1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,880 I'll come back to the Buffalo bread podcast. 2 00:00:08,880 --> 00:00:17,320 This is a postmortem for the corpse of the once mighty Buffalo Bills who fell before the 3 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:21,400 onslaught of the murder of Ravens this past Sunday night. 4 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:26,440 Dan, I'm going to start this pod with a public apology. 5 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:28,520 I think it was my fault. 6 00:00:28,520 --> 00:00:36,000 I started the game wearing a Josh Allen away jersey and a charging buffalo hat, blue charging 7 00:00:36,000 --> 00:00:40,600 Buffalo logo hat, and they absolutely look like trash. 8 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:48,040 And then at the half, I switched to a great Russo home jersey with a standing Buffalo, 9 00:00:48,040 --> 00:00:50,280 you know, throwback hat. 10 00:00:50,280 --> 00:00:52,000 And they still look like trash. 11 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:57,560 So I just can only assume I don't have the proper jersey and hat combo in my war chest 12 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,760 in order to have pulled this one out for Bill's mafia. 13 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:01,880 And for that, I'm very sorry. 14 00:01:01,880 --> 00:01:04,560 I don't blame you. 15 00:01:04,560 --> 00:01:06,040 I blame Joe Brady. 16 00:01:06,040 --> 00:01:07,040 No, I'm just kidding. 17 00:01:07,040 --> 00:01:08,040 It's week four. 18 00:01:08,040 --> 00:01:10,720 We're not doing that stuff yet. 19 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:15,400 I mean, JJ, it was, listen, we're going to get into it and we're going to break it down 20 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:17,400 to the best of our ability. 21 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:22,440 The simplest summary that I can come up with for that game was that they were bigger, faster 22 00:01:22,440 --> 00:01:24,720 and stronger than we were. 23 00:01:24,720 --> 00:01:31,240 And they did what up until that point no one else had done, which is challenge the Buffalo 24 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:36,560 bills defensively in all the areas we knew that they were weak. 25 00:01:36,560 --> 00:01:40,320 They came out with a varied offensive game plan. 26 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:42,800 And we'll get into this as we get into the breakdown. 27 00:01:42,800 --> 00:01:47,360 They had some very specific targets they wanted to pick on them, both the run and the pass 28 00:01:47,360 --> 00:01:48,360 game. 29 00:01:48,360 --> 00:01:51,080 And they executed to great efficacy. 30 00:01:51,080 --> 00:01:52,560 It was beat down. 31 00:01:52,560 --> 00:01:53,720 We were outplayed. 32 00:01:53,720 --> 00:01:55,040 We were outmatched. 33 00:01:55,040 --> 00:01:57,640 And there's nothing you can really do but tip your cap and move on. 34 00:01:57,640 --> 00:02:02,480 Though I will say I see a lot of bills mafia on Twitter being like, yeah, they got the 35 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,120 best of us, but we'll see them in January. 36 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:07,760 I don't ever want to see that team again. 37 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:11,000 Don't ever want to play that team again. 38 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:12,000 Sure. 39 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:13,000 Yeah. 40 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:14,000 And I mean, we need to start. 41 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:20,440 I'm looking forward to getting into it too, even though I'm still reeling from that defeat. 42 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:25,200 The top story though is kind of the breaking news that just came out this afternoon. 43 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:30,640 Von Miller has been suspended by the NFL for violating the personal conduct policy. 44 00:02:30,640 --> 00:02:36,520 We can only presume that this is in connection to the domestic violence allegations from 45 00:02:36,520 --> 00:02:40,400 last year that came through. 46 00:02:40,400 --> 00:02:45,880 And it's likely that the NFL has concluded their investigation into the matter and rendered 47 00:02:45,880 --> 00:02:46,880 this judgment. 48 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,160 That means he won't be available till after the Buffalo Bills return from their trip 49 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:54,120 to play the Seattle Seahawks. 50 00:02:54,120 --> 00:03:00,520 What's your opinion of this whole situation and what it means for the bills? 51 00:03:00,520 --> 00:03:04,600 Personal conduct, particularly around issues of domestic violence are something that the 52 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:10,120 league has suffered a lot of criticism around for many, many years. 53 00:03:10,120 --> 00:03:14,600 And I think, setting aside the Buffalo Bills gear, you've got to respect the finding of 54 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:15,600 the league. 55 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:17,320 I'm sure, and I've already seen it. 56 00:03:17,320 --> 00:03:20,240 There's some grumblings with how long the process took. 57 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:22,520 The timeline JJ doesn't bother me. 58 00:03:22,520 --> 00:03:27,440 I think take as much time as you need to get sensitive and serious issues like this correct. 59 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:31,440 And if the league feels like they got this correct, I have no issues with the timing 60 00:03:31,440 --> 00:03:32,440 either. 61 00:03:32,440 --> 00:03:36,200 Because if even half of the allegations are true, Vom's should be sitting. 62 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:40,440 We talked about this last season as well, how weird it was that the Bills just kind 63 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:44,120 of ran him out there at the height of this thing. 64 00:03:44,120 --> 00:03:48,240 And that there should be some things personally, professionally that are simply bigger than 65 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:51,320 football as an organization. 66 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:56,000 So to me, I have no qualms with this, though I'm sure there will be criticisms about the 67 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:57,200 timing around this. 68 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:58,880 That's off the field. 69 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:03,040 On the field, like it hurts, but not as much I think as people think. 70 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,880 Von played nine snaps against the Ravens. 71 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:10,080 And that is because he is what we thought he would be when we signed him, which is a 72 00:04:10,080 --> 00:04:13,280 third down, pass rush specialist. 73 00:04:13,280 --> 00:04:18,040 They no longer trust him to negate anything off the edge in the run game. 74 00:04:18,040 --> 00:04:19,560 So it is what it is. 75 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:23,560 We'll have to make up for it, but it is not the loss that it would have been maybe two 76 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:24,880 or three years ago. 77 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:25,880 Sure. 78 00:04:25,880 --> 00:04:30,240 I think that's very aptly put in both football terms and human terms. 79 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:37,640 I don't have any more notes on it other than I am frustrated with the league in terms of 80 00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:39,640 how long it takes these things. 81 00:04:39,640 --> 00:04:43,000 But I think you know, you make a really good point, which is you want to get it right. 82 00:04:43,000 --> 00:04:47,160 You want to be thorough and you want to be sensitive to all the parties involved. 83 00:04:47,160 --> 00:04:50,360 So you know, it is what it is. 84 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:54,320 We'll see, you know, if he has an impact when he returns after the suspension, and we'll 85 00:04:54,320 --> 00:05:00,560 also see what this, you know, what the bills in a tactical football sense do on those third 86 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,760 downs with the different pressure packages, they want to they want to roll out to replace 87 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:09,760 this because I do think that he's been having a decent season in those limited snaps. 88 00:05:09,760 --> 00:05:14,720 Still, I agree with you, he's a liability to hold the edge in, especially in a physical 89 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,320 smash mouth rushing attack. 90 00:05:17,320 --> 00:05:19,520 It is now Casey to Hill season, my friend. 91 00:05:19,520 --> 00:05:21,520 And that is where we are at with this. 92 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:22,520 Boohia. 93 00:05:22,520 --> 00:05:28,480 Well, I mean, they've got Devon or Dewan Smoot back, but he's been playing a lot more inside, 94 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:30,000 which I'm surprised by. 95 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:31,000 Yeah. 96 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:34,160 I don't think they love their depth of defensive tackle. 97 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:36,840 We kind of felt this coming into the season. 98 00:05:36,840 --> 00:05:41,680 We thought Smoot would definitely be kind of like a rotational piece on both the edge 99 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:47,040 and the inside, but they've been using him to spell both Oliver and Dequan Jones at a 100 00:05:47,040 --> 00:05:51,240 rate that so I think they're trying to kind of patch this thing together along the defensive 101 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:52,760 front as they move along. 102 00:05:52,760 --> 00:05:55,400 Yeah, I think that's that's true. 103 00:05:55,400 --> 00:06:03,040 Speaking of the defensive front, the Derek Henry made his daddy on Sunday night or made 104 00:06:03,040 --> 00:06:04,040 his children. 105 00:06:04,040 --> 00:06:05,960 He is our daddy. 106 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:06,960 It was it. 107 00:06:06,960 --> 00:06:07,960 Oh, it was pitiful. 108 00:06:07,960 --> 00:06:12,400 It was absolutely pitiful watching the bill's defensive front, which I thought I thought 109 00:06:12,400 --> 00:06:18,400 was looking excellent through three games being totally manhandled. 110 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:24,280 And whether it was Derek Henry or who was there the run back that was spelling him Justice 111 00:06:24,280 --> 00:06:25,280 Hill. 112 00:06:25,280 --> 00:06:29,840 Yeah, Justice Hill and like maybe the only time in Chris Collins were Collinsworth's entire 113 00:06:29,840 --> 00:06:31,680 broadcasting career. 114 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:35,920 He said something that I found humorous, which was Justice Hill, where I think that the Supreme 115 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:37,920 Court should be should be found. 116 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:40,280 I was like, that's that's actually pretty good. 117 00:06:40,280 --> 00:06:43,640 Okay, um, keep your politics out of the Booth Collinsworth. 118 00:06:43,640 --> 00:06:44,640 That's funny. 119 00:06:44,640 --> 00:06:45,640 It's also fun. 120 00:06:45,640 --> 00:06:46,640 You guys are just both crushing it. 121 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:52,560 No, but Justice Hill, you know, a scat back a little bit of a jitterbug. 122 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:57,920 He was untouched until about four or five yards almost every time he ran the ball. 123 00:06:57,920 --> 00:07:02,240 And the bills had no rush lane discipline. 124 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:06,320 They looked like they were playing afraid to get beat, which they should have been after 125 00:07:06,320 --> 00:07:11,580 the first play from scrimmage for the Ravens was a Derek Henry house call. 126 00:07:11,580 --> 00:07:16,120 That was the moment in the game where, you know, with 30 seconds in or one bill's three 127 00:07:16,120 --> 00:07:19,120 and out in, I was like, Oh, no. 128 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:22,080 And I don't know, I think a lot of bills, mafia felt that way. 129 00:07:22,080 --> 00:07:27,000 I immediately went into a meditative state after that Derek Henry run because I just 130 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:30,680 I knew where the rest of the game was going to go. 131 00:07:30,680 --> 00:07:33,680 And dude, they ran it right at Rousseau. 132 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,280 Allegedly our best edge defender when I'm supplying. 133 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:41,120 They were they were just like strength on strength, man. 134 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:44,000 Yeah, they ran it right at Rousseau. 135 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:49,040 And I mean, the lane that Henry had to burst through unbelievable. 136 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:53,800 And you know, it's interesting because as you look at you look at what his run paths 137 00:07:53,800 --> 00:07:59,440 were on each of his handoffs compared to what they have been in the previous few weeks. 138 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:04,400 This really mirrored the Dallas game in some interesting ways, but most for most for the 139 00:08:04,400 --> 00:08:10,680 most part, they started to get Henry more running through the tackles and outside the 140 00:08:10,680 --> 00:08:13,880 tackles, which was always his strength in Tennessee. 141 00:08:13,880 --> 00:08:18,640 Like because he is so big, people think, Oh yeah, just run him up the gut. 142 00:08:18,640 --> 00:08:20,400 That's what you do with Henry. 143 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,760 And that was lending itself to some predictability in the first few weeks of the ball. 144 00:08:23,760 --> 00:08:27,600 To more run game, because that's effectively how they had pigeonholed him. 145 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:31,840 But starting with the Dallas game and then moving on to our game against the bills, they 146 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:37,120 started to find some of that that run path success he had had in Tennessee. 147 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:38,840 And dude, it really paid dividends. 148 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:40,280 And he had good reminder. 149 00:08:40,280 --> 00:08:41,600 He's not just big. 150 00:08:41,600 --> 00:08:45,360 He is insanely almost inhumanly fast. 151 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:50,520 Like I'm sure you saw all that stuff online comparing his top speed on that run versus 152 00:08:50,520 --> 00:08:51,920 Xavier Worthies. 153 00:08:51,920 --> 00:08:56,840 The fastest man in the history of the combine, his top speed on that 52 yard TD reception 154 00:08:56,840 --> 00:08:58,520 he had from the homes. 155 00:08:58,520 --> 00:09:03,200 Like someone like Henry should not be running that fast, but props to Todd Monk and for 156 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:07,480 finally figuring out that you can use Henry more than just running him into a heavy box 157 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:08,480 up the middle. 158 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:10,160 I mean, yeah. 159 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:15,120 And I think that, you know, I'm going to throw some flowers down at the feet of the 160 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:21,560 mountain, Daniel, Mount filet, Lea, because that dude is 380 pounds. 161 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:26,400 And he was the person I saw the most when the, when the Ravens wanted to run, they ran 162 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:27,560 right off that right side. 163 00:09:27,560 --> 00:09:33,320 It was either grew so or at Oliver, who usually line up on the right side, both of them light. 164 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:37,560 So is not light for the position, but he's light because of his height. 165 00:09:37,560 --> 00:09:41,560 And then it Oliver's undersized in every possible way. 166 00:09:41,560 --> 00:09:46,240 And so just, you know, the fact that they had filet, Lea, who was almost four, four 167 00:09:46,240 --> 00:09:51,760 bills, um, road grading in that direction was, and it created a situation where like 168 00:09:51,760 --> 00:09:54,240 how many times did they pass it like nine times or something? 169 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:57,600 It was not, not, it was not a pass of a game. 170 00:09:57,600 --> 00:10:01,880 I think Lamar had, I think Lamar had 17 total dropbacks. 171 00:10:01,880 --> 00:10:02,880 Yeah. 172 00:10:02,880 --> 00:10:03,880 I think it was 17. 173 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:08,720 So it was, they would just control the game script from top to bottom and they just did 174 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:09,720 what they wanted to. 175 00:10:09,720 --> 00:10:15,360 The two bills had two or three stops, one on a turnover and then two kind of, you know, 176 00:10:15,360 --> 00:10:19,320 where they forced to punt and it just, oh man, it was, it was so bad. 177 00:10:19,320 --> 00:10:23,840 It was, it's, and it's hard to put into any more rational terms than that, but it was 178 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:25,840 just domination start to finish. 179 00:10:25,840 --> 00:10:30,640 And they, I mean, Baltimore knew who they wanted to pick on and they knew they were 180 00:10:30,640 --> 00:10:34,760 going to run right at Oliver, right at Russo. 181 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:40,800 And this has been a standing issue for the Buffalo bills when they go up against bigger 182 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:42,480 offensive lines. 183 00:10:42,480 --> 00:10:46,960 Can they dominate offensive lines like Jacksonville where they've got some more athletic pieces 184 00:10:46,960 --> 00:10:49,080 like a Mitch Morris and win with technique? 185 00:10:49,080 --> 00:10:50,080 Absolutely. 186 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:54,040 Can they do that against just a dumpster fire or an offensive line in Miami? 187 00:10:54,040 --> 00:10:55,120 Absolutely. 188 00:10:55,120 --> 00:11:02,000 But when you put a, even a semi well coached offensive line that has some size up against 189 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:08,400 this defensive line of the bills, they disappear time and time and time again. 190 00:11:08,400 --> 00:11:14,200 And they didn't get much help JJ in the secondary either or from the linebacker core because 191 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:18,120 Baltimore figured out, oh, Matt Milano isn't in fact playing. 192 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:21,280 Jarell Bernard also not in fact playing. 193 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:23,960 Taryn Johnson not on the field. 194 00:11:23,960 --> 00:11:28,680 So let's just go after all of his replacements, which they did not just in the run game and 195 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:34,000 the design QB run game, but they did it intentionally in the past game too. 196 00:11:34,000 --> 00:11:40,360 Out of some of those 17 dropbacks, 12 targets that Lamar Jackson had in that game were targeted 197 00:11:40,360 --> 00:11:46,240 to a nearest defender of either Dorian Williams or Cam Lewis. 198 00:11:46,240 --> 00:11:52,080 QB rating on throws to Dorian, that went at Dorian Williams was a 118. 199 00:11:52,080 --> 00:11:56,640 Cam Lewis was a 107 and all targets were completed. 200 00:11:56,640 --> 00:12:00,560 Nail inspector only got targeted once, but he had his lunch handed to him in the design 201 00:12:00,560 --> 00:12:02,720 QB run game against Lamar too. 202 00:12:02,720 --> 00:12:08,200 Listen, I mean, again, I would love to come up with something revelatory about why the 203 00:12:08,200 --> 00:12:12,800 bills lost this game, but they had a lot of their backups in and the Baltimore Ravens 204 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:16,800 decided they were going to exploit those backups and they did it and they did it well and they 205 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:18,840 deserve to win that game. 206 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:24,960 Again, I'm not sure that Taryn Johnson, Matt Milano and Troll Bernard make up 25 points 207 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:29,760 in that game, which means that there were some issues with the Buffalo Bills offense 208 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:35,160 that we need to flip the script to because should we make it to January and should we 209 00:12:35,160 --> 00:12:40,040 somehow face this team again, it is not going to be the defense that has the recipe to stop 210 00:12:40,040 --> 00:12:41,680 this Baltimore offense. 211 00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:44,280 It's got to be the bills offense is going to carry them through the day. 212 00:12:44,280 --> 00:12:47,680 And there were some real issues on that side of the ball as well. 213 00:12:47,680 --> 00:12:49,880 Yeah, I agree completely. 214 00:12:49,880 --> 00:12:56,320 It's just it is just literally a matchup of Superman and Kryptonite in terms of this, 215 00:12:56,320 --> 00:13:01,280 the way that the Ravens offense is built and the way that the bills philosophically play 216 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:04,320 defense, they are going to get beat. 217 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:06,480 So it really I agree completely. 218 00:13:06,480 --> 00:13:07,600 It comes down to Josh Allen. 219 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:13,400 It comes down to the same way that the bills have tried to manage the Patrick Mahomes lead 220 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:18,040 chiefs is to just keep Patrick Mahomes off the field as much as possible, right? 221 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:19,460 Control the grip game script. 222 00:13:19,460 --> 00:13:24,320 The way that the New York Giants shut down the high powered bills offense in Super Bowl. 223 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:26,320 What was that? 224 00:13:26,320 --> 00:13:29,680 24 which one? 225 00:13:29,680 --> 00:13:31,360 The Giants bills. 226 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:32,360 Wide right. 227 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:33,360 Oh, wide right. 228 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:34,360 That was 1990. 229 00:13:34,360 --> 00:13:35,360 Wasn't it? 230 00:13:35,360 --> 00:13:36,360 Yeah. 231 00:13:36,360 --> 00:13:37,360 Yeah. 232 00:13:37,360 --> 00:13:38,360 Oh, God. 233 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:39,360 I don't remember. 234 00:13:39,360 --> 00:13:40,360 I don't remember. 235 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,160 But I do know that Bill Belichick came into that game and his entire plan was to, you know, 236 00:13:43,160 --> 00:13:45,200 control the bills offense by not facing them. 237 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:46,800 Essentially, take the air out of the ball. 238 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:49,920 We're just going to run the ball and they're going to get four or five possessions. 239 00:13:49,920 --> 00:13:50,920 That's it. 240 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:53,520 So like this bill's defense is not built to stop the Ravens. 241 00:13:53,520 --> 00:13:55,680 The offense has to agree. 242 00:13:55,680 --> 00:14:00,320 And I also hope that they get knocked off by somebody on their route on their road to 243 00:14:00,320 --> 00:14:03,720 the playoffs because again, I do not. 244 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:12,080 I can imagine a game with this Ravens team in either Baltimore or Buffalo in January 245 00:14:12,080 --> 00:14:20,160 with a weather factor being an equally terrible, drubbing, even if Milano and Johnson are back. 246 00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:21,160 Absolutely. 247 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:24,920 And when you factor in weather, you've got a factor in the Baltimore defense and their 248 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:27,720 sustained ability to stop the run game. 249 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:31,800 And I think that's a good opportunity to flip it over to the offensive side of the ball 250 00:14:31,800 --> 00:14:34,640 because there's a there's a lot to unpack there. 251 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:36,720 I want to start with a positive though. 252 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:40,520 And that is the maturity that I saw in Allen in this game. 253 00:14:40,520 --> 00:14:46,960 The minute Henry busted off that big run at the beginning of the game, I'm like, oh, damn, 254 00:14:46,960 --> 00:14:53,000 Josh is going to go try to score an 18 point touchdown just to just to recalibrate the offense. 255 00:14:53,000 --> 00:14:55,320 But Josh played within the scheme. 256 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:57,920 He played within what the defense was giving him. 257 00:14:57,920 --> 00:14:59,880 It just wasn't a lot. 258 00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:04,280 And there were some heroics that he pulled out, but he never ultimately put the ball 259 00:15:04,280 --> 00:15:07,160 in danger through the air. 260 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:12,760 Granted, he had that one fumble on that atrocious trick play that we will absolutely get into. 261 00:15:12,760 --> 00:15:15,960 And Brady has already admitted it was just a bad play call. 262 00:15:15,960 --> 00:15:23,640 But from word go, the bills seem to be unsettled. 263 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:28,440 Not just on the field, but with the play sequencing, which is something that Brady is usually so 264 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:33,000 good at the play sequencing and some of the personnel packages, especially right off in 265 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,600 that first drive, were really, really confusing. 266 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:39,960 JJ, where do you want to start? 267 00:15:39,960 --> 00:15:43,280 You want to start with the in ineffectiveness of the run game? 268 00:15:43,280 --> 00:15:45,280 Or do you want to talk about the pass game? 269 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:48,160 Because there's some interesting nuggets to pull from both, I think. 270 00:15:48,160 --> 00:15:53,200 Yeah, let's talk about the bills pass game, because I think that's been the story of their 271 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:54,200 success. 272 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:57,120 You know, the run game, I think is good, but the run game has really just sort of been 273 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:03,120 a foundation which sets up reasonable down in distance for the pass game to deliver through 274 00:16:03,120 --> 00:16:05,000 the first three weeks. 275 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:10,640 And I think that the story here for me on the Ravens defense versus the bills offense 276 00:16:10,640 --> 00:16:13,400 pass game is just about pressure. 277 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:18,360 Josh Allen in games that he's been the least successful. 278 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:20,640 And this makes them, I mean, this is like an obvious thing. 279 00:16:20,640 --> 00:16:26,040 This is this is the NFL in general in the games where he conducts himself the least successfully. 280 00:16:26,040 --> 00:16:29,240 He looks like he's running for his life and under pressure constantly. 281 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:30,240 That's what the Ravens did. 282 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:34,240 And they did it in a very particular way, a way that I hope the Buffalo Bills are prepared 283 00:16:34,240 --> 00:16:39,840 to see again, because I can bet you that the Texans are looking at this tape and going 284 00:16:39,840 --> 00:16:47,280 to, you know, scheme up ways to twist, stunt and delay their blitzes on Josh Allen. 285 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:53,280 So we saw the Ravens who have excellent linebackers and who have a very solid run front and pass 286 00:16:53,280 --> 00:17:00,200 rush front, basically just trying to confuse the assignments and protection of the line. 287 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:05,720 And they rarely sent, you know, they rarely sent like full jailbreak blitzes, but they 288 00:17:05,720 --> 00:17:08,720 did send an extra fifth rusher often. 289 00:17:08,720 --> 00:17:14,760 And they made that person be a different, you know, character from time to time based 290 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:18,000 on the front and based on the looks that the bills were giving them. 291 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:19,520 It was occasionally defensive backs. 292 00:17:19,520 --> 00:17:21,800 Kyle Hamilton had an excellent game. 293 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:24,440 It was occasionally a linebacker. 294 00:17:24,440 --> 00:17:27,240 Roquan Smith, I mean, is like probably he's an all pro. 295 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:28,760 He's one of the best in the league. 296 00:17:28,760 --> 00:17:33,200 So they were actually sending more than four quite often. 297 00:17:33,200 --> 00:17:37,720 And when they did, it was from unexpected angles or unexpected timing. 298 00:17:37,720 --> 00:17:42,520 I think that was the other piece is they had studied the bills offense well enough to know 299 00:17:42,520 --> 00:17:44,160 how the routes develop. 300 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:46,000 And they knew when Josh Allen likes to get the ball out. 301 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:50,360 They knew it was quick, but they still did some stutters to allow the line to spread 302 00:17:50,360 --> 00:17:51,920 apart a little bit. 303 00:17:51,920 --> 00:17:57,400 So you know, Roquan Smith can close the distance from that like seven or eight yards away from 304 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:03,480 Josh Allen in less than a second and a half if he has to, just by letting the center and 305 00:18:03,480 --> 00:18:10,000 the guard slip to their right to cover up a slide and then shoot in the gap. 306 00:18:10,000 --> 00:18:14,840 Sorry, could not find the unmute button there. 307 00:18:14,840 --> 00:18:19,800 JJ, it's a great breakdown from the Baltimore side of things. 308 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:27,280 From the bill side of things, I, this was the first game where I felt like Brady was 309 00:18:27,280 --> 00:18:31,920 a first time full time play caller, I think for sure. 310 00:18:31,920 --> 00:18:36,280 We had seen some nice adjustments from him in the first three weeks of the season, but 311 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:39,440 he did not have a lot of answers in the playbook. 312 00:18:39,440 --> 00:18:48,360 And you know, JJ, I'm just, I continue to be perplexed by the snap share that the Buffalo 313 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:55,080 Bills are giving, distributing to their wide receiver room. 314 00:18:55,080 --> 00:19:02,320 Mack Hollins for the second time this season, out snapped Khalil Shakir by one snap. 315 00:19:02,320 --> 00:19:06,240 Like Khalil Shakir is very clearly their best wide receiver. 316 00:19:06,240 --> 00:19:08,960 He's arguably their best playmaker. 317 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:13,960 There's not a world where Mack Hollins is great as Mack Hollins is as a leader should 318 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:17,360 ever be out snapping Khalil Shakir. 319 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:21,880 Add to that, Hollins also ran the same amount of routes that Shakir ran. 320 00:19:21,880 --> 00:19:26,360 So it's not even like they're keeping Hollins out there and run only situations. 321 00:19:26,360 --> 00:19:32,760 But JJ, his, his target percentage is low, but then his catch percentage is under 33 322 00:19:32,760 --> 00:19:33,760 percent as well. 323 00:19:33,760 --> 00:19:38,840 So the limited times they do target him, he's not bringing the ball in and he's not generating 324 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:40,520 separation. 325 00:19:40,520 --> 00:19:46,040 Those are snaps in the second half to me that should have exclusively gone to Keon Coleman. 326 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:51,760 I know Coleman had that drop in the early portions of the third, third quarter that they 327 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:57,800 needed, but dude, those two sideline catches that he made with a defender draped all over 328 00:19:57,800 --> 00:20:01,560 him, that's the type of playmaking the bills needed. 329 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:04,640 Not a lot of people were getting separation in that wide receiver core. 330 00:20:04,640 --> 00:20:12,400 And Coleman to me is Josh's most trusted asset when opposing defenses are guarding this wide 331 00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:17,200 receiver group very, very closely playing that sticky coverage that a lot of teams like 332 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:19,880 to play on the Buffalo Bills. 333 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:25,160 It remains a mystery to me what the bills coaching staff is seeing in this personnel 334 00:20:25,160 --> 00:20:26,880 grouping in the wide receiver room. 335 00:20:26,880 --> 00:20:32,080 Because to me, it's pretty clear you've got Shakir, then Coleman's your number two, then 336 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:35,920 it should be Curtis Samuel who again, I think his snap share is limited because he's still 337 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:38,040 recovering from that toe injury. 338 00:20:38,040 --> 00:20:43,440 But there is no reason for my money that Mack Hollins should be out there running as many 339 00:20:43,440 --> 00:20:50,560 routes as Khalil Shakir given his in an efficacy overall in the past game. 340 00:20:50,560 --> 00:20:53,240 When he is targeted, he's not catching things. 341 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:58,440 He's out there basically is like an empty route most times like I just I don't understand 342 00:20:58,440 --> 00:20:59,440 it. 343 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:00,560 I don't understand the personnel groupings. 344 00:21:00,560 --> 00:21:05,320 I need someone smarter than me to explain it to me why your most talented wide receiver 345 00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:10,960 and Shakir is not getting your largest snap share and why a guy like Coleman isn't taking 346 00:21:10,960 --> 00:21:14,400 snaps from Mack, Mack Hollins at this point. 347 00:21:14,400 --> 00:21:19,600 I'm here to tell you exactly why in the most logical way possible. 348 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:23,040 Joe Brady is being a dumb, dumb dude. 349 00:21:23,040 --> 00:21:27,160 Okay, somebody else explained it. 350 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:31,800 No, continue, please go ahead. 351 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:33,800 I mean, I'm I'm a flabbergasted. 352 00:21:33,800 --> 00:21:36,240 You are I don't actually have an answer. 353 00:21:36,240 --> 00:21:37,240 It's crazy. 354 00:21:37,240 --> 00:21:41,000 Like I had to check the stats twice, but like it's it's wild. 355 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:42,000 It doesn't make a lot of sense. 356 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:47,640 The only thing I can guess, at least in the Coleman part of things is like he's got some 357 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:49,160 rookie growing pains going on. 358 00:21:49,160 --> 00:21:54,000 The fact that he was benched for the first quarter against the Jaguar Jaguars is like, 359 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:55,640 you know, for showing up late to meetings. 360 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:59,360 That's kind of a that tells me that they're not going to tell you the story, but maybe 361 00:21:59,360 --> 00:22:03,240 he's having a hard transition to the league a little bit with the work ethic, not me, 362 00:22:03,240 --> 00:22:04,240 not work ethic. 363 00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:07,680 He's he's been reported as a hard worker, but maybe just the transition to the league 364 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:08,680 of being a professional. 365 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:13,440 And I think that can be difficult for first, you know, first year players. 366 00:22:13,440 --> 00:22:15,120 And that might be part of it. 367 00:22:15,120 --> 00:22:19,880 Because I mean, Mack Hollins is looked to as a big time leader in that room and on the 368 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:23,160 on the team and like a character guy and a glue guy. 369 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:24,160 So there's some of that. 370 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:28,000 But and I think that actually is my that's my explanation. 371 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,760 That's what I'm going to land on because we've seen this year for years. 372 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:35,560 Sean McDermott, Brandon Bean, who's not really making those decisions, but Sean McDermott 373 00:22:35,560 --> 00:22:43,480 certainly and his coordinators, who he sets the tone for tend to overvalue leadership 374 00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:45,800 in the face of talent. 375 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:50,440 That goes for, you know, choices that they made all the way back when Sean McDermott 376 00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:54,920 first arrived with who's who's the running back in the backfield when Devin Singletary 377 00:22:54,920 --> 00:22:59,360 was a rookie and out out snapping out earning Frank Gore almost every play, but yet they 378 00:22:59,360 --> 00:23:03,840 still line Frank Gore up on second and 10 and, you know, because there's the components 379 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:09,880 of the of the player beyond talent and athleticism that they value that will get that that player 380 00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:11,880 on the field over somebody else. 381 00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:16,520 And I think that's probably the answer here, specifically with Mack Hollins. 382 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:20,080 I don't know why Mack Hollins over Khalil Shakir because everything that we've heard 383 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:25,480 is that Khalil Shakir is like, you know, celebrated in the building as a as a leader amongst 384 00:23:25,480 --> 00:23:27,840 the guys as you still young Claire. 385 00:23:27,840 --> 00:23:31,640 But that may be a body type issue as well. 386 00:23:31,640 --> 00:23:37,200 I I'm just gonna I got I've got to run these numbers by you because listen, your explanation 387 00:23:37,200 --> 00:23:40,760 is one that is rational. 388 00:23:40,760 --> 00:23:46,040 But the bills cannot continue to operate with this level of subjectivity when it comes to 389 00:23:46,040 --> 00:23:49,600 playing their young players. 390 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:54,280 Here it is Mack Hollins total routes run on the season 82. 391 00:23:54,280 --> 00:24:00,040 Khalil Shakir 81 his target percentage remains low at 13%. 392 00:24:00,040 --> 00:24:02,240 But Keon Coleman's is only 14%. 393 00:24:02,240 --> 00:24:06,520 They've basically each been targeted 11 times on Josh's dropbacks. 394 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:10,400 Here to me is lock and key. 395 00:24:10,400 --> 00:24:14,960 Why you put Coleman out there over Mack Hollins catch percentage catch percentage on those 396 00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:21,280 11 targets for Hollins the season 36% catch percentage for Khalil Shakir or I'm sorry 397 00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:32,320 for Keon Coleman 72.7% catch rate above expectation plus 23.8% for Coleman, which means he's doing 398 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:34,560 what we expected him to do. 399 00:24:34,560 --> 00:24:37,560 He's catching stuff that really no one else can. 400 00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:44,040 Mack Hollins catch rate over its expectation minus 20.3%, which says he should at least 401 00:24:44,040 --> 00:24:49,200 based on separation based on position of defender based on route run, which is how they compile 402 00:24:49,200 --> 00:24:52,040 the algorithm for catch rate over expected. 403 00:24:52,040 --> 00:24:56,080 He should be catching at least 56% of his targets and he's not. 404 00:24:56,080 --> 00:24:57,440 He's not. 405 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:03,040 That to me is the objective rational reason why Keon Coleman needs to be getting these 406 00:25:03,040 --> 00:25:07,720 targets, especially in situations like they were in in Baltimore where they needed some 407 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:13,320 juice and they needed to complete a high degree of difficulty in their past game and they 408 00:25:13,320 --> 00:25:15,840 needed to execute at that degree of difficulty. 409 00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,800 Keon Coleman should be their guy at this point. 410 00:25:18,800 --> 00:25:20,800 Would you draft him for? 411 00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:22,520 Would you draft him for? 412 00:25:22,520 --> 00:25:28,440 Hey, you know, I feel at this point after having seen the way that this team has been 413 00:25:28,440 --> 00:25:32,920 run that you're we're just shouting into the void because that I mean this is this is how 414 00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:37,040 they do it right like, oh, my trusted veteran, my precious. 415 00:25:37,040 --> 00:25:42,000 And then you got those who could be helping you in critical moments. 416 00:25:42,000 --> 00:25:46,760 Just cooling his heels on the sideline because you don't believe in his character leadership 417 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:47,760 yet. 418 00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:49,840 I'm using air quotes there. 419 00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:50,840 Yeah, so just wild. 420 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:51,840 I get it. 421 00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:53,120 I just I get it. 422 00:25:53,120 --> 00:25:57,960 Everyone's going to eat, but like, let your hunters get to the table first. 423 00:25:57,960 --> 00:25:58,960 Yeah. 424 00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:02,640 And your hunters are Shakir, Cuncade, Samuel and Coleman. 425 00:26:02,640 --> 00:26:04,040 Let them get to the table first. 426 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:05,040 Yeah. 427 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,120 No, that's a astute observation, my friend. 428 00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:11,440 Do you want to do you want to talk at all about the running running game for the bills 429 00:26:11,440 --> 00:26:12,440 or not? 430 00:26:12,440 --> 00:26:14,200 It went as expected. 431 00:26:14,200 --> 00:26:19,960 I will tell you, I am not we saying the praises of Aaron Kroemer and this offensive line for 432 00:26:19,960 --> 00:26:21,360 three straight weeks. 433 00:26:21,360 --> 00:26:25,240 I am not ready to backtrack on that. 434 00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:31,200 But it is a little concerning that this was the first competent defensive line that offensive 435 00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:36,120 line faced and they could get no push in the run game and they couldn't protect Josh at 436 00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:42,760 all pressure rate on Josh not just from Blitz's 44.1 percent, his highest of the season by 437 00:26:42,760 --> 00:26:49,720 a country mile almost double what his average pressure had been heading into this game. 438 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:53,680 It was a failure on a lot of different levels. 439 00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:58,280 They have another really big test coming up in Houston, which we'll talk about later on 440 00:26:58,280 --> 00:26:59,840 this week on the pod. 441 00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:04,520 And then they'll face granted a depleted but it's still a well coached New York Jets defensive 442 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:05,520 line. 443 00:27:05,520 --> 00:27:10,240 I think we're going to find out a lot about how real this offensive line is JJ after this 444 00:27:10,240 --> 00:27:11,600 three game road stretch. 445 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:15,200 And this team is four and two, three and three. 446 00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:19,440 And the offensive line is a big reason why they didn't come away with more. 447 00:27:19,440 --> 00:27:24,240 I do think it's fair game again after weeks this six to start to call into question the 448 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:26,840 strategy around the roster build for the offensive line. 449 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:30,760 But I'm not ready to do it yet because I've got an opportunity to kind of rebound against 450 00:27:30,760 --> 00:27:31,760 Houston. 451 00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:32,760 So we'll see. 452 00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:33,760 Yeah. 453 00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:39,960 And I think that calling the roster build into question on the offensive line, it can't 454 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,000 be done really in a vacuum. 455 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:48,720 It has to be done in terms of like what the options or like turn downs that they had were 456 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:54,480 because I'll tell you after watching the Mitch Morris with the Jags against these bills. 457 00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:58,960 And then having seen Ryan Bates with the with the Bears a little bit. 458 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:04,960 I I don't know that anybody that they kind of gave up on shipped away or let walk in 459 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:09,080 free agency was a major loss. 460 00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:10,080 You know what I mean? 461 00:28:10,080 --> 00:28:13,000 Like it's the the line the bills have, I don't know, could be marked. 462 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:14,000 That's fair. 463 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:18,240 Could be markedly better with the pieces that they that they sent away. 464 00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:24,080 So you know, it could be better, you know, if they would have been, I'll entertain the 465 00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:28,960 argument that they could have invested in free agency on a different guard or center 466 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:34,360 that they could have gone after kind of like big game hunting in the draft a little bit, 467 00:28:34,360 --> 00:28:35,800 you know, higher in the rounds. 468 00:28:35,800 --> 00:28:39,640 There's pieces there that they could have, you know, attended to. 469 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:44,680 But but yeah, if we're just talking about who they let walk and who they kept, I still 470 00:28:44,680 --> 00:28:47,600 think they kept the right people. 471 00:28:47,600 --> 00:28:49,920 That's a fair and sober analysis, right? 472 00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:52,040 And again, I'm not there yet. 473 00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,720 Let's wait and see what it looks like after they face the stretch. 474 00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,800 It could very well be that this Ravens defensive line is the best line they're going to face 475 00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:00,480 all season. 476 00:29:00,480 --> 00:29:03,680 That's not outside of the realm of possibility. 477 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:07,400 So and again, at every level, it was just a bad matchup for the bills. 478 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:14,120 You said it, Crypt Superman versus Kryptonite, like everything offensively and defensively 479 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:18,800 that the Ravens like to do and the personnel matchups they have against the bills. 480 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:23,600 I mean, they are just so finely tuned to beat a roster and beat a scheme that the bills 481 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:24,600 roll out there. 482 00:29:24,600 --> 00:29:28,840 Like it could just be one bad game, which is why I'm reserving judgment on the offensive 483 00:29:28,840 --> 00:29:35,440 line because they put three near perfect performances granted against subpar competition, but three 484 00:29:35,440 --> 00:29:40,040 near perfect games behind them in the first three weeks of the season. 485 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,400 So it jury is still out. 486 00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:47,040 But again, they're operating with a lot of my credit, my my confidence, at least still 487 00:29:47,040 --> 00:29:48,040 heading into Houston. 488 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:49,040 Yeah. 489 00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:50,040 Yeah. 490 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:51,040 Yeah. 491 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:52,040 Same. 492 00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,600 I'm not going to like, you know, I'm not going to write them off based on this one game. 493 00:29:55,600 --> 00:29:58,040 And so it's going to be interesting to see where things go from here. 494 00:29:58,040 --> 00:30:02,640 I have one note kind of before we put the Ravens game to bed. 495 00:30:02,640 --> 00:30:07,640 I don't think it's an I don't think it's out of hand for Bill's mafia to be calling for 496 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:13,240 Tyler Bass to potentially be be shelled. 497 00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:17,920 He's got he's got a 75% field goal made percentage, which is the lowest in his career. 498 00:30:17,920 --> 00:30:20,760 And I know it's just through four games and the season is long. 499 00:30:20,760 --> 00:30:24,280 They are putting a lot of faith in him working through it and it costs them money to cut 500 00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:28,480 him so it's not like there's any financial incentive to like switching that up. 501 00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:32,960 And I get the argument that that's, you know, there's no 100% field goal kicker sitting 502 00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:34,200 on on the street right now. 503 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,360 It's likely you'd be getting same or worse, right? 504 00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:44,600 But I will say, you know, I'm not I'm not completely opposed to like finding a undrafted 505 00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:51,760 free agent who needs a chance in the league just for the sake of putting a kicker we know 506 00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:57,680 is wildly inconsistent and has been for the past, you know, four games this season last 507 00:30:57,680 --> 00:31:00,840 four games the last season on the shelf. 508 00:31:00,840 --> 00:31:06,800 Yeah, I, you know, and this is it was interesting that they did not attend to this a little 509 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:10,400 bit more aggressively in the off season. 510 00:31:10,400 --> 00:31:15,280 And I think a lot of the reason is is kind of the emotional attachment we talked about. 511 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:20,840 They have to some of their rostered leaders and they had jettisoned so many veterans this 512 00:31:20,840 --> 00:31:26,360 off season doing so to Tyler Bass, who has spent a staple of this team all through the 513 00:31:26,360 --> 00:31:28,320 McDermott era pretty much. 514 00:31:28,320 --> 00:31:30,640 I can see emotionally why that would be hard. 515 00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:35,160 I can see from a, from a team chemistry reason why they'd have issues with it, especially 516 00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:39,600 the way the team rallied around him after that Kansas City game and the division around 517 00:31:39,600 --> 00:31:42,480 and the way the fan base rallied around him. 518 00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,200 Pragmatically, you're probably right. 519 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,880 And I think the only reason they haven't done it more aggressively is the money. 520 00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:55,200 I think they're in a cap situation right now where they do not want to eat $7 million in 521 00:31:55,200 --> 00:32:01,040 dead cap space while they're also taking their Stefan Diggs medicine for a kicker, for a 522 00:32:01,040 --> 00:32:02,520 kicker, for a kicker. 523 00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:03,520 Right. 524 00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:04,520 Exactly. 525 00:32:04,520 --> 00:32:05,520 Exactly. 526 00:32:05,520 --> 00:32:09,760 So we're a story worth keeping an eye on. 527 00:32:09,760 --> 00:32:14,280 If he, listen, this Houston game, man, we're going to get into it later in the week. 528 00:32:14,280 --> 00:32:19,120 Stefan Diggs revenge game, if it comes down to a Tyler Bass field goal and he misses a 529 00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:25,400 lot of these simmering from Bill's mafia are going to reach a loud, loud alarm like level 530 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:26,400 for rolling boil. 531 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,120 Oh my God, man. 532 00:32:28,120 --> 00:32:29,120 Crazy, crazy. 533 00:32:29,120 --> 00:32:30,120 Yeah. 534 00:32:30,120 --> 00:32:36,680 But yeah, no, I am ready to bury this rabies game in the ground and never revisit it again. 535 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,640 But JJ is always good emotionally unpacking this stuff with you. 536 00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,080 Very therapeutic for me. 537 00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:46,040 For all of you listening at home, like, share and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts, 538 00:32:46,040 --> 00:32:48,040 YouTube regrettably coming soon. 539 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:49,040 Sorry, America. 540 00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:52,520 You're going to see what we actually look like Apple and Spotify. 541 00:32:52,520 --> 00:33:21,000 And as always, go bills. 542 00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:49,200 Go bills.