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  Speaker 1: where we start forecasting and looking forward to the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six season, both literally and figuratively. And in last
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  Speaker 1: week's episode, we went through the Buffalo Bills draft class
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  Speaker 1: for this season, played a little bit of keep or
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  Speaker 1: Very fun episode. If you did not check that out
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  Speaker 1: was very fun. It was a good time. Fun was had,
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  Speaker 1: and so I feel like now a bow has been
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  Speaker 1: kind of put on free agency for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: although some some moves could still happen. Yes, and as
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  Speaker 1: of knows the schedule, and oh, what's up, Dirty Jersey.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you, appreciate you. Yeah. So, now again, the Bills
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  Speaker 1: could still make a couple moves here and there. There
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  Speaker 1: are some free agents that are still available. We could
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  Speaker 1: see some roster cuts happening, especially once camp starts. We
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  Speaker 1: get closer to camp. But you know, for all intents
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  Speaker 1: here and cough randomly. But we're at the stage now,
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  Speaker 1: free agency mostly done, the draft done obviously. The Bills roster,
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  Speaker 1: for all intents and purposes, I don't know how to quantify,
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  Speaker 1: it is largely set. Again, we could see some movement
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  Speaker 1: and shaken here and there. We could see some guys
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  Speaker 1: get cut from other teams and get brought in. There
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  Speaker 1: are still some free agents that are kicking around that
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  Speaker 1: the Bills might take interest in. Some former Bills, some
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  Speaker 1: non former Bills that could fit into what they are doing.
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  Speaker 1: But again for all intents and purposes, this Buffalo Bill's
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  Speaker 1: roster is set, coaching staff is set, the roster is set.
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  Speaker 1: We kind of have an idea of what the depth
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  Speaker 1: chart looks like, what the roster looks like, what some
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  Speaker 1: training camp battles and competitions will look like. And so
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  Speaker 1: now I think, yeah, we start to get to the
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  Speaker 1: point in this offseason where you start to forecast a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, look forward a little bit, and that is
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  Speaker 1: kind of where this episode comes in, as we start
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  Speaker 1: to look forward here on this show, and there's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of questions going into twenty twenty six and even beyond.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's short term questions for this Bills team,
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  Speaker 1: there's long term questions for this Bills team, especially on
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  Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball. I feel like so
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  Speaker 1: much the conversation this offseason has been around the defense
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  Speaker 1: and will probably continue to be so, or do so,
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  Speaker 1: And that's where we start in tonight's episode. So we
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  Speaker 1: are going to look at several Buffalo Bills players that
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  Speaker 1: could use a jump in their game in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six and putting it in the perspective of if these
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  Speaker 1: players do have a jump in their game, the positive
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  Speaker 1: or significant impact it could have on the defense. Now,
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  Speaker 1: for me, we got five players to talk about in
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  Speaker 1: this episode. I do, I did, I dude, I did,
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  Speaker 1: I combind did and uh, dude, I don't know what
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  Speaker 1: I combine there. I wanted to keep it within guys
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  Speaker 1: who necessarily haven't had a breakout, so guys that you know.
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  Speaker 1: I like James's point here of Terrel Bernard has got
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  Speaker 1: to be healthy. I thought of even kind of putting
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  Speaker 1: Torel Bernard. I'll get into him in a little bit
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  Speaker 1: when we talk about another player, but kind of the
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  Speaker 1: qualifiers for this one, are you know, for this episode
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  Speaker 1: for me at least, were or are you know, players
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  Speaker 1: that haven't really broken out, players who may have a
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  Speaker 1: questionable role on this team, who may have kicked around
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  Speaker 1: a little bit but now haven't really solidified something. It
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  Speaker 1: could be somebody early into their tenure with the Bills,
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  Speaker 1: It could be somebody early into their career. And so
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  Speaker 1: I looked at it more from a positional standpoint and
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  Speaker 1: how guys kind of fit in, and then broke it
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  Speaker 1: down from there based on who they are, what their
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  Speaker 1: floor is, what they're ceiling is, what a jump for
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  Speaker 1: them could mean in twenty twenty six, but then how
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  Speaker 1: that would tie into twenty twenty seven and beyond. So
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  Speaker 1: that's kind of the qualifier for this episode. Less less
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  Speaker 1: of established guys who you know could get back into
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  Speaker 1: form or you know somebody you know who who has
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  Speaker 1: shown flashes before but then got hurt and kind of
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  Speaker 1: fell off a little bit. And this is more so
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  Speaker 1: away from that and more towards guys who really haven't
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  Speaker 1: established themselves in any way, shape or form from a
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  Speaker 1: consistency standpoint, kind of aren't really necessarily on the radar,
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  Speaker 1: and how we move forward from there in that regard. Now,
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  Speaker 1: for those of you playing at home, as we go
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  Speaker 1: through each player in this episode and position in this
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  Speaker 1: episode that is tied to the players, let me know
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts, questions, comments, concerns. If you have different players,
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  Speaker 1: if you have guys from different lists, different positions, different thoughts, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: you know. We like to make the show as engaging
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  Speaker 1: and back and forth as possible, especially with the live chat.
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  Speaker 1: from my notes and brings me back to the chat
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  Speaker 1: like a cat with a laser pointer. But I will
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  Speaker 1: try to get through anything and everything as much as
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  Speaker 1: possible as we go forward. Here grab a couple of comments.
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  Speaker 1: Early on, Ryan says, a land In Jackson sophomore year
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  Speaker 1: Cole Bishop type of leap would sure be a welcome However,
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  Speaker 1: unlikely surprised we're gonna talk about Landy Jackson. Spoiler, he's
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  Speaker 1: in this episode and we're going to talk about him.
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  Speaker 1: I second that notion to a degree, but we will
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  Speaker 1: talk about that. Bill's fan seventy eight eighty three says,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion, drafting Caleb elarms Or is a shot
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  Speaker 1: of confidence towards Dorny and Williams and a warning shot
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  Speaker 1: for Terrel Bernard. Dorry is the only downhill thumper we have.
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  Speaker 1: Caleb elarms Or is similar to Terrel Bernard. Yeah, it's interesting.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think Or has more no rhyme scheme
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  Speaker 1: intended there, more of like the short range juice and
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  Speaker 1: ability that kind of Dornian has. I think he's got
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  Speaker 1: more downhill thump them Bernard, even though he doesn't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: have the length of the frame that Dorrian Williams has,
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  Speaker 1: but he's got more downhill thump to him, gets off
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  Speaker 1: blocks a little better, but he also struggles a bit
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  Speaker 1: in coverage, more so like Dorian does than Bernard does.
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  Speaker 1: It's a weird We're going to talk again spoiler about
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  Speaker 1: Dorian Williams in this episode and the linebacker position as
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  Speaker 1: a whole. It's a weird. It's a weird grouping for
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  Speaker 1: the Bills this year in terms of skill sets and
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  Speaker 1: players and how everyone kind of compliments one another and
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  Speaker 1: where they are is a group, especially if you juxtapose
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  Speaker 1: it with what Leonards linebackers have looked like in the past,
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  Speaker 1: especially and specifically at Wisconsin. We're gonna get into that tonight,
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  Speaker 1: Kayleby arms Or is an interesting one. And yeah, especially
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  Speaker 1: you know you've got Dorian Williams going into the last
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  Speaker 1: year of his contract. We're going to talk about Dorian
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  Speaker 1: in this episode. RJ says, I mean, any of the
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  Speaker 1: group of Land and Jackson, t J. Sanders, Dwayne Carter,
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  Speaker 1: Dorian Williams could step up. It would really help a lot.
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  Speaker 1: That is where we will start. I'm going to start
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  Speaker 1: with TJ. Sanders and or Land and Jackson, and it
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  Speaker 1: starts from a positional standpoint from the odd front aspect. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I think that this conversation I think has been misconstrued
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  Speaker 1: in a lot of ways. The whole like odd front
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  Speaker 1: multiplicity up front, the positions guys are going to be
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  Speaker 1: in the movement based defense, the lack of a traditional
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  Speaker 1: nose tackle, I think a lot of that has gotten
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  Speaker 1: blown out of proportion and misconstrued in a lot of ways.
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  Speaker 1: But tying into that again, Bill's defense is going to
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  Speaker 1: have an odd front look as their base and within that,
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  Speaker 1: you know, again, I'm just gonna is the simplest way
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  Speaker 1: to put it. You know, you need two, you know,
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  Speaker 1: three four defensive ends. You need two four eyes potentially
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  Speaker 1: right and right now, if we're looking at the four
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  Speaker 1: eye rotation for the Buffalo Bills, we are looking at
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  Speaker 1: that from the perspective of at Oliver being the starter
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  Speaker 1: on one side, which is very fine, and then you're
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  Speaker 1: kicking it into Dion Walker who's at the nose, and
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  Speaker 1: then someone's gonna have to rotate with him. And then
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  Speaker 1: the other defensive end spot is right now between TJ.
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  Speaker 1: Sanders and Land and Jackson, maybe Dwayne Carter plays there,
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  Speaker 1: But it sounds like Dwane Carter's gonna get some burner
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  Speaker 1: opportunity at nose with Walker, which we're gonna talk about
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. But I lumped Sanders and Jackson together
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  Speaker 1: because of where I think they're each gonna play. I
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  Speaker 1: think they're you know, I've been saying this about Land
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  Speaker 1: and Jackson pretty much all off season that I thought
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  Speaker 1: the best move for him, especially with this new defense,
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  Speaker 1: was put on some more weight and kick inside and
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  Speaker 1: play four I Again, part of this is tied to
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  Speaker 1: my evaluation for him coming out of Arkansas. I did
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  Speaker 1: not love him as a prospect, coming out as an
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  Speaker 1: edge prospect, high cut, stiffness in his lower body, lack
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  Speaker 1: of fluid in his lower body, lack of change of direction.
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  Speaker 1: Really just a straight line and that's it type of guy.
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  Speaker 1: But he played the run well, he used his length well,
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  Speaker 1: he would grind, he would battle. I did think he
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  Speaker 1: had some violence and some nastiness to his game. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, he he did play four eye at Arkansas
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  Speaker 1: and played a little heavier at times too. Now, granted,
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  Speaker 1: I'll be and albeit in kind of a different defense.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you can play the four eye and still
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  Speaker 1: be more of a movement guy and be the container,
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  Speaker 1: the forced player than you are the person holding up
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  Speaker 1: in the b gap at the point of attack between
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  Speaker 1: a garden tackle. But I thought his play style would
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  Speaker 1: translate best to hey, put on some weight, kick inside.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you're gonna be, you know, a two
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  Speaker 1: point stance edge guy coming off the outside. I guess
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  Speaker 1: grant maybe he could be a heavy one at times,
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  Speaker 1: but I thought his best move would put on some weight,
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  Speaker 1: go in there, go inside. Right, You're looking at either
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  Speaker 1: him doing that or TJ Sanders being the answer at
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  Speaker 1: four eye. Now, TJ Sanders is naturally heavier already than
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  Speaker 1: Landon Jackson. The issue with TJ. Sands is and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not out on TJ. Sanders as a player. And I
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  Speaker 1: see this question from Adam saying should we expect anything
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  Speaker 1: from t J Sanders this year? Like, are you excited
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  Speaker 1: quote unquote about him at all for this upcoming season.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not out on Sanders, but I do think his
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  Speaker 1: fit in this defense is questionable. I still think his
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  Speaker 1: best he's best suited for the defense the Bills had
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  Speaker 1: last year. From I think a high end rotational standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know if TJ. Sanders was ever going to
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  Speaker 1: be like a true starting three tech, but I thought, hey,
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  Speaker 1: you get him in this Bills defense. He's the backup
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  Speaker 1: three to Ed Oliver. He's playing in a high rotational role.
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  Speaker 1: I think he could be like a defensive tackle three,
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  Speaker 1: you know, or a super high end four, depending on
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  Speaker 1: who the three are above him. In an even front defense.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's more built to be a one gap,
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  Speaker 1: upfield penetrating type of guy. I think there's questions about
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  Speaker 1: him at the point of attack and I and then
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  Speaker 1: that was even in the even front stuff before. But
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  Speaker 1: there are some flashes on tape last year where it's like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he plays a little gap in a half,
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  Speaker 1: he uses his length or what he has of it,
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  Speaker 1: kind of plays in his primary, falls back into the secondary.
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  Speaker 1: He uses his hands, he flashes a bit, he moves.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not completely out on TJ. Sanders. I think he
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  Speaker 1: has a chance to succeed in this defense. I still
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  Speaker 1: think he's better suited for the previous defense the Bills
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  Speaker 1: were in. But both guys have questions around them, both
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  Speaker 1: Landon Jackson and t J. Sanders, So if one of
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  Speaker 1: them could see a jump That would be great because
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  Speaker 1: I think the opposite four hye spot of Ed Oliver
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  Speaker 1: is a big question mark. Like right now, if you're
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  Speaker 1: playing that five down look right where you've got your
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  Speaker 1: two bookends are going to be Chubb and Group, and
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  Speaker 1: then you kick it inside and it's Ed Oliver and
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  Speaker 1: who's the other one we don't know, and then it
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  Speaker 1: knows it's Dean Walker. Right. I'm just breaking it down
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  Speaker 1: off of you know, the quote unquote starters if you're
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  Speaker 1: going out with an opening day lineup, But so who's
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  Speaker 1: that other guy inside one of the book ends opposite
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  Speaker 1: of at Oliver? Is it t J. Sanders? Is it
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  Speaker 1: Landon Jackson? That's an important position. And then those guys
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  Speaker 1: in Jim Lennard's defense Wisconsin would also kind of kick
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  Speaker 1: inside and play one of the defensive tackle spots in
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  Speaker 1: the four down fronts and the sub package looks and
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  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. So again, there is going
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  Speaker 1: to be multiplicity. There is going to be a movement
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  Speaker 1: style based defense. I think TJ. Sanders can work in
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  Speaker 1: that regard, right. I think we are going to see
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  Speaker 1: a lot of slants, a lot of movement. I see
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  Speaker 1: the comment there for Zanye Durant, Sure, you know, maybe,
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  Speaker 1: I just think it's a lot to expect Zane Durant
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  Speaker 1: to come in and be the starter opposite of at Oliver.
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  Speaker 1: I think he's more of the rotational guy behind at
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  Speaker 1: Oliver that gives you some juice and pop. And so
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  Speaker 1: you know your top two rotation, it's Ed and Durant
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  Speaker 1: behind him, and then Sanders and Jackson. Sure, maybe Zane Durant,
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  Speaker 1: you know, jumps one of those guys in the rotation.
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  Speaker 1: I just think it's a lot to expect of him
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  Speaker 1: to be a starter right out the gate, especially with
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  Speaker 1: how he struggles at the point of attack and how
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  Speaker 1: short his arms are. And again tying into all this, right,
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be a movement based defense. We
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  Speaker 1: know that. And when I say movement, I mean you know, slants, stunts,
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  Speaker 1: simulated pressures, creepers, you know, guys dropping off the line
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  Speaker 1: of scrimmage in the coverage a little bit, guys from
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  Speaker 1: the second level rushing showing that pre snap, not showing it,
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  Speaker 1: and bringing it post snap. All different kinds of stunts
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  Speaker 1: and games. Two man games, three man games, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of movements, right, stunting, slashing, movement based things. That being said,
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  Speaker 1: there is going to be point of attack play in
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  Speaker 1: this defense, and there needs to be point of attack
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  Speaker 1: play in this defense. I put some stuff out on
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  Speaker 1: Twitter and Blue Sky at the end of last week.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to actually show it in this episode, but
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  Speaker 1: YouTube is crazy with showing college football tape and I'm
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  Speaker 1: not trying to get copyright strikes. I put some clips
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  Speaker 1: out from the Wisconsin game in twenty twenty one, you know,
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  Speaker 1: with their defense run by Jim Leonard, playing against Notre Dame,
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  Speaker 1: and I showed a bunch of early downplays from the
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  Speaker 1: first two quarters because early downplays situationally very similar, and
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  Speaker 1: what you saw was you saw some movement stuff. You
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  Speaker 1: also saw a lot of point of attack play, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of gap and a half, a lot of you know,
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  Speaker 1: react attack instead of just attack react. I think we've
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  Speaker 1: gotten a lot. I think the whole movement based nature
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  Speaker 1: of the Bills defense and Jim Leonard not using a
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  Speaker 1: traditional nose has gotten thrown a little out of whack,
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  Speaker 1: especially even using like Keanu Benton as the nose tackle example,
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  Speaker 1: who is you know, one of the best defensive linemen
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  Speaker 1: and players that he had at Wisconsin. Keanu Benton was sick.
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  Speaker 1: I think people misconstrue a good nose being heavy and big.
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  Speaker 1: You don't have to be huge. Granted, Keanu Benton was
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  Speaker 1: like listed at three hundred and seventeen pounds, and yes,
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  Speaker 1: Keanu Benton could move, but Keanu Benton also played. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he did movement stuff, like he'd loop, he'd be the
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  Speaker 1: contained pressure guy. You know, he'd spike, he'd play a game,
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  Speaker 1: they would do all that stuff. But he'd also play
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  Speaker 1: at the point of attack, like he'd meet a center
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  Speaker 1: or he'd meet a guarden. He'd drop the knee and
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  Speaker 1: he'd be the anchor guy. At the point of attack.
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  Speaker 1: He'd play gap. In a half, he would two gap.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: He would have to play react attack instead of attack
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: react where you're just putting your ears back and getting
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: up field. You would see some of that, but you
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: also saw a point of attack play. I think the
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: idea that the Bills defense is going to be a
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: movement based defense is true. Again, You're gonna get a
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: lot of movement and activity from Jim Leonard. You will
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: get that, which has its own pros and cons, which
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: we've talked about a bit throughout the offseason. On the show.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: I don't want to get on too much of a tangent,
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: but we are gonna see movement. You're still gonna need
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: to see point of attack play right, And that's where
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: my question comes in. For Dion Walker at NOS and TJ.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Sanders at the four eye spot right, you need somebody
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: at that four eyes who can handle a double team
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: and not get displaced, who can handle a base block
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: and not get blown back, who cannot get washed down
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: super ly easily and kind of laterally displaced or horizontally displaced,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: I should say, and that happened to CJ. Sanders a
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: bunch last year. Landon Jackson, even though he's a little lighter,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: I just think his play style could suit him a
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: little bit better to play at the point of attack
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: than Sanders. But I also think his frame and being
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: high cut, it's not going to give him a lot
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: of bend. He is going to be more stiff and
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: rigid in his body, which isn't going to help him
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: be able to displace any force that comes at him.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: So he might get knocked down some gaps, he might
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: get blown off the ball. I have more questions from
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: a point of attack standpoint with both of these guys.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Sanders I think can do the movement stuff. Jackson I
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: think could to a degree. Sanders I think would be
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: better with that type of stuff. But what's happening from
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: a point of attack standpoint. You can play all the
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: games you want, and I think they will. They're gonna
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: do a lot. I think a lot. There's gonna be
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: a lot on Jim Leonard's play this year to make
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: this defense succeed. Through the sum of its parts and
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: him making the right calls at the right time. They're
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: gonna win more with scheme and structure. They're gonna win
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: more with the x's and o's than they will just
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: the strake Jimmy's and Joe's. But at a certain point
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: you need to be able to have some ass kickers
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: up front who are able to dig their feet into
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: the dirt and stay rooted to the ground and knock
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: get knocked off the ball. And I don't know if
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: the Bills have that enough up front. And so if
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Sanders or Jackson could take a jump, that would help
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: quell some of those worries. Right, If one of these
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: guys can be a point of attack guy or just
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: dominate so much from a movement standpoint. Then it comes
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: up the works and we're playing a high variance game.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: One of these guys being able to solidify themselves a
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: starting spot in this roster or on this defense, I
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: should say, would go such a long way, not just
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: for twenty twenty six, but then again talking forward and
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: going beyond in twenty twenty seven. Both of these guys
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: were earlyish picks in the twenty twenty five draft. It
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: would be nice if in their second year they showed
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: you some consistency or some flashes that made you go like, okay, cool,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: like we have an answer for twenty twenty seven and
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: an answer for twenty twenty eight. Landon Jackson of course,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: coming off of significant injury from last year that caused
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: him to miss the whole season, and then that tied
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: into TJ Sanders a little bit. TJ Sanders got hurt,
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: but he's playing defensive end because there's injuries at the
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: defensive end and edge spot, so Sanders is playing out
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: of position, trying to learn how to play in the NFL.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Like Sanders I think had a wonky rookie season because
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: he got hurt, and then he's also playing out of position.
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: What was asked of him what he was doing. I
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: still don't even think it was a true evaluation of
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: what he could be. And now you're going into a
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: new defense. I think Sanders is a big question mark.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Jackson is obviously a bigger question mark because he got hurt.
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: He's coming off an injury, and we don't really have
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: an NFL regular season sample size for him. But then again,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Sanders is a big question too because he got hurt,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: but then he played, but he's playing on a position
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: and what he wasn't accustomed to. And you're looking right
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: now on paper at one of these guys being your
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: starter in the odd front looks and then the even
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: front stuff. It's fine, you can kick TJ. Sanders in
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: and let him rotate on the interior and do stuff
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: there in the four down front like you did before
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: with Sean McDermott, Like that's not a problem, although again
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: he still needs to prove himself there in that regard.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: So I just think it's it starts here with me,
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: It starts up front. Sanders or Jackson being able to
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: one of them or both of them being able to
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: take a jump that means you get a solidified starter
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: up front. You get an answer for twenty twenty six,
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: and you get an answer then for twenty twenty seven
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: and twenty twenty eight, which would be huge. The Bills
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: are still cap strapped. It's gonna happen a little bit
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: next year. You need as much cost effective young talent
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: and cost effective players as you can, and it would
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: be great to start to have more of that twenty
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: twenty five draft class start to hit it, start to
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: kick in, prove its worth, and be able to be
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: something that you can hang your hat on going forward.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: And again, I think this is something that could work
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: out good for Landon Jackson. I don't know if I
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: ever'd be starting caliber up front at that spot, but
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I think he could be a fine rotational guy in
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: some spurts. I wasn't a huge fan of the pick
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: to begin with, but I think this defensive scheme move
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: could work out a bit for him. Sanders, I think
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: is wonky in this defense versus what he was before
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: in McDermott's, but you know, his rookie season as a
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: whole was wonky, so it's kind of almost like a
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: wash in terms of frustration. Bump bump. Let's go back
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: to some comments Aiden says which Sabers player would be
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: most capable to start at a position of need for
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. Oh, man, I would He's he's small,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: but I'll take I'll take Zach Benson and I'll put
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: him at four. Iye, I just put the dog there
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: and let him do work. Bump bum bum come in here.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Sanders is currently penciled into a starting spot. Landon has
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: to add weight and is coming off an injury as
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: well as just being a rotation guy at best. Sanders
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: has way more pressure in my opinion. Yeah, I think
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: that's kind of fair. I don't know who has more pressure.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I just think they both have questions around them because
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: I think Sanders had some more flashes than he got
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: credit for last year. But I don't think his tape
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: was overly good. But again, he was playing out a
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: position a bunch and coming off an injury. It's just
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: a lot of wonkiness. R J says, I'm trying to
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: think of the new quote unquote based defense as a
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: five to two four. We are just gaining a nose
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: tackle during a high percentage rundown. Yeah, something's kind of
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: what you're looking at, like from an odd front standpoint.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Just because you have five on that front doesn't mean
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: you'll bring all five, right, Like Leonard will show five,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: drop one off the line, which is what you do
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: in three four defenses a bunch anyway, right, show five down,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: then you drop one of those guys off the edge,
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: So you're still only rushing four. But that whole idea
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: of who's your fourth rusher, who's dropping, how many guys
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: are dropping, who's a rush player, who's a dropper, where
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: are they dropping to what coverage is playing behind them?
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: It just leads to more games that you could play
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: with the offense and picture changes after there. RJ says,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: watch being trying to make Landy Jackson plays no play
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: nose tackle, and then Noah says Carter will be the
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: nose tackle. I don't. We're gonna talk about that a
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: little bit. Argis say is extremely nervous that Carter, who
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: has issues getting blown off the line, will now have
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: the responsibility of not being blown off the line. Yeah,
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: that's that's fair. That's fair. Roy says it wouldn't surprise
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: me this defense finishes in the bottom third of the
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: league defending the run. Again. I think Leonard will get
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: them to be more middle of the pack. But again,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I do think it's going to be a heavy lift
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: for Leonard. From a scheme instructure standpoint, cam moy says,
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: Mathis is my sneaky pick for making a positive splash
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty six Bills. That's super funny, and
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: I'll use that to just segue into our next example. Here,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: the next Buffalo Bills player that could use jump in
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. I used him as the example, but
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: it doesn't necessarily have to be him, so I used
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: it or this this segment here, Fidarium mathis slash anyone
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: at nose tackle or interior defensive line. I've talked about
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: it all off season. I'm kind of sick of talking
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: about it with how much I've talked about it, But
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I think the Bills need an ass kicker at nose
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: tackle upfront to play in conjunction with, and in rotation with,
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: and in tandem with Dean Walker. Now this could be
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: Frederium Mathis, This could be Zion Log, This could somehow
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: be Dwayne Carter, anyone, anyone Bueller. I could just help
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: on the interior. I gain someone said it earlier. Just
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: being doesn't value that spot or that role. I guess
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: you know being has talked about it for years, right Like,
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: it's easy to find this role in free agency. They're cheap,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: they don't cost a lot. You can find it in
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: the back end of the draft. And here we sit
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: continuing to not get that role and not get that
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: skill set as of right now penciled in behind Dion
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: Walker for like the second string or rotational depth, meaning
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: they're going to see snaps even if it's only ten
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: to fifteen or whatever. It's either Fredarium Mathis or Zion
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Lope right now for this Buffalo Bill's defense when you
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: look at the nose tackle spot. No disrespect to either
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: of them. I don't think Fedarian Mathis or Zion log
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: should be seeing meaningful snaps for a playoff caliber team,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: especially one that has had issue stopping the run. Again. Walker,
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: even though he's a mountain of a dude, as we've
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: discussed before, is more of a finesse player. That doesn't
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: mean he's soft, that doesn't mean he's not physical. It
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: means his game is built more towards let me quick
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: swim a guy, let me penetrate real fast, let me
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: hit a guy with a club and get into the backfield.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: He plays more like Ed Oliver than he does Vita Vea,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: even though he's closer to being Vita Vea size right,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: So that's Walker's game. I do think he can hold
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: up to a decent degree at the point of attack,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: but that's not the type of guy that he is.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: And he's huge, he's tall. He doesn't have a lot
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: of bend. That's just his size and frame and how
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: he's built. Although he has lost some weight apparently, I'm
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: interested to see what kind of shape he comes into
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: camp and if there's some more flexibility to his game
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: in addition to the weight loss. He's just not gonna
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: be able to bend. You know. Jpacosta call to compared
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: him to the Iron Giant I think last year or
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: earlier this offseason. I think that just makes so much
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: sense for who he is. It's hard to be six
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: seven and get low and bend and drop the knee, right.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: Guys are gonna get under you. Guys are gonna be
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: able to displace you and move you. Its heart, and
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: I also don't want Dion Walker living in that role
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: on the interior. I don't want him having to play
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: all his snaps at nose and having to deal with
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: everybody banging into him and knocking him off the ball
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: or trying to knock him off the ball. I want
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: to line him up at nose. I want to line
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: him up at four I I want to line him
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: up in a five. I want to put him in
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: a two point stance off the edge. I want to
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: move him. He's a dancing bear in in the in
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the body of a mountain. I want to use that.
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: I want to unlock that. And I thought, you know again,
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: I recognize Brandon being obviously potentially does not feel the
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: same way. I am continuing to say what I want.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I think that role is needed in this defense. And
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: for those saying like, oh, you know, Jim Leonard never
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: used a traditional nose at Wisconsin, you still are going
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: to have to hold up at the point of attack
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: in this defense. This defense is not pure movement based
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: and for the whole like non traditional nose at Wisconsin,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Keanu Benton is like like three hundred and fifteen three
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: twenty pounds. That's still pretty big for a nose tackle
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: in today's football, especially for college and Keanu Benton, though
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: he could penetrate though he could move. He also held
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: up at the point of attack. He also played react attack,
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: where you know he's keen off the guard or keen
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: off the center and making contact, you know, screws on,
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: screws of the helmet, getting both hands there, feeling or
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: seeing that double coming from somebody else, dropping the knee,
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: reducing his surface area, gumming things up at the point
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: of attack. You need that in your nose, just like
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: you need that in your four eyes. I think the
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Bills can do the movement stuff up front. I think
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: it's fine to be that. I don't think it was
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: the easiest thing in the world to answer all these
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: roster questions this offseason, given the draft capital and the
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: free and the financial capital they had in free agency.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: But the Bills have not addressed this position. And I again,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: I not to be rude or disrespectful. I just you
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: can't be a serious playoff defense who struggled against the
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: last year and we're one of the worst teams to
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: try to stop the run historically last year. And then
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: you're going in knowing that, like Fedarium Mathis or Zion Low,
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: we're gonna need to eat snaps for you like that.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: That's your that's your point of attack player at nos
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: that that just worries me. And then again even more so,
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: God forbid dion Walker. Like like last year healthy worked
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: out well, Let's not forget he had like a he
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: has a spinal or lower back syndrome that kind of
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: messed him up a little bit. He's had some injuries.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: What happens if dion Walker goes down? What are you doing?
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: At knows you're playing Fadarium, Mathis and zion Low like together.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: That's just scary. Like I you need a strong ass
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: kicker point of attack guy to play in conjunction with
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: dion Walker. And yes, it looks like Brandon Bean doesn't
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: feel that way based on what we've seen this year
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: in last year, and maybe Jim Leonard doesn't feel that way.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Maybe Leonard did want more of a you know, ass
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: kicker type of nose and they just weren't able to
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: make it happen. I don't know what happens behind the scenes.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: I'm just telling you I think they need that role.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Doesn't mean they're screwed if they don't get it, but
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: I do think they need that role. And the whole
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: conversation of like, oh, Jim Leonard doesn't need a big
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: guy on the interior. He doesn't need a big nose.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: You know, he never used the traditional nose. I think
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: that that argument is misleading, especially when people use Keanu
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: Benton as the example, because Keanu Benton was a good
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: sized dude, but aside from that, he had the skill
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: set to play against the run on the interior. Even
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: DJ Jones in Denver people like, oh, look at the
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: defense the noses and the interior guys for Denver, like
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: DJ Jones and Malcolm Roach. Both of those guys can
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: handle some double teams and could drop the knee a
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: little bit and could anchor and could mitigate displacement. But
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: I also think it was very funny in the grander scheme,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: the larger scheme of conversation when people use the Denver
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: Broncos examples for Jim Leonard to be like, oh, oh,
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: look at the Denver defense. They didn't have these big,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: you know, ass kickers from an anchor standpoint, displaced mitigation,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: they didn't have these traditional body types and that was fine.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I feel like all the Bills fans saying that forget
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: how much when the Bills played the Broncos all the
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Bills fans were like, Hey, we can run all over
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: the Broncos. Hey, We're just gonna run right at Denver. Hey,
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: Zach Allen is a monster. You know what you can
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: do with Zach Allen Run right at him and knock
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: him off the ball. That happened to the Denver defense
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: a bunch in the playoff game two years ago when
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: the Bills beat the Broncos, and even this past year
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: when the Bills lost to the Broncos, the Bills ran
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: on the Broncos, the Bills sealed them, moved him, knocked
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: them off the ball, right, So I think you need
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: that role. I think people were kind of I think
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: this whole conversation of like the nose tackle, the movement
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: based defense, Jim Leonard defense, the body types, what each
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: role should be, how much they have to weigh the size.
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: I think so much of it is muddied and misconstrued
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: now and we've lost the plot with it. And honestly,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: this could be a whole episode in and of itself.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, for this role,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: somebody again, even if you want to play movement based defense, fine,
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: someone needs to step up at nose behind Dion Walker.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: It could be Fanarian Mathis, it could be Zion Log,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: it could be Dwayne Carter. I don't have a lot
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: of faith in Carter, especially just because his game was
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: never built towards like displacement, mitigation and being an anchor.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: He was at his best as like a two hundred
• 33:37
  Speaker 1: and ninety mid two nineties pound defensive tackle at Duke,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: where his game was all about upfield penetration. I thought
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: the Bills his rookie year did him a bit of
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: a disservice by trying to get him to play heavier
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: and then getting Austin Johnson to play lighter so they
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: could rotate both of those dudes at one tech and
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: three tech. I didn't think that made a lot of sense.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Austin Johnson was much better as a one tech, a
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: heavy type of dude. Dwayne Carter was much better as
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: a lighter penetrator, gap shooter, upfield type of dude. They
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: made Johnson play lighter and Carter play heavier, and I
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: think they middled them both out and made them both
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: met and Carter's coming off of major injury, so we'll
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: just see. I it would be great if they could
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: get an answer from Carter or Mathis or log somebody,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: somebody needs to step up, and again it doesn't. I
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: don't think it's going to be this impactful role where
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: it's like, oh, we got to get this guy more snaps.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: It just needs to be somebody who can be a
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: rotational body. So that's funny from Chris, Chris that I
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: got called a coward on Blue Sky. So now I'm here.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: Well done, Chris, I appreciate you. That's in reference to
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: my post that I put out for every episode tweet
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: and Blue Sky post. That's funny. That took me on
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: my train of thought. Good job, Chris, well done, Thank you.
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: Thank you for being here too. Even if it's just
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: for ten to fifteen snaps, it's got to be somebody
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: that can give you, somebody who's not going to get
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: knocked around too much. And at this point too, with
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: the Bills defense, I'm just hoping from a run defense standpoint,
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: they just can't be bottom of the league again. The
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: issue with the Bills run defense last year especially was
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: just like it wasn't like that they were bad. They
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: were the worst or arguably the worst than like any metric.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: And if you watch them on tape Advanced Metric. They
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: were just bad. If they can just be like middling bad,
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: like seventeen to twenty, that's fine. But if they can
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: just be like seventeen to fourteen, that would be great.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: Just play in the middle, Just go from there and
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: do that. Use the scheme instructure and take care of it.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: But especially with so much of what Jim Leonard does
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: that's good, the simulated pressures, the creeper pressures, getting his
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: defense off the field on third down. So much of
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: that is predicated on winning early downs, forcing the offense
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: into longer third and long more predictable, you know, straight
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: dropback situations on third down, so you can get into
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: your creepers, you can get into your simulated pressures, you
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: can get into all these this movement and game stuff
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: and really game up an offensive line and their protection
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: rules and attack the back attack, the tight end attack,
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: the open side attack, the closed side blitz, the formation,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: all of these things. You can only do that if
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: you win on early downs, if you stop the run.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: And Jim Leonard himself said this in his pressure when
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: he came onto the Bills, that it starts with stopping
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: the run. There's a multitude of comments from him going
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: back to Wisconsin and then going back going to this
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: press or two with the Bills of it starts with
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: stopping the run, like that's where everything starts for this defense.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: And based on how they're built right now, the way
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: they're going to have to stop the run is with
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: scheme instructure. So again, Leonard might be able to call
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: an amazing game every single game and be able to
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: take care of it. The Bills might be able to
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: ride this movement style of defense and be able to
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: mitigate the run. And you can. It can work like that, right,
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: You can run run blitzes and run stunts, play games
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: and cut off certain aspects of the field and box
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: a run in and make a running back operate in
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: a foam move. That can work. But when you play movement,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: it's it's risk reward. Right. If it's like trying to
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: steal a base, right, if you if you move on
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: the base pass, guess what, you might steal second base.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: And now you just stole second base. You also might
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: get thrown out, and now you just cost yourself a
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: runner that was on base. If you call the wrong
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: blitz or the wrong game or the wrong movement up
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: front at the wrong time, gaps become alleys, alleys become
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: highways that buses can be driven through. It can get
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: problematic real fast. And again, if it balances out with
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: the variants. You know, if you give up a twelve
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: yard run here, but then you're creating like three negative
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: plays against the run after that, you can kind of
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: live with that ratio. It's just a matter of how
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: much give and take there will be if you play
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: that much movement. And again, even if you are a
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: movement based defense, which I do want to say again forever,
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: even if you're a movement based defense with Leonard's defense,
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: you still have to play at the point of attack.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: You still need to able to be quote unquote stuff
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: the run or anchor and not get moved or driven
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: off the ball. Even if you're primarily a movement based defense,
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: there are going to be times where you're going to
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: have to play react attack instead of just pure penetrate.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: Get up field, let me let me slant, let me stunt.
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: I'm looping, I'm spiking this. Two man game, three man game,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: sim all this stuff, right, you still need to play
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: at the point of attack. You still need some ass
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: kickers up front who won't get moved, even if it's
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: just as a change up, right, I use these analogies
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: and metaphors all the time, whatever you want to call them.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: If you got your fastball, that's great. You still need
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: to change up. You still need a secondary pitch. You
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: still need you know, a third pitch. You need to
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: change up, you need a slider. You need to be
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: able to throw them and locate them. That the offense
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: needs to have to account for that. And again, for
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: as much as Leonard's defense has movement, there's a ton
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: of tape for Leonards guys right handling, double teams, playing
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: at the point, attack, playing gap and a half two
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: gapping at times traditional you know, quote unquote three four
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: odd front stuff. And so within that, I don't want
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Dion Walker having to live it knows all the time.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: And even if he is, you still need a backup
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: to that spot. And so who's that backup going to be?
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: Is it Fanarian mathis is it zion Log? Is it
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Dwayne Carter? Is it more of a movement base? Is
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: it some displacement mitigation and some run stuffing, you know,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: people eater type stuff, space eater type stuff. Again, that
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: doesn't have to be a huge guy. It's more about
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: the skill set and the play style and block recognition
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: and all those things. So we'll see. But somebody's got
• 39:46
  Speaker 1: to step up because it can't just be Dion Walker.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: And then, man, even if the guy behind him is
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: only seeing ten to fifteen STAPs a game, those are
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: going to be important because those early noun snaps are
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: going to matter. And then on top of it, what
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: happens if Walker goes down, Then all of a sudden,
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: the nose tackle spot becomes a huge, huge, huge, huge,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: huge point. I'm gonna work backwards here, Bill Fan says,
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: or we running vance Joseph's defense or Leonards? Are we
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: confident in Leonard's ability to install the defense? What to expect?
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: I am confident in Leonard's ability to install the defense.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: In terms of what defense Leonard's gonna run, that's a
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: big question, right. I do think there are some similarities
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: between him and Joseph, but it really comes down to
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: what we're actually gonna see. You know, how much of
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: it is even how much of it is the Wisconsin stuff?
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: Is that the Denver stuff? You know, the coverage thing,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: so on and so forth. I think the For me,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I think there are gonna be some more similarities I'm
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: expecting to the structure and the calls of Wisconsin up front,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: but tying in more of the coverage elements and pieces
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: from Vince Joseph. I think, and I'm basing that just
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: off of the body types that Leonard had at linebacker,
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: outside linebacker, and even inside, like the versatility and the
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: dynamic nature that he had at linebacker. The Bills don't
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: have that, So I don't think he can necessarily do
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: all the Wisconsin stuff that he did because they don't
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: have that dynamic group. You don't have Noah Berks and
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Van Ginkel and Herbig and Chanl and even Sanborn, but
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: these guys where it was like Zach Bond, but these
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: guys who are like I can line up as d
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: man on a line of scrimmage in an on front
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: and play the run and be a force player. I
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: can beat up a tight end. I can actually rush
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: in a four down front and go one on one
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: against a tackle. I could play off balls and inside
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: linebacker and cover and blitz. I can do all these things.
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: So we'll see. I think that's the big question. You know,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: how much of it is the Rex Ryan stuff. How
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: much of it is the Justin Wilcox stuff. How much
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: of it is the Vance Joseph stuff. So we'll see,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see. I think that's a good That
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: is the questioned bum. RJ says this whole quote unquote,
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: we are not allowed to have a nose tackle slash
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: one tech is ridiculous. Issue being is causing those Carolina
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: teams head star and other nose tackles, so it makes
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: zero sense. Yeah, it's been interesting how they've talked about
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: how easy it is to get these guys and yet
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: they have not gotten any of those guys. Connor says,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Ed and Walker are good, but I don't know about
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: the rest of the group. Noah says, Bean is neglecting
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: this position and it's going to cost us Roy. Is
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: it that Bean feels that way or is it Leonard?
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: Maybe both this tied into the whole like not getting
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: a nose or a one tech. We don't know. I
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: definitely think Bean feels this way just because again a
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: different coaching staff and year after year they're not really
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: getting this role. Leonard, we don't know. He may have
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: pounded the table for a couple of free agents or
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: some draft guys that were more of a big bodied
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: or you know, stout type of player, even if it's
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: not a huge dude. But maybe he got overruled. We
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: don't know. Bom Bomb bomb bomb bum Slim saying, once
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: a wrist is broken, it's never the same. Carter had
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: the ligament issue as well. He's washed. We'll see. Walter says,
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: I struggled to get too I just struggled to get
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: too excited for this defensive line. In general, it just
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: feels like we're leaning too heavily on the scheme of
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: fixing our issues. I think that's a fair point. The
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: only caveat I will give is, even if they wanted
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: to revamp everything from a personnel standpoint, they didn't have
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: the funds to do it. In free agency. They did
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: have some draft capital to do it, but they still
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: didn't do it. My bigger issue is I think they
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: could have taken some of the money they spent and
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: allocated it towards different body types or positions. But again,
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: to play devil's advocate, we don't know. Maybe they tried
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: to sign John Franklin Myers and he didn't want to
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: come here. Maybe they offered the same money Tennessee did
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: and he turned it down. Maybe they tried to sign
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: sebast Of Joseph Day for the same money the Steelers
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: got him for and he turned it down. Maybe they
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: tried to sign Roy Lopez for the same money that
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: Arizona signed him for him maybe he wanted to go
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: to Arizona. There's just there's just so many variables that
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: we don't know. And again that's not the given excuse.
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: I just think that's the truth. But I do think,
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: as I mentioned even before I saw this comment, I
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: do think I do think it's on Leonard to do
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: more most of the heavy lifting for the defense this year.
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: I do think it is much more x As and
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: O's than Jimmy's and Joe's at this point, Zesti Smooth says,
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: is there a reasonable explanation for not picking up a
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: true nose tackling freeency of the draft. I'm all for
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: giving Leonard the benefit of the doubt. I just feel
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: confused as to why I wasn't addressed at all. I
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: do agree with that to just somewhatever degree. But it
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: could be Leonard feels they don't need it and they're
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: gonna move in a complete different direction. It's going to
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: be so much heavy movement stuff, which again I'm not
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: denying the possibility of I'm just saying that it's a
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: hard way to live like that, where you're just going
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: pure or heavy movement most of the time. I do
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: think this defense will be a movement based defense, but again,
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: like I've talked about, you still need point of attack
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: play mixed in with that. So I do find it
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: a little questionable. Or it could be he likes some
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: guys they already have on the roster and thinks that
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: they can They're fine with what they got, or he
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: could have banged the table a little bit for some
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: other guys in free agency either draft and he might
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: have gotten over rule. We really don't know at this point,
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: which is again unfortunate. But yeah, I do think some
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: more run based guys on the interior would have helped. Again,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: even just going to Denver, right like DJ Jones and
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: Malcolm Roach, neither of them are huge. DJ Jones can
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: play the run. Malcolm Roach can also play the run,
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: So I think having more of a run based guy
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: at some point I expected more of that. Upfront. We
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: kind of got more of the same, but we'll see
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: what else? What else? Mm hmmmmmm. Walter says, I think
• 46:06
  Speaker 1: it's telling that we don't uh don't even have as
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: much of a coach or any roster ties to Denver's defense.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: You would think if we were copying that defense, you
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: would bring in someone on some level. Interesting interesting, interesting, interesting, interesting. Ooh,
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: I bet you one large cheese, cheese and pepperoni, one
• 46:23
  Speaker 1: pied pizza that Faderium Mathis has as many snaps as
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Dion Walker through eight games. Is that because of injury?
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: There's no way, There's no way, there's no way they
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: have an equal amount of snaps. But I kind of
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: like this bet, and I think I'll take it, even
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: though I'm not a betting man, because our injuries coming
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: into play. Is that kind of what your thought is
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: like Walker gets banged up? Interesting? Yeah, And as Troy says,
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: we can only know the end result, not the process.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: That's what muddies at all so much, right, Like, we
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: only know what we see. We don't again, not even
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: to give being the benefit of the doubt because I've
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: been critical of him in this organization this offseason and
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: prior ones. We don't know, right, again, the Roy Lopez
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: example I gave. I was like, man, Roy Lopez signed
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: for a really affordable deal with Arizona, Why didn't And
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: that was a position to need. Why didn't the Bills
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: do that. They might not have tried for Roy Lopez.
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: They might not have wanted him. They might have offered
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: him less than what he got to go to Arizona.
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: They might have offered him the same and he chose Arizona.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: They might have offered him more and he chose Arizona.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: We don't know, but you know, again, we were still
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: kind of in the same spot. It is kind of
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: the same deal. I had a really good thought in
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: my head and I lost it. I lost that. I
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: lost it, and I'm frustrated with myself. But you would
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: think you would see some different addressing in that area.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: But again being also at different priorities. He said coming
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: into the draft right that the biggest need was corner
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: and I don't think anybody saw that coming. So we'll see,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: we'll see, we'll see, we'll see. Uh. Next player, Javon's Solomon.
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: This one I think is decently short and sweet. He's
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: really the only chance they have at Juice of having
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: juice in the edge room. Right, That doesn't mean the
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: edgroom is bad. But you've got Group, You've got Chubb,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: You've got TJ. Parker, You've got Michael Hoyt. I'm gonna
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: put Hoyt to the side for now. Just talk about Parker,
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Chubb Group. A lot of sameness amongst those three dudes, right,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: power compression, power rushers, long arm, compress, the pocket, play
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: the run. I think Chubb is a little more athletic
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: and a bit of a better mover, but those guys
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: are all more sane than they are different. I think
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: Parker is another like a I don't want to say
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: poor man's versions. I feel like that's disrespectful, but I
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: feel like Parker is in the Chub mold, so it's
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: more sane Hoyt. Hoyt is honestly someone who I think
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: could benefit the most from Jenn Leonard coming in because
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: of his his skill set, versatility, his alignment and roll versatility,
• 48:57
  Speaker 1: where he can be moved, what he can do. It's
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: just a matter of how healthy he is. Right, you're
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: coming off Achilles. Usually you're not the same semblance of
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: yourself in year one. Usually you don't get that into
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: your year two. So we might not see the full
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: version of Michael Hoyd again until twenty twenty seven. We
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: don't know. And so between the Michael Hoyt stuff and
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: how much sameness there is at edge, Javon Solomon is
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: really like has an opportunity to be Edge four for
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: this team. Depending on Hoyt's progression and how healthy he is,
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: maybe you want to give him, you know, put him
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: on the pup just because, to give him some extra
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: time or ease him back in a little bit. It's
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: a lot easier to do that if you have a
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: solid answer at edge, potentially in Javon Solomon, or even
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: if Hoyd is good to go, it wouldn't be nice
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: to just have somebody in that edge room who has
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: some juice, who has some pop to his game, and
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: that would be Javon Solomon. Again, this doesn't mean that
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Grout is bad, Chubb is bad, Parker is bad again. Hoyda,
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: I think, is in his own kind of bucket between
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: the injury and his play style. But a lot of
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: it is what we've seen before in prior years. Right,
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: the same archetype at edge is what the Bills have
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: gone with again. This offseason. Power compression, power compression, play
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: the run, power compression. It's not juice, it's not speed,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: it's not you know, bend, it's not necessarily athleticism. It's power.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: It's compression. It's power, it's compression. That's what they've continued
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: to go with, which again, can be fine. I still
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: would like a change up in that edge room, and
• 50:36
  Speaker 1: it seems like Jabon Solomon is the best option for
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: that change up. And I don't want that change up
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: just for the sake of wanting a changeup. It would
• 50:44
  Speaker 1: just be nice to have that. The same way, I
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: don't want a batting order that is all dudes who
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: hit for average. In the same way, I don't want
• 50:51
  Speaker 1: a batting order that has all dudes that hit for power.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: You can't do that. You got to have some dudes
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: that hit for average, some dudes that hit for power,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: some dudes who can steal some bases, some dudes that
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: hit some doubles, some dudes who can stretch out a
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: single into a double. You got to have a variety
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: of that throughout the batting order. And I feel like
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: the Bill's edge room right now is only I don't
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: even want to say home run hitters, because I feel
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: like that that implies they're going to get a bunch
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: of sacks. But I yeah, I think they're all power hitters.
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: And so it's like, okay, like you might get a double.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: You know, you might have some good slugging percentage guys,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: but they're going to strike out a bunch. They're going
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: to bat like two forty and it's all the same
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: type of dude. Right, So you've got a bunch of
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: guys that all hit two forty to two fifty and
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: then have varying levels of like slugging percentage and home
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: run power, and you could potentially win that way. It's
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: just hard to do that. Again, everything for me, for
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: sports always comes down to rock paper scissors. If you're
• 51:49
  Speaker 1: playing rock paper scissors, you want to be able to
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: throw rock, paper and scissors and be able to throw
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: all of them equally and effectively. And that is just
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: one giant you know four or analogy four flexibility, fluidity, adaptability,
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: and that would be nice if the Bills could do that.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: It's nice to have a fastball, but it's cool to
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: throw a change up every once in a while and
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: at Javon Solomon or somebody again, juice bend, athleticism coming
• 52:15
  Speaker 1: off the edge mainly juice and bend. That would be
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: a nice change up in this bill's edge grouping. They
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: don't have it unless Javon Solomon takes a jump in
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: his game, and we'll see. I'm really interested to kind
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: of see what he can be. There are some flashes.
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: His usage last year was more and kind of like
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: the Michael Hoyt light roll. For the first six weeks,
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: he hasn't really been a true edge although I do
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: think the odd front five down alignment in him playing
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: as the man on the line of scrimmage could help
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: him a little bit more. I also think some of
• 52:44
  Speaker 1: the alignment versatility he has Leonard could unlock him a
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: little bit, which could be fun. I do think there
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: is a fair chance he takes a jump and it
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: would be very useful and very helpful. Uh Okay, So
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: we did TJ and landed. We did mathis slash anyone, one, two, three,
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: and eighty four. This last one in a spot in general.
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: Dorian Williams mentioned it earlier. A couple of you folks
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: mentioned it earlier. I'm gonna take a drink of water
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: because I feel like I'm about to Okay, I'm better,
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Dorian Williams. This is twofold one. Just questions at linebacker
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: in general, who's starting opposite of Terrell Bernard and what
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: version of Terrell Bernard do the Buffalo Bills get. Was
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: the dip and play last year's solely due or heavily
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: heavily do to the injury? I think a good chunk
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: of it was. But even if that's true, he's still
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: the guy who's never gonna be extremely strong coming downhill,
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: taking on blocks. And again, you have not addressed the
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: space eater protection aspect up front. The guys playing in
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: front of Terrell Bernard are still smaller page page trading
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: type of dudes, although at Oliver can handle some double teams.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: But is that Oliver protecting Terrel Bernard? Is Dion Walker
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: protecting Terrel Bernard? Is TJ Sanders or Landa Jackson protecting
• 54:10
  Speaker 1: Terrel Bernard? Or are you gonna do it with numbers
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: and scheme? Are you gonna blitz him a ton and
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: use movement to protect him that way? And then on
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: top of that, he has a bit of an injury history,
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: So I feel like it's a fair shout to say
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: that he'll miss time this year at some point, whether
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: it's one game, three games, five, we don't know. Linebacker
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: I think is a big question just for this season
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: and for the future. If Terreau Bernard has another injury
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: plagued season or a down season in general, that contract
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: all of a sudden looks terrible that they gave him
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: last year, and you have an even bigger questions at
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: linebacker that you do now. Even if Bernard is solid,
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: you still have questions at linebacker, like is Dorny and
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: Williams starting caliber regular starting caliber type of linebacker? Is
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: Caleb e Larms or ready to start as a rookie
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: or take a jump at some point? Is it Joe Andreeson?
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: I don't think. I think that's more of a long
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: shot than anything, but those are your options, like starting
• 55:13
  Speaker 1: opposite of Terrel Bernard right now, your options realistically are
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Dorian Williams, e Or and Joe Andreeson. One of those
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: three guys is starting opposite of Terrell Bernard, and I
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: think all of them have questions, including Dorian Williams. And again,
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: on top of that, Bernard has an injury history and
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: there's questions about what his long term role and play
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: level and consistency can be from an jury standpoint and
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: from a quality standpoint. I see noahs common says sign
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: Bobby Okarak. I would take Bobby Okarak. I would welcome
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: back Shaq Thompson. I think your main Pratt is still
• 55:55
  Speaker 1: a free agent. I would sign your main Prat right now.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: There's a lot of questions at linebacker, and so I
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: think as of now, Dorrian Williams is the guy who's
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: penciled and as your starter. I think Dorrian is fine
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: coming downhill. I actually like Dorian Williams being the downhill,
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: a gap to see gap linebacker type in this defense.
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: He's physical, he's quick, he's explosive, he's got long arms,
• 56:18
  Speaker 1: he's strong, he can get off blocks a little bit.
• 56:22
  Speaker 1: He's very he is very much just a sea ball
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: gift ball type of dude. I have no problem just
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: being like, hey man, just go play downhill and knock
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: some dudes into oblivion and we'll go from there. The
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: issue with Dorian Williams still, I still think he's learning
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: and coverage. He's still not as polished as you'd like
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: to be in coverage, even going into year four. But again,
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: a lot of it was a learning experience. As I've
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: said on the show gajillion times, for the first three
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: years of his career he played in a very basic
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: spot drop type of coverage scheme at Tulane that was
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: not very you know, hey preppy for the NFL type
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: of deal, so he had to learn on the flat.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: So I do think coverage is still question mark for him.
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: I do think he can plays the end man on
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage against the run, not necessarily as
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: a true rusher though, Like he's not a guy that
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: you can put it. You can walk him down as
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: the end man on the line of scrimmage and create
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: a five man surface and be fine. But he's not
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: the type of guy you're gonna put his the end
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: man on the line of scrimmage in a four down
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: front and be like, hey, I'm gonna put you into
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: two point stance off the left or right tackle, you know,
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: and you're gonna rush and try and beat that guy
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: with a move. If you're doing that, he's probably spiking,
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: he's probably looping, he's probably engaging in some game. He's
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: not a true rush threat off that edge. But I
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: do think he can handle a lot of the downhill,
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: thumping stuff in the box in between the tackles. From
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: a run defense standpoint, I do think he's the best
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: option to start. He still does need to take a
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: jump in his game from a processing standpoint, and even
• 57:49
  Speaker 1: just from a downhill standpoint. Again, I still think he
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: is more traits than he is football player. I think
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: he is more length and strength and juice and violence
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: and ceiling potential than he is known quality solid football player.
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: If he could turn more of those traits into just
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: being a solid football player, that would be a huge
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: boon for this defense. Even again, even if it just
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: means starting opposite of Terrel Bernard, that would be great
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: and would go a long way for this defense. But
• 58:23
  Speaker 1: at some point Terrel Bernard is gonna get banged up again.
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: He's like two hundred and twenty three pounds as a linebacker.
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: They are going to play more of a movement based defense.
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: He is going to be blitzing and running and doing
• 58:33
  Speaker 1: all this stuff. But then there is gonna be times
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: where offensive linemen are gonna be able to climb to
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: the second level and put him in the dirt. He's
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: gonna get hit, He's gonna get banged. It's just and again,
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: when you're playing that much in the box, it's easy
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: to get rolled up on, to get stepped on, to
• 58:48
  Speaker 1: fall awkwardly, somebody layings on you a certain way and
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: you hurt a joint or a ligament, upper body, lower
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: body something. And even more so if you're a smaller
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: base guy whose whole game is predicated on blocks and
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: beating guys to spots. So movement and and processing is
• 59:05
  Speaker 1: so important to Terrell Bernard. That is the sole way
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: that he wins. If you have anything that compromises that,
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: it becomes a slog for him. And so I think
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: there's questions with Bernard just overall with his his type
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: of art linebacker archetype in today's NFL, with how the
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: league is kind of changing a little bit of that spot,
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: but also just for him individually with the injury concerns.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: So if Thririan Williams takes a jump one, you know
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: you have a solid spot, the solid starter opposite of
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: Terrel Bernard. And if terreul Bernard is healthy, I think
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: he's a fine starter. I don't think Terrell Bernard was
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: ever like the top ten linebacker that he that I
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: think a lot of fans kind of crowned him as
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: or anointed him as after he had that good year
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: A couple of seasons ago. I wanted to see more
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: of a sample size, and we still didn't get that.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: But I think I think Tereb is a fine starting
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: linebacker in the NFL if he if he's healthy, he's
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: a fine starting linebacker in the NFL. He make some
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: splash plays. He's smart, he can he can, you know,
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: choreograph and coach up the defense. He'll call stuff out,
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: he'll relay, he'll communicate, he'll start the communication, relay the
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: signals like he can get you a line. I think
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: he can do a lot of heavy stuff and he'll
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: make some splash plays as a blitzer in coverage and
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: create some turnovers and make some place for you. He
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 1: has his limits, he has his limitations, but again, I
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: think he's a fine starter. So if Dorian takes a jump,
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 1: you've got two fine or solid starters at that spot.
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 1: But again, if Bernard goes down, it just helps you
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: answer things a little bit more. If Dorian doesn't take
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: a jump and Bernard goes down, what are you starting
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: at at linebacker? Is it Dorian and Caleb elarms Or
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 1: that's scary for me right now? Or even if Dorian
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 1: isn't the answer, you're starting e Or and Bernard, And
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: is that because e Or won the job or because
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: Dorrian just didn't take it. It isn't play well. There's just
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: a lot of question it creates if Dornian doesn't take
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: a jump, it creates a lot of questions that a
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 1: position group that for me already has a lot of
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: questions in twenty twenty six and then also has questions
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty seven and beyond. Because again, if I
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: mean Dorrian's also going in the last year of his contract,
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 1: He's a UFA after the season. But say Bernard has
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 1: a down year again whether due to injury or just
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: not great play, right, and Dorrian's a UFA next offseason.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: Bernard's contract is an albatross. You have to reshape that
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: linebacking corps and you don't really have any strong answers
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: like kayleb b Larndor will be going into year two,
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: but what is he Dornian can stabilize this group in
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, allow Eyor to learn and get acclimated
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: to the NFL so that he can potentially fill in
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 1: for Dorrian in twenty twenty seven or beyond Dorrian's play
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: this year. Solidifying that linebacker spot would go a long way.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: We've seen Dorriian be a spot starter due to injury.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: Dornian needs to take a jump this year where he's
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: just a starter. He doesn't have to be top tier,
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: he doesn't have to be some plus level starter. He
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: just needs to be a solid starter. He needs to
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 1: be a guy that you put in and you know
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: he's not a vulnerability or a deficiency. Doesn't mean that
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: he's going to be a plus player overall or you know,
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: successful in every element of being a linebacker. But he
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: needs to be a guy that when you look at
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: him in the starting lineup and again I hate going
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: off vibes and feelings and all that stuff, but he
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 1: needs to be more of a guy where you look
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: and you're like, yep, Dorian's starting, okay, instead of being like, oh,
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: Matt Mulano's out, we gotta start Dorian. Ah Terrell Bernard
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 1: is out, we gotta start Dorian. Ah Shaq Thompson got hurt.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: We gotta start Dorian. He needs to be more of
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: the first option could be a low tier right could
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: be a low tier starter, but still a starter. He
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: needs to take the jump to that level help stabilize
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: the linebacker group, which again I think has a lot
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 1: of questions and even too Not to get too much
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 1: into this, but you know, I talked about it so
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 1: much in the off season. I mentioned some of the
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: names earlier, right, like the linebackers for Leonard at Wisconsin,
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, still different than the guys in Denver, but
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 1: again he was in the defensive coordinator there. But it
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 1: was guys like Van Ginkel and Bonn and Chanel and
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 1: Noah Burks and Nick Herbig and Jack Sanborn. It was
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: all these guys that were like these dynamic, hybrid type
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: players of can play a little off ball on the inside,
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: can play as the end man on the line of
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: scrimmage and walk down you know, in an odd front
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: five man surface can rush off the edge and a
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: four down look can drop into coverage effectively, can carry
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: Some dudes play the flat and the hook, and I
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: think the Bills Edges can do that a little bit now.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 1: But it is interesting. I just thought they would. I
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: thought they would add more of a dynamic nature to
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: the linebacker group. They didn't, which doesn't mean that they're screwed.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: I personally wanted more of a dynamic linebacker room, but
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 1: they didn't get that, which bummer for me. But I
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: also think limits them, limits Leonard in terms of what
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: he can do, and so I think there's questions there.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 1: I think there's questions long term with the linebacker group. Sorry,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: keep moving around so much with the camel out of focus.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: And so if Dorian can solidify a spot this year,
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 1: even if it's just for this year and he gets
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: paid or goes elsewhere in free agency next year, fine,
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 1: Hopefully E Or is ready. If he's not, you draft
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 1: a linebacker, you sign somebody. They need some solidification and
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: stabilization at the linebacker spot this year, just because I
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: think Bernard is gonna get banged up at some point,
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 1: but fair uh yeah, So I forget who it was,
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 1: RJ with Somebody in the film with me and Eric
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: last week called Caleb E alarms or Eric and I
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 1: were calling him k EO but that was still like
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: too much to say. So somebody called him E or
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: somebody called him like E hyphen or O R So
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: I'm just calling me or so. Yeah, swig fifty says,
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: what this is a good comment. Swig fifty says, what
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: really makes me nervous. This entire offseason could have been
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: a McDermott being off season. That's what I keep coming
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 1: back to. And again, absence of evidence is not the
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 1: evidence of absence. Right. This doesn't mean that, you know,
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: Leonard didn't want to go in a different direction. It
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 1: doesn't mean that Leonard thinks the same way as Bean
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: or McDermott, or it doesn't mean anything bad. It doesn't
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: mean anything good. We just we don't know we are
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: where we are. But yeah, I do think it's very
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: interesting that for all the schematic changes in scheme changes,
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: and I do think there is some some more grit
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: and violence in an in a sandpaper way that's been added,
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: especially with Chauncey Gardner Johnson. But you know, even with Igbanocin,
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: people talking about like, oh, this is like a Jim
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: Leonard defense. Now it's new and it's different. Sean McDermott
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 1: also liked DBS that got in your face and played
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 1: press and we're nasty, like they brought in Rasoul Douglas,
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 1: like Igbunosen is very similar to Rasseull Douglas from like
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: a mentality standpoint, and you know, maybe he's a little
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 1: more chippy and a little more chirpy, but Douglas was
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: long played press and he was a chippy type of vet,
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 1: like he'd let you know what was up with his
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: hands and with his like with his talk. So I
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: I think the Chauncey Gardner Johnson signing is definitely a
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 1: a departure. You know, I don't think with his baggage
• 1:06:33
  Speaker 1: potential red flags, he would have been a McDermot guy.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: But yeah, a lot of these moves for the most part,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: it just feels like the same kind of off season, Like, Oh,
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: Bradley Chubb, that would have been a McDermott type of edge. Oh,
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: t J. Parker that would have been a McDermott type
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: of edge. Oh like Zane Durant that's a Sean McDermott
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 1: type of you know, defensive tackle. And so it makes
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: you question, wait a minute, were all these moves previously
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 1: that everybody kept attributing to Sean mcder Are those more
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 1: Brandon Bean moves? Are those the guys that Brandon Bean likes?
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: And so it's continuing, does Jim Leonard also like those
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 1: type of body types and guys and those skill sets
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: in those roles. Does he have a different vision? Did
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: he want something else but they couldn't. You know, I
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 1: find it hard to believe that Jim Leonard signed on
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: to be the defensive coordinator here and just got overruled
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: with every decision and didn't get anything he wanted. But
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: I do think it's fair to say that, you know,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: there it's questionable at this point, and I do think
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: this is a fair comment that you know, this entire
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: offseason could have been a McDermott bean offseason. You know,
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 1: if you told me that everything stayed the same, I
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: believe it because it doesn't feel again a lot of
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: the spots, Like I thought they'd reinforced the four eye.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 1: I thought they'd add, you know, a more of an
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: anchor guy as a rotational nose. I thought they'd add
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: more of dynamic play at the linebacker spot and more
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: high more of a hybrid nature at linebacker. And they
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: didn't really do any of those things. They kind of,
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 1: even though there's a schematic change, they essentially stuck to
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  Speaker 1: the blueprint for a lot of these guys and positions
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: and archetypes that they have before, which yeah, interesting, interesting,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 1: And then your follow up comment here is this season
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: hinges so greatly on Leonard's new systems, so we dot
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: dot dot are filling it with the same kind of
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 1: players fair and again that maybe that means Leonard's gonna
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 1: run a similar type of defense and we're gonna get
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: less of a hybrid thing than we think. Or he
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 1: thinks he can tap into different skill sets and uses
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 1: of these guys that we haven't seen before, or he
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: still likes those type of body types and thinks he
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: can make it work. Or he wanted something different and
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: being was like, no, I don't want a We're gonna
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 1: go get b again and he got overruled. We don't know,
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 1: but I do think I do think it's very interesting
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 1: at the very least that again, brand new defensive coordinator,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 1: new defensive coaching staff, new scheme, new structure, new philosophy,
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: new identity, but from a roster stamp, and it still
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: feels like the same type of roster building that they've
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: done previously, which is interesting. Adam's giving some love for
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 1: the hat. Appreciate you. I love this hat. Go Sabers
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: one thousand percent. Uh, Samtha says, who would you have
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: drafted at twenty six if we stayed in that in
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: mcderham in that defense, and then you say McDermott's defense,
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 1: I would have I would have traded back. But if
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: I had to make a pick at twenty six, if
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 1: I had to, Oh, it's so tough, because I didn't
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: want to stay at twenty six. I was hoping Casey
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 1: Concepcione was gonna fall. I guess if I had to,
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: I would have taken Kid McDonald or Christa Miller if
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 1: I had to. If I had to stay at twenty six.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: I also, I also don't don't mind t J. Parker there,
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 1: though I wanted a different skill set at edge, and
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 1: knowing I could have gotten Kyroan Crawford later, I would
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: have done that. But yeah, I guess I would have
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 1: taken McDonald or Miller, but I wanted to trade back
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 1: over everything. Times On thousand Bill Fans seventy eighty three says,
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 1: in my opinion, it's subjectively obvious that Bean has always
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: been in control of the roster. I think him and
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 1: McDermott always moved more in lockstep than people gave them
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 1: credit for or talked about. And then I think with
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: the whole like breakup between them mid season, I think
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 1: it kind of created like, oh, who wants these players?
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: Who doesn't? Yeah. The only thing that I think really
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 1: kind of pisses me off with all of it is
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 1: being made a comment at the combine I think where
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 1: he said before I'm paraphrasing, but he alluded to essentially
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 1: like before, they wouldn't always take the best football player,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 1: they would take like someone who fit the scheme better.
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 1: And again I'm paraphrased, but essentially alluded to, like now
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 1: this offseason, it's refreshing to be able to go in
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 1: a new direction and just pick like the better football player.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 1: And he said like, yeah, sure two guys are similar
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 1: and one fits the scheme better. Sure go with the
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 1: guy who's the better scheme fit. But you know it'll
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: be nice and refreshing to go in a different direction,
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: in a new He kept using words like refreshing and
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: new and in different ways, implying that, you know, his
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 1: hands were tied with previous moves and roster acquisitions. And
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 1: so I just think it's so funny that like comments
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: like those were made and then we got we got
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 1: like the same kind of offseason we have the past
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: several years. It's just funny. It's just funny, funny, funny, funny.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's how much of control he's had. Again,
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 1: I think being in McDermott saw much more eye to
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: eye than either of them let on or people kind
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 1: of blew up. I don't think it was like, oh,
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 1: Bean is controlling everything and McDermott's got to make you know,
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: chicken salad out of chicken, you know what. And I
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: don't think it was like, oh, you know, Bean has
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 1: to only get the guys to McDermott wants. I think
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 1: they agreed in a lot of ways on roster building
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: and team philosophy and positional archetypes and skill sets and
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: traits to go after. I think they were much more
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: in lockstep with one another more often than they were not.
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: And just with how this off season is gone, yeah,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: I think it kind of shows that even more that
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: Bean was at the very least on board with previous
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: offseason moves or positional archetypes. And then yeah, as you know,
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: other people mention, it kind of calls in a question
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 1: this offseason of like wait, so is like is Leonard
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 1: having a voice or input or is he these the
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 1: guys he wanted top tier, Like, yeah, we don't know.
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: We don't know the peak behind the scenes. We don't
• 1:12:39
  Speaker 1: know how much, say Leonard has, We don't know if
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 1: he's getting overruled. Again, I find it hard to believe
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: that he'd come in and he'd be like, hey, this
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: is a list of everything I want and they're like no, no, no, no, no,
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 1: we're going to do what we want. I find it
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: hard to believe that would happen. But it's just a
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: matter of how much give and take there is, or
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: positional value. Or he may have wanted a nose. I'm
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 1: just making this up, and he may have wanted a
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: truer nose somewhere and he was like, Hey, I want
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 1: this guy and they were like no, Like, as a group,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 1: we have a better grade on this player here, so
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: we're going to take this player here instead. Same thing
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 1: with free agency might be like hey, I want this
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: guy and they're like he's gonna be too expensive. We
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: want to do something else. Or again, they could have
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: offered that guy and that guy turned it down. We
• 1:13:23
  Speaker 1: don't know. I also think with free agency too, it
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: was talked about a bit. I do think they were
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: trying to land the big fish in either Trey Hendrickson
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: or Max Crosby, and so they were sitting kind of
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: holding their cards to put all their I should say
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 1: kind of. I think they were folding a lot, waiting
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: to put their chips all in for the right hand,
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: and that hand being Crosby or Hendrickson. And then they
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 1: lost out on both Crosby and Hendrickson. And when once
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 1: that happened and they were like, oh, okay, we can
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 1: go make other moves now, the first two or three
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 1: waves of free agency were already done. And so that's
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 1: all to a variable, right, Like maybe if they had
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: known that from the jump that they weren't going to
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 1: get Crosby or Hendrickson, maybe they would have done something
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 1: else to start free agency. That's another variable too. But yeah,
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: as someone said earlier, I think Troy said it, all
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 1: we know is results. We don't know the process, which
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 1: allows us to speculate and speculate and speculate. But given
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: what we've continued to see over and over these past
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: several years and how this off seats has gone, you
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: can start to connect some dots and put some bread
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 1: crumbs together Swiegemuth, Jesus, maybe they're maybe they're gonna megaz
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 1: or TJ. Sanders and Land and Jackson into a proper nose.
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 1: Who knows. That's super funny, super funny. Yeah, the nose
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 1: one is the biggest example to me, if Brandon Bean
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: has literally told us on record, you know, it's easy
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 1: to get those type of guys. It's easy to get
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 1: that role, it's easy to get that skill set. He
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 1: said it about one Tech previously, but he's alluded to
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 1: similar things with No's right, it's easy to get those guys.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 1: Those guys are cheap and they're always available in free agency.
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 1: So if you haven't gotten into any those guys, that
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: to me implies you don't want it. Right. If this
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 1: drink costs a dollar, Oh, it's only a dollar. It's
• 1:15:06
  Speaker 1: so easy to get one of those, and you've never
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 1: bought one, that to me means you don't want to
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 1: buy one. If it's so cheap and it's so easy
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 1: to get it, what's stopping you from getting it. It's
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 1: not the cost, and it's not the obstacle or the
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: challenge of getting it. The only thing that's stopping you
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 1: from getting it is yourself because you don't want it
• 1:15:28
  Speaker 1: comment here being a mcdermotd from same organization. They tried
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 1: to build this team like Carolina, even getting Carolina players.
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 1: I'm sure being asked Leonard his position on nose tackle
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 1: before hiring. I'm sure they talk about everything in general,
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 1: like I don't think. I don't think Leonard is like
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 1: Harry Potter and he's locked underneath the stairs in the
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 1: closet and he's got no saying to anything that's happening.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: It's just a matter of kind of seeing how much
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 1: there is, how much give and take there is, who's
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: calling the shots. Again, there's so many variables we don't know.
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 1: But at the end of the day, it is at
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: the very least ironic or coincidental that, even though there's
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 1: a new defensive coordinator and a new defense in the room,
• 1:16:14
  Speaker 1: this offseason has kind of played out from an archetype
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 1: standpoint and a positional priority standpoint largely and pretty much
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: like it has in previous seasons. I just said, I
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: don't think you can say we lost out on Crosby
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: since we still could have traded for Crosby after Baltimore
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 1: screwed the deal. Yeah, but at that point too. There
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 1: is some I think smoke to the fire of like
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 1: what his injury was, and maybe that scared the Bills
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: off initially. Again, you know, if you can believe the
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 1: rumors or reports or whatever. I think the Bills had
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: a similar offer to Baltimore's, but the Raiders chose Baltimore's
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: offer because Baltimore had a higher first round pick than
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: the Bills did. But after the Ravens dropped out, I mean,
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 1: nobody has tapped in to Max Crosby, like even you
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 1: could say that with anybody there was who was it.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 1: I think it was the Bears, the Bills, Cowboys maybe
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: that were in on Crosby. And after the Baltimore deal
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: fell through, everybody, everybody who was in on that deal
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 1: could have gone back in on that deal. And maybe
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 1: they even have better leverage because now everybody knows, Oh
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 1: Crosby's a little ding, maybe the price drops and who knows,
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 1: maybe the Bills called back or all these teams called
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 1: back and were like, Hey, what's going on, and maybe
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: the Raiders were like, screw it, We're keeping him, or
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 1: maybe the injury worries are true. So we don't know,
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 1: but they did gun for Crosby, and they did gun
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 1: for Henderson, They did try for Crosby, and then I
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: think they were waiting on Hendrickson, but they did lose
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 1: out on Crosby. According to reports, they the the Raiders
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 1: the Ravens deal because the Ravens had a higher first
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 1: round pick, and then after everything fell apart, who knows.
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 1: Maybe Crosby's knee is really scary. People didn't want part
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 1: of that. They didn't want to give up that much.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: Maybe the Raiders wouldn't budge. But I do think it's
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 1: interesting that Crosby had all these suitors and then once
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 1: that deal went away with Baltimore. It wasn't like all
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: the deal fell through with Baltimore, but he's still gonna
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: get traded to one of these other teams that were interested.
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 1: None of those that didn't happen. None of those interested
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 1: teams pulled the trigger. And that could be on those teams.
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: It could because of Crosby, it could because of the Raiders.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: We don't know. So he bically says, even if the
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: injury concerns weren't true, any asking price would be less
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: than what the Ravens agreed to had to keep them
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: at that point yeah, and so maybe maybe the Raiders
• 1:18:46
  Speaker 1: just felt like, no, Crosby's fine, We're not going to
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: trade them for less, and then you go from there.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 1: Or again, maybe they didn't like the other deals that
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 1: the other teams were offering, so they said screw it. Yeah,
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 1: we're just gonna keep them. Whatever we're getting Mendoza. You know,
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: maybe things will turn around. We got koobi Ac let's
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: play off some good vibes. Maybe things will happen. Maybe
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 1: they didn't want to trade them anymore. We don't know.
• 1:19:07
  Speaker 1: But the Bills were in on Crosby and they were
• 1:19:10
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate your swig fifty, who says the smoothest segue
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate you, Slim Walter says, the Bills are concerned with
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 1: Crosby's knee, so they opted to go to the safer
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  Speaker 1: route and just sign a cheaper You had me in
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 1: the first half. I'm not gonna lie. Sorry, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: read this in the beginning. That's like, stop laughing. Walter says,
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  Speaker 1: the Bills were concerned with Crosby's knee, so they opted
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  Speaker 1: to go the safer route and just sign a cheaper,
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  Speaker 1: lesser defensive end with three major knee surgeries instead. Fair.
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  Speaker 1: I also think you can kind of make the case
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  Speaker 1: that well, I mean, Chubb wasn't gonna cost as much
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 1: as Crosby financially or with the draft capital on top
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: of it, but at this stage he might be healthier
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 1: than Crosby. I guess you can gotta put it that way.
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  Speaker 1: I think it was more just the cost than anything, right,
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 1: Like they I think they were willing to maybe even
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: still take a swing with Crosby, but it was the
• 1:22:21
  Speaker 1: draft capital combined with the financial compensation. Chubb costs much
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: less from a financial standpoint, especially from an edge contract,
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 1: and they didn't have to give up draft capitol on
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  Speaker 1: top of it. Rj awesome testimonial as always for one pie,
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  Speaker 1: he got the cover one Goat pizza. Oh and then
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  Speaker 1: he remember he got one with pepperoni, hot honey and
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  Speaker 1: ricotta drizzle. And he says the cover one Goat and
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  Speaker 1: the Pepperoni hot honey ricotta drizzle are my two favorites.
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  Speaker 1: Chef's Kiss Chef's Kiss. Noah says, we can still sign
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  Speaker 1: Dante Corleone. He's still insign. I really didn't like his
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  Speaker 1: film from this past year. But then I also heard
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  Speaker 1: he's got some kind of audition or off the field
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  Speaker 1: stuff that impacted his play. I don't know if that's
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  Speaker 1: still the case, but I think that's kind of why
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  Speaker 1: he went undrafted and why he may still be unsigned.
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  Speaker 1: Bill's fan seventy eight eighty three says, that's my issue
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  Speaker 1: with this offseason. Why waste the money on Shubb? That
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  Speaker 1: money could have been used elsewhere? And after you spend
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  Speaker 1: the money, why use the early draft capital on the
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  Speaker 1: same position. I mean they still needed a blood clots yeah,
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  Speaker 1: as Sampa says, Yeah, Dante Corneona might be a blood class.
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  Speaker 1: You still needed to do things at edge, right. You
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  Speaker 1: couldn't go into the year with group hot and Jevon
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  Speaker 1: Solomon like you needed to make moves at edge. I
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  Speaker 1: think Chubb is a high floor player. I even think
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  Speaker 1: Parker is a high floor player. I don't necessarily have
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  Speaker 1: issue with Chubb or Parker as players. I have more
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  Speaker 1: issue that it's the same type of the same type
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  Speaker 1: of archetype at edge that they've had previously, and I
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 1: wanted more of a change up mixed in with the fastball. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: they just kind of leaned into it what they leaned
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  Speaker 1: into what they've been previously and what they've continued to
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  Speaker 1: do previous. And Chubb wasn't too expensive was suppcially for
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  Speaker 1: an edge contract. Again, that being said, I would have
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 1: taken the money for d Alford and Chubb and reallocated
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: it elsewhere, as I broke down in an episode at
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 1: around that point. So I don't know. I I'm whelmed
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  Speaker 1: by Chubb. I didn't love it. I didn't think it
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  Speaker 1: was terrible. I don't think he's overly expensive for an
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  Speaker 1: edge and I think he gives you a high floor
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  Speaker 1: and a known quantity there. But that's kind of just
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: where I'm at with Chubb. And again there's some injury
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 1: concerned there as well. And then why use her early
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: draft cap on the same position they still needed. They
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: still need to go for edge. Oh and I see
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: your point here saying that's the point I'm trying to make.
• 1:24:45
  Speaker 1: It's all just such a redundant offseason. I agree. I agree. Again,
• 1:24:49
  Speaker 1: that doesn't mean it's terrible, that doesn't mean it's great.
• 1:24:52
  Speaker 1: It just it just feels like we've done this dance before,
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: for better or for worse, good or bad. This offseason
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 1: feels like very much like we've done this before. Same
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: type of players, same type of body types, similar kind
• 1:25:06
  Speaker 1: of movements, similar kind of contracts. Right, it just all
• 1:25:10
  Speaker 1: feels very same thing, same thing, same thing. Walter says,
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: I'll never like. Oh, I never liked the Chubb signing.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: But it's less the player and more the structure of
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: a contract. Tying ourselves for two years when you know
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: you're drafting a young end makes little sense to be
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: But you still need at the edge spot defensive line
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  Speaker 1: in general, you need honestly at edge, you need like
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: a top four. So if you can lock a good
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 1: top four in for a couple of years, So in theory,
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: if things work out this year and next year, you
• 1:25:40
  Speaker 1: could have a solid top four grouping with group Chubb,
• 1:25:43
  Speaker 1: Parker and Hoyt that could really work out. We just
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: got to see. So I get the idea of double
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: dipping on the edge and again they needed it, and Chubb.
• 1:25:53
  Speaker 1: Chubb provides a known quantity. We don't know what TJ.
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 1: Parker is going to be. Again, in theory, we don't
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 1: know what anybody's gonna be at any time. Even the
• 1:26:01
  Speaker 1: most surefire prospect could bottom out and burn and be terrible.
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: So I think Chubb gives you the known quantity, and
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: then Parker gives you a high floor and a type
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: of skill set that Bean and or Leonard may like.
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: James says DJ Reader still out there. I'm not talking
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 1: about DJ Reader anymore. I don't even want to talk
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: about nos. I don't even like DJ Reader that much,
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 1: although I would bradly take him, gladly take him. At
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: this point, I'm just so tired of talking about nose.
• 1:26:24
  Speaker 1: But I feel you on that, uh this comment. Are
• 1:26:28
  Speaker 1: Dorian Williams and kayleb b Lurmas or able to play together?
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 1: A lot? Seems to Hinge on Treel Bernard being healthy
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 1: and much better. But if he's not, I'm worried about
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 1: Buffalo Joe seeing extended time. I think they could see
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 1: time together. The bigger question is who's calling the defense
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: if the if, if if Bernard goes down, I feel
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 1: like it would be oh Marcus dj Reid. Did dj
• 1:26:53
  Speaker 1: Reader officially sign with the Giants as of now? I
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: saw all the smoke before the draft, but it was
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 1: still unofficial. I don't know if if it was actually
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: true or not, so I haven't Dovid Dovin do. I
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: just figured it was gonna happen at some point, but
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know if it's official. Yeah, my issue is
• 1:27:09
  Speaker 1: if if Dornian and elarm Zor are playing together, who's
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: calling the defense? And then it's still kind of like
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: inexperience paired with inexperience that would worry to me. Like
• 1:27:19
  Speaker 1: in theory, I think their skill sets could play together. No,
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: I don't think elarm Zora is as strong in coverage
• 1:27:25
  Speaker 1: from an awareness standpoint as I'd like him to be.
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: He's fine matching up and manning up against like tight
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: ends and running backs and nailing down on underneath stuff
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: or even carrying seam routes vertically because he's so athletic.
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: But I do have some questions with change the direction
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: for him, and I think his awareness isn't necessarily necessarily
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: there in zone all the time, especially with things that
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: get behind him, Like the feel isn't there. But again,
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: he just started playing inside back er at twenty twenty three,
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: so it kind of makes sense. I think there would
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: be some gaps from a coverage standpoint if those two
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: played together, but in theory they could. I think it
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: would be more who calls the defense, who sets everything,
• 1:28:01
  Speaker 1: and then the coverage pairing together. I think you'd have
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 1: to play a lot of downhill linebacker blitz type of
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 1: games to take advantage of both of them. But yeah,
• 1:28:11
  Speaker 1: maybe Buffalo Joe would see time in a record ah
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 1: Marcus saying, oh, DJ Reader two year deal, twelve and
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: a half mil. Interesting, he went for more than I
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: thought he would have gone at this stage your free
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 1: agency shout out to the Giants getting DJ Reader. Oh well, yeah,
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 1: Son fifty says all RP the DJ Reader dream already forgotten,
• 1:28:30
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