All right, welcome back to the Buffalo Bread podcast.
We are in week five and we are looking at a matchup
between the Buffalo Bills and Stefan, Marshawn, Diggs.
I mean, the Houston Texans, that's who we're playing this week.
It's the whole team.
It's not just the former much-belighted wide receiver
who may or may not have been a cancer in the locker room,
but definitely was one of the most productive players
in the offense for the Bills for the past three seasons.
Dan, I don't want to bury the lead.
So we have Stefan Diggs.
You know who else we have?
Jerry Freakin' Hughes.
OK, and that's really what we're here to talk about.
The Stefan Diggs thing has its intrigue,
but it is absolutely time for this game
to settle the Jerry Hughes debate we have had on the spot once
and for all.
They should have traded him.
But I don't want it to settle that,
because I was always pro Jerry Hughes,
and I don't want him to come out and have a four sack.
He's going to have a three pressure campaign.
We know this.
He's no sacks.
He's never going to get a sack.
Just pressures.
He is a pressure maven.
That man puts pressure where pressure cannot ever be applied.
He just cannot get a sack, all right?
Except for one game last season where he had four.
Right.
And then he finished the season with six.
Oh.
So yeah.
Anyways, no.
In all seriousness, this is one lots of Bill's fans
have probably had circled on their calendar for a minute,
ever since the Stefan Diggs trade.
It'll always, I think, forever and all time
until the 30 for 30 on this Buffalo Bill's team comes out,
be somewhat cloudy and somewhat of a mystery.
How, why, when, things between Josh Allen, Stefan Diggs,
and the Bill's organization began to deteriorate.
What I don't think we should lose sight of
is the fact that this era of Buffalo Bill's football
we are enjoying probably does not happen if Stefan Diggs is
not the accelerator to the development of Josh Allen
and this offense that he was.
Regardless of how it ended, he gave us a lot of good times
from when it started right up until the end.
And I think that's something that Bill's fans would be remiss
if we didn't appreciate heading into this game.
Yeah, and I think that's been my kind of opinion
of the thing in my meandering through the social media,
Twitter sphere and all those places with Bill's mafia
is that I don't wish him harm.
I don't necessarily wish him well because I think, you know,
I look at the whole situation in Buffalo,
I look at the situation in Minnesota,
it, you know, fool me once, shame on you,
or fool me twice, shame on me, right?
Like, there is a reason that this guy has been moved on
from my multiple teams at a loss, essentially.
He's kind of a, you know, he's been a lemon personality wise
and he's been, you know, an outstanding value
productivity wise, but it's the kind of thing
where when multiple franchises are willing to kind of like
walk away from you close to your prime
because it's more of a headache to keep you around
even at a massive loss of financial, you know,
freedom with the cap, that says something for me
about who you are as a person, because as a player,
like you mentioned, I think that he was integral
to Josh Allen's development.
I don't think he was essential to Josh Allen
being a good quarterback, like he might have
the opinion of himself as, and I do think he was on the
decline in his career.
I think he didn't show up and he disappeared
in big moments the entire time he was in Buffalo.
I mean, we don't, I don't remember a single game
where Stefan Diggs, you know, was the story of the game
in the receiving core in the playoffs.
Do you, do you have a Stefan Diggs game you can recall?
No, I mean, he was, he was effectively erased
in a lot of the bill's postseason runs.
I listen, I agree with you and I think
for all the success he brought to the team,
his disappearance in the postseason,
particularly these last three postseason runs
the bills had that ended with Casey Cincinnati
and Casey absolutely have to be mentioned
as part of his legacy with the Buffalo bills.
I do not want them to win.
And I do appreciate what he provided for the bills.
I will say this has, this Houston game is interesting
beyond just Jerry Hughes and Stefan Diggs.
Hang on, hang on.
The Jerry Hughes piece is not interesting.
He's not good anymore.
I know.
He's not good anymore.
I just love Jerry.
He meant something to a fan base
when there was no star power whatsoever on the roster.
We also have Breakin, Case Keenum, Robert Woods
and Buffalo bills stand out from the 23-24 season
backup right tackle, Nick Broker.
It's a whole cavalcade of former Buffalo bills on this team.
It's a family reunion, what can you say?
But I will say this specifically,
I, when I was watching the Houston Texans
in their games this week, they, you know, of course came out
they beat the Bears in the opener,
or I'm sorry, they beat the Colts in the opener
in a very close game.
They beat the Bears week two
and again a close six point victory.
They got absolutely demolished by the Vikings 34 to seven
and then they beat the Jaguars and also in a game
that was close 24-20, but really felt like the Texans
controlled it the whole way with occasional spurts
from the Jaguars.
So through watching that, I noticed,
I noticed Robert Woods and I actually was surprised
seeing him catch a ball before I saw the nameplate
or the number or anything that would tell me it was Robert Woods.
I'm like, holy, Robert Woods is still playing, right?
Like, it seems like it's impossible
that he'd still be productive at this level,
but he's not only is he still, he's still playing,
but he was doing Robert Woods things that you expect.
He's in the place he's supposed to be with sure hands
and he is the covered by the fourth or fifth best coverage
person in the defensive backfield
because they have Nico Collins, Tank Dell
and Stefan Diggs out there too.
Yeah, absolutely.
No, and I think that's a good segue
to talk about where I wanna start things,
which is the Buffalo Bills defense
against this Houston Texans offense.
The Texans offense JJ has been not as potent
as I think folks expected to be early in the off season.
When they made all these moves,
the offensive line was getting healthy.
They add Stefan Diggs to the mix.
All of a sudden, they're popping up
as a lot of folks trendy pick to make the Super Bowl,
unseat the Chiefs and all that,
but it's been a bit of a struggle.
From a scoring perspective,
this team is only averaging about 19.7 points per game
through the first four weeks.
They got absolutely obliterated by Minnesota,
but Minnesota is steamrolling a lot of people these days.
They had that, they had two divisional games
against Jacksonville and Indy,
which are always weird ones too.
So part of me thinks that some of this is just
first quarter of the season jitters.
Add to that Bobby Sloik,
their highly touted offensive coordinator
is trying to figure out what the run game looks like
without Joe Mixon, who has still been injured.
I will say though, a couple of things
that have not played out to expectation
have been the improvement in the offensive line.
Tunsel is still hurt.
And at this point, we don't have a full blown injury
or practice report from either squad to report out on,
but even with Tunsel's injury aside,
the health of this offensive line has been kind of
where they've wanted it to be.
And it's a unit that still has not met the expectations.
It feels like this organization felt they would.
The run game when Mixon isn't in has been non-existent
and ineffective, particularly on first down as well.
And it's putting CJ Stroud in a lot of uncomfortable
or quite frankly, untenable situations
with second and long and third and long.
The offense JJ is having a really hard time
in Houston staying on schedule.
It's gonna be interesting to see what McDermott
and Babbage do to kind of keep them in that rut.
Yeah, and I think that what you're gonna see too
is that this offensive line is far more,
it reminds me quite a lot of the Buffalo Bills
offensive line from last year,
in that all of the guys are about the same size.
They're not a super powerful, large, oversized offensive line
like the Ravens that the Bills just faced.
The Houston Texans line is a little bit undersized
in a few positions.
It got some shorter guys with a little bit less reach
and some lighter guys who are just at 300
or just over 300 pounds.
No Daniel Filale at 380
like I talked about on the previous pod, thank God.
So it's interesting what they're going to do
or what the Bills offensive pass rush is going to do
to try to redeem themselves after having barely little,
barely any pressure against Lamar Jackson
and against the Ravens and how they can kind of
maybe mix things up, use some stunts,
use some different twists and some delay pressure.
Because I think that the story of this game,
this Bills defense versus their offense is about,
what can they do?
What can Bobby Babbage dial up
to establish the physicality and dominance of the game
without getting dinked and dunked to death?
Because I think that's largely what we've seen too
is that CGS Brown is a talent,
but his talent is somewhat diminished this season
because teams are more familiar with what he does best
and he hasn't been protected as well as he was last year.
So between those two things,
there's opportunities for this Bills defense,
but they have to set that tone early.
They have to stop the running attack.
The Houston Texans, as you mentioned, are missing Joe Mixon.
Damian Pierce was also dinged up,
but they have, you know,
Cam Acres who's still out there and producing
and Daria Agubenoale who was a former Jacksonville Jaguar,
sort of a depth piece component,
but had some good quick runs against the Jaguars
in that game may have also had,
it may have also caught a touchdown, I believe,
on a quick flare route.
So they do have some talent
and I do think that there's a possibility
that the Bills could be in for some challenging run looks
because the offensive line,
the one undersized in a lot of ways,
does have some athletic pieces.
It's just a matter of they gotta stay disciplined
and they have to bring the physicality
or it's gonna be another long day.
Yeah, absolutely.
I mean, especially when you're talking about coverage
needing to hold up on the back end
against this wide receiver in past catcher room
that Houston is rolling out there.
Listen, if the organic pressure is not getting to strudge
and forcing him off his mark or off his platform,
it could vary will be a long day, not just for this defensive
line, JJ, but for the secondary room,
which in large part has held its own.
But as we talked about in the Baltimore game,
there was a clear decision by Todd Munkin
to target Balanced Spectre, Dorian Williams
and Cam Lewis in the pass game,
albeit the limited pass game
that the Ravens needed to roll out
because of the success of their run game.
JJ, if the bills don't get pressure on him,
he is an excellent QB when not pressured this season.
His completion percentage over expected
is eight and a half points above what's expected.
He's plus 8.5.
He has time to throw when not pressured is 2.5 seconds.
So to me, that's less about feeling hurried in the pocket
and more about because of the lack of pressure,
he's seeing passing lanes more clearly from the pocket.
And as a result of that, he's getting the ball out quicker
than he is when he's facing a Blitz or a pressure package.
They're going to pass more than they're going to run.
I think it's gonna be a real test for this pass rush.
I think it's gonna be a test for the pass rush.
I also think that it's going to be interesting
because the Buffalo Bills and Sean McDermott
has such a strong track record against young quarterbacks.
Like, you know, quarterbacks in their first or second year
in the league tend to do very poorly
against this Sean McDermott defense.
Even if they are like an exceptional talent.
And I see how that has been the reality
in a poyre and hide situation and defense, you know,
a defense led by poyre and hide.
A defense led by rookie Cole Bishop and Damar Hamlin
does not have the nuanced, savvy, you know,
rotational ability, coverage, you know,
disguised coverage ability,
all the different things that made Sean McDermott's defense
is so difficult for young passers to diagnose
pre and post snap.
I just don't see, I know he's, you know, the DB whisperer
and he gets so much out of, you know,
low, low round draft picks and free agents
and various people.
I wonder if this is a game where
Damar Hamlin starts with Mike Edwards
because they just need a little bit more
veteransy out there for that purpose.
Somebody who has a little bit more, you know,
has a little bit more pelts on the wall
in terms of playing in high profile games
and can be relied upon to do some of that rotation,
switching out to, from two high to one high
and different things, pre and post snap
to maybe confuse and muddle the looks for CJ Stroud.
Because CJ Stroud will make mistakes.
He had as high of a percentage of turnover worthy throws
as Josh Allen last year,
he just had a magical horseshoe up his rear end
because-
Way better turnover luck.
Yeah.
Yeah, none of them, none of those passes
that should have been picked were picked.
And he, you know, ended the season
with I think eight interceptions or something like that.
Yeah, you know, and I'm with you on the Mike Edwards thing.
I, if Cole Bishop had had a full off season,
I might feel differently about it,
but both Bishop and Edwards missed time with injury.
As a result, I think you gotta go with the guy
that's got the veteran floor, you know what I mean?
So I agree with that pairing.
It's gonna be really, dude,
it's gonna be really interesting to see
what I, an X factor for me in this game
would potentially be Tank Dell.
Reason being is because he had,
he has seen his, granted he missed a game this season,
but he has seen his target share
almost completely taken over by Stefan Diggs.
Stefan Diggs has the second highest target rate
on this team behind only Nico Collins.
Tank Dell has yet to surpass,
I think a hundred total yards on the season receiving,
but he's a very quick, very elusive wide receiver.
So yeah, man, Benford, Douglas gonna do
what they can do against Diggs and Collins,
which God bless by all means,
especially with Nico Collins that dude's a beast.
Yeah, I think that's a good spot for me to jump into
having watched all of their games this season.
And from just being familiar with their games
from last season, Nico Collins is like
the ideal wide receiver one in any system.
Size, speed, amazing hands,
also quickness, not just long speed,
and the ability to get in and out of his breaks,
flawlessly and set guys up to,
bite on different stems that he tries to display.
And then all of a sudden,
they think he's gonna hook and he double moves
and he's gone.
Like I'm intimidated by that matchup
more than I was coming into the Ravens game
about the Derek Henry matchup.
And that's incredibly worrying for me
because he is a talent.
And we know what Stefan Diggs is.
I think it's gonna be really curious to me
how the Buffalo Bills play Stefan Diggs
because in the Jaguars game,
Rasool Douglas and Christian Benford
when lined up against Gabe Davis
were incredibly physical with him.
They were roughing him up at the line
anytime they had a close in press,
press man snap.
And cause they knew from him being on the Bills
that he, that was a surefire way to delay his route
release and a surefire way to get him off of his spot
and make sure he wasn't gonna hit his landmarks
because he is not a burner.
And so I'm really curious,
and he was relatively,
reportedly incredibly well liked in the locker room.
If Stefan Diggs was unliked
and they were that rough to their friends,
I don't wanna see how they're gonna treat their enemies.
I think the opportunity to press when given
should absolutely be taken without a doubt.
There's probably gonna be some sort of
bracketed or cloud clouded coverage
over Niko Collins, I would imagine too.
So whoever you have on Stefan Diggs
be it Benford or Douglas,
you're probably gonna trust them
to beat him at the line one on one.
Absolutely.
So you can dedicate those extra resources
to shutting down Collins.
Well, and we saw it in those three games,
the KC Cincinnati and KC games you mentioned
that when deep hits and backs are physical
with Stefan Diggs at the line and effective at jamming him,
he gets frustrated, gets in his head
and you lose him for the game.
Like he just gets to a point where he's too pissed off
to like even operate.
And then next thing you know,
he's dropping a critical deep pass
that could have turned things around for a team
desperate to win at home in the playoffs
against their nemesis.
Yeah, absolutely.
So I mean, listen, I think this is gonna be a more
as we have discussed,
pass heavy game plan that Houston's gonna roll out
as opposed to what the Ravens did.
And I think it's gonna present some unique challenges
for this bill's defense for sure.
This is still the number seven overall rated passing unit
when it comes to passing efficiency.
So when they throw it out there,
they're absolutely making it work.
Again, when you got a guy like Nico Collins,
it's easier to make it work.
But still, it's a passing offense that is clicking.
It's the rushing game and pass protection
that hasn't fully developed yet.
That's where the bill's gotta make some other high.
You wanna switch over to the offensive side of the ball,
talk a little bit about what JA17 can do
against the Stamiko Ryan scheme.
Let's do it.
All right, man.
So here is what I'm gonna tell you
what I am concerned about.
And then you can tell me I'm either crazy
or not crazy.
This Texans defense,
while they have given up points to opposing units,
this is a defensive unit that does not give up a lot
over the middle of the field.
And they are extraordinarily potent
when guarding the opposing team's slot wide receiver
and also the opposing team's tight end.
According to DVOA JJ, this is the number nine team
and guarding the slot and the number one team
and guarding an opposing team's tight end.
When it comes to the pass catching game,
they force everything to the outside.
They force QBs to beat them outside of the hash marks
whenever possible.
JJ, is this a Keon Coleman breakout game?
Am I crazy or not crazy?
No, you are not crazy.
And I can tell you exactly why.
They're linebackers.
So they have Aziz Alshayir,
Jake Hansen, Henry, 202.
Are there three linebackers?
And of course they usually played nickels.
So they're usually playing just two of them are not.
I mean, they're all athletic,
but none of them are like excellent
in knowing how to squeeze a zone.
And that is who Dalton Kincaid and Khalil Shakir
usually take advantage of when the team's playing zone.
This is a team that plays predominantly zone
60 plus percent of the time, like the rest of the NFL.
You're not gonna see the, you know,
probably not gonna see the fireworks of Josh Allen
versus the Jaguars who refuse to leave man coverage.
But yeah, I think it's gonna be interesting.
I think that you're probably not going to see
an outstanding game out of Mack Hollins
or out of Keon Coleman.
You're probably not gonna see anybody
who's lined up in the outside really excelling
because their cornerbacks, you know,
Derek Stingley, Jr., Kamari Lassiter
are both very, very good.
I think that their nickel back
is where the, you know, their volatility happens
and where teams can get up on them.
And just, you know, I feel I'm remiss to leave
in this ex-bills and current bills matchup, you know,
reunion, I just glazed right over two stalwarts,
Tim Settle, who produced a nothing burger
for his two or three seasons in Buffalo
and Del Sean Phillips, an undrafted free agent linebacker
that I don't think ever saw a snap
of real actual game action, also former bills.
What is it about the Houston Texans?
I know that one of our, you know, front office members
was their GM for a hot minute
and then came back to the bills.
Did he just leave a book there on how to pick people?
No idea.
But I do think you mentioned something interesting.
I mean, the Texans like to run a zone heavy scheme.
They like to rush for, they like to drop seven,
though they will blitz more than the bills,
the bills will blitz, but there's a lot of similarities
in scheme, so it makes sense that be looking for a lot
of similar players of that athletic profile for sure.
So just to be clear, you don't think this is a key
on Coleman breakout game, because I have,
I understand the matchups outside with Stingley
and with Lasseter, but just based on what the Texans
like to do and locking down the slot, locking down
tight end positions and forcing stuff to the outside
where they've got those two very potent CBs.
I feel like this has to be a key on Coleman game.
I feel like he's the only one that can be relied on
to win with limited separation on the outside.
I, you know, I agree with you, he won't have separation.
He's not gonna have separation all season.
That's not his game.
Right, he's not gonna have separation.
I agree with you, he's not gonna have separation.
The part I disagree with is that he's going to be,
heads and shoulders above Derek Stingley
and Kamari Lasseter when it comes to the catch point,
because they are not, neither of them is corner,
or a corner who regularly gets bodied or big boyed
at the catch point, which I think that that's,
that's the reason I'm not expecting a huge game
from Keon Coleman unless he finds a way to like,
maybe play from the slot a little bit,
or finds a way to like get behind the defense
when it catches them in a certain kind of look
or catches them in man coverage,
like his touchdown against the Jaguars
where he ran across the field
and that, you know, ended up getting the CBN phase
and just leaving him in the dust.
Unless something like that happens,
I don't see a big Keon Coleman game
just because the outside corners are not,
they're not the type that stand down from somebody who,
they fall victim to people with incredible separation skills.
A la Curtis Samuel, Kalil Shakir, Dalton Gagid,
they tend to absolutely shut down,
you know, contested catch specialists
and people who are, you know,
third down conversion machines
who just, you know, jump up over the top.
We will revisit this at prediction, sure to go wrong.
Absolutely.
Cause it's a prop bet.
Awesome, all right.
JJ factors for the running game against the bills.
Again, we saw in the game against the Ravens
that the bills were knocked off their sequencing
and schedule by just the raw physicality
of the Baltimore Ravens defense
and what they were rolling out there.
This Houston Texans defense, JJ,
not a stout against the run
as the Baltimore Ravens were
when it comes to defending the run as of right now,
the Houston Texans are sitting
at a middling 25th in the league
and defense overall defensive efficiency
when it comes to playing the run.
And they said at 22nd in rush defense DVOA.
Is this a get bet, a get right game,
a get back on the horse game for James Cook,
Ray Davis and the rest of this Buffalo bills rushing attack.
Absolutely it is Dan.
And I can tell you why.
It's because they have Fulorunso Fatoukasi
and Mario Edwards Jr.
And if you're saying to yourself,
I didn't know those were names of people
who played football.
It's because Mario Edwards is a,
he was a second round pick in 2015.
So he's been around the league
and never really lived up to the hype
of a second round status.
He's playing on seven teams.
He is undersized as a defensive tackle.
And so the center of their defensive line
does not have a lot of bulk.
It's Mario Edwards undersized under length.
Tim Settle Jr.
We know what he's like, 6'3", 313 pounds
gets turned out of his gap pretty easily.
And then Fatoukasi who's a, it's round a sixth rounder.
He's 6'4", about 300 pounds.
So he's their biggest defensive lineman.
They're going to struggle
to overcome the physicality of the bills interior
specifically Osiris Torrance.
And so I think that that's an opportunity
that they have here.
And when you look at their ends,
D'Neal Hunter who we both talked about for years
when he was with the Minnesota Vikings
as a trade candidate for the bills
because I think he's just an excellent, excellent player
all around.
If he's one of your duo, double up targets,
he's only 260 pounds.
And then Will Anderson Jr.
I think is an incredibly talented young pass rusher
is not spectacular against the run.
So he is also 240.
So this front, and if we're just talking the front
in a base four three for the Texans
is outmatched physicality and size wise
versus this bills offensive line.
So I think more than a, you know, rushing attack,
running back, get right game.
It is a get right game for the bills offense line
to set the tone because they are bigger
and they have shown to be tougher.
And this team does not stop the run, like say the Ravens
who are number one in the league at it.
Right. And I think along the offensive line,
this is a get it back game for one Spencer Brown
who had a very bad game against Baltimore.
Had not given up a QB pressure all season,
gave up two against Kyle Van Noy
in only 11 attempts where Van Noy lined up
across from Spencer Brown, gave up two sacks,
two total QB hits on top of that and four pressures
and just 11 pass rush snaps for Van Noy.
So Spencer Brown, I think would love to settle in
to a very grating run game
against what is going to be a few aggressive edges
that Houston's going to roll out there
just to kind of get his juju back as well.
Yeah, I think you really need to.
I mean, you need to tire out, you know,
Will Anderson and Denil Hunter.
You need to get those guys off the field
and rotate it out for Jerry Hughes and Derek Barnett,
who are both reasonable, late career, you know, options.
They're just going to have to take advantage.
And if the bill's offensive line struggles
at setting the physical tone
and making the rushing game work against this opponent,
then I think you and I could start ringing all those alarm
bells because it's going to spell problems
against other units for sure.
Yeah, I agree.
This is a more favorable matchup than the names on paper
would lead you to believe
in favor of the Buffalo Bills offensively.
All right, JJ, you want to do some prediction
and sure to go wrong?
Yeah, let's wrap this thing up.
All right, dude, time to land this plane.
So this line actually opened at Bills favored
by two and a half points.
Which I was shocked about.
After that, the egg they laid against the Ravens,
I could not believe that.
But since then, JJ, this line has tightened considerably.
It is now Bills minus one.
And I wouldn't be shocked if by the time we kick off,
this line is like one and a half points
in favor of the Houston Texans.
It's a road game.
The bill's really looking their wounds.
A lot of questions to answer on the issue
and answer on the offensive and defensive side of the ball.
It just feels like this line is going to shift even more.
Over and around this game,
JJ is sitting at 46 and a half points as well.
So why don't you walk us through
what your final score prediction is?
So I think that this,
everybody in Bills mafia wants the bills to come out
and lay a 47 to 10 burger on this game.
I don't think that's going to happen.
I think the likely result is about a 24, 19,
or 24, 21 victory by the Bills.
I do think that they win this one
because exactly how we talked about the Ravens game pregame
as being strength on weakness for the Ravens offense
on the Bills defense
and strength on weakness for the Ravens pass rush
and the Bills offense of, you know, line and production.
I think that what we can say with the Houston game,
this Houston game is that it's Bills strength on weakness
with the rushing attack
and it is Bills strength on weakness
with the pass rush against this offensive line.
And so with that all said, you know,
I do think the Bills win it,
but I do think this is a little bit more of a,
this isn't a four quarter party,
like Monday night was two weeks ago.
This is going to be, you know,
clench your heart medication close Bills mafia
because it's going to be a rough one.
It is.
I think it's going to be a,
it needs to be a workman like performance
out of this offense,
like we've seen before,
dominate time of possession,
really wear down this defensive line in the run game,
open some things up in the pass game
and Keon Coleman has his breakout game.
But before we get to that, final score prediction here.
I am, I'm with you.
I've seen though in some of these workman like road
environments, the Bills put up 30 relatively easily.
I don't know that they're going to hit it against Houston.
Houston's given up some points this year though, man.
Like even to Jacksonville,
who looked absolutely inept against the Bills,
they, that one came down to the wire.
I get it. It's a divisional game.
Those things are weird.
Same thing with Indy,
but like if Sam Darnold hung 34 on this team,
like, can't Josh?
So I'm going to, I'm going to go out on a limb.
I want to say Buffalo Bills 30.
They get back on the 30 point train here on the road.
I want to say Houston Texans 24.
That's respectable.
Yeah, I just think that we have,
we have one of those Bills games in the near future,
where everybody feels kind of icky,
whether they get the win.
And I think this might be it.
Yeah, yeah, no, absolutely.
This is where they're Rick and Morty.
I almost died meme,
tends to show up in Bills mafia internet.
Oh God.
It was so terrible.
Yep, absolutely.
I think that's what's going to happen here.
All right, prop that.
I have one and it's Keon Coleman.
And I have laid this runway for you, sir,
to take the under and I'm ready.
Over under 99.5 receiving yards for one Keon Coleman.
Under, oh my God, under.
He's not going to top 50.
I'm so bad.
I'm so down on Keon Coleman in this matchup.
I have him on one of my fantasy teams.
And I like the moment I looked at the outside corners
that Houston rolls out here in game film,
I was like, yep, Keon Coleman's going on the bench.
I'm taking the over.
I know you are.
I love you.
You're crazy like that.
I'm crazy right now,
but his ability to work the sidelines dude
with limited, giving Josh limited windows.
The fact that Josh has that confidence
that threaded in there for him as well.
I just, and you know, part of me narratively speaking
and vibe speaking, wouldn't it be great
if the guy drafted to replace Stefan Diggs
in the game they played Diggs for the first time
gets his first hundred yard game?
Like you can't make that stuff up.
Oh.
I'm going with vibes.
I'm going with narrative.
Keon Coleman gets his first hundred yard receiving game
and the first hundred yard receiving game
for any bills wide receiver this season against Houston.
Man, I love the Hollywood aspect of that,
but we talk about these things in terms of prop bets.
Like we're putting money on them.
I would never put money on it, but I love it.
I hope it happens.
I hope I'm so wrong.
I may have already done this.
I meant Caesar sports book
may be getting a healthy $10 donation from me.
Awesome.
I'm a very prop bet.
So yeah.
And honestly, if he gets 120 and two tutties,
that'd be the coolest thing.
I mean, you will not,
you won't be able to like throw a stone in any direction
in Western New York and not hit somebody
who's tweeting about how bad Stefan Diggs is
and how good Keon Coleman is.
All right, man.
What's your prop bet?
All right, mine,
because I like to go defense when you go offense,
Cole Bishop plus or minus half an interception.
I mean, you really did lay the groundwork in the pregame
for why Cole Bishop is going to be a non-factor in this game
and might not even see the field.
So I will take the under as well.
So I did too.
But here's my thinking.
Here's why.
I think that the Buffalo Bills,
I would play Mike Edwards,
just like you would play more Khalil Shakir,
just like you would play more Keon Coleman.
The bills showed us who they wanted to play.
Mike Edwards was healthy
and they put Cole Bishop in
the moment Taylor Rapp got a concussion.
Okay. Yeah.
And so this is, again,
this is one of the situations.
It may not be what I would do,
but I think that there's a chance.
I like the kid.
I think he's a good looking safety.
He seems like he's a little bit lost out there right now,
but he does have a nose for the football
and I would love to see that.
So I'm going to go over half an interception
for Cole Bishop.
Nice. I like it.
I hope that works out for you.
Oh man, this is going to be a rough one.
This is going to be a hard game to watch.
It is.
Well, that's exactly the fact.
Both of our props are about rookies performing,
shows how much we have hope
for like the future of this team.
I know, right?
That's actually a really good point.
That's an excellent observation.
Very astute on your part, sir.
All right. Well, listen,
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on Sunday Bills Mafia.
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as we have discussed several former Buffalo Bills,
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