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  episode, We're going to be diving into a topic that I think is one
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  of several very interesting topics. With training camp literally around the corner. We
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  are roughly a month away, almost to the day from training camp starting in
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  July. Bills training camp starts Wednesday, July twenty sixth. It is currently
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  June twenty seven on a Tuesday, and so roughly a month from now,
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  Bills training camp will be underway. And the cornerback position is one of I
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  think several for the Buffalo Bills that are intriguing for this team, and we
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  are going to discuss several of those positions as we move forward in the rest
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  of this offseason leading up to training camp. But like I said, and
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  like the episode is titled, we're going to focus on the cornerback position here
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  in this episode. We had some legitimately interesting performances last year from several of
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  the Bills corners who are in competition for that CB two spot this year,
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  and we're going to look into some advanced metrics for them. We are going
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  to look into some game tape breakdown some of the pieces and aspects of their
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  game that put these players and their skill sets into perspective and thus put into
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  perspective what you can do with them from a schematic perspective. So that's what
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  we're going to do tonight in this episode. I made another graphic for tonight,
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  which I'm extremely proud of. If you've tuned into last week's episode where
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  we broke down what you expect from James Cook, similar fashion to last week
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  where we had a lot of advanced metrics to put the player's performance in twenty
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  twenty two into perspective and then tied death together with game tape on the back
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  end to really put put the actual physical pieces and tie them together with those
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  advanced metrics. So I made another graphic again for the night for the CBS.
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  I'm very proud of that. I'm very proud of that piece, and
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  that's what we're gonna do in tonight's episode. For those of you joining me
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  live here on this episode, I appreciate you. Thank you kindly. If
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  you haven't already, please drop a likeke on. This video goes a long
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  way towards helping myself and the entire team here recover one to track and trend
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  in front of more eyes. And as always on this show, if you
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  are here live, please feel free to drop any comments or any thoughts,
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  questions, comments, concerns, anything that you have into the live chat as
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  we go through. I say it all the time, especially as I do
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  these solo episodes and don't have a guest. I love seeing how active the
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  live chat is. Makes me feel like I have a ton of co hosts
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  and seeing the engagement with each other and the engagement with myself. So any
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  thoughts, questions, comments, concerns, theorems, maxims, beliefs, ideologies,
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  whatever have you in regards to the CB two competition for the Bills and
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  training camp this year, on the season as a whole, throwed up into
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  the chat. We're gonna bring up those pieces as we go forward. Drop
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  a light on this video. I'm going to message into the live chat right
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  now regarding some comments and some things. I'm gonna pull up RJ's comment here,
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  r regular watcher of Cover one content, especially the show and especially to
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  the Cover one film room. RJ says there's only one correct answer at CB
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  two, kaye elam, and he says it with an exclamation point. I
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  think that's a common sentiment sentiment amongst Bills Mafia. As we head towards this
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  season, especially with how the season ended for Kaye Elam, And that's a
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  piece that I really want to drive home when it comes to the game tape
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  piece towards the back end of this episode. Kaye Elam, I don't buy
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  into the whole McDermott doesn't play rookie, that whole narrative, especially considering how
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  much Christian Benford played early on in twenty twenty two before he got hurt.
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  I think you saw legitimate progression from Kaye Elam as the season went on,
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  and I tweeted it during the season at multiple times. I think the part
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  of the reason we weren't seeing Kaye Relam playing was because when you did see
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  him play, you saw some of those mental mistakes. And my thought was,
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  if he's making those mental mistakes in the game, maybe he's making those
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  same mental mistakes in practice and the coaching staff doesn't feel confident in holistically putting
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  him out there. We heard similar sentiments from the organization Brandon being Roshan McDermott
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  in the past month or so. But when you watch the tape and see
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  how the season progressed for Kayer Elam and how we really started to connect the
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  dots for things and put those pieces together. And then he sat down in
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  the Cover one film room with myself and Eric Turner last week, which if
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  you have not seen that, go back and watch that. Not right now,
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  finished watching this episode, but then go back and watch that film room
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  episode with Kayer Elam last week, myself and Eric sat down with Kayer and
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  broke down game tape and talked technique and coverages and some of the physical pieces
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  of the game of the game, but a lot of the mental pieces of
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  the game. And this is something I'll probably hearken back to a lot as
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  this episode goes forward. Kyer was just extremely impressive to talk with last week.
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  I and you know, you hear everything about why he was drafted,
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  and you see the embedded videos about how impressed McDermott and being were with him,
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  and you know his uncle and his dad who played in the league,
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  and how pro ready he was and how he studies the game and how he
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  prepares and all these pieces. So you knew that he was a professional in
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  terms of how we approached the game, and you knew he had a high
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  football IQ, or you could have surmised that he had a high football IQ,
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  But just sitting down with him last week was just I was legitimately very
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  impressed, and I thought I would be. I mean again that he's a
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  player in the NFL, and combined with all of those things you hear about
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  him or had heard about them, I kind of felt that that would be
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  the takeaway. But I was even more impressed than what I thought I was
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  was going to be. And a lot of that was just how he approached
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  the game and what he talked about in a lot of the things he talked
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  about were how the game started to click more for him as the season went
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  on, and all of a sudden, towards the back end of the year,
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  he wasn't having to think as much. He wasn't having to actively or
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  consciously break down what was going on. He was able to just read and
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  react. He was able to trust his eyes. He was able to trust
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  what he was seeing and then go and make a play on the ball or
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  you know, making a play on the ball carrier. And you started to
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  see that as the season went out, you saw him click a little bit
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  more. And again we're going to see some of those plays in the back
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  end of this episode. But I think it's a very fair and probably common
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  and or popular opinion that Kayer should be the CB two in twenty twenty three,
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  and I think he ideally he is the choice. But I wanted to
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  put some pieces together for Dane and Benford just because I do think it's a
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  legitimate competition. Benford showed some flashes last year out of nowhere, and Dane
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  Jackson, for you know, as much maligned as he was or is from
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  for his performance in twenty twenty two, I think he's a little bit better
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  or a lot bit better, depending on how critical you are of him,
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  than he it's credit for for that last season. Mark says he totally agrees
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  with r J. Well. I also think this comming from Mark saying it'll
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  be interesting to see how Alex Austin and Cameron Dance are doing training camp.
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  Yeah, I'm always interested in anytime the Bills add further bodies to a position
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  that they have a strong track record of developing. Sean McDermott's formula for developing
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  defensive backs, whether it's you know, bargain been free agents or late round
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  draft picks or early round draft picks, the track record of success for the
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  Buffalo Bill's defensive backs under Sean McDermott has been tremendous. So yeah, I
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  think that's a fair point. Oh like this comment here from Pete. I
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  mean I only were the first sentence, but I feel like I got to
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  just a where he was going. Pete says, I get wanting Elam to
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  start. I do too. There's competition because three guys have earned it.
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  If anything, let's celebrate our late round picks playing well rather than Elam getting
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  handed the job. I think that's a tremendous point. They're from Pete,
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  and it's been talked about two degree. I know I've said it a bunch
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  on the show, and actually ties into the previous comment I just made in
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  regard to marked comment there about Alex Auston and Cam Danzler. You know,
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  the mileage that the Bills have gotten out of Dane Jackson, the mileage the
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  Bills got out of Levi Wallace, even though it's in you know the infancy
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  of Christian Benford's career, the mileage they got out of him so far,
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  and what how how he showed early on last year. It's a really positive
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  thing. And I know, I know it's usually going to be seen as
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  a negative, right if you have a first round pick and he's in a
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  quote unquote battle with a late round guy or a less athletic guy or a
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  less sexy guy. A lot of times I think people see that with you
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  know, a negative lens and associate and or attach a negative connotation to it,
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  and it's like, all, this first round guy can't even be out
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  these beat these low end guys out. This is awful, This is terrible.
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  But sometimes I don't think we've give enough flowers or enough kudos to those
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  late round guys. There's a reason that Dane Jackson keeps lingering around, which
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  we're going to talk about and show in this episode. There's a reason Christian
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  Benford was beating kyer Reel them out for reps in training camp last year and
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  early to start the season. Was him it's starting corner on this team before
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  he broke his wrist against the Miami Dolphins there in Week three. So I
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  do again, I think it's a legitimate competition. I do think the Bills
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  will want Kayer Elam to start, and I think all things considered on and
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  off the field, it would be ideal if he was the starter and the
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  man to win this competition. But absolutely I like that comment from Peter,
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  like it a lot. Charles is here, He says, what up,
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  peeps, What up? Charles Mark says, I see White and Elam as
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  CB one and two, Johnson at the slot, Jackson at four, Benford
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  being flexible moving between corner and safety, leaving Danzer in Austin to battle for
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  the other spot. And I see Lewis on the practice squad. I see
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  Lewis cam Lewis in my nightmares not knocking that ball down from Justin Jefferson.
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  I still think about it and it still haunts me. Oh morning mine with
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  love my way saying, yeah, it's an Anthony Knight. I appreciate you,
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  thank you very much for being here, Charles Sam Elam will get every
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  benefit to earn a CB two and should. If he doesn't start, that
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  would lead me to believe he was handedly outplayed in camp fair fair fair or
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  just says. Elam graded out as the third best rookie corner and the best
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  CB on the Bills last year. Dane is mid Benford a bit better,
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  but Elam has an all proceeding. I want to keep that thought in your
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  brain. Well, one, I want to know how he quote unquote graded
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  out, like graded out in terms of what you mean, like PF grades
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  or metrics. So when I want to know that too. The advanced metrics
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  I'm bringing to the table, I think will be interesting when juxtaposed with your
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  comment here, m r J. But we will see, we will see.
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  Let's dive into it now. Actually, I think that's a that's a
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  good way to transition here. So, like I mentioned last week, and
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  like I mentioned in the intro to this episode, I met a graphic last
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  week for James Cook with some advanced metrics, and I kept that formula and
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  made another graphic for this week with the cornerbacks and putting some advanced metrics together.
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  Again. You know, I've been referred to as the Picasso of my
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  generation, the Red Brand of my generation, the Andy Warhol of my generation,
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  the band Go of my generation. I don't know anymore painters or artists
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  or people who are drawn stuff, So I'm going to stop there. But
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  nonetheless I digress. Let's bring up the graphic here. Actually, before I
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  bring up the graphic, let's talk about it. So this graphic, I
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  got some advanced metrics from a combination of PF and Sports Info Solutions, two
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  sites that I trust for their advanced metrics data. Now when I use PF,
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  I say it a lot on Twitter, I say it throughout the season,
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  Eric and I say it on the film. I don't really subscribe to
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  the grading portion. I think their grades are a bit arbitrary. I use
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  more of you know, snaps per target and reception percentage, even though that's
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  a little murky at times, which we're going to talk about in this episode.
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  But I don't subscribe to the grades. I mean, we have a
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  subscription to PF, but I don't subscribe to the notion of using grades as
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  a way to judge these players. I think there's a lot of arbitrariness or
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  arbitrary impact when it comes to those grades, and a bit of some just
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  murkiness and muddiness with how those grades come out. So combination of PF and
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  SIS, two sites that I used regularly throughout the entire year from an advanced
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  metrics perspective, and pairing with the film to put together the holistic views and
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  evaluations I have on teams, players, bills, non bills, all that
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  kind of stuff. So let's bring up the graphic. I'll drop the banner
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  so we can see and like I mentioned earlier, so it ties into RJ's
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  comment what RJ, you said, you know Elam is graded out. Actually
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  bring it back up, r J saying, Elam graded out as the third
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  best rookie CB and the best CB in the Bills last year. Dane's mid
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  Benford a bit better, but Elam has an all proceeding. I do recognize
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  the notion of Elam having an all proceeding. But let's look at these advanced
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  metrics. So you've got Kyer Elam in the first column, Dane Jackson in
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  the middle, and Christian Benford on the right. Now we're gonna go line
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  by line, just like we did last week for James Cook. So we're
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  gonna let every you know, everybody digests this information and talk about what each
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  of these metrics me and to kind of put things into perspective. But if
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  you look at it, just at a quick glance, you can see the
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  different ratings, rankings and or grades for each individual category for each of these
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  players, and everything is even. So the first line is reception percentage for
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  all three players. The second line is pass breakups for each player. So
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  on and so forth. As we go down, Also above each player's name,
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  you will see the coverage snaps. I know it's a little small,
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  and I did it that way to not throw off the aesthetic of the graphic.
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  But kyer Elam had three hundred and sixty five coverage snaps that is regular
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  season in postseason, combined Dan Jackson five hundred and ninety two coverage snaps and
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  Christian ben for two hundred and thirty four. Let's look at that first advanced
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  metric there, so reception percentage. We'll see for kyer Elam he allowed a
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  seventy one point seven reception percentage. That was the one hundred and sixth lowest
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  out of the one hundred and thirty six qualifying corners in this metric. Dane
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  Jackson again reception percentage, same category there, fifty eight point two, So
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  a big difference from a percentage standpoint, and that's a big difference in the
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  overall ranking. And then Christian Benford a little higher than Dane Jackson at a
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  big difference in the ranking overall for him versus Jackson, but similar in terms
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  of the overall percentage. Now, I don't put too much stock into reception
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  percentage. I use it as again a baseline. I do like to see
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  what it is for each player, and again putting all those things together,
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  and percentage for those who don't know, that is the percentage of targets caught.
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  Now, the only issue with that and why I say, I don't
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  you know that's not the end all be all, I should say, because
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  I do put some stock into it, But it's not the end all be
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  all. Is you can get accredited with a target even if the man who
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  catches it isn't necessarily your responsibility. So you know, I've used this example
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  for Tremaine Edmonds all the time. He'll get credited with a target and give
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  up a catch just for somebody who caught, you know, for a running
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  back who caught a check down underneath, because he's the closest defender in proximity,
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  right, so even though that's not his man, and you know the
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  Bills aren't covering that, and they're going to come down and rally and tackle
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  and you know, force that running back into the killzone and make the play.
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  And Edmonds is dropping into the hooks and covering his man because he's the
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  closest guy to the running back. He'll get dinged for a target and for
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  giving up a reception on that target. So don't put all your stock or
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  eggs into that basket. Similarly, like to what I think I mentioned that
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  last week's episode or multiple points this offseason, don't put all your eggs into
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  the basket for offensive lineman when grading them based on how many sacks they've given
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  up. Don't see an offensive lineman who only gave up you know, he
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  gave up no sacks. He must be an amazing pass protector. That's not
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  necessarily the correlation piece, so reception percentage is not the end all be all,
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  But nonetheless, I wanted to put that number up there to kind of
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  set a bit of a baseline in terms of kind of putting some pieces together.
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  I like this comment from MD saying I don't know the metrics, but
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  just seems like he has the fastest game speed for CB two. Absolutely,
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  if we're looking at things from an athletic profile, especially looking into like speed
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  and burst and fluidity, it's hard not to lean heavily into the kay Elam
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  piece over Christian Benford, and especially over Dane Jackson, who's limited in terms
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  of his athleticism and speed. Now let's look at that second metric. This
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  one I find very interesting and I like a lot so kyre Elam had one
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  pass breakup on the entire year that was tied for one twentieth out of those
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  one hundred and thirty six qualifying corners. Dane Jackson had ten, which was
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  tied for eleventh, and Christian Benford had three, which was tied for eighty
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  first. Dane Jackson is the one that stands out the most for me,
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  and I think it would for a lot of Bills fans, because if you
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  think back to the twenty twenty two season and you think of Dane Jackson,
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  how many times are you thinking about him being right there in coverage and just
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  not making the play. It actually happened several weeks in a row to both
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  him and Tarn Johnson where they were just real sticky in coverage, in good
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  position, in phase, and for whatever reason, they just didn't get their
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  head turned around or they didn't make a play on the ball, and guys
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  were just coming down with catches that you were like, Oh, that's gonna
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  end up being complete incomplete. The coverage is too tight and they just wouldn't
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  make a play on the ball. So Dane had ten PBUs, which was
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  tied for eleventh on the year Darius Williams for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Again,
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  this is a regular season. In postseason he was first. He finished first
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  in the league with fifteen Sauce Gardner was second with fourteen. So Dane's sitting
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  there at ten PBUs. Consider how much more he could have had and where
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  he could have ranked there, considering again how many he missed out on.
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  So he did make some plays on the ball. Again, it doesn't excuse
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  the ones he didn't make, especially some of them that looked like gimmes.
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  But when you look at it on the whole, and I think that's a
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  big piece that I want taken away for in regards to Dane Jackson And we're
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  gonna dive into it further again as the episode goes along. But don't use
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  those that those struggled plays or was poor reps or that stretch for Dane where
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  again he wasn't making plays on the ball. Don't use that as the assumption
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  of that's how he always is. And yes, this is a bit this
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  does have a bit of a volume, you know, benefit to it when
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  you compare it against Benford and elam with how many more coverage snaps Dane had
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  versus Kayyer and Benford again, Dane with five ninety two coverage snaps, Kayer
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  with three hundred and sixty five and Benford with two thirty four. But nonetheless,
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  it does show that Dane did have the opportunity to make some plays and
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  despite the fact that he had that stretch where he did struggle a bit,
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  he did come away with a bunch of pass breakups on the year. And
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  if we're looking at it from a pass breakups to coverage snaps ratio, Dane
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  had a PBu on one point six nine percent of snaps, kai Year zero
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  point two seven percent, and Christian Benford one point two eight So Dane significantly
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  above kai Yer and a pretty healthy amount above Benford from a you know,
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  past break up percentage you know ratio to coverage standpoint a coverage snap standpoint third
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  metric. There, let's look at the QB rating when targeted, So kayre
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  elm eighty three point seven, which was tied for the forty fourth lowest,
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  so lower in this instance being good because you want that QB's rating to be
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  low so eighty three point seven QB rating when targeted, which was tied for
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  the forty fourth lowest, Dane Jackson eighty one point nine QB rating when targeted
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  thirty eighth lowest, so a little better than Kaier both in terms of score
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  and ranking, and then Christian Benford eighty nine point one QB rating when targeted
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  sixtieth lowest, sold big difference, not necessarily caring about the ranking as much
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  there, but a big difference from an overall rating standpoint versus the other two.
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  Now next metric snaps per reception, so literally how many coverage snaps do
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  you have versus the how many receptions you're giving up and the ratio of that
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  piece. So Kaire ten point two snaps per reception, which was tied for
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  seventy fourth, Dane Jackson twelve point one snaps per reception, which was thirty
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  seventh, and Christian Benford ten point three snaps per reception, which is seventy
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  third. In this piece, snaps per reception, you want that score to
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  be higher, right, you want to have so if somebody who has twenty
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  snaps per reception versus somebody who has ten, the person who has twenty looks
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  more favorable because he has that many coverage snaps without giving up a catch.
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  Now baked into that, maybe a guy's just not getting targeted. Maybe he
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  has a coverage snap and he's a cloud corner, he's a Cover two guy
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  and he's got a safety over the top, or you know, they're in
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  quarters a bunch and he's on the single receiver side and they're playing man everywhere
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  he goes, and he's got help over the top somehow, or again,
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  what the offense does, what the defensive call is, that will factor into
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  it as well. Right, this isn't necessarily a measure of wow, like
• 21:51
  this guy is so locked down. This is how many snaps he has versus
• 21:55
  how many receptions he's given up. So if you're looking at Dan Jackson and
• 21:57
  seeing, you know, twelve point one and snaps per reception, that doesn't
• 22:02
  necessarily mean, you know, if he's given up a catch every twelve snaps,
• 22:06
  that doesn't necessarily mean he was in excellent coverage. That doesn't necessarily mean
• 22:10
  he didn't have help over the top. That doesn't necessarily mean the receiver didn't
• 22:14
  run a poor route or some route that the quarterback looked and wanted it and
• 22:18
  then was like, oh, never mind, screw it, Like I'm not
• 22:21
  going to go over there because I don't like this piece. So take that
• 22:25
  into consideration. EPA per target love this piece. So again EPA expected points
• 22:32
  added. The whole piece with EPA is what you are doing on every single
• 22:37
  play to either move your team towards scoring points or hurting the opponent's opportunity to
• 22:44
  score points. So if you are a defender, you want your EPA as
• 22:48
  a whole defense or an individual player, you want it to be in the
• 22:51
  negative because that means on any given play you are taking away the offense is
• 22:56
  opportunity four points. So if you're in the plus, that's technically a bad
• 23:00
  thing. The same thing as the conversation we had last week with James Cook.
• 23:03
  On the flip side, if you're an offensive player, you want a
• 23:06
  positive EPA score. If you have a negative EPA score, that literally means,
• 23:10
  on a given play or on average, you are hurting your offense is
• 23:15
  opportunity to score points. You are taking away your team's ability to move closer
• 23:18
  towards points if you have a negative on the offense. So but again we're
• 23:22
  here on defense, so positive score a plus for Kaier and Dane is less
• 23:26
  than ideal. So Kaier point zero eight ePaper target which was seventy ninth out
• 23:33
  of those one hundred and thirty six qualifying corners. Dane Jackson point zero nine
• 23:37
  EPA per target which came out to eighty first, so him and Kayer very
• 23:41
  very very similar. Big difference here with Christian Benford. Again Benford had less
• 23:45
  snaps, but the only one of these three guys in the negative again,
• 23:51
  which is positive for a defender. Negative zero point one zero EPA per target
• 23:56
  in twenty twenty two, which was forty first, So a big difference there
• 24:00
  in the advanced metric piece for EPA per target, both in terms of ranking
• 24:03
  and the score. Again you want to be in the negative here, kind
• 24:07
  of like golf next metric piece there. So EPA per target was from SIS,
• 24:12
  and the yards per coverage snap was also from SIS, and I filtered
• 24:17
  that again for one hundred and thirty six corners where it worked out where I
• 24:22
  looked for corners who had at least fifteen targets on the season, so yards
• 24:26
  per coverage snap, so this is literally how many yards are giving up per
• 24:30
  coverage snap. Kaier one point two yards percoverage snap, which is one hundred
• 24:36
  and seventh, Dane Jackson zero point nine yards per coverage snap, which is
• 24:38
  fifty third, Christian Benford one yard percoverage snap, which was seventy third.
• 24:44
  Big difference in the rankings, but overall similar in terms of the yards percoverage
• 24:48
  snap. We're not looking at a full yard difference, We're not looking at
• 24:51
  a yard and a half. Again, all very similar, Dane being the
• 24:55
  lowest, but you know he's only point one away from Benford and point three
• 24:57
  away from Kaire's pretty similar. Snaps per target, so again this one is
• 25:04
  a bit different. We have snaps per reception earlier. Now we have snaps
• 25:07
  per target Kier seven point three snaps per target tied for fortieth, Dane Jackson
• 25:14
  seven on the dot snaps per target which is tied for fiftieth, and then
• 25:18
  Benford six point four snaps per target which is tied for eighty second. Again
• 25:22
  not necessarily indicative of while this guy's amazing, while this guy's bad, Just
• 25:27
  another piece to putting to perspective how often someone is being targeted, in this
• 25:32
  case, how much these three players are being targeted, and a lot can
• 25:34
  go into that. It can be what kind of help are they receiving,
• 25:37
  what is their coverage responsibility on the play? Are they're playing on the left
• 25:41
  side of the field, And maybe the quarterback they're playing in this week doesn't
• 25:45
  like throwing to the left, so no matter what, he's going to target
• 25:48
  the right corner more because he likes throwing to his right. There's a lot
• 25:51
  of variables that go into it. This again, this piece is less analysis
• 25:55
  and more putting things into perspective for that specific metric. Last piece as well,
• 26:00
  the average depth of target. This one I like because I think it
• 26:03
  puts into perspective how teams or offenses maybe attacking a certain player. So Kaye
• 26:11
  Elam nine point eight average depth of target, which don't necessarily pay his attention
• 26:15
  to the score here on this one in terms of rank like the ninetieth for
• 26:18
  Elam here, the twenty nine for Dane and the thirty sixth for Benford.
• 26:23
  More just focus on the depth of target. So you see Elam there nine
• 26:27
  point eight average depth of target. That makes a lot of sense when you
• 26:30
  go back and watch the tape, especially early on, Kayer was playing off
• 26:34
  coverage and he was playing really off coverage, giving up underneath catches to be
• 26:40
  saw in the Pittsburgh Steeler game. I know he had the interception in that
• 26:42
  game, but the first half was really him just giving up hitches and curls
• 26:48
  and out's kind of left and right, and the Steelers taking advantage of that,
• 26:51
  and being given that by Elam and being given that by the Bill's defense.
• 26:55
  But seeing that piece, and then you look at Dan Jackson twelve point
• 26:57
  five, being tested a little more downfield, a little more into the intermediate.
• 27:03
  There were shots, especially in the middle portion into the middle third of
• 27:07
  the season, the early final quarter of the season, where teams were pushing
• 27:11
  the ball a little bit vertically on Dane Jackson. And again, this average
• 27:15
  of the target doesn't necessarily mean they gave up a catch or they didn't give
• 27:18
  up a catch. This is purely you know how far downfield are they when
• 27:22
  they are being targeted by a quarterback. So twelve point five for Dane and
• 27:26
  then Benford sitting there at twelve point two, and I think that also makes
• 27:30
  a little sense given the skill sets of all three guys, right, Benford
• 27:33
  and Dane Jackson a little more athletically limited, especially Dane So you want to
• 27:37
  get him matched up with some speedsters and see if you can beat them downfield,
• 27:40
  see if you can take advantage of them in the intermediate and create some
• 27:42
  separation. Kayer, he was a press man guy in college and somebody who
• 27:48
  had to learn how to get more comfortable and play and off coverage situations.
• 27:52
  So you want to take advantage of that. You want to hammer him in
• 27:55
  the underneath and make him kind of be in his own head of do I
• 27:59
  need to come up? Do I need to honor the underneath? You know
• 28:00
  where am I kind of you know, playing as he gets kind of accustomed
• 28:04
  to that lifestyle again, just putting some pieces into perspective overall, I want
• 28:11
  to grab again. I'm gonna leave these metrics up, but I'm seeing some
• 28:14
  comments coming through dob saying elm broke up a critical pass against Hill and a
• 28:18
  timely interception in the final Miami game that stopped would have Would that stop what
• 28:23
  would have been a very embarrassing loss? Yes, he also had the pass
• 28:26
  break up to end the game against Mike Kasiki. We broke down the interception
• 28:30
  against Miami in the playoffs last week in the film when with Kyrie Eelam,
• 28:33
  and he broke it down splendidly with how he read the quarterback, how he
• 28:37
  read the route distribution, why he was sinking and not just covering grass there
• 28:41
  and Cover two was a really beautiful piece from him. Again, really smart,
• 28:45
  heady player with all the physical tools you could want, especially for this
• 28:48
  system. So a very very good piece for him. Pete saying Dane had
• 28:53
  a maddening stretch where he was in tight coverage and just couldn't get his hand
• 28:56
  on the ball. Yeah, and I mentioned him, and because it happened
• 29:00
  to Tarn a bunch too. I remember the one for Taron a couple especially
• 29:03
  in the Browns game where I think the Browns one was against Marty Cooper for
• 29:07
  Tarn Johnson, but he had a couple like that, And yeah, Dane
• 29:10
  had a bunch where real sticky in position even somewhere like he's getting his hand
• 29:15
  in between the receiver's hands or into their face, but guys are just still
• 29:18
  coming down with catches. It was, you know, I think I think
• 29:21
  maddening is a very good word usage therapy because it was just, yeah,
• 29:26
  like, how was this guy giving up these catches? Like he's in position,
• 29:29
  he's in position. He's in position. You would have just thought from
• 29:32
  the law averages, eventually it would work out. But if you look at
• 29:33
  his numbers on the year, it did work out. You know, he
• 29:36
  averaged to being a guy who played in the top third. So yeah,
• 29:42
  and absolutely, uh, you know, overall, good, good piece for
• 29:47
  him. Dob saying Elam as a ballhawk, his interception potential is greater than
• 29:51
  the other two. Ah Fair. On the year, Elam finished with three
• 29:55
  interceptions, Dane finished with two, Benford finished with one. Chris saying this
• 30:00
  really reads like Elim is trash. Don't necessarily take that right, just put
• 30:04
  it into perspective with how these guys finished. From an advanced metric standpoint,
• 30:08
  I will say I'm not judging Kyer Elam off of these, you know,
• 30:14
  rookie numbers. I think when you look at who he was to end the
• 30:17
  year versus who he was in the early part of the year, I think
• 30:18
  it's legitimately a stark difference between what kind of player he was. And again
• 30:22
  he said as much last week when Eric and I had him in the film
• 30:25
  room, you saw him start to just play football. You saw him reading
• 30:30
  and reacting, trusting his eyes, trusting his processing. You saw more of
• 30:34
  his physical ability starting to shine as the year went on, because he was
• 30:38
  just playing football. He was confident in his prep, in himself, in
• 30:42
  his role, in his understanding of everything that was going on. You know,
• 30:48
  I think corner is the hardest position to play in the NFL, given
• 30:51
  how offense friendly the rules are, and how athletic and technical receivers are nowadays,
• 30:56
  and how just surgical qbs can be, and how a game just does
• 31:00
  not benefit you with that position. So don't necessarily take it as that.
• 31:03
  I think he did have a rough stretch from an advanced metric standpoint and at
• 31:07
  a tape standpoint, especially earlier in the year, but he came on a
• 31:11
  bit as the year went on. We started to see him shine a little
• 31:15
  bit. But Patrick coming in and saying hello, Bills Manfia, Hello Patrick,
• 31:21
  I appreciate you. So that was my graphic that again I think puts
• 31:26
  into perspective, or at least I hope it does. Some pieces actually,
• 31:32
  you know, bring up on more time just as we kind of close it
• 31:34
  out here. The biggest takeaway from me really when you look at it is
• 31:38
  Dane. I know he gets a lot of hate for having a couple of
• 31:41
  rough games or having a couple stretches where he just wasn't making plays on the
• 31:45
  ball. But you look at the year that he had, Dane Jackson on
• 31:48
  the hole was in the top third for a lot of these advanced metrics,
• 31:52
  and I think that's really, really, really good for a dude who was
• 31:56
  a late late, late day three pick and who doesn't have a lot of
• 32:00
  athleticism. But there are pieces too like in his game. Obviously there's more
• 32:04
  way, way, way, way, way, more upside when it comes
• 32:06
  to hire Elam's skill set and what he offers the defense, and I would
• 32:08
  probably say Christian Benford's as well, with his size and frame and physicality versus
• 32:13
  Dane. So we will we will see as the season progresses for those guys.
• 32:20
  But again, I wanted to put these these advanced metrics into perspective because
• 32:23
  a lot of narratives get thrown around, a lot of talk gets thrown around,
• 32:27
  and I think some of it is more emotional than it is analytical in
• 32:30
  terms of seeing what's going on. So again, this doesn't mean Dane is
• 32:32
  the best corner should be CB two. This does not mean kire Elam is
• 32:36
  trash. This does not mean any of those things. It's just to put
• 32:39
  into perspective the year that each of these three players had in a multitude of
• 32:44
  advanced metrics, some carrying more weight than others. In order to get again
• 32:49
  kind of a holistic view of who they were from a number side. Now
• 32:52
  we're going to take a look at who they were from the tape side of
• 32:55
  things, and I'm take the graphic away, pull up a couple more comments
• 32:59
  as we see. RJ says, I'd like to see the split between the
• 33:01
  first half and second half of the year on tape, he looked like the
• 33:05
  best CB in the second half, and I also think those grades give more
• 33:07
  weight to I and TS. I'm assuming you mean Kayer Elam here. My
• 33:10
  thing with that is like, if you're thinking he looked at the best CB
• 33:14
  in the second half, he also had a lot of mental mistakes. Even
• 33:15
  that Miami game. In the playoffs, he has a couple blown coverages where
• 33:21
  he's just completely wrong, employers trying to bark out to him what he needed
• 33:23
  to do. Again, that doesn't mean he was awful, but he is
• 33:27
  making some mental mistakes. And I even think some of his good coverage pieces
• 33:30
  came in the first half of the year, I don't think he looked like
• 33:32
  the best CB on the team. In the second half, I do think
• 33:35
  he looked more comfortable. I do think you started to see more of that
• 33:37
  physical profile and athletic piece start to shine a little bit more as he again
• 33:44
  and as he admitted, he got more comfortable, started to trust his eyes
• 33:46
  and his processing a bit more. But I hope he continues to build on
• 33:52
  those physical tools and really shine through ideally this year because again his physical profile
• 33:58
  combined with how he sees and studies game gives them a very high ceiling overall,
• 34:01
  but especially especially in this defense. And then r J you're saying,
• 34:06
  I also think those grades give more weight to interceptions. I don't know what
• 34:12
  grades you're talking about that would give more weight to interceptions here, because the
• 34:17
  pass breakups aren't waited for that KEP rating might be a little bit, but
• 34:24
  yeah, fair point, fair point, fair points EPA per target. Interceptions
• 34:30
  will weigh on that a little bit, but that's not really going to impact
• 34:32
  someone like Dane, you know, again, even interceptions for these guys,
• 34:36
  Kayyer had three, Dane had two, Benford had one. I don't think
• 34:39
  any of them had enough significant interception production that it would significantly alter these metrics
• 34:45
  in any significant way. Again, it will play some role, but I
• 34:49
  don't think anything significant that it's going to throw any piece off. But respect
• 34:52
  rate head is at Thomas coming in with a comment saying, experience and metrics
• 34:57
  leaning towards Dane. That's a very fair point, and that's actually who we
• 35:01
  are going to start with as we dive into the tape here. We are
• 35:07
  going to dive into some Dane Jackson game tape and as the metrics showed and
• 35:10
  tying into what Thomas said here, you know, Dane Jackson one, I
• 35:15
  think he had a better twenty twenty two than given credit for. I hope
• 35:17
  that was a takeaway for you folks and looking at the metrics. But you
• 35:22
  know, like like I said earlier, he's not sexy. He just plays
• 35:24
  some good football. He does a little bit of everything. He does the
• 35:27
  dirty work like tackle well and function in the run. Fit things like crack,
• 35:31
  replace and coming from depth and you know, either filling and being a
• 35:36
  forced player or a spill guy or actually making the tackle on the hole or
• 35:38
  run blitzing. He does all those dirty grinder type things that Sean McDermott absolutely
• 35:45
  loves. On the other side, he does have that unlimited that limited athleticism,
• 35:49
  which limits what you can do with him. He's not somebody who you
• 35:52
  want to have live in man coverage all the time. He's not the biggest
• 35:54
  guy, the strongest, the fastest, the most athletic, So you are
• 35:58
  going to be somewhat limited in terms of what coverages you can play from a
• 36:02
  overall usage and tendency standpoint with him. But he continues to see the field
• 36:07
  because, you know, tied to what Thomas said again a little bit with
• 36:10
  the experience and the metrics lean towards Dane, he continues to see reps because
• 36:15
  he's smart and reliable. Again, he's not sexy's I think he's more physical
• 36:20
  than Levi, but he's in that Levi mold, somebody who again just isn't
• 36:23
  flashy, isn't sexy, isn't somebody that everybody's clamoring for to have on their
• 36:28
  team. If he's an unrestricted free agent, he's not resetting the market at
• 36:32
  that position. But he's smart, he's reliable, he works hard, he's
• 36:37
  tough, and you take all of that and you can do a lot worse.
• 36:40
  I think ideally he's a CB three, but he can live as a
• 36:45
  low to mid end CB two depending on the system and depending on the surrounding
• 36:51
  cast. For Dan Jackson, there comment here from Charles saying, if there's
• 36:58
  one position like trust McDermot to develop its corner, which is why I have
• 37:00
  Elam taking another step. He has the most tools to work with. That's
• 37:02
  a very fair piece, right if you look at what McDermott and co.
• 37:07
  Have done with Levi Wallace and Dane Jackson, even Christian Benford to a degree,
• 37:10
  but we'll take the larger sample size what they've done with Dane and Levi
• 37:15
  Wallace, guys who have less physical tools, and how much blood they squeezed
• 37:21
  from that stone. That's what makes Kyer Elam exciting because he's got so much
• 37:24
  more blood in that stone. And if it's like, oh my god,
• 37:28
  look what Look what they did with Dane and look what they did with Levi.
• 37:30
  Guys who no disrespect, aren't in that same tier of athletic caliber or
• 37:37
  size and frame caliber as Kayer Elam or have the skill set and the traits
• 37:42
  that Kyer Eelam has. So if McDermott and co got all of that out
• 37:46
  of guys with less. Imagine what they can get out of a guy who
• 37:51
  has more. That's where that upside piece comes in. So I think that's
• 37:53
  a very fair point from you. Charles G. Dab says, aunt,
• 37:58
  do you think they'll play or split zone in man coverage each side being different
• 38:04
  man in zone like the first Casey game last year. It seems to confuse
• 38:07
  mahomes. That's a really good question and good callback stops. That's a hard
• 38:12
  one to predict. I don't I don't know if I'm I don't know if
• 38:15
  I can predict something that niche. What I will say is, I do
• 38:19
  expect more confusion causing or confusion confusion inducing coverages and calls and fronts from Sean
• 38:27
  McDermott as defensive coordinator. It could be man on one side, zone on
• 38:30
  another. It could be simulated pressures, It could be a MABA fronts.
• 38:37
  It could be sub packages where you've got four defensive ends on the field or
• 38:40
  three safeties and one linebacker, or no linebackers, or you know, Blitz
• 38:45
  and Taylor wrap off the edge. All these weird types of pieces. I
• 38:47
  think you will see more havoc minded calls and play design from a defensive standpoint
• 38:53
  under Sean McDermott. And I do think, you know, playing more half
• 38:58
  field each piece where you know this side's may and this side zone like they
• 39:00
  did on the interception to seal that game in Kansas City back during the regular
• 39:04
  season last year. I think that could fall into that bucket. That's a
• 39:07
  very good question. Well played, coach Chapman says, I can't say it
• 39:13
  for a fact through film study, but just from watching games, Elam seemed
• 39:16
  like he had the best ball skills of the three. Benford seemed to be
• 39:19
  the most physical, and Dane was just solid. I think this is a
• 39:22
  very spot on analysis, mainly because it coincides with a lot of my notes.
• 39:28
  Yeah, I think Elam has probably the best ball skills and overall the
• 39:31
  best athleticism. Benford's got the physicality piece. And Dane, Yeah, Dane,
• 39:36
  Dane's just is just a solid football player. He's not sexy, he's
• 39:39
  not flashy. He's just a good football player, and good football players stick
• 39:44
  around for a lot, a lot a lot. Now got the banner again,
• 39:49
  this is Dane Jackson game tape, So let us bring up some Dane
• 39:53
  Jackson game tape. He's the first one we're going through here. We're gonna
• 39:58
  go through Dane starting. Let me pull off the banner there so we can
• 40:01
  see the full screen piece. So this first play is against the Cleveland Browns.
• 40:07
  We sold some Brown's tape last week too with James Cook That wasn't planning,
• 40:09
  just kind of happened. So this first play here for the Buffalo Bills,
• 40:15
  and in particular, mister Dane Jackson. We've got a third down.
• 40:20
  Jacoby Brissets scrambles and gets a first down on this play, but forget about
• 40:22
  that, just focus on the Dane Jackson piece. So he's in press alignment
• 40:25
  at the bottom of the screen against Amari Cooper, who is still a pretty
• 40:29
  good wide receiver. I know, I think maybe he kind of you fell
• 40:32
  to the back of people's minds because of how the Browns played last year and
• 40:37
  then what just Shaun Watson his storyline in general and what he looked like coming
• 40:40
  back. But Amari Cooper is still a legitimate wide receiver one in this league.
• 40:45
  Dane is up writing press against him, and we're gonna get some quarters
• 40:49
  from the Bills on this play, and all you really need to know from
• 40:52
  that perspective is Dane Jackson has Amari Cooper and one on one coverage. He's
• 40:58
  got him in meg coverage, which is man everywhere he goes, so for
• 41:01
  all intents and purposes, even though you're gonna see his zone, but you're
• 41:05
  gonna some man coverage pieces around the box for all intents and purposes, even
• 41:08
  though you're gonna see his zone on the back end from Benford on the other
• 41:13
  side, and from Hamlin and Pawyer and Dodson and tarn Johnson. For all
• 41:16
  intents and purposes, Dane Jackson is basically in man coverage here, but on
• 41:21
  the snap you're gonna watch him get into a trail technique staying in the hip
• 41:23
  pocket of a Marty Cooper and just exhibits some really good coverage. So again,
• 41:27
  Dane's at the bottom of your screen, highlighted, circled against the Marty
• 41:30
  Cooper in press I'll play it in real time, gets into that trail hands
• 41:37
  on him. Beautiful the entire way, beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Now
• 41:42
  let's go into some SlowMo. You'll see immediately on the snap he's waiting.
• 41:46
  He hasn't already made that first move. Now, again he's in you know,
• 41:50
  Meg, but he knows he's got Poyer over the top. He knows
• 41:52
  what the coverage is overall, so stands his ground. This is the nice
• 41:58
  piece too. Gets his hands immediately on Cooper once so we can reroute him
• 42:00
  a little bit. But two, you get that feel for the receiver early
• 42:04
  on. You start to lean on them a little bit. And if you
• 42:06
  have a feel for him, you can see where they're going to go without
• 42:08
  actually having to see where they're going to go. So if you can see
• 42:12
  Dan Jackson, it's tough a little bit, but I'm gonna go to this
• 42:15
  piece right here. I'll highlight it. So he gets his hands on him,
• 42:20
  but then his eyes are looking at the other pieces of the field,
• 42:24
  like he's starting to eye some of the arrest of the route distribution, which
• 42:28
  he can do because he has a feel for Cooper. Then as the play
• 42:30
  progresses again, eyes are up as he starts to kind of see what's going
• 42:36
  on. He sees the rest of the route distribution, confidently knows where he
• 42:37
  can go and starts to transition with Cooper gets into his hip pocket and is
• 42:43
  in his hip pocket, and this trail technique the whole way. Literally as
• 42:49
  we go here, He's got hand on right there, hand on his hip
• 42:55
  or his lower back, the entire way, just guiding him, staying undernea
• 43:00
  him, watching him and reading him, but also having a feel for him.
• 43:02
  So if Cooper starts to shake one way or the other, Dane knows
• 43:07
  he can follow in lockstep. Cooper runs this corner, Dane is right with
• 43:10
  him, reads him, kicks him in another gear. And this is the
• 43:13
  piece too, right as soon as Cooper turns, Cooper turns, Dane is
• 43:17
  still watching him. Amari Cooper is turning his head now, and Dan Jackson
• 43:22
  is also turning his head. So as soon as Cooper turns and hits that
• 43:25
  corner and turns his head, Dane turns his head immediately gets his eyes around
• 43:30
  to the quarterback to see what's going on. If he can make a play
• 43:31
  on the ball. Plays this really, really, really well. Again,
• 43:35
  a really good coverage rep from Dane Jackson against someone who is still a very
• 43:37
  good route runner in Amari Cooper, and still an overall good football player.
• 43:45
  I would say as well, again, let it run one more time,
• 43:49
  Like this comment here from Thomas saying that Elam is splashy Dane is reliable,
• 43:53
  but Benford has no nose for the ball. Very fair, very fair.
• 44:00
  I'm not gonna say Benford has no nos for the ball just because it's one
• 44:02
  year, like sample size and all those pieces, But I understand where your
• 44:06
  thought process process is coming from there on that one. Now, let's go
• 44:12
  to another play against the Minnesota Vikings. Going to go here, We're going
• 44:19
  to go to play thirty seven versus the Minnesota Vikings. Does the play I
• 44:27
  put on Twitter? I broke it down during the year two. I just
• 44:30
  love this place. So this is the Dane Jackson rumblitz. Now, this
• 44:32
  is again another one of those pieces that makes Dane Jackson a serviceable corner for
• 44:37
  almost any team. Again, he gives you he is limited athletically, right,
• 44:42
  but he gives you enough in coverage and then does a little bit of
• 44:45
  everything. And some of that little bit of everything is the physicality that he
• 44:49
  brings versus you know, receivers in general, but especially versus the run.
• 44:53
  With his tackling ability, he's been one of the best tacklers on the team.
• 44:58
  Last year was bit up and down for him at sometimes, but overall,
• 45:01
  this is a guy who's been a consistent tackler from a mental standpoint,
• 45:05
  a technique standpoint, and a physicality standpoint. So let's watch this play.
• 45:10
  We're playing fast Boom gets into the backfield, picks the ankle. Okay,
• 45:16
  let's watch him slow mo. So Dane is rumblitzing and what I love too.
• 45:22
  There's no indication he's square. I wish forget when I should. Don't
• 45:27
  change the little thing either. So he's square, and look where his eyes
• 45:31
  are. His eyes are dead locked onto his man. He's not doing anything
• 45:37
  where he's peeking at the quarterback. He's not doing anything where his head is
• 45:39
  slightly turned inside where he's trying to watch the ball in time the snap,
• 45:44
  or he's eyeing the tight end, or he's eyeing the eyem the offensive tackle.
• 45:47
  Again, he's not eyeing anything inside. Why Because he's square. His
• 45:52
  eyes are head up on his man and more importantly, to his overall frame.
• 45:57
  This looks like a player who is playing coverage focused on his man right
• 46:02
  here. You look at the feet, you look at the hand position,
• 46:05
  you look at the body, lean the language. This looks like somebody who
• 46:07
  is about to bail with the snap, or maybe he's going to go for
• 46:10
  a jam. Either way, it looks coverage, it screams coverage. On
• 46:14
  the snap, Boom immediately drops that back foot and he's coming. Now if
• 46:20
  you notice his angle, he's going after Kirk Cousins. He's going towards the
• 46:24
  ball. He's going after what he sees and what he knows. But on
• 46:30
  this rumblitz he reads Cousins and puts that foot in the ground. Doesn't play
• 46:35
  a lot of control that he's screaming into the backfield because if he gets a
• 46:38
  little too far up field with the speed that Dalvin Cook has, all of
• 46:43
  a sudden he can gain this edge and all of a sudden, this isn't
• 46:45
  a tackle for a loss, and all of a sudden, maybe it's to
• 46:46
  gain a five or six or more if Cook breaks a tackle or can get
• 46:50
  to the corner, or it can make a move like he did when he
• 46:53
  when he house that one against the Bills in this game. So Pete Dane's
• 47:00
  movement on the snap again into the backfield stops repositions. Now that's the key
• 47:07
  for me. How he breaks down. So he gets into the backfield with
• 47:09
  purpose, but watches he gets here, watch the feet starting right now?
• 47:13
  Is I going SlowMo look at him, start to break down and get into
• 47:16
  proper position. He gathers himself, he shuffles, and then he picks that
• 47:21
  ankle real, pretty real clean, just a good rap and let it run
• 47:28
  again, adjusting his path based off of reading the play, breaking down slightly
• 47:32
  to get his feet underneath him and to get under control, and then he
• 47:36
  picks the ankle of Dalvin Cook for the tackle for the loss. He's playing
• 47:38
  with a sense of urgency, but he's also playing under control. We see
• 47:43
  it all the time in the NFL still where guys just come up screaming like
• 47:49
  a bat out of hell, and then what happens. They missed the tackle,
• 47:51
  and it's like, oh okay. Also good pursuit by the rest of
• 47:54
  the defense. But this piece here, I just like it. He adjust
• 47:58
  his path, puts his foot in the ground, breaks down, gets his
• 48:01
  feet under him, so sense of urgency but also under control, and then
• 48:05
  finishes and picks that angle. Let the play run. For this, I'll
• 48:09
  appreciate Coach Chapman saying smashed the light. People, yes, please, and
• 48:12
  thank you if you just joined us, or if you've been here the whole
• 48:15
  time, who just came in likes are the life bloods of the lifebloods life
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• 48:22
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• 48:25
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• 48:30
  eyes and the ears. So if you're enjoying this, please, please please
• 48:32
  thank you drop a light on this video. And I appreciate you coach for
• 48:35
  being here and given that direction to the people. Now, next play,
• 48:40
  we're gonna switch games again. This time we are going to go to the
• 48:45
  Buffalo Bills game against the Chicago Bears, another game that was used last week
• 48:51
  for the film room, and this time we're going to go to play thirty
• 48:55
  six versus the Chicago Now this one, Dane Jackson and the run fit a
• 49:04
  little deeper this time, so we made a play against the run on a
• 49:06
  designed corner blitz from the boundary on the previous play, but this one this
• 49:12
  time, now we're going to see him in a coverage role right initially on
• 49:16
  the snap, so look how deep he is, but watch him diagnose what's
• 49:20
  going on. Fit the run gets underneath and forces the football which the Bills
• 49:24
  end up recovering in a game where they kind of needed it, because this
• 49:28
  game got a little harry for a bit. Watching from the end zone,
• 49:30
  angle is, Dane just fits in submarines. Boom, shoulder on the ball.
• 49:37
  It's cold day, get your shoulder pad on somebody's elbow for the ball.
• 49:39
  Carrier. Ball comes loose. Now let's watch Dane. So on the
• 49:44
  snap, he's already firing. He sees, so actually we go farther right.
• 49:50
  Dane initially starts out here, he's on his man. His man goes
• 49:53
  in short motion, so he drops off, but he's still eyeing his man.
• 49:58
  Right, he's still eyeing his man, and he's iron at the time,
• 50:01
  it was perfect there. You can't literally see watch him look and then
• 50:07
  turn his head to his man. Boom. He goes from watching the quarterback
• 50:13
  to watch his man, so his eyes are back on his man. On
• 50:15
  the snap, he sees the action from his man who initially had outside go
• 50:21
  and look like he's about to fit up and base block Karen Johnson. So
• 50:23
  he triggers comes downhill and then watch him read what's going on. Initially,
• 50:29
  this is just a good smart play. Initially, he's coming up as if
• 50:31
  he's the forced player, but he reads what's happening in front of him,
• 50:36
  sees what's going on again, gathers himself, comes up and fits. That's
• 50:40
  where he's got to fit. He doesn't get too far upfield, which is
• 50:44
  easy you especially corners who don't really want to get involved with the physical game,
• 50:47
  who don't really want to fit the run and play the run. They
• 50:51
  get too far appeeld a field, or they get lazy with their footwork,
• 50:54
  or they don't process with that sense of urgency and that sense of effort Dane
• 50:59
  Jackson does here, comes forward, sets himself and this is a big back
• 51:04
  right, puts his shoulder right down onto his man, right onto David Montgomery,
• 51:10
  who I'm sure somebody was, you know, had David Montgomery and fantasy
• 51:14
  and ropets that they just lost two points here. And that's also a good
• 51:15
  tackle too. Right, Watch him come up, bring himself forward, go
• 51:21
  low, his head is up and then down, puts the shoulder right into
• 51:25
  the thighs and again gets a shoulder pad on Montgomery's elbow. It was a
• 51:29
  really cold day in this one in Chicago. That hit reverberates through that elbow
• 51:32
  probably ball comes loose again, let Hi run a fast motion. It's a
• 51:43
  good play. These are all things that are critical also not dimensioned too.
• 51:46
  This is something if you're the offensive coordinator or play designer or play caller,
• 51:52
  this is what you want for this play. Legendary offensive line coach Alex Gibbs
• 51:58
  talked about how works trying to make the corner tackle like we're not blocking corners,
• 52:01
  Like we'll block a safety, but we're not blocking corners because they're like
• 52:06
  the worst tacklers on the field. I'm paraphrasing. Of course, this is
• 52:07
  what you want. You've got a big, powerful, athletic, fluid back
• 52:14
  in Montgomery one on one in the hole with a corner. That is the
• 52:17
  matchup that one favors you. If you're the offense two, it's a matchup
• 52:22
  you would take ten out of ten, and that you're trying to create your
• 52:27
  bigger bodied running back eat any running back against a corner. Usually corners are
• 52:30
  not the best tacklers on the team. Usually they don't want to tackle.
• 52:35
  This is a bonus for you if you have this in your defense because the
• 52:38
  levels the playing field a bit. This is advantage offense. This is a
• 52:42
  win if you're looking at this from the coordinator's perspective. We got a hat
• 52:45
  on a hat here, we got a hat on a hat here, We're
• 52:49
  about to have a hat on a hat here. It's one on one my
• 52:52
  running back against a boundary corner. Sweet, I'm taking that every day.
• 52:55
  If on the offense, dangerous comes up, fits it bank And this isn't
• 52:59
  like a tackle like oh, he barely gets him. He chops them down
• 53:02
  and he creates a fumble and the Bills recover it, which is also a
• 53:06
  nice piece. Again, not the sexiest thing. Well, turnovers are a
• 53:09
  bit sexy, so that's fun. But these are the types of things that
• 53:15
  get Dane Jackson reps why he continues to hang around and why honestly he does
• 53:20
  still have a shot at CB two. I understand the benefits of all the
• 53:24
  physical tools and intangibles and everything that Kyer Eelam has, but Dane is just
• 53:30
  a reliable, good football player. He doesn't have the sexiness of Kayer,
• 53:32
  but he just makes plays like that. And I think even if we look
• 53:35
  at ball skills, right granted, ball skills are usually and myself including that
• 53:38
  you define that by PBUs interceptions and plays on the ball like in the past
• 53:44
  when the ball is in the air. But there's something to be said for
• 53:47
  being able to force a fumble and being strong and sound at the tackle point
• 53:52
  like he is on this play. And that's some of what he offers.
• 53:53
  It's some of what makes him intriguing. And I wanted to include this play
• 53:58
  again, not because I think I mean, I love this. I love
• 54:00
  corners that can tackle, and I'm gonna show a couple for Kaye as well.
• 54:04
  But this is the type of thing all the three of these plays in
• 54:07
  conjunction with one another, this is what gets him burn on this Buffalo Bills
• 54:13
  team because despite his limited athleticism, right he offers you some good coverage pieces.
• 54:19
  He can go one on one with an Amari Cooper and hold his own.
• 54:22
  He has several really good advanced metrics pieces. Like I showed earlier,
• 54:27
  He's got the ability to be somewhat coverage diverse, even though it's not something
• 54:32
  you really want to lean into with regularity. And then you add it up
• 54:37
  with the advanced metrics and what he can be and who he can be,
• 54:39
  and what kind of player he is and who he is. It's the reason
• 54:44
  that he's in the NFL, and it's the reason he's on the Buffalo Bills.
• 54:46
  If the Bills don't resign him, he'll get picked up by another team
• 54:49
  and he'll be a CB three on another team and maybe a cbtwo if an
• 54:52
  injury happens, or depending on the squad, he's there starting cbtwo. In
• 54:55
  general, like, you know, he's a guy who you want to lean
• 54:58
  into more zone coverage, ideally more covered two looks. You want him as
• 55:01
  that cloud corner. You don't want him as that man guy having to carry
• 55:05
  Tyree Hill downfield or Jalen Waddle downfield. Right, He's not the athletic.
• 55:09
  He's not explosive. Obviously he's got some athleticism. Maybe he's playing in the
• 55:14
  NFL, but you know, comparing him to his peers and or the players
• 55:16
  that he's going to be covering, that athleticism does someone limit what he can
• 55:21
  do. But he's a high floor guy, which isn't sexy, which isn't
• 55:24
  fun, but it's reliable, it's safe, and he has the ability to
• 55:29
  make some plays when called upon. So not, I don't think he's the
• 55:31
  front runner for CB two, but I wouldn't be shocked if we still see
• 55:37
  some kind of platoon or Dane gets some kind of work just because he does
• 55:42
  offer production, he does offer experience, and he does offer that reliability and
• 55:45
  responsibility at the corner position for the bills. Now that was the Dane Jackson
• 55:54
  piece. The next piece in our tape, we are going to move to
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  dive into some Christian Benford game tape. Real quick old review on him.
• 57:15
  I mentioned earlier he came out of nowhere. I've given this story a bunch.
• 57:19
  The only game tape I had on him last year was him again.
• 57:22
  He went to Villanova was his game against Penn State, and first play of
• 57:25
  the game he gets turned inside out and cooked by John Dots and he gets
• 57:29
  beat for a touchdown. Him like whatever, he's a late day three pick.
• 57:31
  We'll see what he can be. And he looks good in camp.
• 57:35
  I saw him with my own eyes and I was impressed. And then reports
• 57:37
  he coming out of how well he's doing and how well he's doing. And
• 57:40
  you know, before we know it, he's taken away reps from Kye Eelam
• 57:44
  in training camp. But before we know it, he's started in preseason games
• 57:46
  and holding his own. Before we know it, he's starting in the regular
• 57:49
  season up until he breaks his wrist against the Miami Dolphins. So again,
• 57:54
  came out of nowhere, and coach mentioned earlier, Coach Chapman of the comments,
• 58:00
  a bit of a bigger body guy, six one, two hundred and
• 58:01
  five pounds. He's that bigger type of corner. He's physical, he's very
• 58:06
  comfortable and pressed. He's not the most athletic, he's not the most fluid.
• 58:08
  But he showed a lot of unexpected promise last year and a lot of
• 58:13
  it was tied to him leaning into his strengths as a player, which is
• 58:15
  that physical game, that press game, being big, strong, and being
• 58:21
  able to use his hands well. He has popped in his hands, being
• 58:22
  able to use his length, and again he beat out Kyrielam for reps in
• 58:25
  camp and early into the season before he got banged up. Now, let
• 58:32
  us dive into dive into the tape. Man I can't just can't hit that
• 58:37
  high note anymore. Just can't hit that high note anymore, or maybe I
• 58:40
  can never hit it? Who knows the story? For another time. We're
• 58:44
  going to go to the Minnesota Vikings game for our first clip from Christian Benford,
• 58:52
  and this play is going to be play forty two where he is matched
• 58:55
  up against mister Justin Jefferson, who is arguably, if not the best receiver
• 59:00
  in the entire NFL. So again up at the top there's mister Christian Benford
• 59:04
  impress versus Justin Jefferson, one of the best receivers in the NFL. Now,
• 59:07
  I will say this is a good play and a good clip for Christian
• 59:10
  Benford, but part of what made me pick this play was because of how
• 59:15
  he learned versus previous routes against Justin Jefferson. So let me pull the banner
• 59:21
  away from the bottom. There's been a full scream view. So Benford got
• 59:25
  burned, Nick. You know, I shouldn't say burn because burne means you
• 59:29
  like, really got beat real bad. But he did get beat and be
• 59:30
  bad once or twice against Jefferson earlier in this game on similar routes to this
• 59:37
  routes where Jefferson was selling the vertical or selling that real upfield presence and then
• 59:42
  either popping it out on and out or running a deep comeback or a deep
• 59:45
  curl, just selling something that he wasn't actually doing, which is route route
• 59:52
  running one on one. If you're going to go short, sell him like
• 59:53
  you're going vertical. If you're going vertical, sell him like you're going short.
• 59:57
  Right, try and make them think you are doing the opposite of what
• 59:59
  you are doing. And Benford got got a couple times earlier in the game,
• 1:00:01
  which is understandable. Again, Justin Jefferson is one of the best wide
• 1:00:05
  receivers in the entire NFL. So on this play, Benfordson press versus Justin
• 1:00:09
  Jefferson. The Bills are showing a heavy pressure look, but they're going to
• 1:00:14
  drop into cover three. They're going to run a simulated pressure on this play,
• 1:00:19
  so they're gonna rush for but they're gonna drop aj Epanessa into coverage.
• 1:00:22
  They're going to drop on Miller into coverage, and then you'll see the cover
• 1:00:25
  three dispersion from everyone else. As I drawed out here. Actually that's an
• 1:00:30
  accurate for Tarn as I drawed out here for the rest of the defense.
• 1:00:34
  Now again Benford, you see him at the top in press versus justin Jefferson.
• 1:00:39
  I like what he does on this play. But again, for me,
• 1:00:42
  like I explained, it's how he learned from previous reps. Previous reps,
• 1:00:45
  he wasn't getting his hands on Jefferson, wasn't rerouting him, and he
• 1:00:49
  wasn't watching Jefferson's hips with his route running. So I'm gonna play this in
• 1:00:53
  real time on this one, and then I'll play in some SlowMo. Gets
• 1:00:59
  a hands on him, rides him, and then watch the turn right there
• 1:01:02
  in phase and locks up the whole way. Forget the fact that the past
• 1:01:05
  was completed and the Vikings get the first down. That's not what we're looking
• 1:01:07
  at. Just watch Benford at the top in real time. Really nice coverage,
• 1:01:13
  real sticky in the hip pocket the whole way. Now we're watching in
• 1:01:15
  SloMo ball is snapt. Jefferson takes that inside release common piece. He's taking
• 1:01:22
  that inside release because he's trying to give himself more space to operate on the
• 1:01:25
  outside. If you're running that inside piece, he's going to try and get
• 1:01:30
  Benford to commit to that inside piece or try and stack him pop it outside
• 1:01:34
  because of all the room that he created by taking that inside stem. Right
• 1:01:37
  here goes Jefferson goes inside. Benford goes with him, gets his hands on
• 1:01:42
  him early in the route, and then he stays with his hands on him,
• 1:01:45
  using that physicality, using that size, leaning into your man so he
• 1:01:49
  gets you can even see it. He starts leaning intim a bit Hamlin gets
• 1:01:52
  in his way, also helps the rerouting, which is a nice kind of
• 1:01:55
  collateral damage piece or bonus piece from Hamlin's drop. But this is where it
• 1:02:00
  really gets sold for Benford. He's on him. Watch It's tough to see
• 1:02:05
  from this angle, but his eyes are on Jefferson's hip and when Jefferson makes
• 1:02:10
  this cut right here, Benford makes the cut with him. You can literally
• 1:02:15
  see Benford dip right here, dips with justin Jefferson dip. They both did
• 1:02:22
  together, and he runs this route for him and similar to what we saw
• 1:02:23
  from the good piece from Dane Jackson earlier. Again, this isn't trail technique
• 1:02:29
  necessarily, but in different than what Dane was doing. But you see Benford
• 1:02:34
  staying right in phase, in lockstep in the hip pocket of one of the
• 1:02:37
  best receivers in the NFL and making Kirk Cousins look off this throw and have
• 1:02:40
  to go somewhere else. Now Cousins finds that somewhere else and the Vikings get
• 1:02:45
  a first down. But Benford's in there the whole way. Benford's in there
• 1:02:49
  the whole way. And what you weren't seeing earlier in the game right here
• 1:02:53
  where Benford is just in lockstep and he's on him. What you were seeing
• 1:02:57
  earlier was Benford a little bit two inside or Benford a little bit two over
• 1:03:04
  the top. So either way, it gave Jefferson all this space out here,
• 1:03:07
  or it gave Jefferson all this space to work back to the football here.
• 1:03:10
  Instead, Benford's just right there, hands on hips, hands on body,
• 1:03:16
  initiates contact early, leans on him, maintains that contact, rides him,
• 1:03:22
  stays with him, is in phase the whole way. Really good coverage
• 1:03:24
  piece from Christian Benford, again, a late late round pick who came made
• 1:03:30
  an impact for the Buffaloes and who they needed to make an impact with some
• 1:03:34
  of the inconsistency they had a corner and Trey White not being ready for this
• 1:03:39
  past year and coming off the pup with that ac Ell Andrew from the year
• 1:03:43
  before, so a nice addition to the team. Now I'm going to go
• 1:03:47
  to another play from mister Christian Benford. Gonna go to the Kansas City Chiefs
• 1:03:51
  game, a game that the Buffalo Bills won. We're going to go to
• 1:03:53
  play twenty one for the Buffalo Bills and Christian Benford. I couldn't circle him
• 1:04:00
  on this one because he's got too many players near him, but I got
• 1:04:02
  the arrow drawn up on him. So there's Christian Benford impress. I really
• 1:04:08
  like this one because you see the physicality. You see Benford again. Benford
• 1:04:12
  is right here. You're gonna see the motion from Kansas City. You see
• 1:04:16
  Benford reduced down and now Benford's head up on mister Mbs, mister MARTA's scantling.
• 1:04:26
  Watch the coverage from Benford, the physicality all over him, hands gets
• 1:04:32
  square again, refits his hands all over him. Just really good physical coverage.
• 1:04:40
  Again, Chiefs go with that jet. There's the motion Benford shrinks down,
• 1:04:45
  has his mouthpiece out, which is big negative in my book. I
• 1:04:49
  absolutely hate it. No judgment, it just I don't understand how you can
• 1:04:53
  focus when you're running and you got like the mouthpiece like flailing around and how
• 1:04:57
  it doesn't distract the hell out of you or someone doesn't grab it and chuck
• 1:04:59
  it. But that's kind of station for another time. Watch him get the
• 1:05:00
  hands on early Beveldes Scantling is just out of the gates. Ball is snapped
• 1:05:05
  here. Benford's already got his hands on him early early, and it's second
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  and ten, so he's not letting him get downfield. He's got his hands
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  on him, and he's already rerouting him. Now if you look at the
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  body lean so this is natural, but Benford is on kind of like the
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  outside edge or the outside shade of MBS. Watch here is he gets his
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  hands, watch him now refit. So his hand is off, he's going
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  to refit and get that hand into the body of MBS. And then watch
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  how he brings his lower body with him. Boom, and he's got that
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  position. Now we square up, and now he's rerouting and providing even more
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  resistance that MBS and MBS can't go through him. He doesn't have a shoulder
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  to work through or like a half man relationship that he can create and take
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  advantage of, like a defensive end or an edge or a lineman versus an
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  offensive lineman because Benford's got him square and you just see the resistance. Look
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  how hard it is right here for MBS to go anywhere. MBS is the
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  guy who's known for he's got speed, but he's a bigger, physical kind
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  of guy. You can use him as a power slot type of guy to
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  dig out safeties. Look how much he struggles to get off the line and
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  create any momentum here. It's hard, physical, hard, making you work
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  for it. Now, let's watch the plan on the back end. So
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  here's the end zone angle and the arrow is once again drawn onto mister Christian
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  Benford. Let's watch what happens downfield the big piece I want to draw for
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  you guys here and take away and have you take away from this rap which
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  I think is really good. So again he's in that press versus MBS,
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  and he jams him along with Press. Well it's not a press bail,
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  it's just jams him. It's true. Press gets his hands into the chest
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  of MBS. Good hand placement, strong hands. But watching the end zone
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  angle and watch how he gets his hand on MBS's hip. He lets go
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  after he gets that contact and as the hand on the hip. This is
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  just a real beautiful place. So again we see that press. We seem
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  square, he's all into the chest. But now he starts to let go,
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  because why you don't want to hold on for too long. You'll get
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  flagged. Especially playing in Kansas City against the Kansas City Chiefs, they'll throw
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  that flag. Watch as we go, Look where Benford's hand is right on
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  the hip, right on the hip of MBS. Now keep watching that and
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  watch how his hand stays there. He's not jersey tugging maybe a little bit,
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  but his hand is still there throughout the entire rest of the rep for
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  MBS going across the field. So he gets into his kitchen, jams him.
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  Resistance makes life hard for him. Then let's go. Gets his hand
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  on the hip and it is in trail right over the top. This is
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  really pretty, really physical, really hard. Good placement. Look at the
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  hand as he just rides the hip. Gets a good field for him because
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  not only can he potentially if he wants to tug or provide some resistance against
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  him right and you know, hold a bat or interfere if he needs to.
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  But he's got the feel so he can take a peek back in the
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  backfield and see what's going on. And he doesn't necessarily have to lose his
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  man because he's got a feel for him. So if MBS pulls up or
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  takes it further vertical, or go bends it and takes it, you know,
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  flattens it out and takes him more across field, or decides to,
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  you know what, let me hitch up here, or oh I see mahomes
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  work and let me stop and go back across. Benford's got that hand on
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  that hip. He can feel it, he can work it. Really good
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  hand placement, really good piece on this rep. Overall, we'll watch it
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  one more time, just good coverage from Benford, and then we'll watch the
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  end zone angle here one more time. Play this one in SlowMo. Hand
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  on hip. After you beat up your man, reroute him, take him
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  out, cover him, watching them whole way. Good piece, good piece.
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  Now the last play for Christian Benford. We're going to go to the
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  early portion of the year when the Bills played the Los Angeles Rams the Thursday
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  night season opener for the NFL, and this has been for its first regular
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  season action, and we did not know the Rams We're gonna end up being
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  a dumpster fire. This year or this past year in twenty twenty two,
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  A lot of that was due to the injuries to a multitude of their players.
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  Offensively, defensively just wasn't working for him. But this is Christian Benford
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  in his first game, and the coverage is good. But for this one,
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  I really wanted to highlight the mental piece. You see what the Rams
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  got. Got a bit of a three by one here, obviously, the
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  one over there, a little trip looked there, tight end Cooper Cup and
• 1:09:45
  then another man over here. So you've got to condense three by one mcveay
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  formation. They love to run this kind of stuff. Watch the man come
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  in motion. And as soon as the man comes in motion, look at
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  Christian Benford. So Christian Benford highlighted up here, mister yellow circle. As
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  soon as the mangoes emotion, look at Benford immediately communicates immediately. He's not
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  being told by Poyer, He's not being told by Hide, He's not being
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  told by somebody else. It's him. The receiver goes immediately, it's Benford.
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  Receiver goes. He's turning, he's barking out that communication. He is
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  calling out the check. He is the one late round rookie out of Villanova
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  who fought his way on and got starting reps to start the year, playing
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  against the defending Super Bowl champs. Right, he's the one early and this
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  is early in this game. Now, I'm sorry, this is the third
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  quarter, but still early in this season. Just comfortable mangoes emotion immediately calling
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  out the check rams go play action. Benford comes up, reads what's going
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  on and just casually carries Cooper Cup downfield or upfield, dependent on how say
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  it. Just step for step okay, going up. Okay. Let's stay
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  right here watching him the whole way, watching his eyes see if he's going
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  to get the ball. I'd like him to look back a little and have
• 1:11:13
  more kind of awareness what the play is going on. But this is great
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  everything from start to finish here, media communication, come up, Nope,
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  it's a pass. Let me get underneath, run with my man lockstep face
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  face face in control mentally, physically, they're the whole way against one of
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  the best receivers in the entire NFL, in Cooper Cup. Now, Benford
• 1:11:34
  wasn't always consistent in this area of his game, nor do I did I
• 1:11:40
  expect him to be, and I don't think anyone should. Again, being
• 1:11:43
  a rookie, especially at the corner position is hard. Let alone the school
• 1:11:46
  he came from and the level that he played against him played with, you
• 1:11:50
  gotta expect some sort of learning curve here. But this is really impressive from
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  a football IQ standpoint. Already the communication and then obviously the actual coverage piece
• 1:11:58
  and carrying his man down field. Good piece there from Christian Benford, and
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  a piece that artist says that's a great rep versus cup. Absolutely is a
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  great rep versus cup. That's the type of piece that you know, I
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  don't think if I had to that money on it, I think the starting
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  corner two is going to be Kyer Eelam. But it's really interesting. Again,
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  I think the Bills like Dane Jackson. I like Dane as well.
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  There's just something about Christian Benford and he did have some struggles against the run
• 1:12:29
  at times, he also made some great plays against the run. He did
• 1:12:31
  have some struggles in coverage at time. At times, he also had some
• 1:12:34
  great plays in coverage at times. Just really intriguing, I think from a
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  skill set and a dynamic standpoint. Now we're comparing him to Dane Jackson,
• 1:12:43
  who we broke down first, a little more scheme versatility from Benford, a
• 1:12:48
  little faster, a little bigger, a little stronger, a little more athletic.
• 1:12:54
  Different dials that you can turn and or lean into with Christian Benford versus
• 1:13:00
  Dane Jackson. So it gives you a little bit more opportunity. Still not
• 1:13:02
  as scheme versatile as Kyer Elam, but you can lean more into that physical
• 1:13:09
  press kind of world with Christian Benford, with how comfortable he is and because
• 1:13:14
  of his size and frame and strength and length when he plays press and again
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  a real quick piece. I want to mention just because you're impressed, being
• 1:13:23
  impressed and jamming are not The two are not the same thing. Press is
• 1:13:27
  the actual alignment. Like if the receiver is here, presses means you're here.
• 1:13:30
  You could be impressed, and on the snap the receiver goes and you
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  bail. That's press bail. So being impressed is not the same as jamming.
• 1:13:38
  Those are two different things. So I just want to make sure those
• 1:13:41
  that that terminology is known and understood. You've got Benford who is very comfortable
• 1:13:46
  and impressed and then can bail and play off. But he's real comfortable,
• 1:13:50
  impressed and then getting physical at the line and jamming receivers, and with his
• 1:13:54
  strength and length and size and comfortability there he can reroute faster receivers. He
• 1:13:59
  can hold his own against bigger, bodied guys who want to play the physical
• 1:14:01
  game. But he can also take advantage with his size and physicality against smaller
• 1:14:05
  guys who may have the speed edge, who may have the agility edge,
• 1:14:10
  but he can get down and condense that area and close down that space and
• 1:14:15
  choke their opportunity to create space for themselves on the release. Christian Benford is
• 1:14:20
  a fun dark horse. I'm excited to see what he can be again this
• 1:14:25
  offseason in camp, now that he's not coming out of nowhere, seeing what
• 1:14:28
  he is in the preseason, so on and so forth. But Christian Benford
• 1:14:30
  just continues to intrigue me. The idea of him potentially moving to safety.
• 1:14:33
  I still think it's a fun idea. But I like him at corner,
• 1:14:35
  and I don't think you can never have enough corner depth. You got Trey,
• 1:14:39
  you got Elam, you got Dane, you got Benford. I will
• 1:14:42
  take four corners who are all above average every single day of the weekend.
• 1:14:46
  I think that's a fun piece we'll see what kind of ceiling Kyrielham starts to
• 1:14:51
  ascend towards this year. But at the very least, you've got four guys
• 1:14:58
  who you can roll out there. Yes, there's such a different Yes you
• 1:15:00
  can't do the same thing with all of them, but you've got four guys
• 1:15:02
  with Trey, Elam Dane and Benford, who you can put into an NFL
• 1:15:08
  game and you're not deficient. You're not completely vulnerable. Are you able to
• 1:15:11
  play rock paper scissors and throw rock paper and scissors? Not necessarily depending on
• 1:15:15
  who you're throwing out there, but you could be in a lot lot worse
• 1:15:18
  shape. So it's a fun piece that Christian Benford offers the Buffalo Bills and
• 1:15:24
  potentially the funnest piece. I don't know, funnest is a word. Most
• 1:15:27
  fun piece. I'm gonna go with Kaye Ream myself and Eric broke him down
• 1:15:31
  in the film room last week with Kaye Ream of course again, if you
• 1:15:34
  have not watched that episode, go check it out. It was tremendous and
• 1:15:38
  extremely fun and he was so insightful and so smart, one of the best
• 1:15:42
  guests we've ever had. So major shout out to Kayer for joining us and
• 1:15:44
  go check out that episode. But I digress. Elam is someone who and
• 1:15:48
  you know myself and Eric said it last week, so I don't want to
• 1:15:50
  rehash it too much, but ideally he's the man who wins the job.
• 1:15:56
  If you're looking at the brass tacks of it, you used a first round
• 1:15:59
  pick on him, like that guy to work out. Based on the draft
• 1:16:01
  capital you used, plus the potential for that fifth year option. You use
• 1:16:05
  a first round pick on a premium position for me corners a premium position,
• 1:16:10
  and you have the opportunity if he works out, to have him under cost
• 1:16:12
  control for five years. You would like that guy to work out. Then
• 1:16:15
  you add in his skill set, the size, the frame, the athleticism,
• 1:16:19
  the speed. He has everything that you would want physically in a corner,
• 1:16:25
  honestly in today's NFL, but especially in this system. And then I
• 1:16:30
  keep plugging in and talking about it. What he was like in the film
• 1:16:31
  room last week, How heady of a player he is, how smart he
• 1:16:34
  is, how he understands the game mentally in terms of his preparation and his
• 1:16:40
  study habits, and the corners that he studies and why he studies them,
• 1:16:45
  and how he refines his technique and just the dots that he was able to
• 1:16:50
  connect as the season went on, the breadcrumbs he was able to pick up
• 1:16:54
  and put together as the season went on. Very impressive young man, very
• 1:16:58
  impressive young player who has all the physical tools and already had a good head
• 1:17:00
  on his shoulders. The only thing he really needed was more experienced and more
• 1:17:04
  seasoning in the NFL and some time on task without putting the team at risk
• 1:17:09
  and making them vulnerable. I think the Bills did that last year. Ideally,
• 1:17:13
  I think he's demand to win the job because the combination of all those
• 1:17:15
  pieces. Now, the clips I do want to show are from the back
• 1:17:20
  end of the year because I think again that's where his game changed a little
• 1:17:25
  bit. He started to ascend a little bit. And the first clip I'm
• 1:17:29
  going to bring up isn't even a coverage piece. It is a run fit
• 1:17:32
  piece from the game against the Chicago Bears. Sticking with that theme certain pieces
• 1:17:38
  of these games. Now, let us take away the banner at the bottom,
• 1:17:44
  let us share our screen. I don't know why I'm saying us,
• 1:17:45
  It's just me. Here we go boom kyrieing him in the run fit.
• 1:17:49
  This is a play against the Chicago Bears. So what you're gonna get is
• 1:17:53
  again Elam coming up playing his role in the run fit. You're gonna watch
• 1:17:57
  him read the mesh point justin Fields is reading Kaire Elam. Elam comes screaming
• 1:18:01
  off the edge, makes Fields hand this ball off because he comes so wide.
• 1:18:05
  So if the man crashes down, Fields is going to keep it.
• 1:18:08
  If the man stays upfield and watches him, no pun intended with the upfield,
• 1:18:13
  Field is going to hand it off to the running back. Elam makes
• 1:18:15
  Fields hand this ball off, then retraces and helps make the stop. Kaire
• 1:18:19
  Elam shows huff huffle. He shows hustle, effort, burst, athleticism,
• 1:18:25
  and quick and clean feet on this play. This is one of my favorite
• 1:18:29
  Kyer Elam reps on the year, and it may seem like a small and
• 1:18:31
  insignificant thing, but it's first in ten and he makes the stop for three
• 1:18:35
  yards on this one. Just watch him boom footing the ground. Oh no
• 1:18:40
  letter retrace bang A sound smart play, a good physical and technical play because
• 1:18:47
  he makes the tackle. Watch him come a field. Okay, so you
• 1:18:51
  see how the wide track that he takes Fields design him sees him out here.
• 1:18:57
  Okay, cool, I'm given. I give to my man Clio.
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  Herbert Elm comes down, breaks down, he's reading that mesh point, he's
• 1:19:05
  watching Fields sees him, Oh he doesn't have the ball, Let me retrace,
• 1:19:12
  and then immediately, within a couple of steps, is back on his
• 1:19:14
  man. And you watch it from the wide zone, the wide shot.
• 1:19:17
  Look how quickly he closes that space down. He's up on Fields and then
• 1:19:23
  closes down, puts his foot in the ground. That's good, quick,
• 1:19:27
  clean feet, that's good balance, that's explosion, that's burst, that's hustle,
• 1:19:30
  that's athleticism, that's effort. And it was one of the areas I
• 1:19:34
  had concerns about Kayer Eliman, what his run defense would be, what his
• 1:19:41
  tackling would be. I think he's still growing in that area. But this
• 1:19:45
  is a really good rep down the stretch in a cold game. Really good
• 1:19:51
  play again, just fast, quick, athletic, decisive, really good rep
• 1:20:00
  a field. Nope, again, his speed off the edge is the reason.
• 1:20:05
  So he basically plays Herbert and Fields on the same play. He gets
• 1:20:12
  a Field, makes Fields hand the ball off, that makes the tackle on
• 1:20:15
  the running back. So Fields is reading him and Elam forces him into that
• 1:20:19
  give and then makes the tackle on the give. Just a fun play.
• 1:20:28
  I'll watch one more time for the back end. Good piece from mister Kayer
• 1:20:36
  Elam. Now let's go to another game late in the year, the Buffalo
• 1:20:42
  Bills against the Miami Dolphins in the wild Card round of the AFC side of
• 1:20:47
  the bracket in the NFL playoffs, and I'm gonna go to again. We
• 1:20:54
  showed coverage plays last week in the film room. You see coverage and here
• 1:20:58
  coverage talked about all the time. This is an aspect of his game where
• 1:21:03
  it shows true rounding out, true progression, and especially in juxtaposition with someone
• 1:21:08
  like Dane Jackson, who I spoke about earlier. Sean McDermott likes Dane Jackson
• 1:21:13
  because of his ability to do a little bit of everything, because he does
• 1:21:15
  the dirty stuff, because he functions in the run fit, because he comes
• 1:21:17
  up and makes tackles and takes on running backs. Kyger Edam started to show
• 1:21:20
  those pieces more as the season went on. So this play against Miami,
• 1:21:26
  it's another run stop, well technically on a run stop because of how many
• 1:21:29
  yards are getting on the play. But you're gonna watch him Widen with the
• 1:21:31
  motion from the Miami Dolphins. You can already start to see it developing here
• 1:21:36
  a little third motion there, oh, jet piece. So you're gonna watch
• 1:21:41
  him Widen with the motion. You're gonnatch him read the run and watch how
• 1:21:44
  he plays outside in and closes this down and again Kyrieedam is highlighted at the
• 1:21:47
  top. Widens with the motion closes down tackle. Watch it from the ends
• 1:22:00
  on angle. He's closed down, he's on the hash. Widens reads this
• 1:22:05
  thing, and watch him come again outside in to help make this play again.
• 1:22:14
  More effort, more intelligence, more ability to read the play. It's
• 1:22:18
  not just the coverage pieces that he started to trend better in as the season
• 1:22:24
  went on. It wasn't just you know, the play against Miami on Saturday
• 1:22:27
  night in the snow where he's impressed against Tyree Hill and he clicks immediately on
• 1:22:30
  the snap and almost gets an interception. It's not just, yeah, the
• 1:22:34
  athleticism and his ability to run with fast or big, strong receivers and some
• 1:22:39
  of the pieces he's shown in coverage. I wanted to show in lead with
• 1:22:43
  these two plays because it was the complete aspect of his game that he really
• 1:22:46
  started improving. Yes, he was able to trust his eyes more in coverage
• 1:22:50
  as the season went on. Yes, you know he was more comfortable in
• 1:22:55
  off coverage and was more scheme versatile because he wasn't, as you know,
• 1:22:58
  vulnerable in that aspect and been up easy completions underneath. Yes, but it
• 1:23:01
  was how he rounded out his game as a whole with plays like this and
• 1:23:04
  the play like the play before against the Chicago bears. His willingness to compete
• 1:23:10
  as a forced player against the run, his ability to tackle and finish,
• 1:23:15
  but more importantly, be able to diagnose what's going on in front of him,
• 1:23:17
  clicking clothes quickly, trust his eyes in the run game, similar to
• 1:23:21
  what he was doing in the past. Game comes outside in makes the tackle.
• 1:23:27
  Good play from Kayer watching from the endzone angle. One more time,
• 1:23:30
  there's the toss literally comes out of nowhere offscreen boot makes the tackle. Good
• 1:23:35
  play from mister Kayer. Elam. Let's watch another one here from Kayyer.
• 1:23:41
  This play here. Now Kayer's at the top press alignment again on the snap
• 1:23:46
  against mister Jalen Waddle. Now this one is it is fun because of two
• 1:23:50
  pieces. So it's even me in sticky in coverage, but the stickiness happens
• 1:23:56
  because of his speed in his athleticism. Again, this is against Jaylen Waddle.
• 1:24:00
  There's gonna be some contact down field, but Elam's athletic enough to not
• 1:24:04
  just completely bowl over Jalen Waddle. Once Waddle starts to run this corner route
• 1:24:10
  or break, make his break on the stem and go towards the corner,
• 1:24:14
  Elam's athletic enough to not just bowl them over and draw a flag down field.
• 1:24:18
  So it's the athleticism and the speed and the recovery. Right, when
• 1:24:24
  you don't have speed and athleticism and fluidity like that and you just win with
• 1:24:30
  technicality and intelligence, you have to be on all the time because if you're
• 1:24:35
  not, you can get beat. If your footwork is wrong, if you
• 1:24:40
  false step, you might not have the quickness to catch up to that guy
• 1:24:44
  again, right, if you don't have longer arms, or you're not as
• 1:24:47
  strong, or again you don't have the burst and the speed to match up
• 1:24:50
  with so many receivers now who can all just fly, or who have tremendous
• 1:24:55
  technicality, it's easy for you to get lost in the shuffle. So Elam
• 1:24:58
  on this one he bites right he's going inside with waddle. He thinks this
• 1:25:02
  is an inside route. Waddle starts to bend it inside. Good route from
• 1:25:06
  waddle. Right, he starts to turn. You see the body language.
• 1:25:09
  You see the feet too far forgive me. You see the body language.
• 1:25:15
  You see the feeble. And there's the lean from Wattle. He's already cutting
• 1:25:17
  in. He's planting that left foot. It looks like he's cutting inside.
• 1:25:20
  Elam buys it. Waddle goes forward, runs a couple of steps, breaks
• 1:25:25
  down, puts his foot in the dirt or the turf, i should say.
• 1:25:28
  And he's trying to already again feeder in the dirt. He's dropping low
• 1:25:31
  and he's popping this back outside. But Elam is thinking, no, he's
• 1:25:36
  going on this over. So Elam is bearing down on him. But watch
• 1:25:41
  Elam recover right here. Oh, even just the way he reroutes instead of
• 1:25:46
  completely coming this way with wattle. He breaks down a little bit and puts
• 1:25:53
  it upfield a little bit. Watch how he changes and gets up field,
• 1:25:57
  doesn't run through Wattle, doesn't knock him down, refits himself right here boom
• 1:26:01
  and puts his hands on him. And instead it's just a little contact.
• 1:26:04
  It's almost incidental contact instead of being a flag because he just trucked a receiver
• 1:26:10
  downfield. This one I wanted to show too, because again, while he
• 1:26:15
  progressed in the technical side of his game and the mental side, like we
• 1:26:18
  broke down last week in the film room, this one is an example of
• 1:26:24
  why that ceiling is high, because on this one he gets fooled a bit.
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  He doesn't read this completely. He gets beat, not necessarily beat,
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  but he gets beat earlier in the stem. But he's able to recover and
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  he's sticky the whole way down. And then he reads the quarterback. He's
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  fooled here. He reads this route. Bang, he sees hill and he's
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  thinking, he sees wild and he's thinking, oh, here we go.
• 1:26:47
  We're going on a drag, we're going on an over. I gotta get
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  on a giddy up. And instead Wadle puts his foot in the ground and
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  now he's like, oh, look at him. He's full leaning. He's
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  leaning into his right leg, into his own right leg. He's leaning into
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  that piece trying to follow with Waddle on this route. He's not in a
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  great way, but he's able to recover because athleticism, good feet, gets
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  his hands on Wattle, and it just becomes a simple little reroute. And
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  that's so important because you're not always going to read the play the right way,
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  You're not always going to be in the best position, You're not always
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  going to have the best call or you know, have the best pre snap
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  judgment on what's going to happen. So what do you do when you start
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  to lose a little bit? Can you recover? Can you find another way
• 1:27:34
  to win? Can you find a way to get out of that poor positioning
• 1:27:38
  and what's happened and turn things around for yourself a little bit? And Kayer
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  does on this play, and it's not the prettiest and there is some contact
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  downfield, but you see the athleticism, You see the adjustment, you see
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  the poise. Instead of just being like oh and trucking him or making this
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  real ugly, he adjusts with Jalen Waddle. Waddle runs a good route,
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  kay redjusts himself to natch aw the flag, watch it one more time and
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  then stays a little scramble drill. He's right there also arguably a late hit
• 1:28:16
  from Mamlano, but that's a conversation for another time. So that is mister
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  Kayer Elam on the game tape again full breakdown myself and Eric and Kyer Elam
• 1:28:30
  himself. I was in We were in the cover one film last week breaking
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  down a ton of passing concept ideas and terminology. So if you want further
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  kyr Elam tape again with Kye kyer Elam himself, go check out last week's
• 1:28:44
  Cover one film Room. But what I what I wanted to do in picking
• 1:28:47
  those plays to write. Those aren't one offstar Kayer, those aren't one after
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  Dane Jackson, those aren't one offs for Christian Benford. Those are pieces that
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  are representative of who they are as players, of what their skillet skill set
• 1:29:05
  was last year, which means what their skill set could be this year,
• 1:29:10
  or we'll see if they've added on a little bit. Right, how much
• 1:29:14
  stronger is Kyer Elam physically and mentally going into this year? Right? How
• 1:29:17
  much has his physical game taken you know, a potential upswing or potential uptick.
• 1:29:23
  Same thing with this mental game. Dane Jackson has probably I don't want
• 1:29:27
  to say plateaued, but you know, we know who and what he is.
• 1:29:30
  He's a high four guy. His stealing really isn't going to be there.
• 1:29:32
  I don't think Dan Jackson's a guy that's going to show up and he's,
• 1:29:35
  you know, five pounds heavier and a tenth of a second faster.
• 1:29:40
  He's not showing that, right. But we'll see what Benford does. What
• 1:29:43
  kind of shape is Christian Benford is? How much smarter is he? How
• 1:29:45
  much has he grown and expanded the mental side of his game? So?
• 1:29:49
  How high is his floor now? High? How high is Kayer Elam's for
• 1:29:54
  That's really what it comes down to, right, Sean McDermott, Whether it
• 1:29:57
  was Kevin Johnson, whether it was Levi Wallace, whether it's been Dane Jackson,
• 1:30:01
  those pieces, right, Sean McDermott likes reliability. He's not flash,
• 1:30:09
  he's not sizzle. He's not necessarily going for the sexy guy. He wants
• 1:30:12
  someone who he knows when he calls this play, he knows he's got a
• 1:30:17
  guy who will execute his responsibility. He's got a guy who knows what he's
• 1:30:20
  supposed to do pre snap, he knows what he's supposed to do post snap.
• 1:30:24
  He knows how to adjust if he gets motion or if he gets a
• 1:30:26
  different look. He wants someone who offers that reliability, which is why the
• 1:30:31
  Bills have had non sexy CB twos the past several years. Kaier offers them
• 1:30:38
  the opportunity and the potential to move away from the non sexy type of corners,
• 1:30:45
  to move away from the high floor corners and move towards the high ceiling
• 1:30:49
  type of corners. But that floor has to move in conjunction with that ceiling.
• 1:30:55
  You could have the highest floor in the world. That's sexy, that's
• 1:30:58
  exciting. But if you've got a low or varying or unpredictable mercurial floor that
• 1:31:05
  high ceiling, it's still fun and it's still there, but it becomes less
• 1:31:10
  appealing because there's all this variance in between. Whereas if you have that high
• 1:31:15
  ceiling but you raise that floor, all of a sudden, it becomes,
• 1:31:18
  Oh, now you're a fun and a fine baseline player, and now you
• 1:31:24
  still have that ceiling present. Oh boy, what could that be? So
• 1:31:27
  what does Kyrie Elam ceiling look like is still a conversation for twenty twenty three
• 1:31:30
  and Christian Benford as well, But what do both of their floors look like?
• 1:31:33
  Have either of them closed the floor gap between themselves and Dane Jackson that
• 1:31:41
  floor piece that Dane Jackson has that continues to allow him to continue to get
• 1:31:46
  reps on this team. And again, like I showed earlier, play well
• 1:31:51
  to a degree, r J coming through and saying not gonna lie, those
• 1:31:55
  advanced stats actually have me nervous about the CB two spot. Again, I'm
• 1:31:58
  gonna bring it up one more time just in case we got some bull who
• 1:32:00
  dragged in late here to this episode putting up the advanced metrics. People can
• 1:32:06
  lie with numbers, they can lie with stats. I wanted to put everything
• 1:32:11
  in here that one had metrics that I believe in and that I use,
• 1:32:14
  but two again just put some pieces into perspective, and I'm not going to
• 1:32:16
  go through and break down the whole graphic again like I did earlier bullet by
• 1:32:19
  bullet. If you are just tuning in now and you want to see that,
• 1:32:23
  go back towards the beginning of the episode once the episode was done here
• 1:32:25
  in a little bit and you can see that breakdown. Peace. But you
• 1:32:29
  know, it felt like when this season was over a lot of the narrative
• 1:32:32
  and conversation was Dane Jackson is awful and Kyrie Lam, you know, was
• 1:32:39
  unjustly treated in the bills. Did him a disservice. But you know,
• 1:32:42
  to RJ's point and saying not gonna lie, those advanced stats actually have me
• 1:32:45
  nervous about the CB two spot. Again, I wouldn't take it and necessarily
• 1:32:48
  make you feel nervous about twenty twenty three. But instead, I think you
• 1:32:53
  should look at this graphic as kind of an understanding of why the season shook
• 1:33:00
  out at corner two in terms of the rotation and the way that it did.
• 1:33:03
  There's a reason Dane Jackson continue to show up. And I know people
• 1:33:09
  don't watch tape, and I know not everybody has access to it. Not
• 1:33:12
  everybody knows how to break it down and understand what they're seeing. So sometimes
• 1:33:15
  advanced metrics and putting them into a digestible form like this is the easiest way
• 1:33:19
  to see it. And same categories for everybody, and you can see their
• 1:33:26
  score difference and their ranking difference. Again, I don't necessarily subscribe to the
• 1:33:30
  ranking piece holistically, but Dane Jackson consistently performing in the top third of several
• 1:33:36
  important metrics is interesting, right or close to the top third is interesting for
• 1:33:43
  metrics that matter, metrics that means something, and him doing it, you
• 1:33:47
  know, in a year where he quote unquote struggled and I'm not he actuallyn't
• 1:33:53
  even say quote unuotecause it makes it seem like he didn't struggle at times.
• 1:33:56
  But he has some issues with past breakups and issues with not making plays on
• 1:33:59
  the If he did, his numbers would be even better here. But you
• 1:34:03
  look at all the corners in the NFL, so you know one hundred and
• 1:34:05
  thirty six qualifying corners, and Dane had several metrics that matter where he was
• 1:34:10
  functioning close to or in the top third of those guys. And then you
• 1:34:15
  juxtaposed that with kye Elam on the left here and Christian Benford on the right,
• 1:34:18
  And I think this kind of gives you a little bit more of an
• 1:34:23
  understanding or a little bit more of a view as to why the coaching staff
• 1:34:30
  continues to put Dane Jackson out there, or continue to put him out there
• 1:34:33
  last year. I hope some of the film I put out there again plays
• 1:34:36
  three plays for each guy, but plays that are indicative of who they are
• 1:34:40
  and what they offer. And then you pair it together with the metrics.
• 1:34:43
  There's a reason why things shook out the way they did. There's a reason
• 1:34:45
  why Dane keeps seeing these reps. But we'll see how much of the gap,
• 1:34:50
  the floor gap that Elam and Benford may have closed down on Dane Jackson.
• 1:34:55
  And they's see what we get from the corner spot in twenty three throwing
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