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In this episode of disguised coverage continuing or maybe even not necessarily continuing, but
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putting a bow potentially on the twenty twenty four Buffalo Bills offensive conversation, outlook,
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prediction assumption conversation, and that we've been having on the show for really
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the past month or so that several guests had Jpacosta on from eSPI Nation,
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had Mina Chimes on, all with the idea of kind of forecasting what to
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expect from Joe Brady and the Bills offense in twenty four in twenty twenty four
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and why, and again a lot of that conversation comes back to the change
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in body types and skill sets and frames and at the past catching positions,
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specifically the wide receiver position, and how that ties into league trends offensively and
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defensively, how all of that particularly ties into the Buffalo Bills and what that
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means for what they're going to be in twenty twenty four, all within the
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idea and the landscape of you know, Joe Brady and what type of offensive
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mind he is, the tree he comes from, so on and so forth,
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and throughout the entirety of those episodes really for the past month or so,
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I've talked about several offenses consistently, and I've talked about several offensive schematic
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components or pieces from an alignment perspective, from a personnel perspective, from a
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mismatch creation perspective. I used a lot of the same verbiage, a lot
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of the same terminology, all with the idea of drilling home the possibility of
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the Bills going to lower formational widths in twenty twenty four, leaning into those
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bigger body types and frames that they have at the wide receiver position, pairing
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that with the athleticism and size they have at the tight end position, and
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kind of having this whole grouping slash amalgamation of size, physicality, and athleticism,
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and pairing that with condensed formations in either twelve or eleven personnel, and
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using that to simultaneously in twelve or eleven be able to live in running formations
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and running alignments and run the ball out of those condensed formations and then in
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an instant be able to pop back out into spread or shift or motion out
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and run true spread because of what you have in Kincaid and Knox, but
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also with your wider sie and the ability again to a phrasing that I'm going
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to continue to say throughout this offseason probably in the season as well, all
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with the idea of being able to access more of the menu without having to
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turn the page. And again, we've talked about that aspect conceptually with several
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tremendous guests, and we've really drilled it home. But I thought tonight it
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would be nice to dive into game film of the teams that I've referenced on
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several of these episodes and really put things together visually for you folks, And
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especially on a week where due to some scheduling conflicts, there's no cover one
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film room tomorrow night with myself and Eric Turner. So I had this episode
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planned already, and then with no film room this week, I was like,
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Oh, it's perfect and still give the people on the channel some film.
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We'll just do it here in disguise coverage. So I'm very excited for
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this episode. I think it kind of puts everything together and puts a nice
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neat little bow onto this conversation and again ties everything visually instead of just speaking
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about it in terminology and it just kind of going over. I think,
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again, this really drills at home if you are one of the audio only
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listeners, if you listen on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, whatever have you,
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that's cool too. If you don't want to come to YouTube and see the
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visual pieces, very fair. I will break everything down descriptively verbally so that
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you can still kind of tie it in even though you might not potentially be
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watching it. So for the people who listen on their drives to work or
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from work, I'll still be able to narrate everything so you can kind of
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get an idea of what is going on. As always, if you're coming
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are the lifeblood of these streams and they go sincerely long way to It's helping
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myself and the entire team to track and trend in front of more eyes and
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ears. I appreciate you Taylor, Taylor saying I love you, Anthony and
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my best Cold Beasley voice. I appreciate Da Kayo Morey coming in and saying
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hi, Aunt. What's offensive was Belgium's performance against Slovakia and having to stay
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up late for it in Japan. Yeah, you have the major time difference
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over there in Japan. I don't want to get to soccer conscious or focused.
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Though I am wearing my Italy Euro twenty twenty champions jersey, even though
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it technically happened in twenty twenty one. Belgium continues to just be major tournament
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bobblers, like after how they were ousted in the World Cup most recently and
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then just this opening performance against Slovakia. There's still time to turn it around,
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but man, they're loaded, They're such a good team and they just
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cannot put it together. But then also, I mean, Portugal was what
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twenty two minutes away from it today from losing one nothing and both of their
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goals not taking anything away from Portugal, but the first one was an own
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goal just off of some chaos around the goal line and Chechia just not clearing
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the ball and doing what they needed to. And then even the second one
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ball kind of nut makes the defender and perfectly lies in and then dude finishes
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it like it was too ugly. I don't want to say lucky, but
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ugly goals for Portugal. They could have been sitting in a similar spot after
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really underperformed in that game. But yeah, Belgium continues to disappoint Charles coming
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in saying, my question with Brady and more condensed formations is how it affects
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Josh's ability to read coverage. Always thought he was better identifying defense with more
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spread I love that comment and that thought they were, Charles, because that
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is is something I was gonna talk about later. I guess I'll just addressed
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now. Like one of the potential disadvantages with going with condensed formations is,
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to Charles's point here, less of an ability to identify coverage or identify what
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the defense is doing. When you spread a defense out, you force them
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to kind of have to declare what they're doing in some ways pre snap,
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in terms of how they align and how they choose to match the guys that
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you put into space pre snap, so you can look at the safeties,
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you can look at the apex or then nickel defender and kind of piece things
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together. That doesn't mean defenses still can't change on the snap and spin a
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safety down or drop back or you know, disguis coverage and everything that they
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do. But it's harder to discern what a defense is doing pre snap when
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you go with condensed formations versus spread. So that is a good point.
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Oh appreciate Laura coming in saying I love the film breakdowns. Yeah, I
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appreciate you, Luri. You're always there in the film, so I appreciate
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you being here tonight. Just says Josh doesn't read defenses, he reacts to
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them. And you know what, it's funny too, tying into this comment
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from Justin and Charles's point. If the more you condense, the more you
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go into condensed formations, it does force the quarterback to be somewhat more on
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time with his footwork, with his reads, with his throat. It does
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force you to be efficient in your reads and in your progressions and in your
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decision making. Now, within that, schematically, if you're Joe Brady,
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you can build things so that the read and the progression is easier for a
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quarterback to get to. Now, it's still on the quarterback to read everything
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and pull the trigger, pull the trigger and make the decision. But schematically,
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there are ways that you can kind of, you know, kind of
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massage the situation and kind of push Alan in a direction where it makes it
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easier for him to identify what's going on. And you can still do some
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other things too to help discern what the defense is doing. But that's a
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good point overall from Charles and even from Justin to a degree here as well,
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in terms of contense formations, what they offer, what they don't,
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and I guess within that, I'm just gonna lean it. I've spoken,
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I've spoken about this a bunch of episodes, but I just want to say
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it again, just for those who haven't seen previous episodes, are just kind
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of being able to put things into perspective and everything offensive linemen with formational with
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the when you reduce that tells of the run and pass are less for a
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defense, so there's less like okay, well, you know, you know,
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the more spread that you get, there's only certain things you can get
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to, especially from a run perspective. The more bodies you have around the
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line of scrimmage, the more you can get to in the run game.
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There's more of the menu you were able to access. And then when you
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combine that with certain personnel groupings, and okay, you know you've got a
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really you know, you've got several or multiple athletic tight ends in a twelve
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personnel grouping, or you're out there in eleven, which has three wide receivers,
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but all three of your receivers are capable blockers and addition to being capable
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pass catchers and route runners, that plus the condensed formation and all the bodies
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starts to add up for a defense of Okay, what's their tail for a
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run, what's their tail for a pass? Okay? Now, if the
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offense starts to add in motion or any little wrinkles or shifts, it all
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becomes a lot for a defense to process. So when you go to these
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condensed formations, you have the ability to attack space outside, but it really
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comes down to just limiting tells for a defense. And then when you mix
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that with certain personnel packages and groupings, provided you have those body type skill
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sets and frames on your roster, you really can put put a defense into
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a bind in terms of the questions that you're forcing them to have to ask
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pre snap and whether or not they have a good answer for it. Condensed
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formations can also help beat man coverage by having pass catchers run crossers or switch
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releases versus defenders that may be bunched up or near the line of scrimmage.
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Close proximity of pass catchers can also help yield open targets quicker against them being
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closer to the ball is what I mean. And you know, so you
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can play tight and play power football, or you can play tight and throw
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the ball. And again, if you have big bodied, athletic pass catchers
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who can also function as blockers, then you can ask a lot of questions
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to the defense pre snap that they have to provide answers for post snap,
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and not every defense will have an answer to every question. And again,
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condensed formations that allows for grass outside usually outside the hashes or outside the numbers
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to be attacked more. It allows teams to get more into the run game
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by having more bodies attached or near the line of scrimmage to add gaps.
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And again, teams with bigger bodied wide receivers have the added threat of blocking
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on the perimeter. Or you can get fancy schematically and have them get involved
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in the box or you know, versus second level defenders or a safety or
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an edge you know, wash and edge down and you know, pin someone
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down, or again climb to the second level fit on a linebacker, fit
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on that nickel corner. A lot of mismatched potential creation in addition to the
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schematic advantage, at some of those pieces can create for you as well.
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So again, just wanted to get that out of the way, and then
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let's dive into the factual. I see some more comments, Let's dive into
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the film. I'm gonna get to every comment I can in this episode.
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I'm gonna be doing the film and I don't have the fancy clicker that Eric
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has when we do the film room, so I'm using my track pad,
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which it works for me in the past. But any in every comment,
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anything that you folks have throwed up into the chat, I will get to
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as many things as humanly possible. Steve says football is a balance between read
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and react. Glad Josh can do both defenses disguise coverage very well. We
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are lucky to have him. I would like to see you know. I've
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been I think somewhat critical, or more than most of Alan, especially going
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back to last year. I do think he needs to be better in his
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processing and his decision making. He's still an absolutely tremendous football player like this
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doesn't kno that, but there are times where his decision making, his reading,
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his processing hasn't necessarily been there so you know, I'm not gonna sit
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there and say that he can't read a defense right and he can't play on
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time or can't play in rhythm. But I think he's more He's been more
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of the chaos manipulator or chaos controller more so than he's been an on time,
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in rhythm quarterback. And that's fine, especially considering the nature of today's
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NFL and how much offscript plays and chaos in general kind of play into it.
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You look at the top quarterbacks in the league and what they do and
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how they're able to navigate that chaos after they potentially create it. But I
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do think Allen needs to be better from the shoulders up or from the neck
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up. He has to be better mentally as a QB this year. So
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how much of that was due to Dorsey last year or Alan or Brady and
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how it all connects. We'll really see this year to see how difference the
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offense is schematically, how much better Alan functions in it or doesn't function in
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it. So it'll be interesting to see. BEA's obviously a tremendous player.
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Joe says, Hi, Ant, sorry, I'm late, I was baking
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a soou flay parentheses. I don't know how to bake. I don't know
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if I believe this comment or not. Were you really baking a sou flay.
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I have a lot of comments now I kind of just I kind of
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just want to stop the show and see if you're really making this to flay.
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This is going to distract me and it's going to live in my head
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this entire episode. But if you are making to to fly, I hope
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it's coming out good. Taylor says, what if David Edwards isn't good?
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If David Edwards isn't good, you better hope that Cedric van pran Grainger is,
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and then you can move Connor mcgovernent back to left guard and you can
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put VPG at center, and then hopefully everything works out. I think Edwards
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is going to be fine. Though he's a Chromer disciple, He's got familiarity
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within this offense. You know, I know he was only you know,
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quote unquote only the sixth offensive lineman last year. But I think he does
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present a relatively high floor. And again the familiarity with Chromer and his techniques
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and his schemes and his terminology and just working in that system. I think
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provides him a leg up in a lot of ways and allows his floor to
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be raised in his ceiling to be raised as well, so that way his
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performance can be maximized. So I don't really think there's a situation where David
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Edwards isn't necessarily good. The situation that I could, I think could potentially
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happen is VPG outperforms at center relative to Edwards at left guard, and then
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it makes you want to move the government back to left guard to kind of
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just get your best starting five out there. But if he isn't good,
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you have to hope someone else is good to play left guard, or you
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have to hope someone else is good at center to move MC government back to
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left guard, and then you can just get the best VIVE out there some
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way, ship or form. Justin says, I'm a firm believer in pulling
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receivers through motion rather than pulling guards to tip where the run goes. But
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that's just me, that's fair. Ironically. What's funny is some of the
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clips I'm going to show you tonight is how you can use those pulling guards
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to manipulate a defense because it is a run tell and you can use that
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to manipulate second level defenders and then pass instead. Everything is all about manipulation
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how you dress things up. You can put receivers in jet motion or orbit
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motion, or fast or exit motion. You can pull guards, you can
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do whatever you want. You can pull tight ends, full backs, whatever
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you want anything. It all depends on how you dress it up and how
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you tie it into what your tendencies are. Can you make everything look like
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everything else? Can you make your passes? Can you make your play action
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passes look just like your runs? Can you build in little wrinkles to make
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your runs look like your passes and vice versa, and really throw off a
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defense. That's some of what we're going to get into tonight as well.
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And again you can lean into a one direction and you know, hey,
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I'd rather pull my receivers through motion rather than pulling guards to tip where the
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run goes. But that's the exact thing that offenses are using to manipulate defense
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as well. Like you're sitting there just and saying, you know, in
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theory, like if you pull a guard that tips where the run goes,
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which is fine, So now pull that guard and go play action and throw
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it to you know, a leaking tight end out of the backfield, or
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just manipulate defenses based off of their rules and their tendencies a little bit there.
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Laura's also surprised that Joe is making a suit fla. I also want
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to know if Joe googled how to spell to flay. I don't want to
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be rude, but I don't know if you knew how to spell that right
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off rip, But you know if you did, Bravo to you, Teddy
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says, I hope everyone here is having a great day. Hope you're having
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a great day too, Teddy, if you live in Buffalo, the western
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New York area. It was a beautiful day today. It looks like it's
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going to be a beautiful week. Yeah, good weather, good times out
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here. Nicky says, David Edwards won a Super Bowl at left guard under
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Chromer. If he has faith in him, we should as well. That
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is a very fair point. I just think you know that that move in
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general of taking McGovern who played well at left guard last year, and by
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extension, Dion Dawkins had a very good year at left tackle, and I
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think some of that is due to having a good partner at left guard and
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Connor McGovern. I don't think they make that move and ship off Mitch Morse
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and ship off Ryan Bates if they're not confident in David Edwards being able to
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get the job done at Left Guard and by extension McGovern being able to get
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the job at Center. That's fair, Joe says, I one hundred percent.
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Did mmm. I just I don't know, like who knows how to
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spell Sue Flay And I just that's fair. You know, maybe you bake
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a lot. I don't know, maybe you're just out there reading dictionaries,
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just the typical who says kish yep keish related to Sue Fleys. That's fair,
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Joe. You know if you think if you if you believe that you
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could spell Sue Flay, then you know what. I believe you too.
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But just know that in the back of my mind, I don't think you
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knew how to spell, and I think you googled it And Joe SAYID,
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no, I was playing a fast on. I'm actually about to pack but
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that didn't sound as cool. Oh so you so. One, you're not
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actually baking a su Flay, so you're a liar. Two Now you want
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you want me to believe that you know how to spell Sue Flay even though
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you just lied to me. So hau, I can't take I have to
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take everything you say at face value. Now you're telling me you already knew
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how to spell Sue Flay, but you're also telling me you just lied to
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everyone here in the chat that you made a Sue Flay. So now I
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just I don't I just don't know. I just I don't even know who
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you are. I just, man, this is disappointing. Yeah, Ryan
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says it. Ryan called it. Damn it. Joe just disappointing. Kay
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Moore, he says, you know, hey, Joe could be regular watch
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our cookie shows. He absolutely could, He absolutely could. Yeah, you
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never know, you never know. This has gone off the rails, But
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I appreciate everyone. All Right, let's dive into the film for some of
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what the some of what the Buffalo Bills can borrow from NFL offenses. In
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twenty twenty four, I like this from Laura The says soup flay Gate.
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Yeah, this is the watergate of our time. Joe lying about making Sue
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Flays. And again, if you lied about making a Souflay, Joe,
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who's to say you're not lying about knowing how to spell the word souflay.
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I just just or anything for that. Man. I don't know if I
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can trust anything you ever say. Again, Man, it's just oh sorry,
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one more temperature thing. I'm into temperature stuff. Just the tippy canoe
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says it was ninety seven degrees here in Indiana yesterday. Doesn't help that our
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FedEx trucks don't have it. See, I was melting. I drive around
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with port door, both doors open. God bless you. That's brutal.
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I And once it hits like eighty, I'm severely hot. So anything in
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the nineties. If I don't have AC, I'll legit melt. I went
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to disney World one time in August. Oh man, Oh so okay,
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so Joe says, No, I met at one hundred percent. I did
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google it, but I did guess, right. I don't believe that you
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guessed right now. I don't even know if you did google it. I
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just don't trust anything you say. But good luck packing. And I think
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now now for your penance, you should have to make an actual sou flay.
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And I think you should do it live for one of your shows.
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I'm just saying, and I think that would be a really cool episode.
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You have to make a live sou Flay on under Review and then we can
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talk football while it happens. But you have to make a live suit Flay
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on the show, and I know, I think they take a while,
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so the show might be like a two or three hour episode. So I'm
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just saying, I think that would be a cool way to repay everyone for
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being a liar. But you know, to each their Okay, now let's
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get it. Oh yeah, Teddy called and said I think he was admitting
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to googling it. It's tough, man. When I'm reading everything you know,
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and everything's coming through fast and furious here in the chat, it can
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be tough to decipher. I'm trying to, you know, keep the energy
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going and vibe with everyone and then still do this. Okay, all this
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is good from Charles, he says McVeigh rhymes with Sueflay, just saying all
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this is good from k Morey's to Schrodinger soueflay, I like that, well
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done, well done. All right, all right, we've gone off the
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rails, which is probably my fault. Let's get to it. NFL offenses
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that the Buffalo bills can borrow from in twenty twenty four. We're going to
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start with ever, really doesn't matter who we start with. Uh, we're
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gonna start with the Los Angeles Rams, Jess, because that's the order I
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have it in my notes, and I think that's where I want to start.
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So let's pull this up here, Pull up the film, Pull up
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the film. Oh, good one from Joe. He says this, guys,
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Sue flays. Yeah, let's just crossover episodes, right, Crossover episodes
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are the best. Just expand, you know, expand the brand exposure.
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We could do cover one playback with Sue Flas. I just think there's a
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lot of potential that's working here. Let me change the brand graphic on the
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top. Okay, cool, here we go. I took a sip of
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water. Let's start to move through. So this first play here that I
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want to show is we're going to go into some rams versus cold stape in
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this game. I watched a bunch of different games of the teams that were
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going to be going into tonight. So what you're going to see in these
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clips isn't something that just happened against one team, or isn't something that just
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happened in terms of a one off. These are our pieces of their game
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that are symptomatic of who they are schematically, how they use their player groupings
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and their personnel. And I also want to say this too, the reason
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I picked the teams that were going to go into tonight is it started with
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their condensed formation usage, but also because of their overall schemes in personnel.
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So we're going to dive into three teams tonight. The three teams are going
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to be diving into are all in the bottom five in terms of lowest formational
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with in twenty twenty three. Two of the other five that we're not diving
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into tonight are the San Francisco forty nine Ers and the Miami Dolphins. The
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reason we're not doing the Dolphins and the Niners is because the San Francisco forty
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nine Ers have Kyle Yuscheck and the Miami Dolphins have alec Ingold. Both of
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those teams lean heavy into twenty one and twenty two personnel because of the prevalence
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of use Check for the Niners in Ingold for Miami. That's a huge difference
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to me versus almost any team in the NFL having a full back in general
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that plays meaningful snaps is rare in today's NFL. Having one that can function
23:42
in the run and pass like us Check and alec Ingold is even more rare.
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And the granted, the teams that I'm going to be showing in this
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episode two have some pretty tremendous players that it's not like you can just clone
23:53
and put them on any team, or that the Bills have clones of these
23:56
players, But I wanted to focus more on the schematic pieces that tie into
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body types and skill frames more than I did, wanting to emphasize kind of
24:07
the unicorn nature of certain individuals and certain players like and just for the Niners
24:14
in general, the Niners are tremendous chematically, like Kyle Shanahan is one of
24:17
the best play designers and play callers in football, but they also have several
24:21
unicorns Kittle and Deebo and Ayuk and McCaffrey and use Check like that's that's a
24:27
ridiculous complimentary in terms of skill set pieces with the run in the past,
24:32
and then even Miami McDaniel's a tremendous play caller and designer, but to the
24:37
speed that they have and just everywhere running back wide receiver and then having Ingold
24:41
on top of it. So not to say they're not good schematically, not
24:45
that the Bills couldn't pull from those teams, but some of those pieces I
24:48
think kind of make them more outliers than others. So we're going to start
24:53
with the Los Angeles Rams, and we're gonna show this first play. Before
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I show this play against the against the Colts, I want to show this
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first play here against the Seahawks, So I want to so if you notice,
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actually I'm just gonna go back and forth between each look at the exact
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formation. These are two different games. This game happened against Seattle in Week
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two for the Rams, very very very early on in the year. The
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game against Indianapolis was more middle of the season, like Week seven, week
25:26
eight. So notice, I'm just gonna go back and forth. These are
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two steparate games. Obviously, Notice almost the exact same formation. You've got
25:37
trips to this side, eleven personnel, three wide receivers, and then you've
25:41
got your nub tight end right here. Oh, I don't like that.
25:42
Where's my squiggle? Where's my squiggle? There it is, and you've got
25:45
the nub tight end right here going into the boundary. Okay, let's go
25:52
back to that Rams game. What do we got? Trips to this side,
25:56
three wide receivers, eleven personnel, and then a nub tight end into
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the boundary. Fun So watch what the Rams do here earlier in this season.
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This is something they did a bunch throughout the year, motioning their wide
26:07
receivers. They use a bunch of motion. We know Sean McVay the window
26:11
dressing doesn't run a ton of crazy concepts, but the way he dressed the
26:15
concept the way he dresses the concepts up, the way he disguises them,
26:18
and then how he utilizes them and when he utilizes them, just one of
26:22
the best offensive minds in football. So we're just gonna watch this play from
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earlier in the year against the Rams. Watch what you get. Puka comes
26:30
in motion, screw fits up on the safety, really good block from Pooka.
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Okay, forget about how much the run goes for, how much the
26:38
gain is for just focus on what is actually happening on this play. So
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trips to the open side of the field, nub tight end into the boundary.
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Puka Nakua comes in motion, loops and wraps around the tight end and
26:52
actually does a really good job. Again, this is ancillary as well,
26:55
but watch the job he does fitting up on Love the safety. That's a
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piece you're gonna come away from in this episode. I know a lot of
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people know how good of a year pookin'koua had from a pass catching standpoint.
27:07
He's legitimately a tremendous blocker. Like, not just for a wide receiver.
27:11
Like, he's a good blocker. The effort that he shows first and
27:14
foremost is good, but his physicality, like he bangs with dudes, whether
27:18
it's defensive linemen, whether it's linebackers or safeties or corners. He's a good
27:22
blocker. But watch him fit up here on Love. Boom drives him right
27:26
out. This is such a nice block, drives and completely out of the
27:27
picture. Again, forget how much the run goes for. Just look at
27:30
the window dressing, look at the initial alignment. So again, trips,
27:34
you're an eleven personnel, so that means you have three wide receivers. Those
27:38
trips. Wide receivers are to the open side of the field or the wide
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side of the field. You've got the tight end towards the boundary. You're
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going to send pookin Nakua in motion and he's gonna fit up the safety again.
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Just watch Pooka this last time. I'm gonna show up, but I
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just wanted to see how far Pooka drives the safety right out. Just come
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through, fit, engage, boom, drive him out. Really great brock
28:00
from Pookah. Okay, so that's earlier in the year. Now let's go
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to that game against the Cult where we have a bunch of clips. And
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that's why I wanted to show that first play again because you're marrying the pass
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and the run. This is how you build off of those concepts, making
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things look similar, whether it's a run, whether it's a pass, any
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of those pieces. So again, what are we gonna get? Just like
28:22
that Seattle game, here comes Pooka in motion, Harry comes, defense is
28:27
starting to shift and you're thinking, okay, here comes that run. This
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time he doesn't wrap around the tight end. This time he inserts between the
28:34
right tackle and the tight end. Very similar motion and action from Stafford,
28:40
but this time it's a pass, and watch him just blaze by that second
28:42
level grouping. A little bit of a high fiddle by Stafford, but Nakua
28:45
Ajus makes a good catch right, marrying the pass and the run. Making
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your runs look like your passes, making your passes look like your run.
28:55
Some of that can be done just with your footwork from your offensive lineman.
28:59
It could be on formationally from an alignment perspective, or especially these little motion
29:03
wrinkles that you can attach. Having motion right before the snap makes a defense
29:08
have to adjust. You'll see those shifts from the second level defenders. If
29:12
you've watched Bills games over the past couple of years, which I imagine most
29:15
people have here how much Miami and Green Bay and the Jets under Lafloor when
29:22
they had him motion to the Bills and you'd see Tremaine Edmonds and Matt Mlano
29:26
and Taron Johnson shift. Even this past year, you see Milano and Bernard
29:30
and Taron Johnson shift like you've seen teams manipulate the Bills second level defenders with
29:34
motion. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but you know what motion
29:40
does to a defense At the last minute, the defense has to adjust from
29:41
an alignment perspective themselves, and they also have to adjust from a communication and
29:45
coverage standpoint in terms of calling things out, so again, I'm gonna just
29:49
let it run for a little bit. Now we saw exactly what happened against
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the Rams. I'm sorry against the Seahawks. With the Rams, Puka came
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through. This looks like the almost exact same thing. And even you see
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the safety. Let's go back here, watch the safety. Watch the safety
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step up. That's blackman down safety, single high coverage. Watch him step
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up. He communicates, widens out the corner, he sees Pooka coming through.
30:17
He steps up again, id in looking for that run, and Puka's
30:22
coming head up on him. So he's like, all right, cool,
30:23
let me let me not get blocked by cool, let me by Puka.
30:26
Let me undercut that block and make a play on the ball. And Puka's
30:30
just like, no, psych, it's actually a play action pass. And
30:34
then really nice catching Pooka and I'll just let that run from Hans on angles
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one, and Joe says, I know this isn't the intent, but it
30:42
just makes you realize how good of a thrower Stafford is. He's so much
30:45
fun to watch in depth. I tweeted out a bunch of throws in preparing
30:48
for this episode. I would just started tweeting out random ridiculous. Matt Stafford
30:52
throws, Yeah, he's a ridiculous thrower of the football. O'Ryan says,
30:56
beautiful, Yeah, step up, good throw. But again, marrying the
31:00
run in the pass, that's the whole point of that play. It looks
31:04
exactly like a similar plan. Actually, if I'm not crazy, this one
31:08
was at the thirty five. The play against the Seahawks that I show at
31:12
first was around the fifty. But if you're a defense and you see that,
31:17
you're thinking, okay, boom, here comes that run, like,
31:18
let's key on it. Now they're working in a play action pass built off
31:23
of that run, So now you have to account for both. Now,
31:26
if you're a defender, you're almost kind of playing a guessing game or hope
31:30
that you're guessing right. You're trying to find another key or another clue or
31:32
another tell, or maybe you're trying to really tie into the down and distance
31:37
to be your indicator in terms of what you're going to do. But once
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you see this on tape, if you're a defense, it's not like,
31:44
Okay, once this motion happens, we know the run is coming. Let's
31:47
sell out for the run. No, it could also be a play action
31:49
pass. So now you have to be very disciplined if you're a second level
31:52
defender, and it just causes you to think, to process, to read
31:56
everything that's happening in front of you. And the more you think and the
32:00
more you have the process, and the longer that it takes you, ideally
32:05
for an offense, the less you're able to play fast and just read and
32:07
react and make plays. So again, this one just I think it's a
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really nice way to start it off of just marrying the run in the past,
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something I would like the Bills to continue to do and do more of.
32:17
Again, blend those pieces together so a defense really doesn't know here comes
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the run, here comes the past. I think they got a little better
32:23
in this aspect under Brady, but it'll be nice to see them lean into
32:30
this aspect a little bit more here. What else anything else on this play?
32:37
No, okay, let's move on to the second play here condensed formation
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eleven personnel for the Rams. This play is really highlighting the benefit of having
32:49
wide receivers who can function as blockers. You're going to get a motion from
32:53
Ben Scronic, who is your wide receiver right here, You're going to get
32:58
that motion from Ben Scarrin which is going to shift the defense at the second
33:01
level and shift him overall, which will create leverage and angles for the run
33:05
blocking. And then you're going to see mister Pookinakoula right here erase Kenny Moore
33:10
and create a seam for this run play. So we'll just watch this developed.
33:15
Watch as Scornic comes in motion here, watch the shift from Kenny Moore
33:20
and the shift from the second level. Black Men's already starting to come down,
33:23
but he's gonna come down obviously more once he sees Scornic motion. Boom
33:30
boom, and look at that space. Indianapolis is screwed. If this corner
33:35
fits outside like he does, Kyen Williams is banging it right here in this
33:37
scene. If the corner somehow wants the knife inside here and try and time
33:42
it, Kyrien can bang it outside and take all this space outside like so,
33:45
Indianapolis is screwed right here. From the jump. This is so well
33:47
designed and executed by the Rams. And then Kyrine not the speediest back in
33:52
the world, but he does take advantage of that space. I want to
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show it from the end zone angle and highlight what Pookinakoua does. So again
34:00
this is a nice schematic piece. The condensed formation plus the motion shift the
34:05
defense and again being in the condensed formation. The Rams are in eleven personnel
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ninety five percent of the time in twenty twenty three, which is ridiculous and
34:15
the reason they're able to live in eleven maybe they have three wide receivers again
34:20
for those who don't know the reason they're able to live in eleven and think
34:22
also too, this is before Cooper Cup was back yet for this RAMS team.
34:27
So they're rolling out there with Pooka, Ben Scaronic, and Van Jefferson.
34:30
Once Cooper Cup comes into the mix. Two of their receivers are Pookah
34:34
and Cooper Cup, which allow them to do almost anything in the past and
34:37
anything in the run. So and Justin says, notice how the guards aren't
34:42
pulling. Sure, wait till I get to more of the film and then
34:45
see what teams like the Lions do to mess with defenses with their pulling guards.
34:50
Once you get someone like Cooper Cup, very good route runner, also
34:52
a good blocker. Again, it's this notion for the Rams of being able
34:57
to live in eleven and they can be in eleven and they can spread you
35:00
out and run like spread passing concepts, or they can get condensed. They
35:06
can go with these power, heavier type of looks because they've got receivers who
35:09
not only can function as pass catchers, but because they can function as blockers.
35:14
You have to respect the run right here because of what the rams wide
35:19
receivers can do in terms of blocking, and they have some good offensive lignment
35:22
as well, but you have to respect their wide receivers as blockers. But
35:27
you also have to respect them this pass catchers, So you can't just sell
35:29
out versus the run, and you can't just sell out versus the pass.
35:31
And then because of having more bodies closer to the line of scrimmage, if
35:36
you're the offense, you have the ability to get to more in the run
35:37
game menu. Again, all this idea of mismatch creation, putting a defense
35:43
into a buind based on skim schematics, based on personnel alignment formation, all
35:47
that kind of stuff. And if you're looking at it right here, like
35:51
look how many guys we got on the screen starting from Van one, two,
35:54
three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine,
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ten, eleven, all eleven offensive bodies of the rams are in this end
36:02
zone. Shot right now that is condensed, which is nice for them.
36:07
There goes Skeronic. We see the movement at the second level, the second
36:10
level defender shift and then we get a little duo run here and just watch
36:15
Pooka a race Kenny Moore. Kenny Moore. Kenny Moore got Pooka on a
36:20
couple reps in this game. What I'm gonna show here is going to make
36:23
it seem like Poo could just own Kenny Moore for the entirety of this game,
36:25
which is not what happened. Nny Moore is one of the best slot
36:28
corners in the league, along with Arreon Johnson and Mike Hilton. But watch
36:30
Puoka just ow a race him. Then a good cut from Kyron just again,
36:36
want to highlight Pooka, But that's the benefit right now. Imagine instead
36:38
of Pooka Nakua being there, Imagine it's Keyon Coleman or Matt Collins or MVS
36:45
or even Curtis Samuel is a good blocker, or even Kohalioshakir who improved his
36:50
blocking last year. Like the benefit of having wide receivers who can function as
36:53
blockers. What makes condensed formations so intriguing for offenses. Now, in addition
37:00
to because you can run the ball out of those looks cool, you got
37:04
defenses that want to live in too high coverage structures. You can't really do
37:07
that regularly against an offense who's running these condensed formations out of personnel groupings that
37:14
can live in both the run and the past, because you have to respect
37:16
both. So you're just gonna get gouged on the ground if you stay in
37:20
too high and then eve in single high. You still got to fit it
37:22
up correctly, and then you might have mismatch advantages like a big, big
37:28
bodied or physical, tough receiver or good blocking receiver who can fit up your
37:32
nickel corner like Pooka Nakool on this play bo really nice play from Pooka on
37:37
that one. Next play we're going to go and look into this play is
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crunch, one of my favorite plays. All crunch means is you get a
37:46
trap block and a wham block at the same time. We're gonna see you
37:52
see this defensive tackle get penetration, and you're going to see a trap block
37:54
from the left guard on him, and you're going to see this defensive tackle,
37:58
get penetration, and you're going to get a wham block from the tight
38:01
end. And wam block and a trap block are the exact exact same thing,
38:06
except the trap block is done by a guard or an offensive lineman.
38:08
Wam block is done by the tight end. But all it is is basically
38:13
you're inviting the defensive tackle to come upfield and think like, oh man,
38:19
I got a free shot at somebody, and then he's getting bang from the
38:21
side. So you'll see here on this play you crunch again out of eleven
38:25
personnel, and what you're gonna get, You're gonna get that blocking scheme up
38:30
front. But then also again notice Pokin Nakua. He's the man right over
38:35
here, just slightly off screen, off this angle. But watch him go
38:38
forward and work versus the closing safety. So we're going to play. If
38:44
you want to watch, you know, watch the left guard, watch the
38:46
tight end. There you'll see the trap and wham block respectively. I'm going
38:51
in slow motion. Actually I'm gonna go on in regular time and then there's
38:53
a snap. We'll go in slow motion. Now, okay, boom,
38:55
see we're gonna trap trap here, wham block here. This is where the
39:01
ball is going. Now, if Pooka can get in front of this man,
39:07
cool, if he can bang him to wash him down, cool,
39:08
Like you just want to see some sort of effort activity, especially from a
39:12
rookie wide receivers getting adjusted to the NFL. But watch the block that Pooka
39:15
puts on black men Boom. Watch the displacement he creates and he chucks him
39:20
out of the hole when I'm able to get north and south and get some
39:23
good yards. And again, why I'm showing this because the Bills can run
39:30
something similar to this. And I'm not saying the Bills have these exact offensive
39:32
linemen. I'm not saying they have a tight end that can block as good
39:36
as Tyler Higbee. I'm not saying they have Pookin Nakua or somebody who has
39:40
this much versatility at the wide receiver position. But you have players that can
39:45
somewhat replicate this. You have receivers who are going to be able to function
39:50
legitimately as both a pass catcher and as a run blocker. Maybe not to
39:54
the level of Pookin Nakua, but still enough to a level that a defense
39:59
is going to have to respect that player and they're going to have to respect
40:04
both the run and the pass. From that exact notion, this could be
40:07
so this is Pookin'akua right here. This could be Dalton Kinkaid. It could
40:12
be Dawson Knox. It could be Keyan Coleman. It could be MVS.
40:15
It could be Curtis Samuel. It could be Khalil Shakir. It could be
40:20
a variety of dudes who can live in the light and the dark, function
40:23
as a run blocker, but also function as a pass catcher. Again one
40:27
more time, just to show Pooka. This is all something I want all
40:30
you folks to take away from this episode two. Like, I know a
40:35
lot of I don't know. I don't know how much football aside from the
40:37
Bills. A lot of Bills fans watch, especially with like the eye or
40:39
attention to detail that they do for the Bills. But I watch tape across
40:45
the entire NFL, and so I really like to put other teams into perspective
40:47
when I can just appreciate how good of a blocker Pukinakua is in addition to
40:52
being a good pass catcher and everything else that he can do. Let's get
40:58
what play do we got he year. This is just actually no wait skip
41:02
buond Nope, I didn't there we go no, okay, we're going to
41:08
this one. Okay, so another end zone angle. What's gonna happen here?
41:15
We're getting a little stretch play here from the rams with a crack from
41:21
Puka. Sorry my notes were out of order for a minute. I was
41:22
like, what the hell is going on? This is a defensive end.
41:25
This is a legitimate edge player. Watch Pooka just wash him down on the
41:30
snap. I'll play it in real time just so you can see how effective
41:32
is boom. Just get them right out of the way, clears and opens
41:36
that front side. Well, I want to show this play again is so
41:39
get that stretch play. You could run this, James Cook, get to
41:42
the outside again. Look at a tighter split. Give you that opportunity to
41:46
crack down, wash a guy out, just get him out of the way.
41:50
This doesn't have to be the most amazing block like you just want to
41:52
obstruct the man. But what can be tough is the angle that you take.
41:58
Like Pooka does a great he hits some square and just drives him out.
42:01
But if you get him too high on this shoulder, this guy can
42:06
get underneath you and force this running back to kind of bubble it out a
42:08
little bit. Actually that's not a good bubble, but make him kind of
42:10
bubble it out this way instead of being able to stay flat and then stay
42:15
flat and push the line. God, my lines are terrible. So if
42:17
you stay, if you're too high, this guy can get underneath you,
42:22
or the opposite can happen. If you're too low, this guy can skirt
42:25
and get around you and fill in this spot here and again, make that
42:29
running back who wants to be here, make him have to try and bubble
42:31
out and string this run out a little bit who could get some flush clears
42:36
him right out. Also watch mister Rob Havenstein here number seventy nine. No
42:39
disrespect to him, but he's not the mover in space that Spencer Brown is.
42:44
So imagine and Havenstein does a fine job here out in space. But
42:47
imagine this play with again, whoever you want as your blocker. There could
42:53
be a tight end, could be a wide receiver, whoever you want for
42:55
the bills, And then imagine this is a bill seventy nine out of a
43:00
RAM seventy nine with Spencer Brown. So again Pooka cracks down on that edge,
43:06
which allows Havenstein to get out in space and have a mismatch against a
43:09
corner. And Kenny Moore tries to undercut this thing, so instead of forcing
43:15
it back outside, Kenny Moore tries to undercut it. Almost makes the play.
43:17
Havenstein does just enough, and then we get a really good block outside
43:22
from two to two at Well, who also isn't talked about enough as a
43:24
blocker, not a tremendous blocker, small, not the biggest dude. He
43:29
is a much willing blocker than he gets credit for, or at least he
43:30
was in the games that I studied for this episode, which were a lot.
43:36
Then we get there. We go, nice game again, watch Havenstein
43:40
out in space and this is something where Spencer Brown is going to excel out
43:45
here. Spencer Brown might even let you know, he might not even just
43:47
get a hand on Kennymore here, he might straight bury him so that way
43:52
James Cook can stay tighter and get up north and south earlier. But again,
43:55
nice play. Big body receiver cracks down, washes the edge, allow
44:00
your athletic tackles to get out in space. Bills could run this to the
44:02
other side and have it be Dion Dawkins instead. Again, another element the
44:07
Bills could potentially incorporate. This one. We're going to get Pooka Nakoula functioning
44:13
like a tight end. I know I continue to highlight Pookin Nakoua here,
44:15
but this really could be. You know, you'll get reps of this from
44:19
Ben Scarnic. You'll get some good blocks from to to at Well, and
44:22
again some of the other guys or other teams are going to show. You'll
44:24
get this kind of aspect as well. There are several teams who lean into
44:29
the bigger, bodied wide receivers or physical wide receivers, or good or willing
44:32
blocking wide receivers who are also good pass catchers. And again, what makes
44:37
this so effective for the Rams, and what makes Pooka so effective is he
44:40
is a good pass catcher. He is good as a as a receiving option
44:45
being a wide receiver, but he's also a good run blocker. Well,
44:49
you're gonna get here on this play. It's basically split zone run on this
44:53
one. We're gonna get some split flow. Watch the offensive line in the
44:58
tight and also, actually I forgot about this. Watch the motion from two
45:00
to at well what does it do? Shifts that defense, everybody bumps over.
45:07
Could you gotta respect that notion. And also let's count all the bodies
45:14
we got Van Jefferson out here. We've got one, two, three,
45:16
four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten eleven.
45:22
Again condensed formation. Everybody is in this screenshot. So when you get that
45:27
motion from two to at one number five on the outside there, you get
45:30
this motion. Everybody's got a bump. You gotta respect it. Then we
45:34
get the snap, we get the split flow. Everybody going down, going
45:37
this way, going this way, going this way, going this way,
45:40
going this way. But watch what happens here the edge player gets inside of
45:46
Tyler Higbee. So watch what Pooka Nakua does right here. This is Pookah
45:51
boo boom. Get some split flow watching Pooka does bang, pops him,
45:58
widens that hole, protects the inside of the tight end, and he gives
46:02
a legitimate pop to a defensive end. Again, doesn't Pancakehi, doesn't drive
46:08
him into the hole, but he gets under him, gives him a good
46:12
shoulder, sends him upright a little bit not easy to do. Played in
46:15
slow motion. As we oh just secures everything here and then the running back
46:21
puts his foot in the ground, washed, washed, get a nice little
46:24
alley right here, there's that seam. Cool, let me put my foot
46:28
in the ground if I'm the running back and get north and south and then
46:31
who knows, maybe this corner misses this tackle or doesn't play good. Maybe
46:35
get one on one with a safety. This is a really nice gain and
46:37
easy game, but again partially made because of the job that Pukinakua does.
46:43
Again, who could you do this with Kean Coleman and Mac Collins and MBS,
46:47
maybe even Curtis Samuel or maybe Kolil sequrit I don't want to bang securite
46:51
like this regularly, or maybe one of your tight ends, like you can
46:53
do this if you're the Bills. And again, what do we got?
46:57
Eleven person out? One two, three wide receivers, one tight end,
47:00
one running back? Right? Cool? You know what else you could do
47:05
this out of If you're the Bills, you could do it on twelve.
47:07
Maybe this is Dawson Knox and this is Dalton Kincaid, or maybe it's reversed
47:12
and this is Dalton Kincaid and maybe this is Dawson Knox. Or maybe you
47:15
want to make one of them, Regigillium, I would rather do one of
47:19
the tight ends because I think they're more of a buying creator and mismatch creator
47:22
in terms of the pass of the run. But yeah, again, this
47:29
doesn't have to be eleven personnel. You can do this out of twelve.
47:30
This is what is exciting. If you're the Bills being in this type of
47:36
what the Rams are doing right now, they're in eleven personnel. Most people
47:38
think eleven personnel. Okay, so you're you're doing a lot of shotgun,
47:42
you're spreading teams out, you're attacking everybody with the pass, and the Rams
47:45
are like, yeah, we're gonna pass the ball, but we're also gonna
47:46
run condensed formations because again, our eleven personnel has three wide receivers that are
47:52
physical and can block, or has two really good blockers, or you know,
47:57
one and a half, two and a half, some sort of piece
47:59
like that. Again, this works. This offense works because you got guys
48:02
that allow you to access more of the menu without having to turn the page.
48:07
It could be a run, it could be a pass, could be
48:08
a gap run, it could be a zone run, it could be a
48:10
variety of things because you're living in this personnel grouping and you're living in condensed
48:15
formations. One more time, just because I like this block. I just
48:20
really like Pookin' cool. Ooh, good block, good game. Let's go
48:25
to our second last play here for the Rams, we're gonna get a crack
48:30
toss here might also be a zone toss, but again, eleven personnel,
48:35
what do we have? Condensed formation? Got trips, bunch out here,
48:38
nub tight end into the boundary again, continue to live in this world.
48:43
If you are the Rams again, wide receivers who can function like tight ends,
48:49
you're gonna get pookin' cool. Who's gonna wa wash the edge. Kenny
48:51
Moore actually does a really good job out here against Van Jefferson and Scornic,
48:54
like he muddies their read and kind of gets through them both. But the
48:58
running back makes a good cut and then the climbing offensive linemen do their job.
49:02
What's also nice too, is how you can tie this run in with
49:07
counter So being in condensed formations and like in this type of alignment personnel grouping,
49:13
like crack toss or runs to the perimeter are just you're inviting that,
49:19
like look at all, especially if you're wide receiver side wide receivers who can
49:22
block like is to the field side, Like, look at all this space,
49:25
assign My highlights are terrible. Look at all this space, and what
49:29
do you got out here? For? Dudes? In this space? You've
49:31
got a slot corner and an outside corner, usually dudes who aren't the best
49:36
run defenders or forced players, guys who are ready to bang and box somebody
49:40
in or make a play against the run. So you have to hope if
49:44
you're a defense, you have dudes who can bang like that, like you
49:45
are inviting an offense to attack you all in this space right here. So
49:52
maybe you're a defense and maybe you want to cheat, and maybe you want
49:55
to spin a safety down here pre snap and go single high co If you
50:00
start to do that, if you want to cheat, then you can alert
50:04
and have an alert call baked into that run. You can run counter and
50:07
go back the opposite way. If a team wants to bring a safety down
50:09
to the wide receiver side, to that bunch side, you can go counter
50:14
and then run it back this way. So again another layers again continue to
50:16
put defenses into a buying but we'll just run the play here. Oh,
50:22
no, it's loading. I'll go back here. Oh why are you doing
50:31
this to me? Okay, here we go, somebody. You just got
50:35
to click a new thing. All right, cool, Let's watch Pooka Scronic
50:38
Van Jefferson again. It starts with Pooka at the point of attack, get
50:43
on his man right there against Samson Ebukam edge for the Colts want of the
50:47
Bills to get two off seasons ago. Bang that washes him right down.
50:52
Look at the displacement. Not even in this play. He's out erased,
50:55
waxed. Done again, Like I mentioned, decent play from Kenny Moore.
51:00
Muddy's this whole thing up right here. Actually almost makes the tackle, but
51:05
then you just get a cut. The Rams offensive lineman are climbing to the
51:07
second level. Dude gets chucked right out here. We get a nice game
51:17
again, all starting because of Pooka Nakua working against that edge player. Initially,
51:29
you can't even see communication beforehand. They're trying to like figure things out.
51:31
Yeah that's not Samson EP fifty two bank. Look at you actually get
51:36
like legitimate displacement on this run here, Like, watch Pooka chuck this edge
51:43
player like it's not even just he washes him down, He chucks him,
51:45
He gets underneath him, gets his shoulder into him, and effectively displaces him.
51:51
Bang, he's out, actually, and if you think about it,
51:54
kind of bangs him into ninety three right here for the Colts. Kind of
52:00
get a little two for one here from Pooka. And this is what bigger
52:04
bodied, physical wide receivers offer you. And then you get some good climbs
52:07
from the offensive line, some nice blocking here. Climb to the second level.
52:14
If we are the Rams, boom, everybody flow into the football.
52:21
Kiren pushes this outside and then cuts it back. So Sire Franklin is going
52:24
to kind of take himself out of this play, even though he has to.
52:28
The corner is going to also take himself out of the place. So
52:30
effectively, you've got two dudes in one gap. Basically running back doesn't go
52:34
that way, so he's going to cut it back. EJ Speed gets chucked
52:39
and you get a nice cut up field. I think I have the other
52:44
end zone angle as well. Yeah, highlighting Pooka. Bang, look at
52:46
that displacement, cut up field, attack that perimeter. Out of these condensed
52:52
formations, especially if you're a running back with speed like the rams are able
52:55
to do this, and Kyraen Williams is not a burner. Kyraen Williams is
52:58
a good running back, gets north and south, falls forward, understands how
53:02
to be efficient and is a good pass protector, but doesn't have the speed
53:07
that James Cook has at all. But they're able to affect the outside here
53:13
because of block here, block here again. Ideally like they want to pin
53:17
him inside and be able to get to that outside. But Kenny Moore just
53:23
does a really good job here in an ideal world. Again, let's go
53:29
back, because you can see all the lineman adjust and an ideal world,
53:31
Pooka's going there, this is going here, and then this run is coming
53:37
out and you're having these guys lead the way and we're getting to the perimeter.
53:40
But again, like I said, Kenny Moore does a pretty good job.
53:45
Shout out to him, Muddy and this whole thing up gets around Van
53:49
and he starts to work that outside and then again plus a here Franklin in
53:52
the other corner. They show it's not there. But that's the point of
53:54
having other people do their job and the adjustments that you can have baked in
53:58
and it works because who crushed this here, and Kenny Moore is getting taken
54:02
out of the play a little bit. Dotson's climbing and speed gets taken out.
54:07
You have a natural cupback lane. So nice things that the Rams can
54:13
do. I also wanted to show one more random thing from the Rams game.
54:15
This is This is such a small thing. This is just one little
54:19
piece here. I really like what the Rams did last year in just terms
54:22
of getting creative out of like running duo. We saw the Bills run a
54:24
ton of duo last year. We broke down in the film room. I
54:29
broke down on the show. If you think back to the Raiders game,
54:30
that's they're running duo like a ton. In that game, we'll usually get
54:36
from duo as you're getting double teams from your offensive lineman and then run backs
54:38
going here, reading like the mic linebacker or play side linebacker and trying to
54:43
make him wrong. If he feels here, he goes this way. If
54:45
he comes here, he goes this way. You're always running into the tight
54:49
end. But what the Rams started doing is started pulling a tight end or
54:54
wide receiver and using them to still block. So this is duo but to
55:00
the left and instead of just doing it from a stationary alignment where usually the
55:06
tight end would be here and you just run duo to the tight end side.
55:10
They still do run into the tight end side, but they do it
55:13
by motioning the tight end first, which adds a nice little wrinkle. Everybody
55:17
gets washed down front side. This is another aspect I would like to bill
55:21
to create too or borrow from as well. These motion pieces. Again,
55:23
everybody gets washed down inside of kind of functions. Almost it looks like split
55:28
zone but it's not. And then especially around the low red zone, you
55:32
just need like a yard or two bank really nice play again, steal from
55:37
people, copycat league, all that kind of stuff. Bum bum bum Where
55:45
are camoys is? It seems like a time to make it obligatory random.
55:49
Justin shorter comment, fair r J says wish we had Sean mcvay's ROC is
55:52
phenomenal. He is one of the best in the business. Play caller,
55:54
designer, sequencer layer. Dude is extremely smart. Plus you see all those
56:00
videos where they're like, well, do you remember like the seventeenth play the
56:02
game from the twenty nineteen season against this team. He's got like perfect recall
56:07
memory. I don't know if it's fake or not, but like man,
56:09
it's just wild what he does, right. I love this comment from Ryan
56:13
saying, Damn, I never knew Pooka was also a top tier blocker like
56:15
this, what in the Aladdins gem in the rough? Beyond what I even
56:19
thought before. I love that comment, Ryan, because again this want I
56:22
want to show what the Bills can do. And I'm obviously tying this into
56:24
the Bills, but I like this episode from a knowledge standpoint for everyone watching,
56:30
so you can get more accustomed to Again, even though I'm only showing
56:31
a couple of games here, you can get more accustomed to, wa,
56:36
what does the Rams offense look like? What does Puoka look like? What
56:37
does Tutu at what look like? So that way you get more of a
56:39
knowledge base and an understanding of the game as a whole, which will help
56:44
you understand the game as a whole and put the Bills performances into perspective even
56:47
more. I love that you took that away, Ryan, Appreciate the hell
56:51
out of you, Laura says, And now that we lost Gabe, Oh,
56:54
who do you think our best offensive wide receiver blocker will be? I
56:58
heard it's not King Kid? If we're talking Jess wide receiver. Well,
57:02
probably Matt Collins or I want to put key On Coleman into the conversation,
57:07
but he is a rookie, and I just even if you think someone projects,
57:12
well, you never know what someone's gonna be because they're a rookie with
57:15
no snaps. So I want to say keyon Coleman or put him in that
57:19
conversation. But I'll probably say Matt Collins as of right now. But I
57:24
think you know, again, from a pass catching standpoint, I'm putting the
57:28
tight ends in that grouping. I'm putting Kinkaid in there, I'm putting knocks
57:30
in there and putting all of them because of what you can do from an
57:31
alignment perspective, there's so much. Yeah, I would say I would probably
57:37
say Matt Collins. Again, I want to say key on Coleman. We
57:39
just haven't seen it yet. Okay. So now we're gonna go away from
57:44
the RAMS and we're going to go to the Houston, Texans. So when
57:50
I mentioned earlier the teams that were looking at in this episode are three of
57:54
the five teams with the lowest formational width. In twenty twenty three, the
58:00
RAMS had the second lowest formational with, again just another way of saying how
58:05
much they use condensed formations. The Rams of the second lowest formational with in
58:09
twenty twenty three. The lowest team was the San Francisco forty nine Ers.
58:15
The Rams were just behind or I should say ahead of Thember behind them,
58:20
depending on how you want to look at it. The Niners, having it,
58:22
had an average formational width of nineteen point seven, lowest in the league
58:25
last year. The Rams had the second lowest at twenty point zero, so
58:30
point three, so tenth per point less twenty so twenty ninth in that grouping,
58:35
So the Niners were thirty second, the Rams were thirty first. Twenty
58:38
ninth on that list were the Houston Texans. Texans the Miami Dolphins were thirtieth.
58:44
But again I didn't want to do the Dolphins and Niners because of some
58:45
of the unicorn dudes that they have, so started with the Rams, who
58:49
had the second lowest formational with in the league last year, and the Houston
58:52
Texans, who had the fourth lowest formational with in the league last year.
58:57
And then from an EPA per play standpoint, the Rams were nine an EPA
59:00
per play last year. Texans were fifteenth, but did some really nice things
59:05
schematically. Also, you know, a rookie quarterback adjusting injuries to him at
59:08
some point, so kind of some wonkiness going in there. But an offense
59:13
that you know, really started to take up when they needed to take up.
59:17
Could have honestly lost in that playing game kind of against the Colts if
59:21
that pass gets completed or if the running back doesn't drop it. But nonetheless
59:24
a good offensive mind and offensive coordinator Bobby Slowick, and some good schematic things
59:29
that you were seeing out of the Houston Texans. And also partially why I
59:32
wanted to bring the Texans into this is because again, Nico Collins is tremendous,
59:37
Tank Dell is tremendous. I like what Dalton Dalton Schultz is. Laramie
59:42
Tunzel is one of the best alignment in football argus arguably the best left tackle
59:45
in all of football. They have shaf Mason, they have a bunch of
59:47
good pieces, but again, a lot of what they were doing is schematic
59:51
and things that can be replicated. No, not everybody has Nico Collins and
59:54
Tank Dall and Laramie Tunzel and all these dudes. But again, the schematic
59:59
piece is what teams can lean into, and a team like the Bills can
1:00:01
steal from a little bit. So nothing crazy here with this one. This
1:00:06
first play here for the Houston Texans, you get a heavy personnel grouping.
1:00:13
I put twenty one slash twelve just because this is Beck who's kind of like
1:00:16
full back slash h backslash tight end. So however the hell you want to
1:00:20
classify him, I don't care. He's a heavy type of dude. So
1:00:22
this is a heavy personnel grouping. If you want to call it twenty one,
1:00:25
cool, If you want to call it twelve, cool, I don't
1:00:28
care. Plus the alignment as well, like he's hipped off Dalton Schultz,
1:00:32
haz hipped off the right tackle, and then you got him hipped off of
1:00:35
Laramie Tunsel right here, so effectively you've got a seven man surface. So
1:00:40
it ends up playing out like twelve. But if he's technically a full back,
1:00:44
whatever, So I just put it there in case there's somebody wants to
1:00:45
nippick. Look how condensed and tight everything is. So the balls on the
1:00:50
left hash Tank Dell is the nd man on the line of scrimmage to the
1:00:53
top of the screen a couple of yards outside of the right hash, and
1:00:59
then Nick Collins and man on the line of scrimmage to the bottom of the
1:01:01
screen inside the numbers. This is condensed. Also, there's no particular rhyme
1:01:07
or reason why this is another game featuring the Colts defense. It just happened
1:01:10
to work out that way. I want to grab this to Justin says,
1:01:16
I think the teams with low width have below average offensive lines, but that
1:01:21
may be just me. When we get to the last team in this you
1:01:23
may rethink that a little bit. Also, just from an offensive line standpoint,
1:01:29
the forty nine ers don't have a below average offensive line, and the
1:01:31
last team that we're going to be looking at in this episode have one of
1:01:35
the best offensive lines in football. But I understand where your thought process comes
1:01:38
from there, so that's fair. Again, nothing crazy here. This isn't
1:01:43
something nuts schematically. I just want to show from a passing standpoint. A
1:01:45
lot of the stuff we showed previously with the rams was from a run standpoint,
1:01:50
right, using your wide receivers as run blockers and the advantage that it
1:01:52
can be because of who they are as pass catchers. But I didn't really
1:01:55
show a lot of pass stuff aside from that first play where we show the
1:02:00
run with Pukinakua coming in motion and then the rams using a pass off that
1:02:05
makeing you look exactly like the run and how those two things coalesce. Right,
1:02:08
But this is just so. This is a straight up pass condensed two
1:02:12
by two formation two to the top, two to the bottom. Twenty one
1:02:17
personnel here, and just when you line up in this way, instead of
1:02:22
being spread where you put guys into open space pre snap, what you're doing
1:02:28
in condensed formations from a pass standpoint, instead of filling this space with guys
1:02:32
pre snap, you're filling this space with routes post snap. So here's Tank
1:02:38
Dell up here again, nothing crazy, Tanked del taxi space boom. CJ.
1:02:45
Stroud hits them quick, Dell gets a field, gets close to a
1:02:47
first now again nothing crazy. I'm just showing this because of what you can
1:02:50
do in the past attack that space. Also notice too, you're gonna see
1:02:53
a couple of these. Watch the rhythm and the timing of CJ. Stroud
1:02:58
gets the ball one step, He's already turning and opening your shoulders. He's
1:03:02
firing this ball before Tank Dell is really even out of the break, even
1:03:07
looking for it, and then the ball is on him. Okay. We
1:03:10
talked about that earlier with Alan. When you are running these condensed formations,
1:03:15
you're running outside of these, there is more of a timing, rhythm based
1:03:19
nature to it. You have to be effective with your eyes, with your
1:03:22
reads, with your decisions. Now a lot of it again is schemed for
1:03:24
you, or can be schemed for you, I should say, But you've
1:03:29
got to be good with your rhythm, with your mechanics, with your feet,
1:03:30
with your eyes, everything. Okay, And so that's another piece as
1:03:36
well. So again instead of you know, putting Tank Dell out here and
1:03:39
having him run a little hitch to this spot, you do it from a
1:03:43
condensed look. And again because of the personnel grouping you have here, right,
1:03:46
you have a seven man surface heavy personnel grouping. Look how the cultes
1:03:51
respond. Okay, you got three in the back, single high coverage here,
1:03:55
but you've got a lot of bodies respecting this alignment because it looks like
1:04:00
a run. You've only got two receivers on the field. You've got a
1:04:03
big, heavy, you know, full quasi full back tight end dude out
1:04:08
here. This looks like a running formation. It looks like it could be
1:04:11
a run. Even if it's not, you do have to respect it because
1:04:14
the Texans will run out of this grouping. So you have the tendency from
1:04:17
the Texans. You have the football tendency of being like, oh, you
1:04:21
know, dude's going heavy, Let's see what it can be. So he
1:04:25
forced the Texan or he forced the Colts defense into a single high look,
1:04:28
which also has a nice benefit as well. And then again you attack that
1:04:31
space post snap. Oh that's not Dolton Shultzer out there, a minimstake,
1:04:35
it doesn't matter, the same premise. Then you attack that space boom,
1:04:40
get the field success again. Okay, nothing crazy, just attack the space
1:04:45
post snap, rhythm throw catch. Nice. Next one we're going to look
1:04:50
at for the Houston Texans condensed formation. You're going to get a tight end
1:04:56
shift. So right now they're in a three over here and then one over
1:05:00
here, So right now they're in a three by one. You're going to
1:05:02
get a shift into a two by two. I picked this example because it
1:05:08
ties into the condensed formation piece, but also into a nice way where you
1:05:11
could utilize Dalton Kincaid and I like, what the Texans do with Adulton Schultz
1:05:15
on this play. So here comes Schultz shifting over here. Now this is
1:05:20
third and five. So where are we here, y'all? So line of
1:05:25
scrimmage is right here. Here's the first down marker right at. Well,
1:05:29
I came, I came decently close to drawn a straight line there. So
1:05:31
the first down marker is at the six yard line. So again, third
1:05:35
and five, here comes Schultz in motion. Well, technically a shift lines
1:05:44
out here. Again, we went from a three by three. Now we're
1:05:45
in a two by two. And watch Schultz again. It's third and five,
1:05:49
and something you will commonly see out of these condensed looks like you'll get
1:05:54
this stick concept where you'll get somebody in the flat, you'll get somebody who
1:05:58
will hitch up right here, or somebody's just to attack that space. So
1:06:00
you'll get that look in general from a condensed formation. The Texans also show
1:06:05
this kind of look. But then also because it's third and five, you
1:06:09
might be thinking, hey, this guy's trying to get to the sticks.
1:06:11
Watch how Schultz stems this route, makes it look like he's kind of gonna
1:06:15
sit right here, hesitates a little, then splits the linebackers and gets a
1:06:20
field. Stroud misses the throw. But I love that design. I love
1:06:26
that concept starting a three by one and again, watch how the defense reacts.
1:06:30
Right. You see the communication already from here from Blackman. What it
1:06:33
looks like initially pre snap is you're gonna have a single high safety. They
1:06:40
see Schultz, they check. Blackman calls out to his corner, turns there.
1:06:44
Everybody's communicating. Maybe he was already gonna drop. Maybe that's not the
1:06:46
communication we're seeing. Again, I'm trying to connect puzzle pieces. I'm not
1:06:49
in the huddle. I don't know, but that's what it looks like.
1:06:51
And then just a nice job. Watch Schultz right here sells this. It's
1:07:00
that little hesitation makes it look like he's gonna sit in between those two linebackers
1:07:05
almost right at the sticks, like he's about to sit at the five yard
1:07:08
line. He's gonna hitch it up catch this pass right here. NOPEO gets
1:07:13
up, Field splits them both. Nice design, nice play. I want
1:07:16
that for Dalton kin Kate. It's another similar idea to the previous play in
1:07:20
terms of what I would like to see the Bills do or steal or borrow
1:07:24
from another player here, So condensed formation three by one formation in particular eleven
1:07:31
personnel. Brevin Jordan is the one tight end, and then the receivers that
1:07:35
we have here are Nico Collins, Robert Woods and Tank Dell. Ball is
1:07:41
on the right hash into the boundary. The bunch is to the wide side
1:07:47
of the field. Nothing crazy here, You're just going to get effectively where
1:07:55
are we here? Split zone run, which can be fine on its own.
1:07:58
You're gonna see the line go down to the word left and see their
1:08:00
angles. You'll see everybody kind of go this way, this way offensive line.
1:08:04
I'll move to the left. You'll see Brevin Jordan come this way,
1:08:09
which is fine. Split zone is a good concept in and of itself.
1:08:11
If you get the right box counts, that can be fun. But the
1:08:14
reason why I wanted to draw this up too is again out of a condensed
1:08:16
formation, here comes Jordan across, kicks out the edge, Well goes to
1:08:24
cut them, same premise, drive them out, cut them, don't allow
1:08:27
him GetUp the field, and the run goes inside. Nothing crazy like a
1:08:30
three yard gain. The reason I wanted to show it is because of the
1:08:33
potential for the Bills. Imagine as we watch mister Brevin Jordan come out here,
1:08:39
imagine instead of this being CJ. Stroud, imagine this is Josh Allen.
1:08:43
And imagine instead of handing this ball off, he keeps it and this
1:08:47
becomes a situation where he's got the ball here out in the space against an
1:08:53
edge, or even if you wanted to go from a run standpoint, let's
1:08:58
let me move forward here a little bit. I gotta figure out what chen
1:09:00
zone angle to get it through bump upon here it is. Actually, I'll
1:09:05
just let this play play for real. So instead of having the sniffer tight
1:09:12
end being Brevin Jordan, instead of having him kick out the edge, you
1:09:15
could have him art to the linebacker instead of taking out that edge, and
1:09:18
you could have Allen's legs be the piece that hold this linebacker right. So,
1:09:24
because again think of who makes this play. Shaq Leonard helps make this
1:09:26
play on Damian Pierce. Jordan comes across, Brevin Jordan takes out this edge.
1:09:33
But what you could do is you could have Brevin Jordan come here.
1:09:38
Allen's legs are enough of a threat where he can hold this edge and effectively
1:09:42
be the blocker for him even though he's not even touching it. So you
1:09:45
don't even have to touch this edge, because the idea of Josh Allen keeping
1:09:49
this ball and running with it or doing something with it can be enough to
1:09:53
hold this defensive end right here. We've seen it happen regularly with Josh Allen.
1:09:57
So instead of having Jordan come and take out this edge, you can
1:10:01
have him go to the second level fit up on that linebacker. This guy
1:10:06
can hold here because he's gonna have eyes on this mess point and worried about
1:10:10
the threat of Josh Allen. And now all of a sudden, as we
1:10:13
play this going forward, imagine instead of Jordan being here on the edge,
1:10:16
imagine he's on this linebacker and maybe Damian Pierce is able to get through this
1:10:21
hole or Jordan fits up on him here. So Damian Pierce presses and bounces,
1:10:27
which could be even better because look at Nico Collins crashing down on that
1:10:30
safety right there, right another element in another wrinkle. This is a fine
1:10:33
play in and of itself, and just a split zone. Run cool,
1:10:36
run your split zone. That's fine, you know, no worries. But
1:10:41
the run element, the legs element of Josh Allen, is something that could
1:10:45
pose an additional thread and add another layer and wrinkle to this play, which
1:10:48
is something I really like, more text and stuff. Let me grab a
1:10:55
couple of comments here. Joe says, what excites me the most is just
1:10:59
how much which more menacing Josh can be as a passer if cohesive blocking schemes
1:11:02
and productive running gives him a ton of short down slash distances to work with.
1:11:06
Absolutely, Joe. He also says, make Josh feel like he's playing
1:11:10
ahead and take those shots downfield slash, explosives, throws because you can and
1:11:14
not because you have to. What else? Joe also says, Oh,
1:11:16
make sure you're dropping a lif fan. Thank you very much. I appreciate
1:11:18
you. Appreciate you, I appreciate you. Justin for a comment earlier saying
1:11:24
seventeen versus that corners a mismatch. Absolutely r J saying Joe, that's one
1:11:28
hundred percent correct. This offense needs to take those shots because you can,
1:11:30
and not because you have to. Hopefully Joe Brady can do that for him
1:11:34
and the offense. Yeah, you just don't want to get boxed into a
1:11:36
situation where, like you, where the defense is dictating to you to take
1:11:42
those shots. I think we saw that towards the end in the twenty twenty
1:11:45
two season, where granted, Allen's elbow was banged up and he couldn't really
1:11:49
make line drive intermediate throw, so throwing deep balls because the elbow angle was
1:11:55
a little more comfortable for him. But we saw a defenses kind of force
1:12:00
those lower percentage throws, like Anlan wasn't necessarily making the wrong read chucking it
1:12:03
deep all the time, And that wasn't the only those weren't the only routes
1:12:08
that were called at the end of twenty twenty two, but we saw just
1:12:11
downfield, downfield, downfield because the defense was taking everything away underneath, and
1:12:15
it was like, well, the dude that's open is the dude that's twenty
1:12:17
five thirty yards downfield, So I'm going to chuck it because that's the dude
1:12:19
who I think that's open. So you could see different layers and elements too
1:12:26
this offense. Let's go to some more Textans stuff, this time against the
1:12:30
Devon Broncos again. This is similar to the first play I showed from this
1:12:34
Texans playlist earlier against the Colts. Again, instead of filling space, instead
1:12:42
of filling with alignment, instead of filling space with alignment pre snap. You
1:12:45
fill the space with routes post snap. And again notice the rhythm and timing
1:12:49
for CJ. Stroud to throw, very important when working from condensed formations like
1:12:54
we talked earlier. Again condensed formation July two eleven. Personnel Brevin Jordan is
1:13:00
the one tight end you are going to get motioned now it is going to
1:13:02
be a three by one. Now you have Nico Collins as the loan receiver
1:13:08
into the boundary, but again close and condensed. This ball is on the
1:13:13
right hash. Nico Collins is the farthest man out and he is still inside
1:13:17
the numbers by a good amount. Watch him similar to the tankd out route
1:13:21
speed out. Good route from Nico. Good throw from Stroud. And again
1:13:28
watch the rhythm and timing of Stroud. One two bang, oh, I
1:13:33
thought I could time it better well and slow motion second time it better gets
1:13:39
the ball feet planeted, start in his throat as Nico is coming out of
1:13:45
the break. As he is turning, ball is on him away from the
1:13:48
corner, outstretched hands, nice second down ends up being third and one third
1:13:54
and two on time in rhythm. Good throw from CJ. Stroud, efficient,
1:13:58
good decision ball placement, but set up because of a condensed formation,
1:14:02
creating that space that can then be filled with routes from the route distribution once
1:14:08
the snap happens. Next play, I want to show so again continuing this
1:14:17
trend of wide receivers as blockers and what you can do with these guys,
1:14:20
what you get with the Houston Texans here similar to the kind of one of
1:14:25
the plays we should several of the place we showed for the rams where you
1:14:28
get the trips to one side, and then you get that nub tight end.
1:14:30
That tight end who was attached to the formation attached the line into the
1:14:34
boundary, so not completely condensed, but not the widest formation balls on the
1:14:40
left hash. The widest wide receiver to the field side is on the numbers.
1:14:45
And then again you have your nub tight end right there. But look
1:14:47
where Robert Woods is almost lined up hipped off of the right tackle. Nico
1:14:53
Collins is right next to him. So you've got, including the quarterback,
1:14:56
ten of your bodies are almost effectively like in between the hashes based off of
1:15:00
the alignment and based on where everybody is. Yes, I know they're not
1:15:02
actually in between the hashes. I'm talking about where the ball is relative to
1:15:05
where they are, Like everything is tight and condensed. Everything is between the
1:15:10
numbers, and you are very tight low red zone situation. Watch the flow
1:15:15
from Robert Woods. So you're gonna get this split flow. Robert Woods is
1:15:17
going to come across the formation. Watch what it does to number forty nine,
1:15:21
Alex Singleton, Watch what it does to lock the safety over here.
1:15:29
Also, again what do we get. We get a little motion from Tank
1:15:32
Dell. So now he's come in closer. So now we've gotten even more
1:15:38
condensed formation. He was aligned to the numbers. Now he's come inside.
1:15:43
So we've got a true condensed formation here. And here comes Robert Woods on
1:15:45
the snap and this works. Watch the gravity, Draw Singleton, PJ Lock
1:15:51
stays here, Moreau stays here. Watch the gravity. He's going from right
1:15:57
to left, pulls guys with him space at that second level and that's right
1:16:01
where Pierce bangs it in for the touchdown. And show it in real time
1:16:05
here instead of slow mo boom. Nice touchdown. Right. This functions,
1:16:14
and this works because of Robert Woods being who he is, So this play
1:16:19
working. There's a lot of layers to it, but you have that major
1:16:23
stem piece of a wide receiver and coming in split flow, which could be
1:16:28
a legitimate threat for him to continue to the flat for a pass because it's
1:16:31
a wide receiver. So this is something common like you could see a wide
1:16:34
receiver come in motion here. It could be play action to the running back.
1:16:38
This wide receiver continues to the flat and it's an easy touchdown. So
1:16:41
you have to respect that wide receiver. This could be a slide route.
1:16:45
Maybe he's not blocking, maybe he continues to the flat. So because he's
1:16:48
a wide receiver, you have to respect him as a viable pass catcher.
1:16:51
But because Robert Woods is also a threat as a blocker. Again, it
1:16:56
puts the defense into a bund and the Bills can emulate this type of action,
1:17:00
this type of personnel grouping, this type of formation because of the body
1:17:04
type, skill sets, and frames they have at the wide receiver position.
1:17:08
Here comes Robert Woods again. Watch singleton flow over lock stay here, Morow,
1:17:13
stay here. Watch the influence you get because of that split flow.
1:17:16
Now, that split flow can potentially manipulate dudes in general, but it adds
1:17:19
even more because of who Robert Woods is and psych it's not a run look
1:17:26
at you got two or it's not a pass. You got two defenders out
1:17:29
here not contributing. I'm gonna back it up a little bit. You can
1:17:32
see, so they're out there. Alex Singleton is caught up in the wash
1:17:36
over here, so it's all just chaos over here, and you get a
1:17:40
nice seam for Damian Pierce to bang this up inside again. Condensed formation eleven
1:17:46
personnel, Bigger body types at wide receiver who are physical and who can block.
1:17:51
You are looking at these type of dudes like Nico Collins, Robert Woods,
1:17:57
Noah Brown for the Houston Texans, Dalton Schultz who's a tight end but
1:18:01
who is a receiving tight end who can also function as a blocker. So
1:18:03
he's kind of like a pass catching option slack. He's kind of like a
1:18:06
in that Dalton Kinkaid kind of mold. Well he came first, I guess
1:18:10
Kinkage is in the Schultz kind of mold. Even Brevin Jordan, like athletic
1:18:13
tight end, more of a receiving tight end than he is, like a
1:18:16
blocker and a master, but can still get the job done as a blocker.
1:18:19
So you've got all these hybrid body types that allow you to put defenses
1:18:26
into a bind, and when you add condensed formations into all of it,
1:18:30
it just adds another another layer. Now, let's go to our last team
1:18:34
here. We're gonna start with the Detroit Lions. We're gonna watch their last
1:18:40
some of their last game against the San Francisco forty nine ers. Now,
1:18:45
sorry, if you're listening to the audio, I had to take a drink
1:18:47
of water there. Now, if you are watching this for the Detroit Lions,
1:18:51
I really like using them as a case study for a lot of what's
1:18:56
working in the NFL. But while they don't have again tremendous like a huge
1:19:00
unicorn option, they do have like a lot of good players. They have
1:19:04
one of the best offensive lines in the entire NFL. They have one of
1:19:09
the best receivers in all of the NFL. They have a good play caller,
1:19:13
slash designer, slash sequencer, and Ben Johnson. You've got what looks
1:19:16
to be a really good overall, you know, dual threat tight end in
1:19:20
the run of the pass. And Sam Laporta. You've got a really fun
1:19:24
running running back combination with David Montgomery and Jamier Gibbs. You've got one of
1:19:28
the fastest players in the entire NFL and Jamison Williams, like all these pieces
1:19:31
that kind of coalesce into one. The Rams, the Rams, the Lions
1:19:34
do have some fun dudes. But what I love for them and when I
1:19:39
think a lot of people don't know, and I talked about it on multiple
1:19:41
shows. They talked about it with Jpacosta. I talked about it with Mina
1:19:44
Kimes. The Rams were in eleven personnel sixty four keeps saying Rams. The
1:19:48
Lions were in eleven personnel sixty four percent of the time in twenty twenty three,
1:19:53
and they were a very good team on the ground and obviously a good
1:19:56
team in the past. And some of that is tied into the body types
1:19:59
that they had at eleven personnel one. And we'll get it out of the
1:20:03
way now. I'm on Ross Saint Brown. For his size and being as
1:20:06
good of a pass catcher he is, is a much better run blocker than
1:20:09
he gets credit for, and that gets talked about and we're going to show
1:20:12
some of that here. Not as good as Puka, but he's a dog
1:20:15
against the run and it fits with his personality type and the type of dude
1:20:16
and player that he is. So I'm on Ross Saint Brown can block and
1:20:21
then their second most snaps at wide receiver in twenty twenty three, where Josh
1:20:27
Reynolds and Donovan People's Jones, bigger bodied wide receiver types who have to be
1:20:31
respected as pass catchers but who also can mash in the run game. They
1:20:35
can pin down edges, wash dudes down, fit up on linebackers, crush
1:20:41
safeties and outside corners and slock corners and all that kind of stuff. So
1:20:44
again, the Rams could live in eleven personnel like they are now. So
1:20:47
what do you get from the Rams right here on this play and we're going
1:20:50
to go to the end zone view of it, what do you get from
1:20:53
the Rams here? You have a condensed formation in eleven personnel, but you're
1:20:58
able to run a strong run play and set the tone. You set the
1:21:01
tone with physicality in the opening play of the NFC Championship game against the San
1:21:06
Francisco forty nine ers. You set that tone with physicality, and you do
1:21:12
it out of eleven personnel. Like that's just symbolic of what they're able to
1:21:15
do. They can spread you out and pass. I like this comment from
1:21:20
Garnald Forrexus just pretend rams equal lions when listening. Yeah, that's fair.
1:21:24
I'm sorry, I can't. I'm gonna be better. I'm not gonna say
1:21:26
rams anymore, excluding that one that I just said there. I like that
1:21:30
plate. So you're sending the tone with physicality, and you're doing it out
1:21:34
of eleven. You're doing it with three wide receivers, and one of them
1:21:38
is your best receiver who's an All Pro caliber dude who I don't even know
1:21:43
from a statistical standpoint. I know from a fantasy standpoint. I'm on Ross.
1:21:45
Saint Pronam was like third in the league last year, and that's because
1:21:46
I had him on the team. I had him and CD Lamb. It
1:21:48
was a crazy year for me last year. I digress. You're setting the
1:21:51
tone with physicality off rip with your wide receivers, and again, those are
1:21:57
the same wide receivers, maybe not Reynolds a much Brown, where you can
1:22:00
line up and spread or you can do whatever you want, Like I'm on
1:22:01
Rossaint Brown's one of the best route runners in football. You can do all
1:22:04
these things from a past standpoint, and then you can mash dudes at the
1:22:08
same time. You can run some pass stuff with Josh Reynolds and mash at
1:22:12
the same time. Let's go with this play here. Watch as we go
1:22:16
here. So you're going to get on this plane. You saw it already.
1:22:20
You're going to get the shift there from Sam Laporta. And then watch
1:22:25
watch what golf notices. So golf alerts. He checks the alerts. Everybody
1:22:30
acknowledges it. Cool off of that, you are going to get Sam Laporta
1:22:34
motioning pre snap. And then I want you to watch Josh Reynolds on Bosa
1:22:42
and then a'man Ross Saint Brown on Lenore. Leonora is their nickel corner.
1:22:46
Bosa is obviously an edge. And then you got pinn Sewel out here in
1:22:50
space again. A little toss action. I talked about it. I showed
1:22:54
it with the rams and I've talked about it. The toss play, the
1:22:56
cracked toss play. It could be you know, a crack toss. It
1:22:59
could be that out side zone type of toss. However it is Teams love
1:23:02
running this against defenses. Teams that use condensed formations love running this because just
1:23:10
look at all this space. Look at all this space there is to attack.
1:23:13
Again, the ball is on the left hash the trip side or that
1:23:15
bunch is to the wide side of the field, so you've got space because
1:23:20
of the condensed formation the defense to the end. It's the first play of
1:23:23
the game. The defense doesn't want up be all up on the line of
1:23:25
scrimmage and run into the chance that they get picked or get run into one
1:23:29
another. So you got shr Various Ward is the farthest most outside player here,
1:23:32
but he's what five city, He's about seven yards off the line of
1:23:36
scrimmage. There's just oodles of space to attack here. And this is David
1:23:41
Montgomery in the backfield. But if you have more of a speedback like Jamier
1:23:44
Gibbs, Jamiir Gibbs or James Cook if you're the Buffalo Bills. Fun stuff.
1:23:49
So let's just watch this play. There goes Laporta in motion. Watch
1:23:54
Reynolds on Bosa, Watch on on Saint Brown on Lenore. I'm showing it
1:23:59
from the wide view they were going show from the end zone angle. Oh,
1:24:00
Reynolds just washes Bosa completely down Amanaa. Saint Brown gets on the nor
1:24:04
hooks them both and there's just space of the field. Now. Pinae Seol
1:24:09
one of the best right tackles in football, one of the best movers in
1:24:13
football. You can replicate this two way degree with Spencer Brown, who is
1:24:17
a tremendous athlete at right tackle and can move in space. I am not
1:24:21
saying he is pine seol pinay Soool is one of the best right tackles in
1:24:24
football. He's absolutely tremendous. I'm not saying that again, I'm saying you
1:24:29
can replicate this to a degree. You have a good athletic move in space
1:24:32
right tackle. You have physical wide receivers who can function his pass catchers and
1:24:40
also function as run blockers. So again that's to the degree. Again,
1:24:44
if the Bills had almana Rossaint brown Man, that would be amazing. If
1:24:45
they have Pinae suol Man, that would be amazing. They don't have players
1:24:48
of that caliber right now, but you have guys that can replicate this type
1:24:53
of alignment, formation and execution post snap. So again I've highlighted pina Soul
1:25:00
to come in motion around here. And then, like we talked about,
1:25:03
just watch Reynolds number eight. There. He's the inside man. He's the
1:25:08
number two receiver. A'm on ros Saint Brown's on the outside. Also,
1:25:12
you get a slight when you get the alert and check from golf. You
1:25:16
get a slight leverage creation because of the shifting inside from Fred Warner right here
1:25:21
it's slight, but none of the left. It does happen. They all
1:25:26
answer the alert, they check. Here we go. See the slight shift
1:25:30
from Warner, Greenlaw and Brown the safety. Just watch where it starts here
1:25:34
again similar to what we saw with Pukinakua. Watch Reynolds just completely take Bosa
1:25:40
out of this play boom done. Here we go. Look at the form.
1:25:44
Look at the eyes of Rossing Brown. He is engaged, locks in
1:25:49
latches in on that apex. Look at how you've got a man leading out
1:25:55
in space, another man leading out in space. You've got your to go
1:26:00
back and show it again. You've got your right guard and your right tackle
1:26:04
going out in space against an outside corner and a safety to that field side.
1:26:11
That's advantage. You've used one of your smaller guys a wide receiver to
1:26:15
take out one of their bigger body dudes in an edge. And just what
1:26:18
you can do now. Fred Warner actually does a good job recovering and reading
1:26:23
this, and he kind of gums things up here, but just look what
1:26:26
you get. Then you get left guard out in space. Watch Pine Soool
1:26:29
just take out Sharvarius Ward, put them to the ground, buries him again.
1:26:35
Good play by Fred Warner after initially getting misled and going to the right
1:26:42
there with that motion, after checking everybody and getting everybody lined up for him
1:26:46
to kind of put his foot back in the ground and flow over the top
1:26:49
and then get to the sideline quickly and make a play. This is nice
1:26:51
from Fred Warner, even though it is a five yard game. That's a
1:26:55
good design, good flow. But again it works because of the physicality of
1:27:00
these wide receivers and yes, Pine Stool, the athleticism and him really getting
1:27:03
out in the full front of it. But you have the nice schematic design
1:27:06
condensed. And again let's pause it right here. Everybody is in this in
1:27:12
this end zone shot. There was nobody outside the camera frame. You have
1:27:15
all eleven players for the Lions in this end zone shot right now. Why
1:27:18
because it's a condensed formation. So, like I mentioned earlier talking about all
1:27:23
these teams and condensed formations and all this stuff, the forty nine Ers had
1:27:28
the lowest formational with last year, the Rams second lowest, the Dolphins third
1:27:31
lowest, the Texans fourth lowest. Fifth lowest were the Detroit Lions, and
1:27:36
they were a tenth of a yard higher than the Houston Texans. The Texans
1:27:41
were twenty ninth at twenty one point seven yards in terms of formational with the
1:27:46
Lions are twenty eighth at twenty one point eight, so almost right there in
1:27:50
lockstep. And again, tremendous offensive line, good play caller, schemer,
1:27:56
designer, all that kind of stuff. And receivers who block at the point
1:27:59
of attack like this, and again, this could be keyon Coleman and Khalil
1:28:03
Shakir. This could be MATC Collins and Curtis Samuel. We heard Joe Brady
1:28:09
talk about Curtis Samuel in terms of his blocking and what you can do like
1:28:13
this is nice. It's at the tone. Man, it's hard to watch
1:28:16
this game back and think that the Lions didn't win this game. This play
1:28:19
that I wanted to show this second play here for the Detroit Lions. This
1:28:27
is how and I've talked about it on Twitter, Eric and I talked about
1:28:30
in the film room. Really like what Ben Johnson does with Sam Laporta.
1:28:32
It's a different kind of usage than what Ken Dorsey did with Laporta, or
1:28:36
what Dorsey did with Kikaid, and even what Joe Brady did with Kinkaid.
1:28:41
I'd really love Brady to pull some stuff from the Ben Johnson playbook in terms
1:28:45
of scheming for Dalton Kinkaid, like the Lions do for Laporta. But this
1:28:50
one is really really nice. So you've got twelve personnel here, You've got
1:28:55
your two wide receivers to the field side, and then you've got Sam Laporta
1:29:00
in line right next to the left tackle, and then you've got another tight
1:29:04
end hipped off of Sam Laporta, so still somewhat of a low formational with
1:29:11
balls almost in the center of the field. The widest man to the short
1:29:15
side is you know, three four yards off of the hash and then both
1:29:20
receivers are still inside the numbers to the bottom of the screen, so not
1:29:25
a very wide formation. But what's nice about this is how misleading everything is.
1:29:30
So well, you're gonna get from the Lions on this play. They
1:29:33
are going to You're gonna get a shift from the h here, which is
1:29:42
this tight end. They're going to pull the guard. Then you're gonna have
1:29:45
Sam Laporta engauge on the edge. So you are going to have the personnel
1:29:53
plus the formation, plus the alignment, plus the pre snap shift plus the
1:29:58
post snap action, all kind of indicating run to the defense, and we'll
1:30:03
watch it here together. Here comes the shift up he's leading up. There
1:30:11
goes the pull from the left guard. Here comes the action. Look at
1:30:15
the same reporter right now, fully engaged on the edge. It's like it's
1:30:19
play action. Theporter releases, nice easy check down, wide open. I
1:30:27
want to show it from the end zone, not show it from the end
1:30:29
zone angle as you go forward here. No, I don't want to see
1:30:34
that side of it. There we go. I want to see this side
1:30:36
of it. This is also justin if you're still here in the comments,
1:30:41
you're talking about, you know, teams of poor offensive lines using low formational
1:30:45
with or that being the key Lions have a tremendous offensive line low formational with
1:30:49
and then talking about you know you like pulling receivers instead of pulling guards.
1:30:54
Fine, here's a pulling guard on this one for you, which the Lions
1:30:58
do to kind of mix things up. It's really nice. Again, I'm
1:31:00
gonna get the little shift and the insert. You're gonna get the pull from
1:31:03
the left guard. So much of this just screams run if you are the
1:31:12
defense, and so it's a good design. And also I wanted to mention
1:31:15
too because I've seen people knock the usage of Dalton Kincaid, especially early on
1:31:18
last year under Dorsey, you know, talking about his chip releases and him
1:31:21
being attached to the line and just releasing it in the flats. I don't
1:31:25
want that to be the only way that Dalton Kincaid is used. But these
1:31:28
plays do work and they have value, especially if you consider the value of
1:31:32
a chipper or a helper versus good edge players, especially early on fri Kinkaid,
1:31:36
like against the Raiders with Max Crosby, or against the Commanders when Chase
1:31:42
Young was still there and sweat and that whole cavalcaded dudes they had coming off
1:31:45
the edge. But then also when pairing it with a good run game,
1:31:49
it just creates these opportunities underneath. So again we'll watch this age come in
1:31:55
motion and insert there we're you get the pull on the left guard and then
1:31:58
watch Sam Laporta engage with Face Young and then release out of the flat.
1:32:01
Nice little design, simple, easy, all based off of again formation personnel
1:32:08
alignment, pre snap, shifting all this action which kind of indicates here comes
1:32:13
the run. There goes the pulling guard. You're gonna see that flash of
1:32:16
color if you're a defense and think, oh, here comes the run.
1:32:19
Not to mention, you see this tight end Barren down inserting between Laporta and
1:32:25
the left tackle, and so you're thinking, okay, he's coming to fit
1:32:28
up the safety. Here comes the run. You are watching the action of
1:32:30
the running back in the backfield plus Jared Goff, and you're thinking, okay,
1:32:35
here comes the run. Golf does a good job. Again. There's
1:32:40
Laporta engaging Chase Young sheds him, gets to the flat, good timing,
1:32:45
rhythm of all of it. Good design, good execution. I like that
1:32:51
this next one, you were going to get a three x one formation.
1:32:58
But this is pretty wide right now, and the widest man to the field
1:33:01
side is this tight end here, say man who was our shifting insert player
1:33:06
on the previous play. Watch how wide he is. But on the right
1:33:11
before the snap, I should say, he starts to motion down and you're
1:33:14
going to get a condensed look, or more of a condensed look, because
1:33:16
he's still in motion as the ball is snap. What I like about this
1:33:19
one is This is some creativity. Like I highlighted, this is the creativity
1:33:24
that you can build into the run scheme. From a condensed standpoint, this
1:33:28
ball is going to go to Jameson Williams here. This is going to be
1:33:31
a reverse and a touchdown for the Buffalo Bills. Buffalo Bills Detroit Lions.
1:33:35
Great stop calling the Lions the Rams, not I called him the Bills.
1:33:39
H. So this is I think some potential for Curtis Samuel here where you
1:33:44
know, you shift into this type of look or you align you know in
1:33:47
this type of look. You don't necessarily have to motion or shift into it,
1:33:50
but you can get creative and build off of your natural run game and
1:33:55
throwing some trick plays or kind of gimmicky stuff into it as well. So
1:33:58
again you're going to get that shift to it a condensed formation, what the
1:34:00
Lions are going to do, similar to what we saw in the previous play
1:34:03
where they pulled the left guard and inserted the H, They're going to pull
1:34:08
the right guard on this play. You were going to make this look like
1:34:12
a run. So from a post snap movement perspective, the Lions are making
1:34:15
this look like a regular run to our running back. But they're gonna sneak
1:34:19
Jameson Williams on the reverse from being that number one on the short side.
1:34:25
And again, look where Jameson Williams is a line condensed formation. This is
1:34:28
an a tel. If you're the defense, you're not seeing Jameson Williams here
1:34:30
and being like, why is he so tight? Why is he in that
1:34:34
nasty kind of split. Something's coming up here like I don't like this,
1:34:39
And everybody's talking and kind of cluing and keying in. But no, they're
1:34:42
not doing that because the Detroit Lions have a low formational with on the year.
1:34:45
This is the type of stuff they naturally live in, and they run
1:34:48
and pass out of these condensed formations and out of these personnel groupings. Because
1:34:56
why the combination of condensed formations plus their personnel allow them to create mismatches in
1:35:00
both the run in the past, because they have guys who can function as
1:35:03
pass catchers and as run blockers. Boom. So here's the movement. Watch
1:35:11
the right guard. Here here comes the pull. There goes the right guard.
1:35:17
Defense is already keying in all some of the defenses. I should say,
1:35:21
here we go. There's the movement. It's looking like a run.
1:35:26
We even have the mesh in the backfield between Golf and Montgomery. Again,
1:35:30
we've got the pulling guard, but to actually toss to jameson Williams now again
1:35:36
James and Williams is crazy fast and he also does a good job of breaking
1:35:40
tackles on this play as well. But this is something for the Buffalo Bills.
1:35:43
You can try and replicate this with Curtis Samuel and how good he is
1:35:46
with the ball in his hands. Dudes get caught. Also, what's nice
1:35:51
about this play too? Oh no, no, no, no, no,
1:35:57
watch the motion and the move I watch how the the action and the
1:36:00
movement what it does here to Fred Warner. So he's gonna get sucked in
1:36:06
with that run action a little bit following that right guard, following David Montgomery
1:36:13
seeing the block and scheme up front, and he's thinking, he's watching and
1:36:16
trying to diagnose, and he gets caught even again, just peeking, trying
1:36:19
to process. Here comes a'man Ross Saint Brown ready to pin him inside bom
1:36:26
Again. Warner kind of takes himself out of that play. But sorry,
1:36:32
I'm horrible with the timing of the click. Oh my god, forget,
1:36:34
I'm just gonna leave it here and go boom. Here he goes again.
1:36:36
Warner's kind of taking himself out as he's trying to diagnose, and as far
1:36:40
as also too, like, look at us trying to read this from the
1:36:43
end zone angle. We know what's happening. This is just a massive humanity
1:36:45
inside and we have a freeze framed like you don't know what the hell is
1:36:48
going on. You can't see anything. And then out of nowhere, here
1:36:53
comes James and Williams with the ball. Fred Warner gets pinned inside by I'm
1:36:57
on ross Aint Brown. You've got Frank rag Now out in space on an
1:37:00
APEX Defender. You've got Taylor Decker out in space on a dB. Drey
1:37:09
Greenlaw almost makes the play but Jamo breaks the tackle. Tuddy let it run
1:37:13
from the other angle again, just some creative stuff not to tell because you're
1:37:16
naturally running condensed formations. Nice little pieces here again, pull the guard,
1:37:24
sell the run, run fake mesh, boom, good design, Good time
1:37:32
to call it tendency breaker, however we want to label it. And then
1:37:36
Jamison Williams is kind of being Jamison Williams. Now here's another play, We're
1:37:41
going to get a condensed formation two by two pre snap, and then we're
1:37:45
going to shift into a three by one. I labeled it as attacking the
1:37:48
perimeter. I talked about it earlier. I've talked about it multiple times throughout
1:37:51
this episode of being in these condensed formations and running crack toss or running that
1:37:56
outside zone toss. Having physical receivers or tight ends again if you're an eleven
1:38:00
or twelve, but having those dudes that can pin edges down fit on linebackers
1:38:06
or apex defenders, and then if you have them back with that kind of
1:38:10
speed, all of these things go into one another in terms of being able
1:38:14
to attack the perimeter. And so that's where you're going to get on this
1:38:16
play. I showed it with Houston how you can attack the open space with
1:38:20
routes post snap. You can do the same with the run game post snap.
1:38:25
We're going to show it on this one again. Crack toss or that
1:38:28
outside zone toss is a great play to run from a condensed bunch. What
1:38:30
you're going to get on this play similar to what we saw earlier. You're
1:38:34
going to get mister Josh Reynolds on Nick Bosa tremendous block there. On that
1:38:40
side, you are going to get On Ross Saint Brown on Lenore similar to
1:38:45
what we showed earlier. And then what's a nice one too, you are
1:38:48
going to get Sam Laporta out in space on Shavarius Ward. Again, this
1:38:53
is these players are tremendous for the lines. But this is something that you
1:38:57
can somewhat replicate if you are the Buffalo Bills. I think Gibbs us faster
1:39:00
than Cook. Cook still has good speed. I think Laporta is a better
1:39:04
blocker than Kincaid, but Kinkaid can still get the job that is a blocker,
1:39:09
and or Dawson Knox Reynolds and am On Ross saying Brown are both good
1:39:13
blockers, and am On ra is just one of the best receivers in football.
1:39:15
But you have enough dudes who can live again as run blockers or as
1:39:19
pass catches enough to be a threat combined with their frame and size and all
1:39:24
that kind of stuff. Let's watch this play roll through. And what's nice
1:39:31
about this is, like I mentioned, so it's a two x two,
1:39:34
but then you're gonna get the shift from Laporta. All these little things that
1:39:38
the Lions do, the shifts the motion, all this kind of stuff,
1:39:40
whether it's trying to get tells from the defense and you know, Charles mentioned
1:39:44
that too earlier in this episode of you know, not liking condensed formations because
1:39:47
there's less you know, there's less id in pre snap for the quarterback when
1:39:51
you go spread, like we talked about, the defense kind of has to
1:39:55
somewhat declare a little bit. You can kind of get more of an idea
1:39:58
picture of what they're gonna do. So using condensedformations and having these motions and
1:40:01
having these shifts and kind of putting the defense on you know, their head
1:40:06
at the last minute, right before the snap, or just kind of seeing
1:40:10
what they do before the snap can be a nice little advantage. Okay,
1:40:15
and again this is similar to again misdirection and what the lines are doing.
1:40:18
Have showed it in three of these plays. Right this time, we're gonna
1:40:21
get the pull from Piney Soool, all this action, get the shift,
1:40:29
condensed formation, eye Candy. Here comes pine Sool, He's pulling Reynolds cracks
1:40:36
down and pins Bosa. You've got I'm on Ross, Saint Brown on Lenor.
1:40:45
The port is bubbling out and it's gonna have a mismatch in terms of
1:40:47
run blocking standpoint enter various word again open watch the footwork from Jared Goff opens
1:40:55
and turns like this play is going to the left, and you even get
1:41:00
the step two from Jamior Gibbs. Right. Watch Gibbs in the backfield takes
1:41:05
that initial step to the left like his play is going left. Psych puts
1:41:13
his foot in the ground, so does Goff. You get a little left
1:41:15
handed pitch and now we're out in the front. Makes one man miss and
1:41:20
we get a tuddy from the Lions. The first several series in this game
1:41:25
of just watching the Lions, it's wild still to think that they lost this
1:41:30
game and it's unfortunate for them. Again, here we go end zone angle,
1:41:34
Piney Sewell pulls, we get a climb from the guard and again the
1:41:44
effectiveness of being able to attack that space and I should talk about it more
1:41:50
too. Like I mentioned, the Lions again have a tremendous offensive line,
1:41:55
like I haven't even named Glass now by name, but just like Panee Sewel
1:42:01
and Frank Ragow and Taylor Decker and they had Jackson last year who is now
1:42:11
with the Rams ironically, but having Graham Glasgow and just what they're able to
1:42:15
do from a movement standpoint, from a execution standpoint, physicality zone, just
1:42:24
everything what they had last year, from Decker to Jonah Jackson to Frank Ragnow
1:42:28
to Graham Glasgow and then obviously Pine Seool. Just an absolute monstrous group on
1:42:36
the offensive line. So again, let's watch this play. Here goes Sel,
1:42:44
Glasgow's going out, Ford is going out. Watch Reynolds crush Bosa and
1:42:48
then again there's Aman Ross Saint Brown, one of the best route runners in
1:42:51
pass catchers in football, fitting up a nickel corner and pinning him goes Bosa.
1:43:01
Here comes I'm on rossaying Brown, and look at look at Fred Warner
1:43:05
just kind of chilling, diagnosed and seeing what's going on because he sees pinay
1:43:10
Sewel pulling, he sees that initial footwork from Gibbs, but now he's pushing
1:43:15
back out. So it's like, oh, so again all this little icons
1:43:17
eye candy to take like some of the fastest players in the game, but
1:43:20
even somebody like Fred Warner, who's one of the like fastest physically but also
1:43:24
one of the fastest mentally, one of the best processors and read and react
1:43:28
players in football. You're just everything you're doing with tendency based off of formation,
1:43:32
personnel alignment, all of these things. You're kind of causing defenders to
1:43:38
second guess themselves a little bit. And look at this. Look at this
1:43:42
from Mom and Rossaing Brown. Look at the fit. I know Leonora is
1:43:45
still a nickel corner, right, but just look at look at the fit
1:43:48
like that is one of the best pass catchers and route runners in football.
1:43:51
Look how committed and willing he is as a rum blocker, fits him up,
1:43:58
keeps working. Look at it, keeps working, drives him upfield.
1:44:01
He's a non factor. And then what do we get up here? Glasgow
1:44:08
on Warner Boom And then look at the porta outside on Shervariu's Ward driving him
1:44:14
out, literally just driving Shavarius Ward out of the picture. And then a
1:44:17
good cut from Gibbs makes to Sean Gibson miss this tackle has to happen here.
1:44:24
Obviously it doesn't, but that's the speed of Gibbs. Watch one more
1:44:30
time from the other end zone angle, just because I think this play is
1:44:32
pretty and I like it. Last time to highlight everything, watch Pine Suwell
1:44:38
pull a port a lead out Reynolds on Bosa. I'm on Ross Saint Brown
1:44:44
on the nor the footwork from Gibbs, the open and the footwork from Golf,
1:44:47
all of it. How it freezes defenders, creates leverage, creates angles,
1:44:51
and creates seams for the running back to go through. Oh so citiful,
1:45:01
so pretty, and now not everything is always going to be more perfectly
1:45:05
blocked up. Sometimes you are going to have to make a man miss if
1:45:11
you're a running back. We saw that with the Bills last year. But
1:45:13
if you can get a running back on a safety or a corner, especially
1:45:16
if you have a talented running back like the Lions do with Jamir Gibbs.
1:45:19
But I think, you know, I think Gibbs is better than Cook,
1:45:23
even though I really like James Cook. But Cook is still a threat against
1:45:27
a corner, against the safety. The speed that he has, the moves
1:45:29
that he has, and even some of the weight that he's put on,
1:45:30
some physicality. He can break some tackles from some corners. So if you
1:45:33
can create a situation where James Cook is out in space against a corner or
1:45:38
a safety, you're gonna take that. And that's the matchup you get right
1:45:40
here, right This is well designed for all the reasons we talked about.
1:45:45
This is well executed. Now it's on Jamier Gibbs to make a man miss,
1:45:47
and he makes one man miss and makes another man miss and makes like
1:45:50
another three miss. I can't still can't believe they lost this game. This
1:45:57
next play nothing crazy. So again on that pre obvious one, just attacking
1:46:00
the perimeter with speed, formation, personnel, all that kind of stuff.
1:46:03
This next one isn't anything crazy schematically. I just like what they do with
1:46:11
Jamier Gibbs on this play, So you see golf alerting checking what's going on
1:46:15
here. Spread formation this time from the Detroit Lions not condensed, so you've
1:46:20
got pretty good formational with ball is in the middle of the field and the
1:46:26
outermost receivers to each side two by two formation are both outside the numbers,
1:46:31
So pretty good formational with especially compared to what we've had before. This is
1:46:38
second and seven. You're getting middle field, open coverage. Jamiir Gibbs is
1:46:42
the number three to the top side. So again everything is like numbered not
1:46:45
by player number, but by where they align in the formation, starting from
1:46:48
the sideline and going in. So Jamison Williams is one on Ross Saint Brown
1:46:54
is two. Jamiir Gibbs is three. If Jamiir Gibbs popped over here to
1:46:58
the left of Jared Goff, he would still be the three. Okay,
1:47:02
So every outermost receivers on each side are the ones, the slot receivers on
1:47:06
each side, or the twos, because it's the two by two formation,
1:47:10
and then whatever side gives the lines two, he becomes the three. If
1:47:14
Josh Reynolds this receiver over here, if he came in motion and aligned right
1:47:19
next to the right tackle, he would become the three. So Williams would
1:47:24
stay the one, Brown would be the two, Reynolds would be the three.
1:47:29
Gives it be the four? Okay, got a little play here.
1:47:34
Watch the rope distribution in the alignment. So Fred Warner immediately reacts to the
1:47:40
roupe distribution coming to the top of the screen. Basically what you get just
1:47:43
based on the coverage. Sorry, I forgot what was just saying. Watch
1:47:46
Gibbs just attacking with space space speed. He sees that he knows it.
1:47:51
Watch Gibs attack the cushion and the space on Fred Warner that speed is just
1:47:57
nuts. Settle a little bit, gives them just again. This is an
1:48:01
incompletion, similar to the Dalton Schultz play we showed with the Texans. But
1:48:04
I really like this usage. Again, I don't think Cook has this type
1:48:06
of juice like Gibbs does. I don't know how many people do, especially
1:48:10
the running back position, but just you basically created a one on one situation,
1:48:16
Gibbs just blows right by them again. Middle of the field open coverage.
1:48:21
I go back and forth in terms of what coverage it was like a
1:48:25
you're always trying if it's Cover four or cover two. You're's really like defined
1:48:30
by the safety with up top, and then the designated flat players just based
1:48:34
on the safety with it's also tough too because they're in the low red zone,
1:48:38
so like if the corners are dropping really deep, you know, even
1:48:41
if they're cover two corners, they can be sinking, so they're not just
1:48:43
covering grass. But based on everything here, based on where the safeties are,
1:48:47
like almost getting to the numbers on east side, it looks like cover
1:48:50
two and then kind of Fred Warner almost being responsible for that middle third type
1:48:55
piece either way however you slice it, Warner is responsible for number three to
1:48:59
that side, which is Jamiir Gibbs. He gets into a one on one
1:49:02
situation and Gibbs can eat. And I love Fred Warner Cook. I have
1:49:08
success on this type of route too. Right, there's a speed, little
1:49:11
hesitation, stutter step goes around him. Give me some of that for James
1:49:15
Cook. And again Joe Brady is a very good schematic designer for getting running
1:49:19
backs involved his pass catchers. So I hope he watches that and takes it
1:49:25
next one again, just another Sam laporta usage that I like from the Detroit
1:49:30
Lions. Not spread or I'm sorry, not condensed initially on this look coming
1:49:36
out of the huddle. This one's really cool from a schematic perspective and kind
1:49:39
of flipping things on the head for the defense. So they are in spread
1:49:43
out of the huddle, they are in twenty one. Personnel in the backfield
1:49:47
is a full back, a true full back. It's Kabinga, so he's
1:49:50
a big, heavy hitter. He's in that like Yakub Johnson type mold in
1:49:56
terms of true run fitting fullbacks pat Riccard even though he's used really like as
1:49:59
a but he's technically a full back, big thumpin type of fullback right two
1:50:03
by two gun formation. Again, very wide formational with ball is on the
1:50:09
right hash but the outermost receivers on each side are outside the numbers. Again,
1:50:15
twenty one personnel. You are going to go from this. This is
1:50:18
really awesome two by two again, nothing crazy. This isn't like out of
1:50:24
this world or like unheard of. But you're gonna freeze on me. Oh,
1:50:28
how dare you? I think I won't just reload things? Psych bang,
1:50:33
we're back. Okay, So again we're in that spread look. Twenty
1:50:36
one personnel. Watch the shift Golf calls everybody in. We go from a
1:50:43
spread look to a condensed offset I formation in twenty one personnel, and you're
1:50:51
getting that personnel grouping. You've got twenty one personnel. The Niners have matched
1:50:57
with three linebackers. You've got Berks Warner and Drake Greenlaw. Now that nice
1:51:04
little shift was nice. You got the personnel. You're in a spread formation.
1:51:08
You shift. Now you've shifted to a condensed formation and a true power
1:51:14
looking formation in an offset I. Then onto again. And this is all
1:51:17
with a true full back, not like a Kyle EUSt check type of full
1:51:20
back. This is a true hammer run the ball, run right at you
1:51:24
type of full back. This looks like a counter run from the Lions on
1:51:30
the snap. Look at the left guard Jonah Jackson. Again, I'll go
1:51:33
back rest in case we get the shift here it comes. Watch the left
1:51:45
guard pull, watch the full back step up and follow him. They make
1:51:48
this look like a GF counter. So you are pulling the left guard and
1:51:51
then the fullback is coming behind him. Also, watch David Montgomery's footwork in
1:51:59
the back steps to that side and then what does he do comes back counter
1:52:06
footwork all day. What's Sam Laporta doing up top? He's engaging with Bosa,
1:52:12
straight up, engaging with Bosa. So you've got to shift to a
1:52:15
condensed formation in an offset eye with a true full back. You're pulling the
1:52:19
left guard, the fullback's going behind him. You've got the footwork from the
1:52:24
running back, and then you've got Sam Laporta engaging the edge. All looks
1:52:30
like run. It's like I'm gonna release and go to the flat and Sam
1:52:32
report is wide open. Real nice end zone. Angle also does a good
1:52:39
job here showing what Sam laport is doing. So I've already got it into
1:52:42
the shift. Watch Sam Laporta's eyes so he engages with Bosa, but he's
1:52:49
watching for Gibson. I'm sorry saying, well, it wasn't Burkes. He's
1:52:54
watching for Gibson there, he's watching for the safety. As soon as he
1:52:57
sees Gibson come down and honor the run, he's already seen him coming down
1:53:03
here. His eyes are on Gibson. He releases both, he lets go
1:53:08
both of releases and then has the angle. And if this were the olden
1:53:10
days in football, Gibson is getting absolutely lit up right here, and Laport
1:53:15
is probably gaining another couple of yards, but Gibson is getting lit up,
1:53:20
and that's old school football again. Let's look at the action from this angle.
1:53:25
Jonah Jackson pull. You get the step from Cobinga follows Jackson, You've
1:53:30
got the footwork from Montgomery. Everything is making this look like a guard full
1:53:35
back counter boom if you're the defense, and look at look at the reaction.
1:53:40
Look at Gibson to Berks, to Warner to Greenlaw, all of it.
1:53:44
This looks like counter If you're reading the flashes, it looks like Jackson
1:53:47
is gonna kick out the edge, Cobinga's gonna lead through the hole. That's
1:53:51
what this looks like. And it's not it's play action and again not this
1:53:59
crazy route, huge average up the target, just a nice like what fifteen
1:54:04
sixteen yard gain on a little leak. Play more league plays for Dalton Kincaid
1:54:09
and Dawson Knox from this Bill's offense, whether it's like the typical leak where
1:54:13
they're dragging and coming over the middle, or you want to create the bigger
1:54:17
explosives with it, give me more leak concepts and sneaky plays with Kincaid and
1:54:23
Dawson Knox for the Buffalo Bills. Saw a lot of comments coming through.
1:54:30
Who Justin says, James Williams have a breakout year next year? Could happen?
1:54:34
Joe says, Josh's ball faking in all the overlays not on there and
1:54:38
driving me us Jo says Josh's ball thinking would be so nice in any RPOs
1:54:43
that you're running out of condensed sets, There's a lot of things that can
1:54:45
happen. Oh, I appreciate this comment. Justin Justin says the way you
1:54:48
break down film a second to none. I've learned a lot to like.
1:54:50
That's awesome. Thank you very much, Thank you very much. Comment here
1:54:55
from John who says, let's just hire Johnson then, so this is I
1:55:00
think Ben Johnson's a good offensive mind. The Lions offense is much different than
1:55:06
the Bills offense, so and a lot of it is tied to just what
1:55:11
Jared Goff is. And I don't mean this dispectually. Jared Goff is just
1:55:14
nowhere near the athlete that Josh Allen is. So everything that the Lions do
1:55:18
is on time, is in rhythm, is schemed, is designed. Jared
1:55:21
Goff is very good in terms of ball placement, protecting his guys, throwing
1:55:27
some guys open, throwing the back shoulders to protect them against safeties coming down.
1:55:30
Everything is footwork, rhythm, timing, eyes, mechanics. It is
1:55:34
an offense that is very much an on script, on time, on schedule
1:55:41
kind of offense. Josh Allen is not that type of quarterback, not that
1:55:45
he necessarily can't be, but that's really not what we've seen him be.
1:55:49
He is not this ultra processor, ultra on time rhythm quarterback. He is
1:55:55
a mutant at the quarterback position. He's big, he's strong, he's fat,
1:56:00
he's got a cannon for an arm. He does some crazy things.
1:56:02
He's professor chaos, like Nate Tye likes to say like he is a lot
1:56:06
of things, some of them jokey, some of them serious. He can
1:56:10
be labeled in a variety of ways, but he is not this on time,
1:56:13
rhythmic, mechanically sound quarterback. Hopefully he's mechanics get better this year and
1:56:17
in order to execute a lot of the stuff we showed to night, he
1:56:19
needs to be better from a non time and rhythm standpoint. But the Ben
1:56:25
Johnson offense right now and how we've seen it be very successful with the Lions,
1:56:28
is all based on rhythm, timing, sequencing, everybody being where they
1:56:34
need to be when they need to be there, from the quarterback to the
1:56:38
pass catchers to the line. I think that would be some of you know,
1:56:44
it would be a transition. I think for Johnson working with Allen and
1:56:46
or Allan stepping into Johnson's offense, like one of them is going to have
1:56:50
a significant chaine either say Ben Johnson was the Bill's head coach, offensive coordinator
1:56:55
or whatever, depending on how you view Sean McDermott, He's either going to
1:56:59
have to change a lot to meet Josh Allen, or Josh Allen's gonna have
1:57:02
to change a lot to meet Ben Johnson, and based on who Josh Allen
1:57:08
is and where he is, it's probably gonna be Johnson having to adjust to
1:57:12
meet with Allen. And not that that can't work, but it's not necessarily
1:57:15
this like for like, man, what a match made in heaven? This
1:57:18
is absolutely perfect type of thing. So I'm not saying it can't work.
1:57:23
But part of my thought or even just seeing like last year, all the
1:57:26
comments last year, was like, man, how come the Bills don't run
1:57:28
this like the Lions do it? How come the Bills don't do this and
1:57:30
do that? Some of that is because of Josh Allen, because he doesn't
1:57:34
function the same way that Jared Goff does. And you could do that positively,
1:57:39
you could view that negatively. But there's a reason that the offenses are
1:57:43
schematically different in terms of how they function and operate, and a lot of
1:57:46
that is just due to the man, you know, pulling the trigger there
1:57:49
at the quarterback position. I was not expecting this episode to go this long.
1:57:54
I kind of got lost in the film in a good way that I
1:57:56
really enjoyed. I hope you folks enjoyed it too. Throwing at the ban
1:57:59
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from guard who says Rams and the Lions fans downvoting. Maybe yeah, like
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two rams or Lions fans got pissed because I kept calling the Lions the Rams.
2:00:16
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And I was only half kidding. I'm like seventy percent serious that you need
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I don't want to bring up too many moore now because I've seem corny,
2:01:05
but I see them, I appreciate them. I always just feel corny
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bringing up nic stuff about myself, especially when I'm solo. It's weird.
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I'm talking too much. Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday. Thank you very
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much to everyone. I appreciate you. I'll see you next week, and
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as always, go Bills.