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Inside Bills vs Patriots- X's & O's, Preview, Matchups, & More | DC · Disguised Coverage

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  It's thirty eight. All bills can win. In here, Wake puts it
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  down. The kick is on the way and dock m the bell good one?
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  How the hell that one home? How one? They were a party
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  one not party y? Incredible? Why not combat by my bell? Jacksonville's
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  perfect record on the line right here, quick kicking, look excited. Touchdown
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  Kyle Williams touchdound amazing, unbelievable. They puttied william who's has to full back
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  Folks, family, friends, loved ones, enemies, friend of Mees,
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  Wizards which is Muggles, mud bloods, people of Middle Earth. To another
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  pizza in Buffalo, New York. That is one PI Pizza. Find the
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  online menu in the episode show notes. Whether He're on YouTube or whichever podcasting
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  Apple platform you are listening to this show on, I'm your host, Anthony.
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  Find me on Twitter at pro Underscore Underscore ant that's pro two underscores a
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  n t in tonight's episode, the technical difficulties from stream Yard that played me
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  going live were not enough to stop me and my guests tonight from diving into
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  Bill's versus Patriots in the front half of this episode. The x is and
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  O the matchup pieces, the schematics, the bones, anything and everything that
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  you need to know that will decide this Bills versus Patriots match up here in
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  week seven, we're going to dive into that on the front end of the
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  show. On the back end of the show, I'm going to dive into
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  some pieces coming out of that Giants game for the Bills. I wanted to
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  highlight a couple pieces, a couple players, just things that stood out.
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  There's a whole lot of conversation to happen for the Bills and around this team
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  coming out of that Giants game. So obviously we'll dig into the live chat
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  and all those pieces on the back end of this show. But like I
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  mentioned earlier in this intro, the front half of this episode, the front
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  portion of this episode will be diving into the x's and o's and the schematics
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  and the bones and the structure of Bills versus Patriots. And to do that,
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  I am joined by one of my favorite guests who I have on this
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  show. He's in the green room right now, and he just shrugged.
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  And now I'm just gonna like Lee, like, I'm just gonna leave you
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  down there. I don't want to bring up I'm just kidding, mister Tiles
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  of Patriots cl and as formerly of next Gen, which is where you were
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  when we first started talking to each other and I first had you on the
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  show. I've been on your show, You've obviously been here. You're one
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  of my favorite people that exists in the Twitter verse and kind of just in
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  life. I think you're awesome and you're fantastic, welcome, and I appreciate
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  you being here. You have the best intros in the game. I blush
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  every time. I'm so grateful. Yeah, it's kind of funny. The
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  first time we ever did one of these, I think I was in one
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  of the pods in the NFL network, like headquarters. And now look I've
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  got an Avatar poster, I've got Funko pops like a lot changes man.
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  But as always, I'm super excited to be on. Yeah. You literally
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  I think the first time like we did it, like I DMD you the
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  link and you were like, got it, just need to find a private
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  pod to do this out of And I was like, okay, like yeah,
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  but you crushed it. Then you've you know, continued to climb and
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  now you're doing awesome work for CLNS, covering the Pats and living that Beat
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  life. But you know, for for listeners of the show who may not
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  be familiar with Taylor, why I gravitate towards his work, Just the film
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  stuff you do, and you know, Ball and the scheme and the structure
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  pieces and everything that I gravitate towards. And I think that's you know,
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  so many people do it now, but so many people don't do it the
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  right way or have the right knowledge, and you do. And then especially
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  having that as a Beat guy, where I think, and again I'm not
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  saying this is bad for the Beat reporters who don't, but a lot of
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  the guys on the Beat, they don't know Ball and the x's and o's
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  in the structure and they just do the pure reporting thing, which is fine.
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  You do that, you do like the vehicle and the medium for the
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  players to the fans, but then you're also to dive. You're also able
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  to dive into the tape and break things down. So I respect the hall
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  Idia. I appreciate you taking the time and bearing with me with the technical
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  difficulties. I was texting you and freaking out and you were cool about it,
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  So I appreciate you in that regard even more so. But Taylor,
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  Oh, I got to bring up this comment real quick. Roy says,
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  you change the tree up to see if I notice I just changed it in
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  general, the wife changed it. There's no more regular like Halloween Garland now
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  which Garland with little ghosts, little spooky ghosts, because you know, yeah
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  Halloween. Yeah Boo. Also added some adorable little black cats and some some
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  pumpkin action in the back that it. One's got a little witch hat.
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  We're all just jazzed up here. It's alot theckdrop my friend. Yeah.
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  I mean, you get a lot going on behind you too, Like every
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  time I see you, it's likely you keep like adding more pops like and
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  then more like stuff to the background. From a poster standpoint, like you
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  gotta step up. I'm trying to bring everybody into like my head, like
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  it's just constantly flashing lights cartoons like that's basically what's going on. Whenever you
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  just see me staring off in the space, it's good, it's good.
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  And yeah, once you get on the camera like regularly, like the background
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  becomes just such an integral part. Nobody cares about the content. Everybody's just
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  there for the background. They're there with you, they're there with me.
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  And that's what you inspired me. Actually, like that you said a high
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  standard. So when I I just moved in here a few months ago,
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  when I was like, I can't have the like serial killer white background,
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  and like I gotta at least try to get and a run for his money.
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  Not that it's competent, because you are a legend. I'm just trying
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  to be proud. Hey man, we all just do the best that we
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  can. And I do the best I can. You do the best you
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  can. The Patriots have been doing the best they can. Let's you know
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  again, we're going to dive into the x's and o's and the matchup pieces
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  and all of that. But Taylor, just from a high level perspective,
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  a lot of Bills fans also want to hear this and just kind of maybe
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  drink in the tears potentially, but just what's going on in Pats Land like
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  the disconnect on the offensive side of the ball and how much that's plagued the
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  team. Is that what it is for you? I didn't anticipate them.
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  I'm not a mac Jones truther or a huge supporter, but I thought with
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  Patricia Gahn and O'Brien coming back, plus with what they have on defense,
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  I did not think this would be a what one in five football team where
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  we're sitting here right now. I did not anticipate that at all. And
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  it's just they're just a bad football team right now. Overall, Where does
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  it start? What does it stem from? What's your overall thought? Like,
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  just give I guess the heartbeat, paulse temperature check of this Patriots team
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  in your estimation at this game. Yeah. Today I was talking to one
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  of my buddies on the Beak Might Beat, Mike Kadligan. I was saying,
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  it's really hard not to rant about this team because there's so many compounding
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  issues where if you talk about one thing, it's impossible not to bring up
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  something else. It's not just one thing. And when it's as bad as
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  it is, when it's been historically bad within the Belichick era, clearly it's
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  not just one thing. It's a lot of things. One thing that I
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  don't think will be talked about as much because it's kind of too simple and
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  it's flashier to say that Belichick is just going down in a ball of fire,
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  and he is. Is the fact that this team has just gotten hit
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  by injuries at the worst spots, like both of their starting So Mike and
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  Winnu, let's start there. You know, Big Mike, he had offseason
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  ankle surgery and he missed the entire summer. Came in cold like in his
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  first games in the season. He's been in and out of the lineup.
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  Cole Strange hurt his knee like the second day training camp, so his an
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  integral second training camp gone. He's been dealing with that, trying to work
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  his way back. Those are your two starting cards, who were like two
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  of the centerpieces of your entire offense. You got a pack of progett passer
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  they missed basically the entire summer. Rookie Antonio Maffi, who was a defensive
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  tackle like three years ago. Bilichick loves him because obviously he comes from a
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  Chick Kelly system. He learns pretty quickly and you know Belichick really seems like
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  his character and he's a big guy. He was immediately Piggism Mike and Waddy
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  replacement. But he's very raw, and you start to question new offensive line
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  coach Adrian klem because there's constant repeat mistakes. Like so now it's going along
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  on Twitter where it's just stunts and that's gonna be one of my keys.
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  So maybe I don't get too much into that, but like it's it's just
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  one of it's. It's been a really big problem up front and then it's
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  made everything else look really bad. It's I've always said, like you can
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  cover well Dante's Karnecki has said this, and I just kind of internalized it.
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  You'll you can cover up one bad spot, like right tackle last year
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  they showed Connor McDermott was serviceable. They actually just signed back today. But
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  if you have below average talent at right tackle and both your starting guards are
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  hurt for two weeks they started guards at tackle, that's a pretty big problem.
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  Man, that's a pretty big problem. So then, like mac Jones,
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  we saw him start to regress last season. First two weeks you saw
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  the sloppy foot work where he's still making throws, but his footwork is bad.
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  So it's like, hey, if you can make them consistently, like,
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  do what you've got to do. He was not the reason they were
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  losing, but then something snapped against Dallas where you could see that he really
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  was not comfortable because again, you're the Cole Strange and Mike and Won.
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  You were in and out of the lineup when they play, they usually don't
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  even finish the game. So he's not trusting his protection. He's not really
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  attacking with the plan as much anymore. He still see the glimpses of the
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  first round pick, but it's made the fact that he doesn't have a really
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  good number one receiver standout. Kendrick Bourne is solid to Mario Douglas is a
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  rookie, there's a learning curve. Devonte Parker went from being her consistent outside
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  the numbers threat like every practice in the summer, nothing like he actually dropped
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  a all that could have put them in position to win the game last week.
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  You might want to talk about that. So I was, dude,
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  I was, I was watching it, I was watching it live, and
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  then you tweeted about it. I think you just tweeted somebody just like simple
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  like can't have it or like can't happen or something or like something bro and
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  especially after everything that Mack had gone through in the game, then like like
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  he throws that horribly ugly interception to Trevon marrig and then drops this beautiful like
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  he walked it up and just plays it in Parker's hands and he d When
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  that happened, I was just like your snake Bit, it's just not in
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  the cards for you today or like this season, and it just seems like
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  that's what has been with this team so much like snake Bit in all these
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  forms and fashions, and a lot of it. Again, I think a
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  lot of it, you know, from a Bill's fan perspective, I think,
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  honestly, I'm big Bill's perspective. Everybody outside of New England is just
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  like Cartman with Scott Tennerman's tears and just lapping it up for the Patriots struggles.
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  But I think a lot of just people want to see it and just
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  well it's because Mac Jones sucks ha ha ha and all these pieces. But
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  there's there's a multitude of reasons, and they still do have a good defense.
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  But then of course, like Judan goes down, which significantly impacts everything.
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  Like Christian Gonzales that he was your best He was probably the best player
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  on your defense the day he stepped onto an NFL field, bro I was
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  when I was on with you in or in the offseason, we did kind
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  of like the roundtable piece or not round table piece, but talking about the
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  AFC East, I gushed about how much I love Christian Gonzalez. He was
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  my CV one in this draft. I loved him as a prospect, kills
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  it in camp, is looking good in the regular season, he's out there,
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  you know, covering Tyreek. Tyreek gave him a lot of you know,
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  positive feedback and review after they played the Pats, talking about how good
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  he is and all this kind of stuff, and then of course, like
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  he goes down, and he was also like, I don't you know,
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  I don't want to spoil one of my pieces, but like how he fit
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  into the second right the episode stuff, we don't have anything left. Yeah,
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  it's just what's happened to them is super unfortunate. But if you're outside
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  of New England, it's everybody's loving it, which I mean, you know,
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  like but you know, lame build a GM if you want, like
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  if you need someone to throw your tomatoes, well not tomatoes, I guess
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  someone to think, Yeah, beside the fascination, really it's build a GM.
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  Like I've tried to find reasons. It's like in Bill, we trust
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  you know, like I watched them win a lot, so it's kind of
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  hard to shake yourself out of Like Bill really might just be behind in the
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  times I thought there was some grand plan. They've had some bad luck,
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  so it's been kind of excusable in other seasons. Last season's coaching situation was
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  like when I started saying, okay, something is very wrong here in this
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  year, it's like all the bad roster decisions have just are just in the
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  light of day because of those injuries, and it's just like fundamentally they're very
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  broken and you're starting it's getting to the point where it's kind of hard to
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  see a way where this team rebounds because I don't know that they've got that
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  clutch gene, that toughness, like where you see some teams you're like just
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  as a sense of pride, like even if we're rebuilding it, we're trying
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  to get to something else, Like this is for us. It doesn't.
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  I don't feel that. You feel there's camaraderie in the locker room, but
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  just in terms of like gutting it out in tough performances, there's not.
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  There's no finishes and and that's been the case for a while. So it's
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  like all the times you tried to kind of understand, you know, Belichick's
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  got a plan, now it's like, no, there, Woodley, the
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  plan wasn't good enough if there was one, and it's really being exposed this
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  season. It's it's incredible. It's incredible. Yeah, that's fine. No,
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  you're good, You're good. We're gonna go into it. I do
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  have to. I'm bending a little bit. No, I'm here for you.
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  Whatever you need, I got you. Super chats always get brought up
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  on the show, so I have to bring this up. I don't know
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  if this is a serious question or real, but I'm gonna present it.
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  Carl, thank you for being here. Thank you for the super chat,
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  Taylor. Carl says Taylor, how long before mac Jones gets benched from Malik
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  Cunningham. So it's funny because people have been clamoring for like Kaishan Booty,
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  you know, and Taekwan Jordan and all these players, and the Taekwan was
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  out because of injury, but he didn't really play in the summer. I
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  want to, man, I really want to. He's making it tough lately.
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  But with Muleik, you have to understand he's been primarily trained as a
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  receiver and getting packages at quarterback. I thought he showed a lot of really
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  promising flashes in the preseason, but they were just flashes in the preseason,
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  like literally end of drive, end of game drives. So if you think
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  it's bad with Mac, imagine how bad it's gonna look when Malik Hunningham.
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  Was no chemistry with these people on the field and it's still learning. The
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  offense is out there for an entire game against NFL defenses like we saw it
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  last week. He got two opportunities at quarterback to have There was a BA
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  zone read and an RPO and for whatever reason, it looked like Whenmandre went
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  too fast because he's not even used to that, so it's a ripple effect
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  where he might just not be processing things quickly enough. There was a well
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  time blitz as well. But I just say all that to say Malik is
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  very talented, but to expect him to play any significant snaps a quarterback.
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  No matter who the emergency third quarterback is, It's just not gonna happen.
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  Because Matt Jones is far and away the best option on this roster. It's
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  just the fact that there's not enough talent behind him for there to be anybody
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  who sincere pushes to actually take the job. Because he keeps turning the ball
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  over. It gets getting get excusable, a lot of excusable things, inexcusable
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  things with the Pats, Taylor, We're gonna dive into it. I'm gonna
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  switch the banner if that says schematic components that will decide Bills first Pats in
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  Week seven. Here we go. So you are the guests. I'm going
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  to let you go first. You can pick. I don't know if you
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  have him, if you have him ranked, or if they're all equal.
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  However, you see fit, the floor is yours. What do you want
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  to lead off with here when you're talking about schematic pieces, somatic components matchup
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  pieces that will decide Bills versus Pats here in week seven? Yeah, Well,
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  I think the biggest thing is the offensive line for the Patriots against the
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  Bills. Defensive line. And that's just I already started on it, so
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  let me just finish out my thoughts. First of all, Trent Brown is
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  your best player. Now. There was one game when the Bills and the
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  Pats played earlier in the season last year, he had the flu so like
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  he had a rough game. There were some times where he just got guys
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  running right past him, Like I give him the benefit of the doubt there.
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  The last game of the season, he's still had trouble against like a
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  j and Vanessa. He was uncharacteristically easy to get around, let's say,
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  and so there's a little bit of a red flag there. You know,
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  every matchup is different. Maybe he learned he's a good tackle, but every
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  play he's got a couple where you're like, eh, But he's not the
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  problem. He's mostly been very good. But the interior, like I said,
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  is really bad ed Oliver. If they end up having to play City
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  So and Antonio Mafi again, I don't know what's going to happen. Because
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  ed Oliver can win in a lot of different ways. He can win explosively
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  and a Tonio Mafi struggled against that. He can convert that to power a
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  Tonio Mafi got pushed into mac Jones' laps several times last week in a game
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  plan that revolved around the quick passing game, and he hasn't been able to
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  pick up the same stunt. And I know the Bills don't do a ton
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  of lime games and stuff like that, but they do enough and if they
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  see there's clearly a weakness, if there's a passing gap, you're going to
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  see the same little twist every single week. And then right tackle, even
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  if it is Connor McDermot. Connormc dermott struggled as well against the Bills last
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  season if he was the starting right tackle in both games, and he's your
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  best gut scenario or right tackle. So I think the best case scenario would
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  be the Patriots being able to run the ball and then most of their successful
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  offensive game plans against the Bills, it's been because they ran the ball well
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  and last year both of the games from any Stevenson has three explosive runs.
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  We were ten yards. He had his first explosive run since Week three against
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  the Raiders. Because the Patriots, I was clamoring for them to stop trying
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  outside zone concepts when they have two three hundred and thirty plus ploun plus pound
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  guards, a big left tackle and Trent Brown and then another a right tackle.
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  We can do a little bit of both. But like also David Andrews
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  inside like you don't want him pulling consistently, and they were doing that way
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  too much. It didn't work. They get back to the downhill stuff and
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  they're having success with it. A couple of weeks ago, like in Dallas,
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  I thought they had more success they got credit for. Then you saw
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  it again against the Saints, but they were mixing it up and sometimes he
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  just got behind the chains because of the unsuccessful outside zone stuff, and he
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  kind of skewed the results. Last week they stuck to it. Both running
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  backs looked good. So I think if they can run the ball, get
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  the downhill stuff, go on the inside zone, the long trap, and
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  no counter, then this will be a good game, especially the Bills are
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  lacking a linebacker. Rip Mattuwano, I am so sorry. All the respect
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  in the world for him. I was genuinely upset when he went down.
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  But at least, like just going based off of he's a great player,
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  you're probably gonna take a step back. I think if they can find a
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  way to run the ball consistently and not have to really play a game where
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  you have to pass a ton, I think things will be okay. But
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  if you get into a ton of situations where you hurt yourself with penalties and
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  you know, poor prestaff operation and things like that, and you get behind
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  the chains, you're just gonna be going three and out, three and out.
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  So it's a really scary matchup. If the Patriots again can dictate being
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  able to run the ball, maybe drop back, max protect play action or
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  something like that, they might be competitive. But that's also assuming that Josh
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  Allen doesn't just Josh Allen like he does every year. It's the Patriots and
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  just you know, go buck wild and put up thirty, forty to fifty
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  whatever you feel. Mighty yeah, because Belichick that So you were talking earlier
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  about like the first time, like you started to like question Belichick a little
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  bit and how things have gone. The one, the big one for me
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  was twenty twenty twenty one. That was the beatdown in the playoffs and how
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  was it? Oh right, yeah, that was And then they had played
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  in like week fifteen in New England and the Bills also won that game handily.
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  That was the big one that got me. He just kept playing single
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  high coverages all game, like Cover three mainly covered one and was just putting
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  Miles Brian on Isaiah McKenzie. That was the game that made all Bills fans
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  think Isaiah McKenzie could replace Cole Beasley because of how great Isaiah McKenzie did.
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  And it was like, no, McKenzie's great at deep overs and running away
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  from dudes, and Miles Brian can't cover, and Belichick just kept doing it.
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  And to that point, I remember watching the game and saying, like,
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  they don't have a plan for this, like just run one cut,
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  like get a safety coming from depth to get over the crosser in replace,
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  Like you can do it, it's not that hard. I don't understand why
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  there's no adjustment being made. And then after the game, Devin mccordy says,
• 20:03
  yeah, we didn't really have an adjustment, and that was one of
• 20:06
  the first times in a while I was like, what do you mean you
• 20:07
  didn't have an adjustment And that was something that I felt again in the next
• 20:11
  season when they played the Bears, where there was no preparation that went into
• 20:15
  justin Field's keeping the ball even though Lamar Jackson killed them with that game plan
• 20:21
  like a week or two before, and at the time, I gave them
• 20:22
  the benefit of the doubt because like that was the first time in Justin Fields's
• 20:26
  NFL career he was utilized as a rusher. But it's like, uh,
• 20:30
  you should probably be prepared for them to steal a game play that like rain
• 20:33
  you over. And you start to see that where the details are getting lost
• 20:38
  with the Patriots and they're just making mistakes where it's like they're not one step
• 20:41
  ahead, sometimes they're glaringly step behind. And they started doing more of that
• 20:45
  with the one cut and like that's where you get the Josh Allen performances where
• 20:49
  he's just losing his mind and it's like, doesn't matter what you play,
• 20:52
  he's gonna get you. But yeah, man, it's just the attention to
• 20:55
  detail has been lacking, and it's it's shown up in just a lot of
• 20:57
  different ways. Yeah, And I'm still like I'm still scarred from my childhood
• 21:03
  of just thinking Belichick is amazing and everything and just expecting like oh cool,
• 21:07
  like what do you what does this team do? Great? Because Belichick's going
• 21:08
  to take that away and try and make you do something else, and just
• 21:11
  the lack of initial game plans, initial prep and then in game adjustments.
• 21:15
  It's just been very weird to see from this team. So I love like,
• 21:18
  I love you like tying in that piece, and I like your first
• 21:22
  matchup piece when it comes to like that offensive line. Howoitditize in with the
• 21:26
  run game because and you know you nail that. I obviously don't watch as
• 21:29
  much pass tape as you do, but I was just like them going with
• 21:32
  the outside zone stuff and trying to use more like non downhill power type runs.
• 21:37
  I feel like that's like their bread and butter. You got Remandre.
• 21:41
  The type of line you got, yeah, like trap and wham, and
• 21:44
  just take advantage of these like one gapping, penetrating fronts. Use your physicality,
• 21:48
  get Remandre downhill. Like Remondre's not slow, he's got speed. I
• 21:52
  don't want to run a ton of outside zone with him. I want to
• 21:53
  get him going downhill. I want to create vertical displacement and attack and especially
• 21:57
  against a Bill's front that is without Daikwon Jones and potentially can get got a
• 22:03
  little bit with the power run game. The Giants did it and several pieces
• 22:07
  in several plays, really the same play, which we're gonna break down on
• 22:11
  the back end of this episode for everybody who was watching. I'm gonna show
• 22:14
  some tape there for that. The Giants started to work some gap stuff and
• 22:18
  it worked against the Bills. Bills eventually corrected and adjusted for it. But
• 22:22
  like, I'm so used to seeing that game plan from the Pats against the
• 22:25
  Bills, and so I'm anticipating that that was one of my goal go ahead,
• 22:29
  What was there? What was the counter for the Bills? How did
• 22:32
  they did? They just slamp again when the guys come down. So it
• 22:34
  was literally they ran the same play back to back drives. It was just
• 22:40
  a simple shift into UH three wide receivers three wide receivers that the left nub
• 22:45
  formation UH tight end to the right. The first time they ran the nub
• 22:49
  into the wide side. Second side, the nub was into the boundary.
• 22:52
  They would bring jet motion with Jalen Hyatt. Literally it was literally the same
• 22:56
  play. Every time they would shift Bellinger to make it the three and the
• 23:00
  nub, they would send Jalen Hyatt in jet motion and then they would pull
• 23:04
  the left guard. So first couple of times it worked, and the first
• 23:07
  major one that it worked, they pulled the left guard and then they would
• 23:11
  have Darren Walder climb to the second level to take Terrel Bernard. So the
• 23:15
  jet motion shifts the Bills players at the second level Dorian Williams, Terrel Bernard,
• 23:19
  Tarren Johnson sets up the angle for Darren Waller. Bernard the first time
• 23:25
  tried to get over the top on Darren Waller played it more to the outside.
• 23:29
  Barkley ran it right up the gut, gouged him, ripped off a
• 23:30
  quick like twenty yard run. The adjustment for it, instead of having Bernard
• 23:36
  get over the top, they had Bernard just shoot inside. So by the
• 23:38
  time Waller tried to climb to him, Bernard was just zipping and shooting the
• 23:41
  gap and he made the play. But even if he didn't, he's taken
• 23:45
  away that runway, forces it outside to Dorian Williams and then the corner who's
• 23:49
  unblocked on that side where they're trying to set that piece up anyway, So
• 23:52
  it was a nice little adjustment from them. But you know, ed Oliver
• 23:56
  had ed Oliver had some flashes in the game against the Giants, but he
• 23:59
  got by a couple of double teams. He got chucked inside a bunch as
• 24:03
  well. He's he's been very good. Yeah, he's been very good this
• 24:07
  year at splitting double teams anchoring. You know, he'll drop that knee and
• 24:11
  hold at the point of attack and then split and get through. Like he's
• 24:15
  been very good overall, but especially against double teams, and especially considering you
• 24:18
  know, that's not his forte. We know he's like a smaller, quick,
• 24:21
  one gap and penetrating type of defensive tackle. You know, he used
• 24:23
  your prototypical type three tech kind of guy, but he can get got with
• 24:29
  double teams and some power pieces when he does lean into that aggressive side.
• 24:33
  He's the prototypical, you know, defensive tackle that you trap or you run
• 24:37
  wham against. I still have the nightmare visions of the Colts running all over
• 24:41
  them in the regular season and Jack Doyle just wait, that's it over and
• 24:48
  over and over and that gap just being huge. So you can work that
• 24:52
  from time to time, and I think of the pat struggles in the past
• 24:56
  game and so one of the pieces I'm glad you let off with it,
• 24:57
  and I'm glad I didn't end up going with it is you know, tied
• 25:02
  into that piece, like I want to see do how successful can the Pats
• 25:04
  beyond the ground. What type of scheme do they lean into? Is it
• 25:07
  more of their downhill and or gap scheme and or people moving power type game?
• 25:11
  Based on who's healthy upfront? What can happen? And then yeah,
• 25:15
  especially with you know, like what the Bills have on the D line.
• 25:18
  But then even at the second level, like Bernard isn't the biggest guy,
• 25:21
  he wins by processing and shooting gaps. Dorian Williams is still learning and processing
• 25:26
  and kind of getting time on task to develop. He was not supposed to
• 25:30
  play this year, but between the injury to Milano and Terrell Dodson just not
• 25:33
  being capable of starting NFL games, he's been thrust into that lineup. So
• 25:37
  I think it's a fair point. And then, you know, trying to
• 25:41
  see it in terms of the bigger picture, they need to run the ball
• 25:45
  because of the Pats pass game. If people were watching on TV or you
• 25:51
  watch it on tape, it's bad diving into the numbers. I did not
• 25:53
  realize, man, So like my first official like matchup pieces, you know,
• 26:00
  how limited does that Patriots passing game stay versus the Bills defense that is
• 26:04
  extremely strong against the pass up front and on the back end, and that
• 26:10
  ties into the run game piece as well, because if they can run the
• 26:11
  ball successfully, they don't have to worry about the pass as much. But
• 26:14
  the Patriots passing offense so not not just solely Mac Jones, the pass passing
• 26:18
  offense, as all anybody who's thrown for them. They are thirty second in
• 26:23
  EPA passing the football at negative seventy point three seven. The Browns are thirty
• 26:32
  first at negative fifty eight point six y three. They're almost two touchdowns worse
• 26:37
  in terms of total EPA passing the ball thirty second. As a team,
• 26:41
  they're thirty first in QB rating at seventy two point six. They're twenty eighth
• 26:45
  in yards per attempt at five point nine. I'm so sorry to ride off
• 26:48
  these numbers for mere out enjoy. They're twenty six in on target percentage at
• 26:52
  seventy one point one percent. They're twenty sixth in completion percentage at sixty two
• 26:57
  point one percent, which is whyle considering their yards per attempt is only five
• 27:00
  point nine. Their thirtieth in passing DVOA and then mac Jones just mac Jones
• 27:07
  amongst thirty eight qbs this year that have at least twenty attempts five touchdowns,
• 27:14
  seven interceptions seven interceptions are the second most again thirty eight qbs with at least
• 27:18
  twenty attempts. He's last in EPA by himself at negative sixty one point six
• 27:25
  y three. He's thirty second in rating at seventy four point four. Your
• 27:29
  face is killing me. I just not looking at you. He's thirty first
• 27:32
  in yards per attempt. He has a rating of seventy six point five when
• 27:37
  he's not blitzed. He has a rating of sixty seven. When he is
• 27:41
  blitzed. Forty three point three percent of his masses have come between zero to
• 27:45
  nine yards twenty two point four percent ten to nineteen nineteen point four percent behind
• 27:49
  the line of scrimmage. And then I have, you know, the technical
• 27:55
  difficulties that plagued me before, made me have to shut down my browser.
• 27:59
  But I'm going to go back and pull up this passing chart from this last
• 28:04
  week. I feel sorry. I want to pull up this passing chart from
• 28:11
  mac Jones versus the I was gonna say Oakland Raiders by correcting myself, the
• 28:17
  LAS Vegas Raiders and just this passing, this passing chart man against and I
• 28:26
  swear this isn't shouting shouting froud like I'm not trying to like bathe in the
• 28:30
  sadness here. This is literally his this game since week two. This was
• 28:36
  his best game since week two. Three passes over fifteen yards most. It
• 28:41
  was a quick game. It was a quick game game. Pretty much every
• 28:45
  throw here is eleven yards in below. After he threw his first interception,
• 28:48
  they put they put a parking break on him. I'm dead serious. He
• 28:52
  only threw quick outs for like, I think eight straight attempts. I've never
• 28:59
  seen that outside of like a rookie who's replacing someone who's hard or not prepared,
• 29:03
  like for a quarterback who they need to be competitive for them to just
• 29:07
  be like, you're only doing this until you get your act together. That
• 29:11
  was one of the craziest things I ever seen. So like, yeah,
• 29:15
  it's oh so again, just ran on off lumbers and looking at it and
• 29:18
  I was like, eh, like yeah, not great. And then I
• 29:22
  was just like, oh, I want to see the chart because I watched
• 29:23
  this game amongst others on Sunday, and I was like, you know what,
• 29:27
  I wonder what the chart looks like, and I kept thinking I was
• 29:30
  looking at it wrong, and then I was like, no, like he's
• 29:33
  only like there's nothing and not even in the intermediate, not even pushing ten
• 29:37
  to nineteen like you said, like that's pure parking break stuff, like everything
• 29:41
  is eleven in below and just it's so hard in today's NFL to live that
• 29:47
  way. You're not generating explosives in any way. So it's not hard.
• 29:52
  It's at their points scored shows that it's literally impossible. Dude, It's just
• 29:59
  and it's so it's like really bad. And again not to like bathe in
• 30:03
  it. It's really bad. And then you tie that in with, you
• 30:06
  know, the Bills defense from a front and coverage perspective when it comes to
• 30:10
  the past, tied for first in sacks, their first in sack percentage,
• 30:15
  their third and pressure percentage. They have the seventh best EPA per pass allowed.
• 30:19
  They have the sixth best in defense in terms of QB rating against allowed,
• 30:23
  their eighth in passing DVOA. I do want to see, like I
• 30:27
  mentioned, how they continue to adjust to life without Daikwon Jones. Von Miller
• 30:33
  is starting to get up to speed Dorny Williams filling in for Matt Mulano getting
• 30:37
  acclimated to life in the NFL. So there are some questions within the front
• 30:40
  still, like what are you going to continue to get on the interior rotation
• 30:42
  from poonafore Tim Settle, Jordan Phillips, Ed Oliver, does a Japanessa continue
• 30:48
  to flash? Leonard Floyd has been a godsend Rousseau is great with how he's
• 30:52
  ascended. What do you again, what do you get from vonas he continues
• 30:56
  to get worked in. So there are some questions, I guess in like
• 31:00
  good ways for the Bills, you know front, but they've just they've gotten
• 31:03
  pressure with four. Their blitz packages have been really great on third down.
• 31:07
  A lot of what the Jags did to the Bills in London. The Bills
• 31:10
  have been doing the offenses all year, creating free runners off the edge,
• 31:14
  manipulating protection schemes, showing similar you know, running simulated pressures, creeper pressure,
• 31:19
  showing pressure and dropping just a lot of confusion up front and against the
• 31:23
  Patriots passing attack that has been very toothless and very worrisome. I look to
• 31:30
  see how much does that pendulum stay in the favor of the Bills. Does
• 31:33
  it swing to the Patriots at all? Does it get manipulated by the Patriots
• 31:37
  run game if they can find success there. Yeah, that's that's that's where
• 31:41
  I'm starting it again. Man, just I was not expecting everything to be
• 31:45
  so bad. The e p A number is nuts as a team passing the
• 31:48
  ball last in the league, A defensive for scoring on them, it's like
• 31:52
  it's not even That's why it's not as bad as you think. It's because
• 31:56
  you would never go in expecting for an offense who have been outscored by like
• 32:01
  twenty points on offense, not even like incongible. It's wild like that bad.
• 32:09
  And I just didn't you know, again, I'm I'm not a mac
• 32:15
  Jones truther. I just didn't expect this level of And even again the offensive
• 32:19
  line concerns throw everything into fluck similar to in a different way, but similar
• 32:22
  to the conversation you know last week going into Bill's Giants, Like so much
• 32:25
  of this Giants offense is just like their offensive line is completely screwed, Like
• 32:30
  they're playing third and four stringers, they're playing guards at tackle and doing all
• 32:34
  this stuff they you know, justin Pugh came back after not playing for like
• 32:37
  a year and a half or whatever, and now he's starting a guard.
• 32:39
  But then he has to kick out the left tackle because you left your backup.
• 32:43
  Left tackle gets hurt. Like the Giants line was screwed. The Pats
• 32:46
  have not been good upfront from an injury perspective. Not as much of a
• 32:50
  deaf con situation as the Giants is. But yeah, just those numbers were
• 32:54
  legitimately shocking to me. And you know, I'm sorry to put you through
• 32:59
  that, but you know, the floors literally, I literally felt like you
• 33:02
  were bullying me. That was crazy. I just had to sit here and
• 33:07
  take it. I felt bad. I felt bad reading it. I felt
• 33:09
  bad typing it. I felt worse reading it. I don't feel great right
• 33:14
  now. But the good news is the floor is yours again, your second
• 33:17
  point. Feel free? Yeah, hooray. I'm sorry you all right?
• 33:24
  So next I will go with let's go, We'll stick with trenches because everyone
• 33:29
  loves to talk about the trenches. Trenches are funny. Matriots defensive line has
• 33:34
  talked about toothless. Their pass rush is gone without Matthew Judon, and I
• 33:40
  thought that Josh j would step into a you know primary pass rushing role and
• 33:45
  be fine, and he was. He was number one, He was number
• 33:49
  one in PFF's pass rushed productivity last year. He had a monster of a
• 33:52
  year. He was tremendous. Yeah, and to be fair, like he's
• 33:55
  dealing with the foot injury and he's been better in the second half of season,
• 34:00
  so maybe you know, there's a jump if he's even on the team.
• 34:02
  Quite frankly, I think he's gonna be a top trade candidate if the
• 34:06
  team gives them a pretty high pick. Yeah, but it's because he's been
• 34:10
  giving you nothing in pass rush, Like there's a couple good rushes a game,
• 34:15
  but there's been a few times where he rushes right past the quarterback,
• 34:17
  which scares the dickens out of me because if he does that against Josh,
• 34:22
  like he's gonna throw over their head for fifty yards. So that's scary,
• 34:25
  is that the rush slaying discipline hasn't been great. And then inside like they're
• 34:30
  using Sam Roberts, who I do like, but I don't like how much
• 34:32
  they're using him. And it's because Daniel, like Wallai, who's had a
• 34:36
  lot of good games against the Bills, like he doesn't get nearly enough credit,
• 34:38
  but he's a pretty good defensive tackle. He got hurt pretty early in
• 34:42
  the season, so he's out. Christian Barmore has been really good, but
• 34:46
  he's doing like pairing a lot of the load of like being the dominant defender.
• 34:51
  And then Dietrich wise is usually pretty good, but it's still like that
• 34:53
  athleticism, the versatility that he gave from a Matthew Judah like Anthony Jennings is
• 35:00
  really been a big replacement he used to play at Bamba, great run defender.
• 35:02
  He's good slanting into gaps and like sometimes so good and good like rip
• 35:07
  move, but really he's better when he rushes weight speed to get up and
• 35:09
  then collapses. But he's not a very pass rusher, Like he's kind of
• 35:13
  just being used there because they need him. And then Keon White is probably
• 35:16
  not even gonna play in this game because he suffered a head injury. But
• 35:20
  he's also like the Flashes are there. Dude looks like wreck at Ralph but
• 35:23
  also like an action figure come to life. He's been crazy, but at
• 35:27
  the same time he's also had moments where you're like, yeah, right,
• 35:30
  he's super raw. And DeMarcus Comington like has a ball of play because like
• 35:34
  sometimes it gets blown out of gaps or his rush looks kind of a erratic.
• 35:38
  So the defensive line, I just you know, Dietrich Guah, I'm
• 35:42
  sorry, Lawrence Guy and Devon Gotchall They've been pretty solid inside. I feel
• 35:45
  like Goatcha's gotten better recently, so I don't think you can just run on
• 35:50
  them on the inside. But I do think Ben, especially with like James
• 35:54
  Cook, I feel like he's gonna be able to rip off a couple of
• 35:57
  big runs because as much as I like you toan Juwan Bentley, I feel
• 36:00
  like all it takes is like one little prease and one mistake, and it's
• 36:05
  kind of like what Raheem Moster did against them, where he ripped off a
• 36:07
  lot of good runs because of the speed and because they got good angles in
• 36:10
  the run game and they were able to get a little bit of movement.
• 36:14
  So as a pass rush team, I'm really worried. I think Josh Allen's
• 36:19
  gonna have a lot of time, and I think that he's gonna be able
• 36:22
  to run because I'm not sure they're just fue enough to keep him in the
• 36:23
  pocket and stop him from scrambling and making plays. But also I just I
• 36:28
  think they're gonna have to blitz him a lot, and I think that's a
• 36:30
  dangerous world to live in if he's locked in. Like we saw it a
• 36:32
  lot against Garoppolo and Oyer. I don't know if we'll see it again,
• 36:36
  but it's kind of a similar player. You got a number one threat and
• 36:37
  they were trying to take him away, so they were just like, let's
• 36:40
  rush, So you don't really have a lot of time to think that you
• 36:43
  gotta get the ball out, But like that's a dangerous world to live in.
• 36:45
  Yeah, absolutely. Like Allen has traditionally been very good against the blitz,
• 36:49
  he's been good against the blitz this year, which made the game against
• 36:52
  Jacksonville that much more interesting because the Jags blitzed him forty six point five percent
• 36:58
  on the year. He been blitzed like thirty point one percent, and they
• 37:01
  just they held him like fifty percent completion percentage, sixty seven yards, like
• 37:05
  three point seven yards per attempt versus like eight point one on the year.
• 37:07
  Like the Jags did what no one else was able to do. But they
• 37:10
  really got him into a lot of third and longs and just were able to
• 37:14
  lean fully into you know Mike Caldwell being of the Todd Bowlestree just really fun
• 37:21
  exotic packages on third down and if you're consistently living third and seven plus called
• 37:25
  well and coordinators like that are just gonna get into their bag and just do
• 37:29
  a lot of fun things. I love the key On White mentioned he man.
• 37:34
  I had so many discussions about him draft time because I just I just
• 37:37
  did not see it on the tape, like I just was not impressing him.
• 37:40
  And I saw him at the Senior Bowl and you mentioned like he's like
• 37:45
  an action figure or whatever, like come to life like do was just huge
• 37:49
  and cut and all. I remember every day every day for Senior Bowl practices,
• 37:54
  they'll throw up they because everybody's got a track around and they'll throw up
• 37:59
  like all different statf and measurables from like after each practice. And so Keon
• 38:01
  White's group was always in the morning and they would show up like, oh,
• 38:07
  like fastest defensive lineman from the day, and Kean White was and I
• 38:10
  don't remember, but like I think it was like twenty five miles per hour
• 38:14
  he'd hit or whatever miles per hour he was hitting, or maybe it was
• 38:16
  twenty two. It was low twenties low to mid twenties. Oh, I
• 38:20
  know, I'm sorry. It was like twenty two consistently, and everybody else
• 38:23
  was like seventeen sixteen point eight, Like he was consistently just dogging everybody with
• 38:29
  how fast he was. And so then I went back to the tape and
• 38:31
  I knew, like, I think Daniel Jeremiah somebody like loved him and had
• 38:35
  him as like a top fifteen prospect, and I was like, oh okay,
• 38:37
  and I watched the tape and I just didn't get it. He went
• 38:39
  to the Pats, and I was like, you know what, if anybody's
• 38:43
  gonna make him sick, it's gonna be the Pats. This guy who's all
• 38:45
  tools up and tradesd up but isn't polished. He'll go and he'll kill it
• 38:51
  flash in the preseason a bunch, but then yeah, come regular season time
• 38:53
  against the starters, you're seeing that rawness. So I love that you pointed
• 38:57
  out that piece, and you're the point kind of ties into mine a little
• 39:01
  bit as well. I niche down a little bit more. I'm just focus
• 39:05
  mainly on the Pats run defense versus the Bills run game. The Bills run
• 39:08
  game has been a strong pivot for this team this year and actually been like
• 39:14
  a really good pivot for the offense in general. It helps takes pressure off
• 39:19
  It helps take pressure off Josh Allen so he doesn't have to do all the
• 39:22
  heavy lifting. It's I mean, you saw what it did Sunday night against
• 39:27
  the Giants. They came out in the second half and just ran it down
• 39:29
  the Giants throat like. They have the ability their downhill run game. Now
• 39:31
  with the addition of Connor McGovern and Osirus Torrance, they have a real vertical
• 39:36
  displacement aspect to their offensive line. They can move you off the ball.
• 39:42
  James Cook eats up yards in a hurry. Latavious Murray looks like he's twenty
• 39:46
  five years old. With the juice that he has in his legs. He
• 39:49
  gets downhill fast. They have their top five or top three numbers haven't fully
• 39:54
  come out yet from the tendency report for SIS from last week, but they're
• 39:59
  one of the top teams in the league in terms of using gap gap scheme
• 40:02
  runs and the granted duo comes into that and they run a crap to on
• 40:06
  a duo, but duo and mid zone and tackle rap and some pinning polls
• 40:13
  and some gh counter and they move you like, they create displacement, they
• 40:17
  pin while they open up, and then you pair it with their play action
• 40:21
  game, which, yes, you don't need a good run game and have
• 40:23
  a good play action game, but it does help, and that sucks defenders
• 40:28
  in more, gives Josh Allen that ability to work in that intermediate and create
• 40:30
  chunks where he loves to work and he hasn't even really taken off in that
• 40:35
  area yet. It's just a huge piece for this offense. It makes them
• 40:38
  legitimately like a dual threat offense. They have the run to go with the
• 40:42
  pass, which they have not had consistently the past several years. They've had
• 40:45
  it in spurts or they'll have it down the stretch. But this is a
• 40:47
  strong run game, and when you're focusing just on the running back, so
• 40:51
  non Josh Allen runs, just running back related runs only. The Bills offense
• 40:57
  second in EPA per attempt, second in total, third in positive play percentage,
• 41:02
  third lowest hit at the line of scrimmage percentage, fifth, lowest stuff
• 41:07
  percentage again, both of those, the lower you are, the better.
• 41:10
  They're eighth in yards per attempt. This has been a real run game.
• 41:14
  James Cook has been very good. Otavius Murray has been very good. Damian
• 41:17
  Harris was good when he got in there. You know, shout out to
• 41:20
  him, Hoby's doing all right with the neck injury and what happened to him.
• 41:22
  But then you flip it to the other side and you look at the
• 41:24
  Pats run d The Pats run defense one hundred and eighty two run defense snaps
• 41:30
  this year. That's the fifth most in the NFL. So they have a
• 41:32
  high volume, a high sample size. Third, lowest epa per attempt allowed
• 41:38
  on the ground, third, lowest yards after contact per attempt allowed at two,
• 41:44
  third, lowest yards per attempt allowed at three point four, third,
• 41:47
  lowest first down percentage allowed. Third, are the very lowest broken tackles plus
• 41:53
  mistackle percentage per run. And then these next ones are nuts. So one
• 41:59
  hundred and eighty two defense snaps again, right, they're tied for the second
• 42:02
  lowest amount of broken tackles they only have five, and they're tied for the
• 42:07
  second lowest missed tackles they only have four. Think about that. The pass
• 42:09
  defense has have been on the field for one hundred and eighty two runs they've
• 42:14
  only missed four tackles and only had five broken tackles. Then they're eighth in
• 42:19
  DVA versus the run and thirteenth and stuff percentage, which is the amount of
• 42:22
  runs that go for zero yards or less. This pass defense has been strong
• 42:28
  against the run with what they have, I think a lot of some of
• 42:30
  their pieces, which I'm going to talk about my next point also links to
• 42:34
  that with the linebackers they do have, like t VII and Bentley and having
• 42:37
  some of those bigger thumpers and even some of the games of going with five
• 42:40
  down fronts and running more odd front that they do. But this is a
• 42:44
  strong run defense going up against a strong run game, and when the run
• 42:50
  game hasn't been there for the Bills, they've gotten a bit disjointed. They
• 42:53
  haven't gotten into rhythm. Josh Allen and Ken Dorsey kind of haven't been I
• 42:58
  don't want to say they haven't been on the same page with each other,
• 43:00
  but it's just been an inefficient, sluggish, kind of stuck in neutral type
• 43:05
  of offense when the running game isn't going. So if you want to slow
• 43:08
  down this offense, granted, you know you can put it into Josh Allen's
• 43:12
  one hundred percent. Josh Allen's hands one hundred percent. There's a chance he's
• 43:14
  still going to dagger you and just take out it and take it out of
• 43:16
  you. But this run game has been so important to the Bill's offense this
• 43:20
  year. The Pats run defense is legitimately very very, very good, So
• 43:23
  I'm interesting to see who's able to move the needle in that regard. So
• 43:27
  I think it's an important piece to keeping the Bills offense on schedule. You
• 43:30
  don't always hear about things the Patriots are doing well these days, so that
• 43:34
  that kind of wore my art a little bit. I was like, oh,
• 43:36
  yeah, right, they do have something that you can look forward to.
• 43:38
  But yeah, I mean up front, like Morn's guy in Devon gotchall
• 43:42
  Like I said, Godshaw, I think he got hurt, and there was
• 43:45
  a portion in the middle of the past few weeks where he was getting pushed
• 43:49
  around a little bit. But I thought he bounced back really well against him.
• 43:52
  The Raiders. The Raiders they just like crushing them. Like Christian Barmore
• 43:55
  had his best performance against the run, I think he's had his entire career.
• 44:00
  Jack Wilson had the best run defense performance I've ever seen from him,
• 44:04
  Like he's always been a guy with a quick trigger who's really athletic. Yeah,
• 44:07
  he would overrun plays and he wasn't really physical, so he'd like kind
• 44:09
  of bubble over and lose his assignment. He was staying in his gap.
• 44:13
  He had some big hits against yak Of Johnson, who I think Bill's fans
• 44:16
  are pretty familiar with. Pats fans love a really good fullback and Colton Miller
• 44:21
  like the physicality. He put on some weight and it really showed. So
• 44:23
  I'll be interested to see how much they lean on him, because you need
• 44:27
  that athleticism. But Jelani and Tabai has also been fantastic, Like he's been
• 44:30
  an outside linebacker, but he also plays off the ball. He's an early
• 44:34
  down kind of guy, but he's got to athleticism where he got an interception
• 44:37
  because de Berl Pepper's just I kind of I'll touch on this a little bit,
• 44:40
  brod that play. It was gorgeous when he lit up Deavante. I
• 44:45
  felt bad, like he don't often feel bad for the other team, but
• 44:47
  I was just like, oh God, I hope he's okay. And but
• 44:52
  yeah, like Gilotie Tobai. He's been around the ball. He's really stacking
• 44:55
  and getting better on a weekly basis. So yeah, the run defense Andy
• 45:00
  and Freddy Jennings, like I already talked about, you just don't really run
• 45:02
  it in with success. He's really good at collapsing gaps where you don't really
• 45:07
  have to run at him. Even if you're run in his direction, you
• 45:09
  can still kind of make a player create disruption. So yeah, that's been
• 45:13
  a big positive. But again it's the run game is big. But I'm
• 45:16
  really nervous about what's going to happen when they pass. And that's assuming they
• 45:20
  actually do stop the bills, because even if they are stout and they aren't
• 45:24
  missing tackles, we all know the missed tackles stat is also kind of kind
• 45:30
  of skewed because it doesn't count when an angle is taken. That's completely wrong,
• 45:35
  and then it's just like you miss make a miss in space, but
• 45:37
  it's hard to actually calculate. They let that happen a couple of times with
• 45:40
  someone like Cooks or someone like cook and someone who's had success with them in
• 45:45
  the past, and he's able to rip off those chunk yards when they really
• 45:49
  feed them the ball consistently. It does worry me if this game is within
• 45:52
  reach and they have to turn it into well I can run, well,
• 45:55
  so can I, but I have a bigger arm. So the second you
• 46:00
  respect our run game too much, we can make you pay. Whereas I
• 46:02
  don't think the Patriots quite yeah, And that's but that's been like the bind
• 46:07
  that the build offense has put so many defenses in this year, Like oh,
• 46:08
  okay, cool, Like you know you want to put seven in the
• 46:12
  box, or you want to put eight, or you're gonna spin a safety
• 46:15
  down early, okay, Like we're gonna gouge you and we're gonna take those
• 46:17
  chunks and or they can just generate them on the ground. And I love
• 46:21
  your point about like the angles and paths to the ball, like you saw
• 46:23
  that on a couple of reps against the Dolphins, like you mentioned with Moster,
• 46:27
  you saw it on the screen to waddle as well. But like so
• 46:30
  they've been threatened with speed, which again I still think despite what they have
• 46:35
  on the back end, the Pats d I think is still built for more
• 46:37
  of like a knock them like, knock down, drag them out type of
• 46:42
  thing and aren't built to live in that speed world and you get those backs
• 46:45
  or teams that could threaten them on the edge like that and goh, go
• 46:46
  ahead, So they kind of are so Marte Mapu has a big part of
• 46:51
  that. Yes, well he's in he's in my next my next point.
• 46:53
  Okay, okay, so all back off. But yeah, like when you
• 46:55
  get those speed packages where it's like they can bring out like the the Giant
• 47:00
  eighties Giants three where it's just a bunch of big dudes, but they can
• 47:04
  also kind of tweet the personnel where Markie Mapu, who's a linebacker, is
• 47:08
  you know, really not reading somebody you really wanted the point of attack.
• 47:12
  But he can kind of do a little bit of both and they can adjust.
• 47:15
  But still like it's not necessarily perfect when they do that, and there's
• 47:19
  still places to exploit, so you know, and so let's switch because that
• 47:22
  ties right into my third point. I'll go first. From my third point,
• 47:27
  it's the personnel battle between the Pats defense and the Bills offense. So
• 47:31
  my first piece is what personnel grouping do the Pats lean into based on?
• 47:37
  Is it from an overall game plan perspective, is it situational? We mentioned
• 47:42
  several of the names already, but there's so many like fun chess pieces on
• 47:47
  this team, even just from a safety perspective with Duggar and Phillips and Pepper's
• 47:52
  and Jalen Mills and then everything you have, like at the second level potential
• 47:55
  with Mapu at Bentley and Tabai and Anthony Jennings and just how everything ties together,
• 48:02
  you know, do they lean into more of you know, the three
• 48:05
  safety you know four safety package. But Jalen Mills is versatile what he can
• 48:08
  do. Does Marte Mapu see more of the field because he gives you kind
• 48:13
  of more of that less dictated two piece when it comes to the speed game,
• 48:17
  where it comes to the pass game, but then to your point,
• 48:21
  you know, you put them on there, you lose a little bit from
• 48:22
  a point of attack perspective. So do they choose to kind of how do
• 48:27
  they use him? If the Bills are leaning more into that downhill run game
• 48:30
  and trying to create more displacement and people moving ability, the multiplicity that the
• 48:36
  Pats defense has and how they can wear so many hats formationally and personnel wise,
• 48:42
  and then what they can do with that is such a fun conversation in
• 48:45
  general, but then especially with the Bills offense, with what they've done with
• 48:51
  their multiple tight end sets, with what they can do out of twelve,
• 48:53
  with what they can do out eleven out of eleven, what they can do
• 48:55
  out of twenty one. When they put Reggie Gilliam on the field, they
• 48:59
  can put players in different positions than they have this year lining up in twenty
• 49:02
  one and you know, putting Gilliam hipped off and having Latavious Murny in the
• 49:07
  slot or outside, and then having Trent Shirfield in the backfield or Deontay Hardy
• 49:12
  in the backfield, having Stefan Diggs in the backfield, doing all of these
• 49:15
  different pieces or doing all of these different things from a piece perspective, as
• 49:21
  far as alignment mixed with the personnel being able to get to different run packages
• 49:25
  and passing concepts out of the same you know, heavier pro personnel looks let
• 49:31
  alone what they can do in twelve with Kincaid should he play this week,
• 49:35
  which it looks like he will him. Partnered with Knox or even Morrison Knox,
• 49:38
  the Bills have a variety of pieces and personnel groups that they can lean
• 49:42
  into based on a matchup, based on game script, based on game flow,
• 49:46
  but so do the Patriots. The Patriots head defense has that kind of
• 49:50
  versatility that reduces how much they can be dictated to, and for a Bills
• 49:55
  offense that has been able to dictate to teams for a majority of the year,
• 50:00
  again because of their versatility and their players in the package, just because
• 50:02
  they can run out of any pretty much any of their personnel, main personnel
• 50:07
  groupings and main alignments. Because they can pass out of those same personnel groupings
• 50:12
  and same alignments, they usually have the upper hand when it comes to dictating
• 50:15
  to defenses. But the Pats can sit there and be like just twelve personnel
• 50:20
  for example, Oh, you want to run twelve? And the big conversation
• 50:22
  for everybody at the Bills is like, man, like what do you do
• 50:24
  against Dalton Kincaid and Dawson Knox. And the Pats are like, all right,
• 50:29
  well, like Kyle Duggar and like Mapoo and I don't know, like
• 50:31
  Jaysn Miller, like all they like we can match up with that, Like
• 50:35
  what do you want to do? Oh you want to like run? That's
• 50:37
  okay? Like Ken Kinkaid block Mapoo, Like that might be advantage Pats,
• 50:42
  like even that little piece like Dugger is a stud in every way, Like
• 50:45
  you can line up Dugger on the second level, like it's a larger whole.
• 50:49
  I feel like we really could have done a whole episode just on the
• 50:51
  personnel conversation. But it's so fun for me because the Pats can lean in
• 50:55
  different things, positively or negatively based on the group they put on the field,
• 51:00
  and so can the Bills. And the Pats have the ability personnel wise
• 51:04
  to limit how much they can be dictated to, and the Bills have the
• 51:07
  potential to push buttons and dictate to a defense. So I'm interested to see
• 51:12
  who wins that battle and by how much and what what's the core personnel grouping
• 51:17
  Belichick is coming out like it is it just gonna be a ton of rotation
• 51:21
  and whatever the Bills are doing, he's matching or is this you know,
• 51:23
  a major you know, Marte Mapu type game or does he not see the
• 51:28
  field a bunch and they're really running four safeties all the time, Like what
• 51:31
  area does he lean into to combat? What the Bills offense has been from
• 51:36
  a multiplicity standpoint, Yeah, And one of the fun things to watch is
• 51:40
  how they can have Pepper's Dugger or Mapoo truly doing one of like three or
• 51:47
  four things, but they all are pretty much interchangeable. Like the only big
• 51:52
  distinction is when they're on the field at the same time. Usually Mapoo will
• 51:54
  be deep. If somebody's blitzaying, we're like, they'll send an outside linebacker
• 51:59
  slop with Peppers and Dugger, but they don't really do it much with Mapoo.
• 52:02
  But yeah, like they can play linebacker and if it's more of a
• 52:05
  cover situation, they'll put Mapoo. If it's more of a run situation,
• 52:08
  they'll put Peppers. Because he's just such a big hit or he's very physical,
• 52:12
  he's got good range. He's on the smaller side, so you can
• 52:15
  kind of exploit that. But again it's like if he gets ahead of steam,
• 52:17
  then you're kind of screwed. So I do think that we've also seen
• 52:22
  Adrian Phillips get a little bit more run Jalen Mills, he wasn't really happy
• 52:24
  with his views. He's really more than a like tight end e racer and
• 52:30
  like kind of a dime guy. He's filled in at times, but hasn't
• 52:32
  had as much of an impact as I expected because he's a playmaker. But
• 52:36
  yeah, I think you're gonna see a lot of big nickel, probably just
• 52:40
  only big nickel, because I don't think we're gonna see any true bass,
• 52:44
  like against teams like the Jets and the Cowboys who really like bring out tight
• 52:47
  ends, who are tight ends, like they're not really trying to catch the
• 52:51
  baller. They may not excel there, but they're really good blockers. You
• 52:54
  saw shrew bass, which you don't really see around the NFL at all much
• 52:57
  of these days, but you saw it then. Bills they never said out
• 53:00
  really unless it's like like three tight ends or something like that, you're not
• 53:05
  gonna see truly like three true down linemen and four true linebackers. It's usually
• 53:09
  gonna be like a mob who or a safety or something. And so with
• 53:12
  that, I like seeing what the Bills will do. At times, they'll
• 53:16
  go heavy, you know, they'll put Gilliam out there, or they'll be
• 53:19
  in twelve, or they'll and they'll lean into these six offensive line sets and
• 53:23
  they'll run out of it. They'll put David Edwards in there and they'll run
• 53:27
  it, but they love go and play action with it. So like out
• 53:30
  of the Patriots, just that's one little niche piece. How do the Pats
• 53:34
  choose to match that right with their bodies because of what they can do and
• 53:37
  what they like to do. Like, there's just it's a big conversation and
• 53:39
  then there's all these little ones based on all these intricacies and all these pieces.
• 53:44
  Like I feel like the Pats are one of the few teams again we
• 53:46
  talked about it on your show earlier well earlier in the year and in the
• 53:50
  offseason, like they can just match up with you offensively in so many ways,
• 53:55
  you know, based on what you want to do. It feels like
• 53:58
  they have a counter based on the bodies they have, based on you know,
• 54:02
  they're they're in that mold of I hate using it because I think it's
• 54:06
  a misnomer and incorrect, but the whole positionless football type of thing, Like
• 54:09
  they can lean into that piece. And when you can do that, it
• 54:13
  just it reduces how much teams can dictate to you because you can just be
• 54:15
  like, oh, you want to go twelve whatever, Oh no, now
• 54:20
  you want to go eleven. Okay, we'll just stay and what we got
• 54:22
  like, we don't care. It still works. Yeah, I'm very interested
• 54:24
  to see that be there are there's so many that's a that's a real fun
• 54:28
  just like the personnel wise, and then trying to see what the Bills do
• 54:30
  out of it. I think it is a very interesting conversation. It's you
• 54:37
  can talk about it a whole day, and there's a lot of combinations of
• 54:39
  the Patriots HS. Again, it's mostly going to be Kyle Dugger and Jabrill
• 54:44
  Peppers is the main guys, and then it's going to be one of Mapu
• 54:46
  Adrian Phillis Jaillen Bills. But I mean just how interchangeable it is. It's
• 54:52
  as close to positions as football as you can get because within the core of
• 54:53
  the formation, they just do everything. It's, yeah, one of the
• 54:57
  one of the few bright spots that we get over here and annoying movies.
• 55:00
  I love to like how versatile they're, like the defensive back grouping is and
• 55:04
  then like mape within that too, and then like you just have Jawan Bentley
• 55:07
  there who's just like pure downhill thumper with no versatility, and it's just like
• 55:10
  huh no he I think I think the underrated thing about him in cover cover
• 55:15
  he looks like he can't cover, but he gets to his marks. He
• 55:19
  gets where he's gotta be and he takes away first reads because it's like,
• 55:22
  well, you're not really gonna throw to someone who's shooting up the middle of
• 55:25
  the feet, like if someone's running with intention, unless like Josh Allen might
• 55:30
  do this, Like he's one of the few people who'll be like, yeah,
• 55:31
  I like the matchup. Most people aren't going to do that, and
• 55:34
  I think that is an underrated reason. And he tackles very well. I
• 55:37
  just want to give him his respect because he's more versas and as a blitzer,
• 55:40
  he's been one of their few oh yeah tasportching assets. So that if
• 55:45
  I can, if I can get him there, if I can get him
• 55:49
  coming downhill against the run as a blitzer, like whatever, I'm living in
• 55:52
  that world all day. If I'm the pass I would. But like if
• 55:55
  we're putting from a coverage perspective, if he somehow gets isolate it against Dalton
• 56:00
  Kincaid, I'm taking Dalton Kinkaid every single day of the week, Like you
• 56:04
  know, he is a rookie like that, and that's like where like but
• 56:06
  if we're talking to your point, he's a vet. He knows what he's
• 56:08
  doing, especially in this defense. If you're just talking like get to a
• 56:10
  spot spot, drop zone type of piece, Like he can get there,
• 56:14
  he can read a QB, but if I can isolate him in a matchup,
• 56:17
  I'm taking that aspect every day versus And to your point, like when
• 56:22
  Josh Allen's locked in and he just checked down, check down, checked down,
• 56:24
  like you saw with Devin Singletary, it would just be like you're picking
• 56:28
  up like first downs eight yards every time you check it down. So also
• 56:31
  to your point, he does take away the down field throws, but when
• 56:36
  it comes to underneath stuff like he's not Frank Warner where he can close that
• 56:37
  gap quickly. And see that's another point too. Man, this conversation is
• 56:42
  so fun, Like I think back to yeah, when Alan pepperd Singletary like
• 56:45
  that, Now, okay, are you guys gonna fly off the handle in
• 56:50
  that second level and make sure you cover deep. Checking it down to James
• 56:53
  Cook is a significantly different piece than it is checking it down to Devin Singletary
• 56:58
  because Singletary would get eight or nine and that's it. Cook can take that
• 57:01
  eight or nine and turn it into fifteen or a house call, and that's
• 57:05
  the piece. Like if you guys are bailing too early and evacuating that second
• 57:08
  level. Alan can take that. Now will he take that? Is another
• 57:14
  whole nother coversation because Josh Allen weeked to week. Sometimes he's like, yeah,
• 57:17
  I'm just gonna be surgical and take what they give me. And other
• 57:20
  times he's like, no, I'm just gonna push it downfield because I want
• 57:22
  to, or no, I'm just gonna throw it to just Stevon Diggs all
• 57:24
  the time. So Josh Allen variable is also a piece. But oh man,
• 57:30
  this is good, this is good. But now I've spoken too much.
• 57:32
  The floor is yours? Your third point? What do you got?
• 57:37
  I can't not talk about Steph So Stephan Diggs. And it's kind of interesting
• 57:43
  this time around because in twenty twenty one, j C. Jackson was his
• 57:45
  shadow. In twenty twenty two it was Jonathan Jones. Now both of those
• 57:51
  guys were very competitive against him. Jonathan Jones had the first game was really
• 57:54
  bad, like when they had red uniforms they were in fox Borough. Like
• 57:59
  there were times where Steph was a step and made great catches, tight rows
• 58:02
  and like crazy routes where like one of his touchdowns was slant and out or
• 58:07
  whatever, like a whip or something like that, where it was so well,
• 58:12
  Jonathan Jones's eyes weren't in the right place. But I'm like, if
• 58:14
  you were looking at his hips, you still would have thought it was a
• 58:15
  slant. And in the red zone you dive on that. I'm not even
• 58:19
  masd'. That's where he he almost kind of like Stacks Jones and just sells
• 58:22
  it a little bit this way and then pops it back out to the left
• 58:25
  and separates ys like he ran a slant until he didn't, So like,
• 58:30
  I don't really I can't get mad at you for thinking that's what was going
• 58:32
  on. But there were also times where like he didn't tackle or he was
• 58:37
  just not Like again, like when you're not looking at the hips, you
• 58:39
  can fall for like Steph is gonna use the head fix. I call him
• 58:43
  Steph like we're friends. Give disrespectful. I just have so much respect for
• 58:47
  him, like mister Diggs, mister Diggs, mister Dickson. But he's just
• 58:52
  so good that you can't rely on just like your coverage being enough. But
• 58:54
  at the same time, Jonathan Jones is really good at playing through the whistle,
• 58:58
  and he's gonna be competitive but the thing is with j C who is
• 59:02
  his shadow again at twenty twenty one, the bad was really bad, like
• 59:07
  where Jac's trying to like look at Josh Allen and Digs is running right behind
• 59:12
  him, or he is missing tackles, they're taking bad angles. He's done
• 59:15
  such a good job, Digs of making them pay. Really everybody you know
• 59:20
  in these matchups, everybody makes them pay for making mistakes, but really Digs,
• 59:23
  like anytime their top guys makes a mistake, he capitalizes most of the
• 59:27
  time. And rather than having a shadow this time, what we saw was
• 59:30
  j C. Jackson is now the boundary corner like what they had with Gonzales,
• 59:35
  he would shadow in a couple game plans, but against like AJ Brown
• 59:38
  and DeVante Smith, he was the boundary so that he could take the one
• 59:40
  on one matchups. So that was him on the short side of the field
• 59:45
  to the field. You had Jonathan Jones, who again is like, they're
• 59:49
  smaller, fast guy who's so very competitive, so he's probably not gonna have
• 59:52
  a shadow, which means that he could kind of dictate, dictate mismatches and
• 59:57
  you know, line up in the slot against Miles Bryan I th they never
• 1:00:00
  attack that matchup. I don't think that's gonna happen, but you know,
• 1:00:02
  if they decide to press that nerve, maybe it's an adjustment they for us.
• 1:00:06
  There's also the added layer of Jonathan Jones already had an ankle injury,
• 1:00:10
  not a knee injury in the Raiders game, so he might not even play,
• 1:00:15
  which means that they're probably gonna put out with Sean Wade, who is
• 1:00:17
  like doing his best out there, but his tackling and his pursued angles aren't
• 1:00:22
  great. Like one place is defense has really struggled in terms of tackling is
• 1:00:25
  in past defense, Like that's where I think a lot of the big players
• 1:00:29
  can come from. So I think that that you're missing like JC and Jonathan
• 1:00:32
  Jones already have their hands full if you're down Jonathan Jones as well, and
• 1:00:36
  it's JC, Sean Wade and Miles Bryant that really does scare me. So
• 1:00:39
  I think that's a huge mismatch. And if they decide to commit extra resources
• 1:00:44
  to Digs. The Raiders had a great play in last week where when they
• 1:00:46
  did that, they exploited other openings. Hello game Davis, So you know
• 1:00:52
  Diggs is always the priority. But if they can shut him down or at
• 1:00:55
  least keep him under control, which they never can't do. I think he
• 1:01:00
  at least keep yourself competitive, because I'd rather you throw it at Gave Davis
• 1:01:02
  than the freaking step on dates. Yeah, that's fair. I pulled up
• 1:01:08
  Sean Wade's snaps by alignment, one hundred and fifty two snaps on the year,
• 1:01:14
  one hundred and twenty one of them have come in outside corner, and
• 1:01:17
  I just think back to his junior year whichever was his second last year at
• 1:01:22
  Ohio State, and it was like, yo, he's sweet, and I
• 1:01:24
  was like, oh, he's in the slot. And then his last year
• 1:01:28
  they were like we're gonna move outside, and he just got cooked over and
• 1:01:30
  over. I still wanted him to at the in the Bills in that draft,
• 1:01:35
  but he ended up going to ball to Yeah, the Ravens traded him
• 1:01:38
  like his rookie year, to the Patriots. Yeah, so they drafted him
• 1:01:43
  and traded him away, and I was still thinking like, Okay, like
• 1:01:45
  Pats will put him back inside. He didn't work. Yeah, just and
• 1:01:50
  seeing him back as like a potential guy on the outside. I'm salivating at
• 1:01:53
  that matchup because I'm still thinking of you know, final year at Ohio State
• 1:01:57
  Sean Wade on the outside just getting burned over and over. It is significantly
• 1:02:00
  impacted his draft stock. I think he went like the fifth round or something
• 1:02:05
  because of how bad that final year was with him at outside corner. But
• 1:02:08
  that's the world you're living in with with your injury pieces. And I also
• 1:02:12
  do want to I know he's injured as well. I want to shout out
• 1:02:14
  Marcus Jones, who I think was awesome as a rookie. And I don't
• 1:02:16
  care how small he is. I think he can live as a corner in
• 1:02:20
  the NFL. I love him as a returner anytime he gets the ball in
• 1:02:22
  his hands. He scored that sick touchdown on offense against the Bills in the
• 1:02:24
  Thursday night game last year. I'm genuinely disappointed that he's banged up and will
• 1:02:30
  be out as well. And yeah, but even within that, like and
• 1:02:32
  it's so funny too, like the corners are banged up and potentially limited,
• 1:02:37
  but then you still got all this fun crap with all the safeties and what
• 1:02:39
  they can do at the second level. And but that goes into like the
• 1:02:43
  matchup pieces as well, because like, how do you live if your corners
• 1:02:45
  are that vulnerable potentially, and there's two quick ones. One I should also
• 1:02:50
  mention that Jack Jones return to practice. He's kind of like their bolohok guy,
• 1:02:53
  but also kind of like a J. C. Jackson where he'll get
• 1:02:55
  antsy and like hit people don't usually exploit when it happens, but he will
• 1:03:00
  let you get behind him. But still he's better than Sean Wade or I
• 1:03:02
  should mention absolutely that's an upgrade, especially like Sewn Wains had a pretty good
• 1:03:07
  job of not getting burned deep. But it's more than coming down and tackling,
• 1:03:09
  which has been inconsistent. But also, like you said, when you
• 1:03:13
  talk about matchups, one of my favorite winkles from my favorite winkles from last
• 1:03:16
  year was one of the times that when Bill Belichick is up against the true
• 1:03:22
  top receiver, one of the ways he'll show it is he'll put his most
• 1:03:24
  physical press guy on you and as a cloud defender and then have like a
• 1:03:29
  corner behind so he's like no, like we're not letting you get off the
• 1:03:31
  line of scrimmage unovated. And we saw that last year on a couple like
• 1:03:35
  third and extra lungs, which of bro Peppers was across from step On Diggs
• 1:03:38
  just so we could jam him and basically just hand him off to a corner
• 1:03:43
  back deep down the field. So there's a lot of things that they can
• 1:03:45
  do to kind of throw at Digs and make sure that he's not just an
• 1:03:49
  easy first to read. But at the same time, it's just football.
• 1:03:53
  If you're a good first down offense, then you're gonna have opportunities to get
• 1:03:57
  your best skill player involved. And when it comes to it's literally just make
• 1:04:00
  sure he's not behind you and make sure you tackle as quickly as possible.
• 1:04:03
  It's Stefan Dicks and Josh Allen like at some point it also like don't die
• 1:04:06
  on the scrambled drill, which has been impossible for them lately. I hate
• 1:04:13
  Hiven bringing it up because I'm like, of course, we're not going to
• 1:04:15
  defend it. They never defend it properly, but it's much easier said done.
• 1:04:18
  And Allen and Diggs have eight on that scrambled drill piece three touchdowns this
• 1:04:25
  year on it, like four or five big plays. It feels like at
• 1:04:29
  least at least once or twice a week, alan you know is scrambling Digs
• 1:04:34
  uncovers, he finds some void, whether it's in the low red zone or
• 1:04:39
  you know, in the middle of the field, you know, depending on
• 1:04:41
  where they are, you know, in terms of down and distance and where
• 1:04:43
  they are on the field, and he just uncovers and he makes some big
• 1:04:45
  play. It might be like a twenty yard gain in the middle of the
• 1:04:48
  field or in your own end, or he's breaking free again in the low
• 1:04:51
  red zone and it's a tuddy Like what they've been able to do from an
• 1:04:56
  off script perspective has been so strong and so that that's a really fun piece
• 1:05:00
  as well, Like you mentioned, like the Pats struggles to kind of plaster
• 1:05:02
  and be able to maintain within that scramble drill. I mean, Josh Allen
• 1:05:05
  has always done really well with but him and Digs together this year have been
• 1:05:10
  unreal in terms of just production and the probably in the EPA they've generated on
• 1:05:15
  those plays. Like I wish, I wish I could track like just the
• 1:05:19
  EPA of Josh Allen Stefon Diggs like throws on scrambles like that would just I
• 1:05:25
  feel like it's a significantiece because they've scored a bunch which is gonna like throw
• 1:05:28
  the EPA way out of whack and man, yeah, there's a lot of
• 1:05:30
  fun matchup pieces in this one. And again, I know, I feel
• 1:05:34
  like people are probably down a little bit on the game, knowing like,
• 1:05:39
  well, the Pats suck, they're one and five. But if that Giants
• 1:05:41
  game showed you anything, if you're a Bills fan, do not underestimate your
• 1:05:44
  opponent ever. And I will never ever look past Bill Belichick. I don't
• 1:05:47
  care who his QB is. I don't care how bad the team looks.
• 1:05:50
  I refuse, shut up. You don't get to make that face after your
• 1:05:54
  stupid team tortured me for my whole existence. It's been a tough six we
• 1:06:00
  man, Oh six weeks. Oh no, it's been my life has been
• 1:06:04
  ruined. I'm an adult man. Things are hard enough, like this has
• 1:06:10
  been a huge buffer. That's all I'll say. I do like Woesley boot
• 1:06:14
  rent and do my own shop. And now the Pets, I can't.
• 1:06:18
  I don't have no Catharsis. I have no Oh. I come home from
• 1:06:20
  were you watch football. It's my job and they're not doing like it's it's
• 1:06:25
  it. I didn't even think of that for you, Like this is like
• 1:06:28
  you transition from Next Gen to like covering the Pats, and it's like this
• 1:06:32
  kind of year, Like I can't imagine you're just coming home and like sitting
• 1:06:36
  down on the reclient chair and just being like I was talking to my girlfriend
• 1:06:41
  about it. I'm like, dude, I need to find a hobby,
• 1:06:43
  Like I gotta do something to take my mind off this, because football used
• 1:06:45
  to be an escape, and now it's just like a torture chamber most of
• 1:06:49
  the time. Although there's some fun stuff on defense. Yeah that's fair.
• 1:06:53
  I love that. I love it. Now it's a torture chamber. Yeah,
• 1:06:55
  I mean you made you have hobbies. If there's one take away,
• 1:07:00
  forget the matchups. Everyone have a hobby. But no, you're awesome with
• 1:07:04
  everything you do covering the Pats now. And like I've said, I've said
• 1:07:08
  to you on your show, I've said to you here or said to you
• 1:07:10
  here as well, Like you do great work, and I think it's awesome.
• 1:07:14
  You know, you're covering the Pats and continuing to climb the ladder and
• 1:07:16
  everything that you want to do. You do great work covering them and breaking
• 1:07:19
  down the game in terms of like ball in general, but especially anything and
• 1:07:24
  everything with the Pats and I introduced earlier and broke some pieces down. But
• 1:07:27
  just in case people didn't see that in the beginning or you know, we're
• 1:07:30
  watching YadA YadA, the floor is yours. Tell everybody who you are,
• 1:07:33
  what you do, where they can find you anything and everything. The floor
• 1:07:38
  is yours. Well. First off, thank you, buddy. I hate
• 1:07:41
  you and you're my favorite all at once. Always. I always love coming
• 1:07:45
  on your your your comments are incredible. I love this whole atmosphere. You
• 1:07:49
  guys are awesome. But yeah, Twitter is at t Kyle thirty nine.
• 1:07:54
  You can find my work at salonnismedia dot com. We also on page press
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  Still. They gave me my start. I loved them very much, the
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  going to look at the bills esp Nation, I'll be on there this weekend.
• 1:08:20
  Yeah, everybody. Taylor does a tremendous job with the work that he
• 1:08:24
  does covering the Pats. He is my go to person for anything and everything
• 1:08:27
  Patriots and like I say every time whenever we have a guest on the show.
• 1:08:30
  If you're a Bills fan, and even if you don't watch a ton
• 1:08:32
  of other football, you just care about the Bills. It's important that you
• 1:08:35
  stay up on every single other team in the league because every single other team
• 1:08:40
  is your enemy, especially within the division. And Taylor will give you,
• 1:08:44
  from a reporting standpoint, anything and everything you need to know that's going on
• 1:08:46
  with the Patriots. But then also from an x's and o's and film standpoint
• 1:08:49
  and actual you want to know about coverages, and you want to know about
• 1:08:53
  concepts and what the Pats lean into on each side of the ball, strengths
• 1:08:56
  and weaknesses, players, position groups, all that stuff. Taylor is your
• 1:09:00
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• 1:09:05
  it's been real. I appreciate you staying up late with me. Go to
• 1:09:09
  sleep, get some rest, have fun covering the beat, and I'll see
• 1:09:12
  your Thursday when I join you on your show. I can't wait. I
• 1:09:15
  know, very excited. Get some sleep. I appreciate you, Thank you
• 1:09:16
  for riding with me, and I'll see you on Twitter. Yes, sir,
• 1:09:20
  Thank you, buddy, Bye everyone. Man. Taylor's awesome. I
• 1:09:25
  appreciate him every single time he stops by, and I'm very excited to join
• 1:09:29
  him on his show. This week. We're gonna be diving into some film
• 1:09:32
  and breaking down some pieces for this matchup, so I'm very excited for that
• 1:09:39
  piece. Again, major thank you to mister Taylor Kyle's and also they get
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  him for As I mentioned in the in the beginning, you know, we
• 1:09:45
  started a little bit late tonight. There were some technical difficulties with stream Yard.
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  It wasn't letting you know, kind of you know, peek behind the
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  Yard, which has never happened to me before. We started the browser and
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  the computer and logged out, logged in a whole bunch of chaos, but
• 1:10:02
  it ended up working out here. We are major thank you again to Taylor.
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  Give them a follow Bill's fans. Now, on the back end of
• 1:10:10
  this episode, like I talked about so front end, we broke a lot
• 1:10:12
  of stuff down with Taylor. Now I want to dive into some pieces from
• 1:10:15
  the Giants game as we do here on the back end, taking a look
• 1:10:18
  at a little film, breaking down some individual players and some pieces and kind
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  tape again we talked about schematic components. But coming out of this game,
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  and again, you know, you folks know that I also do the film
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  with Eric Turner. Tune into that live tomorrow night, seven pm Eastern,
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  Wednesday, October eighteenth. We're gonna be diving into a bunch of pieces,
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  players and schematic wise, both in terms of breaking down Bill's giants. But
• 1:11:35
  I wanted to highlight some players and some pieces here in disguis coverage on the
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  back end. You know, we always kind of you know, talk about
• 1:11:42
  the stock up stock down piece here on the episode, and sometimes it is
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  schematic things. Sometimes it's coaches, sometimes it's you know, player pieces individually.
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  Sometimes it's large scale niche whatever. This time, I wanted to shout
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  out too players in this game. I want to shot out Taron Johnson,
• 1:12:00
  and I wanted to shout out Torell Bernard, and I wanted to show some
• 1:12:02
  clips of just what they offer this Bills team, what they do, a
• 1:12:08
  couple of plays to just highlighted how they played in this game and just what
• 1:12:11
  you get with this squad and this crew that the Bills have a mast here.
• 1:12:16
  And I want to start with Taron Johnson and just overall, I guess
• 1:12:23
  the nature in terms of what is asked of Taron Johnson in this Bills defense,
• 1:12:30
  and really just in football in general nowadays, the aspect of playing a
• 1:12:40
  slot corner in today's NFL, or that apex defender, that nickel corner,
• 1:12:44
  whatever anybody's talking about, whatever verbiage they want to use, so much of
• 1:12:47
  it is so tough because when you're operating in the slot, the receivers you
• 1:12:50
  play against, they're usually very shifty. They're electrics teams nowadays, and can
• 1:12:57
  also put you know, power slots in there, whether it's a why receiver
• 1:13:00
  or a tight end or the ability to you know, bump your number one
• 1:13:02
  receiver inside, like the Bills do with Stefan Digg's, like the Raiders do
• 1:13:05
  with DeVante Adams. Like. So you're not just covering specialty guys now,
• 1:13:10
  you're covering a variety of skill sets, a variety of route running capabilities,
• 1:13:14
  of a variety of body types and frames. And you have to do all
• 1:13:17
  of that with having to cover, you know, within that two way go
• 1:13:21
  and within that two way go. I mean, you know, the aspect
• 1:13:24
  of you know, Teraren Johnson's highlighted here, but say he was out over
• 1:13:28
  here covering someone in the slot. You have that ability if you're in the
• 1:13:31
  slot to literally you can go this way, you can go that way,
• 1:13:34
  you can push vertically. There's all these aspects you can achieve and avenues that
• 1:13:40
  you can go down versus not that it's just completely easy on the outside.
• 1:13:44
  But if you're a Kyrie Elam out here or a Christian Benford down here,
• 1:13:46
  if you're playing one of those outside corner spots, you know you have the
• 1:13:48
  boundary to your outside you kind of have that friend. You don't have that
• 1:13:53
  when you're playing in the slot because of that two way go. Thus you're
• 1:13:57
  on kind of more of an island and you're stressful. In addition to again
• 1:14:00
  having to cover a variety of all these body types, skill sets, frames
• 1:14:04
  and all of that, then you also have run responsibilities if you're a nickel
• 1:14:09
  corner or a slot corner. And especially for Tarren Johnson, who you know,
• 1:14:13
  I picked this play first because of his alignment. He's in an off
• 1:14:16
  ball linebacker position at this point right now, and that's for a person who
• 1:14:25
  is I always forget his exact like height and weight. He's five eleven,
• 1:14:29
  one hundred and ninety two pounds. So this is a five foot eleven,
• 1:14:32
  one hundred and ninety two pounds nickel corner that is playing in the box.
• 1:14:38
  And he's not if I go to the end zone angle, he's not like,
• 1:14:43
  oh, you know, Poyer is out here. He's not like hanging
• 1:14:45
  out and like, well we'll kind of count him in the box, or
• 1:14:47
  he's not you know, off camera somewhere out here. He is legitimately in
• 1:14:51
  the box. This is this is almost you know, like a four to
• 1:14:54
  three defense right now, and he's at an off ball linebacker position. This
• 1:14:58
  is not for the thing part, this is not easy to do. So
• 1:15:01
  he has to live in this world for the Bills defense as a run defender
• 1:15:05
  operating in the box as a linebacker. In addition to having all of those
• 1:15:10
  coverage responsibilities in man and zone versus that two way go versus all those skill
• 1:15:15
  sets and body types and frames and all those pieces, and his ability to
• 1:15:18
  live in all these different worlds and wear these different hats and play so physically
• 1:15:24
  but also play with speed and anticipation and process and communicate. He's a tremendous
• 1:15:30
  communicator and a bridge between the linebackers and the outside corners, the safeties him,
• 1:15:33
  Poyer, Hide Bernard. You see them talking all the time. Taron
• 1:15:38
  Johnson plays such a potentially vulnerable position and a physically and mentally demanding position,
• 1:15:45
  and he plays it at such a high level. I did a full episode
• 1:15:49
  on him last offseason. I talk about him on Twitter all the time.
• 1:15:54
  But he made a couple of plays in this one that I just really wanted
• 1:15:57
  to highlight. And it starts with this one. So again he is in
• 1:15:59
  the box and we'll just watch him. On this play, the left guard
• 1:16:03
  is going to climb to him again in the box, he triggers, sees
• 1:16:09
  the run goes downhill the leg. Now, the left guard doesn't do the
• 1:16:13
  best job, I will flat out say that, but the fact that Taron
• 1:16:16
  Johnson takes him on and then gets free and then makes this tackle is such
• 1:16:20
  a fun piece. So here's that left guard. The left guard is gonna
• 1:16:24
  climb to the second level. Watch on the snap and again this isn't the
• 1:16:29
  best block, but watch Taron Johnson engage. And as he engages, so
• 1:16:32
  again he's outsized from a height and weight and overall frame perspective, but as
• 1:16:39
  he engages with a legitimate NFL guard in terms of size and frame and all
• 1:16:44
  that stuff. Look where his eyes are. His eyes are still in the
• 1:16:45
  backfield trees, still trying to see what Matt Brita is doing. He sees
• 1:16:49
  Brita put his foot in the ground and cut back in that alley, so
• 1:16:54
  he plants his feet, puts his left foot in the ground, and then
• 1:16:57
  the torque to get free. Like watch how we fight. There's even potential
• 1:17:00
  for him to potentially draw a holding call. Like he gets free right here
• 1:17:03
  and makes the play on Brita and it spins him down to the ground.
• 1:17:09
  But there's potential for Taron Johnson here. It'll be working through a guard and
• 1:17:14
  potentially draw the hold there if Glewinski doesn't let go, if he gets too
• 1:17:18
  grabby, if we get a jersey pull. This is the opportunity for a
• 1:17:21
  holding call right here. So he could potentially win the rep because he draws
• 1:17:25
  a hold. But he doesn't even stop there and think there should be a
• 1:17:28
  hold. He literally just keeps fighting through, spins off the guard, makes
• 1:17:33
  the play and brings Brida down. Show it in rite real time, regular
• 1:17:38
  time from the sideline angle here just attack shed make a play and to do
• 1:17:45
  that at five foot eleven, one hundred and ninety two pounds in the box.
• 1:17:48
  That is not an easy thing to do with any kind of regularity.
• 1:17:53
  And that's just the versatility that he offers. Like we know what he can
• 1:17:57
  do in coverage, but then the fact that when a team gets into a
• 1:18:01
  heavier personnel or traditional eye formation, like you have your to the sideline angler
• 1:18:05
  to show it this is traditional, like kind of nineties football. Right here,
• 1:18:10
  you've got a regular eye formation and you've got you know, an extra
• 1:18:12
  tight end Bellinger here in the backfield lined up as the full back. You've
• 1:18:15
  got your tight end here and waller and you've got a receiver on each side.
• 1:18:18
  Like this is regular old you know nineties football when base personnel and the
• 1:18:24
  dominant formations were you know, four to three that had three linebackers in it,
• 1:18:29
  and if you brought in a nickel corner, they were more of a
• 1:18:31
  substitute and it was more of a sub package. We know in today's NFL,
• 1:18:34
  nickel corners and you know, five defensive back sets are the norm for
• 1:18:40
  a lot of teams, especially the Bills. And the reason the Bills can
• 1:18:43
  that can the reason the Bills can consistently live in It is because Taron Johnson
• 1:18:47
  has the ability to wear this hat in the box and function in this way.
• 1:18:53
  And again this is just a good rap like attacking the guard, getting
• 1:18:56
  free and then making the tackle right there. Again not the best block,
• 1:19:00
  but still the fact that Taron Johnson does this considering how much he's outmatched from
• 1:19:05
  a size and frame perspective, but you wouldn't know it from the tenacity and
• 1:19:09
  the physicality he plays with and the execution that he has within the box.
• 1:19:14
  So that's him in that kind of linebacker role in the box. This is
• 1:19:16
  him in a coverage role more traditional. This one third down and seventeen in
• 1:19:21
  the second quarter, he's playing the situation. I also have Terrel Bernard circled
• 1:19:26
  here. We'll just focus on Bernard real quick here. I just want the
• 1:19:29
  communication from Terrell Bernard again, just calling things out. Terren's doing it a
• 1:19:34
  ton too. Again, arreon Johnson in the slot. I'm just gonna play
• 1:19:38
  it. So you see the communication piece, talking and checking with Hyde,
• 1:19:42
  getting the check, getting the queue, communicates to Benford up top. He's
• 1:19:46
  constantly doing that. He's constantly talking, whether it's in practice, whether it's
• 1:19:49
  in camp, whether it's off season pieces anything. He is always talking.
• 1:19:54
  I mean that in a good way. He is a constant communicator. He
• 1:19:56
  is a leader on the back end. You see it a bit on this
• 1:19:59
  play and again third and seventeen played the situation. See him talking out,
• 1:20:03
  see him communicating, and he reads this whole thing right away. We're gonna
• 1:20:08
  go on slow motion here. He drops. His eyes are in the backfield.
• 1:20:12
  You look where his eyes are so and he can see out of his
• 1:20:15
  peripherals. He can see Wandale Robinson kind of releasing out there a little bit
• 1:20:19
  and going to the flat, and you look at him get into his drop
• 1:20:23
  back and again he drops. After he communicates to Benford. He's watching Tyrod.
• 1:20:30
  He sees Tyrod stop, so he sees the depth of the drop.
• 1:20:32
  He knows the ball is coming out immediately he closes. He triggers, and
• 1:20:38
  he closes down. He sees the way Tyrod opens up. He sees where
• 1:20:41
  his eyes are, where his shoulders are. He's opening up to the outside.
• 1:20:45
  Waller is designed to block Taron Johnson here, and because Taron Johnson triggers
• 1:20:48
  so quickly and reads this and processes just beats him and then spears and up
• 1:20:55
  ends Wandale. Robinson also has a good celebration too. Again, just the
• 1:20:58
  speed at which he and then physically triggers gets down, avoids this block,
• 1:21:03
  gets right around Waller, drops that shoulder, dips underneath him, comes back
• 1:21:09
  up square and then plants Wandelle. We see this, We've seen this play
• 1:21:13
  made by Terren Johnson before. Like he's very adept at it. He's very
• 1:21:16
  quick. End zone angle just picture perfect form tackle. The end zone angle
• 1:21:21
  doesn't do a justice for the whole process. That's why I like the sideline
• 1:21:24
  angle here. Again, you just see what he's doing. Communication immediately and
• 1:21:30
  then the recognition bank. He makes his play basically all by himself. He's
• 1:21:33
  already on it. There's no need to rally and tackle, there's no need
• 1:21:36
  for support from anyone. He sees it because he's reading Tyrod, he reads
• 1:21:41
  the depth of his drop, he reads his body language. He sees Wandal
• 1:21:44
  come out to the flat with his peripherals, closes down quick trigger, and
• 1:21:49
  then again finishes at the tackle point. Okay, let me drop bank.
• 1:21:55
  He sees it already, starts getting outside, gets outside that block and then
• 1:22:00
  finishes takes Wandell off his feet, sticks him and drives him into the turf.
• 1:22:04
  A nice physical tackle after a really good mental play on top of it
• 1:22:10
  as well. So Taron Johnson had a strong game, was all over the
• 1:22:13
  place. Didn't really well from a volume standpoint as well. I don't remember
• 1:22:15
  off the top of my head, but I feel like he had double digit
• 1:22:17
  tackles in this game, which is a lot for a nickel corner. Granted
• 1:22:21
  some of them came downfield, but you know, all over the place in
• 1:22:26
  this defense. Another piece I want to bring up, so mister Terrel Bernard,
• 1:22:30
  I talked about him on this pass play with tarn here just from a
• 1:22:32
  communication standpoint of what he was doing. I want to show first just an
• 1:22:38
  adjustment piece from Sean McDermott and Terrell Bernard and do it. I talked about
• 1:22:43
  it earlier with Taylor on the show here in terms of talking about how the
• 1:22:48
  Bills got taken advantage of initially. So this is a sideline view of a
• 1:22:54
  run that worked well for the Giants. And I'm just gonna go back and
• 1:22:57
  forth between two plays real quick. So that's one that worked. This is
• 1:23:01
  one later that the Bills adjusted to and stopped. If you look you can
• 1:23:04
  see almost an identical formation different spots on the field. This one, like
• 1:23:08
  I mentioned, this is that numb formation with the tight end. This time
• 1:23:11
  it's into the boundary. But you have that same piece in terms of the
• 1:23:15
  three receivers over here, and then you know you're running back there in the
• 1:23:20
  backfield when let me take away that extra line there we go to here again
• 1:23:28
  simmlar type of concept. Three over here, nub into the boundary and running
• 1:23:32
  back in the backfield. So this is this is a successful run for the
• 1:23:38
  Giants. I've highlighted Terrel Bernard here. Want you guys to watch what happens.
• 1:23:42
  So also keep in mind everything that's happening here. So Bellinger come in
• 1:23:46
  in motion. Basically a shift alignes right next to Pew. We're gonna get
• 1:23:53
  some jet motion from Jalen Hyatt. And then this is the key piece.
• 1:23:56
  Watch Darren Waller, watch Terrel Bernard, man, I'm so bad with's circling
• 1:24:00
  on the snap. Okay. Oh, and then also we get the we're
• 1:24:04
  gonna get the pole here from the left guard. So here we go.
• 1:24:10
  Play happens. There's the pole from the left guard, there's the jet motion.
• 1:24:14
  There goes Waller. Watch Bernard engage but kind of play the outside shoulder
• 1:24:18
  here of Waller. Right, What does that do? It creates this really
• 1:24:23
  nice runway, this really nice alley for Saquon Barkley and Sequon Barkley takes it
• 1:24:28
  up. Good gain for the Giants. Good run nineteen yards. Again,
• 1:24:33
  there's the shift from Bellinger. Here comes the jet motion. That jet motion.
• 1:24:38
  Watch what the jet motion does. Oo, didn't mean to highlight there.
• 1:24:41
  Watch what the jet motion does here to the second level. Teams do
• 1:24:45
  this to the Bills all the time. Watch that shift. There goes the
• 1:24:47
  shift, and offenses will use that to put the Bills second level at a
• 1:24:53
  disadvantage in terms of getting them to align in a certain way to Creator to
• 1:24:57
  create better leverage for their blocking scheme. Waller climbs at the second level.
• 1:25:02
  Bernard takes more of an outside angle. You see the alley. Okay,
• 1:25:06
  good play for the Giants. Later, next drive for the Giants. The
• 1:25:14
  exact same play could be probably different in some way, shape or form,
• 1:25:18
  but for all intents and purposes, the exact same play. Here's your shift
• 1:25:21
  from Bellinger. Up there he goes. He aligns next to Pew just like
• 1:25:27
  he did on the last play. There's the foot from Tyrod. Guess what's
• 1:25:29
  coming the jet motion. Look what's happening on the second level, just like
• 1:25:34
  we saw on the play before when it worked for the Giants, right.
• 1:25:40
  A bit of a different alignment this time though, if you notice, Dorny
• 1:25:44
  Williams is the player away from the motion, so tarn is to the run
• 1:25:48
  side on the play that worked for the Giants. But that's not what we
• 1:25:55
  want to focus on. We just want to focus on like what Bernard does.
• 1:25:57
  So again there goes Bellinger, he shifts. Let's get the jet motion
• 1:26:01
  from Highot. Now on the snap, here we go. There goes the
• 1:26:05
  pull from Glowinski and Darren Waller is going to climb to Bernard. But what
• 1:26:11
  we got last time when this happened, Bernard kind of went outside it.
• 1:26:15
  Watch this time how he just shoots the alley bank. It makes the play
• 1:26:19
  in the backfield. Good adjustment from the Bills, whether they drew it up
• 1:26:25
  on the whiteboard, whether they called this out, or whether this is Bernard
• 1:26:28
  knowing it. This is a great adjustment and this is a really good play
• 1:26:30
  by Terrel Bernard recognizing what's happening, processing it and coming downhill, show it
• 1:26:36
  from the sideline angle as well, and just kind of let it run through
• 1:26:39
  all of them. You see the shift, he knows it. He cuts
• 1:26:43
  through that gap and shoots that gap, shoots the alley, doesn't even give
• 1:26:46
  Waller the opportunity to make the block. Waller's still climbing to the second level
• 1:26:50
  to get a piece of him, and he's already made the plane got underneath.
• 1:26:56
  That's great recognition. That's great processing from Terrell b And then just good
• 1:27:00
  quickness and good ability to come forward right. He has that quick trigger,
• 1:27:03
  he has that closing ability to shoot gaps and make plays. That's a really
• 1:27:08
  good play from Terrell Bernard. And it's nice because it tied in again with
• 1:27:11
  something that worked earlier and the Bills were able to adjust off of it.
• 1:27:15
  Now another play I want to show here. This one is a good team
• 1:27:18
  defense play. But you know, also Bernard making it here. There's Terrel
• 1:27:24
  Bernard, I'm highlighted right there. And what's nice on this one. You
• 1:27:28
  get Jordan Poyer boxing the run inside, you get Leonard Floyd muddying the gap
• 1:27:33
  towards the boundary there, you get Dorian Williams playing through the shoulder, the
• 1:27:38
  outside shoulder of the full back. All of these things contribute towards turning Saquon
• 1:27:43
  Barkley a bit back to the inside to Terrell Bernard. But it's a nice
• 1:27:47
  piece to watch Bernard shoot and then also avoid the climbing guard again, which
• 1:27:53
  he is very adept at avoiding blockers at the second level, which he needs
• 1:27:56
  to be. You know, he is physical, he is violent, but
• 1:27:58
  he's not the biggest guy. You don't want to see him stacking and shedding
• 1:28:01
  with regularity. This is a good play from him. You saw from the
• 1:28:04
  sideline angle. Here we go from the end zone. So again you'll watch
• 1:28:08
  Poyer box this in. You'll watch Floyd cast some havoc. You'll watch Dorian
• 1:28:12
  Williams attack the outside shoulder of the full back. All of these things kind
• 1:28:15
  of forced the run to come back inside. And then here's Bernard. We're
• 1:28:19
  gonna go in slow mo. We get a double team initially a little bit
• 1:28:25
  there from the guard in the center there from the giants, and the guard
• 1:28:30
  is still trying to come off of it and Bernard is already by him.
• 1:28:34
  We get a bit of a stumble and because of the processing, because of
• 1:28:38
  that quick trigger because of him being able to read what's happening in front of
• 1:28:42
  him, diagnosing it and shooting that gap. The guard has no chance to
• 1:28:45
  make a play on Bernard because of how quickly he processes this play. Again,
• 1:28:50
  good team defense with everything else that you see happening there. Like I
• 1:28:54
  mentioned, okay, so boom, there's a rum. Poyer comes and takes
• 1:28:57
  this angle, so he boxes this in. Dorriman Williams attacks this shoulder to
• 1:29:00
  go through his gap, and then Leonard Floyd goes down. But this is
• 1:29:06
  all like if you're Saquon, you can't put it out here. You can't
• 1:29:10
  go here with Floyd because even though he's about to be on the ground,
• 1:29:13
  that's an obstruction. You don't want to run through that. Dorriy Williams took
• 1:29:15
  the outside shoulder, so you have to cut back and he has to cut
• 1:29:18
  back right into Terrel Bernard, who again because of that quick trigger, because
• 1:29:23
  of that processing, avoids the guard trying to climb to him, makes a
• 1:29:27
  playing the whole Saquon falls down, But I don't care. The point and
• 1:29:30
  the purpose of this play is you still have a good read and reaction and
• 1:29:34
  drive on the ball from Torel Bernard. Now another one. Then I want
• 1:29:40
  to show this has several good pieces as well, but again we are highlighting
• 1:29:45
  Torel Bernard on this one. There's Bernard, have him circled there. This
• 1:29:49
  is a good coverage rep as a hole for the Bills. On this one,
• 1:29:54
  you know, you get some support from Dordy and Williams with the over
• 1:29:57
  from the tight end. You get Christian Benford with a nice controlled back pedal
• 1:30:00
  up top and driving on the out. Even Taron Johnson gaining depth initially and
• 1:30:03
  then driving on the slide route once Tyrod pushes past the seal block on the
• 1:30:09
  outside. But I do want to focus again on Terrell Bernard watches, he
• 1:30:15
  reads the play action, so he honors the run, sees that it's kept.
• 1:30:17
  He id's the boot and takes off. Now watch him here, here's
• 1:30:21
  Terrel Bernard. He recognizes this is a rollout, this is a boot.
• 1:30:26
  He sees where Tyrod is going. He looks out here, sees what he's
• 1:30:30
  got, knows okay, cool, Terren's there. He obviously knows the coverage.
• 1:30:33
  He knows he's got Benford to that side. Watch him turn bang turns,
• 1:30:40
  and he gets his eyes on Bellinger. He's looking for that over that
• 1:30:44
  drag, that cross, or he's looking for something coming back that way.
• 1:30:47
  Because again this is football one to one, and it may seem like,
• 1:30:49
  oh okay, anybody can do that. The run action is to that side.
• 1:30:53
  So the design is to get the defense flowing this way so you can
• 1:30:56
  bring somebody back across the other way. Again, it could be a drag
• 1:31:00
  and over a dig, some kind of piece that's gonna take advantage of the
• 1:31:02
  leverage you've created in the momentum that you put on the defense in terms of
• 1:31:06
  making them shift this way and then running something the opposite. So and again
• 1:31:13
  a nice job from Dorry Williams. He IDs it, he drops, he
• 1:31:16
  supports as well, and gets underneath and runs with Bellinger. But the poise
• 1:31:20
  of Bernard again he Id's that crosser. He sees Dorian Williams here as well.
• 1:31:26
  He knows he's got help under there, so he Id's Williams, Id's
• 1:31:30
  Bellinger gains some more depth so he can help take this route away. And
• 1:31:34
  then what does he do. He gets his head turned back around to Tyrod
• 1:31:38
  in case there's some piece. Just the awareness you consistently and I'm gonna play
• 1:31:43
  it in real time, just like Watch Out Fast. Everything happens. Oh
• 1:31:45
  run, Nope, it's a boot. Let me gain depth. Where's Bellinger?
• 1:31:47
  Okay? He has the idea all of that in a split second,
• 1:31:53
  and we consistently see these types of plays from him in this defense. Again,
• 1:32:00
  go mister Terrel Bernard right, me'all high light him there. Oh nope.
• 1:32:08
  He sees the action going back across the other way. He sees,
• 1:32:11
  you know, he starts to go because he's reading the line. He sees
• 1:32:15
  the flash of color coming back his way, so he stops. You know,
• 1:32:17
  maybe it's splits own, maybe it's something coming back this way, but
• 1:32:20
  he id's the mesh point. He sees that it's a run action, sees
• 1:32:25
  Tyron has the ball. You can see a good on this angle there he
• 1:32:27
  is. Watch him get his head turned around so he can see. Okay,
• 1:32:30
  they wanted us to go left. Something is coming back to our right.
• 1:32:33
  What is it? Boom, Get my eyes right on him that robot
• 1:32:39
  piece to be able to id and see what's going on, and then he's
• 1:32:42
  able to function in that extra level there for the defense. Again, defense
• 1:32:46
  has good coverage overall in this play Tyron has to eat it and hold on
• 1:32:49
  to this ball and scramble. But this is a nice play from Terrell Bernard,
• 1:32:55
  a good functionally intelligent play, a high football IQ play in the moment,
• 1:33:00
  to play on the ball, playing within the structure, playing within the
• 1:33:02
  scheme, and this is nice. This is smart football. You see it
• 1:33:06
  again in this angle again Bernard, in case anybody is attempt to lost there,
• 1:33:14
  he is as soon as he sees it. It's just smart. You
• 1:33:19
  know something is back coming that way. But he doesn't get too focused on
• 1:33:23
  Tyrod, doesn't get too focused on everything. He just happened in front of
• 1:33:25
  him. He's not panicking, he's not running like a chicken with his head
• 1:33:28
  cut off. Just turns back around. Id's bellinger. Tyrt is to eat
• 1:33:33
  it. A good play from Terrel Bernard. And he's somebody who you know,
• 1:33:41
  I wanted to highlight him in this game and Tarn as well, like
• 1:33:44
  they continue to flash and Aron Johnson, I think we knew the importance already.
• 1:33:48
  Terrell Bernard's importance is going to continue to go up every week. I
• 1:33:51
  think Dorry Williams had a very encouraging performance again, you know, he had
• 1:33:56
  an encouraging performance against London, you know, coming in in some spot do
• 1:34:00
  after Milana went down. He got pulled late for Dodson because he was missing
• 1:34:03
  some tackles. But he started this game. He played, you know,
• 1:34:05
  for his first start. I was very encouraged by his performance. You know,
• 1:34:10
  I think he's starting to pick things up week after week. You're starting
• 1:34:13
  to see that processing started to become more efficient. I think the game is
• 1:34:18
  slowing down a bit for him. I think at times it's still a bit
• 1:34:21
  fast, which is to be expected, but you're starting to see Dorian be
• 1:34:28
  able to play with the speed and burst in physicality he has, and with
• 1:34:31
  the way he's trending. The more reps that he gets, you know,
• 1:34:35
  he should become more comfortable with that position. It should be able to play
• 1:34:39
  even faster. He had a really nice play on the keep from Tyrod where
• 1:34:42
  Russou strung it out and then Tyrod was looking downfield, but there was good
• 1:34:45
  coverage towards the red zone and Dorrian just broke on Tyrod right away. Heated
• 1:34:50
  him up, hit him, drove him into the ground. Tyrod had to
• 1:34:53
  throw a ball. The ball away I think that was late in the fourth
• 1:34:55
  quarter. On the drive. I think that gave the Giants three points when
• 1:34:59
  they were down seven. So doing in a lot of good positive flashes in
• 1:35:02
  this game like he did against Jacksonville. He continues to get better, I
• 1:35:06
  think with every rep that he has. But Terrell Bernard is now all of
• 1:35:10
  a sudden the senior in terms of the linebacker group right now with what he's
• 1:35:14
  got with Dorian Williams. And even if you put Terrell Dodson on there,
• 1:35:17
  you know, like they do in their base packages, when it's Dodson Williams
• 1:35:20
  and Terrell Berard, Bernard is still warning that green dot. He's still the
• 1:35:24
  signal caller. He is very much an air traffic controller out there with anything
• 1:35:28
  and everything when it comes to the defense in terms of giving them direction and
• 1:35:30
  guidance and pointing them in the right direction and putting them into their right positions
• 1:35:35
  based on adjustments, based on motion, based on shift, based on things
• 1:35:40
  they're seeing from the offense, in terms of how they come out of the
• 1:35:42
  huddle. He's every bit the leader that he needs to be on this defense
• 1:35:46
  right especially with Milano going out. You know it was Milano and Edmunds for
• 1:35:50
  forever guys who knew the scheme, knew the system. You had that reliability
• 1:35:55
  and that floor and that ceiling at the second level. Edmunds goes and now
• 1:35:59
  Milano's out, So you've got two new starters. You know, Bernard started
• 1:36:01
  one game last year in New York against the Jets. He wins that job
• 1:36:06
  opposite of Milano this year, and he's been getting time on task each week.
• 1:36:10
  But now he's the senior and he's been playing. He's been playing like
• 1:36:13
  a senior linebacker with command of the defense really since week one, since he
• 1:36:17
  first started. You see that communication, you see the intelligence we've talked about
• 1:36:21
  on this show, myself and Eric have talked about in the film room when
• 1:36:24
  it comes to you know, him coming from that Baylor defense with dave A.
• 1:36:27
  Randa and just how pro ready he is mentally and from a coverage responsibility
• 1:36:31
  standpoint. But he's put you know, all of that skill set into action
• 1:36:35
  in the NFL and he's going to have to continue to do it. This
• 1:36:38
  is this is a spot that's really going to get tested as the Bills go
• 1:36:43
  forward against some of the teams that they play, you know, once they
• 1:36:45
  play Philadelphia, once they play the Chargers, teams that are really going to
• 1:36:49
  stress them at that second level and stress them within that intermediate that have the
• 1:36:54
  ability to stress you in the run and the pass. And there's other teams
• 1:36:58
  as well. Miami's going to be another test, especially without Milano again,
• 1:37:02
  you know, he has to be that glue, that piece that connects the
• 1:37:08
  front to the back end from a coverage standpoint, from a run fit standpoint,
• 1:37:12
  from an alignment standpoint, a chech standpoint. He's got to be that
• 1:37:15
  guy week in and week out. And this was a nice game from him
• 1:37:17
  again. I know how banged up the Giants offensive line is and Tyrod isn't
• 1:37:21
  the you know, the biggest threat with his arm and everything else that's plagued
• 1:37:27
  this Giants team in this Giants offense. But Terrel Bernard had another strong game
• 1:37:30
  mentally and I think from a physical execution standpoint as well. And it was
• 1:37:33
  an encouraging performance from Dorrian Williams. You know, I think to kind of
• 1:37:36
  drove home on some more stock up pieces. Dorian Williams looked good. You
• 1:37:41
  saw some flashes from the defensive line. I mentioned it earlier with Ed Oliver.
• 1:37:45
  There were some plays where you know, Ed looked like a game wrecker,
• 1:37:49
  and even though he wasn't making the tackle or making the play or you
• 1:37:51
  know, he kind of got bold over. He created some initial chaos that
• 1:37:55
  allowed others to succeed, and then he had some reps where you know,
• 1:37:59
  he got worked by some double teams and really got displaced and moved off the
• 1:38:01
  line of scrimmage. So it was a bit of a kind of all over
• 1:38:03
  a game for Ed. But he did flash a bit. You got some
• 1:38:06
  positive flashes from Tim Settle, a little lash from Poona Ford, and you
• 1:38:12
  know, Jordan Phillips continued to do his thing and seeing what he did or
• 1:38:19
  continues to do, I should say in replacing Daikwon Jones, you know,
• 1:38:24
  as long as he can stay healthy, that's a nice piece. So we
• 1:38:26
  saw some flashes from the interior and some other pieces. Well, I know
• 1:38:30
  that's a huge point for the defense. I posted a bunch of stuff on
• 1:38:32
  Twitter breaking down some of those pieces and then from so there were a lot
• 1:38:36
  of things to like. Obviously defensively with how they played, but again against
• 1:38:40
  a weaker Giants offense, I think stock down. You know, I talked
• 1:38:45
  about it a bit on Twitter, and I'll be posting a lot of film
• 1:38:47
  with the Bills offense tomorrow and in the coming days. But I think for
• 1:38:50
  me the Ken Dorsey piece that as always, I think Dorsey is the low
• 1:38:56
  hanging fruit for blame anytime something goes wrong with the offense. I don't think
• 1:39:00
  struggles that we saw on Sunday night were all due to Dorsey first half or
• 1:39:03
  second half. My biggest stock down piece for him is that in game adjustment
• 1:39:08
  piece. I think it was awesome that the Bills came out in the second
• 1:39:11
  half and committed to the run I talked about earlier with Taylor, like they
• 1:39:15
  committed to the run, ran it down the Giants' throats. They were getting
• 1:39:18
  like five plus yards. It felt like every single time they ran the ball,
• 1:39:21
  especially on that big drive their first drive coming out in the second half,
• 1:39:27
  which they really needed to get points on, they leaned into the run,
• 1:39:30
  which was nice. I felt like they needed to lean into that earlier.
• 1:39:33
  Josh Allen the pass game, whether it was you know, the Gabe
• 1:39:36
  Davis fumble or some coverage things from the Giants, or Bobby o'carake playing out
• 1:39:42
  of his mind, or just Josh Allen at times or forcing it to digs.
• 1:39:45
  Whatever the piece was the passing game was just very disjointed, very sluggish,
• 1:39:49
  similar to kind of what we saw a little bit the previous week against
• 1:39:53
  Jacksonville. I thought it would have been an easier piece. Somewhat easy,
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  I should say, to pivot that run game in the first half. You
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  have a legitimate run game. You've got good running backs, you've got a
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  good offensive line, you have a good identity in the run game. You
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  can be versatile and multiple. You can run duo. You can run more
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  traditional gap runs like some gh counter or some tackle wrap. You can run
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  mid zone or inside zone or outside zone. You can get into all these
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  different things with your run game than non Josh Allen run game you can get
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  into. I felt like Dorsey waited a little bit too long to get into
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  it. Again, better late than never, So I was happy to see
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  him get into it in the second half, but I was disappointed that he
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  didn't pivot to it earlier. I think that's part of having that pivot is
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  when the past game isn't working for whatever reason, maybe again this will happen,
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  maybe the opponent or the defense. Some players are playing great and playing
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  out of their mind. Maybe their game plan was better than yours, and
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  you need to take some time to adjust to that, and you need to
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  get into halftime and recalibrate a little bit or something. When it comes to
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  the pass game, that'll happen, But you've got this run game that you
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  can lean on, and you've got this other aspect of your offense where you
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  can say, you know what, we don't have it with the pass right
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  now until we work the kinks out with that. Let's get into the run
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  game. Let's just simplify things. Let's create some vertical displacement. Let's get
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  downhill, Let's get into second and shorter. Let's get into third and five
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  or third and four, third and six instead of having to live third and
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  seven, third and eight, third nine, third and ten, allowing the
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  Giants to kind of play to their strengths and play to the sticks like you
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  did with Jacksonville the week before. So I again, Dorsey got into it
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  a bit more in the second half when it came to the run game.
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  That pivot eventually came, so better late than never, but it was disappointing
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  to see how long it took for him to kind of finally get into that.
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  And you know who knows the reasons why. But when you have a
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  legitimate pivot. The Bills are a good running football team. Like I mentioned
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  with the numbers earlier, the Bills can run the football, and it's not
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  just because of Josh Allen. They have a good running back run game.
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  Lean into that, right if your passing game is struggling a little bit or
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  a bit slug, chill things down a little bit and run the ball and
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  then you can build in you know, the under center play action and all
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  the other pieces. And the Bills did run a bunch of under center pieces
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  in this game, So I wanted to throw that out there too, because
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  I know that's everybody's, you know, favorite thing to go into now that
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  you know under center and under center, under center, the Bills did run
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  a bunch in that game. So yeah, that was that was a big
• 1:42:20
  stock down for me, just how long it took Dorsey to get to the
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  run game. And that was a piece last year that the run game started
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  to work down the stretch. Last year, I didn't think he used it
• 1:42:30
  enough down the stretch, especially in the game against the Bengals, but down
• 1:42:33
  the stretch as a whole. So it's definitely something that's kind in the back
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  of my mind for a concern for Dorsey in this offense is how long it
• 1:42:41
  takes him to kind of pivot or adjust when needed when things aren't working.
• 1:42:45
  And you know, maybe it's trial and error, maybe it's something to work
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  out, but I was definitely a little disappointed with how long it took him
• 1:42:51
  to just get to the running game to try and pivot based on what was
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  happening with the past. Also within that, I do want to talk about
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  the Josh Allen Run game piece. I tweeted it earlier in the week.
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  I just want to mention it here on the show. I do think the
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  Josh Allen Run game will come. Myself and Eric talk about in the film
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  room last week. I think they want to keep Josh Allen fresh and healthy
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  and also not put the Josh Allen Run game on tape for the world to
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  see right now. I think down the stretch, whether it's in the regular
• 1:43:16
  season or especially come playoff time, you will see that kind of break glass
• 1:43:20
  in case of emergency aspect of Josh Allen's game. I think you know,
• 1:43:26
  when you can play the other side off, it's saying like you know they're
• 1:43:29
  handcuffing him now and they're limiting what he can do. If this is even
• 1:43:31
  what's happening. You know, this is just my analysis of my thought behind
• 1:43:34
  it, but I think they are trying to keep him fresh or saving that
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  aspect of his game or for the offense until they really need it down the
• 1:43:44
  stretch, instead of putting it on tape in weeks four and five and six
• 1:43:47
  and teams can scout it. I think they're waiting until they need to use
• 1:43:50
  it down the stretch. And I don't think that's bad, right if you
• 1:43:53
  can get through the season with other aspects and then start to get into your
• 1:43:58
  easy buttons that teams don't know about and teams haven't scouted. If you can
• 1:44:02
  get into those easy buttons come playoff time, that's a huge advantage. And
• 1:44:09
  I'm interested to see what happens with that Josh Allen run game piece. I
• 1:44:11
  do think it is a purposeful like limiting of it, but I do think
• 1:44:14
  it's for a good reason. A question you're from, Amy says, and
• 1:44:18
  has it crossed your mind that maybe Doors used to try the sideline instead of
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  the box upstairs? Even with his temperament tendencies go bills. I appreciate you
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  for being here, Amy. I also thank you very much for your kind
• 1:44:28
  words earlier that I saw and I pulled up. You know what's funny,
• 1:44:30
  I have thought of this. There's pros and cons to both, Like I'm
• 1:44:34
  thinking from my perspective right like I would like to be on the sideline because
• 1:44:39
  I'd like to have the pulse and temperature the players and the team and the
• 1:44:42
  energy on the sideline. But also the box gives you such a better vantage
• 1:44:45
  point for seeing the game and seeing the field. So there's plus or minuses
• 1:44:53
  to each piece. I do wonder if you know him being on the sideline,
• 1:44:57
  would that help him dial in with Josh a little bit more? Would
• 1:45:00
  that help some of the rapport and the connection pieces if there are issues there.
• 1:45:04
  I think it's a fair question to ask. It just comes down to,
• 1:45:08
  you know, which pro outweighs which con for sideline versus box, And
• 1:45:12
  there's pros and cons for each. But I think it's a good question and
• 1:45:14
  one that comes up a bunch like the comment here from Jordan saying you shouldn't
• 1:45:17
  have to have QB runs to win games. I think that's a fair point,
• 1:45:20
  depending on how your offense is constructed. But the comment here from Walter
• 1:45:24
  saying, I actually don't mind us not using Allen in the run game.
• 1:45:27
  We know what he can do. It's the run game minus him that needs
• 1:45:30
  to show us something, and that run game minus Josh Allen has been good.
• 1:45:32
  I just want to see Dorsey continue to lean into it because I think
• 1:45:35
  it's a strong piece of this offense. It helps the offense get into a
• 1:45:39
  rhythm, it helps Josh Allen get into a rhythm, it helps ease things
• 1:45:43
  for him and make the defense have to account for multiple aspects of this offense.
• 1:45:47
  So I think there's a multitude of reasons why they need to continue to
• 1:45:49
  lean into that run game, and I really want to see it continue to
• 1:45:54
  continue going forward. I do want to see the Josh Allen run game come
• 1:45:58
  in to play, whether it's you know option or that QB counter or QB
• 1:46:02
  pin and pull all that kind of stuff. I do want to see the
• 1:46:05
  Josh Allen run game piece eventually, because he is a weapon with his legs
• 1:46:10
  and it couldn't be him scrambling as well, right, But I do think
• 1:46:14
  that will come at some point. I just think it's gonna come down the
• 1:46:17
  stretch. I don't want to run Josh Allen a ton early in the year.
• 1:46:21
  I don't want to do that. Like I want to run him in
• 1:46:24
  the playoffs against Kansas City or against Miami, or against Cincinnati or against Baltimore
• 1:46:30
  or against the Chargers or whoever makes the playoffs, or if you make the
• 1:46:33
  super Bowl, potentially, I want to save that Josh Allen run game for
• 1:46:38
  the Niners or for the Eagles or whoever comes out of the NFC. Now,
• 1:46:42
  again, that's all making, you know, part of making a grand
• 1:46:45
  assumption, and you have to get to the playoffs first, you have to
• 1:46:48
  get to the super Bowl. So there's something to be said for you know,
• 1:46:51
  It's kind of like at the time timeouts in games, right, Like
• 1:46:55
  you never want to end a game having those timeouts like still in the holster
• 1:46:58
  and still in your back pocket, like you want to use them. They
• 1:47:00
  are there, so if you can use them, go ahead. So I
• 1:47:04
  kind of put that Josh Allen run game in a similar spot where you know,
• 1:47:09
  if you say you're saving it, and you are saving it, but
• 1:47:12
  then what happens if you lose and you never get the opportunity to use it.
• 1:47:15
  You kind of saved it for nothing, So it's a fine line that
• 1:47:17
  you have to walk. But I do think that Josh Allen run game piece,
• 1:47:20
  the design run game piece, will show its head eventually as we start
• 1:47:26
  to move forward in this season, but I would like the offense to be
• 1:47:28
  able to function without it. So you keep Josh Allen fresh, you protect
• 1:47:31
  him as much as you can, you keep him healthy, reduce how many
• 1:47:34
  bumps and bruises he gets, and then come playoff time, you can just
• 1:47:39
  unleash him and do whatever the hell you want to potentially do on offense.
• 1:47:43
  And I think that's a very exciting piece that we could potentially see. But
• 1:47:46
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• 1:48:35
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• 1:48:45
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