Speaker 1: Welcome into another edition of Bills by the Numbers, where
Speaker 1: we let the stats tell you where the Bills are at.
Speaker 1: We're presented by fan We'll make every moment more. With
Speaker 1: Jim Leonard hired as defensive coordinator, we take a look
Speaker 1: at the scheme fits on Buffalo's roster, the kinds of
Speaker 1: players Buffalo could be looking to add this offseason. Steve
Speaker 1: has quizzed on Super Bowl history, and we'll ask our
Speaker 1: one burning question.
Speaker 2: Let's dial up the blitz.
Speaker 1: Very happy to have you here with us on Bills
Speaker 1: by the Numbers. He is Bill's Wall of Famer Steve
Speaker 1: after I'm Bill, played by playman Chris Brown. And as
Speaker 1: Joe Brady's coaching staff rounds into form, we know there
Speaker 1: will be a degree of change, especially on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. That is where new defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: Jim Leonard is expected to introduce the first scheme change
Speaker 1: for the defense in ten seasons. First question, knowing the
Speaker 1: team's twenty twenty six expectations, Steve, how does this defensive
Speaker 1: staff most effectively get this new scheme up and running
Speaker 1: in one off season?
Speaker 2: Well, it's it's not just one step. I mean, it's
Speaker 2: a multi step process. First of all, whatever guys are
Speaker 2: going to be on this team, you gotta have reps, reps, reps, reps, reps.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be personnel meetings. Certainly. This what this pod
Speaker 2: is about, is how many guys from the four to
Speaker 2: three alignment that they had in for the last ten
Speaker 2: years are gonna be held over and be versatile enough
Speaker 2: or able enough to run a three to four scheme.
Speaker 2: It's and I know it sounds it's a little bit
Speaker 2: mystery wrapped in a riddle. Most people don't know the
Speaker 2: difference between four three three four and most concepts. Every
Speaker 2: defensive concept you can run out of one, you can
Speaker 2: run out of the other. But you have different types
Speaker 2: of athletes and you get benefits from those athletes. That's
Speaker 2: the real question. What kind of per snel meeting? What
Speaker 2: is it going to mean when Jim Leonard his defensive
Speaker 2: staff come in and start breaking down tape of the
Speaker 2: Buffalo Bills from twenty twenty five and say, yeah, I
Speaker 2: can use this guy, this guy, this guy, and this guy.
Speaker 2: Hopefully it's like that yeah, and not like we can't
Speaker 2: use that guy. He's not there, we can't use him.
Speaker 2: He can There's gonna be a big roster turnover, I
Speaker 2: think on the front seven of the defensive side of
Speaker 2: the ball. And that's the real question. What kind of
Speaker 2: athlete do they want? What kind of athlete do they have?
Speaker 2: And there are there guys on the roster now that
Speaker 2: can move over into a new scheme like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think without question Jim Leonard as defensive coordinator
Speaker 1: on this staff has the heaviest lift of anyone on
Speaker 1: the staff because of how much will need to change
Speaker 1: just to have the right people on the field to
Speaker 1: execute the scheme. And then a majority of those people
Speaker 1: are not gonna have as much experience playing with one
Speaker 1: another in this new system together, and that's gonna require,
Speaker 1: to your point, tons of reps, tons of time on
Speaker 1: the field together that you're not really gonna get until
Speaker 1: your role in a month to six weeks into the
Speaker 1: regular season. This is going to be a learn and
Speaker 1: improve as you go type situation, no matter how talented
Speaker 1: the players you are that you acquire, and no matter
Speaker 1: how gifted Jim Leonard is as a play caller, and
Speaker 1: I think a lot of them as a play caller
Speaker 1: just from what he did in his years at Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: But this is a heavy lift, one of the heaviest
Speaker 1: this coaching staff has undertaken in the last ten years.
Speaker 1: Because there hasn't been change like this.
Speaker 2: They're gonna have a chance to do this in free agency.
Speaker 2: They'll be able to bolster it, bolster their roster. They'll
Speaker 2: be able if there are candidates on the roster that
Speaker 2: they can trade and get draft capital for or trade
Speaker 2: player for player. They'll be able to do that. They
Speaker 2: will be able to wash through the roster and get
Speaker 2: types of players that they want who have played in
Speaker 2: a three to four if they so desire. But I
Speaker 2: think this extends all the way into the preseason. You
Speaker 2: might see Josh Allen in a baseball cap for the
Speaker 2: entire preseason. But the defensive starters may be taken, riaks
Speaker 2: out of the play right. They may have to play.
Speaker 2: They may play, and it's a risk because as we've seen,
Speaker 2: injuries or a problem, but it may be worth the
Speaker 2: risk to get these guys some live reps. It'll be
Speaker 2: interesting to see here Joe Brady, to see if they
Speaker 2: get any joint practices with teams. But yes, it is
Speaker 2: a heavy lift for that side of the football, and
Speaker 2: it's going to be a heavy lift for the players
Speaker 2: who are carryovers.
Speaker 1: Obviously, a big part of getting a scheme to work
Speaker 1: effectively on game day, as we've mentioned, getting the right
Speaker 1: fits for the scheme to maximize the production. So we
Speaker 1: take a look now at Buffalo's current defensive roster in
Speaker 1: terms of players under contract to see which players are
Speaker 1: versatile enough to be fits in Leonard's hybrid scheme. Let's
Speaker 1: start up front, which is where the biggest changes are
Speaker 1: going to happen. Leonard's scheme uses principles from the defensive
Speaker 1: schemes of both Wade Phillips and Rex Ryan, and those
Speaker 1: are rooted in an underfront or a three to four,
Speaker 1: but Leonard does subscribe to having five defenders up on
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage a good portion of the time,
Speaker 1: three down linemen two outside linebackers. Will focus on the
Speaker 1: players still under contract rather than any of the free
Speaker 1: agents because it's hard to determine their future. Greg Russo
Speaker 1: is a long angular player with great reach and edge
Speaker 1: setting ability, but if he's playing at a three to four,
Speaker 1: is he heavy enough to play the five technique as
Speaker 1: a defensive end. He's listed at two hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: five pounds.
Speaker 2: Not at two sixty five, I'd almost put you need
Speaker 2: to get it. I would say, he needs to get up.
Speaker 2: You know. The two eighty Okay, that's a lot. You
Speaker 2: need a little heavier now. I know this. Back in
Speaker 2: the day the Bills ran a three four. During my day,
Speaker 2: Bruce Smith was a guy. He was like two sixty.
Speaker 2: It's a different dude, but you know it can be done,
Speaker 2: but you gotta you've got to play hard on the rundowns.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's hard to hold up against a
Speaker 2: guard tackle combination at two sixty five when you're trying
Speaker 2: to set the edge. Now, you do get a little
Speaker 2: help by the presence of a guy outside your shoulder,
Speaker 2: but you can imagine unless the team is running weak
Speaker 2: to the weak side, they're gonna there's also gonna be
Speaker 2: a running back tight end over there. So there's a
Speaker 2: lot of people over there at the point of attack,
Speaker 2: and you're expected to hold up. And at two sixty five,
Speaker 2: you know, now, granted Greg Russo has got a lot
Speaker 2: of leverage, but it brings problems with it. So, uh,
Speaker 2: it's a different technique, it's a different spot. And I'm
Speaker 2: not saying this and we haven't talked about this brown
Speaker 2: and we as in the preparation for this, for this pod.
Speaker 2: There might be guys behind these like a I'm just
Speaker 2: throwing names at like a Faderian Mathis or Andre Jones
Speaker 2: Andre Jones Junior. They may be fitted better for this.
Speaker 2: They may say, Wow, I'm finally I'm gonna get a
Speaker 2: chance to play the spot I should play. There might
Speaker 2: be a little of that, but that's not something we know.
Speaker 2: Hard to know you hard to know hard to know.
Speaker 2: But yes, Rousseau is a guy that I think he's
Speaker 2: versatile enough to pull it off, but he's gonna be
Speaker 2: asked to do some different things.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think even if he gets to two seventy,
Speaker 1: that's probably good enough. He's a guy with such length
Speaker 1: that he usually has his hands on the offensive lineman
Speaker 1: before they have his hands on him. That's what gives
Speaker 1: him a very good advantage. I think it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a major adjustment for him, especially a player that has
Speaker 1: not known anything else. He's young in football. I mean,
Speaker 1: let's not for get this was a guy who was
Speaker 1: a one year starter at Miami and then his first
Speaker 1: year here is twenty twenty one, which is the first
Speaker 1: COVID year or second COVID year and things still weren't right.
Speaker 1: Then He's played in only one system here and now
Speaker 1: he has to make this transition. It's good that he's
Speaker 1: a veteran player, but there's gonna be a lot of newness.
Speaker 1: He did to what he has undertake last year. He
Speaker 1: took the twenty twenty year off, was a one year
Speaker 1: starter in twenty nineteen, and then went into the draft pool.
Speaker 1: So I think it's going to be a major adjustment
Speaker 1: for a player like that. And I'm not saying he
Speaker 1: can't accomplish it and do it, but I think there's
Speaker 1: a learning curve there and he's going to need constant
Speaker 1: instruction to get it all down and be playing like
Speaker 1: a well oiled machine in the first month of the season.
Speaker 1: Ed Oliver another interesting case study. He's already seen by
Speaker 1: many as an undersized three technique in a four to three,
Speaker 1: probably not long enough to play five technique in a
Speaker 1: three four front. He has thirty one and three quarter
Speaker 1: inch arms and he's six' one. Where does he fit
Speaker 1: in this scheme?
Speaker 2: That's a tough question, and I don't know that he does.
Speaker 2: He might have to surprise some people with his ability
Speaker 2: to play out out further away from the ball. He
Speaker 2: was he spent the entire season injured. As we know,
Speaker 2: he was off to an incredibly fast start. Ed may
Speaker 2: be one of those guys where another team, there's ten
Speaker 2: coaching openings this year, you may get a call from
Speaker 2: a team like a Cleveland or Las Vegas or somebody
Speaker 2: like that says, hey, what about Ed Oliver. He fits
Speaker 2: better in our scheme than he does yours. Now can
Speaker 2: we have you know, let's let's talk. Ed may get
Speaker 2: traded because he is such a force and a pass
Speaker 2: rush from the from that three technique, from the down
Speaker 2: closer to the ball. As an undersized tackle. You put
Speaker 2: him in conjunction with a guy like Max Crosby in Vegas.
Speaker 2: That's an upgrade, right, That's an upgrade. So I think
Speaker 2: Ed is a is a hard question to answer in
Speaker 2: this same in this scheme.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, And look, it's not up to us. We're
Speaker 1: just going by height, weight measurements, and length measurements and
Speaker 1: what is typically utilized in a three to four system
Speaker 1: at those positions. Ed just in terms of pure measurements,
Speaker 1: does not meet the threshold of those measurements. It'll be
Speaker 1: up to Jim Lennard his defensive staff to make that determination.
Speaker 1: But I agree with Steve. I think there is a
Speaker 1: very good chance he could be a trade candidate this
Speaker 1: offseason for two reasons. One, he doesn't meet the measurement
Speaker 1: requirements to play some of these positions up front effectively
Speaker 1: in a three to four system, and number two, he's
Speaker 1: signed to a long term contract. He is cost control
Speaker 1: at a reasonable figure. Yeah, so I think he would
Speaker 1: not be hard to trade if you chose that root,
Speaker 1: And you may based on what your defensive staff has
Speaker 1: to say, we.
Speaker 2: May not see this the same way the Bill's coaching
Speaker 2: staff does either. They may they may say, no, I
Speaker 2: think we've got a plan for Ed, and we're gonna
Speaker 2: we're gonna hang on to him and turn them this
Speaker 2: because because the guy's got some talent. I mean, good grief,
Speaker 2: he was a wrecking crew in the first month of
Speaker 2: the season before he tore his bicep. So he's got value,
Speaker 2: real value in the NFL. You don't just want to,
Speaker 2: you know, kick that to You can't kick that to
Speaker 2: the curb. You got to. You got to if you're
Speaker 2: either get something for a return for or find a
Speaker 2: way to let him exploit his talent.
Speaker 1: The rookies Dion Walker and TJ. Sanders, heading into their
Speaker 1: second NFL season, would appear to be fits Walker as
Speaker 1: a nose tackle, although there's some debate about that, and
Speaker 1: I'll let Steve address that Sanders could presumably play defensive ends.
Speaker 1: Six three, three hundred pounds. Javon Solomon is an interesting
Speaker 1: case study because you would likely think he moves to
Speaker 1: outside line linebacker, presumably on the strong side, but you
Speaker 1: typically like long players in that role six' three at,
Speaker 1: least with long arms and around two hundred and fifty
Speaker 1: five pounds and. Up solomon six 't, one two forty.
Speaker 1: Seven now he does have thirty four inch. Arms that helps,
Speaker 1: him but what's the fit, There.
Speaker 2: Well he would have to overcome his, height but he
Speaker 2: does Have he's very long. ARMED i mean the guy can.
Speaker 2: Reach he also has value and if he can stand
Speaker 2: up and play with his hand off the ground to
Speaker 2: huge plus because he's athletic enough to play out. There
Speaker 2: but as you, said he's he's. Short what he does
Speaker 2: bring to the, tables although too in his special teams.
Speaker 2: Prowess the guy can go out and, cover he can
Speaker 2: run down the. Field most of the big dudes that
Speaker 2: play in the front seven can't do. That so he's a,
Speaker 2: valuable versatile athlete WHO i think probably has a spot
Speaker 2: because of his athleticism and his ability to run people
Speaker 2: down from behind and also get to the edge and
Speaker 2: get get to the sideline when they try and run
Speaker 2: wide to his. Side he's got some value as an.
Speaker 2: Athlete even though his measurables may not be. Perfect he
Speaker 2: does have that one. Thing the thing about him is
Speaker 2: he's he got long, arms so he plays taller than he,
Speaker 2: Is so he may be a guy who's a depth
Speaker 2: piece at outside, line but also is still a special,
Speaker 2: team's you, know foundational.
Speaker 1: PIECE i think he's a depth. Piece he is not
Speaker 1: a speed speed. Rusher he's a power. Rusher that's what he.
Speaker 2: Is plays a great leverage.
Speaker 1: Leverage heavy, hands and maybe moving outside to outside linebacker
Speaker 1: could help his game because now he's going against tight
Speaker 1: ends probably and backs more than he is offensive. Tackles
Speaker 1: he would get swallowed up by, big long offensive tackles
Speaker 1: when he was utilized on the pass. Rush now you
Speaker 1: kick him out to outside linebacker and maybe those thirty
Speaker 1: four inch arms help him more against a tight end
Speaker 1: or a back in a pass rush. Matchup but, yeah
Speaker 1: he's a power, Rusher.
Speaker 2: He's not a speed bend the edge.
Speaker 1: GUY i want to believe he can get back to
Speaker 1: the sack production we saw that he had in college At,
Speaker 1: troy when he led the nation in sacks with sixteen
Speaker 1: his senior, Season but we have not seen hide nor
Speaker 1: hair of.
Speaker 2: That perhaps a scheme.
Speaker 1: Change helps him at. Linebacker the front line non free
Speaker 1: agents Are Terrel bernard And Dorian, williams if they play
Speaker 1: four linebackers most of the time as expected In leonard's,
Speaker 1: Scheme bernard is likely the weak inside, linebacker And Dorian
Speaker 1: williams is a little bit harder to pin. Down he's
Speaker 1: six y two two hundred and thirty. Pounds that would
Speaker 1: indicate to you his only role in this scheme would
Speaker 1: be As bernard's backup weak inside. Linebacker that position in
Speaker 1: a three to four system typically asks that player to
Speaker 1: cover the most and to be a sideline to sideline.
Speaker 1: Defender in the, scheme your, bigger, heavier mic linebacker is
Speaker 1: more of your run stuff downhill. GUY i think we
Speaker 1: Know bernard And Dorian williams can both do, that so
Speaker 1: they would seem to be fits. There but then you
Speaker 1: saw What Dorian williams was as a blitzer in the
Speaker 1: second half of the season this past year in that, three,
Speaker 1: three five nickel package that the defensive staff deployed with great,
Speaker 1: success and it's, like, man is there a way to
Speaker 1: utilize him on the edge as a stand up guy
Speaker 1: or is he just too small and too?
Speaker 2: Short well as a role. PLAYER i, mean you can
Speaker 2: get these guys on the field and third down and,
Speaker 2: long you, know where you're not really worried about the.
Speaker 2: Run so there's situational. Football, certainly he could help out
Speaker 2: if he's if he's on out, there but it's a
Speaker 2: pick and choose kind of role that you're talking, about
Speaker 2: and you're, ideally, well Maybe Jim leonard has a different
Speaker 2: they they didn't like to substitute. Here we may see
Speaker 2: more of, that particularly in the early going with this
Speaker 2: new defensive scheme where you've got guys running on and
Speaker 2: off the field a lot because they haven't found the
Speaker 2: guys that can play three downs or four. Downs, yeah on,
Speaker 2: Defense so that may BE i, think but that's WHAT
Speaker 2: i would See Dorian williams as a, Situationally, yeah he
Speaker 2: can plug into a couple of different spots out, there
Speaker 2: but he can't play all three.
Speaker 1: Downs, Okay, so in light of the fact that there
Speaker 1: are twenty two unrestricted free agents and a major scheme
Speaker 1: change on defense is, afoot how drastic could change are
Speaker 1: you anticipating on the defensive side of the ball personnel.
Speaker 2: Wise i'm expecting some. Changes, yeah significantly. Significant, Yeah i'm
Speaker 2: not Saying i'm. No it may be that they can
Speaker 2: use some of the guys that are on the roster
Speaker 2: differently and more, versatilely with more versatility than we're aware.
Speaker 2: Of so some of the guy AND i think there'll
Speaker 2: probably be some unexpected guys who, emerge LIKE. Tj sanders
Speaker 2: may come up and be. Big Dion, WALKER i don't
Speaker 2: know that he has The he's big. Enough he's six,
Speaker 2: seven three point, fifty, RIGHT i, mean the guy's, big
Speaker 2: but he plays a little bit high if your pad level's.
Speaker 2: High he's so, tall he has a hard time bending
Speaker 2: in knees and getting, low which you've got to do
Speaker 2: if you're gonna play nose, tackle which is kind of
Speaker 2: what he's built. For so that may be an issue
Speaker 2: for him that he might not be as effective as
Speaker 2: a nose tackle as he would be a defensive end
Speaker 2: in this. Scheme all of those things will, happen But
Speaker 2: I'm i'm thinking there's going to be significant change and
Speaker 2: we're going to see it right out of the gate
Speaker 2: and free.
Speaker 1: Agency, YEAH i think you have to look realistically at
Speaker 1: measurements of players and what they're looking. For outside linebackers
Speaker 1: in this system have to be at least six foot.
Speaker 1: Three ideally there's six four to six six the long
Speaker 1: arms and they're about two fifty five. Plus that's what
Speaker 1: you need at outside linebacker in this. System you need
Speaker 1: length out. There and then defensive ends in this system
Speaker 1: are usually two eighty and up two eighty to three
Speaker 1: bills and your nose tackle has to be on the
Speaker 1: plus side of three twenty five to make this system work.
Speaker 2: Effectively we talked about this on The Regular Daily show
Speaker 2: one of you, know you go down and look through
Speaker 2: the history of the league at all the great nose
Speaker 2: tackles and at the three four, scheme like guys Like
Speaker 2: Curly culp And Ted washington And vince Will. Fork, yeah
Speaker 2: they're they're the one tenth of one. Percenters they are,
Speaker 2: big big human, beings and they are athletes.
Speaker 1: And The bills may need to find two of, them
Speaker 1: one in free, agency one in the. Draft and then
Speaker 1: even at the mike linebacker, spot you don't really have
Speaker 1: somebody that fits that profile right now on your. Roster
Speaker 1: Even Jack thompson had a nice, season but he's six
Speaker 1: foot two point.
Speaker 2: Thirty Even Shaq thompson doesn't fit That. Bill you need.
Speaker 1: Sixty three and at least two thirty, five, Right.
Speaker 2: You need like A Brian, Urlocker Luke. Keikley you, know six'
Speaker 2: five guy who can run and, who's big and they
Speaker 2: got to be able to beat take, a physical physical
Speaker 2: punting out.
Speaker 1: Or if they're not, that big like let's say, they're
Speaker 1: borderline they're like six two two. Thirty five that guy
Speaker 1: on tape better play bigger than, his, size Right Like
Speaker 1: shack thompson did.
Speaker 2: This, Year, right yes that guy is as physically unique
Speaker 2: as the nose tackle we're. Talking about you gotta have
Speaker 2: a couple of, those guys and, then theoretically you get
Speaker 2: those two guys, in there your run. Defense's gold. You're
Speaker 2: fine suddenly, it's, better, suddenly dramatically suddenly teams are, you
Speaker 2: know dropping back on, you know third and it's third. And,
Speaker 2: twelve yeah that's so up until, that point and you
Speaker 2: know the compromises you make and those physical gifts and.
Speaker 2: Those guys is is the difference you see in the
Speaker 2: analytics when you're Run d fin starts to slide and now.
Speaker 2: You're up you know you're giving up four point eight
Speaker 2: Yards per russians to the three.
Speaker 1: Point seven we transition now to the numbers Game where
Speaker 1: steve will be Quized During Super bowl Week On Super.
Speaker 1: Bowl history here. We go question, number one who has
Speaker 1: Won More? Super BOWLS the afc OR.
Speaker 2: The nfc steve.
Speaker 1: Got a fifty to fifty, SHOT, here nfc you, are
Speaker 1: correct IT'S the nfc by the thinnest. Of, margins REALLY
Speaker 1: the nfc has won fifty thirty times. THIRTY nine afc
Speaker 1: has won twenty. Nine times there. You go let's HOPE
Speaker 1: the nfc wins another. This week question, number TWO what
Speaker 1: nfl division holds The Most super? BOWL Titles afc nordy
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Speaker 2: Oh, i'm sorry that's, NOT, RIGHT Nfc, NFC.
Speaker 1: East nfc, East correct, i'm sorry Fourteen.
Speaker 2: SUPER bowls i should have Known, That.
Speaker 1: Giants eagles. Washington, team Yeah in Dallas. And dallas they
Speaker 1: All Have super. Bowl titles, question three HOW many nfl
Speaker 1: teams have never Reached The?
Speaker 2: Super bowl? Never reached just, Get.
Speaker 3: There Carolina, And jacksonville arizona has made it.
Speaker 2: Now, just Vegas, Count, As, oakland, Yes, Okay, Uh, Tennessee
Speaker 2: wow minnesota's been there, A bunch chicago's. Been, There Huh
Speaker 2: Green bay. THEY'RE all, i mean it's. Let's, see uh.
Speaker 2: Let's say i'm gonna say going through, THE teams, I am,
Speaker 2: I know. I am cleveland has never, made It, And
Speaker 2: arizona arizona's.
Speaker 3: Made it.
Speaker 2: Atlanta has. Made It.
Speaker 1: M WHO did i say that we're Whittling, Madly.
Speaker 2: Carolina, jacksonville cleveland that may?
Speaker 1: Be.
Speaker 2: It, Yeah three the answer. Is FOUR who'd? I?
Speaker 1: Miss well carolina has been To A, Super Bowl cam
Speaker 1: newton And with Jake, delom So, It's, Cleveland, jacksonville Houston.
Speaker 2: And detroit houston's never Made.
Speaker 1: The Texans and detroit never. Made it so the answer.
Speaker 1: Is four, OH wow i didn't have it right.
Speaker 2: Either.
Speaker 1: Initially uh question, number four who was the last running
Speaker 1: back To Win?
Speaker 2: SUPER?
Speaker 1: Bowl Mvp? Terrell, davis oh right out of the shoot
Speaker 1: he Nailed At super bowl, Thirty Two terrell davis.
Speaker 2: Thirty, two yeah it's been.
Speaker 1: A minute who it's like nineteen.
Speaker 2: Ninety nine that was when they Were In Jack murphy
Speaker 2: Stadium In san diego against.
Speaker 1: The Old alex gibbs zone. Blocking Machine When terrell davis
Speaker 1: was rolling up two Thousand yard he came.
Speaker 2: Out of that game because he had. A migraine because
Speaker 2: he and the problem was, that's right he did suffer.
Speaker 2: From migraine his his braces, he wore his braces. Were
Speaker 2: tight they so they adjusted his braces and relieved the
Speaker 2: pressure on his jaw and they the migraine, went away
Speaker 2: and he came back in and. Crushed, it wow that's.
Speaker 2: A story i did. Not know, oh, yeah yeah there.
Speaker 2: You go are you working the sidelines for? That One,
Speaker 2: Uh NO but i WAS with CBS and I was
Speaker 2: i was actually watching. THIS town i was working, the,
Speaker 2: Media OKAY and i don't know whether that was, ACTUALLY
Speaker 2: yeah i was not working, That, game okay it was.
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Speaker 1: time now for our one. Burning question with two free
Speaker 1: agents at receiver and a potential cap casualty at the position,
Speaker 1: as well and the pressure to be just, as good if,
Speaker 1: not better on offense in twenty twenty six under a
Speaker 1: new Head Coach, joe brady HOW Does Gm brandon bean
Speaker 1: address the receiver position this. Off, season well.
Speaker 2: He'll well it's been widely reported and made clear that
Speaker 2: he attempted to try and trade for a big time
Speaker 2: wide out at the trade deadline last year and was
Speaker 2: rebuffed even though he had the. Best offer the guy was,
Speaker 2: Not TRADED so i think he will attend to continue to.
Speaker 2: DO that i think they will probably take the lid off, and,
Speaker 2: say listen we're going to fix. This time it's been.
Speaker 2: Two years we did a really nice job with. Year
Speaker 2: one year two had got more problematic because of. The
Speaker 2: injuries they must have had ten different guys that play wide.
Speaker 2: Receiver FORM so i think he will both draft, a
Speaker 2: player he will sign a player or two in, free
Speaker 2: agency and they will rinse through the roster. AS well
Speaker 2: i don't know that it will be a, completely different in,
Speaker 2: my opinion mostly different wide receiver room when they take.
Speaker 1: The, FIELD yeah i believe knowing the offense has to
Speaker 1: be as good, or better and knowing what was missing on,
Speaker 1: the outside and knowing you can't wait on somebody to
Speaker 1: develop as, A rookie i think he tries to acquire
Speaker 1: a proven commodity at the receiver position, via trade unless
Speaker 1: so try and be a loose Free, agency yeah but,
Speaker 1: EVEN then i don't think they want to roll the
Speaker 1: dice on that and hope the guy transitions TO the. Nfl,
Speaker 1: Game well i'll give you a. Perfect Example josh reed
Speaker 1: was a second round pick Of the bills in two
Speaker 1: thousand and two AND at lsu IN, The Sec josh
Speaker 1: reed averaged one hundred and forty five yards receiving. Per
Speaker 1: game he came TO the nfl and it never looked.
Speaker 1: Like that you can't count, on that even with one
Speaker 1: of the best wide receiver coaches to develop talent in.
Speaker 1: The UNIVERSE so i think what he does ultimately is
Speaker 1: he gets a proven commodity at the, receiver position either,
Speaker 1: via TRADE and i think that's more likely trade than
Speaker 1: free agency because there's been a lot of swings and
Speaker 1: misses in free agency where they haven't panned out here for.
Speaker 1: Whatever REASON so i think he gets he was successful
Speaker 1: the last time he traded for a proven Commodity With.
Speaker 1: STEFAN diggs i think he takes another swing at the
Speaker 1: plate with a, trade opportunity AND then i agree, WITH
Speaker 1: you i think they draft one. As well it's a
Speaker 1: good receiver draft talent can be, had THERE and i
Speaker 1: think as long as You Have josh allen as, your
Speaker 1: quarterback you should draft at least one receiver every. Single
Speaker 1: year not saying it has to be a first round pick,
Speaker 1: every year but somewhere between round one and, round five
Speaker 1: you've got a draft a receiver every. Single year if
Speaker 1: you have a Quarterback Like.
Speaker 2: JOSH allen i.
Speaker 1: Think somebody could, get hurt somebody could not pan out
Speaker 1: the way, you thought and as long as you keep
Speaker 1: having people in, the pipeline you enhance your chances of
Speaker 1: not only hitting, on somebody but also. Developing somebody the
Speaker 1: time to develop somebody into a.
Speaker 2: Potential, star yeah they're not in my opinion at. This
Speaker 2: point if depending on what happens in. Free agency if
Speaker 2: they sign a couple of wideouts or a white out
Speaker 2: or make a trade for a whiteout who's, proven commodity
Speaker 2: that receiver that they're going to draft will drop further
Speaker 2: and further down the pecking order in the. Draft picks
Speaker 2: if they don't get a, guy there then then. You
Speaker 2: run there's an opportunity. There, where yeah maybe they will
Speaker 2: go a high draft pick wide receiver in the. First
Speaker 2: ROUND but i YOU and i. BOTH agree i think
Speaker 2: the number one pick this, year's draft if they've still got,
Speaker 2: the pick is going to be on the defensive side of.
Speaker 1: The, Ball, AGAIN yep i don't know if there'll be
Speaker 1: a quality edge. Rusher there you could get, one linebacker
Speaker 1: could get one of the two or three best linebackers
Speaker 1: in the draft there at. Twenty six not a lot
Speaker 1: of linebackers inside guys go in, round one so you
Speaker 1: have a good chance at twenty six to get one
Speaker 1: of the two or three best linebackers in the. Entire
Speaker 1: class that could. Be tempting our closing figure Deals with
Speaker 1: bills team single. Season scoring in the sixty six seasons
Speaker 1: of football played By The, buffalo bills they have scored
Speaker 1: more than four hundred and seventy five points in a
Speaker 1: season just. Four times in two of those, four seasons
Speaker 1: their offensive play caller was Head Coach. Joe brady they
Speaker 1: scored a team record five hundred twenty five points in twenty,
Speaker 1: twenty four and this past season they scored four hundred eighty,
Speaker 1: one points good for fourth best in. Team History so
Speaker 1: brady's offense has the first and fourth highest scoring Offenses
Speaker 1: in bill's history in just two full seasons in the. Coordinator,
Speaker 1: role naturally we all hope that continues as he ascends
Speaker 1: to the head.
Speaker 2: Coaching position that's going TO be i think very key
Speaker 2: to the success of. This TEAM they i think they
Speaker 2: a little bit Like The cincinnati bengals have been accused.
Speaker 2: Of doing they've they got, OUTSCORE people i think in
Speaker 2: the particularly in the first half of. This season depending
Speaker 2: on how the roster management goes on the, DEFENSIVE side
Speaker 2: i think this offense is going to be asked to carry,
Speaker 2: the load.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah for the, first month month and a half
Speaker 1: of the season, for sure while the defense kind of
Speaker 1: rounds into form and gets its bearings in a brand.
Speaker 1: New scheme as we've discussed for the majority of. This
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