns him into an all
• 1:02:57
  pro caliber safety. Same thing with Jordan Porter, who was an a thought
• 1:03:00
  in free agency coming away from the Browns with the injury concerns, turns him
• 1:03:02
  into an all Pro. Gets Taron Johnson is what a fourth round pick,
• 1:03:07
  turns him into one of the best nickel corners in the game. Takes Dane
• 1:03:09
  Jackson, who's a seventh round corner. Takes Levi Wallace, who's a u
• 1:03:13
  DFA turns them into starting caliber corners. May not be sexy number one corners
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  or high end twos, but taking a UDFA and Levi Wallace and turning him
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  into a low end CB two is a success. And it was enough to
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  the point that when he his contract was up in Buffalo, he got signed
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  by another team and now he's a starter with the Pittsburgh Steelers. That's in
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  part because of McDermott identifying what he could be in coaching him up to get
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  to that level. Dane Jackson, again is not the sexiest, is not
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  this all pro stud corner. He's not overly big, strong, fast,
• 1:03:46
  athletic anything, but he gives you a high floor at the position. McDermott
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  was able to coach Dane Jackson up to the point that he's a low end
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  CB two or a high end CB three on your team. What's concerning for
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  me is with all of that, with that positive track record Sean McDermott and
• 1:04:01
  his staff have with defensive backs, safeties, corners, boundary and slot corners,
• 1:04:09
  that successful track record that McDermott and his staff have had in Buffalo,
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  what's worrisome to me is that Kyrie Elam, who has all these tools and
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  who has all the traits, still can't put it together. And I don't
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  want to. I don't want to give the coaching staff a pass because there's
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  a lot that goes into player development. Right. Some of it is on
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  the scouting department scouting the right guy and seeing the right traits and the right
• 1:04:35
  skill set and seeing the right games and having enough sample size and evaluating the
• 1:04:40
  player properly. Right. Some of it is on your coaching staff being able
• 1:04:44
  to coach that player up and maximize who they are and maximize who they can
• 1:04:47
  be. Is on the player for putting into practical application what they're learning and
• 1:04:53
  then getting the right learnings, which is also on the coaching staff. It
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  is it is not an exact science to get a player from a and put
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  them to be, or to get a player to realize their ceiling and maximize
• 1:05:02
  who and what they can be. It is not an exact science at all,
• 1:05:08
  which is why players burn out and fizzle out and bust all the time.
• 1:05:11
  It's why the draft is largely a crapshoot. It's really tough, but
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  it's concerning that Sean McDermott and his staff have gotten so much out of the
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  majority of the defensive backs that have come into Buffalo, either by free agency
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  or via the draft. And he has gotten so much blood from the defensive
• 1:05:30
  back stone, even when there isn't a lot of blood to give. I
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  e Levi Wallace and Dane Jackson, and here you have Kayer Elam who's got
• 1:05:39
  a ton of blood. He's got the size, he's got some length,
• 1:05:43
  he's got strength, he's got the frame, he's got some thickness, he's
• 1:05:45
  got the speed, He's got all these traits and for some reason, it's
• 1:05:50
  just not clicking. And a lot of the conversation I've seen with that not
• 1:05:56
  clicking, people putting it out to Sean McDermot and the coaching staff shoulders.
• 1:06:00
  And again, I think there is some blame to be put there, right,
• 1:06:01
  but I don't think enough is being put on the player side. And
• 1:06:04
  I say that as a person who wants Kayer Elam to start myself, and
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  Eric Turner did the film room with him several weeks ago. Dude is so
• 1:06:12
  smart. You saw that in the embedded series last year when he was drafted.
• 1:06:15
  But you know, literally, I'm saying this from firsthand experience talking to
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  him off air and on air. Dude as smart as a whip. He's
• 1:06:25
  got a tremendously high football like you when he's got all the traits and he's
• 1:06:28
  got a lot of fun skill set pieces that you want to see in a
• 1:06:30
  modern corner. For whatever reason, it's just not clicking. And you see
• 1:06:35
  a game like this today where he's in some position and he's not and he's
• 1:06:40
  struggling a little bit. He's just not putting it together. And I don't
• 1:06:43
  think again, I don't think you should write him off. I say this
• 1:06:46
  is a person who didn't love the Kaier Elm pick and who thought Dane Jackson
• 1:06:49
  should have started over him last year. And at this point, you know
• 1:06:54
  this year, given what we've seen, I want Kayer Elim to be the
• 1:06:56
  guy. But I'm saying this as a person who has kind of doubt him
• 1:07:00
  at certain turns. Do not write him off, right. I know he's
• 1:07:02
  been grabby. I know last year they had to put him in the gloves.
• 1:07:05
  He's grabby again this year in camp or seeing you know, multiple pis
• 1:07:10
  these past couple of weeks, or seeing him again not rely on his technique
• 1:07:15
  and kind of fail at the catch point, do not give up on kyer
• 1:07:17
  elam right now. And just as a general rule of thumb, this is
• 1:07:19
  necessarily even my rule. This is kind of just an overall rule of Thumber
• 1:07:23
  evaluation. You don't really want to slam the door on anyone, positively or
• 1:07:26
  negatively until they complete their third year, even if they're amazing as a rookie
• 1:07:30
  or amazing as a second year guy, or they're terrible as a rookie terrible
• 1:07:32
  as a second year guy. You want to give those three years to a
• 1:07:36
  player to see what they can be. Kier's going into year two and I
• 1:07:42
  think what's unfortunate for him is right now, Dane Jackson is a more consistent
• 1:07:47
  option at corner two. I think the coaches know that. I think the
• 1:07:51
  players know that. Again, when when I sat down in the film room
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  with Eric Turner, when we talked to Dan Marlow a couple of weeks ago,
• 1:08:00
  Marlow he was talking about the safeties, but I think this applies to
• 1:08:02
  the corners as a hole. He said, you know what McDermott looks for
• 1:08:05
  in the safeties is somebody he trusts. He wants somebody who he trusts will
• 1:08:11
  be at the right place. In the right time. Who's got that reliability,
• 1:08:14
  in that consistency, And I think that applies to his secondary as a
• 1:08:16
  whole, and that's what Dane Jackson is. He's usually in the right place
• 1:08:19
  at the right time. Maybe sometimes he doesn't make the play at the catchpoint.
• 1:08:21
  And he's not the biggest, he's not the strongest, he's not the
• 1:08:24
  more skiing versatile, so on and so forth, and all these pieces right,
• 1:08:28
  but on the whole, he's reliable, and that's why he's ahead of
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  Kyer Elam right now. I think Kyer elam ceiling is still way way way
• 1:08:35
  ahead of what Dane Jackson's ceiling is, but the floor for Dane Jackson is
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  higher right now, and I think that's why he's ahead at CB two.
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  Now. That does not mean Kyrie Elam's done. It doesn't mean he's a
• 1:08:46
  bust. It doesn't mean the Bill should trade him, it doesn't mean that's
• 1:08:48
  a horrible pick. We'll see what happens, right dudes. Sometimes it just
• 1:08:53
  takes a moment or a specific coaching lesson or coaching tool, or a specific
• 1:08:59
  game or some kind of light bulb to just click and all of a sudden,
• 1:09:01
  the switch flips and it happens. Right. We like the moment that
• 1:09:05
  happens in movies and TV shows all the time where all of a sudden,
• 1:09:09
  something just clicks for the main character and they completely change and becomes successful in
• 1:09:12
  YadA YadA and all that, not even to make a corner or that proverbi
• 1:09:15
  little example. But you know, maybe there's just that moment that exists out
• 1:09:18
  there for Kyrie Eland, But right now it hasn't happened. He's not the
• 1:09:21
  more consistent player at corner two. If we see a platoon, we see
• 1:09:26
  a platoon. If we see Dane Jackson, we see Dane Jackson. But
• 1:09:28
  I don't think there's a doubt in the coaching staff's mind, and there's not
• 1:09:31
  a doubt in my mind that Dane Jackson isn't the more consistent corner two option
• 1:09:35
  right now. I don't think he's got a higher ceiling. And I would
• 1:09:39
  love kye Eland to be the guy. I love scheme versatility. I love
• 1:09:44
  fast, strong, athletic corners who can match up against the variety of dudes
• 1:09:46
  and a variety of coverages. I would love Kyrie Elan to be the guy.
• 1:09:50
  And I know the Bills want kyree Eland to be the guy they drafted
• 1:09:55
  him to be the guy. They want him to win the cornerback two job,
• 1:10:00
  but he hasn't at this point, and Dane Jackson's more reliable and more
• 1:10:03
  consistent. Christian Benford I like his physicality. I like some of the play.
• 1:10:08
  He continues to be like kind of a fly in the ointment. I'm
• 1:10:11
  really happy if Christian Benford is corner four on this team on the boundary,
• 1:10:15
  if he wins it out and becomes corner three or corner two at some point
• 1:10:17
  cool. I think you would see if Dane Jackson anything happens to him.
• 1:10:23
  I think you would probably see more of a platoon between Benford and Elham potentially.
• 1:10:28
  I like the physicality of Benford. I like what he does. He
• 1:10:30
  got called for I think a flag today that I didn't agree with, But
• 1:10:35
  you know, I think Benford gives you some good options and fun options there
• 1:10:39
  even that I think speaks to the coaching staff and the scouting department. Right.
• 1:10:44
  I know there's a lot of people who like Christian Benford. Christian Benford
• 1:10:46
  was a super late Day three pick that got idd and coached up to the
• 1:10:49
  point that he was living his corner two last year and playing well against guys
• 1:10:54
  like Tyree Hill in Miami before he broke his wrist or hand or whatever.
• 1:10:59
  It was like he was playing well early on because Trey was still out,
• 1:11:02
  and then Dane got hurt and the Bills had to start Benford and Elam,
• 1:11:05
  and then Benford went down and it was Elam and JaMarcus Ingram and it was
• 1:11:09
  just a rotating door and a mash unit at the corner spot. I like
• 1:11:13
  what you have I've seen from Benford two, but I think all of that
• 1:11:17
  goes to the larger conversation of Corner two is a muddied, muddied mess,
• 1:11:25
  depending on how you're looking at it. I think I think Dane Jackson is.
• 1:11:29
  And I'm not saying like I think Dane Jackson should be corner two.
• 1:11:31
  Again. I know that upsets a lot of people, but I think he
• 1:11:33
  gives the reliability and consistency that gives you a high floor when paired with the
• 1:11:39
  rest of the high ceiling pieces on your defense. But mainly my reason for
• 1:11:44
  thinking Dane should be corner two is just because Elam is too inconsistent, and
• 1:11:47
  Elam just has those mercurial play up and down a bit too much, and
• 1:11:54
  I want him to be the guy. I still believe that guy exists in
• 1:11:58
  him and could have been at some point, but as of right now,
• 1:12:00
  we're just not seeing it. And I don't think that means you should write
• 1:12:03
  him off. I don't think that means he's a bust. I don't think
• 1:12:06
  because he was the first round pick at the back end of the first round
• 1:12:10
  and he's not the hands down starter by year two, that that means he's
• 1:12:13
  awful. But you know it's not ideal. I will one hundred percent say
• 1:12:16
  that, but we'll see what happens going forward for mister Kayer Elam what else?
• 1:12:24
  Let me go through some comments here, oh, sort of saying Benford
• 1:12:29
  is better than elim O Banta says, I always want to go with the
• 1:12:34
  higher ceiling, especially in this secondary they can afford to gamble there. Yeah,
• 1:12:39
  but if you're going with a high ceiling guy who doesn't give you a
• 1:12:43
  high floor and is inconsistent, that's where all of a sudden you become vulnerable.
• 1:12:46
  Right, So if you go with a high flo like Dane Jackson,
• 1:12:49
  right, you go with the high floor guy, maybe you don't have the
• 1:12:53
  sexy plays and the big splash plays necessarily, but you're not vulnerable and you're
• 1:12:58
  not deficient. The issue with going with the higher ceiling guy who's got a
• 1:13:00
  lower floor and is more inconsistent means you can get the splash plays like the
• 1:13:04
  interception against the Kansas City Chiefs, but you also open yourself up to vulnerability
• 1:13:11
  to a certain point with the guy who maybe doesn't run the right coverage that
• 1:13:14
  the safety's expecting him to, or doesn't travel across the field in the right
• 1:13:16
  way and leave someone completely open and isn't playing the right technique or the right
• 1:13:20
  coverage. It starts to struggle a little bit, like it's all a fine
• 1:13:24
  line, and I don't think there's necessarily a right answer at any point,
• 1:13:28
  right like do you trust? Do you want to take the guy with the
• 1:13:30
  low floor and the high ceiling because you're banking on those explosive negative plays being
• 1:13:33
  generated, or do you play it more conservative and go with the guy who's
• 1:13:38
  got a high floor and Dane Jackson because you've got all pro dudes at the
• 1:13:43
  rest of yours, your secondary in a good spot on the offensive line,
• 1:13:46
  on defensive line, I should say. Banta comes in and says I just
• 1:13:48
  think you could at least go with Elim until he really hurts you, then
• 1:13:51
  rethink it unless you think that would completely break Elam. That's a good point
• 1:13:56
  too, right, like that last sentence there, like unless you think that
• 1:13:59
  would completely breaking him. Part of it, too, is you're dealing with
• 1:14:02
  the mental strength and confidence of these players. So if you put a guy
• 1:14:06
  in before they're ready and they crash him burn what does that look like for
• 1:14:11
  you trying to build him back up and trying to help him gain his confidence
• 1:14:16
  back? Then if you put him in now when he crashes and burns and
• 1:14:19
  you have to replace him, is he shot for the rest of his tenure
• 1:14:24
  here? You take that risk versus kind of letting him again build up slowly
• 1:14:29
  but surely, and then you know he is a plus starter in year four
• 1:14:31
  and year five, versus you're trying to rush him to be a starter in
• 1:14:33
  year two and then he's nothing for three four or five or three and four.
• 1:14:38
  You don't even read up him on the fifth year option. Again.
• 1:14:40
  It's it's what makes the conversation I think so annoying because there are so many
• 1:14:44
  variables and there are so many fine lines that have to be navigated. Then
• 1:14:47
  there isn't a right answer. That's what makes player development. Again I said
• 1:14:50
  it earlier, it's it's not an exact science. That's what makes it so
• 1:14:55
  worrisome. You know, kind of be put in that position or not something
• 1:15:00
  I should say, so complicated in making the right decision of figuring out like
• 1:15:02
  who to plug in here, who to plug in where? And this is
• 1:15:05
  this is a good comment here, I think from Jim, you can't really
• 1:15:08
  afford to take the risk of elim blowing a game with how tough the schedule
• 1:15:12
  is this year. And I think that that was my conversation for last year,
• 1:15:15
  right, Like you're kind of with where the Bills are as a team,
• 1:15:18
  you're caught in this window of you have championship aspirations, so you can't
• 1:15:24
  afford to be too vulnerable or too deficient in one area. But you're also
• 1:15:29
  trying to build for the future. So you want to get young guys game
• 1:15:31
  experience and allow them to gain confidence and build upon reps. But you don't
• 1:15:36
  want to put someone out there who's not ready yet because you can't afford to
• 1:15:40
  be vulnerable or deficient in those reps. And so it becomes this kind of
• 1:15:44
  catch twenty two, double edged sworde type of thing, sword type of thing.
• 1:15:47
  And that's why I think, again, so much of it is money.
• 1:15:49
  That's why I think Dane started for the majority of last year. So
• 1:15:54
  we'll see what becomes of elim But it's it's, it's it's complicated for all
• 1:16:00
  of it. I'm gonna grab this comment here from vant against say and I
• 1:16:03
  feel lame saying it, but I guess that's why you have to trust the
• 1:16:05
  coaching staff because they know the guy's mental fortitude absolutely. But again, I
• 1:16:09
  want to go back to another point I'm in earlier. I said earlier.
• 1:16:12
  When you say you have to trust the coaching staff, I think you also
• 1:16:15
  have to trust the coaching staff and their evaluation piece as a whole. Again,
• 1:16:19
  and it's I don't know why it's not talked about enough. Like the
• 1:16:23
  track Sean McDermott's track record in evaluating defensive back talent is pristine. In Buffalo,
• 1:16:30
  like took Micah Hyde from as a jack of all trades dude, All
• 1:16:33
  Pro safety Jordan Poyer was a cast off and nobody in free agency. All
• 1:16:36
  Pro safety Trey White was oh good value pick. At the end of the
• 1:16:40
  first round turned him into an All Pro. Taron Johnson was a fourth round
• 1:16:44
  pick who's become one of the best nickel corners in the league. You take
• 1:16:45
  a u DFA and Levi and makem a CB two starter who for your team
• 1:16:50
  and then get signed by another team and is a CB starter for you.
• 1:16:54
  You take Christian Benford, polish him up, and he's all of a sudden,
• 1:16:58
  a CB four three, potentially low end two. They've got this strong
• 1:17:01
  trek record Dame Jackson as well. For as unsexy as he is, he's
• 1:17:05
  been coached up. They have this strong trek track record of being successful with
• 1:17:11
  dbs in Buffalo, both corners and safeties. But with Kayer Elam not hitting.
• 1:17:15
  It's funny to see everybody blame the coaching staff, blaming a group that
• 1:17:19
  has a strong track record of getting every ounce of blood out of every stone
• 1:17:25
  at the dB position or most of the stones at the dB position. But
• 1:17:29
  then with this specific stone, nobody's blaming the stone they displayed the coaching staff.
• 1:17:33
  I don't think it's right to blame one of them completely at any point,
• 1:17:38
  because, again, like I said, player development and evaluation is a
• 1:17:41
  very it's a very weird science and it's not an exact science whatsoever. But
• 1:17:46
  that's that's what I think makes the Elam piece concerning for me is you've got
• 1:17:50
  a coaching staff that has been so successful in coaching up dbs, yet they
• 1:17:56
  have this guy with seemingly all the tools and traits in the world and they
• 1:17:59
  can't get him up to speed. And I'm not saying that it's not the
• 1:18:01
  coach's fault and I'm not saying it's all on Elam, but considering their track
• 1:18:05
  record of success in the NFL, that's what's concerning with Elam for me.
• 1:18:12
  But you know, it's a fair point, fair point, fair point,
• 1:18:14
  fair point, blah blah blah. Zimn Mavi says, I personally like Benford.
• 1:18:18
  I think Jackson has been easily the best in the preseason, but no
• 1:18:20
  doubt Elam has the highest ceiling. So it's tough. And that's exactly what
• 1:18:25
  You're kind of playing this like musical chairs, of which one do I go
• 1:18:28
  with? Which one do I go with? Here, each one has their
• 1:18:30
  own pros and cons and risk reward and ceiling and floor, and you're playing
• 1:18:34
  for short term benefit, but you're also planning for long term benefit return on
• 1:18:41
  investment. It's it's tough, Brandon says, Aunt, do you feel personally
• 1:18:47
  confident in any capacity in our front against an Eagles or forty nine Ers unit?
• 1:18:51
  How can this team truly win a Super Bowl with a seemingly very soft
• 1:18:55
  front? Do you mean, I'm assuming you mean the Bill's offensive line against
• 1:19:00
  an Eagles or forty nine Ers unit, or do you mean the Bill's defensive
• 1:19:02
  line against them? I will say the opposite side. For me, I'm
• 1:19:08
  very concerned for the offensive line. Like again, okay, cool, Brandon
• 1:19:11
  says, the offensive line, I'm not very I shouldn't say holistically across the
• 1:19:15
  offensive line. I'm fine with Mitch Morris. I know McGovern hasn't set the
• 1:19:18
  world on fire, but I'm fine with McGovern. He had a really good
• 1:19:20
  rap against Cam Heyward in this game. I'm fine with torrents Or. I'm
• 1:19:25
  fine with Bates. I know they each have their own question marks and pieces,
• 1:19:30
  but I'm very concerned at the tackle spot, especially Spencer Brown. Dawkins
• 1:19:33
  overall has been okay, but I guess if you had to put it to
• 1:19:38
  get with a group as a whole, no, I'm very like if I'm
• 1:19:42
  facing the Niners, They're just gonna put you know, Bosa up against Brown
• 1:19:46
  over and over and over again. And then with what they have on the
• 1:19:49
  interior and the rest of that group like that, with Javon Hargrave coming through
• 1:19:54
  and having Eric Armstead like that scares me. So I don't feel great with
• 1:20:00
  the Bills old line against the forty nine ers front. I don't feel great
• 1:20:01
  with the Bills a line against the Eagles front across the board, but especially
• 1:20:06
  as certain positions. But that's the beds that the Bills have made, unfortunately.
• 1:20:14
  Yeah, so we're gonna have to see what they have. And again,
• 1:20:15
  there are ways you can correct it around it. You just have to
• 1:20:18
  handcuff yourself a little bit. You have to keep a tight end attached to
• 1:20:21
  the formation. You have to provide chip help a little bit more. You
• 1:20:24
  have to try and game things up a little bit big because you can't just
• 1:20:27
  rely on your front five to go out and block. So, yeah,
• 1:20:31
  we'll see. That's a good question though, but no, I don't feel
• 1:20:34
  confident. Long story short, to answer your question, t l DR,
• 1:20:39
  don't feel great real quick as we start to kind of move forward and wind
• 1:20:43
  down a little bit here, if you haven't already, if you're enjoying this
• 1:20:45
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• 1:20:53
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  and thank you drop alike on this video. Nick says the offensive tackles are
• 1:21:09
  the only concern for me. Yeah, that's really really where you are,
• 1:21:14
  especially at right tackle. Like I don't think the Bills are. This is
• 1:21:17
  a great comment from Pops. Can the plea tree? Can the tree play
• 1:21:20
  right tackle? No, the tree is retired. Unfortunately the tree doesn't.
• 1:21:25
  The tree hung up his pads and his fleets a long time ago. Yeah,
• 1:21:30
  that's my biggest concern. I think the Bills if they had an average
• 1:21:33
  right tackle. I think if you look at the offensive line as a whole,
• 1:21:36
  it's an average to above average offensive line. I think the Bills,
• 1:21:40
  if they had consistency at right tackle, they would be like, I don't
• 1:21:44
  know, like a top fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, twelve ish type of
• 1:21:46
  offensive line, which I think is fine, and I think you can win
• 1:21:48
  a Super Bowl with that kind of offensive line, given the quarterback play and
• 1:21:51
  given the weapons that you have. My issue is, I think Spencer Brown's
• 1:21:56
  inconsistency drops this group down to kind of like a seven, eighteen, nineteen
• 1:22:00
  twenty each kind of group. And then if you've got inconsistencies from Dawkins,
• 1:22:03
  you're living closer to the twenties. If McGovern like. I like the McGovern
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  signing, but I still think it's fair to have some questions there. I
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  think it's fair to have some questions around torrents or bits. So I don't
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  think on the whole like the offensive line, even if they had adequate or
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  average right tackle play, I think this would be an average to above average
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  offensive line with some peaks and valleys and some ebbs and flows. But I
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  think with what you've got at the right tackle spot and in some of the
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  other consistencies, yeah, offensive tackle is the biggest concern. For me by
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  far from a starting standpoint, but also from a depth standpoint. But I
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  think if you look at the group as a whole, you know there there
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  are some concerns across the board, dependent on how you're looking at it,
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  but the big one for me, yeah, Like I'm fine with Dawkins,
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  I'm fine with McGovern, I love Mitch Morris, I'm fine with Bates or
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  Torrents. But Spencer Brown is worrisome, worrisome, worrisome, worrisome, worrisome.
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  Banta says, can you win a Super Bowl with an average old line?
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  Though? I think it's really hard. You have to. I mean,
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  no one's ever going to have the strongest groups across the board. But
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  in theory, yeah, you want to be strong in the trenches offensively and
• 1:23:09
  defensively. And I do think with what you have with Josh Allen, Stefan
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  Diggs, the rest of the weapons and what the defense could be. Yes,
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  I think this team could win a Super Bowl with an average offensive line.
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  I do think that. I also think again, if you get consistent
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  tackle play from the right side, this offensive line isn't above average offensive line,
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  not the sexiest, not the best. But you know, I think
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  they can be above average to that degree. Coco Monk says, the middle
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  of the league offensive line Josh Allen had to scramble against the Bears last year.
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  Yeah, but that's not the same offensive line as they have this year,
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  is what I'm saying. Like, so mcgoverning it left guard, torns
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  in it, right guard. Potentially it's a different group. You're looking at
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  two out of the five starters being completely different. Not to mention at that
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  spot of the year last year, who knows who was injured in bang up
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  with what spot Like it's there's a lot of variables to that point, but
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  the biggest ones are two of the five starters are potentially completely different. And
• 1:24:06
  one of those five starters was a huge liability last year in Roger Staffe or
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  a left guard, So you had a liability at left guard and a liability
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  at right tackle. So it's a different offensive line than it is last year.
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  That's why I said this year's offensive line. But yeah, we'll see,
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  we'll see, we'll see, we'll see yea. So overall, not
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  the most ideal performance in Week two. I wasn't expecting to come into this
• 1:24:33
  postgame show and necessarily have to do like I joked about on Twitter or even
• 1:24:36
  at the beginning here, kind of like a group therapy session for this episode.
• 1:24:40
  And four Again, it's spot in the preseason, right, even even
• 1:24:43
  if it's early in the regular season, I think it's early to kind of
• 1:24:47
  necessarily go overboard with positivity or the negativity. But I just wasn't expecting it
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  for a preseason game, and I think that that is a large caveat with
• 1:24:58
  everything, right, don't I think there are certain pieces and aspects of this
• 1:25:02
  game that you can be concerned about long term because they match with concerns we've
• 1:25:09
  seen previously, whether it was last year or coming into the offseason. So
• 1:25:12
  I think it's fair to carry on some of the concerns again, like I
• 1:25:15
  mentioned that the Spencer Brown piece, or concern about linebacker, or you know,
• 1:25:20
  just the conversation about corner two. But I think on the whole,
• 1:25:24
  it's a preseason game. I'm not putting the most stock in the world,
• 1:25:27
  Like I don't think the offense is. But if you're coming out of this
• 1:25:30
  game worried structurally about the offense or the design or the defense, or even
• 1:25:35
  the penalties or how they showed up, like the penalties weren't great, how
• 1:25:39
  they showed up wasn't great, YadA, YadA. I'm not necessarily putting all
• 1:25:42
  the stock in the world into that. Like if you thought the Bills were
• 1:25:44
  going to win the AFC East and we're a Super Bowl contender going into this
• 1:25:47
  game, I don't think you should be off of that wagon. If you
• 1:25:50
  came into this game concerned about right tackle and middle linebacker, I think it's
• 1:25:56
  fair to still be concerned about those spots. Right, It's all about saying
• 1:26:00
  imple size and it's all about the perspective in the context for the evaluation,
• 1:26:03
  So vacuum spots, individual player pieces and silos, I think it's fair to
• 1:26:09
  be concerned. As we sit here kind of again breaking down this game and
• 1:26:13
  looking at it as I switched the banner up as we start to wind down
• 1:26:16
  a little here on this episode, I think it's fair to have those individual
• 1:26:18
  concerns from a vacuum perspective or a player perspective. And I think that's always
• 1:26:24
  tough too, to kind of like balance the two, like do you what
• 1:26:28
  do you put stock into? What do you write off and say it's a
• 1:26:30
  preseason game, versus being like, no, this is a problem. This
• 1:26:34
  is concerning. And again I think the Spencer Brown piece, I don't think
• 1:26:38
  you should write that off and be like, hey, it's preseason, it'll
• 1:26:40
  be fine. Why Because how he performed in this game is what we've seen
• 1:26:45
  from him from a concerning standpoint in the regular season, consistently throughout his career.
• 1:26:49
  So seeing it again is more like, looks like it's happening again.
• 1:26:55
  What we've seen from other pieces of the offense or other pieces from the defense
• 1:26:59
  aren't necessary early who they are or who they could potentially be, adding some
• 1:27:02
  of the vanilla scheme pieces and not really you know, again, game planning
• 1:27:09
  for any opponent. I think that throws a wrench into some of the evaluation
• 1:27:12
  as well. But there are some pieces to be concerned about, and again,
• 1:27:16
  I think the one you're really hanging your hat on to kind of wrap
• 1:27:19
  things up here, I think it is fair to be concerned about the offensive
• 1:27:24
  line, especially the right tackle spot. Really the right tackle spot. And
• 1:27:27
  even if you're concerned about Dion Dawkins, I can understand that, and I
• 1:27:31
  can get behind that to a degree. So I think it's fair to have
• 1:27:33
  concerns on the offensive line. I think it's fair to have concerns at the
• 1:27:36
  linebacker position opposite of Matt Milano. I think it's fair to have some concerns
• 1:27:43
  about Kayer Elim's development and or performance and or trajectory and seeing what he's going
• 1:27:47
  to be, who he's going to be, and what it means for him
• 1:27:51
  in not just twenty twenty three, but twenty twenty four and beyond, based
• 1:27:55
  on where he was drafted and what the thought was of what he could be
• 1:27:57
  with his ceiling. Again, not a fun conversation necessarily episode to have,
• 1:28:01
  especially in August when last week's episode was fun. Last preseason, all the
• 1:28:05
  episodes were fun. But sitting here kind of taking stock of everything. Oh,
• 1:28:11
  it's going to be something that requires a lot of evaluation going forward in
• 1:28:15
  terms of breaking out what this team is going to be and oh I got
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  stopped. We got a super chat. Thank you very much again for still
• 1:28:21
  being here, Carl, and for another super chat. I think it very
• 1:28:24
  much. Carl says, do you think they can clean it up by the
• 1:28:26
  Jets on nine to eleven? Yes, I do think certain pieces of the
• 1:28:30
  team can be cleaned up. The one thing, like, there are certain
• 1:28:34
  pieces that I don't like I don't think Spencer Brown is all of a sudden
• 1:28:39
  going to become a consistent right tackle by the opener against the Jets. I
• 1:28:43
  don't think Tyrell Dodson or A J. Klein is going to be are going
• 1:28:47
  to become fine and coverage and give you a three down linebacker spot. Like
• 1:28:50
  there are certain pieces that I don't think are going to happen and aren't realistic
• 1:28:55
  to expect. But I think from a structural standpoint, again, we're not
• 1:29:00
  seeing any game planning. We're seeing very vanilla calls and coverages and concepts,
• 1:29:03
  like we're not seeing the full bag of tricks on either side of the ball.
• 1:29:06
  So that's a huge piece when it comes to what a team is and
• 1:29:10
  who a team is. I think that will get cleaned up. I think
• 1:29:14
  the focused and determination will be there come regular season, so I think that'll
• 1:29:17
  clean up a lot of the pre snap penalties and a lot of the lacks
• 1:29:20
  of days ago kind of sluggishness we saw on the field. I think that
• 1:29:24
  will get cleaned up. But certain individual player pieces, I don't think I'm
• 1:29:28
  necessarily going to become cleaned up, become cleaned up again, Like I said,
• 1:29:32
  like I don't think Tyroll Dotson is going to become a three down starting
• 1:29:35
  caliber linebacker in the NFL. I don't buy the Jets game on nine to
• 1:29:39
  eleven. I don't think Spencer Brown is going to become a consistent right tackle
• 1:29:43
  by the opener against the Jets on nine to eleven. Like maybe maybe Spencer
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  Brown in the future. At this point, I think Tyrell Dotson is who
• 1:29:49
  he is. Same thing with A J. Klein Audi out of the conversation
• 1:29:51
  we've had so some of the structural pieces and mental pieces, yes, I
• 1:29:58
  think those one hundred percent can get cleaned up. Some of the individual player
• 1:30:00
  performances, I don't see them improving too much, and that's where that's where
• 1:30:06
  we have to go. That's where we have to go. But good question
• 1:30:10
  there. I like it. I like it. I like it. I
• 1:30:11
  like it. Lowe says it wasn't the scheme, it was just the one
• 1:30:15
  on ones. They were losing badly on that front. It's preseason. It's
• 1:30:17
  preseason. It's preseason. Fair again, it depends on how you look at
• 1:30:23
  it, right. I understand if people think the sky is falling. I
• 1:30:25
  understand if people think this is nothing to be worried about and it's just preseason.
• 1:30:29
  I think you have to pick and choose what you take, what you
• 1:30:32
  put stock in, and take the heart from this game. And the biggest
• 1:30:36
  things I'm taking to heart are I'm really worried about right tackle, and I'm
• 1:30:41
  worried about linebacker. That's where my focus is for everything. I'm also very
• 1:30:45
  pleased with Dalton Kincaid in terms of what he's been Those are my three biggest
• 1:30:49
  takeaways from this game. I'm worried about right tackle, so you're saying we
• 1:30:54
  have a chance. I like that comment there. I'm worried about right tackle,
• 1:30:57
  I'm worried about linebacker opposite in Matt Milano, and Dalton Kinkaid is the
• 1:31:00
  real deal. Those are the big takeaways from this game. And again those
• 1:31:02
  aren't just based on this game. They're based on what this game has showed
• 1:31:06
  us in conjunction with the sample size we've been provided throughout the offseason or previous
• 1:31:12
  seasons in the case of Spencer Brown and the linebackers that we have in competition
• 1:31:15
  there. But we'll see what happens going forward. In this week, we'll
• 1:31:18
  see if rub Bernard can come back at linebacker. We'll see what he adds
• 1:31:23
  to the mix, and we'll see what happens on the offensive line front for
• 1:31:25
  the Buffalo Bills. But that'll do it for us here on this episode of
• 1:31:29
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• 1:31:31
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• 1:34:31
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