Welcome back to the Buffalo Bread Podcast. Dan,
we were too excited. We were too excited to just
to let this one sit until our usual Thursday,
Friday, Saturday recording window. Breaking all
the rules, man. Shattering expectations, just
blowing up, you know, everything that has been
has been seen from us before. Because, you know,
it is it is just over 24 hours since the Buffalo
Bills defeated the Jacksonville Jaguars in Jacksonville
to the tune of a 27 -24 victory. All, seemingly
all of it on the back, the knee, the head and
the hand, all shattered parts of Josh. Don't
forget the foot. Don't forget the foot he was
limping in with. And the already broken foot
of Joshua Patrick Allen. You know, there's a
lot more in this. I think Trey White has something
to say for this game. I think Cole, your boy
Cole has something to say for this game. That's
my dude, man. That's my dude. I've been on that
bandwagon since the draft. The ageless wonder.
Shaq Thompson has something to say for this and
Greg Russo showing that he might be actually
deserving of the contract I didn't think he was
deserving of really showed out in this game We
had a lot of a lot of guys to point to that made
this thing happen. But most of all Josh Allen
dance Where are you on the vibescape? vibes are
high right now, and I'm also a little bit nervous
because I said Openly on this preview pod that
we did for this game that if the bills won this
game They were gonna go to the Super Bowl like
this is a team that is either gonna lose and
wimp around the first round Or they're gonna
go all the way now I am gonna watch with even
more anxiety as I see the bills try to carry
through on that particular prediction JJ I want
to talk about all the guys that you mentioned
because I think they were key cogs in this wheel
I want to add one more and this is not one that
we usually talk about on this pod in glowing
terms Sean McDermott he was Nails is a decision
maker, absolute nails in this game. And I think
he deserves some flowers for this too. But this
whole thing starts with Joshua Patrick Allen,
man. We had talked in the pregame pod. We had
both shown some concern because the last time
that we had actually seen Josh play was that
Philadelphia Eagles game where we both thought
it was honestly his worst game of the season
from a decision making standpoint, from a mechanical
standpoint, like he wasn't layering his throws,
throwing with touch, missing open windows. And
you and I Both have, always have hope that Josh
Allen is going to be the one that'll lead this
team to the promised land. But we both had, I
think trepidation, I think rightfully so because
we had yet to see him play a complete game over
four quarters at any point this season. JJ, he
played an efficient, complete game across all
four quarters. This particular game against Jacksonville
at the perfect time. Yeah. His, his, we joked
a little bit about his self -scouting, his, his,
you know, vision quest he went through to find
his way. back to himself. His darkest retreat.
I just pictured Josh Allen holding a steaming
cup of some nondiscrete warm liquid and staring
off through a rainy pane of glass and being like,
who am I? But it worked, right? It worked. He
took those underneath throws. He took what the
defense was giving him. He didn't have any turnover
where the plays that I saw, except for when his
knee got... turned inside out and he dropped
the ball, but he was already down at that point.
And the goal line, yeah, no, Josh Allen. looked
like he was locked into kind of Superman mode.
And if that is what we see throughout this playoffs,
all he needs is a little bit of stoutness or
some splash plays from the defense. And I think
they could go all the way to the chip. And dude,
that's the formula for this Buffalo Bills team.
It is Josh playing with efficiency, taking shots
when needed, making good decisions, taking care
of the ball, which I know we had a turnover in
this game, but that was on special teams with
Ray Davis. The Buffalo Bills limited what had
been a turnover hungry and turnover opportunity.
cartoonistic defense in Jacksonville, all on
the back of Josh making really sound and solid
decisions. Got to give some credit to, I can't
believe I'm going to say this, to his patience
with the Joe Brady scheme in this particular
game. Joe Brady calls, I think, a very deliberate
game. I wouldn't call him creative. I wouldn't
call him like high variation. He is a guy that
plans progress into all of his game scripts though.
All that stuff that we talked about with regard
to play action. for the tight ends, we didn't
see it in any meaningful way until they needed
it the most in the fourth quarter, right? And
I think it's still valid to criticize some of
that stuff. It's valid to bring up frustrations
like, why can't we do both? Why can't we have
a very intentional game plan that varies a little
bit more frequently in the game as opposed to
having these very clear benchmarks within the
game script for when we're gonna change things
up. And to me, I think from what I had seen,
That had been the biggest frustration for Josh
at a lot of times is that he was not going along
with that kind of plotting path. This particular
game, he did what we asked him to do, dance with
who got you there, do what got you guys there.
We don't agree with the scheme, but just buy
into it by taking the check downs. And I think
most importantly, by just peppering Khalil Shakir
early and often in that game with some of those
screen targets and things like that. It actually
opened up a lot of the downfield shots we saw
later in the game, particularly in the fourth
quarter. And that screen game was so important
here, JJ, because the linebacking core, the safeties
for Jacksonville, they were so tight in the box.
They were committed to. stopping the run. Kahlil
Shakir basically became an extension of the run
game and still allowed Brady's scheme to progress
in the way it needed to, to unlock the opportunities
he wanted too late in the game. And that is credit
to Josh for buying in, playing within that particular
scheme, playing on time and making sure that
those opportunities availed themselves in the
way the game plan was scripted. Yeah, absolutely.
I think of it, I don't know how much experience
you have with playing like like fighting games,
right? Like your Street Fighters. I have a lot.
Yeah, your Street Fighters, your Tekken, etc.
Your Mortal Kombat if you're into the, you know,
the gore. Super Smash Brothers if you're not.
Super Smash Brothers if you're not, yeah. But
the Joe Brady scheme that we've seen over the
full season, it feels a lot like you're building
your Super Bar, right? Yes. It's like, oh, I
got to do this, then I got to do this, then I
got to do this. I'm building up my Super Bar
so I can unleash this, right? Yes. And that this
is like a one move combo that ends the match.
And that was the Dalton Kincaid touchdown, right?
It was, they faked the Khalil Shakir screen that
at that point they, I think they had 10 targets
to Shakira that moment in the game. They faked
the Khalil Shakir screen. Dalton Kincaid looked
like he just half -assed a block, but just slipped
out into open space for that corner touchdown
and Josh was over the back shoulder throw. The
Superbar had been built. I think a lot of the
times we've seen Josh Allen look inefficient
this season so far, the games that he like, it
felt like the offense was mired in mud. He was
trying too hard to hit the decoys and not taking
the design of the play to build the super bar,
right? Like he was like, okay, I'm just going
to try to yoink this thing 40 yards down the
field outside to Keon Coleman. Even though on
that game or on that play in that route, Keon's
job was to run off the safety, right? Like just
use, you know, too arrogant maybe with the ball
to too much trust in some of the guys. But it
did look like in this game, he was trying to
play within structure. That's never been his
forte. So that's right. FTN has not released
their full staff package at the end of this game.
I'm going to be very curious to see what his
first read. First read throw percentage was because
we talked about this pregame Trevor Lawrence
was a QB who was masterful at the line of scrimmage
or at least had been in the second half of the
season and was Trusting within the scheme that
Lee and Cohn built to the tune of having the
third most pass attempts to his first read in
the entire league Josh was 22nd in that particular
category I will bet you though that his first
read percentage takes a big jump in this game
to your point because he was trusting the scheme
he was trusting the ability of his primary weapons.
Like, yes, there were nine different pass catchers
that caught a ball, but these targets were funneled
to Khalil Shakir, Dawson Knox, who I think had
five targets, Dalton Kincaid, who I think had
five or six targets in this game too, and then
Brandon Cooks. on some of those key deep shots
as well. He funneled those opportunities within
the structure of the scheme and chose the absolute
perfect moments to your point to unleash the
super bar and unlock the latter parts of the
scheme that Joe Brady had always intended that
Alan would eventually get to. Now, you can still
criticize Brady for not building in more variance
at other, like points count in the second quarter
too. You know what I mean? Like, you can still
score touchdowns in the first and second quarter.
And I still think there's valid criticism there.
But this was the first time, I think, that I
had seen all season that Josh committed to the
structure and Brady felt comfortable unleashing
that structure on his own timetable. Well, and
I think, too, that, you know, the thing that
we're still looking for or we wish for, and we
might never get from Joe Brady, is complexity
that's not on a linear scale. Because that's
what this feels like. The offense feels like
it is a chunk of plays in a segment that build
on each other, but it's like it's the blockchain.
It all goes in one direction and there is, you
know, you would want something where there's
multiple channels or there's different, you know,
but it just feels like the offense is a streamed
situation down its linear and it can come out
of many different formations, but it's kind of
simplified and it is intended to build on itself
and have answers for After we hit the James Cook
wide zone, oh my gosh, we have the counter to
another running back who was just blocked, you
know, to whomever. Ty Johnson in a different
game this season, Ray Davis in another game this
season, right? Like we have some plays off of
it where we're going in a completely different
direction and everybody's flowing in the way
that they got killed the last time. we're not
there, right? Like those magician balls look
great, but you just wish you didn't have to get
the 15 -yard gain on the previous play to unlock
that alternate opportunity. Or that there was
just different builds. Correct. And listen, it's
going to present a problem against a team I would
argue like Houston should we face Houston later
on. Even a team like Denver who we have coming
up this Saturday, and we'll talk about more in
the preview, that doesn't need to load the box
so heavily like Jacksonville did to stop the
run. If they can still free up linebackers to
dart out and take away the close Shakira screen
while still shutting down James Cook, you know,
that's when we're really going to see what Brady's
scheme is made of. But in this particular game,
man, this was a legitimate, talented defense.
Josh trusted it. Brady executed it some flaws
here and there and ultimately it got the bills
a win against I would argue a team that was far
more talented on paper and had a lot of schematic
advantages in this game But we're able to overcome
it because of the connection and the buy -in
from the QB to the OC scheme Yeah, absolutely
at this point when I look at the AFC field Broncos
Houston, right? Like I I don't think there's
another team other beyond those two that I'm
really worried about the Jaguars one of the top
three teams I was worried about in the matchups.
I Everyone, I think, is afraid of Houston. I
don't think the Bills are ever going to go into
a matchup with Houston and spam the five man
protections against that front like they did
when they like they did when they were in Houston.
They seem to have learned from that massive mistake
later in the season when they met up with other
teams that had solid pass rushers like Pittsburgh
and things like that. And they. did not leave
their tackles on islands against elite pass rushers.
Josh had seven guys in protection on some of
these checks at the line this game, right? Like,
and that's the other thing, Josh was masterful
with the line of scrimmage in this game. I don't
think, I don't remember seeing on the broadcast
a free rusher get loose. Like Josh was a lot
dialed in. Only on the huge play near the end
to Brandon Cooks and that free rusher was intentionally
left. They slid protection deep. If he was going
to come, Josh was going to replace the Blitz
with the ball. And there was an open guy underneath.
I don't remember who it was. It might have been
Keon or Khalil. And Josh just went for the kill
shot, the 40 -yard bomb, right? Because it was
there, man. It was there. Off his back foot with
a rusher coming free in his face, like just Superman
stuff. But I don't want to gloss over. mentally
what Josh did in this game. He looked at lead
pre -snap. He really did. He called a great game
at the line. JJ, I want to move on. I want to
talk about some of the other guys that contributed
to this game. Old Man Trey White. I put this
out on social media. I was down on the Trey White
signing. It felt like another retread. And in
fairness, in the first half of the season, he
did not play great, right? He did not look like
a player who had a whole lot left in the tank.
Second half of the season rolls around and...
It is vintage Trey White. He had three absolutely
massive pass breakups in this game, including
the one at the end where the ball gets tipped
to Cole Bishop, seals the deal, ends the game
for us. Trey White, I would argue, is the second
MVP from this game. Yeah, I would not disagree
with that sentiment whatsoever. He, yeah, like
you said, vintage Trey White. He looked like,
I don't remember who said it, but somebody was
like, if Trey White didn't have injuries, and
looked this good at this stage of his career
without those gap years where he left in free
agency and was dinged up, dinged up, dinged up,
recovering, recovering, recovering. He'd probably
be on pace for at least have another All -Pro,
at least be in consideration for if the Bills
get a championship with him on the team. Hall
of Fame, right? Probably his interception numbers
would have been high in the seasons he was absent.
Yeah, it's so sad in the NFL to see players that
like, you know, they have infinite levels of
capability and talent, but it's just, you know,
it's injuries. And so, yeah, no, Trey White looked
amazing. He had, I think, three or four passes
defensed. He tipped, of course, the game -winning
interception to Cole Bishop was off of a Trey
tip. And then he also appeared out of, I don't
know, he like... Jumped in a portal on the right
sideline and then emerged at another portal on
the right hash to knock that tight end Pass away
near the goal line. Yeah, Brett and strange pass
to Brett and strange near the goal line That
was just like I don't even know he shot out of
a cannon threw a hand up I mean he looked like
he was playing fast and we know Trey is not like
he's never He was in that but he was never exactly
compared to don't ever say compared to guys like
us Like I I have at times frequented like, you
know gyms athletic facilities where people work
out almost every person in there is faster than
me and they're just like random civilians from
my small town right like exactly did Find some
other comparison. All right. We just want full
context here Like yeah, we are two dudes that
podcast from our living room saying that like
a supremely talented athlete is not fast but
like Not a shot. Like, relative to his peers,
he is not fast. But it's always been the technician
side of him. And man, he knew a lot of these
Jacksonville wide receiver routes better than
the wide receivers for Jacksonville did. And
he was jumping routes, he was trusting his instincts,
and that allowed him to play at a faster level,
I think, than we have seen him play all season.
It was just very impressive stuff out of Try.
And with him here on a one -year deal, you kind
of hope that Bills gets something done if somebody
doesn't entice him away. to keep him at the later
stage. I don't think he would leave. I think
this is the only place he wants to play. Yeah.
He did a media hit with Matty Glab for the team
team website. That was basically that. Like he
was like, it's a dream come true that I'm back
here. This is a place I love. I didn't want to
leave, but I understand why I went, you know.
And so, yeah, I think he would be back just for
the pure purpose of. If there's another CB in
the draft and then also Harrison's development,
right? Like these young CBs have to be learning
from him because he seems the type who take that
on and be serious about it. Yep, without a doubt.
Old man Shaq Thompson. Yeah. Yeah, I would argue
the best offseason signing the Brandon B made
and I put Joey Bosa in there too, who we should
we should listen. It shouldn't be all positives.
We should talk about like definitely some of
the stuff that will need work heading into Denver.
But man, Shaq Thompson, I mean, had the splash
play, right? Mm -hmm with the interception. I
think it was in the first quarter again. Yeah
against second second drive second Yeah a second
drive, but then again just all over the field
the bills were the bills were not They were challenged
to stop the run, but there was not a large Quantity
of runs they needed to stop but he was everywhere
He needed to be in past protection like this
what this is the 80 -20 Sean McDermott defense
that they want to roll out where this is a defense
that can stop 80 % of the QB's in the league
and will be shredded by the elite 20 % I would
argue there's not anyone in that elite 20 % other
than maybe our guy who has left in this postseason
though. And Shaq Thompson was just fluid and
fluid in coverage. And that's big because Terrell
Bernard, who is their best coverage linebacker,
he is still not healthy at this point. So to
be able to lean on a guy like Shaq Thompson,
who was dinged up in and of himself, I mean,
it just allows this scheme to work so well and
pass protection shift looks. After the snap confused
QB is what they're what they're seeing pre and
post snap I mean it should not be undervalued
what Shaq Thompson's Value to the scheme is when
it comes to being able to do those things. Yeah,
absolutely I think that the bigger piece with
Shaq Thompson is that you don't have a vulnerability
I think every other linebacker that they have
presents some kind of vulnerability Matt Milano
has lost a step with multiple injuries He is
still great like his his read and react is probably
one of the best on the team up there and maybe
even surpassing Shaq Thompson, but he does not
have the elite juice. He has sparks of it. You
see it sometimes, but it's not always there.
And then Terrell Bernard, as you mentioned, great
coverage linebacker, gets caught up in traffic
in the run too often, and I think has been injured
the entire season, has been kind of struggling
through injury. That's what it looks like, yeah.
Yeah, I don't know that he'll be back either
for next week. So yeah, I mean, and then you
have the ageless Jordan Poirier who unfortunately
tweaked the same hamstring that he had already
injured and missed some time with. Worried about
him. I think that they already rule. He's already
ruled out for Saturday against Denver Yeah, I
feel like they they have to take Hancock off
the field and put Kam Lewis in for Jordan poor
You read my mind I was gonna when we got to like
some of the areas where we wouldn't need to adjust
for for Saturday, right? Yeah, stay on kudos.
Yeah kudos, but then we'll get to Hancock both
close it out We'll close it out with all the
bad stuff, which is the way that we do in this
pad. That's what we do, right? Compliment sandwich.
Yeah, exactly. Yeah, no I think in general, the
coverage was connected. We've talked about that
before too. When it was bad early in the season
with pass defense, largely it was because they
weren't connected. They weren't filling where
they needed to fill. They weren't chained together
and handing off receivers where they needed to.
This game, they definitely were doing that. They
were communicating in that environment. It's
actually interesting. I think it might be a little
bit easier in the NFL to play defense on the
road because The stadium is quiet, right? They're
quiet for their offense. And so their communication
looked excellent the whole game through. Yeah.
Who else do you want to get to? Rousseau, do
you want to talk to Rousseau now? Yeah, I'll
talk about Greg Rousseau because, I mean, he
had a sack, right? But he was in the backfield
for the majority of this game. He was, he, I
know, listen, I know the Jags had a lot of success
running to the outside tackles in this particular
game. But a lot of that was, and again, I got
to rewatch it, but by my count, just in my notebook,
watching on the broadcast, that was almost exclusively
to Joey Bosa's side of the field. He was getting
out of position all the time. He was just like,
he just could not keep contained in the run game
at all. He was, have you ever seen the Dark Knight
Rises? Yeah, yeah, you know the Bain line when
him and Batman are fighting and like the sewer
or whatever it is He's like you fight like a
younger man with nothing held back. That's exactly
what Bosa was doing, right? He was playing like
a wild out -of -control rookie at a lot of times
As if he had the recovery speed to correct all
of the mistakes he was making with his rush choices
Yeah, right, right, but so I mean but that that
listen man people don't want to run a Gregor
so side of the field That's great. You know what
I mean, and then impact and then in pass rush.
He won his one -on -ones against right? Not a
not a elite, but I think a very stout group of
offensive tackles in this game for Jacksonville
Yeah, and I think that you know we can we can
definitely on the preview show We'll talk a lot
more about the Broncos that they're gonna have
to step up even more. That's a different That's
the best offensive line probably in the NFL.
Yeah up there with the Bills and Seattle. I don't
know. Who do you think is? I, yeah, no, I would
say, I would say Seattle, which is crazy to think
about because they've never had a good offensive
line. I would say Seattle. I would probably throw
the LA Rams in there a little bit, right? Our
guys and then yeah, Denver's clear, heads and
tails in a roll. Yeah. So it's going to be different,
but I do think, you know, I liked what I saw
from Rousseau. I thought that Deon Walker had
some good snaps. He was taking a snapshot over
almost every defensive tackle in this game. So
he's sort of elevated, especially in a game where
they... Joby's a healthy scratch. That's a crap
signing. That sure is. We're going to keep it
positive, but that's a guy maybe after he was
suspended. We probably should have got rid of
him pre -season. Cut that contract up. Yeah.
So what else you got to get to? We have to talk
about McDermott man because he has caught flack
everywhere in Bill's Mafia There are still people
after this game screaming fire McDermott Listen,
I've got I have I have my own concerns if Joe
Brady goes to a college coaching job And Sean
McDermott is asked to pick the guy to rebuild
this offense for the fourth time. I've got real
concerns about that I no longer have concerns
about his game management. He was flawless in
this game. He called a great game made all the
right decisions on challenges. I, I understand
the argument for maybe fans wanting to take a
knee on that first down just in the, for the
go ahead possession where Josh Tush pushed it
in. I understand wanting to run more time off
the clock. But I think it is paramount that you
score there. And I like the fact that McDermott
ripped the Band -Aid off and then trusted his
defense, which had been muddying the picture
on Trevor Lawrence all day, trusting his defense
to go out there and get 59 seconds to stop, knowing
that the opposing team was in a must pass situation.
So I loved it. I loved it. How badly do you think
Bill's Mafia would have unanimously pooped their
pants if they scored and there was only 13 seconds
left after like a kneel? I was thinking about
Team of Destiny. In that moment, I was like waiting
for that to happen because I'm like, oh my, I
won't be able to watch the last play. Right.
Exactly. Exactly. No, it would have been Jacksonville
as a Team of Destiny. They're the new Chiefs,
right? It would be crazy. No, I liked it. I liked
everything about how McDermott handled this game
and he's he's winning challenges now Yeah, it's
like a switch has flipped and all of a sudden
like the man who hadn't won a challenge in his
first like Decade in the league as a head coach
now all of a sudden is on a little bit of a hot
streak Which I love he's making great decisions
think it's delegation I think they ended up just
do you remember like because I don't know most
bills fans don't pay this close of attention
But I think we both do where like it's like blah
blah blah is announced as the new like game day
analysis assistant and like every year there's
like a new hiring and you never see a firing
i feel like there's a team of like 29 poindexters
in a box somewhere just like crunching numbers
and being like challenge it you know yep yeah
go for it just go for it Good job delegating
McDermott. Yes. Thank you, nerds. Thank you,
nerds, for helping Sean McDermott. We appreciate
you. But yeah, man, I mean, I think, and there's
some other flowers to go around. Obviously Kahlil
Shakir for his reliability in this game. I mean,
again, if he is not as effective at those four
yards, three yards, five yards, six yards on
that peppering of screens, I mean, this game
looks a lot different and a lot of these opportunities
don't open up. So his ability to be a great pass
catcher, a security blanket for Josh I think
was a huge one too. And then, I mean, listen,
credit to Dalton Kincaid and Dawson Knox too.
Like they didn't hit the 11th, they didn't hit
the over on the 11 and a half receptions I thought
they would. I was a little bit surprised we weren't
using tight ends more in this game. It might've
made our life and Josh's life a little bit easier,
especially early on, but they too secured all
their opportunities. I mean. Dawson Knox has
had big drop issues his entire career, and he
proved to be really reliable. And then freaking
Dalton Kincaid just streaking down the sideline
on that on that touchdown of the fourth quarter
was just poetry in motion that he looks like
a great wide receiver. When I watch him play,
I do not see a tight end. No, I know. Yeah, I
know. He's he's especially talented. He feels
like he feels a little bit like his story. I
hope his story doesn't go the way of Tray whites,
because that's the other thing is injuries have
derailed so much of his potential. the bills
put him on the shelf or snap limit him game after
game because he's got this knee thing that's
like recurring for two years now and then I continue
to be worried about so at this time let's revisit
our our predictions let's do it had we both picked
the bills to win by three points I had 31 28
you had 34 31 so pretty good Yeah, we were really
close to the final score, just a little bit higher
with production. Then I had Joey, Joey Bosa over
one and a half sacks. He had no sacks at all.
This was so, he was a tough watch. He had a bad
game. This was a tough watch. Like he's been
bad in run contain all season. Like he, I don't
want to pin the run defense issues on him. Terrell
Bernard stinks in the run. We've talked about
this. Like, like there are a lot of big issues
with the run game, but But the fact that teams
feel so comfortable running to his side of the
ball, knowing that he will not keep contained.
I mean, even some of his like, even some of his
pass rush reps, like I can't remember what quarter
it was, but it's when we had Jacksonville backed
up into their own end zone, right? And Bosa,
like a man, had he just taken the outside loop
against his assignment, easy safety. And instead
he cuts it inside and leaves his entire assignment.
his entire field assignment open for Trevor Lawrence
to scamper for 35 yards. I like what Bosa's brought
to the table this year. I also think that dude
needs to take a sleeping pill or a trank before
a game and just bring it down a couple of notches.
I think that we hope to see, so Bosa playing
for the Chargers for so many years, we hope to
see a rejuvenated and more dialed in Joey Bosa
for this Denver game because this is a known
opponent to him. for years in a known stadium
for his entire career. Let's see what Joey brings
in the Denver divisional round and before we
stamp him a failure in the playoffs. And I know
you weren't doing that anyway. Yeah, not doing
that. But he's got a lot to clean up. He's always
rushing the passer. Jacksonville could have been
in the wildcat. and running out of the backfield
with Travis Etienne, he'd be like, kill the quarterback,
right? Like, he's just, he's got to modulate.
Like, he's just got a situational awareness man.
He runs away from the box to where Trevor Lawrence
is lined up at the receiver and just like, pushes
him into the sideline, right? Got him, right?
Got him. No, he's a maniac, but in the wrong
ways. You know who he reminds me of? Yannick
Ngocwe. You remember that guy? That guy was,
no matter what. He would just run, run to the
QB in a straight line as humanly possible, right?
Even E .J. Manuel could get him on a slip screen,
right? Yes. Just, yeah. I mean, anything you
want to do offensively, slip screen, the QB run,
outside zone, just run it to both the side of
the field because all he's thinking about is
killing the QB. Yeah, no doubt, no doubt. Yeah.
I will say, you know, on that, you mentioned
the Bosa play where he had a sure fire safety
if he just would have stayed in his rush lane.
Mitch Wyshnawski with the freaking prettiest
coffin corner kick I ever saw. I thought the
refs messed that one up and it should have been
spotted at like the half yard mark. But, you
know, they they have a chip in the ball they
don't use. So we'll we'll trust their eye, their
old man eyeballs. Please get this right. Please
get the spotting. Spotting the ball is a little
bit rough in this game. Yeah, yeah. We kind of
talked about Jordan Hancock. I. I'm 50 -50 with
you that Kam Lewis should be getting more reps.
I just think Kam Lewis has been an underrated
piece of this defense, and I like it when he's
on the field. And if we can get Johnson and him
on the field together at some point, with Lewis
in the safety role, especially now with Poyer
ruled out, I like that, because we don't lose
anything in run fits with Lewis on the field,
and I do think he's plus in coverage. Part of
me is like, do you let Hancock take his lumps
in this particular case, but... I, it's the postseason.
You got to pull out all the stops. I agree. I
want to see more camp Lewis. Cause I think Hancock
had a re he played like a rookie, like he had,
he had a rookie game in the plan for the first
time in the playoffs. He had a hard time. Yes,
he really did. I mean, outside of that man. I
don't have too many more complaints about this
game. I mean, it was really solid. Really solid
all the way around. We will do a preview pod
for all of you listening at home here, and we'll
fully dig into the Stem or Broncos game. But
JJ, any early thoughts that you want people to
keep in mind as we head into a week here as we
prep for the pod? With my kind of Bill's Buddies
Facebook Messenger group chat, which you would
absolutely be part of if you use that particular
social media app. What's the app? It's Facebook
Messenger. I don't use that. Yeah, exactly. You
don't use Facebook stuff. I am not on any social
media. I just manage what we have for the pod.
I don't have any personal social media. That's
good for you. Yeah, you recommended a book to
me about that and I never read it. So anyway,
this is good. Thank you for your honesty. To
get all the way in the longest way possible around
to my point. Somebody in there was making fun
of me as the. You know the scat man song like
skit, skit, skit, dot, and boop, like that song.
He sent a message and was like, huh, I don't
know anything about these Denver Broncos. And
then started singing scat man at his desk at
his work job until my message popped up because
he changed the word scat man to stat man. Because
that's my role in the group. I'm just like, well,
let's dig into it. All right. So I checked all
the defensive DBOAs, offensive DBOAs, and my
assessment for everyone listening in the most
simplified fashion. Denver is better as a pass
defense, worse as a run defense, but only slightly
because there's still a very good run defense.
They are better on offense with being balanced,
not as much relying on the pass as the Jaguars
are. And Denver's outside receivers are not as
skilled. Bo Nix is on the same level as Trevor
Lawrence. That's my summary. That's a good summary.
Much better offensive line. Their sack percentage
is like less than half of Jaguars. Yeah, I don't
think. Rousseau's not getting a sack against
Denver Broncos. Right, I agree. It'll be interesting
for me to see one of the things that I'm really
going to dig into. Liam Cohen got a lot of, I
think, criticism for not running the ball more
when it was obviously working with Basial Tutin
and Travis Etienne. I mean, I think together
they only combined for something like 14 carries
and they averaged close to 10 yards of carry
combined between the two. I mean, just the run
defense, our run defense sucks. I wonder. if
Sean Payton is going to put Bonix in mothballs
and just be like, especially in that altitude,
gas this Buffalo Bills defense early by pounding
the rock, take it all out of them, and then unleash
Bonix a little bit in the second half of the
game to kind of in a pull away situation, depending
on where the game script is. I just, I still
feel like the vulnerability of this team is an
opposing head coach being like, you know what?
This is QB optional today, guys, because if you
can get 10 yards, seven yards a carry, that is
as good, if not better than passing the ball
on this Buffalo Bills defense, right? So why
wouldn't you do, why wouldn't you in the yardage
economy make that choice? So I feel like the
team that, if there is a team that knocks off
the bills, they're going to decide to just mothball
their QB. And Liam Cohen didn't, and I get it.
Again, we've been saying it, dance with what
got you there. And this is a pass forward team.
He's got a lot of confidence in his young QB,
justifiably so. And Trevor Lawrence, outside
of that pick at the end of the game, was pretty
automatic in the fourth quarter. Like, had Josh
Allen not done Josh Allen things at the end of
that game, we might be talking about Trevor Lawrence
with one of the better fourth quarter performances
for a QB we've seen in a long time in the playoffs.
Yeah, you were right before Travis Etienne and
Bischel Tooten combined for 14 carries. Basial
tootin average almost 13 yards a carry in Travis.
He's had an average almost seven. So break, right?
Yeah, they got away from it. And thank you team.
Thank you teams. I think we talked about this
in the preview pod. Thank you teams for getting
for getting a little bit scared of Josh Allen
and abandoning your run in the third and fourth
quarters of games. Like that's a meat. Keep doing
that. Yes, please do. Please ultimately do that.
Yes, we appreciate you. But yeah, man, that's
all I got. It was a great win, a gutty, hard
nosed win. They're gonna need a couple more of
these if they're gonna make it to the Super Bowl
because it's it's just a hard hard road from
here Going up against a defense's talented as
Denver, but I'm looking forward to it man I'm
looking forward to breaking it down on the preview
pod as well two more games And then they could
be in the Super Bowl one more two more games.
Yeah, it's all we need Why do we just need one
before we die? But there will be definitely more
than one more episode of this pod coming up So
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