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Search Over: Joe Brady Named Buffalo Bills Head Coach, and Defensive Coordinator Rumors | DC · Disguised Coverage

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  Speaker 1: but they'll likely come down at the end of this week,
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  Speaker 1: which I know is why everybody tuned into this episode,
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  Speaker 1: because I mean, there's not really anything to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a pretty slow news cycle for the Buffalo
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  Speaker 1: Bills the past couple of weeks. Last week, at this time,
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  Speaker 1: we dove into it's just Tipping who says the Easter
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  Speaker 1: Tree is due. Yeah, the Little Guy will be decked
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  Speaker 1: out in Easter fulling up. Man, I'm almost so terrible
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  Speaker 1: at this right there. Last week's episode, we dove into
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  Speaker 1: a multitude of head coaching candidates for the Buffalo Bills,
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  Speaker 1: including Clint Kobiak, Jesse Mintter, Chris Shula, Nathan Shieldhouse, and
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  Speaker 1: we ended, or I ended, I should say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I kind of ranked the guys that I on it,
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  Speaker 1: who I was looking into it. At the end, we
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  Speaker 1: talked about Joe Brady and Brian Dable, my voice of
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  Speaker 1: falling apart already Joe Brady and Brian Dable potentially being
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  Speaker 1: rumored candidates. I also talked about my gut feeling. I
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  Speaker 1: said this on multiple shows last week. My gut feeling
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  Speaker 1: was Joe Brady was gonna be the head coach of
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  Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. I don't know why, just felt it,
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  Speaker 1: and lo and behold, here we are a week later,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Brady has been named Buffalo Bills head coach, in
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  Speaker 1: I think somewhat of a surprise move for most fans
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  Speaker 1: or those on social media, those on the internet. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to dive into all of that tonight. Wasn't the
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  Speaker 1: right move? Was it not the right move? How it
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  Speaker 1: all looks in totality, the pros, the cons, what it
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  Speaker 1: means going forward, some of the pieces that Joe Brady
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  Speaker 1: and this team will need going forward, A really really,
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  Speaker 1: really fun defensive coordinator rumor that we're going to be
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  Speaker 1: diving into so it'll be fun and along the way.
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  Speaker 1: This is a very contentious time, so questions, thoughts, comments, concerns,
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  Speaker 1: anything and everything you folks have who are watching here
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  Speaker 1: live put it up into the live chat. As always,
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  Speaker 1: super chats get priority. Last week's episode was chalk full
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  Speaker 1: of comments and thoughts from everybody in the chat. I
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  Speaker 1: almost didn't need to prepare any notes and couldn't just
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  Speaker 1: ran with everything in the chat. So if we go
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  Speaker 1: that way again this week, it's understandable and I get it.
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  Speaker 1: And yeah's turning into group therapy as we always do
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  Speaker 1: here and trying to make the show as engaging as possible.
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  Speaker 1: Let's just dive right into Joe Brady being hired as
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  Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills head coach. You know I alluded to
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  Speaker 1: last week's episode. I ended last week's episode talking about
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  Speaker 1: Joe Brady and Brian Dable and how I didn't really
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  Speaker 1: want either as head coach. I spoke individually on them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have to rehash everything in dable comment there
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  Speaker 1: that just came in. Do I have a defensive coordinator
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  Speaker 1: choice in mine? I absolutely do, and I will be
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  Speaker 1: going into that defensive coordinator choice slash wish in the
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  Speaker 1: back end of this episode. But sorry to kind of
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  Speaker 1: like teaz or like put that out there. I talked
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  Speaker 1: about Dable. I'm not gonna get into it now because
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  Speaker 1: he's of no consequence of the Bills right now. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he's the Titans offensive coordinator now supposedly, so some consequence
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  Speaker 1: you know, with the Titans being in the AFC and
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL. But I spoke on Joe Brady and
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  Speaker 1: I'm still kind of at the same spot with him
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  Speaker 1: as I was last week, and kind of talking about
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  Speaker 1: this higher and I'm going to talk about it a
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  Speaker 1: little bit and then we'll get to all the comments
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  Speaker 1: and have it back and forth as we normally do
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  Speaker 1: here on the show. I don't think that Joe brady
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  Speaker 1: hire in and of itself is terrible. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: Joe Brady is as bad as he was made out
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  Speaker 1: to be this past year. I also don't think Joe
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  Speaker 1: Brady was as good or as great as he was
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  Speaker 1: made out to be the year prior, when everybody was
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  Speaker 1: kind of anointing him as like the savior and the
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  Speaker 1: chosen one of the offense, which again was funny because
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  Speaker 1: everybody just just you know, heaping praise upon him in
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  Speaker 1: the off season, and then it felt like six seven
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  Speaker 1: weeks later, everybody wanted his head on a pike, but
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  Speaker 1: I never thought we got a super chat. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: very much for being here, Jason. I thank you very
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  Speaker 1: much with the super chat. I appreciate you. Jason says,
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  Speaker 1: a bit disappointed in the decision, but not surprised. The
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  Speaker 1: hire will make me feel a lot better if he
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  Speaker 1: can get a solid coaching staff in place. He really
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  Speaker 1: needs to get an o C under him and needs
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  Speaker 1: a strong DC. I guess I'll just dive into this
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  Speaker 1: now one because you know this is a good segue
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  Speaker 1: to a topic. I'll kind of come back to my
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  Speaker 1: original point here. I agree one of the big things.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's gonna matter a lot for Joe Brady,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't think again what I'm about to say
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  Speaker 1: is super revelatory. Who he chooses to bring in is
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  Speaker 1: going to be of extreme importance, especially with you know
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  Speaker 1: how important the run game was to the Buffalo Bills
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  Speaker 1: offense this past season and the year before, and how
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  Speaker 1: that was really something that Joe Brady hung his hat on.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Kromer's gone. Aaron Kromer was an integral part of
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  Speaker 1: the Bills run game, one because he coached the offensive
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  Speaker 1: line and did a great job raising their floor and
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  Speaker 1: ceiling as a unit and as individual players. Also because
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  Speaker 1: he was an integral part of the run game design
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  Speaker 1: and putting those game plans together and kind of putting
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  Speaker 1: it out in execution and actuality and taking it from
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  Speaker 1: the chalkboard to the field. And now Aaron Kromer's gone,
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  Speaker 1: you've got a hole at center, You've got a hole
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  Speaker 1: at left guard. And then tying that into the offensive
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  Speaker 1: coordinator spot. Joe Brady apparently will still call plays. Fun
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  Speaker 1: little interesting nugget. Joe Brady's always been a guy who
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  Speaker 1: sits in the box to do the offensive coordinator job.
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  Speaker 1: Can't really have a head coach who's up in the box,
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  Speaker 1: So that means he's gonna be calling plays for the sideline.
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  Speaker 1: I know it might seem like a small thing, but
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  Speaker 1: how does that change in vantage point going from because
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  Speaker 1: it's a legitimate thing. Like you're up in the box,
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  Speaker 1: you're able to see everything. You have the full like
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  Speaker 1: all twenty two sideline view live and in person. You
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  Speaker 1: can see the movings and the shakings of the opponent,
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  Speaker 1: different personnels and numbers coming out into the field, all
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  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. Now you're gonna be an eye level.
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  Speaker 1: You're on the sideline, you have more contact with Josh Allen,
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  Speaker 1: You have more contact with the inner workings of the
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  Speaker 1: game as the head coach. Like, So, how does that
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  Speaker 1: work for Joe Brady? Who does he bring in his
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  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator? Does he bring in someone who can lighten
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  Speaker 1: his load? And in what way? Because again, if Joe
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  Speaker 1: Brady's calling the plays, that means he's still running the offense.
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  Speaker 1: So who does he bring in his OC? Is it
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  Speaker 1: more of a figurehead position? Is it a vet someone
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  Speaker 1: to help him run the show overall? Is it someone
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  Speaker 1: young enough becoming or extremely detailed to help him game
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  Speaker 1: plan and put things together to make, you know, the
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  Speaker 1: weekly preparation aspect a little lighter for him, or the
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  Speaker 1: game day prep or game day running a little easier
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  Speaker 1: for him overall, or on the offensive side of the ball.
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  Speaker 1: And then from a defensive coordinator standpoint, yeah, if he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be running the offense, you need a defensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: You need the Steve Spagnolo to the Andy Reid, you
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  Speaker 1: need the lou Ana Rumo to Zach Taylor. You need
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  Speaker 1: someone who can can completely run that side of the
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  Speaker 1: ball for you, So you don't need to worry about
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  Speaker 1: the defense. We're all you have to do is again
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  Speaker 1: the Andy Reid. You go and you knock on the door,
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  Speaker 1: you knock on Spags's door, and you say, hey, like,
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  Speaker 1: how's a game plan coming this week?
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  Speaker 2: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: It's good, awesome. If you need anything, give me a shout.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Joe Brady needs on the defensive side. I
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  Speaker 1: very much so wanted to be somewhat in particular and specifically,
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  Speaker 1: which we will get into on the back episode, back
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  Speaker 1: half of this episode. But I think this is a
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  Speaker 1: fair thought all around, Jason, thinking for being here and
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  Speaker 1: thinking for the super chat Daniels. Ron says, watch with
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  Speaker 1: the same player as r D gets a ton of sacks,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see maybe different scheme, different coordinator, different game planning,
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  Speaker 1: different play calling on that side of the ball. Could
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  Speaker 1: take everybody, ratchet everybody up and make everybody better, could
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  Speaker 1: keep everybody the same, Everything could get worse. You never know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back and start to get to a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of these comment but yeah, I you know my
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  Speaker 1: issue with Joe Brady. You know I'm I'm underwhelmed, I'll say,
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  Speaker 1: And it's not necessarily a Joe Brady thing. Again, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think Brady was as bad as he was made
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  Speaker 1: out to be this past year, just like I don't
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  Speaker 1: think he was as great as he was made out
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  Speaker 1: to be the year prior. I'm underwhelmed because of the
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  Speaker 1: struggles we saw for a couple of reasons. One, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just him individually in a vacuum, the struggles we saw
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  Speaker 1: this year offensively and what they showed, you know, some
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  Speaker 1: of the lack of adaptability, lack of creativity at times.
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  Speaker 1: You know, he was a significant part of the shortcomings
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  Speaker 1: this team had this year and the year prior. And
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  Speaker 1: then he's an unknown quantity as a head coach and
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  Speaker 1: kind of tying into that into the bigger picture, which
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  Speaker 1: we talked about last week. You know, I think Sean
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  Speaker 1: McDermott was part of the problem if we're just narrowing
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  Speaker 1: it down to this season, even last year as well.
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  Speaker 1: While you know, Brady's been here for four years, but
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  Speaker 1: the last year was the offensive coordinator. I think Sean
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  Speaker 1: McDermott was part of the problem. I understand him being fired.
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  Speaker 1: I think Brandon Bean was a significant part of the problem.
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  Speaker 1: I understand if he would have been fired. I think
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  Speaker 1: Joe Brady was a significant part of the problems of
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  Speaker 1: the problem or problems I understood if he would have
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  Speaker 1: been let go. And just like that, all three of
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  Speaker 1: those guys were also a significant part of the successes
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  Speaker 1: and the wins that the team had, literally and figuratively.
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  Speaker 1: Just like there were the pro and cons and successes
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  Speaker 1: and failures and shortcomings for a lot of people within
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  Speaker 1: the organization on field and off the field, on the
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  Speaker 1: front office. But my thought with Joe Brady is that,
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  Speaker 1: similar to what I said last week, is there's so
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  Speaker 1: much culpability in the shortcomings of this team that kind
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  Speaker 1: of just narrowing down to one person or one thing
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  Speaker 1: for me doesn't feel good and doesn't necessarily add up.
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  Speaker 1: And with Joe Brady staying and essentially getting a promotion,
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Bean staying and getting a promotion, Sean McDermott going
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  Speaker 1: it again, all seems like they're laying all of this
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  Speaker 1: at Sean McDermott's feet. And maybe that's the case. And
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  Speaker 1: again I'm not saying this to scapegoat mcdert to make
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  Speaker 1: McDermott a martyr or seem like he was fine or
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  Speaker 1: great or I didn't want him. God, I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: all that you know, and there are variables to know,
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  Speaker 1: like maybe mcdermodd had an influence on Brady, so I
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  Speaker 1: want to over all these things. But for me, there's
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  Speaker 1: just so much muddiness and interconnectedness in the shortcomings of
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  Speaker 1: this team the past couple of years that I preferred
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  Speaker 1: a fresh start across the board, and we kind of
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  Speaker 1: got like a glimpse of a fresh start, but largely
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  Speaker 1: running it back with the same type of deal. That's
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  Speaker 1: kind of why I don't like it. It's not you know,
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  Speaker 1: Mina Chimes had a great take on this earlier today
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  Speaker 1: when she was talking about it, and you know, kind
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  Speaker 1: of sum it up. She said, it's not the Joe
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  Speaker 1: Brady move in isolation. It's the totality of everything that
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  Speaker 1: we've seen and kind of how everything is moving in
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  Speaker 1: conjunction with one another. And that's where I'm at, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Brady's terrible in and of himself. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't think it was a terrible offensive coordinator. I liked
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  Speaker 1: some of the things they did down the stretch. I
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  Speaker 1: liked some of the wrinkles that we started to see
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch. I like some of the newness that
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  Speaker 1: we saw in the playoffs. I don't think his playoff
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  Speaker 1: game plans were bad. And on the whole, the Bills
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  Speaker 1: offense has largely been successful in his stead as offensive coordinator.
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  Speaker 1: But when they've struggled, they've struggled like all Caps for
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  Speaker 1: that struggle, and they've looked almost helpless at times. Granted
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen has been part of that. And oh we
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  Speaker 1: gotta stop. We got super chat just the tipic can
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  Speaker 1: new fantastic name is always. Thank you for being here
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  Speaker 1: pretty much as always, and thank you for the super chat.
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  Speaker 1: The comment here is if we can convince ourselves of
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  Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel separation separation metrics, there's no telling how optimistic
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  Speaker 1: we could talk ourselves into being Go Bills. Well said,
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  Speaker 1: Well said, Well said, Well said, Oh this is funny
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  Speaker 1: from Curtis saying, I also think Aunt should refer to
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  Speaker 1: the new stadium as the Josh and kick credit for it.
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  Speaker 1: That's funny. I like it. All this is funny comment too.
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  Speaker 1: All I know is if we run hook and ladder,
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  Speaker 1: we will lose. What's super funny about that is they
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  Speaker 1: executed three tremendous hooking ladders. Granted you're probably not running
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  Speaker 1: that unless you absolutely need to in, you're in dire straits.
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  Speaker 1: But it's crazy that they ran that three times to
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  Speaker 1: very successful results and lost all of those games. I
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  Speaker 1: think it's three. It's really unfortunate Claude saying all this betrayal.
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  Speaker 1: This feels like a Godfather movie. It wasn't until today
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  Speaker 1: that I realized it was Joe Brady all along. I
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  Speaker 1: think that's so again, and it's the optics of all
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  Speaker 1: of it, but also just from a logistical standpoint, all
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  Speaker 1: the kind of hands in everything, even last week, right,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Terry Pagoula makes that comment at the presser
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  Speaker 1: of you know, Brandon didn't want key On, you know,
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  Speaker 1: blah blah blah. Then Brandon Bean walks it back and
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  Speaker 1: is like, no, you know, I would never turn a
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  Speaker 1: pick in for someone who I didn't sign off on
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  Speaker 1: and didn't think we could have success with. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I just had him ranked a little differently. The personnel
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  Speaker 1: department had him banked a little differently than the coaching
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  Speaker 1: staff did. I would assume the coaching staff includes Joe Brady.
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  Speaker 1: I'm assuming Joe Brady was a key on Coleman advocate
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  Speaker 1: or did by coaching staff they just met Sean McDermott,
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  Speaker 1: or they just meant wide receivers coach Adam Henry. Again,
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  Speaker 1: there's all this muddiness and only the bills, you know
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  Speaker 1: that the people behind closed doors, behind the curtain, only
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  Speaker 1: they know what actually happened or what was the deal.
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  Speaker 1: And for all we know, yes, Sean McDermott really could
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  Speaker 1: have been the source point for all of these troubles.
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  Speaker 1: He really could have been heavily and you know, majority
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  Speaker 1: to blame for all the problems, and maybe jettisoning him
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  Speaker 1: and keeping everything else kind of as is for the
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  Speaker 1: most part or to a degree won't matter and things
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  Speaker 1: will go higher from there. But I just think, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Joe Brady's been part of the problem, and Brandon Bean's
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  Speaker 1: part of the problem, and Sean McDermott's part of the problem,
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  Speaker 1: and they only got rid of one of parts of
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  Speaker 1: the problem and kept two of them and moved them
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  Speaker 1: up more and gave them more oversight. And then some
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  Speaker 1: of the verbage hasn't made sense. We're going to continue
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  Speaker 1: to get into that. But we got another super chat, Arthur,
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  Speaker 1: thank you very much for being here. That's pretty much
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  Speaker 1: always I think if a super chat, Arthur says, bummed
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  Speaker 1: we didn't hire Yudinsky, but I didn't know anything about
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  Speaker 1: Yudinsky two weeks ago. At least being in the bill
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  Speaker 1: should know what to expect for Brady. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: a very level head to take. I think a lot
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: of people get swept up in the newness of things
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: and like new means better just because it's new, or
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: you know, you see a thread or a highlight or
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  Speaker 1: an interview on someone and it's like, man, that guy
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  Speaker 1: sounds great, I'm all on board. Similar I think it's
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: kind of like draft season, right you see a highlight
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  Speaker 1: package some guy and you're like, I want that guy,
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  Speaker 1: that guy's the best receiver, and you attach yourself to
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  Speaker 1: somebody that you didn't know about two months ago, but
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  Speaker 1: now you are full tilt like, yes, they have to
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  Speaker 1: draft this one guy, Yes I need this one guy.
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  Speaker 1: And then they don't and you're pissed off. But you
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  Speaker 1: really didn't know about this guy a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 1: ago or a month or so ago. And I think
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: this is pretty spot on from mere Arthur. So thank
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: you for comment to that. Thank you also some of
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: the pieces as well that I just didn't think added
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: up a little bit. Jordan Schultz tweeted out earlier today,
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: this directly from him on Twitter. He said, quote what
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: the Bills liked about Joe Brady and the main reasons
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: they hired him, per sources. One, the CEO portion of
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: the interview stood out the most. Two his vision for
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: how everything We're gonna come back to that CEO comment
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: in a minute. Two, his vision for how everything would
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: be structured from the head coaching seat was viewed as
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: a quote unquote home run. Three. He also nailed the
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: importance of alignment between the coaching and player personnel. For me,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: again not to be negative with that, but Joe Brady,
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: you know, his vision for how everything would be structured
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: from the head coaching seat was viewed as a home
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: run by the Bills. And he also nailed the importance
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: of alignment between coaching and player personnel. I would hope.
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: So he's been in the building for four years, he's
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: been the offensive coordinator for two, and he watched at
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: press conference last week, so of course he's gonna hit
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: on those points. He had the answers to the test
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: before he took the test, so I would imagine he
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: would apply those answers to the test. I would imagine
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: he likely used those answers for the test, so like
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: them coming away and being like man, he really blew
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: us away with his answers well, probably because his answer
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: sounded like yours and it's what you wanted to hear,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: not saying that's not what he actually believes, not saying
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: that that won't work going forward. But of course it's
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: that way, and of course you liked it. That just
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: didn't That just didn't make a lot of sense to me.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: And then you add in the other piece. So that's
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: CEO piece, right that I mentioned in that tweet there
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: from Jordan Schultz. And then you go and you listen
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: to Ian Rappaport earlier tonight on NFL Network was talking
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: about why the Bills hired Joe Brady, and he said
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: a quote, you know, this seemed to be more of quote,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: we found the CEO of our football operation. That is
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: what Joe Brady is, right, So if he's the CEO
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: of the football operation and that's what they viewed him
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: as the CEO was used multiple times. Reference multiple times
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: by multiple different reporters, likely probably coming from the same source.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: But if that's the verbiage we're using to kind of
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: champion this hire, but then he's still calling the plays
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: and still running the offense. That makes it very hard
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: for him to be the CEO and see everything. If
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: he has to get into the weeds with one side
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: of the ball, it's a little contradictory. And that's why
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I just feel like there's so much, you know, contradiction
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: to everything we've seen from the last week. You know,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: Brandon Bean gets the credit for building a deeper, great
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: roster to Terry Pegoula, and you know, all the injuries
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: happening this year is a testament to that. But like
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: we're not giving Sean McDermott to the coaching staff any
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: credit for coaching up those practice squad guys and coaching
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: through all those injuries. In that adversity, you know, there's
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: there's just so many contradictory comments and statements that are made.
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: You know, Terry Bogula says it essentially, you know, he
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: didn't think Sean McDermott could be the one to get
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: him over the hump and get them, you know, past
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: that place proverbial playoff wall. But then he gets asked,
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: how do you decide you know if it's the roster
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: construction or the coaching that's responsible for all the shortcomings.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: And he says, that's a really hard question and he
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: doesn't have an answer for that. But how do you
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: not have an answer for that? You decided it was
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the coaching, So shouldn't you know and have an answer
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: because that you made that decision because you believed it
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: was the coaching, So how did you come to that decision?
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: It's I'm all overall, I'm just very tired of like
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: I feel like I'm nitpicking, but I'm not. There's just
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: so many contradictions that I feel like are right in
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: our face, and it's frustrating and annoying. And I kind
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: of feel bad for Brady because again, I don't think
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Brady is completely terrible. I would like to think in
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: a positive way. He was a significant part of the
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: reason the offense moved in line with league trends in
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: current league meta to start, you know, reducing their formational
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: with getting bigger body types at receiver. Hey, we're gonna
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: run the football. We're gonna marry the run with the pass,
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: even though they were kind of hit or miss on
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: that a bunch, and also didn't use play action as
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: much as they should. But I would like to think
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: that he had a significant hand in that decision offensively,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: But then again, I imagine he had a significant hand
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: in wanting to bring Curtis Samuel in and wanting to
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: bring Keyan Coleman in and signing off on all these
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: moves that didn't necessarily work for the offense and the team.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: So is that true? But it's fine. It's okay because
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: he's a great CEO for you because he agrees with
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: what you're saying. But also it's hard to be a
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: CEO and he still has to run that side of
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: the ball, and I guess it's Sean mcdermot's fall for
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: everything else. And I'm not saying all this to be
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: completely sarcastic or be too negative. I'm just trying to
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: highlight there's just so much moneiness. There's so much interconnectedness.
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: There's so much collaboration that happens across the board on
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: a daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis throughout these football teams.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: So it's just tough and even you know, Claude says
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Brady was just as hamstrung by this roster and its
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: lack of talent as Alan he was otherwise successful, right,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: but didn't he also kind of build that offense like
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: he wanted to not I'm assuming being or Brady was
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: fine with not emphasizing the receiver position and going in
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: another direction. So isn't he also part of the problem,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: just like he is part of the success, which he
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: is part of This is obviously, but again, there's so
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: much like Devil's Advocate you can play, and so much
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: like this side versus that side, and arguments that you
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: can make one way or another and get this is
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: an ultimate like time will tell, right, just how much
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: of the problem was Sean McDermott. Was Brady right all along?
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: Was being right all along? Yeahda YadA, all that kind
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: of stuff. It's a major Time will tell, which again
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: is what I find frustrating about so much of it.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: I do think on the one hand, though, with Bean
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: staying and Brady staying, I do expect some kind of
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: big move this offseason. I think not the kind of
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: prove that it was Sean McDermott, but I do think
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: they're going to go out and try and make a
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: big splash, as big as they can make, either a
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: wide receiver or defensive end, and not even to the
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: point of like, oh, you know, it won't surprise me.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: I think I think that's going to happen. I think
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: they're going to make a move. I think they're going
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: to try and a dress their biggest flaws or faults
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: and come out swinging this offseason as much as they can. Now,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: it's not gonna be the easiest thing because they are
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: strict on the cap, which you're going to get into
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: as we go forward in this offseason, but there are
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: some moves they can make. Well likely. What I was
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: going to play tonight was kind of a end of
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: season move forward recap on position groupings and free agents,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: to target the current depth chart, what it means, all
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff going forward, and then this news
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: dropped today and kind of threw me for a loop. Yeah,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: let's see, Brian, did you see the Jerry Hughes tweety
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: all the best? Appreciate you, Brian, thank you for being here,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: thanking for the kind of words. I did see that.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I saw multiple Jerry Hughes tweets where he was essentially
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: saying like McDermott, not the paraphrase, but I am paraphrasing
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: like McDermott was the problem and if you know, if
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: you paid attention to thirteen seconds and kept that same guy,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: you guys are an unserious franchise all that kind of stuff. Yeah,
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: he essentially kind of went in on McDermott. It was weird,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: but a lot of time had passed. I don't know
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: what activated Jerry Hughes on Twitter and made him respond
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: so much, but yeah, he essentially kind of went in
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: on on Sean McDermott again, the kind of summ it
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: all up. I know we're gonna start getting everything from chat.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: I want to make sure I get to all these
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: comments because there's a lot. But you know, I don't
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: think Joe Brady is holistically bad. I never thought he
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: was as great as he was made out to be.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's as bad as he was made
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: out to be. But like Sean McDermott and like Brandon
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: bean who, I think you can say very similar things
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: for it, and I do, at least. I just think
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: they're all culpable significantly, and I think all their hands
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: have blood on them to significant degrees, and just getting
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: part of one is underwhelming to me a little bit
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: and just from the other candidate's perspective. Yeah, I was
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: never huge on grant Yedinsky. I know that started to
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: gain some traction. I want to clin koobiak all along.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: I started talking about him in November, No November like October.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I think I also really like Nathan Schielhouse, the passing
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: game coordinator and guy who does all the d weekly
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: play drawing and diagramming for Sean McVay like Liam Cohen
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: used to do, like Zach Taylor used to do. I
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: really wanted a part of that tree. I wanted a
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: part in the McVay Shanahan tree. What it means to
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: offense is what it means to quarterbacks. I really just
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: think thought and I currently think Josh Allen in the
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Shanahan or McVeigh system is gonna would be unreal, Like
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: that's those systems are so quarterback friendly, especially the Shanahan
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: side of things, Like it's so quarterback friendly that you
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: drop in a player like that. I mean, Kyle Shanahan
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: was going to the Super Bowl with Jimmy Garoppolo, right,
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: and he sacrificed so much to go up and get
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Trey Lance because he believed that type of skill set. Again,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying Trey Lance and Josh Allen are the
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: same type of guy, but he believed that type of
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: skill set would take him to the moon. He was
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: going to Super Bowls and NFC Championships and all that,
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: and he sacrificed all of it because he believed injecting
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: that kind of athleticism and arm talent into his offense
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: would take it to the moon. And Allen in in
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: the Shanahan system or you know, working with Clint Kubiak,
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: who I also really like. I watched so much Seahawks
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: tape this year throughout the year, offensively and defensively. I've
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: watched so much Rams tape. You know. I've been a
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: fan of a Shielhouse since I saw whatever interviews were
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: coming out with him, like earlier in this season. So
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: there were other moves I wanted and but you can
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: give pros and cons so those, just like you can
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: give pros and cons to Joe Brady. I don't think
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: this is a death sentence. I don't think this is
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: the you know, the worst, god awful thing ever. But
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: I am underwhelmed again just because of the interconnectedness of
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: the shortcomings of this team and Joe Brady's role in that,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: and then some of my own individual's schematic frustrations with
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: this offense going throughout this entire season, even though again
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: they were from an advanced metrics standpoint, a lot of
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: ways they were a very good offense. Again, but now
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: you're changing. You got changes coming about, right. You know,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: you've got some questions on the offensive line. You've got
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: questions with the offensive line coach in terms of who
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: it's gonna be. Does the run game suffer? Does it not?
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: What do you do it? Wide receiver? How do you go?
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: You know, who is responsible for the run game success?
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: You know, was a Brady?
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Was it?
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Cromer was it? You know, Austin Goon? Was it? Someone else?
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Was the individual players? You know? Kind of making all
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: these cases. You changed the offensive line, You've removed and
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: added all these variables. Now at the same time, it's
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: really interesting. I don't I don't think this is the
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: most ideal higher for the fan base, But I don't
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: think it's this end of the world as it's made
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: out to be. But for me, again, I am underwhelmed,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: but I am hopeful, but I am underwhelmed, And again
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: I think this is another move this offseason, you know,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: these past couple of weeks. But there's just a lot
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: of contradiction between you know, what said versus what's actioned,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: and I think that's annoying and frustrating. I hate having
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: to do like read between the lines or like oh,
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: this is what was actually going on, Like that's annoying,
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Like it shouldn't be this complicated and frustrating for these pieces. Yeah,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: I'm going to dive into the live comments now, which
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: I'm sure was spur more conversation. R J were one
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: of the people I thought about when this news dropped
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: today because of the frustrations you've laid out in the
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: comments here throughout the entire season. R J says, honestly,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: can someone please make me feel better about this? I
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: thought this team's issues were at OC and GM, and
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: now both have promotions. It's not great unplaying. Disassembly says
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: today has been the most entertaining day as a Bills
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: fan that I've had in a while. KAA Moury, what's okay?
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Mary Kay? Morriy sys The biggest question was going to
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: be shifts and changes in defensive philosophy. This hire is
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: no different don't love or hate the higher go bills.
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: I think that's fair. Again, I'm in a similar boat.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I don't love it, I don't hate it. I'm underwhelmed.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: There were guys I would have rather gone with multitude
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: other guys who were also hired in other spots. You know,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: I honestly, I, even though I don't love him as
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: head coach, I would have rather had Mike McDaniel's head
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: coach than Joe Brady, even though I don't really want
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel's a head coach, but I just value his
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: offensive mind so much schematically what he is. But I
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: would have been I wouldn't have been completely thrilled with
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: McDaniel's head coach, but I would have been more excited
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: for what have meant for the offense grammatically and for
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: Allen in particular. Yeah, so we'll see. School Gaming says
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: the issue was defense, not offense. Larry just says, straight
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: up what a letter, justtin Yeah, I'm interested in what
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: the staff hires will look like. Absolutely. Raymond says, but
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: how will the Pats lose with the tree's gone? Well, hope,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: maybe the tree is staying up is what's keeping the
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: paths afloat. I should take him down immediately. Most has
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: great higher Kam Morris as Valentine's Day tree went uh oh,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Probably next week I'll take the little tree over there
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: and dress it up in red Garland and making a
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Valentine's Day tree. This is very funny from Pretzels and
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: gas Jets says. If this was January twenty twenty five,
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: we'd all be saying this was the best hire every Yeah,
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: it's funny. Funny how he well, you know, just a
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: change any year makes. I mentioned it earlier, like going
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: into this season. If you told everybody before this season started, Hey,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: at the end of the season, Sean mcdermot's canna be
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: fired and Joe Brady will be promoted a head coach.
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: I think that would probably get like an eighty percent
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: approval rating easily, And now I feel like it's fifty
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: to fifty at best, but maybe lower. I feel like
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: it might be forty percent. I could be wrong. Bob says,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: how is Brady going to call plays, get in game
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: decisions right at critical moments and not get school going
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: up against grizzled defensive coordinators. That's a fair question. That's
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: why his staff is going to be super important. You know.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: That's why it's hard to be a head coach who
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: runs an entire side of the ball, right, Like, you
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: need that at minimum, You need the other side of
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: the ball to be run completely by someone else who
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: is very good at doing that, right, you know, like
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Mike Mike McDonald runs the defense for the Seahawks, Klint
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Kubiak runs the offense, right, Kyle Shanahan runs the offense.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: He's had Robert Sala run the defense. He's at Steve
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Wilkes run the defense. He's had Demiko Ryans run the defense, right, Like,
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: you need somebody who can run that entire other side
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: at a minimum. And then we talked about the other
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: pieces too, right, like who's Brady's OC gonna be? Role?
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Does he play offensive line coach? All that kind of stuff.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: RJ bringing more heat, saying, I'm genuinely curious how the
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: organization sells this to the fans. It took them ten
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: days to completely alien eight ninety percent of the fans.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: From Scapegoding McDermott to that pressor to Joe Brady, Brian Sam,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: I was watching Eric and you at the gym. Appreciate you.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: I don't think it was intended, but it left me
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: quite optimistic. And then he mentions Jim Leonard, we will
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: be talking about that a little bit. Just a Tippica
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: News says we all need to take a deep breath
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: and remind ourselves we are not a mile away from
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: the ultimate goal. Let the other pieces fall into place.
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Level hid in the well side m h b b b
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: B b are j saying, I'm so jealous of many
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: other teams, young smart coaches coming here. I would love
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: to be a fly on the wall in the McDermott house.
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Good comment from Bob. Question, I should say what kind
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: of or OC will Brady get if he's the one
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: designing and calling plays. I think this is a good question.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: I wonder that as well. I don't know if he's
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: gonna look for Is he gonna look for someone to
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: kind of be a right hand for him and running
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the team. Is he going to look for someone who
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: can help kind of take stuff off his plate for
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: the offense pregame or in game. I think it's interesting,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Larry saying I was really hoping we get Yadinsky or Koupiak.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I really like Yadinsky story. He says, that's fair m
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: Doug saying something that has felt so weird is that
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: we keep getting slapped in the face with the fact
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: that the offense has been top five the last two years,
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: but this year everything in our offense has been difficult.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: I think that's a fair point. I also think it's it.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: It's there's context to a lot of things, right, like points,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: score yards, even some of the advanced metrics, right Like,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: you can look at EPA per play, but then what's
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: the success rate on things? You know? How do little
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: conversions on third down and fourth down? You know, change
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: the change the metrics and skew things a bit, possibly
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: or negatively. And that was a big factor for me,
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: right Like, I do think the offense was good, and
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: it's hard to not look at them, you know, EPA
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: for play and DV away and success rate in all
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: these different little pieces that speak well to them at
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: times in certain areas. But it did feel like there
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: was a bit of a slog for this offense. And
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: I even felt that a little bit in twenty twenty four.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: And I know Allen won the MVP, but I talked
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: about it going into the offseason last year that it
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: felt like the instructure pass game wasn't great, and then
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: we saw it again this year, and it wasn't just
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: purely because of the weapons. It was some of the
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: schematics of it and some of Allen's decision making as well.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: And I don't know how much that changes. Granted, I
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: think they're going to try and you know, upgrade and
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: tweak the wide receiver position, but there's just the other things,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: you know, not going away from five man protections against
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: the Texans when your off offensive line is getting eaten
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: and Spencer Brown's playing with one arm, plus you're leaving
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: him in there. Like but was that a chromer call
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: or not? Like again, a lot of interconnectedness, a lot
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: of moneiness, Curtis saying the Bronco was fired, so they're
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: probably promoting Web. Yeah, they fired Joe Lombardi earlier today.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's to keep Davis Web or not,
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: but that would be fair, It would be fair. Charles
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: saying I was bummed like most about the Brady hire
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: at first, but I'm more open minded keep the culture,
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: but maybe a looser team. I do think there's something
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: to be said for continuity from an offensive identity perspective.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Or for a comfortability with Josh Allen perspective, or maybe
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: even if for a team I'm a team culture perspective.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: I do think that's fair. RJ says the offense has
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: been extremely difficult the past two and a half years
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: since Brady took over. I wouldn't say extremely I do
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: think Dave had gotten stuck in neutral, stuck in the
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: mudd at times, but I wouldn't say extremely difficult. And
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: then RJ also says the longer he's been here, the
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: more difficult it has been. HM. I agree somewhat, but
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I don't completely agree Swin saying, just think if Cooks
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: could catch the ball, if that gets rule to catch,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: or if he catches it cleanly, or if Allen doesn't
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: skip that past the Khalis Shakir on third down and
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: they go up I don't know, thirty at minimum thirty
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: to twenty three instead of twenty seven to twenty three,
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Or if Cole Bishop doesn't bite on the flare route
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: from the running back on third and eleven when they're
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: playing inverted Tampa two and allow Court and Sutton to
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: get behind him on the dig for a conversion. Yeah,
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: crazy Bob says, how can bean say the talent is
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: there and then hire the guy who is underwhelming in
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: use and design with them another contradiction. Fairpoint, Daniella saying,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: confusing as to why they would throw him under the
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: bus with a Coleman pick but then promote him. Question
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: mark makes me nervous for the wide receiver position, Dougs
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: is basically what we're hearing is my twenty to eighteen
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Ford Fusion wasn't working for me, so I went and
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: got twenty twenty one forth Fusion. I like that comment
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: here from mjsaying my optimism for the movee is growing.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Bill says, still so confusing. Okay, Oh, Chad saying I
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: think being didn't use the twenty twenty six first for
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Waddle because he knew they would need it if they
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: moved on from McDermott in the next regime. Ooh little
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: foresight there. Maybe maybe maybe maybe m just as the
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: root word of fans fanatic it out of here with
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: your logic. That's fair. Patrick's saying a lot of people
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: said this. Chris Sims and Ryan Fitzpatrick support the Brady hiring,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: so I'm less sad at least. Loll Yeah. Again, it
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: depends on who you listen to. You know, certain people
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: are gonna like it, certain people aren't. You know, if
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: you trust the masses over individuals, if you trust certain
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: individuals over others, you know, again it's it's gonna be time,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: we'll tell. I don't think anybody can be right right
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: now in terms of forecasting or you know, diagnosing what
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the bills are going to be. But I think it's
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: fair to be on either side. I think it's completely
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: fair to be stoked or fine or happy with this.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: I think it's fine to be pissed and want to
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: jettison this team into the sun. Understood. Oh so when
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: saying I'm not concerned with the optics and how McDermott
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: was fired, I'd rather go backwards than continue to lose
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: in heart wrenching uh than to lose in heart wrenching
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: matters in the playoffs with McDermott, I think that's fair.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: The optics for me, is more of again how interconnected
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: everything was and then how it all went down and
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: the reasoning behind it and the contradictions with it. Right
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: like Terry saying you know it's a and then they're like, okay,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: how do you decide on A, and he's like, ooh,
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: that's a good that's a hard question. I don't know
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: how to answer that, like what and then some of
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: the thing being some of the things that Bean said
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: versus what Pegoula said, and then now keeping Joe Brady.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: I just think it's all muddy. That's the way I'm
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: gonna keep saying it. I think it's muddy. You know
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: the optics, and I agree. I you know, you know
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: you'd rather go backwards and continue to lose in heart
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: wrenching fashion or matters. I would rather have a fresh
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: start overall, just because I think everything is so interconnected, like,
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: send beans, send McDermott, send everybody, let's get a new
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: But again I understand, like then you're blowing everything up.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: And now Pagoola is the man with this figure by
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: the button. Do you want him making the next hire
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: for GM or coach? Do we really want that? We've
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: seen what's happened with the Sabers. You know it's January,
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: the Senior Bowls coming up, the scouting combine's coming up.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: You're gonna lose all your player personnel files and scouting stuff.
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: Do you really want to blow up the front office
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: YadA YadA, like there's pros and cons to all of it.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: I wanted a fresh start completely, Let's get all the
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: bad juju out as much as possible, you know, from
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: a roster construction and an in game management and schematic
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: standpoint on the field. Obviously they didn't. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: Doug saying Joe Brady has his problems, but he's not terrible. However,
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: the way this has all gone down has just stunk
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: to high. Hell, I still have no trust in being
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: to build a roster after all of this. And again,
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: I think that's another symptomatic piece of all of what
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: the shortcomings have been the past couple of years. Right,
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: how much is on Bean? How much is I McDermott
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: on the offensive side, and like, how much is on
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Joe Brady versus you know what was given to him
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: from a roster standpoint, But how much of that did
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: he want and want to in? It's all interconnected. It's
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: all a little bit of A, a little bit of B,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: a little bit of C. Yeah, oh, money and messy.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: Charles says, great roster, good coaching, except Brady. I'm Jason
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: smashed that like button friends, Yeah, if you are able
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: to smash that like button. That would be greatly appreciated.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: I would greatly and sincerely appreciate that likes of the
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: lifeblood of these streams. Mmmmmm. Josh Allen, first active quarterback
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: in history at Hire a head coach. Oh, I'm so
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: sorry I didn't get to these other super chats. I
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: didn't see them before I scrolled back up. Jason, thank
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: you again for being hearing from the super chat. Jason
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: has two questions. Who can pair up with Brady the
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: best the legit offensive coordinator. Also, we've seen the last
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: days of Dawson Knox. I'm gonna start from the Knox
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: piece and go backward. I guess I think Dawson Knox's
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: skill set and role is important on this team. Dalton
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: can Cad cannot and should not be a regular inline
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: blocker like Dawson Knox is, or like Jackson Hawes's and
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: Jackson Hawes cannot and should not be aligned, you know,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: split out wide or in the slot like Dalton Kincaid
• 40:19
  Speaker 1: and like Dawson Knox are. Dawson Knox is almost like
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: the light and the dark with how he's able to
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: live in between Dalton Kincaid and Jackson Hawes, and I
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: think that skill set is important for this team unless
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: they load up at wide receiver and start to go
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: back to like a really heavy eleven personnel. You know,
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: Barry the run in the past. You know we're gonna
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: go less twelve, We're gonna go less twenty one and
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: twenty two. But I do think heavier personnel packages are
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: still gonna be a significant part of this team. Dawson
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: not just makes too much money. I'm fine with him
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: as a player. I didn't love the contract when he
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: got it. I like it even less now. But I
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: think his skill set is useful. I think his role
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: is useful considering he's the bridge between Jackson Hawes and
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: what Dalton Kincaid is. He's a little bit of Kincaid
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: and he's a little bit of Hawes, and that allows
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: him to kind of not be as much of a
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: tell or a vulnerability in either right. He just makes
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: too much money. I'm torn on whether or not he
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: gets cut. I hate advocating for people losing their jobs.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: I would cut him because I think you can take
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: that cap savings and then reallocate it towards bringing someone
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: in for much cheaper that can do his skill set
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: or his role and then using the other money to
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: also upgrade a couple other pieces as well, or another piece.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: But I don't want him gone or his skill set gone.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: He just makes too much money unfortunately. I think Josh
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Allen is a wrench in all of this though, because
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: that's his buddy. I don't know if they're gonna want
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: to send him packing because I think it might upset
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen. And I don't know if that's a good
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: thing to say or a bad thing to say, but yeah,
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: I think it should be because of the money he makes.
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I think it's a little money again with
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Josh Allen. And then your first question, who can pair
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: up with Brady the best a legit offensive coordinator? Yeah,
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: I think you can make the case either way. It
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: could be somebody who's more like a passing game coordinator
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: run game coordinator type of dude who's great at the
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: pre week game planning and scouting and situational aspects. It
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: could be an older type of vet, you know, who's
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: got OC experience or maybe even head coaching experience and
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: knows how to run a team or run a side
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: of the ball and can kind of be a right
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: hand or I'm thinking of the dude that was like
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: John Snow's right hand when he was going to King's
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Landing and everything like that. I forget his name, the
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: dude who was the smuggler. Oh, I say it to
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: my head all the time because I replace a word
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: in a song with his name. It's gonna drive me nuts.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Someone in the chat is gonna tell me, and I'll
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: scroll to it later. It's going to furiate me until
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: I get it. Yeah, do you bring in somebody who
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: can be like your right hand like Doude? Do you
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: get yourself a Tyrian lanister to go with like your
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Denaris or whatever. I know that's the opposite side. Oh,
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: what's that guy's name? I gotta scroll to the end.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Somebody telling me. Somebody tell me what's the name of
• 43:04
  Speaker 1: the guy who is John Snow's right hand? Davos? Thank you, David, Oh,
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: Dovo Seaworth. Drive me insane, drive me absolutely insane. Thank
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: you so much. That was gonna absolutely drive me bonkers.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: Thank you for that. I appreciate it. I think you
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: can make the case either way. I think it could
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: be if Brady's gonna run the offense. I would rather
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: be a guy who's extremely detailed the game planning piece
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: and kind of helping him in prep so he can
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: continue to run like the bigger parts of the team.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: But again, if you hire the right DC, he can
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: be in the weeds a little bit. And I don't
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: think that's his bad. But you got to have somebody
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: too that has the you know, a game day pulse,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: a touch on the reins, because if he's got to
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: get involved in a challenge or a decision or something
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: like that, like you need somebody to still kind of
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: keep things from getting off the rails a little bit.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: I think you can make the case either way. I'm
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: fifty five forty five towards like a schematic guy who
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: can help him with prep, but I could also be
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: sweet first and fifteenth too, says everyone getting promotions says
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: a lot about McDermott in theory. Yeah, it says that
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: the organization thought he was the problem and everything else
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: was kind of fine. Dak Dad nineteen eighty two says
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: he's using a baseball reference in the NFL a red flag.
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: I don't think so. I use a lot of nonsports
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: references for football. I use baseball references, basketball references, hockey references,
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: soccer references. I hope not. I hope it's I hope
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: it's not a red flag. We'll see boom bum bum
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: bum what else? Yep, as Nick says, but he's still
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: calling plays. Pretty conflicting reports, RJ saying, if he's the CEO,
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: then he shouldn't be calling the offense, but he is
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: calling the offense. Very fair, very fair man, RJ. I'm
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: just looking at your comments and you were just on
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: a downward spiral, which isn't funny, but uh fair. Swin
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: says people in Buffalo have a hard time with change
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: and are way too worried about this. I'm really optimistic
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: about this and excited for the future. I don't think
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: it's necessarily a people in Buffalo have a hard time
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: with change. I think it's just how everything has come
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: about and what's still staying and where the problems of
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: this team are can be put significantly on the people
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: that are staying, but they're still here, so it's just questioning,
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of what people are going for and
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: then your file there. People are way too worried about
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: the semantics. I do think that's fair I do think
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of people worry about the semantics or the optics,
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: but I think the source point of the frustrations are
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: a lot of people had questions about Brady and Bean
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: and McDermott, and only one of those are gone. And
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: then the way it went about, I think kind of
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: made people even more frustrated. But I think that's a
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: fair point. Joe saying, Hey, Anthony, huge fan of the show,
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: just had a question, can you tell me when the
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: pain will end? Well? I said, I uh, I can't.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: I can't tell you think Bob' says Anthony, You're not
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: being sarcastic. The contradictions and their statements versus actions are
• 45:49
  Speaker 1: in full view. I think that's fair. Oh Bill saying
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: the CEO is not a leader of men, it's a
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: corporate slot. Multiple people have made that reference in the chat,
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: kind of being like a slave, a slave to the
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: shareholders and things like that and all those kind of deals. Yes,
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Swin McDermott was definitely a problem, but I think there
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: were other problems as well. Roster construction contracts that were
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: handed out in terms of extensions, and guys that were signed,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: draft picks that were made. But again how much of
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: that is, Like who pushed for those picks? You know?
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: Was a defensive coordinator? Was it the offensive coordinator? Was
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: a Sean McDermott, Was it a position coach? Was a
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Brandon Bean? Was it a scout? Was it Terry Pegoula? Like,
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: I don't know any according to who I figured who
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: said the other day, I think Tyler Dunn said, like
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: Terry Pegoula said, like Sean Patrick Mahomes was amazing, and
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: he knew Mahomes would be great, but he didn't want
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: to put his neck out on the line and tell
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: anybody would do at that time. I think that's I'm
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: not even gonna get to that. But yeah, I don't
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: know you could. There's so much moneyiness at this point. Yeah,
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: But like I said, McDermott was part of the problem
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: one thousand percent. But I also think Bean was part
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: of the problem. I think Brady was part of the problem.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: I think Babbage was part of the problem. I think
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: there's a ton of people that are part of the problem,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: and a good chunk of those ton of people are
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: still in the building. Car El says Max Crosby. I
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: would love that. I would love that. I would love that,
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Joe says, Okay, being serious, now, I do think the
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: optics of getting a good wide receiver but also one
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: that has legitimate impact and gravity could be the literal
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: difference for their offense and the team outlook. I don't
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: necessarily disagree. If you get a game change and defensive
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: end and some kind of addition at wide receiver at
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: the top end of the depth chart, I think that
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: would be sweet. Everybody stays healthy. It's that everybody eats,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: everybody stays healthy. That's the new Bill's mantra. I like that.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: I like that. I like that. I like that. Frank says,
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: come on, fellas, you know you want to talk about
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: the hypopothetical Jim Leonard scheme fence. I absolutely do. I'm
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: waiting to get into that, but I just want to
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: get through more of the comments because I know there's
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: so many people who are here and commented, Yeah, and
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Kay Morris is the guy with the least blood in
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: his hands. Chris Taber has gone sad face one thousand percent.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: I wanted Tabor to state frustrating, frustrating, frustrating, frustrating, James says,
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: is Babbage still the DC as of now? I believe so,
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: Swinn says, Allen is lebron who will carry this team
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: to wins. Don't worry about it. I don't necessarily disagree,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: but I I just can't never get behind like they
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: have the I can't never get behind like fully the
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: mantra of like, oh they have Josh Allen, they'll be fine.
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: They've had Josh Allen this whole time, and they haven't
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: got over the hump. Like, not one person can do it,
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: like you need a supporting cast in some way, shape
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: or form off the field. On the field, you know,
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: offensive side, defensive side, like you even with Mahomes, Like
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: all the runs that Mahomes made to the Super Bowl
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: and won, right, how many of those runs were aided
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: by Chris Jones plays? How many game clinching plays did
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: Trent McDuffie make on the defensive side of the ball,
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: or Jordan Reid or Nick Bolton making big plays when
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: they needed him, Like let alone with Spags is calling
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: and Andy Reid is calling and Juju Smith shoots or
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: steps up and makes a play, and also Mahomes and
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Travis Kelce, like I think Alan is the type of
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: player that again can get you a bunch of wins.
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: But there's a big difference between having a guy that
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: can get you wins and then having the right team
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: plus the guy that gets you to a super Bowl.
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: So many things have to align to get a super
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: Bowl for a team, and I think that's hard to
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: put on anyone's shoulders. Not to mention too, Alan has shown.
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: For as good as he's been in the playoffs, Alan
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: has shown that he can still self destruct and make
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: poor decisions and turn the ball over and be part
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: of the problem. Even though he's also a big part
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: of the solution. He shows he can be a part
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: of the problem too, So I don't think putting it
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: all onto his shoulders is fair to him. And I
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: also don't think it's the smart thing because to do
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: all the time, because it shows he's shown the a
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: propensity to kind of still be a little wonky at times.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: I do think he's a great obviously starting point, and
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: that's the position want franchise quarterback and all that kind
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: of stuff. But I just think the blanket statements of
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: like Alan is this, or like a they have Josh Allen,
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: They'll be fine, don't worry about it. Like I see
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: this from a ton of people on I understand the
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: notion of it. I just think it's so much more
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: complicated than that, and I think it takes so much
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: more than that. Mmmmmmmm. Arthur says, this feels like the
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: safest choice for the offense avoids some disaster snares where
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: the OC doesn't mess with Josh, but we don't get
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: someone who challenges Josh and makes the offensive stop unstoppable.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: And Jay says, who is our offensive line coach? Target
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: can't suggest building a time machine to kidnap young Aaron Chromer.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: That's cheating. Someone else said that to me. I think
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: on Twitter or Blue Sky, I don't remember which. Like
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: it's simple, Oh no, that was you. I'm Jay. I think,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: build a time machine, get young Aaron Kromer and do this. Yeah,
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: that was super funny. I like that. I like that.
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: I like that. Bill says, get Justin Jefferson and Max
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Crosby and I will like the hire. That's fair, fair
• 50:48
  Speaker 1: and fair, fair fair. Yeah. Or Ja says the double
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: trees might be helping the path. Right now, I need
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: to take both of the trees down. I guess I'm sorry.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Uh bye bye bu Okay, I'm making my way through comments,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: Mister Trouss's Brady is definitely yes, yes, yes, bomb bomb
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: bum bomb bom uh yeah. The Ford fusion quote is
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: perfect seven one six math is a great comment. A
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: Kubiak's a Kubiak, but Joe Brady could be anything. He
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: could even be a Kubiak. Well done, nice family guy reference.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: I love that A boat's a boat, but the mystery
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: box could be anything. He could even be a boat.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: You know how much we want in one of those,
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: So why don't we take the boat? We'll take the box.
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: I love that, Ryan, you know me too well with
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: the sarcasm here saying ants tore up. We didn't go
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: with Gruden as head coach? Yeah, I would, I man,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: if they would have hired John Gruten's head coach, I'm
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: not even I'm not gonna yeah, I would have been furious.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: You know me. Well well done, Well done, Joseph. I'll
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: forgive you. If Joe Brady if the Bills opened the
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: the season with five play action passes in a row, Oh, Joey.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: Next year's schedule looks to be difficult. What would you
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: consider a good start record wise with this new regime?
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: Oh my god, there's so many variables and so hard
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: to answer that question right now. I gotta see who
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: the DC is and what they do in free agency
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: in the draft as of right now. Oh, let me
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: hold on, let me just let me google the Bills
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six schedule. I know it's tough, but that's
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: all I remember. Okay, they got the Dolphins, the Pats,
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: the Jets, the Chiefs, the Chargers, the Bears, the Lions,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: the Ravens. That's home and then away. Dolphins, Pats, Jets, Broncoss, Packers, Raiders, Vikings, Texans, Rams.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: That schedule sucks right now. I oh, I don't want
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: to play this game, so I think everyone's gonna be
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: mad at me right now. I would say, all right, Dolphins,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: you should sweep the Dolphins. That's two. You should beat
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: the Pats at least once. That's three. You should beat
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: the Jets both times. That's five. Chiefs depends on when
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: they play them and if Mahomes is back, but they've
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: shown the capacity to beat the Chiefs, so that's way.
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: So two, three, five. That could be six. They can
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: beat the Chargers that's seven. They can beat the Bears
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: that's eight. Lions will be tough, but they can win
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: that game. Anything that I think is too tough, I'll
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: kind of keep it minimum. Lions will be tough. That
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: could be eight, but they can win that game. Bears, honestly,
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: let me be backtrack. Bears, they can win that game.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: That'll be tough. Ravens will see what they are, but
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: that game is gonna be tough because they're gonna be healthy.
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: Broncos they can beat Packers, they can beat Raiders. They
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: should beat that's nine, Vikings, they should beat that's ten.
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: I think ten wins is a fair base line over
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: under maybe nine to play Devil's advocate and be safe.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: I think nine just spit ball off the top of
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: my head. But again, we got a lot of these
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: teams are gonna change on both sides, right, and we
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: got to see where they're at. Our sis is going
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: back to the tight end conversation. Hey, you don't think
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: Jackson Hawes can play that role? And I think Jackson
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: Hawes is more athletic than he gets credit for, and
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: he can do some more things in the past game
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: that he gets credit for. I don't think he's as
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: athletic as Knox and can be what Knox is as
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: a pass catcher. I don't think he's completely devoid of
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: being a pass catcher. I just think he's more limited
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: to like the underneath and the very short intermediate. Like
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: he's not that guy that you're sending on a corner
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: route or a sail route into the intermediate, you know,
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: ten to fifteen yards down the field. He's not that
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: guy where you're gonna run like a half boot or
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: a roll and fake the corner and then have him
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: been back across the field to the post or on
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: a crosser. I would love him to be. I just
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: don't think he's that. I think he's I think he's
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: a perfect tight end three or a very good tight
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: end two if your tight end one is an overall
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: like guy who's just legit as a pass catcher and
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: a blocker, Like if they if he was the tight
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: end two to George Kittle or McBride or even Bowers,
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: who's who can block a little bit like paring him
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: with a true true one who can do both. It's
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: just that like Contain's limited as a one because he's
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: more of a wide receiver than he is a tight end.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: But I do think JACKSONA Haws can do more as
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: a pass catcher. I just don't think it's to the
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: level of Dawson Knox because he doesn't have that athleticism
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: that Knox has, all this comic cut knocks and drafts
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: a Deek. I would love for them to draft Kenyon
• 55:36
  Speaker 1: Side from Oregon. Problem is you're gonna have to use
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: a first round pick to do it, I think, and
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna have bigger fish to fry in
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: the first round there. But I don't think this is crazy,
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: and I have thought of it. I just haven't said
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: it out loud because I don't want everybody to yell
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: at me. M hmmmmmm. Rock Pile Reports is hiring Joe
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: Brady's like Virtual ConA WCWS, the same thing, just under
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: a different name. Raymond says, if you questioned Brady's past game,
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: wouldn't you want a pass game coordinator? Yeah, I think
• 56:12
  Speaker 1: that's fair. I just again, for me, I don't know
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: how much of him being is the being hamstrung by
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: the receiver pieces, but I think the I think I
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: think the Bills offense can stay the course with what
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: they've done. I just think they need some tweaks. I
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: don't necessarily question Brady's pass game as a whole. I
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: question like the D structure and known passing down in
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: distance and situation aspect. But if you can just add
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: a better couple body types at the top of the
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: depth chart that have verticality or somebody that can win
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: one on one, I start to feel a lot better.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: And also, again, it depends on that pass game coordinator,
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: right If it's somebody from a spread type of system,
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's necessarily gonna work is here here.
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: It depends on who the past game coordinator is. If
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: that past game coordinator was Nathan Schielhouse, yeah, given to
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: me right now, given to me right now. That's my
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: dream offensive coordinator would be Nathan Schielhouse. I just don't
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: know if he's gonna leave the Rams to come to Buffalo.
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: I did think it was interesting that the Bills interviewed
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: him last night. That got me really hopeful. I really,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: really really love Nathan Shieldhouse if he man, if he
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: if he were to come here as DOC, that would
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: be great Rams pass game coordinator offensive coordinator Iowa State
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three. I think he'd be a good fit.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: I love what he does. So yeah, I understan where
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: you're getting it, and I don't think you're wrong for me.
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: It just depends on what kind of pass game they
• 57:32
  Speaker 1: are coming from. Sorry, I kind of fleshed my thoughts
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: out there in real time. Swinn says, what would you
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: trade for Justin Jefferson? Oh, sheesh, I don't a lot.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I think that asking price would be
• 57:45
  Speaker 1: too crazy. I think that's the type of deal we're
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: giving up like two first and two seconds or you know,
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: two firsts, a second, and a third from different drafts,
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: and they need somebody like that. But also, like this,
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: I hate having this conversation because it comes back to
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: the moves that like have it panned out, Like they
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: need their draft picks, they need that draft capital. But
• 58:07
  Speaker 1: also like the draft capital are still just like dart
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: throws and swings at the plate that could be awesome
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: or could be nothing. Again, that's go back to the
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: Peter Griffin joke, like Justin Jefferson is Justin Jefferson, but
• 58:17
  Speaker 1: a draft pick could be anything. It could even be
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson. It's like, so why don't you take Justin Jefferson.
• 58:21
  Speaker 1: We'll take the draft picks. I would trade a lot
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: for Justin Jefferson. I I'm thinking of something in my
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: head and I'm gonna say it aloud. I think I
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: would trade I don't want to say. I don't know
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: how to verbalize this. I don't want to say I'd
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: trade more for Max Crosby. I would rather do the
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: trade for Max Crosby. I think the defense. I think
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: the defense needs a premier defensive end more than the
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: offense needs a premier wide receiver. I think you can
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: still get like a pretty good wide receiver two type
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: of deal, or get some rookie that fits with the
• 58:59
  Speaker 1: skill sets and eats and still have you be good
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: enough or kind of get you over the top again.
• 59:04
  Speaker 1: All jokes aside, like Brandon Cooks legitimately helped this offense.
• 59:07
  Speaker 1: So just get yourself a better wide receiver. It doesn't
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: have to be this huge stud. Obviously, Justin Jefferson would
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: be absolutely crazy and sick. I would trade a lot
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: for Justin Jefferson. It, man, it would be tough. Oh.
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: I hate having these conversations because all these previous roster
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: you know, failures come back. M hmm. Patt Ryan Saystanus
• 59:31
  Speaker 1: is the rifle king. Well, done. Mm hmmmmmmmmm. Joe says,
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: I'm okay with cutting knocks or asking him to take
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: a pay cut. To be honest, I don't know if
• 59:41
  Speaker 1: he gets a new, more favorable deal elsewhere versus buffal
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: where he's been in for years. Judy says, uh, did
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: you speak about Jim Leonard yet?
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: No?
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: I swear I'm getting it too in the next little
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: bit here. I'm excited to talk about it. I appreciate
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: you Rock and Roll Blues, thank you for saying great show.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Oh sorry, Jason, I missed the super chat and get
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 1: the alert. Thank you for the super Chat again. You're
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: crushing it. I really appreciate your generosity and the donations
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: and you just being here in the comments. That's awesome.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: Jason says, I think the bad contract and now is
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: Bernard way too injury opponent. I'll tell you this. I
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: think a big question going into this offseason is was
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: Terrell Bernard's dip and play solely due to the injuries
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: or was it something more? Because even when he's healthy,
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: he's not a dude who's going to axcel a getting
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: off blocks. He's not a dude who's going to excel
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: at block deconstruction, and if you're not going to protect
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: him inside with dudes who can eat blocks and mitigate
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: displacement and keep in tier offensive lineman from getting to him,
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: he's going to keep getting thrown around. I think the
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 1: injuries were a big part of his you know, struggles.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: I do think he should move to Will and they
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: should get a middle linebacker that has a bit more
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: size and thumping and downhill ability to his game, a
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 1: la Devin Lloyd, like a Foye, a Lucan, someone like
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: da who has size combined with the athleticism rather than
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: just having two small, two hundred and twenty pound linebackers.
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 1: But the injury piece is a huge, huge part of it.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: You know, he's been banged up before, we continue to
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: see it. Yeah, that's fair, that's fair. That's fair. That's fair.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: Oh comment here from what thirty eight ninety six. I
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: don't think Shaheed is the quote unquote answer, but it
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: would be nice to have him even that, I would
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: take that. I would take Rashid Shaheat. In an instant,
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: Frank says, who's your favorite slash most realistic wide receiver option?
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: I think Shashi Shashid Shaheed is in that conversation. From
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 1: a free agency standpoint, I haven't fully dove into the
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: wide receiver pieces. Shaheat is up there, though. I don't
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: think he's gonna break the bank. I think he's a
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: better rout runner than he gets credit for, and I
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: think his speed in verticality absolutely opens up everything. DF
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: Forever says, Aunt. To be plain, I'm doing everything I
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: can to in the way I'm positives and I just
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: can't name enough. I think that's fair. I think it's
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: fair to kind of see the roster and kind of
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: look at it and be downtrodden on it or be encouraged.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: There's a lot. There's a lot. There's a lot, there's
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: a lot. See a lot of Oh Trader for Makay Lemon.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: That's fair. I see the comments. Who do I want
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: for DC? I'm coming in, I'm coming in, I'm coming in.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about DC in a minute. Claude says, Aunt,
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 1: John Gruden knows talent, he'd be able to tell you
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: which guys are football players. I don't know if this
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 1: is sarcasm or not. I yeah, he probably would. I
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: feel like a lot of coaches could do that, though,
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: but I don't know if he's current enough or too outdated.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: And also him just lining up with Barstool I don't like.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: And then the way he exited the league. I don't
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: want any parts of him, although I do respect, you know,
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: his football mind and his knowledge and the system he
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 1: comes from. But I want no parts of John Ruben
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: James saying yes, Bosa and epines A free agents absolutely, Okay,
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: Morey have Comisada forever and says, yeah, if we can
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: get a true number one wide receiver, I think it
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: helps everybody. Shakir ki Ka Palmer, it absolutely does. Absolutely
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 1: it does. Oh there's a great one from Swyn. Yeah,
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: Michael Wilson or Alec Pears are intriguing free agents. I
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: really wanted Alec Pierce. I just don't think it's gonna
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: be possible now. I think Alec Pierce is gonna get paid.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: I think Alex Pears is gonna Alec Pierce is gonna
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: get like almost twenty million a year. I think somebody's
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: gonna pay big for that speed and that athleticism and
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: that ball tracking and the plays downfield. Someone's gonna pay
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: big for Alec Pearson. I think it takes the bills
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: out of the running. Unfortunately, Michael Wilson is what I
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: like from Arizona. I liked him at Stanford. I like
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: him now and yeah, I'm not crazy, right and we're
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: not crazy like Michael Wilson is a UFA right right right, right,
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: right right, going to his contract right now? Yeah he is. No,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: he's not. He's a UFA in twenty twenty seven. But
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: I would take Michael Wilson. I thought he was a
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: free agent too. But a lot of people commenting that
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: they don't like, uh, they don't like Joe Brady, oh
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: Dia feversays one first two seconds and Ed Oliver for
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson. I don't hate that Stevie saying Bernard Bean's
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 1: extension of Bernard was diabolic. Oh okay, sorry, Claude Claude's
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: total sarcasm aunt on that comment that I read from
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: Claude earlier. I apologize. It's hard to read sarcasm through
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: things at times. This was in reference to Claude's comment
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: about Aunt John grew nose talent. I figured it was.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: That's why I said, I don't know if this is
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: sarcasm or not. I thought there was a hint of it.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 1: I apologizes not being able to read between the lines. There.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: I've average do so much reading between the lines now,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: it's tough, man, My brain is fried. M Dominic, what's up?
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: Dom Don says everyone in this chat apparently watched a
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: different two and a half years of Joe Brady as
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: ocie than I did. He's been way above average, even great,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: and he's the most accomplished young oc available based on
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: who's available. Yeah. I don't necessarily disagree with that. I think,
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 1: especially too from like accomplished perspective. Yeah, there's a lot
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: of unknowns with Yadinsky. There's he he's probably more accomplished
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: than Kobiak. I don't think that's wrong. I think that's fair.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: I think it's fair. Again, I don't hate the higher
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: I'm just underwhelmed by it to a degree. But I
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: think that's fair. Mmmmmm okay, okay, okay. Gruden is the
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: best a calling spider to why Banana? I love that.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: I love that. I love that. I love that. All Right, now,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to something everybody's asked about and the
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: part that I wanted to get to the most. Let's
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: talk about a really exciting defensive coordinator. Rumor Jim Leonard. Now, oh,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: I gotta stop because we have a super chat. Hold on,
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: I need to pull up I need to pull up
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: the actual tweet for Leonard so I can read it correctly. Okay,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: now I'm gonna go to the super chat. This super
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: chat says one, thank you for being here, to thank
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: you for the donation. Super chat says, so Brady has
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: to win two or more playoff games? What happens if
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: he doesn't? Does he get fired? Because that's the floor
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: they set with this move, But he signed for five years.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: None of this makes sense. I don't think they're operating.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you this. I don't think they're operating on
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 1: if he has to win playoff games, not like if
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: this team doesn't make the playoffs. I don't think. I
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: don't think he's going anywhere. I think they're committed to
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: him long term and kind of turning things around a
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: little bit. I don't think he gets fired if he
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: doesn't win less than two playoff games. I do think
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: there's gonna be a ton of backlash, man. I just
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: I think everything's really gonna burn, Like if they don't
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs or if they lose ugly in the
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 1: wildcard round or if they start out bad, there's gonna
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: be a lot of people with torches and pitchforks and
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: wantten heads on pikes. I could see that one thousand percent.
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they're That's actually really actually a
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: fun question while we're here for those in the chat.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna start to get into Jim Leonard in a minute,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: but I want to know from those in the chat
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: with Brady as head, which again, and we have a
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 1: lot to go right for what's free agency gonna bring,
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 1: what's the draft gonna bring, who's the defensive coordinator, o
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: C offensive lank coach all that? What does Joe Brady
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: have to do and or tying that have to brain
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: and beat? What do the Bills have to do this
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: year to make this a successful season? Like it does
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: it have to be? Like they have to make They
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 1: have to make the playoffs and that's fine. They have
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: to win two playoff games. They have to get the
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: AFC Championship, they have to get to the Super Bowl,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: they have to win the division? Like does anybody have
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: a qualifier? I think it's a really thought provoking question.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: I like this. I know you didn't mean it this way,
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: but I kind of like this. Yeah, for me, I
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 1: just don't think I don't think they are gonna set
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: a limit for him in terms of like a bar
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: of what he has to get to for me to
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 1: have a successful year. I think this team needs to
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs again. I think they need to stay
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: on the same trajectory. Either win the division, get to
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: the playoffs, and win at least one playoff game. Like,
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: that's what you have to continue to do. I think
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: that's what you have to do that. It's a really
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: thoughtable question. I like that. All right. Oh, Marty says,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: no qualifiers on this year, but they need to make
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: the CHIP by year three. Okay. Richard's saying to be successful,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: they have to win the East let alone and guess
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: there's something else. Um h. Jeffrey says, win the fifth, sixth,
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: seventh games of the season. Win those, we get the
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: one seed fair fair fair fair fair. Then I have
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: to win the Super Bowl, Stanley Cup, and the Dodgeball Tournament.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: I like that. I like that. I like that. Yes,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: season script comes definitely comes into play, says James very Fair.
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: Mike Check says Brandon be and I trust I bean leave,
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 1: that's funny. Just make the playoffs? Okay, okay, fair enough,
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 1: fair enough, fair enough? Okay, Jim Leonard, why are we
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 1: talking about this? Adam Schefter tweeted at two forty seven
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  Speaker 1: this afternoon. Sources are saying Broncos defensive pass coordinator Jim
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 1: Leonard is expected to be a leading candidate to become
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: the next defensive coordinator for the Buffalo Bills. I tweeted
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 1: this immediately that this would I think. My exact words
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: were words cannot express how much I want this. I
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: could forgive a lot of things if the Buffalo Bills
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: named Jim Leonard their defensive coordinator. And then I linked
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: a tweet that I put in twenty twenty three saying
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: that I wanted Jim Leonard his defensive coordinator for the Bills.
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: I quick little backstory for myself personally on why I
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 1: like this, but then schemmatically why I think it would
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: be good. I liked Jim Leonard when he came out
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: of Wisconsin. He was just one of those dudes I
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: attached to in college football for whatever reason. I thought
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: he was a good player. And then he ends up
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: on the Bills and he played a little bit, but
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: I wanted him to play more. It makes no sense.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: I was a little little kid at the time, but
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: I just thought he was like a good player, and
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: I liked him. And then he goes to the Ravens
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 1: and he's with that two thousand and eight Ravens team.
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 1: He's making plays in the Divisional round against the Tennessee Titans.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 1: I just thought he was sweet. And then he's playing.
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: He's playing safety opposite of Ed Reid. They needed somebody
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: to stabilize that spot. Then he leaves the Ravens. He
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: goes with Rex Ryan to the Jets' He's, you know,
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 1: one of these dudes who's like a coach on the field.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: He's making plays defensively. He's sweet. So I liked him
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 1: as a player and followed him for a little bit
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 1: throughout his career, and then you know, he's done playing,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: goes to Wisconsin to start coaching. He's their DB's coach
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: in twenty sixteen, he's their defensive coordinator and DB's coach
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 1: from twenty seventeen through twenty twenty two. He's the interim coach.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 1: At the end of the twenty twenty two season. He's
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: got a ton of buzz heading into the twenty twenty
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 1: three season, but I think he was ed. He There's
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 1: different reports on like why, but he kind of didn't
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: want to commit to anything. He ends up being a
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 1: senior football analyst for Illinois in twenty twenty three, and
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 1: then twenty twenty four he joins the Broncos becomes their
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: DB's coach and pass game coordinator, and then this past
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 1: year he was the assistant head coach and defensive pass
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: game coordinator. I have been a fan, raven says, Aunt,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: waxing poetic about a Rex Ryan guy. Again, just kidding,
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 1: just kidding. Defensive coordinator Rex Ryan is awesome. Like objectively,
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: head coach Rex Ryan is something completely different. Defensive coordinator
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: Rex Ryan is pretty sweet. I will sign on that
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 1: for forever. Like those Ravens teams when Rex Ryan was
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: a defensive coordinator, Like Rex Ryan's defense battling versus Dick
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: Leboe's defense in Pittsburgh, those type of defenses blitz in
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 1: the formation and fire zone type deal odd front, three
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: to four attack minded Like that's my type of defense.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: Like from a philosophy and like personal enjoyment standpoint, but
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: also from a schematic standpoint and what I like a
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: little bit, and we're gonna talk about that, you know,
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: kind of why I think that's good and what that is.
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about, you know, what Jim Leonard is
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 1: what I like. So pieces great comment here from Richard,
• 1:11:55
  Speaker 1: who was already have the ball saying Jim Leonard runs
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 1: a three to four. Is that a problem for you
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: or do you think he's adaptable. We're gonna talk about
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: that as we go forward. Great question though, and way
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: to be spot on. So some quick notes on Jim
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: Leonard and like what he was at Wisconsin and what
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 1: he's been exposed to at Denver under Vance Joseph so
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 1: hybrid fronts and coverages. He's a base three four type
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: of guy, but then it Wisconsin would also work in
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: a two four five and like a four down nickel
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: somewhat similar to what the Bills do four down under
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 1: and overfront. Bills are usually a four down overfront nickel
• 1:12:29
  Speaker 1: type defense. So he's got some of the Bills stuff
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: in his bag already. Well, I gotta stop, Mike, thank
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: you very much for being here, my checknick for the
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: super chat. The comment is, if we get Jim Leonard
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: as DC. It will be more to this team than
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: people know. He is an assistant head coach and DC
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: pass coordinator. He will bring the three four pack. I
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: signed off on this. I love it and I appreciate it.
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: Well done, well said. I'm gonna keep linking into that.
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 1: So again, hybrid fronts and coverages really good fund simulated
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: in creeper pressures. That's part of the reason I loved
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 1: him in Wisconsin. If you watch the show, if you
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: did a disguise coverage bingo, simulated pressure and creeper pressure
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: is probably something I say multiple times every show. That's
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: That's kind of where I'm at with that. So hybrid
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: fronts and coverage is really good and fun, schematically and
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: effective simulated in creeper pressures. Fluid personnel adaptations, streamline calls
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: that have presentation complexities to both confuse and attack offensive offenses.
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 1: Match and rules based coverages something I love. It's just
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: hard to necessarily implement because you have to have rules.
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: Everybody's got to be sound and understand everything. Oh good
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 1: comedy from Aaron saying I spent four to five hours
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 1: in Dave Randa seminars to day the bills Better get
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: Leonard Yeah, So Jim Leonard has ties to Dave Randa,
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 1: who was once the DC at Wisconsin. He is now
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: currently the head coach of Baylor, so he Leonard has
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: some ties to that. A Rando tree a little bit it.
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 1: That's fair, that's fair. Oh and then Aaron found up
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: saying also if the Bills get Leonard, Carl Dunbar just
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: got fired today. Oh I didn't see that news would
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 1: be a great fit. What that there, Charles says, mug mug,
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: mug front bingo. I think that's fair. So yeah, so
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 1: that's just some of the pieces, right. Also from the
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: Denver time, what you've got with Vance Joseph in this defense, right,
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: a lot of single high stuff, a lot of man coverage,
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: but also within that again a lot of match coverage pieces.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: So single high you're gonna get cover one, you're gonna
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: get cover three. Cover one is man, Cover three is zone.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: But you're gonna get match coverage stuff even within the
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 1: single high world. Also from the time in Denver, you
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: are going to get a bunch of what Denver has
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: done and what Vance Joseph has done, which is tied
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: to what way Phillips used to do. Bill should know
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: this five man pressure stuff, right, who's coming, who's rushing?
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: What are you doing? You're gonna get five down up front.
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: You're gonna tie that in with coverage and match principles
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 1: on the back end. It's really cool. Stuff's schematically in
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: terms of what they are and what they've been. Also,
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 1: I want to tie this in this piece of what
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 1: Vance Joseph's defense has been this year, in the past
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: couple of years, tying this in with Jim Leonard. So
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 1: this is what Vance Joseph and again Jim Leonard, DB's
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: coach and pass game coordinator on the defense side for
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 1: the Broncos and then assistant head coach and defensive pass
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: game coordinator this year. So heavily in terms of coverage,
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 1: pass game coordination stuff, DBS, all that stuff. So this
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: quote is very relevant. This is from Vance Joseph when
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: he talks about his defense. He says, quote, I don't
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: call a lot of man. What we do is mostly
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: pressure up front with matchup principles in the back end.
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: It's like playing a box and one defense in basketball,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: it's zoned outside or zone. I'm sorry, it's zoned inside
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 1: and match outside. These days, the beauty of playing great
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: defense in this league is the ability to have different structures.
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: If you can get dbs close to wide receivers without
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: giving it that man tag quote unquote, that's the expertise
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: because when you call man, the player has to cover
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: both sides of the route. In this league, that's difficult.
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: Everyone has great receivers. The quarterbacks are so accurate with
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: what we call. We're giving the player one side of
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 1: the route, and we preach leverage. If you win your
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: leverage outside and the receiver breaks inside, you're going to
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: have a teammate there. It can look like man, but
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: it's not man. That's the beauty of what we do.
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: That's the secret. I love that again, match principles, the
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: combination of things right, playing true man and then playing
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: more of that man match type of defense, tying it
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: in with a single high aspect, tying it in with
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: being hybridized fronts five down. I'm an odd front kind
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: of guy. I'm a three to four type of guy.
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: It's just what I've always gravitated towards. But in today's NFL,
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 1: I think it's a three to four or just an
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: odd front. In general, I think it gives you more
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: organic answers to changing the pre to post snap picture
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: on quarterbacks. And I think that is the core and
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 1: crux of what you need is a good defense in
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: today's NFL, and so much of it is talked about.
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 1: You know, this guy's in coverages, win nude nudge, name
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: of the show, so much a change of the preto
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: postnat pictures of the conversation on the back end. Right, Okay,
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 1: we're showing two high. We're gonna spend a single high.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: We're gonna show single high. We're gonna spin it two.
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: We're running a non traditional Tampa. We're running Tampa two
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: Robert or Tampa two invert. We are running cover eight,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 1: we're running cover six, we are running split field coverages,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: and you know, we're locking the back side of a
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: three by one and then we're taking that safety from
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: that side and we're posting him to the other side.
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: Or we're running tricks and he's looking for that cross
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: or coming from number three and all these things. There's
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: so many like rules and picture change pieces that are
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: talked about on the back end, but the picture change
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: pieces up front I think are so important. That's why
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: I love simulated pressures. That's why I love creeper pressures.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: Leonard is very adept at the coverage pieces on the
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: back end, teaching guys rules for match based coverages. If
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: you can play match based coverages, I think it's you're
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: in such a good place's defense. The easiest coverage to
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: play is cover one right, single high man coverage. If
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: you have the horses for it, If you have the
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: dudes for it, play cover one. If your dudes are
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: that good and you can dare teams to try and
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 1: beat your corners, your golden man, you are living on
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: dream street. But it's hard to have those horses and
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: win that regularly, especially in today's NFL with how skewed the
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: rules are towards the offense. Plus you still need to
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: have pressure up front and all this stuff. If you
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: are good with a match coverage type of deal and
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: your rules are sound and your players understand it, it's
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 1: really beautiful stuff when you can have that type of
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 1: coordinated dance, and it's not easy to have that, but
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: when you can have that, I love that. So everything
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: he does is up my alley. From the hybridized fronts,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: the sims and the creepers, the odd front structure tie
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 1: it in with the coverage and making everything married and
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: as one, from the front to the back, single high stuff,
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: match coverage pieces, all of that. Now, how it ties
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: into the bills. I'm gonna talk about more about some
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: Jim Leonard stuff in a minute to kind of break
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: him down further, but I want to talk about how
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: that ties up the bills. Since a lot of us
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: in the chat here are kind of asking about that,
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: We'll start from the back end. Yes, I think this
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: is fine for Benford and Harriston. Marty, you asked that, Yeah,
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: I think that'll be fine. I think Benford can man
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: up on dudes. I think Harston can man up on dudes.
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: They're fine in zone, and I think they're capable of
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: playing match stuff. Benford's already done it. Harston will have
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: to learn a bit more of it with how he
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: played at Kentucky, but I think he's capable of it.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: From a skill set standpoint. I don't know what he
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: has between the ears, but I think he can accomplish
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: that safety. What I think is interesting here, and I'm
• 1:19:36
  Speaker 1: gonna make this kind of a somewhat of a bigger point.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: I think the ideal fit and this hurts my heart
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: a little bit to say, because I love Taron Johnson.
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: I think the ideal role for Cole Bishop is to
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: be a big nickel or the apex. I think in
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: an ideal world you move Bishop into Taron Johnson's spot.
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: I think Cole Bishop gives you a little bit more
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: of a skeleton key factor there as the apex and
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: the big nickel, and then you get two safeties, two
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: new safeties. I don't think Aron Johnson's going anywhere because
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: of his contract. I also am not completely out on Arran,
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 1: although I know he had a down year in twenty
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 1: twenty five. I think Terren's gonna be back, and I
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: think Cold Bishop is gonna be one of your safeties
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: if you're playing more single high. Cold Bishop is very
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: very good at being that down safety. Anything that gets
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 1: him in and around the box is a win for
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: Cold Bishop and the Bills. Anything that gets him to
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: play in the role that he was at when he
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: was at Utah, when him and Sioni Vaki were the
• 1:20:32
  Speaker 1: two safeties there and they were doing a lot of
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 1: monster Man, big nickel apex type of stuff there. I'm
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 1: all for that. That's where he succeeds. Let him man
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: cover tight ends in and around the line of scrimmage.
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: Let him man cover running backs. Let him sit in
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: the hook curls and the curl flats. Let him do
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. The plays that he was making this year.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 1: Granted he made some deep he made some stuff happen
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 1: from a you know, a two high alignment deep downfield.
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 1: He made some plays from a single high alignment. Right.
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's horrible from depth. I do think
• 1:21:01
  Speaker 1: he's still a work in progress there, and he has
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 1: improved a little bit. But I think setting him up
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: for success and allowing his skill set to flourish is
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: him being the down safety, him being a box safety,
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: him being more of the Jordan Poyer than the Micah High.
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: So if you're playing a lot of single high stuff,
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: that's perfect. Even playing Cover one Cover three, if you're
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: looking in at pre snap or you're spinn into a
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 1: post snap, let him be that down safety. You can
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: play Cover three sky where he's in the curdl flat.
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 1: You could play Cover three buzz where he's in the
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: hook curl. I don't care. That is awesome, that's fine, right,
• 1:21:33
  Speaker 1: And he can also spin to the post every once
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: in a while, and be your single high post safety.
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: Now that means regardless of what defense you're in, right,
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 1: but especially if you're a defense that's going to play
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: a little more single high, you need a rangy ballhawk
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: as the other safety to play in the post and
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 1: compliment Cole Bishop. Can't be someone that's completely siloed, right,
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: just needs to be someone that's a little more Mica
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: high than he is. Jordan Poyer. Again, nobody yell at me.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: I know Jordan Poyer could also play in the post.
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: I know he could also play deep. I know Hi
• 1:21:59
  Speaker 1: could also play in the box and do all that
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. Right, they were both they redefined the
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: safety position. They remove the free and strong from the
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 1: labels for safety, right, and they both just became safeties.
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: But I think you need a pair Cole Bishop with
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: a rangy ballhawk type of safety on the back end.
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: I don't think that guy's currently on the roster. I
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: don't think Taylor Rapp is that guy. I would love
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: if Jordan Hancock's that guy, but I don't think Jordan
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: Hancock's that guy. I don't think DeMar Hamlin's that guy.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 1: I think you need to draft that guy or sign
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: that guy Kobe Bryant from Seattle is somebody that I
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: am very attracted to as a free agent. I think
• 1:22:32
  Speaker 1: he's gonna cost a little bit too much. Plus, his
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: misstackle rate jumped significantly in twenty twenty five and almost
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: doubled versus what it was in twenty twenty four. But
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 1: he also made some good tackles as well. You got
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: a pair Cole Bishop with a ballhawk rangey type of
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: safety on the back end. Whether it's especially if it's
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: Jim Leonard's defense, but even if it's someone else's defense. Now,
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: let's move to the linebackers, right. Part of what Leonard
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: did in his tenure and in his time at Wisconsin
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: was the linebackers that he used and the guys that
• 1:23:06
  Speaker 1: he had, you know, throughout his tenure. You know, you
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: had Leo Schanall there who now plays for the Chiefs.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: You had Nick Herbig who is now at the Steelers
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: who plays off the edge. There. You had Jack Sanborn.
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 1: You had dudes that were thumpers and could play the
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 1: run more true. Three four linebackers right, Guys who can
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: rush off the edge, guys who can drop into coverage,
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: Guys who can function inside on sub and sub packages.
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: They can play off ball, they can play on the line,
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: they can contribute to a five down front right, or
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: they can drop that those hybridized type of dudes. The
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 1: linebacker position becomes very important. That's where I think a
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 1: lot of significant changes are going to be made again.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: Torell Bernard injury history. Even if we're looking at it
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: right now, right Matt Mlonald's money got moved around. I
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 1: am going to confirm right now what I'm about to
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: say to make sure I am not crazy. Yeah, Matt Mlonald,
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: he's got jeez, Matt Millonald's a UFA this offseason, but
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: he has a cap hit of eleven million dollars because
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: he's got a void year this year. He's got a
• 1:24:07
  Speaker 1: void year this year with a cap hit of eleven
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 1: million dollars, and he's got a void year next year
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 1: that has a cap hit a four point eight eight nine. God,
• 1:24:15
  Speaker 1: that's brutal. But Matt Mlonald's a UFA as of right now.
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: You already, even if you're just playing the regular defense
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: you had this past year, you need a starting linebacker
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: opposite of around Bernard. Even if he's your starter, I
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: think you need to move Bernard to Will and get
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 1: yourself a bigger, thumping middle linebacker, not complete thumper. Right.
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: I'm not looking for Levon Kirkland. I'm not looking for
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: down to high tower. I'm not saying that you need
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: more of a Devin Lloyd. You need more of a Foy,
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: a Lucan right, that type of presence, which is why
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: I understand a little bit why cg Allen is getting
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: mocked to the Bills and some mock drafts, although I
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: think his coverage leaves a little to be desired. Linebacker
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: from Georgia conversation for another time, but linebacker becomes very
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: interesting because you look at these linebackers. Is it going
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: to be Dorriyan and Bernard? Dor has made progress, I
• 1:25:00
  Speaker 1: still don't love him as a true starter in anything.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: Linebacker is going to need some upgrading depending on you
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: know who, are you getting like an outside linebacker more
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: of an edge rusher kind of guy, or are you
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: using your edges or defensive ends more as those type
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: of guys. But linebacker would need some addressing. And as
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: the conversation says, so yeah, you need guys like Zach Bond,
• 1:25:18
  Speaker 1: you need guys like Van Ginkle. You need those type
• 1:25:20
  Speaker 1: of body types, you need those type of skill sets.
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 1: You need Leo Chanol's, you need Jack Sanbourn's, you need.
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: Think of his Wisconsin linebackers at that time, right or
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: go into I was saying, I think I think am
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: I crazy? Or Van Ginkle was Yeah, I was say
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: Van Kinkles or Wisconsin guy. So is Zach Bond. Yeah,
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: just get all th wiseconson linebackers that currently exist in
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: the NFL. But those are the type of dudes that
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: you need. The Zach Bond's, the Van Kinkles, guys that
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: can play up on the line, who can play off ball.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: The Bills don't have those linebackers. That's not what they're
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: built right now. You need guys that have some arm length,
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: Guys that can brush the quarterback a little bit off
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: the edge, Guys that can drop into coverage. That linebacker
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: spot becomes a hybrid ized spot. Bills currently don't have
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: that defensive line I think is interesting. I think Greg
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: Russau can be a stand up edge in a three
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: four defense. He's shown actually you can be pretty adept
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: in coverage, so I got no problem drop at him
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: in the hook curls or even in the flats. I
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: think he's fine. He's got the length to just play
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 1: that type of edge. Good as a run defender. You're
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: good to go there. Michael Hoyt, I think you know,
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: as the comment just came in and asked about Michael Hoyt.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 1: Michael Hoyt, similar deal. You can play him as an
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: edge in a three to four and be fine, and
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 1: then same thing in subpackages. Kick him into the inside,
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 1: do all that kind of stuff. Right, So I think
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: you're okay with Hoyt. I think you're okay with Rousseau
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: as your edge is there. Obviously you need to reinforce
• 1:26:40
  Speaker 1: a little bit. I didn't love the land in Jackson
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: pick last year. I still don't love it now. I
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't love his fit in general or
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: him as a player. I think it's fit is questionable.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: In a three four odd fund structure. Similar for Javon Solomon,
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to address the edge position. You need
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: more of a three to four odd front type of edge.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: You know, those type of dudes defensive tackle on the interior.
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: Some of the guys you have can still work, right.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: So Jim Leonard's base front that he likes to use.
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: Is I mentioned that you know the odd front, and
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: so people Willet referred to as like three to four
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: type of deal. But he runs a tight front defense,
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: or he did at Wisconsin. You're still getting a lot
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: of odd front principles and mechanics within the Denver defense
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: as well. But essentially what an odd front is is
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: you have a true nose tackle lined up in a
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: zero technique head up on the center. You're Ted Washington,
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: You're Pat Williams, those legends, true nose line head up
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: on the center. You could tilt them, you could shade
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: them a little bit, but you need a nose line
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 1: head up on the center. And then your two defensive
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: ends are lined up in four eyes, which are on
• 1:27:47
  Speaker 1: the inside shoulders of your two offensive tackles. Right, So
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: you've got a nose line head up on the center,
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 1: maybe a little shaded or tilted, but you got a
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: nose head up on the center, and then you got
• 1:27:59
  Speaker 1: your defensive ends lined up on the inside shoulders of
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: the offensive tackles. That's a four eye. I think Ed
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: Oliver can be a four eye. I think T J.
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: Sanders can be a four eye. I'm still questionable on TJ. Sanders.
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't love TJ. Sanders's fit in an odd front,
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 1: in a tight front, in Jim Leonards defense, but maybe
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: he could work a little bit. Dion Walker. I think
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: he would be a solid four eye. I think he
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: could moonlight a little bit as a nose. I don't
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: want to get into it too much now, and I
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 1: hope nobody yells at me. I think Dean Walker had
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: a good year. I think he surpassed my expectations. I
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 1: don't think he's this stud in the making that a
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: lot of people are making him out to be. And
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: I think his run defense is still a little questionable.
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: Though he improved significantly and played much better than I
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: thought he would, he will still get displaced. He will
• 1:28:48
  Speaker 1: get moved left to right, he will get moved vertically.
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: I don't want him playing as the true nose. I
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 1: think he's a dancing bear and his athletic I'd love
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: to get him as a four eye in an odd front.
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: Get me a true nose. To get a true nose,
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: Dion Walker can live a little bit as the backup nose,
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: or rotate in there. You can put Dion Walker as
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: a four eye, get me a. You have to get
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: a true nose to add to this group. You need,
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: you know, big Citrus from Iowa. You need a true
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: nose to drop as a stone in the center of
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: your defense. You want somebody to be dropped in there
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: and play that spot, right. That's kind of who you want,
• 1:29:26
  Speaker 1: That's kind of what you want to be. I don't
• 1:29:29
  Speaker 1: think it's a complete overhaul or retooling of the defense.
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: The pieces aren't complete, like for like. It's not an
• 1:29:37
  Speaker 1: easy fit. They're seamless fit. I should say there is
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: going to be some retooling, right because the Bills are
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: right now. They're a four down over front, one gap
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: penetrating type of defense. They are not a tight front,
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: odd front type of structure. They are not a five
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: down you know, regular five down front. They are not
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: built for that type of structure fitting the run, or
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: that type of structure playing the past. I do think
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: it could work. Yeah, great County here from David. Yeah,
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: you want Vince Wilford, that's the nose tackle you want.
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: You want Casey Hampton from the Steelers. You want a
• 1:30:10
  Speaker 1: LOADI nada. Drop him in the center, that's what you want.
• 1:30:13
  Speaker 1: Drop him right on that center. Let him control the
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: A gaps. He's either you know, read and react and
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 1: you know he's kind of controlling the center, or he's
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 1: attack react, kind of jack him up. Play from there.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: You might lag him a little bit. You might have
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: him read the center, crash the A gaps, all that
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: type of stuff. Right, You need somebody in the center,
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 1: like a stone to drop control, be in that middle space, mitigate,
• 1:30:35
  Speaker 1: you need a plugger, you need an eater of worlds
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: at nose tackle. That's what you need. And I think
• 1:30:41
  Speaker 1: Walker could moonlight is that and rotate in a bit.
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: But I don't think putting him there is ideal, and
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's setting him up for success. Now
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna do a lot of reading right now. Yeah,
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 1: Ted Washington, Ted Washington, Pat Williams. Those type of tutes,
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: And again that they don't have to be huge. I
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 1: know a lot of the name bringing up. It's not like, okay,
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: so you need a three hundred and thirty pound guy,
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: you need a three hundred and forty pound guy. No,
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: you need someone granted a certain size and stoutness and
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: physicalness or frame tends to play best to that type
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: of role. But it's more about the skill set. It's
• 1:31:19
  Speaker 1: more about the play style. You need someone who's a
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: run defender first, who's a displacement mitigator, who's a block eater,
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: who's a space eater. That's what you need. It could
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 1: be somebody that's three hundred and fifteen pounds. It could
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: be somebody that's three hundred and thirty pounds, right, It
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: could be a lot of different things. It could be
• 1:31:34
  Speaker 1: somebody that's three ten if they know how to play it,
• 1:31:36
  Speaker 1: and they know how to read blocks, and they know
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: how to play with leverage and drop the knee and
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: split double teams and reduce their surface area and win
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: with their hands and all these types of pieces and
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: other things that I'm not even mentioning. Cool. You could
• 1:31:48
  Speaker 1: be a three hundred and five pound guy that works.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: It's about the skill set and the role. That's not
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: necessarily attached to a certain size or a certain weight
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: or a certain frame, but certain sizes, certain weights, and
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: certain frames do tend to lend themselves better to that
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: role and that skill set. Now, let's read about Jim
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: Leonard Well. I went back to watch some of his
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: coaching clinics and today to kind of round out, you
• 1:32:13
  Speaker 1: know more again. I talked about some notes on what
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: he is schematically and what I've seen from my times watching.
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: I just went back to my notes from like years ago,
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 1: when I've been in love with him since like twenty
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: twenty three to twenty twenty two, as a defensive coordinator
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: in mind and wanting him to come to the bills.
• 1:32:25
  Speaker 1: So I brought up some of my notes in summary.
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: But now I want to go to direct quotes from him,
• 1:32:30
  Speaker 1: lines from him about who he is, what he is.
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go through read a bunch. I got
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: to stock because we've got a super chat. Jason, Dude,
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: you're so generous. You're killing it this episode. Thank you.
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: Jason says, do you think Shack can help next year?
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 1: I know he's a free agent. Do we bring him
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: back for me? Yes? I would take Shack Thompson back
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: and have him be your middle linebacker. I don't think
• 1:32:51
  Speaker 1: he's going to cost too much. In an ideal world,
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: you're getting a dude who is like a young stud
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 1: potentially to get like in him in that system and
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 1: keep him there. I just don't know how the money's
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: going to align. So I would take the high floor
• 1:33:03
  Speaker 1: known quantity of Shack. If the Bears cut Edmunds, do
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: you believe he would be a good fit in Leonard's defense,
• 1:33:10
  Speaker 1: I think you could work with Tremaine Edmands. I think
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: the athleticism. You could also line him up at edge
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: a little bit, let him do some stuff. You get
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: Edgemond's back and let him be a rusher. I think
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: Edmunds would fit. I think Edmonds would be fine. I
• 1:33:22
  Speaker 1: think he's more of a four to three linebacker than
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 1: he is anything. But I think Edmunds. I would prefer
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  Speaker 1: Shack because I think Shack is better at block deconstruction
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  Speaker 1: and coming downhill. Yeah, kmore. And I was waiting for
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: somebody to hear the catch the joke? Did I hear
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  Speaker 1: tremain Tremaine to edge? I would prefer somebody who's better
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  Speaker 1: coming downhill and taking on blocks and you know, block deconstructing.
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  Speaker 1: But Edmunds isn't the worst idea. I would prefer Shack though,
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: because of his skill set in his playstyme. That's fair. Yes,
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 1: Shack would help next year, all right? Jim Leonard core
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 1: beliefs uh. This is a quot he attributes direct Ryan,
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 1: who he says may have gotten this call from somewhere
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 1: else but Jim Leonard. Football is a simple game complicated
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: by coaches. Jim Leonard believes players need to learn to
• 1:34:10
  Speaker 1: think for themselves. Becoming adaptable as a player is extremely invaluable.
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: You try to expose players to the multitude of scenarios
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: they'll face in games, knowing that you're outside the white
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 1: lines on game day. You're counting on guys to step
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: up and rise up and play in positive ways. You
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: have to give them room to grow and room to think.
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  Speaker 1: His core beliefs for oh nick saying, trade everything for styles,
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: oh sunny styles linebacker from Ohio State. That would work
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: and that would be fun. So those core beliefs four
• 1:34:43
  Speaker 1: of them consistency, efficiency, flexibility, and response versus opportunity to
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: learn Consistency broken up into several little points. His goal
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: with consistency is to be as fast as possible, to
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: be as his players, to be as fast as possi
• 1:35:00
  Speaker 1: physical as possible, and as confident as possible, and the
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: majority of coaching takes away from those things. His tenants
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: with inconsistency coaching style being the same guy on a
• 1:35:12
  Speaker 1: daily basis as far as your approach and how you
• 1:35:14
  Speaker 1: handle your players, your communication, your energy, everything being the
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 1: same guy on a daily basis, your teach progression. How
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: do you give information to your players? How do you
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: get them to learn a skill or a defense? Is
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: it consistent? Do they know what to expect? Terminology? He
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: likes to make things as clean and concise as possible
• 1:35:32
  Speaker 1: in terms of his terminology, routine, daily and weekly understanding.
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  Speaker 1: How do we get to second level and next level
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: things faster, having a routine, sticking to it, improving that
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: stacking and getting better game preparation. I love this quote
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: from him. He says, we are very complex in what
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 1: we do in many people's eyes, but with how I
• 1:35:52
  Speaker 1: ask our guys to coach it and the consistency that
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: we have and how we coach and teach, I think
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: it makes it simple for our guys and they trust
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  Speaker 1: what we do. I think that's a highlight in anything
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: that you've seen from Jim Leonard is his defense is complex,
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: but there's simplicity within how complex it is. Right, there's
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: not a ton of stuff for the sake of a
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: ton of stuff. There's adjustments layered on top of a
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: core base that he's able to go with. So you
• 1:36:20
  Speaker 1: have checks and you have balances and you have adjustments
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: within everything that isn't throwing everybody completely for a loop.
• 1:36:27
  Speaker 1: There's not a shift or a change in personnel or
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 1: a change in formation or alignment, and you see everybody
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: frantically trying to figure out. They know their checks, they
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 1: know their adjustments, they know what they are because they're
• 1:36:40
  Speaker 1: complex and what they do. But Jim Leonard and his
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 1: staff have the ability to make that complexity simplistic, teach
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: it to the guys and get them to understand. That's
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 1: very important too when you have a match based coverage
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 1: type of system on the back end, because that means
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: it's rule base. Match coverage is all, Hey, I'm player A,
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: I'm watching player B, and see if B does this,
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: I do that. If C does that, I do this.
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  Speaker 1: And that's for if your player A, if your player X,
• 1:37:07
  Speaker 1: if your player W, and everybody has to see the
• 1:37:10
  Speaker 1: same thing at the same time. They all have to know. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: if player B does this, I do number one. If
• 1:37:16
  Speaker 1: player B does that, I do number two. Okay, now
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: this play I'm keying on player See if player C
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  Speaker 1: does this, I do number three. If play all of
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  Speaker 1: that and everybody's got to see it. The corner has
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: to see it, the safety has to see it, the
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  Speaker 1: apex has to see if, the mic has to see it.
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  Speaker 1: The will on the other side has to see it. Right,
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: the opposite corner, the opposite safety, all of that, everybody's
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 1: got to see everything at the same time. From a
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: coverage structure standpoint, there's a lot of teaching. There's a
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: lot of learning, there's a lot of theory and turning
• 1:37:43
  Speaker 1: it into practical application. Jim Leonard has a ton of
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 1: success in doing that. And again more quotes from what
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 1: you can what can you effectively get your guys to
• 1:37:55
  Speaker 1: do on a consistent basis? Anything more than that is
• 1:37:58
  Speaker 1: a waste and you're not really doing your players justice
• 1:38:01
  Speaker 1: as far as what you're trying to get accomplished. If
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  Speaker 1: you're not doing that, you're not putting the game in
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: their hands to let them win for you. I think
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 1: that is very telling. If you're not doing that, you're
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: not putting the game in their hands to let them
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: win for you. That is what his belief is. Right,
• 1:38:15
  Speaker 1: preparing guys, giving them rules that are simple, right, but
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: not so simple that they can be deciphered by the offense. Right,
• 1:38:22
  Speaker 1: So giving them things that are complex to an offense,
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: but are simple for his guys to learn and understand
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 1: and put them and put into practical application, putting the
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 1: game in their hands and letting them win for you. Again,
• 1:38:34
  Speaker 1: giving your players room to grow and room to think.
• 1:38:37
  Speaker 1: All of that type of deal, right, And I think
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 1: that again, that's everything you need your players playing fast
• 1:38:44
  Speaker 1: mentally and physically. It's not just oh well, that team
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 1: plays so fast because everybody runs a four to four.
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  Speaker 1: It's how you process, it's what you understand. You are
• 1:38:52
  Speaker 1: you prepared for this formation in this situation? Do you
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 1: know what's coming? Are you anticipating what's coming? Have you
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: been able to narrow down? Okay, in this situation, they're
• 1:38:59
  Speaker 1: likely going to do a B or C and you
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: know what you're doing in all of those, and you
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 1: know what your checks are and everybody knows that, and
• 1:39:05
  Speaker 1: everybody thinks like that. He's really adept at that, and
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: it's super important him. Again, one of his core beliefs
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: and core tenants. So that's everything tied to consistency. Next
• 1:39:15
  Speaker 1: is efficiency. He says he's not a first in, last
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: out type of guy. He believes you find any ways
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  Speaker 1: possible to do your job as well as you can
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: and as efficiently as you can. Always challenge yourself to
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: do better and don't waste time. Can you do your
• 1:39:29
  Speaker 1: job better? Can you do your job quicker? And how
• 1:39:31
  Speaker 1: can you get your players better faster? Love that Another
• 1:39:37
  Speaker 1: core belief flexibility. We're got to talk about this a bunch.
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 1: He talks about it throughout anything in Wisconsin, times, in Denver,
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: all of it flexibility. Again. His base defense is a
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: tight front, the four I, zero and a four I.
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 1: His nickel defense is a four down overfront, sometimes an underfront.
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: He has implemented both his tenants within flexibility. Build a
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: sound scheme, build in flexibility for complex problems, and then
• 1:40:04
  Speaker 1: have less calls but more possible adjustments. He says, this
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: calms our guys down. We can teach the basis of
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: what we do. We can teach all of the finer
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: details and then have minor adjustments to what we do,
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: rather than have more on top of more. We start
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: with almost bare bones and then add to a game
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: plan based on what the issues we're going to see,
• 1:40:26
  Speaker 1: based on how we can dictate. So he starts at
• 1:40:29
  Speaker 1: the bare bones level, the basic level, and then they
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: add to a game plan based on what they're going
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: to see from an offense personnel wise, situational wise, run
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 1: concept wise, past concept wise, all of that. That again,
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 1: you're tying it into the matchup of the opponent. This
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 1: isn't This isn't the Sean McDermott defense where it's like hey,
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 1: Bobby Babbage defense, where hey, we're gonna come in, we're
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 1: gonna play our defense. You know who we are and
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 1: what we do, and then we're going to adjust from there.
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: He is tailoring a game plan within his scheme, right,
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 1: He's tailoring that game plan week in and week out
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: based on what the opponent is and who the opponents are,
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: based on how he can dictate to them. And that's
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: a big piece. Being able to dictate to the offense
• 1:41:13
  Speaker 1: playing on the front foot versus an offense something you've
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: heard me say a lot for what I think this
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: Bill's defense needs. This is a great quote coming up
• 1:41:21
  Speaker 1: now and very telling from Jim Leonard. He says, quote,
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: I never want to be a counter puncher. I always
• 1:41:27
  Speaker 1: want us to have things in our game plan that
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 1: we can dictate the flow to an offense. You need
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 1: these offenses to have to go over to the sideline
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: and find an answer. And the more flexibility you have
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: within your scheme and the more ways you have to
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: be that throwing that jab or throwing some of those
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: uppercuts on them, then they have to go make adjustments
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: and not just attack, which is all they want to do.
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: End quote. He puts them he wants to put an
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 1: offense on the back foot. He wants to come out,
• 1:41:56
  Speaker 1: punch him in the mouth and dictate them. He wants
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: to make them go over to the sideline, go to
• 1:42:00
  Speaker 1: their iPads or their surface tablets and be looking at
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: it stuff and trying to figure out what the coverage was,
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 1: or what the front was, or how that guy, how
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 1: there was a free runner coming off the edge, how
• 1:42:09
  Speaker 1: their protection rules got manipulated, how their cover, how their
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 1: route concepts are getting eaten up, how the defense is
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 1: properly spacing out the route distributions and nailing down on everything.
• 1:42:18
  Speaker 1: He wants to play on the front foot. And I
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 1: love that, and I think that's how you have to
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: play in today's defense. You take it to an offense.
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: You build your game plan week in and week out
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: as much as you can. Like it's a playoff game
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 1: where you're a matchup based defense. It's why Steve Spagnolo
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: has been great come playoff time. It's why luy Ana
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: Rouma has been good come playoff time, because they're able
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 1: to build these matchup based game plans. They were able
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: to say, we know who you are on offense, We're
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 1: gonna you know, you throw with your right We're gonna
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: tie your right hand behind your back and see if
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 1: you can punch us with your left and move your feet.
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: That's what Leonard does, all while attacking, all while having
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 1: simulated pressures and creepers and hybridizing his fronts, basing out
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: of that type, but then also being able to get
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 1: into nickel match principles on the back end, single high store,
• 1:43:00
  Speaker 1: you know, man some zone, but really a lot of man,
• 1:43:03
  Speaker 1: a lot of man match type of stuff, good good pieces,
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: good stuff. And then his last core principle, a core
• 1:43:11
  Speaker 1: belief response versus the opportunity to learn. This is more philosophical,
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: but I like this. He says, you have the response
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: versus opportunity to learn, and it's broken down into two
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 1: spots in the moment and reflective in the moment. You know,
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: it's like in game, you just got beat. You know
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: your corner. You just got beat for a touchdown, right.
• 1:43:27
  Speaker 1: You have one opportunity for a response the next play
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 1: or that next drive, and you need to respond immediately
• 1:43:34
  Speaker 1: how you react to that current situation of adversity. Once
• 1:43:38
  Speaker 1: the next play is done, it's time to reflect. And
• 1:43:41
  Speaker 1: when you get into the reflective period, that's like a debriefing.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: You know what lessons did you learn? How did you
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 1: handle your responses in the moment. What was your response
• 1:43:49
  Speaker 1: in the moment when you look back on that, are
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 1: you going to grow as a player and being reflective
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: and taking that opportunity to learn. I just think again,
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: all those these are his core beliefs. I think he's
• 1:44:00
  Speaker 1: a very smart guy. I think he is sound schematically
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 1: and sound in terms of player development. He was a
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 1: guy who's tremendously loved and respected in Wisconsin, and it
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: appears to be the same in Denver. Man coverage principles
• 1:44:14
  Speaker 1: for him in coverage winning position, I discipline, flexibility again
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 1: talking about defensive backs and having versatility. This is when
• 1:44:24
  Speaker 1: he was with the Broncos. He talks about and he says,
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: you need versatility in your DBS, whether it's flexibility between
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: corners and safeties, or being able to play outside and inside.
• 1:44:32
  Speaker 1: You can't hide guys anymore in your dB room. You
• 1:44:35
  Speaker 1: have to be able to communicate and think. If you
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: can't play inside the numbers, they're just going to put
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: their best receiver in there and work those matchups. He
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: understands offenses, he understands schemes, he understands systems, he understands
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 1: how to implement things, build coach teach. I don't get
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: this hype often for an individual coach. Like I said,
• 1:44:59
  Speaker 1: if anybody like cares wants to poor receipts. I've been
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: tweeting about Jim Leonard and me wanting him as Bill's
• 1:45:04
  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator since twenty twenty three. I went back and
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: looked it up today and linked in one of the
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: tweets I post or posted. I'm a big college football guy.
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: You guys know that I watched just as much college
• 1:45:14
  Speaker 1: football as I do NFL football, which is saying something
• 1:45:16
  Speaker 1: because there's like a million college football games every week.
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: I loved what he did at Wisconsin, and he took
• 1:45:22
  Speaker 1: those teams that really had no offense and he made
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: them pretty successful with what they were defensively, and the
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: guys that he rotated in and it's because they were
• 1:45:29
  Speaker 1: sound and it's again, it's time to all these principles.
• 1:45:32
  Speaker 1: It's tied to, you know, the flexibility and having a
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 1: sound scheme and building in flexibility for complex problems, and
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: being able to dictate to offenses and play on the
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: front foot and make them play reactively and play on
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: the back foot and play off the play while retreating.
• 1:45:48
  Speaker 1: He understands what it takes to kind of run a group.
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: He comes from a good tree. He's got a lot
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: of good influences, you know, Aaron and the chap mentioned earlier.
• 1:45:56
  Speaker 1: You know, watching all the Randa stuff, it's because he's
• 1:45:58
  Speaker 1: tied to Dave Randa, what he's learned with Vance Joseph
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: in Denver these past couple years. And how good those
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: defenses have been. I know you might say that as
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 1: Bills fan, Well, the Bills put up thirty on them
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: and still had five turnovers. The Bills are a good
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 1: foil for the Broncos defense. But on the whole, the
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 1: Broncos defense has been one of the better defense in
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 1: the leagues the past several years, and it's tied to
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of the cover structure they stuff on stuff
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 1: they do on the back end, and that advanced Joseph
• 1:46:22
  Speaker 1: quote that I read earlier in terms of, you know,
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: what we do is mostly pressure upfront with matchup principles.
• 1:46:27
  Speaker 1: On the back end, you're gonna get a lot of that.
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 1: You know, he's gonna blitz, he's gonna bring pressure. Looks
• 1:46:32
  Speaker 1: he's gonna show five, bring five, he's gonna show five,
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: Bring three, he's gonna show five, bring four, he's gonna
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: show five, bring six, and a multitude of other combinations.
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 1: From that right, you'll get true pressures, true blitzes, which
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 1: are five or more rushers. You're gonna get sims, you're
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: gonna get creepers, simulated pressures, four man rush, dropping a
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 1: non traditional coverage guy and bringing a non traditional rusher.
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: So simulated pressure is showing five at the line and
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: you bring four, but it's three defensive linemen and a linebacker,
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 1: and you're dropping a defensive end or a defensive tackle
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: into coverage. Creaper pressure is the same thing, except you're
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 1: not showing pressure beforehand. You're just off ball lining up
• 1:47:10
  Speaker 1: regular four down front, and then you bring a guy.
• 1:47:13
  Speaker 1: I really like what he's about Schematically, I really like
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 1: what he's about philosophically and ideologically, and the identity that
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: he builds with his defense. I do think, you know,
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: they could bring him in. I think he could make
• 1:47:28
  Speaker 1: some things work with what they have. But I do
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: think it is something where you're gonna have to turn
• 1:47:33
  Speaker 1: this roster a little bit. You're going to have to
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: bring some Jim Leonard guys in or some odd front
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: hybridized front type of guys. In The linebacker room is
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: gonna have to change a little bit. There's gonna be
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: some growing pains there. The defensive line room interior and
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 1: on the edge is gonna have to change a little bit.
• 1:47:49
  Speaker 1: There's gonna be some growing pains there. I think on
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: the on the coverage side, you're largely fine with Hairston,
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: Benford and Cole Bishop. I would love to bring Trey
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: Wipe back as your corner three. I think that would
• 1:48:02
  Speaker 1: be awesome. We'll see what happens with Dorian Strong. But
• 1:48:04
  Speaker 1: I think on the back end you just need a
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 1: Rangey Ballhawk safety to pair with Bishop. But the front,
• 1:48:10
  Speaker 1: you know, the front seven, however you want to label it.
• 1:48:12
  Speaker 1: You know, the linebackers and the defensive line, you're gonna
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: have to do some churning there. I don't think it's
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 1: something you can completely overhaul in one off season. It
• 1:48:21
  Speaker 1: took Mike McDonald a couple of years to tool everything
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: in Seattle and look where they are now, So I
• 1:48:25
  Speaker 1: think there's gonna be some growing pains. You need to
• 1:48:27
  Speaker 1: have some patience. I don't think that means the defense
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 1: would be a disaster in twenty twenty six and it's
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 1: just like, hey, everybody, give it a chance. But I
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 1: do think there would be some churn this offseason and
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 1: likely next offseason to kind of get this defense where
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: they wanted to where they want it to be, just
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 1: because of the tweets that they're gonna have to do
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 1: upfront and what you're gonna have to do, you know,
• 1:48:48
  Speaker 1: at defensive line and linebacker within that upfront piece. But
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 1: I'm very excited. This is a personal thing for me.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: For again, this is personal because I like him and
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: the type of defense he runs is the type of
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: defense that I gravitate towards, both in terms of how
• 1:49:03
  Speaker 1: he teaches it and how he calls it and the
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 1: play style and identity and ideology and philosophy all of that,
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: but also objectively and again well there's some arbitrari ins
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: to it, but this is what I believe you need
• 1:49:16
  Speaker 1: to be in today's NFL to be successful, unless you're
• 1:49:18
  Speaker 1: gonna be the Texans and just have an amazing defensive
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: line highlighted by two all world edges and having two
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: really good linebackers, and then having a really good, you know,
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: skeleton teach skeleton key type of Big Nickel and Jalen Petrie,
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: and then having the best corner Tannement Football and Derek
• 1:49:37
  Speaker 1: Stingley and Kamari Lassiter, and then having Kaylen Bullock as
• 1:49:41
  Speaker 1: a really good single high safety who can do whatever.
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: Unless you're just gonna roll out dudes who are just
• 1:49:45
  Speaker 1: violent and better than everyone else and say good luck
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 1: beat us. You need to have some more scheme to
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: your game, and I think he would just be such
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 1: a great get. I am Adrian's Games City for Anthony.
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: Can you give us the link to the article. It's
• 1:50:00
  Speaker 1: not an article. A lot of what I read it's
• 1:50:03
  Speaker 1: plucked from different pieces. Some of it is from my
• 1:50:05
  Speaker 1: own notes, some of it is from different coaching pieces.
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: But if you go to YouTube and let's see, hold
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: on here, I'm going to find it for you. If
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: you go to YouTube and you type in Jim Leonard
• 1:50:29
  Speaker 1: Coaching Clinic. It's titled it for me, it's the sixth
• 1:50:34
  Speaker 1: or fifth one down. The video is titled Football Philosophy
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: Core Beliefs. It's thirteen minutes and forty one seconds long,
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: and it breaks down a bunch of what I just said. Again,
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: some of what I read here is from that, some
• 1:50:47
  Speaker 1: of it is from my own notes and just what
• 1:50:49
  Speaker 1: I've known throughout the years. But what I read verbatim
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 1: here is from that. So what kind of gives you
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: a peek and do his inner mind in the workings
• 1:50:55
  Speaker 1: of it, so you're not just basing it off of
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: my analysis. But yeah, So go type in Jim Leonard
• 1:51:01
  Speaker 1: Coaching Clinic on YouTube and it's the one titled Football
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 1: Philosophy Core Beliefs. Not a time of you. It's only
• 1:51:08
  Speaker 1: seven hundred fifty eight views right now, but it's cool.
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: I think there's a good chance he comes here. I
• 1:51:13
  Speaker 1: don't want to say that, let me backpack. I'm too
• 1:51:15
  Speaker 1: superstitious for that. This would I'm frustrated with a lot
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: of decisions right now with this team, just what they've
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 1: done for a couple of years with roster construction and
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 1: then what we've seen so far this offseason. I said
• 1:51:30
  Speaker 1: it on Twitter, I said it on Blue Sky. This
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: would make me forgive so much. If they hired Jim
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: Leonard as their defensive coordinator, I would love this. But again,
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: I do think there's gonna be some growing painings. I
• 1:51:39
  Speaker 1: do think there's gonna be some roster turn I do
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 1: think it's not gonna happen overnight because they are limited
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 1: with cap space and some draft capital. You already have
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: to invest in the defense and part of it too, right,
• 1:51:49
  Speaker 1: You already have to invest in the defense this offseason.
• 1:51:53
  Speaker 1: A JF Vanessa's the UFA, Joey Bose is the UFA,
• 1:51:56
  Speaker 1: right and Nick's seven hundred views from and eight from
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: the rest of the world. That's fair. So you've got
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 1: two tickets of paradise. You've already got a defense that
• 1:52:11
  Speaker 1: needs to be retooled, right, Like, are you moving Bernard
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: to Will? Are you keeping Bernard at Mike and you're
• 1:52:16
  Speaker 1: signing a Will? Or are you not? Is Dorrin Williams
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: going to be that guy? Do you think he can
• 1:52:19
  Speaker 1: be that guy? What are you doing at Edge? Because
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: Bosa's UFA and aj Apanessa's a UFA. Is Devon Solomon
• 1:52:25
  Speaker 1: ready to take on a bigger load? Is Landon Jackson?
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: How healthy is Michael hoy going to be? Is he
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 1: ready for the start of the season At defensive tackle?
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: You've got ed Oliver, Dion Walker, TJ Sanders. TJ Sanders
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: is still kind of unknown at this point, although you
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: can play Devil's advocate and say he had to play
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: out a position for this year, but this year was
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 1: kind of a lost year for him, and I don't
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: think he looked great for the most part. Dwayne Carter's
• 1:52:47
  Speaker 1: coming off in Achilles, but he was very underwhelming as
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: a rookie. You've already got to add to your defensive line,
• 1:52:54
  Speaker 1: so having to switch the scheme and switch the structure
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: isn't the biggest ask in the world because you already
• 1:52:59
  Speaker 1: have to add to those position groupings. So instead of
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: adding to those position groupings for what you've been schematically
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 1: you know in past lifetimes under Sean McDermott and Bobby Babbage.
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: Babbage add to those position groupings upfront. For a new
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: scheme and a new structure, you already need to add
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 1: bodies up front. Just add them for a new scheme
• 1:53:20
  Speaker 1: and a new structure. Similar conversation to the linebacker spot
• 1:53:23
  Speaker 1: as well, and then at safety, I think you need
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: a rangey ballhawk to pair with Cole Bishop anyway, but
• 1:53:29
  Speaker 1: especially if you're gonna play more single high stuff like
• 1:53:32
  Speaker 1: Leonard and the Broncos have done these past couple of seasons,
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: especially this past year. Joe says, here's a simple approach.
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: Trade the first for Jefferson, sign Romeo Dubbs and re
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: signed Cooks. Then use every other pick you have on defense,
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 1: fair Dune and Dustin. There you go. I do like
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: Romeo Dubs a lot. My issue is I he would
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: help the Bills offense. I still think you need more
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 1: of I think you need more Alex Peers than you
• 1:53:58
  Speaker 1: do Romeo Dubs. If we're going to go for that,
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 1: or if they could afford him, I would take Mike
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 1: Evans on like a one year deal, just because I
• 1:54:04
  Speaker 1: love Mike Evans and he's still a really good player.
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: You need more vertical presence and field stretching, so you
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: need more Alex Peers than you do Romeo Dubbs. I
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: think Dubs will be cheaper than Piers, but I think
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: and I would welcome Dubbs, but I think you need
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 1: more of an Alec Piers than you do a Romeo
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: Dubbs if we're looking at the free agency list. But
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: I don't dislike that approach. And yes, then you use
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: every other pick you have on defense. I know people aren't.
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah Swin says, you got a draft defense again, laugh
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: out loud. It sucks, but you have to one thousand percent.
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: I know people aren't gonna like it, especially with like, oh,
• 1:54:38
  Speaker 1: you gotta help Josh Allen and the receivers and center
• 1:54:41
  Speaker 1: and left guard and all this stuff. You have to
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: draft defense again. Like I kind of laid it out
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 1: and I'm gonna get into it more in the Roster
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: Show and the kind of the recap and the go
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: forward and my outlining of the offseason likely next week
• 1:54:56
  Speaker 1: unless something crazy happens again. But you you already need
• 1:55:00
  Speaker 1: even if you're not changing the scheme, Even if everything
• 1:55:03
  Speaker 1: stays right, even if Sean McDermott stayed, Bobby Babbage stayed,
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 1: nobody changed defensively in the scheme and the structure was
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: going to stay the same, you already have to add
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 1: to your defense, even if you're not talking scheme change
• 1:55:15
  Speaker 1: or structure change. You already have to add to the defense.
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 1: You have to add to your edge grouping, and somewhat significantly,
• 1:55:21
  Speaker 1: I still think Greg Rousseau is more of an edge
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: two than he is an edge one. So you need
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 1: to add to your edge grouping. You need to add
• 1:55:28
  Speaker 1: to your interior. You need to add it linebacker, you
• 1:55:30
  Speaker 1: need to add it safety like starters and depth for
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: essentially all those positions for me, depending on how you
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: viewed Dean Walker. But yeah, you you need a lot
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: of help on defense. That's why again I think like
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: this offseason moving to scheme, to change the scheme and structure.
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: Oh man, we're going from a four to three to Again,
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: I don't want to simplify because it's not just going
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 1: from a four to three to a three four. But
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 1: I know that's a lot of that's a lot of
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 1: understandable terminology for folks. So even if you're just going
• 1:56:02
  Speaker 1: from a four to three to a three four, that's
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 1: not crazy because you have to add bodies to that
• 1:56:06
  Speaker 1: side of the ball anyway via free agency in the draft.
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 1: So this would be a good a good offseason to
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: do it because you already have to add those bodies.
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: It's not like, well, we're pot committed, and you know
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: we've already got a solid locked in starting eleven. From
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: a contract perspective and from a skill perspective, and from
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 1: an effectiveness perspective, you don't have that. There's questions about
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 1: the effective and if there there's questions about the effectiveness,
• 1:56:29
  Speaker 1: there's questions about the quality. There's questions about the depth.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: And even if there wasn't, you still have to add
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: bodies like you don't have enough bodies, So you might
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: as well switch the scheme while you're at it. Jason,
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 1: I appreciate you again. You're crushing it, Jason says, agree, Anthony,
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: I think Leonard's scheme maximizes the abilities slash skill sets
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: of players, not covering up their deficiencies. Football IQ is
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: important or you're not playing period. Well said, I should
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: have just put this up and I wouldn't have had
• 1:56:54
  Speaker 1: to say anything else. Sincerely, that's a really good comment.
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 1: Spot on. I'm gonna leave this comment up as I
• 1:56:58
  Speaker 1: take a drink of water because I'm ridiculously man. That
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 1: wasn't enough. That was enough to wet my whistle. Went
• 1:57:10
  Speaker 1: need to keep it going. I'm so thirsty. Yeah, he's
• 1:57:14
  Speaker 1: a guy who maximizes his guy's talents with his scheme,
• 1:57:19
  Speaker 1: like you can have dudes, but he's good at maximizing
• 1:57:22
  Speaker 1: things schematically even when you don't have the dudes, which
• 1:57:26
  Speaker 1: I really like. And again, I think his structure and
• 1:57:28
  Speaker 1: scheme naturally lends itself to today's NFL, where you're trying
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: to change the pre to post snap picture on quarterbacks
• 1:57:34
  Speaker 1: up front and on the back end you're bringing some blitzes,
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: you're bringing some sims and some creepers, which are your
• 1:57:41
  Speaker 1: safe pressures quote unquote, because you're still dropping seven into coverage.
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 1: You're multiple in the back end, you're multiple upfront, you're
• 1:57:49
  Speaker 1: playing match coverage, having good rules. It's good stuff. It's
• 1:57:54
  Speaker 1: good stuff. It's good stuff. It's good stuff. I'd liked
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 1: him for years. Again, this is not I feel like
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: you have to say discla now because so many people
• 1:58:01
  Speaker 1: ride the hype and ride the wave. This is not
• 1:58:03
  Speaker 1: like Well, I started looking him up today and I
• 1:58:05
  Speaker 1: got super hype and I hadn't heard him on it before.
• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: I've been I wanted Jim Leonard for several years in
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: a very long time, and I've liked theimember since he
• 1:58:16
  Speaker 1: was a player. Again, for those of you who don't know, like,
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: Ed Reid's my favorite player of all time. So when
• 1:58:21
  Speaker 1: the Bills would fall apart in the drought, I would
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: be like, Okay, I'm gonna switch my folks to the Ravens,
• 1:58:27
  Speaker 1: and I hope the Ravens win the Super Bowl. And
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: I remember that two thousand and eight Ravens team will
• 1:58:33
  Speaker 1: sincerely forever, you know, live in my heart with them going,
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 1: you know it, just how they how they went down,
• 1:58:44
  Speaker 1: who they beat, you know, losing to the Steelers in
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: the stupid AFC Championship game. But that was the year
• 1:58:54
  Speaker 1: with Ed Reid's awesome interceptions against the Dolphins in the
• 1:58:57
  Speaker 1: wildcard round. And then they go They were the six seed,
• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: which was the final seed in the last wildcard seed
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: at the time Joe Flackle's rookie year. They go to Tennessee.
• 1:59:06
  Speaker 1: They beat the one seed Titans in Tennessee. Chris Johnson
• 1:59:11
  Speaker 1: gets hurt early in that game after he was gashing
• 1:59:13
  Speaker 1: the Ravens, which was a huge piece, but the Ravens
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 1: shocked Tennessee and beat him thirteen to ten in Tennessee. Like, yeah,
• 1:59:21
  Speaker 1: I benefit fan of Jim Leonard since his playing gays
• 1:59:23
  Speaker 1: at Wisconsin. I liked him with the Bills. I liked
• 1:59:25
  Speaker 1: them with the Ravens. I liked him with the Jets.
• 1:59:27
  Speaker 1: So he's a player who I liked just because of
• 1:59:29
  Speaker 1: how smart he was and how he played despite not
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 1: being the biggest or the fastest or the most athletically gifted. Dude,
• 1:59:35
  Speaker 1: he was just in the right places making the right plays.
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 1: Sounded fundamental, and that's how his defenses is played. Sound fundamental, flexible, smart,
• 1:59:44
  Speaker 1: attack minded. Again, everything that I read, I could not
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 1: be higher on Jim Leonard. He is. I don't want
• 1:59:50
  Speaker 1: to say he's the only defensive coordinator candidate that I want,
• 1:59:52
  Speaker 1: but he's what I want. I'm not even thinking of
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 1: other defensive coordinators. I am manifesting this to the universe.
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 1: If they sign him, a lot will be forgiven for
• 2:00:00
  Speaker 1: me and for me, which means they probably won't have him.
• 2:00:02
  Speaker 1: They'll probably get somebody else, or he'll sign somewhere else
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 1: and break my heart because that's how this offseason is going.
• 2:00:07
  Speaker 1: But yeah, Jim Leonard's awesome. I hope this answered a
• 2:00:10
  Speaker 1: lot of questions for you folks. I'm contemplating if they
• 2:00:13
  Speaker 1: sign uh Jim Leonard and income as a defensive coordinator.
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 1: I'll probably cut this up and to put it as
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 1: its own episode for people to kind of see and
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 1: dive into fully, so you don't have to scroll through
• 2:00:23
  Speaker 1: this full two hour long episode here. Yeah, Spinn says
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 1: people are more hype on Jim Leonard than Brady. I
• 2:00:29
  Speaker 1: absolutely am. I think Brady's fine. I think, and Win says,
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 1: this is getting me excited the way you're talking about Leonard.
• 2:00:36
  Speaker 1: I'm ready for disappointment, So am I I know with
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 1: how happy I am and excited I am that they're
• 2:00:41
  Speaker 1: they're they're not gonna get him and he'll go somewhere
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 1: else or do something crazy or like retire from football
• 2:00:45
  Speaker 1: just to break my heart or our hearts. But yeah,
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 1: it takes a lot for me to truly like love
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 1: somebody as a player or as a coordinator. And again
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 1: this is not to keep saying it, but like this
• 2:00:55
  Speaker 1: has been years in the making for me. I've liked
• 2:00:57
  Speaker 1: him since you know, COVID time at Wisconsin and what
• 2:01:01
  Speaker 1: he was doing. I just thought his defenses were so cool.
• 2:01:03
  Speaker 1: And again, they weren't getting like these crazy studs. It's
• 2:01:06
  Speaker 1: not like Wisconsin was like granted, herbig has been like
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 1: a good dude, but you weren't getting these regular like
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 1: college game wreckerds, Like you had some guys who turned
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 1: into solid players in the NFL and who have developed,
• 2:01:17
  Speaker 1: but you weren't getting guys like, oh man, you remember
• 2:01:19
  Speaker 1: that Wisconsin defense led by this amazing all pro type
• 2:01:24
  Speaker 1: of whatever, Like he got the most out of his dudes,
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: and he was really good schematically and sound while he
• 2:01:29
  Speaker 1: was at it, and a getting highlighted by his core beliefs.
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: And what's cool too, is you can read about somebody
• 2:01:34
  Speaker 1: or hear them speak and like, oh, that's his core beliefs.
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: Those are his fundamental principles. And you can see that
• 2:01:40
  Speaker 1: and read that and then watch his teams play and
• 2:01:42
  Speaker 1: be like that's not how they play. That doesn't make
• 2:01:43
  Speaker 1: any sense, Like what is he talking about? Jesse Mincher
• 2:01:45
  Speaker 1: was a guy like that, like we talked about on
• 2:01:47
  Speaker 1: last week's show. He has his core fundamental principles. Jesse
• 2:01:50
  Speaker 1: Mincher does, and he's that type of guy where like,
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: oh got it, like his four pillars effort and angles, block, deconstruction,
• 2:01:56
  Speaker 1: ball disruption, and obnoxious communication, Like you see that in
• 2:02:00
  Speaker 1: his defenses in college and in the NFL, and it's
• 2:02:02
  Speaker 1: same with with Jim Leonard. Like you see Granny, you
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: can't see some of the consistency pieces because those are
• 2:02:08
  Speaker 1: off the field and how he builds a team. But
• 2:02:11
  Speaker 1: you see with you know, their efficiency, their flexibility, their
• 2:02:15
  Speaker 1: sound scheme, you know the adjustments and the complexity within it.
• 2:02:18
  Speaker 1: But the straightforwardness and the simplicity of it, the hybrid
• 2:02:21
  Speaker 1: ized fronts, the attack mindedness, the matchup mindedness, playing on
• 2:02:25
  Speaker 1: the front foot, making offenses play on the back foot
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 1: and have to be responsive and adjust Really cool, really cool,
• 2:02:31
  Speaker 1: really cool, really cool. I'm very excited. I'm underwhelmed with
• 2:02:35
  Speaker 1: the Joe Brady hire, as you know, head coach, and
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of contradiction with the verbiage
• 2:02:41
  Speaker 1: of what he's gonna be versus what he's doing and
• 2:02:43
  Speaker 1: the report's coming out. I think there's so much mess there.
• 2:02:45
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to focus on the Jim Leonard piece and
• 2:02:47
  Speaker 1: get excited for that until they break my heart and
• 2:02:50
  Speaker 1: you know, decide not to bring him in, which would
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 1: absolutely destroy me. You know what wouldn't break my heart
• 2:02:54
  Speaker 1: and wouldn't destroy me. The best pizza in Buffalo, New York.
• 2:03:00
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• 2:03:13
  Speaker 1: sweet sauce, pie cup and charp Pepperoni, great cheese sauce ratio.
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  Speaker 1: If you get multiple toppings, they chop them up evenly,
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  Speaker 1: sprinkle him across the pie. They do an amazing breakfast pizza.
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  Speaker 1: They have good salads. Joe DeRosa is lying, so Joe says,
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  Speaker 1: my favorite pizza. Loved it so much. This is the
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  Speaker 1: kind of guy Joe DeRosa is. I was telling him NonStop, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: when you come here, go to one pie. You gotta
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  Speaker 1: get one pie. He agreed, He goes to one pie.
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  Speaker 1: He went too late. They were sold out of pizza
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  Speaker 1: that day. You know why because they sell out. You
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  Speaker 1: know why because they are the best. Joe was laxa
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  Speaker 1: days ago. He was lazy. He lacked conviction and he
• 2:03:52
  Speaker 1: lacked faith, and he missed out on that one pie pizza.
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  Speaker 1: And it's something he truly and sincerely regrets. Why because
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  Speaker 1: it is the best pizza in Buffalo. And I don't
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  Speaker 1: say that because they sponsor the show. They sponsor the
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  Speaker 1: show because they are the best pizza in Buffalo, New York,
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  Speaker 1: and I truly believe that it brings me absolute joy.
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 1: So if you are down and sad about Sean McDermott,
• 2:04:14
  Speaker 1: or you're underwhelmed about Joe Brady, or you're hopeful and
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 1: excited about Joe Bray or what's been going on, if
• 2:04:19
  Speaker 1: you're said, if you're happy, if you're whelmed, underwhelmed, overwhelmed,
• 2:04:22
  Speaker 1: even keeled, whatever one Pie will help you feel better
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 1: or feel even better. If you're already feeling good or
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  Speaker 1: feeling better, get yourself some one Pie pizza. They also
• 2:04:32
  Speaker 1: have a catering division called Elevated Catering a Buffalo that
• 2:04:35
  Speaker 1: can be found in the episode show Notes as well.
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 1: I've had them cater multiple events for me and my
• 2:04:39
  Speaker 1: family and friends over the past couple of years. They
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 1: do not miss of course, I've got pizzas with it,
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: but I've gotten that salads. They're mac and cheese is.
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: They offer a bunch of different mac and cheese dishes,
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 1: a bunch of different chicken and rice dishes, like sandwiches
• 2:04:51
  Speaker 1: and bread like everything just slaps absolutely good when you
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  Speaker 1: get some one Pie pizza. Don't be like Joe DeRosa
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  Speaker 1: and miss out. Get yourself some one pie pizza. You
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  Speaker 1: will not regret it. Huh. If you folks are still here,
• 2:05:09
  Speaker 1: I'm throwing up the banner of this, says tootles, folks,
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  Speaker 1: because we're gonna start to wind down because yeah, Joe says.
• 2:05:13
  Speaker 1: Joe says it all caps. I tried and I was
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 1: so sad when I couldn't get it. He texted me
• 2:05:17
  Speaker 1: about it too, He's like, dude, I went to go
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  Speaker 1: get one pie and they were sold out and I
• 2:05:20
  Speaker 1: was like, ah, you're missing out. If you have not already,
• 2:05:23
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• 2:05:26
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• 2:05:27
  Speaker 1: know it's corny to say. I know it's corny because
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 1: I say this every time I do this spiel like
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• 2:05:52
  Speaker 1: try and ruin their day by making them watch this
• 2:05:55
  Speaker 1: episode instead. Larry says, thoughts, I'm bringing Cooks back for
• 2:06:00
  Speaker 1: full season. Think he will thrive even more, especially if
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 1: we get an actual wide receiver one, we'll open the
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 1: field even more. I would welcome Brandon Cooks back. I
• 2:06:07
  Speaker 1: think he has some unfortunate drops, but I think if
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 1: he's yeah in more of a wide receiver three or
• 2:06:12
  Speaker 1: a wide receiver four role, more power to him. I
• 2:06:16
  Speaker 1: think he's a professional. You could tell that the loss
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 1: affected him as well. He was one of the dudes
• 2:06:20
  Speaker 1: who spoke in the locker room that seemed pretty sad
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 1: and let down by what happened. I would welcome him back.
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 1: Not because of that, but I just think he meshed
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 1: well with Alan and connected well with his team. I
• 2:06:34
  Speaker 1: would bring him back absolutely. Of course, like you said,
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 1: they'll get an actual wide receiver one or get some
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 1: more top of the jet chart type dudes. I would
• 2:06:42
  Speaker 1: welcome him back. Everybody stopped talking about the Sabers. You're
• 2:06:45
  Speaker 1: gonna jinx it. I'm too afraid to even speak out
• 2:06:48
  Speaker 1: loud about the Buffalo Sabers, but yes, that's fun right now.
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 1: It's also the Thanos meme, right, like the Soltstone type
• 2:06:54
  Speaker 1: of deal, like, oh, the Sabers are good, like, but
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 1: what did it cost the Buffalo Bills? Yeah. I hope
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 1: you folks enjoyed this episode. I hope you were as
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: excited about Jim Lennard as I am. I hope you
• 2:07:05
  Speaker 1: feel more excited about Joe Brady than I am. Don't
• 2:07:08
  Speaker 1: hate it again. I think it's fine to love the
• 2:07:12
  Speaker 1: Brady Hire. I think it's fine to hate it. I
• 2:07:13
  Speaker 1: think it's fine to be in the middle. I personally
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 1: am underwhelmed. Like if ten is me being ecstatic and
• 2:07:18
  Speaker 1: one is me hating it and wanting nothing to do
• 2:07:20
  Speaker 1: with it, I'm probably at like a four or a
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: four and a half. I was a little earlier or
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 1: a little lower earlier in the day, but I got
• 2:07:31
  Speaker 1: a little better off. I appreciate that kindness in that
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 1: comment there, Jason, Thank you very much. Yeah. I've come
• 2:07:36
  Speaker 1: around on it a little bit. And when I say
• 2:07:38
  Speaker 1: come around, I mean like I've kind of got more
• 2:07:39
  Speaker 1: even keeled about it. But I'm underwhelmed, mainly because there
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 1: were other candidates that I preferred and I liked, but
• 2:07:44
  Speaker 1: you can do pros and cons and play Devil's advocate
• 2:07:46
  Speaker 1: to anyone that they interviewed and anyone that they were
• 2:07:48
  Speaker 1: going to interview and tear it apart or build it
• 2:07:51
  Speaker 1: up if you want. For me again, I think it's fine,
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 1: but I am underwhelmed for the reasons that we talked
• 2:07:57
  Speaker 1: about the meeting of this episode. But Jim Leonard ten
• 2:07:59
  Speaker 1: out of ten, twenty out of ten, I would absolutely
• 2:08:01
  Speaker 1: love that for why I broke down in this episode. Yeah,
• 2:08:06
  Speaker 1: I hope you folks enjoyed this episode. Sincerely. I put
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  Speaker 1: a line in all these, especially this one, where I
• 2:08:11
  Speaker 1: get to talk about something I really enjoy and really
• 2:08:13
  Speaker 1: love in something that especially that's potential and maybe not
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 1: pie in the sky. It's real and there's real smoke
• 2:08:18
  Speaker 1: to it. Hopefully there's more fire to that smoke and
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 1: they bring Jim Leonard in. But yeah, hope you folks
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• 2:08:38
  Speaker 1: of people are wide receiver focused. I started putting out
• 2:08:41
  Speaker 1: some stuff on Casey CONCEPTCI Owned from Texas A and
• 2:08:43
  Speaker 1: M Joe. You don't get to make one pie jokes
• 2:08:48
  Speaker 1: because you stabbed me in the back and you didn't
• 2:08:51
  Speaker 1: get the one thing I told you to get when
• 2:08:54
  Speaker 1: you were here. You're a liar and a charlatan and
• 2:08:58
  Speaker 1: a deceiver and you don't get to make those jokes
• 2:09:02
  Speaker 1: because you're a liar and a deceiver and a charlatan.
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: But you're were the one that paid because you didn't
• 2:09:07
  Speaker 1: get the one pie. You're missing out more than one
• 2:09:09
  Speaker 1: pie is. But you stab me in the back, but
• 2:09:14
  Speaker 1: it's not your fault, but you kind of plunge that
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 1: knife right in between my shoulder plates. Yeah. Fair. Hope
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