OBL 5/26: Which Holdover Will Be The Most Important To The Defense? Jim Leonhard Meets The Media

Maddy Glab and Steve Tasker returned from the long weekend to update all the news and notes from One Bills Drive as the team returned to the practice field for OTAs. They asked the listeners which Bills holdover will be the most important to Jim Leonhard's defense? We then heard from Leonhard as he met with the media prior to today's session.

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Speaker 6: I was gonna was gonna be worried for the next

Speaker 6: two hours that you hate me.

Speaker 4: I'm just kidding, you know.

Speaker 2: Yeah, we had a nice long weekend. I had Friday

Speaker 2: and Monday off. Steve, did you do anything fun?

Speaker 1: Yeah?

Speaker 4: Travel to uh Wichita, Kansas, which is you know, my

Speaker 4: stomping ground I grew up and stuff. My three older

Speaker 4: brothers are there, my mom is living there, and my

Speaker 4: three brothers and I had a birthday party from my mom.

Speaker 4: She turns ninety six tomorrow, amazing, right, So she's doing great,

Speaker 4: very happy. She's in a place and and they take

Speaker 4: good care of her and we we and nephews and

Speaker 4: nieces and everybody there. It was nice. So that's what

Speaker 4: I did. And you know, so you know, I hate

Speaker 4: traveling because I did it for so long with CBS.

Speaker 4: I was traveling all the time. It's like very comfort.

Speaker 4: So it's very blase to me. And the only funny

Speaker 4: story from the travel was that I got caught, as

Speaker 4: all of us who have traveled it at any point

Speaker 4: have what happened in Chicago? Oh hair, you know the

Speaker 4: size right, Just so you know, the place is the

Speaker 4: size of the Western hemisphere, right, So get off the

Speaker 4: plank a little tight and not. I got a little

Speaker 4: time in this connection, So I get I got a

Speaker 4: little time. Trying to find something to eat takes forever,

Speaker 4: takes forever, takes forever. Have to leave without even I ordered,

Speaker 4: I had to leave without getting the food or pay.

Speaker 4: I had to leave, got caught, went to the gate.

Speaker 4: Nobody's there. What's the deal? So I had and I've

Speaker 4: got the app so I'm refreshing the ap but still

Speaker 4: says it's this gate. No, I'm sorry, it's at that

Speaker 4: gate way over there. So you know, you end up

Speaker 4: running through the airport. Except at this point of my

Speaker 4: athletic my athletic career, I'm pop a calf muscle running

Speaker 4: through the air I'm like, so I'm this little old

Speaker 4: man hobbling through oh hair airport.

Speaker 2: I got so many looks across the finish people.

Speaker 4: Are looking at me. It's so pathetic. You're oh, look

Speaker 4: at that old man run. He's so pathetic.

Speaker 1: You know.

Speaker 4: It was such a pity. You know, it was such

Speaker 4: a pity. So I make it. But you know, for

Speaker 4: the rest of the weekend, I'm like, oh my gosh,

Speaker 4: so yeah, so that's my that was my travel story.

Speaker 4: I was so it.

Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, like such a it happens.

Speaker 4: It happened, So there you go. That was But the

Speaker 4: trip was great. My mom was great, my brothers were great,

Speaker 4: saw my nieces and nephew. We got a big family.

Speaker 4: Back there, so it was. It was all great. So yeah,

Speaker 4: it was fun, fun, awesome, and it didn't rain while

Speaker 4: I was there. It was rained here.

Speaker 2: It rained so much here on Saturday. I was in Toronto.

Speaker 2: On Saturdays. We were like, let's do a day trip.

Speaker 2: We were meeting up with some friends who were in

Speaker 2: town from Chicago. We were driving them back to Buffalo.

Speaker 2: So we were like, why not go to Toronto for the

Speaker 2: day and you know, walk around, get some good food.

Speaker 2: There was no walking around because the heavens opened up

Speaker 2: and poured rained the entire day.

Speaker 4: It was. It was insane. A couple people from over

Speaker 4: this ring went up to the game, the baseball game

Speaker 4: up there. Yeah, and you know you're inside for the game.

Speaker 4: They got the roof, so yeah, they said, just it

Speaker 4: was horrible.

Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was a wash wash of a

Speaker 2: day everybody else. But it ended up being pretty nice yesterday,

Speaker 2: so that was great. Made up for it yesterday.

Speaker 4: I played golf yesterday. It was nice.

Speaker 2: Was it still wet?

Speaker 4: It was very wet.

Speaker 2: We almost played on Sunday and called and they're like, yes,

Speaker 2: it's really wet out there.

Speaker 4: Really it was okay, you lift clean and place.

Speaker 2: Yeah, could you do. Was it car path only, no cars,

Speaker 2: no carts at all.

Speaker 4: Yeah, we were hoofing it. It was on soft ground

Speaker 4: and wet. It's like and your calf you get Yeah,

Speaker 4: you get to fIF fifteenth hole and it's like, just

Speaker 4: I wish I had taken a ping pong or something.

Speaker 4: But yeah, it was a rough day. But today and

Speaker 4: the rest of the week is going to be sacked

Speaker 4: or like today and this week they're busy over at

Speaker 4: the Yeah, new high Mark, and I mean it is

Speaker 4: I can't wait. It's just so awesome.

Speaker 2: Looking we are like TE minus a couple months till

Speaker 2: this team is going to be in there figuring out

Speaker 2: the lay of the land. It's nuts. I mean, the

Speaker 2: time really does fly. It is you break around a

Speaker 2: couple of years ago and here we are about to

Speaker 2: open up this beautiful stadium.

Speaker 4: It's we're in Yeah, we're in T minus right. Yeah,

Speaker 4: it's awesome.

Speaker 2: Countdown mode and the team is in countdown mode to

Speaker 2: the season because they have OTA's going on today, another

Speaker 2: OTA practice. We heard from defensive coordinator Jim Leonard just

Speaker 2: about twenty minutes ago. We're gonna play his press conference

Speaker 2: coming up later in the show. Also here from some

Speaker 2: players hopefully after practice. Not exactly sure who's on the

Speaker 2: podium today. We heard from Josh Allen last week. Maybe

Speaker 2: a defensive player this week we'll meet with the media.

Speaker 2: So excited to hear about who that is and hopefully

Speaker 2: we get to air him on this show. The Bills

Speaker 2: started OTA's last week. You know, they're a team to

Speaker 2: start a little bit earlier because they began their off

Speaker 2: season practicing and activities earlier. Because of new head coach

Speaker 2: Joe Brady. You get a couple weeks to kind of

Speaker 2: lay the groundwork before other teams do who have returning

Speaker 2: head coaches. So that means eleven teams start OTAs today.

Speaker 2: That would be the Colts, the Jaguars, the Chiefs, the Chargers, Eagles, Packers, Vikings, Panthers, Bucks, Rams,

Speaker 2: and the Seahawks as well. It was awesome to watch

Speaker 2: practice last week. I know you guys were doing the

Speaker 2: show here so you couldn't watch practice. We are now

Speaker 2: in the period where we can watch the entire practice,

Speaker 2: which was nice. Got to do that during rookie mini camp,

Speaker 2: and we get to do that all off season leading

Speaker 2: into training camp as well before in season practice rules begin.

Speaker 2: So it was really cool to kind of start to

Speaker 2: see what Jim Leonard's defense is going to look like.

Speaker 2: We've been hearing all off season we are switching to

Speaker 2: a three three four defense instead of a four to

Speaker 2: three gym letter talked about it today, So I'm excited

Speaker 2: for our viewers to listen to kind of what this

Speaker 2: defense entails. And it was great to see it in person,

Speaker 2: because it's one thing to talk about it. It's one

Speaker 2: thing to hear head coach or defensive coordinator talk about

Speaker 2: what it could be. It's another thing to actually see

Speaker 2: it in front of you. And it was cool to

Speaker 2: see them switching in and out of different things. We've

Speaker 2: heard Jim Leonard talk about how multiple he wants this

Speaker 2: defense to be, and it was really neat seeing different

Speaker 2: players kind of roam about the field in different positions.

Speaker 4: We have seen Jim Leonard in a building and stuff

Speaker 4: for a couple of months, for months now right and

Speaker 4: before the OTAs and all of that, we were, you know,

Speaker 4: had a chat. We're up getting coffee and he strolls

Speaker 4: in to get his catt and we're chit chatting just

Speaker 4: you know, yeah, you know, how do you have this

Speaker 4: too many conversations around right. So and even then he

Speaker 4: was saying he's not he goes the thing that shocked

Speaker 4: me and I and I. It's really seems genuine. He's

Speaker 4: like even then he's cycling, Yeah, we're gonna be all right.

Speaker 4: Like he's like he was, he was like, nah, he goes,

Speaker 4: we're gonna be all right. So and then today he

Speaker 4: talks to the media and we'll have his comments. As

Speaker 4: you said later on, you get the feeling they like

Speaker 4: the guys they got, They like this this roster. I

Speaker 4: think that's one of the things we all worried about

Speaker 4: because we're but you know, the the changes they've made,

Speaker 4: the new faces they have, the draft picks they acquired.

Speaker 4: You can really tell when Jim Lennard talks to the

Speaker 4: media he's like, we got some guys, yeah, which is

Speaker 4: it's like people like, you know, the fans are like,

Speaker 4: that's kind of nice to hear.

Speaker 2: It was really nice to hear him talking about some

Speaker 2: specific players today and talk positively about how those players

Speaker 2: fit in this defense. When you and me and other

Speaker 2: people were like, how how is it, how is it

Speaker 2: gonna happen, How is this guy gonna fit?

Speaker 6: How does it make sense tell me I want it

Speaker 6: to be okay.

Speaker 4: Okay, is gonna take forever to get this defense together.

Speaker 4: And Leonard's up there going now. He goes, we got

Speaker 4: some guy, We're gonna be good. I was like, wow,

Speaker 4: okay it and I get this too. Coaches are wired

Speaker 4: that way. They like their guy. They kind of jump

Speaker 4: in and they kind of come in with a positive

Speaker 4: attitude and all of that. But you could tell from

Speaker 4: the from film study, from talking to the guys, from

Speaker 4: starting to get them, tell them what they're gonna ask

Speaker 4: them to do, and have the guys react to it.

Speaker 4: A lot of positive vibes coming out. And it's not

Speaker 4: like they're just pumping these guys tires or anything like that.

Speaker 4: You really get the feeling that they feel like they're

Speaker 4: maybe a step or two ahead of where we thought

Speaker 4: they might be, both with their personnel evaluation and how

Speaker 4: the transition went from four three to three four. In

Speaker 4: all that conversation we've been having, how far advanced they

Speaker 4: are down that road and where these guys fit, and

Speaker 4: how positive it's been in their feedback and watching them

Speaker 4: on the field a lot of fun. It was really like, Okay,

Speaker 4: you know, you're kind of bouncing in your chair, going

Speaker 4: all right, let's good.

Speaker 7: You know.

Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean that's what.

Speaker 2: Vegas has said.

Speaker 4: This money words.

Speaker 2: Well I'm shooting for three more.

Speaker 4: Hammer that's you know, that kind of atmosphere. Now, you know,

Speaker 4: we're we're a long way away from it.

Speaker 2: But you drink that cool and you're like cool, I'm

Speaker 2: ready to go.

Speaker 4: I don't care matter, you know me. I was like,

Speaker 4: just put it in my veins, right, I'm I'm swilling

Speaker 4: it down.

Speaker 6: He was at the press car the room wide eyed

Speaker 6: and bushy tailed, smiling at everything that Jim Leonards saying like.

Speaker 4: Like jump out of my seat, let's go. No, I

Speaker 4: wasn't quite like that, but yeah, yeah, you do get

Speaker 4: a little bit like, oh wow, okay, yeah, he you know,

Speaker 4: listening to him talk, he's really you know, he's a

Speaker 4: smart dude. That's what he brings. You know, we all

Speaker 4: we've all heard how intelligent he's a good communicator. But

Speaker 4: to hear him speak in the manner in which he

Speaker 4: did and communicate what his thoughts are to the media

Speaker 4: and through their questioning, yeah, it's a very positive interaction

Speaker 4: and you can tell he's genuine about his positivity towards

Speaker 4: the roster towards his plan for these guys, the feedback

Speaker 4: he's gotten from his players, what he's going to ask

Speaker 4: them to do, and what they're going to be really

Speaker 4: good at all that stuff. Just like wow, wow, okay,

Speaker 4: very cool, very cool to see it here in the

Speaker 4: third week of match.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Coordinators can put stuff together in two different ways.

Speaker 2: It's this is what I run, I need this exact

Speaker 2: type of player to fit in this, or we're going

Speaker 2: to run this, but I'm going to shape it to

Speaker 2: each player. And it seems like that's the way that

Speaker 2: defensive coordinator Jim Leonard is going about things. Let me

Speaker 2: get a feel for what we currently have, and I'm

Speaker 2: gonna use these types of players to put it together

Speaker 2: to what I see is going to work and what

Speaker 2: I see is going to confuse other teams. So he's

Speaker 2: not saying you you don't fit, get out of here.

Speaker 2: It's like, what are your strengths and let me figure

Speaker 2: out how we can use those.

Speaker 4: Yeah, that's where the NFL is at the current point.

Speaker 4: It used to be. You know, back in the old school,

Speaker 4: guys like me will tell you, you say, this is

Speaker 4: the system we run. If you can't fit it, we're

Speaker 4: getting somebody else, or you have to play our way.

Speaker 4: That's not how it's done anymore. And I've said this

Speaker 4: before too. Marv did this if certainly when I was

Speaker 4: a player. But the first guy back in the day

Speaker 4: is start doing that was Don Shula where he'd come

Speaker 4: up and you know, they ask their guys in certain years.

Speaker 4: I remember defensively say say, listen, we don't have we

Speaker 4: have guys to do this really well. That's all we're

Speaker 4: gonna do. They're gonna do what they do really well.

Speaker 4: And then you got to beat it. That's what permeated

Speaker 4: the NFL from that point on. Everybody started saying, well, gosh,

Speaker 4: if we don't let's just build our defense around our

Speaker 4: talent rather than let's have our talents fit our talent

Speaker 4: into the defense. We know as a coaching staff, and

Speaker 4: that's where the entire NFL is now. And here Jim

Speaker 4: Leonard talk about it. He brings to the table, you know,

Speaker 4: all his years as a player in college and in

Speaker 4: the pros as a pro and then as a coach

Speaker 4: and in the college coach college, and that they've obviously

Speaker 4: been exposed to a lot of different techniques of how

Speaker 4: to deploy players, what fronts to use, how to mesh

Speaker 4: that with coverage, the whole kit and kaboodle of what

Speaker 4: an NFL defensive scheme is. And they just build it

Speaker 4: around the guys they've got, and he seems to like

Speaker 4: these guys.

Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm excited about the vision he sees for Buffalo's

Speaker 2: defense this season. Let's get to some news and notes,

Speaker 2: because there's some things happening around the NFL. Most of

Speaker 2: this took place late Thursday afternoon, but you guys were

Speaker 2: already off air by then. We had this long weekend,

Speaker 2: So let's kind of recap a few couple big items

Speaker 2: that happened to finish off last week. MVP quarterback Matthew

Speaker 2: Stafford got paid because the Rams reached an agreement with

Speaker 2: the quarterback on Thursday on a one year, sixty five

Speaker 2: or fifty five million dollar extension. It can be as

Speaker 2: much as sixty million with incentives. According to the sources,

Speaker 2: Stafford was originally supposed to make forty million in twenty

Speaker 2: twenty six. Stafford now gets a five million as a

Speaker 2: roster bonus that's fully guaranteed at signing. The remaining fifty

Speaker 2: becomes guaranteed at the start of the twenty twenty seven year,

Speaker 2: so he's now tied to LA through the twenty twenty

Speaker 2: seventh season. So this year, Stafford will be playing in

Speaker 2: his eighteenth NFL season, sixth year with the Rams. He

Speaker 2: had forty six touchdowns last season and only eight interceptions.

Speaker 2: Super productive quarterback last year. You would assume he does

Speaker 2: much of the same in twenty twenty six with the

Speaker 2: cast of characters that he has to throw to and

Speaker 2: the talent to defense that they've put together over the

Speaker 2: last several seasons.

Speaker 4: Yeah, he is in what was supposed to be his

Speaker 4: swan song in LA. Has turned into a six year career.

Speaker 4: There's been two Super Bowls, one win, one loss. I

Speaker 4: think that's right, and they were right there again last year.

Speaker 4: Has remained incredibly effective as a quarterback well into at

Speaker 4: seventeen years. It's crazy seventeen years. So yeah, that's and

Speaker 4: that gives something. This last week we celebrated Josh's thirtieth

Speaker 4: and everybody's like, oh gosh, you know that, and they're

Speaker 4: kind of ringing.

Speaker 2: Their hands like always on the back nine.

Speaker 4: Matt Stafford is proof positive that and Aaron Rodgers has

Speaker 4: proved positive. Tom Brady's proof positive. Ben Roethlisberger's proof positive

Speaker 4: that they can play deep into their thirties and even

Speaker 4: into their forties and still be effective. So you know that.

Speaker 4: I think Josh has got a long time to go

Speaker 4: because of the way they protect quarterbacks, and certainly Josh

Speaker 4: plays quarterback a little different than Matt Stafford does. But

Speaker 4: with Josh's level of intelligence, he'll be able to adapt

Speaker 4: to his age and start throwing it like and doing

Speaker 4: it like Matt Stafford does. Just do it from the pocket.

Speaker 4: You don't have to run around, you don't have to

Speaker 4: take hits, you don't have to run a fifty two

Speaker 4: yard touchdown, you know, in in a playoff game like

Speaker 4: Josh has done. But Stafford's just one more guy. If

Speaker 4: you can throw it, you can play, and that's the

Speaker 4: way it's going to be. I'm kudos to Stafford and

Speaker 4: the Rams for getting the most out of his career

Speaker 4: since moving over from Detroit after a stellar eleven year

Speaker 4: career there. I mean, it's amazing.

Speaker 2: His forty six passing in twenty twenty five. That is

Speaker 2: a career high for Stafford and he did it at

Speaker 2: the age of thirty eight. I believe there's no telling

Speaker 2: what you can do, you know, late into your thirties

Speaker 2: as an NFL quarterback, if you take care of yourself

Speaker 2: and if you have a coaching staff that believes in

Speaker 2: you and your abilities.

Speaker 4: That's right. And he can still sling it. I mean

Speaker 4: I remember back in the day when he first came

Speaker 4: in the league. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions,

Speaker 4: of course, and the Bills always played the Lions in

Speaker 4: the preseason, remember, and so I didn't know. No, I

Speaker 4: came out of Georgia, the whole thing, and gets drafted

Speaker 4: by the Lions. They come in for a preseason game

Speaker 4: and he comes in. He's playing in this preseason game.

Speaker 4: He makes a handful of throws that were eye popping.

Speaker 4: I was like, Wow, that this guy's different. I see,

Speaker 4: I see why they drafted the guy. I mean that

Speaker 4: was his first preseason game or whatever.

Speaker 2: Pson two thousand and nine.

Speaker 4: It was unbelievable. I mean, he had he could sling it,

Speaker 4: and he still can't obviously. I mean he led the

Speaker 4: league in touchdown throws last year with only eight interceptions.

Speaker 4: Unbelievable player. So you know he started from a high

Speaker 4: floor as well, so you knew he was going to

Speaker 4: be able to last. But he can still throw it

Speaker 4: after all these years. And that's one of the things

Speaker 4: that starts to go is your ability to think because

Speaker 4: you just get old and your strength and he can

Speaker 4: still sling it. So yeah, that's kudos to Stafford and

Speaker 4: the Rams. You know they're going to be there, and

Speaker 4: you kind of hope you get a chance to see

Speaker 4: him in a super Bowl, you know.

Speaker 2: Yeah, and you might as well try and do it

Speaker 2: with Matthew Stafford as long as you can. I know,

Speaker 2: the Rams draft High Simpson, sure and sure that could

Speaker 2: be a succession plan there because they draft him in

Speaker 2: the first round. But you got a guy who led

Speaker 2: the league in touchdowns last year. You're gonna try and

Speaker 2: finish it off, you know, with still a few more

Speaker 2: productive seasons. Familiar name in the news this past week

Speaker 2: as well, the Giants and general manager Joe Shane agreed

Speaker 2: to terms on a multi year extension to keep him

Speaker 2: with John Harbaugh for multiple seasons.

Speaker 4: Now.

Speaker 2: Shane is rewarded with an extension thanks to a successful offseason,

Speaker 2: including the NFL Draft. We know Jackson Dart was one

Speaker 2: of their most recent selections, but in this past draft,

Speaker 2: fifth overall, they grab rvel Reese tenth overall, Francis Maui

Speaker 2: goa offensive lineman, thirty seventh overall, They draft cornerback Colton

Speaker 2: Hood out of Tennessee, and then in the third round

Speaker 2: they drafted wide receiver Malchai Fields. So another you don't

Speaker 2: know how these players are going to play, but successful

Speaker 2: draft based on how these players were talked about leading

Speaker 2: up to the NFL Draft. I mean, these are all

Speaker 2: names that they got in the first few rounds. It'll

Speaker 2: be interesting to see how they put it all together

Speaker 2: with new head coach John Harbaugh. Shane was originally hired

Speaker 2: by the Giants as their GM in twenty twenty two,

Speaker 2: entering his fifth year with the New York Giants.

Speaker 4: And you think about how they orchestrated this draft. Fifth overall,

Speaker 4: tenth overall, thirty seventh overall. Yeah, they got some They

Speaker 4: got some really good players. And if they can if

Speaker 4: Jackson Dart turns out to be that guy, he has

Speaker 4: no question they're going to be a force in that division.

Speaker 4: We'll see. But yeah, certainly, congratulations to former Bills the GM. Yeah,

Speaker 4: Joe Shane, so off they go again. Good for them.

Speaker 2: I'm interested to see how the Giants do this season.

Speaker 2: I mean, they've got a talented defense, They've got some

Speaker 2: names along their defensive line. You have two first round picks,

Speaker 2: two in the top ten. You got a really good

Speaker 2: cornerback in Coltonhood who fell in this year's draft. They

Speaker 2: could make a run at the playoffs this year.

Speaker 4: Absolutely, a lot of it comes down to Jackson Dart.

Speaker 4: He's he's got to come through for them. Scatter Bow

Speaker 4: would be nice if he came back and could put

Speaker 4: together a complete season as the kind that he was

Speaker 4: putting together his rookie year. If those two guys come

Speaker 4: back and play as well or better than they did,

Speaker 4: or at least that so that level when Dart was

Speaker 4: and can stay healthy. He takes a lot of hits,

Speaker 4: but that's you're right. Those two guys, I think are

Speaker 4: as crucial as any when they when they take the field.

Speaker 4: Now got to proven head coach now as well, a

Speaker 4: guy who knows how to like we were talking to,

Speaker 4: building around.

Speaker 2: His talent exactly.

Speaker 4: It's gonna be really interesting to see John harbaught the

Speaker 4: helm of the New York Giants. And that's yeah, I

Speaker 4: got a lot of I got a love and respect

Speaker 4: for John Harbaugh. He's a really good coach. But New

Speaker 4: York's not Baltimore.

Speaker 2: Yeah, and your division is also not a cakewalk.

Speaker 4: No, but it's no easier than the AFC. North was

Speaker 4: right with Pittsburgh and with Cleveland and with Cincinnati that

Speaker 4: was a that was a really tough division as well.

Speaker 4: Now you got Philly in Dallas and Washington. Who's on

Speaker 4: the uptick? So we'll see. But yeah, it's Harbaugh is

Speaker 4: going to help them, I think going to help them.

Speaker 4: I like Brian dave Ball too, me too, So yeah,

Speaker 4: what do I know?

Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll see how they begin their season. In September.

Speaker 2: Speaking of the Lions, we were talking about Matt Stafford

Speaker 2: and the beginning of his career with the Lions. The

Speaker 2: Lions and Pro Bowl linebacker Jack Campbell agreed to terms

Speaker 2: on a four year, eighty one million dollar contract extension.

Speaker 2: Now twenty and a half per year is what it

Speaker 2: looks like, with fifty one and a half guaranteed, makes

Speaker 2: Campbell one of the highest paid off the ball linebackers.

Speaker 2: He's entering his fourth season with Detroit. Last year, registered

Speaker 2: one hundred and seventy six total tackles, nine tackles for loss,

Speaker 2: five sacks and three forced fumbles. The Lions got some

Speaker 2: bad pub for where they drafted him in the first

Speaker 2: round just a few years back, and look at what

Speaker 2: Jack Campbell's done for their defense.

Speaker 4: He is a good player. He is a very good player.

Speaker 4: Some teams will balk about the philosophy of paying that

Speaker 4: position that much money, But if you've got a guy

Speaker 4: who's that protective and that important some team, I think

Speaker 4: it's both sides. Some teams think it's really important, and

Speaker 4: if you've got a guy you really believe in, you

Speaker 4: can make the case for it. His production absolutely, Sometimes

Speaker 4: teams ask more of that guy than just production, right.

Speaker 4: I know it sounds crazy, but they want that guy

Speaker 4: to be the guy, the right guy, the right voice,

Speaker 4: the right face, the right attitude, the right physicality, the

Speaker 4: right production, the right availability. And there's a lot of

Speaker 4: things that have to be right about the guy. And

Speaker 4: just even outside those impressive numbers that he put together,

Speaker 4: there needs to be a leadership element, an attitude out element,

Speaker 4: availability element. And you know, Jack Campbell has filled all

Speaker 4: those checked all those boxes for them.

Speaker 2: He was somebody who also was mocked to Buffalo quite

Speaker 2: a bit before he got drafted to the Lions. So

Speaker 2: he was a player that you know, Steve and I

Speaker 2: got to know well at least his tape and coming

Speaker 2: from Iowa and the type of the leader that he was.

Speaker 2: And you know, yes, the Lions drafted him eighteenth overall.

Speaker 2: Didn't think he would go that high, but turns out

Speaker 2: to be a successful player so far in his career,

Speaker 2: gets gets a nice four year extension eighteen games. Steve

Speaker 2: is the NFL moving to eighteen instead of seventeen. Well,

Speaker 2: the owners have met twice this season now and they

Speaker 2: have yet to finalize a date for the twenty twenty

Speaker 2: eight Super Bowl. That would be Super Bowl sixty two

Speaker 2: if my math is correct. This is all according to

Speaker 2: PFT Pro Football Talk, so the door is being left

Speaker 2: open for the possibility of an expansion of the regular

Speaker 2: season from seventeen to eighteen games in twenty twenty seven,

Speaker 2: although a source who knows this situation told PFT it's

Speaker 2: highly unlikely that the season will expand to eighteen games

Speaker 2: by twenty twenty seven, So it's looking like nothing's gonna

Speaker 2: happen within the next couple of seasons. But they still

Speaker 2: don't have a date for the twenty twenty eight super Bowl.

Speaker 2: So who knows with the current layout, if you're trying

Speaker 2: to guess, okay, when is the super Bowl going to be?

Speaker 2: So seventeen games, one bye week points to February thirteenth,

Speaker 2: twenty twenty eight, and the super Bowl would be in

Speaker 2: Atlanta that year. If it's expanded to eighteen games, you

Speaker 2: have to think are we going to have two bye

Speaker 2: weeks or just one? So eighteen games, two bye weeks.

Speaker 2: February twenty seventh would likely be the target date. According

Speaker 2: to PFT, eighteen games, one bye week. It looks like

Speaker 2: President's Day weekend would be the date, which I think

Speaker 2: we would all be really happy about having a day

Speaker 2: off after the super Bowl. But PFT also reports why

Speaker 2: the delay is happening in this and it's because the

Speaker 2: results of the NFLPA changes that have happened as of late.

Speaker 2: With JC Tretder taking over as the executive director on

Speaker 2: April first, it may not be enough time to negotiate

Speaker 2: everything within a new CBA.

Speaker 4: Right. You can bet that the CBA and the players

Speaker 4: Union is not going to let them just do this

Speaker 4: without getting something back. I mean, that's just the way

Speaker 4: it's the way it should work. If you're gonna ask

Speaker 4: the players to play an extra game, you have to

Speaker 4: give them something in return for that. And there's a

Speaker 4: lot on the table for the players Union that they

Speaker 4: could ask for that makes a lot of sense. One

Speaker 4: is enlarged rosters and give us more jobs and make

Speaker 4: it easier on us, more time off, hands off in

Speaker 4: the off season. The extra bye week is absolutely a given.

Speaker 4: You can't you know. Also, they may you know, ask

Speaker 4: for right now. I think that the revenue split is

Speaker 4: like forty eight and a half percent of gross revenues

Speaker 4: for the goes to the players. Even if you up

Speaker 4: that by a percentage, the salary cap goes way up.

Speaker 4: That would be something I would say, Okay, if you're

Speaker 4: gonna do this, you're gonna raise You're gonna raise the

Speaker 4: level of product by what is it, twelve percent You

Speaker 4: got to give us, You got to give us, you know,

Speaker 4: a half a percentage or a full percentage more, just

Speaker 4: one percent more of the gross revenues. And yeah, that's

Speaker 4: a to me, that's a fair thing. And that so

Speaker 4: that's a big number for the players Union. So I

Speaker 4: think that's a given that they would ask for that,

Speaker 4: and it'd be part of the part of the at

Speaker 4: least on the table for the players Union. The owners

Speaker 4: may stiff arm them and try and just strong arm

Speaker 4: this in, but I think that'd be that'd go a

Speaker 4: long way towards making sure it's just a rubber stamp

Speaker 4: by the players Union.

Speaker 2: Yeah. So, as of right now, PFT reporting highly unlikely

Speaker 2: to see eighteen games by twenty twenty seven, but a

Speaker 2: Super Bowl date has still yet to be determined, and

Speaker 2: until it is, there is this crack in the door

Speaker 2: open of could it happen. We're going to take a break,

Speaker 2: but when we return, we are answering some of your

Speaker 2: responses to the tweetsheet today, which Bills holdover will be

Speaker 2: the most important to Jim Leonard's defense. We're talking about

Speaker 2: that next on One Bill's Live. Coming up at two pm,

Speaker 2: you'll hear from Jim Leonard. Welcome back to One Bill's Live,

Speaker 2: Mattie Love and Steve Tasker Live from the Bills Store.

Speaker 2: If you're not doing anything today, come on down, say hi.

Speaker 2: You can ask a question, honoring lot. Appreciate that a lot,

Speaker 2: And it's just a lovely day to get out and about.

Speaker 2: Come down and hang out. We got a question for you. Today,

Speaker 2: which Bills holdover will be the most important to Jim

Speaker 2: Leonard's defense. Reading off some of your responses right now,

Speaker 2: Connor says the players along the defensive line and the

Speaker 2: linebackers are most important. The Bills added three defensive line

Speaker 2: and outside linebackers, no new linebackers this offseason, Parker Durant Chubb,

Speaker 2: which to me signals that Leonard has a vision with

Speaker 2: the players currently on the roster, cornerback and safety saw

Speaker 2: major upgrades. Yeah. I think we also understood that by

Speaker 2: Jim Leonards what he said in his press conference that yeah,

Speaker 2: he does have a vision for so many players that

Speaker 2: were on this roster last season.

Speaker 4: Yeah, you hear, You'll hear from him at two o'clock.

Speaker 4: But Connor didn't listen to the question which holdovers. He

Speaker 4: he didn't name anybody, But yet the question is, who

Speaker 4: do you think that we saw on this team last

Speaker 4: year is going to come in and really knock it

Speaker 4: out of the park this year for Jim Leonard in

Speaker 4: a in a way that we haven't seen before. He's right,

Speaker 4: it's there's a lot of new faces, draft picks and

Speaker 4: free agent signings, and there's a lot of guys like

Speaker 4: t J. Parker and Dwayne Carter. We haven't seen play

Speaker 4: that much. It's you know, Javon Solomon was kind of

Speaker 4: a special teams guy, but he's a He is a

Speaker 4: stereotypical edge rusher, building size and skill set like an

Speaker 4: outside linebacker type guy. So there are guys like and

Speaker 4: of course Mike Hoyt. I mean he may be you know,

Speaker 4: he may be a game wrecker, right if he can

Speaker 4: get back to one hundred, which are so teased by right,

Speaker 4: you see him out there running around, It's like, wow,

Speaker 4: he looks like for not he looks normal. So I

Speaker 4: don't know how close he is to being like completely

Speaker 4: one hundred percent turned loose, do whatever you want. I

Speaker 4: don't think he's there yet, but man, he looks pretty good.

Speaker 4: So these guys that were around last year that did

Speaker 4: play some sort of role for the team, we want

Speaker 4: to know which one you think is like gonna blossom under.

Speaker 2: Jim Lee, gonna be that guy.

Speaker 4: It could even be a guy like Ed Oliver, who

Speaker 4: we thought in the beginning was like, I don't know

Speaker 4: if he's gonna fit even today. Jim Lennard addressed that

Speaker 4: a little bit. So it's I think it's a really

Speaker 4: cool it's a really fun question to ask, and it's

Speaker 4: really something fun to think about.

Speaker 2: Frank writes to us and says defensive tackle Dione Walker

Speaker 2: to be determined as to how much he makes a

Speaker 2: switch to the three four hybrid and TBD about a

Speaker 2: sophomore slump. Inside linebacker Terrell Bernard to be determined if

Speaker 2: he's back from injury and can hold up outside linebacker

Speaker 2: and defensive end edge rusher Creig Grews still very athletic,

Speaker 2: but three four OLB will have different responsibilities and to

Speaker 2: be determined on that transition. So listing off a couple

Speaker 2: of players who could be that dude who was on

Speaker 2: the team last year in this year's Jim Leonard defense.

Speaker 4: Dean Walker is an intriguing guy because he splashed a

Speaker 4: little bit last year. He was probably as well. Let's see,

Speaker 4: he may be as consistent a rookie defensive lineman as

Speaker 4: this club has had since. Like I think he was

Speaker 4: even better than Rousseau was as a rookie, maybe as

Speaker 4: good as Ed was as a rookie. Maybe not quite,

Speaker 4: but he did see more playing time than any rookie

Speaker 4: defensive player we've ever seen. Outside of you know, Christian

Speaker 4: Benford being lined up at the corner but on defensive

Speaker 4: front Dion Walker. They plugged him in. He didn't come

Speaker 4: off the field, and that's when they were rotating. So

Speaker 4: he's really fun to think about how much better he

Speaker 4: could be or or what kind of role they'll carve

Speaker 4: out for him, because certainly he earned some playing time

Speaker 4: from his performance last year.

Speaker 2: I think a lot of people are talking about the

Speaker 2: outside linebackers with this shift to a three four defense

Speaker 2: and being edge rushers rather than true defensive ends, is

Speaker 2: how Jim Leonard explained it today to media, But it's

Speaker 2: also important to think about our inside linebackers because they

Speaker 2: play a role too, and Frank listed Terrell Bernard. Jim

Speaker 2: Leonard spoke about Trel Bernard. Will hear from him later,

Speaker 2: but I'm really excited to see Bernard back in this

Speaker 2: new defense and just being healthy. I spoke with him

Speaker 2: a couple weeks ago when he was working out and

Speaker 2: just was like, dude, it's so good to see you here.

Speaker 2: It's so good to see you working out doing stuff

Speaker 2: with the team, and he was like, yeah, Maddie, I'm

Speaker 2: ready to get back into it. I'm ready to be

Speaker 2: here and present and a part of this defense. And

Speaker 2: you know, he's played in so many big games for Buffalo,

Speaker 2: and we didn't get to see his much of him

Speaker 2: last year, especially at the end of the season as

Speaker 2: he was dealing with injuries.

Speaker 1: Right.

Speaker 4: What happens sometimes when these guys get hurt, they go

Speaker 4: out and they get hurt and they can you know what,

Speaker 4: I'm gonna play through it. There's you know, they could

Speaker 4: shut it down. Maybe they shouldn't shut it, maybe they

Speaker 4: should shut it down, they don't or whatever, or maybe

Speaker 4: they're just hurt and they can still play through it

Speaker 4: and they're not really at risk to hurt themselves worse,

Speaker 4: but they're dragging this injury around. It happens a lot

Speaker 4: in the NFL. And what happens, I think from our

Speaker 4: perspective outside the locker room, you think, well, the guy's

Speaker 4: hurt and he's kind of playing through it, and you

Speaker 4: feel like if he's out there, he's we perceive he's healthy,

Speaker 4: he's ready to go, but he doesn't play well. We

Speaker 4: don't know how much he's hurting. So you get this

Speaker 4: you kind of project your own like he's hurt, he's

Speaker 4: hurt all I mean he's just not that good a player.

Speaker 4: He's not you know, he played some and you get

Speaker 4: this idea that he's never healthy, he's never you know,

Speaker 4: he's never good, and he's he's always hurt it and

Speaker 4: it's really not the case. It was just one injury

Speaker 4: he tried to play through. It wasn't as effective, had

Speaker 4: a set back here, had to set back there, and

Speaker 4: it just hurt his whole season. So you get this

Speaker 4: taste in your mouth about now the guy's he's never

Speaker 4: going to be healthy again. He's you know, he's that

Speaker 4: player now, he's not the other player he was, and

Speaker 4: it and a lot of cases, nothing could be further

Speaker 4: from the truth. The guy just needed the guys needed

Speaker 4: a month off, right, and he couldn't. He couldn't get

Speaker 4: it during the regular season, particularly if it happens late

Speaker 4: in the year and you feel like a guy like

Speaker 4: Bernard happened in like mid season or happened in the

Speaker 4: meat of the season, and he was dragging it around

Speaker 4: and you start to feel like the guy's a different

Speaker 4: guy than he was when the only thing that happened

Speaker 4: was he you know, he got a shoulder, herd or

Speaker 4: whatever it was that he got injured and that's it.

Speaker 4: He's the same guy that he once was. He just

Speaker 4: needed some healing time or whatever the case may be.

Speaker 4: So there's no reason to think Terrell Bernard isn't going

Speaker 4: to come back and flip the switch and be the

Speaker 4: guy we have seen him be. It's got to stay healthy,

Speaker 4: no question. But that's that's the same story as every

Speaker 4: guy on the roster. The health thing is, as we

Speaker 4: know in Buffalo, is a big, massive role at the

Speaker 4: dice of who's going to get hurt. Inn and he

Speaker 4: lose Ed Oliver and he lose Mike Hoyt within three

Speaker 4: quarters of each other.

Speaker 2: It's like the.

Speaker 4: Yeah, so that's I think that's where Terrell Bernard is

Speaker 4: a lot of people are like going, I don't know.

Speaker 4: They kind of get down on because even when he

Speaker 4: played last year, he wasn't that good, so they think

Speaker 4: that's the player he was, rather than that's him injured

Speaker 4: trying to play.

Speaker 2: Yeah, think of think of him at his best, and

Speaker 2: think of him what he could be in this new defense.

Speaker 2: Joe also writes Torel Bernard says, for multiple reasons, he

Speaker 2: didn't have the year he wanted, and I think he's

Speaker 2: better suited to scheme, to the scheme that Jim Leonard

Speaker 2: wants us to run. That's a great point, better suited

Speaker 2: for the scheme that Buffalo is currently going to play

Speaker 2: college what he played in college. Yeah, exactly.

Speaker 4: When you got five guys on the front, a nose guard,

Speaker 4: two defensive tackles, and then outside linebackers. There's five guys

Speaker 4: right on the lne a scrimmage, and there's two linebackers

Speaker 4: in the middle. One of the things that happens in

Speaker 4: that kind of defensive scheme is that those two linebackers,

Speaker 4: those three guys with their hand on the ground in

Speaker 4: front of them, they are sponges for blockers. The guards

Speaker 4: in the center, they soak those guys up with those

Speaker 4: guys with their hands on the ground so that they

Speaker 4: have to they block them. There's nobody left to block

Speaker 4: these two guys standing up behind them, and they can

Speaker 4: just run to the ball and tap the right. So

Speaker 4: that's kind of the basic philosophy of how it works.

Speaker 4: So guys like that are smaller. Clicker Jack Lambert played

Speaker 4: in the steroid era at two twenty five, right, and

Speaker 4: he was as physical and bad as any of them come. Right.

Speaker 4: He was a dog and that's that's kind of because

Speaker 4: he had the steel curtain up in front of him.

Speaker 4: Now they ran a four to three, but that's the

Speaker 4: kind of linebacker he was. He could run and hit

Speaker 4: because those guys would soak up blockers. They're gonna double team,

Speaker 4: mean Joe Green and all these guys, those guys running hit.

Speaker 4: That's kind of what you're hoping this five two will

Speaker 4: do for the Bills front seven and guys like Bernard

Speaker 4: and Dorian Williams, all these guys will be built for it.

Speaker 4: They've played in it before and they can run and

Speaker 4: make tackles. We'll see.

Speaker 2: Yeah. Speaking of Dorian Williams, he's someone who could have

Speaker 2: a big opportunity this season under Jim Leonard. He's certainly

Speaker 2: got a lot of starting experience under his belt because

Speaker 2: he's the guy the Bills win to when the linebacking

Speaker 2: corps was injured, which unfortunately in the last couple of

Speaker 2: seasons it has been injured, and Dorian Williams has always

Speaker 2: gotten that starting opportunity somewhere in the season. And we

Speaker 2: just know the type of hard hitter he is. We

Speaker 2: know how physical he can be as a linebacker, and

Speaker 2: to think about how Jim Leonard can use that in

Speaker 2: this multiple defense that he wants to play, I think

Speaker 2: is really exciting.

Speaker 4: Yeah, And you know when Milano's been in and out

Speaker 4: of the lineup with injury, terrail last year and Dorian

Speaker 4: Williams always been the first guy in, and then well

Speaker 4: last year with Shaq Thompson as well, who they signed

Speaker 4: very late just before training camp. We may see other

Speaker 4: signings like that as we near training camp when they

Speaker 4: rotate in and there's like five spots on the roster

Speaker 4: of ninety guys or whatever to ninety five guys. The

Speaker 4: five guys, the ninety through ninety five is always in rotation, yep.

Speaker 4: And so there you could sign one of those guys

Speaker 4: before training camp and it would be a guy like

Speaker 4: Shaq Thompson who's he's not the ninety fifth guy on

Speaker 4: the rosters, he's up up them. But that's when you

Speaker 4: sign him when those roster spots are churning at the

Speaker 4: bottom right now. You sign guys that are quality players

Speaker 4: and they just be waiting their opportunity in free agent

Speaker 4: really good. They just didn't want to take any of

Speaker 4: the offers. They wanted to pick a spot, and they

Speaker 4: pick a spot like.

Speaker 2: Buffalo exactly, or a veteran guy who's like, I just

Speaker 2: want to jump on a team for training camp. I

Speaker 2: don't want to go through the offseason training. I'm just

Speaker 2: I want the right fit and I'm just waiting for

Speaker 2: that to happen right there.

Speaker 4: Yeah, you don't know what's going on these guys' personal lives.

Speaker 4: I mean, you can go down what any road you want.

Speaker 4: What the possibilities are endless. It could be family stuff,

Speaker 4: it could be a new family stuff. It could be

Speaker 4: old family stuff your parents, or whatever turmoil is going

Speaker 4: on in your life, or good things, blessings. You just

Speaker 4: don't want to be tied up to a team in

Speaker 4: the off season. Listen, I got it. We're moving. We

Speaker 4: picked a spot where we're going to retire to. We're

Speaker 4: getting our household up and running, and I don't want

Speaker 4: to be having to leave and go to OTA's and

Speaker 4: all that. I'm just gonna pick my spot. And he

Speaker 4: might tell one or two general managers say listen, if

Speaker 4: it's there in late June, I'm in, but I'm not

Speaker 4: signing until then because I got stuff in my life.

Speaker 4: I'm working out. I'm standing, but I'm not signing until then.

Speaker 4: There are more than a handful of guys like that

Speaker 4: in the free agent market that are in that spot,

Speaker 4: and some other situations as well. They're all different, but

Speaker 4: if they feel like they need to be bolstered at

Speaker 4: any one position, they're gonna have plenty of opportunities and

Speaker 4: plenty of candidates to come in and go to training

Speaker 4: camp and win a spot.

Speaker 2: Break time for us wouldn't return. We will jump back

Speaker 2: into the tweet sheet and continue to read some of

Speaker 2: your responses as well as Jim Leonard. You're gonna hear

Speaker 2: from Buffalo's new defensive coinator coming up it two o'clock.

Speaker 2: We'll see them.

Speaker 6: All right.

Speaker 2: We're back here on one Bill's I've Matti gladlongside Steve

Speaker 2: Tasker at the bill store. We're reading off some of

Speaker 2: your responses to our question for today, it's which Bill

Speaker 2: will be the most important to Jim Leonard's defense, and

Speaker 2: we'll go back to our tweet sheet. Let's see we

Speaker 2: left off at Jim, who says Bishop comes to mind,

Speaker 2: he's the most versatile. I fear Rousseau lacks versatility in

Speaker 2: past coverage at linebacker. Benford isn't the ideal man fit Okay,

Speaker 2: Bishop coming to mind. First, he's the most versa. How

Speaker 2: do you view Col Bishop and his versatility?

Speaker 4: Well, certainly that I think it's interesting for me. I

Speaker 4: always kind of equate this to Jim Leonard being the

Speaker 4: defensive coordinator, knowing exactly how to play safety and how

Speaker 4: he would play safety, and having a player like Cole

Speaker 4: Bishop at his disposal. He's you know, the coordinators really

Speaker 4: don't coach players a lot, they coach their coaches, but

Speaker 4: a guy like Leonard would know what kind of safety

Speaker 4: qualities he wants, and certainly Cold Bishop fits a lot

Speaker 4: of what he would like. I think that's going to

Speaker 4: be an interesting mesh when Jim Leonard gets his hands

Speaker 4: on the safeties they've got in the building now with

Speaker 4: Cole Bishop and Gardner, Johnson and Stone and you know

Speaker 4: all that tomorrow. Even so, I think it's going to

Speaker 4: be really interesting to watch Jim Leonard coach the safety,

Speaker 4: not coach the safeties, but what he's going to ask

Speaker 4: the safeties to do in this defense. And Cold Bishop

Speaker 4: is certainly somebody who even from day one, he's been

Speaker 4: the one guy that's like, yeah, he's he's like the

Speaker 4: guy that guy fits, you know, what I mean. Certainly

Speaker 4: Christian Benford is another one like that. But man, he

Speaker 4: might be the only guy that right from the outset

Speaker 4: when they said we're gonna switch defense, it's like, what

Speaker 4: doesn't matter. Cole Bishop's the guy. Yeah, So yeah, that

Speaker 4: may be a very good, very good guess.

Speaker 2: His point about Greg Russo lacking versatility in past coverage

Speaker 2: as a linebacker, how much will Rousseau be responsible for

Speaker 2: something like that?

Speaker 4: Well his some once in a while. Yes, I think

Speaker 4: the interesting thing about Rousseau is he's company on the

Speaker 4: edge and he's not gonna have his hand on the ground.

Speaker 4: The dude's six' seven and you never really got a

Speaker 4: chance to see that when he had his hand on the,

Speaker 4: ground they were moving. Around when he stands up with

Speaker 4: the ind line of, scrims you you got to look

Speaker 4: around him as a. QUARTERBACK i, mean it's, like and

Speaker 4: if he does drop into, coverage his, length especially for

Speaker 4: a quick in a quick passing game and all of,

Speaker 4: that his length is is gonna make a quarterback like

Speaker 4: you gotta work the ball to get it passed him

Speaker 4: or around, him or the window is gonna be, smaller

Speaker 4: particularly on a quick passing. GAME i think it's really

Speaker 4: interesting to see a guy of that length on the

Speaker 4: edge because it's gonna give you some problems as a

Speaker 4: quarterback trying to release the ball. Quick one of the

Speaker 4: one of the highlights of our open is When benford

Speaker 4: comes off the edge and jumps up and catches The

Speaker 4: Joe burrow pass in the game and runs it in

Speaker 4: for The think about trying to throw it Over Greg,

Speaker 4: russeau you, know in that same kind of quick. Release

Speaker 4: that to me is about all the pass coverage you

Speaker 4: need From ben From, rousseau because if you're dropping him in,

Speaker 4: out it's you're dropping a guy who is a pass

Speaker 4: rusher out of your pass, rush which means your offensive

Speaker 4: line was accounting for, him which means they're gonna block

Speaker 4: the wrong, guy which is going to leave somebody. Open

Speaker 4: the ball's got to get. Out, theoretically if he's dropping,

Speaker 4: back somebody's getting home. Quick the ball has to come.

Speaker 4: Out so that's what you're looking. At If rousseau is

Speaker 4: actually in pass, coverage it's a gotcha play by the defense.

Speaker 4: Anyway so we'll see.

Speaker 2: Hand in the, ground hand up For russo what are

Speaker 2: the advantages now in this? DEFENSE a lot of its.

Speaker 4: Vision now he'll be asked to do some different things,

Speaker 4: too so he'll need to see. More so if there's

Speaker 4: a shift here in the motion or the strength of

Speaker 4: the formation, changes he'll have some different things he's got to.

Speaker 4: Know it's easy to see that when you're standing up

Speaker 4: and seeing, it when you got your hand on, it

Speaker 4: you can you can imagine how hard it is when

Speaker 4: your head's, down you're looking at the ball trying to

Speaker 4: get a quick pass. Rush you don't know what's happening out, here,

Speaker 4: right you don't want to happen away from the ball

Speaker 4: or on the other, side so you just can't. See

Speaker 4: it'll make it easier for, him but it will be

Speaker 4: necessary for him because he'll probably have some checks that

Speaker 4: needs to be aware of because of those. Shifts so,

Speaker 4: yeah it it gives him more responsibility and the ability

Speaker 4: to handle, it but it also puts more on his

Speaker 4: plate because of. That so we'll.

Speaker 2: SEE i think at this point In Greg russo's, CAREER

Speaker 2: i think he's ready for that. Too AND i, know

Speaker 2: like seasons past he has had like an injury middle

Speaker 2: of the season or kind of start off with an

Speaker 2: injury that seems to be nagging and hold him back

Speaker 2: from all that he's capable of, doing and hopefully this

Speaker 2: is the year where he got after it this offseason

Speaker 2: in the training room and feels good about his new

Speaker 2: fit in this, defense and you let him unleash and

Speaker 2: maybe playing in a new role it helps him stay

Speaker 2: a little bit.

Speaker 4: Healthier, yeah, yeah it'll BE i think that's a really interesting.

Speaker 4: Transition we had seen him in. College remember when The

Speaker 4: bills got, him he didn't play his senior year because OF.

Speaker 2: Covid and all, that like two years At miami.

Speaker 4: Right and and they had him playing down inside as

Speaker 4: long as he. Was, now slowly but, surely as he's,

Speaker 4: developed he's become more and more adapted further and further

Speaker 4: from the ball and having that, SO i think it's

Speaker 4: just one more step in his evolution towards being one

Speaker 4: of those edge rusher guys that can be a.

Speaker 2: Problem year six For Greg russo this season had seven,

Speaker 2: sacks last year eight. Sacks the year before eight is

Speaker 2: his career. High he's hit that twice in his, career

Speaker 2: twenty twenty two as well as twenty twenty. Four we're

Speaker 2: gonna take a break because when we return defensive Coordinator Jim.

Speaker 2: Leonard he spoke to media earlier. Today we're gonna air

Speaker 2: his press conference next On One Bill's.

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Speaker 2: Live welcome in to Our Number. Live The bills are

Speaker 2: currently on the practice field as part of OTAs. Today

Speaker 2: we'll hear from players later after, practice but earlier today

Speaker 2: we heard from new defensive Coordinator Jim. Leonard let's hear

Speaker 2: what he had to. Say jim in.

Speaker 8: Terms of the nose to the defensive.

Speaker 5: Tackle but the nose tackle.

Speaker 3: Position you, know last year In, denver you guys really

Speaker 3: didn't usually line up a guy right over the.

Speaker 1: Center it was always.

Speaker 9: Offset but in this, defense the way you're going to operate,

Speaker 9: it is.

Speaker 1: That going to be?

Speaker 10: Similar and who are we looking at that's going to

Speaker 10: be in the middle of that line for you.

Speaker 7: Guys, yeah that's the million dollar question everybody wants to. Know,

Speaker 7: obviously in my past At, wisconsin we played more with the,

Speaker 7: zero Nos denver Dj. Jones it's not his, thing it's

Speaker 7: not what he what he liked to. Do he liked

Speaker 7: to be on an edge to where that's where schematically

Speaker 7: we got with. That and right, now there's there's a

Speaker 7: number of players that we're repping in that. Position and,

Speaker 7: again whether you're a ZERO a, shade the techniques that

Speaker 7: you can, use there's a lot of different on and

Speaker 7: it might be a little bit on an individual basis

Speaker 7: on who's in there and what we're going to ask

Speaker 7: him to. Do right, now that's that's the exciting part up,

Speaker 7: front right there's some pieces that you're trying to figure

Speaker 7: out exactly the best role for them and and where they.

Speaker 7: Fit and, again this IS o T a four coming

Speaker 7: up today where we actually get to get on the

Speaker 7: field and some guy's a little bit more limited time

Speaker 7: in the offseason coming off of injuries and things like,

Speaker 7: that just any level of the. Defense but it's exciting

Speaker 7: to start to experiment a little, bit and, uh coming

Speaker 7: out of this, spring going into fall, CAMP i think

Speaker 7: we'll have a really good idea on where this scheme

Speaker 7: needs to.

Speaker 4: Be That Dwayne carter is part of his weight.

Speaker 9: GAME i mean he has he's of his.

Speaker 5: Play he's admitted that he's gained.

Speaker 4: Weight was that part of why he's had to do?

Speaker 1: That he want to get him in that role maybe be.

Speaker 7: Heavier, yeah that's definitely a role that he can fill for.

Speaker 7: Us part of that was just his his year in

Speaker 7: the weight, room right when he when he got, injured

Speaker 7: not being able to run and, move he got really,

Speaker 7: strong you, know he got really, strong but he kept his.

Speaker 7: Mobility so, again a number a number of, players you're

Speaker 7: trying to find the exact fit from a weight and

Speaker 7: a scheme. Standpoint he knows he wants to get down

Speaker 7: and he naturally will as he gets more more mobile

Speaker 7: and able to run coming off that. Injury so excited

Speaker 7: about where he's. At he put in a ton of.

Speaker 7: Work he feels very confident with his strength and where

Speaker 7: his body's at right.

Speaker 3: Now AND i think you just said feels like it

Speaker 3: also probably apply to Land In jackson in some. Capacity

Speaker 3: AND i know you're new with this team, now but

Speaker 3: how have you seen the early returns from him and

Speaker 3: how do you think he fits into this?

Speaker 7: Defense Number, One i'm excited that he's he sees the

Speaker 7: vision of the defense and what his role can be in.

Speaker 7: It anytime you're coming off an, injury the number one

Speaker 7: thing is just the, confidence, right the confidence in your,

Speaker 7: body the confidence in it's that it's going to respond

Speaker 7: the way that you want and what you. Expect his

Speaker 7: body looks, great he's he's doing a tremendous job of

Speaker 7: learning the new scheme and where he fits everything we

Speaker 7: asked him to. Do you saw on his college, tape,

Speaker 7: right everything we're going to ask him to, do whether

Speaker 7: that's playing on the edge or or sliding inside of

Speaker 7: THE b. Gap so, again as a player THAT i

Speaker 7: was familiar with for a number of years BEFORE i

Speaker 7: even got here from the college and watching his, tape

Speaker 7: So i'm excited to see what he can. Do and

Speaker 7: you Mentioned, dwayne you mentioned him like that's those are

Speaker 7: pieces that it's it's fun to start to see how

Speaker 7: how they're going to come, together and the number one

Speaker 7: thing for them is just getting the confidence back in

Speaker 7: their body and in their. Health and then come fall,

Speaker 7: CAMP i think it'll really dial into what exactly they're

Speaker 7: going to be asked to do and how big that role.

Speaker 1: Is for our.

Speaker 11: Purposes when we talk about players and where they, play

Speaker 11: how do you define like a FOUR i or is

Speaker 11: that a defensive tackle and defensive? End just when we

Speaker 11: talk about it right about we can get twisted up

Speaker 11: like that sometimes based on the. Front so a FOUR

Speaker 11: i For, land if you call him a, tackle what

Speaker 11: you call him an.

Speaker 7: End he's a defensive end in this. Scheme but if

Speaker 7: you said any INTERIOR a gap OR b gap players

Speaker 7: are your traditional defensive, Tackles you're you're spot on. Right

Speaker 7: and there are times that they will kick out into

Speaker 7: a five schematically what they're asked to, do that they'll

Speaker 7: be they'll be playing in that sea. Gap but think

Speaker 7: of your outside backers more as your defensive ends in this,

Speaker 7: system whether it's your three four or when we get

Speaker 7: to our four down, stuff they are more of your

Speaker 7: traditional defensive ends in your four down.

Speaker 11: Structure So greg And Randy chubb AND tj those, guys

Speaker 11: to define them as edge, rushers ends and linebackers.

Speaker 7: Kind of, YEAH i think you. Can you can take

Speaker 7: it straight to The Pro bowl voting now and say

Speaker 7: you just think of it more as edges. Rights who's

Speaker 7: going to be the edges of your? Defense and that

Speaker 7: would more fall to those outside.

Speaker 3: Backers yes to Brilliant chubb because he has played this

Speaker 3: position shouldn't in an odd man front defense, before whereas

Speaker 3: most of the guys of this team really haven't done.

Speaker 4: That hoits on it a little.

Speaker 1: Bit how important was Bringing chuck in just for that reason?

Speaker 9: Alone maybe we.

Speaker 7: Thought it was. Huge the, EXPERIENCE i, mean he was

Speaker 7: drafted as a first rounder for this, defense right, so

Speaker 7: and he's played in very similar defense is the majority

Speaker 7: of his, career even even At. Miami so excited to

Speaker 7: have him for the player that he, is, right the,

Speaker 7: experience the versatility he has in the, LEADERSHIP i, mean

Speaker 7: he he knocked it out of the park when you

Speaker 7: start talking to him in free agency just what he

Speaker 7: was going to be able to provide the team the.

Speaker 7: Defense you, know he's one of those personalities that can

Speaker 7: reach to the other side of the. Ball Right there's

Speaker 7: there's a lot of times you have great leaders within

Speaker 7: your room or within a defense or an, offense and

Speaker 7: then every once in a while you get special guys

Speaker 7: that can kind of hit anybody on the team and

Speaker 7: really be that. Leader and he's been. That he takes

Speaker 7: a lot of pride in. It so we're excited kind

Speaker 7: of in all facets for what he can bring to

Speaker 7: this team.

Speaker 12: That it was hurt a lot of last. Season but

Speaker 12: he's got a body of work in the. League i'm

Speaker 12: sure you've watched plenty of them to this. Point, now

Speaker 12: how do you envision him fitting into what you're going.

Speaker 5: To be asking him to.

Speaker 7: DO i Think ed's gonna be really disruptive in this,

Speaker 7: defense the base defense being more different for him than

Speaker 7: than what it's been in the, past and in all

Speaker 7: rally a little bit more freedom than he's had in the,

Speaker 7: past the sub package things like a little bit more

Speaker 7: familiar to what they've done here from a front. Structure

Speaker 7: SO i think he's he's starting to see kind of

Speaker 7: where where he fits and how he's gonna fit and

Speaker 7: and how we're gonna be able to utilize him and

Speaker 7: create some one on ones and isolate some, guards which

Speaker 7: all defensive linemen get excited.

Speaker 8: About we hear so much ABOUT. C.

Speaker 3: J Garder johnson's personality and the way that's been plus

Speaker 3: at his previous, stops even in this, setting, SHORTS t,

Speaker 3: shirts all. That how you see his personality.

Speaker 7: Resonating, Loud he's, loud he brings, energy he loves football

Speaker 7: right the day to, Day the, workouts the. Meetings he's

Speaker 7: a guy who loves being in the. Building he's trying

Speaker 7: to be a leader. Man he really wants to be,

Speaker 7: that and it's so it's exciting being able to work

Speaker 7: with guys that really want to be in front of

Speaker 7: the room and talk in whole people, accountable. RIGHT i

Speaker 7: think there's a downside sometimes right where people are a

Speaker 7: little bit edgy when they're competitive like, that and as

Speaker 7: a team you have to understand who you have and

Speaker 7: the roles that they need to be. In and but

Speaker 7: we're excited about just his passion and energy for the

Speaker 7: game and what he brings into the building every.

Speaker 1: Day what you in your impressions Of robernard.

Speaker 5: That, linebacker he's a.

Speaker 7: Pro he's a. Pro, obviously he coming off an injury

Speaker 7: is a little bit limited what he's doing on the

Speaker 7: field right, now but everything in the, classroom the, meetings the,

Speaker 7: communication the focus level that he, has it's it's really

Speaker 7: impressive to see every. Day and as he continues to

Speaker 7: to get. Healthier, uh you, know we know what he

Speaker 7: is on the, fields, right so it's it's not a.

Speaker 7: Rush he's a person that you know what he can.

Speaker 7: Do and, again half of his is the, leadership the

Speaker 7: intangibles as far as communication on the field in between. Series,

Speaker 7: uh he kills. That so we're being smart with the

Speaker 7: with the, ankle and he'll he'll be on the field

Speaker 7: a lot more as the OTAs continue to progress and

Speaker 7: full go come camp is what we would.

Speaker 12: Expect i'm staying, Quad.

Speaker 10: Josh, yeah you've prepped to go Against Josh allen in the.

Speaker 4: Past what's it been like being behind the doors and

Speaker 4: seeing him kind of do his.

Speaker 7: Work it's awesome just to see the personality and again

Speaker 7: the kind of playfulness that he brings.

Speaker 4: It, man it's it's a.

Speaker 7: Grind there's there's a lot of time and and a

Speaker 7: lot of, investment but he obviously has a lot of.

Speaker 7: Fun so, uh he keeps it loose and then gets

Speaker 7: inside the white lines and ultra competitive and it's different

Speaker 7: right now when you can't play live football and all.

Speaker 7: That but just to see that the energy that he

Speaker 7: brings the team and the leadership the offense has and

Speaker 7: in kind of every series he hits the, fields you

Speaker 7: definitely feel it and you notice it when they're when

Speaker 7: he breaks the. Huddle so going against that every day

Speaker 7: is going to be a blessing for this. Defense you,

Speaker 7: know it doesn't get much more challenging than what these

Speaker 7: guys can provide us in the run game and the

Speaker 7: play action h all that type of stuff With.

Speaker 12: Josh going back to the, Linebacker Dorian williams is a

Speaker 12: guy that's started games in this, league but most of

Speaker 12: the time it's been because of an injury to someone

Speaker 12: ahead of him on the depth. Chart it seems like

Speaker 12: he's in a position where he's going to have an

Speaker 12: opportunity here to go out and earn a starting. Job for,

Speaker 12: you what what would you like to see From dorian

Speaker 12: and what have your observations of him, been you know

Speaker 12: to this point in his.

Speaker 7: Career, yeah first impression has been. Great soaks it all, in,

Speaker 7: right soaks it all. IN i think he's he's a

Speaker 7: guy that getting fresh, start new, defense putting him some

Speaker 7: different positions to uh to show his versatility and his

Speaker 7: leadership more than, anything being that every down back or for,

Speaker 7: us so excited about his start and just want to

Speaker 7: continue to grow right as We my my goal in

Speaker 7: the off season was really to overload right get throw

Speaker 7: as many things at him as, possible make him uncomfortable

Speaker 7: and force communication and again just trying to find all

Speaker 7: the holes where like this makes sense and all, right

Speaker 7: this this six week break or whatever the break is

Speaker 7: before training camp is this is where these guys really

Speaker 7: need to focus to take the next. Step so so

Speaker 7: we're comfortable a number of players and his, shoes you,

Speaker 7: know doing is a guy that he's going to have

Speaker 7: an opportunity to have a huge impact in this. Defense

Speaker 7: and it's kind of how comfortable can they, Get like

Speaker 7: how fast can they get comfortable to where they're just

Speaker 7: flying around and playing with, violence playing with. Physicality, Uh

Speaker 7: and that's that's the big test from now until training

Speaker 7: camp for guys like.

Speaker 2: Plenty of Like dana obviously with The.

Speaker 3: Chiefs is he you, know bringing him, in what do

Speaker 3: you like about that?

Speaker 1: Player and how he?

Speaker 7: Here number, one you saw the, versatility like he always

Speaker 7: made a. Play he always found a way to make a.

Speaker 7: Play and you know they have some superstars on that

Speaker 7: defense that you were always looking for those, names and

Speaker 7: all of a sudden his always popped up in critical.

Speaker 7: Moments the versatility Has he's played all around the defensive, line,

Speaker 7: interior on the. Edges so anytime you can bring in

Speaker 7: a vet who's kind of willing to do all the

Speaker 7: dirty work in a number of different. Ways you feel

Speaker 7: like as a coach you can utilize their strengths and hopefully,

Speaker 7: help you, know move the pieces around. Him just because

Speaker 7: of that experience that he.

Speaker 5: Has you've got a several guys.

Speaker 10: Who can play nickel in this. Defense it was obviously

Speaker 10: a priority For. Brandon why is that spot so important

Speaker 10: you know in your scheme and what are your thoughts

Speaker 10: on D alford and why he was a priority for

Speaker 10: you guys when free agency.

Speaker 7: Open, YEAH i think number, one just big picture in the.

Speaker 7: Scheme you, know we do some unique things from a

Speaker 7: motion adjustment standpoint and communication that that nickel position is,

Speaker 7: crucial right and with this, league the versatility of the

Speaker 7: tight ends and some of the receivers that now will

Speaker 7: go into the slot like you need a starter in.

Speaker 7: There in my, opinion, indeed did a great job In,

Speaker 7: atlanta did some similar things schematically to what we're. Asking

Speaker 7: he's also shown the ability to play outside at a high.

Speaker 7: Level so you, know he was a pretty big target

Speaker 7: for us. Early obviously it was our first signing in free,

Speaker 7: agencies so was really exciting to get him in the

Speaker 7: building and he's killed. It you, know he's a. Pro

Speaker 7: he just wants to be, coached soaks up every opportunity

Speaker 7: that you have to meet with. Him and he's a,

Speaker 7: technician so really excited about where that can. Go and

Speaker 7: we're going to get to a lot of different packages

Speaker 7: where we can put different people in there and play

Speaker 7: in the slot and not solely put it on one person,

Speaker 7: right whether that's another corner or whether that's a safety at.

Speaker 7: TIMES i love the depth that we're starting to build

Speaker 7: at both positions to really again use the versatility that

Speaker 7: grew to kind of mix and match pieces to give

Speaker 7: defenses or offenses a.

Speaker 5: Problem jive lest.

Speaker 10: We Bradley chubb described you as a quiet, assassin somebody

Speaker 10: who doesn't a, lot but what you do it means a.

Speaker 10: Lot do you think of yourself that way or is

Speaker 10: that your personality coaching?

Speaker 7: WISE i MEAN i like to read a, room. MAN

Speaker 7: i like to sit, back and the MORE i learn

Speaker 7: about these, guys the MORE i will learn how to

Speaker 7: to be more vocal and more energetic with. Them i'm

Speaker 7: kind of seeing where they're. At that's that's just my

Speaker 7: personality and my. Nature but, Yeah i'm not gonna say

Speaker 7: a whole lot UNLESS i have. To you, know you

Speaker 7: overlook me if you want. To i've always had that

Speaker 7: kind of chip on my, Shoulders so carry down that

Speaker 7: on as a, coach BECAUSE i think it's important to

Speaker 7: be who you, are and If i'm trying to give a,

Speaker 7: MESSAGE i think guys understand that it's real and you,

Speaker 7: know whether it's motivational or kind of, philosophy big picture

Speaker 7: of WHAT i believe in in defense or culture and team.

Speaker 7: BUILDING i think when they KNOW i bring something to a,

Speaker 7: meeting they KNOW i mean.

Speaker 4: It and it's been four years that you have this

Speaker 4: chance to be a defensive coordinator again on the show

Speaker 4: now four months at how's it?

Speaker 7: Feel it's, exciting you, KNOW i kind of intentionally took

Speaker 7: a step back BECAUSE i felt LIKE i had skipped

Speaker 7: a few steps in the process to get WHERE i,

Speaker 7: Was and it's exciting to get in front of the

Speaker 7: room right coach your, coaches you, know lead lead the

Speaker 7: staff that way rather than supporting a defensive coordinator or

Speaker 7: just supporting a head. Coach so that's been exciting for.

Speaker 7: ME i think it's any time you're trying to sell

Speaker 7: your defense to your staff and to your team like

Speaker 7: you become more convicted on.

Speaker 2: It.

Speaker 7: Right so that's been a huge piece of the last

Speaker 7: four weeks or four, months just getting everybody settled in

Speaker 7: and truly understanding WHAT i think the vision of this

Speaker 7: is going to be and taking their feedback and input

Speaker 7: and kind of making it our defense and new to

Speaker 7: what we're going to do In buffalo saus.

Speaker 10: Types is there been like your last four years for your,

Speaker 10: THINKING i.

Speaker 1: Can't wait to apply, This LIKE i know, this, MAN

Speaker 1: i want to.

Speaker 10: Apply have you had one of those moments yet where

Speaker 10: it's like here we go WHERE i haven't been able

Speaker 10: to malick?

Speaker 4: Yet?

Speaker 7: Yeah every, year, right every year in those different scenarios

Speaker 7: THAT i was. In and you, know it's easy when

Speaker 7: you're an assistant coach to sit, WELL i would do this,

Speaker 7: differently OR i would do that. Differently now now you're

Speaker 7: the one making the decisions at times or, helping, RIGHT

Speaker 7: i think it's it's easy sometimes to sit back and

Speaker 7: complain or not bring feedback to the people that are above.

Speaker 7: You as far as the structure of a staff and

Speaker 7: the reminder over those years of like be more, vocal

Speaker 7: like use your, experience use your voice to to get things.

Speaker 7: Changed and that's that's the fun PART i think of

Speaker 7: being a coordinator is being in a position to make

Speaker 7: those tough decisions and getting guys to buy into it

Speaker 7: and believe in what you're trying to.

Speaker 9: Do in these last four, months you, know you get

Speaker 9: thrown right into this and obviously you immediately get to,

Speaker 9: work but it's also a place you're familiar with and,

Speaker 9: spend you, know a decent chunk of your. Life have

Speaker 9: you reflected on that at, All like does it feel

Speaker 9: once again like you never? Left does it feel very

Speaker 9: different than when you were here last? Time just being

Speaker 9: back In, Onster New?

Speaker 7: YORK a little bit of. Both it's, familiar, right just

Speaker 7: knowing the culture of the, building, RIGHT i think The

Speaker 7: bills have always been a place that have done it

Speaker 7: a little bit, Differently, right it's. Unique you're not In,

Speaker 7: miami you're not In la, right like it is it

Speaker 7: feels like the town's, team, Right like everyone's highly. Invested

Speaker 7: you walk around the building and there's people that like

Speaker 7: they're not going. Anywhere they don't they don't want.

Speaker 4: To, leave.

Speaker 7: Right it's it's truly what is best for the organization

Speaker 7: and how is? It how are we representing the city

Speaker 7: Of buffalo in Western New. York, like that's a huge

Speaker 7: piece to what being A bill. Is so that's exciting

Speaker 7: to come back and feel that. Familiarity, right there's a

Speaker 7: lot of new faces and a lot of new culture

Speaker 7: of winning right When josh got. Here so it's exciting

Speaker 7: to see both, sides, right the new and still a

Speaker 7: little bit of stuff that's old in terms.

Speaker 2: Of personality has players from being brought into or a

Speaker 2: different scheme and now having you, here how do you

Speaker 2: kind of blend what you want to do with some

Speaker 2: of the skill sets and players that have been here?

Speaker 1: Before but what does that process look like for?

Speaker 7: You that's the exciting part of the off. Season, LIKE

Speaker 7: i had a vision for it WHAT i want it to,

Speaker 7: be and it might not totally get there in year. One,

Speaker 7: right we have to be real as far as who we,

Speaker 7: have what their skill sets, are AND i have to

Speaker 7: be flexible as well as, Them, Right and that's where

Speaker 7: that overload philosophy, was, like let's push a lot of

Speaker 7: stuff at them and really stress them out mentally and

Speaker 7: schematically what we think we're going to be able to,

Speaker 7: do and then just start to dial it in as

Speaker 7: we get closer to week, Ones SO i think it.

Speaker 7: Works you're asking your players to do that and have

Speaker 7: an open mind and try some different. Things and myself

Speaker 7: as a, COACH i have a vision of WHAT i

Speaker 7: think it's going to be and now that that's where the,

Speaker 7: OTAs and once we get into training, camp it's really

Speaker 7: dialed in into what it's what it's going to, become and.

Speaker 4: What it looks.

Speaker 7: Like week one might not be what it looks like

Speaker 7: in week, ten AND i think that's going to be

Speaker 7: a good.

Speaker 12: Thing you T. J sanders had to play kind of

Speaker 12: around on the line last year by necessity with some,

Speaker 12: Injuries but did that actually maybe help a little bit

Speaker 12: in your evaluation of him and how he's going to

Speaker 12: fit into what you ask him to.

Speaker 7: Do it definitely helps you know it's you cannot get

Speaker 7: a substitute for playing time On, sundays so every rep

Speaker 7: is huge for young players to get out there and

Speaker 7: learn and grow from and obviously as, coaches it gives

Speaker 7: you something to evaluate and try to have a better

Speaker 7: picture of where exactly you think they're going to. Fit

Speaker 7: and he's a guy who's really excited about the changes

Speaker 7: of the defense and what he thinks his role can

Speaker 7: be in, it and he'll continue to grow and build

Speaker 7: what that's going to be throughout the offseason and in

Speaker 7: camp as. Well and you guys use a pretty high

Speaker 7: asset On, Igb so that naturally posts proquestions about how

Speaker 7: do you guys View.

Speaker 3: Max cairstin's still, said do you Think max brains to

Speaker 3: what you could?

Speaker 4: Do Becas, yeah we Love.

Speaker 7: MAX i was a huge fan Of max coming out

Speaker 7: of college as, Well and we're not down on any

Speaker 7: of the corners we. Had we needed depth And i'm

Speaker 7: firmly believed like you have to be able to rush

Speaker 7: the past or you have to be able to, cover

Speaker 7: and we needed more depth in the room in order

Speaker 7: to do. That and, Again igb is a guy that

Speaker 7: we saw as a sending player that gave us a

Speaker 7: little something, different Right the size the length that he

Speaker 7: has is a little bit different than what we had

Speaker 7: in the, room and we just felt like that was

Speaker 7: the right person to get in the room with that

Speaker 7: pick and excited that it went that. Way you, know

Speaker 7: obviously was huge going through the draft process with being

Speaker 7: the first time and getting to defensive players early in

Speaker 7: the draft like that was really really exciting for me

Speaker 7: and now we got to go make it. Right so

Speaker 7: but that was the biggest. Thing it's it had nothing

Speaker 7: to do With max OR. Cb we're bringing d in

Speaker 7: like we need more, Depth like you need more starters

Speaker 7: in a secondary you can never have enough guys who can.

Speaker 1: Cover if anything.

Speaker 7: Stood out too About Joe brady now That gosh worked

Speaker 7: with him over the last once a, bit more like

Speaker 7: any impressions or new things you've learned about him to,

Speaker 7: me just confirm what the early my early assessment. Was

Speaker 7: he knows how to, talk he knows how to communicate

Speaker 7: and get buy in from a. Team that's that's. Exciting

Speaker 7: he's willing to go up there and say the hard.

Speaker 5: Thing you.

Speaker 7: Know obviously it's pretty low stress in the off. Season

Speaker 7: but at the same, time like the MESSAGING i thought

Speaker 7: has been really good with the, team and right now

Speaker 7: they trust, us they believe. Us we have to continue

Speaker 7: to push them and we know things are going to

Speaker 7: get harder and we gotta we got to be the

Speaker 7: same people going.

Speaker 4: Through that as.

Speaker 7: Well but, yeah just just to see how he communicates

Speaker 7: with the, staff the plan that he has again laying

Speaker 7: it out for the players in the vision for where

Speaker 7: we're GOING i think that's been the number one thing

Speaker 7: That i've.

Speaker 4: Seen what would you like About max ahead of the?

Speaker 7: Draft obviously from a speed and athleticism, standpoint it was

Speaker 7: the top of the. Class and then you add in

Speaker 7: the ball, skills the ability to take the ball, away,

Speaker 7: right that's. It he flashed that last, year, right you

Speaker 7: saw some big play. POTENTIAL i felt like he was

Speaker 7: a guy that you have to create some vision for

Speaker 7: in your. Defense, however you get to that, right like

Speaker 7: when he's staring at the, quarterback like good things seem

Speaker 7: to happen in. College SO i Think buffalo did a

Speaker 7: great job schematically with him last, year and we're just

Speaker 7: going to continue to grow. Again he's he's high energy

Speaker 7: all the. Time he loves, ball he loves. Practice you,

Speaker 7: know any little coaching point you give him on a

Speaker 7: one on one you know, basis he's he's really into.

Speaker 7: That so to, me the the energy and the passion about,

Speaker 7: football and then obviously he's got high level athletic. Trades

Speaker 7: we want to keep healthy for for a whole, season.

Speaker 7: Right that Was that's the one thing that's going to

Speaker 7: be a big challenge for him is just continue to

Speaker 7: grow into THAT nfl body and be available every.

Speaker 5: Week the kind.

Speaker 1: Of you guys Were another deft Was.

Speaker 11: County how can he show that during a time where

Speaker 11: your practice desiring.

Speaker 7: Shores it's hard to, do, Right he's doing everything we're

Speaker 7: asking him right. Now he's a very efficient. Mover so

Speaker 7: it's really cool to watch. Him whether he knows it or,

Speaker 7: NOT i think he's in the right spot the majority

Speaker 7: of the. Time he's got a really good feel for the.

Speaker 7: Game but, yeah and the in the off, season showing

Speaker 7: off the physicality is is a little bit harder than

Speaker 7: maybe he'd like it because that's their comfort. Zone a

Speaker 7: lot of these guys coming from. Colleges, well IF i

Speaker 7: just make it, physical Then i'll show WHO i. Am you,

Speaker 7: KNOW nfl rules don't always allow for. That but he's

Speaker 7: done an excellent job of picking up the defense and

Speaker 7: being able to. Communicate you, know early on he's running

Speaker 7: with the ones at, times in controlling the huddle and

Speaker 7: getting things lined. Up so excited for him to grow

Speaker 7: as a player and see what he can. Do but

Speaker 7: you saw the, physicality his willingness to strike and use

Speaker 7: his hands on top of being square like it was impressive.

Speaker 7: Tape and he can absolutely fly around the. Field he

Speaker 7: brings a lot of energy and a lot of juice

Speaker 7: just with how he can run to the. Football thank, you.

Speaker 2: All. Right that Was bill's defensive Coordinator Jim leonard speaking

Speaker 2: to media earlier. TODAY a lot out of that press.

Speaker 2: Conference the first time we talked To Jim leonard And

Speaker 2: Pete carmichael And Jeff, rogers the new, coordinators was a

Speaker 2: couple of weeks after they were, hired and these guys

Speaker 2: really hadn't even watched tape of their now, players and

Speaker 2: so when we spoke to them and you, know try

Speaker 2: to learn a little, bit there wasn't much to learn

Speaker 2: yet because they were so new To, buffalo so new

Speaker 2: to this, team and really just Like i'm just trying

Speaker 2: to figure out Where i'm trying to live right, Now

Speaker 2: LIKE i don't know a. LOT i can't tell you a.

Speaker 2: Lot so it was great to get to hear From

Speaker 2: Jim leonard today because he gave us a lot AND

Speaker 2: i felt like was very open with his assessment of

Speaker 2: certain players and the type of defense that they want to.

Speaker 2: PLAY i think one of the biggest things that stuck,

Speaker 2: out among other things we'll get to a lot of

Speaker 2: it is the fact that you go in with an

Speaker 2: idea of we're switching, defenses AND i think a lot

Speaker 2: of people, Think, okay we're all. In we're doing this major,

Speaker 2: switch And Jim leonard made it clear like we may

Speaker 2: not entirely get there this, season like this is a.

Speaker 2: Process how we look week one might be entirely different

Speaker 2: from how we look week. Ten AND i think that's

Speaker 2: a great way to look at something as a, coach

Speaker 2: as a, coordinator is we don't have to do it

Speaker 2: all in two. Months we're not gonna accomplish everything right.

Speaker 2: Now we're gonna see how far we can get in training,

Speaker 2: camp and we're gonna roll out what we have then

Speaker 2: and as we go through this, season we'll continue to

Speaker 2: add more here and, there and we don't want to

Speaker 2: be the same. Always.

Speaker 4: Yeah it went from the last time we spoke to

Speaker 4: them too like, Hi i'm here To, yeah we feel

Speaker 4: really good about the players we have in the building

Speaker 4: and we're gonna be able to build something around. Them

Speaker 4: and it's not very much different than if you had

Speaker 4: had all these new players come into the building and

Speaker 4: using the old seat. Them they still have to pick

Speaker 4: it up this stuff to learn how these guys play

Speaker 4: what they do, well what they're able to, do and

Speaker 4: there's a lot of nuance to this that that is you,

Speaker 4: know you kind of got to start to sift, through

Speaker 4: like like week to, week these matchups are going to

Speaker 4: change because you, know this week you're Playing, houston next

Speaker 4: week you're Playing. Detroit right week, three you're playing you,

Speaker 4: know you go on down the line and the matchups

Speaker 4: for For, chubb For, rousseau For Ed, oliver For Christian,

Speaker 4: benford they change week to week and how effective those

Speaker 4: guys can be inside those. Matchups dick takes the game

Speaker 4: plan for that, week and their ability to execute that

Speaker 4: game plan is based on their skills. Set you, know

Speaker 4: there's a lot of there's like sixty million moving parts

Speaker 4: to this equation and they're just getting started at, it

Speaker 4: but they. Do you do get the sense from talking

Speaker 4: To leonard this this last you, know twenty minutes or

Speaker 4: so that we've been listening to them and it has

Speaker 4: happened right at about noon, today you get the feeling

Speaker 4: of how can they are with the guys they have

Speaker 4: in the. ROOM i think that's the one thing that

Speaker 4: kind of shines through all of. This they've got pieces

Speaker 4: there that they're going to be able to use and you,

Speaker 4: know win some. Games, yes it is always evolutionary from

Speaker 4: the start of the season through week eighteen or week

Speaker 4: nineteen of the, season week twenty of the, season in

Speaker 4: the playoffs and all of. That it's always evolution that

Speaker 4: happens from week one to week. Two injuries play a

Speaker 4: part in, that you, know trying to make do with

Speaker 4: the roster limitations in one week that all of a,

Speaker 4: sudden now it's not, limited it's that's the ceiling.

Speaker 8: Now.

Speaker 4: Right the next, week those guys come back and all

Speaker 4: of a, sudden now we're back in the saddle in

Speaker 4: that part of our defense and we can exploit. It

Speaker 4: all that stuff changes from week to, week but the

Speaker 4: one generality that you come away with is they're you,

Speaker 4: know they feel good about the guys they've gone in the.

Speaker 4: Room now you're one hundred percent, healthy you, know except

Speaker 4: for you, know except For Mike hoyt and all the

Speaker 4: guys that rehab and all the guys that are. There it's, like,

Speaker 4: wow one hundred percent. Healthy here we, go let's. Go you,

Speaker 4: know that's fun to think. About but as we, know

Speaker 4: as the season rolls, on that stuff gets.

Speaker 2: Limited we got to take a. Break when we, return

Speaker 2: tell you my favorite part Of Jim leonard's press. Conference

Speaker 2: there's one player who he spoke about. THAT i came

Speaker 2: away from the press conference being, Like, Okay i'm really

Speaker 2: excited to see what this looks. Like we'll tell you

Speaker 2: next on Of Bill's.

Speaker 8: Life we're back here on One Bill's Live.

Speaker 2: Man he got alongside Of Steve. Tasker we were just

Speaker 2: talking about defensive Predator Jim leonard's AND i said there

Speaker 2: was a player Who jim talked about THAT i was,

Speaker 2: like sign me up for how this could. Look one

Speaker 2: player a lot of people had a question about Was

Speaker 2: Ed oliver and how does he fit in this new

Speaker 2: three four? Defense not something That ed's played in yet

Speaker 2: in his professional. Career and When Jim leonard was asked

Speaker 2: about At, oliver he, Said oliver is going to have

Speaker 2: more freedom in this defense and he's starting to see

Speaker 2: where he fits and how he. Fits talking about getting

Speaker 2: him in one on one matchups against, guards And leonard,

Speaker 2: said you know what player wouldn't be excited about getting

Speaker 2: in one on one matchups where he can truly show

Speaker 2: his strengths within a. Defense AND i was Like, okay,

Speaker 2: COOL i want to see. This i'm excited for this

Speaker 2: because At oliver has meant a lot to this. Defense,

Speaker 2: yes he's suffered through, injuries but a first round, pick

Speaker 2: a top ten, pick who's been productive For, buffalo And

Speaker 2: i'm glad That Jim leonard believes there's a place for

Speaker 2: him in this. Defense i've grown to really like At

Speaker 2: oliver in what he's been able to do In, buffalo

Speaker 2: AND i would hate to see somebody like him go

Speaker 2: because he just doesn't. Fit.

Speaker 4: Yeah the THING i Think Jim leonard sees In ed

Speaker 4: and we're watching some highlights of him against The Baltimore

Speaker 4: ravens this last year in that opening, game it was

Speaker 4: such a barn. Burner ed does his work on the

Speaker 4: other side of the line of. SCRIMMAGE i Think Jim

Speaker 4: leonard likes that about. Him this force, fumble of, course

Speaker 4: setting up The bills at the opportunity to get close

Speaker 4: to the to bring this thing to a point where

Speaker 4: The bills can win. It ed spent most of that

Speaker 4: game on the other side of the line of. Scrimmage

Speaker 4: it's hard to. Do not all the guys can do,

Speaker 4: that AND i Think Jim leonard likes that About. Ed

Speaker 4: ed's you, know we've always known he's been an undersized defensive,

Speaker 4: tackle but because of his explosion and athleticism and his

Speaker 4: tenacity and his you, know his, energy he's able to

Speaker 4: get across the line of scrimmage and that that blows

Speaker 4: an offense up when you've got guys on your side

Speaker 4: of the line of script and back on their side

Speaker 4: of the line of. Scrimmage ed's ability to do that

Speaker 4: has been his calling card for when he's been really.

Speaker 4: Successful he was doing it at a high level last

Speaker 4: year before he was, injured and even when he came,

Speaker 4: back he wasn't one hundred. Percent but that's what that's

Speaker 4: where he makes his hay and THAT'S i Think Jim

Speaker 4: leonard sees it and, says let's give him a chance

Speaker 4: to do that a lot. More AND i think we're you,

Speaker 4: know give him some one on. Ones and we said this.

Speaker 4: Earlier when you got five guys across the, front it

Speaker 4: sets it up for they've got to decide who they're

Speaker 4: gonna block and who they're gonna who's gonna drop. Out

Speaker 4: sometimes they guess, wrong but it also sets you up

Speaker 4: for some. Singles you, know if they're gonna double team.

Speaker 4: Somebody they're gonna take a chance that somebody's not coming,

Speaker 4: right it's not not. Rushing so he started singling guys,

Speaker 4: up and defensive, lineman particularly defensive, tackles love that because

Speaker 4: they on they do is soak up double, teams you,

Speaker 4: know so the linebackers can run and. Hit so, uh

Speaker 4: getting them singled up is huge for these, guys AND

Speaker 4: i Think ed would benefit from.

Speaker 2: It Jim leonard also talked about another defensive, Lineman Bradley,

Speaker 2: chubb and How chubb knocked the leadership aspect out of

Speaker 2: the park when they started talking to him about the

Speaker 2: possibility of coming To buffalo and if he was attracted

Speaker 2: to a team like, this and And chubb when he

Speaker 2: signed his contract With buffalo, SAID i want to go

Speaker 2: somewhere WHERE i can. Win i've played against this team

Speaker 2: twice a year As i've been on The Miami. DOLPHINS

Speaker 2: i see the culture they, HAVE i see the TALENT

Speaker 2: i See Josh. ALLEN i want to be a part of.

Speaker 2: THIS i want to bring a championship home To. Buffalo

Speaker 2: And leonard really loved his leadership style and how he's

Speaker 2: able to connect with more than just a defense he,

Speaker 2: said his leadership style is one that connects to an entire.

Speaker 2: Team it goes beyond just the position group that you're,

Speaker 2: in and you get. That in thirty seconds of talking

Speaker 2: To Bradley chubb my first time meeting him and doing

Speaker 2: an interview with, HIM i was, like this Is Von.

Speaker 2: Miller Von miller And Bradley chubb are very similar and

Speaker 2: how they've played, football in how they've, won and in

Speaker 2: how they lead young. PLAYERS i came away so amazed

Speaker 2: with just How Bradley chubb can probably take over a

Speaker 2: room just by how he speaks and how he.

Speaker 4: Acts, yeah and we all know The Von miller saga

Speaker 4: here In buffalo when he was playing in when he

Speaker 4: first got he was, killing he was doing, great and you,

Speaker 4: know then the injuries. Happened but one of the things

Speaker 4: that we took away From vaughn and his time here

Speaker 4: In buffalo is how great a leader he. Was he

Speaker 4: was a great. Mentor he knew he was a real.

Speaker 4: Pro he's an All pro, guy that caliber of, player

Speaker 4: and he knew how to mentor the young. Guys that's

Speaker 4: one of the that's probably the most positive thing you

Speaker 4: can say about his tenure here In Buffalo chubb is

Speaker 4: that same kind of, guy a guy who shows younger

Speaker 4: players how to, act to put it, simply, yeah how

Speaker 4: to be how to be a, pro how to, prepare

Speaker 4: how to act when you're not on the, field how

Speaker 4: to act when you are on the, field how to

Speaker 4: act in, meetings how to interact with your, coaches your.

Speaker 4: Teammates that that is not small. Thing so it's good

Speaker 4: to have a guy like that in the. Building with

Speaker 4: the kind of attitude and professionalism he, Displays he's going

Speaker 4: to help.

Speaker 2: Guys and then the other. Thing an important takeaway from

Speaker 2: press conference WAS i know we're all we're all focused

Speaker 2: on the defensive line because that is that is what's.

Speaker 2: Changing part of what's changing and how the front is

Speaker 2: going to look and positions that players are going to

Speaker 2: be playing. In But Jim leonard also spoke about how

Speaker 2: much he likes the cornerback and safety depth and how

Speaker 2: that's going to allow him to mix and match and

Speaker 2: switch players in and out of position groups to do different.

Speaker 2: Things i'm really excited to see what that's going to look.

Speaker 2: Like Jim, leonard as you, said a former safety of

Speaker 2: The Buffalo, bills knows a lot about the defensive backs

Speaker 2: and how to, play how to mix and, match and

Speaker 2: what offenses don't like to see back, There And i'm

Speaker 2: really looking forward to seeing kind of how he deploys

Speaker 2: our defensive.

Speaker 4: Backs it really gives lends itself to creativity on the

Speaker 4: side of the defensive. Coordinator we remember years a few

Speaker 4: years ago When Micah hyde And Jordan poy were in

Speaker 4: the backfield and how we got feedback from other coaching

Speaker 4: stats about how difficult it was for the quarterback to

Speaker 4: discern what coverage they're. Playing it was really confusing for

Speaker 4: a quarterback to drop back and those safeties are doing

Speaker 4: something they didn't, anticipate couldn't anticipate when you, put for,

Speaker 4: instance if you go five dbs and this nickel guy

Speaker 4: and two, safeties and the nickel guys of safety as,

Speaker 4: well and has that skill set or their positionless defensive

Speaker 4: backs save you, know maybe igb Or Max harrison And

Speaker 4: Christian benford on the. Outside you got two outside, corners

Speaker 4: but all three of the other guys are, positionless and

Speaker 4: all of a, sudden you don't know where the safeties,

Speaker 4: are which guys are the safeties that ability to cast

Speaker 4: doubt in the quarterbacks signed or their offensive coordinator's. Mind

Speaker 4: when you get those three guys out there and they

Speaker 4: don't know what coverage they're looking. At that's a real

Speaker 4: problem for offenses post snap and even pre snap obviously as.

Speaker 4: Well hard to get in a really good play when

Speaker 4: you don't know what defense you're. Facing and the flexibility

Speaker 4: and depth of those guys at that safety room where

Speaker 4: they have the skill set to play man to man

Speaker 4: and to be a safety. Man that's huge flexibility in

Speaker 4: the back into the. Defense that will cast doubt in

Speaker 4: the quarterback's, mind in the offensive coordinator's. Mind your personnel

Speaker 4: doesn't tip off what coverages you're going to be playing

Speaker 4: because they can play a lot of coverages with those

Speaker 4: guys on the field and they've proven it on. Film

Speaker 4: that kind of stuff is a huge boost to a

Speaker 4: defensive coordinator and it gives you big edge.

Speaker 2: Defensively we'll go back to our tweet. Sheet our question

Speaker 2: today is which bills holdover will be the most important

Speaker 2: To Jim leonard's. Defense andrews, SAYS i would Say land And.

Speaker 2: Jackson he's done what they've asked of him in the.

Speaker 2: Offseason jim definitely pays more attention to the players that

Speaker 2: put the time in And landon. HAS i, mean just

Speaker 2: look at him now compared to last. Season he's definitely

Speaker 2: going to prove himself this. Season Landon jackson somebody who

Speaker 2: got injured early on last, season spent the rest of

Speaker 2: the year kind of rehabbing and getting. Better at this

Speaker 2: point in the, offseason you look at, him you, say what?

Speaker 2: Happened what happened to the old Land And? Jackson because

Speaker 2: you look bigger and stronger Than that's what they wanted

Speaker 2: him to. Do, landon speaking to media last, week has

Speaker 2: said that he has gone through something like this before

Speaker 2: where he's had to play heavier and knows what it

Speaker 2: takes to put the weight on and seems really excited

Speaker 2: about what he's going to. Do In Jim leonard's, Defense

Speaker 2: Jim leonard spoke about Watching Landon jackson at the collegiate

Speaker 2: level and knows what he can do and says that

Speaker 2: everything he's being asked to do he already did in,

Speaker 2: college and talked about the buy in of land And jackson.

Speaker 4: Already, yeah and you, Know i've been through this a

Speaker 4: little bit as a, player where you go through a

Speaker 4: little bit of a transformation in the off, season at

Speaker 4: your weight and your and your strength and that kind of.

Speaker 4: Thing And Jim leonard addressed this not only With land And,

Speaker 4: jackson he said that's kind of where they wanted, him

Speaker 4: but also With Dwayne, carter who looks, bigger looks stronger

Speaker 4: or was IT. Tj i'm not, SURE, CJ. Tj, SANDERS

Speaker 4: J sanders And Dwayne Carter carter he spoke about as. Well,

Speaker 4: yeah the thing About Dwayne carter some of these guys

Speaker 4: is when you're rehabbing an injury and you can't, run

Speaker 4: they don't want you to. Run you can only lift

Speaker 4: and stretch and do some other rehab. Stuff AND i

Speaker 4: went through this. Myself you get really strong and you you,

Speaker 4: know you start to you, know put on weight because

Speaker 4: you don't. Run when you start, running you lose weight

Speaker 4: and you and you're not as strong because it's the

Speaker 4: way your body. WORKS i remember rehabbing a knee injury

Speaker 4: once in my, career and all of a, Sudden i'm

Speaker 4: lifting huge amount for, me huge amounts of, weight and

Speaker 4: you're you're, stronger and you look. Thicker and then as

Speaker 4: soon as you start to rehab and your rehab gets

Speaker 4: to a point where you're going to start to. Run.

Speaker 2: Yep he just.

Speaker 4: Sucks the life out of your. Lifting you don't lift

Speaker 4: like that. Anything you can't lift those weights ANY i,

Speaker 4: mean like the next, day you can't lift those weights.

Speaker 4: Right it's just it's one of the things that happens

Speaker 4: when you're. Rehabing so some of the guys are going

Speaker 4: through a little bit of that rehabbing some, injuries and

Speaker 4: they can lift really big, now but as soon as

Speaker 4: they start, running it'll go away a little. Bit but For,

Speaker 4: jackson it sounds like that's where they wanted, it and

Speaker 4: he's making Stride AND i don't know what his rehab

Speaker 4: was like and how much running he was not allowed to,

Speaker 4: do but that's one of the things you have to.

Speaker 4: Balance it's really hard to lift heavyweights and keep that

Speaker 4: weight on when you start getting in condition to PLAY nfl.

Speaker 2: Football we haven't named everybody. Yet there's a few other

Speaker 2: players that have yet to be, Named guys we're on

Speaker 2: the team last season that could be big impact players

Speaker 2: in twenty twenty. Six we'll read some of those names

Speaker 2: next when we come back from one both from our

Speaker 2: break On One Bill's. Live welcome back To One Bill's.

Speaker 2: Live we're wondering Which bills pulled over player will be

Speaker 2: most importantine General lennard's, defense And pat says with his

Speaker 2: quickness and, ability he came into his own last. Season

Speaker 2: he surely. Did jason, SAYS i think it's going to Be,

Speaker 2: Groot Greg. RUSSO i hope we re Signed Matt. Milano Go.

Speaker 2: Bills Matt milanos linebackers don't a lot For buffalo since being.

Speaker 2: Drafted we know him at what he was like when

Speaker 2: he was at his, best tough to, stop quick, player hard,

Speaker 2: hitter and we got to see we got to see

Speaker 2: parts of That Matt milana last season as he worked

Speaker 2: back from that. Injury it'll be interesting to see do

Speaker 2: they sign him back In june Or july at some.

Speaker 2: Point what is the vision for this linebacking, corps because

Speaker 2: as you look at our linebacker, lists our inside, linebackers

Speaker 2: you would think that you could add another player to this.

Speaker 2: List that's one position group that they might not be

Speaker 2: done with.

Speaker 4: Yet Right i've Drafted CALEB. E larms or they've Got

Speaker 4: Keyante jenkins of, Course andresen And Jimmy charlow are there.

Speaker 4: Too they've only got guys on the roster that are

Speaker 4: inside a lot listed inside. Linebacker it. Does it wouldn't

Speaker 4: surprise me at all if they do sign another, guy

Speaker 4: no question about. IT i don't know that it will

Speaker 4: be a guy that has been here, before Like Shaq

Speaker 4: thompson Or Matt, milano but it'll be somebody this coaching

Speaker 4: staff's familiar. With it wouldn't be surprised me if it

Speaker 4: was a Former bronco or somebody they've worked with in another,

Speaker 4: team or one of the assistant coaches has worked with

Speaker 4: in the. Past somebody they know their skill, set and

Speaker 4: they know they've got an idea now of the seven

Speaker 4: guys they've got on the roster, now and they're, Saying,

Speaker 4: okay we'd like to have a little bit more of

Speaker 4: this and a little bit more of, That and they,

Speaker 4: SAY i know a. Guy and it might not Be

Speaker 4: Matt malan Or Shaq. Thompson it might be somebody they've

Speaker 4: worked with or have knowledge, of or somebody that they've

Speaker 4: seen on tape that they like. Better all of that's

Speaker 4: on the. Table it wouldn't surprise me if that's the, case.

Speaker 4: Though bringing a guy to compete for a starting, role

Speaker 4: even though it's late in the process in this. Offseason

Speaker 4: there's still guys out there WHO i, mean you look

Speaker 4: at some of the websites and the people who study,

Speaker 4: this there's still some guys out there that are like

Speaker 4: worth finger quotes worth twelve million a, year you know

Speaker 4: WHAT i. Mean there are guys out there who are

Speaker 4: quality linebackers that are out. There so, Yeah i'm kind

Speaker 4: of with. Him they're going to sign. Somebody whether it's

Speaker 4: one guy we know or, not it remains to be.

Speaker 2: Seen pete, says if he fully, RECOVERS i Think Michael

Speaker 2: hoyt will be a game. Wreckerd he fits perfectly in

Speaker 2: this new defensive. Scheme. Yeah when we switched to a

Speaker 2: three to FOUR us, like give Me Michael hoyt all.

Speaker 4: Day he's Giving michael hoyd at one hundred. PERCENT i mean,

Speaker 4: Right it'll be fun to watch him come back and

Speaker 4: attack this new defense and be a part of. It, yeah,

Speaker 4: yeah no.

Speaker 2: QUESTION i am really excited to see What michael hoy can.

Speaker 2: Do he's been working off to the side during, practices

Speaker 2: so when is he going to be fully? Healthy hopefully.

Speaker 4: Soon that's the tone of the. Day Jim leonard press

Speaker 4: conference leaves you.

Speaker 2: Inspired, yeah it definitely. Does that's going to do it

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