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- 1:53Speaker 1: ant in this episode of disguised coverage. This is the
- 1:58Speaker 1: last one here on the Sky's coverage that is kind
- 2:01Speaker 1: of setting the table before we fully dive into prospect
- 2:05Speaker 1: evaluation full tilt. What's up roun, I see you there
- 2:07Speaker 1: in the chat. How you doing? Before we fully dive
- 2:10Speaker 1: into position group analysis prospect evaluation here on the show,
- 2:15Speaker 1: A little bit of housekeeping. What I have for you,
- 2:17Speaker 1: folks the next several weeks is positions of need for
- 2:22Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills, and I will be diving into day
- 2:26Speaker 1: one possibilities, Day two possibilities, Day three possibilities, and I'll
- 2:32Speaker 1: be doing so with a guest, a different guest each week,
- 2:35Speaker 1: diving into different position groups, getting their thoughts, what they
- 2:38Speaker 1: like from the position group, their evaluations, skill sets, traits,
- 2:42Speaker 1: fits for the bills again on each day, all of
- 2:45Speaker 1: that going forward. So that will start next week leading
- 2:47Speaker 1: us up into the draft. So I'm excited for the
- 2:51Speaker 1: next several weeks, really full steam ahead, getting into anything
- 2:55Speaker 1: and everything for these positions and needs, the prospects, all
- 2:57Speaker 1: that stuff for the draft and before we get to
- 2:59Speaker 1: that again. I wanted to just have this last episode
- 3:02Speaker 1: to kind of finish setting the table for the Bills.
- 3:05Speaker 1: What we did on last week's episode kind of looked
- 3:07Speaker 1: at the Bills roster from a twenty twenty five perspective,
- 3:11Speaker 1: but also from a future perspective, and then took a
- 3:13Speaker 1: look at positions of need based off of that to
- 3:15Speaker 1: kind of see, what does this roster look like right now,
- 3:18Speaker 1: what does it look like in the future, What do
- 3:21Speaker 1: they need now, what do they need for the future.
- 3:23Speaker 1: We looked at players from a quality perspective currently on
- 3:26Speaker 1: the roster and from a contract perspective, and then tie
- 3:30Speaker 1: that into some prospects that could potentially fit the Bills
- 3:33Speaker 1: roster needs on day one and two. In this episode,
- 3:37Speaker 1: some more prospect discussion, but more from the conversation and
- 3:41Speaker 1: discussion aspect of the archetypes that the Bills have at
- 3:44Speaker 1: these positions of need. I think a lot of this conversation,
- 3:48Speaker 1: and we do this every year, and I'm not even
- 3:50Speaker 1: just saying within the Bills community, but I think, you know,
- 3:53Speaker 1: fans at large or teams at large, so much of
- 3:56Speaker 1: the conversation of man I want this guy, or man
- 3:59Speaker 1: I want that guy. I think a lot of it
- 4:01Speaker 1: tends to get lost within the scope of what does
- 4:06Speaker 1: the team tend to gravitate towards. And I'm even guilty
- 4:09Speaker 1: of this, And then I usually try to label these
- 4:12Speaker 1: discussions at these points, especially on social So much for
- 4:15Speaker 1: me is like, man, I want them to take this guy,
- 4:17Speaker 1: and I always try to put the little like asterisk
- 4:19Speaker 1: or the caveat of they probably won't because he doesn't
- 4:22Speaker 1: fit because X, Y and Z. But I'd like them
- 4:24Speaker 1: to take this guy because I think he could help
- 4:26Speaker 1: them do this, or help them tweak this or evolve
- 4:28Speaker 1: in this way, so on and so forth and so
- 4:31Speaker 1: so much of the conversation when it comes to draft
- 4:34Speaker 1: time isn't just you know a player that you like
- 4:36Speaker 1: or the individual valuation. It's do they fit the scheme?
- 4:40Speaker 1: Do they fit the archetype for that position group? If
- 4:43Speaker 1: you know, I'm just just to give a random example,
- 4:45Speaker 1: like if the you know you really like this corner
- 4:48Speaker 1: because this team you know, this example I'm when you
- 4:50Speaker 1: use is going to feel specific, but it wasn't. I
- 4:51Speaker 1: swear you know this corner is really good at man coverage,
- 4:56Speaker 1: you know, And do you do you want that corner
- 4:59Speaker 1: because you want them to play more man coverage, But
- 5:01Speaker 1: does that team really play man coverage? Are they good
- 5:03Speaker 1: at do they play more zone? Is it vice versa?
- 5:06Speaker 1: You want, you know, this smaller, shifty, route running type
- 5:09Speaker 1: of receiver. Is that the type of offense do they
- 5:12Speaker 1: they run? Do they need bigger bodies? Do they need
- 5:14Speaker 1: guys that can block? Do they need guys that can
- 5:15Speaker 1: work in condensed sets? Do you need someone inside outside
- 5:18Speaker 1: someone and so forth? And so I wanted to dive
- 5:20Speaker 1: into this episode again looking at several positions of need,
- 5:23Speaker 1: continue continuing the conversation we had last week and focusing
- 5:27Speaker 1: on my biggest areas of need for the Buffalo Bills
- 5:29Speaker 1: here and just taking a look at the cover or
- 5:33Speaker 1: having a conversation I should say, centered around taking a
- 5:36Speaker 1: look into this roster, what the Bills have done traditionally
- 5:39Speaker 1: at these positions, and then tying that into prospects that
- 5:43Speaker 1: could potentially fit that mold, using them as an example.
- 5:46Speaker 1: I'm not gonna be diving too much into prospects in
- 5:48Speaker 1: this episode again, that's going to come in the next
- 5:50Speaker 1: several weeks and a bit like we did last week
- 5:52Speaker 1: in last week's episode, But if you do have any questions, thoughts, comments,
- 5:56Speaker 1: concerns on any prospects throughout the episode tonight. If you
- 5:59Speaker 1: are joining me live, feel free to put it up
- 6:00Speaker 1: into the chat. I will answer anything and everything that
- 6:02Speaker 1: I can as it comes through. If you're not watching
- 6:06Speaker 1: live or joining us live and you're watching later, listening later,
- 6:08Speaker 1: whatever have you, leave a comment on YouTube, get at
- 6:11Speaker 1: me on one of the socials, anything and anything I
- 6:13Speaker 1: can answer for you, I gladly will and show so again, Yeah,
- 6:17Speaker 1: not gonna not dive into too many prospects, but giving
- 6:21Speaker 1: several prospects as examples, why they fit, why they don't,
- 6:24Speaker 1: so on and so forth. But again, feel free to
- 6:26Speaker 1: put anything and everything that you got into the chat.
- 6:29Speaker 1: Super chats as always get priority because I respect the
- 6:31Speaker 1: monetary donation and I see the color and it takes
- 6:34Speaker 1: me away from my notes and he allows me to
- 6:36Speaker 1: focus on that. But I will try to get to
- 6:38Speaker 1: everything in the chat as humanly possible, going through some
- 6:41Speaker 1: of the stuff. Now. Appreciate you Ron for the very
- 6:43Speaker 1: kind words. RJ with Yeah, some news that happened in
- 6:47Speaker 1: the last hour or so, maybe hour and a half.
- 6:49Speaker 1: Argie says, hey everyone, he said not looking forward to
- 6:51Speaker 1: Diggs trying only two games a year against the Bills. Yes,
- 6:55Speaker 1: if im Diggs signed a three year contract with the
- 6:59Speaker 1: New England page, it's up the sixty nine million dollars,
- 7:01Speaker 1: I think twenty six million guaranteed. I'm interested to see
- 7:04Speaker 1: how the contract kind of lays out in terms of
- 7:06Speaker 1: how much money will he actually realistically accrue over those
- 7:10Speaker 1: three years. Is it a true three, is it more
- 7:12Speaker 1: of a two plus one? Is it more of a
- 7:13Speaker 1: one plus a two. Interested to see what that looks
- 7:18Speaker 1: like for Stefan Diggs and interesting for the fit. I
- 7:23Speaker 1: think the fit works. I like Drake May as a quarterback.
- 7:26Speaker 1: I think what Digs can do to elevate that wide
- 7:28Speaker 1: receiver room and how he fits with May and the offense. Again,
- 7:30Speaker 1: we'll see new coaching staff gotta out of all that
- 7:32Speaker 1: kind of stuff, But yeah, I think it's a good
- 7:36Speaker 1: fit for Drake May. At least we'll see if it's
- 7:38Speaker 1: a good fit for Digs and what that means for
- 7:39Speaker 1: the Pats. Yeah. I still think he's got some good
- 7:42Speaker 1: juice left in the tank. He looked good in Houston
- 7:44Speaker 1: last year. Man Houston kind of got robbed a little
- 7:46Speaker 1: bit last year and Nico Collins went down for a
- 7:48Speaker 1: good chunk of the year, and then Digs went down,
- 7:49Speaker 1: and then Tank Dell went down. They and they still
- 7:52Speaker 1: you know, went to the playoffs and did their thing
- 7:54Speaker 1: Final fourteen. But yeah, I lost a little bit of
- 7:56Speaker 1: an opportunity to kind of see what they could have
- 7:58Speaker 1: done in the AFE last year. Baldylocks saying good even
- 8:04Speaker 1: and everybody, what's up? What's up? Billy De says, do
- 8:06Speaker 1: we double up? Ooh man, this is a heart dating
- 8:09Speaker 1: question right off ritt. Billy De says, do we do
- 8:11Speaker 1: we double up on corner and let Benford walk after
- 8:15Speaker 1: the season? Oh? My prob Two things. One, even the
- 8:23Speaker 1: most surefire, can't miss prospect isn't a surefire, can't miss prospect.
- 8:28Speaker 1: So you could take a you could take a corner
- 8:32Speaker 1: with every single pick in this draft, and there's a
- 8:34Speaker 1: chance that every single one of those corners are gonna
- 8:36Speaker 1: bottom out and you're not gonna get what you want.
- 8:38Speaker 1: Granted I doubt that would happen, but still just kind
- 8:40Speaker 1: of putting it out there from an odds probability perspective.
- 8:42Speaker 1: Christian Benford has been crushing it CB one. I think
- 8:46Speaker 1: either he's still ascending a bit. I think he's getting
- 8:49Speaker 1: close to that ceiling, but he's continued to improve year
- 8:52Speaker 1: over year. I don't mind if they double dip on
- 8:55Speaker 1: corner strictly because I don't think the long term answers
- 8:59Speaker 1: at corner or on this roster. We talked about it
- 9:01Speaker 1: last week. Right now, you're looking at Benford, you're looking
- 9:04Speaker 1: at Dan Jackson, you're looking at JaMarcus Ingram. Like I
- 9:06Speaker 1: think there's Dan Jackson only signed a one year. I
- 9:08Speaker 1: think you legitimately have questions on the bills roster right now.
- 9:11Speaker 1: At CB two and CB three, I think Dane is
- 9:14Speaker 1: more of a CB four to a high end CB three,
- 9:17Speaker 1: just based on the system. JaMarcus Ingram has some inside
- 9:20Speaker 1: outside versatility, but is very much unproven. If you wanted
- 9:22Speaker 1: to plug him anywhere on the depth trot, I wouldn't
- 9:24Speaker 1: really fight you too much. But I like the idea
- 9:27Speaker 1: of double dipping, especially you know, if they get a
- 9:29Speaker 1: corner on or at pick thirty or even on if
- 9:34Speaker 1: it comes in round two, and then taking another one
- 9:36Speaker 1: in round four, round five, depending on what you got
- 9:38Speaker 1: with whoever falls. I like the idea of double dipping
- 9:41Speaker 1: a corner. Oh Letting Benford Walk, I think is just very, very,
- 9:46Speaker 1: very risky. Who knows. If you like what you get
- 9:48Speaker 1: from the corners, you know, maybe there's something they see
- 9:50Speaker 1: that we don't know and they feel comfortable doing it.
- 9:53Speaker 1: I'm very hesitant to let a very good player at
- 9:55Speaker 1: a premium position walk. I don't think it's completely crazy,
- 9:59Speaker 1: but I I would not advocate for that at this
- 10:02Speaker 1: at this state in the game, or at the stage
- 10:04Speaker 1: of the game. Man eight minutes fifty five seconds in
- 10:06Speaker 1: first flub, I think I had wondering the intro too,
- 10:08Speaker 1: so maybe that is a I've had a flub before this,
- 10:11Speaker 1: but I apop that. I like where your heads at
- 10:13Speaker 1: though interesting getting the juices flow, and I like it.
- 10:15Speaker 1: Ron says, hopefully they make a shift of defensive tackling
- 10:18Speaker 1: go bigger. We will definitely be getting into that conversation
- 10:22Speaker 1: tonight when it comes to the defensive tackle piece. Ron
- 10:25Speaker 1: also following up with some secondary stuff, saying we need
- 10:27Speaker 1: more speed and athleticism in the secondary, especially at corner.
- 10:31Speaker 1: We will be talking about that. I like where your
- 10:33Speaker 1: head is at already. Oh Man Baldy is saying, or
- 10:37Speaker 1: see what we can get for corner and triple it man,
- 10:40Speaker 1: people like not advocating for for jettison jettisoning Benford out,
- 10:45Speaker 1: but man Ron says, we need to add two cbs
- 10:49Speaker 1: in the draft. John, what's up? John? John says, Bean
- 10:51Speaker 1: is always always negotiating. We just don't know about it.
- 10:53Speaker 1: I trust in being to extend Bedford. I do as well,
- 10:57Speaker 1: just with how everything's shaken out. Maybe it's one that
- 11:00Speaker 1: happens later in the spring or in the summer, or
- 11:03Speaker 1: right before the you know, in camp, or right before
- 11:05Speaker 1: the start of the season. I the way his fit
- 11:09Speaker 1: has been, being a homegrown guy, being within the system
- 11:13Speaker 1: for all these years, I think it just makes logical
- 11:16Speaker 1: sense to extend him. I would be disappointed if they
- 11:19Speaker 1: did not, especially considering that, you know, what they paid
- 11:22Speaker 1: at other spots. But you know, that's just my two cents,
- 11:25Speaker 1: no pun intended. Laratist says, after what happened with Elam,
- 11:28Speaker 1: you keep Benford. I would like to see them keep
- 11:31Speaker 1: Christian Bedford again. And you know, I feel like it's
- 11:35Speaker 1: the success of Christian Benford cost Kayer Elim. I feel
- 11:38Speaker 1: like Elam was Gomorrah and the Bills were Thanos, and
- 11:44Speaker 1: to get that soul Stone and Christian Benford. It costs
- 11:47Speaker 1: kyer Elam, but it is what is. Sometimes it works out,
- 11:49Speaker 1: sometimes it doesn't. I think with that being said, let's
- 11:51Speaker 1: dive into corner in terms of being you know, the
- 11:55Speaker 1: first position we talk about here, my number one position
- 11:58Speaker 1: of me currently on this rosteralked about the reasons why
- 12:01Speaker 1: for that in the last week's episode. Not trying to
- 12:03Speaker 1: do a cheap plug for last week's episode, but if
- 12:06Speaker 1: you didn't catch that, get into that episode for the
- 12:08Speaker 1: reasons why with corner, interior, defensive line, edge wide, receiver safety,
- 12:13Speaker 1: what the roster looks like now, under contract quality, depth
- 12:17Speaker 1: chart this year, next year, that go forward, all that
- 12:19Speaker 1: kind of stuff. I don't want to rehash too much
- 12:20Speaker 1: of it in this episode, but I did a deep
- 12:23Speaker 1: dive into all that last week. When it comes to corner.
- 12:26Speaker 1: What I think is very interesting with this spot, and
- 12:29Speaker 1: some of you guys have already alluded to it in
- 12:31Speaker 1: the chat, what I would like for them to have
- 12:36Speaker 1: a corner. Let me start with that going forward, and
- 12:38Speaker 1: I've talked about it on the show. I've talked about
- 12:40Speaker 1: it really for the past couple of seasons. But the
- 12:42Speaker 1: bills need at corner, especially with what we saw in
- 12:45Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. They need more airspace restrictors. They need
- 12:50Speaker 1: corners who can play and tighten passing windows. Now, this
- 12:55Speaker 1: can happen in a multitude of ways. It could be
- 12:56Speaker 1: a corner who plays press. It could be a corner
- 12:59Speaker 1: who's very good in man coverage. It could be a
- 13:02Speaker 1: corner that's good at both of those things. It could
- 13:04Speaker 1: be a corner who's got a quick trigger or good
- 13:06Speaker 1: eyes and as the ability to jump routes or play
- 13:09Speaker 1: with anticipation read receivers. There's a multitude of ways in
- 13:12Speaker 1: which you can kind of address this. The easiest for
- 13:15Speaker 1: me or kind of low access that I'm thinking about.
- 13:18Speaker 1: It's part of the reason why I gravitated towards somebody
- 13:20Speaker 1: like Trey Amos Is. Play some press, get into receivers
- 13:25Speaker 1: on the line of scrimmage. You can either have a
- 13:26Speaker 1: true press and jam them at the line, or you
- 13:28Speaker 1: can just soft shoe mirror them with your feet, that
- 13:30Speaker 1: type of deal. But give me somebody who's capable of
- 13:33Speaker 1: playing press. Give me somebody who's capable of playing man coverage.
- 13:37Speaker 1: Somebody who's able to stay in phase and stay in
- 13:40Speaker 1: the kitchen of these wide receivers. And restrict that airspace
- 13:43Speaker 1: create a disconnect between the timing of the receiver and
- 13:47Speaker 1: the timing of the quarterbacks. So if they look and
- 13:49Speaker 1: they're trying to throw something quick, or they got a
- 13:52Speaker 1: one to three step drop and they're looking to spit
- 13:54Speaker 1: it out fast, and uh oh, there's a corner either
- 13:56Speaker 1: right on my guy and the stem is changed and
- 13:59Speaker 1: I can't throw right now, or the coverage is too
- 14:01Speaker 1: tight and I don't want to throw it. Or you've
- 14:03Speaker 1: got a corner who's sitting off a little bit, but
- 14:05Speaker 1: you know that he's sitting on a certain type of route.
- 14:08Speaker 1: He's got the trigger where he can jump and close
- 14:10Speaker 1: and make you pay if you throw it out there
- 14:12Speaker 1: and your location isn't right or the timing isn't right,
- 14:15Speaker 1: they need more airspace restricts constrictors at that spot. I
- 14:20Speaker 1: also think to Ron's points earlier, it was Ron want
- 14:24Speaker 1: to make sure, Yes, I think some of that also
- 14:27Speaker 1: ties into the speed and athleticism in the secondary as
- 14:30Speaker 1: a whole, but especially at corner. I would like them
- 14:33Speaker 1: to be able to kind of fight fire with fire
- 14:35Speaker 1: at the wide receiver spot for years, and also to
- 14:39Speaker 1: it's not like I don't want to cast anybody into
- 14:42Speaker 1: much of a bad light because they've had good corner play.
- 14:44Speaker 1: But Trey White, you know, was more technical than he
- 14:46Speaker 1: was anything, and he was tremendous. He was an all pro.
- 14:49Speaker 1: Benford really takes a lot of boxes in a multitude
- 14:51Speaker 1: of ways. Is a good athlete. I wouldn't say necessarily
- 14:54Speaker 1: a plus athlete or a burner, but the size, the
- 14:56Speaker 1: length of physicality, the flexibility, the hip sync. He's able
- 14:59Speaker 1: to do so much throughout recognition, the confidence, all those things.
- 15:03Speaker 1: He takes a lot of boxes. But Rasoul Douglas wasn't
- 15:05Speaker 1: a burner, but was a good corner until he kind
- 15:08Speaker 1: of fell off a little bit in twenty twenty four.
- 15:10Speaker 1: And aside from that corner too, has always been the
- 15:14Speaker 1: Levi Wallace's, the Dane Jackson's, these guys that are very
- 15:18Speaker 1: technically sound, functionally responsible in their assignments and their responsibilities,
- 15:24Speaker 1: but not necessarily over the athletic or juiced up or
- 15:28Speaker 1: you know, man, this big strong guy or guys were
- 15:30Speaker 1: good link guys, are good athletics, guys that are good
- 15:32Speaker 1: with man coverage, so on and so forth. They kind
- 15:34Speaker 1: of had this mold and that mold and that archetype
- 15:38Speaker 1: has been guys that are responsible, guys that will be
- 15:41Speaker 1: there in their spot when they need to be in
- 15:45Speaker 1: their spot and be where the coaching staff expects and
- 15:47Speaker 1: be where the rest of the defense and their teammates
- 15:49Speaker 1: expect them to be. Now, the one time they kind
- 15:53Speaker 1: of deviated from that was Kyrie Reeling. Instead of going
- 15:57Speaker 1: for the scheme fit, instead up going with the archetype fit.
- 16:02Speaker 1: They went for more of the traits and more of
- 16:05Speaker 1: the tools. They went for the better athlete. They went
- 16:07Speaker 1: for the speed, the size, the length, the athleticism. That's
- 16:11Speaker 1: what they went for, and it didn't work out unfortunately
- 16:14Speaker 1: for them. I still think they need to go in
- 16:18Speaker 1: that vein. I just think they can't swing so far
- 16:22Speaker 1: to that side and into the traits and into the tools.
- 16:26Speaker 1: I said it when they drafted him. I maintained it
- 16:27Speaker 1: the whole time. I didn't like the fit for Elam
- 16:30Speaker 1: when the Bills drafted him. I just with how much
- 16:33Speaker 1: man he played and the type of man coverage he played,
- 16:36Speaker 1: you know, not having a legal contact as a penalty.
- 16:38Speaker 1: In college. He was able to just mug receivers left
- 16:43Speaker 1: and right, grab, punch, hold anything and everything until that
- 16:46Speaker 1: ball was in the air, and when you do that
- 16:49Speaker 1: with his size and length and athleticism and speed, it
- 16:52Speaker 1: created a huge advantage for him. I didn't think that
- 16:54Speaker 1: would play in the NFL. But again, he had a
- 16:56Speaker 1: good head on his shoulders. He was a smart kid.
- 16:58Speaker 1: He is a smart kid. He had the and the
- 17:00Speaker 1: Bills have gotten so much blood out of other corners
- 17:03Speaker 1: and nose stones. I was like, Okay, you know, if
- 17:05Speaker 1: there is upside here, let's see what you get. Obviously,
- 17:07Speaker 1: that never came to fruition, and Kyrie even was traded
- 17:10Speaker 1: to the Cowboys this offseason a couple weeks ago. I
- 17:12Speaker 1: still do think you need to move in that regard.
- 17:16Speaker 1: I think you need to go towards someone who gives
- 17:19Speaker 1: you a little more twitch, gives you a little more juice,
- 17:21Speaker 1: gives you a little more athleticism. When you start to
- 17:23Speaker 1: play these better teams in the playoffs, you are you're
- 17:29Speaker 1: gonna eventually come across somebody that has size and speed
- 17:32Speaker 1: and athleticism at the wide receiver position. I mean, even
- 17:35Speaker 1: if we look at what the Eagles had last year,
- 17:37Speaker 1: like could the Bills fight fire with fire and find
- 17:38Speaker 1: somebody to match up against a J. Brown and DeVonta Smith.
- 17:41Speaker 1: You've I mean, Cincinnati's O line is an issue. But
- 17:45Speaker 1: with the Bengals, you know, do you have somebody who
- 17:46Speaker 1: can combat Jamar Chase and T Higgins or even with
- 17:49Speaker 1: the Ravens, do you have somebody who can run with
- 17:50Speaker 1: Z eight flowers and stick with him? Gives all these
- 17:53Speaker 1: small little examples, but I say all that to say,
- 17:58Speaker 1: give me more athleticism in the secondary, which is a
- 18:00Speaker 1: bit of an archetype shift then years past. And aside
- 18:04Speaker 1: from that, they need someone who can play press or
- 18:09Speaker 1: who has a quick trigger, who can restrict airspace and
- 18:12Speaker 1: squeeze passing windows. Again, all of it it comes down
- 18:16Speaker 1: to squeezing those windows and making things tighter. And you
- 18:19Speaker 1: can do it right from the line of scrimmage and
- 18:21Speaker 1: right from the from the snap, or you can do
- 18:23Speaker 1: it a little bit after again by sitting and having
- 18:25Speaker 1: that ability to come forward to close down drive on routes,
- 18:28Speaker 1: being good at the break, not allowing guys to separate
- 18:30Speaker 1: in the stem or separating on the brake. You've got
- 18:33Speaker 1: You've got really the three phases of a route. You
- 18:35Speaker 1: have the release where they're coming off the line of scrimmage.
- 18:37Speaker 1: You have the stem which is how they kind of
- 18:39Speaker 1: build their route. And then you have the brake. You
- 18:42Speaker 1: know the cut, You know where are they move and
- 18:44Speaker 1: what are they doing, how are they changing that stem,
- 18:48Speaker 1: so you have the opportunity to squeeze the passing window
- 18:50Speaker 1: and restrict that receiver space and the offensive airspace and
- 18:54Speaker 1: all three of those spots. So you can do it
- 18:56Speaker 1: at the release, you can do it in the stem,
- 18:57Speaker 1: and you can do it on the break, and you
- 18:59Speaker 1: can do it with a multitude ways. You can do
- 19:00Speaker 1: it by being impressed. You can do it by being
- 19:03Speaker 1: impressed and jamming on the snap. You can do it
- 19:05Speaker 1: by being in press but just kind of mirroring and
- 19:08Speaker 1: having good feet and being a good athlete. Or you
- 19:10Speaker 1: could do it by being in off, maybe stepping up
- 19:13Speaker 1: a little bit and then squeezing things on the break
- 19:15Speaker 1: as opposed to squeezing it in the stem or squeezing
- 19:17Speaker 1: it on the release. All of those things take varied techniques,
- 19:22Speaker 1: varied skill sets, varied traits, but a common theme amongst
- 19:26Speaker 1: a lot of them would be good feet, good athleticism,
- 19:30Speaker 1: some sort of short area burst or quickness, the ability
- 19:35Speaker 1: to not let guys get into your body. It comes
- 19:38Speaker 1: down to how guys are built in terms of their
- 19:40Speaker 1: frame physically and also in terms of how they play
- 19:42Speaker 1: the game, what tools and traits they have, but also
- 19:45Speaker 1: the coverages that they come from. Again, not the you know,
- 19:48Speaker 1: drum on this too much. Trey Amos ticks a heavy
- 19:52Speaker 1: majority of not all of these boxes for the Buffalo Bills.
- 19:55Speaker 1: His ability to play press, his length plus feet and
- 19:58Speaker 1: the combination of those two things allowing him to stay
- 20:00Speaker 1: in phase and man coverage, the zone coverage capabilities, how
- 20:04Speaker 1: he can fall off and collect with regularity, his match
- 20:07Speaker 1: coverage capabilities, the tackling, the physicality what he offers. He
- 20:11Speaker 1: takes so many of these boxes. I think Johday Barron
- 20:14Speaker 1: ticks a lot of boxes from the physicality perspective as well,
- 20:16Speaker 1: but a different type. I don't think he's the same
- 20:19Speaker 1: kind of press corner that Amos is, but his quick trigger,
- 20:23Speaker 1: the short area burst hit. He's got great peripheral visions,
- 20:27Speaker 1: so he can he can have that kind of hinge
- 20:30Speaker 1: in that turn where he's looking at the quarterback, but
- 20:32Speaker 1: as soon as the receiver breaks in on a slant
- 20:35Speaker 1: orn in and he sees that flash of color, he
- 20:38Speaker 1: can drive on it and close and break that pass up,
- 20:40Speaker 1: but he's also got the ability to do that and
- 20:44Speaker 1: still read the QB and see, oh he's actually still
- 20:48Speaker 1: hitting his drop or that's just a pump. Let me
- 20:50Speaker 1: slam on the brakes because now it's actually a slant
- 20:52Speaker 1: and go. So the technique plus his vision in processing
- 20:55Speaker 1: and athleticism allow him to tighten passing windows and restrict
- 21:00Speaker 1: and also what he is as a forced player, as
- 21:02Speaker 1: a tackler, as a guy in the run fit, he
- 21:04Speaker 1: takes so many boxes as well. I really do look
- 21:07Speaker 1: for one, you know. I wanted to use those two
- 21:09Speaker 1: guys in juxtaposition with one another because I think they're
- 21:11Speaker 1: different players, but I both think they can help the
- 21:14Speaker 1: Bills defense at corner in their move towards kind of
- 21:18Speaker 1: tweaking the archetype a little bit, just in different ways,
- 21:20Speaker 1: and it really helped the defense kind of evolves schematically
- 21:23Speaker 1: and again have more athleticism or juice on the back end,
- 21:26Speaker 1: but more airspace constriction and be able to tighten pass
- 21:29Speaker 1: the windows. I think at the end of the day,
- 21:32Speaker 1: I think Baron's going to be gone. I think the
- 21:34Speaker 1: corners you're really looking at for the Bills in this
- 21:36Speaker 1: draft are guys with some length and guys who can
- 21:38Speaker 1: play press, and there's a variety of them. You've got again,
- 21:41Speaker 1: You've got Trey Amos, You've got Darian Porter from Iowa State.
- 21:44Speaker 1: You've got as A Ray or as a Ray Thomas
- 21:47Speaker 1: from Florida State. Just kind of throwing out some names
- 21:50Speaker 1: in terms of, you know, day one and day two guys,
- 21:52Speaker 1: and I do think they go corner on day one
- 21:54Speaker 1: or day two. I haven't finished Benjamin Morris yet, so
- 21:57Speaker 1: if anyone wants to ask me about him, I have
- 21:59Speaker 1: not taken peak and him yet. You've got Chavon Revel
- 22:02Speaker 1: or chevon Revel. I've heard multiple ways of his name
- 22:05Speaker 1: being pronounced to him and him responding, so I don't
- 22:07Speaker 1: even know what the correct pronunciation is at this point.
- 22:10Speaker 1: I have some questions on Revel just I personally don't
- 22:17Speaker 1: gravitate towards guys that are high cut, meaning guys that
- 22:21Speaker 1: have like long legs and kind of shorter torsos, and
- 22:25Speaker 1: I think that can lead to issues with change of direction,
- 22:27Speaker 1: change of direction, hip sync fluidity, And I do have
- 22:31Speaker 1: some questions with Revel Revel. I'm gonna say his name
- 22:35Speaker 1: like seventy five different ways throughout this episode throughout this
- 22:37Speaker 1: draft cycle. But I like him as a press corner.
- 22:41Speaker 1: I do think he has to be more of a
- 22:42Speaker 1: true press corner because he is higher cut and longer legs.
- 22:47Speaker 1: I think change of direction is going to be an issue,
- 22:48Speaker 1: So I don't think he necessarily is that guy that's
- 22:50Speaker 1: gonna be able to mirror someone and kind of soft
- 22:53Speaker 1: shoe press him and just be able to stay in
- 22:55Speaker 1: their kitchen with footwork and hip fluidity and sink and
- 22:58Speaker 1: all that. I think he needs to use his length,
- 23:00Speaker 1: use his size, use his frame, and get on guys early.
- 23:04Speaker 1: When he does have a true press, he tends to
- 23:05Speaker 1: go with the two hand jam, which I don't love
- 23:09Speaker 1: because you can essentially get kind of locked in your hips,
- 23:14Speaker 1: like when you go forward like that, you're locking your
- 23:16Speaker 1: hips when you go with that two hand jam or
- 23:18Speaker 1: that two hand true press. And if you miss a
- 23:20Speaker 1: guy and you don't get those hands, now your transition
- 23:23Speaker 1: getting a field and turning to run with that guy
- 23:26Speaker 1: is a little suspect. And that's even more so for
- 23:28Speaker 1: a guy who I think has some change of direction
- 23:31Speaker 1: or some you know, hip fluidity type of pieces. And
- 23:34Speaker 1: I also think this again, because he's high cut, he
- 23:35Speaker 1: plays a little tight I'm sorry tight whit actually get
- 23:39Speaker 1: tight in the hips, but a little upright as a player,
- 23:41Speaker 1: you know, there's not a lot of dip ben sync
- 23:45Speaker 1: to his game. And then because again he is that
- 23:48Speaker 1: higher cut, I think on brakes he can allow some
- 23:50Speaker 1: separation and things. But I think he's another name to consider.
- 23:53Speaker 1: I think anybody, anybody who has length and can play
- 23:56Speaker 1: press in this draft class should be a name that
- 23:59Speaker 1: the Bills look towards, and they've met with a lot
- 24:02Speaker 1: of these guys. Again, my ideal candidate right now is
- 24:04Speaker 1: Trey Amos at pick thirty. I've been in this camp
- 24:07Speaker 1: since before the Combine and then he ran a four
- 24:09Speaker 1: to four three and that kind of solidified things for me.
- 24:12Speaker 1: But that's kind of where I'm at again, just because
- 24:16Speaker 1: I think I would love John A. Baron at thirty,
- 24:18Speaker 1: I really don't think he's gonna be there, so I'm
- 24:20Speaker 1: kind of but I wanted to use him and Amos
- 24:22Speaker 1: use him in these other corners as a juxtaposition of
- 24:24Speaker 1: what you can have. But I think the Bills will
- 24:27Speaker 1: end up with a longer press type of corner in
- 24:32Speaker 1: this draft, and I think a lot of the ones
- 24:35Speaker 1: that are available fit what you're trying to do. From
- 24:37Speaker 1: a scheme standpoint, this is I don't think the guys
- 24:39Speaker 1: that I named aren't another Kayu relum situation where it's like, well, yeah,
- 24:44Speaker 1: but are they gonna be able to adjust to the scheme,
- 24:45Speaker 1: can they learn it? So on and so forth. I
- 24:48Speaker 1: think they're more kind of natural fits, especially if you're
- 24:50Speaker 1: kind of simplifying or tweaking a little bit with what
- 24:54Speaker 1: the defense does, which should be some more match coverage,
- 24:57Speaker 1: some more man coverage either way, more and principles baked
- 25:01Speaker 1: into the zone coverage. And even if it was just
- 25:04Speaker 1: regular zone, these corners all can function in his zone
- 25:06Speaker 1: capacity as well. So again Bill's traditional archetype at corner
- 25:10Speaker 1: is less to do with athleticism, less to do with size,
- 25:15Speaker 1: less to do with speed, and it's traditionally been more
- 25:18Speaker 1: of responsibility, playing from the neck up, sound, smart, reliable, responsible.
- 25:25Speaker 1: I think they need to tweak that a little bit.
- 25:27Speaker 1: And if you can get guys that are still that
- 25:29Speaker 1: but also be good athletes and then fit the scheme, hooray.
- 25:32Speaker 1: And I think a lot of these guys that I mentioned,
- 25:34Speaker 1: especially for Amos, take that box. But I think they
- 25:36Speaker 1: need to tweak that archetype a little bit and add
- 25:39Speaker 1: in a little more athleticism, a little more juice, a
- 25:42Speaker 1: little more foot speed, a little more flexibility. Change that
- 25:46Speaker 1: position a little bit less technically any just less technically sound,
- 25:50Speaker 1: less responsible, reliable, little more little more twitch, a little
- 25:55Speaker 1: more juice, a little more physical traits, while not losing
- 25:59Speaker 1: the reponsibility and the assignment sound and scheme fit nature
- 26:03Speaker 1: all of it. Again, I think there's a happy medium
- 26:06Speaker 1: to kind of really juxtapose it and move on to
- 26:08Speaker 1: some of your comments before we go to the next
- 26:10Speaker 1: position grouping. I don't no disrespect to anyone. I don't
- 26:14Speaker 1: want Dane Jackson, but I don't want kyer Elam. Okay,
- 26:19Speaker 1: that's the opposite ends of the spectrum. There's plenty of
- 26:21Speaker 1: space all in here for them to tweak that a
- 26:24Speaker 1: little bit. Like day Jackson is ninety ten towards one way,
- 26:27Speaker 1: I think kyer Elam was ninety ten towards the other.
- 26:30Speaker 1: We don't need that. You can go seventy thirty either way.
- 26:33Speaker 1: You could go sixty forty. It could be fifty five
- 26:35Speaker 1: to forty five. They need some some balance of that. Again,
- 26:39Speaker 1: I don't want to swing just for the traits and
- 26:42Speaker 1: just for the sexiness like they did with Kyer, and
- 26:45Speaker 1: I don't want to just hit a bunch of singles
- 26:47Speaker 1: and have to steal bases if that guy gets on base.
- 26:50Speaker 1: It's kind of the way I'm looking at it. For corner.
- 26:52Speaker 1: Let's go to some of the questions for you folks.
- 26:58Speaker 1: Ron says, the problem with this scheme back to earlier
- 27:00Speaker 1: as we get abused in the playoffs because their DB's
- 27:02Speaker 1: can't match up. Again, that's what it's hard to It's
- 27:05Speaker 1: hard to be technically sound over and over and over
- 27:10Speaker 1: and over again. That's what I'm saying. That you need.
- 27:12Speaker 1: You need to be able to fight fire with fire
- 27:14Speaker 1: a little bit, you know. And Ron says, yeah, with
- 27:15Speaker 1: the dbs we've had, Yeah, you have to be able
- 27:17Speaker 1: to fight fire with fire a little bit. You you
- 27:19Speaker 1: don't have to be a burner or the most physically
- 27:23Speaker 1: imposing guy to stick with like aj Brown or stick
- 27:25Speaker 1: with Jamar Chase. You can do it with technique, but
- 27:28Speaker 1: your technique that you have so such little margin for
- 27:32Speaker 1: error because those guys have physical dominant traits or athletic
- 27:37Speaker 1: athletically dominant traits that if you're not on point with
- 27:40Speaker 1: your footwork or your timing, or your turn or your pedal.
- 27:43Speaker 1: You're you're in a bad way, and I think that's
- 27:45Speaker 1: where the Bills have lived for a lot of that time.
- 27:53Speaker 1: This is hilarious and how accurate is this? Guy says?
- 27:56Speaker 1: I realized Cover one glazes the team. First off, glazes,
- 27:59Speaker 1: grow up the team because they could get sued for
- 28:01Speaker 1: using all that footage if they said anything negative. That's
- 28:04Speaker 1: not true at all. This is such a wildly inaccurate comment.
- 28:07Speaker 1: I just wanted to pull up. That's man funny. Jared says.
- 28:10Speaker 1: I say, trade up for Will Johnson or em and
- 28:13Speaker 1: Warri if either are still on the board at seventeen
- 28:15Speaker 1: or nineteen. The Bengals and Bucks need picks. Maybe get
- 28:19Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant in the fourth round. Yeah, Kobe Bryant. Another
- 28:21Speaker 1: Kobe Bryant spelled differently than the Kobe Bryant from Cincinnati
- 28:26Speaker 1: a couple of years ago who plays in Seattle. I
- 28:28Speaker 1: haven't watched Kobe Bryant yet from Kansas. I have not
- 28:31Speaker 1: taken a peek at him yet, but he's a name.
- 28:33Speaker 1: As I start to finish out corner, as we go forward,
- 28:36Speaker 1: I would be all aboard for Will Johnson. I don't
- 28:38Speaker 1: think Emmon Warry is a scheme fit, and I'm not
- 28:41Speaker 1: that high personally on him as a prospect. I don't
- 28:43Speaker 1: think he plays to the athleticism in size that he
- 28:45Speaker 1: tested with and his feet are a bit clunky, kind
- 28:48Speaker 1: of like he has cement in issues. I think I
- 28:51Speaker 1: think he's more scheme specific than he is, just kind
- 28:54Speaker 1: of a plug and play guy with a multitude of teams.
- 28:56Speaker 1: And I don't individually love the fifth for the Bills,
- 28:59Speaker 1: but teach their rown also. Em and Warry finished third
- 29:03Speaker 1: in my Heisman in the Heisman running my first year
- 29:06Speaker 1: playing NCAA twenty five when we won the Natty with
- 29:08Speaker 1: South Carolina, So he does hold a special play in
- 29:11Speaker 1: my heart. Tangk Ninja says, to be fair, it's not
- 29:13Speaker 1: like Douglas was doing us any favors, not getting DPI
- 29:16Speaker 1: and etc. Last year, and he didn't have the speed
- 29:18Speaker 1: to make up for his slips. Yeah, he It's unfortunate.
- 29:22Speaker 1: He had a really good twenty twenty three. You know,
- 29:24Speaker 1: as soon as he was traded over, he was playing
- 29:26Speaker 1: like a true CV one. Just the brakes he was
- 29:28Speaker 1: making on the ball, the impact, the physicality, the run
- 29:30Speaker 1: fits I would love to welcome him back like as
- 29:33Speaker 1: a CB three, and then have like a CB in
- 29:35Speaker 1: round one or round two to be your starter, and
- 29:37Speaker 1: then you're looking at a top four of Benford, rookie Corner, Douglas,
- 29:42Speaker 1: Dane Jackson. Like that gives you a high floor and
- 29:44Speaker 1: high ceiling combination. And I think he can really do
- 29:47Speaker 1: a lot for like the group as a whole in
- 29:50Speaker 1: terms of the mindset and the mentality you needed. But
- 29:52Speaker 1: yet I don't think he has the wheels right now
- 29:55Speaker 1: or the jews, or maybe he had some injury last
- 29:57Speaker 1: year that we weren't privy to. But yeah, he didn't
- 29:59Speaker 1: look like the same guy in twenty twenty four that
- 30:02Speaker 1: he did in twenty twenty three, and the Bills felt
- 30:04Speaker 1: it on the back end, especially with those underneath routes
- 30:06Speaker 1: like he he was so good at kind of sitting
- 30:08Speaker 1: at depth and waiting and triggering and getting interceptions and
- 30:12Speaker 1: breaking on the ball and driving and getting PBUs and
- 30:14Speaker 1: hitting guys, and we just we just didn't see that
- 30:17Speaker 1: with regularity from him in twenty twenty four. Ooh, Johnson's
- 30:24Speaker 1: I don't mind moving up using our fourth through sixth
- 30:27Speaker 1: round picks to get there. Our first three picks first
- 30:30Speaker 1: and two second rounds need to get us a cb
- 30:33Speaker 1: DT and edge. I don't disagree. Give me a corner
- 30:35Speaker 1: a defensive deck on an edge in the first three
- 30:39Speaker 1: picks for the Bills. I move too much when I
- 30:42Speaker 1: do these shows. It makes my camera refocus sometimes, ndy
- 30:45Speaker 1: El says Darian Porter thoughts of Darien Porter corner from
- 30:49Speaker 1: Iowa State. Let me pull up my evaluation notes. Good
- 30:54Speaker 1: spatial awareness is zone end zone, able to drop, able
- 30:57Speaker 1: to space routes accordingly in spot drop regular zone coverage.
- 31:01Speaker 1: A press man corner susceptible to underneath routes and inbreakers,
- 31:05Speaker 1: his feet tend to get crossed up and or stuck,
- 31:08Speaker 1: which will leave him, you know, to get caught lunging.
- 31:11Speaker 1: His feet and hands get out of sync more than
- 31:14Speaker 1: you would like. He's a willing force player and a
- 31:16Speaker 1: willing tackler, willing to come up and play the run,
- 31:18Speaker 1: but his lankiness and frame makes him a bit movable
- 31:21Speaker 1: and susceptible to broken tackles. Good eyes, good processing, some
- 31:26Speaker 1: of that. I wouldn't be opposed to the Bills targeting
- 31:28Speaker 1: in round two. I have more of a kind of
- 31:31Speaker 1: a or like a third second to third round grade
- 31:34Speaker 1: on him, but without the Bills having a third, I
- 31:36Speaker 1: wouldn't be opposed. I don't love him, but I'm fine
- 31:40Speaker 1: with him kind of coming in and battling and going
- 31:41Speaker 1: from there. John Roberts says, what's your opinion on Maxwell Harriston.
- 31:44Speaker 1: I like Maxwell Harston. There is maybe some off the
- 31:47Speaker 1: field stuff that I think might take him off the
- 31:49Speaker 1: Bill's board, but I'll read my evaluation because he's right
- 31:52Speaker 1: here too. Calm and clean feet plus recovery, speed plus athleticism,
- 31:57Speaker 1: A willing but poor tackler angles into decisions are a
- 32:01Speaker 1: bit questionable and run support and especially as far as
- 32:04Speaker 1: a fit and forced player, but the willingness is there
- 32:07Speaker 1: and you will see him make some good tackles from
- 32:08Speaker 1: time to time. Recovery speed and feet allow him to
- 32:11Speaker 1: get back and phase when fool versus routes. Athletics has
- 32:14Speaker 1: been speed again are a plus. Good short area burst,
- 32:18Speaker 1: able to play both the left and right side, able
- 32:20Speaker 1: to collect routes and zone coverage. Also good zone spatial awareness,
- 32:24Speaker 1: able to fall off routes, able to bait quarterbacks, will
- 32:28Speaker 1: let wide receivers into his blind spot from time to time,
- 32:30Speaker 1: but the recovery speed and athleticism may allow him to
- 32:33Speaker 1: recover even at an NFL level because that speed from
- 32:36Speaker 1: an on tape perspective and time perspective is very real,
- 32:40Speaker 1: able to play cover two, cover three, straight up man,
- 32:44Speaker 1: coverage press man. Physical smaller frame stature will limit him
- 32:48Speaker 1: a bit at the catch point at times and at
- 32:50Speaker 1: the tackle point, but overall on explosive athletic corner. Ron
- 32:56Speaker 1: says Amos in the first and Quincy Riley from Louisa
- 32:59Speaker 1: later in the draft. Yeah, I'm not Ryley's one who
- 33:01Speaker 1: keeps popping up for me again, He's and I will
- 33:03Speaker 1: be finishing all for those who don't know. April is
- 33:05Speaker 1: my like big. I finish my prospect evaluations for each
- 33:11Speaker 1: group to really get to about like ten to fifteen
- 33:13Speaker 1: guys deep at every position as much as I can,
- 33:15Speaker 1: so I'm really solidifying everything going forward. This is great
- 33:19Speaker 1: from rj Rgi says, So what quarter will fit the
- 33:22Speaker 1: Bills best? And when does Casey trade up in front
- 33:25Speaker 1: of us to grab them? I'll tell you, man, and
- 33:27Speaker 1: you know this, and so many people know this about me,
- 33:28Speaker 1: with how much I love Trent McDuffie and how much
- 33:31Speaker 1: I pounded the table for him. If the Chiefs trade
- 33:34Speaker 1: up and take Trey A. Moos, that might be it
- 33:36Speaker 1: for me. As like a football person, I'm I'm out,
- 33:40Speaker 1: like I'm done. I'm I don't know where I would
- 33:44Speaker 1: go in the world, but it would it would I
- 33:47Speaker 1: would be in a bad way. I can't even verbalize
- 33:49Speaker 1: how much that would jack me up mentally and emotionally.
- 33:55Speaker 1: Sound says that we continue the same schemes, nothing will change.
- 33:58Speaker 1: McDermot is a rocket. I don't think he's necessari rockheat.
- 34:00Speaker 1: I think he's got for again for all intents and
- 34:03Speaker 1: purposes on the whole bill's winning percentage, their advanced metrics,
- 34:08Speaker 1: their just regular win loss record year over year, where
- 34:10Speaker 1: they go in the playoffs, they've had success. So I
- 34:13Speaker 1: understand him not completely revamping or revolutionizing you know, what's
- 34:18Speaker 1: worked for him. But I do think there are some
- 34:20Speaker 1: tweaks they've made some in the past. I'm interested to
- 34:22Speaker 1: see what they will do this year. Give them the
- 34:24Speaker 1: breadcrumbs we've seen drop from him, the coaching staff changes
- 34:28Speaker 1: and some of the things that myself and Eric have
- 34:31Speaker 1: been told in our film room episodes with Greg Russou
- 34:34Speaker 1: with Terrell Bernard, some of those interesting nuggets. Pete says,
- 34:41Speaker 1: there's guys worth trading up for locking into. Using those
- 34:43Speaker 1: first three picks on three different players doesn't mean we're
- 34:45Speaker 1: getting impactful snaps. Look at the uncertainty with Bishop even
- 34:49Speaker 1: a year in very fair points. That's my biggest detractor
- 34:55Speaker 1: when it comes to trading up in the draft, because
- 34:57Speaker 1: it is such a crapshoot, like I mentioned earlier, like, oh,
- 35:00Speaker 1: surefire thing is a surefire thing, so I prefer as
- 35:04Speaker 1: many swings at the plate as possible. And they've got again.
- 35:08Speaker 1: If you sacrifice draft capital to move up, in theory,
- 35:11Speaker 1: you're moving up for more of a surefire guy, but
- 35:12Speaker 1: that surefire guys still may not work out, So you're
- 35:15Speaker 1: sacrificing capital for something that is still unsure even though
- 35:20Speaker 1: it has more probability of being sure. I think that's
- 35:22Speaker 1: very fair. Baizon says, do you think there's any chance
- 35:25Speaker 1: Daiquon Hardy could improve and crack the roster? Finally, he
- 35:28Speaker 1: did no promise in the preseason, like you mentioned, but
- 35:30Speaker 1: they cut him and then welcomed him back. I don't know,
- 35:33Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know. Charles says, Az Thomas
- 35:36Speaker 1: might be the most boom bust. The traits are crazy.
- 35:38Speaker 1: These one of the youngest cbs. There's some things to
- 35:41Speaker 1: light there, for sure. Pete says he'd move up for
- 35:44Speaker 1: a CB or defensive lineman. There's guys who can be
- 35:46Speaker 1: our CB two available, fifty six or sixty two. Ideally
- 35:49Speaker 1: stay put, but that's too prudent. Sometimes I would prefer
- 35:52Speaker 1: corner it round in round one, mainly because of Amos,
- 35:57Speaker 1: because the defensive the interior defensive lineman that I think
- 36:00Speaker 1: will be available at where the bill's picking round two.
- 36:03Speaker 1: I like those guys better than the corners that I
- 36:06Speaker 1: think will be available there. But I think this is
- 36:08Speaker 1: a fair point. I don't hate it completely. Oh. Paison
- 36:15Speaker 1: says also random question, but primetray White versus Benford right now,
- 36:18Speaker 1: who is better Prime Tray White? No disrespect to Benford.
- 36:21Speaker 1: Primetray White was lockdown, lockdown in an all pro primetray
- 36:26Speaker 1: White bills are electric, saying Maxwell had a really good
- 36:34Speaker 1: Senior Bowl. Yeah, I didn't go to the Senior Bowl
- 36:35Speaker 1: this year. I also responded to you on Twitter when
- 36:38Speaker 1: you asked me some stuff about Jonash Sanker. Yeah, I
- 36:41Speaker 1: didn't go to the Senior Bowl this year, and I
- 36:43Speaker 1: paid attention to some of it, but I wasn't completely locked,
- 36:46Speaker 1: in part because I was emotional that I wasn't there.
- 36:50Speaker 1: Noah says he wants a Gyrg Alexander type corner that
- 36:53Speaker 1: trash talks and his ball hawk. Yeah, it's a different
- 36:55Speaker 1: kind of it's a different kind of mentality with guys
- 36:57Speaker 1: like Gaiere. Okay, okay. Just the typical news says, one
- 37:06Speaker 1: day in the very distant future, if we are allowed
- 37:07Speaker 1: to clone human beings, it will make for great roster building.
- 37:10Speaker 1: That's a very fair point. That's really what the bill
- 37:11Speaker 1: should be doing. They should be investing in clone based technology,
- 37:16Speaker 1: so they could just clone Christian Benford and you don't
- 37:17Speaker 1: need to worry about CBE two. You just clone Christian Benford. Poom,
- 37:20Speaker 1: You're good to go. This is a great comment from
- 37:24Speaker 1: rock Pile. Oh I'm I'm guessing I know who it
- 37:28Speaker 1: came from on rock Pile, and I hope something for
- 37:30Speaker 1: the check gets it. It's the communists. So we have
- 37:32Speaker 1: a one hundred and forty one and two thirds chance
- 37:34Speaker 1: of getting a dB, Eric getting a CB and defensive
- 37:37Speaker 1: lineman with our first two picks. Question Mark, that's some
- 37:39Speaker 1: good Steiner math. Right there. I like that well done. Yeah,
- 37:42Speaker 1: so good conversation piece on the corner aspect. And again
- 37:45Speaker 1: what they've gravitated towards in the past, guys like Dane Jackson,
- 37:49Speaker 1: guys like Levi Wallace. It could be a little less
- 37:50Speaker 1: of that doesn't have to be full scale full till
- 37:52Speaker 1: Kyrie Elan there is a happy medium, just kind of
- 37:55Speaker 1: split that difference a little bit. Ish Will says, Wow,
- 37:59Speaker 1: how quickly they forget Trey white Man not only an
- 38:02Speaker 1: all probe, but had that clutch it factor always came
- 38:04Speaker 1: up big when you needed him. Man. He was uh yeah,
- 38:08Speaker 1: prime tray White. The feet, the hand usage, the ability
- 38:11Speaker 1: to stay in phase, the zone coverage, how he could
- 38:14Speaker 1: process and red react, fall off bake collect man. Yeah yeah,
- 38:20Speaker 1: prime trade White was sweet, you know what? And he
- 38:22Speaker 1: did uh on the trade White aspect. He had some
- 38:25Speaker 1: good reps for Baltimore last year. I thought he was
- 38:28Speaker 1: gonna get more burned down the stretches suppoially with Brandon
- 38:30Speaker 1: Stevens struggling, but they would use him, kind of mix
- 38:33Speaker 1: him in every once in a while as like their
- 38:34Speaker 1: third CB, and do some different stuff. He had some
- 38:37Speaker 1: fun reps for Baltimore I'm still I'm still pulling for him.
- 38:40Speaker 1: Good dude, and was a really good player when he
- 38:42Speaker 1: was here. It's unfortunate with the injuries, but you know,
- 38:44Speaker 1: we'll kind of see. All right, let's go to the
- 38:47Speaker 1: interior defensive line. I think this one is the most
- 38:51Speaker 1: not necessarily straightforward, but the straightforward from my perspective. But
- 38:55Speaker 1: I think the most muddy when you do when you
- 38:59Speaker 1: when you chuck to pose what fans want versus what
- 39:02Speaker 1: they have traditionally done. And I like that. Just to
- 39:06Speaker 1: Tipka who says eleven Torel Bernards and then Noahcheldon says,
- 39:09Speaker 1: get Taron Johnson an evil clone and play him at
- 39:11Speaker 1: CB two. I like that. Yeah, the Bills archetype at
- 39:16Speaker 1: interior defensive line, I think is so important to talk
- 39:21Speaker 1: about with what a lot of the fan base wants
- 39:24Speaker 1: at interior defensive line, so much of And maybe maybe
- 39:29Speaker 1: maybe I'm seeing this wrong, and maybe it just happens
- 39:31Speaker 1: to be what I continue to see or hear about
- 39:33Speaker 1: on social and even in real life. But the idea
- 39:36Speaker 1: for that, you know, bigger bodied one tech, that true
- 39:39Speaker 1: one tech. I just don't think it's something that they're
- 39:45Speaker 1: necessarily going to go For the example, I kind of
- 39:47Speaker 1: want to use like Devandre Sweat, who I liked last
- 39:50Speaker 1: year coming out of Texas, and man, he had a
- 39:51Speaker 1: great rookie year. You know, it helps to play next
- 39:54Speaker 1: to Jeffrey Simmons. But that type of one tech that
- 39:57Speaker 1: literal bigger bodied space eater people eater on the interior,
- 40:03Speaker 1: is not traditionally who they gravitate towards. Their one techs
- 40:08Speaker 1: are usually from a size perspective, somewhere between like three
- 40:11Speaker 1: ten to three point fifteen maybe, But it's all about
- 40:15Speaker 1: playing with strength. A Ron says, trade for Simmons go.
- 40:17Speaker 1: I would give up so much for Jeffrey Simmons their
- 40:21Speaker 1: interior defensive line. From a one tech perspective, you need
- 40:23Speaker 1: to have that play strength. But they don't gravitate towards
- 40:26Speaker 1: the size. Part of the reason they don't gravitate towards
- 40:28Speaker 1: the size, and this again all part of the larger conversation.
- 40:32Speaker 1: They want guys that can affect the quarterback in addition
- 40:34Speaker 1: to playing the run, and if they had to pick
- 40:37Speaker 1: which one they would have and sacrifice the other, they'll
- 40:41Speaker 1: sacrifice some of the run defense stuff for somebody who
- 40:44Speaker 1: can run the rush the passer and if you you know,
- 40:47Speaker 1: just some examples to kind of further that in that
- 40:49Speaker 1: conversation piece, right, they struggled last year with the run.
- 40:53Speaker 1: We saw guys getting displaced on the interior, defensive tackles,
- 40:56Speaker 1: getting blown off the ball. Whether it was Dwyane Carter,
- 40:58Speaker 1: Austin Johnson, Jordan Phillip, Quentin Jefferson didn't play a ton
- 41:02Speaker 1: against the run, but you saw what happened with him.
- 41:05Speaker 1: They had eleonk who sitting on the practice squad, who
- 41:08Speaker 1: is an absolute tank to move, who does not get displaced,
- 41:12Speaker 1: who can solidify your run game a little bit right,
- 41:15Speaker 1: your run defense game a little bit, i should say,
- 41:17Speaker 1: doesn't really offer a lot as a pass rusher, and
- 41:20Speaker 1: we saw him not get called up despite them playing
- 41:23Speaker 1: run based teams, despite guys getting blown off the ball,
- 41:25Speaker 1: despite having questions about the spine of the defense, and
- 41:29Speaker 1: again displacement, guys being knocked over gaps, getting blown two, three, four,
- 41:33Speaker 1: five yards downfield off the ball, they still kind of
- 41:36Speaker 1: left Ileanku chilling there. Even Charles in the comment says
- 41:39Speaker 1: poon Afford, poon Afford the year before poon AFFORDA is
- 41:42Speaker 1: a little bit different from the archetype conversation I just
- 41:44Speaker 1: don't get why he played. They opted to bring in
- 41:46Speaker 1: Linval Joseph, who is more of a true plugger in
- 41:50Speaker 1: Space Eater, but he just didn't play great because he
- 41:53Speaker 1: didn't have any legs left based on where he was
- 41:55Speaker 1: in his career. And good comment here from Ron saying,
- 41:58Speaker 1: when you have small linebackers, you need your to tackles
- 42:00Speaker 1: to hold up absolutely spot on run. So Poona I
- 42:04Speaker 1: think is a little bit different with the archetype conversation.
- 42:06Speaker 1: I think Poona was more that they just didn't like
- 42:09Speaker 1: the person, not necessarily the scheme fit, because again they
- 42:12Speaker 1: went and they grabbed Linval Joseph, who was like Poona
- 42:16Speaker 1: four times I don't know a thousand with how much
- 42:18Speaker 1: bigger he was and even less pass rush juice than Poona.
- 42:21Speaker 1: I just would have played Poona over a lot of
- 42:23Speaker 1: the other guys they were playing once Daequon went down
- 42:25Speaker 1: like his flashes were legit to me and I like
- 42:28Speaker 1: them a lot. I still don't get why they didn't play.
- 42:31Speaker 1: And then you saw the success that he had with
- 42:33Speaker 1: the Chargers and he got paid by the Rams. He
- 42:34Speaker 1: goes to a Rams front. Now, good for him, he
- 42:36Speaker 1: should be able to especially with their multiplicity, it'll fit
- 42:38Speaker 1: his game a little bit more. Pete says, I find
- 42:42Speaker 1: a one tech conversation deeply upsetting. You don't have to
- 42:44Speaker 1: be three hundred and thirty pounds to stop the run well,
- 42:47Speaker 1: and this is again part of that conversation. I think
- 42:50Speaker 1: a lot of fans want the space eater, the big
- 42:53Speaker 1: body because they think that's what it takes to stop
- 42:56Speaker 1: the run to withstand double teams, and it's not necessarily true.
- 43:00Speaker 1: Daikwon Jones is a really good example, right, Daikwon Jones
- 43:02Speaker 1: when he came down to the when he came to
- 43:04Speaker 1: the bills, he slimmed down. He shed weight to play
- 43:08Speaker 1: at one tech between three h seven and three hundred
- 43:11Speaker 1: and ten pounds, and when he was cooking, he was
- 43:14Speaker 1: cooking as that one tech a guy who could just
- 43:16Speaker 1: club dudes out of the way, throw guys out of
- 43:19Speaker 1: the club, inside anchor against double teams, drop the knee.
- 43:23Speaker 1: So you don't have to be three hundred and twenty
- 43:26Speaker 1: three hundred and twenty five, three hundred and thirty pounds
- 43:28Speaker 1: to be an effective one tech. So that's first and foremost.
- 43:32Speaker 1: You don't have to be huge to be able to
- 43:35Speaker 1: impact the run. The second part of that, the bigger
- 43:39Speaker 1: you are. In theory, certain body types and frames, the
- 43:42Speaker 1: larger they are do tend to help being able to
- 43:45Speaker 1: withstand the run. But that being said, again going back
- 43:48Speaker 1: to point one, you don't have to be Videvea to
- 43:50Speaker 1: hold up against the run if you are awesome, but
- 43:53Speaker 1: you don't have to be that guy. Right. Part three
- 43:56Speaker 1: of that is, even if you are that huge plugger,
- 43:59Speaker 1: the bills have not gravitated towards that. On the interior.
- 44:04Speaker 1: Linvold Joseph I think is the biggest outlier of all
- 44:07Speaker 1: of them. He didn't really have any pass rush Juice Lapp,
- 44:09Speaker 1: it was pure plugger aspect versus the run. I still
- 44:12Speaker 1: don't get he didn't have any legs left in the
- 44:15Speaker 1: him playing over pooing a larger conversation, but he is
- 44:18Speaker 1: the outlier. From a size perspective, he kind of fit
- 44:21Speaker 1: that bigger body like, oh, this is what we want.
- 44:23Speaker 1: A plugger on the inside. Jordan Phillips, I know, is
- 44:25Speaker 1: very huge, kind of fits that from a size perspective,
- 44:28Speaker 1: but from a play style perspective, he's a pass rusher,
- 44:31Speaker 1: not a plugger. Not anchoring against double teams, not dropping
- 44:35Speaker 1: the knee that kind of guy. That is also I
- 44:37Speaker 1: think a very good conversation point. To go back to
- 44:39Speaker 1: Pete's point of saying, you don't have to be three
- 44:42Speaker 1: hundred and thirty pounds to stop the run. Well, Jordan
- 44:44Speaker 1: Phillips was built like the plugger a lot of fans want,
- 44:48Speaker 1: but his play style wasn't that type of play style.
- 44:52Speaker 1: It comes down to how you play the game. So
- 44:55Speaker 1: I don't think you need someone who's three twenty three,
- 44:58Speaker 1: twenty five, three thirty as through one tech right, And
- 45:00Speaker 1: aside from that, I don't think the Bills believe that's
- 45:04Speaker 1: what they want at one tech. They want someone who
- 45:07Speaker 1: can if you can anchor against the run, cool, if
- 45:11Speaker 1: you can split double teams, cool, but you need to
- 45:14Speaker 1: be able to have an impact as a pass rusher.
- 45:17Speaker 1: The two prototypical examples, I think that fit what the
- 45:20Speaker 1: Bills want at a one tech or defensive tackle in
- 45:23Speaker 1: this draft early I'll say Derek Harmon from Oregon and
- 45:28Speaker 1: Darius Alexander from Toledo. The pass rush juice, the size
- 45:32Speaker 1: the frame. Guys that still have enough to penetrate in
- 45:35Speaker 1: one gap and get upfield and rush the quarterback, but
- 45:38Speaker 1: can also maintain responsibility against the run. Can anchor a
- 45:42Speaker 1: double team, can play with some core strength, can drop
- 45:44Speaker 1: the knee, can gum up the works. Cannot get displaced
- 45:47Speaker 1: or I should say limit how much they get displaced
- 45:50Speaker 1: versus the run. That's what the Bills want on their
- 45:52Speaker 1: interior in general, guys that can just limit displacement but
- 45:56Speaker 1: also impact the quarterback. Another example of this. You know,
- 45:58Speaker 1: not only did Daiquon shd wait when he came to Buffalo,
- 46:02Speaker 1: but you take Austin Johnson, who was a pure one
- 46:06Speaker 1: tech for the most part with the Giants a couple
- 46:08Speaker 1: of seasons ago, plays in a similar big body mold
- 46:11Speaker 1: with the Chargers, comes to the Bills. He trimmed down
- 46:14Speaker 1: to come to the Bills, and him and Dwayne Carter
- 46:16Speaker 1: are kind of rotating between one tech and three tech.
- 46:20Speaker 1: That's what they view for that type of spot. Larry
- 46:22Speaker 1: Ogan Jobi, who they just signed as free agent, right,
- 46:25Speaker 1: I think he's built more to be a three tech.
- 46:27Speaker 1: He's going to see some snaps at one tech because
- 46:29Speaker 1: they value penetration and disruption and habit creation, and if
- 46:34Speaker 1: that means he gets blown off the ball time to time.
- 46:36Speaker 1: From time to time against double teams, which will happen
- 46:38Speaker 1: to him. They're cool living in that mold and in
- 46:41Speaker 1: that world. That's what they value at their archetype on
- 46:44Speaker 1: the interior. Now, a couple things again, I mentioned it,
- 46:47Speaker 1: and I think someone mentioned it in the chat and
- 46:49Speaker 1: I forgot who did, so I apologize for not bringing
- 46:51Speaker 1: it up and not starring it. But just with some
- 46:53Speaker 1: of the things that we've been told, myself and Eric
- 46:56Speaker 1: in the film room, speaking with to re Bernard, speaking
- 46:58Speaker 1: with Greg Russol, I do think there's a chance for
- 47:01Speaker 1: them to go for more of a run skewed one
- 47:05Speaker 1: tech or run skewed defensive tackle. Again, if I had
- 47:10Speaker 1: to put like a percentage on it, I think their
- 47:11Speaker 1: interior guys, especially from the rotational perspective, I think they
- 47:16Speaker 1: go like sixty five thirty five pass rush. I think
- 47:20Speaker 1: there's a chance that maybe they go sixty forty pass rush,
- 47:25Speaker 1: maybe fifty five forty five pass rush, maybe even fifty
- 47:28Speaker 1: five forty five run defense. I think there's a chance,
- 47:32Speaker 1: just with what they need defensively, what we all know
- 47:35Speaker 1: they need defensively, and what Bernard and Rousseau said to
- 47:39Speaker 1: us in the film or episodes, and if you haven't
- 47:40Speaker 1: seen those, go check those out, not even doing a
- 47:41Speaker 1: shameless plug. There's a ton of really great insight from
- 47:44Speaker 1: those guys and some tape that we broke down with them.
- 47:46Speaker 1: And I say all this to say they need guys
- 47:50Speaker 1: on the interior that can limit displacement and not get
- 47:54Speaker 1: blown off the ball horizontally or downfield. That is what
- 47:57Speaker 1: this Bill's defense needs. They play a lot of light box,
- 48:00Speaker 1: they play too high safety structures, they play in nickel defense,
- 48:03Speaker 1: and their linebackers are smaller. You do not want second
- 48:06Speaker 1: You don't want your second level defenders in terrel Bernard,
- 48:09Speaker 1: Matt Malano and Taron Johnson having to deal with guards
- 48:11Speaker 1: and centers and tackles get into the second level and
- 48:13Speaker 1: causing problems for him. Then they're gonna they're not doing
- 48:15Speaker 1: a lot of stack and shed. They're gonna have to
- 48:17Speaker 1: dip and rip and get around, which means you have
- 48:19Speaker 1: to move with anticipation. You have to trigger quickly and accurately.
- 48:22Speaker 1: But then also there's a chance you kind of get
- 48:23Speaker 1: bumped out of a gap a little bit, and that
- 48:26Speaker 1: can create more problems inside. With the issues they had
- 48:28Speaker 1: with yards before contact as a light box, yards after
- 48:31Speaker 1: contact as a light box, you need someone in on
- 48:35Speaker 1: the interior who has the capability to anchor and hold
- 48:40Speaker 1: their ground against double teams and against the run. But
- 48:43Speaker 1: you still need to be able to penetrate a little
- 48:45Speaker 1: bit for the bills. That's what they believe, and I
- 48:47Speaker 1: also believe that too, right, I don't think you can
- 48:49Speaker 1: just be you know, as all jokes aside, and people
- 48:51Speaker 1: mentioned him in the chat like Ted Washington. One is
- 48:55Speaker 1: my heart, little little Anthony me love Ted Washington and
- 48:58Speaker 1: love Pat Williams and what they would do and just
- 49:00Speaker 1: eat up space in the middle. Those guys aren't rocking
- 49:03Speaker 1: today because they're not really offering you anything as a
- 49:05Speaker 1: pass rush. Right. So now I say all that to say,
- 49:09Speaker 1: Derek Harmon fits there, right, Darius Alexander fits there. Someone
- 49:14Speaker 1: who I love in this draft, but I don't think
- 49:17Speaker 1: fits Tyleek Williams, the defensive tackle from Ohio State. And
- 49:21Speaker 1: I say, I don't know or I don't think he fits.
- 49:24Speaker 1: He's more of a more of a two down player.
- 49:26Speaker 1: I think he's more athletic than he gets credit for.
- 49:28Speaker 1: And he can push the pocket because he has some juice,
- 49:31Speaker 1: he has some explosion, but he's not a penetrator. He's
- 49:34Speaker 1: not a one gapper. He's not this guy that on
- 49:37Speaker 1: the snap is going to have these moves and be
- 49:38Speaker 1: able to get forward. He's going to try and because
- 49:41Speaker 1: he has some lateral explosion, he might step and give
- 49:43Speaker 1: you a quick club or a swimmer and arm over,
- 49:46Speaker 1: or get and get by a guy. But he's probably
- 49:48Speaker 1: just trying to drive linemen back into the quarterbacks lab.
- 49:52Speaker 1: I am willing to take that because I think he's
- 49:54Speaker 1: a plus defender against the run. His ability to diagnose
- 49:57Speaker 1: blocking schemes, recognize what's coming at at him, being able
- 50:00Speaker 1: to drop the knee against double teams. He can anchor
- 50:03Speaker 1: against the double. He can drop the knee against the double.
- 50:06Speaker 1: He can club somebody and throw him to the ground.
- 50:08Speaker 1: He can stack and shed and read a running back's
- 50:10Speaker 1: track and make a play in the hole. And I
- 50:13Speaker 1: do think he has more athleticism that he gets credit
- 50:15Speaker 1: for now. Within all that, Oh and see this is
- 50:19Speaker 1: a good one too, Charles says, Alfred Collins would also
- 50:22Speaker 1: seem like a traditional non fit. Alfred Collins is a
- 50:25Speaker 1: great example. I really, really really like Alfred Collins as
- 50:28Speaker 1: a run defender. Good recognition, great hand usage, textbook stack
- 50:33Speaker 1: and shed. He good pad level. Tyler Williams has really
- 50:36Speaker 1: good pad level as well, But Alfred Collins get into
- 50:39Speaker 1: somebody great hand placement, gets hands, gets control, is just
- 50:43Speaker 1: waiting for the running back to decide where to go,
- 50:46Speaker 1: chucking dudes down to the ground, makes a play. Alfred
- 50:49Speaker 1: Collins gives you nothing as a pass rusher. He has
- 50:51Speaker 1: this like spin move where he like spins in place.
- 50:55Speaker 1: He doesn't go anywhere. He falls down a lot with it.
- 50:58Speaker 1: Like there's nothing from a pass rusher ppect for Alfred Collins.
- 51:01Speaker 1: Now there could be maybe at some point, but there's
- 51:03Speaker 1: nothing really to see right now. I've watched so much
- 51:05Speaker 1: Texas tape, watching Collins and Macouba and Baron and Vernon
- 51:10Speaker 1: Broughton and a lot of dudes on their defense. I've
- 51:13Speaker 1: seen so many Texas games, and I think I can
- 51:15Speaker 1: probably count on one hand the amount of like good
- 51:17Speaker 1: pass or snaps from Alfric Collins. So he's even more
- 51:20Speaker 1: skewed in that regard. I still, I personally still wouldn't
- 51:23Speaker 1: mind taking him in round two because I like the
- 51:26Speaker 1: idea of Daikwon and Ed and Ogan Joby and Alfred
- 51:29Speaker 1: Collins as a rotational guy. I would prefer somebody higher
- 51:33Speaker 1: tier because I think Daikwon Jones is more suited for
- 51:35Speaker 1: a rotational role now than a true starter. But conversation
- 51:38Speaker 1: for another time. But yeah, Collins is even more in
- 51:41Speaker 1: that regard. The guys that they're looking for are again
- 51:46Speaker 1: being able to live in the light and the dark,
- 51:47Speaker 1: one gap penetrate, get upfield, be able to impact the
- 51:51Speaker 1: quarterback and impact the run. Collins is in that mold
- 51:55Speaker 1: ty Leak Williams is a little more in that mold Collins.
- 52:00Speaker 1: But he's not Harmon. He's not Alexander like those type
- 52:03Speaker 1: of dudes. And for those who might think like, oh,
- 52:06Speaker 1: like Harmon's more of a three tech or Alexander's more
- 52:09Speaker 1: of a three tech, I think they both can play both.
- 52:12Speaker 1: But I do think the Bills would view them as
- 52:14Speaker 1: a one tech based on their size and be based
- 52:16Speaker 1: on their previous archetype profiles and traditionally how they've operated.
- 52:21Speaker 1: And Paizon says they were interested in Laky Fokoo. Yes
- 52:24Speaker 1: they were, and that's what I think is most interesting.
- 52:27Speaker 1: He doesn't give you anything from a pass rush perspective.
- 52:30Speaker 1: He doesn't give you any of that pass rush upside
- 52:32Speaker 1: the fact that they were interested in him. Again, it
- 52:33Speaker 1: could just be a camp body, could be in the
- 52:35Speaker 1: bottom tier depth chart guy to battle and eat some
- 52:37Speaker 1: snaps in the preseason. I do think there's a little
- 52:40Speaker 1: more smoke and potentially more fire to it than that.
- 52:43Speaker 1: So it gives me hope that they could go for
- 52:45Speaker 1: someone who is more skewed towards run defense and not
- 52:49Speaker 1: just more pass rush than he is run defense. Ron says,
- 52:53Speaker 1: if you watched Jordan Phillips, he's only twenty years old
- 52:55Speaker 1: and moves pretty well. I have not defensive tackle from Maryland.
- 52:59Speaker 1: He's in my my final tier dudes to wrap up
- 53:01Speaker 1: interior defensive line. I've watched so many in a multitude
- 53:04Speaker 1: other ways. But when I have the interior defensive line conversation,
- 53:10Speaker 1: which will be several weeks from now, I don't remember
- 53:13Speaker 1: which date and what I'm doing where, but yeah, I
- 53:15Speaker 1: will have notes and film and lots of things on
- 53:18Speaker 1: Jordan Phillips. He will definitely be watched for me. Where
- 53:23Speaker 1: Todd says Harmon has a low tackle percentage, doesn't he
- 53:26Speaker 1: I don't know what Harmon's tackle percentage is, but my
- 53:28Speaker 1: biggest issue with Harmon is he's more of a disruptor
- 53:32Speaker 1: than he is finisher a lot of pressures. You'd like
- 53:35Speaker 1: to get more sacks. I think you see some of
- 53:37Speaker 1: the change of direction stuff. He's great at getting up field,
- 53:39Speaker 1: but then having to break down his base how he's built.
- 53:43Speaker 1: Sometimes we'll kind of mislead him at the tackle point,
- 53:46Speaker 1: at the sack point, I should say so. I think
- 53:48Speaker 1: he's more disruptor than finisher. But from how he's built,
- 53:52Speaker 1: from a frame perspective, and skill set and play style,
- 53:56Speaker 1: he fits what the Bills want on the interior in general,
- 53:59Speaker 1: even again as a one tech type of guy. RJ.
- 54:03Speaker 1: Don't be this dramatic. RJ says, being all drafted two
- 54:05Speaker 1: hundred and fifty pound defensive tackle and put him at
- 54:07Speaker 1: one tech, because of course they will. That's too far,
- 54:10Speaker 1: maybe like two point fifty five. I'm just kidding. No,
- 54:12Speaker 1: that's too far. But I that's fair. R Jay. I
- 54:15Speaker 1: expect to comment from you at this point. Let me go,
- 54:19Speaker 1: I wanted to speak on this a little bit. Jared
- 54:23Speaker 1: says Kenneth Grant would be the only defensive tackle I
- 54:25Speaker 1: would take the first round. If he's gone, no problem,
- 54:26Speaker 1: because there's plenty of talent in the second and John
- 54:29Speaker 1: Robert says Kenneth Grant a plugger. I spoke on him
- 54:31Speaker 1: in a little bit last week. I just want to
- 54:33Speaker 1: speak on him, not because I know so many folks
- 54:35Speaker 1: are asking about him. I'm not. I'm not as high
- 54:40Speaker 1: on Kenneth Grant as others are. The easiest way I
- 54:43Speaker 1: can describe him is I think he's a big man
- 54:47Speaker 1: and an athletic guy. I think he plays more to
- 54:51Speaker 1: the athletic side than he does the big side. I
- 54:54Speaker 1: think he plays, for being listened, at what three hundred
- 54:57Speaker 1: and thirty pounds, he plays like he's three zero five
- 55:02Speaker 1: or three ten at best. He plays like he wants
- 55:05Speaker 1: to get a field and rush to QB, not necessarily
- 55:08Speaker 1: anchor handle double teams, recognizing blocking schemes, do the run
- 55:12Speaker 1: defense stuff that you would think he would do because
- 55:15Speaker 1: of his size, or you may want him to. Again,
- 55:18Speaker 1: the flashes are there. The athleticism shows on tape. Did
- 55:21Speaker 1: have a great testing day at his pro day, which
- 55:23Speaker 1: kind of gives you some concern about the athleticism. But
- 55:26Speaker 1: I'm just a little down on him, especially in relative
- 55:30Speaker 1: comparison to others who are very high on what defensive
- 55:32Speaker 1: tackle two or like want him as a lock for
- 55:35Speaker 1: the bills at thirty, I would take him, know, I'd
- 55:38Speaker 1: welcome him, I wouldn't be overjoyed with it at thirty.
- 55:42Speaker 1: I don't think he He doesn't do enough for me
- 55:45Speaker 1: as a run defender and also doesn't do enough for
- 55:47Speaker 1: me as a pass rusher. But there are some traits
- 55:49Speaker 1: there and you could continue to build and he could develop.
- 55:52Speaker 1: But I think when he's doing pass, if he's not
- 55:55Speaker 1: winning on the snap with a quick, you know, his
- 55:58Speaker 1: go to move on the interior, when he wins as
- 56:00Speaker 1: a pass rusher, he'll get some you know, bul rush
- 56:03Speaker 1: and kind of drive a guy back, but it's usually
- 56:05Speaker 1: a side step and then some lateral explosion in a
- 56:08Speaker 1: quick swim or arm over back inside. If he's not
- 56:12Speaker 1: winning with that, he's stalling out a lot of times,
- 56:14Speaker 1: or he's doing moves almost for the sake of doing moves.
- 56:17Speaker 1: It's kind of like somebody who's playing a video game
- 56:19Speaker 1: and is just button mashing and just mashing buttons to
- 56:22Speaker 1: mash buttons. They're not doing this move to lead to
- 56:25Speaker 1: this move to lead to that. They're just kind of
- 56:27Speaker 1: trying to spam everything and hit what they can and
- 56:29Speaker 1: see what works. And so it gives me some cause
- 56:31Speaker 1: for concern. I think he's more developmental then he necessarily
- 56:34Speaker 1: gets then then thin finished product. I should say, again
- 56:37Speaker 1: a big guy and an athletic guy, but I think
- 56:39Speaker 1: he plays more to the athlete than he does the
- 56:42Speaker 1: big for a guy who's listed at three point thirty
- 56:44Speaker 1: and plays in that range, I think he plays more
- 56:48Speaker 1: like he's like he like he thinks he's three zero five.
- 56:50Speaker 1: He plays more as a one gap, penetrating upfield type
- 56:53Speaker 1: of defensive tackle. Then he does a displacement limterter, and
- 56:58Speaker 1: I don't think he doesn't off as an upfield pass
- 57:01Speaker 1: rushing like one gap type of penetrating guy. So it's
- 57:03Speaker 1: almost like he's this weird type of tweener, which again
- 57:08Speaker 1: gives me some more pause. I have to finalize my
- 57:10Speaker 1: interior defensive line rankings. But yeah, it's I don't love
- 57:14Speaker 1: him as much as others do. I have some cause
- 57:16Speaker 1: for concern. I wouldn't be, you know, distraught if they
- 57:20Speaker 1: took him. But I don't think he's this slam dunk
- 57:22Speaker 1: home run lock, amazing pick and fit like a lot
- 57:25Speaker 1: of folks think. I think that he may be, but again,
- 57:28Speaker 1: let's just be teached to run a lot of comments here.
- 57:32Speaker 1: Ron says, Tyleerk Williams would be a good get in
- 57:34Speaker 1: the second round. Man, if you could guarantee me right now,
- 57:37Speaker 1: right now, if you could tell me the Bills could
- 57:39Speaker 1: get Trey Amos at thirty and tai Leek Williams at
- 57:43Speaker 1: fifty six or sixty two or whatever it is, I
- 57:44Speaker 1: would sign him for that. Every single day of the week.
- 57:46Speaker 1: Every single day of the week, I would sign him
- 57:48Speaker 1: for that. I would take it immediately. I really like
- 57:51Speaker 1: Tyler Williams. Again, I think he offers more from an
- 57:56Speaker 1: athlete perspective. Again, he's not some plus athlete. He's not
- 57:59Speaker 1: a plus pass rusher, but he has enough juice and
- 58:02Speaker 1: power to impact the pocket and that's enough for me
- 58:05Speaker 1: considering what he does against the run, especially for this defense.
- 58:09Speaker 1: John Roberts says, how is Dean Walker, defensive tackle from Kentucky.
- 58:14Speaker 1: I didn't like his tape. The movement is really poor,
- 58:16Speaker 1: just with how he's built. But I do know that
- 58:19Speaker 1: he had a back injury last year and maybe that
- 58:22Speaker 1: impacted him a bit. So I have to go back
- 58:23Speaker 1: and watch him twenty twenty three tape and see maybe
- 58:25Speaker 1: if there was a significant difference there. As of right now,
- 58:29Speaker 1: I'm low on him, and I also don't see him
- 58:30Speaker 1: being a scheme fit for the Bills. Pete says, I
- 58:34Speaker 1: don't see it, but I would go to a dark
- 58:36Speaker 1: place if Harmon gets the thirty and we don't take him. Yeah,
- 58:39Speaker 1: to your point, I don't see Harmon lasting till thirty.
- 58:41Speaker 1: I don't think Harmon or Barren last till thirty from
- 58:45Speaker 1: a defensive tackle or cornerback perspective, respectively.
- 58:53Speaker 2: What else, what else?
- 58:54Speaker 1: What else? Sal says, watched the replay of the Ravens playoffs.
- 58:58Speaker 1: They ran the ball down our throat the whole third quarter.
- 59:01Speaker 1: That's a good point. I think it's an aspect that
- 59:02Speaker 1: gets lost in these Bills playoffs. Like that second half,
- 59:08Speaker 1: Baltimore ran the ball down the Bill's throat with regularity,
- 59:13Speaker 1: and when push came to shove at the end, Lamar
- 59:15Speaker 1: Jackson marched them down the field and was ready to
- 59:19Speaker 1: tie the game up if not for that drop. I mean,
- 59:22Speaker 1: even with that game in general, not to get too
- 59:23Speaker 1: far off track, I know the Bills forced some of
- 59:26Speaker 1: those turnovers right the the you know the pressure that
- 59:31Speaker 1: heated up Lamar that made him throw that deep ball
- 59:33Speaker 1: that Taylor ratt picked off even somewhat of what DeMar
- 59:37Speaker 1: Hamlin did to Lamar, but a lot of the rape
- 59:39Speaker 1: the Ravens really kind of shot themselves in their own foot.
- 59:42Speaker 1: The Mark Andrews fumble several of the drops even than
- 59:45Speaker 1: Lamar fumble to a degree. But aside from the turnovers,
- 59:47Speaker 1: and you can't do this because there was three of them,
- 59:49Speaker 1: But aside from those turnovers where Baltimore kind of shot
- 59:52Speaker 1: themselves on the foot of bit, they moved the ball
- 59:54Speaker 1: up and down the field at will on the bills
- 59:57Speaker 1: and then again when push came to shove in the
- 59:58Speaker 1: second half, it was just we're just gonna run the
- 1:00:02Speaker 1: ball down your throat and up the gut and there's
- 1:00:04Speaker 1: nothing you can do about it. And they couldn't do
- 1:00:05Speaker 1: anything about it, and I think that's very worrisome. Again,
- 1:00:08Speaker 1: the yards before contact speak to a degree from a
- 1:00:11Speaker 1: light box perspective. From the defense in general, I think
- 1:00:14Speaker 1: I think they showed up good and shorter down in
- 1:00:17Speaker 1: distances and big times when it matter, like third and
- 1:00:19Speaker 1: one or fourth and short of that kind of stuff.
- 1:00:21Speaker 1: But that was because they were able to gap out.
- 1:00:23Speaker 1: They would have to commit numbers to the box and
- 1:00:26Speaker 1: be able to win with numbers. They weren't winning individually.
- 1:00:29Speaker 1: They weren't winning with guys who were stealing gaps or
- 1:00:32Speaker 1: beating guys individually against the run. Aside from like Russeau
- 1:00:35Speaker 1: and Epanessa, especially on the interior, especially from a rotational perspective,
- 1:00:39Speaker 1: they were just getting driven off the ball left and right.
- 1:00:44Speaker 1: All right, Carlos has lots of shifts to rushing from
- 1:00:51Speaker 1: offenses last year. Does that impact the Bills going for
- 1:00:54Speaker 1: someone that's not the additional type, they don't really have
- 1:00:56Speaker 1: the horses to stop teams like the Ravens. That's an
- 1:00:59Speaker 1: A plus Q question, Charles. My answer is for you
- 1:01:02Speaker 1: saying does that impact the Bills going for someone that's
- 1:01:04Speaker 1: not the traditional type, My answer is I hope. So.
- 1:01:07Speaker 1: My second answer is we'll see. My third answer is
- 1:01:11Speaker 1: I really hope. So to your point, the run game
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: is coming back in vogue. It's not just a couple
- 1:01:17Speaker 1: teams that lean into it here and there. It's gonna matter,
- 1:01:21Speaker 1: and gap scheme runs in particular matter. So you need guys.
- 1:01:25Speaker 1: It's not just about being athletic enough to not get
- 1:01:28Speaker 1: reached or not have an offensive lineman cross your face.
- 1:01:31Speaker 1: And it's like Okay, you can shoot this gap or
- 1:01:33Speaker 1: you can cut this off from the backside. Now it's
- 1:01:35Speaker 1: can you hold your ground against a guy down blocking you?
- 1:01:38Speaker 1: Can you hold yourself against Can you hold your ground
- 1:01:40Speaker 1: against a double team? Can you come up? Can you
- 1:01:43Speaker 1: come up field and recognize that a guard just left
- 1:01:46Speaker 1: your gap and you not thinking, oh, I'm free, because
- 1:01:49Speaker 1: it's actually trap and now you're gonna get slammed in
- 1:01:51Speaker 1: your ear by the guard coming from the other side.
- 1:01:54Speaker 1: Or it's whaym and you came up field and there's
- 1:01:56Speaker 1: a tight end or a full back or an h
- 1:01:58Speaker 1: back who's gonna spear you in the other ear and
- 1:02:00Speaker 1: drive you out of the hole like there is. There
- 1:02:03Speaker 1: needs to be more emphasis on run defense, especially with
- 1:02:05Speaker 1: the Bills and how they're built defensively, and again all
- 1:02:08Speaker 1: of it ties into limiting what the pass game can do.
- 1:02:13Speaker 1: You want numbers in coverage, so you want to be
- 1:02:16Speaker 1: able to defend the run for light box. That from
- 1:02:18Speaker 1: a light box, that is the holy grail for a defense.
- 1:02:20Speaker 1: If you can defend the run with a light box
- 1:02:22Speaker 1: and have two high safety structures, you can have numbers
- 1:02:26Speaker 1: in coverage. If you can keep numbers in coverage and
- 1:02:28Speaker 1: when I say numbers like having seven guys being able
- 1:02:30Speaker 1: to drop or you know, depending on what it is,
- 1:02:32Speaker 1: who has to commit for the second level. But if
- 1:02:34Speaker 1: you have numbers in coverage, if you have the numbers
- 1:02:35Speaker 1: advantage against the pass, that's a very successful winning formula.
- 1:02:40Speaker 1: But you can only do that if you can stop
- 1:02:42Speaker 1: the run with less numbers. And in order to stop
- 1:02:45Speaker 1: the run with less numbers, you need guys up front
- 1:02:48Speaker 1: that can stop the run when they're outgunned. You need
- 1:02:51Speaker 1: guys who can beat a double team or a guy
- 1:02:52Speaker 1: who can steal a gap and make those plays against
- 1:02:54Speaker 1: the run. So I do hope that it impacts the
- 1:02:58Speaker 1: Bills going for someone that's not traditional type. I do
- 1:03:00Speaker 1: think they need more. They need more dirt and grit
- 1:03:03Speaker 1: and say in paper and violence on the inside from
- 1:03:06Speaker 1: a run game perspective, like that's what they need. Robert
- 1:03:13Speaker 1: says it's time to move on from Daikon Jones. Anthony,
- 1:03:15Speaker 1: your defensive line philosophy scares me. You have to get
- 1:03:17Speaker 1: a defensive line that stops the run. I don't disagree,
- 1:03:21Speaker 1: Payson says, resigned Jordan Phillips, then draft Jordan Phillips and
- 1:03:23Speaker 1: recreate this ass spider Man meme Ron says, I think
- 1:03:27Speaker 1: they can fix some of Harmon's issues and get a
- 1:03:29Speaker 1: lot out of them. I'll tell you this too. Right
- 1:03:30Speaker 1: for Harmon being a penetrator guy, and at Oliver also
- 1:03:37Speaker 1: being like a penetrator type of guy, and Ogunjoby being
- 1:03:39Speaker 1: that type of guy. Right, building your interior like that.
- 1:03:42Speaker 1: It helps when you have guys on the outside who
- 1:03:45Speaker 1: can compress the pocket and clean things up. So I
- 1:03:48Speaker 1: don't know, Having an edge like Greg Russau with crazy
- 1:03:51Speaker 1: length who can clean things up a little bit. Having
- 1:03:53Speaker 1: an edge like Joey Bosa who's great at reading quarterback
- 1:03:56Speaker 1: angles and depths of their drop and being able to
- 1:04:00Speaker 1: adjust his rush angle or go through offensive tackles to
- 1:04:03Speaker 1: put them into that drop, that helps a little bit.
- 1:04:08Speaker 1: Having guys who can play the edge spots cerebrally, I
- 1:04:10Speaker 1: think helps a little bit. Having a guy like Michael
- 1:04:13Speaker 1: Hoyt again who can stunt and dip and do all
- 1:04:15Speaker 1: these different kinds of things, it kind of balances out
- 1:04:18Speaker 1: a little and helps a bit. I do wish Harmon
- 1:04:20Speaker 1: finished more, but I will take a disruptor and he
- 1:04:23Speaker 1: does play the run waitch helps and he's also a
- 1:04:26Speaker 1: really great character guy from what I've heard from people,
- 1:04:28Speaker 1: so that's a good piece as well. Luke says, do
- 1:04:33Speaker 1: you lock in an edge at pick thirty if it's
- 1:04:36Speaker 1: Green from Marshall or Schamar Stewart from A and M.
- 1:04:39Speaker 1: I haven't watched Mike Green yet. I haven't watched samar
- 1:04:42Speaker 1: Stewart yet. I'm still finishing my stuff on the Texas
- 1:04:45Speaker 1: A and M boys, both him and Nick Scrton. Green
- 1:04:49Speaker 1: Green for me and part of the reason I got
- 1:04:51Speaker 1: to him like later. I just think he's such an
- 1:04:53Speaker 1: outlier for what the bill's like at edge, and I'm
- 1:04:55Speaker 1: gonna talk about it in a minute. His size and
- 1:04:57Speaker 1: his play style is it is an outlier, and I'm
- 1:05:03Speaker 1: gonna juxtapose it with a guy that fits kind of
- 1:05:05Speaker 1: what they've done from an archetype perspective. Oh Ron says,
- 1:05:09Speaker 1: if Stuart is there at thirty, I'm absolutely gambling on
- 1:05:12Speaker 1: the trades fair point. Ron says, there's gonna be some
- 1:05:17Speaker 1: really good dts still available in the third and even
- 1:05:19Speaker 1: fourth round. That's fair. Jared says, I won't be happy
- 1:05:23Speaker 1: if I stay up late for us to trade out
- 1:05:24Speaker 1: of the first round again. Oh Man oh Ron says,
- 1:05:32Speaker 1: let's get Dayne Carter to add twenty pounds of muscle,
- 1:05:34Speaker 1: maybe he won't get blown into the stands on almost
- 1:05:36Speaker 1: every running play. I don't think it's just a muscle,
- 1:05:38Speaker 1: it's his play style. I just I'm gonna keep saying
- 1:05:41Speaker 1: it all offseason. I'm not out on Dwayne Carter, but
- 1:05:44Speaker 1: I'm kind of out on Dwayne Carter. Like I think
- 1:05:45Speaker 1: he's at right now. He should be like defensive tackle
- 1:05:48Speaker 1: four or ideally defensive tackle five like I think they
- 1:05:50Speaker 1: need right now. They need they need an interior if
- 1:05:53Speaker 1: like I said last week, they need an interior defensive
- 1:05:55Speaker 1: lineman that can either bump Daikwon Jones to a rotational
- 1:05:58Speaker 1: role with Ogunjobi or they they need another high end
- 1:06:01Speaker 1: rotational guy. So you've got ed daikuon Ogan Jobi and
- 1:06:04Speaker 1: the rotational guy, and then Dwayne Carter's vive. Like I just,
- 1:06:08Speaker 1: he just got to prove something. And it has nothing
- 1:06:10Speaker 1: to do with the injury like people like to say, like, oh,
- 1:06:12Speaker 1: before the risk injury, he was playing good. No he wasn't.
- 1:06:14Speaker 1: He had some positive flashes against Houston. That was it. Unfortunately,
- 1:06:19Speaker 1: good conversation. Um boom bum. Let's move on to the
- 1:06:25Speaker 1: next position of need edge. So that comment that I
- 1:06:29Speaker 1: just read a minute ago regarding Mike Green from Marshall
- 1:06:32Speaker 1: from a perspective or from that perspective, the Bills archetype
- 1:06:38Speaker 1: at edge. If there was one edge that could fall
- 1:06:43Speaker 1: to them at pick thirty that I think with the
- 1:06:46Speaker 1: Bills would run to the podium and draft, it would
- 1:06:48Speaker 1: be mikel Williams from Georgia. The length, the strength, the
- 1:06:52Speaker 1: pocket compression, the ability to play the run, all of
- 1:06:56Speaker 1: that in a package is what the Bills want at edge,
- 1:06:59Speaker 1: that is, but they have gravitated towards in the past.
- 1:07:04Speaker 1: Von Miller was an outlier. Javon Solomon was an outlier.
- 1:07:08Speaker 1: Now what's interesting with that is those are moves in
- 1:07:11Speaker 1: the past several years, right. Does that indicate they're starting
- 1:07:15Speaker 1: to tweet things a little bit? You know, even Bosa
- 1:07:19Speaker 1: is more of a move back towards pocket compression. That's
- 1:07:23Speaker 1: been the biggest thing for them from a past rush perspective.
- 1:07:26Speaker 1: They want pocket compressors. They're not completely into dip and
- 1:07:31Speaker 1: bend and athleticism and moves. They want pocket compression guys.
- 1:07:34Speaker 1: They want you to use a long arm. They want
- 1:07:36Speaker 1: you to bull rush or speed to power, but it's
- 1:07:39Speaker 1: the power piece that matters. They want you to compress
- 1:07:42Speaker 1: the pocket all around a quarterback. They don't want dip
- 1:07:45Speaker 1: and bend and run the arc. They're not looking for
- 1:07:48Speaker 1: spin moves and all that creativity. They want pocket compressors.
- 1:07:51Speaker 1: Mikel Williams from Georgia is the archetype in this draft
- 1:07:56Speaker 1: of what they gravitate towards. Again, it's like right. Ron says,
- 1:07:59Speaker 1: they're we like length at defensive end. That is absolutely right,
- 1:08:04Speaker 1: And Luke says, although I love the idea of Mike Green,
- 1:08:06Speaker 1: I'd absolutely take Mikel Williams as well. I'm excited to
- 1:08:09Speaker 1: see Green's tape. I've heard there's some really great stuff
- 1:08:12Speaker 1: from a pastor's perpective and like an athleticism and flash perspective.
- 1:08:15Speaker 1: I've also already gives great effort against the run, so
- 1:08:18Speaker 1: I'm excited to see him. Why do I think he
- 1:08:21Speaker 1: has some off the field stuff in some way? Maybe
- 1:08:25Speaker 1: I'm wrong, maybe it's somebody else, but yeah, I'm excited
- 1:08:28Speaker 1: to watch Green's tape. But yeah, he's Luke says, I
- 1:08:31Speaker 1: absolutely take Mikel Williams as well. Mikel Williams is the
- 1:08:34Speaker 1: pro the poster boy for what the Bills want to edge. MIKEL.
- 1:08:37Speaker 1: Williams is another Greg Russo, that's what the Bills want
- 1:08:39Speaker 1: to edge. They want pocket compressors, boom, done and dusted.
- 1:08:42Speaker 1: That's it now what I think is interesting again? Like, oh, okay,
- 1:08:48Speaker 1: so Luke and Joe both he said he does what
- 1:08:51Speaker 1: does if someone wants to put into the checks? I
- 1:08:53Speaker 1: don't remember, and somebody told me and I don't remember.
- 1:08:55Speaker 1: What does Mike Green have? Yeah? And Claude even says
- 1:08:57Speaker 1: Green will be off the Bills board. I thought it
- 1:08:59Speaker 1: was something early in his college career, but I don't remember.
- 1:09:02Speaker 1: Feel free to put it in the chat because I
- 1:09:03Speaker 1: don't remember anybody. I appreciate the detective work. In the chat,
- 1:09:08Speaker 1: Claude says, just happened upon Elijah Roberts from SMU. I
- 1:09:11Speaker 1: have not watched Elijah Roberts yet. I know Russell Brown,
- 1:09:14Speaker 1: who will be joining me in a couple of weeks.
- 1:09:16Speaker 1: I know he likes Elijah Roberts, but he's in the
- 1:09:18Speaker 1: next next type of thing? Okay, oh, copy of that.
- 1:09:23Speaker 1: Pete says we shouldn't type Green's thing, and Rock follow
- 1:09:25Speaker 1: it up with what okay? Fair enough? Then, that makes
- 1:09:28Speaker 1: me not want to watch the tape because I don't
- 1:09:30Speaker 1: want to watch that guy. But yeah, fair enough, but
- 1:09:33Speaker 1: so again from positive perspective, Mike Keil Williams. If you
- 1:09:36Speaker 1: need to wonder what the Bills archetype is at edge,
- 1:09:38Speaker 1: it is mikel Williams, it is Greg Russo they want
- 1:09:41Speaker 1: pocket compressors now, again similar to the defensive tackle piece.
- 1:09:46Speaker 1: It doesn't have to be the biggest guy. You don't
- 1:09:50Speaker 1: have to have all this size and length. They prefer length.
- 1:09:55Speaker 1: That is something that they genuinely want. And even as
- 1:10:00Speaker 1: I go to look at something for Javon Solomon right now,
- 1:10:07Speaker 1: for as small as Javon Solomon was right like smaller height,
- 1:10:12Speaker 1: lower weight, six feet seven eighths inches for height, two
- 1:10:16Speaker 1: hundred and forty six pounds for weight. From a percentile standpoint,
- 1:10:19Speaker 1: that height is literally this zero percentile for height his weight,
- 1:10:23Speaker 1: he's in the eighth percentile. So he's a smaller dude.
- 1:10:26Speaker 1: But his arm length at thirty three seven eighth inches
- 1:10:29Speaker 1: puts him in the sixty third percentile, which again isn't
- 1:10:32Speaker 1: crazy for the Ron says he has spider man arms. Yeah,
- 1:10:36Speaker 1: but for a guy like you know, sixty third percentile.
- 1:10:39Speaker 1: It's good length. Having thirty three and seven eighth inches
- 1:10:41Speaker 1: arms for a guy who's six feet two forty six.
- 1:10:45Speaker 1: Those are long arms. That's what the bills like. They
- 1:10:47Speaker 1: like arm length and they like pocket compression. So even
- 1:10:50Speaker 1: though Solomon was an outlier from an overall size heightened
- 1:10:55Speaker 1: weight perspective, and even from a stylistic perspective, Solomon wasn't
- 1:11:00Speaker 1: really a pocket compression guy. He had some dip, he
- 1:11:02Speaker 1: had some bent, He won with moves and plan and
- 1:11:05Speaker 1: rush repertoire and move transitions. He was a bit of
- 1:11:09Speaker 1: an outlier stylistically and heighten weight wise, but he ticked
- 1:11:14Speaker 1: that big box for arm length. So they value arm length,
- 1:11:17Speaker 1: they value pocket compression. Now again, like I mentioned in
- 1:11:20Speaker 1: the kind of lead into this segment, are they starting
- 1:11:23Speaker 1: to tweak that a little bit? I think that's very
- 1:11:25Speaker 1: interesting to kind of see, and I'm interested to see
- 1:11:28Speaker 1: what kind of edge they gravitate towards based off of that,
- 1:11:32Speaker 1: because there's a lot there's a lot of depth at
- 1:11:34Speaker 1: defensive line in this draft, on the interior end at edge.
- 1:11:38Speaker 1: But if you're ranking them based on like archetype fit
- 1:11:41Speaker 1: for the Bills, you have to put it within the
- 1:11:44Speaker 1: style and the arm length and overall the same size
- 1:11:47Speaker 1: kind of plays into it a bit as well. Right,
- 1:11:48Speaker 1: But can you get somebody who has the arm length
- 1:11:53Speaker 1: and the style that fits what the bills want? Or
- 1:11:55Speaker 1: are they moving away towards that? Do they want more
- 1:12:00Speaker 1: dip or bend or edge or edge or actually yeah,
- 1:12:04Speaker 1: dip or bend at the edge are they looking for?
- 1:12:07Speaker 1: And I know there's some like attitude stuff with James
- 1:12:11Speaker 1: Pierce like, but what they consider would they consider somebody
- 1:12:13Speaker 1: like James Pierce if he's there, or even Donovan as
- 1:12:16Speaker 1: a rock up. He's got the arm length, but he's
- 1:12:19Speaker 1: more of a dip bend moves guy, right, beautiful ghost
- 1:12:25Speaker 1: like type of guy off the edge where he can
- 1:12:27Speaker 1: flash and dip underneath a tackle is throwing their hands
- 1:12:30Speaker 1: for a punch. He's dipping and going underneath them, flattening
- 1:12:33Speaker 1: getting to the quarterback. He's not necessarily a compression guy, right,
- 1:12:37Speaker 1: isn't you know, can defend the run, but is more
- 1:12:40Speaker 1: of just a mercenary and a hunter off the edge.
- 1:12:42Speaker 1: Right Now, do they look towards somebody like that, you know,
- 1:12:45Speaker 1: especially early on, or is it more like, hey, we
- 1:12:48Speaker 1: want land in Jackson, Hey, we want JTT from Ohio State,
- 1:12:53Speaker 1: or is it you know, hey, Jack Sawyer's got a
- 1:12:56Speaker 1: great motor and plays the run, but he's got short arms.
- 1:12:58Speaker 1: Do they like do what? Where do they bucket? Where
- 1:13:01Speaker 1: do they not edge? I think is really interesting because
- 1:13:04Speaker 1: I just think they they've been bit by mobile quarterbacks
- 1:13:10Speaker 1: a bit too much on the edge because they've gravitated
- 1:13:13Speaker 1: more towards pocket compression guys and guys who play the run.
- 1:13:17Speaker 1: And I do think you need that, especially again with
- 1:13:19Speaker 1: the advent of similar to the interior defensive line conversation.
- 1:13:21Speaker 1: At edge, you need guys who can play the run.
- 1:13:23Speaker 1: You need guys who are stout, who can hone their
- 1:13:28Speaker 1: craft against the run, control their gap, maybe play some
- 1:13:31Speaker 1: gap in a half maybe two gap, actually not even
- 1:13:33Speaker 1: maybe you do need the two gap and gap and
- 1:13:36Speaker 1: a half the times if you're gonna play with those
- 1:13:37Speaker 1: light boxes, right, But that pass rush aspect I overall
- 1:13:44Speaker 1: in the room, they need more athleticism, they need more juice,
- 1:13:47Speaker 1: they need more moves. Do they think that, you know,
- 1:13:50Speaker 1: are Vaughn and Javon Solomon breadcrumbs that lead to something else?
- 1:13:55Speaker 1: Or are like looking more towards that archetype. I will say,
- 1:13:58Speaker 1: for as much as I want juice and dip and
- 1:14:01Speaker 1: athleticism and bend, if mike Kel Williams was sitting there
- 1:14:04Speaker 1: at thirty, I'll take Mikel Williams like he I don't
- 1:14:08Speaker 1: know how he played with this year with the ankle
- 1:14:10Speaker 1: injury that he had against Clemson. I said it on
- 1:14:11Speaker 1: last week's show. I thought his ankle was broken immediately
- 1:14:15Speaker 1: in that opening game against Clemson, and he played the
- 1:14:17Speaker 1: whole rest of the year. His numbers were down, his
- 1:14:20Speaker 1: effectiveness was down because he was essentially playing on one leg.
- 1:14:23Speaker 1: But even with that, you're watching him just chuck dudes
- 1:14:26Speaker 1: and play with leverage and length and what he does
- 1:14:28Speaker 1: when healthy. Coming coming into this past season, in the
- 1:14:31Speaker 1: twenty twenty four season, he was viewed as like a
- 1:14:33Speaker 1: top five lock and arguably like the best prospect in
- 1:14:36Speaker 1: this class in a multitude of ways, and then he
- 1:14:38Speaker 1: got banged up. Abdul Carter just rose like the undertaker,
- 1:14:42Speaker 1: sitting up out of the casket or in the center
- 1:14:44Speaker 1: of the ring and took over everything from an edge perspective.
- 1:14:47Speaker 1: But Mikel Williams is a dude. If he were to fall,
- 1:14:50Speaker 1: I got no problem with the bills taking him just
- 1:14:52Speaker 1: what he offers and how he fits what they're trying
- 1:14:55Speaker 1: to do. Again, I would still like Dip and Ben
- 1:14:57Speaker 1: in athleticism, but I think he's just a good football
- 1:15:00Speaker 1: player and can and can affect the quarterback in a
- 1:15:03Speaker 1: multitude of ways from a compression standpoint, given the juice
- 1:15:07Speaker 1: they have on the inside. And then what he offers
- 1:15:08Speaker 1: as a run defender, him and groot Man just what
- 1:15:12Speaker 1: Mikel Williams and groot would offer you from a light
- 1:15:15Speaker 1: box run defense perspective. That's part of it too, Like
- 1:15:18Speaker 1: the run defense just can't get lost from me. But
- 1:15:21Speaker 1: again that's the archetype of what they want at Edge, right,
- 1:15:25Speaker 1: and so that's what makes the conversation so interesting or fun.
- 1:15:28Speaker 1: With a lot of the names for people is like, okay,
- 1:15:31Speaker 1: like would Josiah Stewart be there? I see something in
- 1:15:35Speaker 1: the chat I have not watched. I've seen some clips
- 1:15:38Speaker 1: of David Walker, haven't watched him done the evaluation, but
- 1:15:40Speaker 1: he will get done before we do. The Edge episode
- 1:15:45Speaker 1: of the Skuy's coverage coming up in I don't know
- 1:15:47Speaker 1: how many weeks I have to look at the calendar. Okay,
- 1:15:49Speaker 1: I keep forgetting everything, but Yeah, when they look towards
- 1:15:51Speaker 1: someone like a Mike Green, do they look at the
- 1:15:53Speaker 1: traits of someone like Shamar Stewart. Do they gravitate towards
- 1:15:58Speaker 1: the athleticism and the bend in the past powers of
- 1:16:00Speaker 1: Donovan az Aroku Or is it more like, no, we
- 1:16:03Speaker 1: want Landon Jackson, we want jtt Could it be princely
- 1:16:07Speaker 1: Omami Yellen? You know, is that enough, that combination of
- 1:16:09Speaker 1: athleticism and compression or is that not enough? Like all
- 1:16:13Speaker 1: these questions that I think we have to ask about
- 1:16:16Speaker 1: the edge position that are tied to the archetypes that
- 1:16:19Speaker 1: they've traditionally operated within, gravitated towards, but some little maybe
- 1:16:24Speaker 1: outliers and bread crumbs that they've had in other ways
- 1:16:27Speaker 1: that might indicate that they're moving towards someone else or
- 1:16:31Speaker 1: trying to round out the room a little bit. And then,
- 1:16:34Speaker 1: of course the backdrop of all of this is do
- 1:16:37Speaker 1: you think Javon Solomon can be a player? If he is?
- 1:16:40Speaker 1: Is he your athleticism and ben guy right? Then they
- 1:16:43Speaker 1: do they think they have enough? If not, do they
- 1:16:45Speaker 1: want more because they already they still think that he's
- 1:16:48Speaker 1: gonna be factored in the rotation Or is he not.
- 1:16:51Speaker 1: And then you have Michael Hoyt. How are they gonna
- 1:16:52Speaker 1: use Hoyt? Are they gonna use them as a traditional
- 1:16:54Speaker 1: like four you know, four down edge or are they
- 1:16:57Speaker 1: gonna use them all over the place like the Rams did,
- 1:16:58Speaker 1: which I think they should and which was very fun.
- 1:17:00Speaker 1: But if they don't, he's violence and compression. It has
- 1:17:03Speaker 1: some moves off the edge. He's kind of like a
- 1:17:05Speaker 1: tweeter a little bit. It's it's interesting how they can
- 1:17:11Speaker 1: change the edge grouping and the interior defensive line in
- 1:17:15Speaker 1: just one draft class. It will be very interesting to
- 1:17:19Speaker 1: see what they can do, and even the corner room
- 1:17:22Speaker 1: as well, which is why I really wanted to talk
- 1:17:23Speaker 1: about these three positions in this episode. They can in
- 1:17:28Speaker 1: one draft class. Honestly, in the first two rounds, depending
- 1:17:30Speaker 1: on if they say they take a corner defensive, tack
- 1:17:32Speaker 1: on an edge at some combination in their first three picks,
- 1:17:35Speaker 1: they really could go a long way towards significantly changing
- 1:17:41Speaker 1: how they have viewed each position philosophically, stylistically, and from
- 1:17:45Speaker 1: an archetype standpoint. Or they can stay the course. They
- 1:17:50Speaker 1: could just look for what they've looked at, you know, value, responsibility,
- 1:17:55Speaker 1: and assignment sound and reliability a corner over everything else
- 1:17:58Speaker 1: times a thousand value, pocket compression at edge over everything
- 1:18:02Speaker 1: else times a thousand value, past rush and penetration on
- 1:18:06Speaker 1: the interior over everything times a thousand, or they could
- 1:18:10Speaker 1: tweak it a little bit. And I think the tweaks
- 1:18:13Speaker 1: are potentially so interesting because they do have this mo
- 1:18:18Speaker 1: at each of these positions, and there are guys in
- 1:18:20Speaker 1: this class that they could take that are still good
- 1:18:22Speaker 1: football players, but that fit that MO to a t
- 1:18:26Speaker 1: perfectly and easily. Also guys that could open them up
- 1:18:30Speaker 1: schematically and help them evolve and adapt, adapt and tweak
- 1:18:36Speaker 1: and move forward a little bit given the day and
- 1:18:38Speaker 1: age of the NFL and this nature And yeah, Ron
- 1:18:41Speaker 1: says are right here. Ron says, this draft is very
- 1:18:43Speaker 1: exciting because they can make some serious adjustments on defense.
- 1:18:47Speaker 1: I hope they do, because what we've been doing in
- 1:18:48Speaker 1: the playoffs hasn't been working. And I think that's where
- 1:18:55Speaker 1: that's where it really comes down to. They've just been
- 1:18:58Speaker 1: out gunned in the playoff in a variety of ways,
- 1:19:01Speaker 1: and I think that comes down to two things. I
- 1:19:03Speaker 1: think it comes down and not having the horses on defense,
- 1:19:06Speaker 1: not having the athleticism and the juice on defense and
- 1:19:10Speaker 1: or you know, just schematically not having it. But I
- 1:19:14Speaker 1: think the schematic part is tied to not having the
- 1:19:19Speaker 1: horses and being outgunned at that spot. Defensively, There's only
- 1:19:23Speaker 1: so much you can do. There's only so much you
- 1:19:26Speaker 1: can do schematically when you draft guys that operate in silos.
- 1:19:32Speaker 1: If you don't have versatility within players, if you don't
- 1:19:36Speaker 1: have versatility in skill set or traits or body type,
- 1:19:40Speaker 1: there's only so many things you can do. You can't
- 1:19:42Speaker 1: take certain guys and line them up all over the
- 1:19:44Speaker 1: place because there you're setting them. You're setting them up
- 1:19:46Speaker 1: with failure. You can't operate and do all this fun
- 1:19:49Speaker 1: creative stuff schematically if you don't have the players that
- 1:19:53Speaker 1: can operate in those creative spaces. If you have a
- 1:19:55Speaker 1: guy who is an outside corner and is only an
- 1:19:57Speaker 1: outside corner, it can only work in zone. There's only
- 1:20:00Speaker 1: so many things you can do. If you have an
- 1:20:02Speaker 1: dresser that doesn't have good change of direction and can't
- 1:20:05Speaker 1: do anything other than just rush the quarterback, and from
- 1:20:08Speaker 1: a compression standpoint, there's only so many things you can do.
- 1:20:12Speaker 1: They can do a lot to kind of and I'm
- 1:20:14Speaker 1: not even saying I don't think saying a lot is
- 1:20:17Speaker 1: a dramatic statement. What they do in this draft that
- 1:20:20Speaker 1: CB edge and interior defensive line could significantly lead to
- 1:20:24Speaker 1: a schematic I don't want to say change because it
- 1:20:28Speaker 1: technically a tweak is a change, but I think change
- 1:20:32Speaker 1: evokes more of like wow, like a change type of
- 1:20:34Speaker 1: thing to the defense. I don't think you're going to
- 1:20:36Speaker 1: get that. I still think you are going to get
- 1:20:39Speaker 1: what this defense has been from a schematic standpoint, But
- 1:20:42Speaker 1: they need more variability, They need more variety, They need
- 1:20:45Speaker 1: more multiplicity, and what the Bills could do with corner
- 1:20:48Speaker 1: edge and interior defensive line in this draft could go
- 1:20:50Speaker 1: a significantly long way towards multiple more multiplicity and variability
- 1:20:55Speaker 1: within this defense. Noah says, I want to hear Jim
- 1:21:01Speaker 1: Nance say, oh Mammy ll end in the playoffs. Mm hmmm.
- 1:21:07Speaker 1: Where where Pete says, piggybacking on rons common it's not
- 1:21:10Speaker 1: CB two that we're talking about on that not downplaying
- 1:21:13Speaker 1: that need. Our D line has been the whole Yeah,
- 1:21:16Speaker 1: but I think I think corner has also been an
- 1:21:20Speaker 1: issue because of the athleticism standpoint and not having the horses.
- 1:21:24Speaker 1: I mean even again, some of it's been due to injury.
- 1:21:26Speaker 1: Right two years ago against the Chiefs, Benford's out, Rasul
- 1:21:30Speaker 1: Douglas is playing on one leg. The year before they
- 1:21:33Speaker 1: just for whatever reason, how soft they were against the Bengals,
- 1:21:36Speaker 1: or the year before, everything kind of blends together for
- 1:21:38Speaker 1: me a little bit. I think it's both. I think
- 1:21:42Speaker 1: it's the while they've been built in the secondary, plus
- 1:21:45Speaker 1: the coverages that they've played, and how much the coverages
- 1:21:48Speaker 1: are tied to the body types and skill sets and
- 1:21:51Speaker 1: traits that they have in the secondary. And then also
- 1:21:54Speaker 1: I think it is the defensive line as well. I
- 1:21:55Speaker 1: think it's been both. I think there's been a disconnect,
- 1:21:58Speaker 1: there's been more of a divorce between the front and
- 1:22:01Speaker 1: the back end then there has been a marriage. I
- 1:22:03Speaker 1: think it's been both. I think, you know, for as
- 1:22:05Speaker 1: much as the defensive line has been the whole, and
- 1:22:07Speaker 1: that's understandable, pass rush, run defense, all that type of stuff,
- 1:22:11Speaker 1: I think there's been vulnerability in the secondary that hasn't
- 1:22:14Speaker 1: been talked about as much because defensive line is more
- 1:22:17Speaker 1: under the microscope. And even though we focus on corner
- 1:22:19Speaker 1: line in this episode, I think safety is up there too,
- 1:22:22Speaker 1: Like who Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer were two seasons ago.
- 1:22:25Speaker 1: Were not the Micah Hyde and Jordan Poyer that helped
- 1:22:27Speaker 1: put this Bill's defense on the map. They need more
- 1:22:29Speaker 1: athleticism at safety, which is also in need, which is
- 1:22:32Speaker 1: why if Malachi Starks was there at thirty, I'm still
- 1:22:34Speaker 1: not a pope man. If Malachi Starks and Trey A.
- 1:22:37Speaker 1: Most are both there at thirty, the conflict that I
- 1:22:40Speaker 1: would have in my heart and soul and mind would
- 1:22:43Speaker 1: be crazy intense. But yeah, I think it's just I
- 1:22:46Speaker 1: think it's been up front and on the back end,
- 1:22:48Speaker 1: and I think they're tied to one another. But despite
- 1:22:51Speaker 1: you know, CB two being the biggest need for me,
- 1:22:55Speaker 1: I do think the defensive line is, from an overall standpoint,
- 1:23:02Speaker 1: been an issue, especially because you're rotating more bodies in
- 1:23:04Speaker 1: so that means you need more effectiveness from a multitude
- 1:23:07Speaker 1: of guys up front. In theory, at corner you just
- 1:23:10Speaker 1: need two corners, right, injuries obviously not coming into play.
- 1:23:13Speaker 1: But then the defensive line, you need not just four starters,
- 1:23:17Speaker 1: need like six impact players on your defensive line, and
- 1:23:20Speaker 1: the Bills have not had that. They haven't had anything
- 1:23:22Speaker 1: close to that in the past. Several years in any way,
- 1:23:25Speaker 1: shape or form some event injuries as well. But yet
- 1:23:27Speaker 1: to your point, Oh, pizza's fair. I do put injuries
- 1:23:30Speaker 1: in the back end more than personnel, that's fair. I
- 1:23:34Speaker 1: just I've never each year, I've never felt confident, like
- 1:23:39Speaker 1: even get in that game against the Bengals, even if
- 1:23:41Speaker 1: it wasn't completely snowy and all the other like wonkiness
- 1:23:44Speaker 1: with it going into that game. Again, maybe maybe that's
- 1:23:46Speaker 1: the extreme because Chase and Higgins are an unreal combo,
- 1:23:51Speaker 1: But how are you how are you covering Chasing and
- 1:23:54Speaker 1: t Higgins even if they maybe the Super Bowl against
- 1:23:56Speaker 1: Philly is another outlier, but how are you covering DeVonta
- 1:23:59Speaker 1: Smith and aj Brown and then also stopping the run
- 1:24:03Speaker 1: like against their ole line against Saquon Barkley, like that
- 1:24:05Speaker 1: type of deal. And maybe those those teams are outliers
- 1:24:08Speaker 1: more than they are regularity with their one two combo.
- 1:24:12Speaker 1: And it's also weird because they've been able to kind
- 1:24:14Speaker 1: of mitigate actually you know it, but kind of put
- 1:24:16Speaker 1: this in perspective, right, like they've been able to mitigate
- 1:24:19Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle, which are a great one
- 1:24:21Speaker 1: two combo. But Miami has when the games have been close.
- 1:24:28Speaker 1: Miami's run all over the Bills every single time because
- 1:24:30Speaker 1: the Bills put resources on the back end. But then
- 1:24:34Speaker 1: they get outgunned up front. But part of the reason
- 1:24:36Speaker 1: they get outgunned up front is because they have to
- 1:24:39Speaker 1: commit more resources on the back end because they don't
- 1:24:41Speaker 1: have the athleticism to stick with Wattle and Hill. Granted,
- 1:24:44Speaker 1: not a lot of teams do, but it would be
- 1:24:46Speaker 1: nice to have another guy back there who has athleticism
- 1:24:49Speaker 1: or some man coverage capability, or some pressibility disruption airspace
- 1:24:53Speaker 1: constrictor restrictor however you want to put it out there. Again,
- 1:24:56Speaker 1: I think a lot of it is kind of chicken
- 1:24:58Speaker 1: and egg, but I think it's fair to kind of
- 1:25:01Speaker 1: see one more than the other. But you know, I
- 1:25:02Speaker 1: kind of Joe says dt al gay Yep. Claude says,
- 1:25:09Speaker 1: I want Malachi Starks versus Amos. In fact, I want
- 1:25:11Speaker 1: to leave this draft with Starks, Watts or Macuba oh Man,
- 1:25:15Speaker 1: Xavier Watts and Andrew mccoba. Fun fun, fun, fun fun stuff.
- 1:25:20Speaker 1: Charles says, common denominator versus Mahomes has been pass rush
- 1:25:23Speaker 1: get the elite D line. But you could also play
- 1:25:25Speaker 1: the other card, right, if you have great secondary play,
- 1:25:30Speaker 1: man up and send bodies at mahomes, get creative, blitz
- 1:25:34Speaker 1: the hell out of them, make them get the ball
- 1:25:35Speaker 1: out quickly, and try and force the lack of receiving
- 1:25:38Speaker 1: talent that they've had at times to beat your corners.
- 1:25:41Speaker 1: He can kind of play both. I do again. Either way,
- 1:25:43Speaker 1: I think they need to upgrade. I think they need
- 1:25:44Speaker 1: upgrades and tweaks from an archetype perspective and from a
- 1:25:48Speaker 1: talent perspective on both the D line and the corner spot,
- 1:25:51Speaker 1: like what we're talking about. Luke says, give me all
- 1:25:53Speaker 1: the Texas boys, Baron mccuba and Bond. I have to finish.
- 1:25:58Speaker 1: I have to. I have to get to the tape on.
- 1:26:00Speaker 1: I was super high on Bond coming out of Bama
- 1:26:02Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, and then he went to
- 1:26:03Speaker 1: Texas and I was like, Oh, this is gonna be sweet,
- 1:26:04Speaker 1: and we just didn't get it. This is this is
- 1:26:07Speaker 1: Noah says, knowing being we will center around Hunter Wold
- 1:26:09Speaker 1: or at safety. I tell you what, I haven't watched
- 1:26:11Speaker 1: his tape in season. I watched a bunch of Wisconsin
- 1:26:14Speaker 1: because I like Hunter Wold. I don't think he has
- 1:26:16Speaker 1: the athleticism, but that's a fair comment. But he can
- 1:26:18Speaker 1: he does some fun stuff there, but maybe it's just
- 1:26:20Speaker 1: me gravitating towards certain pieces of his game. Josh says,
- 1:26:27Speaker 1: being will go get his guy, and I think he
- 1:26:29Speaker 1: wants a star at defensive line, whether that's edge edge
- 1:26:33Speaker 1: or pass rushing interior defensive lineman.
- 1:26:35Speaker 2: Okay.
- 1:26:37Speaker 1: Josh also says, I do think CB two is a
- 1:26:38Speaker 1: huge need. But they could bring back Rasool for likely
- 1:26:40Speaker 1: quote unquote cheap or try to upgrade and roll the
- 1:26:42Speaker 1: dice with a sante Samuel Junior. I would take that
- 1:26:45Speaker 1: every single day of the week. But I think if
- 1:26:46Speaker 1: they get to twenty five istion round one, this might
- 1:26:49Speaker 1: get interesting. I think that's fair to your point, Josh,
- 1:26:52Speaker 1: And so a couple other people that goes back here,
- 1:26:53Speaker 1: like if someone like if Baron fell to like twenty
- 1:26:58Speaker 1: three twenty four, Mike kel William is there, like in
- 1:27:00Speaker 1: the early to mid twenties, do they pull the trigger?
- 1:27:02Speaker 1: Do they move up a little bit? I think that's interesting.
- 1:27:06Speaker 1: Charles says, tweener used to be a negative for guys.
- 1:27:09Speaker 1: Now it's almost a plus to match up with offenses. Yes,
- 1:27:11Speaker 1: you don't want to have too much variability. You don't
- 1:27:13Speaker 1: want to take a guy like Isaiah Simmons from Clemson
- 1:27:18Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, was like, oh man, he
- 1:27:19Speaker 1: can be a safety and a line in an off
- 1:27:21Speaker 1: ball linebacker and like a slot apex. Oh Man, all
- 1:27:23Speaker 1: this possibility, and it was like, no, he's just not
- 1:27:26Speaker 1: fit for anything. Really. Granted, I don't think Arizona did
- 1:27:29Speaker 1: him a lot of favors. It takes the right system
- 1:27:32Speaker 1: and team to mold or hone a guy. But yes,
- 1:27:36Speaker 1: I think you do need more variability. You need more
- 1:27:38Speaker 1: tweener capability. He doesn't mean like a guy who's fifty
- 1:27:41Speaker 1: to fifty, just more guys that are seventy thirty or
- 1:27:44Speaker 1: maybe some eighty twenty, not ninety five to five like
- 1:27:46Speaker 1: a lot of the Bills have been for their times.
- 1:27:53Speaker 1: Jo says, Billy Bowman will be awesome once he adds
- 1:27:55Speaker 1: three to four inches to his height. He misses a
- 1:27:57Speaker 1: crazy amount of tackles, but he plays at a thousand
- 1:27:59Speaker 1: miles and plays with bad intentions. So part of me
- 1:28:02Speaker 1: loves him and part of me also dislikes him. But
- 1:28:04Speaker 1: that's fair, that's fair, that's fair, that's fair. Yeah, change
- 1:28:08Speaker 1: the corner room a little bit, change the defensive line
- 1:28:10Speaker 1: a little bit. You have the opportunity to do all
- 1:28:13Speaker 1: three of those, well two of those things what I
- 1:28:15Speaker 1: just said, but all three at these three positions corner, interior,
- 1:28:17Speaker 1: defensive line, and edge, and I think their needed. Again,
- 1:28:21Speaker 1: there are some guys who fit the archetype in this
- 1:28:23Speaker 1: draft that they could go with and it would be
- 1:28:26Speaker 1: understandable and could still help. But I think if they
- 1:28:30Speaker 1: buck some trends a little bit from what they've been
- 1:28:32Speaker 1: traditionally or from an archetype standpoint, as we've had this
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- 1:29:09Speaker 1: I really like mac and cheese, So it's right out
- 1:29:10Speaker 1: my ali that they do a lot of great stuff
- 1:29:11Speaker 1: from a food perspective, and they do a lot of
- 1:29:13Speaker 1: great stuff from a community perspective as well. What they
- 1:29:16Speaker 1: do with partnering with Roswell, they're trying to knock out cancer.
- 1:29:19Speaker 1: They partner with the SPCA, their Toys for Tots drive
- 1:29:22Speaker 1: every year, the Alzheimer's Foundation partnerships that they have, They
- 1:29:25Speaker 1: do a lot of good for the community and the
- 1:29:27Speaker 1: city of Buffalo and the towns and all of that,
- 1:29:30Speaker 1: aside from just giving you tremendous food. So go out.
- 1:29:33Speaker 1: Get yourself one PI pizza. Online menu can be found
- 1:29:35Speaker 1: in the episode show notes whether you're here on YouTube
- 1:29:37Speaker 1: or whichever podcasting appor platform you are listening to this
- 1:29:40Speaker 1: show on. They also have a pizza named after the
- 1:29:44Speaker 1: cover one brand. It is delicious. Get yourself some of
- 1:29:48Speaker 1: that pizza or just whatever you want. If you want
- 1:29:50Speaker 1: to get different toppings and things. If you get veggies
- 1:29:53Speaker 1: and stuff, they chop them all up, they sprinkle them
- 1:29:56Speaker 1: all over so you get anunt an even amount of
- 1:29:59Speaker 1: taste distribution every bite. They really do some fantastic things,
- 1:30:02Speaker 1: and Joe gets a Joe says tired EPA and DVOA
- 1:30:06Speaker 1: wired CTSR and that means cheese to sauce ratio. That's
- 1:30:11Speaker 1: what we're all about here on this show. Ron says,
- 1:30:13Speaker 1: thanks at Now I'm hungry. I'm not gonna lie. I
- 1:30:16Speaker 1: didn't have I had a bigger lunch and didn't really
- 1:30:18Speaker 1: eat dinner. I'm crazy. I got crazy hungry at like
- 1:30:21Speaker 1: eight forty five and knew I didn't have time to
- 1:30:22Speaker 1: eat because the show was starting at nine. I am
- 1:30:24Speaker 1: now wild hungry, so I'm also upset at myself. Noah
- 1:30:29Speaker 1: says Kyle Williams getting a lot of hype. He'll be
- 1:30:32Speaker 1: gone before the third round. Oh that's because Jared here
- 1:30:34Speaker 1: said wide receiver. Maybe check out Jalen Royals or Kylon Williams.
- 1:30:37Speaker 1: Kyle Williams in a round three or four, but bond
- 1:30:38Speaker 1: would be okay. Yeah, I've I've dabbled a bit with
- 1:30:43Speaker 1: Jalen Royals out of Utah State and Kyle Williams from
- 1:30:46Speaker 1: Washington State. Kyle Williams is a really good release package.
- 1:30:49Speaker 1: Royals does some fun things with his size and the
- 1:30:51Speaker 1: inside outside versatility, the yards after the catch, some athleticism,
- 1:30:55Speaker 1: some size. Again, wide receiver is gonna be like probably
- 1:30:59Speaker 1: the last as position group I look at, just because
- 1:31:01Speaker 1: I don't see the Bills going for anybody until day three.
- 1:31:05Speaker 1: Now that I say that, they'll probably take a wide
- 1:31:06Speaker 1: receiver at thirty and I'll jettison myself to the sun
- 1:31:11Speaker 1: out of frustration. Well maybe not depending on who it is,
- 1:31:14Speaker 1: but yet wide receivers coming towards the end I always do.
- 1:31:18Speaker 1: I look at position groups in the draft class as
- 1:31:19Speaker 1: a whole from not just from a Bill's lens, but
- 1:31:24Speaker 1: just football and scheme and structure and evaluation. But I
- 1:31:28Speaker 1: think the way I look at it through a Bill's
- 1:31:30Speaker 1: lens is by starting with the biggest positions of need
- 1:31:32Speaker 1: for the Bills. So but heavy majority of my work
- 1:31:34Speaker 1: right now has come through corner, interior, defensive line, edge safety,
- 1:31:41Speaker 1: and that's been the heavy majority of those four and
- 1:31:42Speaker 1: then I'll finish everything up as we go forward. Here,
- 1:31:45Speaker 1: Ron says, who were some days if there were some
- 1:31:47Speaker 1: wide receivers who can take the top off the defense
- 1:31:49Speaker 1: on Day three, Ron, I would love to answer that question.
- 1:31:52Speaker 1: I have not done enough legwork on receiver to answer
- 1:31:55Speaker 1: your question. At this point, my initial thought coming into
- 1:31:58Speaker 1: the draft would have been Jaalen Noel from Iowa State,
- 1:32:02Speaker 1: but he's more of a slot. And yeah, Thornton from
- 1:32:04Speaker 1: Tennessee who just put those are burners guys that I
- 1:32:06Speaker 1: watch in season that could take the top off from
- 1:32:08Speaker 1: a from a broadcast perspective. But I gotta dig in
- 1:32:12Speaker 1: and watch the tape and I'm just not there yet.
- 1:32:17Speaker 1: Joe said, I said they were gonna take Jack Sawyer
- 1:32:19Speaker 1: on my show, So it looks like the day two
- 1:32:20Speaker 1: picks are Sawyer and Higgins oof Man. Sawyer's arms are
- 1:32:25Speaker 1: so short. He ticks the box from like a mentality
- 1:32:28Speaker 1: and playstyle perspective, but the arms are so short. But
- 1:32:31Speaker 1: it'll be interesting. Noah says, do you like Sheppard from
- 1:32:34Speaker 1: Colorado in season? Yeah, he's got some real juice. There
- 1:32:36Speaker 1: were some fun dudes on Colorado aside from just like
- 1:32:40Speaker 1: Travis Hunter, and Shephard was one of them. Yeah, some
- 1:32:42Speaker 1: real good stop startability, short area burst quickness, some long
- 1:32:46Speaker 1: speed as well. How we can factor in just in
- 1:32:50Speaker 1: the short game and some bubbles and screen game and
- 1:32:52Speaker 1: a lot of different things. Yeah, I haven't watched them
- 1:32:56Speaker 1: on tape yet. Again because I'm I haven't gotten the
- 1:32:58Speaker 1: receiver yet, but from a broadcast, like if he was
- 1:33:00Speaker 1: a guy noted in season him and oh the guy
- 1:33:03Speaker 1: on defense number seven whose name I always always forget.
- 1:33:07Speaker 1: He was a dB but kind of played off ball
- 1:33:09Speaker 1: and did a bunch of fun stuff for them too.
- 1:33:10Speaker 1: I'll have to look into it and come back on
- 1:33:11Speaker 1: the next episode. I'm mad at myself, but Ron says,
- 1:33:16Speaker 1: if we take storyer on day two, I'll be pissed.
- 1:33:18Speaker 1: He's going to struggle with his non existent length. That's buddy.
- 1:33:21Speaker 1: Pete says it was way This is spot on from Pete.
- 1:33:24Speaker 1: He says it was way easier to be into scouting
- 1:33:26Speaker 1: every position when the Bills needed everything and the offseason
- 1:33:29Speaker 1: started in December. Yeah, with the Bills go. Every week
- 1:33:33Speaker 1: the Bills go further into the playoffs is another week
- 1:33:36Speaker 1: that I am behind on off season prep, especially from
- 1:33:41Speaker 1: a like a college standpoint and prospect standpoint. A lot
- 1:33:44Speaker 1: of my work comes because I watch so much college
- 1:33:47Speaker 1: football in season, but broadcast is a lie. So I
- 1:33:51Speaker 1: build my framework out in season because I watched so
- 1:33:53Speaker 1: much college football, and then I get to the tape
- 1:33:56Speaker 1: as I can. But yeahs as the bills go further
- 1:33:58Speaker 1: every year, it gets worse and worse and harder and harder.
- 1:34:02Speaker 1: But it's a good problem to have thrown up the banner.
- 1:34:05Speaker 1: This sy iss tootles, folks. So we're going to start
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- 1:35:32Speaker 1: when do we find out about third Top thirty visits?
- 1:35:35Speaker 1: Usually April, like the last like three four weeks leading
- 1:35:38Speaker 1: into it, kind of going through from there, if I
- 1:35:42Speaker 1: remember correctly, Yeah, it's usually leading into that once. Yeah,
- 1:35:44Speaker 1: usually once pro days are done and all those types
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- 1:35:50Speaker 1: just a few more hours. I would love to, but
- 1:35:52Speaker 1: I am super hungry, so I'm gonna go eat and
- 1:35:55Speaker 1: probably pass out because I'm also super tired. I appreciate you, folks.
- 1:35:58Speaker 1: Thank you very much to everyone for tuning in. I'm
- 1:36:00Speaker 1: excited to really deep dive into a lot of position
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