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pro Underscore Underscore ant that's pro two underscores a n T in tonight's episode of
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Disguised Coverage. I am piggybacking a bit on last week's episode of Disguised Coverage,
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one of my favorite episodes I've ever done. Had JP Acosta on from
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sp Nation, and we went into detail, a lot of detail. It
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was a two hour episode, which isn't unheard of for this show, but
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with a guest for the entirety of the episode, it kind of is so
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huge. Shout out to JP again. But JP and I dove into how
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the Buffalo Bills twenty twenty four offense can adapt and evolve, and in that
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episode last week, we really went into who the Bills were last year,
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the changes that the offense has undergone this offseason, what that means for twenty
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twenty four, and then putting all of that within or against the backdrop of
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current league wide trends offensively and defensively. And it was a great conversation,
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and I wanted to piggyback off of some of that for this episode and really
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just focusing and really just focused, I should say, on the run game
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aspect of it. We talked about it a bit last week, but I
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wanted to dive into some more pieces because there are some things that I wanted
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to hit, some things I wanted to wrap up, some loose ends to
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tie together. This episode will focus on. So again, we're going to
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dive into a bunch of pieces from the Bills twenty twenty three run game,
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from a metrics perspective and from a schematic x's and o's perspective, put that
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together with what we've seen from this offseason, and then put that against the
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backdrop again of league wide trends changes, how the Bills fit into that positively
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and or negatively, What teams to look for or glean information from in terms
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of roster construction and on field execution and design that could potentially give us some
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breadcrumbs or clues in terms of what the Bills will look like this year.
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So that is going to be focused for this episode. And oh man,
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two minutes and twenty eight seconds day, and I flubbed my first word already.
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Man, I'm disappointed in myself. And as always for those tuning in
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live to this episode, questions, thoughts, comments, concerns, beliefs,
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philosophies, ideologies, maxims, whatever have you thrown up into the live chat.
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As we go along, I try to bring up anything and everything I
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can. Super chats of course get priority because I respect a monetary donation,
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but also because the color tracks my eyes and pulls me away from my notes.
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So again, anything he got throwed up into the chat, I'll bring
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it up as we go forward. I like to make the show as engaging
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as possible. Appreciate Steve coming in early, dropping a like on the show
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before we even went live. Appreciate you, Steve Cammory, regular viewer,
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Regular viewer saying I need more muffins where the blueberries are evenly distributed. I
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will Bruce Nolan posted something on Twitter, I think last week or maybe the
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week before, where he got a blueberry muffin and the blueberry distribution was not
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equal, and he sent me a picture of it in Tagman and I was
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pretty happy with that. What's up? Rj RG saying, hey, everyone,
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hoping James Cook can learn how to not drop every important touchdown catch he
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gets thrown. He traditionally has not been a dropper of the football. I
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think in actually not even I think I know because I did a show earlier
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today with Joe Marino his career drop rated Georgia. I think was like one
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five percent. His highest individual season was five point nine percent, and he
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literally had one drop that season. Again, drop percentages obviously from an overall
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volume and target standpoint, so the five point nine percent seems even worse than
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just the overall volume, which is just one drop versus how much he was
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targeted and throwing the ball. But yeah, I think a lot of the
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drops, these issues with James Cook really does center around the notion of they
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weren't just like, oh, he dropped, you know, one pass on
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a first down in a game that didn't really matter. It's always like he
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dropped this touchdown, he dropped this touchdown, he dropped this this ball in
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this high leverage situation in a game that really mattered. I think the Eagles
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one is still the biggest one. Yeah, and his artist says, yeah,
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James Cook only drops important catches for some reason. He's made some big
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ones too, some catches that have really mattered. But yeah, it's it's
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it's something that I'm not I'm not overly concerned about because I don't think having
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the drops or the drop seas is something that's really indicative of who he is
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as a player. Again, who knows, maybe it's in his head now
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and we'll see what happens going forward. But yeah, I'm not too worried
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about it. I think it'll be fine going down the road. But I
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know it's something that a lot of people are latching onto. A chief comes
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in and says Ray Davis receiving back season, Man, this is an aspect
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of Ray Davis's game. Eric and I talked about it last week in the
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film room. Oh, I don't want to actually, and I think it
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might be my favorite part of Ray Davis's game. It's an aspect that I
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think is really underrated, just what he can do out of the backfield in
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terms of the screen game, in terms of releasing out of the backfield when
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he doesn't have to be part of the protection scheme, and even just running
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routes like running rail routes up the sideline. His feel for leverage and space
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and coverage I think is better than advertised when it comes to his game.
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I do think he's a guy you can put on the field and you're not
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necessarily tipping your hand in terms of whether it's going to be a run or
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a pass, which is something I really like. I forget all these k
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Moore's saying the Miami drop didn't end up mattering. I forgot James Cook dropped
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the pass against Miami. Honestly, the only two I really remember are the
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I know he had more than what I'm about to say, but I only
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really remember the Philly one, and which I guess technically did matter, but
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it was super early on in the game, so who knows. I remember
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the Philly one and I remember the Dallas one, and you say that,
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yeah, neither did Dallas. I guess Casey either he dropped one against Case.
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I don't. I remember the touchdown up the seam against Case. I
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guess yeah. All these drops I don't really. I think it doesn't.
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They don't register in my mind because I'm not too overly concerned. And the
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one that really mattered the most was the Philly one because they lost that game.
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But even that one, again, he shouldn't have dropped the ball.
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But I'm not raking over the Cols for the Philly game because that happened.
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What happened like first drive, definitely the first quarter, but I think it
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was like the first drive against Philly, and there was so much left to
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go with that drive. Oh nice, nice, drop by the chat k
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Moore is saying the KC playoff game, it was the drive of the secure
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touchdown I think, and then Chief coming in saying he dropped the one versus
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case but a play later we scored. Oh yeah ya yah yah yeah,
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good oh, well done, well done man, that stupid Casey game.
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Oh Kansas City in the playoffs. Good times, good times. Yeah.
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So we'll see what happens with James Cook this year. Obviously he's gonna be
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a focal point in this run game. I want to start out with some
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basic we change the banner and brand here bringing down the Buffaloes twenty twenty four
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one game. I wanted to start out with some basic run stats for the
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Buffalo Bills from an advanced mestrics perspective. I don't want to make it too
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you know where I'm just reading off a ton of numbers, but there are
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some that I think are extremely relevant to this conversation and again frame just how
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good this Bill's run game was last year in terms of individual play and in
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terms of just what they were able to do schematically. Now, another part
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of this conversation, which is something we've talked about on the show, is
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that the offensive line is going to be changing. While that is going to
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be changing has changed. You know, Mitch MOR's going, Connor mcgovernn no
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longer being at left guard, and it looks like a going to be at
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center Edwards at left guard. We'll see what happens and how that, you
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know, really changes things. But this, this run game last year was
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strong in a way that I didn't necessarily anticipate, just from an efficiency standpoint,
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a volume standpoint, and kind of no matter how you looked at it,
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they go ahead, whatever metric you want to pull or grab. They
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really functioned in a lot of way successfully. So overall, the Bills run
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game was sixth in DVA. They were second in EPA per attempt. They
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were fifth in e EPA per attempt when you move QB scrambles. They were
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seventh in EPA per attempt for just running back carries only. And then if
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you want to focus on Josh Allen what he does in the run game overall,
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he was third in EPA per attempt for quarterbacks amongst twenty nine qbs with
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at least thirty attempts. He was second in EPA per attempt for qbs when
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you remove scrambles amongst forty one qbs or at least ten at ten. And
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then this is an interesting when he was fifteenth in EPA per attempt for quarterbacks
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when it's just scrambles amongst thirty four qualifying qbs or the least ten attempts.
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I knew it wasn't great last year from a scrambling perspective, but really interesting
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when you put Allen's numbers within that run game conversation again, third overall and
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EPA per attempt for qbs, second in EPA per attempt on non scrambles,
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and then fifteenth in EPA per attempt just on scrambles. And especially with how
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much man coverage the Bill saw last year, which was the most in the
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league. That's usually a recipe for Josh Allen taking off and making defenses pay
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for going man coverage. You're turning your back to Josh Allen. You are
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watching receivers and tight ends and running backs and you're going downfield with them,
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and Allen breaks contained and takes off. We didn't see that a ton last
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year, at least from an EPA per attempt perspective, but he got more
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done in the design run game. I think that's going to be a factor
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this year. We talked about it on last week's episode. That plus one
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that he offers in the run game. It's it's a really nice piece that
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he adds there, and some of the numbers speak to that, and also
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some numbers that speak to the Bills run game that I wanted to pull up
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as I scroll through my notes. We talked him again, talked about a
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bit last week the changing nature of the Bills run game, going from a
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zone based team maybe who mixed in gap from time to time and really haven't
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almost close to a fifty to fifty split. They had a forty six percent
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gap run usage rate last year, which was third in the league. If
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you focus on just the Joe Brady weeks, which was from a regular season
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standpoint, from Week eleven through Week eighteen, the Bills were at a forty
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seven percent usage rate, which was also third. I expect that to stay
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pretty consistent, that gap versus zone scheme being near fifty to fifty for the
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Bills, one because they can block that way. And even again, now
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say, like we talked about, we remove Mitch Morse at center, we
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seemingly, you know, take this with a grain of salt, because camp
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can change things and preseason can change things. But you take Connor McGovern,
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you put him from left guard into center, you put David Edwards Is,
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you know, into left guard from being that sixth offensive lineman, things change
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a little bit. I do think this offensive line can still get it done.
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From his zone perspective, I don't think zone's going away. I think
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they're going to continue to run, especially with like week side mid zone.
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I think they'll be able to continue to lean into that. But I do
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think their bread and butter will be in those duo runs, those vertical displacement
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downhill at your type of runs. They'll run some pin and pull, They'll
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run some QB bash, you know, some GT counter guard tackle counter within
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that as well, and then you're going to see a play that we've talked
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about a million times on the show and in the film room, and I've
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talked about it on Twitter, that tackle rap play. It's called dart.
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You know, where Dean Dawkins is pulling or Spencer Brown is pulling. And
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the way they can dress that up with Josh Allen keeps it where it's a
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run fake, where he gives it to James Cook that gap aspect is not
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going away. And again, gap runs versus zone runs. I think everyone
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kind of knows what a zone run is if you don't feel free to put
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it up into the chat when we talk about it. But those gap runs
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are counter your pin and pull your power, tackle wrap dart duo. Even
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though it kind of looks like inside zone, it's not slightly different. That's
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considered a gap run as well. And again the whole nature of it in
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difference really is zone runs. There's no defined hole for the running back.
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It's kind of like a choose your own adventure. Everybody's You'll say, you're
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going wide zone to the right or outside zone, whatever have you. Every
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all the linemen are stepping in conjunction with each other, ideally at the same
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time and same pace, all to that right side. The running back gets
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the ball and just flows like water, picks whatever hole or lane or alley
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that develops, and he goes from there. A bit of a choose your
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own adventure. A gap scheme run has more of literally a designed gap or
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hole that you are running to. It's hey, this play is going to
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get run between the right side guard and tackle. Hey, this play is
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running an a hole between the center, right side guard and the center like
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that's where you're going right. So that type of stuff, and that's main
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difference between gap and zone. I do think, and again, like we
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talked about last week, as teams built themselves defensively to stop wide zone runs,
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to get lighter, to get faster, to be able to play the
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pass, to get after the quarterback, we've seen less you know, three
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linebacker sets, and we've seen less big, heavy interior defensive linemen. We
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teams have gotten lighter upfront with the idea of penetrating and being able to pressure
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the quarterback from the interior. They've replaced you know, three down linebacker sets
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with nickel defenses and dime defenses, or you know, if you want to
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get heavy on defense, you go with more of a big nickel type of
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scenario where it's maybe a safety that's in there or a bigger body slot defender.
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At the end of the day, defenses have swung that pendulum back in
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their favor by limiting explosives for the opponent and being able to put a cap
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on offenses. And so offenses are starting to swing things back in their favor
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by running right at those smaller, faster, lighter, pass based or pass
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oriented defenses in terms of how things have been built, and so again,
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gap scheme runs usually attack that. And when you take that gap scheme conversation
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again Bill's forty six percent gap run rate in twenty twenty three, and then
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you take a look just at James Cook second most gap scheme runs amongst running
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backs in twenty twenty three. Again makes sense with how much duo and tackle
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wrap they ran. Add In Ray Davis Ray Davis one hundred and twenty seven
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gap runs in twenty twenty three versus sixty seven zone and like we showed in
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the film room last week with myself and Eric, he does have an affinity
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for those gap runs. He's not horrible in zone, but he looks significantly
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better when it comes to those gap scheme runs. How he adjusts his track,
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how he paces himself, how he sets his blocks up, the vision
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that he has it pairs really nice with a gap scheme and then his size
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and frame I think also, you know, helps speak to that in terms
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of get him downhill, get him north and south, allow him to break
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arm tackles and go through shoulders and stuff like that, and then you have
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Ty Johnson more gap to zone runs as well last year, and he's got
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a high enough floor as an RB three or RB two that you can factor
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him in in a variety of ways into different and a bunch of different pieces.
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Again, I do not think zone runs go away, but I think
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that near fifty to fifty split continues and the major ones we continue to see
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are duo dart and then from his zone perspective, those mid zone runs,
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particularly weakside mid zone. If you want to see what a good week side
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mid zone run looks like if you're a Bills fan, go back to that
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Bill's Chargers game from the night before Christmas Eve this past season. They ran
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it a ton. They are sending Trent Surfield in jet motion and whatever side
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he's going to, they're running it back the other side on that week side.
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So go take a peek at that. It's basically literally just put more
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bodies on the front side of the play where the strong side is and then
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run in away from the tight end and away from the numbers, and they're
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going weekside mid zone. And it worked well for the Bills in that game.
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That's a nice aspect that they have. I still think they're going to
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have that pivot, even with the changes in the offensive line. I am
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a little concerned just because, again, like I've talked about on the show,
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and I talked about last week, like the Bills finally had consistency and
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a consistency from an above average quality play perspective last year, and their offensive
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line in pass protection, with their run blocking, the ability to have diversity
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to go gap and zone in a variety of ways, and then they didn't
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blow up the offensive line. But you do have two out of the five
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up front having significant changes. And again, I know Connor McGovern was a
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starter on this line last year, but going from left guard to center is
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a big change, and then Edwards is just a new body in there in
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general, but I would expect that near fifty to fifty split to stay consistent.
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I think the Bills are going to be one of the leaders in those
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gap scheme type of runs. But again, pairing that with the larger Ski
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conversation league wide, you are starting to see that more and more teams are
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going away from those zone runs. Again, I'm gonna say this a whole
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bunch because this episode is kind of a connector piece or follow a piece to
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tie up the loose ends. For last week's episode, But like we'd like
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myself and JP talked about Sean McVay kind of that huge proponent of those wide
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zone runs. Even last year, you look at what the Rams were doing
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from a run perspective, and the Rams again zone team, specifically wide zone
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outside zone. Sean McVay really leaning into that. The Rams last year had
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a forty two percent gap run rate, which was the sixth highest in the
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NFL. Even teams that are known predominantly for being heavy zone teams, they're
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starting to get closer and closer to a fifty to fifty split, and this
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is symptomatic of the league at large. Again, defenses built themselves to limit
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those outside plays. They got smaller, they got faster. You have different
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fronts like the tight front that Brandon Staley instituted with the Rams his last year's
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defensive coordinator there, and then tried to institute when he was the Chargers head
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coach these past several seasons. All of these defenses in personnel groupings, all
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with the idea of from a run perspective and from a run fit perspective,
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all with the idea of stringing out, lengthening these plays, not allowing these
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zone runs to kind of push that outside and then get up upfield north and
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south quickly in between the tackles. The whole idea was trying to string everything
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out, lengthen everything, and allow your second and third level defenders to get
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there. So offenses were like, okay, cool, you want to get
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lighter, you want to get faster. You want to stop us from kind
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of pressing those outside those outside corners and getting around the edge and getting north
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and south. Okay, we're just gonna run right at you with your smaller
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base fronts. Defensive tackles have gotten more into the three hundred and three hundred
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and five pound range, so offensive linemen on the interior of starting to get
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have started to get bigger. You're getting more people movers on the interior.
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More let's run right at a defense. Oh cool, you want to live
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in a nickel defense. You don't want to have three linebackers on the field.
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One of your main starters is going to be your nickel corner. Cool,
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can he function in the run that This is also going to put a
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premium on guys like Tarren Johnson and Mike Hilton and even Kenny Moore to a
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degree, who are able to function as pass defenders in the nickel spot in
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the slot, but also as legitimate run defenders in that slot spot as well,
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because teams are going to attack that. You know, if we're going
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to go two or three tight ends on the field, are you going to
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stay in nickel? Do you have a tight end who or I'm sorry,
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do you have a nickel corner who can handle a tight end blocking him?
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Or if we're a bigger bodied wide receiver team, do you have a wide
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receiver or I'm sorry, do you have a nickel corner that can stand up
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to a bigger bodied wide receiver. If a team puts Keon Coleman, I'm
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just using him an example because we're talking about the Bills. If a team
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has a key on Coleman body type, do you have a nickel corner that
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can bang with him? In terms of run defense and fitting the run?
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So all these questions the defenses are going to have to ask. Oh,
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let's see some questions starting to come through. Let me grab some of them.
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Chief says, really weird question. But what's been more productive tackles pulling
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or guards pulling. It really depends on team traditionally get Traditionally, it's a
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little bit of both. It's easier usually for guards to pull. If you're
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talking about the Bills, it's been tackles pulling, and it's just because the
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athleticism of Dion Dawkins and the athleticism of Spencer Brown. You want those guys
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on the move. And I think when especially too, if you look back
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last year on the Bills, McGovern isn't He's not a horrible athlete, but
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being fleet of foot isn't his biggest like, especially in in juxtaposition with Mitch
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Morse, like you can move mcgovernor get him on the move, but that's
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not necessarily, you know, his biggest strength. Whereas you look at Dean
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Dawkins, you look at Spencer Brown, especially Spencer Brown, those are dudes
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who are athletic, who can move and who are physical at the same time,
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those are dudes you want to pull. So it's really just leaning into
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your skill set when it comes to how you've built your offensive line. But
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if we're talking Bills specific, they've been very, very very productive pulling their
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tackles on those tackle rap plays in those dark plays, Steve says, this
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is a good question from Steve. Steve says, will mcgovernor be able to
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pull like Morse or are we going to see mostly the tackles pulling. I
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think it's still going to be the tackles pulling. I think they're going to
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lean into that tackle wrap that dark concept again. If you want to know
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what that is, go watch the Dallas Cowboys game. The Bills ran this,
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oh boy, I would literally say probably like twenty five thirty times,
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So they just kept spamming it and running it left and running it right,
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and running it left and running it right. In Dallas. I mean,
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kudros are the Bills. But I'm still so mad at Dallas for that game
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for just not adjusting in any way, shape or form. But I would
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expect to see the tackles pulling, even from a pin and poll perspective,
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and what they would do with Mitch Morse. Again, Morse's legitimately one of
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the best movement centers in all of football. So anybody you put it center
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to replace Mitch Morse is probably not going to be as good of a mover
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in space as he is. So I just wanted to put that out there.
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This isn't like a horrible knock on McGovern, but he's not gonna be
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able to move like Mitch Morse, because again, Mitch Morse is one of
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the best in that aspect and in that vacuum. So I do think he's
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good enough to get the job done in some ways. But I don't think
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the Bills are going to lean into those movement pieces with McGovern like they would
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with Mitch Morse. It's not necessarily a like for like replacement. They're similar
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in terms of overall size and overall frame, and even I think with how
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McGovern kind of shepherd's people, he's more of an escort or shepherd shepherder of
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I don't know if that's a word of people and dudes upfront, than he
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is like a true people mover, and he anchors better than Mitch Morse.
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But I don't think he's gonna be able to move like Morse. I would
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still expect to see them lean into if they're going with poles, you'll see
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some guard tackle stuff where they're pull both dudes or maybe the pull. You
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know McGovern from time to time with Dawkins or with Brown or their poll torrents
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and see something like that. But if we're talking from a volume perspective,
24:03
and even probably from an effectiveness standpoint, I would expect to see the tackles
24:07
continuing to do a lot of the you know, the heavy pulling type of
24:11
work. I appreciate Linda with the Harry Potter reference here, saying, Achio
24:15
super Bowl ring. I like that very much. If you don't get that
24:18
reference, google it. But akio just means like it's a spell to bring
24:22
something here. It's a Harry Potter reference. I like it, like it
24:25
a lot, like it a lot. Cocoma saying does mcgovernent moving to center
24:29
and Edwards at guard's change? At Edwards at guard change the best fit running
24:33
scheme. I spoke about it a little, I think before this comment came
24:37
in, But I think it just helps them lean into more gap stuff.
24:42
I think it's just more vertical displacement, more people moving ability, just because
24:47
you don't necessarily have that athleticism that a Mitch Morse gives you. And Torrance
24:52
isn't a bad mover, but his strength isn't being flee to foot and out
24:56
there moving in space. So I think this offensive line while it does have
25:00
two very athletic bookends in terms of Dawkins and Brown. I think having more
25:06
gap scheme overall just fits this offensive line with how it currently looks, this
25:11
you know version of it. But I'm still expecting to see like a fifty
25:15
to fifty ratio just because zone runs are still kind of king in the NFL,
25:19
maybe, and they're king because they are usually simpler to run. It's
25:26
very rules based. It can work against a variety of fronts, even if
25:29
the defense shifts or whatever they have going on. It's very is there a
25:32
guy in your gap? If there is, do this, If there's not
25:34
a guy in your gap, do that. It's very rules based, simplistic,
25:37
and it's easy to get everybody on the same page in addition to some
25:41
other things in terms of how you install it. But there's a lot of
25:44
adaptability and versatility with it. So I don't think zone runs are going away.
25:48
I do expect to see close to a fifty to fifty ratio overall for
25:52
the Bills, and maybe you'll even see gap over take zone, but that
25:56
would still be a lot, I think, especially when you actor and stuff
26:00
like qb sneaks and things and how those get graded and tracked by different sites
26:03
that that aggregate all this data and parse it out. But I do think
26:07
the best fits for this run scheme are going to be duo in that tackle
26:11
wrap stuff. Lonnie saying, who's the best blocking receiver on the roster.
26:18
He hasn't played it down in the NFL. I kind of want to lean
26:22
key on Coleman. MVS isn't bad. MC Collins is good. Curtis Samuel
26:27
is not bad. Actually, I know Joe Brady said today that Curtis Samuel
26:30
I either call him like the best blocker, best receiving blocker on the roster,
26:33
or just talked about how good of a blocker he is. Samuel isn't
26:38
bad either. Shakir got better last year. I kind of want to lean
26:42
key on Coleman here, though. Oh Steve coming in saying Samuel's a great
26:45
run blocker. I believe Coleman will be very solid as well. Williams says,
26:48
do you think they start running behind Torrance more since he is that bigger
26:53
body type. I'm very excited for year two Osirius Torrance, And yeah,
26:57
I wonder how he facted in. Just he from a people moving standpoint,
27:04
Torrance and Spencer Brown on that right side of the line. Man, they
27:08
just create so much displacement when I when I say displacement for those who don't
27:11
know, displacement is literally just like taking a defender and moving them out of
27:17
their spot, like literally displacing. And just what they can do in driving
27:21
defensive tackles off the ball or defensive ends off the ball and climbing to the
27:26
second level the way they can cave in an entire side of the ball horizontally
27:30
and or displace people vertically and create movement to allow running backs to get to
27:36
the second level or get cleaned through the line. Yeah, I do expect
27:40
that. I think Torrance is going to be a real boom when it comes
27:44
to the run game. I am trying to run. I mean, if
27:45
we're looking at a strength overall in terms of like what side would you rather
27:51
run behind? I would rather run to the right behind Ocyrus Torrents and Spencer
27:53
Brown every single day. Spencer Brown, for all his struggles that he's had
27:59
in pass protection this far in his career, he's really always been a solid
28:03
run blocker just because of how athletic he is and because of how physical he
28:07
is, and yeah, whether that means it's him on the move, or
28:11
it's running to his side and he's base blocking, or you know, executing
28:14
a double team and climbing to the second level. I so, yeah,
28:17
I would run behind Torrance more this year, especially when you talk about that
28:22
whole pairing on that right side of Torrance and Brown. That's that's a very
28:25
strong piece. Mm hmm. Ralph Wilson is saying, mors just getting blown
28:30
back into the path of the pulling tackles. In the second half of the
28:33
season, mcgovernent brings them half of the center. Yeah, he's just a
28:34
better anchor in past pro And I think overall, like you're trying to limit
28:38
some of that knock back. I think a move from Morse to McGovern is
28:44
a move to try and secure more of the depth of the pocket and prevent
28:47
that type of leakage or knock back from the pass pro perspective or even from
28:51
a run perspective as well. Claude saying, is the eventual plan SVPG at
28:57
center and moving mcgovernent back to gar You think McGovern at center is a permanent
29:02
thing. So I got two thoughts on that one and one comes from an
29:06
interview. Connor McGovern did an interview before the draft talking about how at the
29:12
end of you know, season meetings or kind of wrapping things up in the
29:15
season interviews, however you want to verbalize it, like he was spoken to
29:18
about or maybe it was some point before Morse got released, he had been
29:22
spoken to about moving to center. So it was something that was already on
29:27
his radar that he believed it was going, that he believed was going to
29:32
happen. Now, he didn't know when Mitch Morse was going to go or
29:34
how and he was surprised that, you know, Morse was cut and kind
29:40
of how things went down, But it was already put on his radar in
29:42
terms of moving to center, so I could easily see it being a permanent
29:48
thing. I think Cedric van pram Oh I never get it right on the
29:52
first try, and that's why I'm just I'm just sticking to SVPG. I'm
29:56
not and I'm not even gonna ad the s. I'm just doing VPG for
29:57
Van Pray Granger. That's it. So I think the drafting of VPG was
30:02
just a value move because he was there. I do think he has a
30:04
chance to start, and the reason I say that is just because he's got
30:07
a multitude of paths to starting. He could either just ball out at center
30:12
and it makes them think, man, wow, he's really playing great.
30:15
Let's move McGovern back to left guard, where we know he excels and where
30:19
we know he's a known quantity there. Or McGovern could be doing really bad
30:25
at center, and they're like, you know what, this isn't working out,
30:27
Let's get him back to left guard. Vpg's playing fine and we can
30:30
put him at center. Or maybe David Edwards just isn't cutting it at left
30:34
guard, and they say, you know what, let's get mcgovernn back to
30:37
left guard because VPG is playing better at center than Edwards is at left guard,
30:41
and let's do that. So I do think there's several avenues and paths
30:45
to playing time for VPG, But just based on the timeline and that interview
30:49
with Connor McGovern, I could see it being a permanent thing. I don't
30:53
think they draft, and again maybe the thought changes because you don't know who's
30:57
going to be there. But I don't think they're hesitant to have Connor McGovern
31:03
be their long term answer at starter. I do think they will put the
31:06
best five out there, regardless of what it is. So again, if
31:10
VPG just balls out in camp and at the preseason, or Edwards is slipping
31:14
up a bit, or McGovern isn't looking good at center like they had hoped
31:17
and they want to move them back to left guard, they I don't think
31:18
they'll hesitate to change things, but I don't think they're putting McGovern. I
31:23
don't think their move for McGovern at center was reactionary because they had to release
31:27
Mitch Morson. They had to figure it out. I think this was somewhat
31:30
planned, so I don't want to say permanent thing, but I don't think
31:34
they're wary of keeping McGovern at center for for the rest of his contract,
31:38
for like the foreseeable future. If VPG balls out and beats them, cool,
31:42
But I think they're comfortable with McGovern being at center. Mmmmmm. Joey
31:52
coming in and saying, we won't know until mandatory practices come and everyone's there
31:56
practicing. Van Prayan Granger makes a move for position, yeah, we'll see
32:00
what happens. I like VPG. Eric and I are doing a breakdown of
32:02
him in the film room tomorrow live at five pm Eastern, So feel free
32:07
to check that out. I do like him. I didn't think he would
32:08
be there in the fifth round, so I think that's good value. I
32:13
think that's a good pick. I'm excited to see what happens with him because
32:15
I did like his tape at Georgia. I saw a ton of games during
32:19
the season and then obviously watched his tape going into the draft process watch more
32:22
of it once he got drafted. So I do like him, but it'll
32:27
be interesting to see again because it's you basically have three dudes on the interior
32:30
there between center and left guard, and it's just going to see whoever the
32:34
best two work out is where the best two go. But I like that
32:37
piece. So I mentioned some of the data pieces earlier again EPA, per
32:43
attempt, DBOA, all that kind of stuff. Another aspect that I wanted
32:45
to talk about was the hit at line percentage for the Bills running backs last
32:52
year. This data is per Sports Info solution. So again, this is
32:55
just the percentage of runs. This is literally what it is. The percentage
32:59
of run where the running back gets hit at the line of scrimmage. Actually,
33:04
I have that for all positions right now, so let me filter just
33:07
four running backs, So this is just percentage of runs where running backs are
33:12
hit at the line of scrimmage. The Bills had the second lowest hit at
33:16
the line of scrimmage percentage on running back runs last year at thirty three point
33:21
three percent. The only team that had a lower rate was the Eagles at
33:23
thirty two point three percent number three, So it was the Eagles had the
33:28
lowest at thirty two point three, the Bills that had the second lowest at
33:30
thirty three point three, and then the Lions were third at thirty six point
33:36
four. And if anyone knows anything about the Eagles offensive line and the Lions
33:38
offensive line, those are two of the best offensive lines in football from a
33:44
coaching standpoint, but also from a player standpoint. So the fact that the
33:46
Bills are sandwiched between those teams, you aren't in very good company if you're
33:52
the Bills offensive line last year from a run perspective. And then when you
33:54
pair it with you know, football outsiders or I guess what is it FTN
33:58
Fantasy's data. Now when you look at like adjusted line stats and all these
34:01
pieces, however you slice it. And this isn't to take anything away from
34:05
the running backs, but the Bills offensive line was consistently creating displacement in space
34:09
for running backs last year. Again, that number percentage there with thirty three
34:14
point three percent hit at the line of scrimmage. That means the Bills running
34:19
backs were only getting hit at the line on roughly one third of their carries
34:22
last year. That is a very very very strong number. Another piece,
34:25
when you talk about stuff percentage, stuff percentage is the percentage of runs where
34:32
a running back gained zero or fewer yards. I'm not just a running back,
34:36
but anybody gained zero or fewer yards. The Bills had the lowest stuff
34:39
percentage in the league last year at twelve point nine percent, so again ahead
34:44
of everybody in the Eagles, another great offensive line, they had the second
34:46
lowest. They were at fourteen point two percent, so a one point three
34:50
percentage point difference, which is a decent jump there. Again, especially from
34:54
like an overall talent standpoint, who they have on that roster from the U
35:00
for the Eagles versus the Bills. So no matter how you sliced it last
35:02
year, whether it was running back metrics or Josh Allen metrics or overall carries
35:07
or you know, stats that speak more to the line of scrimmage, like
35:12
hit at the line percentage and stuff percentage and all this kind of stuff.
35:15
Bill's had a really strong run game last year. I don't see or anticipate
35:19
that going anywhere. I do think this run game is going to be important
35:23
because I think the passing identity of this offense is going to have to be
35:28
kind of massaged out and felt out a little bit. I think we know
35:30
what we have in Dalton Kinkaid, not that he's hit his ceiling or anything,
35:34
but we know the type of player he can be. I think he'll
35:36
continue to ascend and have a very good year this year. I think Kohalil
35:39
Shakir should see another uptick in his game. We know what Curtis Samuel can
35:44
be. And then it's like, Okay, where does Kean Coleman fit?
35:47
Where does Mac Collins fit? Where does Dawson Knox fit? Where does MVS
35:51
fit? Is it another receiver that's fitting in there somewhere? Is it Shorter?
35:54
Is it Claypool? Is it Shavers? Isabella? Is a kJ Hamler?
36:00
How much do the running backs get used in the past game, so
36:01
on and so forth? But I think we do have known quantities in the
36:08
past game and what they're going to be, and it's not the sexiest thing
36:12
on paper. Like I talked about last week, there are schematic ways in
36:15
which this pass game can work, but I think a lot of them tie
36:16
into the run game, tying into marrying the run in the past, making
36:22
your play action passes look just like your regular runs, try and confuse the
36:27
defense, suck in second and third level defenders. I think the run is
36:30
going to be very important just for grinding out yards because it is successful for
36:34
the Bills. I think the Bills are capable of grinding out like on average
36:37
on the year, like four to six yards per attempt. Last year,
36:43
for again, just for running back carries only, they were eighth in the
36:45
league at four point four yards per attempt. I think that type of success
36:50
can continue, and I think it needs to continue because I think you need
36:53
to again build that pass game around your run game, like we talked about
36:58
last week, from a formation perspective, personnel perspective, alignment perspective, all
37:02
of this kind of stuff, And I got some questions coming through Ralph says
37:08
being told this is per Eric Wood's podcast. Apparently, Ralph said being told
37:13
McGovern when recruiting him during free agency that he would play center Dallas draft didn't
37:16
play the position, but injuries change it. Yeah, he did have some
37:20
center experience coming into Dallas. And okay, so maybe that's the nugget there
37:23
that McGovern was told that he would play center. So we got one year
37:28
at left guard and we'll see. So again, this is like, this
37:31
wasn't just and I think this is it goes into what I was saying earlier,
37:35
like McGovern moving to center wasn't because they were like, oh man,
37:38
we got rid of Morse. We got to figure out what to do now
37:40
mcgovernor, you're going to center. This is something they were comfortable with from
37:43
the get go. McGovern was spoken to about it, so he kind of
37:45
knew what was going to happen. But again, VPG could ball out and
37:50
that could move McGovern back, So let's not throw that out there. But
37:52
this isn't like a reactionary move to Morse going. They are comfortable with McGovern
37:58
there at center. By Williams saying that Cocoa Munk saying do you think Josh
38:04
plays more under center? Has been him or the oc that dragged their feet
38:07
on it. Oh, and pistol could be a great fit. Don't get
38:09
me started on pistol. I want more pistol. I think every team should
38:13
run more pistol. It's literally a perfect marriage and blend of shotgun stuff and
38:16
under center stuff. It gives the running back of downfield track and the opportunity
38:21
to get going vertically, and it also gives the quarterback the opportunity to hide
38:25
the football, turn his back to the defense, and do some creative things
38:28
with play action. I would love more pistol in this offense. I pretty
38:31
much every year, probably like end of September to mid October, I usually
38:35
tweet something along those lines. Is basically in Evergreen tweet every year I would
38:39
like more pistol. I don't know if it's been Allen or the offensive cording
38:45
of this drag their feet on the under center play action stuff, I do
38:49
think. I do think Allen will play more under center this year, just
38:52
because I think it pairs well with what Alsim anticipated in expecting from the Bills
38:58
offense. I just think again, like I talk about that, you're gonna
39:00
see more condensed formations and you're gonna see an emphasis on running the football.
39:02
I think that pairs well with more of an under center game. I think
39:06
you will continue to see that element present in this offense, and I think
39:10
that's kind of how they're going to operate. So again, maybe I don't
39:14
think it's gonna be like a fifteen percentage point increase, but I think overall
39:17
you'll see a higher volume of snaps with Allen under center. And from a
39:21
percentage standpoint, I feel like, actually, let me see what they were
39:24
last year, the Buffalo Bills. They had a seventy three percent shotgun rate
39:31
last year, so they were under center on twenty seven percent of plays.
39:36
I think, I know you didn't ask this, but I kind of want
39:39
to play this game. I could see there being like a five to six
39:45
percentage point swing, maybe even bigger. But again, last year they had
39:47
a seventy three percent shotgun rate. I think this year it's gonna be mid
39:52
sixties. I'm thinking like sixty five to sixty seven maybe in terms of shotgun
39:58
percentage. So I do expect there to be more of an under center element,
40:01
and I think that under center element will also be paired with more of
40:06
a play action piece. Sorry Jay says right here, Actually they have to
40:09
run more play action this year. They are great when they do play Most
40:13
teams, most quarterbacks, all of their passing metrics from a raw perspective advanced
40:16
perspective, usually go up when they have play action. So just from like
40:22
a general perspective, that's true, and then for Allen especially it's even more
40:25
true. I don't know what it is, but when he just has play
40:30
action again under center, play action specifically, I don't know if it just
40:34
gets him into a better rhythm physically, but you watch him drop and his
40:37
feet, his shoulders, his eyes, his arm motion, everything is upright
40:40
and nice. I think it just it almost makes you think of like a
40:44
hitter, the way like they get into a box and they have a certain
40:46
routine to get themselves comfortable before they hit and they swing. I think Alan
40:51
is like that with play action stuff, Like there's just something about that action
40:54
that gets him comfortable. It gets him in tune, it gets him in
40:58
rhythm, and usually lead to good throws, whether it's underneath or knee intermediate
41:02
or explosive ones downfield. So again, most quarterbacks do better with play action,
41:07
Allen especially from like a mechanic standpoint, And then on top of that,
41:13
I think the Bills run game and having a good run game will help
41:15
the play action game even further. And I also think the play action game
41:19
will be a way that the Bills will use that as a means to kind
41:22
of generate explosives with this passing offense. So I think that's what we're going
41:29
to see a little bit. And again speaking to that, like I talked
41:34
about the Bills run game metrics and all these pieces, and I want to
41:37
tie that with an element that I talked about briefly last week, and it's
41:40
good offenses and good rushing attacks using heavier personnel in some form or fashion to
41:46
their benefit to focus on these mismatch creators. That's what I think the nature
41:52
and essence of this Bill's offense is going to be. They're not the sexiest
41:55
on paper. I think there's a lot of questions for this Bill's offense a
42:00
line perspective, but more so from the pass catchers and supporting cast perspective.
42:04
Is I'm confident Daln kink But I think that's still the question, like is
42:07
Kincaid going to elevate to be a true number one? Does Shakir take another
42:12
jump? Is Curtis Samuel as advertised or maybe a little better or maybe a
42:15
little worse. What do you get from every other receiver? Again, the
42:19
Key Coleman's, the Mac Collins, the MBS, Claypool Shorter shavers as a
42:24
bella handler. Like, there's questions from a past catching perspective, and there's
42:31
a mismatch element though still present because of the size that the Bills have when
42:37
you pair their tight end room with their wide receiver. That's why I think
42:38
you're going to get more heavier personnel groupings from the Bills. That's why I
42:42
think you're going to get more condensed formations, alignments and aspects of this team
42:47
where you can lean into the dual threat of both your tight ends and your
42:52
wide receivers. Kinkaid we know what he is as a pass catcher, and
42:55
he's functional as a run blocker, and he's willing in that way, and
43:00
he can wash out and crush nickel corners, safeties. He can crack down
43:05
on linebackers and move some edges a little bit. Again, he wasn't perfect
43:07
last year. He has to get better, but because he's willing and because
43:10
of his size and frame, he is functional there. Dawson Knox has gotten
43:15
better each year as a blocker. We know what he can be as a
43:16
pass catcher. And then you've got these dudes like Keon Coleman and Mac Collins
43:21
who we don't want know what Keon Coleman is going to be in the NFL
43:23
because he hasn't taken a snap yet, and we know Mac Collins is limited
43:29
as a receiver, but big bodied, good blocker, willing blocker, similar
43:32
aspect for Keon Coleman. MBS is a field stretcher but also can be used
43:37
as a power slot and a blocker. And then Kurtis Samuel is in a
43:40
slouch as a blocker as well. Even Shakir can get some blocking done.
43:44
I think what you are going to gain. You're going to have is these
43:47
pieces that are not the sexiest on paper and may not rack up a ton
43:52
of stats, but they've got all this versatility and all this usage from a
43:54
run and pass perspective, and teams that are finding cess on offense and are
44:00
finding success running the ball on offense, a lot of them are doing it
44:04
by leaning into those mismatch creators that they have within their rosters on offense.
44:09
So I wanted to break down several of the best teams when it came to
44:14
running the ball last year in EPA per attempt and some of the pieces they
44:16
lean into first an EPA per attempt for again, this is just for running
44:21
back carries only. I removed quarterback carries from it because that's a that's a
44:23
whole nother animal. And then because again they have to remove scrambles and it
44:28
becomes a larger convoluted question and piece. But the Miami Dolphins were first an
44:32
EPA per attempt last year for running back carries. They had a forty two
44:37
twenty one personnel rate, so that's two running backs, one tight end.
44:42
The reason they have that is because they have kind of no disrespect but like
44:45
a knockoff version of what Kyle Shanahan has in San Francisco and Kyle Uscheck.
44:52
The Dolphins had that with alec Engle. I did a piece last year on
44:55
that first game against Miami going into it in terms of scouting the Dolphins,
45:00
wherever alec Ingold goes, wherever alec Ingold goes, that's a tough one to
45:05
say. Usually the ball follows passing. Running a lot of pieces I think
45:10
going into like that first game against Miami in Week three or whatever. It
45:14
was like the first couple of games that Miami had had going into it,
45:17
like seventy percent of their plays like the ball followed alec Ingold wherever he went,
45:23
but they leaned into him. He's a good blocker, he's athletic,
45:27
he can get up the field, he can work underneath. He can function
45:30
as a blocker and as a pass catcher. And again he's got athleticism to
45:32
kind of stretch the field, be a mismatch as a blocker against nickel corners
45:37
or safeties or outside corners. He's a mismatch against a linebacker in terms of
45:40
coverage or safeties in terms of coverage. So Miami leaning into that piece.
45:45
And also for Miami, they also had a nine percent twelve personnel usage rate
45:52
last year, So fifty one of the Dolphins plays last year came in either
45:55
twenty one or twelve personnel. The Detroit Lions second in EPA per attempt last
46:01
year on the ground, and when you look at them, they were an
46:04
eleven personnel team last year, so one running back, one tight end,
46:07
three wide receivers, sixty four percent eleven personnel usage rate last year. But
46:13
like I mentioned, last week. Their top two receivers in terms of snap
46:16
right after I'm on Ross Saint Brown, Josh Reynolds and Donovan People's Jones,
46:21
bigger bodied wide receivers who allow you to stay in eleven personnel because you don't
46:28
have to bring another tight end onto the field because you've got these bigger body
46:30
wide receivers that allow you to stay in again eleven personnel. So the defense
46:36
is can be like, crap, there's three wide receivers on the field.
46:37
We got to be in nickel because we have to respect their ability as pass
46:42
catchers and as receivers. But then the Lions can be like, cool,
46:45
you're staying in nickel. We can also run the ball with these guys because
46:47
they're functional run blockers in addition to being actually wide receivers and pass catchers.
46:52
Arizona Cardinals third in EPA per attempt last year for running back carries twelve percent
47:00
thirteen personnel usage rate, so one running back, three tight ends. That
47:02
was the most in the league last year, and they also had a twenty
47:07
one percent twelve personnel rate which was seventeen so kind of middle tier. But
47:12
long story short, thirty three percent of their plays came with either two or
47:15
three tight ends on the field, again trying to create mismatches and running the
47:17
ball successfully with it. The forty nine ers fourth in EPA per attempt last
47:22
year for running back carries, and like we talked about last week, thirty
47:25
six percent twenty one personnel usage rate, eleven personnel or I'm sorry, eleven
47:30
percent twenty two percent usage rate. So just off of that, forty seven
47:35
percent of their snaps last year came with two running backs on the field.
47:37
And the reason are two backs on the field, The reason they have that
47:42
and do that is because well Christian McCaffrey, but again, Kyle Yuscheck,
47:45
Because Kyle us Check is this tremendous mismatch creator tool that is probably the least
47:51
talked about aspect of the San Francisco forty nine ers. I know, there's
47:55
Debo and there's Ayuk, and there's Kittle, and there's Shanahan, and there's
48:00
Purdy, and there's Christian McCaffrey. Kyle Yuschek has really to straw the stirs
48:06
of that drink there, and Kyle Shanahan has talked about in the interviews.
48:07
It was one of the priority pieces he made when getting in there. His
48:12
versatility is a true like run blocking full back. But then what he also
48:15
is as a pass catcher. They can line them up on why, they
48:19
can put him in motion, they can put him in the slot, they
48:21
can send him on a rail route up the field. He is a mismatch
48:23
as a blocker versus any defensive back. He's a good blocker against like true
48:30
thumping, run down defending linebackers, but then he's also a mismatch in the
48:36
pass against linebackers. So like linebackers can't cover him, defensive backs can't fit
48:40
the run against him. So what do you do? And that's why the
48:44
forty nine ers again, forty seven percent of their plays last year came with
48:47
two backs on the field. Sixty percent of their snaps came with either two
48:51
tight ends or two backs on the field. They only had a thirty nine
48:53
percent eleven personnel usage rate, which was thirty first in the league last year.
48:58
The Ravens were fifth last year in terms of EPA per attempt. Their
49:01
offense is a bit of a unicorn, but twenty six percent twenty one personnel
49:07
usage rate third highest last year. Ten percent twenty personnel USA drate highest in
49:13
the league last year twelve percent twelve personnel usage rate last year, so forty
49:19
eight percent of their snaps came with either two tight ends or two running backs
49:22
on the field last year. The Los Angeles Rams six in EPA per attempt
49:28
last year for running back carries. This is really where the discussion starts to
49:30
get fun for the Rams in terms of what they do. They had a
49:35
ninety five a ninety five percent eleven personnel usage rate last year, and that's
49:42
fun when pairing it with their gap scheme runs right, So ninety five percent
49:45
eleven personnel rate last year, so ninety five percent of the time they've got
49:50
three receivers on the field, one running back, one tight end. The
49:53
reason they're able to do that and b six in EPA per attempt for running
49:58
back carries is because of Cooper Cup and because of Pooka Nicole and even to
50:01
to Adwell, who's a smaller, vertical speed based jitterbug kind of guy.
50:06
He was a willing blocker last year. When you go back and you watch
50:08
on tape, But the Rams and the Rams have been doing this seemingly for
50:14
forever under Sean McVay. Before it was Cup and Pooka. It was Cup
50:16
and Robert Woods. They've got these receivers who are plus matchups as pass catchers,
50:22
but they're also effective blockers. You're watching Pooka drive down or dig out
50:28
safeties and linebackers and wash down defensive ends and cracking on guys. Cup can
50:31
do the same thing Robert Woods was doing that before. They're responsible for their
50:36
gaps they're closing. They'll they won't even just washed down or climb regularly.
50:39
They'll insert like almost like a tight end between a guard and a tackle and
50:44
fit up on a linebacker in the hole and be kind of like a lead
50:46
blocker while they're already attached to the line. Again, speaking to all those
50:52
pieces, and then the reason I mentioned the top six is because the Bills
50:55
were seventh in EPA per attempt for running back carry, so I wanted to
50:58
mention what the top six were doing. It's it's an aspect that they're starting
51:04
to lean into more and more because it's not just enough, to which it
51:07
never has been. It's not just enough to have like great players. It's
51:09
always you've got to have some schematic adjustment, right, or some schematic advantage,
51:13
and the schematic advantage that a lot of the top offenses are leaning into
51:17
is personnel groupings that allow you to get to more of the menu from a
51:22
run and pass perspective without having to change your personnel. So the easiest way
51:28
to think of it is literally think of like a menu or a dinner menu,
51:30
and instead of having to turn the page to see more of the menu,
51:35
there's more of the menu already listed on that current page that you're on.
51:37
That's what teams are trying to get to. So the Niners with their
51:42
you know, twenty one personnel, and you think about what it's twenty one
51:45
personnel, Okay, cool. So they've got McCaffrey and use Check and Kittle.
51:50
So that's you know what your three guys right there brock Purty makes for.
51:53
Then you've got your offensive lineman, which makes nine, and then you've
51:58
got Ayuk and you've got Debo, guys that can literally go anywhere when you're
52:01
talking again, eleven on that entire side of the ball, but not including
52:05
the five offensive lineman. Your six past catching elible guys are George Kittle,
52:12
Kyle Ustchek, Christian McCaffrey, Deebo, Samuel and Brandon Ayuk and those guys
52:17
can get used in any way, shape or form. Right. You can
52:21
put Deebo in the backfield if you want and give them the ball. You
52:22
could start anybody out in the backfield in motion amount wide. George Kittle is
52:25
a plus matchup as a rum blocker, but he's also a good pass catching
52:30
tight end. We talked about us check McCaffrey as a runner, as a
52:32
receiver. All of these again mismatch creation pizzas pieces Miami for as much as
52:38
it was Hill and Watta was banged up last year, but they're not this
52:43
team that lived in eleven personnel. Forty two percent of the time they had
52:46
two backs on the field, and it was you know, Moster and alec
52:50
Ingold or eight Chan and alec Ingle. Fifty one percent of their plays came
52:54
either with two backs on the field or two tight ends on the field,
52:58
So they were more of a heavier personnel team. Again, McDaniel comes from
53:01
that. Shannahan Tree makes sense. But then we talked about the Lions with
53:06
eleven, the Cardinals with thirteen. We talked about the Niners, talked about
53:09
the Ravens, talked about the Rams. It's just having personnel groupings that allow
53:14
you to get to more of the menu without having to turn the page,
53:16
and to turn the page equivalent is changing your personnel. Right, So if
53:21
you turn the page to go from the entrees to the dessert, that's the
53:25
equivalent of Okay, let's get our full back out of there, and let's
53:29
put another receiver out there. Let's go from twenty one personnel to eleven personnel
53:35
because we want to pass the football. The Niners don't really have to do
53:37
that. They can stay in twenty one because Kyle Yuschek is a competent pass
53:40
catcher. Now if you factor that in with the Bills, they can stay
53:45
in twelve personnel because they can run the ball out of twelve with Kincaid and
53:49
Knox. They can also pass the ball out of twelve with Kincaid and Knocks.
53:53
Their eleven personnel rates is also what I'm excited to see, because you
53:58
can be an eleven and your eleven can be Keyon Coleman, Curtis, Samuel,
54:04
and maccollins, and you've got three good run blockers two plus run blockers,
54:07
but then you also have to respect them as pass catchers. And then
54:10
your running back can be James Cook so he can run the ball, or
54:15
maybe I don't know, you shift before the snap, or you motion them
54:16
out and it becomes more of a pass catching piece. Right, there's again
54:22
more of the menu you can get to without having to change your personnel.
54:24
I think that's what the Bills offense is going to look like more of this
54:28
year. And then you take those matchup creators or those matchup advantages that you
54:32
potentially have, and you pair them formationally and from an alignment perspective, and
54:37
I am going to expect to see more condensed formations very much. McVeigh Sean
54:43
McVay esque Los Angeles Rams esque, where you're an eleven personnel and you can
54:49
just get vertical on a team from a run game perspective and mash them and
54:52
just blow them off the ball, because you know what your three wide receivers
54:57
again are, Curtis, Samuel, maccollins and Keyon Coleman. Maybe you motion
55:01
on it right before the snap, you fast motion Curtis Samuel out wide,
55:06
or you put them on jet motion and run them across the formation and get
55:08
a little indicator and then you run due out or you run zone somehow,
55:13
or you know, split zone or whatever you want to do, and you
55:15
bring a tight end back across, or you motion Samuel and then bring them
55:17
back on a little return motion. Like you can get really creative in terms
55:21
of identifying defenses, putting them into a bind, and you can get to
55:24
both the run and the pass without having to change your personnel too much.
55:30
I think that's really where the Bills run game is going in this year in
55:32
terms of mismatch creators, in terms of mismatch identifiers and exployers. That's really
55:38
what they have. They're not going to be. I don't think they're a
55:42
pass catching group of just straight up walking buckets. They don't for asgain as
55:46
much maligned as he was or is. They don't have Stefan Diggs anymore.
55:51
They don't have a guy that you know can win down in and down out.
55:53
They have to get a little creative with alignment, and I think you
55:57
have to put defenses into a bind from a schematic structural perspective, and I
56:00
think that's where again this offense leads so more condensed formations, more running right
56:08
at teams and using combinations of twelve and eleven personnel. That's really why I
56:13
think the Bills are going to live. I think the Bills are going to
56:15
be in either twelve personnel, so one running back, two tight ends,
56:19
or eleven personnel one running back, one tight end, three wide receivers.
56:23
But the formations that they run their plays out of both twelve and eleven I
56:29
think are going to look very similar because you've got this combination of pass catchers
56:34
and blockers in your wide receiver room, and you're tight end grouping that allow
56:37
you to run eleven personnel out of more traditional twelve personnel formations and alignments.
56:46
And then you can run twelve personnel out of more spread or traditional eleven personnel
56:52
formations or alignments. That's where I think the Bills offense leans into this year.
56:55
Having Actually, that's a really good way to put it. Thomas puts
56:58
it as like eleven and a half per That's basically what it is. That's
57:01
I think that's such a great way to put it on Mad and myself and
57:04
I didn't think of it. That's great. I need to bookmark this and
57:06
take a picture of it so I don't forget about it and I can reference
57:08
it and give you credit during the season. That's basically what it is like
57:13
there eleven and twelve personnel groupings are going to play similar to each other,
57:19
and so they're eleven personnel groupings, especially when they put the bigger body wide
57:22
receivers out there, really can function more of like an eleven and a half
57:27
personnel and again you can get to more of your spread passing attack type of
57:30
offense. You can get condensed and go with more power looks and the like
57:34
we talked about last week. When you go with those condensed formations, when
57:37
you bring guys towards the line of scrimmage or attach them to the line of
57:40
scrimmage, you're able to access more of the run game menu as well because
57:44
you're adding gaps to your line because you're adding more bodies to or around that
57:50
line of scrimmage. So now you can get to everything on the menu.
57:52
Can go crack toss, you can go weak side zone, you can go
57:58
strong side zone, you go inside zone, can go duo, you can
58:00
go power, you can go counter, you can do really anything and everything
58:04
you want. The full complement is there because of how many bodies you have
58:07
close to or attached to the line of scrimmage. And that's where the bills
58:12
are gonna be. They're going to live in that eleven and a half personnel,
58:15
which is how Again, Now, maybe they go smaller with their eleven
58:17
at times, right, maybe it's MBS, Curtis Samuel and Colo secure and
58:22
that's more of a true eleven personnel type of grouping. Right, But when
58:27
they go with those bigger bodied receivers, and again we'll see who makes the
58:30
roster from the receiver perspective. But when they go with Coleman and Hollands and
58:35
MBS or Coleman and Hollands and Curtis Samuel and Hell, then even if Dalton
58:42
Kinkaid is the one tight end in that regard, you can go true spread
58:45
with that if you want to. And you can put key On Coleman and
58:49
Matt Collins in your slot and have like two power slots who are good run
58:52
blockers. You can put Dalton kin Kid out wide, or you can line
58:55
up trips to one side and if Dalton kin k on the backside is the
59:00
the X by himself and then make the defense go, Okay, how are
59:02
you covering Dalan Kin Kate? Are you doing it with a corner? Are
59:06
you doing it with a safety? Are you doing it with a linebacker.
59:07
Cool, are you tipping your hand that it's man coverage? Here? There's
59:10
all these domino effects and questions that the defense has to answer that they either
59:16
don't want to answer or might not have an answer to. And that's where
59:21
I think the Bills find success this year. That's where I think the Bills
59:22
live and again, and that's where I think they have to this. JP
59:27
said it on last week's episode, and it was a tremendous way to phrase
59:30
it. This offense this year is a bet on Joe Brady and Josh Allen
59:35
because you've got mismatch greators, you've got mismatched potential in pieces within that lineup.
59:42
It's going to be on Joe Brady to push the right buttons and pull
59:45
the right levers at the right time, and it's going to be on Allen
59:47
to distribute the ball effectively, process what's going on, have his pre snap
59:52
and post snap cues and reads accurate, timely, and clean, and then
59:57
have his mechanics tied in with that as well. Well. But this run
1:00:00
game, again, I think this run game is going to be tremendously,
1:00:04
tremendously, tremendously important to this offense. I'm not gonna say it's the not
1:00:08
going to be the foundation of the offense, because I think Josh Allen is
1:00:10
the low hanging fruit foundation of this offense. But I think the run game
1:00:16
is going to be tremendously important this year. I think we're going to see
1:00:19
more of a Josh Allen run game as well. From a design standpoint,
1:00:23
using him, I mean, he's a mismatch creator in and of himself,
1:00:27
but using Allen in terms of a plus one in that run game and getting
1:00:30
a defenses that way, I think this run game is going to be a
1:00:35
heavy focal point in this offense, and then using that to get defenses out
1:00:42
of these coverage structures that they've been getting into the past several years, using
1:00:47
it to put defenses into a buying from a personnel standpoint, and then using
1:00:52
whatever they don't do against them. Cool, you want to stay in nickel
1:00:59
personnel against our twelve personnel. Cool, We're going to run the ball right
1:01:00
at you. Okay. Cool, Now you want to match it with a
1:01:02
big nickel or a third linebacker. Cool, We're going to pass the ball
1:01:06
because we don't think that dude that you brought in can cover Dawson Knox or
1:01:09
Dalon Kinkaid. And then the same conversation for eleven or eleven and a half
1:01:13
personnel. As Thomas said, right, if you sit there and you want
1:01:16
to match that eleven personnel with the bigger bodied wide receivers and you want to
1:01:20
match it with nickel, cool, do you have that nickel corner who can
1:01:23
mash with Keyon Coleman if we put him in the slot and he blocks them?
1:01:28
Like, oh you don't, okay? Cool? So now now what
1:01:30
do you do? Because that eleven personnel grouping can be a threat from a
1:01:34
pass perspective, so you probably have to stay in nickel or dime. But
1:01:37
then that's that puts the onus on your defensive back grouping because you need to
1:01:42
have dudes that can mash and fit the run against those bigger, bodied,
1:01:44
physical receivers and all of this. I say all of this to say where
1:01:50
I think they're going. But in order to really take advantage of all of
1:01:53
this, right these mismatch creators, they have to be viable in both the
1:01:58
pass on the run. In order for Dalton k Dalton kin k to be
1:02:01
this true mismatch creator, he can be a mismatch creator as a receiver,
1:02:06
right, because of his size and frame and athleticism, Like do you cover
1:02:08
him with a corner? Do you cover him with a linebacker, a safety?
1:02:12
Can you you know? So on and so forth. But to really
1:02:14
unlock him and take advantage of his skill set, having him being able to
1:02:19
function as a run blocker and pass catcher is truly unlocking him. And I
1:02:23
think that's a similar conversation for Keyon Coleman. I think that's a similar conversation
1:02:28
for Matt Collins, like MBS and even Dawson Knos like having these bigger bodied
1:02:31
guys, it's not just about oh, well they can match dudes in the
1:02:35
run, because if they're gonna come on the field and they're not a threat
1:02:38
to catch the football, they're not a threat as a pass catcher, then
1:02:44
you don't have to worry about them in the past game. Then you can
1:02:45
go to heavier personnel groupings defensively, or you can sell out versus the run
1:02:50
because you're like, I don't care, like that dude is not a threat
1:02:52
as a pass catcher, will be fine, and then vice versa. Right,
1:02:54
if they're only a threat as a pass catcher and you're like, oh,
1:02:58
they're not a threat as a blocker. We can stay in Nickel and
1:03:00
our slock corner can run right through Dalton Kink's chest or run right through Keyan
1:03:05
Coleman. We're gonna be fine. You need those guys to function in both
1:03:08
the run and the past to truly take advantage of all of this, all
1:03:14
of these further options that are placed on the menu, right, because the
1:03:19
whole idea of why teams have to turn the page and switch personnel groupings is
1:03:22
because all right, we want to be able to run the football. Let's
1:03:25
going to fall back out there, or let's get another tight end out there.
1:03:29
Oh we want to be able to throw the football, Let's get another
1:03:30
receiver out there. Being able to put defenses into true bind and being able
1:03:36
to access more of the menu without having to turn the page means you've got
1:03:39
personnel groupings that you can just stay in and you can run the ball or
1:03:44
pass the ball and be equally effective or viable in either or or both.
1:03:49
Like that's what it is, and I think that's where the true advantage of
1:03:52
this offense lies this year. Like, if it's really clicking, it's just
1:03:54
because you're able to put defenses into a bind schematically with the matchup pieces and
1:03:59
who you have where it's again, oh man, they're in twelve. Oh
1:04:03
they can run the ball out of this and they can pass out of it.
1:04:05
What are we going to do? And again with the type of twelve
1:04:09
and eleven personnel packages that the Bills can have this year, you can be
1:04:14
tight condensed power type, heavy type formations and alignments and do it out of
1:04:19
eleven personnel, or you can be in twelve personnel and be aligned in more
1:04:24
of a spread passing option because of what Knox and k can both do as
1:04:29
pass catchers. So there's a lot of real fun, potential schematic advantages that
1:04:33
Brady and this offense can potentially create. Let me go to Sophias Has.
1:04:41
All these giant pass catchers are gonna be so much fun to watch. I
1:04:44
can't wait for the season already. Yeah, I'm excited to see where it
1:04:45
goes. I'm nervous. And again, it's a departure, right Like they're
1:04:50
the type of guys that Allen has won with. I'm gonna continue to say
1:04:54
this all off season, like the Cole Beasley's and the Stefon Diggs is of
1:04:57
the world. These true separators aren't necessarily prevalent across this roster. They've gone
1:05:02
into a different direction with the different direction with these bigger bodied, schematic mismatch
1:05:08
matchup creation, matchup advantage takers that they have in terms of auxiliary and support
1:05:14
pieces on this offense, which isn't bad. It just requires a different direction
1:05:17
for them to go in. And I think pairing that type of size and
1:05:21
athleticism and frame that they have in the tight end and wide receiver room,
1:05:27
pairing it with a strong power run game allows you to unlock more of the
1:05:32
passing game as well and put defenses into a true mine. That's gonna be
1:05:36
really fun. Ralph says, how about a two back set than splitting cookout
1:05:40
in motion? Of course, running out of it a little. Also,
1:05:42
they did it a bit last year, right Ty Johnson and James Cook and
1:05:45
those pony personnel looks. Pony personnel is when your two backs on the field
1:05:49
are actually two running backs. Which is why I clarified earlier with Yus Check
1:05:54
and McCaffrey when I said, you know, twenty one personnel because you've got
1:05:56
two running backs. Technically, Kyle used Check as fullbacks of twenty one personnel
1:06:00
is just two backs. But when you've got that pony personnel, Yeah,
1:06:02
maybe it's James Cook and Ty Johnson. Maybe it's James Cook and Ray Davis.
1:06:06
Could be Ty Johnson and Ray Davis. Yeah, maybe you've got Davis
1:06:10
and Cook both from the backfield. You motion Cook, you split him out
1:06:14
wide, or you put Cook in the slot and you have Ray Davis stay
1:06:15
in to pass protect, you know, and you can get You can get
1:06:18
really creative with a lot of these pieces. And I think that's also what
1:06:23
I think the Bills need to do. They have to get creative with their
1:06:25
formations, with their alignments, with motion, with play, action, with
1:06:29
personnel. Like I just don't think. I don't think they have like anybody
1:06:33
who's a walking bucket. Really. I think Kencaid can be that and has
1:06:36
shown some good flashes of it. But they don't really have an iso ball
1:06:42
dude, or use a basketball reference here. They don't have anybody who are
1:06:45
like, all right, cool, just clear it out, let him take
1:06:46
this guy one on one. We got it. You've got to have some
1:06:50
good off ball movement, you've got to have a good screen game, no
1:06:53
pun intended. I think there's there's a lot of options for this offense,
1:06:59
but it's it's gonna start with the schematics and the bones and the structure of
1:07:02
it and how it all gets stressed up because of you know, some of
1:07:06
the parts and how it all has to go through there s I'm saying Alan's
1:07:11
gonna have much more responsibility with checks in my opinion, I wonder and to
1:07:16
be because if you pair it with these personnel groupings and motion and stuff,
1:07:20
you have the opportunity to identify defensive coverage is pre snap and then yeah,
1:07:26
does you know do they motion someone out or do they shift? And Alan
1:07:29
reads what's happening and he knows it's man coverage and they had his zone coverage
1:07:31
play call, so he checks to a man beater or vice versa. Or
1:07:39
is Brady just scheming things up to a point where Alan doesn't really need a
1:07:43
check where it's schemed up and he knows the play is going to the running
1:07:45
back out of the backfield, But if the defense comes out and presents this
1:07:49
way or does this, that means that running back is going to get taken
1:07:53
away. So he's going to a second or third option right away because he
1:07:56
kind of knows everything from a pre snap recognition process because of how the play
1:08:00
is designed and schemed. So it's gonna be fun. It could be fun.
1:08:05
I think this is for me, Thomas saying wing preference, drums are
1:08:09
flats. I'm a drums kind of guy. Flats are fine. I just
1:08:13
think you get more Maybe I could be wrong on this too. I just
1:08:15
think you get more meat on the drum. You get that big like chunk.
1:08:18
It's also easier to rip off and just like dip into the blue cheese,
1:08:21
or you can leave it on the wing and dip in the blue cheese
1:08:24
and then like I'm a drums guy, I am a drums guy. David
1:08:30
coming insane. Alan is going to run through the progression early in this season
1:08:33
until these wide receivers learn where they need to be. Yeah, I do
1:08:36
think there's gonna be some growing pains for this offense. I don't know how
1:08:41
much Keyak Coleman's going to factor in. I'm hoping some of the familiarity that
1:08:45
Samuel has with Joe Brady allows him to kind of hit the ground running a
1:08:48
little bit. And even just from all of that, I do think this
1:08:51
offense on the year. I think it's gonna function through Dalton Kincaid. From
1:08:55
a past perspective, I think James Cook is going to be heavily, heavily,
1:08:58
heavily involved as both a runner and as a receiver. But I think
1:09:01
early on, in terms of guys who touch the ball that are not Josh
1:09:05
Allen, I think it's going to rely on Dalton Kinkaid, Khalil Shakir,
1:09:11
and James Cook, not necessarily in that order, but I think those are
1:09:14
going to be your three heavy lifters to kind of give Alan support. And
1:09:17
then maybe you get some gadget stuff from Curtis Samuel. Maybe they line them
1:09:20
up in the backfield and run you know, a Texas route out of the
1:09:23
backfield, or you know, hand them off the ball, or do some
1:09:26
jet motion or some orbit stuff to kind of get him the ball and some
1:09:29
different looks, or run some screens to keyon Coleman. But I do think
1:09:31
as everybody gets acclimated to one another, gets adjusted to being in this Joe
1:09:36
Brady system and really starts to see, we really start to see how the
1:09:42
piece is all fit. Once the bullets go live and everything starts flying,
1:09:45
I do think Alan's going to lean on the known quantities that he's got so
1:09:49
far, which again is Kincage, Shakir and James Cook. But again,
1:09:56
yeah, that's the large crux of it. I just look for look them
1:10:00
to be in twelve personnel but be able to run, you know, spread
1:10:02
and pass stuff out of it. In addition to having both tight ends attached
1:10:05
to the line of scrimmage and running power run stuff. When they're in eleven
1:10:09
personnel, they could be in spread and you know, run those type of
1:10:12
concepts. Or they can have the receivers tight to the line or attached to
1:10:15
the line and run more power stuff and get downhill just with the size and
1:10:21
frame and athleticism and ability to catch the football and block in the run game.
1:10:27
For a lot of these wide receivers and the tight ends in this Bills
1:10:30
grouping, they have the option to again access more of the menu without having
1:10:33
to turn the page in either personnel grouping. And I think that's where they
1:10:36
start, and then you start with the run game from there to make defenses
1:10:42
respect it, to make them come out of those coverage structures, to make
1:10:45
them have to make a decision from a personnel standpoint, and then you can
1:10:49
kind of use those answers against them and make them wrong even when they're right.
1:10:55
And that's gonna be really fun conversation as we continue to have going forward
1:10:59
this year and hope fully once we are in the season. Yeah, Sale
1:11:02
says it offense will be like a box of chocolates this year. Nice.
1:11:05
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pie, Yes, one pie is absolutely tremendous. David says, do they
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deliver to Arizona? You know what? You'd probably have to pay a pretty
1:12:04
penny. But I feel like they could. That technology exists, right.
1:12:09
I don't want to sound like an idiot, but like they could like flash
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freeze a half sheet and send it. I think that's the thing. It's
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probably gonna cost way too much, but it's probably worth it because they're delicious.
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I just always think back to I don't remember how she does it,
1:12:24
but in Fools Rush, in the movie with Selmahayak and Matthew Perry where they're
1:12:29
in Vegas. He loves Gray Gray Grace Papaya the hot dog spot in New
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York, and she gets him some brought in from New York to Vegas for
1:12:40
his birthday and they eat them while like sitting in the Grand Canny. Granted
1:12:43
that's a movie, but that was like the mid nineties. I feel like
1:12:45
it's possible, Like they're just gonna have to fly to you somehow, it's
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gonna cost a lot. Man, it was one hundred and three in Arizona.
1:12:53
I can't do that kind of heat. I I'll melt. And even
1:12:56
if it's a dry heat, like it would always say like oh, in
1:12:59
Houston or Dallas or you know, in Arizona, New Mexico, it's more
1:13:01
of a dry heat. It's not humid like Florida. It's still hot.
1:13:04
Man, Like if I open up the oven, it's not human in that
1:13:08
oven, but the heat is real, and that crushes me. I think
1:13:11
you should legitimately though, like I'm gonna actually ask the next time I go
1:13:14
in there, kind of as a joke, but kind of what to see.
1:13:17
I think you should call and ask for Yeah, Thomas's go for Iteah,
1:13:19
I kind of want to see what happens. I'm gonna ask the next
1:13:21
time I go in there and be like, hey, if I just want
1:13:24
to know what the process would be like if they ever encountered the head,
1:13:27
or if they have an answer like yeah, we could freeze it and send
1:13:30
it FedEx like FedEx air. We could send this pizza, but it'll cost
1:13:34
a pretty penny. But we'll see what happens. Oh, moving back to
1:13:38
the seven one sixth soon. Good luck in your move. I hate moving.
1:13:41
Let alone go in like cross country essentially, so good luck with that
1:13:45
in God's speed at that, I wish you the best. Moving stresses me
1:13:47
out like absolutely crazy again. Let alone a move of moving from New York
1:13:53
City back to Buffalo, and vice versa, from Buffalo to New York City
1:13:56
and the New York City back here stress the hell out of me. I
1:13:59
can't imagine going into Arizona, from Arizona to Buffalo or from Buffalo Arizona,
1:14:02
which I'm guessing is what you did when you're saying moving back to the seven
1:14:05
second. Not to stretch you out at you further, but yeah, that
1:14:08
stresses me. I'm just thinking of it. But yeah, call one pie,
1:14:11
see what they can do. I'm gonna throw the ban and this is
1:14:12
tootles, folks. I know this may seem shocking and crazy only an hour
1:14:15
and thirteen in, but we are David says moving is easier than one hundred
1:14:20
and three degree tempts. I feel you on that one man. That heat
1:14:24
is just absolutely real. I know this is a bit a bit of a
1:14:27
shorter episode of the Skuy's covered especially compared to last week's where we went two
1:14:30
hours, and we've done a lot of these marathon pieces, but yeah,
1:14:33
a little bit of a shorter one today. I've got a lot of moving
1:14:38
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