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Who the Buffalo Bills Need More From in 2024 | DC · Disguised Coverage

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  Anthony Paraska. Find me on Twitter at pro Underscore underscore and that's pro two
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  underscores a n t in tonight's episode of Disguise coverage. Pretty straightforward episode based
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  on the title, based on the graphic, taking a look at who on
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  the current roster for the Buffalo Bills needs to step up in twenty twenty four,
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  needs to take a jump in their game, raise their game in twenty
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  twenty four. Who from this team, this current roster, who the Bills
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  need more from in twenty twenty four. And you know this, this episode
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  came about with you know, diving really into the free agency pieces of this
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  offseason, the draft pieces. We've really kind of put the roster under a
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  microscope a bit the past several weeks here on Diskui's coverage. The will continue
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  to do so throughout the offseason. And this idea kind of just came to
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  me looking at the roster and trying to figure out ways for this team to
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  get better going forward, trying to finally get out of the AFC, finally
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  get to a Super Bowl, finally win a super Bowl with this team and
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  with this roster and this coaching staff, and just a kind of doing these
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  exercises and looking at wayse for this team to get better. You kind of
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  just organically see the roster and think like, oh, you know, it'd
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  be great if like Timmy over there played better this year. You know what,
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  Man, imagine what the Bills could be if you know, Timmy did
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  X this year or did why this year? And so that's how this episode
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  came together, and it really started out with one specific player in mind and
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  then kind of got the ball rolled and well too, I guess really,
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  but one that is flying a bit under the radar, which we're going to
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  get into in this episode about. But that's really how the kind of the
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  genesis and the origin story of how this episode came together. And I'm sure
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  we'll cotinue to talk about pieces like this throughout the entirety of the off season
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  because again, as we've talked about on this show, this offseason is a
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  pivotal one for this Buffalo Bill's team, with the Josh Allen money starting to
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  kick in this the Von Diggs money really starting to kick in, the money
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  you have committed to Von Miller and Tredavius White and where you can kind of
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  give yourself some wiggle room where you don't have wiggle room, and then looking
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  at what's available in free agency and the draft and putting it all together to
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  significantly shape what this Buffalo Bill's team will be really going forward for the next
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  several years. I don't think this offseason is as much about twenty twenty four
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  as it is about twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five, and twenty twenty
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  six. If this off season is done correctly, the Bills could really set
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  the table or set or set themselves up well and set the table well for
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  themselves going forward for the next several years. This is a very important offseason.
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  And again in that Vein continue to put this roster under the microscope,
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  and that's where kind of the idea for this episode came together. And so
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  without further ado, let's jump right into it for this episode. For those
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  of you playing at home joining me here live on this Wednesday, Wednesday,
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  Tuesday, February twentieth, any thoughts, questions, comments, concerns, anything
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  in everything you got, feel free to put it up into the chat.
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  Who you think needs to step up for the Bills in twenty twenty four and
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  why, what you'll be looking for, what you want in free agency,
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  what you want in the draft, anything and everything Bills related, football related,
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  wrestling related, whatever you got, throwed up into the chat if you're
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  joining me live here on the show. I'd really like to keep this engagement
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  focused here on the show, but especially in the off season where there is
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  so many questions and there is so much dead time. Nice to just really
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  try to increase that interaction piece. And oh, everybody, alread kind jump
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  it through a little bit here. What's up Joe? Joe just finished his
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  show on the cover one channel at seven thirty. It's called under review.
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  You folks should check it out. Joe says, what's up? Show,
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  nighbor, and then he says, I agree, Timmy needs to stop slacking
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  off and start studying that playbook. Timmy's been a real jerk. You just
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  don't see the commitment I think on the field or off the field. And
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  honestly, when you look at the tape and then you look at the metrics,
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  you're just not seeing the production. Yeah, Timmy has been a real
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  disappointment. I'm pretty upset that they committed all that, you know, guaranteed
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  money to him and just to put themselves in a real rough spot. Question
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  here from John Roberts saying, who do you think will back up James Cook?
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  That's a really good question. I talked about it on the show last
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  week and then in the film room last week as well. If you're looking
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  at the Bills roster right now, the three running backs they have on the
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  roster are James Cook, Nahem Heinz, and Darrnton Evans. So there is
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  a significant amount of snaps that are up for grab at that running back spot.
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  James Cook in twenty twenty three saw fifty five percent of the snaps.
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  We saw the Tavius Murray get work. We saw Damien Harris get work before
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  he got hurt. We saw Ty Johnson emerge as the season went on.
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  Honestly, you know, to kind of keep it simple. I do like
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  the idea of Ty Johnson coming back. I think he was a really solid
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  number two, runs behind his pads, gets north and south, has enough
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  burst and juice and speed, was able to do some stuff in the past
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  game. I'm cool with him coming back, especially at what you anticipate him
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  costing, Like I don't know, a couple of mil two and a half,
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  maybe one year deal, maybe a two tops, but real low investment.
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  I like the idea of Naheim Hines in a Joe Brady led offense given
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  Joe Brady's propensity falling apart already. We're only five minutes and I've stumbled over
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  my first word. It's gonna be a rough night. I like the idea
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  of Nahem Heines in the Bills offense, in a Joe Brady led offense,
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  given his propensity for using running backs, especially in the past game. I
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  think Naheim Heines a skill set and the electricity and juice that he played man
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  that could be really fun, like a really fun piece in this Bill's offense.
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  And then even as a runner, he's not bad as well. Right,
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  I think he could be a solid number two. The issue is what
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  he probably costs for the Buffalo Bills. I'm pulling up. I've got so
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  many numbers in my head right now when I'm pulling up the positional spending for
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  the Bills right now. It said on last week's show, but I can't
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  remember it. Yeah, So you're looking at Naheim Heines right now. He's
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  got a caphit this year of five point four eight million dollars. If the
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  Bills outright cut him and just get rid of him, if they only have
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  a dead cap at a five hundred thousand and they save four point nine mil
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  four point nine eight So basically you can say five million dollars just by cutting
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  Niheim. Heines, I'd like to approach him for a pay cut. If
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  not, I'm okay with him going by by unfortunately. But as for who
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  I think backs up James Cook. If I had put my money on anybody,
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  I think it's Ti Johnson. I think he earned himself another opportunity here.
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  I don't think he's going to be a name that is too highly sought
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  after on the open market. I think he liked the U usage that he
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  had here. Obviously Joe Brady liked him. He was an afterthought on this
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  Bill's team until Joe Brady took over, and then all of a sudden became
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  not a focal point but a legitimate piece in the offense. They're running pony
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  personneut and he's blocking and doing some really cool stuff. So my money is
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  on Ty Johnson, and I think that money will be efficiently spent. I
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  also would like the idea of taking a running back in the draft. The
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  Bills have so many Day three picks. I love throwing a Day three pick
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  at a running back this year. Somebody who can be that RB three and
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  b RB two next year. And I hate devaluing the running back position and
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  talking about it in this manner, but you can honestly just take running backs
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  like it's kind of like a dart throw position nowadays, where you just pick
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  one out of the pile, and I don't know, you have like a
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  I would almost say like a fifty to fifty shot of them becoming like an
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  RB two or an RB one for a team, just with how things continue
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  to develop. So my money right now is on Ty Johnson. I think
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  he does come back. I think they approach Nahim Hines for a pay cut.
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  I just can't see Nahem Heines staying on the Buffalo Bills this year with
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  a caphit of five point four eight million dollars like him sitting there with a
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  capit of five point five mil, knowing at best he's RB two. And
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  again for reference, granted, James Cook is on his rookie deal and he
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  was a Day two pick, but James Cook's cap hit this year is one
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  point five to nine, so Cook at basically as a capit of one point
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  six. Nahem Hines is a capit of five point five. Like, I
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  just can't see a world, given how strapped the Bills are in the maneuvering
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  they have to do. I cannot see a world where Naheim Heines stays on
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  this roster at five point five. So he's either staying with a pay cut
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  and Ty Johnson is coming in, or he's bouncing and Ti Johnson's coming in.
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  Either way, I really think you're gonna see Ti Johnson in that fold
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  somehow, some way. And to your point, John Robbert, Yeah,
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  they could restructure or extend Hines for a season if not cut, they could.
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  There's multiple things they could do. I just don't see. I don't
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  see him staying at that five point five. Ooh like the comment heyer from
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  Jefferson, aj Dillon if cheap to pair with Ti Johnson. You know,
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  I always thought aj Dillon would click a bit more. I liked him more
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  coming out of Boston College. I've had him every single year in fantasy.
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  He's been like a goal line vulture at times. Whenever I've had Aaron Jones,
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  he just has never seemed to click. I like him being as a
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  true number two. A couple of years ago, he had a really good
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  success rate in terms of short yardage conversion and some EPA metrics. I think
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  he's worth a shot as well. Again, he's another running back that one
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  year three mil, one year three point five, maybe depending on what you're
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  looking at. It's really again a bunch of dart throws where you can make
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  a case for a multitude of backs bringing in and then given James Cook's skill
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  set, then you start looking at okay, like what do we pair him
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  with? Do we get a complimentary piece? What kind of complimentary piece do
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  we get? How do we rotate things like that? But so it's one
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  of the few positions on this team that need addressing but can be addressed in
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  like a fun, non stressful way. Oh, Titan come in and saying
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  Groot has to step up. I wonder if he'll make an appearance on this
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  show and on this list. That's fair JG's heying. I mean von Miller,
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  that's who the Bills need more from. Is that too simple? Nope,
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  it's not too simple. We're gonna talk about vond at some point in
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  this episode. Low blow here on the comments saying Stefon Diggs not to drop
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  a deep pass again. Yeah, I was unfortunate that one of the most
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  sure handed dudes in the NFL dropped one, uh in a big time moment.
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  I the moment says, I'm sorry. I the moment says, since
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  the Williams, Darius Williams, Hughes, oh Man, what a front for
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  Mario Williams, Marcel Darius, Kyle Williams, and Jerry Hughes, the old
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  Cold Front? Since that Front four, which I rated a ten? What
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  score have you given the d Line since the McBean era? Oh Man,
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  This is a really good question. I don't know if I can answer this
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  off the top of my head. At their best, if you're giving them
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  a ten, that if you're giving that Cold Front a ten at their at
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  the best. Probably when Vaughn was healthy, that twenty twenty two group,
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  I would probably give like a nine eight and a half, nine eight to
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  nine, somewhere in that range. Vaughn was cooking, was cooking, ed,
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  looked good, Daikon Jones look good. I would give that grouping again.
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  It was different like that was the Cold Front was more Front four reliant,
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  whereas the twenty twenty two grouping had more rotation baked into it. But
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  I would say that before Vaughn went down with the ACL in twenty twenty two.
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  I think that group comes pretty close towards a tent, so probably,
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  like it's tough for me to say a group is like perfect, and I
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  don't think that group was. I don't even know if I break the cold
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  front at ten. But since you're giving him a ten, I'll probably give
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  that twenty twenty two grouping before Vaughn went down. Yeah, probably like a
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  solid eight to a nine. Daniel saying Hines with the discount could be interesting
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  situationally. Absolutely, Roy is all about a pay cut for Nahem Heines if
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  he stays. Jayg says, do you think the Bills counter those heavy sets?
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  Heavier sets they struggled with at times with more three linebacker packages? So
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  this is something this conversing, not necessarily your question in general, but some
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  of the narratives that are going out about this piece. The Bills were already
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  starting to do this before all the injuries happened at linebacker. When Milana was
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  healthy, they were bringing in Tyrol Dodson to be a third linebacker against heavier
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  sets, So it'd be Dodson, it would be Bernard, and it would
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  be Milano. And then even when Milana went down, it was Dodson and
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  Bernard, and they would bring in Dorian Williams. And then even when things
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  weren't looking great with Dorian Williams, what game was it down the stretch,
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  they brought in Bablan Spector as the third linebacker. The Bills were already starting
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  to work in more three linebacker packages this year. They were not a granted,
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  they're always going to be a nickel dominant defense. I don't see that
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  changing anytime soon, but they were already starting to work in more three linebacker
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  sets this year, in twenty twenty three, before Milana went down, and
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  then even after Milana went down. I think a lot of this conversation for
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  a lot of people, not saying that this is where it stems for you,
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  JG. But a lot of this conversation I think stems from the game
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  against the Chiefs and the playoffs, them going heavier and the Bills kind of
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  really being put in a bind with what they had defensively and then being run
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  all over the place. And the conversation goes to two things. It goes
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  to man aj clin is offull, why I wasn't Dorian Williams in there?
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  And then the other side of that conversation is why do they stay in nickel?
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  Why not have more three linebacker sets. I think the reason they didn't
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  in that game was just because how banged up they were at that position.
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  The fact that they were the fact that they were no disrespect to Ajklin.
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  The fact that they were starting AJ Klein in a divisional round against the Chiefs,
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  considering he was ready to take his family on vacation like four or five
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  weeks prior, is absolutely wild. Like that tells you how dire the situation
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  was for the Bills linebacking court. I think if the Bills, obviously,
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  if they're one hundred percent, if mlone's good to go and Bernard is good
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  to go, But even if Bernard was good to go, I think you
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  see more three linebacker sets in that game against the Chiefs. I think you
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  see more Bernard Dodson. And granted Dotson was banged up as well with his
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  shoulder, but if Bernard was healthy in that game against the Chiefs, I
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  think you see more Bernard Dotson AJ Clin sets. I think that's what you
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  see. I can actually consider doing an episode on this, but I thought
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  I didn't think it was there was enough juice to it, or me to
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  it to do an entire episode on it. But the Bills already started working
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  in more three linebacker packages earlier in the season. It just happened to be
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  that their linebacking core got decimated with injuries, and then in the biggest game
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  of the year against the Chiefs, that decimated grouping was exploited by the Chiefs.
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  And I really think if they were just a little bit healthier, I'm
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  not even saying completely healthy, if they were just a little bit healthier at
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  linebacker, I think you would have seen more three linebacker sets. I think
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  it was just unfortunate timing given the matchup and given all the injuries that they
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  had who net Flanders says Dorsey's offense was supposed to be difficult to learn.
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  Will Brady run a complicated offense? Can they simplify with the likelihood that will
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  have a few new faces at the skills, Yeah, I think it'll be.
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  I don't think any offense is simplistic, but I think you'll see less
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  choice based options in the Bills offense this year. I think you'll see some
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  choice concepts like Khalio Shakir does a great job running their choice concept out of
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  a two by two look had a lot of success this year off of it.
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  I think you'll still see some choice elements and let me backtrack to like
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  I think that's the reason Brady's offense was so difficult is because there was so
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  much read and react built into the route concepts and what they were doing offensively.
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  It was very much like, Okay, go out. If your guy
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  does this, you do that. If he does that, you do this.
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  Hey, Josh, this route concept over here can beat this coverage.
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  This route concept over here can beat this other coverage. On the snap,
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  read the coverage, figure out what side you need to go to. Now,
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  there are advantages to that, like when that works, it's indefensible,
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  like a true option based, choice based read and react offense, like a
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  defense cannot stop because you are literally you are literally running plays and running routes
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  and concepts based off of what the defense is doing. So they're damned if
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  they do damned if they don't. But again that you have to be really
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  on point when you're doing that, like timing, reading what's happening, and
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  the accuracy of r at the receivers and or the pass catchers and the quarterback
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  being on the same page. I think that's where it was so complicated in
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  that aspect. I think Brady's will be more stream I think it'll be more
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  of a progression based offense, more of you know, hey, we're calling
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  this play to beat this coverage. Here's your one, here's your two,
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  here's your three. This is where your eyes go, this is your outlet
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  or your checkdown, so on and so forth. So I think Brady's offense
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  will be more streamlined, I should say, And yeah, I think they
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  can simplify with the likelihood they'll have a few new faces at the skill position.
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  And I think whoever they get at the skill position, given the fact
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  that Stefan Diggs will be here, and Dalkin Cat will be here, and
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  Khalil Shakir will be here, and James Cook and the pieces that are there,
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  whoever is a new face that comes into this offense. Offense isn't suddenly
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  going to be like, hey, we need you to produce immediately. Like
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  whoever they bring in as a wide receiver this year, even if it's a
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  high draft pick, that guy's not coming in. Even if they got Marvin
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  Harrison Junior, is then gonna come in, They're gonna be like, hey
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  man, we need you to put up twelve hundred yards and ten touchdowns like
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  right away this year. Now, he might do that because he's so good,
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  but that I don't think that expectation or that plateload is going to be
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  put upon anyone given the rest of the offensive components that the Bills had,
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  So I do think it'll be more simplified, But I don't want to say
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  simplified. I just want to say more streamlined than what doors he had.
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  But JG saying, yeah, personnel determines a lot of this on the defensive
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  side. That's what I'm curious to see if they were signed. Terrell Dodson.
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  I think Dodson had a better year than really anybody thought. I know,
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  he was like him going into the lineup. Everybody like was kind of
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  closing the covering their eyes and batting down the hatches type of thing. But
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  he had a good year, especially against the run. Titans saying that game
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  because the chief should be thrown in the trash. The linebackers were all hurt.
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  It's not a good barometer. I completely completely agree Jeffery's saying a three
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  three five defense against the pass. Can they do it if you're talking about
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  personnel, sure, if you're talking about an alignment, like a stack alignment
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  where you've got like a like three down and it's like a four eye a
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  nose and a four eye and then three behind it. I hate that kind
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  of defense. It's just so hard to make it work consistently. So I
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  don't think that'll happen about personnel A sure, potentially, Joe saying, I
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  think Root's best play as a pass rushers in front of him. It feels
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  like he begins to put it together quite consistently before some injury kills his momentum.
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  I hope he can stay healthy. I hope that too. I hope
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  that too. Actually, we're gonna have a conversation about that as we go
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  forward. Titan saying Bernard Malano and Williams would be great two cover linebackers.
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  An attack on machine that would be great. I still don't get where everybody's
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  hype is coming. I don't want to get too sidetracked before getting into it.
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  But like the love and I'm not saying you're doing this, Titan,
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  but the love for Dorry and Williams, like, and I get it,
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  he's fast, and he's athletic, and he's rangey, and he plays through
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  the tackle point at players right, he looks good. He's jack, he's
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  cut up. I get it. He was just so lost mentally in twenty
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  twenty three, and again I think that was expected, Like he wasn't supposed
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  to see any raps. He was super green. I talked about it on
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  the show and on Twitter a million times with how simplistic the defense was that
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  he came from at Tulane and how hard it was going to be for him
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  to adjust. I think it'll be awesome if Dorny Williams is ready to be
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  like linebacker three this year. I just still think it's a lot to ask
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  of him, and I'm not ready to put him on the field until I
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  see that he cannot be a liability mentally. It goes to the conversation too
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  with AJ Klein playing as much against the Chiefs and everybody talking about all he
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  was so slow and you know he couldn't move out there, get Dorian out
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  there. I think it was six to one, half a dozen of the
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  other Like AJ Klein did not have what it took athletically, but mentally he
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  did Dorrian Williams had what it took athletically, but did not have what it
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  took mentally. So it's kind of like, Okay, do you want to
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  get beat with foot speed or do you want to get beat mentally? Like
• 20:23
  either way you're gying, Like I don't know which is the better way to
• 20:26
  get beat. Yeah, so oh spin echo in some thoughts. You know,
• 20:33
  we put all our money on our defense, and our defense is what
• 20:34
  ends up letting us down in the playoffs. Time to invest in the offense.
• 20:37
  Yeah, but I think this season is a bit rough, right with
• 20:38
  all the injuries, like and they got hit like they got like the plague
• 20:42
  on defense. I think this season is a bit unfair to judge them off
• 20:47
  of that. Again, injuries keep coming through, Like it's not like the
• 20:52
  guys they're bringing in are performing poorly. It's that, you know, guys
• 20:56
  they're bringing in or getting hurt or the core guys are getting hurt. So
• 20:59
  it's it's rough. Oh. I don't want to get too much in this.
• 21:03
  Justin Bill's Lego says Davis was not good at choice routes. I kind
• 21:06
  of disagree with this, actually that kind of I do job the big miscommunications
• 21:11
  that happened between Allen and Davis this year, the one against Philly, also
• 21:15
  the one where Davis is running wide open against the Chiefs. Those are on
• 21:19
  Josh Allen. Uh not gave Davis granted, I think you should be on
• 21:23
  the same page regardless, So like it is a bit on both. But
• 21:27
  if I had to put the blame on one more than the other, it's
• 21:30
  on Josh Allen. But yeah, fair, fair, fair. I had
• 21:34
  a moment saying, thanks for your answer. I just feel our ability to
• 21:37
  disrupt the passer is the key factor for improvement. I completely agree, completely,
• 21:41
  completely agree. Yeah, Dodson was okay, struggled in space absolutely absolutely,
• 21:47
  Oh Patrick saying put Bryce Huff opposite of Russo and watch them create chaos.
• 21:51
  Yeah, Bryce Huff has been doing some wild things, justin saying,
• 21:56
  how do you know it's on Allen based off of their rule rules for They're
• 22:02
  like those miscommunication pieces aren't necessarily choice based as much as they are reading the
• 22:08
  defense and reading the leverage based. And there are certain rules that they have
• 22:14
  baked into those scenarios based off of what they saw, and Davis followed those
• 22:21
  rules and Alan kind of thought something else was going to happen. Again,
• 22:25
  It's not like Alan made this horrible choice of Oh my god, I can't
• 22:29
  believe he made that decision, like he just thought a was going to happen.
• 22:32
  Gabe was like, no, I'm going to stick to the rule and
• 22:33
  do this. The Philly one is the really good example, right, like
• 22:36
  they just they're slightly off. Alan saw where the space was figured, Gabe
• 22:41
  was going to go to the space. Gabe saw the leverage and just followed
• 22:44
  the rules and then just kind of went with what it was. That's why
• 22:48
  I think I put it more on Alan because at the end of the day,
• 22:51
  follow the rule. But I also understand him kind of seeing it more
• 22:53
  in the moment and being like, oh well yeah, but like let's read
• 22:57
  it out and a just type of thing, which is also kind of goes
• 23:00
  back to my first point of the whole choice based option and offense, where
• 23:04
  if it works, like again, you can't defend it because no matter what
• 23:07
  the defender does, you're reading it in the moment boom. But all it
• 23:11
  takes is the slightest disconnect between receiver and quarterback and routes and options that are
• 23:15
  wide open going complete and big things are missed. So that's kind of just
• 23:19
  where it comes down from. Oh, no, where it's justin saying I'm
• 23:22
  not disputing you know better than me, just wondering. No, Absolutely,
• 23:23
  I love the question. That's awesome. I also have, you know,
• 23:26
  kind of some connections that confirm those pieces as well. But yet it just
• 23:30
  comes down to like the rule based versus kind of seeing it and letting it
• 23:33
  play out in real time, and then the disconnect between those two things.
• 23:37
  But it's understandable. All right, all right, let's oh I go.
• 23:44
  This sentiment from Jamal saying, defensive tackle is my main concern. We need
• 23:47
  to help ed all around the D line and get other qbs uncomfortable in the
• 23:49
  pocket. I completely agree. I don't I don't even want to talk about
• 23:53
  defensive line, especially defensive tackle anymore this off season because I've talked about it
• 23:56
  so much, and safety to a degree as well, and every a majority
• 24:00
  of people just want wide receivers and they keep yelling at me for wanting anything
• 24:03
  other than wide receivers. So but I'm right there with you, Jamal,
• 24:06
  defensive tackle is scary at least, even if you have questions about Vaughan,
• 24:11
  at least at edge, it's Groot and Von. On the interior, it's
• 24:15
  just Ed and I. And then if you depending on how you view Cameron
• 24:18
  Klin as a defensive tackle or an edge even if you view him as defensive
• 24:19
  tackle, Okay, cool, it's Ed, Oliver Ile and Cameron Klein.
• 24:23
  Like how good do you feel? And I say that to somebody who likes
• 24:26
  Ilanku. Yeah, it's it's rough on the interior. No, appreciate you,
• 24:32
  justin thanks for asking the question and thanks for being here. I I
• 24:34
  appreciate you. Good, good conversation. Well, I guess conversation with myself
• 24:37
  and response to your questions, but yeah, I appreciate you. Hell yeah.
• 24:41
  Titans saying how much do you want Sweat in the draft to Andandre Sweat,
• 24:44
  defensive tackle from Texas, I don't know, because I like what he
• 24:48
  represents. I'm always just wary of dudes at that size and how much of
• 24:51
  a three down piece they can be. Not that his pass rush is terrible,
• 24:56
  Like he's got a quick armover. Was trying to fix my camera here.
• 24:59
  He's got like a quick armover that he uses and he flashes at times.
• 25:02
  Not to mention, you can push the pocket and kind of wear dudes
• 25:03
  down. He's not my preferred option, but I would take him given how
• 25:10
  And this is going to sound disrespectful to him, and I don't mean it
• 25:11
  this way, but I would gladly take him given how desperate I am for
• 25:15
  reinforcements at the defensive tackle position. Justin saying, what do you think the
• 25:19
  odds are we re signed Daiquon? Ooh, I feel like sixty percent ballpark.
• 25:26
  He likes it here, he's a good fit, he likes Marcus West,
• 25:30
  who's the new defensive line coach. I don't think it's going to break
• 25:34
  the bank to keep him. The biggest thing, the biggest to turn I
• 25:37
  think to Daiquon not signing, is some other team just offering him a bunch
• 25:42
  more money. I truly think. Again, I've said it before, I'll
• 25:45
  say it again. I really think Daiquon was on an all Pro path at
• 25:48
  defensive tackle before he got hurt this year. What he was doing against the
• 25:52
  run and against the pass was absolutely tremendous on tape and from an advanced metrics
• 25:56
  standpoint. But given the age, I don't think some team is and also
• 26:00
  him having some injuries back to back years, I don't think some team out
• 26:03
  there is going to offer him a contract that's going to blow the Bills out
• 26:06
  of the water. So I think whatever he gets offered in free agency,
• 26:10
  the Bills will be able to compete with. It's just a matter of you
• 26:15
  know, how much do some team outbid the Bills? Do the Bills care
• 26:18
  to match? But I think at the worst case, they're in the conversation.
• 26:22
  But given how much he likes the culture here, the team here,
• 26:25
  the fit, the city, the fact that they're a good football team,
• 26:27
  I think the odds are pretty high. What else, we got a bunch
• 26:37
  of things coming in justin saying for me, I just want to put resources
• 26:40
  into the offense. I get it. I understand it's a fair point too,
• 26:41
  especially with how much they've done for defense and they still can't get over
• 26:45
  the hump. Like I understand the notion Jamal saying thank you for answering the
• 26:48
  question. No, thank you for asking the question, and thank you for
• 26:49
  being here. I appreciate it. Man. Sometimes I always think like I
• 26:52
  should just do an episode purely like questions and answers live in the chat,
• 26:56
  and then I wouldn't haveter prepare any notes. It'd be easy it could just
• 26:57
  hit go live and just answer questions, but I'm always afraid of what the
• 27:00
  live viewership will be, especially in the dead time of the off season.
• 27:03
  But this is going really well. JG mentions some people who need to step
• 27:10
  up, but that's the conversation is going to come in a little bit,
• 27:15
  justin saying about day one, Yes, he was doing really well beginning of
• 27:18
  the season. Do you think he is the first free agent we prioritize.
• 27:19
  Absolutely. I think he's the from free agents that are like from the Bills.
• 27:25
  Yeah, I think he's priority number one. I had of Floyd,
• 27:26
  I ahead of Epanessa gave Davis I think is gone. You know, his
• 27:30
  stuff on social media today all but confirmed it. Yeah, I think daik
• 27:34
  One is priority number one. Absolutely. That's where John Roberts saying Daiquon also
• 27:40
  likes Bobby Babbage, new DC for the Bills spin saying question, was there
• 27:42
  a difference in dake onon Jones's play before and after the injury, and if
• 27:47
  so, by how much? Yeah, I just it's hard to quantify it.
• 27:52
  I just know as soon as I see a dude come back from injury
• 27:55
  and they're wearing some sort of supportive piece to that injured area. I just
• 28:02
  assume they're not completely one hundred percent, and if you're not one hundred percent,
• 28:04
  there's going to be a dip in your play. The first I don't
• 28:08
  think he did against the Chiefs, but I know the first couple of games
• 28:11
  back, yeah, he had he was wearing you could see like that kind
• 28:15
  of the sleeve coming out a little bit. I think he was wearing some
• 28:18
  kind of rap or protective piece to kind of keep his shoulder from extending too
• 28:21
  much and putting too much strain on his peck. I don't know how to
• 28:25
  quantify it, but you could tell that he just didn't have that he wasn't
• 28:27
  one hundred percent and he didn't have that burst and that you know, muscle
• 28:32
  twitch and necessarily the strength in that piece as well. What else? God,
• 28:37
  I like this, Roy says, well, Cody finished the story.
• 28:40
  Absolutely, he has to finish the story. I would have bet money that
• 28:42
  he would have beat Roman reigns last year. He didn't find they're pushing it
• 28:45
  to this year. He has to, like, especially after all the stuff
• 28:49
  that was rumored of. You know, the rock it was supposed to be
• 28:52
  rocking Roman and it came out of nowhere, but then they adjusted it because
• 28:55
  of all the fan backlash, Like he has to unless they really want to
• 28:57
  build Roman as the greatest champion of all time, which I don't think they
• 29:00
  necessarily have the incentive to anymore. Cody has to finish the story, right
• 29:04
  he in today's wrestling landscape, the fact that a true like white meat Babyface
• 29:10
  is that over in wrestling. He has to. Absolutely. But again,
• 29:14
  I thought he would beat Roman last year and he didn't, So I don't
• 29:17
  know. It's wild. It's wild. Oh justin you're not a fan of
• 29:21
  the Roman and Rock match, Yeah, it wouldn't have been great. I
• 29:22
  just don't think the Rock can go for that long in a main event.
• 29:25
  He gets tired cutting a promo. You can tell how winded he is.
• 29:27
  He's all sweating and hot. Wild. All right, let us move on.
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• 30:30
  trying to put in the water breaks, especially like a night like this where
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  I'm extremely thirsty, man, absolutely wild. All right, I'm gonna throw
• 30:37
  out the banner here for who needs to step up for the bills. In
• 30:40
  twenty twenty four. I've seen several answers come through already, and some of
• 30:45
  them are on my list in this episode, but I'm gonna start with one
• 30:48
  that, like I mentioned, I don't think is oh real quick, let
• 30:55
  me grab this from Lawrence Laurence or Charles says Lawrence. Guy. I don't
• 30:57
  think he's a scheme fit for the Bills. I think he's more of an
• 31:00
  odd front type of dude, like a four I four, like a defensive
• 31:03
  end in a three to four, rather than a defensive end or defensive tackle
• 31:07
  in a four to three like the Bills run. Okay, So this first
• 31:11
  piece that I have, first person that I have of who needs to step
• 31:14
  up. Ooh, somebody justin says McDermott, is one that I don't think
• 31:18
  is being talked about enough, and some of it is injury based with how
• 31:22
  it goes through. But this name is, especially with the conversation surrounding the
• 31:29
  offense and talking about wide receivers and weapons and supporting Allen and supporting Allen.
• 31:34
  I'm surprised this person hasn't come under more fire. There's been a little smoke
• 31:40
  for this person, but I thought there'd be more fire around this and Troy
• 31:42
  absolutely nailed it. It is Dawson Knox. Yes, everybody knows. Johnny's
• 31:47
  saying Knox, just saying Knox, Charles saying Knox. Absolutely, Mister Dawson
• 31:52
  Knox. The current contract that he's on, I think really is what even
• 31:59
  if he wasn't on this contract, his production has not been up the snuff.
• 32:01
  And we're gonna get into the production, We're gonna get in the usage.
• 32:04
  We're gonna have that whole conversation around Dawson Knox. But the contract and
• 32:08
  the return on investment since he signed that four year, fifty two million dollar
• 32:12
  extension really or contract really puts a strain on him when it comes to or
• 32:19
  puts extra eyes on him, puts him under the microscope further soul for his
• 32:22
  contract. Right now, Dawson Knox, total value he's paid as tight end
• 32:28
  seven in the NFL, average annual value he's paid as tight and nine,
• 32:32
  and total guarantees he's paid as tight end seven. Now, the tight end
• 32:37
  landscape isn't necessarily loaded. I think there's a fair probably I don't know,
• 32:44
  top five, top six ish of who the tight ends are in the NFL.
• 32:49
  But when you look at like let's look at it from a total value
• 32:52
  standpoint again, where Dawson Knox is sitting seventh. Ahead of him is George
• 32:58
  Kittle, TJ. Hockinson, Travis Kelsey, Dallas Goddard, Mark Andrews,
• 33:01
  David and Joku, and then there's Dawson Knox. Behind him are Darren Waller,
• 33:05
  Cole kmet Evan Ingram, Taysom Hill. Just funny that he classified as
• 33:08
  a tight end hunter, Henry Kyle Pitts who is still on his rookie deal,
• 33:14
  Logan Thomas c j Uzama, will Disley, Hayden Hurst, Josh Oliver
• 33:17
  or Tyler Conklin, and then going down further with more rookie guys and guys
• 33:22
  on second deals. And so it's not like he's grossly overpaid, because there's
• 33:27
  another like four or five tight ends that are better than him, but just
• 33:30
  given where he sits, what his contract standing is again paid total value tight
• 33:35
  end seven, average annual value tight end nine, total guarantees tight end seven.
• 33:39
  And then what's also rough is when you look at what his contract situation
• 33:46
  is in terms of the amount of money that is committed to him and where
• 33:51
  that slots in for the bills he has the fifth highest cap hit in twenty
• 33:54
  twenty four for the Buffalo Bills, behind only Josh Allen at one, Stefan
• 33:59
  Digs at two, Von Miller at three, Dehon Dawkins, and Trey White.
• 34:01
  Now there's been injuries to Trey and Von Miller, which complicates obviously that
• 34:06
  top five a little bit. But what you've had from a production standpoint,
• 34:10
  and again, production is not everything, which we were going to talk about.
• 34:14
  The air production, I should say, is not indicative of not necessarily
• 34:16
  indicative of execution and ability. I want to put that out there. I'm
• 34:21
  going to say that a bunch here. But when you look at the production
• 34:23
  that he's had, the fact that he's sitting there with the I'm sorry,
• 34:28
  six highest cap hit behind Alan Diggs, Von Dawkins, and Trey White,
• 34:31
  because those are five he would make six. The fact that he's sitting there
• 34:34
  in that conversation with the sixth highest cap hit on this team given what he's
• 34:37
  done, is a little wild. So let's go through some of the numbers
• 34:42
  his twenty twenty three stats, including the playoffs, and now, again,
• 34:45
  this was a year where he spent some time on the IR. He played
• 34:49
  in fourteen of nineteen games. He had ristsurgery after the Week seven loss to
• 34:53
  the New England Patriots. He banged up his wrists. I don't know if
• 34:55
  they ever confirmed what exactly the injury was, but he had ristsurgery, played
• 34:59
  a lit banged up before that. It seems like year after year he's always
• 35:01
  kind of banged up, which is unfortunate. And I see some of you
• 35:05
  folks putting that in the conversation, like the injury piece, like, yeah,
• 35:08
  it's unfortunate. And I don't like judging a guy who's been playing banged
• 35:13
  up or who's been two injured to kind of produce at the level he can.
• 35:15
  But the whole point is he just hasn't played up the snuff as a
• 35:20
  starting tight end, especially what he's paid given the tight end landscape, and
• 35:23
  then even more so considering where his contract ranks for the Bill. So twenty
• 35:27
  twenty three, his stats, including the playoffs twenty four catches on thirty eight
• 35:31
  targets. Both of those are the lowest of his career. One hundred and
• 35:35
  ninety nine receiving yards also the lowest of his career. Three touchdowns the second
• 35:39
  lowest of his career. He didn't have a game all season with more than
• 35:43
  three catches. His highest receiving yards in any individual game was thirty six.
• 35:47
  Again, he spent time on injured reserve after having reris surgery following Week seven,
• 35:52
  but before the injury again when he played in seven games twenty seven targets,
• 35:58
  fourteen catches, one hundred and two yards, one touchdown in those seven
• 36:02
  games before the injury. Drops also became an issue for him again in twenty
• 36:06
  twenty three. After lowering his drop percentage every year since his rookie season,
• 36:10
  his drop percentage rose from eight point two percent in twenty twenty two to fourteen
• 36:15
  point three percent in twenty twenty three. It just seems like from a drop
• 36:17
  perspective, I know he's gotten better, but whether it's in quantity or just
• 36:22
  high leverage situations, it just seems like you can never fully rely on him
• 36:27
  to make a grab. One minute he's making some spectacular catch, the next
• 36:30
  minute he's dropping one that's thrown right into his numbers, or one that's a
• 36:34
  little off frame that he should come down with. He doesn't just quite batl
• 36:36
  out Allen, but sometimes he does. He's just kind of this rollercoastery wildcard
• 36:40
  when it comes to reliability from a hands perspective. Now, if we look
• 36:45
  at his contract, and this is a huge piece that I wanted to get
• 36:47
  into as well, because there's been some inaccuracies about his contracts spread on Twitter,
• 36:54
  which I mean, surprise it's Twitter. But I want to show my
• 37:00
  I screen here. Let's pull this out here. Share the screen, Share
• 37:07
  the screen, Share Share share share the screen. Okay, there we go.
• 37:09
  Boom. So we're looking at Dawson Knox's contract right now. What we
• 37:15
  have for our friends here on disguy's coverage is the breakdown shown his twenty twenty
• 37:21
  two, twenty three, twenty four, twenty five, twenty six. Now,
• 37:22
  if you literally look at this line here, the bolden line, the
• 37:25
  embolden line here, that's twenty twenty four. Look at his dead cap at
• 37:29
  you're not going anywhere, So you can save ten point four million with a
• 37:36
  post June first trade, but you're still incurring a significant amount of dead cap.
• 37:39
  And then look at everyone else. If you release him after June.
• 37:42
  First look at the dead cap that twenty point two mil. The trading him
• 37:45
  before June. First, look at the dead cab versus the savings releasing him.
• 37:50
  Look at the literally in the negative. But it's just not an option
• 37:52
  that he's going to go anywhere this year, so and I don't, nor
• 37:55
  do I think he should. Also, he doesn't have any like value,
• 37:58
  like what are you trading him for, like after the year he just finished
• 38:00
  with, Like you're not getting anything. Now, potentially releasing him in twenty
• 38:05
  twenty five becomes more palatable. He has a dead cap hit of seven point
• 38:08
  eight mil in twenty twenty five, and again if you release him or trade
• 38:12
  him pre June first, all that dead cap hits that twenty twenty five season.
• 38:15
  If you release or trade him after June first, you see how you
• 38:20
  can split that dead cap up in terms of, you know, spreading it
• 38:23
  out over the two years, so instead of seven point eight in one year,
• 38:27
  it's three point nine and three point nine spread over two. But again
• 38:30
  still that ideal you're saving eleven point five to encur a dead cap of seven
• 38:32
  point eight twenty twenty six is really where the true benefit or the true out
• 38:37
  is, despite the fact that spot track is telling you there's potential out in
• 38:40
  twenty twenty five, which again I guess there is, but the dead capit
• 38:44
  is just more significant. Look at what you get in twenty twenty six.
• 38:46
  You could cut him or trade him before June first. Dead cap is basically
• 38:52
  four You save twelve mil if you release him or trade him after June first,
• 38:57
  same exact thing. So if they decide they want to cut in twenty
• 39:00
  twenty six via trade or release pre June first, post June first, it
• 39:04
  does not matter. They only have a dead cap hit of about four mil,
• 39:07
  and they have a savings of about twelve So I don't think he's going
• 39:10
  anywhere until at the earliest twenty twenty six. But again, there is a
• 39:15
  chance that he's out in twenty twenty five, given what the dead cap hit
• 39:20
  looks like and given what these savings look like. In that regard and in
• 39:23
  that manner now, I say that to say this piece as of right now,
• 39:29
  I legitimately think you could make the case that this could be Dawson Knox's
• 39:32
  final year as a Buffalo Bill or his second last year as a Buffalo Bill.
• 39:37
  Dalton Kinkaid came in as a rookie in twenty twenty three and translated almost
• 39:43
  seamlessly into the Buffalo Bill's offense. He was also playing banged up throughout the
• 39:45
  year, as well, not to kind of make it seem worse for Knox,
• 39:49
  but whatever, and the way Kinkaid operates his skill set, his fit,
• 39:53
  I think it's I don't want to say pretty easy, but I think
• 39:58
  it's a pretty concrete statement to make to say that he's already a better pass
• 40:02
  catcher than Dawson Knox's. Dawson Knox still remains the better blocker, and there
• 40:07
  is value to his game when you pair his blocking ability with his athleticism,
• 40:13
  with what he's capable of as a pass catcher, but again with what he's
• 40:16
  paid to be on this team. He has the sixth highest cap at behind
• 40:21
  Josh Allen, Stefon Diggs, Von Miller, Deon Dawkins, and Tradevius White.
• 40:25
  His return on investment for that four year, fifty two million dollar contract
• 40:30
  is not looking good coming out of twenty twenty three. Now we scale it
• 40:32
  back right, let's go to twenty twenty two and twenty twenty one. Those
• 40:36
  seasons were not awful for him. He had over six hundred receiving yards each
• 40:38
  season, seven touchdowns in twenty twenty two, eleven in twenty twenty one,
• 40:44
  his highest career receptions in a season came in both those seasons, same amount,
• 40:47
  fifty six catches in twenty twenty two, fifty six catches in twenty twenty
• 40:51
  one. But again, is that really like, Okay, six hundred yards
• 40:57
  in fifty six catches, is that worth the contract that he has? Given
• 41:01
  what you have with that's the ceiling right now, Like that's what he's achieved.
• 41:06
  Is that worth his contract? Given Duncan, Kid, given Colio,
• 41:08
  Shakir, James Cook, Stefon Diggs, whatever wide receiver too they bring in
• 41:13
  in the draft or free agency, anything and everything. It feels like a
• 41:16
  lot of the conversation with Knocks every offseason, it feels like we're still waiting
• 41:21
  for him to reach his potential. It feels like we're still talking about him
• 41:24
  in terms of trajectory instead of terms of him being a known quantity, which
• 41:30
  is fair to agree given how raw he was coming out of Ole miss and
• 41:34
  him having to learn how to play tight end on the fly in the NFL.
• 41:37
  But at a certain point, unfortunately, it just has to come down
• 41:40
  to the brass tacks of it and he has to start producing relative to his
• 41:45
  contract. Now, Like I said earlier, schematics definitely come into play.
• 41:49
  I was a loud voice in the twenty twenty two season in terms of him
• 41:53
  being open more than he was targeted, and I think a lot of that
• 41:59
  came down to Josh Allen, like he'd be open underneath and Allen's going elsewhere.
• 42:01
  Now, some of that is tied to the Dorsey offense, some of
• 42:04
  that is tied to Josh Allen's injuries, some of that is tied to what
• 42:06
  the defense was doing to force the fall into certain areas and force Allen to
• 42:10
  make low percentage throws. But he was open more than he was targeted in
• 42:15
  twenty twenty two. So again, like I said earlier, production isn't always
• 42:19
  indicative of execution or ability, but either way, something needs to turn In
• 42:23
  twenty twenty four, Ford for Darson Knocks for Dawson Knox. I think there
• 42:28
  are parts of his game where he is an individual and needs to see improvement.
• 42:31
  Again. I know his overall drops in terms of quantity weren't bad last
• 42:36
  year with four, but that drop percentage being fourteen point three, it just
• 42:38
  seems like even though he's gotten better, there's still that inconsistency. And even
• 42:43
  in the years where his drop percentage was lowering which he did every year after
• 42:45
  his rookie year. There'd be a big third down that he'd drop, or
• 42:50
  you know, nice completion downfield that would hit him right in the midst and
• 42:52
  he'd dropped. It. Just seemed like it was never holistically complete or there
• 42:57
  so again, either way, something needs to turn four for him. His
• 43:00
  hands are an issue still. I think the route running for him and tying
• 43:06
  this into him still not completely using his athleticism and size to win in his
• 43:12
  route stems or at his breaks. I still think he could do a better
• 43:15
  job utilizing his size, his frame, and his athleticism to win more than
• 43:20
  he does. And then along with that just him needing to be featured more
• 43:24
  in the Bills offense. And that's where a lot of the conversation starts to
• 43:29
  shift, when you start to really put him into terms of where he fits
• 43:32
  on this offense. So much of the conversation this offseason has been around wide
• 43:37
  receiver too, and getting a wide receiver, getting a wide receiver, getting
• 43:39
  a wide receiver, and you know, okay, I want man if the
• 43:43
  Bills are trade for Romo dunes A man, I really want Jalen polk Man.
• 43:47
  I really want the Bills of trade up for neighbors. Man, I
• 43:51
  really want Brian Thomas or Troy Franklin, any of these receivers in the draft
• 43:53
  or again going in free agency, Man, Curtis Samuel will all be awesome
• 43:58
  if the Bills could give Michael Pittman junior and so forth. So much of
• 44:00
  the conversation has been getting a wide receiver too. But on your roster you
• 44:06
  have Stefan Diggs, You have a first round receiving tight end, and then
• 44:09
  you have the seventh highest paid tight end in football who has the sixth highest
• 44:13
  capet for your team in twenty twenty four. Yes, you do need a
• 44:15
  legitimate wide receiver too, but you should be in a better conversation from a
• 44:21
  weapons standpoint than you are considering Diggs, Kincaid Knox, and then the emergence
• 44:28
  of Khalios Shakir and in James Cook, and then factoring that all in in
• 44:31
  terms of a weapon standpoint and who's getting the ball standpoint. Knox seems to
• 44:37
  be consistently left out of the conversation amongst fans and even like content, and
• 44:42
  I think that says a lot and even just for everybody who's you know,
• 44:45
  playing at home in the chat here, Where do you rank Dawson Knox in
• 44:49
  terms of guys on the offense you want having the ball. I'm not just
• 44:52
  talking about a pass catcher. I'm talking about in general, like as a
• 44:54
  runner, as you know, because factor in James Cook and the conversation,
• 44:58
  pass catcher, running the football, anything and everything. Where does Dawson Knox
• 45:01
  rank for you in terms of guys from the offense you want having the ball?
• 45:06
  At best, I feel like he's fourth, but probably fifth. You've
• 45:08
  got Stefan Diggs, Dalton Kin, Kaid Khalil Shakir, and then is it
• 45:13
  Dawson Knox or is it James Cook? And then it's Dawson Knox. Because
• 45:16
  again I'm not talking just receiving, I mean purely getting the ball in some
• 45:21
  form or fashion. Who on the offense aside from Josh Allen do you want
• 45:24
  the ball to be in their hands on the offense Because again, in that
• 45:29
  sense, I think Cook is ahead of Knox. So at best, Dawson
• 45:30
  Knox is fifth, and that is without adding any wide receivers this offseason,
• 45:36
  and depending on who they add, does that push him down even further?
• 45:40
  See them even some of the yep, see Pickens the Buffalo saying fifth either
• 45:45
  moment say mid tier option, Jeffrey saying five to six pick and saying Cook
• 45:49
  over him. And so again that's that kind of conversation, right if you
• 45:52
  already have if he's already the fifth option or the sixth option. For me,
• 45:57
  again, I think he's fifth. I'd rather get it to Diggs,
• 46:00
  Kincaid, Shakir Cook. And then Knox say they do get another receiver,
• 46:07
  say they get I'm just throwing out names in the draft, Say they take
• 46:08
  Troy Franklin or Xavier Worthy or Brian Thomas. Does that push him down to
• 46:15
  sixth? Do they get another really fun receiver in the third round or the
• 46:19
  fourth round? And does that push him down to seventh? Like the value
• 46:22
  just has not been there for Dawson Knox into roups comment here, Yeah,
• 46:28
  the Knox has been a useful guy in the red zone. He did have
• 46:30
  those eleven touchdowns in twenty twenty two, granted a bunch of them. He
• 46:35
  had some explosive plays generated in that as well. But it's just it's so
• 46:39
  rough for a guy who's got like kind of more of a niche value and
• 46:43
  then thinking where he functions and funnels into this offense in the larger conversation,
• 46:47
  and I think he needs to step up in twenty twenty four just because I
• 46:52
  think his usage is potentially fading in terms of him being something more than just
• 46:57
  like like right now again Dalton Kinkaid. And this isn't necessarily a knock against
• 47:00
  Knox because Kincaid is very good and fits very well in this offense. But
• 47:06
  already, just seeing how twenty twenty three went, you have a tight end
• 47:13
  who's paid to be a top ten tight end and isn't even the best tight
• 47:15
  end on his football team right now. So, especially from a pass catching
• 47:20
  standpoint, So are you paying Dawson Knox, you know, your sixth highest
• 47:24
  CAPPT in twenty twenty four, to be a good blocking tight end? Like
• 47:29
  that's essentially what you're paying him. You're paying him he went in twenty twenty
• 47:34
  four. What you legitimately could have is Dawson Knox having the sixth highest cap
• 47:37
  hit on your team and being paid. It's oh man, it's just it's
• 47:44
  wild you'd be paying him. Sorry, I'm looking up more stats as I'm
• 47:47
  saying this here. You essentially will be paying Dawson Knox to be your sixth
• 47:53
  highest paid player on your football team in twenty twenty four. And yeah,
• 48:00
  just looking at I wanted to break it down from a cap percentage standpoint,
• 48:05
  So Josh Allen is nineteen point four percent of the cap. Stefon Diggs is
• 48:08
  eleven point five, Von Miller is nine point eight, Dion Dawkins is six
• 48:12
  point eighty five, Trey White is six point seven eight, Dawson Knox is
• 48:15
  five point nine percent of the cap. Dawson Knox in twenty twenty four,
• 48:21
  from a cap percentage standpoint, is above Matt Malano, Tarren Johnson, Mitch
• 48:24
  Morse, at Oliver Russeull, Douglas, Connor McGovern, Jordan Poyer, and
• 48:30
  I think you could make a case all of those guys have played better and
• 48:34
  meant more to the Buffalo Bills, especially in twenty twenty three, than Dawson
• 48:37
  Knox. And that is where this conversation comes in, right, You essentially
• 48:43
  are paying Dawson Knox in twenty twenty four to be your sixth highest paid player.
• 48:49
  From a cap hit and cap percentage standpoint, he's your say, he's
• 48:52
  the sixth highest cap hit from a percentage standpoint on your team in twenty twenty
• 48:57
  four, he's not even the best option at his position. And depending on
• 49:01
  what happens with who you add at the skill position spot at wide, receiver,
• 49:06
  weapon, tight however you want to like kind of verbalize it, he's
• 49:08
  probably coming into the season as the sixth best option that you want already right
• 49:13
  now. Again, for me, he's fifth. Stefon Diggs, Dalton Kin,
• 49:15
  Kaid Kalioshakir, James Cook, then Dawson Knox. All four of those
• 49:20
  guys ahead of him, I would rather have with the ball in their hands.
• 49:23
  I would rather have all four of those guys have the ball in their
• 49:28
  hands ahead of Dawson Knox. And depending on what they do in round one
• 49:34
  or round two or round three from a receiver standpoint, in the draft,
• 49:37
  or depending on whatever they do in free agency, again, he might be
• 49:39
  knocked down to sixth and then you're sitting here paying you know, the seventh
• 49:45
  highest paid tight end in the NFL. Who's really your tight end? Two
• 49:49
  whose best thing is you're blocking? Is blocking? Again, look at his
• 49:52
  numbers, just from a raw stats standpoint, twenty four catches one hundred and
• 49:57
  ninety nine yards three touchdowns, and again he was banged up like throughout the
• 50:01
  year, even before he was heard, and then he came back, so
• 50:04
  on and so forth. Then you can factor in when he was out the
• 50:07
  offense started to click a little bit more, and Kincaide's usage and all these
• 50:09
  pieces, YadA YadA. However you want to frame it, even if you
• 50:13
  want to give him the benefit of the doubt, if you want to play
• 50:14
  Devil's advocate this, if you want to blame the schematics, if you want
• 50:16
  to blame Dorsey, you want to blame Allen, you want to blame Brady,
• 50:20
  That's fine. At the end of the day, they have not the
• 50:22
  juice has not been worth the squeeze for the contract at Dawson Knox's signed,
• 50:25
  And that's the whole point of leading off with him. For me, I
• 50:28
  think a lot of people have glossed over that fact. Some of the conversation
• 50:31
  has been focused on him just being like, oh okay, like his cap
• 50:35
  hit isn't great, Like can they cut him? What can they do?
• 50:37
  YadA YadA. Just putting it into perspective and seeing him with the sixth highest
• 50:42
  cap percentage hit for the Bills in twenty twenty four and knowing that at best
• 50:46
  he's the fifth guy on the offense that you want to have the ball that's
• 50:52
  rough man like, that is not not ideal. He needs to have a
• 50:54
  step up season in twenty twenty four. And honestly, why I say,
• 50:59
  or why I went to that point earlier of saying, you know, I
• 51:01
  think twenty twenty four or twenty twenty five could be his last season with the
• 51:05
  team is because I don't know if he's going to step up in twenty twenty
• 51:07
  four, even if he gets better. Right, if you just look at
• 51:10
  the trajectory and continue to look at that piece, dal Kin Kaid's probably gonna
• 51:15
  get better, like Knox isn't isn't surpassing Diggs. He's not surpassing Dalkin Kaid.
• 51:22
  I guess maybe you could say, you know, I know people aren't
• 51:27
  probably going to because you know, he's the kind of flavor of the month
• 51:30
  at this point in collusion here, But I don't think people are gonna put
• 51:31
  collusive gear behind Dawson Knox. James Cook just had a Pro Bowl season.
• 51:36
  I know the Pro Bowl is useless, but just what he did from a
• 51:37
  usage standpoint, and his numbers would have looked even better if he didn't have
• 51:40
  some of those drops. Like, I just don't think Dawson Knox does step
• 51:46
  up from a production standpoint in twenty twenty four. I think he could get
• 51:50
  better this offseason the work that he puts in. He could get better as
• 51:52
  a route runner, in understanding how to use his size and frame and athleticism
• 51:55
  and truly be a mismatched piece for this offense. I don't know if the
• 52:00
  production is gonna come given how much I think the Bills are going to run
• 52:04
  the ball, and how much James Cook is gonna matter, given the stefon
• 52:06
  Diggs is the alpha, given that Dalton Kincaid is going to also get better
• 52:10
  this offseason and will still be a better pass catcher than Dawson Knox, and
• 52:15
  then Shaki probably gets better as well. And then again depending on who you
• 52:19
  draft in the draft, Like it just does, I just don't see a
• 52:22
  long I don't see Dawson Knocks fulfilling his contract. The life cycle of that
• 52:27
  contract. Again, his last year is twenty twenty six. If he's on
• 52:30
  this team past twenty twenty five, I would be surprised, or past twenty
• 52:35
  twenty six. I will say that, like, if he sees out the
• 52:37
  true life span of his contract, I think there's a chance he gets clipped
• 52:42
  in twenty twenty five. But from the dead cap hit perspective and just from
• 52:45
  I don't know, he still has that athleticism and he is a good enough
• 52:49
  blocker. Okay, cool, leave him on the team and see what you
• 52:51
  do. I do not think he sees that twenty twenty six season, given
• 52:54
  the production that he's had thus far and just what he's been and meant to
• 52:59
  this team, which is unfortunate for him, and maybe somebody else taps into
• 53:01
  it. But he'll be twenty eight in November, And at that point,
• 53:05
  how much do you keep playing that ceiling and trajectory game with him? Like
• 53:08
  how long do you continue to be able to say, yeah, but you
• 53:13
  know he's so raw and his ceiling and ceiling is ceiling, Like how how
• 53:16
  long do you keep saying that? Do you say it until he's thirty?
• 53:19
  Do you say it until he's thirty one, thirty two? Like I'm genuinely
• 53:22
  asking, Like it just does not seem like right now things are built to
• 53:25
  click for him. I think his best chance to succeed and step up for
• 53:30
  this offense is from a specific use ate standpoint, you become a true wed
• 53:36
  zone, a red zone weapon and threat to be that guy who you know,
• 53:39
  maybe only finishes with thirty catches on the year, but he's got ten
• 53:44
  touchdowns or eleven touchdowns or something like that. And again, I still don't
• 53:47
  think that's the best usage for what his cap hit is going to be in
• 53:52
  twenty twenty four. But I mean that's the bed he kind of made from
• 53:55
  a financial perspective and a commitment perspective, and he kind of got to lay
• 53:59
  in that bed at that point. But yeah, it's it's a conversation piece
• 54:02
  that I think needs to happen more. And I do feel bad because again
• 54:07
  I don't want to sit out here and just break some guy over the cohles
• 54:10
  and say that it've been a bad value in bad contract, but you just
• 54:14
  have not have not seen the value from that contract. It was one that
• 54:17
  I questioned and again somebody said in the chat earlier signing him to that extension.
• 54:22
  When they did, you were banking on the upward trajectory. You were
• 54:25
  banking on him continuing to progress. And then okay, man, like next
• 54:30
  year will be sixty five catches and seven hundred and fifty yards. The year
• 54:34
  after might be seventy seventy five catches and eight hundred nine hundred yards something like
• 54:37
  that. And again, it's also tough in an offense where Stefan Diggs is
• 54:40
  going to dominate the line's share of targets. So it's going to be tough
• 54:45
  for anyone else to really produce. But we've seen other guys present value.
• 54:51
  We've seen Gabe Davis do it, We've seen Cole Beasley do it. We've
• 54:54
  seen Dalton Kinkaid do it already as a rookie, and just by comparison,
• 54:58
  when you juxtaposed not with those players, it's rough for him, and again
• 55:01
  looking at what his cap hit and what his financial commitment is from a contract
• 55:06
  standpoint in the tight end landscape, but especially with this Bills team, it's
• 55:10
  rough. And so he's my first one who needs to step up for the
• 55:15
  Bills in twenty twenty four, especially with how much of this conversation is getting
• 55:19
  more help for Josh Allen and getting more help for Josh Allen and getting more
• 55:22
  help for Josh Allen cool like you paid Dawson Knox to give help to Josh
• 55:25
  Allen, and I don't think he's been that again. Just to drive in
• 55:30
  some of the points from earlier is twenty twenty three, again where he was
• 55:34
  injured. But it seems like he's always picking up knockx no pun intended and
• 55:37
  injuries throughout the year, and I think that's part of the reliability piece as
• 55:39
  well, like he's just not able to put it together for whatever reason.
• 55:44
  But again in twenty twenty three, twenty four catches, one hundred and ninety
• 55:46
  nine yards, three touchdowns, didn't have a game all season where he had
• 55:51
  more than three catches, and his highest receiving yards in a single game was
• 55:53
  thirty six. So his best chance for a stat line in any game this
• 55:59
  year three catches for thirty six yards. That's rough for like someone that is
• 56:06
  going to have the sixth highest cap hit from a percentage standpoint for your team.
• 56:09
  In twenty twenty four, and again he was banged up a little bit.
• 56:13
  Maybe he's healthier this year, maybe Joe Brady changes some things, maybe
• 56:15
  he will see some sort of uptick, But I think he's getting lost in
• 56:20
  the conversation in terms of man they have to help Josh Hallen, help Josh
• 56:23
  Allen, help Josh Allen. And it's like, you know, I think
• 56:28
  they paid Knox to be one of those people to help Josh Allen, and
• 56:31
  I don't think he's been the person that they envisioned when they paid, or
• 56:35
  maybe they did. Maybe they thought cool, if he stayed where he is,
• 56:38
  they're fine with that. I don't think that's what it is. And
• 56:42
  I don't see him seeing out the full life cycle of his contract. Maybe
• 56:45
  again, he gets bounced in twenty twenty five. I think he probably stays
• 56:47
  this year and next year, and then I think twenty twenty six they say
• 56:52
  deuces and cut their losses, give them the dead cap hit only being three
• 56:54
  point nine million and the savings being about twelve So rough rough spots for Dawson,
• 57:00
  Knox and again to kind of wrap it all together, what's going to
• 57:05
  work against him is where he sits in the pecking order, again from that
• 57:08
  conversation piece of who do you want to have the ball in their hands?
• 57:12
  He's behind Diggs, he's behind Kincaid, he's behind Shakir, he's behind James
• 57:15
  Cook. So he's fifth in the pecking order. How much can you really
• 57:20
  produce as the fifth option for touches in an offense, Like what is the
• 57:24
  ceiling at that point when you're not the number one pass catching option at your
• 57:29
  position and where you play a position where the only way to get the ball
• 57:32
  is to catch it, and you're not the number one pass catching option at
• 57:36
  your position and your fifth overall in the touches pecking order, Like how do
• 57:40
  you produce those numbers? How do you see that return on investment? And
• 57:45
  you know, Jamal says, you can use Knox to help block, absolutely
• 57:47
  you can, Like, you can use him to help block. You can
• 57:50
  leak him out on stuff, take advantage of his skill set and what he's
• 57:53
  able to do. But that goes to my point, right, like you're
• 57:57
  paying you have the seventh highest paid type end from a total value standpoint,
• 58:01
  and your best thing is like okay, cool, you can use him to
• 58:05
  block, like oh that just you can find so many other better blocking tight
• 58:09
  ends than Dawson Knox and still give him like twenty five targets and have him
• 58:15
  put up like one hundred and fifty yards, like you can. You can
• 58:17
  get similar production to Dawson Knox's twenty twenty three for a significantly less dollar amount,
• 58:23
  than what they're getting and having to hang your hat on like, well,
• 58:25
  yeah, they can use him to help block. That's rough considering what
• 58:30
  they're paying him for and how much they're paying him, And I think that's
• 58:32
  a great way to kind of like this end the segment, like the silver
• 58:35
  lining or the hope is like, well you can use him to help block,
• 58:37
  and it's like, oh, that's that's what we're hanging our hat on
• 58:42
  for, like tight end seven in terms of pay rough rough rough for a
• 58:45
  f rough second on this list. I'm not going to get into it too
• 58:49
  much because I've talked him on him before von Miller, But you said in
• 58:52
  the chat earlier when we started, I think he's the low hanging fruit.
• 58:55
  I didn't even really want to mention him because he's a given. I feel
• 58:59
  like at this point, for what he's done, we're gonna take a drink
• 59:02
  real quick. But just to put into perspective, out of one hundred and
• 59:12
  eighteen edges and twenty twenty three qualifying edges, he was one hundred and third
• 59:17
  impass rush productivity, which is very very very very bad from a raw stats
• 59:23
  perspective. He finished the year with seventeen pressures no sacks, only two stops.
• 59:30
  It was his lowest pressure output ever. Actually, his second lowest pressure
• 59:36
  output was in twenty thirteen with Denver. He only played five hundred and forty
• 59:38
  snaps, got banged up, but even then he still had forty one pressures
• 59:43
  and had obviously more sacks than the zero that he had this year. I
• 59:45
  don't want to dive into him too much because we've talked about him so much
• 59:49
  and he is low hanging fruit. But he needs to have a bounce back
• 59:51
  season and his is It's funny I have him second. I also think he
• 59:57
  has a higher chance of bouncing back and up in twenty twenty four then Dawson
• 1:00:01
  Knox does. As crazy as that may sound to some people, I think
• 1:00:05
  we saw flashes from Bond down the stretch in twenty twenty three. And I
• 1:00:08
  think with a full off season of just regularity and him being able to sit
• 1:00:13
  and do a regular workout routine, regular training sessions, not have to worry
• 1:00:17
  about rehab, not have to worry about his knee getting better, not having
• 1:00:21
  the mental strain and mental workload of oh is my knee? Okay? Is
• 1:00:24
  my knee okay? Can I cut like this? Can I plant like this.
• 1:00:28
  I do think he will be better. I'm just setting the bar is
• 1:00:30
  like edge three for him this year. I don't want to, you know,
• 1:00:34
  come out and say I think he's going to be an Edge one or
• 1:00:36
  an Edge two. I think he'll start along Greg Russeau and everything will be
• 1:00:38
  sweet and ship shape on the edges. I think he'll be Edge three.
• 1:00:42
  I think his floor is a solid, high end rotational piece, which again
• 1:00:46
  is not what you envisioned for him when you signed him to that contract.
• 1:00:52
  What you envisioned was what he was in twenty twenty two before he got hurt,
• 1:00:55
  which was fantastic. He was tied for thirteen him passed us productivity that
• 1:01:01
  year. He made everybody on the defensive line better. He looked very much
• 1:01:05
  like the Von Miller he was paid to be. That Chiefs game is a
• 1:01:08
  great example of it, especially towards the end of what they used him to
• 1:01:12
  do to disrupt my homes and flush him out of the pocket. It's unfortunate
• 1:01:15
  that the injuries kind of set him not even back, but kind of derailed
• 1:01:19
  him significantly with his tenure in Buffalo. But I think Von has a solid
• 1:01:25
  chance to bounce back when I say bounce back, I just mean be a
• 1:01:29
  producer and a contributor on this team. I don't think. I don't think
• 1:01:32
  the fair expectation is to expect him to be back to what he was in
• 1:01:37
  twenty twenty two before he got hurt. But I think he will be a
• 1:01:39
  contributor on this team. I think he'll flash more. I think he'll notice
• 1:01:43
  him more. I think he'll get more quality reps in the rotation in twenty
• 1:01:47
  twenty four. Again, I don't want to dive into it too much because
• 1:01:50
  we've talked about him a bunch on this show. We talked about him in
• 1:01:54
  season, we talked about him in the offseason. Like I don't want to
• 1:01:58
  keep drilling home on von Miller, but he to have a bounce back season,
• 1:02:00
  and he needs to not even just bounce back. He needs to step
• 1:02:04
  up. The Bills need more from him in twenty twenty four, given how
• 1:02:07
  dire it is on the defensive line and the lack of bodies they have signed
• 1:02:09
  for twenty twenty four. Next up on the list, some of you already
• 1:02:13
  mentioned it in the chat. Greg Russeau needs to step up in twenty twenty
• 1:02:17
  four. The Bills need more from him in twenty twenty four. And I
• 1:02:21
  don't say this in necessarily a negative way. I think Rousseau being on this
• 1:02:23
  list for me is probably the most unfair of everyone listed in the episode tonight.
• 1:02:31
  My thought for him stepping up in twenty twenty four and the Bills needing
• 1:02:36
  more from him in twenty twenty four isn't necessarily because his twenty twenty three was
• 1:02:39
  bad like it was for Knocks, like it was for von Miller. It's
• 1:02:45
  just that he needs to continue to ascend. He needs to continue on that
• 1:02:47
  upward trajectory. He needs to continue to take another jump because of all the
• 1:02:52
  inconsistencies the Bills have on the defensive line and what they have from an inconsistency
• 1:02:58
  standpoint at edge. So in twenty twenty three, amongst one hundred and eighteen
• 1:03:04
  edges with twenty percent of snaps, Greg Russol was twenty fourth in past russ
• 1:03:07
  productivity. Again to juxtapose that with von Miller, Von Miller was one hundred
• 1:03:10
  and third. Greg Russol was twenty twenty fourth, And this was also with
• 1:03:15
  Rousseaul playing a good chunk of the year with that banged up right foot or
• 1:03:19
  ankle. Like he wasn't one hundred percent healthy. You could see him kind
• 1:03:21
  of laboring and gutting through it at times. But he finished the year twenty
• 1:03:24
  fourth in past rus productivity. In twenty twenty three, amongst one hundred and
• 1:03:30
  eighteen edges that's regular season and postseason, he in that same category he was
• 1:03:36
  tied for fifteenth, and twenty twenty two, tied for forty sixth and twenty
• 1:03:40
  twenty one. So he improved each year. He went from forty six to
• 1:03:44
  fifteenth, down from fifteenth to twenty fourth this year, but still good,
• 1:03:47
  still in that top twenty five, and again considering he was playing banged up,
• 1:03:51
  not bad. His sacks did go down this year. He had four
• 1:03:53
  sacks in twenty twenty one, eight in twenty twenty two. We really saw
• 1:03:57
  him have that significant impact from Von Miller playing on the same defensive line.
• 1:04:02
  Everybody's metrics went down once Von went down in twenty twenty two were so kind
• 1:04:06
  of stabilized a little bit and aj Vanessa went up. But we saw the
• 1:04:11
  sacks go down this year again, four in twenty twenty one, eight and
• 1:04:14
  twenty twenty two to five in twenty twenty three. Again he's not playing bad.
• 1:04:17
  He didn't have a bad twenty twenty three. I'm going to continue to
• 1:04:19
  say this because I think with how we spoke about von Miller, with how
• 1:04:24
  we spoke about Dawston Knox, both of those guys underperformed in twenty twenty three
• 1:04:28
  and need to have bounce back seasons in twenty twenty four or step up seasons
• 1:04:31
  in twenty twenty four that have more to do with their poor performance from twenty
• 1:04:35
  twenty three. I do not think poorly performed in twenty twenty three. He's
• 1:04:41
  not bad, doesn't need a bounce back season. I just think he needs
• 1:04:43
  to take another jump. He steadily made progress each each season. It would
• 1:04:47
  be nice to see him continue to get closer or achieve more of that all
• 1:04:54
  around number one edge type of production. I think he's been a very strong
• 1:04:59
  two thus far in his career. He's been a true number one as far
• 1:05:02
  as a run defender, and for his run defense numbers, they've been absolutely
• 1:05:06
  tremendous. Again this year, he was tied for twenty third in stop percentage
• 1:05:12
  amongst one hundred and twenty two edges, with at least twenty percent of the
• 1:05:14
  snaps in the regular season in postseason, he was thirty second in stop percentage.
• 1:05:18
  In twenty twenty two, he was first in stop percentage as a rookie.
• 1:05:23
  And again, for those who don't know, a stop is a play
• 1:05:24
  where the defender makes the tackle and the location of the tackle makes it a
• 1:05:28
  successful one for the defense. So on first down, if you make the
• 1:05:30
  tackle, on the offense gets forty five percent of the way to a first
• 1:05:33
  down or less, second down if they get sixty percent or less, and
• 1:05:36
  on third or fourth down, if the offense doesn't get a first down at
• 1:05:40
  all. He has been a premier run defender since he was a rookie.
• 1:05:43
  I think he's been a true one as a run defender all around, paired
• 1:05:46
  with the pass rush game. From an efficiency standpoint, I think the overall
• 1:05:50
  he's been like a high end two. But the pass rush pop again.
• 1:05:56
  You see it there from an efficiency standpoint, you see it in pass rush
• 1:05:59
  productive where you're like, okay, like he's efficient, Like he's top twenty.
• 1:06:01
  Okay, he's impacting the quarterback, but he's not necessarily getting home.
• 1:06:04
  You're not seeing that sack production there consistently. That's where you need to see
• 1:06:09
  him take that jump. You need to see him get to a spot where
• 1:06:12
  he is more of a true all around one. Now he doesn't have to
• 1:06:15
  be a top fifteen or a top twenty one. He could be a low
• 1:06:18
  tier one. You just need to see that next jump because again I'm not
• 1:06:23
  gonna We talked about it in multiple episodes already. This defensive line needs help
• 1:06:29
  this offseason. Considering they only have six guys under contract and those six are
• 1:06:32
  not all starting caliber players. You have questions Above von Miller, at Oliver
• 1:06:40
  needs help inside. Like everything is a question mark on the defensive line.
• 1:06:44
  A sign from aside from Greg Russo and Ed Oliver. I think at Oliver
• 1:06:46
  started to reach more of his ceiling this past year. It was unfortunate that
• 1:06:50
  he disappeared in the playoff game against the Chiefs and got worked by Joe Tooney.
• 1:06:54
  But Ed Oliver is a very solid impact player on the interior of that
• 1:06:58
  defensive line, and Greg Russo is as well against the run. We need
• 1:07:01
  to see more of that same level of impact. For Greg Russo as a
• 1:07:04
  pass rusher, he needs to be more of a guy in terms of his
• 1:07:10
  past rush ability that is a force on his own, not because it's like
• 1:07:14
  well, you know, they got von Miller outside, and von Miller has
• 1:07:17
  that gravity and so now it's benefiting Greg russo We saw a much different Greg
• 1:07:20
  Russoe with von Miller versus without. We need to see that impact be a
• 1:07:26
  little less. We need to see Greg Russoe be able to swim more on
• 1:07:29
  his own as a pass rusher, and I think that can happen this year.
• 1:07:31
  He's super smart, Eric and I had him on the film room earlier
• 1:07:34
  this year. You hear him break down the science of pass rushing and like
• 1:07:40
  he's not just somebody with really long arms, and you know, he's strong
• 1:07:44
  and he's got good length and a good frame, and so it makes him
• 1:07:46
  successful. Like he's got long strides. He has a really high football IQ.
• 1:07:49
  And you hear him just speak at interviews. He usually doesn't talk a
• 1:07:53
  bunch, but when he does, there's meaning and purpose behind the words that
• 1:07:56
  he says. When he talks about what he works on and why he works
• 1:08:00
  on it and what his goals are. He has a very high football IQ.
• 1:08:02
  And again, having the long arms and the traits and the frame and
• 1:08:05
  the skill set helps as well. So I do think he will make that
• 1:08:11
  jump. But he does need to step up for the Bills in twenty twenty
• 1:08:14
  four, And I put him on this list as a guy who the Bills
• 1:08:16
  need more from in twenty twenty four because of the question marks on that defensive
• 1:08:20
  line, especially if you're just looking at edge right if you're just looking at
• 1:08:25
  that position right now, from a pass rush standpoint, he's been more of
• 1:08:29
  a Robin than a Batman. He needs to be more Batman. And when
• 1:08:31
  you look at twenty twenty four, with how much in flux that edge grouping
• 1:08:36
  is, where does von Miller slot? Does he go back to being a
• 1:08:41
  one? Is he a two? Is he a three? Do you bring
• 1:08:43
  in another proven pass rusher to be a one or a two like they did
• 1:08:46
  last year with Leonard Floyd? Do they look towards the draft and bring in
• 1:08:50
  a rookie and they rely on a rookie to provide meaningful snaps as a one
• 1:08:54
  or a two or a three? And even then, okay, now you're
• 1:08:57
  relying on our returning Von Miller and a rookie like the only known quantity you
• 1:09:02
  have there and no matter how you slice it is Greg Rusoe unless they go
• 1:09:05
  out And I'm not saying this is gonna happen unless they go out and bring
• 1:09:11
  in defensive end Josh Allen or Brian Burned or someone like Jonathan Grenard. Unless
• 1:09:15
  they go out and sign one of these bona fide edge rushers on the open
• 1:09:19
  market. Greg Russo is going to be your edge one this year. Even
• 1:09:24
  if they draft an edge in the first round, that edge isn't going to
• 1:09:28
  be Edge one. It's gonna be Greg russoe. And he's a true edge
• 1:09:30
  one from a run defense standpoint. Now he needs to be a true edge
• 1:09:33
  one from a pass rushing standpoint. He's got the advanced metrics, he's got
• 1:09:38
  the efficiency metrics on his side, and the tape is strong for him,
• 1:09:42
  especially when he's healthy. One, he's got to stay healthy. Two,
• 1:09:45
  he's got to get home more and impact the quarterback. You've got to see
• 1:09:47
  more in the sack department. It can't just be the pressures and the hits
• 1:09:53
  and the hurries and everything added together, you know, relative to how many
• 1:09:56
  times he rushes the passer, and like, oh, look at his pass
• 1:09:58
  rush productivity sport. It's nice. That's good. I'm a big fan of
• 1:10:00
  it. You need to see him get home more. He needs to have
• 1:10:02
  a double digit SAX season. He needs to have a nine and a half
• 1:10:05
  ten, ten and a half eleven SAX season. In addition to being that
• 1:10:11
  edge defender against the run, he needs to be a more complete overall one.
• 1:10:15
  Right now, I think he's been a one against the run and the
• 1:10:17
  two against the pass. He needs to be a one in both for this
• 1:10:21
  team. They need it drastically on the defensive line and especially that ed position
• 1:10:26
  edge position. Given the questions for von Miller and how they're going to bring
• 1:10:30
  guys in man, they need a good piece for him. Let's pause there,
• 1:10:35
  see what questions we got here, John saying, do you think the
• 1:10:40
  Bills are trying to resign Ajpanessa? You know he's a weird one. I
• 1:10:44
  don't know what he's going to get in the open market. I could easily
• 1:10:45
  see him coming back, and I could easily see him getting too much money
• 1:10:48
  than the Bills are willing to pay, and he goes somewhere else as a
• 1:10:51
  high three or a low tier two. I really think it's fifty to fifty.
• 1:10:56
  I truly don't know which way to call it. I the moment says,
• 1:11:00
  can Greg Russo playing inside more? He can? But in order for
• 1:11:03
  him to play inside, you need to have guys on the edge that can
• 1:11:06
  impact the quarterback, Like you're not the only reason you're kicking Greg Russo inside
• 1:11:11
  is because well maybe you just like the matchup advantage, So you could kick
• 1:11:14
  him inside just because you're like, hey, we think i'm third down him
• 1:11:17
  versus this right guard matchup advantage. We're doing it. But you also need
• 1:11:23
  to have a quality edge two and a quality edge three behind him to be
• 1:11:27
  your two edges while you kick him inside. So that's kind of that trade
• 1:11:30
  off a little bit, Like he can play inside more, but then you
• 1:11:32
  need to have somebody capable ready to step in his place on the edge when
• 1:11:35
  you kick him into the inside sweep, saying I thought Joe Toney was injured.
• 1:11:43
  He was out for Baltimore in the AFC Championship and out for the Super
• 1:11:47
  Bowl, but he played against the Buffalo Bills. I don't know when.
• 1:11:49
  I think he tore peck or something in his shoulder. I don't know if
• 1:11:53
  he did it in game or before or what happened. I don't know if
• 1:11:56
  he gutted through it. But he played against the Buffalo Bills in the Divisional
• 1:12:00
  round and he had at Oliver a torture chamber for the majority of that game.
• 1:12:06
  It's disappointing. I was waiting for somebody to make this joke sweepswap saying,
• 1:12:10
  imagine if Josh Allen joined Josh Allen, I would actually hate it because
• 1:12:13
  the film breakdowns, Like I would have to constantly say which Josh Allen I
• 1:12:16
  mean? And people are gonna have to like look at a clip on Twitter
• 1:12:19
  and then look to see if his defense or offense. But from an on
• 1:12:23
  field production standpoint, execution standpoint schematically, man, it'd be awesome. Joe
• 1:12:27
  saying Grude is only twenty three to plenty of time for him to develop.
• 1:12:30
  That he was a big project considering his lack of experience when he was in
• 1:12:33
  the draft. Absolutely, and that's why I say like he needs to step
• 1:12:39
  up in twenty twenty four and the Bills need more from him in twenty twenty
• 1:12:41
  four, not because he's had a bad twenty twenty three or he had a
• 1:12:45
  down year. He just needs to keep on that trajectory. He needs to
• 1:12:48
  take another jump. I think every year in the NFL, Greg Russo has
• 1:12:53
  gotten better some years more than others. Obviously, the injuries like kind of
• 1:12:57
  play into that as well. But I think every year he's either marginally or
• 1:13:00
  incrementally or significantly better in the NFL, I think you need a more significant
• 1:13:05
  jump. Again, the easiest way I can put it, he needs to
• 1:13:06
  be against the pass. He needs to be less Robin and more Batman.
• 1:13:11
  That's what you need from Greg Russo he's Batman against the run. You need
• 1:13:14
  him to be Batman against the pass as well. That's what you need out
• 1:13:15
  of Greg Russou in twenty twenty four. And given the jumps that we've seen
• 1:13:19
  each year and the trajectory that he's on, I think that's a fairer expectation
• 1:13:25
  to put upon him, and it's one that they need. And you know,
• 1:13:29
  I listened him on this list again, not because he had a bad
• 1:13:30
  twenty twenty three, but because of the trajectory that he's on, the premium
• 1:13:35
  position that he plays, and what the rest of that defensive line looks like
• 1:13:39
  from a roster standpoint in this offseason and going into the season, which is
• 1:13:42
  very, very very scary. Next up on this list, this one is
• 1:13:49
  that's funny. Walt just says, think of the positives and if we sign
• 1:13:53
  Alan, we can claim after good games that josh Annam was the best player
• 1:13:56
  on both sides of the ball. I mean, the jokes right themselves.
• 1:13:59
  I like where your heads at one taking a drink? Man, I'm so
• 1:14:05
  thirsty, it's ridiculous. All right. This next one, this next one
• 1:14:10
  isn't player specific. This next one is just positions specific. And I think
• 1:14:17
  the Bills need more from the wide receiver too position. So yeah, you
• 1:14:21
  know who the Bills need more from. This one's more of a what the
• 1:14:25
  Buffalo Bills need more from. They need more from that wide receiver two position.
• 1:14:29
  And I say this is a person who is a fan of Gabe Davis
• 1:14:30
  and his skillson and what he brought. That being said, I think you
• 1:14:34
  need more from that wide receiver two spot. Dalton Kinkaid ended up being you
• 1:14:39
  know, he's a tight end, but effectively as a pass catcher, was
• 1:14:42
  receiver two for the Bills this year. He was second on the team with
• 1:14:45
  eighty one catches again regular season en postseason second on the team with eighty one
• 1:14:49
  catches, second on the team in yards with seven hundred and seventy seven,
• 1:14:55
  and also second on the team in targets with one hundred and one. I
• 1:14:59
  think that's awesome, like he can still be your number two target, and
• 1:15:04
  I don't, And I want to say that and clarify that, Like when
• 1:15:06
  I say they need more from wide receiver too, I don't necessarily they mean
• 1:15:12
  they need more from target number two. I literally mean like the number two
• 1:15:16
  wide receiver on this team, and what they need more from. I think
• 1:15:19
  you have a nice, really defined role for Khalis Shakir. I want Khalis
• 1:15:23
  Shakir to continue to live in that role. I'm down for giving him the
• 1:15:26
  ball more. But Shakir's value as this high leverage, big play situational killer
• 1:15:33
  is absolutely tremendous paired with digs and kinkai. And then if you add a
• 1:15:38
  true number two, what you can do with Shakir, moving him around slot
• 1:15:43
  outside, putting him emotions screens, mismatches inside those choice or those option routes,
• 1:15:48
  what you can do with Shakir gets very schematically fun when you have a
• 1:15:53
  true wide receiver number two. So I don't really want to change Shakira's role
• 1:15:57
  schematically too much, Like I I want him to continue to live in this
• 1:16:01
  five catch, forty two yard role weekend and week out before of those catches
• 1:16:06
  went for a first down or two of those catches were a touchdown. Where
• 1:16:10
  he lives in these high leverage situations. I don't think he needs to be
• 1:16:13
  a volume monster if he is cool, but his success really coming in these
• 1:16:17
  high leverage moments is something that's awesome for this offense. And Dalan Kinkaid again,
• 1:16:21
  he was target to this past year. I'm fine with that. I
• 1:16:25
  am fine if Digs and Kinkaid are one and two respectively in targets and yards
• 1:16:30
  receptions. However you want to like put that in there. I'm fine with
• 1:16:33
  Kinkaid being target too. But wide receiver two, I think you just need
• 1:16:38
  more from it. We've talked about it on the show, We've talked about
• 1:16:40
  it in the film room. You need more of that true downfield presence.
• 1:16:45
  Someone who can pull coverage but also win downfield with their speed. Someone who
• 1:16:49
  can run away from players just purely because of speed. Someone who can win
• 1:16:55
  in their routes in the stem, who can win with deception and route running.
• 1:16:59
  I think you need more or of a complete wide receiver at that wide
• 1:17:02
  receiver two spot. I think that opens things up for Stefan Diggs. I
• 1:17:06
  think that opens things up for Dalton and Kaid. I think that opens things
• 1:17:10
  up for Kolio Shakir. I think it also helps the run game in terms
• 1:17:15
  of opening things up from a light box perspective and letting the run game breathe
• 1:17:18
  a little bit, and having advantageous numbers from an offensive perspective in the box
• 1:17:24
  and what you can run and what you can get to all of those pieces.
• 1:17:28
  So this is less of a who the Buffalo Bills need more from in
• 1:17:30
  twenty twenty four and more of a what, and that's that wide receiver two
• 1:17:34
  spot. They need more juice at that position or something that they can hang
• 1:17:39
  their head on. From a skill set standpoint, that is more than just
• 1:17:44
  the grinded out stuff like I like what Gabe Davis did right. I liked
• 1:17:47
  his ability to win downfield from an average depth of target standpoint. I liked
• 1:17:50
  his size in the run game and what he was able to do on the
• 1:17:54
  play action pieces. But I feel like there were certain aspects where he was
• 1:17:58
  lacking that under the offense at times, and you could tell the role that
• 1:18:02
  they wanted him to play. I don't think at times that was the best
• 1:18:06
  role for his skill set. But that's the role they needed in that offense,
• 1:18:12
  and thus he was forced to play it. So I don't think this
• 1:18:14
  offense necessarily did Gabe a ton of favors at times, and I don't think
• 1:18:17
  Gabe did the offense a ton of favors at times. But when it clicked,
• 1:18:21
  it was beautiful with what he did. I just don't think the fit
• 1:18:25
  was ideally what it was supposed to be. And if you can lean into
• 1:18:29
  someone with more of an ideal skill set for that wide receiver two role,
• 1:18:31
  more of a true X receiver standpoint, who can win on the backside one
• 1:18:35
  on one, who is a true threat to go vertical and might need to
• 1:18:39
  pull coverage or you know, you can't go single safe a single high safety
• 1:18:43
  because you know, okay, do you have to roll that single high safety
• 1:18:45
  over that wide receiver too, and then you have to bracket digs on the
• 1:18:48
  other side if you got you know you're running trips to the other side.
• 1:18:50
  You know, what do you do schematically all those pieces? The stress that
• 1:18:54
  a true wide receiver two puts on a defense is tremendous. So again,
• 1:19:02
  when I say wide receiver two, I literally mean like wide receiver two on
• 1:19:05
  the depth chart. I don't mean target number two because I think Target two
• 1:19:09
  on this team is Dalton kin Kid and I'm completely fine with that. I
• 1:19:12
  think that's a good thing. Stefan Diggs, Dalton Kinkaid, Khalishakir, James
• 1:19:18
  Cook factor in that wide receiver two and what they can do and who they
• 1:19:21
  can be, and man, that very exciting possibility is schematically especially from that
• 1:19:27
  like trips type of look. Like imagine you are in eleven personnel, so
• 1:19:30
  one tight end, one running back, three wide receivers, and you've got
• 1:19:34
  a really fun wide receiver two lined up by themselves to the left, and
• 1:19:39
  then your trip side is Stefan Diggs and Dalon Kin Kid and Khalios Shakir,
• 1:19:43
  and then you have James Cook in the backfield. Like there's all these possibilities
• 1:19:45
  and all the schematic potential that you can have there, and not that that
• 1:19:50
  trip side can't get it done on their own, but it opens up significantly
• 1:19:54
  when you have a true one on one beater on the other side, or
• 1:19:57
  a more complete and or dynamic skill bill set from your wide receiver two by
• 1:20:01
  himself on that side is the ex wide receiver to the point Okay, do
• 1:20:06
  they have to play two high safeties because they need to put somebody over the
• 1:20:09
  top, over the top to the trip side and give help to the single
• 1:20:12
  receiver side. Okay, now there's less bodies underneath, which means, don't
• 1:20:15
  Kincaid's eating now from a spatial standpoint or coali securit is eating now from a
• 1:20:20
  spatial standpoint? Or do you check to a run because it's a favorable,
• 1:20:24
  favorable box count for Josh Allen in the run game, so he checks to
• 1:20:27
  a run. Okay, now they want to respect the run more. So
• 1:20:30
  it's later in the game and now they're bringing the safety down and they have
• 1:20:31
  a single high alignment. Okay, cool? Is that safety cheating over to
• 1:20:35
  that single receiver side where your wide receiver two is always not? Okay,
• 1:20:40
  I'm checking that alert. Can my guy beat that corner straight up off the
• 1:20:43
  line and beat them one on one? Can he rout them up? Can
• 1:20:45
  he beat him vertical? All these pieces start to open up more and get
• 1:20:50
  more exciting when you have that true wide receiver two capability. And that's what
• 1:20:55
  I went, well, that's what I'm talking about when I say the Bills
• 1:20:57
  need more from the wide receiver two spot. Think just from a schematic standpoint,
• 1:21:01
  it really opens up a lot just from one simple skill set. Addition,
• 1:21:05
  dropping into the Buffalo Bill's offensive bucket. Oh, that's a big one
• 1:21:11
  for me. Again, I haven't ranked fourth here just because it wasn't person
• 1:21:14
  based. It was more of a what than a who, and I didn't
• 1:21:15
  want to get into it too early. Could be very exciting. Oh a
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  lot is comment from Jamal saying draft jar John Newton defensive tackle from Illinois.
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  Apparently I read something on Twitter. He wants to go by Johnny Newton,
• 1:21:29
  which is what his Twitter handle is, so I'll be referring him a Johnny
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  Newton defensive tackle from Illinois. Yeah. I've put out some really fun tape
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  on him. Dude's a beast inside. I would be very much okay with
• 1:21:40
  him, or Byron Murphy defensive tackle from Texas being the Bills draft pick at
• 1:21:45
  pick twenty eight, again, depending on what happens a free agency. I
• 1:21:46
  don't want to. I do mock drafts this time of year when I'm bored
• 1:21:50
  or I have time to kill, like when I'm waiting for something, or
• 1:21:54
  I'm like sitting in line at the store, like I'll do one quick for
• 1:21:56
  like a quick minute and then hit send. But mock draft are pretty use
• 1:22:00
  list right now, and even just saying like, oh, I gladly take
• 1:22:02
  so and so I picked twenty eight. Right now, it's February twentieth,
• 1:22:08
  so many of these needs are gonna change. Two three weeks from now.
• 1:22:11
  For all we know, the Bills could sign Sheldon Rankins and Dayekwon Jones and
• 1:22:15
  now all of a sudden, you don't need a defensive tackle in round one
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  if you're the Bill. So I could be sitting here right now being like,
• 1:22:19
  man, i'd love Newton or buyer Murphy at twenty eight two three weeks
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  from now, or three or four weeks from now, I might be sitting
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  there being like, if they take defensive tackle at twenty eight, I'd be
• 1:22:28
  cool, but I'd be pissed, like so many things change, But yeah,
• 1:22:30
  Newton is a stud, and I really like John coming in with his
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  weekly Troy Franklin commentary. I respect it, I respect it, I respect
• 1:22:39
  it. Let me grab this one because it's related Roy saying any concerns with
• 1:22:42
  Troy Franklin welighing under one hundred ninety pounds and being over six feet tall.
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  Yeah, he's a little skinny, but you're not drafting him to be like
• 1:22:50
  a physical specimen. You're not looking at him to be like, Okay,
• 1:22:54
  he's gonna win a physicality, he's gonna block dudes off the line. We're
• 1:22:58
  gonna put him in a condensed split and ask him to crack down on a
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  safety. You're drafting him for one thing, and that speed. My bigger
• 1:23:05
  concerns with Troy Franklin. I'm not as high on Troy Franklin as a lot
• 1:23:09
  of the Bill's community is. I like his speed, I think again,
• 1:23:14
  I think right now what he is is more of a one trick pony.
• 1:23:17
  But that one trick is absolutely tremendous. And now, with so many of
• 1:23:20
  these guys coming off from college, a lot of his projection base, anybody
• 1:23:24
  that you take, you are looking at them and being like, Okay,
• 1:23:26
  here's what they are. Can we get them better? Here? Can we
• 1:23:29
  get them to become this? Like? Where can they become? What can
• 1:23:31
  they become? From a player standpoint, I just think there's a lot left
• 1:23:35
  to be desired with Troy Franklin from a route running standpoint. Right now,
• 1:23:39
  both in the stems and his breaks. I think he really just wins with
• 1:23:45
  speed, which is fine, like in the Bills offense. The fit is
• 1:23:47
  absolutely tremendous, like his ability to pull coverage and win downfield with speed,
• 1:23:51
  Like dude runs like a gazelle. We'll see if he runs the forty time
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  at the combine. But he's a dude that I could see running in the
• 1:23:58
  high five to three, high five three. He's high four threes, like
• 1:24:00
  four to three nine. Maybe he goes down like a four to three six.
• 1:24:02
  Like dude can absolutely fly. Now there's other aspects again to his game,
• 1:24:08
  the size, the physicality or lack thereof what he is as a blocker,
• 1:24:13
  break tackle ability, route running, standpoint, even some things at the
• 1:24:15
  catch point and being able to separate at the catch point or win at the
• 1:24:18
  catch point. I don't think they're necessarily there. But the speed is so
• 1:24:23
  intriguing. And the thought is, again you bring him in because you can't
• 1:24:26
  teach that speed. He opens up a lot of the offense in twenty twenty
• 1:24:29
  four, and then you try to coach him up and get him to be
• 1:24:31
  more of that route running player. And then if you add some quality route
• 1:24:34
  running to that speed, he becomes very very very dangerous. Carlos is Brian
• 1:24:40
  Thomas Junior from LSU has been the most picked bill selection to pick twenty eight.
• 1:24:45
  Would you would that improve our production for wide receiver too? It would
• 1:24:47
  from like a skill set standpoint of what he is, big, tall,
• 1:24:50
  fast, like just send him downfield on announced. I don't love. He's
• 1:24:54
  another guy. I don't love as much as a lot in the draft community
• 1:24:59
  do. But I'll also not finished with my evaluation for him, so I
• 1:25:02
  want, I want to say that, but he's another one. You're you're
• 1:25:05
  you're banking on the traits with Brian Thomas, and his traits are very fun
• 1:25:10
  from a plug and play standpoint, from the speed and the size into the
• 1:25:15
  Bills offense. Jamal says, Mylae neighbors are Brian Thomas Malik neighbors every single
• 1:25:18
  day of the week. Neighbors is ridiculous. I don't think he's gonna be
• 1:25:23
  there at pick twenty eight. I actually not even think there's no way he's
• 1:25:26
  there at pick twenty eight, unless unless some character issue comes out, but
• 1:25:30
  even then he'd still have to fall significantly. I think there's no shot of
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  neighbors being there at pick twenty eight. I would love it if he was,
• 1:25:39
  and I would run that pick up to the podium. He's absolutely nasty.
• 1:25:45
  Gentlem's Entertainment saying, what late round defensive tackle one can we take later
• 1:25:48
  and develop for a year or two? Late round like late round I think
• 1:25:54
  you'd like even going to like round three and four and stuff like. I
• 1:25:57
  think you could take like a Dwayne Carter from Duke or I've even like,
• 1:26:00
  I don't think Marcus Harris from Auburn's like a one, but he's some of
• 1:26:03
  that that you could rotate in as like a two or a three. I
• 1:26:05
  think Dwayne Carter's really kind of where I draw the line, and I think
• 1:26:09
  he's like the two or kind of three. But I do have to finish
• 1:26:11
  my defensive tackle evaluations as a whole and see that piece I the moment says
• 1:26:17
  if Jalen Polk, I like Jalen Polk more if he's there in round two.
• 1:26:20
  But my favorite is my favorite is Xavier la Get. Yeah, it's
• 1:26:24
  hard to not look at Xavier l Get and not get excited. Dude is
• 1:26:27
  fast and big and strong and cut, looks like a baby AJ Brown.
• 1:26:30
  His highlight tape is extremely exciting. I don't love him as much on the
• 1:26:34
  actual game tape in the All twenty two from a route running standpoint, but
• 1:26:38
  he's another one you're banking on the size and the speed and the athleticism and
• 1:26:42
  your ability to coach him up to become more of a complete wide receiver,
• 1:26:45
  knowing that he has these raw traits that you cannot teach and you cannot bank
• 1:26:53
  in and go in for or well, you can't develop like you can't teach
• 1:26:57
  size, you can't teach speed. You can make someone a little faster,
• 1:26:59
  but you can't make a four or five guy become a low four to four
• 1:27:01
  guy. Oh, John Saint Troy's forty was four point three five. That
• 1:27:05
  tracks and that makes sense? Who interesting comedy from Teddy saying, and I
• 1:27:10
  love you guys just sometimes cover what the positions coaches are really responsible for.
• 1:27:13
  I think there are a lot of laymen like me who don't understand their roles
• 1:27:15
  beyond yelling at people in practice. I know you guys said they have more
• 1:27:19
  of a role in the defense and offense perspectively, but I don't know to
• 1:27:21
  what degree would be really interesting. That's actually really cool idea. I'm going
• 1:27:25
  to bookmark that Teddy. Maybe that's something we get into in the film room
• 1:27:29
  myself and Erica. Maybe something I dive into here on decize coverage, especially,
• 1:27:32
  it's always a struggle at times to kind of fill the off season with
• 1:27:35
  content that's really cool idea, especially because you know we've alluded to it at
• 1:27:39
  times, like on the defensive side, like certain position coaches will work on
• 1:27:43
  the third down package or the red zone package or the run game piece for
• 1:27:45
  that week. So there's all like little intricacies and aspects of it that's really
• 1:27:48
  cool idea. I'll make a note for that. Another piece here that I
• 1:27:53
  think the Bills need more from in twenty twenty four. Don't yell at me.
• 1:27:57
  It's a very specific, specific, specific piece Josh Allen. The Bills
• 1:28:03
  need more from Josh Allen in twenty four, twenty four. Before anybody yells
• 1:28:06
  at me and points out how many touchdowns he had or how Josh Allen is
• 1:28:10
  the offense, I get it, and I understand Josh Allen needs to be
• 1:28:13
  better from a decision making standpoint and from a mechanical standpoint in twenty twenty four.
• 1:28:17
  The Bills need more from him in twenty twenty four. This is not
• 1:28:21
  to say that Josh Allen's terrible. And I also want to throw this cavey
• 1:28:25
  ont in there too, because I know anytime you critique Alan for something,
• 1:28:29
  especially like mechanical or decision making or things like that, people will readily point
• 1:28:33
  out that, yeah, but look how good he is without needing all that
• 1:28:35
  stuff. And that's fair and understandable. Right again, like all the touchdowns
• 1:28:39
  he put up this year, the plays that he makes, they're tremendous.
• 1:28:41
  So me sitting here being like, he has to get better in these two
• 1:28:44
  areas, You're sitting there being like, yeah, but look how good he
• 1:28:46
  is without being really good in those areas in twenty twenty three. That's fair
• 1:28:49
  and that's understandable. But the flip side of that conversation is, imagine how
• 1:28:56
  much better he'd be if he got better in those areas. If his footwork
• 1:29:00
  mechanics were better, if he was better at sliding in the pocket, if
• 1:29:03
  he was better with his arm angles and his motion and where his eyes went
• 1:29:08
  and getting through the progressions and just little things. Even I know, uh,
• 1:29:13
  for some people, you know it was the wrong decision or pee Ralph,
• 1:29:16
  I'm going what I know I know, I know, I know,
• 1:29:20
  But even like that throw is Shakira on that second down, that second last
• 1:29:25
  play for the Bill season against Kansas City, I think it was the right
• 1:29:28
  read. I think it was fine from a decision standpoint, Just slide in
• 1:29:30
  the pocket a little bit, just a little bit better from a mechanical perspective,
• 1:29:34
  get through, step to it right a little bit, give yourself a
• 1:29:38
  better opportunity to make that throw. Little pieces like that, and then ironically
• 1:29:40
  on third down, poor decision making should have hit Kincaid doesn't Bills have to
• 1:29:44
  try for a long field goal and they miss. But I think better from
• 1:29:47
  a mechanical standpoint, especially with his feet, there's a lot of throws that
• 1:29:49
  he missed, or throws that not even missed that he got there, but
• 1:29:54
  put his receivers in bad spots because he's got happy feet, because he's moving
• 1:29:58
  too much back there, because he's pitter pass terring instead of having a good
• 1:30:00
  base and having his shoulders pointed in the right direction. And again the other
• 1:30:05
  side of that coin is, yeah, but he makes all these wild,
• 1:30:08
  amazing throws off platform or jumping in the air with poor footwork and all this
• 1:30:12
  stuff. So again I understand all that, but we've reached a point with
• 1:30:15
  Josh Allen and this Bills team where you have got to be perfect to beat
• 1:30:21
  Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs. And that's not even taking into account
• 1:30:27
  Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals, who are I think a bigger problem for
• 1:30:30
  the Bills than the Kansas City Chiefs are. From a schematic standpoint, that's
• 1:30:33
  a conversation for another time. To win these playoff games, to win these
• 1:30:38
  games where you have a low margin for error, you have got to be
• 1:30:42
  perfect. You cannot afford to have poor footwork or poor decision making or be
• 1:30:47
  poor in those areas. His athleticism and his unicorn nature is not going to
• 1:30:51
  go away. He's gonna have a cannon, he's gonna be big, he's
• 1:30:55
  gonna have the frame, he's gonna have the speed, he's gonna have the
• 1:30:58
  athleticism. He's gonna have the ability to outrun or truck linebackers, or outrun
• 1:31:01
  or truck defensive backs, or stiff arm or outrun defensive lineman. That isn't
• 1:31:06
  going to go away. He needs to get better at the quarterback. In
• 1:31:11
  nature of the quarterback position, I don't know how much he's been working with
• 1:31:15
  Jordan Palmer or with anybody these past several years. He needs to get back
• 1:31:18
  to that. He needs to get back into the dungeon and work on his
• 1:31:23
  mechanics and work on the quarterback aspect of playing quarterback. He needs to work
• 1:31:28
  on all the stuff that Drew Brees was great at right, the mental side,
• 1:31:31
  the footwork side, the mechanic side. He needs to get better with
• 1:31:35
  that. That is where Josh Allen needs to improve. Also, just from
• 1:31:39
  a long term standpoint, Josh Allen at some point is going to be that
• 1:31:43
  pitcher who used to win in his twenties and late twenties and even early thirties
• 1:31:47
  because he could throw ninety eight ninety nine, you know, or even like
• 1:31:50
  one hundred hundred and one, and all of a sudden he's twenty nine or
• 1:31:54
  he's thirty years old, and now he only throws ninety five, or he
• 1:31:57
  only throws ninety four. That too, seemed fast. Doesn't have the movement
• 1:32:00
  like it used to. Okay, do you have a change up? What
• 1:32:03
  other pitches do you have? What other pieces do you have in your arsenal?
• 1:32:08
  Can you actually pitch instead of being a thrower, can you actually be
• 1:32:12
  a pitcher? And I think that's what Josh Allen needs to improve on for
• 1:32:15
  twenty twenty four. Again, what he's been has been tremendous, absolutely absolutely
• 1:32:20
  tremendous. He's been in the MVP conversation for multiple years. He's taken the
• 1:32:25
  bills very far, just not far enough. And I think the difference between
• 1:32:29
  going very far and not far enough is the decision making and the mechanics in
• 1:32:33
  Josh Allen's game. This is not to say that he's bad or he's a
• 1:32:36
  poor performer or anything like that, but in the playoffs, that margin for
• 1:32:42
  air is so small, especially against the Chiefs and the Patrick mahomess of the
• 1:32:45
  world and the Andy Reids and the Steve Spagnolo's, and again not even taking
• 1:32:48
  into account the Bengals being a problem, the Joe Burrows and the lou Anna
• 1:32:53
  Rumo's and those guys who just know how to scheme right and they know what
• 1:32:57
  to do. You've got to be on point in every way, shape and
• 1:33:00
  form. And it's nice to have the athleticism and the unicorn stuff. I
• 1:33:02
  think that's beautiful and that's brilliant, and that's great and he's gonna win consistently
• 1:33:08
  because of that. But to really get over the hump, he's got to
• 1:33:11
  be better at the quarterback aspects of playing quarterback. Again, the easiest way
• 1:33:15
  I can put it is, he needs to pitch more. He needs to
• 1:33:16
  become a better pitcher instead of just a better thrower or just a better athlete
• 1:33:20
  at the quarterback position. He needs to get better at the Drew Brees stuff
• 1:33:24
  of being quarterback. He's good at them, he just needs to get better.
• 1:33:28
  And that, even in and of itself, might be an unfair expectation
• 1:33:30
  or asked, because he already is like a very good player. And I
• 1:33:34
  do understand the nature of that conversation of yeah, but look how good he
• 1:33:38
  is already just surrounding with better talent or get better pieces around him, which
• 1:33:43
  is fair, But just think how much better he would be if he was
• 1:33:48
  more on point from those aspects. While they're saying Mahomes and Burrough were far
• 1:33:53
  from close to perfect and they went and or won a Super Bowl, I
• 1:33:57
  think this need to be close to perfect as a Bill specific need. I
• 1:34:00
  also think that when you look at Mahomes in Burrow, their quarterbacking aspects are
• 1:34:04
  usually on point, footwork, mechanics, progressions, reads, timing, how
• 1:34:11
  they see the field. Alan and Mahomes are similar, but Alan or Mahomes
• 1:34:16
  sees the field better than Josh Allen does, Like I think his understanding of
• 1:34:19
  the game is better than Alan's. Granity has Andy Reid and like what he
• 1:34:25
  has. I think that helps as well. And then Burrow. He doesn't
• 1:34:28
  have the athleticism and the arm talent that Mahomes and Allan have, so I
• 1:34:30
  think, but just by nature, he has to be better pre to post
• 1:34:34
  snap and processing and what he does and how he wins with his brain.
• 1:34:38
  He's not a bad athlete, he doesn't have a horrible arm, but he
• 1:34:41
  has to win with more of the mental side because he doesn't have the physical
• 1:34:44
  gifts and tools that Mahomes and Alan have. But I'd like the whole like
• 1:34:48
  need to be close to perfect. Sure maybe that is a Bill specific thing,
• 1:34:53
  but I think Alan just needs to improve in those areas because again he
• 1:34:59
  doesn't have to work on certain pieces that aren't going anywhere, Like just don't
• 1:35:02
  get horribly out of shape and you're still gonna be big and fast and strong,
• 1:35:05
  like that's fine, So work on the mechanics, work on the science
• 1:35:09
  of playing quarterback and see where that takes you, because I don't think he
• 1:35:13
  has enough the past several years, and it's starting to hurt them like a
• 1:35:16
  little bit. And to see the common here from Roy saying players are allowed
• 1:35:20
  to have an offseason enjoy other things, or I see some of the other
• 1:35:23
  comments here. Yeah, absolutely, Like no one's saying like as soon as
• 1:35:26
  they lose, you have to be practicing every single day or five days a
• 1:35:30
  week, every day there, every week in the off season. Nobody's saying
• 1:35:31
  that. But his mechanics have gotten poor the past several years, and that
• 1:35:39
  just makes me wonder what is he doing in the off season with that.
• 1:35:42
  Maybe he's working on something else. Maybe he's working on I don't know,
• 1:35:45
  arm strength or seeing certain aspects or trying to beat certain things. Like maybe
• 1:35:49
  he's working on something else too much and he us to put more effort and
• 1:35:53
  focus in this. I don't necessarily know, but I think he needs to
• 1:35:57
  be better from a mechanics standpoint and decision making sae point Lawyer's like a comment
• 1:36:03
  here from Carl saying, when receiver beats coverage and has a step or two
• 1:36:06
  going downfield. If Josh could drop it in the bread basket, it would
• 1:36:09
  be awesome. Josh miss Stefan many times. We need explosive plays downfield,
• 1:36:13
  absolutely, and you know it's ironic too, because of course against the Chiefs,
• 1:36:15
  Alan makes a beautiful throw to Digs and Digs drops it and it's right
• 1:36:19
  in his hands. But there was a multitude of times during the year where
• 1:36:23
  Diggs is wide open downfield and Alan just misses him consistently. And a lot
• 1:36:28
  of it is just poor mechanics. Some of it is like pressure in his
• 1:36:30
  face or him trying to evade or avoid at the last minute. It's not
• 1:36:32
  all on Alan, but I do think having more consistent, more consistency in
• 1:36:36
  his mechanics would go a long way towards helping him to win downfield more like
• 1:36:41
  what he was doing in twenty twenty and twenty twenty one and all those pieces
• 1:36:45
  and the decision making standpoint as well. We've shown it on this show,
• 1:36:47
  We've shown it on the film room, him just having like basic like high
• 1:36:53
  school varsity lapses in his decision making of just like here's a simple one to
• 1:36:57
  read. You're reading player A. If player A does this, you go
• 1:37:00
  there. If he does that, you go there and it's just being played
• 1:37:02
  out for him and him just not pulling the trigger. So decision making mechanics
• 1:37:06
  has to get better. I saw this Ned coming in and saying I'm busting
• 1:37:10
  with the boys last offseason. Josh didn't sound like he was that serious last
• 1:37:14
  offseason. More golf and less focus on working out in nutrition. Yeah,
• 1:37:15
  I saw some clip where he said something of like, you know, like
• 1:37:18
  my strength and conditioning coaches would be upset about what I'm going to say,
• 1:37:23
  but like I don't do much strength and conditioning work or something in the off
• 1:37:26
  season like I don't. I think it was something strength and conditioning related and
• 1:37:30
  less mechanical. Obviously it's not a good look, like you don't want your
• 1:37:32
  quarterback coming out and being like, no, I don't really do much.
• 1:37:35
  But again, he'd come training camp time and come season time. I think
• 1:37:40
  he's always like one of those dudes leading in sprints and he's got so many
• 1:37:44
  natural gifts. I think it kind of helps him out a lot. But
• 1:37:45
  if he just increased some of the focus in those areas, I think it
• 1:37:48
  would just take him to that next tier. Like I think he would be
• 1:37:51
  able to surpass Patrick Mahomes if he had that more focus into the mechanics and
• 1:37:59
  the decision making aspect the game. But you know, again, it's a
• 1:38:01
  tough off life or off season and balance. And I get the notion of,
• 1:38:06
  you know, these guys having lives and wanting to enjoy who they are
• 1:38:10
  and what they do, and I completely get it, but they there needs
• 1:38:15
  to be more from Allen, from the fine, from the fine detailed perspectives
• 1:38:19
  of playing quarterback. And I just think if you could marry like, think
• 1:38:23
  about think about if you took the decision making and and again this isn't a
• 1:38:29
  like for like because some of Josh Allen's decision making is what leads us to
• 1:38:31
  those high variance plays and that unicorn aspect of his play. But imagine if
• 1:38:36
  you took like Joe Burrow or Drew Breeze's brain and put it into Josh Allen
• 1:38:41
  or Tom Brady's brain and put it into Josh Allen. Like those physical gifts
• 1:38:45
  combined with the ability to see the game, understand the game pre to post
• 1:38:48
  snap, and then also to have the mechanics on top of that, That's
• 1:38:51
  what I'm talking about, then you truly get to an unstoppable level with Josh
• 1:38:56
  Allen and this Bill's offense. Again, they already are a good defence.
• 1:39:00
  He already is a very good quarterback. And see I like this coming here
• 1:39:04
  from Walter saying, and I honestly don't care what he does in the off
• 1:39:06
  season as long as he's prepared for the season. But that's just me.
• 1:39:10
  But that's my point. I don't think what he's doing in the off season
• 1:39:14
  is preparing him for the season enough from a decision making and a mechanic standpoint.
• 1:39:19
  Based off of the tape that I'm watching and seeing the decisions he's making
• 1:39:24
  and seeing the mechanical work, especially from a footwork perspective, I don't think
• 1:39:28
  he's doing enough in the off season from that perspective. That's what I'm saying.
• 1:39:31
  Like I'm in the same boat. Like I'm not saying a dude has
• 1:39:33
  to grind every single day, but you have to be properly prepared for the
• 1:39:38
  season. I'm not saying he's not properly prepared. I'm just saying, maybe
• 1:39:41
  some more focus needs to go into those areas and lessen to others. I
• 1:39:45
  don't know what his complete off season routine and regiment looks like I know he's
• 1:39:48
  working to some degree at some point, maybe just put some more focus into
• 1:39:53
  those buckets and maybe a little less than others. Or if he is completely
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  slacking, I'm not saying that he is, but if he is completely slacking,
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  you know, stockmmpletely slacking, maybe you know, slack less, but
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  just put some more focus into those buckets. Again for a from a mechanical
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  standpoint and a decision making standpoint, I think that will go a long way
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  for this Buffalo Bills team. Oh, this is a really good way to
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  talk about Dawson Knox from zen Clo Rady four saying, I think Knox is
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  a good blocker first and a mediocre passing option whose contract never made sense.
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  I think it's a really fair way to kind of classify it. Unfortunately,
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  again, like I think, I think when you paid Dawson Knox that contract,
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  you were paying him for the future. You were paying thinking man two
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  years from now. This contract is gonna be a great value because we're paying
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  him to be tight end seven and he's gonna be like tight end five or
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  tight end four, and we're gonna have really good value just between the injuries.
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  Offensive schematics and his own individual performance and development. We just haven't seen
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  that, and it's been it's been unfortunate. It's gonna be and again,
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  I think it's gonna be tough for him to kind of be that person that
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  the Bills need more from in twenty twenty four. Like I've laid out for
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  it here, just because I don't think he's going to be high in the
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  pecking order when it comes to dudes that are going to touch the ball and
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  get the ball. Yeah. Nice comment here from Walter saying I'd suffer Joe
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  Burrow's DC and the defense. Yeah, that's fair. I take Luanda Roumo,
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  that's fair for me. Lucas saying Alan needs to do it too.
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  It does and work out privately with the receiving and see, that's my thing
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  too. Like I think we not that I don't know if it does happen
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  anymore, but I feel like we saw that more in previous seasons. Like
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  we'd see Alan and the guys getting together and I think Florida, and they
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  run routes and work on concept stuff, and we'd see the pictures and we'd
• 1:41:36
  see the practices, and like, I don't know if those are still happening
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  and we're just not seeing the footage or if they're not happening anymore. But
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  I would like as much work in the offseason as possible because again, I
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  think this team continues to hit the hump, and a lot of it again
• 1:41:49
  could be solved with injuries. Like if so many of these dudes don't get
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  banged up this past year, I think it's a completely different season against can't
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  see me in the Division Round. But just speaking from a Josh Allen standpoint,
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  yeah, there are some struggles that he could fix with a little bit
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  of fine tuning mechanically and just from a studying and decision making standpoint, But
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  you know, it'll it'll be a interesting piece to see what they do going
• 1:42:11
  forward. John saying too much emphasis on our nearly perfect quarterback. We will
• 1:42:15
  win a super Bowl whenever the players around him play up to his level.
• 1:42:17
  Fair, But also he's got to continue to play up to that level consistently.
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  Like and it's so tough with Alan right, like, because he plays
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  a good game and there's a good game plan against Kansas City and the Division
• 1:42:28
  Round, right, I think like a good aspect there. Then he barely
• 1:42:30
  misses that throat to Shakir on second down, and then he makes a very
• 1:42:33
  poor decision on third down. Granted, Tyler Bash should have made that kick,
• 1:42:39
  so that kind of negates it. And then the defense was super banged
• 1:42:42
  up, so maybe the defense you know, kind of lets him down.
• 1:42:44
  Anyway, Like you're kind of this never ending loop or cycle or of trying
• 1:42:47
  to figure out like this chicken egg scenario of who let down who? But
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  I just think there's been often too many times where Alan's mechanics or again his
• 1:42:58
  decision making like lead them astray. I think you see more connections on the
• 1:43:00
  deep ball in the year of his mechanics are better. I don't think you
• 1:43:03
  see the sluggishness in the offense if some of his decision making is better.
• 1:43:08
  And again you take some of that good with the bat right, he has
• 1:43:10
  a poor decision or a poor throw, and then the next play he stiff
• 1:43:14
  arms a defensive end in the face and jumps over a linebacker and he runs
• 1:43:16
  thirty yards for a first down. So it's kind of that whole like yin
• 1:43:19
  and yang aspect of Josh Allen, I just think if you can reduce the
• 1:43:24
  dark side of him, it just it increases the effectiveness. If you can
• 1:43:29
  increase the if you can decrease the dark side of him and just fine tune
• 1:43:34
  and smooth out a lot of those pieces, I think it just improves the
• 1:43:39
  offense drastically. And it has to be something that's talked about. We can't
• 1:43:42
  just sit here and constantly say like, oh, the defense has to get
• 1:43:45
  better, and you have to get him more pieces, and you have to
• 1:43:46
  get him this, and you have to get him that. Like at a
• 1:43:49
  certain point, when does and I'm not saying the Bills offense was loaded with
• 1:43:53
  talent like, because I don't think that's the case. I think they have
• 1:43:55
  a good supporting cast. I don't think they have an amazing or great supporting
• 1:43:59
  cast. And I think there was a fine line between, Like I'm not
• 1:44:01
  saying rain him in or make him focus on efficiency and take away the high
• 1:44:06
  variance. You just need to fine tune the detailed aspects of his game like
• 1:44:10
  footwork and decision making. And I think that will go a long way towards
• 1:44:13
  taking them to taking him to another tier, to taking him to that Mahomes
• 1:44:16
  tier, because Mahomes is in a tier by himself, and at a certain
• 1:44:20
  point Allen's got to surpass Mahomes, right, and you can have a great
• 1:44:24
  supporting cast, and you can beat Mahomes with a really good defense and everything
• 1:44:28
  else that you have and all these supporting pieces. I'm not saying that's not
• 1:44:30
  the case, but there are areas for Alan to improve, and I think
• 1:44:34
  that can't be thrown out. I'm not saying the defense doesn't have to get
• 1:44:39
  better. I'm not saying the supporting cast doesn't have to get better. But
• 1:44:42
  there are areas for Alan to get better at, and we need to have
• 1:44:45
  that conversation like this was. This was my fifth point in this episode of
• 1:44:48
  who the Buffalo Bills need more from in twenty twenty four, And I just
• 1:44:51
  picked it because it's importante. Because his mechanics report at a multitude of time,
• 1:44:55
  so were his decision making, and he still had a great season like
• 1:44:58
  that. I think that's the the important thing to not lose sight of.
• 1:45:02
  Right, he had a really good twenty twenty three. Imagine how much better
• 1:45:06
  of a season he could have if he got better in these areas. Everybody
• 1:45:10
  has to improve. Just saying that Alan has to improve doesn't mean the players
• 1:45:15
  around him don't have to get better. That doesn't mean they don't have to
• 1:45:16
  tweak the roster or expect more from anybody on either side of the ball.
• 1:45:20
  But you have to assess everybody, and you have to look at everybody.
• 1:45:23
  And I know Alan is a very good football player, but there are aspects
• 1:45:27
  where he can afford to get better. And if he does get better in
• 1:45:30
  those areas, man, just imagine again, it's like taking It's like taking
• 1:45:35
  a pitcher who can throw one hundred and one miles an hour and all of
• 1:45:40
  a sudden giving him a change up and another pitch, like giving him three
• 1:45:43
  workable pitches that he can locate and work. Like how much more dangerous do
• 1:45:46
  you become when you go from just being a thrower to an actual pitcher?
• 1:45:51
  Right? That type of arsenal, It just gives you a better chance.
• 1:45:55
  I will I want this team and all the players in it to do whatever
• 1:45:59
  is necessary to make the entire team better and make all the players better.
• 1:46:02
  And Alan is tremendous, but there's a multitude of areas in his game where
• 1:46:06
  he can get better. And the two big ones decision making and mechanics.
• 1:46:12
  For me, and Ned's saying a few less, I INT's we might have
• 1:46:15
  the one seed and a bye, that's fair. I just don't think you're
• 1:46:18
  ever gonna be able to that. The thing in Alan's brain that makes him
• 1:46:23
  throw those interceptions is the same thing in his brain that makes him truck defenders
• 1:46:28
  and jump over dudes. I just don't think you can eliminate one without impacting
• 1:46:30
  the other. So unfortunately, I think that's something that we're going to have
• 1:46:33
  to live with. I don't think you can ever completely coach that out of
• 1:46:38
  him without coaching the high variance plays out of him potentially along with it,
• 1:46:43
  which again makes him a little destructive in addition to being beautiful at the same
• 1:46:46
  time. And again that's that pendulum swing nature of Josh Allen, like he
• 1:46:50
  gives and he takes away and just just back and forth, and you have
• 1:46:54
  to hope that he gives more than he takes away. It's just hard to
• 1:46:57
  kind of coach that out of him or work that out of him without also
• 1:47:01
  coaching out or working out the explosives or the really again high various positive plays
• 1:47:08
  that he brings as well. But we'll see, I'm gonna throw up the
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