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Are the Buffalo Bills back on track? | DC · Disguised Coverage

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  Speaker 1: It's thirty eight. All bills can win. In here, Wake
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  Speaker 1: puts it down.
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  Speaker 2: Why not combat by my bell?
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  Speaker 1: Jacksonville's perfect record on the line right here.
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  Speaker 2: Quick.
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  Speaker 1: Kicking, look excited.
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  Speaker 1: What's good? Folks, family, friends, loved ones, enemies, friend of mees,
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  Speaker 1: To another episode of disguised coverage. The only podcast that
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  Speaker 1: In this edition of Disguised Coverage, we will be diving
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  Speaker 1: into several pieces of kind of the Buffalo Bill's victory
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  Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh against the Steelers this past but more so
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  Speaker 1: kind of talking about what it means for this team
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  Speaker 1: going forward, especially with regard to several prominent areas that
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  Speaker 1: were on display positively and negatively against the Pittsburgh Steelers,
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  Speaker 1: and kind of putting those into perspective with where they
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  Speaker 1: are as a team. You know, how much of you know,
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  Speaker 1: the performances that we saw in several of these areas
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  Speaker 1: for individuals, for size of the ball, for certain areas,
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  Speaker 1: how much of it was due to the opponent they
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  Speaker 1: were playing the game, the elements versus you know, are
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  Speaker 1: we starting to see some course correction? Are we starting
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  Speaker 1: to see some improvement? Are we starting to see some
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  Speaker 1: things that are giving us breadcrumbs and clues that, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, things are starting to trend up, Things are
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  Speaker 1: starting to move in the right direction, which would be
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  Speaker 1: phenomenal to see as this team looks to make a
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  Speaker 1: push for the playoffs and kind of get themselves right.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's where you know. The theme of this
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  Speaker 1: episode came in terms of the title with you know,
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  Speaker 1: are the Buffalo Bills Back on track? I thought it
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  Speaker 1: would be fun to dive into, you know, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the elements that we've talked about in the show regularly,
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  Speaker 1: especially last week, in kind of the last week's theme
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  Speaker 1: of the episode of you know, how did we get
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  Speaker 1: here and talking about the struggles that we're seeing with
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  Speaker 1: this team and how it's more than just this season
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  Speaker 1: or an individual game, how it's more systemic, how it
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  Speaker 1: starts really from the top down, and it goes from
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  Speaker 1: roster build and construction to all the way to identity
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  Speaker 1: and philosophy and player development and scheme and structure and
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  Speaker 1: all those pieces. So I thought this would be a
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  Speaker 1: good follow up to that, considering what we saw for
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  Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills in Pittsburgh. That's a funny comment that
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  Speaker 1: just came in from Bill's camp who said, Ken the
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  Speaker 1: Bills were the same play again. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: about that tonight in this episode, as we do here
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  Speaker 1: on this show. It kind of has come about organically
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  Speaker 1: a bit. For those tuning in live, Thank you drop
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  Speaker 1: Alke if you have not already, but if you're joining
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  Speaker 1: us here live, Questions, thoughts, comments, concerns, anything and everything
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  Speaker 1: you folks have on your mind, put it into the
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  Speaker 1: live chat. We've kind of started off a good chunk
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  Speaker 1: of these episodes with a lot of discourse and engagement
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  Speaker 1: and back and forth, which I think is understandable given
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  Speaker 1: the the course that the Bills have run this year
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  Speaker 1: so far. And so yeah, I'm gonna keep that theme going.
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  Speaker 1: We always like to make these episodes very engagement focus
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  Speaker 1: as much as I humanly and possibly can. So questions, thoughts, comments, concerns,
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  Speaker 1: put it into the chat. As always, super chats get
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  Speaker 1: priority because I respect the monetary donation, and the color
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  Speaker 1: distracts me from my notes and it gives me a
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  Speaker 1: little alert. But I would get to anything and everything
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  Speaker 1: as much as humanly possible. And so let's dive into
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  Speaker 1: some of the comments here and questions and thoughts and
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  Speaker 1: back and forth, and then I'm going to dive into
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  Speaker 1: the topics that I got and some stats and some
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  Speaker 1: metrics and some graphics and some scheme and structure, conversation
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  Speaker 1: and a whole bunch of good stuff. Well and maybe
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  Speaker 1: not some good stuff, depending on I view this team.
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  Speaker 1: In certain players grabbing this comment here from RJ. What's
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  Speaker 1: up RJ? RJ says, hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you. Hope you did as well. R J says,
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  Speaker 1: I am glad we won, and I understand. I understand
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  Speaker 1: they needed that game that need Oh I am fumbling
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  Speaker 1: all over myself already. I am glad we won, and
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  Speaker 1: I understand they needed that game plan and due to
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  Speaker 1: the injuries on offense, but it still concerns me that
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  Speaker 1: they only scored nineteen points on offense. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a a fair concern to have. It ties into one
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  Speaker 1: of my main points in this episode. I think, if
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  Speaker 1: you know, I don't want to give away too much,
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  Speaker 1: but if you know, I don't even think it's a
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  Speaker 1: silver lining. On the one hand, the weather and the elements,
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  Speaker 1: and the injuries to pass catchers, especially important ones no
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  Speaker 1: Josh Palmer, no Dunkin Kaid, the injuries to both of
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  Speaker 1: your starting tackles, and knowing what the Steelers have at
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  Speaker 1: edge and how that can kind of impact you and
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  Speaker 1: attack you. I think it did make sense for that
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  Speaker 1: kind of game plan coming in, and it's awesome that
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  Speaker 1: they needed to run the ball in this game, and
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  Speaker 1: they were able to run this ball, run the ball
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  Speaker 1: in this game to a record setting performance in Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 1: from a franchise perspective and that individual stadium perspective. But
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, and again we're going to dive
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  Speaker 1: into it in this episode, there was several areas of sluggishness.
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  Speaker 1: I also think the run game, for as good as
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  Speaker 1: it was, once you dive into it and watch the
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  Speaker 1: tape and then pair that with the metrics, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: as great as you may assume. You might see, like,
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  Speaker 1: oh my god, two hundred and forty nine rushing yards
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  Speaker 1: and hear the record conversations, you must think like or
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  Speaker 1: you might think, man, they must have had like an
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  Speaker 1: amazing week statistically or from an advanced metrics standpoint, and
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  Speaker 1: it was not that not the case. And I just
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  Speaker 1: think when you watch the tape, there were some more
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  Speaker 1: negative runs than you kind of might think. And then
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  Speaker 1: if you tie that into the pass game, I think
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  Speaker 1: the success of the run game and the victory in
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  Speaker 1: general really glossed over and rightfully or not rightfully understandably so,
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  Speaker 1: glossed over the struggles from a pass game perspective that
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  Speaker 1: we saw once again. But I think that's a fair comment,
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  Speaker 1: Our Jane. We're going to dive into it. Charles says,
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  Speaker 1: good evening to everyone accept the College FOOTBA playoff committee.
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  Speaker 1: This distracted me when I initially did my intro, and
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  Speaker 1: it's why I kind of stumbled over myself a bit.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see what's happened. Yet as a Miami fan,
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  Speaker 1: I'm expecting to be frustrated disappointed. I mean, they only
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  Speaker 1: have theirselves to blame. They should have took care of
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  Speaker 1: business against Louisville and or SMU, they did not. I
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  Speaker 1: think what's more annoying is how everything shook out this
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  Speaker 1: past weekend and knowing that Duke is going to the
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  Speaker 1: ACC Championship and Miami got no help from LSU. Realistically
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  Speaker 1: could have beaten Oklahoma they did not. Alabama took care
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  Speaker 1: of business in a close game against Auburn. Notre Dame
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  Speaker 1: did their thing. Even though Miami should be ahead of
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  Speaker 1: Notre Dame because they beat them, I think that should
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  Speaker 1: hold more weight. I'm expecting to be disappointed, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what the results are as of now. Come
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  Speaker 1: in here core question here, I should say, am I
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  Speaker 1: crazy for thinking the Bills would be playing with house
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  Speaker 1: money if they make the playoffs, and that would be
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  Speaker 1: a good thing for them. I think you can debate
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  Speaker 1: whether or not they're playing with house money, but I
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  Speaker 1: am very much. I said it going into this year,
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  Speaker 1: I've said it throughout the year. I want the division
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  Speaker 1: title for the sake of the streak and no one
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  Speaker 1: else getting it right. I every fan base is annoying,
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  Speaker 1: and that includes Bills fans. Like there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: toxicity and terribleness purely from a fandom perspective. I hate
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  Speaker 1: any conversation that starts with like, oh, are the Patriots back? Oh? Winning? Like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm annoyed that they're probably gonna win the AFC East.
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  Speaker 1: And I wanted the Bills to continue to win the
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  Speaker 1: AFC's for the sake of like the streak and continue
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  Speaker 1: it going. You know'll make it six seven eight, six seven, eight, nine, ten,
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  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. But my thought going into
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  Speaker 1: this year was, really, they could be nine and eight,
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  Speaker 1: they could be ten and seven, whatever. I don't care.
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  Speaker 1: Be the best version of yourself going into the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: and in the playoffs, and I do not care what happens.
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  Speaker 1: I in a perfect world, I wanted the division title
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  Speaker 1: for the sake of the division title in the streak,
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  Speaker 1: I would have loved to get multiple or at least
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  Speaker 1: one more playoff game at high Mark slash Ralph Wilson
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  Speaker 1: slash Rich Stadium. In a dream world, they would have
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  Speaker 1: gotten the one seed and hosted the AFC Championship, had
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  Speaker 1: gone to the Super Bowl and close down that stadium
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  Speaker 1: with all that history and the success they've had there.
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  Speaker 1: Granted the drought happen there as well, but kind of
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  Speaker 1: going back to those nineties Bills teams and that stadium
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  Speaker 1: gets a send off with an AFC Championship game and
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  Speaker 1: a Super Bowl berth. I wanted all that storybook kind
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  Speaker 1: of feel and ending for them, but logistically be the
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  Speaker 1: best version of yourself going into the playoffs and in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs, and I did not care. I do think
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  Speaker 1: that they make the playoffs. They, like several other teams,
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  Speaker 1: are dangerous. I know Baltimore laid an absolute egg against
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  Speaker 1: the Bengals. The ironically had a playoff performance against the
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  Speaker 1: Bengals last week, and I know they've always been a
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  Speaker 1: question in the playoffs. But I think the Ravens are
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  Speaker 1: in a similar boat. And I think there's a multitude
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  Speaker 1: of teams in the AFC where you can make the
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  Speaker 1: case that they can win the AFC. I think the
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  Speaker 1: AFC is extremely wide open, which is both good and
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  Speaker 1: bad for the Bills. But yeah, if they make it,
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  Speaker 1: I don't see why they can't get out of the AFC.
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  Speaker 1: I could also see them losing in the wildcard round
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  Speaker 1: and us having to have a very difficult or multiple
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  Speaker 1: difficult conversations this offseason. But yeah, just get to the
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  Speaker 1: playoffs and let it come to you. Whatever happens happens.
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  Speaker 1: And I think you kind of tie it into Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think they are playing with house money a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: and who knows, Yeah, maybe them being doubted a little bit,
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  Speaker 1: maybe having all road games, not being you know, at
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  Speaker 1: the comforts of home, or being you know, applauded and
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  Speaker 1: talked about as a strong, you know, contender, Maybe everybody
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  Speaker 1: kind of forgetting about him and putting them on the
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  Speaker 1: back burner. Maybe that does help them a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: And we know Sean McDermott is a huge fan of
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  Speaker 1: bulletin board material and motivational things. And if you believe
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  Speaker 1: the Bills tapped into some stuff after Patrick Queen hit
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen, you know who knows maybe that stuff is real.
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  Speaker 1: Bill's camp. Earlier he has saying can the Bills run
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  Speaker 1: the same play again? We're gonna talk about that, especially
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  Speaker 1: from run game perspective. I have I charted well, I
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  Speaker 1: chart everything every week, but I brought a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: my charting notes from the run game perspective into this episode.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna talk about midzone, We're gonna talk about
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  Speaker 1: some inside zone, We're gonna talk about duo, all that
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  Speaker 1: type of stuff. Obviously, our jam hat to ask you
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  Speaker 1: this on Twitter because you quote two to one of
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  Speaker 1: my things, as RJ here says, but they ran the
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  Speaker 1: same play quote unquote twenty nine times. What is the
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine times referencing I tune out a lot of
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  Speaker 1: everything until I'm done with the film. I know you
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  Speaker 1: quote two this on Twitter and I meant to respond
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  Speaker 1: to you and I didn't, So I'm gonna ask you
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  Speaker 1: now because you're here, what is the twenty nine times?
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  Speaker 1: Who said that? And where is that coming from? I
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  Speaker 1: obviously feel like I missed it somewhere. Just a tipik
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  Speaker 1: News says, what's your spahetti possy? I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: this is a joker not but I don't like spaghetti.
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  Speaker 1: It creeps me out. I don't like the stringing nature
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  Speaker 1: of but I love pasta. I'm Sicilian, so I eat
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  Speaker 1: a lot of pasta. It's just because spaghetti is No
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  Speaker 1: Bill's camps is. Watching that game, I felt like I
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  Speaker 1: was spamming the same run play on Madden. You are
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  Speaker 1: kind of accurate in a good way. But also Pat Jeffrey,
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  Speaker 1: what's up? Says Morgan Fox? Active this week? Maybe Bosa out? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Bosa's got a hammy, soft muscle injuries, soft tissue injuries,
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  Speaker 1: extremely volatile, hard to predict. The cold and the elements
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  Speaker 1: that helps you less. I think there's a good chance
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  Speaker 1: Bosas out this week. We'll see. Yeah, maybe Morgan Fox
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  Speaker 1: gets activated. I'm really worried of Bosas out. Even though
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  Speaker 1: he's been playing with one hand, he's still very effective,
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  Speaker 1: as we saw with that you know, sack and force
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  Speaker 1: fumble of Aaron Rodgers. That really completely turned the trajectory
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  Speaker 1: of that game around. Man. Yeah, uh, between the hand
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  Speaker 1: and the hammy, it starts all. I feel like all
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  Speaker 1: the Bosa, it's not major, but all the Bosas. He's
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  Speaker 1: had a major injuries in his career, but a lot
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  Speaker 1: of boas stuff is usually like a nagging back injury,
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  Speaker 1: a glue, like a hammy, a hip. It's these injuries
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  Speaker 1: that he can play through, but they diminish his impact.
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  Speaker 1: And I feel like we're getting that now with the
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  Speaker 1: hand or the wrist, and now the hammy. Frustrated Charles says,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the Bills are fixed. They have real flaws,
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  Speaker 1: but so does every other team. Doesn't mean they can't
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  Speaker 1: get hot and win it all, especially with seventeen ak
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  Speaker 1: Josh Allen, Yeah, I agree. I think the two best
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  Speaker 1: teams in football and the two most complete teams in
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  Speaker 1: football are the Los Angeles Rams and they Seattle Seahawks.
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  Speaker 1: But I think both those teams are beatable, as evidenced
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  Speaker 1: by the Rams losen to the Panthers this week. I
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  Speaker 1: think the AFC is more open than the NFC. I
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  Speaker 1: really do think the NFC is the Rams and the
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  Speaker 1: Seahawks and everybody else, just like I think it is
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  Speaker 1: in the NFL as well, and in the AFC. One
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  Speaker 1: through oh, I just forget it now, Like what one
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  Speaker 1: through eight? Who may one through seven? Who make it
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  Speaker 1: odd number? Always throws me off. You can make the
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  Speaker 1: case for anybody depending on how it shakes out. But
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  Speaker 1: whoever sneaks in as the seven or the sixth seed,
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  Speaker 1: I think they have just as good shot as whoever
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  Speaker 1: ends up as the one or the two, or the
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  Speaker 1: three or the four. The AFC is wide wide open.
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  Speaker 1: What's up, Joshua? Joshua says, Hey, I don't mind the
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  Speaker 1: repetitive nature of the offense this weekend because it worked
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  Speaker 1: and I expect to seed again against the Bengals. Do
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  Speaker 1: you have any concerns of our identity versus good d lines, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: mainly from a past perspective and how that ties into
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  Speaker 1: the run because the book is still the especially when
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  Speaker 1: the Bills played better defenses or defenses with good or
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  Speaker 1: athletic corners, the book is still going to be, don't
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  Speaker 1: let the run game beat you. Dare them to beat
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  Speaker 1: you with their wide receivers. Dare them to beat you
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  Speaker 1: on the outside and or vertical and good and or
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  Speaker 1: better defenses or teams with athletic or good corners are
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  Speaker 1: gonna have a good chance to do that to the
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  Speaker 1: Bills pass game, stemy it load the box with numbers
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  Speaker 1: and then you're gonna get into scenarios like they got
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  Speaker 1: into Baltimore last year like they got into Houston last
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  Speaker 1: year like they got into Houston this year. Where you're
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  Speaker 1: going to be in these third and non passing situations,
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  Speaker 1: or third and known passing down in distances, and or
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  Speaker 1: third and long where good defensive lines can tee off
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  Speaker 1: on you and game up you know your guys. From
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  Speaker 1: a protection rules standpoint or just from a one on
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  Speaker 1: one standpoint, I think this offensive line is very good.
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  Speaker 1: I think they are well coached, and I do think
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  Speaker 1: they have good players, But I don't think the Bill.
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  Speaker 1: I think the Bills offensive line is very good as
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  Speaker 1: a group with several good individual players, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: think they're this standout like group that's loaded with like
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  Speaker 1: all pro caliber guys. They execute well, they're well coached,
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  Speaker 1: and they function good as a unit. If they go
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  Speaker 1: up against you know, good defensive line that have studs
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  Speaker 1: or stars, you're gonna need some chip help from a
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  Speaker 1: tight end or from a running back. You're gonna need
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  Speaker 1: to do more six and seven man protection type stuff.
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  Speaker 1: And if you can't run the ball, then you just
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  Speaker 1: make yourself more siloed and predictable, and I think that
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  Speaker 1: gets worrisome. So I'm more from a pass game standpoint,
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  Speaker 1: but from a run game standpoint too, especially with a
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  Speaker 1: team that has like people movers on the interior or
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  Speaker 1: guys that are like mean and physical and nasty allah
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  Speaker 1: kind of what the Patriots are where they're spine. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking interior defensive line, through the linebackers, through the safeties.
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  Speaker 1: It's all about downhill mashers. I do have a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a concern with that aspect as well. Well, you
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  Speaker 1: know what Williams says, was the pass rush as unproductive
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  Speaker 1: as people are saying. I am not sure if I
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  Speaker 1: am blinded by the Bosa strip sack and the results.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question. Let uh grab some data here.
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  Speaker 1: I looked it up earlier and I told myself, you
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  Speaker 1: know what, I should write this down, and you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I did not write that down. Let's go to pressure
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  Speaker 1: rate for week thirteen. So week thirteen, the Buffalo Bills,
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  Speaker 1: out of thirty two NFL teams were thirtieth in pressure
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  Speaker 1: rate at twenty four percent, which I think tracks with
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: what you saw on the tape. Again, the Steelers in
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: their protection and kind of how they do things with
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: you know, more bodies there, I think lends to that
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: as well, But yeah, there wasn't a ton of individual
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: wins from a past rush standpoint. I think you saw
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: good performances against the run, which we're going to talk about.
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: But yeah, it's funny. I you know, I knew the
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: numbers were starting, and that's why I wanted to go
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: and pull it up on next gen. Uh yeah, twenty
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: four percent pressure rate, which again was thirtieth on the week.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: And what else? What else subscribes some more numbers. Well,
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: we're here a sack rate of four percent, which was
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: twenty third. An average time to pressure not bad two
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: point nine three Well two point nine three seconds. Three
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: seconds is a lot of time, but that was oh yeah,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: so that was the tenth highest on the week. I'm reversed.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: They were twenty third in average time to pressure and
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: from a get off standpoint, number twenty fourth and average
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: getoff at zero point nine two, so almost a full second.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: So yeah, not a not a great passwords performance. I'm
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: going to continue to say it. Joey Bosa being hurt
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: impacts this passwords group a lot. He really kind of
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: was the saving grace. I think Groot has been better
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: as a rusher than he's gotten credit for this year,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: but he's still not an edge one is a pass rusher.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I put out a tweet last week, you know, I
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: think amongst like ninety something qualifying edges, he's like thirty
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: to thirty fifth in most advanced metrics, like talking about
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: efficiency metrics, total pressures, all that kind of stuff. Sacks
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: he's lower. I think he's like ty for eighty first
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: with sacks or something like that league wide, not just
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: amongst those ninety edg rushers. But you just don't have
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: that impact. Ed Oliver's hurt, like who's providing you that
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: pass rush? Dion Walker is doing more run defense stuff,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: so he's not getting a ton of penetration. T J.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: Sanders is playing on the edge, saw some flashes against Pittsburgh,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: but he's still not a needle mover. Larry Ogunjovi's kind
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: of just there. Aj Panessa, I think, is quietly doing
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: some things off the edge, but he's playing run defense
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: and doing a lot of early down stuff, so he's
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: not really this hunter. Third you don't have Michael Hoyt.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: It's I think it's kind of scary. I think it's
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: kind of scary from a pass Russ perspective with Bosa
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: being hurt, and you're seeing it in the numbers week
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: after week. They've been poor since he got hurt. What
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: midway through the Kansas City game in week nine, Week
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: ten and after, it's been bad from a pressure standpoint,
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: and this week against the Steelers was not great. Good
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: comment here. The Bills game plan was to control the ball,
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: lead the clock, and get out of town. The turnover
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: is hurt in the first half, but they dominated the
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: time of possession. They absolutely did when they had to.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: They ran the ball, They controlled the ball, they controlled
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: the clock, they controlled the line of scrimmage on both
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: sides of the ball, and did the heck Kay Morrey said, no, An,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: don't go there into the six seven sixty seven. It's
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: good stuff. Josh says, I wanted it for the streak,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: meaning the division title, too, but I also wanted to
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: host playoff games because home games seem to be such
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: a big advantage for the Bills. They do, and I
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: know there's been variables in their last two home playoff losses,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: but we've seen this team lose with the Bengals in
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: the playoffs. We've seen this team lose with the Chiefs
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. I want the home field advantage. I'd
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: rather have it than not. I don't think it's the
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: end all be all or the saving grace, which kind
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: of falls into my overall feelings as well. Charles says,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: right now, an AFC six seed is a trip to Jacksonville.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Sign me up. I would take that. The Jags are
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: an enigma. You might go into Jacksonville in the playoffs
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and get absolutely how or you might absolutely house Jacksonville.
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: They are okay, they continue to be an enigma and
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: such a wonky team. Are you gonna get you know,
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: the Trevor Lawrence that makes like throws that only three
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: or four dudes can make? Or do you get the
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence that is missing throws that no one should
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: miss in the NFL? Uh? Yeah? Ah. Connor says Shack
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Thompson feels like such a good piece for the Bills
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: this season. Should he be considered for an extension? I
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: say yes, We're going to dive into a good chunk
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: of Shack loss in here in this episode. In just
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: a little bit bum bum bum, Jeffrey says, are we
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: rooting for Casey over Houston? This week? Logistically? I think
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: we should because you want Houston to pick up another
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: loss and stay away from the Bills, knowing that they
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: have the head to head in the advantage and they're
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: only behind the Bills by one in the lost column.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: But this isn't even just from a fan perspective, from
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: a heart perspective. Until Kansas City is dead. I am
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: rooting against Kansas City until they are in the grave,
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: dead and dusted, and their head has been cut off
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: and their heart has been removed, until they are six
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: feet under and they cannot return. I am picking against
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Kansas City. I am not gonna play this game of Well,
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Kansas City doesn't look good. Who cares if they limp
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: into the playoffs or Yeah, Kansas City can win this week.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: They still got a hard schedule. It's the odds say
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: they're not gonna make it. I don't care. I'm rooting
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: for whoever's against Kansas City until the king is dead.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: They are the king, and so I'm rooting for Houston. Also,
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I kind of like Houston, which is not helpful for
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the Bills. They got their defense is so fun. I
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: love Kamari Lassiter and Will Anderson. But last year, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: bum bum bum what else. Ah, thank you every multiple
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: people answering Kay Moore, He said, some film watching account
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Steelers base said it, and oh, I guess the twenty
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: nine times not a Steelers count but if oh an
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: account called film watchers, I've never heard of it, and
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: I go follow up here. I love how everybody's so collaborative.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: The twenty nine times thing was a video from a
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Steelers film breakdown kid, or maybe that film watcher's account.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: In reality, they ran a bunch out of the same formation.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: He didn't run the same comp but didn't run the
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: same concept. Oh. Eric said he was wrong. Oh, I
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: wonder what did they say? If anybody remembers what did?
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: I wonder what play they said? They ran over and
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: over again. I'm very interested now now I kind of
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: want to like know even more. Oh, good job. ARJ
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: came saying to you have twenty nine times a video
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: film breakdown from someone on YouTube. They said, the bills
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: ran the same and now everyone's running with it. Oh,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I did not know that. That's also what happens too,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: when people get the stuff like first and they just
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: throw things out there. It dominates the new cycle of
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: the narrative or whatever. I wonder. You know what's funny
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: is I said during the game, because essentially what they
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: did and we're going to get into this in the
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: episode and talk about what it means for the grander scale.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: But they run and this is what they've done for
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: a couple of years under Brady. They can run duo
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: and then mid zone week from the exact same formation.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: And you know, if you're trying to picture in your head,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: and I put it on Twitter, so if you want
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: to see you go to my Twitter or loose Guy.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: But usually there's trips or a bunch to one side.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: We'll kind of play it, say it's to the right.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: So say in the Steelers game, you'll have a good example, right,
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Say it's you know, Jackson Hawes on the line of
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: scrimmage in line tight end and then you've got Khalil
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Shakir and Terrell Shavers right next to him. Then you've
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: got Brandon Cooks all the way on the as the
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: X all by himself who cares. So that's the strong
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: side of the formation where the trips is where you
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: got that bunch, where you've got Hawes, Shakir and Shavers. Right,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: they'll run duo to that side, And that's a run
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: that they ran nineteen times in this game. So that's
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: that run where you're running play side, Cook is reading
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: that linebacker the play side linebacker. You are getting those
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: double teams Cook. For those trying to put in perspective
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: as well, what I'm saying doesn't make sense. Those are
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: the runs where through the second quarter and on where
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: he was immediately he was going like straight up field
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: and bouncing it outside and attacking Joey Porter and whoever
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: corner was on the outside, usually Joey Porter, sometimes it's
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Sante Samuel who had a couple of really good tackles.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: But they can run duo from that formation and from
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the exact same look, the exact same presentation and same
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: personnel and all that. They can run mid zone to
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the opposite side, to the weak side, same presentation, so
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: whatever it looks like, they can kind of pick and choose,
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: which helps them with tendencies and tells and all that,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: because if you're overplaying your hand for the duo side
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: or for the midzone week side, they can flip it
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: at the line. You can alert that you can can
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: and kind of if you have two plays kind of
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: baked into one another, let alone just kind of calling
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: it off the hip like Brady does and going from there.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: But they also do a little bit of a change
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: up as well by doing more of an inside zone
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: track off the mid zone look this game, but yeah,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: they run duo and then the mid zone week stuff
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: from They can run it from the exact same presentation,
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: but they don't look the same at all. So I
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: don't know how someone could say that. And you know
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: what's funny is from my charting, and I'm going to
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: get this in more in depth, they ran mid zone six,
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: they ran inside zone five times, and then they ran
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: duo nineteen times. Those added together are thirty one. So
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I'm guessing that account thought all of those were the same.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: Hence the twenty nine because it's close. I find that
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: two coincidental, but they don't look the same post snaps,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: so I don't I don't know how you'd get that
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: unless he counted the inside zone ones. But again it's
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: to the difference. It's it's just different rules. You're not
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: getting big on big blocking on that side. It's not
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: running the tight end side. But teach dhow Ah Joey says,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: I want to buy back in because I love the Bills,
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: but this Heckle and Jeckyll team scares me. I one
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: thousand percent agree. Travis says, I love it when Cook
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: slammed his helmet into Porter's helmet after the Steelers hit
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: Josh Late. Yeah, a little bit. It was chippy, and
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: I like that. I like the cold. I like games
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: in the cold played on natural grass and the chippiness.
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I want it, I want it, I want and I
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: want it. Claude, what's up? Claude? Claude says for the
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Bills to win the Super Bowl, they need four consecutive
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: games with good run defense and Josh Allen to get
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: really hot. In an ideal world, yeah, you have both.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: I really just think it's down to match up more
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: than anything. If they get the right matchups, I think
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: they can not coast, but I think they can be okay. Like,
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: for for instance, I know Daniel Jones isn't scaring anyone,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: but Stichen's a good offensive mind. They have good pass catchers,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: and they have a crazy good run game. Like I
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: don't want the Colts. I don't want to face the Colts.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: You know, if you get the right matchups, I think
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: that's okay, but yeah, they have to show up the
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: run defense, which I don't think is naturally a realistically
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: gonna happen, although it could. But you really just need
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: you need the run game to do its thing, and
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: you need Allen to get hot and the pass catchers
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: to be healthy, and then you kind of hope and
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: pray for the best. David says, I just want to say,
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: I'm really sick of mesh Fair. Also, did anyone watch
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Kurt Warner's breakdown of Josh's interceptions? I counted two out
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: of five on Josh. I have not watched that breakdown,
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: but Josh has made errors this year throughout the year
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: that are on him him. Yes, the scheme and structure
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: and play calls and concepts and layering and sequencing aren't great.
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: Yes the weapons aren't great, but he's also kind of
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: put himself into bad spots regardless. Charles's MVP of the
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: Steelers game was Cam Heyward never poked the bear. You know,
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: it's funny, like, I think Cam Hayward is awesome and
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: he's a good dude by all accounts, That old situation
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: is weird. He doesn't seem like the type of guy
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: to like make something up or get mad for no reason.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: But it kind of looks like he did. I don't
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: know what happened there. It's still weird. I'm not going
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: to jump on the bandwagon and kind of like make
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: fun of him, like I know a lot of people
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: are and dunking on them if that old situation is weird,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Like he's not the type of guy to do that
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: or get or get that heated in general, let alone
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: for nothing. So yeah, I still do think it's uh, yeah,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: the situation is still weird. As Claude says, the Bills
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: let Davis Mill stand there all day. Yeah they held
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: for those who, uh who don't remember. So yeah. So
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: they twenty four percent pressure rate against the Steelers this week.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Not great, right, they had a sixteen percent pressure rate
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: team point one pressure rate that I didn't look that up.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: That number still burned in my brain. Sixteen point one
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: percent pressure rate against the Texans the week before, while
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: also giving up a sixty seven or sixty four percent
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: rushing success rate in the first half to a team
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: that had a thirty five percent rushing success rate on
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: the year. Not great, Pop says, two trees, Yes, thank you,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: it's Christmas time, I have moved the baby tree over there.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: It's decorated in Christmas Garland. You just can't really see
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: because the lights are so bright. And then yeah, rocking
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the bigger frosted tree, red garland, red ornaments. I got
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: some different colored ornaments, Ryan, you just can't see. I
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: also got a nice little red starrup top that you
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: can't see. I'm gonna have to rectify that. I didn't
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: realize that wasn't gonna show with the borders, So I'm
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: probably gonna attach it even though it's right on the
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: top of the tree. Now, I'm probably gonna attach it
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: there so that way it can be seen. But yeah,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Josh says, anyone know what in the world happened to
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: our pass rush? Yeah, a lot of it was dependent
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: on Ed Oliver Joey Bosa when it was kicking, and
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: then Bosa got hurt and I'll ever got hurt, and
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: then Hoyite matters a lot for the scheme and the
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: design and the nastiness that they brought. So yeah, really,
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: as terrible as it sounds like, the success of their
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: pass ruts was really contingent upon three players, and one
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: of them is out for the year, the other one
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: is out for likely the regular season, and the other
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: one has been banged up and things are kind of
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: falling apart. Good call Doug talking about the double corner
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: blitz and the Bills defensive play callback saw burst Kansas City.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: They brought it versus Pitt along with the two other
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: ben for corner blitz one of the most second Yeah,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: corner blitz on the sack and scoop and score. He
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: had a corner blitz on a second down run that
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: he got to stop, and then he had another corner
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: blitz later in the game that he got to stop
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: on as well. I disagree with this from Joey. Joey
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: says aj Panessa has dropped off badly. I disagree his
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: advanced metrics from a pass russing standpoint are better than
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: people realize. I also think his tape is better than
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: people realize, and he is making plays against the run.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: He's never going to be a top of the depth
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: chart guy. Aj Panessa is never going to be Edge
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: one or edge two, but he can be a really
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: good rotational three or a four. I know that's not
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: sexy and that's not fun. I think he's a quality
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: rotational body. The problem is their top of the depth chart.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: Guys aren't through top of the depth chart guys in
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: certain areas or they're hurt, so he has to take
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: more on his shoulders or plate and he's just not
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: that guy. What a Nick nixys Dwayne Carter coming back
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: to rush off the edge like he did in college. Obviously,
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: I like that now. Kam Morris as a we led
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence score like he did against Kansas City for
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: a winning score. I think the world ends there. I
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: probably don't with football, yeah, oh, Charles says, yeah, we
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: probably get both. Trevor Lawrence is in the same game.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: From playoff standpoint, that's absolutely right. But by going through ah,
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: thank you, Ka Moury. Sorry, I know I'm making way through.
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: Cammorry said, he dm me the twenty nine Times video
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: on discording it. You are the man, Thank you very much.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: I will get into that. I kind of want to
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: get into it now, but I'll get into it after.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Oh man, Kevin's saying I think the account said it
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: was on. That's great And so for those who don't know,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: I don't like to be influenced by anything from the
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: outside or see anything. So until I've completed all of
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: the Bills tape, you'll see me posting it on socials,
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: but I don't look at anything else. I literally open
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: up Twitter and Blue Sky, I post, and then I
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: close the app and I put my phone down. I'm
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: also not a big social media person anyway, Like I
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: don't scroll Twitter. I'm not really on there like that.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: So I post and I run away, but especially when
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: I haven't finished the tape yet, so I consume nothing.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: Eric and I talk about it all the time, like
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: what Eric thinks of the Bills game and what I
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: think of the Bills game. Neither one of us know
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: what the other thinks until we get into the film
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: room and start talking about stuff, like we build everything
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: independently of one another, like in a vault, kind of
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: blocking each other out. And then I take it even
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: further and I block out everyone and everything. I don't
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: talk to anybody about it. I don't look at anything.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: So I'm interested to kind of go back and see
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: what happened with this account and the drama that's not funny.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Oh there's a super chat, Carl. Thank you very much
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: for being here, and thank you for the super chat.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Carlo says, Joe Brady dialed up the perfect game plan
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: to defeat the Steelers. Oh, if you were preparing for
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: Joe Burrow in the Bengals, what game plan are you
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: dialing up? Man? For me? It starts with if t
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: Higgins is healthy. If he's not, I'm doubling Jamar Chase
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: every chance I get, whether it's like true bracket man
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: coverage type stuff, or even bracketing him kind of in zone.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: I'm throwing a cloud corner his way. You just you
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: have to. I don't. I don't, And this isn't a
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: knock against the Bills. You can't cover Jamar Chase one
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: on one unless your pats are ten or Derek Stingley.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: You're not covering Jamar Chase one on one. It's just
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: not happening. So I refuse. I start with refusing to
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: let Jamar Chase beat me, and then you have to
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: change the pre and post snap picture as much as
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: you can. Now that's a little tougher if you're allocating
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: two bodies as resources to Jamar Chase. But you have
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: to change the pre to post snap picture. Against Joe Burrow,
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: I know he gets a lot of jokes made about him.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: I think Joe Burrow is awesome. I have no problem
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: with people who say Joe Burrow is like the best
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: quarterback in the league or second best or third best,
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: like if people rank Burrow ahead of Alan or Lamar Mahomes.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: I recognize it's a bit of a stretch, but I
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: think Burrow is awesome. He's such a good processor. He's
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: such a good reader of the game and understanding like
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: the pre picture, the pre snap picture, but then also
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: like diagnosing post snap and knowing where to go. It's
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: hard to like make him hold the ball, it's hard
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: to make him inaccurate. And he's just a really good quarterback.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: And he had got that first game back under his
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: belt last week. He's had about a week and a
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: half to prepare for you. Along with Zach Taylor, I
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: am doing everything I can to change the pre to
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: post snap picture. I'm getting creative with my coverages as
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: much as physically possible. I'm not talking just like show
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: single high spend it, you know, split safety and vice versa.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: I'm talking non traditional Tampa stuff. I'm talking some simulated pressures,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: some creepers. I'm talking some slop blitz to some corner
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: blitz is I think you have to like not empty
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: the clip, but you have to do a lot from
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: a mental standpoint to get after him and throw him off,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: you know, from a comfortability and processing standpoint. Now what's
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: helpful with that is their offensive line is not very good.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: So in an ideal world, you can win with your
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: front four and play with seven in coverage. I don't
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: holistically have faith in the bills front four to do that,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: So I think you're gonna have to get creative and
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: how you attack a little bit. We'll see if the
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: Bills do that, But yeah, you just have to get
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Burrow off a spot and you have to change the
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: picture on and an ideal world, you win with your
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: front four and you let coverage do the rest, and
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: you also have to stop the run. But that's every
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: single week for the Bills. That's not unique to the Bengals.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: So it really is limiting Chase and changing the pre
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: to postnat picture on Burrow. If Higgins is out there,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: it's tougher to play that kind of bracket double game
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: on Chase. Then it becomes more of changing the pre
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: to post that picture and doing what you can to
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: scheme and game up front, So you just have to
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: have a lot of creativity. You need to have more
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: of a match up specific game plan rather than just
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: your your lock stock and barrel. Yeah we're gonna play
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: Cover three. Yeah, we're gonna play some quarter Yeah we're
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: gonna play Cover six. No, it needs to be a
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: tailored game plan for the type of quarterback he is
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: and the type of offense that they have. David says,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: and what's your thoughts on Morgan Fox filling the height
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: role to a lesser degree, no disrespect. I think it's
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: much of a lesser degree. Of a lesser degree, I
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: I don't think I mentioned on the show when they
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: signed him. I went in and I watched some of
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: his tape with the Land in the preseason. I stopped
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: after like a handful of plays just because it didn't
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: do anything for me. I don't think he can fill
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: the height role. It's hard to fill that role in general.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: I don't think he could even to like a lesser degree.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I don't think he can do like the poor man's
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: Michael Hoyt type of thing. You're looking more at like
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Dorian Williams and Javon Solomon trying to do it more
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: so than Morgan Fox I did. I didn't like his
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: tape from Atlanta in the preseason this year. That okay, oh,
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Bill says Anthony, how would you attack that option that
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: Brady presents from the same formation monster man Creer? Oh cool? Yeah,
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: So if I'm like shutting down, you're talking about like
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: if you have that same presentation where they can run
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: duo or they can run the mid zone stuff. It
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: starts with if you can get guys to win individually,
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: that's the biggest thing. And that happened on some some
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: plays in the Steelers game. Right, JJ Watt, JJ Watt
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: TJ Watt was able to jump inside a tight end.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Cam Hayward was able to kind of long arm David
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Edwards and get penetration. Dugger would make a play. It
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: starts with if you can get a guy to win individually. Cool.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: If you can steal some gaps, you know, meaning you're
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: a gap short. You have seven defenders for seven bodies,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: but that means there's eight gaps. If you can get
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: somebody to win, squeeze a gap, steal a gap, penetrate,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: blow it up. You start there. Second you gap out
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: a little bit, that would have been my choice. The
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: biggest you know, kind of confusion for me with the
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Steelers game plan is throughout the game it was a
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: hat on a hat for the Bills. So even when
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: the Bills were lining up in these formations but running
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: the ball in general, if they had a seven man surface,
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: the Steelers had seven in the box again and again,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: so you got a hat on a hat, seven defenders
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: for seven blockers. But as we sat on the show
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: all the time, howeverybody blockers there are, there's one more
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: gap than that. So if there's seven blockers, there's eight gaps.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: So if you only have seven defenders, you're a gap short.
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: The Steelers continue to just go half for a hat
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: and match bodies. If the Bills had seven, they gave seven.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: If the Bills had eight, they gave eight. And it
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: was just hat on a hat and people moving. And
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: then they were coupling that with also not having guys win.
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: They would change some things at times in their front,
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: but a lot of it was just static kind of
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: going forward and match in numbers, and that was not
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: working for them. So if I really wanted to attack
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: that option from Brady, it's a little bit risk reward,
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: but I if I you know again to stop it.
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: If you get some individual wins, cool or if you
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: gap out and win with numbers, cool. But to answer
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: your question, like straight up of like attacking it, do
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: some gap exchanges, you do some scrape exchanges. You can
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: do some run blitzes right, slant your end, slant your tackle,
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: bring a corner blitz, kind of like what the Bills
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: did with Benford. Or he can give us run some
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: basic gap exchanges right like the defensive tackles lined up
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: in the b he slants or stunts into that a
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: gap in your middle linebacker scrapes over the top, and
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: he's now in the b anything you can do to
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: disrupt the coordination, because you know, the Bills are either
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: running duo or the Bills are running that mid zone play.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Both of those are contingent upon coordination and movement. Duo
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: is on double teams, everybody working together from that perspective
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: and getting north and south and kind of going at
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: you and creating vertical displacement. Mid zone is and even
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: an inside own pieces more. Let's all step to the
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: left or all step to the right, wash everyone down,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: move in coordination and kind of go from there. Either way.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: If you get a guy who backdoors something or who
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: messes up, like, hey, we think the three tech is
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: going to be here, all of a sudden, he shot
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: a gap backwards and they're running to straight you know
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: that type of thing. Anything where you can disrupt the
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: timing and the coordination goes a long way. So if
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: that is the attack mindset, That's what I'm doing, if
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: I'm attacking it. But in an ideal world, you can
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: either just win with numbers or you have guys who
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: can you know, kind of just went up front, which
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: they had more than they got credit for, but a
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: lot of it was just static, not really attacking, just
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: kind of letting the Bills get hat on a hat
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: hoping somebody would win, and they didn't, and then when
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: they did win, at times James Cook was like, no,
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: I'm just gonna do something different here and play above
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: that the Steelers defense is right cool, I'm gonna make
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: them wrong that type of stuff. Question here saying you're
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: a Bills fan, right, I am a Bills fan. I'm
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: more of a football fan than a Bills fan, but yes,
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: absolutely love the Bills. If so, what do you think
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: of sending five sometimes at Burrow with that offensive line. Yeah, absolutely,
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: I mentioned it a bit earlier. I am I'm blitzing.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: I'm sending sims, I'm sending in creepers, I am attacking.
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: I'm going I'm doing anything I can to attack that
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: offensive line while not completely sacrificing bodies and coverage. If
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: there's Chase An Higgins, if Higgins is out, I feel
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: a little bit better. But you can't completely sacrifice numbers
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: in coverage with how this team, this Bills team is built.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: But yes, you got to send some five sen six,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: send a non traditional rusher from time to time. You
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: can still rush for, but have it be a sim
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: or a creeper. All of these pieces. Uh what else?
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: What else? I'm gonna let you ask a couple of questions.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Kaplitz is, Yes, I am bringing those any not every
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: time they're into the boundary, but yeah, if there's four,
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: if their formation is into the boundary, I'm bringing it. Oh.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: What do I think of Taron Johnson. He's having a
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: down year and I'm very disappointed. He's having a down
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: year in coverage and is a run too. It's disappointing.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: There was a lot of Okay, I think we got
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: a lot of things. Ah. I like that Bob Bob
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: saying fellow pies on here from the island, not the boot,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: same here. So Sillian's all day, alright, cool. I'm gonna
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: still get into comments as we go forward and go through.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: I really should, with how we're already forty minutes and
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: I really should just I feel like once we get
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: like really flowing in these episodes, I'm really just like,
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: I feel like I should just scrap scrap my notes
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: and we just go forward. I am going to continue
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: to bring up questions and comments and thoughts and everything
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: from the chat. I wanted to start out with Shaq
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Thompson and talking about Chef Thompson. I know it's on
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: the forefront of forefront of a lot of folks minds.
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: I thought of doing a Shack Thompson film breakdown in
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: this episode. I just didn't have the time to put
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: everything together. Plus with how YouTube is with the video
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: laws and everything and fighting that it's so frustrating annoying.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: But I want to talk about Shack Thompson and I
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: wanted to talk about him in juxtaposition with Terrel Bernard
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: and then also kind of putting both of those guys
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: into perspective with the run defense, So Shack Thompson, I
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: don't think it's at this point. It's very well known.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: The team is the defense is better with him out
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: there on the field, right from a run defense standpoint especially,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: but I think from a standpoint in general, the Bill's
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: defense is better with Shack Thompson out there. And I
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: do want to say all of this the caveat of
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: this conversation of him versus Terrel Bernard, right, Terrel Bernard
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: this whole year has been playing injured. I'm not giving
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: him a complete pass, and I'm not just making that
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: excuse just to kind of save his behind or anything
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: like that. But he's playing on one leg. He's playing
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: I don't know if the ankle, the knee, whatever it is,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: he's playing on one leg. You can see it in
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: his movement. He he just doesn't have it in close quarters,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: in space, change a direction, start stop, kind of burst
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: eight un habit, and he's been playing through that, and
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: he's suffering for it, and the defense is suffering for it.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: What's tough with Bernard is, especially with the type of
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: injury that he has, the type of player he already
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: is even when he's one hundred percent healthy. Trel Bernard
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: has very short arms, and as we all know, he's
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: a smaller linebacker. He's not very big. He's not very
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of menacing with his size, frame length,
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: any of that stuff, right, So he is not built
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: to take on blocks. He's not built to stack and shed.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: If you are a climbing, interior offensive lineman, he's trying
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: to beat you to the spot with quickness and processing
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: and angles. He's trying to prevent you from getting hands
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: on him. At most, he's trying to play through his shoulder.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: He's trying to dip and move. If you think about
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: all the good plays to Rol Bernard has made against
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: the run in his career, they come from a quick trigger,
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: you know, shooting, reading, diagnosing, processing quickly, and then beating
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: blocks to the spot. He is not a guy who
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: is built to take on blockers, stack, shed, play through
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: con He's not built for that. That's not a skill set,
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: that's not his body type. So if your game is
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: predicated on beating guys to the spot, your lower body
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: is very important. He's playing with a knock to his
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: lower body, so he's slower to those spots, and on
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: top of that, when guys get their hands on him,
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: something he already struggles with even when healthy, but guys
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: get their hands on him, he doesn't have that base
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: to be like, Okay, let me kind of ground myself,
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: let me anchor a little bit. Someone's pushing me to
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: the right, let me kind of sink my hips in
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: my feet and drop and push back. He can't do
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: that because he's playing on one leg essentially, So this year,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: his skill, his vulnerabilities as a player are magnified time
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: as a thousand because he doesn't have any ability to
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: kind of mitigate those vulnerabilities once guys get hands on him.
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: That's why you've seen this year more than others, offensive
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: linemen getting to him at the second level, pushing him
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: on a frame, burying him into the ground, chucking him.
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: He'd done to have a base, and he's not healthy.
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: I've been saying for weeks. Shaq Thompson has been and
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: is the Bill's best linebacker this year, and a good
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: chunk of that is because Torell Bernard is hurt. Matt
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: Malonald has been hurt as well, but Bernard is more significant.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: Bernard is hurt I don't think this is a death
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: sentence for Bernard. I don't think this means, oh, Bernard
• 45:19
  Speaker 1: is done in this contract is garbage. Let's see what
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: he looks like when he's healthy and go from there.
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: Now that being said, unless Torell Bernard is one hundred percent,
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: Shaq Thompson needs to be the starting middle linebacker on
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: this team. There is no questions about it at this point.
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: And then even when Bernard is healthy, I still think
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: you can make the case that Shaq could be the starter.
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: But I would understand if Bernard is one hundred percent healthy,
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: he was the incumbent starter. He's a captain, one of
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: the few they have here. Cool I can understand them
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: wanting to put him back in, but Shaq needs to
• 45:56
  Speaker 1: be the starting linebacker on this team, especially while Bernard
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: is banged up, and honestly even potentially when he comes
• 46:02
  Speaker 1: back as well. And that's not great for Bernard, and
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: I understand the position that that puts Bill's management and
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: the coaching staff in, and maybe even this team in.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: It's not ideal. I also don't think from a position standpoint. Again,
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: it's not ideal no matter how you spin it. I
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: think people forgot how good Schef Thompson is. Like, he's
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: a really good linebacker and has been for a while.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Lower body injuries have kind of derailed him a bit,
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: like knee injuries, achilles injuries. He's missed a bunch of time.
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: Even with the miles on the tires and the injuries,
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: you can still see that dude can play like. He's
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: got a bunch of experience. He's got some size around
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: two hundred and thirty pounds, so he's not a monster,
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: but he pairs that with athleticism and movement and experience
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: and processing and a trigger and long arms, and he
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: works so good in this defense and especially from a
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: run defense standpoint, because he can play through blocks. If
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: in tier offensive lineman get to him at the second level,
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: he has no problem, you know, kind of stonewalling somebody
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: in the hole or in the gap, or playing into
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: somebody stacking and shedding, moving and make a play playing
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: through his shoulder because he's bigger, somebody leans on him.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: He can sink his hips and lean back and kind
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: of stay in the gap and not get washed and
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: not get displaced. And the way he lets things flow,
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: how he processes, how he diagnoses There are several plays
• 47:23
  Speaker 1: in the game against the Steelers where the snap happens
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: and you can see he's reading his keys and the
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: snap happens and his eyes are here or his eyes
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: are here, and a happens, and bang, he's gone, and
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: he's beating the ball to the spot, and he's beaten
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: blockers of the spot. He's playing over the top, he's
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: going a little sideline to sideline. He's meeting guys in
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: the hole. There's one in front of him where uh
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: Daikwon Jones kind of the double team stays on Daiquon
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: and he battles with it and eats the double. But
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: him and Daikon are both going to the left. But
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: he sees Daikwon going there, and he sees the cutback
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: from Warren. But more importantly, he feels and sees what's
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: going on with Daiquon, so he just lets Daiquon go
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: this way. He falls off and he just meets Jalen
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Warren in the hole. You get those kind of plays
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: from Shaq Thompson with regularity. You're not getting those from
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: Bernard Shack. Thompson needs to be the starting mic linebacker
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: for this Buffalo Bill's team. He's got the experience, he's
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: got the knowledge, he's been to a Super Bowl, he's
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: played with all pros. Like he's he he's just a
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: good player. Again, I know it sucks for Bernard and
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: it sucks to have that conversation. And it's not even
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: just like, oh, it's a nice feather in the cap
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: for Shack Thompson. Shack Thomps has been a really good
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: football player in the NFL for like a while. Injuries
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: have just derailed him the past several years. But you
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: can see even like he's thirty two years old, he's
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: had significant, multiple significant lower body injuries, and he's still
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: out there like making crazy plays. Doe was a former
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: safety that turned into like a big nickel linebacker for
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: the Panthers when like Keith Lee and Davis were there.
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: He learned under those guys and then became more of
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: a true linebacker and a mic like dude is just
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: gifted and a monster and really smart and he understands
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: what it takes to win in this league. He needs
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: to be the guy. Sean McDermott also mentioned, I want
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: to bring up this quote that I told myself to
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: put in my notes, and I didn't because I said,
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: you know what I can do, I can just look
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: it up on my Twitter, and I hope it comes
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: up right now, because sometimes Twitter is not there. We
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: go Sean McDermott talking about Shaq Thompson. He said, quote,
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: he knows the defense coming from Carolina. He's a dog,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: he plays with an edge, he leads, he leads with
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: his voice. He did a great job leading the team
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: this week. He spoke to the team. I think it
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: was Friday, I believe it was, and he stood right
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: up there and he challenged them. That's what leadership is
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: right there. There's a couple of different ways to lead,
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: and that's one of them. So you get the on
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: field play, which is awesome, but you also get the leadership.
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: And I do think that challenging of them from a
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: run defense standpoint showed up. They played with a different
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: edge and violence and physicality in this game against Pittsburgh
• 49:59
  Speaker 1: then they previously against the run shack. Thompson needs to
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: be the starting linebacker middle linebacker for this team, especially
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: while Bernard is banged up, because when Bernard's out there,
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: he's not helping himself, he's not helping the defense. You're
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: not helping him, sit him, let him get to health,
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: let him get to one hundred percent. Shack Thompson needs
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: to be the starting middle linebacker for this team. The
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: writing has been on the wall for several weeks. It
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: just has to continue. Shack's got to be that guy.
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: There are some deficiencies right He isn't the most fleet
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: a foot because of the injuries and the miles on
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: the tires, so speed will get to him every once
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: in a while. But he's the better option for them
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: at middle linebacker right now. He also had a couple
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: of good coverage reps in this game, some match coverage stuff.
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: He was the one who got underneath that throw on
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: the sail route that Rudolph you know, kind of roofed
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: and Christian Benford got the interception. That's because Shack matched
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: I think it was Darnell Washington. He matched the route
• 50:50
  Speaker 1: from Washington on the sail or the out and got
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: underneath him, tried to undercut it. Rudolph sailed that ball
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: and Benford picked it. He also had a nice pass
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: off with Tarren Johnson later with some match stuff. Shack
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: needs to be the starting middle linebacker. In that theme,
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: I'm going to bring up some data now from where
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: are you? Where are you there? You are? Nope, yes,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: there it is Screenshair's going crazy for me right now.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring up some data per Sports Info solutions.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: These are on and off splits for Terrel Bernard and
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Shaq Thompson. They are whatever. I haven't pulled it up yet.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: I'm just kind of giving you guys the intro too,
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: because once I bring it up, I want to talk
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: about it. These are essentially kind of advanced metrics for
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: the team when Bernard is on the field and off
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: the field, and when Shaq Thompson is on the field,
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: and when Shack Thompson is off the field. Now what
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: I want to say, there is some noise because Shaq
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: Thompson and Terrel Bernard have been on the field with
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: each other at the same time this year. Also Shack
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Thompson getting more reps as the season has gone along
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: and more under the Sean McDermott version of this defense
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: where McDermott took over at halftime of that Atlanta game
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: and has been running the defense going forward. Shack getting
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: more time under that version of the defense is also
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: a little bit different, right, So it's not complete. The
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: apples to apples, there is some noise, not even talking
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: about opponent quality and game script and all that kind
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: of stuff. There is some noise with these data points. However,
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: I will say the differences are stark. So I'm gonna
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: pull this up right now. First, we have here, as
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: you can Seerel Bernard is pulled up again. This is
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: all courtesy of Sports Info Solutions, really good advanced metric site.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: This is there on and off report. We're gonna talk
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: about some of this. So let's start from a basic standpoint.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: And for those who don't know, when you're on defense
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: individually or as a team, you want to be negative.
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: You know, plus stuff is usually good for the offense.
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: You want negative for a defense. So, for an instance,
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: EPA per play up here right with Terrel Bernard on
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: the field, their EPA per play is zero point zero seven. Okay,
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: not you know, a crazy number, but if you look
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: at the EPA per play when he's off the field,
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: it's negative zero point two to one. When you see
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: that and you say, oh, it's negative. Negative is better
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: for the defense in this regard, when you're looking at
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: EPA per play metrics, you want negative for instance, uh,
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of as we talk about defenses here
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: in general, the Houston Texans for example, or even we'll
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: just look at team defense in general. Per I know
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: you can't see it because we're still looking at this,
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: but per next gen stats, if you want to look at,
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: you know, the best defense in terms of EPA per play,
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: the Texans are number one in the league at negative
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: zero point one eight. Then it's the Browns, the Seahawks,
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: the Rams all at negative zero point one six, negative
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: zero point one six, negative zero point one five, so
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: on and so forth. You want to be negative if
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: you are a defense. So if you're looking at this,
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: this is stark this type of difference Terrel Bernard on
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: the field total EPA per play zero point zero seven,
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: off the field negative zero point two one, for a
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: difference of zero point two eight. That is a healthy
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: difference from an EPA per play standpoint. That means from
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: an EPA advanced metrics standpoint, the Bills defense is significantly
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: better with Terrel Bernard off the field. Again, their EPA
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: per play is negative zero point two one, and different
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: sites kind of measure EPA per play differently, right, But
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: if you take the EPA per play here at negative
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: zero point two to one. What did I just say
• 54:37
  Speaker 1: about the Texans, right, The Texans have the best defense
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: in the NFL, and their EPA per play is negative
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: zero point one eight. Their EPA per play is negative
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: zero point one eight. For the Bills with Bernard off
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: the field, it's negative zero point two to one. By
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: that comparison, the Bills would have the best defense in
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: the NFL with Terrel Bernard off the field. I'm not
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: saying that's the case, but from a number perspective, kind
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: of put that in to your brains or put that
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: in perspective if you're looking at it just from a
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: pass standpoint. On the field, EPA per play zero point
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: zero one off the field negative zero point twenty five. Again,
• 55:10
  Speaker 1: another Stark difference of zero point twenty six for reference.
• 55:14
  Speaker 1: If you want to say, well, hey, what's the best
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: defense in terms of EPA per pass, it is the
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: Houston Texans at negative zero point twenty five. So the
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: Bills defense with Terrell Bernard off the field is in
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: the conversation with the Houston Texans from an advanced metrics
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: standpoint of EPA per pass. Now, let's look at rushing
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: also Stark on the field zero point zero one five,
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: off the field negative zero point one five for a
• 55:42
  Speaker 1: difference of zero point three, so more than a quarter
• 55:45
  Speaker 1: of a point difference per play. That is again Stark,
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: that is significant. And if you say there, hey, who's
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: the leader in EPA per rush right now in the NFL,
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked. It's the Seattle Seahawks at negative
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: zero point one point eight. So this off the field
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: run defense for the Bills had negative zero point one
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: five would give them the third best run defense in
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: the NFL. And again, I think that speaks to the
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: struggles in the spine for Bernard individually. But you pair
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: that with you know, three techs on the interior and
• 56:17
  Speaker 1: guys that are penetrators and guys that struggle vers doubles
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: and guys that want to shoot gaps and not eat
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: up blockers and anchor right, that also doesn't help your
• 56:26
  Speaker 1: second level. That meant, because of the way the Bills
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: have built their interior defensive line, it's easier for offensive
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: linemen to climb to the second level to get their
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: hands on Terrell Bernard, which is why we talked about
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: it last week. It's confusing, not confusing. But if you
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: build your entire spine out of like smaller shooters, that's
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: tough if guys get their hands on them. And it's
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: that way through the entire spine, right Like you can
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: get hands on an interior defensive lineman and chuck them,
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: you can get hands on Bernard and chuck them. But
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: especially for Bernard this year, where he's got a bum
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: wheel and he needs protection and he needs help, he's
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: not getting it. So this year, even more so so,
• 57:00
  Speaker 1: Shack is a better fit because he can take on
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: those blockers. He can shit, he can stack and shed
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: and move and play through shoulders and play through chests
• 57:09
  Speaker 1: and not get thrown off the club. Now let us
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: take a peek at Shack Thomps's numbers. Then again, there's
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: more if we really want to go into it, like
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: further you can go you know yards after contact per
• 57:22
  Speaker 1: attempt with Bernard off the you know further from a
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: run standpoint, With Bernard off the field, it improves by
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: one point six yards per attempt for running the ball
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: here with him on the field, at six point three
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: off the field, it's three point eight. The difference is
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: stark in a lot of a lot of these areas.
• 57:38
  Speaker 1: Now let's go to Shaq Thompson. Scroll scroll scroll, scroll,
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: scroll scroll scroll. I feel like I'm saying scroll like
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: and Captain Marvel, where am I? Hh? There we go,
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: Shack Thompson. Now with Shaq Thompson, you will see a
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: bit of a difference in terms of the on the
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: field and the off the field. So, on the field,
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: the Bills defense EPA per play is negative zero point
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: zero nine. When he's off the field, it's positive zero
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: point zero seven. So again, like we talked about, positive
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: for a defense is worse. So when he's on the field,
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: they are much better than when he's off the field
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: overall from a past standpoint. Again, good chunk of difference here.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: When he's on the field EPA per play negative zero
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: point one to five. For the pass off the field,
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: it's an even zero difference of point fifteen. Run defense
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: the biggest one of all, but still close to overall
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: and even close to the pass as well. When he's
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: on the field, their defensive EPA per play against the
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: run negative zero point zero two. When he's off the
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: field zero point one five. Again, they have played next
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: to each other. They have been on the field at
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: the same time the defense has changed this year, and
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: as the defense has changed, right even going into that
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: Atlanta game, McDermott takes over at halftime of that Atlanta game.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: Bernard is hurt in that game, and he's been more
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: significantly hurt as the year has gone on after that game.
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: Has kind of played worse in ten with that, although
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: we had some good flashes against the Bucks, but he's
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: missed time, he's been injured. Mcdermot's taken over, Shack has
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: come in, So Shaq is playing in a better version
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: of the Bills defense. But Shaq is playing better than
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: Terrel Bernard and he's a better fit right now. So
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: we talked about the scheme and the structure advantages, the
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: body type advantages, the skill set advantages, all that kind
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: of stuff. I also wanted to bring this up. I'm
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: gonna put this out tomorrow on socials. These differences are stark.
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: They weren't as bad yesterday before Sports Info solutions added
• 59:36
  Speaker 1: in the Steelers game, and once they did. Yeah, it's again,
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: it's not even just looking at the metrics when Shack
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: is on the field and off the field, but looking
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: at it when Bernard is off the field versus when
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: he's on the field, and then comparing those two, Shaq
• 59:52
  Speaker 1: makes this defense better right now, and he's the better
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: guy at the middle linebacker spot. Again, a lot of
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: this is tied to Bernard be hurt. Like I mentioned earlier,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: Bernard being out there and being as banged up as
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: he is, he's not helping himself. He's not helping the
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: team that so somebody's got to get in his ear
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: and be like, hey man, you gotta sit down. You
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: got to rest and heal up. But that's something that
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: they've been hesitant to do for any of their guys.
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: We talked about it last week against Houston. Spencer Brown
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: is out there with one arm and they're just leaving
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: him out there to fend off you know, Will Anderson
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: and Denil Hunter, and that didn't make sense, but they
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: kept rolling with it. Ah Jack Thompson is the better
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 1: fit for this team right now at that middle linebacker
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 1: spot again, schematically with what they are on the interior,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: with his body type, his length, his size, his skill set,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: his mentals, the processing ability, the ability to he can
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: still beat blockers to spots, he can diagnose a run
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: scheme and a concept and headed off at the pass
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: or stay over the top and stay clean and if
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: it gets muddy, he can fall off and fit and
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 1: you know recognize, okay, like someone got pushed into the B.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: Let me take over to the A. Let me take
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: over the A or vice versa, and he can get
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: off blocks, which is a huge thing for this interior
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: right now. And again, I don't think Bernard's struggles are
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: because he fell off a cliff or because he's terrible.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 1: He is hurt, he's banged up. It's limiting him as
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: a player, and he's the type of player that can't
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: afford those type of limitations because he already has limitations
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: in size and frame and then the defense and how
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: it's built and constructed. He doesn't get protected. There is
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: no Hellodi Nada in front of him. There is no
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 1: Vita Vea, there is no monster space eater that keeps
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: the second level clean. So dudes on the interior are
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: gonna get to the second level, They're gonna get hands
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: on him, and dude already kind of struggles to fend
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: them off. That's why he's got to beat him with
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: speeds and speed and trigger and process and angles and
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. And if he can't move
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: the way he needs to to beat him, dudes are
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: gonna get hands on him and he can't go anywhere.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: So yeah, so I hope that conversation kind of put
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 1: that in perspective. I think that I wasn't expecting the
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: numbers to be that stark. I want I need to
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: take a peek at it now that we had good
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: sample size. Again. I know there's still some noise in
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: the data. I talked about it and I prefaced that,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: but the number, the metrics are crazy on all just individually,
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: on off for Shack, on off for Bernard. But then
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: if you compare the two crazy times, crazy crazy crazy times.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 1: I want to use that to segue into the run
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: defense better against the Pittsburgh Steelers in this game. Big
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 1: callout better tackling yards after contact per rush in this
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: game for the Bills, Well, if the Bill's defense can
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 1: Steelers offense two point two to two yards after contact
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: per rush. That was the sixth lowest in Week thirteen.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 1: Going into this game, the average yard the yards after
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: contact per rush for the Bills on the season was
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: four point three, historically bad by far. The worst in
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 1: the last eight seasons of football or seven going from
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen through twenty twenty four, by far the worst.
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: No one's been over three point eight since twenty in
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: the last seven or eight seasons, whatever that is, going
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: back to twenty eighteen. So the Bills at four point
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: three historically bad, two point two two much closer to
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 1: kind of the mean, and again sixth lowest on the
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: week against the Steelers. The Steelers were twenty ninth and
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 1: success rate at twenty seven point eight percent. The Bills
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: also had the fifth highest stuff rate on the week
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: at twenty two point two percent, that's runs they go
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: for zero or the less, and the Steelers were thirtieth
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: in EPA per rush. Again, Shack Thompson makes a difference,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: and it helps that the Steelers offense isn't very threatening
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: through the air from a weapons standpoint, from an air
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: yard standpoint, from Aaron Rodgers standpoint. Also, the weather helped.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: Just like it hit, the weather hindered the Bills pass game,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: it hindered the Steelers pass game, and the Steelers pass
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: game was already hindered. So you know, the cards were
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 1: kind of into Bills favor a little bit. But similar
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: to the Bills offense, if you were the Steelers, you
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 1: knew like, Okay, we got to come in, we got
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: to run the ball. We know the defense knows that
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: can we do it or can we not? And the
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: Steelers could not. They busted off a couple of chunk
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: plays throughout the game, one that really didn't didn't count
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 1: at the end of the first half where like a
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: couple of seconds they'll just let them run and made
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: a tackle. But Shaq Thompson made a difference again, his size,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 1: frame processing, athleticism, the length, the ability to flow off
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: of the interior defensive linemen and make maintain run integrity
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: in terms of gap fits and making fits right was nice.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 1: But as I talked about too, there was just a
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: different mentality against the run versus Pittsburgh. Now, I don't
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 1: have a way to quantify, but just watch it on tape.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 1: They were more physical up front. There was more pop
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: in their hands. They got penetration, they beat guys up,
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: They strung wide runs out to the sideline, They squeezed gaps.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: And I read that quote from McDermott on Shack Thompson earlier.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: You know, maybe it was you know, Shack challenging them.
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: Maybe it was, you know they had to come to
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 1: Jesus moment after that Houston game and get run all
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: over again against Houston. Maybe they knew, hey, we know
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: what the Steelers team is, we know what the weather is.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: We cannot let them run the ball. And so they
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 1: gave more emphasis and in this game, whatever it was,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: they just played different from a physical standpoint, from a
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: physicality standpoint, I should say, in a violent standpoint, which
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: was nice to see again better tackling. Also some good
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: scheme stuff, like we talked about the well timed corner
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 1: blitzes from Benford in this game. One leads to you know,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: it's not a run, its pass, but at least to
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: a scoop and score for a touchdown. The other two
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 1: were both stops and helped stall some Steelers drives which
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: were nice. Daikwan Jones had a good game. I thought
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: he did well to mitigate displacement but also get penetration
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: like Jordan Phillips of all people, at a couple good
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: plays against the run. Greg Russeau had a couple good
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: plays against the run, including that fourth and two stop
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: that starts with Jordan Phillips getting penetration. It forces Jalen
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: Warren to make a cut right into the waiting tree
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: arms of Greg Russou, who makes the stop. They were
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: just different from a run defense standpoint, which was awesome
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: to see. Now again, the Steelers offense is limited, So
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: I don't think this means the run defense is fixed,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: all the problems are solved. We don't have to worry
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: about body types and positional archetypes and everything's fine, and
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be monkey with the cameracks are moving too much.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean everything is fine. It doesn't mean that
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: everything is fixed. It doesn't mean that we have gotten
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: to the spot where we can breathe like the run
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: defense isn't a concern anymore. I do not agree with
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: that we are going to have to monitor this weekend
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: and week out for the entirety of the season. I
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: still think it is a concern. I do not think
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: it is something that can holistically be fixed this year, because,
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: like I've talked about last week, I think the way
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 1: to fix the Bills run defense issues is going to
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 1: take a change in philosophy and identity defensively, and also
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 1: a change in positional archetypes that they subscribe to in
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 1: their spine. We'll see if that kind of comes to pass. Also,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 1: for what it's worth going into this week, the Bengals,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: for all their struggles this year, the quarterbacks that they've played,
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: they have the eleventh best run game in terms of
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: EPA per rush. And I'm going to look up what
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: they are from a dvo A standpoints. But you know,
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: Chase Brown can move, you know, he Brown is kind
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: of a nice, real like piece out of the backfield,
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: especially when Chase and Higgins are both healthy. But you know,
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 1: the Bengals have never been this like dominant mall In
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 1: type of team when it comes to running the ball
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 1: and what they're able to do. Oh and then also
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: from a DVA standpoint, they're seventh in rushing DVOA. So
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: the Bengals can run the football and then being able
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: to do that while not having Joe Burrow for a
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: chunk of the year, that's even more of a testament
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: to the offense and Zach Taylor and what they've been
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: able to do. I am hopeful for the run defense. Again,
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 1: I still think it's going to be a struggle and
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: I still think it's going to be issue, but it is.
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: I don't care that the Steelers are a bad football
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: team on offense or Aaron Rodgers or the weather, the
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: elements or whatever, or you knew in this game that
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: you had to stop the run and you stopped it.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: That's awesome. Let's start there and try and continue to build,
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: try and continue to go forward again. We got better
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: play from the interior, we got better gap category, we
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: got better run fits. I do think Shaq Thompson is
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: an important part of that run defense being better because
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 1: of his ability to make the defense right even when
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 1: they're wrong, or make individual guys you know right when
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: they get moved or they're wrong. His ability to set
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: the defense, call the defense, and then his individual play
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: and flow within each play. He makes a difference. But
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: the team as a whole, I think played better from
• 1:08:38
  Speaker 1: a run defense standpoint on a week where they had
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: to and again Pittsburgh passing offense. It helps that they
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: didn't have to allocate a ton of resources to shut
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: that down, so they could allocate more to the run defense.
• 1:08:48
  Speaker 1: Game script also helped to right. The Steelers in this
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 1: game only ran the ball eighteen times to the Bills
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: fifty one, So yeah, you know, J the warrant had
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: ten carries, gain Well had five, Caleb Johnson had two
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: in garbage time, and then Aaron Rodgers had won. Again.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: Those Caleb Johnson ones came in garbage time, So the
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: Steelers really only ran the ball like you know, fifteen
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 1: or sixteen true times, so they didn't test the Bills
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 1: run defense. A bunch game script also helps, so a
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: lot of things worked in their favor, but they still
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 1: had to come out, they still had to execute. They
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: did cool, build on it, hope for the best going forward.
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 1: I still think it's going to be an issue. It's
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: just going to be a matter of how much of
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: an issue it can be. Again, they're not going to
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 1: become an amazing run defense this year. What they did
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: against the Steelers from a run defense standpoint, I don't
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: think they're going to replicate that weekend and week out.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: They just have to be middle of the pack. They
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: just have to not be the worst run defense in
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: the league. That's it. Don't be thirty second, don't be
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: twenty sixth get to like eighteenth or nineteenth, Get to
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: be somewhere around there, because that means you're having some
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: good games. Oh you're getting got a little bit, but
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: you're getting yours right. Increase your stuff rate, tackle better
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 1: and be okay. It was encouraging to see the play
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: there and again as they get healthier, maybe down the stretch,
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 1: as you get some dudes back, maybe that improves a
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: little bit as well. Um, yeah, I am uh, I'm excited.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: Bills are electric. Says yeah again Cincinnati, our run defense
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: will be will be tested again. Absolutely, and bos was
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: probably doubtful, yes, likely. I'm disappointed. And Swin say is
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 1: gonna have to put up a lot of points to
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 1: win this weekend. Yeah, I feel like the beat Cincinnati,
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 1: you gotta put up at least thirty. I don't think
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: the Bills are holding Cincinnati to under twenty five, but
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 1: we'll see. Thank you James. James says he loves the
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: dueling trees. I appreciate it. Yeah, holiday tree is up,
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 1: or the Christmas tree is up? And uh that the
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: little tree there. Yeah, happy Holidays is a good time.
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 1: I'm very excited. The only thing I want to incorporate
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 1: I love blue lights. I love blue garland and blue lights,
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 1: and I want to incorporate that more. But I think the
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 1: white pops more on the screen and the show. I'm
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 1: still torn though, but I appreciate you, um Charles saying
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 1: this same Bernard conversation applies to you. Aaron Johnson also
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 1: this season. Yeah, he's man. Terreon Johnson was never the
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: best athlete in coverage, although he did have that game
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 1: against Dallas where he locked up Ceedee lamb well in
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 1: Buffalo against Dallas. But yeah, he's he struggled at coverage
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 1: in coverage at times this year. But the run defense
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: has been the biggest one. Just him, you know, not
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: having that quick trigger. Not We've watched Taron Johnson take
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: on pulling guards and get off them and make plays.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: He's just not even in the picture at times, Like yeah,
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: it's it's disappointing to see what Terren Carl again with
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: the super chat. Thank you for still being here, Carl,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: Thank you for the super chat, Carl says. Mina asked
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 1: CBE today, hold on, I need to know who CB is.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: Tell me who CB is. As I read the rest
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: of your I think I know what it is, but
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 1: I want to make sure. But you said Mina Kimes
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 1: ask CV today, and I wanted your take in defensive
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 1: passing yards per game in twenty twenty four, the Bills
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: were twenty first. Oh so so literally asked Christian Benford. Oh,
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: that's cool. She talked to Benford. That's really cool. So
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 1: Mina Chimes, thank you, appreciate you chat. Everybody in the chat,
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: thank you very much, Carl says. So I'm gonna start
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: from the beginning. Mina Chimes, asked Christian Benford. I figured
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 1: it was Benford. Now I feel dumb for I was like,
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: I should have just rolled with it. Someone also commented
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 1: something to me today and said c B. And I
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: was like, do you meet Are you abbreviating cornerback or
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: are you abbreviating Christian Benford. I'm just all over the
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 1: place of this. So again, thank you Carl uh for
• 1:12:23
  Speaker 1: the super jat and the question and for putting this
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: on on my radar. I didn't know, so Mina Chimes
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: ask Christian Benford today, and I wanted to take in
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: defensive passing yards per game. In twenty twenty four, the
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: Bills were twenty first with two hundred and twenty three
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: point one, But in twenty twenty five they're first with
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: one sixty three point two. Why the turnaround, Poyer, Trey Bishop, Yeah, oh,
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 1: so it was Kay Adams. The chat is maybe saying,
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 1: I don't want to put water on this fire damp
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: in it. But I'm gonna say a couple of things
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 1: that probably aren't like great for the turn around conversation part.
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: I'll say from total yards one, you know, yards aren't
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: necessarily indicative of how good you are one way or
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: the other. This is a really good example for it, right, Like,
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: so the Bills don't have a lot of you know,
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: passing yards per game on them, and so you might
• 1:13:16
  Speaker 1: sit there and think not you, but a person in
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: general might sit there and be like, man, you know what,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 1: Like they have a great pass defense because they're only
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: giving up like the lowest pass yards in the league
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: per game. That must be amazing. And even if I
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: go to next Gen, yeah, they're first in the league
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: and one hundred and sixty three point two, but juxtapose
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: that with their rushing yards per game allowed. Again, I
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: don't like to go by yards, but the Bills have
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: the third most rushing yards per game allowed at one
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: hundred and forty one point three. So for me, it's
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: a simple answer of teams are just running the ball
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: on the Bills and they don't have to pass Like
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: I I go back to that Tampa Bay game and
• 1:13:56
  Speaker 1: I said it, like, I understand, you can't silo yourself.
• 1:14:00
  Speaker 1: The Bucks offense started to hurt themselves by passing the football.
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: All they needed to do was just keep running the
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 1: hell out of the football and they would have been golden,
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: Like that's all they needed to do. So I think
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: some of the turnaround is teams are running the ball
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: more than they are passing the ball, and they're having
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 1: success on the ground, so they don't have to pass
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: as much. I also think yards per game in general
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: are probably a bit down. I would imagine across the
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: board in the NFL, because of the kickoff rules, you're
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: seeing more teams starting drives at the thirty, the thirty five,
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 1: the forty, So there's not a lot of drives or
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 1: yards being had per drive. Even if someone scores all
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: the way, they're not really putting up these seventy five
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: eighty yard drives on a touchdown. Now it's more sixty
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 1: sixty five. And then the type of you know, teams
• 1:14:46
  Speaker 1: running the ball more, there's less possessions. The game is
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 1: getting shorter. So I would imagine yards per game in
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 1: general are down across the league from a totality standpoint,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 1: and then in particular for the Bills. The biggest thing
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 1: for me, in conjunction with the yards being down because
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 1: of starting five position going up on kickoffs, I would
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: think it's just because defenses are running the ball more
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: on the Buffalo Bills and finding success, and that would
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 1: be the big thing for me. Now, I will say
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: since Sean McDermott took over, they've been better in coverage.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 1: They have run significantly less spot drop zone, they have
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 1: run more match coverage. They have been attaching to guys
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: and it's there. They're running man match, they're running zone match,
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 1: they're passing off and communicating well. I do think their
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: pass coverage is good this year, but I think that
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: from a total yards perspective or standpoint, it's due more
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 1: to teams just running on them and having success running
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: on them and deciding that they don't have to pass
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 1: the ball. And yeah, and I do again, I think
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 1: they have some good I think Poyer has helped stabilize
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: some things a little bit. I think Trey's having a
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: better year than he's given credit for. I think Bishop
• 1:15:50
  Speaker 1: has improved. I'm not completely all aboard the Bishop hype
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: that I know some folks are. You know, I think
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 1: he's made He's improved this year. I think he has
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: raised his flo and he's made some crazy splash plays
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: and I do think you know, Jordan Hancock and cam
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: Lewis coming in on third downs, which allows him to
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 1: either play deep cold bish of that allows him to
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: either play deep or play as that monster man big
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: nickel in and around the box where he is still
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: that is where he's still at his best. Even though
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 1: he's improved farther and deeper, he's still at his best
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: in and around the box on the line of scrimmage.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: I think that's helped him kind of unlock, you know,
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: his ability a little bit. I still don't think he's
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 1: a work in progress, and I'm I'm not in love
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 1: with him as much as as some other folks are.
• 1:16:36
  Speaker 1: But he has played well this year. But again to
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: your point, and this is a good they can put
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 1: this on a radar and a good question. Yeah, I
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: do think from a yards perspective, it's I think there's
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: less yards across the league because the kickoff return stuff.
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: But with the Bills in particular, in this teams are
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: running on him a ton, so they just don't have
• 1:16:51
  Speaker 1: to pass. M hm hmmm, Cam, well, yeah, fair Bills
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: are saying teams for to run on the bills. That's right. Yeah,
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 1: Cam Moorey says you don't need to pass on the
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: Bills when every other running back as a career high
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: rushing day. Yeah, we you have Sean Tucker looking like
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: h l Danny and Tomlinson. You are you are in
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: a in a rough spot, uh, to say the least.
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 1: And yeah, we will. We will see what their past
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: defense looks like this week against Cincinnati. It will be
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 1: a tough task even if Higgins is out. But if
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: Higgins is in and it's Higgins and Chase and Burrow
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 1: and Kasiki doesn't block, but he's fairs like a wide
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: receiver three and a slot worker. Yoshavask can do some stuff.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 1: Chase Brown catches the ball in the backfield. They like
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: to get the ball to him out of the backfield.
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 1: We'll see what their past defense can do, and uh,
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 1: what the run defense can do. Also within that James's
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: and have you discussed our most ferocious block or Tyrol
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 1: Shavers I tuned in late? I have not yet. I
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 1: am getting to the Bills run game, uh shortly, and
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: when I do, I will be talking about him. Jason says,
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 1: do you think Babbage will be the defensive coordinator next season?
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 1: I don't think so, and I apologize for saying it
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 1: because I don't like to call for anyone's job. Ever,
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 1: I also hope not. I don't between what I saw
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 1: last year from run defense standpoint and then the turnaround
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 1: in the defense this year or the changes I should
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: say once McDermott took over. You either got to bring
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 1: in an experience or better DC, or let McDermott run
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 1: this defense. That's it. Like I I'm out on Babbage unfortunately. Okay, Oh,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: I want to grab this question real quick as it
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: ties in how concerned are you about how the offenses
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 1: looked this year when the opponent has had extra time
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 1: to prepare. It's a small sample, but it could say
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  Speaker 1: something about predictability one thousand percent. The Bills already are
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 1: a predictable offense, so if you get more time to prepare,
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: you can see much how predictable they are, and you
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: can pick up more on their tells and their tendencies
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: and they're telegraphing percent That's one of the first things
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  Speaker 1: I thought of with you know, how the Patriots played
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 1: him because they had a bunch of dudes in that
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: building who were so experienced with playing the Bills and
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: they kind of knew what was up a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But it's also part of why I'm really nervous for
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 1: the next Patriots game, because they have a bye week
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 1: and they already played the Bills. And yeah, so I
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 1: think they're predictable already in their offense, unfortunately. And you
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: tie that into teams having more time to watch and
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: more time to prepare and have more sample size. Yeah,
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 1: it it. It definitely says something about predictability. They are predictable,
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: and then teams having more time to prepare. It just
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: leans into that as well. And yet, exactly your point,
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 1: Cincinnati has a minibie they played on Thursday, they played
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 1: on Thanksgiving night. They do have that mini by sucks.
• 1:19:49
  Speaker 1: It is not helpful, and that's another very worrisome point.
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 1: Actually was gonna mention that later, but now I don't
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 1: have to mention that in my notes because you brought
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: this question. Now absolutely one thousand percent. This next piece,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 1: after the run defense, I talked about this person a
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 1: little bit in relation to it. Christian Penford. Multiple run
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 1: stops in this game, but just a really strong game
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: in general, multiple run stops. He shadowed DK Metcalf. I
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: do want to talk about that a little bit, because
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: he did have help when shadowing DK Metcalf, you know,
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 1: even in true man or just kind of his own stuff,
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 1: like he would have help over the top or like
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: true brackets where he could he could jam and get
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: physical with the line and kind of get into a
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 1: trail technique and play underneath. But he played well. He
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: played physical, he battled, not just against DK, but in general.
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 1: The multiple corner blitzes and the run stops were nice.
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 1: The interception was really nice to see. Yes, there's the
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 1: overthrow and you've got the help from you know, Dorian
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 1: sinking a little bit and then Shaq Thompson matching that
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 1: intermediate route which helps sail the throw from Mason Rudolph.
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: But Benford is able to make that interception because he
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 1: puts himself in position by spacing the deep route from
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: DK and then the route underneath. And I you know,
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: I think he talked about it. I saw the postgame
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: interview with him. He talked about it. Like that they
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 1: ran like double sevens. He saw it coming. He was
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: reading the quarterback. He was reading Mason Rudolph like the
• 1:21:11
  Speaker 1: angle of his shoulders and trying to decipher is he
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: trying to hit the deep seven to Metcalf or is
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: he trying to hit the one underneath? And Benford spaced
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: them appropriately while reading the quarterback and still being able to,
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of get to either route in the distribution.
• 1:21:27
  Speaker 1: And then he read the QB came up, was in
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: the right place at the right time, and then he
• 1:21:32
  Speaker 1: makes the pick, gets both feet down in bounds, really
• 1:21:36
  Speaker 1: really really really really nice play for Christian Benford, and
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: I think he's continued, do you know, get better as
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: the year has gone on. I never thought he fell
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: off a cliff, like seemingly the whole world. Did you know?
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 1: His contract is terrible, what a horrible resigning. He's awful.
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 1: He's more like a CV three than a CBE one
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: all the hyperbole that was around him. I never thought
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 1: he fell off a cliff like a lot of other
• 1:22:00
  Speaker 1: folks did. I also don't think he's in this rare
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: or top tier form right now like others might. I famously,
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: for those of you on the show, I said, going
• 1:22:09
  Speaker 1: into the year, I thought he had a chance to
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 1: firmly play himself into the top ten corners in the
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 1: league this year. I did not think he was a
• 1:22:15
  Speaker 1: top ten corner coming into this year. I think this
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: year has kind of also, you know, kind of lended
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: more support or lent more support to that claim from me,
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: not patting myself in back, just saying, and I know
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: he's been banged up this year, So the healthier is
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 1: he's gotten shocking, he's gotten better. But it's nice to
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 1: see his improved play and it's very helpful for this
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: defense if he can get back to the form where
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: some people think he's in the top ten or some
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 1: people think he's in the top five, or at worst
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: he's top fifteen or whatever. If you can get to
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: him to a spot where he is a true CB
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 1: one for you, again, it does a lot for unlocking
• 1:22:51
  Speaker 1: the rest of this defense. And him shadowing and traveling
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 1: with DK in man An Zone was really cool to
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 1: see getting in some press stuff, some off stuf, some
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: low red zone stuff, seeing him take the fight to DK.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: In an ideal world, if T Higgins is healthy, I'm
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 1: putting Benford on Higgins everywhere he goes, because I think
• 1:23:11
  Speaker 1: that's fighting fire with fire. I don't think Higgins has
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: an athleticism advantage against Benford like Chase does. Where it
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: can over it can, it makes a big difference and
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: swings the pendulum. Yes, T. Higgins is a monster. Benford
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: is also kind of a monster. Is a corner. I
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: like the idea of letting those two I don't know,
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: terodactyls or whatever kind of dinosaurs they are, Like, I
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: like the idea of those two dudes battling it out.
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: And then I'm putting Tray White or Max on Chase,
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: and I'm giving safety help over the top, and I'm
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 1: letting benfor I'm telling Benford like, hey, man, if Higgins plays,
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 1: you're on him all day, beat the hell out of him,
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: and see what's good. That's it. He's gonna get you.
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: You're gonna get got. But I'm putting Benford on Higgins,
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: and I'm letting him battle and fight and punch and
• 1:23:53
  Speaker 1: jam and beat the hell out of him for four
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 1: quarters and the cold and the snow, and then go
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 1: from there. And if he gets Moss at some point
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: or T. Higgins does one of the prototypical. You know,
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: makes a fifty to fifty ball and eighty twenty ball. Cool,
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: tip your cap and move on. Beat the hell out
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: him for four quarters and see what it gets you.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 1: That is what I would hope if t Higgins plays.
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: If he doesn't, you can change things up a little bit.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: I'd still do the Bill Belichick idea of then I'm
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: still if Higgins is out, I'm doubling Jamar Chase, and
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: I'm putting Benford on whoever's out there, and I'm like, yo, Benny,
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: they got a wide receiver three out there, go be
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: a CB one, lock them up and make sure the
• 1:24:29
  Speaker 1: ball doesn't go that way ever. But yeah, Benford's improved
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: play matters a lot because you can do those types
• 1:24:35
  Speaker 1: of things. And for a defense, this is how I
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: like to connect things here for a defense that has
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: struggled to stop the run this year, helpful not cure all,
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: but a helpful way to combat struggling against the run
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: is use more bodies gap out right instead of Okay,
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: there's seven potential blockers, let's put seven in the box. Nope,
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: let's put eight up. There's eight potential blockers. Okay, let's
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: put nine. Like we have to gap out. We have
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: to see what we can do. Right. That idea gets
• 1:25:04
  Speaker 1: more power to it when you have corners outside that
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: you can leave on an island, when you know, like, okay,
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: we can go single high and we can shade our
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 1: post safety a little over to this side to help
• 1:25:15
  Speaker 1: our CB two because we have a true CB one
• 1:25:17
  Speaker 1: out there and we can just let him rock, whether
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: it's true like man coverage and Cover one or if
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: it's Cover three and it's like, hey, it's Cover three
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: and you have a deep third, but that's your dude.
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: You're on him. We're gonna shade everything everywhere else. Right.
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: It helps coverage, but it helps to run defense as well,
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: knowing that you have a dude out there that doesn't
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: require safety help and can fight fire with fire by
• 1:25:37
  Speaker 1: himself on the outside. So shout out to Benford for
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: a scoop and score touchdown, multiple nice corner blitzes and
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 1: run stops in this game, and an interception. You know,
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: he really helped kind of turn this game on its
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: head a little bit. Really awesome to see him starting
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: to trend upwards again as we move towards the playoffs,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 1: move into the home stretch, crazy. That is, he's getting healthier,
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: he's you know, or as he's probably getting healthier, he's
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: getting better. Shock how that works? Really cool to see?
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: Now the next piece I want to talk about here
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: Where's where is it? I want to talk about the
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: run game in particular, you know, becaus I'm phrasing it
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: here like can the run game keep this up? Slash
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: and or carry the offense? What I want to talk
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: about and you know I mentioned earlier with you guys
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: put in the what was it the film the film
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: watchers or whoever said the twenty nine times thing? Oh,
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: let me stop? Kay Moore asked a good question, Kam Moore,
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: He says, in your semi realistic dream world, oh what
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 1: experienced defensive mind? Would you want to shake free? To
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: be the DC? I see a clean house. I see
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 1: a clean house. Wow? Why am I struggling today? I
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: see a house cleaning coming in Atlanta with Raheem Morris
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 1: and Jeff Olbrich. Any interest there anybody else? You know?
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: What sucks?
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: Is?
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: I wish this was last year. I wanted lou Ana Roumo,
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: I wanted Robert Salah. Those were the guys that you
• 1:27:02
  Speaker 1: know to kind of use your phrasing here that shook
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: free last year, that those are the guys who I
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: wanted right now, I'd have to see, like who actually
• 1:27:12
  Speaker 1: let me go into the NFL standings right now? Uh,
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: but let's see who. Let's let's kind of divert from
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: our regular schedule program and see. Okay, so I don't
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: know Titans, no Giants, no Saints, no Raiders, no commanders,
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: know Brown Who who I would say the Brown's defensive coordinators,
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: Jim Schwartz. M I wouldn't be opposed to that. If
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: they do a house cleaning in Cleveland and Stefanski goes
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: and oh, you guys both should sports, that's funny. Yeah.
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: And if Schwartz comes in, if I mean the Bills,
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: would Minnesota's kind of fallen off a cliff. If Kevin
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: O'Connell gets clipped, I'd love to get Brian Flores in here.
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: I don't think that would jibe with McDermott. That would
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: be my of guys who I think could get who
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 1: could shake loose, it'd be Schwartz and Flora's. I think
• 1:28:23
  Speaker 1: Schwartz you could get into Buffalo because I think him
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: and McDermott could get along from a identity standpoint, But
• 1:28:28
  Speaker 1: that's also part of it too, Like you have to
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 1: find somebody who will run the McDermott system, And that's
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 1: part of it too, right, Like all of like the
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 1: realism or the dream world, it all comes down to,
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 1: like how much McDermott is willing to change his defensive
• 1:28:41
  Speaker 1: philosophy and or identity and or him and Bean and
• 1:28:46
  Speaker 1: or him or Bean and Bean or whichever are willing
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: to change the positional archetypes on the interior, because like
• 1:28:53
  Speaker 1: that's you can knock so many dudes off the list
• 1:28:56
  Speaker 1: because they don't fit what be wants and or what
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: McDermott wants from a body type standpoint, archetype standpoint, and
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 1: identity philosophy standpoint. But if I had my druthers again
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: going through, Yeah, I look at the vikings are four
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: and eight, and things seem to be falling off terribly there.
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 1: You know, maybe O'Connor, I would take both guys. Actually,
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: if they both got clipped, I would take Kevin O'Connell's
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, take Brian Flora's defensive coordinator. But even though
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: you have Flores or O'Connell's had the head coach there
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: that's what I would rock with. I also like Arizona's DC,
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: but that ain't gonna happen here. Yeah, so that would
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: be me Flores or Jim Schwartz would be where I go.
• 1:29:42
  Speaker 1: Or if things really fall off a cliff, maybe Steve's
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: Bagnolo gets fired, I would bring Steve's bagnolo. That would
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 1: be awesome. But we'll see what happens. After that, good
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: question came more you think I I think you're again
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: for sending me to the DM and the Discord. I'm
• 1:30:02
  Speaker 1: gonna check that out as soon as the episode is done. Ah,
• 1:30:07
  Speaker 1: Claude says it. Yeah, I said it last week. You know.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: McDermott learned under Jim Johnson in Philly, and Jim Johnson
• 1:30:17
  Speaker 1: was play on the front foot attack and smashed dudes
• 1:30:21
  Speaker 1: in the face and blitz zone blitz his pressure. Again,
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: the game is different, right, Like Jeremiah Trotter is the
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: type of linebacker that could live in today's NFL. Like
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: he let alone like the other guys that they had
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: on that defense. Right, So I understand the nature of
• 1:30:39
  Speaker 1: not being like that completely, but yes, I would think
• 1:30:43
  Speaker 1: because he has that Jim Johnson blood in him, I've
• 1:30:48
  Speaker 1: said it for years, like I don't know he the
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: Carolina defense, And again I was understood the Carolina defense.
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: You have a nasty front four, and you've got two
• 1:30:55
  Speaker 1: all pro linebackers. You had an all pro corner. I
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: get just rushing for and dropping seven and playing corverage
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: left and right. I get it. But you don't have
• 1:31:04
  Speaker 1: that in Buffalo. I'm surprised every year that doesn't tap
• 1:31:07
  Speaker 1: into more of the Jim Johnson Philly defense. But yes,
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: it was a different game then, it's a different game.
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: Now you can't necessarily live that way. But I say
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 1: it every year. I said it on last week's episode.
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: I don't get it. Don't get it. Now, let's talk
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: about this Bills run game. Those who don't know, two
• 1:31:24
  Speaker 1: hundred and forty nine yards most versus a Steelers team
• 1:31:27
  Speaker 1: in Pittsburgh since nineteen seventy five. They also set the
• 1:31:32
  Speaker 1: opponent rushing record at this Steelers stadium. James Cook and
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 1: Ray Davis h ran the ball very well. We talked
• 1:31:41
  Speaker 1: about the concepts a little bit earlier, mid zone, inside zone,
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: and do them. We talk about those as we go forward.
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: Here some metrics and a little bit of some raw stuff.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: Eight runs of ten or more yards for the Bills
• 1:31:52
  Speaker 1: in week thirteen, that was the most on the week.
• 1:31:55
  Speaker 1: But then the metrics, and I talked about this a
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 1: little earlier, they were ninth and success rate at forty
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: seven point one and the twelfth in EPA per rush.
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: Like I think, you sit there and you say, man,
• 1:32:04
  Speaker 1: they ran for two hundred and forty nine yards. They
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: set this record, Oh my god, Like they probably had
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: an amazing day. Like I talked about, there were more
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 1: negative runs slash plays than it may seem given the
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: volume stats and the record talk in all of that
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: kind of stuff. The duo runs are a good example.
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I charted every single one. We're gonna go
• 1:32:23
  Speaker 1: over each one of them and the results. And I
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: think that kind of is a good microcosm for this.
• 1:32:29
  Speaker 1: And you've said it before, Joe Brady lived by the Sword,
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: Die by the Sword. I guess you could adjust it
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 1: this week to do live by the spam, Die by
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: the spam. You know, he's running duo back to back
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: to back. He's running you know, mid zone back to
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 1: back plays, he's running inside zone. It's the drive starters
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 1: on the first two drives, like the tendency the telegraphing,
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: the tells the predictability. It was there. But Pittsburgh had
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: an issue stopping the run and stopping you know, their
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: runs from this particular presentation, and had an issue with
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 1: mid zone and issue with duo, and the Bills rode that.
• 1:33:07
  Speaker 1: But again, there were a little more downs than I
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: think people kind of think considering all the ups they
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: had in this game. So the Bill's first duo run
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: came roughly midway through the second quarter, at the eight
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: to oh four mark. They had fourteen runs before their
• 1:33:26
  Speaker 1: first duo run, so that means nineteen of their next
• 1:33:31
  Speaker 1: thirty six thirty seven runs were duo. So more than
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 1: fifty percent of their runs from middle of the second
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 1: quarter through the end of the game were duo. And
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 1: here are all their games. Because again I talked about it,
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 1: this run duo as a concept, it worked this presentation,
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 1: whether from eleven personnel or twelve personnel, it worked because
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 1: they could get to duo on this side, they could
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 1: get to the mid zone stuff or inside zone on
• 1:33:59
  Speaker 1: this side, same presentation, same personnel groups, same motion, trying
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 1: to kind of they know what we know, but we
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 1: know that they know that we know. Type of deal.
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 1: It worked for them, but there were more struggles than
• 1:34:11
  Speaker 1: I think were kind of giving credit for her, kind
• 1:34:15
  Speaker 1: of acknowledged a lot of their work here again, Tyrrel Shavers,
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: as James mentioned earlier in the chat huge week, whether
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 1: it was the front side stuff on duo or even
• 1:34:25
  Speaker 1: when they kind of put him hipped off of Ryan
• 1:34:27
  Speaker 1: Vandermark on the left side and they ran duo opposite
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: of him to the tight end side, whether it was
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: him washing dudes down on the mid zone runs, the
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: inside zone runs, Tyrol Shavers was a monster. Kalusha Kiir
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 1: was a good blocker in this game. Dawson Knox was
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 1: a good blocker in this game. Jackson Hawes was a
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: good blocker in this game. Hawes was good. I think
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: he had He's another one. I think he had some
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 1: more downs that are beging talked about. I saw some
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: people talking about him being like the best blocking tight
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: end in the league. I don't think that's true. And
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 1: this game he again he got beat at times, but
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 1: he watching him block. You high Black who's three hundred
• 1:35:02
  Speaker 1: and seventy pounds, He's blocking JJ watt uh tj I
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: did it again and giving him a little bit even
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 1: if he gets beat after, but he's holding him initially
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: at the point of attack and doing what he needs
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: to do, let alone digging out like linebackers and safeties
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. It's a really good execution.
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 1: But these duo runs, so again, it started midway through
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: the second quarter. Here are there gains on all the
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: duo runs from the first one midway through the second
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: quarter to the last one towards the end of the
• 1:35:30
  Speaker 1: fourth quarter. Fourteen yards three yards, seven yards, four yards,
• 1:35:36
  Speaker 1: nine yards, two yards, six yards, three yards, seven yards,
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: one yard, thirteen yards, zero yards negative three yards three yards,
• 1:35:46
  Speaker 1: seven yards negative three yards, five yards, three yards, zero yards.
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: So again on the whole eighty one yards on nineteen
• 1:35:55
  Speaker 1: carries for duo in particular, that concept that is a
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: yards per carry of four point two two that well,
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 1: four point two six around up to four point three.
• 1:36:03
  Speaker 1: That is successful. That is a good chunk. That's nice.
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: But again I think that concept ties to like, Okay,
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: that's why they only had a forty seven point one
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 1: success rate on the weekend. We're nice. That's why their
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 1: EPA per rush was twelfth on the weekend, not super high,
• 1:36:18
  Speaker 1: because they had some good chunks again, they ripped off
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 1: you know, fourteen yards seven yards, nine yard six seven
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 1: thirteen seven, like five healthy chunks. But then you also
• 1:36:28
  Speaker 1: add three two three one zero negative three three negative
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 1: three three zero. A lot of these done out of
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 1: eleven and twelve personnel. I'm gonna go so same same
• 1:36:41
  Speaker 1: plays that I rattled off the yards for, I'm gonna
• 1:36:44
  Speaker 1: rattle off the personnel in order from middle of the
• 1:36:46
  Speaker 1: second quarter through the end. Eleven personnel eleven eleven, eleven, eleven, eleven, twelve, twelve, twelve, eleven, twelve, twelve,
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 1: twenty two, twelve twelve, twenty two, eleven eleven, twenty two.
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: They started to work in some gigillium towards the end,
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: when things were like twenty three eight to seven and
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: twenty six to seven in the game. Wasn't hand a
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 1: little bit, but they were leaning into Shakir Shavers and
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 1: that eleven personnel and then usually throwing Cooks out as
• 1:37:13
  Speaker 1: the solo receiver as the X, but they could have
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 1: been anybody gave Davis two, it didn't matter, and then
• 1:37:18
  Speaker 1: leaning into Hawes and knocks in twelve personnel. Good stuff
• 1:37:23
  Speaker 1: from them, really mashing, and then even two being in
• 1:37:26
  Speaker 1: twelve personnel and having it be Knocks and Hawes, and
• 1:37:29
  Speaker 1: then one of your two receivers is Tyrrel Shavers still
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 1: attached to them working really well. And again everything was
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: that trips or tight bunch type of deal. So if
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: we're going to the right here you have your five
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 1: offensive lineman, it goes to Alec Anderson. In line next
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 1: to him is Jackson Hawes, and then you'd have Khalil
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 1: Shakir on his inside foot or on his outside foot,
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 1: and then Tyrol Shaver's on his inside foot, and then
• 1:37:56
  Speaker 1: the twelve personnel stuff you would have Hawes or in
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 1: line usually Hawes. Then you'd have Knocks hipped off of him,
• 1:38:05
  Speaker 1: slightly off the line, and then Shavers would be behind
• 1:38:08
  Speaker 1: the two of them. So it's still like a not
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 1: a traditional type of bunch look, but it's still a
• 1:38:12
  Speaker 1: tight trip still kind of a bunch look. There they
• 1:38:16
  Speaker 1: leaned into the same presentation, the same personnel groupings, the
• 1:38:19
  Speaker 1: same formula, essentially over and over and over again. Also
• 1:38:25
  Speaker 1: a fun note, I tweeted this late last night, but
• 1:38:32
  Speaker 1: bye the bills. Uh. They were in twelve personnel on
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 1: thirty six thirty six point five percent of their snaps
• 1:38:39
  Speaker 1: versus the Steelers. That was their highest rate of twelve
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 1: personnel on the year. Their previous high was against the
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 1: Bucks and it was seventeen point nine percent. So they
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 1: doubled their previous twelve personnel their previous highest twelve personnel
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 1: rate from several weeks ago against the Bucks. They leaned
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 1: into twelve ran the ball, leaned in to eleven ran,
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 1: the ball mashed, mash, mashed, mashed, mashed, mashed, and on
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 1: the whole it worked out. But again, as I went
• 1:39:08
  Speaker 1: in those numbers, I don't think it was as strong
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: of a performance as it may seem. It got the
• 1:39:13
  Speaker 1: job done. They set a record from a volume standpoint,
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: but from a metrics standpoint and an efficiency standpoint, still good,
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: right twelfth and EPA per rush ninth and success rate.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: But you're putting up a record and you're rushing for
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: two hundred and forty nine yards. I think it's fair
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 1: to assume all they must have been like top three
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: at worst, or probably first or second in EPA per
• 1:39:32
  Speaker 1: rush and success rate, and they were not, which I
• 1:39:35
  Speaker 1: think is interesting. Now I want to also actually let's
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 1: grab this comment here, but can you bring this knife
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: to a gunfight. We won't find out. I still think
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: you know, and Jason, I see your comment as well
• 1:39:48
  Speaker 1: or your question. I'm gonna tie that in now. I
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: still think it's going to be tough for them to
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: run against teams that are better run defenses, you know,
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: teams that have better players and or better coaching, and
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: or teams that have good corners. Again, the Patriots, I
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: think are gonna be an issue because Gonzales and Davis
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: are a good corner tandem on the outside, and Barmore
• 1:40:06
  Speaker 1: and Williams are a problem on the interior, let alone
• 1:40:08
  Speaker 1: the linebackers and how they fit against the run. So
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: as you face better teams and teams you're gonna face
• 1:40:13
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs, like if the Colts are healthy, You've
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: got Bucker and Grover Stewart on the interior, and then
• 1:40:18
  Speaker 1: behind them you got Pratt, and you got Zaire Franklin,
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: and then behind them it's cam Bine him and Nick Cross.
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 1: We'll see. I didn't see the injury to Sauce Gardner
• 1:40:25
  Speaker 1: was confirmed there, but oh no Williams next week. That's helpful,
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: good call, kay More, you thank you for that. So
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: you're just dealing with Barmore and then what's his face?
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: Whose name? I can never they put him in on
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: offense too. Oh what is his name? I forget all
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: the time. Ah, well Tong is hurt too, that's the
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 1: other guy I was talking, so man, So yeah, the
• 1:40:52
  Speaker 1: Pats might be down on the interior in a couple
• 1:40:54
  Speaker 1: of weeks. No Tonga, I always forget his first name, yea,
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 1: No Tonga uh and no million Williams would help. But yeah,
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: thank you, Kay Moore, your crushing. I appreciate you. I
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 1: see your follow ups there. Yeah. I think they'll struggle
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: against teams that have more talent on the interior and
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 1: or teams that have good or athletic corners on the outside.
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 1: If they face teams with both, it's going to be
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 1: a big problem. They still need to be able to
• 1:41:17
  Speaker 1: pass the ball in some way. I don't think they can,
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: you know, kind of going into my question here, can
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: they can the run game keep this up? Carry the offense.
• 1:41:24
  Speaker 1: I think they will continue to be a successful running team.
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: I don't think it can completely carry the offense like
• 1:41:30
  Speaker 1: it did this week where Josh Allen completes the ball
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: fifteen times for one hundred and twenty three yards and
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 1: you win that game. Like, that's going to be tough
• 1:41:38
  Speaker 1: sledding in the playoffs. To be that one dimensional in
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: that side of they are going to have to push
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 1: the ball downfield and win on the outside and win
• 1:41:47
  Speaker 1: downfield at some point and generate chunk plays. They are
• 1:41:51
  Speaker 1: going to have to do that. If they don't, I
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 1: think it likely likely is a death sentence for them. Now,
• 1:41:58
  Speaker 1: could they still win without during that? Without doing that? Sure,
• 1:42:02
  Speaker 1: maybe they can run the ball gun good enough. There's
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 1: a chance they can. Maybe they get more turnovers on
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 1: defense and that and it flips the pendulum right and
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 1: kind of makes the difference. There are paths to success
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 1: without the pass game kind of pulling its weight like
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 1: it needs to. But I think it's gonna be tough
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 1: slim also. Again, so we went through the duo plays.
• 1:42:23
  Speaker 1: So again nineteen plays, and this is me charting this.
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 1: This is I'm not pulling, you know. I went to
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 1: this site and looked up duo runs. I charted all
• 1:42:29
  Speaker 1: these These are just my charting notes. So nineteen carries
• 1:42:33
  Speaker 1: for duo, six for mid zone, five for inside zone.
• 1:42:38
  Speaker 1: The mid zone runs and the inside zone runs essentially
• 1:42:43
  Speaker 1: start out kind of the same way. Again, that similar presentation,
• 1:42:48
  Speaker 1: that similar type of look, and you're getting the running
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: back in the backfield, so single back, backfield look, and
• 1:42:54
  Speaker 1: you are getting that drop step from them, and they
• 1:42:58
  Speaker 1: are getting their shoulders like forty five degrees. On the
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: mid zone runs, their ain point is the inside leg
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: of the offensive tackle, So you're essentially looking at like
• 1:43:06
  Speaker 1: the B gap, but the inside leg of the offensive tackle.
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 1: On inside zone, their aim point is the inside the
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: leg of the guard. What we were seeing early on
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 1: is there was more inside zone, which the Bills don't
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: do a ton of. They've done some more this year,
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 1: but they traditionally in majority this year, been a mid
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 1: zone team when they run zone runs, especially out of
• 1:43:23
  Speaker 1: this presentation. So you'll get that drop step from the
• 1:43:25
  Speaker 1: running back, they'll turn their shoulders essentially to the B gap,
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: and they'll go right for that inside leg of the
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 1: offensive tackle. Maybe they'll stay there, maybe they'll cut back,
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 1: go wherever. You know. Leg zone runs do flow like water,
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 1: find the hole, go from there right. But the inside
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: zone runs early you were seeing that drop step and
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 1: that shoulder turn, but instead of continuing on that angle,
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: it was a turn and an upfield getting into more
• 1:43:50
  Speaker 1: of the inside leg of the guard, getting into more
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 1: of that a gap immediately downhill presence, which I guess
• 1:43:59
  Speaker 1: is under stainable or more understandable why that dude thought
• 1:44:02
  Speaker 1: it was they all the same run because duo can
• 1:44:04
  Speaker 1: look like inside zone, but this didn't present like that,
• 1:44:08
  Speaker 1: So I don't really think that's excusable, But to each
• 1:44:11
  Speaker 1: their own whatever. Not to mention too, they ran a
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: bunch of mid zone in this game, but there runs
• 1:44:16
  Speaker 1: in this game. Early on it was mid zone and
• 1:44:19
  Speaker 1: early on it was inside zone. Then they started adding
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 1: in duo, found duo, stayed with it, got back to
• 1:44:25
  Speaker 1: some of their mid zone stuff. During the game, Ray
• 1:44:27
  Speaker 1: Davis had a couple of successful runs on midzone and
• 1:44:29
  Speaker 1: some duo stuff, and that's what they leaned into in
• 1:44:33
  Speaker 1: this game again because like we talked about, they can
• 1:44:36
  Speaker 1: get to either run from the same presentation and there's
• 1:44:40
  Speaker 1: minimal tells. Now, yes, there is kind of a tell like, Okay,
• 1:44:43
  Speaker 1: they're in this look, they're either gonna run duo or
• 1:44:47
  Speaker 1: they're gonna rund like midzone week Like, yes, that's a tendency,
• 1:44:51
  Speaker 1: Yes that's a tell. One you still have to stop it.
• 1:44:54
  Speaker 1: So if you can execute at a high level cool
• 1:44:57
  Speaker 1: you can get you can play above that if you're
• 1:44:58
  Speaker 1: the bills, but also the accounting for both of those
• 1:45:02
  Speaker 1: require you to have numbers or ass kickers or winners
• 1:45:07
  Speaker 1: on both sides. You have to do it on the
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: front side, strong side, you have to do it on
• 1:45:11
  Speaker 1: the weak side backside, like you have to do that
• 1:45:12
  Speaker 1: either way on both sides. That's a tough ask. So
• 1:45:15
  Speaker 1: it may be like, well, we know it's either going
• 1:45:17
  Speaker 1: to be A or it's going to be B, but
• 1:45:20
  Speaker 1: it's hard to allocate resources to simultaneously stop A and
• 1:45:23
  Speaker 1: B at the same time, which is a nice little
• 1:45:25
  Speaker 1: thing for them, So there's a chance they could ride
• 1:45:28
  Speaker 1: this wave going forward. I also think it's interesting that
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 1: they kind of debted that blast counter look that I
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: love so much, but because they run it from only
• 1:45:37
  Speaker 1: one presentation or they don't really run anything else out
• 1:45:39
  Speaker 1: of that presentation, teams have included on it and keyed
• 1:45:42
  Speaker 1: in on it. They even got into it a little
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: bit this week, but then would run like zone to
• 1:45:46
  Speaker 1: the weak side, opposite of the strong side of the forum,
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 1: opposite of the strong eye or the offset. I it
• 1:45:52
  Speaker 1: got shut down both times. I think I ran it twice.
• 1:45:54
  Speaker 1: It did not work, but I liked that they were
• 1:45:57
  Speaker 1: showing that, making you think like, here comes blast counter
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 1: and then it wasn't that run. But the issue was
• 1:46:03
  Speaker 1: it was still going to the same side, and I
• 1:46:04
  Speaker 1: think Steelers were still kind of sensing it or thinking
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 1: that the blast counter was coming in either way. Playing
• 1:46:09
  Speaker 1: for that led them to stop that run. But it's
• 1:46:12
  Speaker 1: nice to see the Bills can lean into this piece.
• 1:46:15
  Speaker 1: I've talked about it last year when they did the
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 1: same thing, like they can run mid zone week and
• 1:46:19
  Speaker 1: they can run duo, and they can do it from
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 1: the same personnel, the same presentation, the same alignment, the
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 1: same motions, the same formation. They could do it into
• 1:46:30
  Speaker 1: the boundary, they can do it into the field. It
• 1:46:33
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. Like they can run both and you can
• 1:46:35
  Speaker 1: sit there and be like, well, they don't really do
• 1:46:37
  Speaker 1: anything else out of that. One thing that was nice
• 1:46:39
  Speaker 1: is they showed that presentation later in the game in
• 1:46:41
  Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and you thought, do what was coming
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 1: and they went play action and they hit Dawson Knox,
• 1:46:46
  Speaker 1: which was nice. Now you are limiting yourself to a
• 1:46:52
  Speaker 1: degree if you're only going to run out of this presentation.
• 1:46:54
  Speaker 1: I do think more play action out of this presentation
• 1:46:56
  Speaker 1: would help in particular Boots, but that's just my general philosophy.
• 1:46:59
  Speaker 1: In gen what was nice in this game. They did
• 1:47:01
  Speaker 1: have a thirty four point eight play action rate on
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: this in this game, which was seventh highest on the week.
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 1: Nice to see. But I think they can ride this
• 1:47:08
  Speaker 1: presentation in this grouping, you know, with how their wide
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 1: receiver room is built, with how their tight ends are built,
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 1: and go forward from there. And again it may be, hey,
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 1: eighty five percent of the time, we know it's gonna
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 1: be mid zone or it's gonna be duo. But even
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: though you know it's probably gonna be A or B,
• 1:47:25
  Speaker 1: it's hard to equally allocate resources to A and B
• 1:47:29
  Speaker 1: to stop A or B. And that's where it comes
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: down to, do you have guys that can win one
• 1:47:34
  Speaker 1: on one if you're the defense. If you do, your
• 1:47:36
  Speaker 1: odds increase, so on and so forth, And that's where
• 1:47:37
  Speaker 1: the chess match begins. So I think there's a chance,
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 1: but it's still gonna be tough if the past game
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: can't do its part. And again, the past game was
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: ugly in this game. Yes, the weather did not help. Yes,
• 1:47:48
  Speaker 1: there's no Dalton Kincaid. Yes, there's no Josh Palmer. Yes,
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 1: both of your starting tackles are out all understandable by
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 1: thought in general. Just the pass catchers, no matter who
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: it was, really just they look slow and sluggish across
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: the board. There was minimal separation shock Alan was skittish
• 1:48:05
  Speaker 1: at times even when he didn't have to be. I
• 1:48:07
  Speaker 1: think the past game is still very much a work
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 1: slash watch in progress with very real concerns. They are predictable.
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 1: They don't push the ball down the field, you know
• 1:48:16
  Speaker 1: with Alan and or conceptually and or by design, you know,
• 1:48:20
  Speaker 1: they run the kind of the same old stuff in
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 1: high leverage situations as drive starters. Is the feel good stuff. Like,
• 1:48:26
  Speaker 1: there's not really a lot of variability. There's not a
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 1: lot of talent, there's not a lot of creativity or effectiveness.
• 1:48:32
  Speaker 1: I do think there's struggles in the past against Pittsburgh,
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 1: like I mentioned earlier, are glossed over, understandably so by
• 1:48:39
  Speaker 1: the overall win and the performance on the ground. And
• 1:48:41
  Speaker 1: I do like that play action rate. But they are
• 1:48:44
  Speaker 1: going to have to get more from the past going forward.
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 1: I just even though the AFC is wide open, I
• 1:48:50
  Speaker 1: think it's the odds of them getting the right game
• 1:48:53
  Speaker 1: script working in twofold. The odds of them getting the
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 1: right game script working for them where they don't have
• 1:49:00
  Speaker 1: to worry about their run defense and they don't have
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: to worry about their passing offense. The odds of them
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: getting that game script are gonna be too hard. Even
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 1: for one of those things, it's going to be hard.
• 1:49:10
  Speaker 1: Is it impossible? No, odds are low though for one
• 1:49:15
  Speaker 1: of those, let alone both. But it's a good performance
• 1:49:20
  Speaker 1: in this game, obviously, Tom in here saying I like
• 1:49:22
  Speaker 1: to see more play action out of that strong formation.
• 1:49:24
  Speaker 1: Look boot out and hit Reggie in the flat. Give
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: me some more slide routes, give me something. They should
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 1: be a high play action team. They have a dominant
• 1:49:32
  Speaker 1: run game. They should be a high play action team.
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 1: They should be a thirty five play action team. They're not,
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 1: which I remember someone saying it last year, like maybe
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  Speaker 1: Allan doesn't like play action or turning his back to
• 1:49:43
  Speaker 1: the defense. I'm kind of getting into that boat because
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  Speaker 1: it makes absolutely no sense that they don't run more
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  Speaker 1: play action like it. It's especially this year where they're
• 1:49:51
  Speaker 1: struggling to pass the ball. Play action is an easy
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  Speaker 1: way to get some you know, some chunk plays or
• 1:49:58
  Speaker 1: some explosives or just get some depletions in general, and
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 1: it ties into your run game. It's criminal that they're
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  Speaker 1: not doing it this year. I don't I don't get it.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand, which makes you think there has to
• 1:50:08
  Speaker 1: be something else going on. But we'll see. Uh with that,
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  Speaker 1: John Devine says, Adam theeling to Buffalo, that would be, uh,
• 1:50:18
  Speaker 1: that would be I tweeted it yesterday to kind of
• 1:50:21
  Speaker 1: the that one gift of the lady being like no, no,
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  Speaker 1: well and kind of playing that game. I I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: hate it. I wouldn't have a ton of hope for it.
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  Speaker 1: I think at this point it dart throws don't hurt
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  Speaker 1: because there's not really anywhere to go but up with
• 1:50:42
  Speaker 1: the wide receiver room. No disrespect, but the feeling would
• 1:50:45
  Speaker 1: be tough in this offense. But we'll see, we'll see,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see. I want to grab some on their RJA
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: talking about play action Yep, yep, yep, Nicholas, yep. More
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: boots would be great, especially with the wide receiver cords,
• 1:50:59
  Speaker 1: the struggles with operation, plus how good Alan is on
• 1:51:02
  Speaker 1: the run. I agree, Carl, great comment, he says Josh
• 1:51:07
  Speaker 1: Allen got a rushing touchdown to set the record, but
• 1:51:09
  Speaker 1: I gotta say that touchdown belongs to Alec Anderson. Josh
• 1:51:11
  Speaker 1: will stop and Alec picked Josh up and carried him
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  Speaker 1: in from like the three yard line. Yeah. Torrents mashed
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  Speaker 1: and then fell down, and then Anderson mashed and picked
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 1: up and carried it. Was Uh. I tweeted it when
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 1: it happened that like rugby coaches and rugby teams would
• 1:51:23
  Speaker 1: be impressed with how good of a mall that was. Like,
• 1:51:25
  Speaker 1: that was an a tier, classy mall, even though you're
• 1:51:29
  Speaker 1: not supposed to like lift it. But they got in
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 1: like mid level they drove. Yeah, and then Anderson carried
• 1:51:33
  Speaker 1: him up. Beautiful mall for that touchdown. We've seen that before.
• 1:51:37
  Speaker 1: Uh for the Bills and uh for Allen. Oh steel
• 1:51:40
  Speaker 1: the Steelers picked up feeling, Oh that's so petty, that's
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: so rude. Understandable but rude. Oh I'm annoyed. I didn't
• 1:51:52
  Speaker 1: even care that much, but like now I'm annoyed. I'm
• 1:51:55
  Speaker 1: just annoyed because it's that I hate the Steelers, not
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: because of that, but I just like don't like the
• 1:52:00
  Speaker 1: as a franchise. I think I've Saithing before on the show.
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: Like Ed Reid's my favorite player, so I would root
• 1:52:04
  Speaker 1: to I would root for the Ravens when the bill
• 1:52:06
  Speaker 1: seasons would be done. I also love Terrell Suggs, So
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: I have a healthy hatred for the Steelers and I
• 1:52:10
  Speaker 1: probably will for forever. Yeah, you know what, I don't
• 1:52:14
  Speaker 1: have a healthy hatred for the best pizza in Buffalo,
• 1:52:17
  Speaker 1: New York. One Pie Pizza. I don't say they're the
• 1:52:21
  Speaker 1: best pizza in Buffalo because they sponsor the show. They
• 1:52:23
  Speaker 1: sponsor the show because I sincerely believe they are the
• 1:52:26
  Speaker 1: best pizza in Buffalo, New York. Sweet sauce pie cup
• 1:52:29
  Speaker 1: and char Pepperoni, a great cheese, the sauce ratio, homemade
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: blue cheese. They make great salads. They have a catering
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: division called Elevated Catering a Buffalo where they do they
• 1:52:39
  Speaker 1: can do different events or parties or whatever you got
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 1: going on. They have all these great mac and cheeses,
• 1:52:44
  Speaker 1: different types of mac and cheese. You can still get
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: the pizza, you can get the salad options. They do
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: a really good chicken and rice and all that stuff.
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you, Joey for recognizing the smooth transition. Wasn't playing,
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: it just happened, Thank you very much. They really are
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: absolutely amazing with their food. The Toys for Tots drive,
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: we are in full effect. I will be getting a
• 1:53:02
  Speaker 1: list of what the prizes are and options are that
• 1:53:05
  Speaker 1: I'll be following up on with them. But we got
• 1:53:07
  Speaker 1: Toys for Tots coming. So go in, get yourself some
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: food that is amazing, like sincerely, and also bring a
• 1:53:15
  Speaker 1: toy or multiple toys at the same time for that.
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: So go in, treat yourself and your taste buds and
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: or you know, just enter yourself an opportunity to win
• 1:53:26
  Speaker 1: some stuff in a raffle. Again, a lot of it's
• 1:53:28
  Speaker 1: a prizes are usually buffalo bills or sabers or sports
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: like merch autograph stuff, helmets, jerseys, tickets. There's also like
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 1: free pizzas and different stuff. There's a ton of like
• 1:53:37
  Speaker 1: awesome options. And even if you don't care about any
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: of that, I say it every year. I love Christmas. Obviously,
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: I love this holiday season. It's unfortunately not as awesome
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 1: for everyone around the world and around the country like
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 1: it should be. So if you are in a position
• 1:53:54
  Speaker 1: to donate, if you are in a position to give
• 1:53:59
  Speaker 1: back if you are in position to make a kid's
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 1: Christmas or a family's Christmas, or alleviate some stuff from
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 1: a family or parents that are struggling, and just bring
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 1: some joy to anyone in any way, shape or form. Again,
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 1: even if it's not with toys for Tots for One Pie,
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 1: if it's with donations somewhere else, whatever the hell, if
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 1: you are able to do some good and try and
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: make a difference to a kid or a family in
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 1: need this holiday season. So I always encourage that. And
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 1: I know what One Pie does with the toys, and
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 1: I know toyster Toots is awesome, and I know you
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 1: can also get some food at the same time, So
• 1:54:30
  Speaker 1: that's why I plug that. But in general, donate, do good,
• 1:54:33
  Speaker 1: you know, give back all that kind of stuff. And yeah,
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: One Pie, They're pizza is fantastic. Guys, I say all
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 1: the time. They're good people, making really good food, toys
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: for tots, stuff, partnering with Roswell, the SPCA, the Alzheimer's Foundation,
• 1:54:46
  Speaker 1: just a ton of drives and initiatives to help make
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 1: the city and the community at large a better place
• 1:54:50
  Speaker 1: here in Buffalo. And I think that's awesome. So yeah,
• 1:54:53
  Speaker 1: donate get some pizza all that kind of stuff. Oh, Carlson,
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 1: I'm going to Buffalo for the Eagles game. Do I
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 1: get a disc on One Pi Pizza? If I mentioned your name, Yes,
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 1: mentioned that you are there at One Pie Pizza because
• 1:55:08
  Speaker 1: you watch this guy's coverage and you love the show
• 1:55:11
  Speaker 1: and the show is always talking about how amazing One
• 1:55:13
  Speaker 1: Pie Pizza is and you need to get some One
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: Pie Pizza. Yes, drop the show, drop my name, all
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. They also have a pizza named
• 1:55:23
  Speaker 1: after us after cover one and the show, which is
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 1: pretty cool. So yeah, absolutely do that and enjoy that
• 1:55:29
  Speaker 1: and then get back to me, whether it's on social wherever,
• 1:55:32
  Speaker 1: whether it's not here. I want feedback. I want to
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: know what pizza you got. I want to know how
• 1:55:36
  Speaker 1: good it was. Everything. Let me know all that in
• 1:55:39
  Speaker 1: every way, shape and form. I'm gonna put up the
• 1:55:42
  Speaker 1: banner that says tootles folks, So we're gonna start to
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: wind down and say goodbye before we completely say goodbye.
• 1:55:46
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• 1:55:53
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• 1:55:55
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• 1:55:57
  Speaker 1: Now we get some more of that would be I
• 1:55:59
  Speaker 1: hate schilling out and asking for it. It's corny, but
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  Speaker 1: ake on this video. Yes, Argie says, the Cover One
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  Speaker 1: pizza was amazing. By the way it is. It's called
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: the Cover One al and Goat. It's got goat cheese
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: and chicken. And I always tell myself not to I'm
• 1:56:19
  Speaker 1: gonna hold on, hold on, let me let me read
• 1:56:24
  Speaker 1: the ingredients because I always forget. And there's a couple
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: that are absolutely just phenomenal. So it is. They're homemade
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: red sauce, goat cheese, chicken fingers, mozzarella cheese, red onion,
• 1:56:36
  Speaker 1: and bacon. And it is absolutely phenomenal. And then if
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: you get some blue cheese to go along with it, man,
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 1: you will not be disappointed. Good shout out there, RJ.
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you that. James says, don't you get a free
• 1:56:49
  Speaker 1: blueberry buffett if you mentioned Ant's name. That's funny. I wish,
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  Speaker 1: I wish I could add that in. That's good. Yes,
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• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: Charles says, ain't personally delivers it to your home. I might.
• 1:57:31
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• 1:57:34
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• 1:57:41
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• 1:57:46
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  Speaker 1: in this episode and your good thought provoking questions. Appreciate
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• 1:57:55
  Speaker 1: It's always awesome to see the engagement in the back
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• 1:58:00
  Speaker 1: you both for being here in the kind words as
• 1:58:02
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• 1:58:05
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• 1:58:07
  Speaker 1: I'm by myself. I think it's corny, but I see it,
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: and I do sincerely and wholeheartedly appreciate it. But thank
• 1:58:12
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• 1:58:13
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• 1:58:17
  Speaker 1: all that stuff. Again, we went for the first forty
• 1:58:19
  Speaker 1: minutes of the show was just really question and answer
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 1: and the open forum that we have on the show weekly.
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: I like continuing that format, but I can really only
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 1: do that if we do have, you know, a good
• 1:58:28
  Speaker 1: chunk of people in here and a lot of engagement
• 1:58:31
  Speaker 1: and a lot of quality engagement, good questions, good comments,
• 1:58:34
  Speaker 1: good back and forth, all that kind of stuff. So
• 1:58:36
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• 1:58:38
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• 1:58:41
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• 1:58:52
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• 1:58:56
  Speaker 1: and yeah, thank you very much. I hope everybody had
• 1:58:58
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• 1:59:00
  Speaker 1: you had it. I hope you're having a good start
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 1: to your December and holiday. If you're living in Buffalo,
• 1:59:04
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• 1:59:08
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• 1:59:28
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• 1:59:34
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• 1:59:37
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  Speaker 1: five pm Eastern. And yeah, I appreciate you folks. Enjoy
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• 2:00:04
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