Critical Elements: Buffalo Bills vs Arizona Cardinals Breakdown | DC

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It's thirty eight.
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All bills can win in here, Wake puts it down,
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the kick is.
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On the way, and d dock and the bill good one?
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How the hell that one.
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Home?
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How one?
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They were a party one not party way?
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Incredible?
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Why not combat by my bell?
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Jacksonville's perfect record on the line right here.
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Quick.
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Kicking, look excited.
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Touchdown Kyle Williams touchdound amazing, unbelievable.
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They puttied william who's has to full back and he
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scores a touchdown. It's wealthier to face tackle.
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What's good?
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Folks, Family, Friends, loved ones, enemies, Friend of these Wizards,
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at pro Underscore Underscore and that's pro two underscores A
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n T In this episode of Disguised Coverage, regular season
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NFL football is back. And because regular season NFL football
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is back, that means Buffalo Bill's regular season football is back.
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And the Bills open up in Week one of the
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twenty twenty four NFL season at home against the Arizona Cardinals.
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And so in this episode, we will be getting back
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into our regular season fom that we hold to here
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on the show, where we dive into the critical elements,
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matchup pieces however we want to label it that will
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determine and decide who wins these games week in and
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week out, obviously focusing on scheme and structure, x's and o's,
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player evaluations and individual aspects that could get really niche
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down in detail or it could be large scale, broad scale.
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And to do that in these episodes, I always love
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to bring on guests who know ball so we can
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chop it up and talkball. And starting now with a
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strong guest on this episode and to kick off this
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season and to kick off this season, for this episode,
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I am joined by mister Jpacosta of sp Nation, who
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we started a little late tonight and the reason was
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because me and JP were just chopping it up off
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air because I just enjoy talking to him because he's awesome.
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JP one. Thank you for taking the time too. You're
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awesome and I appreciate you coming back. Three. I think
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now I think you now have the most appearances on
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disguised coverage out of the like, not including people who
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operate in the bill's sphere, like people outside of that,
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I think you now have. Nate Tye was higher than you,
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and you guys were tied after your last appearance. I
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now think you've been on the show one more than Tys,
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so I believe you're the record holder. I love the
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work that you do. You're awesome again, thank you for
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taking the time. Welcome the show.
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Always a pleasure being on. Tys can have the NFL
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credentials and playing at Wisconsin, he can have that.
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I run this one. I'm at the top of the
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total fall this time. You gotta catch up me now.
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But it's so good to have football back.
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It feels like I need to go watch some old
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NFL review of the old ESPN NFL cat down with
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Chris Berman that I need to watch some old ones
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kind of get get.
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The vibes back.
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Juice is going got it.
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It's like a smelling sauce. You know it's the soul.
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You know. You got to hear the intro music and
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you're all of a sudden, I'm pumped. I'm pumped for
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football to be back.
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Man, college football always like starts it for me. It's
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actually like a weird like cause I'm a soccer guy too.
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When I know you're a soccer guy, like everything always
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starts to get like once soccer starts, I'm excited for soccer.
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But then I know, like that also means like like
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two weeks until college football, and then college football starts,
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and I love college football like you do. And then
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it's another like that means the NFL is about to start,
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and it's just like this dead on sprint to get
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to Labor Day and then usually that weekend after and
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it all kicks off, and yeah, I'm pumped for it.
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I love your like for when you were talking like oh,
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Tys can have this and that. I don't know why.
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Maybe it's because I just watch it the other day,
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but I got very much like Denzel training Day vibes
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towards the end of like here you just live here,
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Like I just know why.
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I got very I was like, oh, that's right, I
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am the cream of the crop. Shout out to Macho Man.
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Steam rises to the top. And that's one of my
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favorite gifts.
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I love that, just like how he was one of
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the best in like every facet of being a wrestler,
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but just like the creativity to be like, yeah, I'm
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gonna bring out these little creamers and I'm might have
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them in my hand because you know, the cream rises
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to the top. Like actually that he brought the props
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and like worked it in.
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You know, you got sometimes you got to buy visual evidence,
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that's right.
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Everybody loves a good visual cue like you have like
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a play you have the you know, the whiteboard behind
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you drawn up like it helps to have visual cues
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to go along with your words. And Macho Man was
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tremendously smart when it came to that JP. As we
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do here and as you are accustomed to because again
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you've been on the show a multitude a multitude of times.
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This game we're going to dive into again. Scheme structure.
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All the important elements are top three each of us,
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your top three, My top three were blind to each
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other's answers in terms of you know what we're gonna
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give in terms of what we'll decide the game. But
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high level for you, where's your head at going into
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this game? For the Bills and Cardinals? If you're just
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thinking about this game, the first thing that pops into
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your head? What comes into your head? Is it something
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high level? Is it something Bills related, Cardinals related? What's
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the first thing comes into your brain? From a high
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level perspective?
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From a Bill's perspective, it is one phrase, FAFO f
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around it. Find out you think this team is gonna
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be a pushover, do not play with these Cardinals.
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I think last season without Kyler Murray, it was of course.
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Oh Cardinals are kind of a joke because they don't
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have their starting quarterback. But once Tyler came back, that
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offense really took off and it really started to show
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a little bit of what was to come in twenty
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twenty four. And now you add I got Marvia Harrison Junior. Yeah,
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that guy, he's pretty good. He's pretty good at that
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football thing. But the Cardinals are very They're gonna be
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a tough out because they do so much weird stuff,
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and we're gonna get into it a little bit, but overall,
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this is a great This is a really fun game
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to break down, especially because of what the Bills want
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to be in twenty twenty four. This feels like this,
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This Cardinals team is going to give them a lot
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of problems and give them a lot of questions that
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the twenty twenty four Bills might have to answer now
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so they can be ready for the final exam when
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you get the later on in the playoffs.
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I love that. I love that. And actually, oh, we
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got a super chat like can we stop here? Just
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the Tippy Canoe who I tell you every week. I
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love the name. It's just so it makes me laugh
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every single time. Thank you very much for being here.
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Thank you for the super chat. Greatly appreciated. He says,
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I'm excited to see our Oh, he's very confident. He says,
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I'm excited to see our corners shut down the Cardinals
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wideouts and our linebackers take away McBride and the middle
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of the field, seeing Rousseau bust. Some domes would be nice.
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Go Bills with one, two, three, four, five exclamation points.
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I like the confidence. I like where you head is
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that it's like similar points. Yeah, I love it so
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and again, thank you very much for being here as
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you will. And for the super jet, it's greatly appreciated. Sincerely,
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it means a lot, thank you. I like the confidence
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there from just the tippy canoe, but I do you
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and I were talking about it a little bit as
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we were talking about a whole bunch of other non
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football things before we went live. But this Cardinals team
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is They're fun. Like I dove into them untill in July,
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just oh because I saw some stat I'm like, that's
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what it was. I saw some stat on how good
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not even stat I was doing just like work on
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sis and James Connor was at the top of like
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every running metric, and I was like, I gotta go
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and see like what they were doing. And so I'm
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watching Cardinals offense stuff and this is like even without
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Kyler Murray, their run games got things working. And then
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I go to the defensive side of the ball, and
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I know they don't have the studs on defense. Although
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I think people forgot how good Buddha Baker is just
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because the Cardinals have been a wasteland and he's been
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banged up. But then what they were doing with Jalen
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Thompson and Garrett Williams and what they had on the
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back end and showing like the three high safety looks
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and like almost like a three three deep but then
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like single high shell umbrella and then they're like they're
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switching to like Tampa two invert and Robber on the snap,
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like all these creative pieces. I'm really disappointed that bj
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ol Jalai is hurt this year because I like them
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so much coming out of LSU a couple of years ago.
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But they're doing creative things defensively that are like fun
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from a schematic perspective. They're doing some fun things on
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offense that we're gonna dive into, and I just don't
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I don't know if it's how impressed I was, maybe
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because the bar was so low for me because I
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didn't watch a lot of Cardinals tape in season last year,
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and so I think like the bar was relatively low
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for me, And I don't know if I was so
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impressed that it made me like buy more stock in them,
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But I just I'm not saying they're gonna be a
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playoff team or they're gonna win the division or anything
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like that. But last year, the Texans for me were
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a team that I thought was going to surprise people.
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I didn't think they'd win the division and go to
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the playoffs, but I was like, I think the Texans
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could win like seven or eight, maybe nine games. Like
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I think they're gonna be kind of a tough out
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and an annoying team to play against. And I get
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a similar vibe from the Cardinals this year, Like, if
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you told me the Cardinals won like seven or eight games,
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I would buy it and I would believe it. And
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even when they lose, I just think they're gonna be
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a pain to play against. I really don't think people
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understand how creative and fun they were schematically on defense.
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Now they're in year two of that they get to
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start the year with Buddha instead of having to have
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them start like midway through the year like they did
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last year. They have kind of an identity despite the
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fact they don't have an overwhelming amount of talent, and
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then on offense, they really do have a lot of
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good individual players and to go along with their sense
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of identity and who they are, which really clicked once
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Kyler came back last year in Week ten, which again
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I'm sure we'll talk about at some point. I really
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feel like from a Bill's Week one matchup perspective. People
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are underestimating the Cardinals, but even nationally a little bit.
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I feel like they're a team that's just gonna be
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more of a pain to play against. Like they might
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start out like one and six, but I think each
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week they'll lose by like four points, Like they're just
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gonna be in that game where like in the fourth quarter,
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you're like, oh, the Cardinals are only down by three,
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Like no matter who they're playing, Like, huh, I just
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they just feel like that kind of team to me
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on who they are and what they are.
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Yeah, they are going to be the classic. They're they're
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gonna be a tough out. They're gonna play really hard.
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That was one of the bigger things I found out
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watching the Cardinals play, both on live tape and watching back.
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They play hard for Jonathan Gannon.
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And especially to considering how like he was such a
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walking joke for people last year because of how awkward
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he was coming on. And then yeah, like watching everybody
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like you they were playing with like Clayton Tune at
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quarterback last year after they got rid of jobs, and like,
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but everybody was grinding even when Kyler wasn't in there
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and like they gave him everything they had, which was
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impressive to see considering how he was portrayed when he
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came in.
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Yeah, I think Jonathan Gannon quickly turned around his reputation.
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I think, of course the videos of him kind of
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sounding like a like a new wrestler. You know, he
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always had you always had the jobber who comes out
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or like introduced himself before like Psycho said or Psycho said,
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comes out, and RUH's how accurate.
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I was the Jonathan Gannon that we saw.
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with him and you've seen them play hard for him.
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Like for a first year head coach, you need proof concept,
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you need you need you need a foundation.
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You need to see the vision. You know, I say
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it all the time our first year, the first year
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I coach, just.
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Just see the vision in the first year. You'll have
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to go when when a bunch of games make the playoffs.
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You just have to show me that you are building
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a foundation, something positive is being built here.
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And I think they did that really well.
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Yeah that I think it's very well said, Like you
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just want proof of life, proof of concept in year one,
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especially when you're taking over that team and then Kyler
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is hurt, it's very much just like, all right, what
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can we kind of get this year? And I think,
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just again, I know the record was bad, but despite that,
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I think there were some positives and like silver linings
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within that. And then you get Marvin Harrison, which is
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just a gem kind of falling into your lap based
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on the top how the top of the board was
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gonna go like and I guess wide receivers don't necessarily
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go one anymore based on like qbs and edges and that,
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but just like with how the board fell and where
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they were him coming to them to pair with Kyler
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and McBride and what they already had. And then Paris
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Johnson from last year, who I thought he had a
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good year as his independent hand usage, because I was
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watching a lot of stuff from the back end of
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the year when they were playing like Atlanta and San Francisco,
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and he's out there like faint in hands and like
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punching with this and it's getting chopped and he's bringing
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the inside hand and popping like he moves to left
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tackle now, but which he's you know, we'll see how
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that switch works out for him. But yeah, it's I
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think it's gonna be really like just a fun game
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if you're not a Bills fan, and if you're not
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a Cardinals fan. I just think it's gonna be fun
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schematically based on what Arizona was last year and how
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they're trying to build upon it this year and go forward.
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But then also the Bills within their revamp offensively and
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defensively from an on field roster standpoint, also from a
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coaching standpoint off the field, it's a really interesting clash
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of this kind of feisty team that's trying to become
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something in year two and build versus this perennial division
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winner and Super Bowl contender who's not in a full
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rebuild but doesn't necessarily look as strong as they normally
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do on paper. And they're in this revamp with a
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lot of potential schematic changes, and these two teams meet
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in Week one. It just I think it prevents presents
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a really fun Week one matchup schematically, and I think
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it's getting lost kind of in like the rest of
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the NFL opening week. Like, I think this is really
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just a fun game from a football perspective.
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Yeah, you're gonna the Cardinal's gonna throw so many different
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things at this version of the Bills that, like I said,
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they're gonna have to answer some questions early that it
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might not look great at first, but you're gonna go back,
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like when we're in my week twelve Week thirteen as like, oh,
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the Cardinals pose these same problems and here's how they
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answered them. How you're looking at this game in week one,
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we're like, hey, do not think this team is a pushover.
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They they will beat you.
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They will come in, they will come in and they
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will kick your butt, you know.
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Yeah, And and it's and I know some of it too,
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is also like oh it's the Cardinals. And also they're
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a West Coast team coming east, and teams like that
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don't do well. And so I understand some of the narratives.
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But yeah, I'm just jet like, regardless of covering the Bills,
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I'm just excited for this game schematically, and I'm excited
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to get into the conversation with you about it real quick.
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Let's pull off this other super chat from Carl, who's
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is pretty much here every single week. Carl, I appreciate
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the hell I tell you this all the every week,
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even when you're not doing super chats. But thank you
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for being here. Thank you very much for the super chat.
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Carl says the win hinges on how soon will it
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take for Kyler to sync with Marvin? And on the
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flip side, how soon will it take for Josh to
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sync with his new receivers. I like that, especially from
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like a live bullets perspective, right, anything you see in
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training camp and even in the preseason, which we didn't
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really get Marvin Harrison action in the preseason. We didn't
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really get any Josh Allen action in the preseason either,
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based on how the weather went in the Pittsburgh game
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and then Game three, none of the starters being in there.
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So yeah, it's just a different atmosphere once you get
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into Week one, and again there's a lot of new
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parts on both sides, but especially for this Bill side.
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I'm not saying that positively or negatively. It just might
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take a little time for that grouping to gel. And
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regardless of what happens in Week one for any team,
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who a team is in September is not who they
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are in November and December. But especially for the Bills,
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who I do think have to find their footing a
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little bit in terms of getting the puzzle pieces to
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fit together and things to gel as they really kind
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of embrace this revamp and start to go forward. But
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really nice piece, Carl, Thank you very much. All Right, Now,
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for those who don't know or may just be walking in, now,
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what's going to happen in this episode? After we've kind
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of done this high level intro piece, JP and I
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are each going to give our top three critical elements
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that will decide the game between the Bills and the Cardinals.
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And it could be anything. It could be very large scale,
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broad brush. It could be something very granular, something niche,
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something super detailed. It could be a schematic piece. It
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could be a position group. It could be a coach.
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It could be an entire side of the ball, could
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be an individual player versus another. Anything and everything is available.
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I don't know JP's answers, he doesn't know mine, and
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we're just gonna go back and forth and give our
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thoughts and get and give our thoughts on each other's
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thoughts and have a nice back and forth.
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JP.
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Sorry, I gotta stop again. We got another superchat Laura Korvack,
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thank you very much for being here, and thank you
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very much for the superchat. Greatly appreciated. He says, both
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of your opinions. JP, I'll let you kick it off first,
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because you're the guest. He says, can the Bills pass
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rush either organically or via the blitz? Get Kyler Murray
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on the ground, And if this is tied to one
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of your answers later, feel free to say you'll have
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this as an answer. Leader.
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So this is a really good question, and I think
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it brings up a lot of where the modern NFL
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defense is going with stimulated pressures and creepers and using
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that to create pressure and cough have it. That's the
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biggest thing. You want to change the pick, you know,
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I think I think if you can win with four,
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do not send anybody else. If you can win with four,
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just win with four. That is where I think they
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can get after them the most. I actually think this
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Cardinals offensive line is a little underrated. Of course, we
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talked about Joona Williams, talked about Paris Johnson on that
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center eight Frotle Monster. Yeah, in the game, I was
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done watching, I was like, oh, okay, I didn't know
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you had that.
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It's like that shag. I'm sorry, I'm not familiar with
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your name, not familiar with the game. Okay, I'll see you.
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But in terms of getting Kyler on the ground, it
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has to become it has to become less. We're not
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going to bend around the pocket. We have to crush
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the pocket. You have to minimize the space Kyler Murray
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gets to escape. So it might not be a big
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Rousseau or Epineza game, but both of those guys pass
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rush repertoires and athletic talents benefit hit themselves to this
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style of game where they might not get a sack,
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but with their length and power they can.
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Crust the pocket.
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This is gonna be more of an ed Oliver has
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to win in between the tackles and the defensive tackles
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have to get pressure in Kyler's face.
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Because again, Tyler's a phenomenal athlete.
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He is one of the most incredible athletes to play quarterback,
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both in the game right now and that we have
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ever seen. But he is also five ten and probably
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with five ten playing quarterback is you gotta get the ball.
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You gotta get the ball round somehow, So I think
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it is gonna be less blitz and more We're gonna
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see if we can win with four and if not,
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then I could see, you know, those simulated pressures where
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you bring a guy, drop.
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A guy start to start to come up. Because I
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worry a little.
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Bit, and this is gonna get into something I'll talk
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about later one of my three keys. I worry a
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little bit about the Bill's second level defenders in the
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isolated situations against Kyler, Like that is that is one
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of the bigger question marks that I have.
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I think that's fair and I like your answer there,
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and it also ties into like so my first part
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in her point in answering this question is I think
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the Bills will be able to get pressure whether or not,
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like literally in this question of can they get Kyler
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on the ground. Those are just two holistically different things
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because he's such a for as much as he gets
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like made fun of her, like how he runs or
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like I've even said it before too, like when every
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time Kyler takes off, like I hear the Stewie Griffin
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footsteps in my head, like I just see him running
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out Here's like but he's hard to get down. He's
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extremely elusive. He embraces the chaos, knows how to navigate it,
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and can still make plays with his arm aside from
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his legs and his feet in that whole instance. And
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I like the question too, like the specifics of like
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Ken the Bills pass us I either organic or via
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the blitz, like get Kyler on the ground. And I
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think that's the question to ask. Last year, before Matt
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Milana went down, this group up front and I had
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Daikwon Jones went down in the same game. The Bills
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had a very good creeper and simulated pressure package and
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they're basically the same thing except the creeper. You know,
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you're just not showing the pressure pre snap like you
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are with the simulated And they had a really good
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five man pressure package. And then Milana went down, Daiquon
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went down. They changed things a little bit. They didn't
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lean into it as much. Terrell Bernard's a terrific blitzer.
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He was a huge benefactor of that early on in
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those first five weeks. And I wonder how much they
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lean into that because in his heart of hearts, granted
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this is you know, Bobby Babbage's defense. Now he's the DC,
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he's running things in Sean McDermott's heart of hearts. He
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wants to rush for and nothing else. And not even
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just Sean McDermott. That's most coaches, except for like Dick
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Lebou who wants to just run like fire zone zone
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blitzes and just confuse the hell out of you. Inteckt
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or like Rex Ryan too, like some of those guys
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in that mindset, But most coordinators now, like the defensive
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philosophy is if you can win with four in the past,
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you're just sending four. That means you always have seven
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in coverage. That's part of the reason why simulated and
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creepers are so are so impactful now and why guys
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are lean into it because you're still only rushing four,
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you still have seven in coverage. You're just changing who's
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coming and what body is doing what. But you can
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also confuse protections and dictate protections based on what you
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show pre snap and what you do. I think that
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they will pressure Kyler Murray. Whether or not they get
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him to the ground I think is very dependent upon JP.
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What you said you have to compress the pocket Kyler
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will and this is what makes Kyler so difficult, Like
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you could just beat your man so bad on the
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snap outside inside, speed to power whatever. But if you
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like the stereotypical like if you lose rush lane integrity,
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like you could win and it's so beautiful. And if
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he side steps you and the front door is available,
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he's gone. Or you could win right if you're at Oliver,
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you could win up the gut right away if he
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side steps you and can escape through that A gap
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or that B gap he's going to and he's gonna
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make you pay, like with his arm or with his legs.
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I just and I think they will get pressure. I
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think they'll be able to compress the pocket. I think
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they'll be able to do it with four. I do
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think they're gonna lean into some of those simulateds and
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creepers and five man stuff on third down. Whether or
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not they get him to the ground, I think is
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a question that's up in the air because there's a
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big difference between pressuring Kyler versus getting him to the ground.
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Like it's just a hard thing because yeah, his Stewie
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Griffin feet and his athleticism and now, like your point
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on the line, their line isn't like great, but it's
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not putrid, and it's not terrible, and so I think
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that helps a little as well.
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Yeah, I think the biggest thing, especially with blitzing and
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sending those pressures, especially from defensive backs and second and
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third level defenders, is you still have to maintain rustlanes.
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Just because you're sending a blitz does not mean that
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you just get to with free willy nilly, just go
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fly past Kyler Murray or cause if you lose that lane,
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he's gonna find it.
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And once Kyler finds it again, there are not many
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athletes on the field that are better than Kyler Murray
511
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at what he does.
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See. A lot of the short jokes valid absolutely, Salid
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I also.
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Make those jokes that man is tiny, but that tiny
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run fast, like that's the biggest thing that that tiny
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man can run. So it's just about maintaining rush lanes,
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you know. That's the biggest thing. When you play dual
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threat quarterbacks, you have to maintain rush lanes.
519
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You have to be disciplined.
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Because it doesn't matter as much with facts getting him
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on the ground.
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You want him to feel the pressure.
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I want to.
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Feel like, Oh, it's the same conversation we had about
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Josh Allen when they played the Jaguars in London last year.
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You want him to feel that pressure. You want him
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to think, oh, I only got this amount of time
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to throw, let me throw it early and there's nothing
529
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that's gonna happen. Or I want you want him to
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think I got a lot of time based on what
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they're what the front is showing, boom, all of a sudden,
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everybody's coming now. Now you got to make a split
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second decision, and that leads to bad decisions. It's less
534
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about getting him on the ground and more forcing him
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to think a lot quicker speed.
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Up the reaction.
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I like that, and I also think too, to piggyback
538
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on that, I think it's less about individual wins and
539
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more about like a coordinated dance amongst your front and
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really kind of hemming it in because similar to the
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where was yeah from this comment here from Kamuri when
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we were talking saying that Cards fans are probably saying
543
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the same thing about Josh. It is very similar to
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the Josh Allen conversation, to the Pat Mahomes conversation and
545
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alluding to like or referencing what you just said too,
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like it's the nature of those dual threat quarterbacks, right, like,
547
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it's not just about you beat your guy one on one.
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If you get out of your rush lane and your
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other dance partners up front are doing their job, you
550
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just opened up a lane for them to escape. We
551
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saw when the Bills O line was bad prior to
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last year, they would lose up front one on one
553
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all the time, and then Alan would just be like, Okay,
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I'm gonna stiff arm this defensive tackle or I'm gonna
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shake this edge and I'm going to go make a play.
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Mahomes does it all the time, Kyler does it all
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the time, Lamar does it. Jordan Love did it a
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bunch last year when things are really clicking. Like that's
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part of that nature of the dual threat piece. And
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I also think what ties into it a little bit
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is something I'm going to talk about in one of
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my points here, and you might talk about it as well.
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I just see the Cardinals going. I like Marvin Harrison,
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I like Michael Wilson a lot as a number two,
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and I know and Doorsch is fun for like being
566
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a slock guy in a third option and then trade
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McBride technically is like, I don't know, you're two or
568
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maybe even like you're three, depending on how you view Wilson.
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But I just envision a lot of like twelve and
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thirteen personnel and heavier sets for the Cardinals in this game.
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And so I don't know how much we're going to
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get into situations where it's just like pure pin our
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ears back. The Cardinals are spreading it out like that,
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how many bodies they have attached to the line of
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scrimmage and the down and distance on third down is
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really going to impact a lot of that pressure aspect
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and getting to Kyler, pressuring him, getting into ground all that,
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and just by the smile, and you're not When I
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00:27:00.720 --> 00:27:02.039
said that, I figured that was gonna be one of
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your points. But we'll talk about it all right, So, JP,
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the floor is yours. I don't know if you have
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any of these ranked in terms of importance. If you do,
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you can start with whichever one you so choose. You
584
00:27:16.319 --> 00:27:18.119
know it is, the floor is yours. You're the guest.
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00:27:18.519 --> 00:27:22.000
Take us through your first critical element that you think
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will decide the Buffalo Bills versus Arizona Cardinals in week one.
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I am going to start with one that is nearest
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and dearest to my heart. It is the Buffalo Bills
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offense against the Arizona Cardinals pocket saying defense. I call
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it pocket saying because, look, they don't have a.
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Lot of talent upfront. They don't like that they have
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one of.
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The worst defensive line groups in the NFL, just based
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on depth. But yeah, I call it pocket saying because
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you just don't know what they're gonna throw at you.
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And I'm talking about when they go to that three
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safety defense, which I absolutely love.
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I wrote.
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I wrote my master's project on the three says safety
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defense and how it changes body types in the NFL.
601
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So seeing the Cardinals run the three safety defense and
602
00:28:06.519 --> 00:28:08.519
just cause chaos, it's like, oh, I.
603
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Knew I could do run about that. But my favorite
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00:28:12.400 --> 00:28:16.680
thing about this defense is how they use Buddha Baker
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as the middle safety.
606
00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:20.759
Yeah, they weaponize him. They weaponize him in unlock him,
607
00:28:20.759 --> 00:28:23.640
and then he's a force multiplier for everything else around him.
608
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Absolutely, that middle safety.
609
00:28:25.680 --> 00:28:28.000
You can talk to any high school coach, any college
610
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coach that runs his defense, that middle safety is more.
611
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Likely your best player, that is your dude, because what.
612
00:28:35.440 --> 00:28:38.359
This defense allows you to do and what the Cardinals
613
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use so much is it allows that Mic linebacker. So
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they ran it with a five to one front. They
615
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ran it with a penny front. They're not going to
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run three down linement with it. They ran it with
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their penny front. It allows the MIC linebacker to scrape
618
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super hard over and Buddha can just slot right back
619
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in onto the back side. So now everything is tied together.
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When you think about run fits out of that three
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high shell, it's like a triangle. It's a triangle between
622
00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:10.480
the backside linebacker, the MIC, and the middle safety. So
623
00:29:10.559 --> 00:29:13.279
if the ball goes one way, the MIC can scrape,
624
00:29:13.720 --> 00:29:16.359
the middle safety comes down and replaces where he was,
625
00:29:16.680 --> 00:29:19.839
and that backside linebacker is still tracking on the cutback.
626
00:29:20.599 --> 00:29:23.079
And that's something that the Cardinals did so well. They
627
00:29:23.119 --> 00:29:25.759
were so disciplined out of that. But not only that,
628
00:29:25.839 --> 00:29:28.480
they can run a majority a lot of different coverages
629
00:29:28.559 --> 00:29:31.839
out of this defense and out of this personnel because
630
00:29:31.880 --> 00:29:34.519
of Buddha Baker's versatility. Love Budda Baker as a player.
631
00:29:34.559 --> 00:29:38.279
I think he is best as that middle safety.
632
00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:38.359
That rover.
633
00:29:38.920 --> 00:29:41.640
You know, he is the robber defender. He is one
634
00:29:41.640 --> 00:29:44.519
of the perfect robber defenders in the NFL. He can sit,
635
00:29:44.839 --> 00:29:46.759
he can be that Tampa defender. That's one of my
636
00:29:46.759 --> 00:29:49.680
favorite parts about this defense is instead of having a
637
00:29:49.720 --> 00:29:52.519
mic linebacker be the middle runner in Tampa two, you
638
00:29:52.599 --> 00:29:55.200
now have a more athletic safety there who will be
639
00:29:55.279 --> 00:29:58.039
that middle runner. And I think that's going to cause
640
00:29:58.079 --> 00:30:00.640
a lot of problems for the Bills spread game. The
641
00:30:00.680 --> 00:30:03.759
three high safety defense is built to stop the spread.
642
00:30:04.160 --> 00:30:06.759
It was made in high schools and college is made
643
00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:08.440
popular by Iowa State.
644
00:30:08.640 --> 00:30:10.559
I was just literally just gonna say, Iowa State, the
645
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big twelve.
646
00:30:11.759 --> 00:30:15.279
Iowa State made it to stop the spread and the
647
00:30:15.319 --> 00:30:19.559
super spread. Mickey Mouse rpl crap that uh that Baylor
648
00:30:19.720 --> 00:30:21.000
and Tennessee run.
649
00:30:21.079 --> 00:30:22.559
Now, I hate it. I love that you called it
650
00:30:22.599 --> 00:30:24.000
Mickey Mouse. I hate it.
651
00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:26.480
It's Mickey Mouse. It's Mickey Mouse. It is. It is
652
00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:29.319
easy bake oven, so don't don't give me that.
653
00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:36.359
But where this defense kind of struggles is in condensed set.
654
00:30:36.799 --> 00:30:39.720
You know, That's where I think instead of running a
655
00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:42.119
three three down front, that's where the Cardinals play a
656
00:30:42.160 --> 00:30:44.079
five man so you can get a little more, get
657
00:30:44.119 --> 00:30:47.759
a little bigger up front. Condensed formations, condensed sets, that
658
00:30:47.839 --> 00:30:50.240
is where the three high safety defense kind of falters.
659
00:30:50.559 --> 00:30:52.640
But that's also where I think the Bills can attack them,
660
00:30:52.759 --> 00:30:55.119
especially this version of the Bills. This version of the
661
00:30:55.160 --> 00:30:58.559
Bills is probably not going to be the super spread
662
00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:02.599
offense that we've seen in years before from Buffalo. This
663
00:31:02.680 --> 00:31:05.279
offense is going to be a bit more compressed, gonna
664
00:31:05.279 --> 00:31:08.000
be a little bit condensed sets. They're gonna try and
665
00:31:08.079 --> 00:31:09.759
hit you in the face in the run game. I
666
00:31:09.799 --> 00:31:13.799
think under Candorsey they were a majority outside zone, inside zone.
667
00:31:13.880 --> 00:31:16.720
You know they they would that was their primary diet
668
00:31:16.960 --> 00:31:19.759
in the run game. With Joe Brady, it has been duo,
669
00:31:19.960 --> 00:31:22.640
it has been counter, it has been power if they
670
00:31:22.680 --> 00:31:25.279
are trying to hit you in the face in the
671
00:31:25.359 --> 00:31:28.079
run game instead of trying to run around you. And
672
00:31:28.079 --> 00:31:29.799
that's where I think they can kind of attack this
673
00:31:29.880 --> 00:31:33.200
three high safety defense, because as good as Buddha Baker is,
674
00:31:33.480 --> 00:31:36.000
you don't necessarily want one hundred and ninety pound Buddha
675
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Baker coming into the coming down to the backside and
676
00:31:39.599 --> 00:31:42.920
a down blocking guard or tackle is the one guy.
677
00:31:42.720 --> 00:31:44.440
To meet him. You want that to happen.
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00:31:44.480 --> 00:31:47.200
You want to get against zone flow where he can
679
00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:50.240
kind of fill those backside gaps and then once he
680
00:31:50.319 --> 00:31:53.920
sees a lane open, he can get there faster. Than
681
00:31:53.960 --> 00:31:57.559
your guard or tackle. But in gap in man schemes,
682
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and he is the one guy that you are keyd on,
683
00:32:00.559 --> 00:32:04.200
he's gonna get hit. So I think if the Bills
684
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can kind of condense those sets, condence the formations, and
685
00:32:09.160 --> 00:32:13.759
really try and hammer against this Cardinals defensive front that
686
00:32:14.039 --> 00:32:18.799
like I said, they're thin, They are thin upfront depth wise,
687
00:32:19.400 --> 00:32:21.440
and they don't have a lot of people who really
688
00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:23.519
they don't have the top end talent or depth to
689
00:32:23.640 --> 00:32:27.640
really contend upfront. And if you if you just lean
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on them, then I think that'll be a really strong
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00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:32.279
game plan for Buffalo.
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00:32:33.799 --> 00:32:37.400
So it's so funny, like your first point, I can
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00:32:37.440 --> 00:32:40.440
just naturally piggyback on it with my first point because
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it ties and so on with what you said. And
695
00:32:41.960 --> 00:32:44.799
you and I talked about this when I had you
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on during the summer, where we talked about how this
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00:32:48.039 --> 00:32:50.880
Bill's offense could kind of adapt and evolve and move forward,
698
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and we talked a lot about condensed sets and reducing
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00:32:53.319 --> 00:32:57.880
formational with and it's that that literal line has been
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something I have been echoing almost every single episode, starting
701
00:33:02.519 --> 00:33:04.960
with you throughout the entirety of this summer. I talked
702
00:33:04.960 --> 00:33:06.400
about it with you. I talked about it with Mina
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00:33:06.440 --> 00:33:07.799
Chimes when I had her on the show. I talked
704
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about it a bunch when I was going to training
705
00:33:09.480 --> 00:33:11.839
camp and breaking down what they were showing. It just
706
00:33:11.960 --> 00:33:15.279
makes sense given the body types that they have at
707
00:33:15.319 --> 00:33:18.559
receiver and tight end. And I went and did a
708
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full film episode for this show breaking down elements of
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00:33:22.839 --> 00:33:26.599
the Rams and Lions and Texans and how and why
710
00:33:26.640 --> 00:33:30.119
the Bill should borrow from those offenses because of their
711
00:33:30.119 --> 00:33:32.920
reduced formational with how they run the football and what
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00:33:32.960 --> 00:33:35.240
they do formationally, because of how it fits what the
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00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:37.559
Bills have from a body type standpoint, wide receiver and
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tight end. And I love that you talked about that
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00:33:41.480 --> 00:33:43.680
run piece. Guy, I really do think. I think so
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much of the Bill's offense this year, the foundation point
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00:33:47.279 --> 00:33:48.920
is the run game. Now, that doesn't mean like the
718
00:33:48.920 --> 00:33:51.519
Bills are going to be the sixty forty run team
719
00:33:51.599 --> 00:33:54.720
and it's run first, run first, But I think the
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00:33:54.759 --> 00:33:57.640
success of this offense stems from the run game and
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00:33:57.680 --> 00:34:00.519
the body types they have at receiver and tight end,
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00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:03.319
and especially in this game. To echo your point exactly,
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I don't even have to regurgitate it too much. Like
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what they have up front from a cardinal standpoint, is
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00:34:11.000 --> 00:34:13.280
something you can You can run right at them. You
726
00:34:13.280 --> 00:34:15.760
can create this placement against them. You can get them
727
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:20.000
moving horizontally and or vertically running downhill, moving them out
728
00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:23.800
of the way, mitigating the creativity that they can show
729
00:34:23.840 --> 00:34:26.599
on the back end with those three safety looks, mitigating
730
00:34:26.639 --> 00:34:29.800
those known passing down situations where they can really flip
731
00:34:29.800 --> 00:34:31.719
the script on you from a pre to post snap
732
00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:36.119
change and lean into where's Budda Baker going to be? Oh,
733
00:34:36.159 --> 00:34:38.119
he's in the center of the field right now, single high,
734
00:34:38.119 --> 00:34:40.119
but guess what he might end up being in the
735
00:34:40.159 --> 00:34:42.239
apex and then the slot on the other side of
736
00:34:42.280 --> 00:34:44.239
the field come post snap, like you have no idea
737
00:34:44.280 --> 00:34:46.079
what we're about to spin to or shift to, like,
738
00:34:46.400 --> 00:34:49.280
not allowing them to take advantage of what Thompson and
739
00:34:49.320 --> 00:34:52.519
Baker and really everybody in that secondary can do starts
740
00:34:52.519 --> 00:34:55.639
with that run game piece. And so my point kind
741
00:34:55.679 --> 00:34:57.960
of ties into all that that you mentioned. Specifically For me,
742
00:34:58.360 --> 00:35:00.639
I just kind of labeled it like the Bill eleven
743
00:35:00.840 --> 00:35:03.559
and twelve personnel groupings because I see the wide receiver
744
00:35:03.639 --> 00:35:05.599
room in tight end room as being similar from a
745
00:35:06.440 --> 00:35:09.320
stature and skill set standpoint, but some data in it
746
00:35:09.320 --> 00:35:12.320
from last year is pretty interesting. So if you look
747
00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:14.840
at the Bills last year, when they were in eleven personnel,
748
00:35:15.599 --> 00:35:19.360
they were fourth in overall EPA per play, fifth in
749
00:35:19.559 --> 00:35:23.119
passing EPA per play, third in EPA per rush, so
750
00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:26.199
really nice out of eleven. Similar in twelve out of
751
00:35:26.199 --> 00:35:29.320
twelve personnel, they were eighth and EPA per play, six
752
00:35:29.719 --> 00:35:33.400
in passing EPA per play, but they were sixteenth in
753
00:35:33.519 --> 00:35:36.719
EPA per rush out of twelve personnel. Their EPA per
754
00:35:36.800 --> 00:35:39.519
rush out of eleven again they were third, it was
755
00:35:39.639 --> 00:35:42.960
zero point one zero, pretty good. Their EPA per rush
756
00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:46.159
out of twelve again where they were sixteenth negative zero
757
00:35:46.360 --> 00:35:49.679
point one four. They were losing expected points every time
758
00:35:49.679 --> 00:35:51.920
they ran the ball. Out of twelve last year, and
759
00:35:51.960 --> 00:35:54.599
if it if you take just running back runs only
760
00:35:54.800 --> 00:35:57.519
for the Bills out of twelve last year, it got worse.
761
00:35:57.840 --> 00:36:01.679
They were twenty sixth in EPA per rush at negative
762
00:36:01.760 --> 00:36:04.639
zero point one point eight. For this Bills offense to
763
00:36:04.760 --> 00:36:07.280
succeed really this year, but also I think in this
764
00:36:07.440 --> 00:36:11.679
game they're eleven and twelve personnel, groups have to win
765
00:36:11.760 --> 00:36:13.960
both in the air and on the ground to make
766
00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:16.199
the body types that they have at wide receiver and
767
00:36:16.239 --> 00:36:21.039
tight end truly put opposing defenses into binds in order
768
00:36:21.079 --> 00:36:24.760
to maximize the mismatch creation potential that they have there.
769
00:36:24.960 --> 00:36:27.239
They have to be able to run and pass effectively
770
00:36:27.239 --> 00:36:29.280
from both eleven and twelve. And again, I don't want
771
00:36:29.280 --> 00:36:31.440
to drill down too much on it because you talked
772
00:36:31.480 --> 00:36:33.480
about it, I've talked about it so much this offseason.
773
00:36:33.920 --> 00:36:36.280
But their wide receiver and tight end rooms are similar
774
00:36:36.280 --> 00:36:39.679
to one another, and that the predominant factors are combinations
775
00:36:39.719 --> 00:36:43.000
of size, frame, and athleticism. You do have some individual
776
00:36:43.039 --> 00:36:46.320
traits or play style elements, like what Curtis Samuel is,
777
00:36:46.360 --> 00:36:49.199
what Khalil Shakir is, even Dalton Kincaid with his route
778
00:36:49.239 --> 00:36:53.320
running precision, but the groups can largely be characterized as
779
00:36:53.360 --> 00:36:56.880
built around size, frame and athleticism, with the ability to
780
00:36:56.880 --> 00:36:59.960
function as both pass catchers and blockers in the run game.
781
00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:03.840
And even Kurtis Samuel and Khalil Shakir are factors as
782
00:37:03.840 --> 00:37:06.400
blockers as well, even though they don't necessarily fit like
783
00:37:06.440 --> 00:37:10.400
the size and frame aesthetic of Keyon Coleman, Mac Collins, MBS,
784
00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:13.440
Dalton Kinkaid, and Dawson Knox. But I think so much
785
00:37:13.480 --> 00:37:16.840
of this season depends on that, and that's why I
786
00:37:16.840 --> 00:37:19.679
think this opening game is so fun, like we alluded
787
00:37:19.719 --> 00:37:22.599
to in the intro, because I think this opening game
788
00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:24.719
is a really good test for the Bills eleven and
789
00:37:24.800 --> 00:37:27.639
twelve personnel groupings in terms of what they look like
790
00:37:27.760 --> 00:37:29.559
in the run in the past, what do they look
791
00:37:29.599 --> 00:37:32.760
like from a condensed formation and reduced formational with aspect
792
00:37:33.559 --> 00:37:35.360
because of how it sets the table for the rest
793
00:37:35.400 --> 00:37:38.000
of the year, but also because that's the best way
794
00:37:38.000 --> 00:37:40.360
to attack this Cardinals defense. Like I want to see
795
00:37:40.360 --> 00:37:42.920
the Bills. I want to see them go with condensed
796
00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:44.840
formations and have as many dudes attached to the line
797
00:37:44.840 --> 00:37:47.480
as possible. And I want you to run duo as
798
00:37:47.519 --> 00:37:50.079
many times as you want and smash the Cardinals in
799
00:37:50.119 --> 00:37:51.840
the face. And then if you want to go spread
800
00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:53.880
a little bit or maybe you know, have somebody in
801
00:37:53.960 --> 00:37:56.280
line out of eleven personnel, I want you to lean
802
00:37:56.320 --> 00:37:58.920
into your dark concept. I want you to run tackle pull.
803
00:37:58.960 --> 00:38:00.920
I want you to run tackle trap and take advantage
804
00:38:00.920 --> 00:38:02.519
of the Cardinals trying to get upfield a little bit
805
00:38:02.519 --> 00:38:04.440
with the smaller body types that they have on that
806
00:38:04.480 --> 00:38:07.480
defensive line. I feel like, again, the run game sets
807
00:38:07.480 --> 00:38:10.639
the table for the twenty twenty four Bills offense, but
808
00:38:10.760 --> 00:38:13.519
also for this game because, like you said, and some
809
00:38:13.599 --> 00:38:15.800
of the points I made as well, I think it
810
00:38:15.960 --> 00:38:17.679
just it just fits with what you want to do
811
00:38:17.719 --> 00:38:21.360
against this Cardinals defense, like you mitigate their best aspect
812
00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:25.000
on the back end schematically by just running the football
813
00:38:25.079 --> 00:38:26.840
right down their throat with what you have, and it
814
00:38:26.920 --> 00:38:29.079
just fits what the Bills have naturally already.
815
00:38:29.920 --> 00:38:32.880
So I went to look it up on FT and Fantasy,
816
00:38:32.960 --> 00:38:36.800
which is great spot for dvo Way, but also adjusted lineyards,
817
00:38:36.840 --> 00:38:40.599
which means how many yards either in offensive line games
818
00:38:40.679 --> 00:38:44.760
or how many yards adjusted for running back yards, how
819
00:38:44.760 --> 00:38:46.760
many yards truly the offensive line.
820
00:38:46.800 --> 00:38:48.480
The Bills were great at. The Bills were great at
821
00:38:48.480 --> 00:38:50.559
it last year. I don't remember what, but talked about
822
00:38:50.599 --> 00:38:51.000
it a bunch.
823
00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:57.480
Yeah, the Cardinals defense allow four point eight seven adjusted lineyards.
824
00:38:57.519 --> 00:38:58.039
That's terrible.
825
00:38:58.280 --> 00:39:03.000
That is dead last. And no, no, no, that is dead last.
826
00:39:04.239 --> 00:39:08.000
That's not great, not great at all. The biggest thing is,
827
00:39:08.920 --> 00:39:12.239
you know they allowed they also allowed the second most
828
00:39:12.840 --> 00:39:15.440
second level yards, so it's from the linebackers, you know,
829
00:39:15.519 --> 00:39:16.320
that's second level.
830
00:39:16.480 --> 00:39:18.079
They're really good at open field.
831
00:39:17.800 --> 00:39:21.760
Tackling, which fits their personnel. They have great safety, great
832
00:39:21.800 --> 00:39:24.559
cornerback plays, and they are all feisty as hell. They
833
00:39:24.559 --> 00:39:26.119
will come up and hit you in the face of
834
00:39:26.480 --> 00:39:29.239
keep your Clark one of my favorite players to walk.
835
00:39:29.719 --> 00:39:32.880
He's gonna throw his body everywhere to try and make
836
00:39:32.880 --> 00:39:33.239
that play.
837
00:39:33.320 --> 00:39:34.639
Jalen Thompson, lude Baker.
838
00:39:34.679 --> 00:39:38.880
They are all very fight tacklers, but up front they
839
00:39:38.880 --> 00:39:42.000
are not great. They are They're liable to get hit
840
00:39:42.119 --> 00:39:44.559
in the mouth, and so you have you have to
841
00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:46.880
try and lean on them. You gotta try and lean
842
00:39:46.920 --> 00:39:51.159
on try and get them move, get them moved. Because
843
00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:53.480
I know we make a.
844
00:39:53.440 --> 00:39:56.480
Lot about uh oh, run running the ball, this, that
845
00:39:56.639 --> 00:39:56.960
and the other.
846
00:39:57.000 --> 00:40:02.519
It's not efficient, but it matters if especially when it
847
00:40:02.559 --> 00:40:07.039
comes down to creating offense when you don't really have
848
00:40:07.800 --> 00:40:10.000
the superstar talent that you had at receiver.
849
00:40:10.480 --> 00:40:13.159
If you can lean on guys and get them running
850
00:40:13.159 --> 00:40:14.079
the ball and you can.
851
00:40:13.920 --> 00:40:17.119
Get four yards to carry, I'll think that that makes
852
00:40:17.639 --> 00:40:19.760
second down a whole lot easier, opens up the playbook
853
00:40:19.800 --> 00:40:22.519
a whole lot more for those guys who don't have
854
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:25.920
to win immediately, you know. So I think the Bills
855
00:40:25.960 --> 00:40:27.719
to try and lean on them, lean on them as
856
00:40:27.719 --> 00:40:30.360
hard as possible and see if you can get them
857
00:40:30.400 --> 00:40:33.519
into those bigger personnel where then you can attack.
858
00:40:34.119 --> 00:40:37.199
Yes, I love that and especially with how I mean,
859
00:40:38.679 --> 00:40:40.400
I don't want to blanket statement this too much, but
860
00:40:40.400 --> 00:40:43.360
pretty much like every single quarterback does better with play
861
00:40:43.400 --> 00:40:46.079
action than they do which a straight drop aacks, but
862
00:40:46.320 --> 00:40:49.599
especially Josh Allen, Like, Josh Allen is a tremendous play
863
00:40:49.639 --> 00:40:52.000
action passer. I've talked about it all the time, Like
864
00:40:52.079 --> 00:40:56.119
I legitimately think the rhythm, especially of under center play
865
00:40:56.159 --> 00:41:00.159
action gets him set mechanically, like he gets into with
866
00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:03.880
different level of comfortability based on the rhythm he has
867
00:41:03.960 --> 00:41:07.000
from snapping the ball, having that fake you know, faking
868
00:41:07.000 --> 00:41:10.840
the run action, turning setting, hitching up and then throwing
869
00:41:10.920 --> 00:41:13.760
like it gets his body position correct, his eyes are
870
00:41:13.760 --> 00:41:16.320
in the right place, is timing. Everything flows very well
871
00:41:16.320 --> 00:41:21.199
for him. And yeah, this this run game, it makes
872
00:41:21.239 --> 00:41:23.679
things so much easier for an offense. If you can
873
00:41:23.719 --> 00:41:25.800
grind out four to five yards of carry, like you're
874
00:41:25.840 --> 00:41:27.960
just living in such a good life as an offense,
875
00:41:28.440 --> 00:41:31.519
even more so when you also have Josh Allen as
876
00:41:31.559 --> 00:41:34.039
a factor with his legs, even more so when you
877
00:41:34.079 --> 00:41:36.360
add in the play action run game, and then also
878
00:41:36.440 --> 00:41:39.039
from the perspective of this is where the eleven and
879
00:41:39.079 --> 00:41:40.559
twelve starts to come into play. And you and I
880
00:41:40.599 --> 00:41:42.559
talked about this when when you were on one of
881
00:41:42.599 --> 00:41:44.320
the times during the summer. I was I was gonna
882
00:41:44.320 --> 00:41:45.679
say the last time, but I don't even think that
883
00:41:45.679 --> 00:41:47.480
was the last time. She went on so much like
884
00:41:47.920 --> 00:41:50.719
this is then where it starts to get money for
885
00:41:50.760 --> 00:41:54.199
a defense, right, Like you're sitting there in eleven personnel
886
00:41:54.280 --> 00:41:57.440
and you're running it down a defense's throat. So the
887
00:41:57.480 --> 00:41:59.480
defense is like, all right, like, we got to bring
888
00:41:59.519 --> 00:42:01.679
in a bigger body type, We got to change some
889
00:42:01.760 --> 00:42:03.360
things to figure out how to knock get it run
890
00:42:03.400 --> 00:42:06.039
down our throat. But all they're seeing is somebody is
891
00:42:06.079 --> 00:42:08.800
up in the booth with the binoculars going, yeah they're
892
00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:10.920
in eleven. Yeah, they're in eleven. Okay, cool, Well they're
893
00:42:10.960 --> 00:42:12.960
gutting us with the run. We got to match it somehow.
894
00:42:13.320 --> 00:42:15.000
You know what's nice what you can do with that
895
00:42:15.079 --> 00:42:17.679
same eleven personnel grouping that you've been mashing teams with.
896
00:42:18.199 --> 00:42:20.960
Now you can go spread and you can also do
897
00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:23.480
the exact same thing with your twelve personnel grouping with
898
00:42:23.559 --> 00:42:26.199
Dawson Knox and Dalton Kin Kate, And that's where that
899
00:42:26.280 --> 00:42:29.639
whole mismatch creation element comes in, because if you're too
900
00:42:29.760 --> 00:42:33.599
small or not good enough to bang against the Bills
901
00:42:33.639 --> 00:42:36.079
in the run with eleven and twelve and you need
902
00:42:36.119 --> 00:42:40.000
to go bigger cool can those bigger dudes function in
903
00:42:40.039 --> 00:42:43.840
the past against Keyon Coleman and even mac Collins Hell
904
00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:46.000
like but let alone Curtis Samuel with what they're gonna
905
00:42:46.039 --> 00:42:47.719
do with him with Shakir and then especially with the
906
00:42:47.719 --> 00:42:49.880
tight ends, and you could go full spread with it.
907
00:42:49.960 --> 00:42:54.079
Right say you're in twelve and it's Keyon Coleman, Mac Collins,
908
00:42:55.000 --> 00:42:57.320
James Cook and then your two tight ends Knox and Kate,
909
00:42:57.519 --> 00:43:00.519
you're just mashing and mashing. You could literally to take
910
00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:03.000
that and go three by two and be actually functional
911
00:43:03.039 --> 00:43:04.840
with it because of the receivers tight ends and then
912
00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:07.480
James Cook as a pass countcher Hell even Ray Davis
913
00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:09.800
with that, And that's where it all starts to get
914
00:43:09.840 --> 00:43:12.599
really beautiful for this Bills offense. And I think that's
915
00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:15.679
where the sweet spot is for the entirety of the year.
916
00:43:15.960 --> 00:43:17.960
This is not an offense where you look at it
917
00:43:18.039 --> 00:43:21.480
on paper and just go there's just a bunch of
918
00:43:21.519 --> 00:43:23.960
dudes that can get buckets on that offense. I'm scared
919
00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:25.800
of this guy. I'm scared of that guy. I'm scared
920
00:43:25.800 --> 00:43:28.360
of that guy. No, it's very much a push the
921
00:43:28.440 --> 00:43:31.159
right button at the right time, pull the right lever
922
00:43:31.239 --> 00:43:33.320
at the right time, turn the dials up to the
923
00:43:33.400 --> 00:43:37.159
right levels at the right moment, and win schematically based
924
00:43:37.199 --> 00:43:39.639
on your mismatch creation elements and a lot of that,
925
00:43:39.719 --> 00:43:42.079
if not all of it starts with the run for
926
00:43:42.199 --> 00:43:44.559
this season. And again, like we said, I think, especially
927
00:43:44.559 --> 00:43:47.559
like in this game against Arizona, it just makes sense
928
00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:49.800
like and I don't even want I say that too
929
00:43:49.320 --> 00:43:52.400
to preface like what I'm about to say, like, don't
930
00:43:52.400 --> 00:43:56.239
be scared or upset if you're very much like a no,
931
00:43:56.599 --> 00:43:58.960
like all the metrics say you need to throw the football,
932
00:43:59.000 --> 00:44:01.960
if you have to pass past past, don't get upset
933
00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:03.760
if you come out and see the Bills win this
934
00:44:03.840 --> 00:44:06.840
game and Josh Allen only threw the ball like twenty
935
00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:10.239
two times and they ran the ball like thirty five times.
936
00:44:10.480 --> 00:44:12.840
Because that's what's gonna work against Cardinals.
937
00:44:12.840 --> 00:44:19.079
We're looking at you know, when one of the bills
938
00:44:19.119 --> 00:44:22.960
biggest wins last season was against the Cowboys.
939
00:44:23.000 --> 00:44:24.639
They ran forty five times.
940
00:44:25.039 --> 00:44:27.239
Y'alls, Allen threw the ball fifteen times.
941
00:44:27.400 --> 00:44:27.880
There you go.
942
00:44:28.679 --> 00:44:31.400
He wasn't exactly lighting up the field, you know. And
943
00:44:31.440 --> 00:44:33.920
this is gonna be one of those games where if
944
00:44:34.119 --> 00:44:37.079
they're giving you a light box and you think you
945
00:44:37.079 --> 00:44:39.800
can run on them in a light box, do it
946
00:44:40.519 --> 00:44:45.159
like it is the ultimate test of It's it's no
947
00:44:45.199 --> 00:44:48.119
ultimate tests. We think we can stop you from running
948
00:44:48.159 --> 00:44:49.679
the ball with six people.
949
00:44:49.360 --> 00:44:52.639
In the box, try it, like, try me, Like what
950
00:44:53.280 --> 00:44:54.960
if you if you think you can run the ball
951
00:44:54.960 --> 00:44:55.880
on us, go for it.
952
00:44:56.280 --> 00:44:59.360
But that's something you have to physically impose on them
953
00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:03.480
because they're not that big upfront, they're not that talented upfront.
954
00:45:03.519 --> 00:45:05.159
You have to try and hit them in the mouth
955
00:45:05.480 --> 00:45:08.559
and try and get those safeties down and then you
956
00:45:08.599 --> 00:45:10.480
can start to open up the pass game a little bit.
957
00:45:11.039 --> 00:45:13.960
I love that, yeah, like even just like I don't
958
00:45:13.960 --> 00:45:15.800
want to paint it with two broad of a brush,
959
00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:17.280
but like as far as like the dudes who really
960
00:45:17.320 --> 00:45:20.199
play on the line, it was so fun last year.
961
00:45:20.199 --> 00:45:22.280
I really like Dennis gard Deck and just like how
962
00:45:22.280 --> 00:45:24.599
crazy he was off the edge. But like, you know
963
00:45:24.639 --> 00:45:26.480
how you can kind of take advantage of Dennis gard
964
00:45:26.480 --> 00:45:29.880
Deck run it right, at his face, like as much
965
00:45:29.920 --> 00:45:32.280
as you friggin can, like, don't let him be crazy
966
00:45:32.320 --> 00:45:34.960
off the edge and do crazy stuff like no, just
967
00:45:35.000 --> 00:45:37.760
don't even get into those past situations. Run at their face,
968
00:45:38.239 --> 00:45:41.920
run through their face, and I still have like the
969
00:45:41.960 --> 00:45:44.480
notion of him. We and I've said this before, and
970
00:45:44.639 --> 00:45:47.360
many people have said this, and then every time we've
971
00:45:47.360 --> 00:45:50.480
had like players on the show here or in the
972
00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:52.320
film room the other show that I do, I may
973
00:45:52.440 --> 00:45:54.440
I make it a point to ask like defensive linemen
974
00:45:54.480 --> 00:45:57.519
and offensive lineman this question, like all the time. When
975
00:45:57.559 --> 00:45:59.800
you get a team who runs the ball on you
976
00:45:59.800 --> 00:46:03.800
can consistently and successfully, it does something to you mentally.
977
00:46:04.159 --> 00:46:07.480
It's not just like man, they're gaining yards. That stuff
978
00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:11.039
takes your soul, Like it is extremely demeaning to have
979
00:46:11.159 --> 00:46:14.199
the ball run on you, especially at you, not like
980
00:46:14.679 --> 00:46:17.320
oh man, they're getting cute with like you know, orbit
981
00:46:17.400 --> 00:46:21.239
motion and like and reverses and like you know, split
982
00:46:21.360 --> 00:46:23.280
zone in little things like no, when you get somebody
983
00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:26.320
who is people moving you or just running duo and
984
00:46:26.440 --> 00:46:29.440
vertically displacing you over and over again and running through
985
00:46:29.440 --> 00:46:33.400
your chest and your face, that sucks and it takes
986
00:46:33.440 --> 00:46:35.719
your soul and I'd like I think that's again the
987
00:46:35.760 --> 00:46:39.000
starting point for the Bills offense for this season, but
988
00:46:39.119 --> 00:46:41.280
especially for this game. And that's another reason again why
989
00:46:41.280 --> 00:46:43.280
I think this game is so fun, because I think
990
00:46:43.280 --> 00:46:45.639
it's a good table setter for Like, hey, what you
991
00:46:45.679 --> 00:46:48.519
should be in twenty twenty four is what you should
992
00:46:48.559 --> 00:46:50.960
be in this opening game against the Cardinals based on
993
00:46:51.039 --> 00:46:54.960
how you can kind of expose them and maximize their
994
00:46:55.039 --> 00:46:58.079
vulnerabilities while mitigating their strengths. And then again from the
995
00:46:58.079 --> 00:47:02.159
Cardinals perspective, if you can fight against that and get
996
00:47:02.159 --> 00:47:05.440
them into known passing situations or third and longs, and
997
00:47:05.480 --> 00:47:07.480
then you can start to get into that creativity and
998
00:47:07.519 --> 00:47:09.679
you can start to get into that bag of again
999
00:47:10.480 --> 00:47:12.360
one of my favorite things I mentioned earlier, like it's
1000
00:47:12.400 --> 00:47:13.920
just such a small thing I love. I love how
1001
00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:16.840
teams will creatively, like get to Tampa two, and you
1002
00:47:16.920 --> 00:47:18.559
mentioned one of them, like I talked about it earlier.
1003
00:47:18.599 --> 00:47:19.960
You talked about it like instead of just using a
1004
00:47:20.000 --> 00:47:23.800
traditional middle linebacker as the pole runner, No, your Tampa
1005
00:47:23.800 --> 00:47:26.559
two player is Buddha Baker. But he's playing from top
1006
00:47:26.679 --> 00:47:29.159
down and he's not running the pole. He's coming down
1007
00:47:29.199 --> 00:47:32.360
and sitting in it and robbing and making plays off
1008
00:47:32.400 --> 00:47:35.519
of it, Like they get creative, they have athleticism, and
1009
00:47:35.599 --> 00:47:37.119
they I like what you said too, like they have
1010
00:47:37.159 --> 00:47:40.639
the mentality back there, like Buddha is nasty, but like
1011
00:47:41.039 --> 00:47:44.000
and if anybody matches his nastiness on that back end,
1012
00:47:44.719 --> 00:47:47.280
Jalen Thompson is right there with him, man Like Jalen
1013
00:47:47.320 --> 00:47:50.400
Thompson wants to put his helmet through your face and
1014
00:47:50.480 --> 00:47:52.559
take you out. But then he's also got some coverage ability,
1015
00:47:52.599 --> 00:47:54.800
Like there's reps of him against the Rams last year
1016
00:47:54.800 --> 00:47:57.599
where he's covering Cooper Cup like one on one in
1017
00:47:57.679 --> 00:47:59.960
space in the red zone, like to the white side
1018
00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:02.039
of the field. So you don't want to let them
1019
00:48:02.079 --> 00:48:03.800
get into that bag, Like that's one of the few
1020
00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:07.199
strengths they have. So don't even play to wit. Run
1021
00:48:07.239 --> 00:48:08.960
it right at them, run through their face and kind
1022
00:48:08.960 --> 00:48:11.639
of take advantage. I think it's funny. I'm not funny,
1023
00:48:11.639 --> 00:48:13.320
but I like they We're kind of in lockstep a
1024
00:48:13.360 --> 00:48:17.079
little bit with that first point. All right, second point
1025
00:48:17.119 --> 00:48:18.679
that you got, Flora is yours.
1026
00:48:19.599 --> 00:48:23.719
My second point is the Bills second level defenders against
1027
00:48:23.760 --> 00:48:25.840
the Cardinals twelve and thirteen personnel.
1028
00:48:26.920 --> 00:48:32.719
And I'm also to the Cardinals. The Cardinals really flip.
1029
00:48:32.840 --> 00:48:34.119
This is one of the points where I was talking
1030
00:48:34.119 --> 00:48:35.960
about where it's it's gonna come up later.
1031
00:48:36.079 --> 00:48:39.719
But the Cardinals are really an interesting team.
1032
00:48:39.760 --> 00:48:42.440
They were a really interesting team, especially when Kyler got back,
1033
00:48:42.880 --> 00:48:46.440
because they didn't lean into super spread. You know what
1034
00:48:46.480 --> 00:48:49.239
we think of Kyler Murray as a dual threat and
1035
00:48:49.320 --> 00:48:51.599
what we have seeing him with under Cliff Kingsbury.
1036
00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:54.360
They got him under center and they ran a lot
1037
00:48:54.400 --> 00:48:55.199
of twelve.
1038
00:48:54.880 --> 00:48:57.599
And thirteen personnel, and I think it lends itself to
1039
00:48:58.400 --> 00:49:02.960
how different this offense line is. This offensive line is nasty.
1040
00:49:03.039 --> 00:49:07.079
They will get after you in the run game. Talked
1041
00:49:07.119 --> 00:49:11.280
about Paris Johnson Junior, such an easy mover at that size,
1042
00:49:11.360 --> 00:49:12.239
super powerful.
1043
00:49:13.480 --> 00:49:15.800
Jodah Williams is muno to right tackle.
1044
00:49:15.519 --> 00:49:17.320
After I thought he was gonna play left tackle there
1045
00:49:17.360 --> 00:49:20.400
and move Paris to right. But like I said, fro
1046
00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:25.000
Holt is a mean effort at center. They want to
1047
00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:28.320
try and hit you in the mouth. And it lends
1048
00:49:28.320 --> 00:49:31.159
itself to be so versatile out of their twelve and
1049
00:49:31.199 --> 00:49:35.920
thirteen personnel because their second tight end is Elijah Higgins
1050
00:49:36.159 --> 00:49:39.719
who was a wide receiver at Stanford. So you can
1051
00:49:39.760 --> 00:49:43.639
treat that twelve personnel with your bigger numbers, and then
1052
00:49:43.679 --> 00:49:46.039
a linebacker is having to guard a former wide receiver.
1053
00:49:46.559 --> 00:49:48.639
It's kind of the thing that the Chiefs did with
1054
00:49:48.719 --> 00:49:52.519
Travis Kelce where everybody was just playing nickel to the
1055
00:49:52.599 --> 00:49:55.599
Chiefs twelve personnel. Because Travis Kelsey is basically a big receiver,
1056
00:49:55.920 --> 00:49:58.159
they just added a tight end. And that's what the
1057
00:49:58.199 --> 00:50:00.840
Cardinals did. Everybody's gonna treat Elija Higgin like a big receiver.
1058
00:50:01.400 --> 00:50:04.519
Just go ad tip Ryman, and tip Ryman is another
1059
00:50:04.639 --> 00:50:06.079
mean m effort.
1060
00:50:05.599 --> 00:50:08.039
Who will block you. He will hit you in the mouth.
1061
00:50:08.239 --> 00:50:11.639
So this version of the Bills.
1062
00:50:11.320 --> 00:50:15.199
Defense without Matt Mulano, without their captain in the middle
1063
00:50:15.400 --> 00:50:19.199
in that linebacker group, I'm very curious how they defend
1064
00:50:19.239 --> 00:50:21.920
this twelve personnel because you know that is where they
1065
00:50:21.920 --> 00:50:24.960
are going to attack. The last time we saw the
1066
00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:28.599
Bills play a football game without Matt Milano, a decline
1067
00:50:29.400 --> 00:50:33.280
little lost out there in tall thirteen personnel, And of
1068
00:50:33.320 --> 00:50:35.719
course a Jclin's probably not going to play in this game,
1069
00:50:35.800 --> 00:50:36.760
definitely not going to play.
1070
00:50:36.599 --> 00:50:37.039
In this game.
1071
00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:41.800
But I think they're the Cardinal's ability to be so
1072
00:50:42.079 --> 00:50:45.280
versatile out of twelve and thirteen personnel, and now you
1073
00:50:45.400 --> 00:50:48.039
have a guy like Marvin Harrison Junior on the outside,
1074
00:50:48.440 --> 00:50:51.920
you can be a legitimate outside threat. Michael Wilson is
1075
00:50:51.960 --> 00:50:56.280
a great compliment to what they do. And there rapport
1076
00:50:56.320 --> 00:50:58.280
between treymon bride and Kyler Murray was one of the
1077
00:50:58.320 --> 00:51:01.800
coolest things I wrote about last season and just immediately clicked,
1078
00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:06.159
you know. He McBride is such an interesting player because
1079
00:51:06.280 --> 00:51:07.480
he he doesn't.
1080
00:51:07.159 --> 00:51:08.679
Have really long arms.
1081
00:51:09.039 --> 00:51:13.199
He's not he's kind of a stumpier guy, but he
1082
00:51:13.239 --> 00:51:16.480
can high point the ball really well, and he is
1083
00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:18.320
a monster after the catch.
1084
00:51:18.360 --> 00:51:20.960
They will throw screens, then they will throw bubble screens
1085
00:51:20.960 --> 00:51:21.239
to him.
1086
00:51:21.239 --> 00:51:23.440
They want they'll throw, they'll they'll they'll run Mesh and
1087
00:51:23.480 --> 00:51:25.920
they'll have him be the underneath, like the primary and
1088
00:51:25.960 --> 00:51:27.760
get it to him in space and he's out running.
1089
00:51:27.800 --> 00:51:30.239
He doesn't against the I mean, granted, Okudah's falling off
1090
00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:32.440
a clip, but he's doing against the falcons. Okudah has
1091
00:51:32.480 --> 00:51:34.519
him in man and he's just pulling away from him
1092
00:51:34.519 --> 00:51:35.719
on Mesh.
1093
00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:39.039
I think McBride was one of the He had some
1094
00:51:39.119 --> 00:51:41.519
of the most yards after the catch for any tight
1095
00:51:41.639 --> 00:51:46.000
end in the NFL. He is He was fifth last
1096
00:51:46.079 --> 00:51:48.880
year and yards after the catch. So it is going
1097
00:51:48.920 --> 00:51:52.880
to be imperative that the Bill's second level defenders come
1098
00:51:52.960 --> 00:51:57.079
to play and be ready to defend those guys in coverage,
1099
00:51:57.480 --> 00:52:04.480
because I believe according to Summer Sports, the Arizona Cardinals
1100
00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:07.039
throw the ball thirty nine point six percent of the
1101
00:52:07.039 --> 00:52:10.440
time at thirteenth personnel, which is eleventh in the NFL,
1102
00:52:10.480 --> 00:52:13.360
which isn't a massive number, like it's like, oh, it's
1103
00:52:13.360 --> 00:52:16.960
a major thing. But in twelve they're thirteenth in the
1104
00:52:17.079 --> 00:52:19.320
NFL in passing rate out of it and it's fifty
1105
00:52:19.360 --> 00:52:22.159
three point one percent. They want to get bigger numbers
1106
00:52:22.239 --> 00:52:24.719
on the get bigger guys on the field so they
1107
00:52:24.719 --> 00:52:27.880
can then throw it, and so the the ability to
1108
00:52:28.000 --> 00:52:31.000
stop the run and be able to defend those second
1109
00:52:31.119 --> 00:52:34.519
level defend second level like tight ends that the Cardinals
1110
00:52:34.519 --> 00:52:36.679
have is going to be huge for the Bills linebackers.
1111
00:52:38.199 --> 00:52:41.079
It's so funny, so I haven't labeled something. So I
1112
00:52:41.159 --> 00:52:44.360
labeled it as slowing down the Cardinals rpo game and
1113
00:52:44.400 --> 00:52:47.760
their run game. But I'm in pretty much the exact
1114
00:52:47.800 --> 00:52:50.679
same wheelhouse as you, so, like you mentioned like their
1115
00:52:50.719 --> 00:52:54.079
past game obviously gets a huge boost with Marvin Harrison junior,
1116
00:52:54.199 --> 00:52:55.719
and like we talked about you mentioned as well, like
1117
00:52:56.239 --> 00:52:58.639
I really like a wide receiver core of Marvin Harrison
1118
00:52:58.719 --> 00:53:01.360
Junior is the one. Again, it helped that he's a rookie.
1119
00:53:01.360 --> 00:53:02.599
We have to see, but it helps when you have
1120
00:53:02.679 --> 00:53:06.000
like a super true wide receiver one like him.
1121
00:53:06.519 --> 00:53:07.679
He's not real.
1122
00:53:08.280 --> 00:53:12.760
It's it's rare to find the guy that big but
1123
00:53:12.920 --> 00:53:14.480
that fluid as a mover.
1124
00:53:15.360 --> 00:53:17.760
It's nuts.
1125
00:53:17.800 --> 00:53:18.960
He's like a figure skater.
1126
00:53:19.159 --> 00:53:21.719
We've talked about a lot with I thought about a
1127
00:53:21.719 --> 00:53:25.800
lot with how wide receivers and edge rushers both kind
1128
00:53:25.800 --> 00:53:28.000
of moved in the same way because they're trying to
1129
00:53:28.039 --> 00:53:30.920
achieve the same goal of getting past a dB or.
1130
00:53:30.960 --> 00:53:33.480
Yeah, we've talked about it, like the wide receiver dB
1131
00:53:33.679 --> 00:53:38.039
battle is akin to the offensive lineman like the trench battle,
1132
00:53:38.119 --> 00:53:40.519
especially on the tackles versus the edges, because it's the
1133
00:53:40.519 --> 00:53:42.440
exact same principle and concept a lot of the same
1134
00:53:42.480 --> 00:53:45.920
hand movements. DeVante Adams also talked about that in the
1135
00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:48.599
Netflix Wide Receiver him he was telling him and Crosby
1136
00:53:48.639 --> 00:53:49.880
they were talking about it, which is sweet.
1137
00:53:50.679 --> 00:53:55.960
Yes, So it's very similar to Marve Harrison Junior's movements
1138
00:53:56.000 --> 00:53:59.519
are very similar to a guy who is super long,
1139
00:53:59.679 --> 00:54:03.000
super athletic, but he can sink his hips and he
1140
00:54:03.079 --> 00:54:08.400
has such good flexibility that just I know we all remember.
1141
00:54:08.079 --> 00:54:09.760
The catches on the sideline.
1142
00:54:09.880 --> 00:54:13.440
He he is a true ex receiver. I know that
1143
00:54:13.519 --> 00:54:15.960
he is a rookie. You're gonna have to pay attention
1144
00:54:16.360 --> 00:54:17.760
to Marven Harris Junior because they.
1145
00:54:17.719 --> 00:54:19.079
Will get they will get him the ball.
1146
00:54:19.519 --> 00:54:22.679
And even in the preseason on the one like on
1147
00:54:22.760 --> 00:54:25.239
like the four plays that he played, he was getting open.
1148
00:54:25.719 --> 00:54:28.599
It was just not a good quarterback throwing him the ball.
1149
00:54:28.679 --> 00:54:34.800
But now you're worried about so many more different people,
1150
00:54:35.159 --> 00:54:37.239
like you have to have eyes on Marvin Harris Junior.
1151
00:54:37.280 --> 00:54:40.119
You gotta have eyes on Trey McBride. You got too
1152
00:54:40.199 --> 00:54:41.840
many eyes there. They're gonna hit you in the face.
1153
00:54:41.840 --> 00:54:44.239
In the run game, you gotta keep an eye on Kyler.
1154
00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:44.559
As a runner.
1155
00:54:44.719 --> 00:54:47.599
There's so many different things to worry about this Cardinals
1156
00:54:47.599 --> 00:54:51.559
offense that if the Bills aren't disciplined, then it could
1157
00:54:51.599 --> 00:54:54.079
lead to a lot of big a lot of big plays.
1158
00:54:54.480 --> 00:54:56.800
That's very fair, And I really like this comments from
1159
00:54:56.880 --> 00:54:59.039
Larry who said Marvin Harrison Junior is if like Russ
1160
00:54:59.039 --> 00:55:01.840
and Kevin Durant had baby, and that baby played wide receiver.
1161
00:55:01.920 --> 00:55:04.639
I really like that comp that's man funny. The one
1162
00:55:04.679 --> 00:55:08.679
that really got me for Harrison was I think it
1163
00:55:08.719 --> 00:55:11.880
was their joint No, I don't think it was a
1164
00:55:11.960 --> 00:55:15.000
joint practice, but it was a clip from camp and
1165
00:55:15.840 --> 00:55:19.079
he turns this corner inside out where.
1166
00:55:19.239 --> 00:55:20.039
He ends up.
1167
00:55:20.119 --> 00:55:22.559
He has like a double move and fakes him at
1168
00:55:22.599 --> 00:55:24.679
the top of his route, but he goes to the
1169
00:55:24.719 --> 00:55:28.639
side that he peaks to and receivers usually like if
1170
00:55:28.679 --> 00:55:32.679
you stack somebody, usually like you're peeking over here, so
1171
00:55:32.800 --> 00:55:35.719
you can plant and then go back this way and
1172
00:55:35.760 --> 00:55:38.880
lose your man. But he runs his route back to
1173
00:55:38.920 --> 00:55:41.639
the side that he's peaking to, So he stacks his
1174
00:55:41.760 --> 00:55:46.320
man and leans and peaks and stabs, and then comes
1175
00:55:46.360 --> 00:55:49.039
back this way and suddenly stabs again and puts his
1176
00:55:49.079 --> 00:55:50.840
man in a blender and goes to the way he
1177
00:55:50.840 --> 00:55:54.360
peaked to. When he's wide open, like his understanding of
1178
00:55:54.480 --> 00:55:59.639
route running and leverage and deception combined with how fluid
1179
00:55:59.679 --> 00:56:01.400
of a move where he is I've said it on
1180
00:56:01.440 --> 00:56:04.039
Twitter a bunch too, Like he looks like he moves
1181
00:56:04.079 --> 00:56:05.760
in slow motion, Like he looks like he was like
1182
00:56:05.800 --> 00:56:07.119
if you told me, he ran like a five to
1183
00:56:07.199 --> 00:56:08.960
five forty, I'd be like, I believe it. Like he
1184
00:56:09.000 --> 00:56:11.880
looks like he runs so slow, but he's just separating
1185
00:56:11.880 --> 00:56:15.239
from everyone because he's just so smooth and so fluid,
1186
00:56:15.280 --> 00:56:18.519
like the figure skater lined is tremendous from you. And yeah,
1187
00:56:18.559 --> 00:56:21.039
he's such a strong one again in theory because he
1188
00:56:21.039 --> 00:56:24.440
hasn't played a snap yet, but I really like him
1189
00:56:24.559 --> 00:56:26.960
as a true one. I really like Trey McBride a
1190
00:56:27.000 --> 00:56:29.760
ton at tight end. And then that makes Michael Wilson
1191
00:56:29.800 --> 00:56:32.119
a really fun number two. He had some nice flashes
1192
00:56:32.199 --> 00:56:34.079
last year when he was like the only weapon on
1193
00:56:34.079 --> 00:56:36.519
their offense. It was like him and Rondelle Moore Hollywood
1194
00:56:36.519 --> 00:56:38.280
Brown is super up and down even though he was
1195
00:56:38.280 --> 00:56:41.440
getting some attention. But now Michael Wilson's a fun number two.
1196
00:56:41.760 --> 00:56:44.039
And then you got Doris who's just a pure burner
1197
00:56:44.079 --> 00:56:46.760
and just pure fire as like your slot dude and
1198
00:56:46.800 --> 00:56:50.159
your number three. But who's really kind of your fifth
1199
00:56:50.199 --> 00:56:52.760
option because it's Harrison and Wilson or you know, I'm sorry,
1200
00:56:52.760 --> 00:56:54.920
your fourth option because it's Harrison and Wilson. McBride is
1201
00:56:54.960 --> 00:56:57.599
your top three. And I like that from a pass
1202
00:56:57.599 --> 00:56:59.719
game perspective, but the run game, like you said, is
1203
00:56:59.719 --> 00:57:02.119
where so much of the conversation starts with the Cardinals
1204
00:57:02.159 --> 00:57:04.679
and really stirs the drink. And it's not just run
1205
00:57:04.719 --> 00:57:07.800
game like oh, because Kyler Murray scrambles, or because they
1206
00:57:07.840 --> 00:57:10.760
run like you know QB, you know bash with Kyler like, No,
1207
00:57:10.800 --> 00:57:13.239
it's the actual run game stuff like you alluded to.
1208
00:57:13.719 --> 00:57:16.199
So I pulled a bunch of data on it. Kyler
1209
00:57:16.280 --> 00:57:18.960
Murray came back in week ten last year twenty twenty three.
1210
00:57:19.199 --> 00:57:23.599
Once he returned, So from week ten on, the Cardinals
1211
00:57:23.599 --> 00:57:27.400
offense were ninth in EPA per play, thirteenth in success rate,
1212
00:57:28.000 --> 00:57:32.599
fifteenth in passing EPA per play, twentieth success rate, but
1213
00:57:32.880 --> 00:57:36.760
second in rushing EPA per play, and eleventh in rushing
1214
00:57:36.800 --> 00:57:40.039
success rate, And they had a forty three percent gap
1215
00:57:40.079 --> 00:57:42.079
run rate in that time, which was seventh fifty four
1216
00:57:42.119 --> 00:57:44.920
percent zone. They're running duo, they're running counter and a
1217
00:57:44.920 --> 00:57:48.159
lot of that is out of heavier personnel groupings, especially
1218
00:57:48.400 --> 00:57:51.199
like you talked about it, ding ding ding twelve and
1219
00:57:51.599 --> 00:57:55.719
thirteen personnel groupings last year. Again, so this is all stuff.
1220
00:57:55.800 --> 00:57:59.480
From week ten on they had an eleven percent thirteen
1221
00:57:59.519 --> 00:58:02.079
personnel usage rate, which was first in the league. They
1222
00:58:02.079 --> 00:58:05.000
had a twenty four percent twelve personnel usage rate, which
1223
00:58:05.119 --> 00:58:08.119
was ninth, so thirty three percent of the time they're
1224
00:58:08.199 --> 00:58:10.599
rolling heavy like they got tight ends on the field
1225
00:58:10.599 --> 00:58:13.559
for days. And then you look at what they did
1226
00:58:13.559 --> 00:58:16.519
in twelve and thirteen, So again this is from week
1227
00:58:16.559 --> 00:58:19.320
ten through eighteen last year. In twenty twenty three, once
1228
00:58:19.440 --> 00:58:23.719
Kyler returned twelve personnel, they were tied per first in
1229
00:58:23.800 --> 00:58:27.639
rushing EPA per attempt. They were fourth in rushing positive
1230
00:58:27.639 --> 00:58:30.920
play percentage of forty eight point four percent. Just running
1231
00:58:30.960 --> 00:58:35.000
back runs they were fourth in EPA per attempt, seventh
1232
00:58:35.119 --> 00:58:39.239
in positive play percentage thirteen personnel, ninth in EPA per
1233
00:58:39.280 --> 00:58:43.039
attempt tenth impositive play percentage. Also keep in mind within
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00:58:43.119 --> 00:58:45.719
that not a ton of teams run thirteen, so there's
1235
00:58:45.760 --> 00:58:47.880
teams ahead of them that only had like one rep
1236
00:58:48.000 --> 00:58:50.960
or like four reps, which heavily skews the sample size.
1237
00:58:51.320 --> 00:58:54.079
If you take just running back runs from thirteen personnel,
1238
00:58:54.280 --> 00:58:57.960
they were seventh in EPA per attempt tenth impositive play percentage.
1239
00:58:57.960 --> 00:59:01.280
And mixed into all of that you had James Connor,
1240
00:59:01.679 --> 00:59:04.920
who had one of the most underrated and underappreciated twenty
1241
00:59:04.960 --> 00:59:08.480
twenty threes of anyone, per Sports Info solutions. His ranking
1242
00:59:08.599 --> 00:59:10.960
amongst forty nine running backs that had at least one
1243
00:59:11.000 --> 00:59:14.599
hundred carries last year, he was third in EPA per attempt,
1244
00:59:14.840 --> 00:59:18.559
third in rushing EPA sixth and yards per attempt, third
1245
00:59:18.559 --> 00:59:22.320
in yards per game, first in yards after contact per attempt,
1246
00:59:22.639 --> 00:59:26.679
fourth in broken tackles plus misstackles forced per attempt, and
1247
00:59:26.800 --> 00:59:31.679
six in first down percentage. They get into twelve and
1248
00:59:31.800 --> 00:59:34.440
thirteen and they use that run game to set the
1249
00:59:34.480 --> 00:59:36.880
table for the past, like you said, but they'll just
1250
00:59:37.000 --> 00:59:39.559
run it. They'll run it down your throat and then
1251
00:59:39.840 --> 00:59:42.639
they will get into like having those bodies attached to
1252
00:59:42.679 --> 00:59:45.599
the line, and it functions so well with what they do,
1253
00:59:45.719 --> 00:59:49.119
like they want to run counter, they want to run duo,
1254
00:59:49.199 --> 00:59:51.440
and they get creative with it. They want to run
1255
00:59:51.480 --> 00:59:54.280
split zone, which they can because you got Trey McBride.
1256
00:59:54.280 --> 00:59:56.079
And then if you really want to get heavy again,
1257
00:59:56.320 --> 00:59:59.280
you pull out f again. Tip Ryman, who's six foot
1258
00:59:59.320 --> 01:00:02.760
four and seven, it's basically six ' five. He's a
1259
01:00:02.880 --> 01:00:06.880
six five, two hundred and seventy one pound tight end.
1260
01:00:07.440 --> 01:00:09.840
That two hundred and seventy one pounds is the ninety
1261
01:00:09.920 --> 01:00:13.400
fifth percentile for weight for a tight end. He his
1262
01:00:13.480 --> 01:00:16.320
hand size is ten and a half ninety first percentile.
1263
01:00:16.360 --> 01:00:19.840
And then as athleticism stuff, he runs a one point
1264
01:00:19.880 --> 01:00:22.599
five to five ten yard split ninety first percentile, a
1265
01:00:22.639 --> 01:00:26.199
four six four forty seventy eight percentile, a one hundred
1266
01:00:26.199 --> 01:00:30.320
and twenty one inch broad jump eighty second percentile. His
1267
01:00:30.440 --> 01:00:32.679
three cone and the twenty yard shuttle we're both in
1268
01:00:32.719 --> 01:00:36.280
the seventy seventh percentile. And then despite the fact that
1269
01:00:36.400 --> 01:00:39.199
he's a big dude, not the longest arms, but he
1270
01:00:39.239 --> 01:00:41.719
was in the ninety fifth percentile for bench press. So
1271
01:00:41.760 --> 01:00:45.239
he's an athletic good a good and short space, short
1272
01:00:45.320 --> 01:00:47.679
burst type of dude who wants to run through your
1273
01:00:47.719 --> 01:00:50.599
face like you mentioned. And he's like the tight end three,
1274
01:00:50.639 --> 01:00:52.239
but also might be the tight end two if they
1275
01:00:52.239 --> 01:00:55.599
really want to mash. Trey McBride has no problem trying
1276
01:00:55.599 --> 01:00:58.000
to block you. He is a willing blocker. His technique
1277
01:00:58.000 --> 01:01:00.079
isn't the cleanest or the prettiest, but he has more
1278
01:01:00.119 --> 01:01:02.719
than willing he will mash against you. And then as
1279
01:01:02.760 --> 01:01:06.119
a receiver, not the cleanest route runner, not a ton
1280
01:01:06.159 --> 01:01:08.440
of dissumption in his stems or a ton of suddenness.
1281
01:01:08.599 --> 01:01:11.960
He's just big and athletic and fluid, and he has
1282
01:01:12.039 --> 01:01:14.639
no problem getting you. Just he will attack the cushion
1283
01:01:15.199 --> 01:01:17.599
of a safety or a linebacker in an instant and
1284
01:01:17.679 --> 01:01:19.559
instead of trying to put a move on you, he's
1285
01:01:19.599 --> 01:01:21.400
just gonna run through your shoulder, like if he's running
1286
01:01:21.400 --> 01:01:23.800
a corner route, there's no suddenness and let me do
1287
01:01:23.840 --> 01:01:26.320
a rocker step and beat him. He's gonna run right
1288
01:01:26.320 --> 01:01:28.440
at your midline and then he's gonna run through your
1289
01:01:28.480 --> 01:01:30.800
outside shoulder and you're not gonna have the strength to
1290
01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:33.199
catch him in catch man or like try and slow
1291
01:01:33.239 --> 01:01:35.400
him down, or he's gonna have the speed to pull
1292
01:01:35.440 --> 01:01:38.199
away from you. Like there's a rep I tweeted against
1293
01:01:38.199 --> 01:01:41.599
the Falcons where he's running away from Grant. They're one
1294
01:01:41.679 --> 01:01:43.920
safety literally on that corner route and he runs through
1295
01:01:43.920 --> 01:01:46.480
the outside shoulder and Grant literally pulls his jersey to
1296
01:01:46.519 --> 01:01:49.000
pull him and it does nothing. McBride just runs through
1297
01:01:49.079 --> 01:01:52.079
and detaches. Like their run game out of twelve and
1298
01:01:52.199 --> 01:01:55.400
thirteen is serious. James Connor is a good running back.
1299
01:01:55.440 --> 01:01:58.400
They have a good run game aside from Kyler Murray.
1300
01:01:58.480 --> 01:02:01.039
Just the run game by itself. But then if you
1301
01:02:01.079 --> 01:02:04.159
start to mix in the RPOs, Kyler becomes really dangerous
1302
01:02:04.159 --> 01:02:07.440
if he can run like instead of just your running counter.
1303
01:02:07.480 --> 01:02:10.440
If they're running like counter read and you're really committing
1304
01:02:10.480 --> 01:02:12.920
because they're getting it, you encounter all of a sudden
1305
01:02:12.960 --> 01:02:15.559
if you crash down too much off that edge, Kyler's
1306
01:02:15.559 --> 01:02:17.960
pulling it and it's an easy seven or eight yards quick.
1307
01:02:18.320 --> 01:02:22.320
Their conversation really starts twelve and thirteen. Their ability to
1308
01:02:22.360 --> 01:02:24.599
run the ball so well out of it. But then
1309
01:02:24.639 --> 01:02:26.920
like you said, pass out of it. And then when
1310
01:02:26.960 --> 01:02:29.760
you add in Marvin Harrison, if you're going single high
1311
01:02:29.800 --> 01:02:31.800
or trying to stack the box because they're running it
1312
01:02:31.840 --> 01:02:34.239
down your throat with twelve and thirteen and it's condensed.
1313
01:02:34.280 --> 01:02:34.559
Cool.
1314
01:02:35.519 --> 01:02:38.320
You got Marvin Harrison is your wide receiver out there.
1315
01:02:38.320 --> 01:02:40.039
And then it's a lot on Benford and Douglas to
1316
01:02:40.079 --> 01:02:41.920
cover in one on one, which is a fun matchup
1317
01:02:42.039 --> 01:02:44.199
because I think very highly of Rasul Douglas end of
1318
01:02:44.280 --> 01:02:47.440
Christian Benford. Again, it's just another fun schematic piece that
1319
01:02:47.559 --> 01:02:49.719
really starts to sell this conversation.
1320
01:02:51.039 --> 01:02:52.199
So of course it's a.
1321
01:02:52.239 --> 01:02:55.559
Very limited sample size, but I'll pull in some stats
1322
01:02:55.599 --> 01:03:00.840
for Kyler Murray on all Design QB runs or non
1323
01:03:00.920 --> 01:03:04.280
scramble QB runs at twelve person n when he came back,
1324
01:03:05.039 --> 01:03:08.480
his broken tackle and miss tackle ray is twenty eight
1325
01:03:08.480 --> 01:03:10.480
point six, which led the NFL.
1326
01:03:10.920 --> 01:03:14.679
That is a that's hard dude to tackle. I think
1327
01:03:14.760 --> 01:03:17.480
what you said about tip Ryman and Trey McBride, they
1328
01:03:17.519 --> 01:03:17.920
are so.
1329
01:03:19.880 --> 01:03:24.000
McBride is an effort blocker. I don't think he is
1330
01:03:24.079 --> 01:03:27.360
a great blocker, but he's gonna give one hundred percent effort. Yes,
1331
01:03:27.400 --> 01:03:31.639
tip Ryman snatch trap a defensive lineman is There's a
1332
01:03:31.679 --> 01:03:34.199
rep of him called uh there's a rep of him
1333
01:03:34.199 --> 01:03:36.119
against the Colts in the preseason this year where he
1334
01:03:36.639 --> 01:03:38.239
snatch traps alignment.
1335
01:03:38.599 --> 01:03:40.960
He's doing his college tape. I was thinking one of
1336
01:03:40.960 --> 01:03:42.679
the reps at Illinois. I forget who they were.
1337
01:03:42.719 --> 01:03:42.960
It was.
1338
01:03:45.039 --> 01:03:46.960
I don't damn like you remember. Yeah, he's pulling out
1339
01:03:46.960 --> 01:03:49.239
snatch traps a tight end. That's what attracted me to him.
1340
01:03:49.280 --> 01:03:51.079
I was like, Oh, this dude can really block. This
1341
01:03:51.199 --> 01:03:51.519
is fun.
1342
01:03:51.920 --> 01:03:54.440
Yeah, I think he is limited as a pass catcher,
1343
01:03:54.519 --> 01:03:58.000
but if you remember Jeff Swain, that's tip Ryman. That
1344
01:03:58.400 --> 01:04:01.639
is a tip Ryman player. He is going to be
1345
01:04:01.760 --> 01:04:04.679
the guy in twelve and thirteen personnel they bring out
1346
01:04:05.159 --> 01:04:08.599
and they want to match people. Another guy that Bills
1347
01:04:08.599 --> 01:04:11.440
fans shouldn't forget about is Elijah Higgins at tight end again,
1348
01:04:11.840 --> 01:04:14.639
former receiver at Stanford, made the transition to tight end
1349
01:04:14.679 --> 01:04:15.039
at the.
1350
01:04:14.960 --> 01:04:17.280
Senior Bowl during the draft process.
1351
01:04:17.440 --> 01:04:20.400
But he is another one of those guys where again
1352
01:04:20.800 --> 01:04:23.360
former receiver playing tight end. You know what he's in
1353
01:04:23.400 --> 01:04:26.480
there for. He's again not a great blocker, but he
1354
01:04:26.599 --> 01:04:31.400
is so good at just the renuanced parts of receiving
1355
01:04:31.480 --> 01:04:34.559
because he's a former receiver. So now you have all
1356
01:04:34.599 --> 01:04:38.920
these versatile, dynamic pieces and now you can truly play
1357
01:04:39.000 --> 01:04:42.480
the matchup game or if the defensive side to stack
1358
01:04:42.519 --> 01:04:45.559
the box, just play io ball with Marvin Harrison Junior
1359
01:04:45.679 --> 01:04:48.599
or Trey McBride and then you let those guys win.
1360
01:04:48.880 --> 01:04:53.199
So the Bills defending twelve personnel is going to be
1361
01:04:53.239 --> 01:04:56.360
the biggest question for me because that is where this
1362
01:04:56.480 --> 01:04:58.039
game is probably going to be won.
1363
01:04:59.039 --> 01:05:00.960
I love that point. Yeah, And I went back and
1364
01:05:00.960 --> 01:05:03.440
forth on like different titles for like labeling it because
1365
01:05:03.440 --> 01:05:05.440
I was like I started out again, I just labeled
1366
01:05:05.440 --> 01:05:06.920
it like, oh, you know, I start with the title first.
1367
01:05:06.960 --> 01:05:08.840
I was like, okay, you know, slowing down there RPO
1368
01:05:08.880 --> 01:05:10.280
and run game, and then as I went through, I'm like,
1369
01:05:11.039 --> 01:05:13.440
it's really just their twelve and thirteen personnel, and like
1370
01:05:13.480 --> 01:05:16.159
how do you stop twelve and thirteen? And you know,
1371
01:05:16.239 --> 01:05:19.800
your point about the second level ties into my last point,
1372
01:05:19.880 --> 01:05:21.880
So I'm keeping that in the holster until I go
1373
01:05:22.000 --> 01:05:24.719
for that. But yeah, it's it's it's such an important part.
1374
01:05:24.760 --> 01:05:27.760
And again it's a really fun piece. Given what the
1375
01:05:27.800 --> 01:05:30.280
Bills look like at the second and third level this
1376
01:05:30.440 --> 01:05:33.599
year and how they fight a team trying to go
1377
01:05:33.840 --> 01:05:36.880
twelve or thirteen, it forces the Bills to have to
1378
01:05:36.920 --> 01:05:39.400
answer some questions that in previous years they already had
1379
01:05:39.400 --> 01:05:41.599
the answers for based on who they had at linebacker
1380
01:05:41.639 --> 01:05:44.239
and who they had at safety. That conversation changed a
1381
01:05:44.239 --> 01:05:45.920
little bit as well. So I think that's a great point,
1382
01:05:46.639 --> 01:05:48.239
and I like, yeah, that's funny that we also that's
1383
01:05:48.280 --> 01:05:50.440
funny that we're kind of in lockstep with our first
1384
01:05:50.480 --> 01:05:51.199
and second points.
1385
01:05:51.559 --> 01:05:54.719
Oh yeah, it's it's something I think the Bills again
1386
01:05:55.000 --> 01:05:58.280
with Matt Milano, they had the answers. Now without Matt Milano,
1387
01:05:58.400 --> 01:06:01.800
I mean, I think Sumershorts Track great site if you
1388
01:06:01.840 --> 01:06:05.400
want to get into daymation tendencies.
1389
01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:09.239
The Bills finished last season twenty.
1390
01:06:08.880 --> 01:06:14.679
Six in EPA per play allowed out on defense against
1391
01:06:14.679 --> 01:06:18.159
twelve personnel. They were great defending the pass out of
1392
01:06:18.199 --> 01:06:22.440
twelve personnel negative point twenty five EPA per pass defended.
1393
01:06:22.679 --> 01:06:24.119
That is second in the NFL.
1394
01:06:24.760 --> 01:06:29.280
EPA per carry point oh one, which is third worst
1395
01:06:29.320 --> 01:06:32.840
in the NFL. Like you, they know what they want
1396
01:06:32.880 --> 01:06:35.079
to do out of that twelve personnel, and I think
1397
01:06:35.159 --> 01:06:38.360
a lot of it is because and this is no
1398
01:06:38.519 --> 01:06:42.679
fault of his own, but Taron Johnson is the forced player.
1399
01:06:43.119 --> 01:06:45.920
He is the most important player in this because he
1400
01:06:46.079 --> 01:06:48.599
is the guy that's going to be the backside player.
1401
01:06:48.679 --> 01:06:51.239
He is the nickel. He is the Buddha Baker, but
1402
01:06:51.280 --> 01:06:52.960
they have Buddha Baker walked up.
1403
01:06:53.400 --> 01:06:57.480
You know, as much as I love how disciplined the
1404
01:06:57.480 --> 01:07:00.639
Bills defense is, it's kind of that thing where if
1405
01:07:00.719 --> 01:07:04.079
you motion Taron Johnson out, you got to got you
1406
01:07:04.159 --> 01:07:08.079
got two linebackers in there that aren't exactly who I
1407
01:07:08.519 --> 01:07:12.360
Terrel Bernard, I'm still we're still wondering about if the
1408
01:07:12.559 --> 01:07:15.599
guys are going to be able to play consistently emotion
1409
01:07:15.880 --> 01:07:18.280
Teraron Johnson back in love Taron Johnson.
1410
01:07:18.559 --> 01:07:22.280
He's one hundred and ninety pounds. You can't. He can't
1411
01:07:22.280 --> 01:07:23.599
consistently take those hits.
1412
01:07:23.639 --> 01:07:26.159
But I say that and Taron Johnson is still one
1413
01:07:26.159 --> 01:07:28.480
of my favorite players to watch on the Bills. So
1414
01:07:29.480 --> 01:07:32.960
defending the run out of twelve personnel is going to
1415
01:07:32.960 --> 01:07:36.679
be really interesting for me to watch Buffalo's defense. And
1416
01:07:36.719 --> 01:07:40.719
I think with as much thirteen personnel as they kind of,
1417
01:07:41.719 --> 01:07:43.960
I don't think they see a lot of it. They
1418
01:07:44.079 --> 01:07:46.000
see a lot of it last year, but.
1419
01:07:46.719 --> 01:07:48.119
Not a lot of teams run it, like not a
1420
01:07:48.119 --> 01:07:50.320
ton of teams are being like, yeah, thirteen personnel is
1421
01:07:50.320 --> 01:07:51.239
one of our things.
1422
01:07:51.559 --> 01:07:54.280
Yeah, we're not throwing this back to two thousand and six.
1423
01:07:54.400 --> 01:07:59.000
But in out of thirteenth personnel, the Bills finished twenty
1424
01:07:59.079 --> 01:07:59.639
third in.
1425
01:07:59.639 --> 01:08:01.039
EPA play overall.
1426
01:08:02.159 --> 01:08:05.760
Again allowed negative point two nine EPA for a past,
1427
01:08:05.840 --> 01:08:06.760
which is great.
1428
01:08:06.639 --> 01:08:10.440
Phenomenal, and zero point one eight epa per run.
1429
01:08:10.719 --> 01:08:16.159
So you're seeing the breakup, you're seeing this flip for
1430
01:08:16.239 --> 01:08:18.680
the Bills defense. They are great against the past in
1431
01:08:18.680 --> 01:08:22.000
those situations, but it gets the run where it's like, Okay,
1432
01:08:22.560 --> 01:08:24.640
now we're starting to get a little more question marks.
1433
01:08:24.680 --> 01:08:29.600
And again, is not having Matt Milana going to be
1434
01:08:29.760 --> 01:08:32.880
a bigger, a big problem as it was last year.
1435
01:08:34.159 --> 01:08:36.399
See yeah, man, So that's well, all right, so I
1436
01:08:36.439 --> 01:08:38.159
know you have your third point. I'm gonna go with
1437
01:08:38.199 --> 01:08:40.640
my third point first because it literally ties into that.
1438
01:08:40.640 --> 01:08:43.119
So well, So my third point, I just label it
1439
01:08:43.199 --> 01:08:46.159
Dorian Williams because that's the linebacker that's stepping in for
1440
01:08:46.239 --> 01:08:48.680
Matt Malonnald. But it ties into just the second level
1441
01:08:48.680 --> 01:08:53.840
play in general. So Dorian Williams athleticism, long arms, physically
1442
01:08:54.279 --> 01:08:56.920
looks the part of a starting linebacker in the NFL,
1443
01:08:56.960 --> 01:08:59.319
and he moves very well. Like you just you look
1444
01:08:59.359 --> 01:09:01.479
at him, You're like, oh, that dou belongs in the NFL.
1445
01:09:01.800 --> 01:09:05.079
But from a coverage and processing standpoint, he still isn't
1446
01:09:05.159 --> 01:09:07.119
there yet, or at the very least he hasn't been
1447
01:09:07.199 --> 01:09:10.039
there yet as of his performance last year or even
1448
01:09:10.039 --> 01:09:13.239
in the preseason this year. Like just coming in, I
1449
01:09:13.319 --> 01:09:15.680
always say, just in case there's a new person watching
1450
01:09:15.680 --> 01:09:16.880
and they're like, what do you mean he's not there.
1451
01:09:17.279 --> 01:09:20.279
Tulane is the college he went to. They basically play
1452
01:09:20.319 --> 01:09:23.319
Madden coverages. It's a spot drop defense. It's just like, hey,
1453
01:09:23.359 --> 01:09:25.520
you're supposed to go to this zone. So on the snap,
1454
01:09:25.560 --> 01:09:28.600
turn go to that space. Look, turner back around, look
1455
01:09:28.640 --> 01:09:30.680
to see if anybody's there, and there's your guy. Like,
1456
01:09:30.720 --> 01:09:33.760
it's not a very pro ready scheme or system. There's
1457
01:09:33.760 --> 01:09:35.880
not a lot of match coverage. It's just very spot
1458
01:09:36.000 --> 01:09:40.319
drop Maden based type of zone stuff, and even some
1459
01:09:40.399 --> 01:09:43.439
of that this preseason, like the depth that he was
1460
01:09:43.439 --> 01:09:46.760
getting to. Or you know, if he's he's the flat
1461
01:09:46.800 --> 01:09:50.399
defender in cover three and sink, it's like third and
1462
01:09:50.800 --> 01:09:53.119
twelve or thirteen, it's in that game against the Bears
1463
01:09:53.520 --> 01:09:56.199
instead of I'm sorry, yeah, it is that game and
1464
01:09:56.359 --> 01:09:58.600
he's the flat defender, but it's like third and thirteen,
1465
01:09:58.680 --> 01:10:02.000
third and fourteen instead of sinking and staying under DJ
1466
01:10:02.159 --> 01:10:05.039
Moore there on the hook technically, because he has the
1467
01:10:05.039 --> 01:10:07.039
flat he sees the running back leagueing out of the
1468
01:10:07.039 --> 01:10:08.760
backfield and he bites to go onto the running back
1469
01:10:08.760 --> 01:10:11.279
and then Caleb Williams hits Dj Moore because there's nobody
1470
01:10:11.279 --> 01:10:13.399
in that spot anymore, and it's just like you don't
1471
01:10:13.439 --> 01:10:15.399
need to come flying up. That's a no cover zone.
1472
01:10:15.439 --> 01:10:17.439
My man leave the running back. If he catches it,
1473
01:10:17.800 --> 01:10:19.720
we rally and tackle and it ends up being fourth
1474
01:10:19.760 --> 01:10:21.840
and four and they pump the ball, so he's still learning.
1475
01:10:21.880 --> 01:10:24.199
From a coverage standpoint, and even from a processing standpoint,
1476
01:10:24.279 --> 01:10:27.640
you can game him up with window dressing and eye candy,
1477
01:10:27.880 --> 01:10:30.319
get him flowing the wrong way, or get him distracted
1478
01:10:30.600 --> 01:10:32.680
and get him to bite where he shouldn't be biting,
1479
01:10:33.000 --> 01:10:36.119
and to kind of continue the conversation. If I'm the
1480
01:10:36.119 --> 01:10:39.199
Cardinals and I know how much success I had last
1481
01:10:39.279 --> 01:10:42.039
year in twelve and thirteen, and I know the Bills
1482
01:10:42.079 --> 01:10:46.800
defense is missing arguably their best player who plays linebacker,
1483
01:10:47.560 --> 01:10:50.479
I am living in two or more tight end sets
1484
01:10:50.479 --> 01:10:53.039
for a significant portion of the game. I am going
1485
01:10:53.079 --> 01:10:55.279
to force Dorian Williams to have to account for the
1486
01:10:55.319 --> 01:10:57.920
run in the past. I'm going to run concepts that
1487
01:10:58.039 --> 01:11:02.199
already worked for US counter and split zone and duo,
1488
01:11:02.520 --> 01:11:05.840
but then also try and manipulate him in the run.
1489
01:11:05.960 --> 01:11:07.880
I'm also going to tie in RPOs. I'm going to
1490
01:11:07.920 --> 01:11:10.199
put in play action. I'm going to run duo and
1491
01:11:10.239 --> 01:11:12.159
see how gaps sound he is. I'm going to do
1492
01:11:12.239 --> 01:11:15.560
everything I can to mislead him to get him thinking
1493
01:11:15.760 --> 01:11:18.560
and trying to process and taking the bait. And it
1494
01:11:18.600 --> 01:11:21.199
also ties into some of the questions I have as
1495
01:11:21.199 --> 01:11:23.760
far as like what resources do they have to allocate
1496
01:11:23.800 --> 01:11:27.439
to cover Trey McBride because on paper, I like him
1497
01:11:27.560 --> 01:11:30.159
versus anyone they have at safety from a size and
1498
01:11:30.199 --> 01:11:35.560
athleticism standpoint, I'm okay with Mike Edwards against him, even
1499
01:11:35.600 --> 01:11:38.000
if Cole Bishop plays. We literally have no idea what
1500
01:11:38.000 --> 01:11:39.720
Cole Bishop's going to look like in the NFL because
1501
01:11:39.760 --> 01:11:42.359
it's his first NFL game experience, He's been hurt all preseason,
1502
01:11:42.439 --> 01:11:45.079
hasn't played it down. And then at that second level,
1503
01:11:45.079 --> 01:11:48.720
like you talked about, you have Bernard, you have Taron Johnson,
1504
01:11:49.039 --> 01:11:52.119
You've got Dorian Williams. I think Bernard and Taron Johnson
1505
01:11:52.199 --> 01:11:55.119
both present a battle in terms of that matchup against
1506
01:11:55.319 --> 01:11:58.600
Trey McBride. But what happens if Dorrian Williams has to
1507
01:11:58.600 --> 01:12:01.840
go up against McBride, if Arizona tries to isolate McBride
1508
01:12:01.880 --> 01:12:04.880
on Williams, or even against James Connor or Trey Benson
1509
01:12:04.880 --> 01:12:07.800
coming out of the backfield in the past, but more
1510
01:12:07.840 --> 01:12:09.960
so like if the Bills are forced to account for
1511
01:12:10.079 --> 01:12:13.840
McBride by having a match with Taron Johnson or Terrell Bernard,
1512
01:12:13.840 --> 01:12:15.920
which is still a hard matchup because Trey McBride is
1513
01:12:15.920 --> 01:12:20.039
phenomenal and has size and athleticism, then things to start
1514
01:12:19.760 --> 01:12:22.760
to start to get muddy schematically, as far as alignment,
1515
01:12:22.920 --> 01:12:25.479
as far as run fits, as far as tells, and
1516
01:12:25.520 --> 01:12:28.560
then all the vulnerabilities that then stem from that because
1517
01:12:28.560 --> 01:12:31.000
you're forced to kind of play your hand a little bit.
1518
01:12:31.560 --> 01:12:34.760
And I just think that second level is so important
1519
01:12:34.760 --> 01:12:38.119
in this game. Also because, like you mentioned of Taron Johnson,
1520
01:12:38.840 --> 01:12:41.119
I love Terran. I think he's been arguably like the
1521
01:12:41.159 --> 01:12:43.479
most important player on the Bills defense the past couple
1522
01:12:43.520 --> 01:12:46.760
of years with how the league has been, because how
1523
01:12:46.800 --> 01:12:48.920
good he is in coverage in man an zone like
1524
01:12:48.960 --> 01:12:50.960
and if anybody doesn't believe it, watch him cover Ceed
1525
01:12:51.159 --> 01:12:53.119
Lamb one on one against Dallas last year and lock
1526
01:12:53.199 --> 01:12:55.560
him up for a heavy majority of that game. But
1527
01:12:55.640 --> 01:12:57.840
then he played like he's one hundred ninety pounds, like
1528
01:12:57.920 --> 01:13:00.119
he said, But he plays linebacker like he thinks he's
1529
01:13:00.159 --> 01:13:02.560
Levon Kirkland from like the Steelers in the nineties, Like
1530
01:13:02.600 --> 01:13:05.840
he thinks he's like six to two hundred and eighty pounds.
1531
01:13:06.119 --> 01:13:09.880
And that's how he plays linebacker, and he come he
1532
01:13:09.920 --> 01:13:12.079
has He plays a reckless abandon like he will take
1533
01:13:12.119 --> 01:13:15.159
on a pulling guard. He has no problem fitting the run.
1534
01:13:15.479 --> 01:13:17.600
But there's a certain point where that size is just
1535
01:13:17.680 --> 01:13:21.479
too much. And again going up like I love tarn,
1536
01:13:21.920 --> 01:13:23.680
but that's a hard matchup, going like, say he has
1537
01:13:23.720 --> 01:13:26.119
to go up against Tim Raymond. Raymond's like six five,
1538
01:13:26.159 --> 01:13:28.640
two hundred and seventy eight pounds or two hundred seventy one.
1539
01:13:28.800 --> 01:13:31.880
That's huge. That's a big mismatch from a size and
1540
01:13:31.920 --> 01:13:34.880
frame standpoint, that forces you to have to win with
1541
01:13:35.039 --> 01:13:37.439
like quickness and trying to dip and bend around. But
1542
01:13:37.479 --> 01:13:39.479
then that also potentially opens up a gap and then
1543
01:13:39.520 --> 01:13:42.720
is somebody replacing you in that fit before you can
1544
01:13:42.800 --> 01:13:44.600
kind of are you taking a risk? Are you moving
1545
01:13:44.600 --> 01:13:47.039
out of your gap too much? It just adds a
1546
01:13:47.039 --> 01:13:50.600
lot schematically, and then say you're like, okay, you know
1547
01:13:50.640 --> 01:13:53.560
what They're going a lot of twelve and thirteen this game.
1548
01:13:54.239 --> 01:13:56.960
Let's go base, right, Let's put three linebackers on the field.
1549
01:13:57.359 --> 01:14:00.000
You're already down to your third linebacker and Dorrian Willie.
1550
01:14:00.319 --> 01:14:02.439
So are you taking Taron Johnson off the field to
1551
01:14:02.479 --> 01:14:07.319
put on Nicholas Moreau? Are you putting on Balen Spector
1552
01:14:07.319 --> 01:14:09.560
if he's healthy. Are you putting on Joe Andreeson who
1553
01:14:09.560 --> 01:14:12.479
lit it up in the preseason like, none of those options,
1554
01:14:13.119 --> 01:14:15.600
even though they're bigger bodies than they play linebacker, none
1555
01:14:15.600 --> 01:14:17.920
of those dudes are really a better option than Taron Johnson.
1556
01:14:17.920 --> 01:14:20.960
You don't have a traditional big safety because you've already
1557
01:14:20.960 --> 01:14:22.720
got wrapped on the field. And then if there's Edwards,
1558
01:14:22.720 --> 01:14:25.359
maybe do you go with Cole Bishop like or Hamlin
1559
01:14:25.359 --> 01:14:27.199
if he's healthy. The safety room is money with injuries
1560
01:14:27.239 --> 01:14:29.560
in general, but from a skill perspective that doesn't really
1561
01:14:29.600 --> 01:14:33.000
like work. I think the second level point out by
1562
01:14:33.039 --> 01:14:35.800
you was such a good call out because of how
1563
01:14:35.800 --> 01:14:37.880
it ties into how the Cardinals want to attack you,
1564
01:14:38.079 --> 01:14:40.479
what the Cardinals want to do, and then again for me,
1565
01:14:40.560 --> 01:14:44.479
it ties into just yeah, that Dorny and Williams aspect
1566
01:14:44.560 --> 01:14:47.279
like it. I fear the Cardinals being able to run
1567
01:14:47.279 --> 01:14:48.800
the ball a little bit and then just go and
1568
01:14:48.800 --> 01:14:51.399
play action once and Dorny Williams getting sucked in and
1569
01:14:51.439 --> 01:14:53.600
Trey McBride's open over the middle of the field for
1570
01:14:53.640 --> 01:14:55.840
like twenty five yards because there's only so much And
1571
01:14:55.880 --> 01:14:57.520
I know some people in the chat when we talked
1572
01:14:57.520 --> 01:15:01.079
about it earlier, Bills fans are extreme high on trel Bernard.
1573
01:15:01.119 --> 01:15:02.960
They think he should have been an All Pro linebacker
1574
01:15:03.039 --> 01:15:05.399
last year. They don't care about the one year sample size.
1575
01:15:05.439 --> 01:15:08.039
Bernard is like a godsend and I think he did
1576
01:15:08.039 --> 01:15:12.000
play very well, but there's only so much he can do.
1577
01:15:12.840 --> 01:15:14.920
This isn't like, oh well, we don't have to worry
1578
01:15:14.960 --> 01:15:18.039
about McBride like Bernard has them or even Taron Johnson
1579
01:15:18.039 --> 01:15:20.239
has them. You can find a way to get Dorriyan
1580
01:15:20.279 --> 01:15:22.880
Williams on Trey McBride if you are the Cardinals, and
1581
01:15:22.920 --> 01:15:25.159
even if you like don't, there are other ways where
1582
01:15:25.159 --> 01:15:27.760
you can be attacked in that central part of the field.
1583
01:15:27.800 --> 01:15:31.640
And it's so important, especially against the team that wants
1584
01:15:31.680 --> 01:15:33.960
to live in the run and the past with heavier
1585
01:15:33.960 --> 01:15:37.039
personnel groupings that naturally put you into a bune. So
1586
01:15:37.079 --> 01:15:38.640
that's why I wanted to lead off with my third
1587
01:15:38.680 --> 01:15:40.560
point because it just ties right in. I'm just focused
1588
01:15:40.600 --> 01:15:43.039
on Dorry and Williams and how much of a how
1589
01:15:43.079 --> 01:15:45.520
much of a factor is he positively or negatively in
1590
01:15:45.600 --> 01:15:48.800
this game because he plays up the snuff and mitigates
1591
01:15:48.840 --> 01:15:52.640
Malonald's absence, or because he continues to be a vulnerability
1592
01:15:52.640 --> 01:15:56.119
as far as processing I manipulation, and then even some
1593
01:15:56.159 --> 01:15:58.119
of his run fits stuff because even too right like,
1594
01:15:58.279 --> 01:16:01.640
if he is that will linebacker, you're still important on Duo.
1595
01:16:01.840 --> 01:16:04.399
I know Duo was reading that front side middle linebacker.
1596
01:16:04.479 --> 01:16:06.239
Your fit still has to be key off the back
1597
01:16:06.319 --> 01:16:09.000
end because if there's too much displacement, running backs will
1598
01:16:09.000 --> 01:16:11.159
cut it back through that B gap that you are
1599
01:16:11.199 --> 01:16:13.880
not in or through that backside if you don't fit properly.
1600
01:16:13.960 --> 01:16:15.720
So I just think a lot of it's going to
1601
01:16:15.760 --> 01:16:17.319
come down to that point. So that's kind of why
1602
01:16:17.319 --> 01:16:17.960
I want to decide it.
1603
01:16:18.720 --> 01:16:22.880
I wonder how Bobby Babbach is going to insulate Dorian
1604
01:16:22.920 --> 01:16:24.319
Williams throughout this game.
1605
01:16:24.479 --> 01:16:25.319
Ah, He's going to.
1606
01:16:25.840 --> 01:16:29.000
Add layers to that defense in order to kind of
1607
01:16:29.039 --> 01:16:33.640
protect him not only from missteps and coverage, but missteps
1608
01:16:33.640 --> 01:16:35.800
and fitting the run. You know, we talked about it
1609
01:16:35.840 --> 01:16:39.079
with the Cardinals three safety defense. They're able to insulate
1610
01:16:39.279 --> 01:16:41.439
a guy like Kazira White, who is a bit more
1611
01:16:42.000 --> 01:16:44.000
of a run and chase guy than a true mic.
1612
01:16:44.760 --> 01:16:47.720
You're able to insulate him by having Buddha Baker on
1613
01:16:47.760 --> 01:16:51.479
the backside. If he overruns it, he's right there waiting
1614
01:16:51.520 --> 01:16:51.960
for the ball.
1615
01:16:52.000 --> 01:16:54.760
And if Kaysier is wrong, Buddha makes him right and
1616
01:16:54.800 --> 01:16:55.319
it just fits.
1617
01:16:55.880 --> 01:16:57.640
Yeah, you have a guy that makes him right.
1618
01:16:57.720 --> 01:16:59.800
So I wonder if this is going to be a
1619
01:16:59.800 --> 01:17:03.279
game where maybe you spin a safety down next to
1620
01:17:03.720 --> 01:17:06.920
Dorian Williams to kind of help insulate him against the run,
1621
01:17:07.039 --> 01:17:10.239
especially out of twelve to thirteen personnel.
1622
01:17:10.479 --> 01:17:12.159
And I know that they want to pass.
1623
01:17:11.920 --> 01:17:14.600
It out of I know the Cardinals in twelve personnel
1624
01:17:14.880 --> 01:17:16.520
through the ball like fift three percent of the time.
1625
01:17:16.600 --> 01:17:18.640
But you want to try and help him out a
1626
01:17:18.680 --> 01:17:21.640
little bit against the run because if you don't want
1627
01:17:21.720 --> 01:17:24.880
him to overstep, you don't want him to overthink. It's
1628
01:17:24.920 --> 01:17:27.399
going to come up in my next point, my final
1629
01:17:27.399 --> 01:17:30.119
point for this game, but you don't want to make
1630
01:17:30.279 --> 01:17:35.239
oversteps or missteps against this Cardinals team. So I wonder
1631
01:17:35.319 --> 01:17:39.920
how Babbage is going to insulate Williams in this game
1632
01:17:40.000 --> 01:17:42.520
and how much he's going to spin a safety down
1633
01:17:42.880 --> 01:17:44.680
in order to kind of help him out a little bit.
1634
01:17:45.159 --> 01:17:46.640
I think it's a good point too, like cause that,
1635
01:17:47.000 --> 01:17:49.279
like my last little point with it was just like, yeah,
1636
01:17:49.319 --> 01:17:52.720
how much how much single coverage do we see in
1637
01:17:52.760 --> 01:17:55.680
this game, both from like a not even necessarily from
1638
01:17:55.680 --> 01:17:57.399
like a pre snap look, but just from like a
1639
01:17:57.439 --> 01:18:00.800
post snap like actual like cover, like when we're looking
1640
01:18:00.840 --> 01:18:02.600
back at forget about even though it's the name of
1641
01:18:02.600 --> 01:18:05.399
the show, forget about the disguise coverage and like everything
1642
01:18:05.399 --> 01:18:08.119
they're doing pre to post when it comes down to it,
1643
01:18:08.199 --> 01:18:10.640
like what coverages were they playing in this game? How
1644
01:18:10.720 --> 01:18:12.399
much cover two do they play? How much cover four
1645
01:18:12.439 --> 01:18:15.039
did they play? How much one? How much three? Like
1646
01:18:15.079 --> 01:18:17.199
how much are they spinning? Exactly to your point, because
1647
01:18:17.239 --> 01:18:21.399
they one want to help insulate Dornian or even just
1648
01:18:21.439 --> 01:18:26.439
two and they fit the run against this Cardinals team,
1649
01:18:26.520 --> 01:18:28.720
especially when they go twelve and thirteen. Can they fit
1650
01:18:28.840 --> 01:18:31.920
that run while maintaining a too high shelf or two
1651
01:18:31.960 --> 01:18:34.760
high coverage structures? Like how comfortable are they? And in
1652
01:18:34.840 --> 01:18:39.039
years past, even if their front seven was getting gouged
1653
01:18:39.039 --> 01:18:41.760
a little bit, you just had the utmost confidence in
1654
01:18:41.800 --> 01:18:44.119
Mike Hyde and Jordan poy are fitting the run from depth,
1655
01:18:44.119 --> 01:18:46.159
Like you could get gouged and they would just come
1656
01:18:46.199 --> 01:18:48.520
flying down. It could be quarters and they could come
1657
01:18:48.560 --> 01:18:50.600
flying down and it'd be second and seven or second
1658
01:18:50.640 --> 01:18:52.960
and six because they fit wrapped it up in a
1659
01:18:53.000 --> 01:18:54.680
nice little boon and you're good to go a little
1660
01:18:54.680 --> 01:18:56.720
bit different last year with you know, I think some
1661
01:18:56.840 --> 01:18:58.279
both of them showed kind of the miles on the
1662
01:18:58.680 --> 01:19:01.239
tires a little bit. But do you feel that same
1663
01:19:01.279 --> 01:19:03.039
way about Taylor Rap, Do you feel that same way
1664
01:19:03.039 --> 01:19:05.159
about Mike Edwards? Are you ready to feel that way
1665
01:19:05.199 --> 01:19:08.760
about Cole Bishop? Like there's questions in that safety room
1666
01:19:09.159 --> 01:19:12.319
which also tie into the questions with Dorian Williams, which
1667
01:19:12.359 --> 01:19:15.319
then tie into the coverage structures you're playing. And like
1668
01:19:15.399 --> 01:19:18.000
you know, and I hope everybody watching the show notes,
1669
01:19:18.000 --> 01:19:20.159
because I say it all the time, the coverages that
1670
01:19:20.239 --> 01:19:23.000
you play are dependent upon how you fit the run,
1671
01:19:23.079 --> 01:19:25.920
because you can't play certain coverages if you can't fit
1672
01:19:25.960 --> 01:19:28.199
the run with certain fronts that you have. If you
1673
01:19:28.239 --> 01:19:30.600
are not comfortable fitting with your front seven, guess what,
1674
01:19:30.960 --> 01:19:32.600
you can't run a ton of quarters in a ton
1675
01:19:32.600 --> 01:19:34.640
of cover two because you need a safety down in
1676
01:19:34.680 --> 01:19:37.720
that box. And I'm not talking about showing a two
1677
01:19:37.840 --> 01:19:41.000
high look pre snap and rotating to single high posts.
1678
01:19:41.039 --> 01:19:42.880
I'm not saying that. I'm talking about what coverage is
1679
01:19:42.920 --> 01:19:45.239
you actually playing, because if you have to commit a
1680
01:19:45.279 --> 01:19:47.880
safety to the box, either pre or post snap, that
1681
01:19:47.920 --> 01:19:50.039
means you're living in a cover three cover one world.
1682
01:19:50.399 --> 01:19:53.000
That also pairs well if an offense wants to run
1683
01:19:53.039 --> 01:19:55.279
play action and throw some overs at you or attack
1684
01:19:55.319 --> 01:19:59.039
the seams with their really athletic tight end. That works
1685
01:19:59.079 --> 01:20:01.039
a little bit. I don't know if anybody knows. This
1686
01:20:01.079 --> 01:20:03.840
works a little bit against Cover three especially and even
1687
01:20:03.840 --> 01:20:05.880
Cover one depending if you have a you know, year
1688
01:20:05.960 --> 01:20:09.239
two linebacker who gets manipulated at times. It just it
1689
01:20:09.359 --> 01:20:12.199
opens them up, like from a vulnerability standpoint. I think
1690
01:20:12.239 --> 01:20:16.039
that's where if the Cardinals get it working, it's because
1691
01:20:16.039 --> 01:20:18.159
they're able to run the ball out of twelve and thirteen,
1692
01:20:18.199 --> 01:20:21.000
and then they're able to pass it. Because the Bills
1693
01:20:21.039 --> 01:20:24.000
are not able to match without walking a safety down
1694
01:20:24.039 --> 01:20:26.840
and committing more. And then they're opening themselves up between
1695
01:20:27.239 --> 01:20:29.960
the second and third level and guys are getting gouged
1696
01:20:30.079 --> 01:20:31.439
from that standpoint.
1697
01:20:31.640 --> 01:20:34.560
And not only is that a problem where you know
1698
01:20:34.600 --> 01:20:37.880
you have to spend safety down, but again, if you
1699
01:20:37.920 --> 01:20:38.920
spind a safety down.
1700
01:20:38.800 --> 01:20:39.279
They throw it.
1701
01:20:39.359 --> 01:20:43.680
You are leaving those corners isolated in one on one situations. Again,
1702
01:20:43.760 --> 01:20:45.880
I understand that he is a rookie and has not
1703
01:20:45.960 --> 01:20:50.239
played a single meaningful down of NFL football, but I
1704
01:20:50.279 --> 01:20:53.279
do not want to leave Marvin Harrison junior isolated situation.
1705
01:20:53.399 --> 01:20:56.840
Yeah, and I like, I loved I think Douglas and
1706
01:20:56.880 --> 01:21:00.760
Benford are very underrated corner tandement in the NFL, mainly
1707
01:21:00.760 --> 01:21:02.159
because of Benford. I don't think a lot of people
1708
01:21:02.239 --> 01:21:04.319
nationally like appreciate how good he is or what he
1709
01:21:04.359 --> 01:21:06.239
can do. And so I say this as a person
1710
01:21:06.239 --> 01:21:08.880
who's very confident in both of them. Yeah, no, he's
1711
01:21:08.880 --> 01:21:10.680
a rookie. That's a big test. Like I don't know
1712
01:21:10.680 --> 01:21:13.199
if I want to one on one cover him with like anybody, like,
1713
01:21:13.239 --> 01:21:16.880
it's just let alone. I should say consistently, like I
1714
01:21:16.880 --> 01:21:18.840
don't want to be in a world where I'm consistently
1715
01:21:18.920 --> 01:21:21.119
running single coverage of that side. And even if it
1716
01:21:21.159 --> 01:21:23.560
is zone if somebody wants to say, like yeah, but
1717
01:21:23.640 --> 01:21:26.000
you can run zone or you can run in still,
1718
01:21:26.079 --> 01:21:28.479
if you're in cover three, you're in the deep third.
1719
01:21:28.560 --> 01:21:30.640
And if he's that single receiver to that side, it's
1720
01:21:30.760 --> 01:21:33.800
essentially like isolated coverage, like you're by yourself on an island.
1721
01:21:33.920 --> 01:21:35.680
It might not be it might be a different technique
1722
01:21:35.760 --> 01:21:37.560
or you know how you're bailing or what you're doing
1723
01:21:38.039 --> 01:21:40.600
from a foot nine and shoulder standpoint, but it's essentially
1724
01:21:40.640 --> 01:21:44.119
an isolated situation. And yeah it's man, it just you.
1725
01:21:44.319 --> 01:21:47.239
It starts to open up, so many questions based on
1726
01:21:47.279 --> 01:21:50.119
how the Cardinals operate and how the Bill's defense is built,
1727
01:21:50.399 --> 01:21:54.479
the questions that the Bills defense has. The Cardinals offense
1728
01:21:54.560 --> 01:22:00.880
has the capability to really the questions that the Bills have,
1729
01:22:01.359 --> 01:22:04.640
the questions that the Bill's defense has to answer. The
1730
01:22:04.680 --> 01:22:07.439
Cardinals really how how they're built. Their offense has the
1731
01:22:07.479 --> 01:22:09.840
capability to just really kick that door down and make
1732
01:22:09.880 --> 01:22:12.119
them have to answer it, like right away, Like, Hey,
1733
01:22:12.159 --> 01:22:14.199
are you confident in your two new safeties? Hey, are
1734
01:22:14.199 --> 01:22:16.800
you confident in the guy that's re placing Dorian Williams? Hey,
1735
01:22:16.800 --> 01:22:18.760
do you guys have answers for when teams want to
1736
01:22:18.800 --> 01:22:21.279
go heavier against you like the Chiefs did at times,
1737
01:22:21.359 --> 01:22:23.680
you know, the past couple of years. Okay, you have
1738
01:22:23.760 --> 01:22:25.600
those answers. Cool, because we're gonna make you have to
1739
01:22:25.640 --> 01:22:27.279
have those answers right away out of the gate in
1740
01:22:27.319 --> 01:22:29.439
Week one because that's how we play football. And it's
1741
01:22:29.560 --> 01:22:32.439
just again that's from a fan perspective, it might be like,
1742
01:22:32.479 --> 01:22:34.840
oh no, but from a schematic conversation, it's like, man,
1743
01:22:34.880 --> 01:22:37.199
this is really fun, Like it's just a good it's
1744
01:22:37.239 --> 01:22:39.640
just a good matchup. Yeah, I like that a lot.
1745
01:22:39.680 --> 01:22:41.479
All Right, your third point unless you have if you
1746
01:22:41.520 --> 01:22:42.760
have something else you want to add on to that.
1747
01:22:43.239 --> 01:22:46.119
So this is my third point, and I'm gonna sound
1748
01:22:46.119 --> 01:22:48.880
like a boomer and this is my most old man take.
1749
01:22:49.399 --> 01:22:54.119
It is one word tackling, tackling and off art form
1750
01:22:54.479 --> 01:22:57.279
in football, because everybody wants to go for a big hit,
1751
01:22:57.640 --> 01:22:59.880
everybody wants to go for the highlight reel, everybody wants
1752
01:22:59.920 --> 01:23:02.840
to make TikTok, and all of a sudden you get
1753
01:23:02.840 --> 01:23:04.720
thrown off and you end up on somebody.
1754
01:23:04.439 --> 01:23:07.479
Else, especially especially because you said, like I know how
1755
01:23:07.479 --> 01:23:09.560
you met it by supposely because you said the TikTok
1756
01:23:09.680 --> 01:23:11.760
it was such a good boober piece. Like everybody wants
1757
01:23:11.840 --> 01:23:13.680
to be on the Instagram and the TikTok.
1758
01:23:14.760 --> 01:23:17.119
Everybody wants to be on. Wants to be on TikTok.
1759
01:23:17.199 --> 01:23:19.560
Everybody wants to be on the little reels that get
1760
01:23:19.600 --> 01:23:23.640
posted on Twitter and get thousands of views. You end
1761
01:23:23.720 --> 01:23:25.520
up not not wrapping up and bringing your feet. You
1762
01:23:25.520 --> 01:23:28.279
gonna end up on somebody else's highlight reading. You will
1763
01:23:28.359 --> 01:23:31.520
end up on their tape. The reason I bring this
1764
01:23:31.720 --> 01:23:35.680
up is because the Cardinals are an incredibly difficult team
1765
01:23:35.760 --> 01:23:39.439
to tackle. You brought up James Connor among all running
1766
01:23:39.439 --> 01:23:42.199
backs with at least fifty carries. Last season, James Connor
1767
01:23:42.239 --> 01:23:44.920
was tied for first and yards after contact for attempt
1768
01:23:45.159 --> 01:23:47.600
he was fit in the NFL and broken tackle slash
1769
01:23:47.600 --> 01:23:52.399
mistackle ring he you better bring your hard hat trying
1770
01:23:52.399 --> 01:23:55.079
to tackle him. And then behind him is Trey Benson,
1771
01:23:55.199 --> 01:23:59.279
who at Florida State would run through so many arm tackles.
1772
01:23:59.279 --> 01:24:02.399
And it's again why the second level is so important.
1773
01:24:02.439 --> 01:24:07.000
And these young guys again, you're gonna you're gonna have
1774
01:24:07.000 --> 01:24:08.960
to tackle, You're gonna have to get hit, You're gonna
1775
01:24:08.960 --> 01:24:11.560
have to make those plays against these dudes in space.
1776
01:24:11.800 --> 01:24:14.319
We talked about Trey McBride fifth and yards after the
1777
01:24:14.359 --> 01:24:17.640
catch total in the NFL. We talked about Kyler Murray
1778
01:24:17.920 --> 01:24:20.960
and his ability to make guys miss. He is not
1779
01:24:21.079 --> 01:24:23.600
the biggest guy, but he is fast and he is quick.
1780
01:24:23.880 --> 01:24:26.520
He is going to make guys miss. Tackling is gonna
1781
01:24:26.520 --> 01:24:28.560
be such an important part of this game, not only
1782
01:24:28.600 --> 01:24:31.039
for the Bill's defense, for the Bills offense.
1783
01:24:31.159 --> 01:24:34.000
Like I said earlier, we're talking about the Cardinals defense.
1784
01:24:34.439 --> 01:24:37.119
They allow the They allow the second most yards at
1785
01:24:37.119 --> 01:24:39.920
the second level of any team in the NFL. Last
1786
01:24:40.000 --> 01:24:42.840
year do you if you can make them miss tackles
1787
01:24:43.359 --> 01:24:45.800
in the second level of course, to get past the
1788
01:24:45.840 --> 01:24:48.880
safety group, which is their best position group. But you
1789
01:24:48.920 --> 01:24:51.199
know it is going to Tackling is going to be
1790
01:24:51.199 --> 01:24:53.760
the biggest issue, especially it is the first game of
1791
01:24:53.800 --> 01:24:56.560
the season, like Jason said, it is the first game
1792
01:24:56.600 --> 01:24:59.520
of the season. First two weeks, you're you're getting back
1793
01:24:59.520 --> 01:25:02.880
in the foot ball like. It is a lot different
1794
01:25:03.039 --> 01:25:05.960
tackling somebody with a different helmet on, like.
1795
01:25:06.079 --> 01:25:08.760
You're not wearing the same helmet, same jersey.
1796
01:25:08.680 --> 01:25:11.199
Especially with how like training camp practices are different now
1797
01:25:11.199 --> 01:25:13.159
and you don't have as many padded practices and there's
1798
01:25:13.199 --> 01:25:15.239
not a lot of contact, let alone like live hitting
1799
01:25:15.239 --> 01:25:17.479
and live tackling. It again, I'm gonna sound like a boomer,
1800
01:25:17.520 --> 01:25:20.079
but it's like, you know, back in my day, we
1801
01:25:20.119 --> 01:25:22.239
had two a days and everybody hit everybody and you
1802
01:25:22.279 --> 01:25:23.720
knew how to tack them. Though it's like it's not
1803
01:25:23.880 --> 01:25:24.600
like that anymore.
1804
01:25:25.439 --> 01:25:28.680
Like it, Tackling is going to be the biggest aspect
1805
01:25:28.800 --> 01:25:32.439
for the Bills outside of the true schematics of the game,
1806
01:25:32.960 --> 01:25:36.479
because if you cannot tackle these guys, they will.
1807
01:25:36.279 --> 01:25:40.640
Turn a three yard game into a ten yard play.
1808
01:25:41.199 --> 01:25:44.279
Like you you better bring everything with.
1809
01:25:44.199 --> 01:25:46.680
You when you try and tackle James Connor because he
1810
01:25:46.760 --> 01:25:48.159
will run you over.
1811
01:25:49.079 --> 01:25:51.760
He takes pride like that's like a prideful thing for him,
1812
01:25:51.840 --> 01:25:55.000
like he he wants to go through you, and you
1813
01:25:55.000 --> 01:25:56.560
know what's a cool thing too, And like watching some
1814
01:25:56.560 --> 01:25:58.960
of the Cardinals tape, like there's one that sticks in
1815
01:25:58.960 --> 01:26:00.960
my head, like he I think it's like a fourth
1816
01:26:01.000 --> 01:26:05.239
and two and he gets it, but Jesse Bates like
1817
01:26:05.600 --> 01:26:08.199
pops him, and Connor gets like three or four yards
1818
01:26:08.199 --> 01:26:11.239
but Baits like pops him and drops him, and Connor
1819
01:26:11.239 --> 01:26:12.840
just gives him a nice pet like yo, man, I
1820
01:26:12.880 --> 01:26:15.720
could hit. And then like two plays later, Connor runs through.
1821
01:26:15.800 --> 01:26:20.720
He said, I think it's a mid zone run or no,
1822
01:26:20.760 --> 01:26:23.119
it's just yeah, inside zone readoption. But he cuts it
1823
01:26:23.159 --> 01:26:27.800
back and so the defensive end stood like stayed with Kyler,
1824
01:26:27.840 --> 01:26:30.119
So Kyler handed it off to Connor. Connor cuts it
1825
01:26:30.159 --> 01:26:33.159
back to that side, so the defensive end chases him
1826
01:26:33.159 --> 01:26:35.359
and Connor like stiff arms him to the ground and
1827
01:26:35.359 --> 01:26:36.960
a grant of the Falcons aren't the best defense from
1828
01:26:37.000 --> 01:26:39.119
an individual town standpoint, but he stiff arms the defensive
1829
01:26:39.199 --> 01:26:43.600
end of the ground, runs through the linebacker, runs through
1830
01:26:44.399 --> 01:26:47.760
runs through the slot corner, and then Bates comes down
1831
01:26:47.800 --> 01:26:51.399
and Jesse Bates is phenomenal. Baits gets like on his
1832
01:26:51.600 --> 01:26:54.079
back and Connor carries him for a couple more yards,
1833
01:26:54.119 --> 01:26:55.920
and then two dudes have to come and hit Connor
1834
01:26:55.960 --> 01:26:57.600
and put him to the ground. Like and you know
1835
01:26:57.680 --> 01:26:59.760
you talked about the stats, I talked about him as well,
1836
01:26:59.800 --> 01:27:03.159
Like both recite basically the same thing. Like he he
1837
01:27:03.239 --> 01:27:06.840
made more plays as a receiver last year than I
1838
01:27:07.000 --> 01:27:11.079
was ready to kind of receive or understand. But a
1839
01:27:11.119 --> 01:27:13.359
lot of James Connor succeeding is what James Connor has
1840
01:27:13.399 --> 01:27:15.520
been at Pitt and with the Steelers. Like he's a
1841
01:27:15.560 --> 01:27:18.079
tough especially when he's healthy. He's a tough dude to
1842
01:27:18.119 --> 01:27:20.840
bring down. And he might not always be healthy in
1843
01:27:20.840 --> 01:27:23.039
week ten or eleven or twelve, but he's healthy right
1844
01:27:23.079 --> 01:27:25.119
now in week one, and he's fresh right now in
1845
01:27:25.159 --> 01:27:27.560
week one. And the Bills have been a team. You know,
1846
01:27:27.760 --> 01:27:30.319
this comment from RJ is saying, quote Cardinals are difficult
1847
01:27:30.359 --> 01:27:33.159
to tackle. Oh my god, we're losing this game, like
1848
01:27:33.239 --> 01:27:36.039
a common theme for the Bills the past couple of years.
1849
01:27:36.399 --> 01:27:37.880
Last year, I mean last year alone, they had the
1850
01:27:37.920 --> 01:27:41.399
tenth highest rate in terms of broken tackle and mistackle
1851
01:27:41.520 --> 01:27:44.399
versus the run. That doesn't even account like for the
1852
01:27:44.399 --> 01:27:46.439
mistackles they have when guys get the ball as like
1853
01:27:46.439 --> 01:27:49.439
a pass catcher. The Bills haven't been like a tremendous
1854
01:27:49.439 --> 01:27:52.479
tackling team. They're a very aggressive team, even just from
1855
01:27:52.479 --> 01:27:55.279
the front, one gap penetrating front. They fly around, they
1856
01:27:55.279 --> 01:27:57.319
get a lot of hats to the football, they swarm,
1857
01:27:57.920 --> 01:28:00.760
but from like an efficiency standpoint, they're on a tremendous
1858
01:28:00.760 --> 01:28:03.119
tackling team. And JP to your point, like that, I
1859
01:28:03.119 --> 01:28:05.479
think that's symptomatic of the league in general now, Like
1860
01:28:05.520 --> 01:28:07.960
tackling is kind of a lost art form in the
1861
01:28:08.079 --> 01:28:11.720
NFL for a multitude of reasons. But the Bills especially, yeah,
1862
01:28:11.840 --> 01:28:13.760
kind of our microcosm of that, Like they're not a
1863
01:28:13.760 --> 01:28:18.279
good tackling team. And yeah, like James Connor is a
1864
01:28:18.279 --> 01:28:20.960
tough dude to tackle. Trey McBride is a tough dude
1865
01:28:21.000 --> 01:28:22.880
to tackle once he gets the ball in his hands.
1866
01:28:22.960 --> 01:28:26.159
Like even Michael Wilson doesn't go down easy. Michael Wilson
1867
01:28:26.159 --> 01:28:29.199
won't break tackles or shake you. Greg Doors as fast
1868
01:28:29.199 --> 01:28:31.680
as hell, like you talked about Kyler Murray, Like Trey
1869
01:28:31.720 --> 01:28:34.439
Benson you mentioned as well, like, if anybody hasn't watched
1870
01:28:34.479 --> 01:28:36.560
Trey Benson, just go watch it. I hate saying this
1871
01:28:36.600 --> 01:28:38.880
because I think highlights are a lie, but a lot
1872
01:28:38.920 --> 01:28:40.680
of his highlights are not. Just like, wow, look how
1873
01:28:40.720 --> 01:28:43.279
fast he is. Trey Benson is running through dudes and
1874
01:28:43.319 --> 01:28:45.399
then like kicking it into high gear and pulling off
1875
01:28:45.439 --> 01:28:48.359
like a sixty yard run. So they've got you. You
1876
01:28:48.520 --> 01:28:52.199
don't run twelve and thirteen personnel if you're not comfortable
1877
01:28:52.279 --> 01:28:55.760
with your running backs mashing and getting through dudes faces,
1878
01:28:56.079 --> 01:29:00.760
chest shoulders, falling forward, getting yards after contact. And so yeah,
1879
01:29:00.800 --> 01:29:02.520
it's very much like, not only do you have to
1880
01:29:02.520 --> 01:29:07.079
worry about the schematic element of Okay, how are our fits? Okay,
1881
01:29:07.119 --> 01:29:09.720
how vulnerable are we against the pass out of this? Okay,
1882
01:29:09.840 --> 01:29:11.600
let's keep an eye out for the play action all
1883
01:29:11.640 --> 01:29:14.479
the schematic elements there. But then also just from an
1884
01:29:14.520 --> 01:29:17.239
individual standpoint, when you get to James Connor, you have
1885
01:29:17.239 --> 01:29:19.319
to tackle James Connor, you have to tackle Trey Benson,
1886
01:29:19.319 --> 01:29:21.640
you have to tackle Kyler Murray. And it's all different, right,
1887
01:29:21.680 --> 01:29:25.159
Like Benson has speed but also physicality. Connor is more
1888
01:29:25.199 --> 01:29:29.279
just physicality. Kyler doesn't have physicality, but he's such a
1889
01:29:29.359 --> 01:29:32.159
jitterbug in space. So it's all different levels of how
1890
01:29:32.199 --> 01:29:35.439
they can present missed and broken tackles, and you have
1891
01:29:35.479 --> 01:29:37.319
to count for all of it at the tackle point
1892
01:29:37.359 --> 01:29:40.560
and or in space. Who like it's a challenge and
1893
01:29:40.600 --> 01:29:43.000
again it's fun from a schematic conversation.
1894
01:29:43.279 --> 01:29:45.479
Reminds me of a story I don't remember who did
1895
01:29:45.520 --> 01:29:49.840
the story back when Lamar was first Like tearing up
1896
01:29:50.199 --> 01:29:56.560
the NFL, you can try and mimic Lamar in practice
1897
01:29:56.560 --> 01:29:59.720
with a wide receiver or a running back however you
1898
01:30:00.119 --> 01:30:01.399
ever often you want.
1899
01:30:02.359 --> 01:30:04.279
It's different when you hit the game.
1900
01:30:04.439 --> 01:30:06.960
It's it's the Mike Tyson like everybody has a plan
1901
01:30:07.159 --> 01:30:10.319
till they get punched in the mouth, like it we got.
1902
01:30:10.359 --> 01:30:12.359
You have a plan s gramatically to stop the run.
1903
01:30:12.800 --> 01:30:14.960
Then you gotta go do it. You gotta go hit
1904
01:30:15.039 --> 01:30:18.600
for the mouth. And it does bring up another point
1905
01:30:18.640 --> 01:30:22.399
where again you you have to bring him. You gotta
1906
01:30:22.479 --> 01:30:25.680
hit him, you gotta, you have to. You cannot miss tackles.
1907
01:30:25.720 --> 01:30:26.520
It's the biggest thing.
1908
01:30:26.760 --> 01:30:28.760
And if you if you are like you gotta swarm,
1909
01:30:28.800 --> 01:30:30.720
you gotta bring two or three hats to the ball
1910
01:30:30.840 --> 01:30:33.600
every time, because if you miss one you're and you
1911
01:30:33.640 --> 01:30:35.239
know you don't have bodies coming with you, then it's
1912
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gonna exploite that or expand that kind of negative for you.
1913
01:30:39.399 --> 01:30:42.840
It's it's such an interesting thing because I think Kyler
1914
01:30:43.000 --> 01:30:46.319
and the Cardinals have kind of course developed this mantra
1915
01:30:46.439 --> 01:30:47.880
being more of a finesse team.
1916
01:30:48.319 --> 01:30:51.199
Yeah, but no, no, they.
1917
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Are mean their smash mouth man.
1918
01:30:53.439 --> 01:30:57.399
Yeah, lash mouth. They want to be more physical than you.
1919
01:30:57.960 --> 01:31:01.520
And then they they have their fun in James Connor
1920
01:31:01.520 --> 01:31:05.560
and Trey Benson and Kyler is the lightning. Like it's
1921
01:31:05.760 --> 01:31:08.720
very much like the thunder lightning running back duo. They
1922
01:31:08.760 --> 01:31:13.520
have thunder in Benson backs like they both their running
1923
01:31:13.520 --> 01:31:14.319
backs are thunder.
1924
01:31:14.800 --> 01:31:17.880
You gotta worry about getting hit every.
1925
01:31:17.600 --> 01:31:21.079
Single time with James Connor Lauren's shoulder, and then Kyler's
1926
01:31:21.119 --> 01:31:23.600
gonna pull it and now you have to tackle Kyler
1927
01:31:23.640 --> 01:31:26.439
Murray in space. So as much as I say, like
1928
01:31:27.800 --> 01:31:30.159
the schematics are gonna be so important in this game,
1929
01:31:30.680 --> 01:31:34.399
you have to tackle, and tackling is such a big thing,
1930
01:31:34.520 --> 01:31:35.920
especially early in the season.
1931
01:31:36.000 --> 01:31:38.359
Of course, it gets ironed out as you get more reps,
1932
01:31:38.439 --> 01:31:39.399
but you.
1933
01:31:39.439 --> 01:31:41.199
Have to be able to tackle. It goes the same
1934
01:31:41.199 --> 01:31:44.239
way for the Bill's offense. You gotta make people miss,
1935
01:31:44.319 --> 01:31:48.199
and it is going to be huge for this specific
1936
01:31:48.279 --> 01:31:51.479
version of the Bill's offense to make people miss after
1937
01:31:51.520 --> 01:31:55.319
the catch because you are not getting the downfield passing
1938
01:31:55.520 --> 01:31:58.319
as much. You have to you have to be able
1939
01:31:58.359 --> 01:32:01.000
to turn those three yard catches in the city yard games.
1940
01:32:01.199 --> 01:32:04.840
It is the It's the biggest reason why it's one
1941
01:32:04.880 --> 01:32:07.840
of the biggest reasons why the Niners offense works so well
1942
01:32:08.760 --> 01:32:12.199
is because they have like seven different dudes who can
1943
01:32:12.279 --> 01:32:15.760
turn negative games in the eight yard kid eight yard
1944
01:32:15.760 --> 01:32:18.119
carries or eight yard catches. They got like twelve of
1945
01:32:18.159 --> 01:32:23.960
them dudes, and the Bills is trending towards that. I mean, yeah,
1946
01:32:24.079 --> 01:32:26.880
you go get Curtis Samuel because he can do that.
1947
01:32:27.319 --> 01:32:29.880
You get Keyon Coleman because ke On Coleman is great
1948
01:32:29.960 --> 01:32:32.159
after the catch and at the catch point.
1949
01:32:32.600 --> 01:32:35.920
I think Duntkin Kaid is a little slip. He's slippery
1950
01:32:36.119 --> 01:32:39.359
after test like hen test at the combine.
1951
01:32:39.439 --> 01:32:42.079
So we don't really know his shoe numbers, but he
1952
01:32:42.279 --> 01:32:46.479
is he is the uh, he is the traditional. His
1953
01:32:46.640 --> 01:32:50.319
forty time is always faster than you like. That's that's
1954
01:32:50.359 --> 01:32:52.720
all that matters. He doesn't have to be fast, like
1955
01:32:52.960 --> 01:32:54.359
you don't have to be track fast, but all he
1956
01:32:54.399 --> 01:32:56.000
has to be in that moment is faster than you.
1957
01:32:56.079 --> 01:32:59.319
And of course trying to tackle Josh Allen is a problem.
1958
01:33:00.600 --> 01:33:02.800
I mean we've known that for the longest time. It's
1959
01:33:02.880 --> 01:33:08.119
like trying to tackle a bull moose, you know, it's
1960
01:33:08.439 --> 01:33:11.680
tackling and forcing people to miss tackles for this Bill's
1961
01:33:11.760 --> 01:33:14.880
offense is going to be huge because that is their
1962
01:33:14.920 --> 01:33:19.279
efficiency on offense. The run game is their efficiency on offense.
1963
01:33:19.359 --> 01:33:22.760
The quick passing, the underneath passing is their efficiency.
1964
01:33:23.479 --> 01:33:26.640
You'll get the occasional Josh Allen rainbow down.
1965
01:33:26.439 --> 01:33:28.960
The field, but this team is going to be built
1966
01:33:29.119 --> 01:33:32.880
on making guys miss and being able to out physical
1967
01:33:33.159 --> 01:33:37.600
and out muscle teams. So tackling and miss enforcing miss
1968
01:33:37.680 --> 01:33:40.680
tackles is going to be a big barometer this year
1969
01:33:40.880 --> 01:33:44.680
for what the Bills want to be. And I'm going
1970
01:33:44.760 --> 01:33:47.800
excited thinking about this game because, like you said, it
1971
01:33:47.880 --> 01:33:53.560
is such a good introduction into what the twenty twenty
1972
01:33:53.560 --> 01:33:56.560
four Bills are going to be, especially on the offensive
1973
01:33:56.560 --> 01:33:57.199
side of the ball.
1974
01:33:57.920 --> 01:34:00.520
Yeah, super well said, Yeah, I completely agree. And it's
1975
01:34:00.960 --> 01:34:03.439
and you know, especially two in like week one, right,
1976
01:34:03.520 --> 01:34:05.399
like you said, in a couple of comments in the chat,
1977
01:34:05.439 --> 01:34:07.760
said it right, like, you know, it's the first game,
1978
01:34:07.880 --> 01:34:10.640
you're rusty, you're not in like the best like technique
1979
01:34:10.640 --> 01:34:13.640
and everything, but also like you might not be not
1980
01:34:13.680 --> 01:34:15.880
even might you're probably not in game shape as well.
1981
01:34:16.520 --> 01:34:18.319
So what is it like late in the third quarter
1982
01:34:18.439 --> 01:34:20.920
or in the fourth quarter when you're starting to get tired.
1983
01:34:21.039 --> 01:34:23.560
It's that much harder to tackle Kyler Murray in space
1984
01:34:23.720 --> 01:34:26.520
or Josh Allen at any point, it's that much harder
1985
01:34:26.560 --> 01:34:28.960
to bring down James Connor or Trey Benson or Trey
1986
01:34:29.039 --> 01:34:32.840
McBride or James Connor I'm sorry, James Connor or James
1987
01:34:32.840 --> 01:34:35.640
Cook or Ray Davis or Kean Coleman or Kinkaid. Like,
1988
01:34:36.319 --> 01:34:39.319
how do we start to see that for both defenses
1989
01:34:39.359 --> 01:34:42.560
and both offenses? How do we see that play out early?
1990
01:34:42.960 --> 01:34:45.159
But then also what do we see the ramifications of
1991
01:34:45.199 --> 01:34:47.880
that late? That also ties into the run game as well,
1992
01:34:47.920 --> 01:34:50.159
because when you've been getting leaned on in the run
1993
01:34:50.199 --> 01:34:52.640
game for two and a half or three quarters and
1994
01:34:52.720 --> 01:34:55.680
it's week one, you're already gonna start to get tired
1995
01:34:55.680 --> 01:34:57.359
in the fourth quarter. Just because it's week one, you're
1996
01:34:57.399 --> 01:34:59.479
not in game shape yet. But if you're getting run
1997
01:34:59.520 --> 01:35:02.119
on as well, it's even that happens even more so.
1998
01:35:02.560 --> 01:35:05.560
And with both offenses, you're if you're trying to chase
1999
01:35:05.920 --> 01:35:08.640
Kyler Murray and Josh Allen around, you're getting even more
2000
01:35:08.720 --> 01:35:11.680
tired because you're trying to do more. Like there's it's
2001
01:35:11.680 --> 01:35:14.279
so funny how each of these teams kind of mirror
2002
01:35:14.319 --> 01:35:17.520
each other offensively with how they want to set their
2003
01:35:17.560 --> 01:35:20.720
foundation and then what the plan is to build upon,
2004
01:35:20.960 --> 01:35:22.720
you know, going forward, and how they put the rest
2005
01:35:22.760 --> 01:35:25.399
of the house together. And yeah, just that that I
2006
01:35:25.560 --> 01:35:27.520
like you that was very well said by you, like
2007
01:35:27.560 --> 01:35:30.439
the physical element for this Bill's offense this year, because
2008
01:35:30.439 --> 01:35:33.119
I think a lot of people think of physical like, oh,
2009
01:35:33.199 --> 01:35:34.880
like you get a big running back and you want
2010
01:35:34.920 --> 01:35:36.640
to like run it down someone's throat. Like it's not
2011
01:35:36.720 --> 01:35:40.000
just run game elements. It's physical from like in yards
2012
01:35:40.000 --> 01:35:42.079
after catch, standpoint and a lot of the yards after
2013
01:35:42.159 --> 01:35:45.960
catch that they're going to have that that includes the
2014
01:35:46.000 --> 01:35:48.359
physical element, Like that's where that comes from. And physical
2015
01:35:48.479 --> 01:35:51.159
just doesn't mean running through somebody. It's the physical ability
2016
01:35:51.199 --> 01:35:53.600
to generate yards after a catch. Maybe you shake a
2017
01:35:53.640 --> 01:35:55.960
d or run through an arm tackle. Maybe there's a
2018
01:35:55.960 --> 01:36:00.680
more traditional like contact physical element to it. But it's
2019
01:36:00.720 --> 01:36:03.760
a physical element nonetheless, And yeah, it's gonna be so
2020
01:36:03.800 --> 01:36:06.520
important for this team because like like you said this,
2021
01:36:06.520 --> 01:36:09.119
this Bill's defense isn't Bill's offense, I should say, isn't
2022
01:36:09.119 --> 01:36:12.159
built for Like, yeah, Josh Allen's gonna average def The
2023
01:36:12.159 --> 01:36:14.399
target's gonna be like fourteen yards this year, and they're
2024
01:36:14.439 --> 01:36:16.439
gonna be slating it. This is gonna be like an
2025
01:36:16.479 --> 01:36:19.760
Al Davis Raiders offense where they're just chucking it downfield
2026
01:36:19.760 --> 01:36:22.079
as much as they can. Now, Like they're gonna work
2027
01:36:22.079 --> 01:36:24.880
a lot of quick game. They're gonna hit the intermediate
2028
01:36:25.000 --> 01:36:27.199
like and they're gonna try and hit a pass of
2029
01:36:27.239 --> 01:36:30.119
twelve or thirteen yards and hope it turns into twenty
2030
01:36:30.119 --> 01:36:33.000
five rather than throw the ball twenty five yards downfield.
2031
01:36:33.119 --> 01:36:35.760
Or they're gonna throw a little tunnel screen to Curtis
2032
01:36:35.760 --> 01:36:38.640
Samuel and hope that that gets you know, thirteen or
2033
01:36:38.680 --> 01:36:41.800
fourteen yards. Or they block a run really well and
2034
01:36:41.880 --> 01:36:44.319
someone's angle is wrong and James Cook busted off for
2035
01:36:44.359 --> 01:36:47.039
thirty yards. Like that's where it's gonna come from. The
2036
01:36:47.119 --> 01:36:50.439
Explosives are going to come from passes in the underneath,
2037
01:36:50.479 --> 01:36:53.159
in the intermediate or the run game and them being
2038
01:36:53.199 --> 01:36:56.319
blocked well or somebody making a play rather than generating
2039
01:36:56.359 --> 01:36:59.520
explosives by chucking the ball downfield. Based on what the
2040
01:36:59.520 --> 01:37:01.840
Bills had have at wide receiver and tight end and
2041
01:37:01.920 --> 01:37:05.720
running back, but also larger scale conversation how defenses are
2042
01:37:05.760 --> 01:37:07.359
built nowadays, where they're trying to put a cap on
2043
01:37:07.399 --> 01:37:09.359
offenses and keep everything in front of you, which is
2044
01:37:09.359 --> 01:37:12.760
why the Bills have potentially pivoted to this type of
2045
01:37:12.800 --> 01:37:15.560
answer to be able to challenge the current defensive trends
2046
01:37:15.560 --> 01:37:17.279
that we're seeing exactly.
2047
01:37:17.359 --> 01:37:20.640
You know, as much as teams want to play too
2048
01:37:20.720 --> 01:37:25.600
high shelf, keep a cap on everything, eventually you're gonna
2049
01:37:25.600 --> 01:37:27.680
have to want to move a little move a safety
2050
01:37:27.720 --> 01:37:29.960
down if you keep giving up five yards of carryouts.
2051
01:37:30.159 --> 01:37:32.920
That's how worrying A Staley just got fired. He wanted
2052
01:37:32.960 --> 01:37:33.640
to move.
2053
01:37:33.520 --> 01:37:35.399
A safety down and he ended up giving up the
2054
01:37:35.399 --> 01:37:37.039
most yards for carrying the league.
2055
01:37:37.479 --> 01:37:39.680
So you have to be.
2056
01:37:39.680 --> 01:37:42.640
Able to get teams out of those shells in a
2057
01:37:42.640 --> 01:37:46.159
lot of different ways, and I think the Bills want
2058
01:37:46.199 --> 01:37:50.920
to do that through after the catch, after content, they
2059
01:37:51.000 --> 01:37:54.279
want to force you to bring guys down into the
2060
01:37:54.359 --> 01:37:57.720
box to help help tackling, helping the run fit, you know,
2061
01:37:58.399 --> 01:38:00.640
and now and now that will open up a little
2062
01:38:00.640 --> 01:38:02.680
more of the explosives that will open up the Josh
2063
01:38:02.760 --> 01:38:08.000
Allen rainbow pass. Like they're going to use that efficiency underneath,
2064
01:38:08.760 --> 01:38:11.720
and not only like underneath in terms of like, oh,
2065
01:38:11.800 --> 01:38:12.760
this pass going for.
2066
01:38:12.760 --> 01:38:14.840
Three yards, three yards, four yards.
2067
01:38:14.840 --> 01:38:19.920
It's not just that it is making those again after
2068
01:38:19.960 --> 01:38:24.359
the catch, after contact, running through the contact, being able
2069
01:38:24.359 --> 01:38:28.479
to turn those two yard catches.
2070
01:38:28.039 --> 01:38:29.880
Into four and five yard plays.
2071
01:38:29.920 --> 01:38:33.359
You know. Again, we look at teams who are so
2072
01:38:33.600 --> 01:38:37.600
good at this and who have adjusted well to this
2073
01:38:37.720 --> 01:38:40.479
too high world we're living in the NFL, And you
2074
01:38:40.560 --> 01:38:43.439
think about the forty nine ers because they have all
2075
01:38:43.479 --> 01:38:45.800
those guys who can do that, and now you're.
2076
01:38:45.640 --> 01:38:47.479
Looking at the Bills, and even the Bills.
2077
01:38:47.239 --> 01:38:50.000
Last year, I think they finished like tenth or eleventh
2078
01:38:50.079 --> 01:38:52.239
in the NFL, and total yards after the catch, like
2079
01:38:52.760 --> 01:38:55.840
they were getting into that towards the back end of
2080
01:38:55.920 --> 01:38:59.399
last season, and now they're fully starting to commit to
2081
01:38:59.439 --> 01:39:01.800
that world. So this is going to be a really
2082
01:39:01.880 --> 01:39:06.319
good game to showcase two Bills fans what this offense
2083
01:39:06.399 --> 01:39:07.399
is going to want to be.
2084
01:39:08.399 --> 01:39:10.079
I like that. Yeah, And it's also kind of similar
2085
01:39:10.079 --> 01:39:13.800
to like like how the Chiefs started to pivot to
2086
01:39:13.920 --> 01:39:17.079
like a lower average depth of target while they had Tyreek,
2087
01:39:17.119 --> 01:39:19.159
and then they traded Tyreek. Andybody's like, oh my god,
2088
01:39:19.159 --> 01:39:20.359
what are they going to do? And it's like they've
2089
01:39:20.399 --> 01:39:22.640
already been doing it. They already started the pivot, and
2090
01:39:22.640 --> 01:39:25.560
now they're just fully committing to it. And I think
2091
01:39:25.600 --> 01:39:31.520
also like within that element comes the motion and the
2092
01:39:31.560 --> 01:39:34.399
pieces that they can add, Like I think things like
2093
01:39:34.399 --> 01:39:38.199
like like a tight bunch, and Curtis Samuel is like
2094
01:39:38.239 --> 01:39:40.960
the number three receiver and you've been running the ball.
2095
01:39:41.399 --> 01:39:43.199
Now all of a sudden, you go play action. You
2096
01:39:43.239 --> 01:39:45.239
send him on that slide route, and the second level
2097
01:39:45.279 --> 01:39:47.760
committed a little bit too much and as soon as
2098
01:39:47.760 --> 01:39:50.319
Allen finishes the run fake, he just dumps it off
2099
01:39:50.319 --> 01:39:52.800
to Curtis Samuel one yard behind the line. But Samuel's
2100
01:39:52.800 --> 01:39:55.359
got all this space horizontally to work and maybe even
2101
01:39:55.399 --> 01:39:58.399
get up the sideline and create some space. Like or again,
2102
01:39:58.439 --> 01:40:00.479
if you're starting to walk down those safe if you're
2103
01:40:00.479 --> 01:40:02.520
a defense, cool, now you're in those single high looks.
2104
01:40:02.720 --> 01:40:05.119
Now the crossers become available, and now those play action
2105
01:40:05.199 --> 01:40:08.199
shots where you can get Dalton Kincaid all the way
2106
01:40:08.199 --> 01:40:10.560
across the field and you can hit that deep intermediate
2107
01:40:10.600 --> 01:40:13.119
where you know it basically turns into a three level
2108
01:40:13.159 --> 01:40:16.520
concept on the backside, it's kind of like a sale
2109
01:40:16.520 --> 01:40:19.479
concept that Josh Allen loves to throw and hit. There's
2110
01:40:19.520 --> 01:40:21.319
all these ways that you can start to make things
2111
01:40:21.359 --> 01:40:23.960
work because you're forcing teams out of those two high
2112
01:40:23.960 --> 01:40:26.159
covered structures and those two high shelves. And that's a
2113
01:40:26.239 --> 01:40:28.479
huge point. Like I don't think I mentioned it enough
2114
01:40:28.640 --> 01:40:32.760
with the run game aspect, like you can run the
2115
01:40:32.920 --> 01:40:35.039
like the Bills. The reason the run game is so
2116
01:40:35.079 --> 01:40:37.760
important this year is because the mismatch creation element like
2117
01:40:37.800 --> 01:40:39.640
we talked about, but also and also just for the
2118
01:40:39.640 --> 01:40:41.479
fact that like they can churn out easy yard just
2119
01:40:41.520 --> 01:40:42.239
makes things nice.
2120
01:40:42.279 --> 01:40:44.000
But again, it.
2121
01:40:44.000 --> 01:40:46.800
Forces defenses out of the thing that they're trying to do.
2122
01:40:46.960 --> 01:40:49.439
League wide, Now, defenses are just like, no, we're just
2123
01:40:49.479 --> 01:40:52.800
gonna sit into two high covered structures. We're gonna limit explosives,
2124
01:40:52.800 --> 01:40:55.000
and we're gonna put a cap, we're gonna rally and tackle.
2125
01:40:55.520 --> 01:40:58.960
You can't do that as much or at all if
2126
01:40:59.039 --> 01:41:03.119
you're getting gouged six yards of pop consistently, or if
2127
01:41:03.119 --> 01:41:04.520
it's like, oh, we stopped it on this, So it's
2128
01:41:04.560 --> 01:41:07.000
only like second and seven. They ran it again for
2129
01:41:07.039 --> 01:41:08.800
thirteen yards and now it's first and ten and they're
2130
01:41:08.800 --> 01:41:10.640
already at like the forty yard line. Crap, so we
2131
01:41:10.640 --> 01:41:12.840
walk a safety down. Oh now it's second and two again. Like,
2132
01:41:13.039 --> 01:41:15.159
if you keep getting gouged, you have to change. And
2133
01:41:15.199 --> 01:41:18.840
that's where that's why the run game is becoming more
2134
01:41:18.880 --> 01:41:22.359
in fashion in today's NFL because defense has swung the
2135
01:41:22.359 --> 01:41:25.600
pendulum in their favor. So offenses like, Okay, you want
2136
01:41:25.600 --> 01:41:27.520
to do a well, We're gonna do this thing that
2137
01:41:27.640 --> 01:41:30.159
makes you have to do b or do a less,
2138
01:41:30.199 --> 01:41:32.359
and that's how we take the power back. And if
2139
01:41:32.359 --> 01:41:34.840
you don't want to do a less, cool, stay in
2140
01:41:34.880 --> 01:41:36.840
your two high coverage structures. We're gonna keep running the
2141
01:41:36.880 --> 01:41:38.880
ball for six to seven yards of carry and we're
2142
01:41:38.880 --> 01:41:40.800
gonna gut you that way and we're gonna keep the
2143
01:41:40.800 --> 01:41:42.760
ball away from your offense and then good luck getting
2144
01:41:42.800 --> 01:41:43.119
it back.
2145
01:41:43.960 --> 01:41:44.680
Yeah, this is.
2146
01:41:44.640 --> 01:41:50.039
Gonna be a game where I think the tackling and
2147
01:41:50.520 --> 01:41:53.119
the physicality of the Bills offense.
2148
01:41:52.760 --> 01:41:55.439
And Bill's defense is going to have to be on display.
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I think this is gonna be something where you know,
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this is this is gonna be a game that you
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01:42:02.319 --> 01:42:04.720
really get to see what this Bills offense is gonna be.
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01:42:04.720 --> 01:42:10.079
In what they have what I called the Chiefs, the chiefsifocation.
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01:42:09.520 --> 01:42:11.159
Yeah, you said it the last time you were yeah,
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01:42:11.439 --> 01:42:13.239
when we did that episode.
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01:42:13.039 --> 01:42:14.760
Of this offense.
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01:42:15.039 --> 01:42:19.399
And instead of using the Chiefs buzz saw ability in
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01:42:19.439 --> 01:42:21.960
the short yardage game, in the run game, it's going
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01:42:22.039 --> 01:42:25.159
to use some of that, but it's going to incorporate
2159
01:42:25.239 --> 01:42:28.840
Josh Allen's legs a lot more, I think, because you
2160
01:42:28.920 --> 01:42:32.920
really don't want to have your quarterback get hurt from
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01:42:32.960 --> 01:42:36.239
carrying the ball fifteen times game. That's not what I'm saying.
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01:42:36.279 --> 01:42:39.800
You're letting Josh Allen carry the ball fifteen twenty times game.
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01:42:39.840 --> 01:42:42.119
That's not what I'm saying here. But you're gonna see
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01:42:42.119 --> 01:42:45.359
a lot more Josh Allen keeping on the zone reads.
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01:42:45.399 --> 01:42:49.439
You're gonna see a lot more designated QB runs. Also
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01:42:49.520 --> 01:42:52.800
worth noting that last year the Arizona Cardinals finished sixth,
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01:42:53.119 --> 01:42:56.439
had the six month sixth most excuse me yards per
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01:42:56.520 --> 01:42:59.199
carry giving up on design QB runs in the NFL
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01:42:59.239 --> 01:43:00.640
last year two point one.
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01:43:01.720 --> 01:43:06.039
So you know that's you know you have you have
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01:43:06.199 --> 01:43:08.520
the guy to do that. You have you have the.
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01:43:08.479 --> 01:43:11.800
Break job, break glass in case of emergency. I think
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01:43:11.920 --> 01:43:14.920
Ken Dorsey kind of used that as like, oh, if
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01:43:14.960 --> 01:43:17.520
it's a big game, Josh Allen's running the ball. I
2175
01:43:17.560 --> 01:43:19.239
think we're gonna see a lot more of the Josh
2176
01:43:19.319 --> 01:43:22.439
Allen run game this season because of how much the
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01:43:22.520 --> 01:43:26.840
run game matters to keep this offense efficient, and it
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01:43:26.880 --> 01:43:30.119
allows them to Okay, you can you can spend a
2179
01:43:30.159 --> 01:43:32.159
safety den. You're gonna have to spend a safety down
2180
01:43:32.239 --> 01:43:36.199
because there's another run threat in the backfield, you know.
2181
01:43:36.479 --> 01:43:38.520
So now you're able to get teams out of too
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01:43:38.600 --> 01:43:41.880
high because you have to have somebody keep eyes on
2183
01:43:41.960 --> 01:43:44.920
Josh Allen. And it's not just somebody keep eyes on
2184
01:43:45.000 --> 01:43:47.880
Josh Allen. You need somebody over two hundred.
2185
01:43:47.680 --> 01:43:50.199
And forty pounds to keep an eye on Josh Allen.
2186
01:43:50.239 --> 01:43:52.880
You cannot send any I can normally I say you
2187
01:43:52.960 --> 01:43:55.079
need somebody wearing a number in the fifties to.
2188
01:43:55.039 --> 01:43:55.960
Tackle Josh Allen.
2189
01:43:56.359 --> 01:43:59.039
You can't say that anymore because everybody wearing number seven
2190
01:43:59.319 --> 01:44:02.079
or like single digits. So you need somebody over two
2191
01:44:02.159 --> 01:44:05.680
hundred and forty pounds try and back. So now you
2192
01:44:06.760 --> 01:44:11.479
pose this problem for the Cardinals, who again they play light.
2193
01:44:11.920 --> 01:44:14.159
They have to play light because they don't have the
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01:44:14.239 --> 01:44:16.760
bodies up front in their front seven.
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01:44:17.279 --> 01:44:20.399
So just hit him in the mouth, you know, I
2196
01:44:20.920 --> 01:44:23.960
would spend that first drive of the game just hit him.
2197
01:44:24.359 --> 01:44:27.560
Yeah, duo counter throw.
2198
01:44:27.760 --> 01:44:30.159
Throw the Josh Allen Run Game in there, just to
2199
01:44:30.199 --> 01:44:33.560
see how they react to it, and that'll set the
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01:44:33.600 --> 01:44:34.680
course for the entire game.
2201
01:44:35.760 --> 01:44:38.159
Yeah, he's I think the last time you were when
2202
01:44:38.239 --> 01:44:41.000
we had that episode where you talked about the chasification, Uh,
2203
01:44:41.199 --> 01:44:43.399
like you coin that are like use that phrase like
2204
01:44:43.439 --> 01:44:45.920
Josh Allen is the plus one in the run game
2205
01:44:46.000 --> 01:44:48.119
and that's what he is consistently. And if again, if
2206
01:44:48.119 --> 01:44:50.319
you want to honor him, that's fine, then you have
2207
01:44:50.359 --> 01:44:52.680
one less body to defend like the non Josh Allen
2208
01:44:52.760 --> 01:44:55.000
run game, or if you have to honor the real
2209
01:44:55.039 --> 01:44:56.920
run game, then Josh Allen's going to keep it and
2210
01:44:56.960 --> 01:44:58.680
you got to figure out how to defend that. And
2211
01:44:59.159 --> 01:45:03.520
the the Bills ran so much more under Brady overall,
2212
01:45:03.520 --> 01:45:06.079
I think like eleven more times per game than they
2213
01:45:06.119 --> 01:45:08.880
did under Dorsey, and Allen was a bigger part of that,
2214
01:45:08.960 --> 01:45:11.760
both in terms of scrambles and design runs. And Yeah,
2215
01:45:11.800 --> 01:45:14.039
I think people always talk about like, oh, Dorson didn't
2216
01:45:14.039 --> 01:45:16.039
want to run Alan. I think they were very much
2217
01:45:16.039 --> 01:45:18.720
trying to like keep that in their pocket until they
2218
01:45:18.840 --> 01:45:21.600
need it or like use it more later in the year,
2219
01:45:21.720 --> 01:45:23.840
just to keep him fresh. Like they were just waiting
2220
01:45:23.840 --> 01:45:25.199
on it. They knew what they had, but they were
2221
01:45:25.239 --> 01:45:28.039
waiting on it. Brady took over and was like, Yo,
2222
01:45:28.119 --> 01:45:29.880
we can't wait because of what our record is. And
2223
01:45:29.920 --> 01:45:31.880
also I'm trying to audition for a job right now,
2224
01:45:31.920 --> 01:45:33.720
so I'm pushing every button I can, and one of
2225
01:45:33.720 --> 01:45:35.800
those buttons is Josh Allen. And I think it's just
2226
01:45:35.800 --> 01:45:38.600
more of a natural incorporation this year now again, like
2227
01:45:38.600 --> 01:45:40.600
you said, because of the run game, and he's just
2228
01:45:41.000 --> 01:45:44.520
he's that natural plus one and all his threat is
2229
01:45:44.560 --> 01:45:46.680
already there, so you don't even need to run him
2230
01:45:46.680 --> 01:45:49.239
fifteen times a game. You can just run him four
2231
01:45:49.840 --> 01:45:54.119
and that's already enough because the threat is already present
2232
01:45:54.199 --> 01:45:56.359
because of what he can already do on the ground,
2233
01:45:56.439 --> 01:45:58.840
and that just opens things up even further. Again, just
2234
01:45:58.880 --> 01:46:01.840
another reason why this run game will matter so much
2235
01:46:01.880 --> 01:46:04.520
and why the run is so important from the non
2236
01:46:04.600 --> 01:46:06.720
Josh Allen Run game to the Josh Allen Run game.
2237
01:46:06.760 --> 01:46:09.760
The play action, the boots, the condensed formations, the reduced
2238
01:46:09.800 --> 01:46:14.880
formational with the motion and everything that they're doing and
2239
01:46:14.920 --> 01:46:19.199
the shifts, pre snap all of it to throw anything
2240
01:46:19.239 --> 01:46:21.720
in everything you can inda defense to make a defense
2241
01:46:21.800 --> 01:46:25.279
have to account for anything and everything and have answers
2242
01:46:25.319 --> 01:46:27.560
to a multitude of questions that they either don't want
2243
01:46:27.560 --> 01:46:29.720
to answer or that they don't have answers for. And
2244
01:46:29.760 --> 01:46:32.279
even if they do have answers, every week when you
2245
01:46:32.319 --> 01:46:34.159
play the Bills, you have to have answers to like
2246
01:46:34.199 --> 01:46:37.000
eleven or twelve questions and that's a lot, Like that's
2247
01:46:37.039 --> 01:46:38.880
a hard week of prep and it's going to be
2248
01:46:38.960 --> 01:46:43.359
on the Bills to deliver on those questions that teams
2249
01:46:43.399 --> 01:46:45.079
have to answer because if they don't, again, like we
2250
01:46:45.159 --> 01:46:47.319
talked about, like if they can't run the ball out
2251
01:46:47.319 --> 01:46:49.600
of these looks, then teams will be like, yeah, we
2252
01:46:49.600 --> 01:46:51.359
have to answer that question, but we only have to
2253
01:46:51.359 --> 01:46:53.800
prepare like five minutes for it because their answer sucks,
2254
01:46:53.920 --> 01:46:55.600
like they don't have to worry about it as much.
2255
01:46:55.600 --> 01:46:57.760
But if you can be a true dual threat offense
2256
01:46:57.760 --> 01:46:59.680
with a natural pivot with the run in the past
2257
01:46:59.720 --> 01:47:02.920
and then mix in Josh Allen to that run game,
2258
01:47:03.359 --> 01:47:05.520
now all of a sudden You've got all these layers
2259
01:47:05.560 --> 01:47:08.079
and all these levels that again start to throw a
2260
01:47:08.079 --> 01:47:09.960
defense into a mind. And again I think it's a
2261
01:47:10.000 --> 01:47:12.199
similar part to the Cardinals offense. Like we talked about
2262
01:47:12.199 --> 01:47:14.239
what they're twelve and thirteen and then Kyler and what
2263
01:47:14.319 --> 01:47:17.399
he is. It's man, I'm happy football is back and
2264
01:47:17.439 --> 01:47:19.119
this game is just so fun. I really do think
2265
01:47:19.119 --> 01:47:23.800
it's underrated. In like the opening week landscape, Chiefs. Ravens
2266
01:47:23.840 --> 01:47:27.039
is obviously getting love the Packers game being on a Friday,
2267
01:47:27.079 --> 01:47:28.960
which I still forgot about. I forgot that there's NFL
2268
01:47:28.960 --> 01:47:31.239
football on Thursday and Friday this week. It's so weird,
2269
01:47:31.439 --> 01:47:34.199
like I'm not used to it, and so I know
2270
01:47:34.239 --> 01:47:36.319
that's dominating the landscap and a lot of other stories.
2271
01:47:36.359 --> 01:47:38.119
But yeah, this Bill's Cardinals game, I think is so
2272
01:47:38.199 --> 01:47:41.760
fun schematically and again just being a microcosmon representation of
2273
01:47:41.800 --> 01:47:44.920
what each of these teams can really be for this
2274
01:47:45.000 --> 01:47:49.880
twenty twenty four season. Man Ay, we legitimately could talk
2275
01:47:49.920 --> 01:47:52.279
for like ever, and I was like, you know what
2276
01:47:52.319 --> 01:47:54.079
I think we can get in like an hour hour ten.
2277
01:47:54.119 --> 01:47:55.960
I don't even know why I thought that or mentioned
2278
01:47:55.960 --> 01:47:58.000
it pre show, Like I don't know why I even
2279
01:47:58.039 --> 01:47:59.960
went down that road.
2280
01:47:59.640 --> 01:48:03.680
I suff rayed, say, like with Josh Allen eliminating backside
2281
01:48:03.680 --> 01:48:07.039
defenders because of his threat as a runner, like and
2282
01:48:07.159 --> 01:48:09.840
nah that we weren't getting to our hour ten.
2283
01:48:10.800 --> 01:48:12.680
This is like this is on the low end for us.
2284
01:48:13.000 --> 01:48:16.039
That's actually fair. Yeah, that's fair, that's fair. Yeah, pushing
2285
01:48:16.159 --> 01:48:18.680
like our forty five. Yeah that's fair, but not even
2286
01:48:18.800 --> 01:48:20.319
more hour forty seven as I looked at the time,
2287
01:48:20.479 --> 01:48:22.600
right now, Yeah, we man, Yeah, I just love took
2288
01:48:22.640 --> 01:48:24.600
the ball with you, like you, and I said it
2289
01:48:24.640 --> 01:48:26.199
the first I say pretty much every time that you've
2290
01:48:26.239 --> 01:48:27.600
been on the show, like and a bunch of people
2291
01:48:27.640 --> 01:48:30.239
in the comments said it too, Like your your knowledge
2292
01:48:30.239 --> 01:48:34.319
of the game, the area that you gravitate towards is
2293
01:48:34.520 --> 01:48:39.319
very much like what I like to consume as as
2294
01:48:39.359 --> 01:48:41.000
a person in this space, or even if I wasn't
2295
01:48:41.000 --> 01:48:43.239
in this space, just as like a fan like your,
2296
01:48:43.319 --> 01:48:45.119
I would be paying attention to your work if even
2297
01:48:45.119 --> 01:48:46.720
if I didn't have a podcast and didn't do this.
2298
01:48:47.399 --> 01:48:50.399
The line I always uses is mad corny and mad nerdy,
2299
01:48:50.640 --> 01:48:52.920
but like I'm very much like the sort of gryffindor,
2300
01:48:53.039 --> 01:48:54.640
like I only want to take in that which makes
2301
01:48:54.640 --> 01:48:57.359
me stronger, and like you're one of those people like
2302
01:48:57.399 --> 01:48:59.279
you just you know so much and you talk about
2303
01:48:59.319 --> 01:49:01.680
it so well and we vibe on the same way
2304
01:49:01.800 --> 01:49:03.520
waye with like wrestling and anime and a lot of
2305
01:49:03.560 --> 01:49:05.520
other stuff. So you're one of my favorite people to
2306
01:49:05.520 --> 01:49:08.640
have on the show. You crush it every time. Yeah,
2307
01:49:08.720 --> 01:49:10.479
I really feel like we could easily like go for
2308
01:49:10.560 --> 01:49:13.000
double this and continue to like talking about the same game,
2309
01:49:13.279 --> 01:49:16.119
like just keep going like further and further and further.
2310
01:49:16.680 --> 01:49:18.520
So I appreciate you taking the time. I'm sorry for
2311
01:49:18.600 --> 01:49:21.359
keeping you so long again, but the floor is yours.
2312
01:49:21.640 --> 01:49:23.880
If you've got anything else you want to unload, or
2313
01:49:23.880 --> 01:49:26.079
if you want to plug anything, whatever you got that,
2314
01:49:26.119 --> 01:49:27.159
I appreciate the hell Outia.
2315
01:49:27.239 --> 01:49:29.960
The floor is yours. Awesome. Thank you so much again
2316
01:49:29.960 --> 01:49:30.640
for having me on.
2317
01:49:30.800 --> 01:49:33.319
Of course, you can follow me on social media at
2318
01:49:33.359 --> 01:49:37.479
Acosta thirty two Underscore JP. We are bringing back established
2319
01:49:37.479 --> 01:49:40.319
the Fun this season. It is the column I write
2320
01:49:40.359 --> 01:49:42.680
every Friday where the.
2321
01:49:42.680 --> 01:49:45.359
Mantra is football is fun, and we like to establish that.
2322
01:49:45.399 --> 01:49:47.159
I write about things that I think are interesting in
2323
01:49:47.199 --> 01:49:49.640
the NFL, things that I find fun. We got a
2324
01:49:49.720 --> 01:49:53.359
first interration coming out on Friday, it'll be out the
2325
01:49:53.399 --> 01:49:56.960
morning of, hopefully on Friday, so it won't it won't
2326
01:49:56.960 --> 01:50:01.479
cover the Chiefs Ravens game, but it'll be every other game.
2327
01:50:01.680 --> 01:50:03.880
There'll be something, there'll be something fun. There are three
2328
01:50:03.880 --> 01:50:06.920
things I find are fun and I'll write about them.
2329
01:50:07.079 --> 01:50:09.479
I have a college football column I called The catch
2330
01:50:09.560 --> 01:50:12.039
Up where I write about things I think are interesting
2331
01:50:12.039 --> 01:50:13.640
in college football, and I do a little bit of
2332
01:50:13.680 --> 01:50:16.439
NFL draft works, So if you want to check that out, but.
2333
01:50:16.479 --> 01:50:19.159
Overall, just follow me on Twitter, see what I'm doing,
2334
01:50:19.279 --> 01:50:20.039
see where I'm going.
2335
01:50:20.760 --> 01:50:22.680
One of the best follows, genuinely, and I'm not just
2336
01:50:22.680 --> 01:50:26.079
saying that because you're here. Just with everything JP knows
2337
01:50:26.199 --> 01:50:29.560
from a schematic perspective, and just if you want to
2338
01:50:29.600 --> 01:50:33.439
know more about football league wide, in the NFL college
2339
01:50:33.479 --> 01:50:36.000
elements as well, like anything and everything, and then he's
2340
01:50:36.079 --> 01:50:39.319
just like a good follow in general. Absolutely phenomenal work
2341
01:50:39.359 --> 01:50:42.119
that you do. JP, and I couldn't have had a
2342
01:50:42.119 --> 01:50:44.279
better guest to kick off the season to have this conversation.
2343
01:50:44.359 --> 01:50:48.159
I knew how fun this conversation would be schematically, and
2344
01:50:49.159 --> 01:50:51.840
I'm usually like very late in behind with like asking
2345
01:50:51.840 --> 01:50:53.439
people to get on shows, Like I'm always trying to
2346
01:50:53.479 --> 01:50:55.920
catch up. But I asked you like early on because
2347
01:50:55.920 --> 01:50:57.479
I wanted to make sure like I locked it in.
2348
01:50:57.520 --> 01:50:59.159
I got it into advance like it had been in
2349
01:50:59.199 --> 01:51:01.039
my mind, like it's like juw. But I was like,
2350
01:51:01.039 --> 01:51:03.079
I should ask it like now because I just probably
2351
01:51:03.079 --> 01:51:05.600
should lock it in. So yeah, this couldn't have gone better.
2352
01:51:05.600 --> 01:51:08.079
You crushed it as always. I will DM you after
2353
01:51:08.119 --> 01:51:10.920
this and thank you and apologies again for keeping you late.
2354
01:51:10.960 --> 01:51:12.720
But again, dude, I just appreciate the hell out of you.
2355
01:51:12.920 --> 01:51:15.239
Enjoy the rest of your Tuesday, and thanks for being
2356
01:51:15.239 --> 01:51:16.920
here and crushing it anytime.
2357
01:51:17.000 --> 01:51:19.119
Man, I could talk for hours talk about with you,
2358
01:51:19.239 --> 01:51:20.640
so thank you again so much.
2359
01:51:21.119 --> 01:51:22.840
Hell yeah, man, enjoy the rest of your Tuesday, and
2360
01:51:22.880 --> 01:51:28.159
I'll see in the DMS yeah later. Man. He's phenomenal.
2361
01:51:28.159 --> 01:51:33.239
I combine phenomenal and fantastic. I genuinely was like, okay,
2362
01:51:33.279 --> 01:51:36.159
we can do like an hour, ten hour, fifteen. My
2363
01:51:36.239 --> 01:51:38.079
thought was kind of working that in.
2364
01:51:40.359 --> 01:51:43.119
Oh man, it's tough.
2365
01:51:43.760 --> 01:51:46.039
It's tough when you got two people who like to
2366
01:51:46.079 --> 01:51:48.159
talk and engage. And we also too, like we were
2367
01:51:48.199 --> 01:51:50.840
talking offline, like he was in the room before nine,
2368
01:51:51.000 --> 01:51:52.439
but we were just talking about he was on a
2369
01:51:52.479 --> 01:51:55.319
little vacation before, like last couple of weeks. So we
2370
01:51:55.319 --> 01:51:57.399
were talking about his vacation and we're talking about other
2371
01:51:57.399 --> 01:51:59.359
football stuff, like we're talking about a bunch of college
2372
01:51:59.359 --> 01:52:02.720
stuff in Florida State and just yeah, he's awesome with
2373
01:52:02.760 --> 01:52:05.560
his work and as a person. Yet like just he's
2374
01:52:05.600 --> 01:52:07.800
a fantastic I like this come from Dennis say, and
2375
01:52:07.840 --> 01:52:09.439
I forgot how good you are stressing me out for
2376
01:52:09.479 --> 01:52:11.359
these games that are supposed to be gimmes. Well the
2377
01:52:11.359 --> 01:52:13.439
tricks on you, because I'm already stressed out for every
2378
01:52:13.439 --> 01:52:18.159
Bills game. Fair. I do think it's it's the way
2379
01:52:18.159 --> 01:52:19.960
I keep thinking about this game. I don't do predictions
2380
01:52:19.960 --> 01:52:22.640
because I'm too superstitious, but like, I think the Bills
2381
01:52:22.680 --> 01:52:26.560
should win this game. If they lose this game to
2382
01:52:26.600 --> 01:52:29.720
the Cardinals, I'm not freaking out to be like, oh
2383
01:52:29.720 --> 01:52:31.720
my god, the season's lost. Like if the Bills lost
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this game to the Cardinals, like I'd be like, okay,
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Like I think the Cardinals are better than people realize,
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and I think each game for them is like with
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the Cardinals, I don't expect the Cardinals to be like
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a double digit win team or competing for the NFC West,
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but I could see them being like a pesky seven
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win team, and they're in a lot of their games
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like they you could have double digit losses, But I
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don't see them getting blown out a ton like. I
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think they present some schematic components like we talked about
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in this episode on offense and defense, that are gonna
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teams out, especially from a matchup standpoint based on how
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the league operates, and a lot of them, again, are
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gonna matter in this game, like who the Cardinals are.
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This game against the Bills is a good microcosm of
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how the Cardinals are going to want to be this year,
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similar to how it is for the Bills. So yeah,
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the way I keep putting it in is I think
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the Bills should win this game. If they lose it,
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I wouldn't really be too disappointed, aside from just being
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01:53:21.880 --> 01:53:24.319
like oh man, like I would rather the Bills win
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01:53:24.479 --> 01:53:26.920
than lose, but I wouldn't be distraught like that's a
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01:53:26.960 --> 01:53:29.479
horrible football team that they just lost to. This season
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is done, nothing's gonna work. I wouldn't do that in
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Week one in general, but even more so just because
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I think the I think the Cardinals are a better
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01:53:35.680 --> 01:53:37.880
team than people get credit for and I think everyone's
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01:53:37.960 --> 01:53:40.239
kind of coming around to that realization a little bit more.
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But I don't think this game is the slam dunk
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or gimme like it kind of is being portrayed to
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01:53:46.199 --> 01:53:48.600
be by bye by some fans or even some people
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01:53:48.640 --> 01:53:52.399
in this space. And again that's just me. Like I,
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I love the schematics of football, and I think this
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01:53:54.119 --> 01:53:57.079
game is a really fun schematic one to have because
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01:53:57.079 --> 01:53:58.920
of who the two teams are, how they operate, and
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01:53:58.960 --> 01:54:02.119
what they do. Huh man, that's gonna do it for
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us on this episode, and with hope the banner that
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says tootles folks. Actually, before I do that, I bring
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it up a different points. One pie pizza, you know,
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the drill. I mentioned it in the beginning of the episode,
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and I'll mention it now. Delicious, sweet sauce, pie cup
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01:54:10.960 --> 01:54:13.319
and char pepperoni. The online menu can be found in
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01:54:13.319 --> 01:54:15.039
the episode show notes whe they're here on YouTube or
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01:54:15.079 --> 01:54:17.399
whichever podcasting app or platform we were listening to this
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show on. They do a ton of different initiatives every year,
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01:54:22.279 --> 01:54:24.760
partner with Roswater trying to knock out cancer toys for
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01:54:24.800 --> 01:54:28.960
Tots every holiday season. The SPCA, the Alzheimer's Foundation. They're
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01:54:29.000 --> 01:54:31.680
really good people making really good food. They also do
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01:54:31.720 --> 01:54:34.359
a bunch of catering stuff. I had them do an
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01:54:34.439 --> 01:54:36.039
event that we had and they may have all these
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01:54:36.039 --> 01:54:38.000
different kinds of mac and cheeses and they all just
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01:54:38.159 --> 01:54:40.640
absolutely slapped. It was phenomenal. Everything they do is great.
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01:54:40.680 --> 01:54:42.720
They make their own homemade blue cheese, great cheese. The
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01:54:42.760 --> 01:54:46.359
sauce ratio on their pizza. Yeah, get yourself some one
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01:54:46.359 --> 01:54:48.399
pie pizza. Treat yourself. Do it for game Day, do
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01:54:48.479 --> 01:54:52.800
it for opening night Thursday or second opening night on Friday.
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01:54:52.840 --> 01:54:55.319
With Packers Eagles, I will be getting some one pie
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01:54:55.720 --> 01:54:58.239
probably multiple times this week, once for Thursday and probably
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01:54:58.279 --> 01:55:01.159
another couple after that. But I mean that's just me.
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01:55:01.720 --> 01:55:05.439
Get yourself one pie pizza and enjoy yourself. And again
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I'm thought up the banners is tootles, folks, because we're
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01:55:07.319 --> 01:55:11.840
gonna start to wind down and say good bye. Appreciate
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01:55:11.880 --> 01:55:13.640
all the kind words that came through for myself and
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01:55:13.720 --> 01:55:16.359
JP throughout the entirety the episode are especially the you
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01:55:16.399 --> 01:55:18.159
know again you folks for a lot of the kind
2449
01:55:18.199 --> 01:55:20.319
words for JP throughout the episode. But then at the
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01:55:20.359 --> 01:55:22.520
end I really like it with with how engaging the
2451
01:55:22.600 --> 01:55:24.199
chat is here on the show, but especially with the
2452
01:55:24.199 --> 01:55:25.920
recognition for the guests that I have, I think it
2453
01:55:25.960 --> 01:55:28.119
presents a really welcoming environment, and I know it means
2454
01:55:28.159 --> 01:55:30.359
a lot to the guests. For like, especially as a
2455
01:55:30.399 --> 01:55:34.640
person who does guest appearances on other podcasts, it's really
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01:55:34.640 --> 01:55:37.600
cool to see like a live chat or regular viewers
2457
01:55:37.640 --> 01:55:41.760
of that show comment on the guest and be It
2458
01:55:41.880 --> 01:55:43.960
just makes the guests feel like warm and fuzzy and nice.
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01:55:43.960 --> 01:55:46.560
So I appreciate you folks doing that. Thank you very
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01:55:46.640 --> 01:55:50.920
much to just the Tippy Canoe, Carl and Lord Korvacks
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01:55:50.920 --> 01:55:53.520
for your super chat in this episode. Greatly appreciate it
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01:55:53.520 --> 01:55:55.279
and thank you very much for it. Thank you very
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01:55:55.359 --> 01:55:59.000
much to everyone who joined us live in this episode.
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01:55:59.119 --> 01:56:01.359
The engagement was all awesome with each other, With myself
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01:56:01.399 --> 01:56:03.640
with JP, the back and forth in the conversation, I
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01:56:03.680 --> 01:56:06.319
really appreciated it. If you're still watching live now before
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you leave, please please please think you drop ake on
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It's greatly appreciated by myself and the entire team. Thank
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01:56:43.840 --> 01:56:46.880
you again very much to mister jp Acosta for joining
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01:56:46.920 --> 01:56:49.920
me on this episode, this opening episode for the twenty
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01:56:49.960 --> 01:56:52.720
twenty four season of Disguised Coverage again his Twitter handle
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at Acosta thirty two underscore JP, at a Asta three
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two underscore JP. He's one of the best follows on Twitter.
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You will not be disappointed. Greatly appreciate you folks whoever
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watched live, watch later, listen later again. Whatever former fashion
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01:57:10.840 --> 01:57:12.680
your support comes in, I greatly appreciate it. Tell your
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family and friends and loved ones about how awesome this
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show is and why they need to watch it. If
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you thought the show was terrible, tell your enemies and
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try and ruin their day by making them watch this show.
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01:57:21.399 --> 01:57:22.880
I hope you and your family and friends and loved
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01:57:22.880 --> 01:57:24.880
ones are all doing well and staying safe. Be kind
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01:57:24.880 --> 01:57:27.199
of one another, take care of one another. If you're
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01:57:27.199 --> 01:57:29.680
going to the game this weekend, have fun, be safe,
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01:57:29.760 --> 01:57:32.840
watch out for yourself. I will see you tomorrow for
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01:57:32.880 --> 01:57:35.239
another edition of the cover one Film Room, or I'll
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01:57:35.239 --> 01:57:38.239
see you next Tuesday, nine pm Eastern four another edition
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01:57:38.359 --> 01:57:41.479
of Disguised Coverage. But until then, whenever I see you again,
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01:57:41.960 --> 01:57:43.439
hope you and your family and friends and loved ones
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01:57:43.439 --> 01:57:45.560
are doing well and staying safe. Be kind of one another,
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take care of one another. Godspeed, and as always go Bills,