Welcome back to the Buffalo Bread Podcast. Dan
and JJ here in week two. We are on football Sunday.
The Buffalo Bills will be facing the New York
Jets in New Jersey, their home, because they're
the New Jersey Jets. The Jets are 0 -1, having
lost to the Steelers last week. And the Bills
are 1 -0, of course, having miraculously come
back against the Ravens, after the Ravens pretty
soundly trounced them for three and a half quarters.
Dan? Where, where's your heart at today? Uh,
my heart is full of anxiety about this game,
JJ, you know, and, and I think last week is the
epitome of how football goes. I would, I would
argue that the Jets played a better, more sound
overall game and week one across four quarters
and they got the L. The Bills put it together
for one out of four quarters and they got the
W. That's how football goes. And JJ, I think
regardless of records, there are some things.
on paper that the Jets have some clear advantages
against the Bills this week. And we have not
been able to say that in quite a few years. So
I'm excited to get into this one. A little anxious
to get into this one. I think it's going to be
a tougher game than most people expect. Yeah,
I think that the things that kind of turned the
Bills defense inside out last week are the same
things the Jets did against the Steelers. And
the Bills can expect some heavy zone running.
They can expect some kind of play action passing.
It's all on the table there. And I'm sure that
this is a copycat league. The Jets did not look
at that Ravens film and say, oh, we're not going
to try any of that, right? No, they're going
to try every of that. And I think that as you're
talking about the way that Bill's won last week,
I think The thing that came to mind for me was
that it was like the procrastination victory
of the universe, right? They were like, let's
put off playing a complete football game until
there is no time, but we have to play every second
in a perfect way. Procrastinators everywhere
rejoice at that Bill's comeback, but the Jets
put in a kind of workman -like job and then got...
taken down in the end. So Gibson, who returned
the punt against the Bills in overtime a couple
of years ago in Josh Allen's three turnover game,
was released because he may have blown the game
against the Steelers with a fumble, and so they
don't have a returner. That's an interesting
wrinkle. It is especially with the way kick and
punt returns have been factoring in Largely at
least here week one in the football season. I
mean JJ There's a ton that we can talk about
about this game special teams defense offense.
Where do you want to start? Let's go ahead and
get get started in the weakest. Let's let's do
the hardest work first, which is the defense
Yeah, the bills defense versus just just offense
and I think that for me, kind of my overall general
concept is that the the Jets are like a Diet
Coke version of the Ravens offense in a lot of
ways in that their running back is not Derek
Henry, but Breeze Hall is very good. Their quarterback
is not Lamar Jackson, but Justin Fields looked
very good, including passing the ball, which
has never been. his kind of strong point, he
looked like he, you know, had some things together
that Aaron Gled's influence has been good, that
their offensive coordinator's influence has been
good. So it's going to be interesting. I think
that for me, again, the kind of front to back,
with Ed Oliver being out, the defensive line
needs to absolutely step up to cover his absence.
And the linebackers, this is a redemption game
for Bernard and Milano. They got absolutely washed
out last week. They were not making any kind
of impact plays. They were, could be counted
on for a tackle here or there when they were
in the right place, but nothing like we have
seen from both of them throughout their career.
Yeah. And it's, it's going to take a, it takes
a village, which sounds like such a cliche, but
to stop a run game as complete as the Ravens
and as modern and complete as the Jets run game
looks like at least after one week, it's going
to take everybody. I mean, JJ, I think that stuck
out to me the most watching the Jets and then
re -watching that game is how modern. the offense
looked. I mean, condensed sets, they ran out
12th personnel on about a third of their offensive
snaps, which was double the rate that they ran
at last year. And they were very effective out
of it, particularly running Breesault to the
left side of that offensive line toward Olufoshanu
and John Simpson. 16 of his 19 attempts headed
that way, 5 .8 yards per carry. I mean, They
have found a recipe for success and a lot of
those condensed twelve personnel sets the Steelers
shows to blitz Justin Fields and to your point
earlier. They had answers. Tanner Engstrom, the
new offensive coordinator for the Jets, had answers
for fields in that blitz game. He was five of
six against man blitzes, 72 .7 % completion rate
overall. And he was able to buy time with his
feet. Time to throw over three and a half seconds.
But when you've got a mobile quarterback like
that that can chuck it and run, or can buy time
by moving the pocket, this is a recipe. This
is a recipe that has consistently confounded
the Bills defense, even when they're healthy,
even when they've got all their guys in. This
has been a formula that the Bills defense has
really struggled against. I'm looking for a couple
of things here. You mentioned the linebackers,
JJ, but when teams run out a lot of those condensed
formats like the Jets plan to do, I would assume
today. It's also about the DBs. DBs are drawn
in closer to the line of scrimmage, and we're
just going to have to see better run fits from
guys like Cole Bishop, Taylor Rapp, who just
took some horrible angles, horrible angles in
that Baltimore Ravens game. And then Dorian Strong,
you know, Benford's going to be there on his
assignment in run defense, but then you've got
three unknowns in the defensive backfield that
I think are going to also have to step up today
too. Yeah, I think that it I just was pulling
up the the PFF, you know I know that we talked
about PFF rankings not be the being the be all
end all but they're certainly a good place to
start the conversation Terrell Bernard and Matt
Milano were the 58th they're tied exactly tied
for 58th out of 61 graded linebackers. They were
equally bad. They were equally two of the most
terrible people playing football last week, according
to this one site. And then also Taylor Rap was
the absolute worst safety playing in NFL football
last weekend, according to this rating site.
And then we have TJ Sanders who has a rating
so low it's not even charted. Um, so wasn't looking
great, uh, across the board. Let's hope that
a week of experience under the belts of, of TJ
Sanders and Deon Jones, um, improves their defense,
but you're absolutely right. I think that the,
the Jets offensive line looks much improved.
Um, Armand Membu, uh, if somebody can get, if
Joe, if somebody can get past him, it's gotta
be Joey Bosa because I just don't think that
he is such a talented looking rookie that, um,
I'm happy for Jared that it seems like the Jets
hit on that one, because it's such a relief to
have a solid starting tackle in the draft. But
for the Bills fans who want to see a sack party,
I don't know. Justin Fields is an incredibly
sackable quarterback. He is and you know, we
talked about the strength of that offensive line
in the run game But in the pass game Justin Fields
face faced 16 pressures last week against Pittsburgh
15 of them came off that very same left side
of the offensive line. So as good as they looked
and mauling in the run game last week, JJ, they
can be had in obvious passing down situations.
And the Bills, I mean, the struggle is not going
to be third down, hopefully, if the Bills can
get it to third and five and third and seven
and getting some passing sets. The struggle is
going to be first and second down and trying
to keep this Jets run game off schedule. That's
where it's going to be. Because if you can get,
switch that left side of the offensive line into
pass pro mode, That's where you've got some advantage
with a lot of your natural penetrators and Rousseau
and Bosa and Sanders. And let's not forget Dion
Walker too. He's a big body dude, but his ability
to move and gain penetration factors more for
me into the pass game this week than it does
into the run defense game for sure. Yeah, absolutely.
And I think that that that has to be the right
script to play. You have to the bills. cannot
just screw around for the first three quarters
and hope that this is gonna turn out okay. They
have to do what the Jets were trying to do to
the Steelers and effectively, and that's control
the game script. That is, stay on the, you know,
keep your offense on the field, long sustained
drives, score on every, score seven on every
of your possessions that you can, and then force
a few turnovers from the Jets, not in terms of.
you know, interceptions fumbles, but rather making
sure that they're punting and not having the
same long sustained clock eating drives with
ending in seven. I think you're absolutely right.
And that is the place that they need to apply
the pressure to is in dialing up some exotic
things. Because that's one of the things about
Justin Fields is that he was one of the most
efficient pastors last week, but it was very
much second reaction plays. It was never his
like kind of, it wasn't a Tua game. It was closer
to a Lamar Jackson type game where, you know,
he was not just hitting his back foot and zipping
it. It was, you know, hitting his back foot,
kind of scrambling around a little bit, and then
finding somebody open. Often Garrett Wilson,
who we know is exactly that guy. And so it's
going to be interesting and I hope that the Bills
can get some things done because what we saw
in preseason, what we've seen in the first week
so far is that the Bills are willing to go man
and they're willing to blitz a little bit more.
And I think that, you know, they blitzed something
like 37 % of the time or whatever against the
Ravens and they may need to do the same. And
I think it's going to be more effective against
Justin Fields if a few people can win their individual
matchups in that front seven. That's what it's
about man. It's about winning those one -on -one
matchups, but then also the back end of the defense
Staying sticky in coverage and winning their
matchups, too You know, there's been a lot of
there's been a lot of talk you bring up Garrett
Wilson or Garrett Wilson rather There's been
a lot of talk about you know, Christian Benford
and how he was targeted almost mercilessly by
Lamar last week I mean Lamar went after Benford
on 33 % of his dropbacks Benford allowed a passer
rating of 150 .9. For those of you unfamiliar
with passer rating, perfect rating is 153 .8.
So Lamar was damn near perfect targeting Benford.
He gave up two TDs and a completion percentage
above expectation of 12 .4%, according to NFL
Next Gen stats. But he was sticky in coverage.
He forced, Brenford forced 42 % tight window
throws when he was in man coverage and he only
allowed about two yards of separation. To me,
to your point, JJ, if the Bills are going to
choose to play man, I do not know that Justin
Fields has yet shown me enough in his development
as a passer that he can maximize those tight
window throws. So I do think if the Bills have
to dial up some more exotic packages. If they
are going to run more man blitzes, I think they
will be more successful than the Steelers were.
Because remember, the Steelers were without Joey
Porter Jr. for a large stretch of this game,
and they lost, I think, both of their starting
safeties. So not to take away from anything that
we saw from Justin Fields last week, but he was
playing against second unit guys in that Pittsburgh
secondary for a large extent. I think if Benford
can stay sticky like he did against the Ravens,
he's just going to naturally see more success
because the ball placement for Fields is not
going to be as surgical as it was for Lamar Jackson.
Yeah, that's a great point. And that kind of
harkens back to when I said that they're going
against the diet duo of, you know, Jackson and
Henry with Fields and Hall. And I think that
that's hopefully that is a way that these bills
can, and we talked about it so much pre -game,
post -game, that the Ravens are a team that is
absolutely built to hurt the bills in the ways
that they can be hurt the most. The Jets are
trying to build that team. They just may be a
little bit early in their build in terms of putting
it all together. And the QB is such a question
mark in this game. I think that, you know, if...
If it comes down to a Justin Fields versus Josh
Allen shootout, I like our guy, whereas I'm not
as confident when it's just, you know, when it's
Josh Allen versus Lamar Jackson in a shootout
because of those reasons. They're both supremely
talented. I know, I know. The Ravens are like
that ex -girlfriend that just knows how to hurt
you, you know what I mean? It's like, yeah. That's
your biggest insecurity in Justin. Exactly. They
know exactly what your deepest fear is, and they
know how to exploit it. That's the Ravens for
these bills, right? The Jets, again, and this
is a credit to Aaron Glenn, this is a credit
to that new regime in New York. And notice that
I'm saying New York and not New Jersey, because
even after week one, I've got a kind of a new
respect for how this Jets team wants to operate
now. But they're very clear -eyed that they need
to win the division. There is a very clear blueprint
that the bills have established for how they
want to build their team, how they want to run
their team, and then the personnel they want
to put on the field. And this coaching staff
and this personnel office for the Jets, they
are starting to build out what looks like the
early versions of something that is going to
challenge the bills. And listen, the bills are
going to get The absolute best shot from the
Jets. This is no shade of the Jets. This is going
to be the Jets Super Bowl this week to match
up here in New Jersey. I think, I think this
offense in particular is going to come to play
and not just play, but repeat and to a large
extent, a lot of the physical performance winning
one -on -one matchups that did them so well against,
uh, against Pittsburgh. I mean, dude, you mentioned
Memboo. Like I'm pretty sure I saw a stat come
across my social media accounts that said that
Memboo's time to pressure allowed was 3 .8 seconds.
He was, Justin Fields could have had a lunch
in the pocket on Memboo's side of the field at
3 .8 seconds. That is an eternity to keep pressure
off of your quarterback. So I think they're going
to want to come and play physical. And you know,
man, after the physicality and the emotion and
the way the Bills won week one, I don't want
to say it because I'm always wrong about these
things, but this is feeling a little bit like
a trap game. Another physical game that I don't
know if the Bills are up for yet. That, yeah,
no, I'm worried about it, too. And I think that,
you know, it's interesting you say, you know,
Arman Membu is, it's like they have to cut a
canal across Arman Membu to just, because transversing
the bottom or top coast of his island is too
long. Like, if we're going to get in nautical
terms. homie is six foot four three hundred and
thirty two pounds like he's a giant man he's
a geographic mass in of an in and of himself
okay he's got he's got nine and three quarter
inch wide hands each of them right and then he's
got 33 and a half inch arms so he's just this
giant man yeah he's like his You know, somebody
that big who can throw, you know, 225 pounds
up 31 times is going to really cause you problems
on the edge. Yeah, I mean, he made T .J. Watt
look washed in that game. Yeah. Yeah. And so
hopefully our guy who's also potentially washed
doesn't look as washed. Hopefully not. Hopefully
not. Bosa had some nice recovery there. And,
you know, I've got a sneaking suspicion, too,
that in obvious passing downs, I think we're
going to see Rousseau matched up a little bit
more on Membu just because from a Measurable
standpoint. I think he offers membu a little
bit of a tougher matchup than both. Yeah. Yeah
Well, yeah, cuz he's he's been more traditionally
cut. He's a slippery year slippery year Russia
than Bosa is in some regards where Bosa's pure
power and so I think they're gonna try to put
They're gonna try to line both up in the weakest
spot because that's where he can make the most
damage Absolutely, without a doubt. All right,
JJ, any final thoughts here on this MASH unit
Bill's defense we're rolling out there? Do you
want to switch to the JA -17 side of the ball?
Let's get to the part that makes me feel a little
bit more better. Yeah, let's get to the thing
that is going to absolve me of the anxiety I
have. Let's do it. Because Josh freaking Allen,
dude, like, it didn't matter that they played
three and a half quarters of terrible football
and the defense gave up every yard that they,
you know, that the Ravens wanted. At the end
of the day, Josh freaking Allen and some other
heroes emerged. James Cook, Ken Coleman, Josh
Palmer to some extent, Elijah Moore a little
bit. There were some bright shining stars of
hope on that offense that made me believe they
can get this thing done again. Now, my question
is to you, I'll start here. If we're going to
go from planning all the way down to execution,
What do you think about the plan? Is it all whip
screens all day because the Jets know that they
can funnel those plays? No. And I'm, I'm really
hoping we get away from, from some of this, uh,
behind the line of scrimmage throws at the line
of scrimmage stuff that, you know, the bills
are rolling out there in week one. And to me,
it wasn't necessarily surrender, but it was.
To me, a clear acknowledgement early in the game
that Joe Brady was like, I don't know if we've
got the horses to win downfield against this
secondary, right? So he went out and he did some
stuff that he thought was going to put his team
in the best possible position to, to attack the
very limited weaknesses of this Baltimore Ravens
defense. But we saw very early on, especially
with Josh Josh's average. average yards per attempt
in the first half versus the second half, 4 .4
yards average per attempt in the first half,
12 .1 yards in the second half. I think when
they saw that Jair Alexander was not yet 100%.
They felt good about targeting him. And there
is a similar juicy target in one Brandon Stevens
on the other side of the ball that I think should
give the Bills and Joe Brady and Josh Allen some
confidence in attacking downfield early on. Yeah,
absolutely. And I think that that's probably
where I would start as well as the downfield
passing attack has to be the thing that they
hang their hat on this, this week because you
have, you know, you have some players in that
secondary who are kind of questionable. You pointed
out Brandon Stevens, who used to play for the,
um, Ravens and was somebody that the Bills had
success targeting in the past as well. And really
that second and third level is the place for
it. You know, outside of sauce Gardner, they
do not have great coverage players. Andrea Cisco
is way more of a downhill thumper. They've got
Tony Adams who has always been kind of questionable
for me and his defense grade is abysmal with
his coverage grade even lower. So I think that
they have a chance against these linebackers.
They have lighter, faster, kind of more athletic
linebackers kind of in the vein of the Bills,
which is an advantage the Bills had over the
Ravens a little bit because they have heavier
traditional old school linebackers. But these
Jess linebackers are not, you know, they're not...
experts in coverage. I think that our guys are
a little bit better at that. And so it's going
to be interesting to see how the bills target
those linebackers on the second level, because
on the first level, you know, everybody knows
who Quinn and Williams is at this point. The
Jets picked up Harrison or traded for Harrison
Phillips. So they have a former bill in the middle.
He's kind of their weakest link on the line because
Jermaine Johnson and Will McDonald both look
like the real deal being top of the first round
edge rushers that they're leaning on now. So,
yeah, I think that there's some there's some
places to target in the secondary, but you have
to go pretty deep and you have to have time.
That's going to be the biggest problem because
this Jets pass rush looks legitimate with the
front four. Yeah, absolutely. And that's where,
you know, James Cook, as we say every week, is
going to have to factor in big and keeping defenses
honest. Now I will say this just defense for
everything that we've seen about the adjustments
that they have made, the personnel that they
have. This is still a defense that struggles
against running backs, catching the ball. out
of the backfield. And a lot of it has to do with
the fact that you mentioned the questions they
have at the second and third level of their defense.
So I think Cook factors in big into the into
the pass catch game here, keeping the Jets offense
honest, drawing more guys into the box to create
advantages downfield as well. I want to see the
play action game factored here too. And again,
I know when you're rolling out a pass rush is
ferocious as the Jets have. You are hesitant
to have your QB turn his back to the line of
scrimmage. But at the end of the day, and this
has been a gripe I have had, the only limited
minor gripe I've had about the Joe Brady offense
is that. You've got arguably the best play action
quarterback in the league, but under center and
Josh Allen, and you are not mashing that play
action button with the elite level that you have
hit with this run game as well. So I want to
see a little bit more play action. I want to
see the bills dictate the terms of engagement
more on offense than they did against the Ravens
in that first half, because JJ, it's all going
to come down to game script. If the Buffalo Bills
offense, and I feel like we say this all the
time, but if the offense can get a two score
lead, get a 17 point lead, you basically take
the run game for the Jets out of the equation
and you make Justin Fields a full time passer.
And that's where you can put your defense in
an advantageous position to take advantage of
a still developing QB who is finding his way
in a brand new offensive scheme. Yep. Absolutely.
And I think too that the, you know, I agree completely
with play action. I think that that is absolutely
one way to attack. I think taking advantage of
these defensive ends, being really young and
really aggressive and getting the screen game
to running backs utilized a little bit can also
be a tool you can, you can kind of deploy. Um,
but yeah. It's so frustrating because I agree
with you. We see the game the same way on offense
for the Bills and half for a little while that
Josh Allen is exceptional at play action. And
yet Joe Brady over his career calling games does
it like less than 7 % of times. And so really
kind of getting into that some more. I think
it was 3 % against the Ravens and all of those
plays that they did play action, Josh was successfully
finding people on. So lean into that more for
sure. Uh, I think targeting the, you know, it's,
it's weird to say, but, um, trying to run at,
you know, straight up the gut at the nose tackle
Harrison Phillips might be the way to go. If
you can get some movement because we got, you
know, Osiris, Torrance, McConaughey, not small
guys, David Edwards, not a small guy. If you
can get some movement there on the side opposite
Williams, who the Jets now, unlike the Robert
Sala Jets, they, they put Quinn and Williams.
There's no way you can't manipulate where they're
going to line him up on the line like you could
against Salah. Against Salah it was like, oh,
if we just go heavy to this side, we know Quentin
Williams is going to be on the weak side without
tight end help. And that was much easier because
it was just like, well, we can kind of figure
out by our alignment where we're going to put
him. Now it's like, no, they're going to use
tape study to figure out where he's going to
be most effective against your looks. The bills
can still do some of that can still manipulate
in some ways on offense, but they have to win
the 3d chess match by You know outsmarting the
Jets in that regard and Aaron Glenn's no slouch.
No No, this is a I mean you saw the difference
in week one This is an exceptionally well coached
Jets team and we have not been able to say that
for quite a few years now I Again, I get real
trap game feels out of this because the bills
right now After overcoming that Ravens game now
have the, the highest odds in the league to start
the year seven and Oh, before their rematch with
Kansas city. And I just think I get it. I get
odds makers are very good at their job jobs,
but if you look at this thing on a game to game
basis. This Jets game is a very, very early test
in week two after the Bills are coming off a
bruising physical and emotional matchup against
a conference rival on the Ravens too. Listen,
the Bills are well coached too. You know, we've
had our issues with McDermott over the course
of the last almost decade that he's been at the
helm, but this is a well coached unit too. They
really believe in the philosophy of one game
at a time. And I just want to see more from them
in the first half year to dictate the terms as
opposed to have the game dictated to them in
the way that they did against the Ravens. Yeah,
and I think that you can. It's interesting because
it was last year that the bill no two years ago,
the bills played better on the road than at home.
The Bills have played exceptionally well at home
last year. But we'll see if we can get back to
that. It seemed like they had a cheat code for
playing on the road. They had their stuff together.
They came out faster. They played a little bit
hotter in the first half. And then they were
doing the procrastination thing back at home
last season. And so maybe we see that. Let's
remember that this is the same defense that the
Bills hung 40 plus on when Aaron Glenn was coaching
it in Detroit. Last season so it's gonna be man
coverage heavy and we know what Josh Allen does
to man coverage traditionally Expect him to get
some some scrambles on the books and then on
top of that they're gonna blitz you they're gonna
try to bring extra heat and if you can if you
have Answers dialed up for Josh Allen. We know
he's fast enough to deliver them Without a doubt.
All right, man Anything more on the Bills offense
or do you want to get to some prediction sure
to go wrong? Let's go ahead and predict this
thing All right, let's start with score. So the
bills last I checked were, I don't want to verify
this, it was either six and a half or seven and
a half point favorites. They are six and a half
point favorites on the road. Over -under for
this game is 47 .5 points. I took the under last
week. I was wrong about that, though I will say,
and listen, you should not listen to us for betting
advice. This is a non -gambling podcast. But
unders last week, We're finished. I think it
like a 90 % clip. There were only two games that
finished in the over It was the Jets against
Pittsburgh and it was the Bills against the Ravens
that being said This also feels like it could
be another shootout just because I don't trust
this Bills defense JJ So where are you at with
final score because I'm still trying to figure
stuff out Yeah, I'm gonna say that the Bills
are gonna are going to get hit I think the over
is gonna hit and I think it's gonna be Bills
35 Jets 27 Nice. All right. So you've got the
Bills winning by, God, what's the math on that?
Is that eight points? Yeah. Just covering the
spread. Excellent. So you got the Bills covering.
I think this game is going to be close. I've
been like Bills win, Jets cover type of territory,
and I've been back and forth on like a 37 -35
final score. I will tell you, there was a point,
and please Bills Mafia forgive me because this
is prediction sure to go wrong. I was wrong last
week. And I'm tempted to pick the Jets here just
to keep that good karma going of when I pick
the Jets, the Bills win. But I am going to go
Bills 37, Jets 35. I think it's another good
showing for the Jets. JJ, this is not a team
to me that deserves to start 0 -2, but I've got
them starting 0 -2 here. Just because I think
the Bills will have more answers on offense.
for this Jets attack than Justin Fields will
have for the Bills if the game script goes the
way they need it to go. And listen, since Joe
Breed took over play calling against the Jets,
margin of victory versus this squad has been
in the double digits consistently. With the exception
of, I think, week six last season where, I mean,
Garrett Wilson just went off in that game. Joe
Brady has figured out a way to really trounce
this Jets squad and run up the score on offense.
Yeah. And that's, that's been a change too, is
I think that this, this people say, Oh, well,
Josh Allen's not good against the Jets defense.
That was only true until. um joe brady took over
his offensive coordinator and then he's just
hasn't been quite a bit better and part of that
is establishing the run game because i think
the jets want you to be in third and long like
most defenses that's where they kind of thrive
and even this year with the change in leadership
that's still it and so I think that they have
a great opportunity if they can, again, keep
ahead, manage the game script. The secret that
we know that it is to the bill of success has
been kind of staying ahead, forcing the other
team into uncomfortable choices on offense so
that they can maximize turnovers and things like
that. So I'm hopeful for it. I'm looking forward
to it. Do you have any prop bets for this one?
I do. You mentioned turnovers. I want to talk
about Josh. We know two things can be true. We
know that he has been on a historic run for him
relative to his own production of not turning
the ball over. Didn't have a turnover against
the Ravens. However, he has thrown 18 interceptions
against the New York Jets over the course of
his career. That is the highest amount of interceptions
that any active QB has against a single team
in the league right now. So I got this one for
you, JJ, over, under. Half an interception for
Josh Allen. I'm going to say under because I
think that what we're seeing is MVP Josh. I think
he's pretty. He looked incredibly dialed in.
I think that some of the play calls did him dirty
in the first game, but as we all know, he took
over the end of that game and every throw was
an absolute dot. So I'm going to say under interception
on Josh. Nice alright. I'm also going to say
under two. Only because like. I trust this version
of Josh. This version of Josh has proven to me
to be real. If he does throw a pick, I wouldn't
be surprised because it also won't be the end
of the world. Do you know what I mean? But God,
man, he's so good at backyard football. Like
just watching him in the uptempo moments when
they were running the four minute, two minute
offense for the for the squad, like calling his
shots at the line of scrimmage. I just wish I
wish the Bills would do that more. I know they
got to protect this defense. I just wish they
would do that more because if. If I felt like
they were going to go up tempo, I would easily
take zero interceptions because I just think
Josh gets into a flow that I don't see a lot
of other QBs get into in that mode. But yeah.
Yeah. And I know it's like, oh, we want the G
gun. I think I mentioned that before on the pod.
We've talked about it a lot. We've talked about
it a lot. And I get it. I want it. We all want
it. I just don't know that modern. modern kind
of defensive and offensive football allows you
to do that for a whole game. I think that's the
problem is, I think that they could definitely
do more tempo and apply it in different parts
of the game than just, just before half and just
at the end of the game, sprinkling in a, you
know, a huddleless drive in the first quarter
would be awesome. Especially a huddleless drive
where you're already up three or seven and you
got a chance to push it to double digits right
like an awesome quick strike drive to really
put the opposing team on their you tire the defense
out make them gassed for like a good long drive
and then you know capitalize It's it's a moral
victory It's demoralizing for them. It really
can be it really can be you got a prop Yeah.
So, um, mine is over under, uh, Joey Bosa half
a sack. Oh God. I don't know, man. I just don't
believe in anyone on the front line. I don't
believe in it. I just don't. It's so hard. Like
they should get sacks. They got sacks last week,
right? They should get sacks. Um, especially
on a guy as sackable as Fields is, but I just
week in or week out, I have a hard time. I'm
going to say over just because I want to be a
little bit positive. And I like the adjustments
Bosa made to his game. You saw like a wily power
veteran do some stuff last week that I think
was great. I'm going to say over, whatever. Yeah.
And I brought it up, so I'm saying over as well.
I'm just putting all my eggs in that basket that
the Bills find somebody who can be a double -digit
sack person this year. Just anyone. And that's
my guy. Yeah. I think I... I think I was like,
no, no one's going to be in double digits. Rousseau's
going to lead the team with nine sacks, but yeah.
You did say that. I don't think anyone's going
to be in double digits on this defense. I have
strongly pulled back on my TJ Sanders is going
to get double digits sacks after watching him
against a real team in real football. Oh no,
he's a rook. I'm sorry, it's on the interwebs.
I actually used that to advertise last week's
spots. Now I'm going to look like a fool. It
got a dude, it got it got thousands of views
on our Instagram page and put it out there. So
you're either wrong epically or you are going
to be like the reason why somebody put down 100
bucks for TJ Sanders to win that award and they're
now a millionaire. Right. And it wasn't me. Yeah,
no. So that's going to be that's going to be
a fun thing. And hopefully, you know. I'm hoping
he and Dion Walker both have a great showing
in the next three weeks and then I'm writing
a Apology card to Dion Walker Walker had some
real we didn't we haven't talked about this.
We didn't talk about it in the post game Because
everything rightfully so was focused on how amazing
Josh was Walker had some really good reps against
the Ravens, right? particularly particularly
in pass rush the the Oh God, what was it? Was
it the Lamar like just running all over the place?
No, it was the throw to DeAndre Hopkins, that
dime that Lamar had. Walker got immediate penetration
and Lamar had no choice but to go to Hopkins
on that play. But Walker factored in big time
last week in a lot of the pass rush game. Yeah,
he looked solid. Yeah, I'm excited to see some
more. Any other prop bets, dude? I got no other
prop bets, sir. If you're ready to wrap this
thing up, put a bow on it. Yeah, I'd say call
it a day, and in a few hours, let's see the Bills
vs. Jets. All right. For all of you listening
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