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into some matchup specific schematics for the Buffalo Bills week three matchup with the Washington
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Commanders. We're going to be diving into that. On the front end of
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this episode, player groups, position pieces, coach stuff, anything and everything
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pertaining to this matchup that will to give us some insight into what this matchup
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holds for really both teams and what we'll decide this matchup. On the back
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end of this episode, we're going to be diving into stock up and stock
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down after the Bills week to victory at home against the Las Vegas Raiders.
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All of these things front end, back end, advanced metrics, game tape,
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game film, anything and everything that you have come to expect on this
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show. As we do here, questions, thoughts, comments, concerns from
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you folks, maximum's, theorems, ideologies, anything you got, throw it
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up into the chat. I like to get into anything and everything as much
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as humanly and physically possible, especially as the show rolls on. But as
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we start here in the beginning of this episode, like I mentioned, we're
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going to dive into the Bills Commanders matchup four week three, and to do
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that, I am joined by mister David Harrison, host of Locked on Commanders,
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also co host of Locked on Bucks, David. I appreciate you taking
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the time to join me and welcome to the show. Oh man, I
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appreciate the invite. Yeah, looking forward to It's hopefully a competitive game on
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Sunday. So within that vein, let's we'll dive right into it and start
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chopping it up with this Week three matchup between Bills and Commanders. Let's talk
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about just kind of you know, the Commanders sit there at two and oh
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right now, A come from behind victory against the Cardinals in Week one,
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another come from behind victory, kind of a nail biter in Denver. Just
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that game was a really fun game to watch. They sit there at two
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and oh, one of the surprise teams. I feel like a lot of
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people are labeling that, especially from like a national perspective. But talk about
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the expectations for the Commanders coming into this season. You got Eric the Enemy
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coming in. You've got a first time starting quarterback in Sam Howell. You've
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got this skill group that is still there that we were talking about offline that
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just seems to be their year after year. On the offensive side, you've
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got some really fun pieces on defense. Talk about the expectation for the Commanders
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coming into this season, and like, what did they believe that they could
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be? What did you think they could be? Let's talk about that.
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Yeah, I mean, I mean starting off internally, like they feel like
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they can be a playoff team, you know what I mean, They feel
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like they can be competitive in the NFC and take advantage of some of the
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opportunities. You know, the landscape is what it is. You know,
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the NSC North isn't as strong as it has been in the past, The
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NSCY South is vulnerable. The NFC West even you know, has has kind
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of a top heavy alignment. So there's there's certainly opportunities there to be taking
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advantage of if they can win the games are supposed to win, and win
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a few games that they're not supposed to win, right And you know a
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lot of people can look at the roster in a fifth round, you know,
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quarterback a rookie year ago starting this year, and usually you look at
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a team like that and you say, Okay, this is a team.
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It's either rebuilding or they're just kind of tanking and they'll figure out the quarterback
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situation next year. But that's not what this This this locker room is is.
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After this locker room wants to be competitive, and they believe they can
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be competitive. It's why they brought in Eric b. Nomy to be the
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assistant head coach and offensive coordinator of the team. And he certainly didn't come
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to Washington to roll over and be anybody's punching bag. So, you know,
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while the while the national you know outlook on the team all offseason,
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preseason has been one of the teams in the league. I saw Sam Howell
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was ranked as the worst starting quarterback in the league by some folks. Like
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that's been the message outside, and honestly, it's not bothering anybody in the
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locker room in Washington, and I think the first two weeks kind of shows
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that a little bit. You know, you mentioned a piece right now that
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we were talking about offline, like the strength and the quality of the locker
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room or the culture for this team, and it's something you know, as
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you and I were going back and forth, we talked about how that's such
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an important piece for continued success in the NFL, but especially for teams that
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are kind of like trying to transition from that you know, kind of irrelevant
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status to being a regular competitor. Whether it's for your division title or from
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the larger perspective in the conference, talk about that, you know, strong
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commanders, culture, that locker room, you know what you've seen, what
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you've heard. Yeah, I mean it's you know, in Washington, it's
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not just about what you can do on the fields, about who you are
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on the field, in the locker room, off the field, all those
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things, right, and I mean you need to start with you know,
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Terry McLaurin arguably the most the most recognized his name and player or name and
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face on the on the roster. You know, this is a guy who
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I mean, he spent his birthday with children from foster families from from Kasa,
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DC. Spend his his birthday with boys and girls, big sisters,
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big brothers. Rather you know, like this is this is a guy who
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he comes in understanding that football is a platform for him to showcase who he
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is and make an impact as a person versus his person being someone who plays
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football, if that makes sense. And I've got an opportunity to speak to
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Terry's parents during training camp during one of the hour long sessions that he does
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after training camp, practices all the time to sign as many autographs, take
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as many pictures as he can with fans, and I was talking to them,
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and then they're both athletes, you know, both of his parents are
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athletes, and they both said the same thing. They're more concerned about him
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being the right kind of person versus being the right kind of player. But
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the thing about it is those things go hand in hand. You know,
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I have a player who is focused on community and what is my greater impact
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to humanity or the community I'm meant all those things. That's the same kind
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of person that's also going to worry abou out what his contribution is to his
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teammates, you know what I mean? Like that sense of community is really
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important there. And Terry is the exact type of star receiver you want on
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a team. If he's got one catch for one yard, no touchdowns and
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they win, he's through the roof. If they've got he's got seven catches,
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one hundred and forty yards, two touchdowns and they lose, he's upset.
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This is this is that's the kind of leader you want. And that's
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kind of receiving room you now have in Washington with young guys like John Dodson
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following his lead and Dammy Brown and Curtis, Samuel all kind of following that
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fold. And really, if you go through the position groups, that is
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really the sense that they all have is it's what's best for everybody is what's
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best for me. That's awesome, and you know it's ironically or coincidentally that's
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a similar philosophy and which Sean McDermott has operated with this Bill's team, you
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know, and it you know, it kind of makes sense why he and
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Ron Rivera got along so well with their in their tenure of Carolina together.
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But that's that type of thing, like who you are off the field translates
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to who you are on the field and in the locker room. And Sean
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mcder you know, wants that, you know, whether it's whatever verbis you
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want to use, if it's the sense of community or sense of family.
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Like he's so interested in the character piece and the people piece, and Ron
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Rivera echoes a lot of those same and or similar sentiments, and so it's
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really awesome to hear positive things like that for the commanders. And you know,
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I've told you offline Terry mccornn, I love Terry mccorren and everything you
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just never you know, no Jinks. You just never hear anything bad about
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Terry mccorn, Like his work ethic is awesome, the kind of person he
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is is awesome. And then even if you don't care about anything of that,
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and you're just like, I don't care about who they are as people,
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I want to see what they do on the field. He's tremendous.
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He's I legitimately have said for the past couple of years like, if he
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just got consistency at the quarterback position, he can easily be statistically a top
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ten, top five receiver in this NFL. In the NFL, And we
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transition to some talk about the Commander's offense this season, Sam Howell, like
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you mentioned first time starting quarterbacks, second year in the league, Eric b
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enemy Well traveled, well experienced, but kind of really his first time ever
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is like a play caller, depending on what you subscribe to. With his
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time at Kansas City and the stories that have come out where he really wasn't
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calling plays and really wasn't doing this and some other people know, a little
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bit of a muddy situation over there. But he is the true OC for
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this Washington team in every sense of the word, calling the plays, designing
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everything. What are your again early sample size two weeks in, but early
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impressions of this commander's offense under Eric B. Enemy and first year starting quarterback
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but second year QB Sam Howells. It's a lot of fun to be quite
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honestly, like Eric B. Enemy came in like a fireball. I mean,
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the fortunate thing is, I'm really good friends with a well now he's
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retired, but a beat reporter in Kansas City, so he covered the cheeks
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for a lot of years. And so as soon as Eb, you know,
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as soon as the whispers on the wind started that EB was in me
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headed to Washington, he started texting me and kind of gave me some insight
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and some clues into who I was about to be dealing with. And Eric
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B. Enemy is is incredibly direct, He's incredibly honest, and the thing
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that I like about him the most is that he's willing to understand that he's
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got flaws. People have flaws. It's not about being perfect, it's about
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striving for a perfection, right and and a lot of coaches say that,
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but he's the kind of guy that really tries to enforce it, you know,
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and if you drop a pass, you know, but your your your
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effort was there, your route was clean, and it's just one of those
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things that happens from time to time. Okay, he can live with that.
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If you drop a pass because you're a lazy out of your break and
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you weren't ready for the ball, that's a totally different story, you know
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what I mean. And he's a guy who holds up to standards and his
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scheme. It's just incredibly fun. I mean, I can't say how many
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times in training camp we saw routes get unveiled that honestly, I haven't even
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been unveiled in the regular season yet. That just just make you kind of
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stand back and say, man, like, this is why football is fun,
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Like this is how football is meant to be played. And the interesting
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thing about it is his really electric, intense dynamic is almost the complete opposite
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of Sam Howell, who's just this kind of publicly reserved well, like everybody
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will tell you that when the media is not around, the cameras aren't on,
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he's a little bit funnier than than everybody understands it, and I think
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that's fair for every player. You're you're a little bit more your real self
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when the media is not around and fans aren't around, but in the public
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eye is a very reserved guy, quiet guy, just kind of even Keel,
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never really gets too high or too low on anything. So then you
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got Eric b Enemy out here barking and everybody, and you got this cool,
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calm, collected quarterback, and it's just a really cool dynamic. But
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then they also get each other, you know, And you see that in
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the first two weeks of the season where the offense comes out inst Arizona Cardinals
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and Sam had some mistakes and turnovers, fumble it led directly to a touchdown,
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but they go into the locker room. They come out in the second
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half and Sam really only through you know, a handful of passes in the
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second half of that game, and they came out and did what they needed
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to do as an offense to let the defense carry the day and win the
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game. Then you go to Denver, not the same amount of struggles,
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but still some struggles. They go into the locker room and same thing.
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When they come out. They having new plan, they have a new approach
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to attacking this Broncos defense, and they go out and do what they need
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to do as an offense. To win the game. But the two styles
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that they did it and are completely different. And I think that in a
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nutshell, is really is really engaging about this offense because if you're Sean McDermott
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and you're these Bills pro scouts, like you're watching the Chiefs, and the
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Chiefs are known for, they'll hit you with everything different. You'll on a
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given week. How much of that was Eric Petomy, Well, I don't
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know how much of it was him at Kansas City, but I can tell
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you how much he brought with him to Washington, and it's a lot.
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Because if you watch these first two games, the first team, the first
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team you see in Week one, as far as an offense concern, is
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completely different from the second team you see, and that tells you that you
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really don't know how to prepare for this team other than to just look at
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the weapons and say, how can we best try to mitigate these risks?
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I love that point. So I you know, again, you and I
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were talking offline. I watched the tape from this past week Week one against
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Denver, but I didn't see the Week one tape yet against Arizona, So
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I'm interested, you know, elaborate on that point, talk about the differences
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in how this offense operated week one versus Arizona versus Week two against Denver,
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talk about those pieces. Yeah, well, I mean week one, week
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two specifically this you know, week one, I think the stat service I
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use kind of three screen passes and uh, you know a little bit of
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a little bit of haze on whether or not that's three that were executed or
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three that were called, because there were a few screen passes that Sam Howe
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just didn't execute for whatever reason, decided to go a different route when there
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was a screen put on. So there may have been screens called that we're
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not executed. But bottom line is, you know, you got three screen
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passes all of week one, and then week two the Denver Broncos coming out
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playing a lot of off coverage, trying to contain you know, guys like
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Terry mclaurinean and though he did get a thirty thirty or touchdown on them,
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try to contain those guys, keep Johan Dotson from taking the top off the
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defense. And early on I think you saw Sam Howe wanted to kind of
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try to challenge that one, to kind of try to push the envelope and
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test it, but come out in the second half. I was talking to
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another colleague out there in the press box, and I kept saying, Man,
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you know, the Broncos keep playing this off coverage on first down,
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especially eventually Sam eb combination the two, They're gonna start taking advantage of these
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opportunities. And you're gonna get successful first down plays time after time after time
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at time and you're looking at second and six, five, four, three,
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whatever it is, and that just gives you the opportunity be successful and
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second down, third down, And that's exactly what the commanders did. And
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then you just wait and you just jab. You're you're in a prize fight,
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you know, you just jab, jab jab, You wait for your
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opportunity to take a big shot. That's when you hit Terry McLaurin, you
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know, thirty yards down the field behind two defenders, despite the ball being
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on a rope. And I mean, and you know, I know the
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broadcast described that past that touchdown past Terry McLaurin is an all Pro caliber throw,
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and I tend to agree with that, not saying that Sam's gonna be
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an All Pro this year, right, but that's the type of potential that
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he has as a quarterback, and as he gets more comfortable, those are
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the types of plays that you're gonna be able to see him get into.
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So if I'm the Buffalo Bills, I look at that and I say,
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like, the last thing we can do is let's sae him how get comfortable.
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And the last thing we can do is just give up four yards on
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every first down play, because that's not a recipe for success. So I
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expect even though you know, I understand that that Sean McDermott hasn't been you
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know, as blitz happy as some coach, certainly not like it's hot Bowls
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and Tampa. I would probably if I were opposing coach, after seeing what
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I saw these first two weeks, I would probably try to bring pressure to
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Sam and make him make quicker decisions and not let him get those easy four
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yard games on first downs. You know that that throwing a mccornin. I
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clipped it and Eric got clicked to. I tweeted it out earlier today.
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It was just like as I had tweeted from the end zone, angle behind
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the commander offense, just esthetically beautiful, like the trajectory of the ball,
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the spin mccorn goes up and gets it. Like from start to finish that
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play is just gorgeous and exactly your point. Yeah, if you give to
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sam All at that time, you let him see things, he just he's
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got such a pretty like he's got such a pretty pass like what he's capable
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of uncorking. He did it at Carolina and doing it so far when he's
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gotten the time here. I also like the point that you mentioned about kind
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of the jab jab jab and then you go for the hay Makers, because
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my thought was watching this Denver tape was seemed like things early on we're very
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kind of like poking, improving and kind of testing the cage and then it's
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like whether it was you know, as that first half progress, but especially
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coming out a halftime, felt like the enemy just kind of had Okay,
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we have our baseline measurables, we know what they like to do against A,
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B and C. Let's go, And that second half was just we're
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staying on schedule. We're staying on schedule. Chunk play, chunk play,
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stay it. It just kind of seemed like whatever they wanted to hit they
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did, and they got that the deep shot to mccorn. They started working
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in different pieces like it was you could tell that there was kind of like
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a method to the madness, similar to what you know, not to kind
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of connect it back or whatever, but similar to what Andy Reid usually does
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with his first like twenty scripted, where things are obviously he's trying to score,
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but a lot is designed to figure out like what your tendencies are going
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to be in this game and figuring out your game plan. And once he's
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got that sample size and that baseline, he attacks and he goes for the
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throat. So I like that point from you because it kind of matches up
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with what I thought on my own from my notes, so fantastic. And
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talk about Sam Howell briefly again, first two games. He can spin it
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when he gets that time, your early early return impressions on Seam how Well
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thus far. Yeah, he's he's a young quarterback in the making, you
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know what I mean. And a lot of it's going to boil down to
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Eric b Ham to be putting him in situations that allow him to get comfortable,
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allow him to take advantage of what is happening and what you can kind
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of just talked about, right, and if you're talking about trying to you
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know, penetrate someone's you know, defenses, kind of scout it, you
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know what I mean, go in and try let's try this, you know,
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outside zone run. Let's see if that does anything. And you know
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what, maybe it only get it got our yard, but maybe we saw
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something within there that we think we can tweak. And let's try this you
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know inside run and see what goes there. Let's try this screen, let's
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try that deep route, you know, and these are all things like you
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said that. Then you go into the halftime, into the halftime break,
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and you come out with a new plan of action. And it's been really
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interesting because and I said this on another show previously, like both games,
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even though they're vastly different, like Sam how barely through in the second half
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against Cardinals through a lot more and second half against the never Broncos, but
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each time they came out of the locker room, the offense looked like it
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almost had more energy than it did in the first you know what I mean.
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And that really could be all it is is. Let's play it safe
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early. Let's let our young quarterback get his feet on the ground, get
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used to the crowd noise. You used to the environment, you know what
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I mean, and even a home environment. I mean, you know,
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you know your listeners know, like Buffalo Bills fans notoriously great at traveling to
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away game, so I expect a lot of blue. It's being that FedEx
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Field Stadium on Sunday. So let's let's sam get used to. You know,
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you're in your home stadium, but you might hear a lot of you
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know, let's go buffaloes or what have you, and and you know,
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let's so let's get used to that. Let's go back to the locker room,
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and again let's come out rejuvenated and ready to fight. Now against Denver,
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they kind of had to turn it up a little bit faster than I
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think they expected to. That touchdown past the logan Thomas is something that I
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saw them working on during practice a lot, and so when they kind of
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got down there to that area, kind of nudged again. I nudged the
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medium member next to me, is that remember that that back end zone throw
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that they were working on, And she was like, yeah, that we
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might be seeing that here, And sure enough it was two plays later you
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saw that back end zone throw. It was a little bit shallower than they
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were working on it rac this play, it was the same same effect.
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And you know, those kinds of things are the things that they kind of
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keep in their back pocket ready to unleash when they needed and I think they
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needed a little bit earlier than they expected to, but it could help get
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them rolling in that you know, fourth down touchdown conversion. I mean,
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that's a that's a huge play in any game, let alone a two point
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win. Absolutely, and it was again they showed their metal and kind of
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coming from behind and staying poised and calm and executing as that game went on
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and they got themselves another win. Let's flip it to the other side of
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the ball, the Commander defense, which has really, i mean, despite
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the struggles for the offense the past several years and what they've lacked with quarterback
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play, the Commander's defense has been kind of a strength year in and year
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out, especially from a front perspective. And again, like you and I
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were talking offline, Washington is tied for the league lead income. So all
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this data is per Sports and Folks Solutions, they're tied for the league lead,
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and combined sacks, they are first in sack percentage. They're fourth in
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total pressures, They're twelfth in pressure percentage. They're tied for second in knockdowns.
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Also, from coverage perspective, they have the sixth lowest epa per pass
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play given up, behind only the Browns, Cowboys, forty nine, Ers,
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Saints, and Bills. Talk about this Commander's defense, which got another
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injection of quality player this past week with Chase Young coming back. Good to
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see him, you know, finally working through. Dude is so talented,
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and it just sucks when you see guys that are that talented just struggle with
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injuries. But he I mean, so you've got Young, You've got sweat,
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you've got Jonathan Allen, You've got what pain can do. We talked
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again. I keep saying this on a broken record. If you had tall
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you know, talked offline on your bingo card. You're crushing at this one.
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What Abdulah Anderson has been this year. So just talk about this Commander's
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defense strengths, weaknesses, whether it's players, schematic pieces, because it's a
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quality group they have on that side of the ball despite you know, because
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I think some people are going to look at the score from this past week
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and be like, oh, Denver put up a ton of points on them,
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but they're a group that gets after it. They sacked Russ seven times
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this past week. They got a squat on that side of the ball.
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So just elaborate on that group. Yeah, it's interesting because a lot of
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it kind of remind me of This is kind of a far off reference,
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but the year that the Buccaneers beat the Chiefs in the Super Bowl, they
21:07
lost in the Chiefs in the regular season. And but if you go back
21:11
and actually watch that game, right, get out of the staf box and
21:12
go watch the go watch the actual game. What you would see is the
21:17
Kansas City Chiefs dominated the first quarter of that game. The Buccaneers won the
21:21
next three quarters. The problem is the Chiefs won the first quarter by so
21:23
much that the Buccaneers couldn't come back enough to get a win anyway. But
21:27
what you saw in the Super Bowl was all a product of that first game.
21:32
Those what the Buccaneers learned in those last three quarters of that loss is
21:36
what sparked the dominating win they had in the Super Bowl. And so when
21:41
you look at the Broncos and you look at the Commanders and you say,
21:44
okay, there was a two point win. The Broncos put up a good
21:45
amount of points, that's true, but they when you when you cut on
21:49
the tape, and I think if you go from like nine minutes seven seconds
21:52
left in the second quarter on, it's a completely different game. If you
21:56
watch the first chunk of that game, you see one thing. You watch
21:59
the last chunk of that game, it's a completely different game. And outside
22:02
of that Hail Mary, which you know as an issue while it's on,
22:04
they'll address with players trying to get interceptions at the end of the game instead
22:07
of knocking the ball down. Outside of that, you know what I mean,
22:11
it's really not as close as the scoreboard shows. And again you just
22:15
talk about the adjustments. But now we can flip to Jack del Rio,
22:18
right and this defense. I mean, by and large, a lot of
22:19
these players have been with Jack for years and years and years. They're in
22:22
like their eightieth week EV install at this point in time, so they know
22:26
what they want to do, they know how they want to do it,
22:27
and they know the best way to get it done. It's a matter of
22:30
going out there and actually doing it. And you know, I'm not gonnasider
22:33
and say that this team came into the Denver Broncos game thinking that, you
22:36
know, danger Russ really isn't all that dangerous anymore, and all these other
22:40
things, but it certainly looked like a unit that maybe just was was a
22:42
little bit you know, feeling themselves a little bit. And honestly, when
22:47
you when you see that happen and you see a unit or a team that
22:49
feels really good about themselves get punched in the mouth a little bit, it's
22:52
good for you know, and and hopefully what's going to happen is this team.
22:56
I mean, you're you're obviously gonna take the Buffalo Bills as anyway,
23:00
nobody's gonna sleep on the Buffalo Bills. But having that experience now hopefully just
23:04
energizes this group even more because they know they're capable of And you talk about
23:07
those seven pressures and realize, now, is it just seven pressures from Chase
23:11
Young specifically in the entire game? It's basically seven pressures in the last two
23:15
and a half quarters of the game, you know what I mean. And
23:17
then Montes went in his sacks and seven sacks on Russell Wilson, Like all
23:21
this stuff really took place in the span about two and a half quarters.
23:22
So when you put it in that lights, it's a very dominant defensive performance.
23:26
I was predicated by a very sloppy defensive performance. Yeah, it was
23:33
impressive to watch them again offensively and defensively, but just really start to get
23:36
after it. And you know, they were giving up chunk plays early on
23:38
and kind of being misled with misdirection and play action from Denver, and then
23:42
it was just like that proverbial you know, switch got flipped and all of
23:47
a sudden the light bulb turned on and they got after it and just again
23:49
flip the switch and put things into overdrive against the Denver Broncos. David,
23:55
I know you got a schedaddle. I appreciate the hell out of you for
23:57
joining me. Tremendous insight in to the commanders. The floor is yours,
24:02
anything and everything. Where can people find you, your work, your platforms,
24:04
all that stuff. I always like to tell you know, everybody who
24:07
watches the show obviously there they're Bills fans, both football fans in general,
24:11
and it's always good to stay up on every other team in the league because
24:14
every other team is your enemy and you're one of the good ones covering Washington
24:17
so the floor is yours. Whatever you got, you got, Oh,
24:21
I appreciate you. I appreciate the invite again, looking forward to this game.
24:23
I spent four years station at four Drum, New York at the end
24:26
of my Army career, so I've got a lot of friends that are Bills
24:30
fans, and I've I've had a lot of good experiences around Bills fans during
24:33
those years and catching some games up there, and so I always get really
24:37
excited whenever the Bills play a team that I cover. Yeah, lots on
24:41
Commanders five days a week on Twitter. De Harrison needed two Lockdown Bucks as
24:44
well. That's a five day a week show. I'm on it about three
24:45
days a week, but that's also out there. I know the Bucks are
24:48
playing the Bills this year as well. Actually might be in Buffalo for that
24:52
game. I might be able to cover that game. We'll see how the
24:53
schedules work out. But yeah, man, just just looking forward to it.
24:56
I appreciate the invite. And you know, I can't I can't say
25:02
like go Bills or anything, but you know, I have a special place
25:04
in my heart for Bills fans. So I appreciate all of you guys.
25:07
No, we appreciate you, man. You were tremendously gracious. And then
25:11
again, the level of knowledge and insight and everything you offered was tremendous and
25:15
everything that I hoped it would be. I appreciate you taking the time out
25:17
of your busy day and busy schedule. Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday night,
25:21
and I'll see you around and I appreciate you, yes, sir,
25:22
Thank you later. Man. Really fun guests, mister David Harrison. Yeah,
25:29
he was somebody who I was excited to have on the show, went
25:33
diving into the schematic pieces, and normally, like they had the guests on
25:34
for a little more like thirty to forty five, you can only do like
25:37
to twenty to twenty five. And you know it, I figured, you
25:41
know, some some quality is better than quantity of others. It's kind of
25:44
like that episode of the Office where everybody can't figure out or Michael can't figure
25:48
out if they're supposed to get Alfredo's pizza, Cafe pizza or pizza by Alfredo,
25:52
And he asked like, would you rather have a ton of crappy pizza
25:56
or a smaller amount of really good pizza? And everybody unanimously, unanimously.
26:00
It's like a smaller amount of really good pizza. That's what David was in
26:03
this episode. Give him a follow. He was tremendous. We're gonna keep
26:06
staying on this conversation and talking point right now when it comes to the schematic
26:08
components that will decide Bill's versus commanders. Again, a lot of insight that
26:12
he offered into what this team is again as he regularly covers them and breaks
26:18
them down. So I dove into the tape in preparing for this episode and
26:23
this week, and I'm going to continue to dive into the Arizona game that
26:26
week one game for Washington going forward. So follow me on Twitter at Pro
26:30
Underscore Underscore and that's Pro two Underscores ant. I'll be having more breakdowns and
26:34
clips and pieces going forward. But like I mentioned with David, there is
26:40
this is a quality group, and you know, it starts with a lot
26:42
of the advanced metrics that I wasn't expecting to see. So again, some
26:45
of the ones that I rattled off as we talked about the defense there,
26:49
they have the sixth lowest again as a pass coverage unit, they have the
26:52
sixth lowest EPA per pass play given up behind only the Browns, Cowboys,
27:00
forty nine Ers, Saints, and then the Buffalo Bills. And if you
27:03
hear those team names, I think you say, based on how this season
27:06
has gone so far. You know what the Browns did in Week one to
27:08
the Bengals and Bengals kind of falling apart. That's conversation for another time.
27:11
What the Browns didn't week one, with the Browns did in week two from
27:15
a defensive standpoint, what the Cowboys have done both weeks with the forty nine
27:18
Ers have done, how good that Saints defense is, and then what the
27:21
Bills defense has done in past two weeks. You know how good those defensive
27:23
units are from a coverage standpoint, and what they do, how well coached
27:26
they are, the schematic pieces that they have. I don't think anybody's putting
27:30
in the Commanders are thinking like, oh yeah, they're probably six behind those
27:33
groups that those other groups ahead of them. That's a really quality spot for
27:37
them to be in. And then again you talk about that front, what
27:40
they have tied all day. To hear, per Sports Info solutions, they
27:45
are tied for the league lead in combined sacks with ten. They sacked Russell
27:48
Wilson seven times in week two. They are first in sack percentage at thirty
27:52
point three. They are fourth in total pressures with thirty eight they're twelfth,
27:56
and pressure percentage at thirty nine point four are tied for second in QB knockdowns.
28:02
And then this is a fun stat form. There are two hundred and
28:04
thirty three qualifying edges and interior defensive linemen for pass rush productivity per PFF.
28:12
They have three players in the top nineteen. Out of that two hundred and
28:17
thirty three for pass rush productivity, Chase Young is fourth. He played only
28:22
one game. He missed Week one. He's recovering from injury. He played
28:23
Week two against Denver and like David said, he had seven pressures in that
28:29
game against Dever, and those seven pressures really came from about midway through that
28:32
second quarter on. So Chase Young is fourth out of the two hundred and
28:36
thirty three qualifying players up front in pass rush productivity. There are other interior
28:41
defensive player not named Duran Pain, not named Jonathan Allen, Abdullah Anderson.
28:45
He's tied for seventh. And then you have edge Montes Sweat who is nineteenth
28:51
and then again, you still have Jonathan Allen, you still have Durron Pay
28:55
these pieces up front that can really get after it. This is a grouping
28:57
that head is done well. I think year over yere Jonathan Allen got a
29:03
big contract this past year. Chase Young was a top tier pick. Again,
29:06
he's had a bunch of injury concerns and pieces. Montes Sweat is a
29:08
quality guy. This is a very interesting matchup piece because what we saw in
29:14
Week two for the Bills versus the Raiders. Max Crosby all pro caliber guy.
29:19
I talked about him last week. I showed tape of him last week
29:22
here on the show and I mentioned him as you know, depending on how
29:26
you define underrated, but if it's how good a player is versus how much
29:30
they're talked about nationally, I thought Max Crosby, or I think Max Crosby
29:34
is the most underrated player in the NFL. The Bills completely neutralized them.
29:37
You know, Spencer Brown I think still had overall a Spencer Brown game,
29:41
but Ken Dorsey and Aaron Kromer really good game plan coming in. They chipped
29:45
him almost like felt like every single pass play, whether it was with Knox,
29:48
whether it was with Kim kaid, whether it was with the running backs,
29:52
whether it was with the running back coming out of the backfield, whether
29:53
it was with you know, going out in that five wide spread look,
29:57
with the two chippers on each end of the tackles, kind of book ending
30:02
the line of scrimmage. Like, they found ways to neutralize Crosby with quick
30:06
game, with chip help, just in a variety of ways. That was
30:10
a huge matchup piece for me going into Week two was Max Crosby against Spencer
30:14
Brown. They neutralized him. Now going into this game, Jonathan Allen is
30:18
up there in terms of that tier of player that can absolutely wreck a game
30:22
like Max Crosby. But this defensive line is much similar or much more similar
30:26
to what the Jets rolled out in Week one than it is with the Raiders.
30:30
Other than Crosby, the Raiders didn't really have much upfront going into the
30:33
last week, and I think the game showed it. The stat that I
30:37
brought into last week's game or last week's episode was the Raiders had ten pressures
30:41
in Week one against the Denver Broncos. Crosby had six of them. They
30:45
really didn't have anything besides him, and you saw that in that game.
30:48
Against the Bills, they really didn't get a lot of pressure. There wasn't
30:49
anybody really affecting the game. Tyree Wilson, you know, the rookie,
30:53
the high pick rookie out of Texas Tech. He still really hasn't put his
30:57
pass rush plan and moves together yet. So there wasn't anybody other than Crosby.
31:02
The Bills just had to neutralize him going into this game against the Commanders
31:06
that there are several against several players on this squad. Again, you don't
31:10
just as a group hit the metrics and the numbers that I mentioned earlier in
31:15
terms of what they've done thus far this year, in the first two weeks.
31:18
You don't do all that if you don't have a quality group upfront.
31:22
And even more so now they brought back Chase Young. So this is a
31:26
group that can get after it. In the past game. I'm going to
31:30
talk about the run game in a minute, but it's a group that can
31:33
test you in a variety of ways. They can get pressure on the interior,
31:36
they can get pressure off the edge, and they can do it with
31:37
four and they have the ability to just play coverage behind it and drop seven
31:41
into coverage. So I'm not going to sit here and say, oh,
31:45
they do have a very quality defensive line, and if Chase Young can be
31:48
Chase Young, this is a group that's up there in terms of something like
31:52
the best defensive line production that you can see this year. So this group
31:56
is much more closer or much closer to the Jets level then the Raiders were.
32:01
Again, you just really had Crosby. You didn't have that type of
32:05
consistent threat anywhere else on the defensive line for the Raiders. But for Washington,
32:08
you have it at both edge spots. You have it on the interior
32:13
from multiple guys. They have a good rotation. There's a legit three four,
32:17
five guys on Washington's front. They can get after it. That's a
32:21
huge piece. Now, I like where Dobbs's head is at. He says,
32:22
run the ball. So that is a piece that I would like to
32:25
see from this Bill's team going into it again. I mentioned it last week
32:31
on the episode going into that Raiders game. Oh I gotta stop because we
32:37
got a super chat. We got a super chat from Save a Whale,
32:40
right or running Back. I really love the name, and I appreciate the
32:44
donation, and I appreciate you being here as well. Thank you very much
32:45
for the super chat, and thank you very much for the donation. I
32:47
don't know, I feel like if you just wanted to throw out a super
32:51
chat and donation, that's awesome, But I feel like maybe there was supposed
32:53
to be a comment attached to it. So if you do have a comment
32:55
coming after, you don't have to give a super chat again, but put
32:59
your comment to the comments and I'll pull it up, because I know sometimes
33:01
it can be walking with like attached on the comments to the super chat.
33:05
But I appreciate you and your name is fantastic. Thank you very much.
33:08
So looking at this defensive front, where's that piece from Dobbs? Dobbs said
33:13
run the ball, So yes, I think it starts with the run the
33:15
ball mantra for this Bills team. I'm going to continue to say it every
33:19
week. Some of it is tied to the Josh Allen pass game. You
33:24
know. I thought, what was an interesting piece for the Bills in this
33:28
game against the Raiders coming out of halftime. I forget who the sideline reporter
33:32
was, but she mentioned talking to Josh McDaniels at halftime and he said something
33:37
to the effect of you know, we're trying to force Josh Allen to be
33:39
patient. In the first half he was. Now we got a half,
33:44
Now we need a different game plan some semblance of that, not paraphrasing.
33:47
That's the world that I think Josh Allen and the Bills offense defensively from an
33:52
opponent's standpoint, that's the world they're going to continue to live in. Teams
33:57
are going to continue to play this off cover. They're going to continue to
34:01
try and tempt Josh Allen or bait him into becoming kind of a radic frantic,
34:07
error prone, inefficient Josh Allen. They're going to sit back and give
34:09
him the underneath, give him those efficient, on schedule type of throws,
34:15
and sit back and say, we don't think you will continue to stay on
34:19
schedule. We don't think you will continue to stay patient and stay efficient.
34:23
They're sitting there thinking eventually that you know, mister Hyde to his doctor Jackel,
34:28
They're thinking that eventually that other side of Josh Allen is going to rear
34:30
its ugly head and he's gonna start forcing the ball downfield and start pushing the
34:34
ball downfield, whether that means turnovers, whether that just means and completions and
34:37
getting your team behind the sticks, whether it means trying to make those Superman
34:43
or Unicorn plays when he does not need to and does not have to.
34:45
The Raiders tried that. They went in with that game plan and saying,
34:50
let's see if he can be efficient. Let's see if he can take what's
34:52
given to him and stay on task and stay on schedule throughout the game.
34:55
Allen did that. He had a couple you know, Josh Allen moments,
35:00
but I think they were more calculated and I think he did a good job
35:02
of knowing when to go with a riskier play, with a more calculated risk,
35:07
and that had like a higher potential yield for a reward. I thought
35:12
he did a very good job against the Raiders with that. Myself and Eric
35:15
Turner are gonna be breaking down all of it tomorrow night and the Cover one
35:17
film room. But that's a piece that teams are going to continue to do.
35:22
They're going to continue to see if Josh Allen can live in that world
35:24
of efficiency and taking what's given to him. And then if you compare that
35:29
as a defense with a front four that can get after him and generate pressure
35:34
allowing you to consistently drop seven into coverage so that way you always have the
35:37
numbers advantage and coverage. That's a recipe that has worked in the past against
35:43
Josh Allen. So I anticipate Washington doing similar or having a similar game plan
35:49
to what the Raiders had in terms of kind of keeping everything in front of
35:52
him and see what you can do. This is the defense that the majority
35:55
of their coverage snaps this year. They're most played coverage on the year is
36:00
Covered two. Their second most played coverage on the year is Cover three,
36:02
their third is Cover one. But their primary modes right now of coverage at
36:07
this point are those off coverages, those zone coverages. They're going to try
36:10
and keep everything in front of them. They're going to see if Josh Allen
36:14
will stay on schedule, if he'll take what's given to him, and that's
36:17
what he did against the Raiders. But it also worked with the run game
36:21
that the Bills had, so having that downhill run presence, which we're going
36:25
to talk about as we go forward here in this episode. I think it
36:29
starts to running the ball against this commander's team one, because I think you
36:32
can get after them when it comes to running the football. But two,
36:35
it pairs very well with how Josh Allen needs to live based on how defenses
36:40
are approaching him and this Bill's offense. And when it comes to the run
36:44
game in specific, Denver had a lot of success going with heavier personnel,
36:50
so whether it was you know, twenty one personnel or twelve personnel, and
36:52
they had success going with those heavy groupings and then running gap scheme runs,
36:55
power counter, crack toss, all those runs had success. I think the
37:00
Bills can continue to see success with duo that downhill again, that downhill running
37:07
game that they used a ton against the Raiders, creating that vertical displacement,
37:10
allowing James Cook to read that front side linebacker and either take it up the
37:15
gut or press it and push it to the outside and put himself one on
37:19
one with a safety or a corner depending on how the defense has chosen to
37:22
align. I want to see the Bills use gap scheme runs against this team
37:27
Washington as a defense. When they got gouged, it was with runs or
37:32
passes that had some semblance of misdirection or some semblance of extra processing that came.
37:38
Oh got stop, save a whale. Right or running back with another
37:42
super chat. I appreciate it, thank you for still being here, thank
37:44
you for another super chat, and thank you for the comment. He says,
37:45
sorry forgot a message concern this past game plan won't be as easy running.
37:51
You just stated this. I think go Bills. I appreciate you.
37:54
Yeah, I think there's that's the kind of the one caveat with how successful
37:59
the Bills the offense was in this game against the Raiders, and we'll no
38:02
more going forward once there's more sample size. But I don't think when it
38:07
all shakes out, I don't think this Raiders defense is going to be one
38:09
of the best defenses in the NFL. I don't think they have a ton
38:12
of talent aside from Max Crosby. Potentially long term they might, but between
38:16
their coverage schemes that they play and the talent that they have, I don't
38:21
think, like putting thirty eight points up on the Raiders is very nice in
38:25
a response from how you played in Week one against the Jets, But at
38:29
the end of the day, I don't think we're gonna be sitting here saying,
38:30
like, man, that was a tremendous performance against a tremendous defense.
38:34
So I don't think anything passing the football, running the football, pass protection,
38:37
I don't think any of that is going to be as easy this week
38:40
against Washington that it was against the Raiders, which is a fair point,
38:45
like, and you have to adjust your game plan every week, right,
38:47
but whether it's running the football, pass protection, executing in your route concepts,
38:52
I think all of those things will be moderately too significantly more difficult against
38:57
this Commander's defense, which can really get after it, especially in comparison to
39:00
what the Raiders defense offers. But I appreciate you and could come in thank
39:06
you very much. The stuper Che, I think it very much. Again,
39:07
So we want to attack this Commander's defense. I was about to say
39:13
Raiders Commander's defense doing things that will put their processing into overdrives. So again,
39:19
it could be something as simple as running a gap scheme run where you're
39:22
pulling a backside guard and tackle, or you know you're you're pulling, you
39:24
know you're running pulling the backside guard and an h back or full back and
39:29
you're running a little gh counter, or you're running power something where you're changing
39:32
gaps. You have that flash of color moving from one side to another.
39:37
It could be play action, it could be split zone. Anything that causes
39:42
them to have to process, read, and react and communicate. That is
39:45
where you want to put this Washington defense. You can confuse them when they
39:50
go into their match coverages. You can confuse them with their match coverages if
39:53
you use motion, if you motion into bunches and or trips again, why
39:59
you motion in to those? And then whether you're running some switch releases or
40:01
you're running different angles, you put their defenders in a situation where they have
40:06
to communicate and they have to be accurate with their rules. Okay, those
40:09
match coverages are predicated on you know, if wide receiver one does this,
40:16
you do this. If wide receiver one does that, you do that.
40:21
All these pieces and they have to read and react in the moment accurately,
40:25
and the rest of their peers have to read and react in that moment accurately
40:29
as well. What you saw with Washington was in the game against Denver,
40:31
at least when they were putting in those situations. You had guys not passing
40:35
off correctly. You had guys covering the same receiver downfield and kind of blowing
40:40
coverages and having guys running vacant and running open in the intermediate, allowing chunk
40:45
plays for the Denver offense. So you want to put them in situations where
40:50
you can cause chaos with their match coverages or force them to communicate in their
40:53
pass offs. And again, even if it's not a match coverage type of
40:57
zone, it could be a regular spot drop zone. We saw things in
41:00
this Denver game for Washington where even if it was just a basic you know,
41:04
you're running mesh and I think everybody knows what mesh is at this point,
41:07
but I'm just gonna articulate in case you don't. So basically, just
41:10
got two drag routes kind of one going under the high underneath one and the
41:15
low underneath and then usually have a sit route behind that, and you're just
41:17
trying to cause somebody to get stuck in the wash, kind of get stuck
41:21
in traffic. And you really didn't have Washington defenders getting stuck on one another.
41:24
It was more just failure to communicate and pass off. You know,
41:29
someone's coming on the drag and the linebackers calling out, hey, that's your
41:31
man, that's your man, and the Apex defender on the other side is
41:34
already bailed out, and all of a sudden that underneath drag route is going
41:37
from right to left, and that ball is being completed on the left,
41:40
and there's about a ten yard radius where there is no Washington defender. Again.
41:45
Put them into pieces where they are forced to communicate, they're forced to
41:50
pass off in coverage, or if it's from a run perspective, where they
41:52
are forced to adjust on the fly, and I gotta stop because we got
41:57
to per check. Thank you very much, Jason, You're always here.
41:59
I appreciate how audio and think it very much for the super chat. And
42:00
Jason says, I don't have a cool name like the last guy, but
42:04
here's five bucks. Tell Kenda we miss him and all wish him good luck.
42:07
It is middle school spelling them. I would have screenshot this and then
42:14
I'm gonna text it to him after the episode. You're a fantastic Jason.
42:17
I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Dave, who I talked on Twitter
42:22
too last week, appreciate you Dave for being here again. Dave says,
42:25
so you can't just let them pin their ears back and get after it.
42:29
Make them think absolutely they are an aggressive defense they're going to penetrate. But
42:32
I also think some of just their roster makeup and how they process, you
42:37
can just take advantage of that. So again, anything that involves flashes of
42:40
color, misdirection, things where you have to read one thing and it's not
42:44
that thing, and then you have to adjust. So under center play action
42:47
where defenders are coming forward and all of a sudden they realize, oh,
42:51
it's not a run, it's a pass. Let me turn around, figure
42:52
out who's going in the route distribution, and how I have to adjust based
42:55
off of that. Oh we think it's a run, but we're pulling two
43:00
linemen, or we're pulling one, or it's a counter or its power and
43:04
we're changing gaps. And now I have to figure out, Okay, I
43:06
had this gap before, Now I think I have this other gap. Does
43:09
that guy know he has a new gap? Are we exchanging, are we
43:14
staying or we're all fitting correctly. They's got taken advantage of in those situations
43:17
from Denver. They adjusted as the game went on, but they got gouged
43:20
early on, and those I think those concepts and schemes will continue to work.
43:23
Another piece force their corners to have to tackle consistently. Another run or
43:29
gap scheme run that I mentioned earlier was that crack toss run. Get out
43:32
onto the perimeter and attack Emmanuel Forbes, attack Kendall Fuller especially both of them
43:38
miss multiple tackles in this past game. What you will see from a cornerback
43:43
perspective, when they are in their base defense, Saint Juice will be one
43:47
corner and Fuller will be the other. When they shift more into nickel,
43:52
Saint Juice will creep down and be that nickel defender and Emmanuel Forbes will be
43:57
that new outside corner and that's their three cornerback package will look like when they
44:00
go into that. But again, put them into situations where they have to
44:05
communicate in process pre snap motion, fast motion switch releases, play action change
44:10
gaps on them. I think it's a good heavy gap zone run type of
44:15
game for them for the Bills in this game against Washington, to really take
44:19
advantage of what they are upfront and then within that piece as well, just
44:22
attack the middle of the field. Like I don't no disrespect to what Washington
44:29
has, but I think from a linebacker perspective, you know, Cody Barton
44:30
and jam And Davis are their main two starting linebackers, especially when you go
44:35
from a nickel perspective, that's who will be in there. You can take
44:37
advantage of those guys. From an athletic standpoint, I think it is a
44:39
mismatch if you can get Dalton Kincaid on one of those guys or Dawson Knox
44:45
on one of those guys based on formation and alignment. We're going to talk
44:49
about some formation and alignment things. When it comes to the Bills twelve personnel
44:52
packages, we go for it. I want to save it for stock up
44:55
stock down. But that's a mismashed potential in that has mismashed potential in and
45:00
of itself again, especially when defenses choose to match that twelve personnel for the
45:07
Bills with nickel. And then you take Dawson Knox and Dalton Kincaid and you
45:10
attach them both to the line of scrimmage, and now you have a seven
45:13
man surface and you're forcing nickel corners or safeties or nickel corners and outside corners
45:19
and all of these guys to be in the box or be involved in that
45:22
run fit. And then you run down hill. You can match guys,
45:24
you can wash guys down, and then that's how you set James Cook up
45:29
one on one on the outside with a corner or a safety, and their
45:31
angle has to be perfect because James Cook's James Cook's burst and speed will make
45:37
somebody wrong in a hurry big time. So overall again this Commander's defense,
45:43
they're a good defense, tremendous upfront, tons of production already through these first
45:47
two weeks. It's a group that I like. There's a lot of good
45:51
dudes again on the defensive line, even some fun guys on the back end.
45:53
I like what Emmanuel Forbes could be. I like Jorgvous Martin coming out
45:58
of Illinois. We'll see what happens. Liked to Derek Forrest safety out of
46:01
Cincinnati from a couple of years ago. He's starting from them. Cam Curl
46:05
can make some plays from time to time. I like Saint Juice, So
46:07
we will see what happens. But it's a good it's a good group.
46:09
I would not be surprised if they sat Josh Allen two or three or maybe
46:14
even four times. It would not be surprised if they got pressure and Allen
46:17
had to make some plays on his own and do some Josh Allen things.
46:21
Again, the Bills are really able to nullify and neutralize Max Crosby this past
46:25
week. But it's a lot easier when you can just worry about neutralizing one
46:30
guy than having to neutralize multiple. And Jonathan Allen is a game wrecker on
46:35
the interior, Chase Young can be a game wrecker off the edge. Montes
46:38
Sweat is necessarily in that game wrecker range, but he is a quality edge
46:42
player coming off as well. And then again, like I mentioned, you've
46:45
got guys like Abdula Anderson, you know, being seventh out of two hundred
46:50
and thirty three qualifying edges and defensive tackles in terms of pass rush productivity.
46:52
So they're getting after it. And Chase Young's hitting the ground running after a
46:57
turning back last week for his first game. So it's quality group up front,
47:00
but overall from a defensive standpoint, From a front standpoint and defensive grouping
47:04
as a whole, you can take advantage of them with anything and everything that
47:07
has to do where you're forcing them to have to communicate and process, So
47:12
use motion, switch releases, play action, gap scheme runs, whether it's
47:16
just your basic downhill piece, which I think really lends itself to the Bill's
47:22
strength, but also some more use some more polars this week. Poll Connor
47:24
mcgovernment, poll Spencer Brown or Dion Dawkins, and use more of those dark
47:28
plays. Put Reggie Gilliam in the backfield and run you know, some traditional
47:31
power or some counter, or use Knox and mcgoverned and run some gh counter
47:37
and all those types of pieces. Right, So, anything that changes eyes,
47:42
makes them have to process, makes them have to think, you're focusing
47:45
here, but you're seeing a flash of color, so it takes your eyes
47:46
away. All these things that add to the mental load. That's where you
47:51
can take advantage of this Washington defense. Make them have to play slower,
47:54
make them have to process. I think they're inefficient in their processing and their
47:59
reading and reacting, and that's where the Bills can really take advantage of them
48:01
in this game. Oh yeah, multi super chats. Just go with one
48:06
saying seems like less RPOs this year, Is that correct? Yes, I
48:12
don't have the RPO data handy and in front of me. But the one
48:15
tough thing that can be well not one tough thing, but a tough thing
48:20
that can happen with RPOs is actually I'm gonna try and pull up that data
48:22
right now since you give the super jet. It's tough at times because sometimes
48:28
like you can have an RPO, look for something that really isn't an RPO,
48:32
and you can have an RPO that may not necessarily look like an RPO.
48:37
The advanced metrics for the Bills offense this year with a week two advanced
48:45
metrics, are they up yet? No, they're not. So if we're
48:49
just looking at week one, the Bills had exagin just week one against the
48:52
Jets, they had a seven percent RPO usage rate, which was twenty second,
48:58
but forget about the ranking, just thing seven percent seven percent, seven
49:00
percent. Their RPO usag rate last year was who sixteen percent, So a
49:07
huge, huge difference. I think the number of the percentage will go up
49:10
after the Raiders game potentially a little bit, but again that's big going to
49:15
be based on league wide trends. But yeah, so I don't have the
49:17
data for Week two yet. But if we're just taken from week one,
49:22
sixteen percent RPO usag rate last year in twenty twenty two versus a seven percent
49:27
usage rate in Week one against the Jets. So that is a huge huge
49:30
difference. Once I get the numbers for week two will put that together as
49:32
well. But that is a huge piece. Well done, well done,
49:37
good question and good eye. Jessica. I like that and think very much
49:38
for being here. They very much of the super Chet got another super jet
49:42
from Dave. Dave. I appreciate you being here again and for the super
49:45
jet. Dave says after watching the film, do you think Washington adjusted or
49:50
did Denver get away from what was working? I think Washington adjusted. It's
49:54
always going to be six one, half a dozen together, right, Your
49:58
success on one side of the ball usually goes hand in hand with the ineptitude
50:02
of the other side. Right, there's always things are very rarely black and
50:06
white. There's always some semblance of great. But I do think Washington adjusted
50:08
well, and I think, honestly a lot of it too, just came
50:10
from the pass rush upfront. They just started winning, Like Dron Payne stopped
50:15
getting blown off the ball against the run, Jonathan Allen was winning, Chase
50:17
Young was converting speed to power and driving tackles into the backfield and getting around
50:22
the edge. Like their pass rush game really started to work. They started
50:25
to get Denver behind the sticks, and when they got Denver behind the sticks,
50:30
then they started to play more aggressive on the back end and they were
50:32
jumping routes. They had a couple interceptions that well, they had a couple
50:36
of plays that should have been interceptions. Forrest I believe dropped one deep be
50:43
on a cover two rep. I think it was Forrest, but either way
50:45
it was somebody. It was a safety who dropped interception, and then Emmanuel
50:47
Forbes dropped another interception later. I think they adjusted as the game went on,
50:52
but I think really honestly, upfront, they just started to eat.
50:54
That defensive line started to take over with what you saw from Chase Young and
50:59
Jonathan Allen and Abdullah Anderson. They just started getting penetration. They started making
51:02
Russ have to scramble and kind of create more on his own. It really
51:06
started with that front, and they started to win against the Denver offensive line,
51:10
and it just drastically changed what Denver was doing. Denver was succeeding with
51:15
their play action game. Early on, you saw several deep shots from Russ,
51:17
including the big one to Marvin Mims. They couldn't really live in that
51:21
play action game when it's second in nineteen, second and seventeen because they were
51:23
getting sacked on first down, or Washington was drawing a hold on first down,
51:29
and all of a sudden, it's first and twenty, and then it's
51:30
second and seventeen because you know, the run game doesn't work on the next
51:34
player, so one and so forth. So I think Washington started to get
51:37
after it up front. End, you know, the game drastically changed.
51:43
I like what Zach of All Trade says here. He says, I'm here,
51:45
what did I miss? And you missed a lot had a tremendous guest
51:46
in the first portion of the episode. So once this is done, I
51:50
suggest you go back and watch it. But I like what Zack says here,
51:52
says also smashed that like, folks, Yes, please and thank you.
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you'd be so kind, Let's keep going through. So yeah, good defense.
52:30
I went through the outline of how to attack them. Let's flip some
52:34
things to the offensive side of the ball. So one thing that I thought
52:37
was very interesting. I like what David says here. I'm not feeling fuzzy
52:40
about that Washington d line matchup. I'm going to continue to be skeptical of
52:45
the Bill's offensive line until I see them consistently produce in the run and in
52:50
past protection against a quality defensive line. I thought the Jets got the better
52:54
of them in week one, but again, that's a really quality group up
52:58
front, and Washington is in that vein and in that mold of a group
53:01
that from especially from a pass rush perspective, can really get after the quarterback.
53:06
I was disappointed again with how the game started for Washington's defense from a
53:09
run defense standpoint, them just getting blown off the ball, not maintaining gap
53:14
integrity, just really getting you know, taken advantage of in a variety of
53:17
ways up front. Again, they course corrected as the game went on,
53:20
but this is a real quality group, so I would not I would not
53:24
feel fuzzy about them either. Again, I think it's a matchup overall.
53:28
I think the Bills can win this game and their favored, so I think
53:31
they're favored by like six and a half or seven points, which you know,
53:34
Vegas. I think that's a good line for them. But this Washington
53:37
defensive line is a very tremendous group sticking on the offensive side of the ball
53:42
for the Commanders. Very interesting piece. So samhow Washington quarterback dude who can
53:46
really sling it beautiful spiral winning on quarks it. He's been sacked ten times
53:52
so far this year, which is the second most in the entire NFL,
53:57
and amongst thirty three qualifying quarter backs, he has the highest percentage of pressures
54:02
converted to sacks at thirty five point seven percent, which is extremely high.
54:07
So three roughly three and a half out of every ten pressures he's going down,
54:12
he's getting sacked. He's also responsible for sixteen percent of those sacks himself,
54:16
which is the twelfth highest amongst quarterbacks. So if you can generate pressure
54:22
on Sam Howell, you can get to him, you know, which is
54:23
weird because he is a bit of an athletic guy. But from what I've
54:27
seen, when he is getting sacked, it's from a processing standpoint. He's
54:31
waiting for someone to come open. He's waiting for this route concept to develop.
54:36
And it's not their receivers. They've either been jammed the line or defenses
54:39
have distributed the routes correctly and there's no one open, and he's kind of
54:44
sitting there waiting and trying to make a play and it just does not happen.
54:49
He's a quarterback who again, when he spins it, it is really
54:52
really, really pretty. But there have been those times where he brings those
54:57
sacks upon himself. Again, sixteen percent of the sacks are on him,
55:00
which is the twelfth highest in the league. But the bigger piece is again
55:05
the highest percentage of pressures converted to sacks at thirty five point seven percent.
55:10
For for reference, Josh Allen was one of the best in the league last
55:14
year. He had the sixth lowest pressures converted to sack percentage at about fifteen
55:20
percent last year, so that's a huge Again, it's early, which affects
55:22
a sample size, but as a huge piece. Also, Sam Howell's average
55:27
time to throw is two point eight eight seconds. Not the longest in the
55:32
world, but decently long. You know, anything that starts to approach three
55:37
is kind of getting more to that longer side. So there is that as
55:40
well. Staying with the conversation on Howell, he's seventeenth out of thirty two
55:45
qualifying quarterbacks in EPA per play. For reference, Josh Allen is ninth.
55:51
He's sixteenth in complete percentage over expected Josh Allen is first, which is a
55:55
fun, fun piece that I did not know before doing research for this episode.
56:00
The Washington Commander's offense, you're going to see a lot of middling pieces
56:02
from an advanced metric perspective. The Commander's offense, they're sixteenth in EPA per
56:07
play, sixteenth in the past, fourteenth in the run game. Their offensive
56:12
line is tied for seventeenth, and pass blocking efficiency that builds offensive line is
56:15
fourteenth. The Commander offense is tenth in rushing dv away, seventeenth in passing
56:21
offense dv away, and eleventh overall an offensive dv away. Here's a very
56:25
interesting piece for Sam Howell. On the year, for mister Sam Howell,
56:32
he has only two passes that have been attempted twenty yards or more. He's
56:39
two for two on those throws for sixty five yards, including a thirty five
56:45
thirty two yard touchdown to Terry mccorn, which we're going to take a peek
56:47
at in a minute, that thirty something yard touchdown to Terry mccorn in Week
56:52
two. So only two passes on the year have been attempted twenty yards or
56:57
more. Twenty seven point one percent of his throws have come in the intermediate
57:00
that ten to nineteen yard range, forty percent of his throws have come in
57:05
that short area zero to nine, and then fifteen point seven percent have come
57:09
behind the line of scrimmage. A lot of screens and pieces. So what
57:13
you're going to get from Sam how he can uncork it. He's got a
57:15
pretty he's got a real pretty ball when he throws it, and there is
57:17
speed at their receiver position. Samuel can get vertical, but Clorin can get
57:21
vertical. Dots and can get vertical. But what you've really seen thus far
57:25
is a quarterback who is attacked a lot of pieces. Again, in the
57:30
short and intermediate, and we're going to take a look at his passing charts.
57:38
Now this is his week one. Let's share the screen. Let's share
57:47
the screen. Okay, here's this Week one against the Arizona Cardinals. Not
57:52
great. So again you see right there, nineteen to thirty one, two
57:54
hundred and two yards, one tuddy, one interception, and a lot from
58:00
the middle of the field over to the left, really hammering that left side.
58:02
Not a ton to the right. But again you can see where he
58:06
is living fifteen yards and below is the heavy majority for everything. Again,
58:10
nineteen to thirty one in that game. Now, if we look at what
58:15
he did in week two, let's go over to the week two good graphic.
58:22
Again. What's fun is how David mentioned earlier you saw a different kind
58:27
of attack from them against Denver. So you have more past attempts in this
58:30
game for reference, Again, he had thirty one in that Week one game
58:36
against Arizona. Now in this game, let me pull off the banner at
58:38
the bottom so you can see that this gave me at thirty nine, so
58:42
eight more past attempts, but much more productive overall. And you see different
58:46
type of attack, right, not as much from the middle of the field
58:49
and to the left. Now you have more of attack. On the right,
58:52
you have more I would say, not equal dispersion of the ball,
58:58
but just a different kind of attack in this game. So going with David's
59:01
point earlier of kind of morphing and going based off of what the defense is
59:06
giving you, eric the enemy calling a game plan early on that is based
59:08
on kind of poking and prodding and trying to figure out what the defense is
59:13
throwing at them, who they're going to be in that game, and then
59:15
adjusting accordingly. Again these I wish I could put them side by side,
59:19
but just really two different passing charge not necessarily from an overall depth perspective,
59:22
but from where they were working heavy into the left in week one, heavier
59:29
into the right here in week two. But again going with that idea of
59:32
attacking where you want, where you think the defense is vulnerable, trying to
59:36
mitigate their strengths amplify their weaknesses. So a different type of passing attack and
59:40
concerted effort in between these two weeks from mister Sam Howell, and again I
59:47
wanted to bring up this play, so the throw we talked about it earlier
59:53
with David. That throw to Terry mccorn, that touchdown throw. Here it
1:00:00
is, but I'll pull it up for you folks, real pretty. I'm
1:00:06
just gonna let it play here and you can see drops back, steps up,
1:00:13
gorgeous right over the safety in the middle of the field. Mccorin goes
1:00:15
up, snags it. That's gonna be a big piece that I think is
1:00:19
also going to test this bill secondary. Christian Benford has played well, We're
1:00:22
gonna take a look at some Benford pieces as we go forward in this game.
1:00:25
But there's a lot of athleticism, a lot of juice at the wide
1:00:30
receiver position for Washington, whether it's short and underneath and the screen game,
1:00:34
whether it's pressing vertigal, whether it's getting into that intermediate Terry mcclorin. Juice
1:00:38
and athleticism and speed and precision as a route runner. Again, I think
1:00:43
if Terry mccorn had consistency at the quarterback play, he statistically would be a
1:00:47
top ten, top five or we're in this NFL. I love what Johan
1:00:51
Dotson does again, athletic precision, plays big at the catchpoint, can go
1:00:54
up and get it. Curtis Samuel's electric he's got some juice as a gadget
1:00:59
guy, but added a little more refinement to his game as a receiver.
1:01:02
This wide receiver group is going to test the Buffo Bills secondary Tradevious White,
1:01:07
Jordan Poyer, Micah Hyde, Christian Benford has you know, some size to
1:01:13
him. But the Bills secondary isn't this overall athletic, you know, group
1:01:16
of athletic and speed merchant type sabonts. They're guys that are based on that
1:01:22
win, based on their processing, based on their technicality, based on their
1:01:24
form and their precision. It can be tough for dudes like that when they're
1:01:29
going up against the wide receiver grouping that is full of juice and full athleticism,
1:01:32
and against the quarterback again, if you give Sam how old this time?
1:01:35
This is In the second half, they started to pinpoint things a bit
1:01:37
differently. Here he gets time. Look at real pretty shuffle that's gorgeous,
1:01:43
it's so esthetically pleasing, throws it on a rope downfield, perfect ball placement,
1:01:49
and then Terry mccorn goes up and he gets it, makes the catching
1:01:52
traffic, holds on as he's contacted midair, holds on as he goes to
1:01:55
the ground. That's a big boy play. That's an all pro you know,
1:01:59
David said it earlier. That's an all pro type throw from Sam Howell.
1:02:01
That's an all pro type catch from Terry mccorn. That's pretty Now this
1:02:06
type of throw isn't necessarily the regularity for Sam Howell, but he's got this
1:02:12
capability to uncork these if he gets that time and he gets that ability error.
1:02:15
When he gets that time and he gets that comfortability in the pocket,
1:02:19
this throw is gorgeous. And again you got to do like Terry mccorn where
1:02:22
the throw is gorgeous even if it wasn't. Mcclorn has the ability to go
1:02:27
up and make you right even when you're wrong with that throw. So the
1:02:30
fact that this is a dime from Sam Howell really helps. But mccorn has
1:02:35
the ability to kind of erase any potential mistakes for his quarterback. Dude is
1:02:39
so good. And again that type of athletic, speedy, type of receiving
1:02:45
group with mccorn, Dotson and Samuel, even Diami Brown who's got some juice
1:02:50
to his game. But then you add the technique on top of it,
1:02:52
like mccorn is a technician who operates with precision. Dotson is in that mold
1:02:58
as well, albeit to a lesser ex then they can post some problems for
1:03:00
the bills on the outside, who are a secondary that are built on technique
1:03:05
and technicality and not necessarily athleticism and speed. But yeah, one more time
1:03:09
with this throw, absolutely gorgeous, Howell to Terry mcclaurin, as we talk
1:03:16
here on the show, so again we talk about the schematic opponents. So
1:03:19
what do you do. You gotta get pressure on Saam Howell. I think
1:03:22
you can go with that for most weeks. But him having again, even
1:03:25
though it is a small sample size, with having two weeks thus far,
1:03:29
him having that high percentage of pressures converted to sacks at thirty five point seven
1:03:34
percent, that is extremely extremely telling. It means his pocket navigation isn't necessarily
1:03:39
the best. Maybe he's holding on to his reads a little too long.
1:03:43
Maybe if you jam the receivers or muddy his reads, he will hold onto
1:03:46
that football. They will add some beats to his throw. Again, his
1:03:51
average time to throw is two point eight eight seconds, so he will hold
1:03:53
onto that ball from time to time. And the fact that he only has
1:03:59
two attempts on the year for twenty yards or more means he's just holding onto
1:04:03
the ball, trying to let things develop in the short and intermediate and the
1:04:06
underneath areas. And if that's happening, that'll give the opportunity to kind of
1:04:11
generate some sacks and generate some pressures. So that starts with the biggest piece
1:04:15
against this Washington offense, getting pressure on Sam Howell and then converting those pressures
1:04:18
into sacks, get them behind the sticks, make them have to get off
1:04:23
script. They want to run the ball, they want to attack the underneath
1:04:25
and the intermediate. It's hard to attack the underneath and the intermediate because that
1:04:30
usually requires you to stay on schedule. But you can't stay on schedule if
1:04:32
it's second in sixteen or second and nineteen. You want to feed the ball
1:04:38
to Brian Robinson, who is this pounding, physical, downhill type runner.
1:04:43
His game doesn't necessarily lend itself to second and long situations or third and long
1:04:47
situation. You can kind of take them out of their comfort zone, take
1:04:50
Sam Howell out of his comfort zone. Now if you get into those second
1:04:54
and longer situations or those third and longer situations. Antonio Gibson out of the
1:04:58
backfield can gaugia on screens, and that's been an area that I think has
1:05:01
been a cause for concern for the Bills these first two weeks. It showed
1:05:04
up against the Jets, showed up against the Raiders in Week two. Part
1:05:11
of it is the nature of what this Bills defense is. They want to
1:05:13
get up field, they want to penetrate, they want to attack, and
1:05:15
teams can use that against them at times. If you have your defensive front
1:05:18
getting up field right and all of a sudden they've gotten upfield and you catch
1:05:24
them in an aha or a gotcha moment and you dump it over their head,
1:05:27
there's going to be space behind it. And then, because they are
1:05:30
in nickel defense, because they have numbers dropping into coverage, usually if you
1:05:33
get that ball behind that first level, sometimes it's only one linebacker who's in
1:05:39
the vicinity trying to make a play against three linemen. Sometimes it's Terrell Bernard,
1:05:43
sometimes it's Matt Milano, and it can be tough. The Bills have
1:05:45
been gouged in that screen game. I think that's an area that they have
1:05:48
to watch out for against the Commanders because they have had success with their screens
1:05:53
David Harrison talked about it earlier when breaking down one of the pieces that Washington
1:05:57
has been successful with thus far, especially in Week two against Denver. And
1:06:00
they've got they've got good screen capable receivers mccorin, Dotson, Curtis Samuel,
1:06:06
but again from the backfield. Even Brian Robinson isn't bad on the screen piece
1:06:11
as well. He gets upfield in a hurry. But Antonio Gibson has that
1:06:14
wide receiver background because he was a receiver before he converted to a running back.
1:06:18
They've got juice out of the backfield. You gotta be careful with that
1:06:21
screen game. That that's a big piece that worries me with Washington's offense.
1:06:26
If the Bills get them in second and long, and you're thinking, sweet,
1:06:28
we got him in second and sixteen, second and seventeen, all of
1:06:30
a sudden, they can make it third and four, third and three because
1:06:33
they can rattle off a thirteen or fourteen yards screen pass to a receiver or
1:06:36
running back or again just keep it on schedule on first down. They've got
1:06:42
guys who can take a screen and turn it into fifteen twenty twenty five yard
1:06:45
gains in the blink of an eye because of their speed and athleticism. This
1:06:48
is a group. David and I were talking about it offline, and I've
1:06:54
said it, I believe on this show or other shows. The quarterback play
1:06:57
is really really been the only thing that's held back this Washington offense for years.
1:07:02
They have one of the best skill position groupings in the entire NFL.
1:07:05
When you're talking about receivers, running backs, the tight end room. Like
1:07:09
Logan Thomas isn't a stud, but he's no slouch. They've got real quality
1:07:14
at the skill positions. The only thing they've been kind of waiting on has
1:07:17
either been an offensive coordinator to unlock or unleash things, but more so just
1:07:23
consistency at the quarterback play. When they had Alex Smith, he wasn't pushing
1:07:26
the ball down field. Then you got Ryan Fitzpatrick, he went down and
1:07:29
you were done there. Taylor Heineke was fun, but he was limited in
1:07:32
terms of his skill set and what he could do. Now you've got Sam
1:07:35
Howell, who's got some athleticism, who's got the arm, and you pair
1:07:39
that with Eric b Enemy, who is a skilled offensive mind. You now
1:07:44
all of a sudden, you've got some pieces in play or in place with
1:07:46
the offensive coordinator and the quarterback who can potentially take advantage of a legitimate plethora
1:07:51
of weapons at the wide receiver and running back position. Like I like Brian
1:07:56
Robinson as a running back. The fact that he's the one in Antonio Gibson
1:08:00
is the two. There are two different kinds of backs. That's a really
1:08:03
fun group. And then again McLaurin, Dodson, Samuel even Diami Brown.
1:08:09
They've got a really quality, a real quality stable of weapons on this team.
1:08:15
And for a Bill's defense that you know, I know some people ask
1:08:18
questions about it earlier. You know, Jordan Poyers looks slow at times this
1:08:21
year. You know, I don't think Micah Hyde has as much, but
1:08:25
Hide Powyer and Tradevious White have never been the most athletic guys. They are
1:08:30
not guys that win because they're super fast or super rangey. Micah Hyde has
1:08:34
tremendous range because he doesn't have good enough long speed, but his range is
1:08:41
usually due to his processing. He's extremely efficient with his angles and his processing.
1:08:45
He knows how to read quarterbacks, he knows how to read route distributions
1:08:49
and the angle that he takes to the ball. It's like being a really
1:08:53
good center fielder. You know, you don't have to be the fastest to
1:08:55
be a great center fielder. It's all about your angle to the ball.
1:08:58
He's extremely efficient. There are no wasted steps, no wasted motions. But
1:09:03
you take High, you take poy Er, you take trade, even Benford,
1:09:05
who I think has held his own. This isn't an overly athletic secondary
1:09:10
or an overly speedy group trying to take the camera one blurry on me there
1:09:14
for a minute. There we go. This is an over an overly speedy
1:09:16
or athletic group. And if you're comparing it to the Washington you know,
1:09:20
skill positions, mcclorin, Dots and Samuel, they got the Bill secondary when
1:09:26
it comes to speed. So the Bills are gonna have to win with technique.
1:09:28
They're going to have to win with their processing and their communication and their
1:09:30
efficiency. And sometimes that's a hard thing to do if you're outmatched athletically or
1:09:34
physically. So got to limit the screen game, got to get to Sam
1:09:40
Howell and sack him, keep him off schedule. Again, you can say
1:09:44
that on most weeks against most opponents. But like I keep you know,
1:09:46
drilling home that thirty five point seven pressure is converted to sack percentage is ridiculously
1:09:53
high for Sam Howell. So he's shown early on that if you get pressure
1:09:56
around him, you can sack him. That's because he's keeping his eyes down
1:09:59
field, he's trying to make a play. He's not necessarily feeling what is
1:10:02
happening around him. And for an edge grouping that has stood out this year
1:10:06
from from a positive standpoint highlighted by at Oliver, by Greg Rousseau and Leonard
1:10:11
Floyd. You can get him around that, you can get around those tackles,
1:10:14
get around the arc, trace back and get flat pressure him or at
1:10:18
Oliver has been tremendously successful thus far generating pressure up the gut, get up
1:10:23
field and bring him down. This is a quarterback that has not eluded or
1:10:27
evaded pressure. This is not a quarterback who hast tremendous pocket navigation or manipulation.
1:10:31
Take advantage of that bring him down. Yeah, those are some pieces
1:10:36
there. Oh, another super chet I believe here from Jessica oh Man.
1:10:43
This question. Jessica, thank you very much again for being here and for
1:10:45
your super chet. Jessica says, who who's been the better corner so far
1:10:50
White or Benford. I'm gonna say Tray White. I've liked a couple really,
1:10:57
really good reps from Christian Benford. I don't think Benford has been bad,
1:11:00
But you also got to take the assignment into account, right, you
1:11:03
know, Trey drawing Garrett Wilson and drawing DeVante Adams, those are much different
1:11:08
matchups than Benford drawing Alan Lazarre and I don't even know who the wide receiver
1:11:15
two was on Sunday for the Raiders. Well, Trey Tucker on certain reps,
1:11:18
but Jakobe Myers being down really hindered and limited what the Raiders were.
1:11:23
I don't think Trey has been as bad as he might potentially be getting a
1:11:25
rep for this year. I know, you know, he had the mistackle,
1:11:29
He had some pieces that were regrettable, again from a tackling standpoint against
1:11:33
the Raiders against the Jets, but he was in great position on Garrett Wilson
1:11:38
on that touchdown. Wilson just got the better of him and made a ridiculous
1:11:42
play, and then Adams got the better of him on several reps for the
1:11:45
Raiders. But I don't think we've seen Benford really get tested against a quality
1:11:48
wide receiver two. This week will be more interesting because whether Bills aren't going
1:11:55
to necessarily travel, maybe they will a little in this game. I know
1:11:58
White traveler with Wilson a bit, You're not going to get a rep off.
1:12:01
There is no significant drop off from wide receiver one to wide receiver two
1:12:06
like you have had in the first two weeks. You know, if Trey
1:12:10
is on Terry mccorn, you're gonna have your hands full with Johan Dotson.
1:12:14
If Trays on Johan Dotson, Benford's gonna have his hands full with Terry mccorn,
1:12:16
even with Curtis Samuel and all these pieces. So I think Benford will
1:12:19
have more of a significant test this week. But I would say Tray has
1:12:24
been better thus far, even though I haven't loved everything but bum bump no.
1:12:30
See, all right, So I'm gonna have this comment from Dbstob says,
1:12:31
put Benford to the safety position and get elim on the field in one
1:12:34
on one man situations the fastest first round healthy dB being a scratch as a
1:12:39
travesty. The issue is he gets panicky at the catchpoint and at the top
1:12:44
of routes he's still grabby. He's still committing penalties before the ball is in
1:12:48
the air. While the ball is in the air. It's not just enough
1:12:51
to be big and fast and athletic. He's not ready, even if you
1:12:56
think he should be in there and man on you know, one on one
1:12:59
man situation. I watched him in one on one man situations in camp get
1:13:02
eaten up by a variety of receivers. I would love if kayer Elam was
1:13:06
CB two. The Bills want him to be CB two. Him not being
1:13:11
on the field, if you think it's a travesty, that's completely fine.
1:13:15
But it's more of a travesty that's put on the kayer Elam than it is
1:13:18
onto the coaching staff, where because they're making some mistake, you don't want
1:13:23
to put Benford to safety. The reason Benfords starting at CB two is because
1:13:26
he's played better CB than kyer Elam. And here's a comment too from Walter
1:13:31
that says he looked ready in the playoffs because you're thinking about the interception and
1:13:35
you're thinking about the PBu on Gasiki that kind of ended the game or that
1:13:39
did end the game. Both were very phenomenal plays, right. There were
1:13:42
also two other reps I broke it down on Twitter. He completely blows coverage
1:13:46
on a couple reps and he has Jordan Poyer hollering at him in his ear
1:13:50
because he blew these coverages and big situations. But Skyler Thompson, third string
1:13:56
quarterback for Miami, doesn't have the chops to read it, react and make
1:14:00
the Bills pay for it. The biggest thing with Elam is he makes those
1:14:02
mental mistakes, whether it's in his technique, whether it's trusting his eyes or
1:14:06
knowing what his responsibility in his assignment is. Overall, again, I think
1:14:11
he's gotten better in knowing his assignment as as last year went on and then
1:14:15
going into this year. But Christian Benford has been in the better play at
1:14:18
CB two. The Bills want Kayer Eland to be the guy. And I
1:14:21
also think again to put this into I just I don't know what this is.
1:14:30
Elam shut Tyreek hilldown in the playoff game. Man, it's and so
1:14:35
Dobb says, not committing penalties on the bench or a healthy scratch. How
1:14:39
will they ever find out? They're finding out in practice because he's making mistakes
1:14:43
in practice. He's grabbing in practice, he's grabbing in the preseason he's getting
1:14:47
beat in preseason like when he gets the opportunities and practice is a huge piece.
1:14:53
The coaches are seeing him every day. They know who the best guy
1:14:58
for the job is. And if it's Kayyer cool, If it's Dane Jackson
1:15:00
cool, if it's Christian Benford cool. They have no bias. You think
1:15:03
the Bills don't want to start their first round corner that they traded up for.
1:15:08
They want to start Kayer Relam. He hasn't played better than Christian Benford.
1:15:11
He hasn't played better than Dane Jackson. I want him to. He
1:15:14
hasn't been that guy. He's not making plays on the ball, he's committing
1:15:17
penalties, he's getting beat. It's he's not the guy right now now.
1:15:23
That doesn't mean he can't be the guy next year or later on in this
1:15:26
season, he just hasn't been the guy. He's made a handful of good
1:15:29
plays. He's also made a handful of mental mistakes right, and the mental
1:15:32
mistakes just aren't being broadcasted as much. But Being and McDermott talked about it
1:15:36
this offseason before camp even started, and again, the point here, how
1:15:40
will they ever find out? They're finding out in practice every day, they're
1:15:43
watching him go one on one. They're watching him cover Stefon Diggs and Gabe
1:15:48
Davis and Khalil Shakier and Trent Scherfield and whoever else. The same way if
1:15:51
you went to an open practice and Saint John Fisher, you got to see
1:15:55
Kayer Relam go up against these guys and testis Metal and see what happened.
1:15:59
And the reports were not just from myself being there, but from the Beat
1:16:02
reporters and everybody who's there. He was grabby again this preseason, much like
1:16:06
he would or in camp this year, much like he was last year when
1:16:09
they had to put boxing gloves on him to make him stop grabbing because that's
1:16:14
how grabby he was. That's a significant piece, but fair enough. Sophia,
1:16:20
thank you very much for being here, and thank you very much for
1:16:21
the super chest. Sophia says, what is better about Josh under center?
1:16:26
Thanks? I think it's not necessarily about what he does better under center,
1:16:30
as it is tied to I think the specifically for me, it's the under
1:16:35
center play action game that I think is better, right, And I just
1:16:39
think his sleight of hand is absolutely tremendous. So when he drops back and
1:16:45
he already snaps in, he goes for play action. He's so adept at
1:16:47
sucking in the second level or even sometimes third level defenders that they come so
1:16:54
forward thinking it's a run because they're buying that run action and they're very vulnerable
1:16:58
behind, whether it's up the seam or crossers or things in the intermediate.
1:17:01
So one, I think it starts with his hand motion, and he's a
1:17:05
magician when it comes to slight a hand on the play action game. So
1:17:10
the under center play action game, I just think it is tremendous. And
1:17:12
then the understenter play action game, not just from a Josh standpoint, that's
1:17:15
that's usually your higher percentage play action opportunity to really suck in those second level
1:17:21
defenders, and it just widens passing windows, It widens passing lanes for a
1:17:26
quarterback and makes things a bit easier. Now, the flip side is that
1:17:30
under centerpiece usually you're turning your back to the defense. So if the pre
1:17:33
to pros post, if the pre to post snap picture changes and you don't
1:17:39
read it correctly, you can be prone to mistakes. But Josh, you
1:17:42
know fingers crossed. No Jinks has been susceptible to that at this point.
1:17:45
And then I also think too, from an under center standpoint, when you're
1:17:49
taking regular snaps straight dropback snaps from under center, there is some semblance of
1:17:54
more of a rhythm to it. You know, shotgun, you know,
1:17:57
you snap it, you might just take one two steps depending on if it's
1:17:59
you know, one, two, three, four or five step drop.
1:18:00
Whatever it is under center or shotgun, there's a different rhythm and nature.
1:18:04
And I think Josh is a quarterback who responds well to the rhythm of things,
1:18:11
whether it's the play action or straight dropbacks under center. Like most quarterbacks
1:18:15
respond well to rhythm, but Josh does a really good does a really good
1:18:17
job of being in rhythm and then keeping everything tight and compact, whether it's
1:18:23
his footwork, his mechanics, things really work well. And I think that
1:18:28
that pairs well with being able to calm him mentally and then things working together.
1:18:35
Where are some comments here? I want to go what double standard is
1:18:42
there? I'm just sorry, I don't want to. Oh, Dobbs,
1:18:45
you're saying payers getting beat two games in a row, but he gets a
1:18:46
past them. Josh made four huge mistakes to cost a division game The point
1:18:53
though, is so Poy you're getting beat. Okay, So if if Poyer,
1:18:58
Elam, and Allen are all the saying because they all made mistakes,
1:19:01
there isn't a Christian Benford at safety or at quarterback. So one with Josh
1:19:05
Allen, you're not pulling Josh Allen like you're not going to bench Josh Allen.
1:19:09
So that's kind of irrelevant. But payer making mistakes payers in all pro
1:19:14
safety like, so if he's making mistakes and you want to bench him,
1:19:17
that's fine. What does your second level or second string safety look like.
1:19:21
The Bills don't have a Christian Benford quality player as their number two safety player,
1:19:27
even if he's making mistakes, is still by far the best option for
1:19:30
the Bills at safety along with Michael Hide. That's not the case at corner.
1:19:34
That is not the case at corner. I don't think that's a double
1:19:38
standard. K Kyer Elam. I want him to play. He didn't make
1:19:42
the plays he needed to when he's had the opportunities. He's flashed a bit,
1:19:45
but I think those flashes have obviously been outweighed by the mistakes that he
1:19:49
makes. That they're seeing that the coaching staff is regularly seeing in practice.
1:19:53
Here's also another way to put it. And then I'm going to move on
1:19:56
to the next topic. This whole piece with kyer Elam not starting, and
1:20:00
I don't know why this isn't taken into account more. Sean McDermott's track record
1:20:03
for developing defensive backs going back to his time in Philadelphia. Let alone you
1:20:09
also going in Carolina, but just think about his time with the Bills.
1:20:12
Micah Hyde was a jack of all trades defensive back, mainly a slot corner
1:20:16
and punt returner. Jordan Poyer was a cast off afterthought free agent signing from
1:20:24
Cleveland. McDermot turned both of them into all Pro safeties. Taron Johnson was
1:20:28
a fourth round nickel corner. He's turned him into one of the best nickel
1:20:30
corners in all the football. Trey White was a late first round pick.
1:20:33
First round pick, yes, not somebody that everybody tad and said, man,
1:20:38
this guy's going to be an all Pro corner. He took Dane Jackson
1:20:41
as a late round Day three pick and turned him into a low end CB
1:20:44
two, high end CB three. He took Levi Wallace and turned him in
1:20:47
from a UDFA to a low end CB two, high end CB three.
1:20:51
He took Christian Benford, who was a sixth round pick and turned him into
1:20:57
as a right now a low end CB two. We'll see what he is
1:21:00
because he's still only in his second year and still barely has a handful of
1:21:03
snaps under his belt as a starter. Sean McDermott has proven his worth in
1:21:10
terms of getting every drop of blood from a defensive backstone in his tenure with
1:21:16
the Buffalo Bills, and that's with guys that don't have a lot of blood
1:21:20
to give. Levi Wallace doesn't have the athleticism or the size, or the
1:21:24
speed or anything that Kayer Eelam does. And Sean McDermott was able to increase
1:21:28
and raise Levi Wallace's floor and ceiling the way that he did with Tray and
1:21:32
hide and Ployer and tarn and Christian Benford. It seems k and Kayer on
1:21:39
the flip side has all this blood in the stone. He's got the measurables,
1:21:42
he's got the speed, the length, the strength, all these pieces,
1:21:45
but he can't seem to get on the field. So this coach and
1:21:48
this coaching staff that has this track record of getting every drop of blood from
1:21:53
the defensive backstone and raising DB's floors and ceilings. It's their fault that Kayer
1:21:59
Relam isn't playing. It's a travesty that Kayre Eelam isn't playing. I don't
1:22:03
know why the conversation isn't What is Kayre Eelam doing wrong that he's not getting
1:22:08
on the field. Why is it a travesty? Why is it Sean McDermott's
1:22:13
fault. Why is it the coaching staff's fault? Why are they making a
1:22:15
mistake? Their track record gives them a lot of credibility when it comes to
1:22:18
the defensive backgrouping. I'm not saying they're perfect. I'm not saying they don't
1:22:21
make mistakes. But if I have to lean one way or the other and
1:22:25
say, m kaye Elam's not playing, whose fault do I think it is
1:22:28
Sean McDermott and the coaching staff or Kayer Elam, I'm going to lean Kayre
1:22:31
Elam because the track record of Sean McDermott in this coaching staff when it comes
1:22:34
to developing dbs and getting them to execute, is pretty strong. And again,
1:22:41
player development is not a fine science. There are so many things and
1:22:44
so many variables that go into a player increasing their floor or hitting their ceiling
1:22:49
or raising their ceiling. It goes to the scouting department, it goes to
1:22:53
the system, it goes to the coaches, It goes to the training staff
1:22:57
and the culture and the building environment. Then the player themselves physically, mentally,
1:23:01
emotionally, all these things. It's a very inaccurate science. It's the
1:23:08
reason, you know, player evaluation isn't exact. There's or it's a reason
1:23:13
that guys, you know, bust in the draft. It's a reason why
1:23:15
nobody has one hundred percent hit rate or success rate. But you know,
1:23:19
and I appreciate you Dop saying I'm not mad at you a total respect.
1:23:21
Everyone makes mistakes. They're saying, no, absolutely, and I said it,
1:23:25
you know, everybody makes mistakes. But it's it's just weird, the
1:23:28
kaye Elam narrative. Just it's it doesn't seem like people think enough of Well,
1:23:33
maybe Kayer is making the mistake. I don't know. It's you know,
1:23:35
while Sean McDermott is making a mistake, the coaching staff is making a
1:23:40
mistake also too. If you just watch the preseason, you can't have watched
1:23:43
the preseason this year and thought Kayer Elam was the better corner than Dane Jackson
1:23:48
or Christian Benford because he was not. I want him to be. I
1:23:53
want skiing versatility in my corners. I want to be able to go man
1:23:56
or his own in any way, shape or form at any point in time.
1:24:00
Kiriyam is a step in that direction. He was the third best corner
1:24:03
out of Benford himself and Dane Jackson. And that's unfortunate for him because I
1:24:11
really like him as a player and I still think he's got a good head
1:24:13
on his shoulders. Now we'll see what happens as the year goes on and
1:24:15
year three potentially for him. But you know see, and this is a
1:24:18
great comment here from Pops. Pop says, I blame Benford and Jackson for
1:24:21
the reason Elam isn't playing, and I think that's spot on. You know,
1:24:27
Benford and Jackson have both played really well despite being more limited as athletes
1:24:33
or having less blood in the stone from a defensive backstandpoint. And yeah,
1:24:39
a good comment there from Pops saying yes Pops Elm would, or good comment
1:24:42
here from Pete Pete saying yes Pops Elm would definitely be out there if Benford
1:24:45
Jackson hadn't beat him out by a good margin. That's a fair point.
1:24:47
No apologies, Jessica. I like the conversation starting. I like it.
1:24:50
We have a good, healthy dialogue and discussion. I'm not angry. I'm
1:24:53
not flustered or frustrated. I appreciate Dobbs sticking to his guns and believing what
1:24:58
he believes. I appreciate you starting the convers I like that on this show,
1:25:00
especially as I ride solo on the episode once against the guest leaves.
1:25:03
I love good conversation, engagement and back and forth, whether it's you,
1:25:08
you all in the chat or with me, So don't apologize. I think
1:25:10
it's an awesome conversation starter. And it's obviously a hot button topic right like
1:25:14
people want Kayer Elam to start. I want Kayer Elam to start. I
1:25:17
want the scheme versatility. I don't want to have wasted a first round draft
1:25:21
pick on a corner that's not going to play. I don't want that.
1:25:26
The Bills don't want that. It's a hot button topic. And again I
1:25:30
think also they can't go hand in hand like or they should go hand in
1:25:33
hand. Elam not starting sucks, Benford. Starting is a huge, huge
1:25:39
feather in the cap. If you hit on a six round corner and he's
1:25:42
capable being your CB two, that's awesome. Now, that doesn't mean you
1:25:45
didn't waste resources draft the Elam in the first but they kind of go,
1:25:49
uh, you know, better hand or kind of go hand in hand pieces
1:25:54
what I got one more. Walter says Cook wasn't a better player in practice,
1:25:57
was a more productive player on the field when given the opportunity. I
1:26:00
understand the value of practice, but we don't draft Cook or Elam to stay
1:26:04
with the status Oh stay with the status quo. Yeah, but I think
1:26:08
Elam's just making mistakes. I mean, look look at Cook's carries. He
1:26:12
fumbled early on in that Rams game. His usage rate weeks one through nine
1:26:15
or one through eleven was nowhere close to what it was down the stretch.
1:26:17
He had to re earn the confidence of this coaching staff in game. But
1:26:21
it starts with earning that in practice, and then Cook eventually earned it and
1:26:26
went forward and he added a lot to this Bill's offense down the stretch.
1:26:30
I just think just putting out from a play perspective, I just look at
1:26:34
the preseason this year. Forget everything that happened last year. Just go into
1:26:38
this twenty twenty three preseason training camp all of it. Who's played better out
1:26:44
of Kayer Elam, Christian Benford, Dane Jackson. That's it. Kyer Elam
1:26:47
has played third best out of Benford, Jackson and himself, and that's why
1:26:51
he's not playing, which is unfortunate for him and potentially for the Bills.
1:26:55
Now let's switch topics. Let's go to stock up stock down after week two,
1:27:00
MM excited to break this down some pieces I'm saving four tomorrow night in
1:27:10
the film room with Eric Turner. We got a lot to dive into and
1:27:12
break down with how the Bills you know one and what they were successful within
1:27:16
week two. But this stock up stock down piece, I wanted to grab
1:27:19
a couple of specific pieces that I was excited about that I liked from week
1:27:25
two and we're going to dive right into it here again. For those of
1:27:29
you playing at home watching here live, who or what is trending up or
1:27:32
trending down for you? It could be a player, it could be a
1:27:34
coach, It could be a side of the ball, it could be a
1:27:36
position group. Whatever is on your mind, stock up, stock down,
1:27:41
let me know in the comments. I'll bring up everything I can. I
1:27:43
like this comment here from Save It waye ride a running back stock down,
1:27:45
Bills pr putting to Kio spikes behind a wall for the game. Yeah,
1:27:49
that was really disappointing. He tweeted it out, and then some other pieces
1:27:53
came out that like Bill's Legends haven't had the best experience, which is really
1:27:56
disappointing to hear. Fair point there, Jessica awesome comment says Jessica's super chat's
1:28:00
huge stock up. I like it. I like it. I like it
1:28:03
a lot. We're going to start with let me go, two huddle.
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There we go. So the first piece I wanted to bring up is Sean
1:28:18
McDermott. A couple plays this game, you know, changing the pre to
1:28:21
post nap picture on an offense, in this case Jimmy g and the Raiders.
1:28:27
This is something Leslie Fraser did at times. I'm gonna drop the banner
1:28:30
on the bottom so we can fully see everything. I love this comment here
1:28:33
from Chris Chris as Dalton Kinkaid to the Freaking Moon. Absolutely, we're going
1:28:36
to talk about him shortly, but I wanted to start here with the tape
1:28:40
here on Sean McDermott changing the pre to post nap picture on offenses and on
1:28:46
the Raiders. This is the thing that I really wanted to see from the
1:28:48
Bill's defense more coming into this year, whether you know, and it could
1:28:53
be in a variety of things, showing one coverage and dropping to another,
1:28:56
you know, showing guys at the line of scrimmage and you're not really blitzing.
1:28:59
It could be a similar pressure. It could be a creeper. It
1:29:00
could be showing a seven man pressure and actually only rushing your traditional four or
1:29:05
only rushing three, or showing a two high safety look pre snap and spinning
1:29:11
down to single high post snap or vice versa. Anything to change the pre
1:29:15
to post snap picture is what I wanted to see more from this Bill's defense,
1:29:18
and we saw it for a couple reps in this game. I'm gonna
1:29:21
show two of them. One worked, one didn't, But I like the
1:29:25
thought process behind it. So let us dive into the play here. So
1:29:32
first play, third and five four the Oakland raid Las Vegas Raiders. Oh,
1:29:38
I was doing so good. I didn't say I didn't say Oakland the
1:29:41
whole time it's so tough for me. I still call the Commanders by their
1:29:44
old name. I still call the Vegas Raiders Oakland. I call the Chargers
1:29:47
San Diego. Frustrating. Okay, So Vegas comes in motion. And if
1:29:54
you're looking at the alignment from the Buffalo Bills, so got Micah hide here,
1:29:59
we got a white here, You've got Christian Benford here, Taron Johnson,
1:30:03
you know Pet up here on the running back. And then if you're
1:30:08
looking at the tight end from a Raiders perspective, you know, maybe Floyd's
1:30:11
gonna drop on him, maybe Milano's gonna drop out, because he's not really
1:30:15
showing pressure. What you have here is a pressure look from the Buffalo Bills
1:30:19
and what looks like paired with man coverage. I'm gonna go slow on the
1:30:23
snap. Watch what happens. So again, let's go back watch Taron Johnson
1:30:28
right here, Terrell Bernard, Matt Milano. Sorry, I've circled over all
1:30:33
of them. Boom. Actually I don't forget that, because you can still
1:30:36
see it. So Taren Johnson, Boom, Arrol Bernard boom, Matt Milano,
1:30:43
boom, Bernardo Milano, are mugged up in your a gaps. You've
1:30:45
got Taron Johnson to the inside of A. J. Vanessa at the top
1:30:49
there on the snap. So again, right now you're showing Floyd ed Milano,
1:30:57
Tarn, I don't know who's next to Tarn, Bernard Aran and then
1:31:01
ajpes So one, two, three, four, five, six showing a
1:31:04
seven man pressure and then you've got four on the back end. It looks
1:31:09
like man coverage. It looks like single high on the back end. Okay,
1:31:11
maybe it's a Cover one blitz, some kind of man coverage. On
1:31:15
the back end. You got a seven man pressure, maybe five or coming,
1:31:17
maybe six. Maybe it's all seven. Let's see what happens drop out.
1:31:21
Nope, just a regular four man pressure and the Bills are playing Cover
1:31:26
three underneath. It nice right, and then this play goes forward. Jimmy
1:31:30
g spins out aj Epanessa. It gets the reflection right now, let's go
1:31:33
to the end zone angle because here's the important piece, because the Bills are
1:31:39
showing one two. Jordan Phillips was incorrect and analyzing people. So Milano is
1:31:44
one. Forget names. I'm falling up party here because we've been going so
1:31:46
long. So you got one, you got two, you got three.
1:31:49
You got four, five, six, seven seven man pressure. Right,
1:31:56
You've only got five offensive linemen. So what do the Raiders do. They
1:31:59
keep in a tight end. They keep in a running back. Why because
1:32:02
they think it's going to be seven man pressure. But on the snap,
1:32:05
like we talked about, Bills drop out. So the Bills are only rushing
1:32:11
four. The Raiders have kept in seven to protect the five offensive lineman plus
1:32:15
the tight end plus the running backs over here, so you've got seven protecting
1:32:20
Jimmy Garoppolo makes eight eight players in the backfield versus only three in the route
1:32:30
distribution receiver here and two receivers here. That is three receivers out in the
1:32:34
route distribution versus one two, three, four, five, six seven.
1:32:41
For those of you playing at home, if I already said the Bills rushed
1:32:43
four eleven minus four is seven. Bills have the heavy coverage number advantage here.
1:32:48
And it happens because the Raiders kept two potential route distribution candidates and they're
1:32:53
running back and they're tight end. They kept them in the backfield to protect.
1:32:58
So not only have you can use Jimmy g on this play, because
1:33:01
look at he turns, he wants to fire it right here, but Milano
1:33:04
idzim and jumps underneath here and then hides got eyes. White has eyes.
1:33:10
Jimmy Jimmy G doesn't feel comfortable throwing that ball, so he holds onto it
1:33:14
ed does a great job. Gets pressure. Jimmy GS has to spin out.
1:33:17
He's not the most mobile guy. Bills get into a good situation.
1:33:20
So not only did you confuse the quarterback and change the pre to post snap
1:33:24
picture, and you made him hold onto the ball, and you made him
1:33:28
hold onto the ball to the point that it helped your front four get home.
1:33:31
Not only did you do all of that, but you also tricked the
1:33:34
Raiders into keeping more men into the backfield to protect than they needed to.
1:33:40
They didn't need to keep seven in here. They could have just done it
1:33:42
with five or even six if they wanted to use their running back or their
1:33:45
tight end to chip or help out. But they did not need to keep
1:33:48
in all seven. So you dropped seven into coverage. But your look up
1:33:54
front forced them to keep in the running back and the tight end, which
1:33:57
means only three guys gout into the route distribution. You have seven in coverage
1:34:00
versus three in the route distribution. That is a huge advantage for the defense,
1:34:04
especially on third and five. And I also like the call too.
1:34:08
They drop into cover three and you see Micah Hyde jams underneath. He's right
1:34:15
here on mister DeVante Adams. Watch him get a piece, try and reroute
1:34:20
a little bit. Then he drops back plays underneath. You got Milano playing
1:34:24
the sticks. He understands you've got Tearin over here playing the sticks. Third
1:34:29
and five. It's a smart call in a good situation. So just that
1:34:32
little piece. So first stock up is Sean McDermott changing the pred to post
1:34:35
nap picture and at working big time in a high level situation. On a
1:34:39
third down, Jimmy g gets confused, Bills get pressure with four, you
1:34:44
get a bad at ball. Fourth down, Raiders have to punt. So
1:34:46
again you confuse the quarterback because you changed the pred to post nap picture.
1:34:51
You made him think one thing and it ended up being another. And you
1:34:56
cause the Raiders to waste quote unquote two potential players that could have gone out
1:35:00
into the route distribution. You made the Raiders waste them by keeping them in
1:35:03
the backfield when they did not need to be in the backfield because they did
1:35:08
not need to protect because you weren't actually going to bring seven. Now another
1:35:13
play with that. This play is in a similar mold, but it doesn't
1:35:17
work this time. We're gonna go through and next play here, okay,
1:35:23
here we go gotta queued up. So again similar not the exact same,
1:35:26
but a similar idea here, but they start to drop out late. So
1:35:29
you've got through Al Bernard here, You've got Matt Malonnell here. You've got
1:35:32
that similar kind of mugged up a gap look from the linebacker. Jordan Poyer
1:35:39
has walked down here. Maybe he's blitzing, but at the end of the
1:35:42
day, similar idea with what does it look like? So we've got a
1:35:45
crowded line of scrimmage in a pressure look similar to what we had on the
1:35:48
last play. And then for those of you playing at home, what does
1:35:51
it look like from a coverage perspective? Man coverage, man coverage, man
1:35:57
coverage, That's what it looks like. And then you've got Micah on the
1:36:00
back end who is playing that single high type of snafe safety and that type
1:36:04
of piece right there right, So that's what it looks like for the Raiders
1:36:09
and you're sitting there, Okay, pressure look, man coverage on the back
1:36:12
end. Let's see what happens as the play goes on, as we get
1:36:15
closer to the snap. You'll watch Taron Johnson, he starts to slowly drop
1:36:19
out. I'm gonna go into slow motion. Trey White starts to drop out
1:36:23
to row. Bernard starts to drop out into the middle. Again, this
1:36:26
is all happening as we're getting closer to the snap, and they drop out,
1:36:30
Matt Malonne drops out from the line, and again you have a four
1:36:31
man rush. And what you end up having is a two invert or a
1:36:35
Tampa two robber type coverage called that for what we're gonna see here. Okay,
1:36:42
I'm gonna stop it here. So you've got Tarren Johnson as a dpath
1:36:45
player. You've got Trey White as a deep path player. This is also
1:36:49
kind of what I liked with it. So not only are you changing the
1:36:53
pre to post nap picture, but you're also flipping who is responsible for what
1:36:57
Usually in these coverages, you know, folks, note, we show a
1:37:00
lot of tape here on the show. We show a lot of tape in
1:37:01
the film room. You follow me on Twitter, you see it. If
1:37:04
you just watch the bills, you see it there. These are normally occupied
1:37:08
by safeties. So this is normally Micah Hi Jordan Poyer. This is normally
1:37:13
Micah Hyder Jordan Poyer. But on this play you've got Jordan Poyer down here,
1:37:19
acting almost as a cloud corner. So normally so he and Trey White
1:37:24
have flipped. Usually Poyer is here or Hide is here. They flipped.
1:37:27
Who's the deep path player. It's usually a safety. Nope, this time
1:37:30
it's a corner. Same thing on the other side. Taron Johnson's usually your
1:37:32
man at the slot. He's usually your nickel guy. He's your deep path
1:37:35
player up top. So that's fun in and of itself. And then you
1:37:39
pair that with so you've got the kind of inverted piece there, and then
1:37:44
you've got Micah Hyde. I'm gonna go back a little bit. Micah Hide
1:37:46
right here on the snap. Watch him start to walk down and creep down.
1:37:50
This is what I call like that Tampa two robber piece. So he's
1:37:54
dropping down like a robber wood and like a Cover one robber type of look.
1:37:58
But in that Tampa two builds are running before Tremaine Edmonds is usually that
1:38:02
guy streaking down the middle of the field or if you watch the Buccaneers or
1:38:06
the Lovey Smith Bears, you'd see Derek Brooks running up the middle of the
1:38:10
field. For the Bucks. You would see Brian or Lacker running up the
1:38:13
middle of the field. Likes a it's a too deep coverage that Tampa two,
1:38:16
but that linebacker will occupy that middle third. But Hide is occupying that
1:38:21
middle third, but he's doing it from a single high post snap alignment.
1:38:27
Again, everything here shows man coverage in a single high safety and just watch
1:38:31
how the picture changes. Players start to drop, change, what coverage is
1:38:36
coming, We don't know. You get that two invert kind of Tampa two
1:38:40
robber type look and Hide is there. Now this ends up being a completion
1:38:44
for a first down to Davantae Adams in the whole. So it doesn't work,
1:38:47
but I like the idea of it. I like the experimentation. I
1:38:49
like to change in peace. And honestly, this is a kudos to Jimmy
1:38:54
G. Why this doesn't work. So from this angle, we'll watch things.
1:38:58
Go watch Jimmy G hold Micah Hyde and Terrell Bernard with his eyes.
1:39:02
So you see Jimmy G. He's looking right here, and watch what it
1:39:06
does to hide. Watch what it does to Bernard. We go forward,
1:39:14
they both hide holds just a little bit. Bernard cuts in because Jimmy G
1:39:19
eyes renfro. Now watch Jimmy G switch his eyes, turns his shoulders,
1:39:25
he goes to Davante. So that's a good job by Jimmy G. I
1:39:29
like the coverage. I like to change the change again, you're just at
1:39:31
the basic level. You're changing the pre to post NAT picture. Also,
1:39:34
again from another perspective, the Raiders on this one kept seven in to protect
1:39:41
again Michael Mayer, the tight end, the running back is over here.
1:39:44
You can't see him. He's small, he's behind the offensive linemen. So
1:39:45
they only sent three into the route distribution, which again numbers heavy numbers.
1:39:49
Advantage for the Bills in coverage should have been a win. It wasn't.
1:39:54
Guys on the other side of the ball get paid too. They're also professionals.
1:39:57
This is a good job from DeVante Adams finding the soft spots, sitting
1:40:00
down and then Jimmy G manipulating Bernard. Watch when hide comes up. Watch
1:40:05
how he just sits there, kind of hesitates before he goes out there.
1:40:12
It is right there. He starts to move right here towards Adams, but
1:40:16
then he stops because of Jimmy G's eyes and he plants his feet and that's
1:40:20
just enough to let Jimmy G fit that ball in there. So that's a
1:40:24
good job from Jimmy G. Again, those guys get paid to play the
1:40:28
game too. But a big change in the pred to post NAT picture.
1:40:30
I'm gonna let the player run through again. Not only do you change the
1:40:33
pre to post nap picture, you make the Raiders waste two guys in past
1:40:36
protection again. Then you have the uniqueness on the back end with this two
1:40:41
inverse slash Tampa two Robert type of coverage. So you're changing who normally does
1:40:45
what. You're changing the pre to post nat picture. All these things.
1:40:47
It's unfortunate that they got beat on it by a good read from Jimmy G
1:40:53
and some good eye manipulation again. Right here holds hide just enough. You
1:40:57
see it holds hesitates enough. Bernard bites and cybers again. Isn't bad.
1:41:01
You're reading the QB's eyes. Jimmy G makes a play. This is the
1:41:04
guy who's been successful, He's comfortable with this type of look. Good play
1:41:08
from Jimmy G. But a big stock up for me what Sean McDermott changing
1:41:14
the pre to post nat picture. Again, We're only in week two.
1:41:16
I hope this starts to continue as we go forward, and these are just
1:41:19
the early sprinklings or the planning of seeds for more type of pre to post
1:41:24
nat picture chaos and then potentially tying in with some different blitzes, with some
1:41:28
different fronts, a lot of potential fun offshoots and avenues that you can have
1:41:32
when you establish this kind of baseline if you are the Buffalo Bills. Another
1:41:38
piece I wanted to bring up. I wanted to bring up that Christian Benford
1:41:42
play, the one that was initially ruled past interference and then ended up not
1:41:47
so. Here's Christian medfren up here one on one with Trey Tucker, rookie
1:41:51
from Cincinnati who can really fly. Saw him on tape when watching for Tyler
1:41:56
Scott last year preparing for the draft, well this offseason, preparing for the
1:41:59
draft. But initially Benford gets beat. I think a lot of you know
1:42:02
this play. Saw this play gets a little beat, but has a nice
1:42:05
recovery and you can see it a little on this angle. But we're going
1:42:10
to go to the end zone angle to really confirm it. So again they
1:42:14
fill the flag initially but ends up being reversed. I want to slow it
1:42:19
down and go he's so watch Benford. He recovers, but as he gets
1:42:23
and as he recovers and gets on Tucker, he doesn't actually impede Tucker.
1:42:27
I think that's why they picked up the flag. So he runs him down.
1:42:30
He sees Tucker start to eye the ball as he gets close. He
1:42:33
gets his hands on Tucker, but he does not impede him. And while
1:42:36
he doesn't impede him, he also gets his head turned around, gets his
1:42:41
hand up. This is a tremendous play by Tucker. It's actually I feel
1:42:45
bad for him, and it's a shame that it wasn't a catch. He
1:42:46
goes up, gets it, makes the play on the ball. Even look
1:42:49
at this like this is good for him. He's Benford trying to get his
1:42:54
hand in his arm in between the hands and the arm of Trey Tucker.
1:42:59
He's trying to break this up. This is textbook. You try to punch
1:43:01
through the ball, punch through the hands. Tucker goes up, makes an
1:43:04
athletic explosive play and then shows good hands and brings the ball down. But
1:43:09
then okay, you know, so you recover, you get your head turned
1:43:13
around, you see the ball. You try to punch through the hands,
1:43:15
it doesn't work. What do you do? Now? Push the guy at
1:43:18
a bounce boom and he pushes him down when him force two, which is
1:43:23
nice to see. This is another angle too, so we have the other
1:43:27
end zone angle. This will kind of put it in perspective as well.
1:43:30
Again, he could have panicked here. He could have ran right through Trey
1:43:34
Tucker and run him over. He could have grabbed him. He could have
1:43:38
done a multitude of things that would have drawn the flag, that would have
1:43:41
stayed a flag. And you can see it right here here. He is
1:43:44
on the bottom left of your screen. Starts to reach, just gets his
1:43:48
hands on him, just to know where he is, to get a feel
1:43:51
for him so he can turn and locate the football. He's not grabbing,
1:43:55
he's not pulling, he's not pushing, gets his head turned around. Tucker
1:44:00
goes up high points the football. Benford tries to go for the punch through,
1:44:03
doesn't get it, cool, slams him, puts him out of bounce.
1:44:08
Good play from Christian Benford. Good recovery in a play where he could
1:44:12
have potentially panic. He could have freaked out, he could have made a
1:44:17
mistake in a multitude of ways and a multitude of fashions, but he doesn't.
1:44:21
He stayed calm, cool, collected, made a play on the ball.
1:44:25
Really liked it. Last play that I want to show from the stock
1:44:30
up stock down. I don't know why I closed my screen because there's one
1:44:34
more that I wanted to show here, and pretty quick one. It's just
1:44:42
amazing. We're gonna We're gonna show Matt Milano mossing Brandon Jacobs. I'm just
1:44:47
gonna go to the end zone angle. Here's Matt Milano. This play is
1:44:51
just ridiculous. Like there's not a ton of analysis that's needed. Like I
1:44:54
just think Matt Milano stock is way up. Guy was an All Pro last
1:44:57
year. Tremaine Edmonds leaves he gets the nearest option in Week one against the
1:45:00
Jets. That was really a gift thrown right at him. This one he
1:45:02
earned. He's making plays in the run game. He's shooting gaps, he's
1:45:06
fitting the run. He's banging against Jacob Johnson and acting as a forced player
1:45:11
in this game against heavy personnel looks for the Raiders. There the Raiders two
1:45:15
hundred and fifty five pound fullback Jacob Johnson. He's playing through his outside shoulder
1:45:18
and forcing things in. He's showing physicality, burst, intelligence processing, and
1:45:23
then you get the athleticism. Drops out, waiting, sees the ball,
1:45:28
seize the ball, go to the running back, and here we go.
1:45:30
Just jumps over him and rips it away from him. I'll play it in
1:45:34
real time just so we can see it. Just, oh, you're gonna
1:45:41
dump it down, Okay, cool? And just that's ridiculous, truly ridiculous.
1:45:46
Let's watch it from this angle. Drops. Oh, it's a shame.
1:45:53
The field goal post kind of gets in the way there. You can
1:45:56
see him start to anticipate it, and then Jimmy g puts it on there
1:45:59
again. Bills get some pressure, and just that's ridiculous. The ball skills,
1:46:03
the athleticism, the hand eye coordination, all of it. I'm just
1:46:08
gonna play it all from you know, play it through from this from the
1:46:11
multitude of angles. That's just the hell of a play by Mattolano. I
1:46:16
don't think I've ever seen a linebacker, moss or running back. I said
1:46:18
it when it happened. I know there's the A J Hawk play. I
1:46:23
hadn't remember that, but just like in the open field here, like that's
1:46:26
just so hard to do, and Milano just skip ahead here just makes it
1:46:30
look absolutely effortless, unreal, no, unreal, unreal. And then the
1:46:41
other end zone angle just to wrap it up, put a nice neat little
1:46:45
bow on it for all pro Matty mo or Matt Milano. Well, that's
1:46:48
a nice little ridiculous. That's ridiculous again. The ball skills, the athleticism,
1:46:54
the precision, the hand eye coordinated coordination. It's it's absolutely unreal to
1:46:58
be able to pull that off in that situation. Other stock up in this
1:47:02
game the Bills run game and by extension, or stock up after this game
1:47:08
the Bills run game by extension Ken Dorsey and Aaron Cromer. The Bills have
1:47:12
twenty nine gap runs on the year, as opposed to eleven zone runs,
1:47:15
and many of those gap runs have been duo, with some runs having polars
1:47:18
sprinkled in like Dart for example. And the downhill nature of those duo runs,
1:47:24
plus the track and the read for the running back, it pairs well
1:47:27
with the makeup of the offensive line and James Cook's James Cook's burst speed running
1:47:32
style, even Latavius Murray and Damion Harris to a degree. You add in
1:47:35
the twelve personnel and thirteen personnel usage and the play action potential off those looks,
1:47:42
and you just have yourself a well catered run game mixed with a multiplicity
1:47:45
that defenses have to account for. The Buffalo Bills are currently fourth in team
1:47:49
rushing EPA per attempt for running back carries only their third It's a small sample
1:47:55
sizes were only two weeks in, but the James Cook, Latavius Murray,
1:47:59
Damian Harris rotation, paired with a gap scheme run focus with again that heavy
1:48:03
emphasis on duo, has yielded very positive returns early on the idea. The
1:48:08
addition of Osyrius Torrents has given the offensive line more physicality and a people moving
1:48:13
presence. The addition of Connor McGovern his free agent signing has added plus athleticism
1:48:18
versus last year at the left guard spot. And you pair all that again
1:48:21
with a significant increase in twelve personnel usage and the potential to utilize more seven
1:48:28
man's surfaces with it, and you have a legitimate downhill rushing attack that's capable
1:48:32
of gashing defenses whenever they choose to. Seemingly it will, especially if slash
1:48:39
when defenses choose to match that twelve personnel with nickel. Now, all of
1:48:44
a sudden, like I mentioned earlier, you've got nickel corners, outside corners,
1:48:47
safeties, they're in the box. They're in these run fits against offensive
1:48:50
linemen or tight ends and tight ends or offensive linemen or climbing to the second
1:48:56
level or potential third level against these guys. And you're getting corners who are
1:48:59
putting one on one situations against James Cook who can beat them with speed around
1:49:03
the corner if they're not precise with their angles, or they got to figure
1:49:08
out how to tackle Damien Harris or Latavius Murray. It just puts the defense
1:49:12
and disadvantageous matchups while putting the Bills offense in an advantageous advantageous matchup situation.
1:49:17
Huge stock up for the Buffalo Bills run game just overall, it conceptually from
1:49:24
a success rate of multitude of ways. I like some of the blocks that
1:49:27
Dalton Kincaide had in this game. He had a real great double team block
1:49:30
on a duo run on the Latavious Murray touchdown run with Dion Dawkins. That
1:49:35
piece was really nice. Like so seeing him continue to improve as a run
1:49:39
blocker has been nice to see this run game just building on what they did
1:49:43
in the preseason. We're starting to see more success, a rhythm and a
1:49:45
routine and something to hang their hat on. And it's a great pivot to
1:49:48
have if the weather turns, or always pairing it with an explosive passing offense
1:49:55
led by a tremendous quarterback in Josh Allen. So huge stock up for that
1:50:00
Bill's run game. Also some little stock up pieces. Dalton Kincaid again overall
1:50:03
as well as a run blocker, but continuing to evolve as a pass catcher.
1:50:06
I shouldn't see evolved, just continuing to find success, finding the spaces
1:50:12
in the zone, being able to settle down, read coverages, read the
1:50:15
pre to post snap his again. Another game where he showed some physicality against
1:50:19
defensive backs when he turned into a ball carrier after he made the catch.
1:50:23
Watching him run over Nichols and safeties using that size and athleticism together to be
1:50:29
a mismatch when he has the ball in his hands. Real nice piece from
1:50:31
him. I think gave Davis his stock is up. There's I tweeted it
1:50:34
out earlier. I don't remember the exact piece. There's about like one hundred
1:50:36
and fifty qualifying receivers, receivers, running back, some tight ends who have
1:50:42
at least five targets on the year. Gave Davis is nineteenth in EPA per
1:50:45
target, So he had nice improvement in this game. Several really good reps
1:50:49
for him, pairing with Josh Allen find in space, being able to break
1:50:53
down and get open and create separation. Nice to see him not be hampered
1:50:57
by that ankle injury that he had last year early in the year that carried
1:51:00
throughout the majority of the years. So I think his stock up is what
1:51:03
is up as well. But for me, the big one Sean McDermott,
1:51:06
you know, being able to change the pre to post and that picture Matt
1:51:09
Milano, I think Benford stock is up slash kind of holding. But the
1:51:13
big one is that run game. Myself and Eric Turner are going to dive
1:51:15
into the Buffalo Bills run game, along with a lot of other schematic components
1:51:19
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and find that some stock down pieces, a couple of little things here and
1:51:40
there. Jimmy Garoppolo had more players open than I think. If when he's
1:51:45
gonna watch the film, he's gonna look back and realize he had some missed
1:51:47
opportunities. He did have the middle open on several cover three reps against the
1:51:53
Buffalo Bills. He missed some throws really early. He had Hunter Renfro opened
1:51:56
in the middle against the Bills when they were in cover three. He had
1:52:00
Davante Adams on a second down versus Tray Bills were in man coverage. Raiders
1:52:05
had a condensed split. I think, if you'll remember the one I didn't
1:52:10
have a cute up on the film, but Adams takes that release. He
1:52:13
has a ton of space. Raiders are going from left to right. He
1:52:15
has a ton of space, and Jimmy g just throws it a little too
1:52:18
far behind him. He also had DeVante Adams when the Bills were in cover
1:52:24
four, he had DeVante Adams on a post, so there were some missed
1:52:28
opportunities for the Raiders passing attack and Jimmy g he missed some spots in the
1:52:32
middle, so I don't think the Bills coverage you. And it was completely
1:52:34
locked down like potentially could have been. There were some gaps. So that
1:52:39
was one of the few stockdowns coming from this game from a holistic structural standpoint
1:52:43
that I really wanted to drill in on. But overall, a very strong
1:52:45
performance for the Bills, obviously, you know, winning thirty eight to ten
1:52:48
against the Raiders and out scoring them what thirty eight to three after going down
1:52:53
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