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- 1:46Speaker 2: tuning in. In this episode of Disguised Coverage, we are
- 1:48Speaker 2: going to be diving into the critical elements and matchup
- 1:51Speaker 2: pieces for the Buffalo Bills versus Jacksonville Jaguars Week three
- 1:56Speaker 2: primetime game, a game that sees both teams kind of
- 1:59Speaker 2: onpposite ends of the spectrum heading into this Week three
- 2:02Speaker 2: game with the Jags being zero to two and the
- 2:05Speaker 2: Bills being two and zero. But the Jags have been
- 2:07Speaker 2: a sneaky, annoying, painful team for the Bills in the past,
- 2:11Speaker 2: kind of having their number a little bit the past
- 2:13Speaker 2: couple of years, especially last year in London, which was
- 2:16Speaker 2: a particular pain point for the Buffalo Bills team in general,
- 2:20Speaker 2: but especially the offense. And so we're going to dive
- 2:22Speaker 2: into as we do here in season four disguise coverage,
- 2:25Speaker 2: the matchup pieces, schematics, structure, players, position groups, coaching pieces,
- 2:31Speaker 2: situational aspects, anything and everything is available to be talked
- 2:35Speaker 2: about on this episode and in this episode and to
- 2:38Speaker 2: have that conversation, I am joined by mister Jordan Delugo
- 2:43Speaker 2: of Generation Jag. Jordan, we were chopping it up before
- 2:47Speaker 2: we went live here. I appreciate you taking the time
- 2:50Speaker 2: for joining me. You do really great stuff in general,
- 2:53Speaker 2: but especially on the Jags I'm pumped to have you
- 2:55Speaker 2: on to have this conversation about Yeah, a team that's
- 2:58Speaker 2: just weird kind of. I don't know. I feel like
- 3:02Speaker 2: the Jet this game, and I don't want to shade it. Actually,
- 3:05Speaker 2: before I do that for as yours, I'm getting ahead
- 3:07Speaker 2: of myself. Tell everybody who you are, what you do
- 3:10Speaker 2: where they can find you. Again, you do really great stuff.
- 3:12Speaker 2: I appreciate you taking the time for as yours.
- 3:15Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely, I appreciate you having me on Love Cover One,
- 3:17Speaker 5: Love your show, so I cover the Jags, do you know?
- 3:21Speaker 5: Try to put out as much content as possible, quality
- 3:23Speaker 5: content for the Jags at Generation Jaguar on YouTube or
- 3:27Speaker 5: at jin jag Out actually on YouTube. And then I
- 3:30Speaker 5: also have Rogue Football where I'm talking to NFL at large.
- 3:33Speaker 5: So like I've been watching the Bills a little bit
- 3:35Speaker 5: as well, paying attention to from Josh Allen and all
- 3:38Speaker 5: that good stuff and big time draft guy as well.
- 3:42Speaker 5: Just dropped my first three round mock draft for the Jaguars.
- 3:45Speaker 5: Because people are like want and change already. People are
- 3:48Speaker 5: like fire the head coach, fire the GM let's move
- 3:51Speaker 5: on to next year after an zero to two start,
- 3:53Speaker 5: So it's a lot of fun. I try to give
- 3:54Speaker 5: people what they want. But yeah, as I said, really
- 3:57Speaker 5: appreciate you having me on great show. Fired up to
- 4:00Speaker 5: talk with you here.
- 4:02Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I think I think I started
- 4:06Speaker 2: I first started following you. I think it was last
- 4:09Speaker 2: off season. I think it was during draft time. I
- 4:11Speaker 2: think I posted something and you and I were talking
- 4:13Speaker 2: about a prospect, and then we followed each other right
- 4:16Speaker 2: after the discussion. And yeah, I sympathize and empathize as
- 4:20Speaker 2: like as as a person who covers the Bills but
- 4:22Speaker 2: who has always been a Bills fan, I'm so used
- 4:24Speaker 2: to like, Oh the team is oh and two. All right,
- 4:27Speaker 2: fire everybody, we're onto the next season? Who what pick
- 4:29Speaker 2: are we getting? Who are the best prospects to have?
- 4:32Speaker 2: To get that kind of situation. It's all all too
- 4:34Speaker 2: familiar for myself and I know for a lot of
- 4:36Speaker 2: Bills Mafia. Within that conversation piece before we really dive
- 4:40Speaker 2: into the nitty gritty of everything, high level view of
- 4:44Speaker 2: this Jags team oh in two coming into this game,
- 4:48Speaker 2: and as you know, we've talked about a lot of people,
- 4:50Speaker 2: you know, kind of calling for heads and grabbing torches
- 4:52Speaker 2: and pitchforks, when it comes to this squad and this team,
- 4:56Speaker 2: I thought they were a little hard done in Week
- 4:59Speaker 2: one against Miami. The Travis etn fumble on the punch
- 5:02Speaker 2: out by Javon Holland like easily could have made that
- 5:05Speaker 2: twenty four to seven at the time and kind of
- 5:08Speaker 2: been a little bit of a nail in the coffin.
- 5:09Speaker 2: And then you get the ridiculous fourth down stop where
- 5:12Speaker 2: Ramsey is running back and forth and covering tons of
- 5:15Speaker 2: grass to help make the stop on the Jags, and
- 5:18Speaker 2: then you can you really only get done in by
- 5:20Speaker 2: that huge explosive touchdown pass to Tyreek Hill. I liked
- 5:23Speaker 2: what the Jags did in Week one defensively, I felt
- 5:26Speaker 2: they deserved that win, obviously didn't get it, and then
- 5:29Speaker 2: stumbling a little bit against the Browns. The Browns game
- 5:32Speaker 2: worried me more than the Dolphins game, especially from an
- 5:35Speaker 2: offensive perspective, which I'm sure we'll talk about in this episode.
- 5:39Speaker 2: But you know this team inside and out, sitting here
- 5:42Speaker 2: at zero and two, are they what their record shows?
- 5:45Speaker 2: What's wrong? What's going on? Just high level, what's going
- 5:48Speaker 2: on with this Jaguars squad?
- 5:51Speaker 5: Yeah, they definitely are what their record shows, because you know,
- 5:56Speaker 5: even with owning the game against the Dolphins for almost
- 5:59Speaker 5: forty five minutes, they did make a lot of mistakes
- 6:02Speaker 5: down the stretch, both from a coaching standpoint and execution
- 6:06Speaker 5: wise that ended up costing them clearly. And then against
- 6:10Speaker 5: the Cleveland Browns. You know, I thought the it was
- 6:13Speaker 5: the home opener for the Jaguars. I thought that the
- 6:15Speaker 5: offense and defense came out slow. The defense gave up
- 6:19Speaker 5: consecutive long drives to the Browns, but for an Amari
- 6:23Speaker 5: Cooper touchdown or I mean drop, they might have scored
- 6:26Speaker 5: a touchdown on their second drive instead of scoring a
- 6:28Speaker 5: field goal. So it was ten ZIP after two drives.
- 6:31Speaker 5: And that was like halfway through the second quarter already,
- 6:35Speaker 5: just the Browns dominating the time of possession in the
- 6:38Speaker 5: first half. And even though your defense only gives up
- 6:41Speaker 5: sixteen points obviously eighteen points total with the safety, but
- 6:44Speaker 5: sixteen points, and you feel you should win a football
- 6:49Speaker 5: game in the NFL if you only go sixteen points.
- 6:51Speaker 5: But when the Browns have the ball for almost the
- 6:54Speaker 5: entire first half, they kind of get in control of
- 6:58Speaker 5: the game a little bit. To Shaun Watson was running
- 7:00Speaker 5: around looking a lot more comfortable than he has in
- 7:02Speaker 5: a while, and he's undefeated in his career against the Jaguars.
- 7:08Speaker 2: Ridiculous.
- 7:10Speaker 1: Yeah, his days with Houston.
- 7:13Speaker 2: Just seems always happy.
- 7:14Speaker 5: They are with their record shows right now. But do
- 7:16Speaker 5: they have the ability to be more than that? I think,
- 7:19Speaker 5: without question. I think a lot of Jags fans forget
- 7:22Speaker 5: like they started out one and two last year before
- 7:24Speaker 5: they ended up being eight and three in the blink
- 7:26Speaker 5: of an eye, and started out four and seven and
- 7:29Speaker 5: twenty twenty two before they won, uh, you know, five
- 7:33Speaker 5: out of six games to clinch a playoff spot. So yeah,
- 7:37Speaker 5: they're owing two and they have not played great football,
- 7:40Speaker 5: but they've been right there at the end of both
- 7:42Speaker 5: of these football games. And you got the Bills coming
- 7:46Speaker 5: up Monday night football in Buffalo.
- 7:48Speaker 1: Not an easy task.
- 7:49Speaker 5: You got the Texans right after that, so two really
- 7:52Speaker 5: tough matchups to try to claw yourself out of this
- 7:54Speaker 5: hole a little bit.
- 7:55Speaker 1: But is it possible?
- 7:57Speaker 5: Certainly, But the Jags have a lot of work to
- 7:59Speaker 5: do to get to a point where they can win
- 8:01Speaker 5: one of these football games and get back kind of
- 8:03Speaker 5: in contention, I.
- 8:05Speaker 2: Love how you pointed out how the Jags have started
- 8:08Speaker 2: like the past couple of years, because my prevailing thought
- 8:12Speaker 2: going into this game is based on how the Jags
- 8:14Speaker 2: have kind of been the past couple years and who
- 8:15Speaker 2: the Bills have been seemingly for like forever. It would
- 8:19Speaker 2: be so Bills and so Jags. For the Jags to
- 8:23Speaker 2: come in and just win this game, like a game
- 8:25Speaker 2: where everybody's like, man, the Jags really suck. They're kind
- 8:27Speaker 2: of dead in the water, and it's like, Wow, look
- 8:28Speaker 2: how good the Bills are. And then the Jags win
- 8:30Speaker 2: like seventeen thirteen or like twenty four to twenty or
- 8:34Speaker 2: some victory that you're like, oh, that kind of tracks,
- 8:36Speaker 2: and especially with how the Jags have kind of had
- 8:37Speaker 2: the Bill's number, like like I alluded to in the
- 8:40Speaker 2: intro these past couple of seasons. Just yeah, I don't
- 8:43Speaker 2: know why. I just feel like weirdly uncomfortable about this game,
- 8:47Speaker 2: despite the fact that they're in and a lot a
- 8:49Speaker 2: lot of the pieces you talked about in so much
- 8:51Speaker 2: of this conversation, I feel like consistently ties into the
- 8:55Speaker 2: offensive side of the ball. I love one of your points,
- 8:57Speaker 2: you know, the time of possession. That one hit me
- 8:59Speaker 2: super hard. I didn't look at the raw stats before
- 9:01Speaker 2: I watched the tape from Brown's Jags, and I think
- 9:04Speaker 2: it was in the second quarter. I was watching and
- 9:08Speaker 2: Jags got stopped and then like the next time they
- 9:10Speaker 2: got the ball, there was like a nine minute difference
- 9:12Speaker 2: on the clock, and I was like, did I did
- 9:14Speaker 2: I like scroll too fast? Did I miss a whole drive?
- 9:17Speaker 2: And I had to like go back, And I was like, oh, no,
- 9:18Speaker 2: I didn't like Brown's just because I started with the offense.
- 9:21Speaker 2: Was like the brown just had the ball for a
- 9:22Speaker 2: ton of time, and yeah, it was just I think
- 9:25Speaker 2: slow start is a perfect way to put it. But
- 9:26Speaker 2: then also like I feel like in kind of typical
- 9:28Speaker 2: Jags fashion of what they've been recently, like they start
- 9:31Speaker 2: to make some plays in the second half and then
- 9:33Speaker 2: they're starting to like inch closer, but then they just
- 9:35Speaker 2: can't get it done situationally, And so much of the
- 9:38Speaker 2: conversation comes back to Trevor Lawrence. And I wanted to
- 9:42Speaker 2: use that to kind of bring up a graphic from
- 9:46Speaker 2: our friends over there at bet US who they got
- 9:49Speaker 2: some quarterback grades from the first two weeks, and if
- 9:52Speaker 2: you know what is Trevor Lawrence there is on the
- 9:54Speaker 2: fourth line receiving a D grade for the first two weeks.
- 9:57Speaker 2: Do you think that's accurate for Trevor Lawrence And whether
- 10:01Speaker 2: or not you do, how much of the poor play
- 10:04Speaker 2: for the offense or for Lawrence himself is due to
- 10:06Speaker 2: Lawrence or due to Peterson and kind of just the
- 10:08Speaker 2: play calling elements that seem to a bend in question
- 10:11Speaker 2: for the Jags team.
- 10:13Speaker 5: Yeah, I think a DA is definitely really harsh. First
- 10:18Speaker 5: game against the Dolphins, I thought Trevor Lawrence played really well.
- 10:20Speaker 5: The Jaguars decided not to put the game in his
- 10:23Speaker 5: hands at all.
- 10:23Speaker 1: In the fourth quarter.
- 10:24Speaker 5: They just decided to try to go into a shell
- 10:27Speaker 5: after that Travis et and fumble and try to run
- 10:29Speaker 5: the ball clock. The game basically didn't end up working out,
- 10:33Speaker 5: and if they had given Trevor Lawrence more opportunities in
- 10:37Speaker 5: that final quarter of that game, I think it probably
- 10:39Speaker 5: could have ended up differently. The Dolphins, I thought, were
- 10:42Speaker 5: having a tough time with that passing offense when they
- 10:44Speaker 5: were trying to have some balance on that side of
- 10:47Speaker 5: the ball, So I thought he played really well in
- 10:49Speaker 5: Week one. Overall, there was certainly some drops. Christian Kirk
- 10:52Speaker 5: had a couple drops, and the Jaguars unsurprisingly it seems
- 10:56Speaker 5: like every single year the receivers are at the top
- 10:59Speaker 5: of the league, and every single year you see the
- 11:04Speaker 5: pass pro grades and they're not great. And then last
- 11:07Speaker 5: week he did start slow a little bit. I thought
- 11:09Speaker 5: the entire offense started slow. The entire team started slow.
- 11:12Speaker 5: He had a good second half overall, and I do
- 11:16Speaker 5: think if you were just grading that first half, probably
- 11:18Speaker 5: a DA is fair, but overall, probably a C last week,
- 11:21Speaker 5: a B the week before, So somewhere in that range
- 11:24Speaker 5: G plus B minus for the year for me, for
- 11:27Speaker 5: Trevor Lawrence.
- 11:28Speaker 2: Very fair. I'm I'm in lockstep with you. I've got
- 11:32Speaker 2: I've got some points that i want to say, but
- 11:34Speaker 2: they're tied to one of my matchup pieces, so I'm
- 11:36Speaker 2: gonna keep it in the holster for now. But yeah,
- 11:38Speaker 2: I thought this was was harsh for Lawrence, especially considering,
- 11:41Speaker 2: you know, a great point. I'm immediately thinking like Brian
- 11:44Speaker 2: Thomas Junior had a couple drops in the Browns game.
- 11:49Speaker 2: Strange had one on a really nice ball on an
- 11:52Speaker 2: outbreaking route towards the sideline, and then like the next play,
- 11:54Speaker 2: a throw from Lawnce came in a little hot on
- 11:56Speaker 2: the spot route, but it went through Stranger's hands again,
- 11:58Speaker 2: but then Strange makes up for it later like they're Yeah,
- 12:01Speaker 2: it seems like every year he's getting he's getting guys
- 12:04Speaker 2: with drops and then like all the EPA that's lost
- 12:07Speaker 2: from the drops. It just seems like he like this
- 12:09Speaker 2: offense kind of snake bit in that regard with him
- 12:13Speaker 2: and the drops in particular. But of course, uh, like
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- 13:04Speaker 2: let's pivot. Let's shift dive into the matchup pieces, the
- 13:07Speaker 2: critical elements that will decide Bill's versus Jaguars. You were
- 13:10Speaker 2: the guests, so you can go first. I don't know
- 13:12Speaker 2: if you have them ranked. If you do, you can
- 13:16Speaker 2: start from the bottom one or the top, whatever you
- 13:18Speaker 2: want to do. The floor is yours.
- 13:21Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 13:22Speaker 5: So I think for me, when I look at this matchup,
- 13:25Speaker 5: the first thing I see, and it was the same
- 13:27Speaker 5: thing I saw last week the Jaguars tackles Cam Robinson
- 13:31Speaker 5: and Anton Harrison. You know, when healthy last year, they
- 13:36Speaker 5: were both solid in past protection. They have not really
- 13:40Speaker 5: been solid in past protection so far this year. And
- 13:42Speaker 5: it certainly doesn't help when you're playing Miles Garrett. It
- 13:46Speaker 5: doesn't help when you've got Jalen Phillips who somehow coming
- 13:50Speaker 5: off that achilles looks unbelievable.
- 13:54Speaker 1: Fine, yeah right, it doesn't help.
- 13:58Speaker 5: But it also doesn't help when you got guys like
- 14:00Speaker 5: Von Miller looking healthy, Gregory Russo playing great football. So
- 14:05Speaker 5: I think that just like conceptually the Jaguars expected to
- 14:10Speaker 5: have good pass protection from their tackles heading into the year,
- 14:14Speaker 5: and that hasn't happened yet consistently enough. And so if
- 14:20Speaker 5: they're going to be the type of offense they want
- 14:22Speaker 5: to be, they need to have a little bit protection,
- 14:24Speaker 5: better protection throughout the line. You look at Ed Oliver,
- 14:28Speaker 5: he can absolutely wreck the shop as well. And they've
- 14:30Speaker 5: got depth up front, the bills due defensively, so they've
- 14:34Speaker 5: got a bunch of guys that can get the job done.
- 14:36Speaker 5: I think if the Jaguars want to help Trevor Lawrence
- 14:40Speaker 5: in this football game and help make it a little
- 14:42Speaker 5: easier for him, they've got to just be able to protect,
- 14:46Speaker 5: not like way better, but like a little bit like
- 14:49Speaker 5: maybe execute on like two percent more dropbacks in terms
- 14:53Speaker 5: of pass protection than they have been the last couple
- 14:56Speaker 5: of weeks and give Trevor Lawrence a chance.
- 15:00Speaker 2: That was so that was like my fourth point. I
- 15:04Speaker 2: think it's so funny that you led with that. I
- 15:05Speaker 2: was so close to making this one instead of what
- 15:07Speaker 2: my number three ended up being.
- 15:09Speaker 1: Yeah, I was.
- 15:10Speaker 2: You know, the Jags line is weird to me because individually,
- 15:14Speaker 2: like I don't think they're terrible, like I cam Robinson
- 15:19Speaker 2: is fine, Ezra Cleveland is fine. I'm the Bill's old
- 15:22Speaker 2: line is good. But I'm still sad to see Mitch
- 15:24Speaker 2: morse go, although I know what his struggles and his
- 15:26Speaker 2: limitations are. I thought, suref, I've liked Brandon Shurf. I
- 15:30Speaker 2: thought he had a rough game against Cleveland, and then
- 15:33Speaker 2: yet I echo your thoughts and sentiments on Harrison and
- 15:36Speaker 2: so much of it too for me, especially in the
- 15:38Speaker 2: game against the Browns. And I know the Browns defense
- 15:41Speaker 2: is a good unit based on what they were last year,
- 15:44Speaker 2: but it just seems so many like issues in protection
- 15:47Speaker 2: were tied to like the schematics of it, like they're
- 15:50Speaker 2: sliding and just leaving a free runner. And Etn's having
- 15:54Speaker 2: pass pro issues where he's just not protecting, he's not
- 15:58Speaker 2: scanning properly and fitting where it looks like he needs
- 16:00Speaker 2: to fit. I thought Dearonis Johnson was solid in passport
- 16:03Speaker 2: for most of the game. He had one or two
- 16:05Speaker 2: errors that I'm remembering off the top of my head,
- 16:07Speaker 2: but he's scanning and fitting it and fitting where he
- 16:10Speaker 2: needs to in the A gap, and then they'll put
- 16:12Speaker 2: Etn in there and he looks and just leaves it's like, no,
- 16:15Speaker 2: like Hicks is coming through, Okay, you're just gonna let
- 16:17Speaker 2: Hicks go, and then Hicks us through and they would
- 16:19Speaker 2: show five and bring four and slide to one side
- 16:23Speaker 2: and you got a defensive tackle coming in free. It
- 16:25Speaker 2: just seemed like there was a lot of disconnection up
- 16:29Speaker 2: front with their pass protection. And again, for me, it's
- 16:31Speaker 2: weird because I don't individually, I don't think they're bad,
- 16:34Speaker 2: Like I don't look at the line. I'm like, all
- 16:35Speaker 2: that makes sense because this guy is subpar and this
- 16:38Speaker 2: guy is subpar. I think from a talent perspective, they're
- 16:41Speaker 2: really at worst like kind of an average group. But
- 16:43Speaker 2: for whatever reason, it just seems like schematically they're pretty
- 16:47Speaker 2: challenged in pass protection right now. And then it's Lawrence
- 16:51Speaker 2: is the one who's really paying the price because they're
- 16:53Speaker 2: on him in just a hurry, like over and over again.
- 16:57Speaker 5: Yeah, I think communication has been an issue pre Snap,
- 17:01Speaker 5: whether it's Mitch Moore and Doug Peterson alluded to this,
- 17:04Speaker 5: whether it's Mitch Morse, you know, trying to identify protection
- 17:10Speaker 5: and blitz packages, or Trevor Lawrence himself not doing it properly.
- 17:15Speaker 5: Doug Peterson said communication has got to be better. And also,
- 17:18Speaker 5: like against the Browns, just pre snap operational beyond just
- 17:23Speaker 5: the communication and setting protections was an issue. Just getting
- 17:27Speaker 5: the playoff in time, fair like, and that's in it.
- 17:31Speaker 5: I mean, you can't have that issue in year three
- 17:33Speaker 5: of an offense with a with a quarterback in year three,
- 17:35Speaker 5: and I know it happens, It does happen, but it's
- 17:39Speaker 5: it's got to improve for the Jaguars to be able
- 17:42Speaker 5: to be the type of offense they want to be.
- 17:44Speaker 5: And last week too, specifically, like beyond just having trouble,
- 17:48Speaker 5: you know with tackles, dealing with Miles Garrett and Zadarius Smith,
- 17:54Speaker 5: their blitzes were killing the Jaguars linebacker blitz safety like
- 17:59Speaker 5: Jeremiah was korama. They couldn't touch him, they could not
- 18:03Speaker 5: touch him, and they really had a hard time with
- 18:06Speaker 5: Grant Delpit as well whenever they decided to blitz him.
- 18:08Speaker 5: So I thought that that was a big problem. And
- 18:11Speaker 5: if the Bills want to blitz heat it up a
- 18:14Speaker 5: little bit more with those linebackers than they normally do,
- 18:17Speaker 5: I don't think that's a bad idea this week, And.
- 18:20Speaker 2: It also felt like the like every time the Browns
- 18:23Speaker 2: used a run blitz it worked for like a negative
- 18:26Speaker 2: like two or four yard loss for the Jags. Like
- 18:28Speaker 2: every time there were runs where they they pull Robinson
- 18:34Speaker 2: or they pull Harrison, and to your point, like Delpit
- 18:36Speaker 2: or Cora Moa or Hicks at times two would trigger
- 18:40Speaker 2: immediately firing and shooting through the gap and Etn's hit
- 18:44Speaker 2: like as he's getting the ball from Lawrence. And there
- 18:46Speaker 2: was one two I remember one play action where they
- 18:50Speaker 2: pull they pull Harrison to make it seem like they're
- 18:54Speaker 2: running a tackle wrap and Hicks, I think, immediately triggers.
- 19:00Speaker 2: And then Lawrence goes to give the play action fake
- 19:03Speaker 2: it's from guns, so Etn cuts in front of Lawrence
- 19:05Speaker 2: and as Lawrence is giving the fake, Hicks is already
- 19:08Speaker 2: barreling down on him. So then Lawrence is trying to
- 19:11Speaker 2: make a move, but he trips over Etn and falls down.
- 19:14Speaker 2: And it's just like I just felt like every time
- 19:16Speaker 2: they blitzed it worked to your point, like against the
- 19:19Speaker 2: past or if it was a run blitz, they were
- 19:21Speaker 2: generating negative yardage and changing that toxic differential consistently, And
- 19:25Speaker 2: I didn't know if it was the Browns picking up
- 19:28Speaker 2: on keys or just perfect timing but yeah, it just
- 19:30Speaker 2: seemed like when the Browns were playing on that front foot,
- 19:32Speaker 2: it worked time and time again. And it wasn't just
- 19:35Speaker 2: a pure well look who they have. It wasn't guys
- 19:38Speaker 2: just winning one on one. It was guys coming screaming
- 19:40Speaker 2: through the alley free, untouched and causing problems in the
- 19:44Speaker 2: run and causing problems in the past. I love that
- 19:46Speaker 2: point from you. That's really well said. I don't know
- 19:50Speaker 2: where to go, all right, I'm gonna stay on the
- 19:52Speaker 2: Jags offensive side of the ball since you led with that,
- 19:56Speaker 2: and so I didn't know how to title this, so
- 19:58Speaker 2: I titled it how many how many Trevor Lawrence throws
- 20:04Speaker 2: do we get that show him to be the prince
- 20:07Speaker 2: that was promised? So basically like, how many prints that
- 20:09Speaker 2: was promise throws from Trevor Lawrence do we get? And
- 20:13Speaker 2: I think back to if for everybody listening, if you
- 20:17Speaker 2: have not seen it, I feel like it fell under
- 20:19Speaker 2: you know, the storylines in week one because the Jags lost,
- 20:22Speaker 2: Like the type of throws I'm talking about his touchdown
- 20:24Speaker 2: throat to Brian Thomas Junior in Week one against the
- 20:27Speaker 2: dult ridiculous, ridiculous he throws that when he throws it
- 20:33Speaker 2: and where he places it is insane. Thomas is coming
- 20:36Speaker 2: from the field side on a deep over in the
- 20:40Speaker 2: red zone. He throws it when Thomas is in like midfield,
- 20:43Speaker 2: while pressure is bearing down on him and he's getting hit.
- 20:47Speaker 2: Then he layers it over a linebacker Jalen Ramsey and
- 20:51Speaker 2: Jordan Poyer right into the bucket to Brian Thomas Junior,
- 20:55Speaker 2: who catches it right right on the boundary in the
- 20:58Speaker 2: back and toe taps like that throw was gorgeous, even
- 21:02Speaker 2: and I know it wasn't. Maybe, I mean it was
- 21:04Speaker 2: more challenging the one he made against the Browns from
- 21:06Speaker 2: a distance perspective, even the one he threw to Brian
- 21:08Speaker 2: Thomas Junior in Week two, the sixty six yard or whatever.
- 21:11Speaker 2: Gorgeous throw, really nice acceleration from Brian Thomas Junior. But
- 21:14Speaker 2: I feel like Lawrence with a decent amount of regularity,
- 21:17Speaker 2: even in games where he's terrible, he's like thirteen to
- 21:20Speaker 2: twenty seven for one hundred and twenty something yards, he'll
- 21:23Speaker 2: pull off like one to two throws where you're just like, oh,
- 21:26Speaker 2: like that's the guy. That's the guy that was like
- 21:28Speaker 2: the top recruit and started early at Clemson and why
- 21:32Speaker 2: he was the number one pick, and so I just
- 21:34Speaker 2: want to know, like, how many you know, Prince that
- 21:36Speaker 2: was promised Trevor Lawrence throws do we get? And also
- 21:41Speaker 2: how much does it matter or swing the pendulum a
- 21:44Speaker 2: little bit in this game, because, like we talked about,
- 21:47Speaker 2: the protection for the Jags has been shaky and overall,
- 21:50Speaker 2: I just I feel like they're play calling hasn't been
- 21:52Speaker 2: great situationally. Even just to use one, you know, kind
- 21:55Speaker 2: of microcosm as an example, you got the ball in
- 21:59Speaker 2: the two yard line the brown safety. Your protection has
- 22:02Speaker 2: been shaky all game, and you go spread and you're
- 22:08Speaker 2: running an out and up towards the bottom. And what
- 22:10Speaker 2: makes it even worse is the outing up was there
- 22:11Speaker 2: Brian Thomas Junior is open? Yeah, Emerson squats and Thomas
- 22:16Speaker 2: is open, but Lawrence has literally no time And just
- 22:20Speaker 2: like why are you going shotgun on your own two
- 22:22Speaker 2: when you've had issues in protection all game? Like so
- 22:26Speaker 2: the situational play calling, the red zone play calling wasn't
- 22:29Speaker 2: great in that game. They're one for four in the
- 22:31Speaker 2: red zone against Cleveland. It just overall their offense just
- 22:34Speaker 2: feels disjointed and almost kind of like they're calling plays
- 22:37Speaker 2: just to call plays, and so my thought is this
- 22:40Speaker 2: offense will only go as far as Trevor Lawrence making
- 22:44Speaker 2: some ridiculous throws will take them. I also really like
- 22:47Speaker 2: Travis Etn, and I think you have the opportunity for
- 22:49Speaker 2: Eatn to bust off some explosives whenever he has the
- 22:51Speaker 2: ball in his hand. I don't care if it's on
- 22:52Speaker 2: a dump off or a screen or the run. And
- 22:55Speaker 2: then Brian Thomas Junior is explosive as well. But yeah,
- 22:58Speaker 2: it feels like so much of this offense is just
- 23:00Speaker 2: Trevor Lawrence has to make like a god to your throat,
- 23:03Speaker 2: which he can. And then my thought is, Okay, how
- 23:06Speaker 2: many of those does he make? And then what kind
- 23:08Speaker 2: of impact do they have because has the game gotten
- 23:11Speaker 2: away from them? Is it close? How much does that
- 23:13Speaker 2: swing the pendulum? Because man, he can just he can
- 23:15Speaker 2: really uncork some throws that make you just stop and go, oh,
- 23:19Speaker 2: like that's why he's that good and make you want
- 23:21Speaker 2: to rewind and watch it on the All twenty two.
- 23:23Speaker 2: They're just some of the throws he makes are just
- 23:25Speaker 2: crazy impressive.
- 23:27Speaker 5: Yeah, they really are, as you mentioned, I mean, it's
- 23:30Speaker 5: it's a sight to behold at times, and I think
- 23:34Speaker 5: you know the question how many of those will matter?
- 23:36Speaker 5: How many of those are made. Obviously protection matters, but
- 23:40Speaker 5: who he's thrown it to when he does that as well,
- 23:42Speaker 5: Like some of the passes that go incomplete are unbelievable passes.
- 23:47Speaker 5: But when he's thrown it to Brian Thomas Junior, that
- 23:51Speaker 5: connection is something special. And the Jaguars got to target
- 23:54Speaker 5: him more. They've got to target him more. They didn't
- 23:58Speaker 5: target him a single time in the second half against
- 24:01Speaker 5: the Miami Dolphins. I think he only had four targets
- 24:05Speaker 5: against the Browns. Like, this guy needs to be getting
- 24:07Speaker 5: close to ten targets a game, not only because if
- 24:10Speaker 5: how talented he is, but because of how much better
- 24:12Speaker 5: he is than everybody else. You have, like no disrespect
- 24:15Speaker 5: to any of the other guys. And Evan Ingram's injured,
- 24:17Speaker 5: Like he pulled a hammy right before the game against
- 24:20Speaker 5: the Browns, so that's obviously a huge bummer for their
- 24:24Speaker 5: passing attack. But Christian Kirk hasn't gotten it going yet
- 24:27Speaker 5: this year. Gabe Davis, y'all know what Gabe Davis is. Like,
- 24:30Speaker 5: He's a guy that he can get the job done.
- 24:32Speaker 5: At times, but then he can be a little inconsistent
- 24:35Speaker 5: at times. And so Riyan Thomas Junior is the guy
- 24:39Speaker 5: from a talent standpoint in that passing offense, and they
- 24:44Speaker 5: need to feed him.
- 24:45Speaker 1: They've got two.
- 24:46Speaker 2: Yeah, and Bill's corners are cooking right now with Douglas
- 24:49Speaker 2: and Benford, and they showed up well in Week one
- 24:51Speaker 2: against Harrison. I also wonder too, from a coverage perspective,
- 24:54Speaker 2: do they roll anything Thomas's way. They are obviously very
- 24:58Speaker 2: familiar with Gabe Davis. They know where his strengths lie,
- 25:02Speaker 2: where his areas of opportunity and weaknesses lie. So yeah,
- 25:05Speaker 2: that passing game structure in terms of just what Laurence
- 25:08Speaker 2: can do. Man, He's just so I'm even thinking of
- 25:11Speaker 2: like all the great throws he makes, and then I'm
- 25:13Speaker 2: thinking back to this Browns game where he just like
- 25:14Speaker 2: airmails it on like a ten yard out and just like, man, like,
- 25:17Speaker 2: what is just the I always say the yin and
- 25:20Speaker 2: the yang of Josh Allen because like the craziness that
- 25:23Speaker 2: makes him do amazing things is also the craziness that
- 25:25Speaker 2: makes him do really stupid things. And then Lawrence sometimes
- 25:28Speaker 2: is the same, like he pulls not the craziness. But
- 25:30Speaker 2: he just pulls out some jaw dropping amazing plays and
- 25:33Speaker 2: then the next time, like he can't complete like a
- 25:35Speaker 2: simple pass, and you're just like, just yeah, just be normal,
- 25:37Speaker 2: like what is going on? Just tap into like lean
- 25:39Speaker 2: into that. Yeah, just be normal, like be the super
- 25:42Speaker 2: or just be the super sayan that you're capable of being.
- 25:45Speaker 2: He makes these throws and then the next day he
- 25:47Speaker 2: goes from being like Goku to Crillon and like the
- 25:49Speaker 2: blink of an eye, it drives me nuts.
- 25:51Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 25:51Speaker 5: A lot of the time it is early when these
- 25:54Speaker 5: things aren't going well, and then like he settles in
- 25:57Speaker 5: at some point and then it's just like, is there
- 25:59Speaker 5: an enough time for them to win the game?
- 26:02Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 26:02Speaker 2: It's kind yeah, kind of like the Cleveland game, like
- 26:04Speaker 2: things start out slow and things are ugly, and then
- 26:06Speaker 2: it's like, okay, here they go and he scrambles for
- 26:09Speaker 2: like thirty yards and he's making these throws and it's
- 26:11Speaker 2: just like, yeah, is is it too late in the game?
- 26:13Speaker 2: Are they down by too much? And again that factors
- 26:16Speaker 2: into my point there too, of like when he starts
- 26:18Speaker 2: on quirking these throws, is it twenty seven to six?
- 26:23Speaker 2: Is it fourteen? To ten, like how close is it
- 26:25Speaker 2: and how much does it matter? Yeah, it's it's uh yeah,
- 26:28Speaker 2: it's wild to see that, all right.
- 26:30Speaker 5: Weirdly, they've they've started faster on the road too, so
- 26:33Speaker 5: that's something to keep in mind.
- 26:35Speaker 2: Oh good point.
- 26:36Speaker 1: I'm so it's weird.
- 26:37Speaker 2: I don't know why I am not overlooked like and
- 26:40Speaker 2: I know a lot of people in the comments are like, no,
- 26:42Speaker 2: this will be easy, like jet, I just don't feel
- 26:44Speaker 2: good about it. I also never feel good about like
- 26:46Speaker 2: any game. But there's just I don't know if it's
- 26:48Speaker 2: the Lawrence aspects or some of the pieces I like,
- 26:50Speaker 2: or just the history of it. I just feel like
- 26:52Speaker 2: this game is going to be a problem, and I yeah,
- 26:54Speaker 2: it just sticks in my brain. I Dan, I don't
- 26:58Speaker 2: know why, but yeah, I like I like your opener,
- 27:00Speaker 2: like might as well, what do you got for your
- 27:02Speaker 2: number two?
- 27:04Speaker 1: So this one? You know.
- 27:06Speaker 5: Obviously, Khalil Shakier over the last year has become one
- 27:10Speaker 5: of Josh Allen's favorites. Josh Allen loves to target the
- 27:13Speaker 5: middle of the field. I think if Darnell Savage is
- 27:17Speaker 5: unable to go, that's another guy who suffered an injury
- 27:19Speaker 5: late last week. If he's unable to go at nickel
- 27:22Speaker 5: Jari and Jones, the rookie out of Florida State, who
- 27:24Speaker 5: is very talented, very aggressive, great athlete, He's probably going
- 27:28Speaker 5: to be seeing a lot of Khalil Shakir one on
- 27:30Speaker 5: one man coverage.
- 27:31Speaker 1: He had a really good Week one.
- 27:33Speaker 5: I mean, he was covering Tyreek Hill one on one
- 27:36Speaker 5: on a slot fade, didn't give up an inch, but
- 27:39Speaker 5: then last week it was a little bit more up
- 27:41Speaker 5: and down mixed bag. So I think that could be
- 27:43Speaker 5: really interesting to see that potential matchup again. Because the
- 27:48Speaker 5: Jaguars play a lot of man coverage, Jari and Jones,
- 27:51Speaker 5: especially playing in the nickel, will have a lot of
- 27:52Speaker 5: man coverage opportunities. Khalil Shakir trying to cover him with
- 27:56Speaker 5: Josh Allen throw in the football will be a big
- 27:58Speaker 5: task for him.
- 28:00Speaker 2: I really, you know, going back to that Week one game,
- 28:03Speaker 2: I was, I guess maybe not surprised, but the Jazz
- 28:07Speaker 2: came on and played a ton of cover one against
- 28:09Speaker 2: Miami in that Week one game, and they were creative
- 28:11Speaker 2: with it, like sometimes you're getting the robber from the top,
- 28:14Speaker 2: sometimes you're getting a low hole player. I thought Savage
- 28:16Speaker 2: did really good coming down and processing like the high
- 28:21Speaker 2: lows and reading to his eyes and shifting. There was
- 28:24Speaker 2: one I'm thinking. I think it was on the third
- 28:25Speaker 2: down stop where I think Waddle clears out the middle
- 28:31Speaker 2: and it's cover one robber and Savage comes down from
- 28:34Speaker 2: the top and he takes that away and then he
- 28:35Speaker 2: reads to his eyes and Toua goes underneath the burrios.
- 28:38Speaker 2: It's like a third and five and Savage meets him
- 28:41Speaker 2: right at the sticks, pops him, knocks the ball out incomplete.
- 28:45Speaker 2: Just what they did from an athleticism standpoint, Like I
- 28:48Speaker 2: thought Campbell looked good in that game before he pulled
- 28:51Speaker 2: up lame in that one. Yeah, I like what they
- 28:54Speaker 2: do defensively, and I really like two this guy's in.
- 28:57Speaker 2: One of my points is not too much for a spoiler.
- 28:59Speaker 2: I thought Ryan neils And coming from Atlanta was such
- 29:02Speaker 2: a good fit for this defense based off of what
- 29:05Speaker 2: he did in Atlanta. No disrespect to Atlanta, but what
- 29:08Speaker 2: they had up front last year wasn't the most talented group,
- 29:12Speaker 2: and I thought he had so much better pieces to
- 29:14Speaker 2: work with in Jacksonville. And I thought he was a
- 29:16Speaker 2: good fit stylistically and schematically with the Jags d I
- 29:21Speaker 2: still do like their defense. It sucks that they are
- 29:23Speaker 2: so banged up in all the injuries they have, especially
- 29:25Speaker 2: on the back end of things, but I really do
- 29:27Speaker 2: like their defense, and I think they can give most
- 29:30Speaker 2: offenses problems with the combination of athleticism and tenacity they
- 29:34Speaker 2: play with. But then also kind of with Nielsen at
- 29:36Speaker 2: the helm and just how all that fits together and
- 29:38Speaker 2: meshes into one.
- 29:40Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you completely.
- 29:42Speaker 5: One thing people are starting to get a little frustrated
- 29:44Speaker 5: about is just how much rotation there is. And you're
- 29:48Speaker 5: always gonna have rotation up front, but like starting linebackers
- 29:51Speaker 5: not playing more than eighty percent of the snaps, Like
- 29:55Speaker 5: people are getting.
- 29:56Speaker 1: A little front, like you don't want Foyle Lucan off
- 29:58Speaker 1: the field. I get it.
- 30:00Speaker 5: I think Ryan Nielsen is doing a great job, though
- 30:01Speaker 5: I agree with you the mentality he brings every.
- 30:04Speaker 1: Day, like he just he walks the walk, he talks
- 30:08Speaker 1: the talk.
- 30:10Speaker 5: He preaches attacking every single day like every day is
- 30:13Speaker 5: every day is game day for the Jaguars defense. And
- 30:16Speaker 5: you see that in practice, not that we can really
- 30:18Speaker 5: watch practice anymore, but like throughout training camp, they just
- 30:21Speaker 5: brought it so hard single day, and I think they'll
- 30:25Speaker 5: continue to do that. I think Ryan Nielsen is going
- 30:28Speaker 5: to have a coherent game plan every single week. I
- 30:31Speaker 5: love how he'll mix things up on third down, he'll
- 30:35Speaker 5: break tendencies, he'll show you things he hasn't shown you
- 30:37Speaker 5: in a few.
- 30:38Speaker 1: Weeks or all year. And the way he's able.
- 30:41Speaker 5: To communicate, and christ Ra Shard, who's basically like the
- 30:45Speaker 5: second in command on defense and the secondary coach, the
- 30:48Speaker 5: way he's able to teach and communicate as well is
- 30:51Speaker 5: really really vital for what they've got going on. And look,
- 30:55Speaker 5: I mean, sixteen points in Week two. They gave up
- 30:58Speaker 5: twenty points to the Dolphins in Week one. I think
- 31:01Speaker 5: the defense is moving in the right direction. But yeah,
- 31:04Speaker 5: it's interesting. No, Tyson Campbell, I think would be a
- 31:09Speaker 5: bigger issue against other teams than Buffalo. Like it worries
- 31:13Speaker 5: me more against Houston, Yes, then Buffalo. And no disrespect
- 31:18Speaker 5: to Buffalo because like Josh Allen's unbelievable and you know, Kincaid,
- 31:22Speaker 5: Shakir all these guys can play great football. But Buster
- 31:25Speaker 5: Brown matching up against like legit number one receivers from
- 31:30Speaker 5: an athleticism perspective is more of an issue than what
- 31:33Speaker 5: the Bills present on the outside right now. In my opinion,
- 31:36Speaker 5: it'll be interesting to see that matchup. Actually, Buster Brown
- 31:39Speaker 5: won on one because he was playing so physical last week.
- 31:42Speaker 5: I mean, he doesn't have great speed, but man, he
- 31:44Speaker 5: was bringing it.
- 31:45Speaker 2: Yeah, and which I thought was cool because to your point, like, Okay,
- 31:50Speaker 2: you don't have the speed and athleticism, so can you
- 31:53Speaker 2: lean into what you do best? And he was like, yeah,
- 31:55Speaker 2: I'm just gonna play physical as hell and we're gonna
- 31:57Speaker 2: see like what happens. And yeah, I thought he played well,
- 32:00Speaker 2: which is also I think, and I think your point
- 32:02Speaker 2: about the Bills wide receivers is also really great in
- 32:05Speaker 2: tying into you know, your second matchup piece there with Jones,
- 32:08Speaker 2: because I do think like, if there is a receiver
- 32:10Speaker 2: to worry about right now, it is Kohalil Shakir. And yeah,
- 32:13Speaker 2: I don't think that's a fair or an unfair comparison.
- 32:16Speaker 2: Like you look at the Texans are loaded at wide receiver.
- 32:19Speaker 2: I know a lot of Bills fans still think of
- 32:21Speaker 2: you know, Okay, Stefan Diggs is the story there. Maybe
- 32:23Speaker 2: you know Tank Dell because he's really small but good.
- 32:27Speaker 2: Nico Collins is like a legit top eight wide receiver
- 32:31Speaker 2: in the league. And there's you. If you wanted to
- 32:33Speaker 2: push and make a case and say that he's higher,
- 32:35Speaker 2: I wouldn't hold that against you. I've done so many
- 32:38Speaker 2: tweets breaking down aspects of his game from last year
- 32:41Speaker 2: in the Texans offense, and if you go by any
- 32:43Speaker 2: advanced metric like EPA yards per route run EPA per target,
- 32:47Speaker 2: like he's top five and top three for a ton
- 32:50Speaker 2: of them. He had a crazy good year. And yeah,
- 32:52Speaker 2: I think I don't think the Bills are a team
- 32:54Speaker 2: right now that they're not going to stress you outside
- 32:58Speaker 2: with the wide receivers unless they're taking Dalton Kincaid and
- 33:01Speaker 2: you know they're doing a three by one and using
- 33:03Speaker 2: him as like a quasi X receiver, And then you
- 33:04Speaker 2: have to be like, oh, okay, we are we matching
- 33:07Speaker 2: with our our with one of our corners. Are we
- 33:09Speaker 2: doing the safety of the linebacker thing? But if it's
- 33:11Speaker 2: just straight up wide receiver on wide receiver, and I
- 33:13Speaker 2: don't think the Bills room is bad. But you can
- 33:16Speaker 2: get away against Keyon Coleman right now and Matt Collins
- 33:19Speaker 2: right now with Buster Brown, especially with his game and
- 33:23Speaker 2: how physical he is. Hollins wants to win with physicality.
- 33:27Speaker 2: Coleman wants to win with physicality, so does Brown. So
- 33:29Speaker 2: it's kind of like a like for like where it's
- 33:31Speaker 2: just like, Okay, let's see who can beat the hell
- 33:33Speaker 2: out of the how to the other one and get
- 33:35Speaker 2: the win. But if you're coming inside exactly your point,
- 33:38Speaker 2: then the conversation shifts to Kincaid and it shifts to
- 33:41Speaker 2: secure a little bit. I think that's where they're most deadly,
- 33:44Speaker 2: especially when you pair that with what the Bills have
- 33:47Speaker 2: done formationally and personnel wise in terms of their twelve
- 33:51Speaker 2: and eleven personnel groupings, where it's like, are we gonna run?
- 33:54Speaker 2: Are we going to pass? We can do either out
- 33:57Speaker 2: of these personnel groupings. We can go spread, we can
- 33:59Speaker 2: go conne out of either of these personnel groupings, like
- 34:02Speaker 2: pick your poison. What do you want to do? You
- 34:04Speaker 2: got to cover for everything.
- 34:05Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 34:06Speaker 2: I think that's very well said and a really good point.
- 34:09Speaker 2: And it also this ties in well with my second point.
- 34:13Speaker 2: I was surprised seeing these numbers that I'm about to
- 34:15Speaker 2: rattle off. So my second point is how much the
- 34:18Speaker 2: Jags defense can generate pressure and mitigate yards after catch,
- 34:24Speaker 2: so these and these numbers called me by surprise. So
- 34:27Speaker 2: per Next Gen Stats, the Jags defense has a twenty
- 34:31Speaker 2: five point six pressure rate, which is twenty ninth on
- 34:33Speaker 2: the season. The Bills have the fourth lowest pressure rate
- 34:36Speaker 2: allowed at twenty four percent and when it's which is good,
- 34:40Speaker 2: especially considering their middle of the road with time to
- 34:42Speaker 2: throw at two point seven nine seconds, so it's not
- 34:44Speaker 2: like they're just running out a ton of quick game
- 34:46Speaker 2: and that's why it's like that. And then the Jags
- 34:49Speaker 2: have a twenty one point eight blitz percentage, which is
- 34:53Speaker 2: towards the bottom of the league. I thought it would
- 34:54Speaker 2: be a little higher with Nielsen, although I know he
- 34:57Speaker 2: does mix in like some sims and some creepers. But
- 34:59Speaker 2: I thought we'd see more five man pressures. We haven't
- 35:01Speaker 2: thus far. Maybe he'll bust it out. But the yards
- 35:04Speaker 2: after catch was huge. The Jags have allowed three hundred
- 35:07Speaker 2: and twenty nine yards after catch, which is the most
- 35:09Speaker 2: in the league. Granted a bunch of that is come
- 35:11Speaker 2: in on that Tyreek Hill eighty yard touchdown. And then
- 35:14Speaker 2: the Bills, who have talked about yards after catch honestly
- 35:18Speaker 2: for like the last like three years, season after season
- 35:21Speaker 2: they're sixteenth right now in yards after catch. So I
- 35:24Speaker 2: wonder between these two things, right, the Jags aren't generating
- 35:28Speaker 2: a ton of pressure. The Bills are really good at
- 35:30Speaker 2: mitigating pressure. The Jags are letting out a ton of
- 35:33Speaker 2: yards after catch. The Bills are kind of mad at
- 35:35Speaker 2: yards after catch. I wonder which one of these is
- 35:39Speaker 2: the unstoppable force versus the immovable object type of thing
- 35:41Speaker 2: which one gives, does neither give? What do we see
- 35:44Speaker 2: schematically from it, especially with what we've seen from the
- 35:47Speaker 2: Jags these first couple of weeks, with the physicality they present,
- 35:50Speaker 2: the coverages they played on the back end, the injuries
- 35:53Speaker 2: that they have on the back end, like you've talked about,
- 35:55Speaker 2: and really to the defense as a whole. Coupled with
- 35:57Speaker 2: that rotation, I think that's where that conversation starts for
- 36:01Speaker 2: me defensively, and then obviously factors into your Jones piece
- 36:04Speaker 2: as well.
- 36:06Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 36:06Speaker 5: I do think that's fascinating too, because, like you mentioned
- 36:09Speaker 5: a lot of the yak Is, Tyreek Hill and and
- 36:13Speaker 5: the Dolphins in general, they were running so many screens. Yeah,
- 36:18Speaker 5: and the way the Jaguars were playing defense man dea
- 36:21Speaker 5: man coverage, the screens were working, and they're gonna work
- 36:25Speaker 5: against most teams that play the way that.
- 36:27Speaker 2: I think I was thinking of one too like that
- 36:30Speaker 2: early on. I think it was like literally the first
- 36:32Speaker 2: series of the game Jags Dolphins, it's like third and
- 36:35Speaker 2: long and it's like a little screen to Echan and
- 36:36Speaker 2: he runs for like thirty or forty yards up the sidelines.
- 36:39Speaker 2: So that influences as well. Yeah, fairpoint, fairpoint.
- 36:42Speaker 1: Yeah, So I look at that for sure.
- 36:44Speaker 5: So I don't know that they're gonna be this team
- 36:46Speaker 5: that gives up a ton of yak all year. It'll
- 36:48Speaker 5: be interesting to see that in this game because one
- 36:51Speaker 5: of my next point is actually it ties into that.
- 36:54Speaker 1: But then also the pressure two.
- 36:57Speaker 5: It was just getting the ball out on these screens
- 36:58Speaker 5: so quickly, you're just not gonna get pressure. You're not
- 37:04Speaker 5: gonna get pressure against those types of place And I
- 37:07Speaker 5: think the Bills playing more shell, more zone coverage than
- 37:15Speaker 5: the Jaguars were in Week one against the Dolphins was
- 37:18Speaker 5: probably a smarter play than what.
- 37:20Speaker 1: The Jaguars were doing.
- 37:22Speaker 5: The Jaguars, it worked for three quarters, but then as
- 37:25Speaker 5: soon as it stopped working, it really stopped working, and
- 37:28Speaker 5: they were a little bit bend.
- 37:29Speaker 1: But don't break.
- 37:30Speaker 5: Even in the first three quarters because they were denying points,
- 37:34Speaker 5: they were denying touchdowns, but they were still giving up
- 37:36Speaker 5: the yardage on the screens in the short plays. But yeah,
- 37:40Speaker 5: I think that it's interesting for sure to see if
- 37:45Speaker 5: the Jaguars can get pressure in this one because the
- 37:47Speaker 5: Bills have been so good in past pro and Josh
- 37:50Speaker 5: Allen's obviously unbelievable at playmaking, regardless of it's with his
- 37:56Speaker 5: legs or you know, rolling out of the pocket and
- 37:59Speaker 5: finding somebody down the field. But this does play under
- 38:03Speaker 5: the act. Thing Andre Cisco and Antonio Johnson and the
- 38:07Speaker 5: Jaguars two starting safeties they're tackling in space has.
- 38:10Speaker 1: Been horrendous and you didn't really expect that.
- 38:15Speaker 2: Uh.
- 38:15Speaker 5: Andre Cisco right now he has a thirty percent missed
- 38:18Speaker 5: tackle rate. Antonio Johnson's at twenty eight point six.
- 38:24Speaker 2: Damn that's crazy. Hiphe both crazy.
- 38:28Speaker 5: And you've seen it, and it's negatively impacted the game
- 38:31Speaker 5: for the Jaguars defensively. And of course, again you can
- 38:34Speaker 5: sit here and say, well, the Jags haven't giving up
- 38:36Speaker 5: a lot of points defensively, It's true, but if you
- 38:41Speaker 5: continue to do that, and if you do that against
- 38:44Speaker 5: Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills. That could be a
- 38:46Speaker 5: real problem.
- 38:48Speaker 2: Yeah, that's super fair. And it like that whole that
- 38:53Speaker 2: whole piece, the mistackle piece, the yards after catch, even
- 38:56Speaker 2: the pressure piece. I find it so interesting this one
- 38:59Speaker 2: because executive there's been like these situational or game script
- 39:02Speaker 2: elements that have affected both. Right, Miami's sitting there right
- 39:05Speaker 2: now with the second lowest time to throw in the
- 39:08Speaker 2: league of two point four to four seconds. That includes
- 39:11Speaker 2: Skyler Thompson playing this week so two ago in Week two,
- 39:14Speaker 2: so TWOA went out and they were still doing the
- 39:15Speaker 2: same thing, quick passes, getting it out. And then the
- 39:19Speaker 2: Bills only have forty two pass attempts on the year
- 39:22Speaker 2: with Josh Allen, So so much of it for me
- 39:24Speaker 2: is like, Okay, is the low pressure rate for the
- 39:26Speaker 2: Bills because they haven't they don't have a ton of
- 39:29Speaker 2: sample size, or is the line really this good? And
- 39:31Speaker 2: then for the Jags, it's like, okay, are they not
- 39:32Speaker 2: generating pressure or is it because the Dolphins get the
- 39:35Speaker 2: ball out quickly? Because I also think to your point
- 39:37Speaker 2: the tape, there's some really good pressure tape in Week
- 39:39Speaker 2: one against Miami with the games they were playing up
- 39:41Speaker 2: front and some of the wrecking, the wreckage that they're
- 39:44Speaker 2: causing upfront on that defensive line for the Jags. And
- 39:47Speaker 2: then yeah, that mistackle piece, that's a great call out
- 39:50Speaker 2: with the safeties. And I wonder how much the Bills
- 39:54Speaker 2: can stress that element of the Jags in general, because again,
- 39:59Speaker 2: even we've seen it. I alluded to it every offseason
- 40:03Speaker 2: for the past three years. The conversation Allen says it,
- 40:06Speaker 2: the offensive coordinator say it was Dorsey last year, it's
- 40:09Speaker 2: Brady this year. So much of the conversation is yards
- 40:11Speaker 2: after catch, yards after catch. Josh Allen talks about putting
- 40:14Speaker 2: the ball in the right spot so as receivers don't
- 40:16Speaker 2: have to break their gate and maintain stride and get
- 40:18Speaker 2: up field right after. And then a lot of it
- 40:21Speaker 2: was okay, but like Stefan Diggs is really kind of
- 40:24Speaker 2: just catching routes and getting hit right away because those
- 40:25Speaker 2: are the type of routes that he runs when Diggs
- 40:27Speaker 2: was here. And then it's like, okay, get somebody else.
- 40:29Speaker 2: Change that differently now, and Shakier gets yards after catch,
- 40:33Speaker 2: and it also gets yards after contact and all of
- 40:35Speaker 2: these pieces, and with what we've seen thus far through
- 40:38Speaker 2: the first two games. In that regard for the Jags
- 40:41Speaker 2: defense and the Bills offense, I wonder how much of
- 40:44Speaker 2: it is opponent driven and more circumstantial versus this is
- 40:49Speaker 2: who they are, this is who they're gonna because even
- 40:52Speaker 2: the mistackle stuff for the Jag safeties, right, I think
- 40:54Speaker 2: about like, okay, like something that's gonna be influenced by
- 40:56Speaker 2: who you're playing in Week one and like it's hard
- 40:58Speaker 2: to tackle the Dolphins do space because they're so fast.
- 41:01Speaker 2: But then it's like, okay, as we go along the
- 41:04Speaker 2: rest of the year, do those numbers drop a little bit?
- 41:06Speaker 2: And how much of it is of what we're seeing
- 41:09Speaker 2: in that regard from my point and from where you
- 41:10Speaker 2: just said there, how much of it is driven by
- 41:12Speaker 2: circumstantial opponent and game script versus this is who these
- 41:17Speaker 2: teams actually are and this will continue as we go forward.
- 41:21Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great point. And I.
- 41:24Speaker 5: Everybody has a job to do right analysis wise, you know,
- 41:28Speaker 5: whether they're covering a specific team or covering the league
- 41:30Speaker 5: at large.
- 41:32Speaker 1: And everybody's trying to figure it out.
- 41:36Speaker 5: Right now, like what is going on around the NFL
- 41:39Speaker 5: and what's real and what's not real? And I honestly,
- 41:44Speaker 5: just think after two weeks, you don't know, and we
- 41:47Speaker 5: want to make these sweeping.
- 41:50Speaker 1: You know, sweeping.
- 41:52Speaker 2: Arguments, statements and concrete points, and yeah, it's been too much.
- 41:55Speaker 5: It's difficult to do it. It's difficult to do it at
- 41:58Speaker 5: this point. Like, so the Saints are going to the
- 42:01Speaker 5: Super Bowl, right, Okay, it's gonna be Saints and Vikings
- 42:06Speaker 5: in the NFC Championship. Yeah, Chargers are probably gonna win
- 42:11Speaker 5: the AFC.
- 42:12Speaker 4: Oh.
- 42:13Speaker 1: Yeah, you know. It's just it's too early. That's fair.
- 42:17Speaker 1: That's fair.
- 42:18Speaker 2: And that's why I like seeing. It's funny so many
- 42:21Speaker 2: like I've been tweeting out like stats in different pieces,
- 42:25Speaker 2: and I keep saying, like the sample size is small
- 42:27Speaker 2: or like granted it's only been two weeks or little
- 42:30Speaker 2: things like that, because I don't want it to get
- 42:32Speaker 2: out there. Of like like von Miller right now, he's
- 42:36Speaker 2: amongst like one hundred and nine qualifying edges. He alluded
- 42:40Speaker 2: to him earlier in one of your points with him
- 42:42Speaker 2: looking like he's, you know, kind of back to himself
- 42:44Speaker 2: through one hundred and nine qualifying edges. Right now, he's
- 42:47Speaker 2: six in pastors productivity, He's ninth in win rate. And
- 42:50Speaker 2: he's sixth in hurries and so I'm very like, I
- 42:54Speaker 2: think he looks good. He looks much better than he
- 42:57Speaker 2: did last year. He looks like he's rounding back into form.
- 43:00Speaker 2: And I keep throwing that cave on him there because
- 43:01Speaker 2: I don't want anyone to be like boom Von's back.
- 43:03Speaker 2: He's back and he's ready, because I don't know what
- 43:05Speaker 2: if by week seven he falls off, like it's been
- 43:09Speaker 2: two weeks. We need to pump the brakes on everything.
- 43:11Speaker 2: Who you know this like, who teams are in September
- 43:15Speaker 2: is not who they are in November and December. The
- 43:18Speaker 2: first month is not indicative of who you are as
- 43:21Speaker 2: a team. It takes a while for teams to find
- 43:23Speaker 2: themselves and really establish what's gonna work, who's gonna work,
- 43:27Speaker 2: and how it all pieces together. And yeah, that's why,
- 43:30Speaker 2: like I do think it's interesting seeing where the Jags
- 43:34Speaker 2: are in those metrics now and where the bills are
- 43:37Speaker 2: and do we see any give and take and how
- 43:39Speaker 2: much is just due to sample size and how low
- 43:41Speaker 2: it's how little we have right now versus you know,
- 43:45Speaker 2: are we am I dming you or your DM at
- 43:48Speaker 2: me in like week fifteen and it's like, man, the
- 43:50Speaker 2: Jags have allowed like historically are large yards after catch
- 43:53Speaker 2: this year and it like it continues or was it
- 43:55Speaker 2: really just like no, it's just because Hill and wabble
- 43:57Speaker 2: in week one, and you know that's it. Real quick
- 44:00Speaker 2: we do. Tying into that pressure conversation, We've got a
- 44:03Speaker 2: super chat from Carl, Tom and Carl appreciate you. You're here
- 44:06Speaker 2: pretty much every single week. Thank you for being here,
- 44:09Speaker 2: Thank you for the super chat. And he's got a
- 44:11Speaker 2: good question, so he says, can Dion Dawkins and Spencer
- 44:15Speaker 2: Brown contain Josh Heines Alan. I'll let you lead off
- 44:20Speaker 2: with this, Jordan. I think the world of Josh Heines Alan.
- 44:24Speaker 2: It's so weird to me to go with the name
- 44:26Speaker 2: adjustment now I keep now. It's like when Darius Leonard
- 44:31Speaker 2: switched to Shaquille Leonard. I couldn't get it right for forever.
- 44:35Speaker 2: I think Alan is nasty, I really, And I know
- 44:40Speaker 2: Walker has been much maligned necessarily hasn't lived up to
- 44:44Speaker 2: the first round or the first overall pick billing, but
- 44:48Speaker 2: there's something about just his speed to power. I'm gonna
- 44:50Speaker 2: run through a dude's face play style that I like,
- 44:52Speaker 2: and I think it pairs well in conjunction with Alan
- 44:55Speaker 2: is a true number one and Walker being more of
- 44:57Speaker 2: a true number two. But for this question, Deon Dawkins
- 45:01Speaker 2: Spencer Brown. Brown had a much better year last year
- 45:04Speaker 2: than he has at any point in his career. He
- 45:05Speaker 2: got rewarded with that contract extension recently. Dawkins got a
- 45:08Speaker 2: contract extension this offseason. People talk about him in that
- 45:12Speaker 2: kind of top ten left tackle conversation. What do you
- 45:15Speaker 2: think about heinz Allen versus both of these guys in
- 45:17Speaker 2: this matchup?
- 45:19Speaker 5: Yeah, so I think it'll be against Dion Dawkins a
- 45:22Speaker 5: lot more. He lines up on the defensive right side,
- 45:24Speaker 5: offensive left side a lot more than the other other
- 45:26Speaker 5: way around. You know, that's a good matchup. Deon Dawkins
- 45:32Speaker 5: is a very very good tackle in this league. I
- 45:34Speaker 5: think he's proven that over the last several years. I
- 45:37Speaker 5: don't know that there is more than a couple handful
- 45:42Speaker 5: of tackles that just one on one can contain Josh
- 45:46Speaker 5: heinz Allen all day. Every time you see him get
- 45:51Speaker 5: not have a big game, it's pretty much against a
- 45:53Speaker 5: team that's like Miami, where they're just getting the ball
- 45:56Speaker 5: out fast as hell, or a team that is willing
- 45:59Speaker 5: to double team consistently, which is another thing the Dolphins
- 46:02Speaker 5: did was was give extra help against Josh Heines Allen.
- 46:07Speaker 5: And that was another interesting schematic thing because like the
- 46:09Speaker 5: Jaguars decided to just rush three so many times against
- 46:12Speaker 5: the Dolphins, and it worked when the Dolphins were trying
- 46:15Speaker 5: to go deep usually, which is funny because every time
- 46:19Speaker 5: they rushed three last year under Mike Caldwell it ended
- 46:22Speaker 5: up being a disaster. So you're like, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
- 46:26Speaker 5: oh okay, oh wow, ok. Yeah, So it's just kind
- 46:29Speaker 5: of funny the way things cycle and change. But yeah,
- 46:33Speaker 5: I would be surprised if if they're doing traditional dropback stuff,
- 46:37Speaker 5: you know, not getting the ball out super quickly and
- 46:39Speaker 5: not helping a little bit. I'd be surprised if Josh Hallen,
- 46:42Speaker 5: Josh Heines Allen is not able to impact the game
- 46:45Speaker 5: from a past rush perspective.
- 46:47Speaker 2: Yeah, at your point, I just think he's he's such
- 46:49Speaker 2: a monster with the moves that he has, his combination
- 46:54Speaker 2: of size and athleticism and length, but then plan and
- 46:58Speaker 2: moves and how he pairs it all together and even
- 47:00Speaker 2: you know, we talked about it multiple points at this time,
- 47:02Speaker 2: what Miami does getting the ball out quickly even with
- 47:06Speaker 2: that game one, and how much running Cleveland does. He's
- 47:10Speaker 2: sitting there right now. He's tied for tenth in total
- 47:12Speaker 2: pressures right now. His efficiency metrics aren't great because you
- 47:15Speaker 2: know he's not going to generate pressures when Miami's getting
- 47:18Speaker 2: the ball out in two and a half seconds. But
- 47:20Speaker 2: you see the ability on tape, and yeah, I just
- 47:24Speaker 2: I think those dudes like that who have that level
- 47:26Speaker 2: of talent, not that Dawkins doesn't. And I'm in locks
- 47:29Speaker 2: up with you too, like Alan, I mean, you'll know
- 47:30Speaker 2: better than because you watch way more Jags tape than
- 47:32Speaker 2: I do. But Allen is usually on the offense left,
- 47:34Speaker 2: defense is right. So I do think it'll be Allen
- 47:36Speaker 2: versus Dawkins and then Walker versus Brown, which Walker versus
- 47:39Speaker 2: Brown I think is also a fun matchup because yeah,
- 47:43Speaker 2: Walker is just speed and athleticism and his main thing
- 47:47Speaker 2: is speed to power. I'm gonna run through your face.
- 47:50Speaker 2: Spencer Brown is improved from a technical perspective. He's got
- 47:53Speaker 2: a really nice snatch trap. He can still be got
- 47:56Speaker 2: from an anchor perspective, like you can catch him at
- 47:59Speaker 2: the right time, I'm as you can anyone, but I
- 48:01Speaker 2: think him more than others, and you can drive him back.
- 48:04Speaker 2: I'm I think that Alan Dawkins matchup is interesting. From
- 48:08Speaker 2: good on good, I kind of lean to that other
- 48:10Speaker 2: side of Walker and Brown because I think Walker can
- 48:13Speaker 2: have some success just going speed to power and trying
- 48:15Speaker 2: to cave Spencer Brown's chest in and driving him back
- 48:19Speaker 2: into Josh Allen, which also I think works for, you know,
- 48:22Speaker 2: trying to compress the pocket and mitigate that escapability that
- 48:26Speaker 2: Alan has. I think both sides are really interesting in
- 48:30Speaker 2: terms of what the matchup can bring, just given how
- 48:33Speaker 2: Alan and Walker's skill sets match up with Dawkins and Brown.
- 48:37Speaker 2: I think Dawkins and Alan is very much like good
- 48:40Speaker 2: on good and you're just whoever wins one, you tip
- 48:42Speaker 2: your cap and like kind of go about your business.
- 48:45Speaker 2: But I do think Walker could give Brown some problems
- 48:47Speaker 2: on the other side, and I'm really interested to see
- 48:50Speaker 2: if he does. I feel like Walker's just a huge
- 48:52Speaker 2: I don't know, I feel like every time he gets
- 48:54Speaker 2: a sack, everybody's like, nope, it was a coverage sack,
- 48:56Speaker 2: or Nope, this guy Alan did something and Walker kind
- 48:58Speaker 2: of fell into it. And I do under stand it.
- 49:00Speaker 2: But then like he's on tape, Like I know, he's
- 49:03Speaker 2: only speed to power, but he's running through dudes at times,
- 49:05Speaker 2: and it's really fun to like watch, and so I
- 49:08Speaker 2: wonder if he can get Brown a little bit in
- 49:11Speaker 2: this one too. I think both matchups are fun on
- 49:13Speaker 2: the either side.
- 49:14Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree completely, And I also think to your
- 49:17Speaker 5: point of trying to contain Alan, I do think Ryan
- 49:19Speaker 5: Nielsen is going to coach them defensive line wise to
- 49:23Speaker 5: play contained, to not give up those gaps, to not
- 49:27Speaker 5: give up those rushing lanes to Josh Allen this week,
- 49:29Speaker 5: and it'll be interesting to see how that plays out.
- 49:32Speaker 2: You have to you absolutely have to your Cisco and
- 49:35Speaker 2: Johnson point, was that off the cover? Was that your
- 49:38Speaker 2: number three?
- 49:39Speaker 1: That was number three for me?
- 49:42Speaker 2: Okay, I like that, and that works perfectly because my
- 49:44Speaker 2: three ties into something you just said. So my third
- 49:47Speaker 2: point is ken the Jags force the Bills to lean
- 49:51Speaker 2: heavily into the pass, and I literally mean like the
- 49:54Speaker 2: pass only so Allen through two games, only forty two
- 49:58Speaker 2: attempts through those two games I mentioned earlier, the run
- 50:00Speaker 2: game has mattered a lot for this Bills team. It
- 50:03Speaker 2: ties in, it ties in completely with their schematic identity
- 50:08Speaker 2: this year, which is I think tapping into more of
- 50:12Speaker 2: what the Rams were last year and what the Lions
- 50:15Speaker 2: were last year, where you have these bigger, bodied wide
- 50:18Speaker 2: receivers or capable and willing blocking wide receivers, and you
- 50:22Speaker 2: can be in eleven or be in twelve and just
- 50:25Speaker 2: be able to access more of the menu. The Bills
- 50:27Speaker 2: eleven and twelve personnel groupings are kind of mirror images
- 50:30Speaker 2: of one another in terms of you have this combination
- 50:34Speaker 2: of size, athleticism, pass catching, and run blocking all in one.
- 50:39Speaker 2: Especially when you get guys like Matt Collins and Keyon
- 50:41Speaker 2: Coleman involved, you can access more than menu without having
- 50:44Speaker 2: to turn the page. So the run game matters a lot.
- 50:46Speaker 2: It's beneffective and for the Bills or any team really,
- 50:50Speaker 2: but especially the Bills, if a team can remain two dimensional,
- 50:55Speaker 2: they're so hard to be And if you add in
- 50:58Speaker 2: the third dimension of Josh Allen's legs, it's even harder
- 51:02Speaker 2: for a defense to stop the Bills offense. I want
- 51:04Speaker 2: to see if and this ties into, you know, the
- 51:06Speaker 2: pocket compression aspect. We talked about what you kind of
- 51:09Speaker 2: envisioned for Nielsen in this week. Can the Jags make
- 51:12Speaker 2: Buffalo win through the air and can they truly test
- 51:16Speaker 2: the separation ability of the Bills wide receivers playing into
- 51:19Speaker 2: that is obviously you know, can they generate pressure? Can
- 51:22Speaker 2: they do it with four? Do they have the blitz?
- 51:25Speaker 2: And I know it's a defensive different defensive coordinator in
- 51:27Speaker 2: the last year, and a different Bills offensive coordinator than
- 51:29Speaker 2: last year, but the Jags were so successful last year
- 51:33Speaker 2: attacking the Bills protections, especially on third down. They were
- 51:37Speaker 2: baiting them like, hey, we're gonna bring the blitz from
- 51:40Speaker 2: here because we know you're gonna throw hot to that
- 51:43Speaker 2: guy and then we're bringing this corner up and we're
- 51:45Speaker 2: gonna make the stop. Like they were so good. Their
- 51:48Speaker 2: five man pressures were great. They're they're timing of when
- 51:52Speaker 2: they blitzed was great. They ran some sims and some
- 51:54Speaker 2: creepers that were really well timed, and they were just
- 51:57Speaker 2: gaming up and scheming up the Bills protections and it
- 52:00Speaker 2: forced the Bill's hand a lot in that game. And again,
- 52:04Speaker 2: different coordinator for the Jags, different coordinator for the Bills now.
- 52:07Speaker 2: But I wonder how much of that do we see again,
- 52:09Speaker 2: because we really haven't seen a team test the Bills
- 52:12Speaker 2: like that this year. But again we're only two games in.
- 52:15Speaker 2: It's a very small sample size. But the run game
- 52:18Speaker 2: was very successful for the Bills against Miami, so they
- 52:20Speaker 2: leaned into that. Week one was a big Josh Allen
- 52:23Speaker 2: week against the Cardinals, but it wasn't a huge passing
- 52:25Speaker 2: attack week. He only threw the ball twenty three times.
- 52:28Speaker 2: He did a lot of damage with his legs, scrambling,
- 52:30Speaker 2: making plays offscript. The run game opened things up schematically
- 52:33Speaker 2: for the pass as well. So I want to see,
- 52:36Speaker 2: and this is going to be a thing for me,
- 52:37Speaker 2: like literally every single week, who is the first team
- 52:41Speaker 2: that can force the Bills to be like, no, we
- 52:44Speaker 2: want Josh Allen to throw it thirty five times, and
- 52:47Speaker 2: we're going to live that way and see can he
- 52:49Speaker 2: throw it thirty five times and stay efficient and stay
- 52:52Speaker 2: with his good decision making or do we see a
- 52:55Speaker 2: little more of that yin come out between the yin
- 52:57Speaker 2: and yang and Josh Allens is he started forcing the
- 52:59Speaker 2: ball little, but can we force him into an interception
- 53:02Speaker 2: here or into a bad decision here? And I know
- 53:06Speaker 2: for that might sound ridiculous to people, It's like, well,
- 53:08Speaker 2: you want to put the ball into Josh Allen's hands more.
- 53:11Speaker 2: I know how that sounds, but you just can't beat
- 53:14Speaker 2: the Bills the way they've been living these first two weeks.
- 53:16Speaker 2: You cannot allow them to run the ball with the
- 53:18Speaker 2: running backs, have play action with the pass game, have
- 53:22Speaker 2: the schematic advantage in the past that the run opens up,
- 53:25Speaker 2: and then also have Josh Allen's legs from an off
- 53:28Speaker 2: script and by design standpoint be a factor. You can't
- 53:32Speaker 2: deal with all that, and it's hard to stop all
- 53:34Speaker 2: of that. And when I look at the Jags defense,
- 53:37Speaker 2: I look at their defensive line, how they can compress
- 53:40Speaker 2: the pocket the athletes that they have there. I think
- 53:43Speaker 2: it starts with being able to stop the run, and
- 53:45Speaker 2: then yes, can you compress the pocket pen Allen in
- 53:48Speaker 2: and make him so if Alan's dropping back I'm making
- 53:51Speaker 2: this up, But if Allen's dropping back thirty five times,
- 53:54Speaker 2: is he throwing it thirty two or is he dropping
- 53:57Speaker 2: back thirty five and he's able to scram for like
- 54:00Speaker 2: nine or ten times, Because that's then you're still dealing
- 54:03Speaker 2: with that third element. So how much can they force
- 54:06Speaker 2: Allan to purely win through the air? And then this
- 54:08Speaker 2: ties into something we talked about earlier, and then by extension,
- 54:11Speaker 2: you're also testing those pass catching elements for the Bills. Hey,
- 54:15Speaker 2: key On Coleman, can you continue to separate? Hey Mac Collins,
- 54:18Speaker 2: what are you doing? Hey? Kurtis Samuel? How healthy are you?
- 54:21Speaker 2: Is it all? Shakir? Is it all Kincaid? You know,
- 54:24Speaker 2: kind of testing those buttons a little bit and seeing
- 54:26Speaker 2: who can really answer if we apply pressure there, given
- 54:29Speaker 2: the questions that we have.
- 54:31Speaker 5: I think that's a great point. And the Jags run
- 54:35Speaker 5: defense has been strong. You know, one area we haven't
- 54:40Speaker 5: talked about much yet. Devin Lloyd and Foyer looking are
- 54:45Speaker 5: playing some of the best football that they have played.
- 54:48Speaker 5: They have been so good. Foye has been good for
- 54:51Speaker 5: the Jaguars, but Devin Lloyd's in the year three now
- 54:54Speaker 5: and the former first round pick Jack's traded up for
- 54:57Speaker 5: He's been outstanding, flying down hill, being assignment sound through
- 55:02Speaker 5: the first two weeks and it's small sample size, but
- 55:05Speaker 5: you've kind of seen this development arc coming from him
- 55:08Speaker 5: over the last couple of years. It looks like it's
- 55:10Speaker 5: finally really starting to come to fruition and they've they've
- 55:15Speaker 5: made it very difficult for runners. Josh Heines Allen and
- 55:18Speaker 5: Treyvon and Walker are both big, physical edge players that
- 55:22Speaker 5: know how to set the edge really well. Devon Hamilton's
- 55:26Speaker 5: getting back into his former form. You've got Eric Armstead
- 55:29Speaker 5: playing some He's still not playing a full compliment of plays.
- 55:32Speaker 5: I think they're still trying to ease him into this thing.
- 55:35Speaker 5: But and their corners are physical against the run too,
- 55:39Speaker 5: So if they can stop the run and force you
- 55:43Speaker 5: into this passing game, that is going to be the
- 55:45Speaker 5: fascinating matchup there between the Jaguars defense and in the
- 55:50Speaker 5: Bills offense, Like you mentioned, because if joshes or if
- 55:53Speaker 5: Josh Allen, it's not the Josh Allen.
- 55:55Speaker 2: I hate this every time the Bills play the Jags,
- 55:58Speaker 2: and like, even though he changed his name now, it's
- 56:00Speaker 2: still hard. It's so annoying.
- 56:02Speaker 5: But if Josh Allen has one or two of those,
- 56:07Speaker 5: you know, while Josh Allen plays where he just kind
- 56:12Speaker 5: of flies off the cuff and the Jaguars are able
- 56:14Speaker 5: to capitalize, does that change the ball game?
- 56:17Speaker 1: We'll see.
- 56:18Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's always I think that's it's risky for
- 56:22Speaker 2: any defense. But I really do think like the way
- 56:27Speaker 2: to try and beat this iteration of the Bills offense
- 56:30Speaker 2: because of the prevalence and the effectiveness of the run game.
- 56:33Speaker 2: And I know from a statistical standpoint right now, and
- 56:36Speaker 2: even from an advanced metrics standpoint, the run game isn't
- 56:39Speaker 2: great for the Bills. It was last year, it was
- 56:41Speaker 2: one of the best, especially when you're talking about running
- 56:43Speaker 2: back carries. But this year the conversation is so much
- 56:46Speaker 2: more schematic for what it opens up for the rest
- 56:49Speaker 2: of the offense. And it makes me think the way
- 56:53Speaker 2: to try and beat the Bills is he had to
- 56:55Speaker 2: force Josh Allen to having one of those Josh Allen
- 56:58Speaker 2: games where he throws three interceptions and then it's like, okay,
- 57:01Speaker 2: can we live that dangerously and get him to play
- 57:05Speaker 2: more risk than he is reward and you're just trying
- 57:09Speaker 2: to balance it out, right, like how much of the
- 57:11Speaker 2: ginning yanga Josh Allen do you get? Do you get
- 57:14Speaker 2: the boneheaded interceptions? And how does that how what's the
- 57:18Speaker 2: ratio of that to like mutant alien unicorn plays that
- 57:22Speaker 2: he makes And is that enough for you to win
- 57:24Speaker 2: twenty four to twenty one or twenty seven to twenty like,
- 57:27Speaker 2: is that is that enough to swing the pendulum and
- 57:30Speaker 2: push the tide in your favor and cause it's just
- 57:33Speaker 2: and again, this is true for any team if you
- 57:35Speaker 2: allow them to be two dimensional and win with the
- 57:37Speaker 2: run and be successful in the run in the past,
- 57:40Speaker 2: it's so hard to stop anyone, and a team in
- 57:42Speaker 2: teams with a mobile, agile quarterback like the Bills have
- 57:46Speaker 2: with Allen, they're that third element again, is also prevalent.
- 57:50Speaker 2: You just can't win like that. It's so hard to
- 57:51Speaker 2: stop all three of those things. But even just too
- 57:54Speaker 2: like game planning for a good run game and a
- 57:56Speaker 2: good pass game is so hard and so part of
- 57:59Speaker 2: me he just thinks like, all right, cool, we're gonna
- 58:01Speaker 2: live and die with seeing if we can force Alan
- 58:04Speaker 2: into some mistakes and if you can generate pressure. We
- 58:08Speaker 2: haven't seen it this year much, but Alan he showed
- 58:10Speaker 2: it last year too. If you can get pressure on
- 58:11Speaker 2: Alan early and make him kind of doubt his offensive line,
- 58:15Speaker 2: he'll start to bail out of that pocket earlier than
- 58:18Speaker 2: he needs to because he'll be like, screw it, I'm
- 58:21Speaker 2: Josh Allen. I'm gonna go be a unicorn and try
- 58:23Speaker 2: and make a play. And that's not always the most
- 58:25Speaker 2: efficient in terms of keeping you on schedule and allowing
- 58:28Speaker 2: your offense to continue to succeed. And I do think
- 58:31Speaker 2: the Jags have enough from a coordinator standpoint and from
- 58:34Speaker 2: especially from a talent standpoint on the defensive line to
- 58:37Speaker 2: kind of push them into that and pressure them a
- 58:40Speaker 2: little bit. I would feel much better if I were
- 58:42Speaker 2: the Jags. If I'm sitting there knowing that everybody on
- 58:46Speaker 2: my back end is healthy. I think that obviously plays
- 58:49Speaker 2: a significant role, but that's also just in the back
- 58:52Speaker 2: of my mind. I at some point, I think some
- 58:54Speaker 2: team is going to be like, you know what, and again,
- 58:56Speaker 2: this is all easier said than done, but some team
- 58:59Speaker 2: is going to be like, you know what, We're gonna
- 59:01Speaker 2: force you to have to rely on your receivers on
- 59:04Speaker 2: the outside, Like that's what we're gonna do, and can
- 59:07Speaker 2: you rely on them? Can they win? And can you
- 59:10Speaker 2: get the ball to them? That's what we're gonna do.
- 59:13Speaker 2: And it's for week after week. It's always gonna be
- 59:15Speaker 2: in my mind. I don't know if it's always gonna
- 59:17Speaker 2: be a matchup piece for me because that they it'll
- 59:18Speaker 2: vary by opponent. But again, like I just think the
- 59:21Speaker 2: Jags could potentially do that based on their personnel and
- 59:23Speaker 2: what they have and how they're built.
- 59:26Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great point.
- 59:27Speaker 5: You know though, I don't think the Bills have much
- 59:30Speaker 5: to worry about unless the Jags offense can get out
- 59:32Speaker 5: of its own way.
- 59:33Speaker 2: And see that's like that ties into my first point
- 59:35Speaker 2: there of like tying into the Trevor Lawrence throw piece.
- 59:40Speaker 2: How much does that does that matter? Right? Because if
- 59:42Speaker 2: all of this conversation, I think the much more interesting
- 59:45Speaker 2: battle is the Jags defense versus the Bills offense because
- 59:48Speaker 2: your point there, For me, the Jags offense just seems
- 59:51Speaker 2: like it's just like, I don't know, just won't get
- 59:54Speaker 2: out of its own way. Like I said, like it
- 59:55Speaker 2: just feels disjointed, like they're just calling plays to call plays.
- 59:58Speaker 2: It's not like we're called this because it's gonna set
- 1:00:02Speaker 2: this up later and we're building this to do. You
- 1:00:04Speaker 2: know what if it feels like it feels like the
- 1:00:07Speaker 2: Doug Peterson story arc in Philly where things started out nice.
- 1:00:11Speaker 2: It's like, wow, look at how good they are schematically
- 1:00:13Speaker 2: and Carson Wentz and I think Lawrence is better than once,
- 1:00:16Speaker 2: but then things just seem to kind of fall apart
- 1:00:19Speaker 2: from a design stamp or not even necessarily a design standpoint,
- 1:00:22Speaker 2: but a you know some some but play calling standpoint
- 1:00:25Speaker 2: and layering. And when you're calling stuff again the you're
- 1:00:29Speaker 2: struggling in past pro all friggin day, and you go
- 1:00:32Speaker 2: shotgun and spread on your own too, and you call
- 1:00:37Speaker 2: it out and up when you haven't been able to protect.
- 1:00:39Speaker 2: And again, yeah, it technically the out and up work
- 1:00:41Speaker 2: Brian Thomas Junior was open, but like, why are you
- 1:00:44Speaker 2: doing that? You have a Super Bowl like, you know football,
- 1:00:47Speaker 2: Doug Peterson, what do you And also nobody was there
- 1:00:51Speaker 2: to like check anyone, like I don't think we should
- 1:00:52Speaker 2: do this right now where we can't protect, why are we? Yeah,
- 1:00:57Speaker 2: just and so much that conversation that we're having with
- 1:01:00Speaker 2: the Jags defensive Bill's offense exactly like you said, it
- 1:01:02Speaker 2: is so beautifully well put. It's move unless the Jags
- 1:01:06Speaker 2: offense can can't get out of their own way, like
- 1:01:09Speaker 2: if they continue to kind of just stub their own
- 1:01:11Speaker 2: toe and shoot themselves in the foot, and then it's moved.
- 1:01:14Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:01:14Speaker 5: And they looked like the offense that you wanted them
- 1:01:18Speaker 5: to be for the first three quarters in Miami mm hmm.
- 1:01:22Speaker 1: And then they fell apart and.
- 1:01:24Speaker 5: They showed flashes of it in the second half last week,
- 1:01:27Speaker 5: but again second half you also saw the crazy decision
- 1:01:31Speaker 5: to go spread and try to hit a long, developing
- 1:01:35Speaker 5: route down the field from your own goal line.
- 1:01:37Speaker 2: So man, it's just I was really but like week one,
- 1:01:40Speaker 2: I was full into like I'm giving the Jags a pass,
- 1:01:43Speaker 2: Like if ETN scores there, it's twenty four to seven
- 1:01:47Speaker 2: because literally the next play after that is the deep
- 1:01:49Speaker 2: shot to hill that makes it seventeen fourteen. And you know,
- 1:01:53Speaker 2: every game, I forget who was the first person to
- 1:01:56Speaker 2: set up, but everybody says it now like every football
- 1:01:58Speaker 2: games are decided by like three to six plays or
- 1:02:00Speaker 2: sometimes people say like two to four. And I was like,
- 1:02:03Speaker 2: that is one that changed it. And the next play
- 1:02:05Speaker 2: was a touchdown. There's your two yea of like the four.
- 1:02:07Speaker 2: They changed that game. So I gave the Jags a
- 1:02:09Speaker 2: pass and then I was like, man, the Browns offense
- 1:02:12Speaker 2: is looking terrible. The jack should be able to do enough,
- 1:02:14Speaker 2: and just with how they played it knocked out my
- 1:02:16Speaker 2: confidence in them a little bit. Yeah, I'm right there
- 1:02:19Speaker 2: with you. For those quarters against Miami, I was like okay, okay,
- 1:02:23Speaker 2: And then I was like, oh, no, it's not. Okay, Yeah,
- 1:02:26Speaker 2: just disappointing. Disappointing, all right, Jordan, before we send you anyway,
- 1:02:32Speaker 2: any thoughts, anything left on this game, anything that you
- 1:02:35Speaker 2: got in the holster that you want to say and
- 1:02:37Speaker 2: get out and if not, if you do, that's cool.
- 1:02:40Speaker 2: If not, feel free to again tell everybody who you are,
- 1:02:44Speaker 2: where they can find you, at, what you do and
- 1:02:45Speaker 2: all that good stuff.
- 1:02:47Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 1:02:47Speaker 5: No, I think it's a fascinating game. The Jags, for
- 1:02:50Speaker 5: whatever reason the last two years have played better away
- 1:02:53Speaker 5: from Jacksonville, and it's so bizarre. It's like your hometown
- 1:02:58Speaker 5: fans should give you some energy. But we'll see. And
- 1:03:01Speaker 5: like you mentioned, weirdly, Doug Peterson hasn't lost to the Bills,
- 1:03:06Speaker 5: Sean McDermott, Josh Allen struggled against the Jaguars.
- 1:03:09Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. But I do think that.
- 1:03:15Speaker 5: This has a chance to be a very fun football
- 1:03:17Speaker 5: game to watch and analyze. If the Jaguars come correct,
- 1:03:22Speaker 5: which is a big, big if, it should be a
- 1:03:25Speaker 5: very fun game. I do think offensively for the Bills,
- 1:03:30Speaker 5: defensively for the Jaguars, that's going to be a nice
- 1:03:34Speaker 5: chess match. It's just if the Jaguars offense can show
- 1:03:36Speaker 5: up or not. But yeah, that's pretty much all I got.
- 1:03:40Speaker 5: I thought this was a great conversation, good way to
- 1:03:42Speaker 5: get this thing started. We've still got six days till
- 1:03:44Speaker 5: the game, of course, since Monday night football, kind of a.
- 1:03:47Speaker 1: Weird week with the late game.
- 1:03:49Speaker 5: But yeah, I'll be doing a bunch of Jags Bills content,
- 1:03:54Speaker 5: you know, Keys to Victory for the Jaguars matchups, to
- 1:03:57Speaker 5: watch bold predictions, full game view, all that fun stuff
- 1:04:01Speaker 5: in the coming days, and also talking about the Jaguars
- 1:04:04Speaker 5: rookies as I do every week, seeing how they're doing.
- 1:04:07Speaker 5: Go check out Brian Thomas Junior for sure, go check
- 1:04:10Speaker 5: out Brian Thomas Junior. He's a lot of fun. But yeah,
- 1:04:13Speaker 5: you can find all that at the jin Jag YouTube page.
- 1:04:16Speaker 5: And I'll certainly be doing a week three power rankings
- 1:04:21Speaker 5: as well on Rogue Football. You can check that out
- 1:04:23Speaker 5: see where the Bills land. But yeah, I really appreciate
- 1:04:26Speaker 5: you having me on. A big fan of Cover, one
- 1:04:28Speaker 5: big fan of your show, and so it's an honor
- 1:04:31Speaker 5: to be on here and can't wait for this football game.
- 1:04:34Speaker 2: Yeah, it's fun. I'm part of me also just hopes
- 1:04:37Speaker 2: that we get I don't know, like a shootout, and
- 1:04:38Speaker 2: I just want to see Lawrence and Allen dueling and
- 1:04:40Speaker 2: both like playing up to who and what they can be.
- 1:04:43Speaker 2: But yeah, there is some really fun potential for this one.
- 1:04:46Speaker 2: And yeah, this was a great conversation. I appreciate you
- 1:04:47Speaker 2: taking the time. I sincerely enjoyed it. I feel like
- 1:04:50Speaker 2: we could go for another like hour or longer and
- 1:04:53Speaker 2: just talking about like all the details and niche aspects.
- 1:04:56Speaker 2: And for those I say this every time I have
- 1:04:58Speaker 2: a guest on the show, if if you're a football
- 1:05:01Speaker 2: fan in general, you should be staying up on every team.
- 1:05:03Speaker 2: And even if you're just a Bills fan, you need
- 1:05:05Speaker 2: to be paying attention to every other team because every
- 1:05:07Speaker 2: other team is your enemy and you need to know
- 1:05:09Speaker 2: what they're doing and how they're doing it. And Jordan
- 1:05:11Speaker 2: is an absolute tremendous source for everything Jags, but, like
- 1:05:14Speaker 2: like you mentioned throughout this episode, with everything that he's
- 1:05:17Speaker 2: doing with rogue football and draft stuff and league wide
- 1:05:20Speaker 2: things in general, an absolute great source for football knowledge.
- 1:05:23Speaker 2: Find him at Jordan de Lugo on Twitter. That's at
- 1:05:27Speaker 2: j O r d A n D E l u
- 1:05:30Speaker 2: g o is on He's one hundred percent worth the
- 1:05:33Speaker 2: follow and worth your time and investment. Jordan, again, I
- 1:05:36Speaker 2: appreciate you joining me. You crushed it. This was awesome.
- 1:05:38Speaker 2: I'm probably gonna DM you after this saying all these
- 1:05:41Speaker 2: things again and thank you. You had a great time and
- 1:05:43Speaker 2: you crushed it. But enjoy the rest of your Tuesday night.
- 1:05:46Speaker 2: I appreciate the hell out of you. And uh yeah,
- 1:05:48Speaker 2: I'll see you over there in the Twitter verse.
- 1:05:50Speaker 1: Yes, sir, we'll talk soon. And good luck this week.
- 1:05:52Speaker 2: Man, Thanks maning you too. Thanksy tremendous guest, mister Jordan
- 1:06:00Speaker 2: de Lugo. That was really fun conversation and I sincerely
- 1:06:04Speaker 2: meant it. Go give Jordan to follow. He's worth it.
- 1:06:07Speaker 2: Like I said, for those who weren't here earlier. He
- 1:06:10Speaker 2: and I started following each other back during draft season.
- 1:06:13Speaker 2: Not this year, but in twenty twenty three. He was
- 1:06:15Speaker 2: breaking down some prospects or I was breaking down somebody.
- 1:06:18Speaker 2: We started talking about prospects and position groups and rankings
- 1:06:22Speaker 2: and big boards and all that stuff. And he's a
- 1:06:24Speaker 2: really good dude. I was pumped to have this conversation
- 1:06:26Speaker 2: with him. We got a little taste of what he does,
- 1:06:28Speaker 2: but he knows what he knows what he's talking about
- 1:06:29Speaker 2: from a football perspective and from especially from a Jack's perspective,
- 1:06:32Speaker 2: so absolutely tremendous. Guess was pumped to have him on
- 1:06:36Speaker 2: this episode. We're going to dive into some things on
- 1:06:38Speaker 2: the back end here. Yeah, a good call here from
- 1:06:41Speaker 2: Joe who said Jordan's camera was streaming in sixteen K.
- 1:06:44Speaker 2: Absolutely Chris video. It's the first thing I noticed when
- 1:06:47Speaker 2: I checked out his content on his on his YouTube page.
- 1:06:50Speaker 2: I love his background setup and just how it looks.
- 1:06:54Speaker 2: I love the lighting. But yeah, that camera, Like I
- 1:06:57Speaker 2: like my setup and the camera that I have, But
- 1:06:58Speaker 2: when I get somebody with a camp like that, I'm
- 1:07:00Speaker 2: gonna be like, oh man, like he's he's playing in
- 1:07:03Speaker 2: the big leagues with that. Yeah, his camera was beautifully
- 1:07:06Speaker 2: crisp u with what his setup was for. For those
- 1:07:10Speaker 2: of you here in the live chat, we're still going
- 1:07:11Speaker 2: to power on for a little bit more. What I
- 1:07:13Speaker 2: want to do now, Any questions, thoughts, comments, concerns, anything
- 1:07:16Speaker 2: you folks have on your mind when it comes to
- 1:07:18Speaker 2: Bill's jags, when it comes to anything we've seen through
- 1:07:21Speaker 2: the first two weeks of the season, Bill's related NFL
- 1:07:25Speaker 2: related questions thoughts, comments, concerns, anything and everything you got.
- 1:07:28Speaker 2: Put it up into the chat and we'll dive into
- 1:07:31Speaker 2: that as we navigate the back end of this episode. Also,
- 1:07:36Speaker 2: for those of you who have not already, if you
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- 1:07:51Speaker 2: telling myself and the entire team to track and trend
- 1:07:53Speaker 2: in front of more eyes and ears. Joe says, my
- 1:07:57Speaker 2: Logitech serves me well, but he was streaming with the
- 1:07:59Speaker 2: ones they use at the suit. Yeah, I got a
- 1:08:00Speaker 2: Logitech as well. My Logitech Brio does great work. But
- 1:08:03Speaker 2: yeah he was, Yeah, he was up in there at
- 1:08:05Speaker 2: that one hundred thousand K that he's got there. Oh,
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- 1:09:00Speaker 2: want to talk about. But let's grab some comments here.
- 1:09:06Speaker 2: Grab this person from Luke who says, what weapon do
- 1:09:08Speaker 2: you think proves the most difficult? Who's the most difficulty
- 1:09:13Speaker 2: for the Jaguar secondary? Good question, because you said the secondary,
- 1:09:19Speaker 2: I'm gonna stick with the pass. I'm going to say,
- 1:09:21Speaker 2: Dalton Kinkaid, I know the athleticism, the Jags have at linebacker.
- 1:09:28Speaker 2: I just think Dalton Kinkaid is such a chess piece
- 1:09:30Speaker 2: for me, It's really going to come down to Kincaid
- 1:09:32Speaker 2: and then to Jordan's point earlier, Kolio Shakir and whether
- 1:09:38Speaker 2: or not Jones can cover him. I think, just with
- 1:09:41Speaker 2: how the Bills offense is built schematically and formationally, how
- 1:09:47Speaker 2: they're able to attack is really in between the numbers
- 1:09:50Speaker 2: with Shakir and Kinkaid tying that in with the pass game,
- 1:09:53Speaker 2: whether you want to score with the run game, whether
- 1:09:55Speaker 2: you want to go spread or whether you want to
- 1:09:56Speaker 2: go condense, whether you work in play action, whether you
- 1:09:58Speaker 2: work in the RPOs. And I think Shakiir presents some
- 1:10:02Speaker 2: good mismatch capability given where the Jags secondary is and
- 1:10:05Speaker 2: how healthy they are or not. And then Kinkaid, I
- 1:10:09Speaker 2: just think is more tight end in general than Kinkaid specific.
- 1:10:14Speaker 2: I think tight ends are still the greatest mismatch creator
- 1:10:17Speaker 2: on an offense. Teams with a true dual threat tight
- 1:10:20Speaker 2: end can do so much. You look at what the
- 1:10:23Speaker 2: Chiefs did with Kelsey, and part of that dual threat nature,
- 1:10:25Speaker 2: right is you just have to be serviceable as a blocker.
- 1:10:29Speaker 2: You don't have to be George Kittle where you're up here,
- 1:10:31Speaker 2: plus as a pass catcher and plus as a run blocker.
- 1:10:34Speaker 2: You just have to be serviceable. You have to be
- 1:10:36Speaker 2: willing and do enough. Kinkaid is in that conversation, and
- 1:10:39Speaker 2: when you look at the teams that have these pass catching,
- 1:10:42Speaker 2: dual threat tight ends, it opens up so much of
- 1:10:44Speaker 2: their offense. And the Bills have two of those guys.
- 1:10:47Speaker 2: But yeah, my answer would be Kincaid and then Shakir
- 1:10:51Speaker 2: as well. M Nikki saying, I know Gabe is pretty
- 1:10:55Speaker 2: banged up. He dislocated his shoulder and I guess he
- 1:10:57Speaker 2: had a limp. Yeah, the Jags are hurting between the
- 1:10:59Speaker 2: Miami game and the Browns game, which is also another
- 1:11:03Speaker 2: unfortunate piece. Carl says, what do you know about kickers
- 1:11:06Speaker 2: andres Carlson and Cade York. I don't know much about Carlson,
- 1:11:11Speaker 2: and if I am correct, I believe Cad.
- 1:11:16Speaker 1: York is.
- 1:11:19Speaker 2: The kicker that was playing for Bum Bum Bum. Yeah,
- 1:11:25Speaker 2: that's I thought the Browns took him early. He's the
- 1:11:28Speaker 2: one I was confused my kickers, But yeah, the Browns
- 1:11:30Speaker 2: took him in round four in twenty twenty two, and
- 1:11:33Speaker 2: he's been a Journeyman, Brown's in twenty twenty two, Titans
- 1:11:36Speaker 2: and Giants in twenty twenty three, Brown's again in twenty
- 1:11:39Speaker 2: twenty four, and the Commanders in twenty twenty four. The
- 1:11:42Speaker 2: Titans and the second Brown stint were either offseason and
- 1:11:47Speaker 2: or practice squad memberships only. What I've my concern is
- 1:11:53Speaker 2: less with who the kickers are specifically, and more so
- 1:11:56Speaker 2: that they just brought in kickers. And I know that
- 1:12:01Speaker 2: Tyler bass miss in Miami was ugly. It was not tipped,
- 1:12:04Speaker 2: that was just a straight up shank and it was horrible.
- 1:12:08Speaker 2: Just trying out kickers in general I find worrisome because
- 1:12:12Speaker 2: that means they're actually going through with it, and the
- 1:12:13Speaker 2: fact that it was reported. I think it also is
- 1:12:16Speaker 2: a bit not great because I think part of Tyler
- 1:12:20Speaker 2: Bass's struggles come from confidence, and you're not helping his
- 1:12:23Speaker 2: confidence necessarily by making it known that you're trying out
- 1:12:27Speaker 2: other kickers. So I think just the action of trying
- 1:12:30Speaker 2: out kickers is more important than who the kickers actually are.
- 1:12:33Speaker 2: But if you're a kicker right now at this point
- 1:12:35Speaker 2: and you're a free agent and you're hitting tryouts, it's
- 1:12:37Speaker 2: probably not a good sign. I know, dudes like Robbie
- 1:12:39Speaker 2: Gold have been money for teams, you know, with what
- 1:12:42Speaker 2: he did with the Bears and Niners. I remember the
- 1:12:44Speaker 2: big thing with the Bears. I think he was like
- 1:12:46Speaker 2: working for doing construction. He was like doing. He was
- 1:12:49Speaker 2: laying shingle and doing like roofing jobs, and then the
- 1:12:51Speaker 2: Bears called him and he ended up becoming this sweet kicker.
- 1:12:54Speaker 2: So you can get diamonds in the rough in positions
- 1:12:56Speaker 2: in general, but especially a kicker. But my thought here
- 1:12:59Speaker 2: is less about the individual kickers and more about the
- 1:13:02Speaker 2: process itself and the actual action of trying trying them
- 1:13:06Speaker 2: out last. You had a similar question you and Karl
- 1:13:10Speaker 2: arn Locks up with your thoughts. There another question of
- 1:13:12Speaker 2: Carl saying, do you think there's a chance for Aron
- 1:13:13Speaker 2: Johnson playing against the Jags where we see him in
- 1:13:15Speaker 2: week four, week five? I truly don't know. I have
- 1:13:20Speaker 2: to monitor his injury status. I'm not counting on him
- 1:13:23Speaker 2: anytime soon. And maybe it's just the pessimist that's in me,
- 1:13:26Speaker 2: But when he hurt his arm in week one and
- 1:13:29Speaker 2: they were immediately doing like grip strength stuff with him
- 1:13:31Speaker 2: on the side and he was shaking it out, that
- 1:13:33Speaker 2: makes me worry that makes me think it's something bone
- 1:13:36Speaker 2: related and something that isn't gonna heal right away.
- 1:13:38Speaker 4: Now.
- 1:13:38Speaker 2: They didn't put him on the IR which means it's
- 1:13:40Speaker 2: possible that he can return at any point. But I
- 1:13:43Speaker 2: just think with where where the Jags offense is right now,
- 1:13:51Speaker 2: I don't want to sell anybody short. And like I mentioned,
- 1:13:53Speaker 2: I am not overlooking this matchup. I'm not putting Taron
- 1:13:57Speaker 2: Johnson back in for this game. I am letting him
- 1:13:59Speaker 2: say and do whatever he wants until he's like, nope,
- 1:14:02Speaker 2: I'm completely paying free, I have grip strength in my hand.
- 1:14:05Speaker 2: I'm all good, send me out there, do whatever. Because
- 1:14:08Speaker 2: he plays a position where he's constantly in the fire
- 1:14:12Speaker 2: zone when it comes to being hit and having to
- 1:14:15Speaker 2: hit people and contact, Like, there's not a play where
- 1:14:18Speaker 2: he's not getting hit or hitting someone, so you need
- 1:14:21Speaker 2: him at one hundred percent. I'm not bringing him back
- 1:14:23Speaker 2: until he gets to that spot. I don't know when
- 1:14:25Speaker 2: that will be, so I don't think he plays against
- 1:14:27Speaker 2: the Jag Well. We could see him down the road,
- 1:14:30Speaker 2: especially with how again the schedule starts to ramp up
- 1:14:32Speaker 2: with Houston and not necessarily disorder, but Houston and Baltimore
- 1:14:35Speaker 2: and the Jets and that schedule going forward, so you
- 1:14:39Speaker 2: could potentially see him in the coming weeks, But just
- 1:14:41Speaker 2: him having to worry about that grip strength makes me
- 1:14:43Speaker 2: think it's something that's a little more severe than just
- 1:14:45Speaker 2: a one or two week thing. Good gosh question here,
- 1:14:53Speaker 2: with more time having passed and hopefully him getting healthier
- 1:14:55Speaker 2: within that time, this is a good question. Do you
- 1:14:57Speaker 2: think more snaps and creative youse of Curtis Samuel could
- 1:14:59Speaker 2: show up in this game? I have the exact same question.
- 1:15:02Speaker 2: I don't know how healthy he is toe injuries. Foot
- 1:15:05Speaker 2: injuries in general are hard to heal, especially the type
- 1:15:08Speaker 2: of toe injury that he had. You really can't rest
- 1:15:11Speaker 2: it unless you don't do anything, So just by playing,
- 1:15:16Speaker 2: you're not allowing yourself to really heal. I don't know
- 1:15:19Speaker 2: if he's ever really going to be one hundred percent
- 1:15:21Speaker 2: or fully effective based on him continuing to play and
- 1:15:25Speaker 2: getting some symbols of a workload. I have this exact question.
- 1:15:28Speaker 2: So I think I brought this question up because I think, well,
- 1:15:30Speaker 2: one because he asked, But two, I think it's funny
- 1:15:31Speaker 2: because I have this exact thought, like I'm hoping, okay,
- 1:15:34Speaker 2: his snapshare hasn't been crazy. The workload and usage hasn't
- 1:15:37Speaker 2: been crazy. When do we start to see more snaps
- 1:15:40Speaker 2: and more use Because he was one of the biggest
- 1:15:43Speaker 2: chess pieces for me in training camp and one of
- 1:15:45Speaker 2: my biggest notes and takeaways with how they were using him.
- 1:15:48Speaker 2: They were constantly sending him and all different kinds of motion,
- 1:15:51Speaker 2: jet motion, return motion. He was lining up in the backfield.
- 1:15:54Speaker 2: They would line him up in the backfield and send
- 1:15:56Speaker 2: him out on tear motion. They were just lining him
- 1:15:58Speaker 2: up everywhere and using him as this mismatch creator and
- 1:16:01Speaker 2: using him to create horizontal leverage and being able to
- 1:16:04Speaker 2: attack space. And I think that's still the vision for him.
- 1:16:08Speaker 2: It's just a matter of how healthy can he be.
- 1:16:11Speaker 2: But I have the exact same question. I have the
- 1:16:13Speaker 2: exact same question. Nicky says, the Jags planning cover two
- 1:16:19Speaker 2: or a lot of three and one. So far they
- 1:16:21Speaker 2: played a bunch of one, especially Week one against Miami,
- 1:16:25Speaker 2: And is the other defensive end playing any good not
- 1:16:27Speaker 2: Josh Heinzellen. I think Trayvon Walker is still a good dude.
- 1:16:30Speaker 2: I know he hasn't lived up to the number one
- 1:16:32Speaker 2: overall pick that he was a couple of seasons ago.
- 1:16:35Speaker 2: But speed, power, physical, plays the run. He wants to
- 1:16:38Speaker 2: run through your chest and run through your face. He's
- 1:16:41Speaker 2: not the most technical, not the biggest pass rush plan
- 1:16:44Speaker 2: type of dude, but he plays the run. He's physical,
- 1:16:46Speaker 2: he's fast, he's athletic. I think he can give He
- 1:16:49Speaker 2: can test Spencer Brown's anchor a lot in this game.
- 1:16:52Speaker 2: You give him a known passing down in situation and distance.
- 1:16:54Speaker 2: You give him a known third and eight or third
- 1:16:56Speaker 2: and seven or whatever, and give him a wide alignment
- 1:16:59Speaker 2: and let him just play the rush angle, set line
- 1:17:01Speaker 2: game and attack through Spencer Brown's chest, and I think
- 1:17:05Speaker 2: you could potentially have a path of success if you
- 1:17:07Speaker 2: are Ravon Walker. Carl says, well, Cam, Dorian and Baling
- 1:17:13Speaker 2: continue to play at a high level, or will they
- 1:17:15Speaker 2: become a liability. I think the more balean inspector plays,
- 1:17:18Speaker 2: the better he'll get. Same thing for Dorian Williams Cam Lewis.
- 1:17:22Speaker 2: I think he is what he is. I don't think
- 1:17:23Speaker 2: Cam's going to be a liability. I don't think he's
- 1:17:25Speaker 2: a plus matchup, but I don't think he's a liability
- 1:17:28Speaker 2: with what he can do against the past, with what
- 1:17:30Speaker 2: he's been able to do against the run. I think
- 1:17:32Speaker 2: he'll be fine. Dorian Man, I really think if Dorian
- 1:17:38Speaker 2: and Balen were gonna be a liability, I really thought
- 1:17:40Speaker 2: it would have happened in that Miami game, with how
- 1:17:42Speaker 2: they're able to stress you at the second level and
- 1:17:46Speaker 2: everything they do to stress you horizontally. If it was
- 1:17:50Speaker 2: going to show up from a processing standpoint and from
- 1:17:52Speaker 2: a liability standpoint, it would have been against Miami. Now.
- 1:17:55Speaker 2: The only caveat with that, especially if I'm playing Devil's
- 1:17:57Speaker 2: Advocate here is the Bills under Sean MC do a
- 1:18:00Speaker 2: great job of understanding who in what Miami is and
- 1:18:06Speaker 2: how to impact them. So maybe that history mitigated the
- 1:18:10Speaker 2: liability potential for that second level. I don't think they're
- 1:18:15Speaker 2: going to be completely deficient free or liability free at
- 1:18:18Speaker 2: the second level, but I think the more Specter and
- 1:18:22Speaker 2: Dorian continue to play, the less likely it is that
- 1:18:26Speaker 2: they are going to be a liability, because the biggest
- 1:18:28Speaker 2: thing they need is time on task and the ability
- 1:18:29Speaker 2: to develop, along with just kind of understanding the game
- 1:18:34Speaker 2: a little bit more, and we'll just see what their
- 1:18:37Speaker 2: development trajectories and timelines are at. I don't think Cam
- 1:18:40Speaker 2: is ever going to be a liability. I think out
- 1:18:42Speaker 2: of those three, Dorian and Balin have the highest chance.
- 1:18:45Speaker 2: But in theory, the more they play, the less that
- 1:18:47Speaker 2: should happen. You just don't want to have to play
- 1:18:50Speaker 2: that game unless you absolutely have to, and the Bills
- 1:18:52Speaker 2: have to. What off Spin says, so that Jets upgrade
- 1:19:02Speaker 2: their QB and trade for Sam Darnold or Gino Smith,
- 1:19:06Speaker 2: that's a good comment. That's a that's a that's that's
- 1:19:10Speaker 2: mad petty. That's mad petty. Josh comes in and says,
- 1:19:16Speaker 2: what position group, do you still have question marks about
- 1:19:20Speaker 2: being either injury or play and do you think they
- 1:19:22Speaker 2: prove something this game? Hmmm, good question. I I do
- 1:19:29Speaker 2: still have questions about the threat that the receiving the
- 1:19:34Speaker 2: receivers have on this team overall, Aside from Shakir, I
- 1:19:38Speaker 2: like what Curtis Samuel does, but I don't think he's
- 1:19:40Speaker 2: one hundred percent. I also don't think he's like an
- 1:19:41Speaker 2: every down, high volume snapshare type of dude, high volume
- 1:19:45Speaker 2: target guy. So I just have questions on what MATC.
- 1:19:49Speaker 2: Collins can truly be from an upside standpoint, and I
- 1:19:51Speaker 2: have questions on what Kean Coleman can be from a
- 1:19:54Speaker 2: separation and refinement standpoint, which I don't think is crazy.
- 1:19:57Speaker 2: This year for me was all about seeing for ke
- 1:20:00Speaker 2: Home and at least what his timeline was looking like
- 1:20:03Speaker 2: in terms of refinement precision, starting to add more of
- 1:20:09Speaker 2: that to his game at an NFL level. Having to
- 1:20:12Speaker 2: learn that on the fly in the NFL is hard.
- 1:20:14Speaker 2: How much would he play into the physical and athleticism aspect,
- 1:20:18Speaker 2: or how much would he be able to play into
- 1:20:20Speaker 2: more understanding leverage, having a feel for space, reading coverage,
- 1:20:23Speaker 2: being able to separate in a variety of forms that
- 1:20:25Speaker 2: isn't just at the catch point with size and frame
- 1:20:28Speaker 2: and athleticism. So I do still have some question marks
- 1:20:30Speaker 2: about the receiving room, and I don't think they've been tested,
- 1:20:33Speaker 2: which is part of the reason why it was one
- 1:20:36Speaker 2: of my points in this game and why I still
- 1:20:37Speaker 2: have questions because the Bills been able to run the
- 1:20:41Speaker 2: ball successfully, and as long as the Bills can continue
- 1:20:43Speaker 2: to run the ball successfully, we don't have to answer
- 1:20:45Speaker 2: that question about the wide receivers. So that's a position
- 1:20:49Speaker 2: I have questioned about, and I still do. It's weird,
- 1:20:53Speaker 2: I might talk about both sides of my mouth here.
- 1:20:55Speaker 2: I do have some questions A safety still, Rap and
- 1:20:58Speaker 2: Hamlet have been fine. They're responsible, they know what they're
- 1:21:01Speaker 2: doing from a coverage standpoint and who they want to be.
- 1:21:06Speaker 2: But for me, I I just I just think because
- 1:21:11Speaker 2: they're athleticism is limited and that upside is kind of
- 1:21:15Speaker 2: limited there. I just do have some questions about that
- 1:21:18Speaker 2: spot and do we continue to see that safety grouping
- 1:21:20Speaker 2: all year? Does Mike Edwards pop in at any point?
- 1:21:23Speaker 2: Just call Bishop pop in at any point? So safety
- 1:21:26Speaker 2: is like a weird one because I'm comfortable with it
- 1:21:28Speaker 2: and I like it, but I also have questions about it,
- 1:21:30Speaker 2: and linebacker I think is one for me as well
- 1:21:33Speaker 2: as as I answered that question earlier about potential liability,
- 1:21:38Speaker 2: I just I'm just not still holistically confident in Dorian
- 1:21:41Speaker 2: Williams or even specter. He's had less time on task
- 1:21:45Speaker 2: and less less snaps, but I just still want worry
- 1:21:49Speaker 2: about Dorian Williams is processing and kind of him being
- 1:21:52Speaker 2: put into a bind. I think if a team can
- 1:21:54Speaker 2: run the ball on the bills and then work in
- 1:21:56Speaker 2: play action, Dorian can get put into hell quickly because
- 1:22:00Speaker 2: of having to process the run to pass and then
- 1:22:02Speaker 2: figuring out where to go from there being manipulated or
- 1:22:05Speaker 2: misled by eye candy and presentation and window dressing. But
- 1:22:08Speaker 2: these are all minor. Like this is me really just
- 1:22:11Speaker 2: answering your question and nitpicking. I really feel fine about
- 1:22:15Speaker 2: this team in a lot of areas. I don't feel
- 1:22:17Speaker 2: great in a lot of positions, but I feel fine
- 1:22:19Speaker 2: holistically across the team, aside from having some specific like
- 1:22:24Speaker 2: individual player questions. That was a good one. Mmmm oh,
- 1:22:32Speaker 2: Luke says, where do you rank the defenses and totality
- 1:22:34Speaker 2: between the Dolphins, Jags, and Carts.
- 1:22:37Speaker 1: Oh.
- 1:22:40Speaker 2: I really like what the Cardinals do. They just don't
- 1:22:42Speaker 2: have the talent. I would say when everybody's healthy, the
- 1:22:49Speaker 2: Jags are first, then the Dolphins, then the Cardinals. Like
- 1:22:58Speaker 2: we talked about, I like some of the individual player
- 1:23:00Speaker 2: pieces the Jags have, and I like their defensive coordinator
- 1:23:02Speaker 2: Ryan Nielsen and how he meshes with their personnel. I
- 1:23:05Speaker 2: think the Dolphins have some good talent on that side
- 1:23:08Speaker 2: of the ball, and I like some of the things
- 1:23:09Speaker 2: that Anthony Weaver is doing, their defensive coordinator who came
- 1:23:12Speaker 2: over from Baltimore. You just got to give him the
- 1:23:13Speaker 2: ability to kind of gel a little bit and work
- 1:23:15Speaker 2: some things. The Cardinals, I think they're really fun schematically
- 1:23:18Speaker 2: and from a creative standpoint, they just don't think they
- 1:23:20Speaker 2: have the horses, especially upfront, like their light upfront. They
- 1:23:23Speaker 2: don't have a ton of depth or impact dudes upfront,
- 1:23:26Speaker 2: and I think that kind of limits their upside side
- 1:23:28Speaker 2: Go Jags Dolphins cards, Adrian says, do we see more
- 1:23:33Speaker 2: mbs since the Jags like to play cover one, we
- 1:23:36Speaker 2: might We might see the ability to kind of threaten
- 1:23:37Speaker 2: the field or threaten the field vertically with mvs, which
- 1:23:40Speaker 2: we've seen it. He's gotten open a bit, Josh just
- 1:23:42Speaker 2: hasn't been able to connect with him. I do think
- 1:23:47Speaker 2: if the Jags are gonna play more Cover one, I
- 1:23:49Speaker 2: think we just see more play action and motion to
- 1:23:51Speaker 2: manipulate the man coverage, and then we see Brady scheming
- 1:23:54Speaker 2: some things up. So we could see more MBS to
- 1:23:56Speaker 2: threaten vertically and win some one on ones, especially because
- 1:23:59Speaker 2: they're down on the back end in terms of health
- 1:24:02Speaker 2: and from an injury standpoint with their guys. Campbell going
- 1:24:05Speaker 2: down really sucks for them and is super unfortunate with
- 1:24:08Speaker 2: how good he is and what he is and how
- 1:24:10Speaker 2: athletic he is. But yeah, you could see some more mvs.
- 1:24:13Speaker 2: In this game. Mm yeah, Nikki said, I meant the
- 1:24:20Speaker 2: other tight defensive and Trayvon Walker. How has he been looking?
- 1:24:22Speaker 2: Is he going to be an issue? Am I crazy?
- 1:24:25Speaker 2: I answered this? I talked about him speed to power,
- 1:24:27Speaker 2: he can go through Spencer Brown's chest? What he is
- 1:24:29Speaker 2: playing that? Am I crazy? Am I hallucinating? Are you?
- 1:24:33Speaker 2: Are you trolling me? I know I answered this. I
- 1:24:36Speaker 2: think I did. If I didn't tell me, or if
- 1:24:38Speaker 2: you didn't hear it, or somebody tell me. I talked
- 1:24:40Speaker 2: about Trayvon Walker with regard to Nicky's question earlier, because
- 1:24:44Speaker 2: I feel like I feel like crazy.
- 1:24:47Speaker 1: Mm hmmmmmmmmmmm.
- 1:24:52Speaker 2: Where's one? Oh? I like this one from searching for Oldies?
- 1:24:55Speaker 2: So far? What do you think of? Okay? So Spence
- 1:24:58Speaker 2: that way, there's another Trayvon work. Okay? So I did
- 1:25:01Speaker 2: answer that?
- 1:25:01Speaker 4: All right?
- 1:25:01Speaker 3: Cool?
- 1:25:01Speaker 2: So I'm not crazy. Search of for Oldie says so far?
- 1:25:04Speaker 2: What do you think of Brady's scheme? I'm loving it? No,
- 1:25:08Speaker 2: I said Trayvon Walker. I said Walker a bunch. I'm
- 1:25:10Speaker 2: pretty sure well I was talking about Trayvon Walker. I know,
- 1:25:14Speaker 2: I said Trayvon Walker. I'm good. I'm going on the
- 1:25:17Speaker 2: rabbit hole on this, but I can't. I can't, I can't.
- 1:25:19Speaker 2: I gotta. I gotta stay, I gotta stay. Oh no, yeah,
- 1:25:22Speaker 2: I don't know so far. What do you think of
- 1:25:25Speaker 2: Brady's scheme. I'm loving it. I like it. I I
- 1:25:28Speaker 2: think so. The Bills have moved into reducing some of
- 1:25:33Speaker 2: their formational with last year. They were one of the
- 1:25:35Speaker 2: heaviest spread teams in the league last year towards top
- 1:25:39Speaker 2: of the league, second widest formational with This year, they've
- 1:25:42Speaker 2: moved towards middle of the league, which is nice to see.
- 1:25:44Speaker 2: I just like him providing easy buttons for Alan. That
- 1:25:48Speaker 2: opening touchdown on slither or that running back mess traffic
- 1:25:51Speaker 2: concept to cook against the Dolphins is really nice. That's
- 1:25:54Speaker 2: a natural easy button. You get two motion man indicators
- 1:25:56Speaker 2: pre snap to help Alan identify the coverage. You get
- 1:25:59Speaker 2: good execution. I like him leaning into the run and
- 1:26:02Speaker 2: pressing the run buttons as much as he can, varying
- 1:26:05Speaker 2: the run scheme. I like that the mid zone run
- 1:26:07Speaker 2: wasn't working against Miami, so we pivoted to tackle, wrap
- 1:26:12Speaker 2: and duo and started working in more elements there. So
- 1:26:16Speaker 2: I like him understanding the run game. I like the
- 1:26:18Speaker 2: buttons He's pushing with the personnel. I'm happy with it.
- 1:26:23Speaker 2: I think he based on the personnel we saw this
- 1:26:26Speaker 2: offseason and then what we saw in camp. I think
- 1:26:29Speaker 2: he's very much understanding where offensive football is moving towards
- 1:26:34Speaker 2: in today's NFL. And I think the Bills have built
- 1:26:37Speaker 2: themselves for that. And he is pressing the buttons and
- 1:26:40Speaker 2: pulling the levers that you need to press and pull
- 1:26:42Speaker 2: in order to be successful in today's NFL. So give
- 1:26:46Speaker 2: me some more play action. Keep using the motion, keep
- 1:26:50Speaker 2: preting that motion, keep leaning into the diversity in the
- 1:26:54Speaker 2: run game, and using your personnel groupings and your formational
- 1:26:58Speaker 2: advantages in terms of being a to access more of
- 1:27:00Speaker 2: the menu without having to turn the page and put
- 1:27:02Speaker 2: the defense into a bind. I like having him having
- 1:27:05Speaker 2: twelve personnel and going condensed and then going three by
- 1:27:09Speaker 2: two empty and really putting defenses into hell. I think
- 1:27:11Speaker 2: it's fun. I think he's doing things good for now.
- 1:27:15Speaker 2: We'll see, we'll see. The big test for Brady will
- 1:27:18Speaker 2: really be kind of similar what we saw for Ken Dorsey,
- 1:27:20Speaker 2: where the Bill started out hot in Dorsey's first year,
- 1:27:23Speaker 2: and then as the season went on, you know, you've
- 1:27:26Speaker 2: got more tape available the sample size has increased. Teams
- 1:27:30Speaker 2: were able to start to put a book together on you.
- 1:27:33Speaker 2: Can you adjust to that book when teams start to CounterPunch,
- 1:27:37Speaker 2: do you have a counter punch for their CounterPunch? So
- 1:27:39Speaker 2: we'll see as that starts to go forward again. This
- 1:27:42Speaker 2: is now fully Joe Brady's offense. I'm not counting too
- 1:27:44Speaker 2: much of what we saw last year, although some of
- 1:27:46Speaker 2: it is relevant, and we've seen some of it play
- 1:27:48Speaker 2: out so far in these first two weeks, but small
- 1:27:50Speaker 2: sample size, and I'm excited to kind of see what
- 1:27:55Speaker 2: he is going forward and how he continues to evolve
- 1:27:57Speaker 2: and develop. Appreciate everybody in the chat answer me on
- 1:28:02Speaker 2: the Trayvon Walker thing. Okay, I want to make sure
- 1:28:04Speaker 2: I wasn't crazy crazy, think you very much, Thank you
- 1:28:06Speaker 2: very much. Ralph saying, is Morre's part of the Jags
- 1:28:09Speaker 2: protection problems? I think it comes down to the same
- 1:28:13Speaker 2: thing that you saw in Buffalo, where at times he's
- 1:28:16Speaker 2: just you know, his size, being a smaller guy. If
- 1:28:19Speaker 2: he's not good with his positioning and getting on guys early,
- 1:28:23Speaker 2: he can get driven back and knocked into the QB
- 1:28:25Speaker 2: a little bit. I think what Jordan pointed out was
- 1:28:27Speaker 2: really interesting. Like one of Morse's strengths here with the
- 1:28:30Speaker 2: Bills was all the pre snap communication and front identification
- 1:28:33Speaker 2: that helped the past protection. The fact that that's a
- 1:28:36Speaker 2: struggle right now for the Jags and for Morse, I
- 1:28:38Speaker 2: think is very interesting to note. So I would say
- 1:28:41Speaker 2: he's part of the Jags protection problems. I don't think
- 1:28:44Speaker 2: he's the source point. I think a lot of his
- 1:28:46Speaker 2: schematic I don't know if it's schematic because of what
- 1:28:51Speaker 2: they're being coached to do, or if it's because of
- 1:28:55Speaker 2: adjustments and communication pre snap based on fronts that they're
- 1:28:59Speaker 2: seeing in game. That's something I don't know. But it's
- 1:29:03Speaker 2: more schematic than it is individual talent. I'll say that
- 1:29:07Speaker 2: on the line. And when it comes to being a
- 1:29:08Speaker 2: schematic issue, the center is always going to be a
- 1:29:11Speaker 2: part of it. And then especially even more so again
- 1:29:13Speaker 2: more socise when he gets matched up on bigger dudes,
- 1:29:15Speaker 2: they can kind of barrow him and kind of knock
- 1:29:17Speaker 2: him back into the QB a little bit. Oh, we
- 1:29:19Speaker 2: got a super chat, so I gotta stop. Thank you
- 1:29:21Speaker 2: very much Nathan for being here and for your super chat.
- 1:29:24Speaker 2: And I don't know if did you have a question
- 1:29:29Speaker 2: to go along with this or did you want to
- 1:29:30Speaker 2: just give a super chat, because if you just want
- 1:29:31Speaker 2: to give a super chat, I'm glad we take it,
- 1:29:33Speaker 2: and I greatly appreciate you. Oh and then Nathan also
- 1:29:35Speaker 2: have a comment here saying the Bills defense has been strong,
- 1:29:37Speaker 2: Alan is showing leadership and team chemistry is solid. Cover
- 1:29:41Speaker 2: one podcast gives deep analysis of great insights. Thank you
- 1:29:43Speaker 2: very much for the kind words and for the super chat.
- 1:29:46Speaker 2: I appreciate you being here, the nice words, and uh,
- 1:29:49Speaker 2: the super chat. Thank you very much. All Right, I
- 1:29:52Speaker 2: don't know if you're being sarcastic or now, but yeah,
- 1:29:54Speaker 2: I know I talked about him, I talked about Okay,
- 1:29:56Speaker 2: I'm just gonna leave it, but I appreciate you. Oh
- 1:30:04Speaker 2: RJ saying I love the Joe Brady easy buttons motion
- 1:30:07Speaker 2: is so refreshing. Now we just need that play action.
- 1:30:09Speaker 2: I saw this from multiple people here talking about the
- 1:30:11Speaker 2: play action and the play action. Yeah, that would be nice.
- 1:30:13Speaker 2: I would like that element. I just think it's the natural.
- 1:30:17Speaker 2: I always have to say this because somebody's always ready
- 1:30:19Speaker 2: to fire it out of the holester. You don't need
- 1:30:21Speaker 2: a good running game to have good play action. But
- 1:30:23Speaker 2: if you have a good running game, it makes your
- 1:30:25Speaker 2: play action game that much better. And the Bills do
- 1:30:27Speaker 2: have a good running game. So give me more play action,
- 1:30:31Speaker 2: give me more bootlegs, give me Josh Allen on the move,
- 1:30:35Speaker 2: move the pocket, give me some nakeds and some front
- 1:30:38Speaker 2: side stuff. I'm excited for again, what the layering and
- 1:30:44Speaker 2: building of this offense can be under Joe Brady. I
- 1:30:50Speaker 2: like a lot of the pieces. I see some more
- 1:30:51Speaker 2: questions coming in some thoughts. We're going to continue to
- 1:30:55Speaker 2: get into those. But I wanted to pull up this piece.
- 1:31:00Speaker 2: I thought it was an interesting conversation to have considering
- 1:31:04Speaker 2: the Bills are involved in it. I want to bring
- 1:31:09Speaker 2: this up from our partners over there at us SO
- 1:31:12Speaker 2: undefeated teams after Week two. There are nine of them,
- 1:31:15Speaker 2: the Bills, the Chargers, the Chiefs, the Steelers, the Texans,
- 1:31:19Speaker 2: the Seahawks, the Vikings, the Saints, and the Buccaneers. And
- 1:31:23Speaker 2: they were talking about this earlier today in terms of
- 1:31:26Speaker 2: which one of these teams are the most surprising. I
- 1:31:30Speaker 2: kind of wanted to say Chargers, but their schedule has
- 1:31:32Speaker 2: been easy to start, so it's not too crazy. I'm
- 1:31:34Speaker 2: gonna go with the Steelers. I really thought they'd lose
- 1:31:36Speaker 2: early on to the Falcons, and the Steelers also tie
- 1:31:39Speaker 2: into that Bills aspect. I think the Steelers will start
- 1:31:43Speaker 2: to fade a little bit as the season goes along,
- 1:31:46Speaker 2: But the Steelers sitting there at two to oh, and
- 1:31:48Speaker 2: I think the Vikings are extremely surprising at two and
- 1:31:50Speaker 2: oh as well. I know Deebo got banged up against
- 1:31:53Speaker 2: Minnesota in the game, but and I know there's no
- 1:31:55Speaker 2: Christian McCaffrey folks that got banged up a little bit.
- 1:31:58Speaker 2: But Jefferson also got banged up. I thought would have
- 1:32:00Speaker 2: lost to San Francisco last week, and we were sitting
- 1:32:03Speaker 2: there seeing him at one and one. New Orleans isn't
- 1:32:05Speaker 2: crazy surprising to me, just because I think they're a
- 1:32:07Speaker 2: better team than they get credit for. And I don't
- 1:32:09Speaker 2: holistically believe in Dallas. But yeah, the I also really
- 1:32:13Speaker 2: like Tampa this year offensively and defensively. I like a
- 1:32:16Speaker 2: lot of these teams. I like Seattle, I like Houston,
- 1:32:18Speaker 2: I like the Saints, I like the Bucks. I'm very
- 1:32:20Speaker 2: surprised at Archie says, I'm so sick of the Vikings
- 1:32:24Speaker 2: being a below average team that somehow always wins. I
- 1:32:27Speaker 2: don't know how they do it man and their defense
- 1:32:29Speaker 2: is super fun with all the blitzing and man coverage
- 1:32:33Speaker 2: they play and what they do with Martellis and all
- 1:32:35Speaker 2: the safety looks and then having green Heerd coming off
- 1:32:39Speaker 2: of one side and Dallas Turner on the other. Yet
- 1:32:42Speaker 2: it's a fun it's a fun grouping that they've got there. Yeah,
- 1:32:47Speaker 2: but I didn't think they'd beat San Francisco. I thought
- 1:32:49Speaker 2: they'd be one and one at this point, and I
- 1:32:51Speaker 2: thought Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh beating Denver in week two isn't anything crazy,
- 1:32:54Speaker 2: But I thought they lose week one of the Falcons.
- 1:32:56Speaker 2: But the Falcons are still trying to feel themselves out
- 1:32:58Speaker 2: a little bit. So here looking at the undefeated teams
- 1:33:01Speaker 2: after week two, Yeah, I am surprised at Pittsburgh, and
- 1:33:05Speaker 2: I'm very surprised with Minnesota just being there too, and
- 1:33:08Speaker 2: oh and beating the San Francisco forty nine ers, which
- 1:33:11Speaker 2: again was still a wild win. Sam Darnold, I don't know,
- 1:33:15Speaker 2: kind of finally tapping into who he was supposed to
- 1:33:17Speaker 2: be all those years ago. So really cool to see
- 1:33:20Speaker 2: him kind of start to develop a little bit. And
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- 1:34:17Speaker 2: looking at this graphic. I just can't believe Minnesota beat
- 1:34:19Speaker 2: San Francisco and I know it's early. I also saw.
- 1:34:22Speaker 2: I think they said it during the game too. I
- 1:34:24Speaker 2: think San Francisco has lost their last seven trips to Minnesota.
- 1:34:28Speaker 2: Granted the teams have been different, there's not much carryover
- 1:34:30Speaker 2: in consistency, but yeah, that was a surprising one considering
- 1:34:33Speaker 2: the Niners of the Niners and Darnold and Minnesota not
- 1:34:37Speaker 2: necessarily being real. I'd also like the Vikings to lose
- 1:34:41Speaker 2: because that second round pick, I want it to be
- 1:34:44Speaker 2: as high as possible, So I'd love them to just
- 1:34:46Speaker 2: lose away so that second round pick that the Bills
- 1:34:49Speaker 2: got from Minnesota can be like a top forty or
- 1:34:51Speaker 2: a top thirty five pick. That would be really nice.
- 1:34:53Speaker 2: But yeah, really interesting to see where they're at at
- 1:34:55Speaker 2: this point. All right, let's continue on the conversation piece.
- 1:34:59Speaker 2: We got the super from Josh. Thank you very much
- 1:35:01Speaker 2: for being here. Josh, thank you for the super chat.
- 1:35:03Speaker 2: The question, oh, Josh says, what wide receiver should the
- 1:35:05Speaker 2: Bills trade for? Or sign Ooh, I'm gonna shoot. I'm
- 1:35:12Speaker 2: gonna shoot for the stars and say, if the Bills
- 1:35:14Speaker 2: are going to trade for a wide receiver, figure out
- 1:35:17Speaker 2: a way to make the money work. I don't care.
- 1:35:19Speaker 2: Go get Devontae Adams. I know it's pie in the sky,
- 1:35:22Speaker 2: Like it's so hard to make that work, if it
- 1:35:23Speaker 2: can even work. I haven't even looked at his numbers
- 1:35:26Speaker 2: financially from a contract standpoint, trying to figure out how
- 1:35:29Speaker 2: it could work. But that would be that would be it, Like,
- 1:35:33Speaker 2: don't try to grab I would have said Noah Brown
- 1:35:37Speaker 2: if he was still a free agent. But at this point,
- 1:35:39Speaker 2: I'm gonna go. I'm going for the stars and I'm
- 1:35:42Speaker 2: shooting for the moon. Go get DeVante Adams, Go get
- 1:35:44Speaker 2: who He's still one of the best receivers in the league.
- 1:35:46Speaker 2: People just don't know about it because Vegas it is
- 1:35:48Speaker 2: not good. But maybe he doesn't want to go anywhere
- 1:35:51Speaker 2: now because they're one and one, and maybe there's some
- 1:35:53Speaker 2: hope and belief there for the Raiders. But yeah, go
- 1:35:55Speaker 2: get DeVante Adams. Go shoot for the stars and get them.
- 1:35:59Speaker 2: Mm hmm, Carl saying, well, Daikwon Jones and Ed Oliver
- 1:36:04Speaker 2: versus the Jags interior oline be a key match for
- 1:36:06Speaker 2: this game. It will be, but I just expect them
- 1:36:10Speaker 2: to win it. I think highly of Ed Oliver and
- 1:36:12Speaker 2: Dakwon Jones. I think they can cause chaos inside. It's
- 1:36:16Speaker 2: going to be important because you need to control the
- 1:36:17Speaker 2: interior of the pocket, and getting pressure on Lawrence straight
- 1:36:20Speaker 2: up the gut and quick is a nice way to
- 1:36:22Speaker 2: really affect his game. So I think it's going to
- 1:36:25Speaker 2: be a key matchup in really every week, but this
- 1:36:27Speaker 2: one too, especially considering the Jags O line struggles. Yeah,
- 1:36:29Speaker 2: I think that's fair, Josh says, going back to your thought,
- 1:36:34Speaker 2: which team on the upcoming schedule do you think challenges
- 1:36:36Speaker 2: the Bills and Josh to win through the air with
- 1:36:39Speaker 2: our wide receivers. Baltimore, I think we'll do that. I
- 1:36:43Speaker 2: know they're owing two and everybody's kind of laughing, and
- 1:36:46Speaker 2: plus Bill's fans want to dunk on the mar every
- 1:36:47Speaker 2: chance they get because they're mad that he won the MVP.
- 1:36:50Speaker 2: But I think Houston has the potential of Houston. I
- 1:36:54Speaker 2: think Baltimore has the potential to do that with their front.
- 1:36:56Speaker 2: I think they can mitigate the run. They've got athleticism
- 1:36:58Speaker 2: at the second level. I think they can force Allen
- 1:37:00Speaker 2: to live through the air. I think the Jets can
- 1:37:03Speaker 2: do a similar thing as well, if we're just talking
- 1:37:05Speaker 2: immediately with their front. I know they got gouged a
- 1:37:08Speaker 2: bit by the Niners, but I still think they have
- 1:37:11Speaker 2: the ability to be sound defensively and be tougher against
- 1:37:13Speaker 2: the run, and then with their corners on the outside,
- 1:37:15Speaker 2: I mean, man, you can really load up the box
- 1:37:17Speaker 2: and just be like okay, try and beat Sauce and
- 1:37:19Speaker 2: Carter and DJ Reid and go from there. So I
- 1:37:22Speaker 2: think it starts with the Ravens heads into the Jets,
- 1:37:25Speaker 2: and I think the Texans are a sneaky one as well.
- 1:37:27Speaker 2: I think Derek Stingley now is showing people that when
- 1:37:30Speaker 2: he's healthy he can be in that top tier conversation
- 1:37:32Speaker 2: with Sauce and certain is the best corners in the NFL.
- 1:37:36Speaker 2: So I think Houston has the ability, and then they're
- 1:37:38Speaker 2: front with what Hunter is doing and just how they
- 1:37:43Speaker 2: attack and how coordinated they are. I think they could
- 1:37:46Speaker 2: potentially that they're kind of third, I think, behind Baltimore
- 1:37:48Speaker 2: in the Jets respectively, but most would be my thoughts
- 1:37:51Speaker 2: there Cameron saying, do you think Alam can step up
- 1:37:56Speaker 2: this year if an injury happens to one of our
- 1:37:57Speaker 2: top two? I know there was optimism at camp. Yes,
- 1:38:00Speaker 2: I think very highly of Christian Benford and Rasul Douglas.
- 1:38:02Speaker 2: So I don't want to just be like, oh yeah, easily,
- 1:38:07Speaker 2: and this isn't again to knock Kyrie Elam. It's more
- 1:38:09Speaker 2: because I think Christian Benford and Rasul Douglas are very good.
- 1:38:13Speaker 2: I think people are starting to come around more to
- 1:38:15Speaker 2: how good Christian Benford is. I've been talking about him
- 1:38:18Speaker 2: all off season. Eric and I talked about him in
- 1:38:20Speaker 2: the film room as being one of the most under
- 1:38:21Speaker 2: the radar players of the Bills this year. Christian Benford
- 1:38:24Speaker 2: is still trending upwards. He's very good. Douglas is very good,
- 1:38:29Speaker 2: So I don't think it's easy to fill their shoes
- 1:38:32Speaker 2: if an injury happens to one of them. But I
- 1:38:35Speaker 2: do have faith in Kyrie. I think he's made improvements
- 1:38:37Speaker 2: versus where he was the first couple of years. Think
- 1:38:39Speaker 2: he's playing with more confidence. I think he's playing the
- 1:38:41Speaker 2: run better and you're starting to see more of that
- 1:38:44Speaker 2: athleticism and some of the physical traits and tools that
- 1:38:47Speaker 2: he has start to show up more regularly. So yes,
- 1:38:50Speaker 2: if an injury happens, I think that he can step up.
- 1:38:52Speaker 2: I don't want it to happen because I love the
- 1:38:54Speaker 2: starting too with Benford and Douglas, but I do think
- 1:38:57Speaker 2: he can step up and mitigate some things if that
- 1:38:59Speaker 2: were to happen. I love this comment here from Josh saying,
- 1:39:01Speaker 2: don't forget to drop likes everyone, Yes, yes, yes, please
- 1:39:03Speaker 2: and thank you. If you have not already and you
- 1:39:04Speaker 2: are willing and able, please drop a ke on this video.
- 1:39:07Speaker 2: It's greatly appreciative, appreciated by myself on the entire team.
- 1:39:10Speaker 2: It goes a long way towards telling us the track
- 1:39:12Speaker 2: and trend in front of more eyes and ears. Ah yeah,
- 1:39:16Speaker 2: that's the stat Nicki said at the Niners being zero
- 1:39:18Speaker 2: to eight in Minnesota. Crazy stat. Yeah, nuts nuts nuts
- 1:39:22Speaker 2: nuts bum bum Nicki saying do we extend Douglas? Something
- 1:39:28Speaker 2: changed in the defense when we got him. I thought
- 1:39:29Speaker 2: if they were going to extend him, they would have
- 1:39:31Speaker 2: done it. This past offseason they restructured his contract and
- 1:39:33Speaker 2: moved some of the money into void years the next
- 1:39:36Speaker 2: couple That doesn't mean they can't resign him, but the
- 1:39:39Speaker 2: restructuring was interesting. I thought he would have been a
- 1:39:42Speaker 2: surefire extension candidate given how well he played to your point,
- 1:39:46Speaker 2: like how the defense changed once he was brought in.
- 1:39:48Speaker 2: He was a legitimate corner one from the moment he
- 1:39:50Speaker 2: stepped on the field, and I still think. I know
- 1:39:52Speaker 2: there were a ton of injuries in that game against
- 1:39:54Speaker 2: Kansas City in the playoffs, but he was playing on
- 1:39:56Speaker 2: one leg. Even if he was out there healthy, I
- 1:39:58Speaker 2: think he would have made a big difference for a
- 1:40:01Speaker 2: lot of other guys. Benford included, Bernard included, I don't
- 1:40:03Speaker 2: even want to go down that rabbit hole, but yeah,
- 1:40:06Speaker 2: I thought he would have been an extension candidate this offseason.
- 1:40:08Speaker 2: I thought he was going to get an extension. I
- 1:40:10Speaker 2: lobbied for it. Them doing the restructure and moving money
- 1:40:15Speaker 2: forward for void years instead of doing the straight up
- 1:40:18Speaker 2: extension is interesting, and then elim producing or starting to
- 1:40:22Speaker 2: show more positive signs is also interesting. I don't think
- 1:40:25Speaker 2: it's a guarantee. I would very much do it. I
- 1:40:28Speaker 2: think he's smart, he's savvy, he's a leader, he's a
- 1:40:32Speaker 2: good player. He fits what you need from the corner
- 1:40:35Speaker 2: spot in today's NFL with being able to play the
- 1:40:37Speaker 2: pass but also being able to play the run and
- 1:40:39Speaker 2: set the edge and be a forced player and also
- 1:40:41Speaker 2: come up and make tackles. I'd like to see him extended,
- 1:40:44Speaker 2: even if it's for one or two years, but yeah,
- 1:40:47Speaker 2: I would like to see it. I just don't know
- 1:40:50Speaker 2: if it happens. Them restructuring this offseason instead of going
- 1:40:53Speaker 2: for the extension when you could have, you could have
- 1:40:55Speaker 2: had similar outcomes with the extension as you did with
- 1:40:58Speaker 2: the restructure. Them opting for the restructure instead of the extension,
- 1:41:02Speaker 2: I thought was interesting. Appreciate you, Lisa G saying about
- 1:41:06Speaker 2: Trey Walker. I covered it with the guest and afterwards too.
- 1:41:08Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 1:41:08Speaker 2: I want to make sure I'm not crazy. Drew saying
- 1:41:14Speaker 2: if we blitz Lawrence to get pressure, we could lose.
- 1:41:16Speaker 2: He's good at beating the obvious looks against us. Yeah,
- 1:41:19Speaker 2: I don't if you can get pressure with four and
- 1:41:21Speaker 2: play coverage behind it. I love that. Cagd saying it's
- 1:41:25Speaker 2: crazy that Benford was a sixth rounder. Absolutely, Jordan says,
- 1:41:28Speaker 2: as Tyler Bass on the hot seat. Yeah, just based
- 1:41:32Speaker 2: off the fact that they brought in kickers. I guess
- 1:41:37Speaker 2: they really hated how ugly that miss was in Miami
- 1:41:39Speaker 2: last week. It's yeah, a little bit worrisome, A little
- 1:41:45Speaker 2: bit worrisome. I yeah, I don't even think you can
- 1:41:49Speaker 2: sugarcoat it if you're bringing in competition and trying out
- 1:41:52Speaker 2: other dudes at a guy's position. He's got to be
- 1:41:55Speaker 2: on the hot seat. Nikki saying they did that with
- 1:41:59Speaker 2: the Daique with Daikon Jones two with the voy years.
- 1:42:01Speaker 2: I could be wrong. I don't remember if they did
- 1:42:03Speaker 2: void years with Daikon. I thought he was just a
- 1:42:05Speaker 2: straight up UFA with no void years, but there could
- 1:42:09Speaker 2: have been one. Being done so much with the void
- 1:42:12Speaker 2: years now like m MVS, I think has like four
- 1:42:16Speaker 2: two or three two hundred and fifty thousand dollars void
- 1:42:19Speaker 2: year cap hits for the next like three or four
- 1:42:20Speaker 2: years or something like that. Like he's working him into
- 1:42:22Speaker 2: everything in order to kind of kick down the road
- 1:42:24Speaker 2: while they recoup some of the DIGS money and make
- 1:42:26Speaker 2: up for the Allen money starting to kick in now.
- 1:42:31Speaker 2: No Spin saying, are we gonna have to pay Allen
- 1:42:33Speaker 2: sixty plus million year now because of Dak when we
- 1:42:36Speaker 2: extend SA's restructure him next year? Man, I don't know.
- 1:42:39Speaker 2: The quarterback market is so annoying, and not because guys
- 1:42:44Speaker 2: don't deserve it, but it just gets reset all the time,
- 1:42:47Speaker 2: and then you have to pay them more and more,
- 1:42:50Speaker 2: and I think you're gonna see, I don't know how
- 1:42:51Speaker 2: much you're gonna have to pay him a year. I
- 1:42:53Speaker 2: don't know if that's where it'll swing or if more
- 1:42:55Speaker 2: of the conversation shifts into guaranteed money, because it's at
- 1:43:00Speaker 2: a certain point you got to stem the bleeding a
- 1:43:02Speaker 2: little bit from how much you're paying quarterbacks if it
- 1:43:04Speaker 2: just if you're if they keep operating at this trend.
- 1:43:07Speaker 2: Granted the cap goes up every year, but if you
- 1:43:10Speaker 2: keep operating at this trend, of and see it's been
- 1:43:13Speaker 2: saying I'm sorry, no player deserves sixty million a year,
- 1:43:16Speaker 2: I agree. And also it's hard to build a good
- 1:43:20Speaker 2: team around a guy that you have to pay that much. Granted,
- 1:43:23Speaker 2: if you're paying a guy that much, quarterback is the
- 1:43:26Speaker 2: most important position arguably, and if you're paying that guy
- 1:43:30Speaker 2: that needs, you probably have that guy, so you feel good.
- 1:43:34Speaker 2: But I don't know. The Giants paid Daniel Jones all
- 1:43:36Speaker 2: that money, and he'd not that guy. I just I
- 1:43:39Speaker 2: just don't like having to sink so much money into
- 1:43:41Speaker 2: a quarterback at some point, and I know they're worth it,
- 1:43:44Speaker 2: but at some point I think that someone's got to
- 1:43:46Speaker 2: stem the bleeding in terms of how much they keep going,
- 1:43:48Speaker 2: because it can't just keep being like, Okay, so and
- 1:43:51Speaker 2: so is at the market and he's getting sixty million year.
- 1:43:54Speaker 2: Is the next contract going to get you sixty eight
- 1:43:56Speaker 2: or sixty five and then the next one gives you
- 1:43:58Speaker 2: seventy two or seventy three. It can't just it can't
- 1:44:00Speaker 2: just keep going up and going up. Although again, like
- 1:44:04Speaker 2: I said, I know the cap will go up every year.
- 1:44:07Speaker 2: At some point that the bleeding's got to stop a
- 1:44:09Speaker 2: little bit. And so that way, it's like, Okay, do
- 1:44:11Speaker 2: you go with more guaranteed money? Are you trying to
- 1:44:14Speaker 2: reduce how much money they get? So you're not going
- 1:44:16Speaker 2: with value, You're going with more guaranteed. There's got to
- 1:44:20Speaker 2: be some way to stem how much they're going to
- 1:44:23Speaker 2: get from a year's perspective, a guaranteed perspective, and an
- 1:44:27Speaker 2: average annual value perspective. It's got to stop at some point.
- 1:44:31Speaker 2: It's been saying I think forty five MILS should be
- 1:44:32Speaker 2: the max. Sure, I just don't think it's just gonna
- 1:44:37Speaker 2: It's just hard to build a team. Like, if you're
- 1:44:39Speaker 2: paying a quarterback that much, you have to hit on
- 1:44:42Speaker 2: draft picks. You have to be getting like plus value
- 1:44:47Speaker 2: from draft picks early because you need affordable, effective labor
- 1:44:53Speaker 2: throughout the lifespan of that contract. You I mean you
- 1:44:56Speaker 2: got to hit some vets and some guys on one year,
- 1:45:00Speaker 2: you know, two point five million dollar deals. Who I'll
- 1:45:02Speaker 2: perform that contract. You need a lot of draft picks
- 1:45:05Speaker 2: to hit. You need day three guys to contribute. You
- 1:45:08Speaker 2: need to hit on your day one in a good
- 1:45:11Speaker 2: chunk of your day two guys. Yeah, it starts to
- 1:45:14Speaker 2: it really just creates a lot of problems. But again,
- 1:45:16Speaker 2: it's kind of like a good problem to have if
- 1:45:18Speaker 2: you really want to paint in that way, because that
- 1:45:19Speaker 2: means you found a franchise quarterback. But yeah, at some point,
- 1:45:22Speaker 2: it just it just can't keep going where the next
- 1:45:24Speaker 2: contract is more in, the next contract is more, and
- 1:45:26Speaker 2: we keep resetting the quarterback market over and over. At
- 1:45:29Speaker 2: some point it's got to stop in some way, I think,
- 1:45:32Speaker 2: or maybe the cap keeps going up and that means
- 1:45:34Speaker 2: quarterback contracts keep going up.
- 1:45:38Speaker 1: Bumpa bah?
- 1:45:39Speaker 2: Where was Drew said? Wasn't that bass miss against Miami Block?
- 1:45:44Speaker 2: I don't think so. I didn't think it was missed live.
- 1:45:47Speaker 2: And then I think someone posted something earlier today or
- 1:45:51Speaker 2: tonight showing the zooming camera angle, and I think he
- 1:45:54Speaker 2: just shanked it, so I don't think it was blocked.
- 1:45:56Speaker 2: I could be wrong, but I don't think it was blocked.
- 1:46:00Speaker 2: Cameron saying, do you think Cole is going to have
- 1:46:01Speaker 2: a red shirt? Ear Hamlin? Listen. It's not the answer
- 1:46:05Speaker 2: anybody wants to hear, because Cole Bishop is fun and athletic,
- 1:46:07Speaker 2: and people love rookies and want rookies to play. But
- 1:46:12Speaker 2: Hamlin and Rapp are effective. They're responsible, they're reliable, they
- 1:46:16Speaker 2: do what McDermott asks, and they're better than they get
- 1:46:18Speaker 2: credit for. So I could see Cole Bishop just kind
- 1:46:21Speaker 2: of chilling as a backup all year and being like
- 1:46:23Speaker 2: Safety three or Safety four. Same thing with Mike Edwards.
- 1:46:25Speaker 2: I know it's not sexy with Rap and Hamlin, but
- 1:46:28Speaker 2: they're effective, and I don't mean that disparagingly. They're just effective.
- 1:46:35Speaker 2: Drew said. The MLB instituted a salary cap, and their
- 1:46:37Speaker 2: wages are going up every year. MLB doesn't have a
- 1:46:39Speaker 2: salary cap. They have a luxury tax penalty. So if
- 1:46:42Speaker 2: you pay if your team's salary is over a certain
- 1:46:45Speaker 2: amount for a certain period of time, you basically have
- 1:46:48Speaker 2: to pay like a penalty percentage off of that. So
- 1:46:52Speaker 2: it's not necessarily a cap. You just have to be
- 1:46:54Speaker 2: willing to like eat the penalty if you're going to
- 1:46:57Speaker 2: continue to be over the luxury tax penalty. But it's
- 1:47:00Speaker 2: not really like a salary cap. There's no there's no
- 1:47:04Speaker 2: thing that says you can only the MAXI amount you
- 1:47:06Speaker 2: can pay? Is this like there is in the NFL
- 1:47:09Speaker 2: that doesn't exist in Major League Baseball. There's just the
- 1:47:11Speaker 2: luxury tax penalty based in for that. And yeah, O
- 1:47:14Speaker 2: Tani did I think grab the biggest contract in history?
- 1:47:16Speaker 2: And the Dodgers got creative in terms of how they
- 1:47:19Speaker 2: move money out and how they're paying him, Like the
- 1:47:21Speaker 2: Dodgers do what every year? I don't know how the
- 1:47:22Speaker 2: Dodgers continue to pay everybody with him and Mooki and
- 1:47:25Speaker 2: Freeman and all in glass now and all the money
- 1:47:28Speaker 2: that they just have in dudes every year every year.
- 1:47:31Speaker 2: It's wild. M M, yeah, no worries. I know. I'm
- 1:47:37Speaker 2: a I'm a Red Sox fan. And they were crushed
- 1:47:39Speaker 2: by the luxury tax for forever and now they're under
- 1:47:41Speaker 2: and they refuse to pay people. It's very weird, very weird,
- 1:47:45Speaker 2: very weird, very weird. Yeah, baseball is like the last
- 1:47:48Speaker 2: major sport at least in America. Like basketball as a
- 1:47:51Speaker 2: salary cap, hockey as a salary cap, the NFL has
- 1:47:54Speaker 2: a salary cap. Major League baseball is still kind of
- 1:47:56Speaker 2: like soccer in terms of the team that have the
- 1:48:00Speaker 2: most money usually just have the best teams because they
- 1:48:03Speaker 2: can buy whoever they want. Soccer gets wonky, though, depending
- 1:48:06Speaker 2: on what league you're in and what country with financial
- 1:48:08Speaker 2: fair play rules and what you have to do, that's
- 1:48:10Speaker 2: a whole another beast. But yeah, major League baseball is
- 1:48:13Speaker 2: basically no salary cap, and they try to balance it
- 1:48:16Speaker 2: by having the luxury tax penalty if you pay over
- 1:48:19Speaker 2: a certain amount, but it's for a certain amount of years.
- 1:48:21Speaker 2: I don't remember exactly what it is, but yeah, it's
- 1:48:23Speaker 2: a fair point, fair fair point. Damn spend, you're just mad,
- 1:48:28Speaker 2: petty tonight, Spinn says, what team is paying rap bounties
- 1:48:30Speaker 2: for taking out our players? Guy plays physical, he comes
- 1:48:33Speaker 2: up and he makes hits. Yeah yeah, oh, Spinn says,
- 1:48:37Speaker 2: out at just a lot, a lot of just lost
- 1:48:39Speaker 2: a lot of respect points, admitting to that Sox fan
- 1:48:43Speaker 2: holding on trying not to vomit. I've said that a lot.
- 1:48:46Speaker 2: I've always said that I'm a red Sox fan. I
- 1:48:49Speaker 2: apologize if that you know, breaks your heart or hurts
- 1:48:54Speaker 2: your heart. Hurts your heart. But yeah, Andrew says bad.
- 1:48:57Speaker 2: No basketball has a cap. Basketball as a cap if
- 1:49:01Speaker 2: I googled it right now. Yeah, the NBA salary cap
- 1:49:03Speaker 2: for the twenty twenty four twenty five season is set
- 1:49:07Speaker 2: at one hundred and forty zero point five eighty eight
- 1:49:10Speaker 2: million dollars. Yeahbea as a salary cap. Maybe I'm reading
- 1:49:14Speaker 2: the wrong fan, but not they have a salary cap.
- 1:49:17Speaker 1: Bum bum bum.
- 1:49:19Speaker 2: Cameron says, do you think Buffalo brings rookies along slowly
- 1:49:21Speaker 2: because of where they draft? That's possible, right if you
- 1:49:23Speaker 2: get guys at the end of the first round, you know, nice,
- 1:49:27Speaker 2: go socks, go socks. I'm I was already punting on
- 1:49:30Speaker 2: this year because they didn't invest. I'm excited for the
- 1:49:32Speaker 2: for the crop next year. We'll kind of see what happens.
- 1:49:35Speaker 2: But Cameron, to your thought, do you think Buffalo brings
- 1:49:37Speaker 2: rookies along slowly because of where they draft? That could
- 1:49:39Speaker 2: play a role. I think a lot of it is
- 1:49:41Speaker 2: just they have a They have a good team, so
- 1:49:44Speaker 2: they don't necessarily need rookies to jump in and contribute.
- 1:49:48Speaker 2: Right away. You've got like, look at I mean, Kinkaid
- 1:49:52Speaker 2: played when they needed him to. Tremaine Edmunds played when
- 1:49:55Speaker 2: they needed him to. I think it's depending at Oliver
- 1:49:58Speaker 2: played when they needed him to. Christian Benford is a
- 1:50:00Speaker 2: rookie that played. I think it's all dependent upon the
- 1:50:03Speaker 2: position the person is drafted in. I think they do
- 1:50:06Speaker 2: like to bring guys on along and develop, But if
- 1:50:09Speaker 2: it's at a position to be and that guy's the
- 1:50:11Speaker 2: best guy, they're gonna play him. It's just that the
- 1:50:13Speaker 2: Bills usually have a deep team that are able to
- 1:50:15Speaker 2: kind of get things done. Carl said. The Red Sox
- 1:50:18Speaker 2: lost tonight. They will not make the playoffs. No, I
- 1:50:20Speaker 2: didn't expect them even when the Red Socks were doing
- 1:50:22Speaker 2: well this year. They don't have the depth. They don't
- 1:50:24Speaker 2: have the talent, they didn't have the pitching staff, they
- 1:50:26Speaker 2: didn't have the bullpen, and then they've had a ton
- 1:50:28Speaker 2: of injuries, starting with Trevor's story, but Devers has been
- 1:50:32Speaker 2: hurt all year. He's gotten significantly worse the last month.
- 1:50:36Speaker 2: His shoulder is just dead. I don't know how he's
- 1:50:38Speaker 2: not even on the il. And then yeah, the bullpen
- 1:50:41Speaker 2: is injured and hurt. The pitching staff is injured and hurt,
- 1:50:43Speaker 2: and neither was really great to begin with. This year
- 1:50:46Speaker 2: was always a punt year for them. They're waiting for
- 1:50:48Speaker 2: Roman Anthony and Michael Mayer and all the sweet prospects
- 1:50:52Speaker 2: that they have in that farm system to come up,
- 1:50:54Speaker 2: probably as early as next year, especially with Roman Anthony
- 1:50:57Speaker 2: being the number one prospect and all the baseball. They're
- 1:50:59Speaker 2: looking for those dudes to come up and take that
- 1:51:01Speaker 2: next step. So it's been cool to watch some of
- 1:51:02Speaker 2: the guys developed, like watching the season that Rafaela has
- 1:51:06Speaker 2: had and seeing some of the pieces develop a little
- 1:51:08Speaker 2: bit there. But yeah, this season was I didn't expect
- 1:51:10Speaker 2: them to make the playoffs. I've just been watching them
- 1:51:12Speaker 2: this year and be like, oh, that's fun. But I
- 1:51:14Speaker 2: didn't expect. I expected them to fade late. I didn't
- 1:51:17Speaker 2: even expect them to be in this position now. But yeah,
- 1:51:18Speaker 2: they're they're not making the playoffs. It is not it
- 1:51:24Speaker 2: is not happening.
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