Know the Enemy: Buffalo Bills

Know the Enemy series Part two. We'll talk to somebody who's as well connected to the Buffalo Bills as anybody, Sal Capacho. He'll tell us about the entirety of the Bill's roster, some similarities between Miami and Buffalo, all of that and more on this Wednesday, June the seventeenth edition

of the Drivetime Podcasts. And I had Joe Marino of Locked On Bills on many a Locked On Dolphins podcast in my time there in the past, and if not mistaken, I think he did an episode of Drive Time as well, back for the Draft with his association with the Draft Network, and we talked about the different stages of a new regime build basically just in the NFL, how it kind of works with these new coach and GM combinations and how you build the program, and the success that Sean

McDermott has had with the Bills up there in Buffalo, And I think it might have been year two there in eighteen that I even recall predicting that they might have a shot at the number one overall pick in that twenty nineteen draft because of how they were unloading parts off the roster like Sammy Watkins and Ronald Darby and Marcel Darius and Joe told us in that podcast that McDermott was really focused on building the team his way,

establishing the culture of work, ethic, sacrifice, some of those core components that we've all come to know and love from both Brian Flora's and Chris Greer. And I'd be doing him a disservice if I did not include Brandon Bean, the Bill's GM in that conversation for Buffalo. He's done

a hell of a job up there as well. But the Bills really exceeded expectations that year under the tutelage of young quarterback Josh Allen, and they remade that secondary in one year with Trey White, Jordan Poyer, and Micah Hyde in the first year there. Then they went out and got the pieces for the young quarterback in year two with John Brown, Cole Beasley, Dawson Knox and Devin

Singletary at those skill spots. Of course, they went out this year and got Stefon Diggs, but in that first year they went out and got four, count them, four new starting offensive lineman to go along with Dion Dawkins upfront there and Cody Ford, John Feliciano, Mitch Morse and Quentin Spain. And now they've got a starting five that really doesn't have a week spot on that front part of the offensive line, just one year after that rebuild.

So I look at the way McDermott and Bean did it there, and I see a roster that is deep, a roster that is very talented, and a roster that is very much about the vision of the head coach and how he wants to do things. And with that, with this a of the Know the Enemy series, we had Evan Lazar on for the New England Patriots last

week last Wednesday here on the Drivetime podcast. Who better to welcome into the podcast than Sal Capacho and writing Shotgun with us on this edition of the Drivetime podcast is Sal Capaccio. He's a beat and sideline reporter for the Buffalo Bills. He's also a host and podcaster at w g R five fifty up there in Buffalo. Sal, thank you so much for doing this today. No, thank you for having me. It's a pleasure on this end.

And I always ask my guest right now, because it's such a strange offseason, how are you getting along in this virtual offseason, trying to find content without O t as, without really any current football to talk about. How's work and how is life going for you in this weird off season. We'll start with life. I have a six year old who's in first grade. He loves sports, and the toughest thing for me is not being able to watch him play sports or attend sporting events. We love

going to Buffalo Savers games. We love going to Buffalo Bison's games. They're the Triple A affiliate. Uh here for the Toronto Blue Jays, you know, we do that downtown and it's all been canceled and that's been tough. But you know, I've played sports. I've been a coach in my life, high school coach, so even down in Florida, actually so you know, I, UM, I can make do and we can do things together, but it stinks. He normally would be really right now, in the middle of

his lacrosse season. Uh, he'd be playing little league baseball, he'd be finishing up flag football. And he's only six and he loves it all. So that's been really tough and challenging. But at the same time, it's been awesome spending time at home alone with him and you know, getting to do a lot of things. So personally, you know, we're handling it, and there's a lot more situations going on in the world, no doubt about that. Professionally, you know,

we're just lucky. My wife and I are both still working and we're able to work from home with our jobs, especially what I do this time of year. UM normally working home anyway, covering the team, whether it's draft, free agency and things like that. You know, I'm I'm concerned what's gonna happen with the season obviously, and how that's

gonna look from a broadcasting standpoint. But I'll be honest with you, Travis, UM, I think one of the things that's happened here, and I've said this, uh for the last a couple of months now. It's it's allowed me to kind of tap back into my creative side. I've had to. I'm up with fresh content, new content that I might might have lost touch with doing that over for a few years. Once you kind of get into a routine, you don't do that. And I've I've created

some things. I do a podcast, uh South Sports and stuff, and one of the things I'm doing now is looking back at every single Bills game, one podcast at a time from last year and doing a recap and then also telling stories about the game that people might not know from the sidelines, you know. So that's been something cool I've been doing. So I'm just trying the best I can to come up with that type of creative content. Yeah,

it's definitely a unique opportunity. I've actually had a chance to talk to so many Dolphins alumni as we do Friday Fins flashback, going back to previous Dolphins games, Dolphins wins in our storied franchise history. So that's been a lot of fun too. I'm with you on that all

the way. But we have you on here talk about the season and the Buffalo Bills as we continue our tour of the Miami Dolphins schedule, and we got to see you guys twice a year, as we do every year, starting in Week two in Miami, and then a nice frosty January trip up there to Orchard Park in week seventeen. And I want to start with the big chair, with Sean McDermott. Where else do you start but with the

head coach. We did the Patriots Know the Enemy episode last week, and it's pretty unnecessary to ask what does Bill Belichick do well? Right, everybody knows who Bill Belichick is, what he does well. But for the people that might not be familiar with Sean McDermott up there in Buffalo, and I compare some of his philosophies on leadership and team first guys to what Brian Flores wants to do

in Miami. But from someone that knows him and knows this team so well, like yourself, what is it that makes Sean McDermott the answer for the Bills at the head coach position? He really is good at team building. You're right, I mean that's really something that um was said to me when he got here. People in the organization said, they've never been around a person that's as good at just bringing people together in team building. And you know, it just seems like every single person who

walks through the door they develop it. They don't already have. They have a certain type of player they look for, there's no doubt about that, as certain DNA they call it. But if they don't necessarily have that with somebody, um, they develop it. And you've seen people transform that way. To be quite honest with you, would just become all about exactly what Sean McDermott and Brandon being want. But I'll tell you what he really does that I think

I've been super impressed with. And you gotta remember now, just like you guys, we've gone through a lot of coaches here in Buffalo over the recent time, and you know I've now gone through I've covered four different head coaching regimes. And the thing that Sean McDermott does so well is his teams are just so consistent. You know, they're they're they don't ride the real highs and stay up there, and they don't ride the real lows and

stay down there. They stay in this this box basically where you know, there's a certain level of emotion that they rise to and you know, they celebrate the good things and they cheer and all that kind of stuff, but they don't let it overwhelm them and become like, oh, yeah, we've arrived. And at the same time, when bad things happen,

they never let it get them down. So that really prepares them for any situation, whether they're down in the fourth quarter, they're playing a big game against the Ravens or the Patriots, or they're playing a team that they should be you know, like the Dolphins last year. Maybe they were in a couple of tussles there, And you know, that's the big thing I think that Sean has done really well is he's gotten his team to be super consistent and always play. You did you know exactly what

you're gonna get from the Buffalo Bills every single week? Yeah. I let into the show before I had you on talking about how I think it was his second year there, Josh Allen's first, when it looked like the Bills maybe unloading some parts of that roster might be in line for a possible first overall draft pick. But then they go out and they win five or six ball games

and they never had to think about that. Because you mentioned the consistency and knowing what you're gonna get each and every day there for the Bills, we hope we have the same thing here in Miami, and we discussed the head coach and the next place you always have to go to on this checklist of you know, roster reviews is of course the quarterback and something of an important year for Josh Allen in year three for him this year out of Wyoming and he seems to be

a total lightning rod and for debate and fodder on social media style and now with Stefon digs in the fold on top of all the offensive additions last year, it's a big year for him and I for one can really appreciate the depth that he brings to the offense with the running game, short yardage conversion, asking an extra defender to keep an eye on him because of that dyna him a running ability and the impact that

has on the defense. But what can you tell us from someone that again sees him every single day, what can you tell us about Josh Allen what to expect in year three? Yeah, when you say lightning rod and polarizing, man, is he ever like we we do literally three four hour shows on the radio about that, you know, and people who just they come at you from all different angles,

and you there really is the entire spectrum. It's there's people who just really love him and there's people who really do not like him at all as far as an NFL quarterback. And you know that really started Travis before the draft. He was a polarizing draft prospect. I think there were people who were super high at him, and then there were people who super low and said he's gonna be a bust, he should never be a

first round pick. And what I've found is basically, whatever your pre draft your position was on him, a lot of times you haven't moved off that right because you want to be proven right. Unfortunately, that's the way we live in society where if you really thought Josh Allen was horrible, then you're telling us all these different things

about what makes him horrible. Still no matter what he does well, and if you love them, you're gonna keep pointing to all the things he does well all you no matter any any evidence that shows that he's not doing things well. From what I've seen is this, and what I'll tell you is this. Let's let's talk about the philosophical standpoint of whol Bills drafted. Josh Allen, as we know, is not the most accurate quarterback. I'll be the first to tell you that he's not. He doesn't

he doesn't have a high completion percentage. But the Bills knew that. They went into this with eyes wide open drafting him. The Bills did not draft Josh Allen to be Drew Brees. They didn't draft a guy to be consistently six sixty six completion percentage. They love him to there, of course they want him to get there, but the fact is they drafted him knowing that they're gonna have to sacrifice a little bit of that to also have the big playability that pretty much nobody else can have.

Maybe Patrick Mahomes, that's it. Josh. Josh Allen can do things that other people can't do, and if he has enough of those things, then you don't need him to be sent He needs to be at sixty or above every game. He even said that's his goal, and then with that comes the bigger plays and Josh from where he came. I had an NFL former NFL player tell me last year when I was doing the broadcast, I

was out of the field. We were just chatting and he said to me, he goes you know, Sal He said, Josh was an infant when he came into this league. You know, you think about it, Travis, this is a kid that did not have many D one offers. He had to go to Juco route, he went to Wyoming, He didn't go to the n SEC school. In a SEC school, he didn't have this pressure of going to

national championship games. He was always the best player in his team, but you know, they rode with him, and no matter how good Josh was, it was probably gonna be good enough anyway. In most situations. He comes into this league. Guys like Josh Rosen who went to u c. L A. Sam Donald to go to USC they were grooms as they were little kids to be NFL quarterbacks. Josh was not like that. But I think coming into the league as far back as he was from where they were, I think he's kind of caught up to

them now. And that's because of the cultivation of the organization. They've done such a good job with him and as I go back to knowing who he is and what he needs, and now for year three, they bring in Stefan Diggs. They have a very good for top three wide receivers and Diggs, Brown and Beasley. The offensive line is one of only, like I believe, five teams in the entire league returning every single starter. That's gonna be great for the continuity. They have their same offensive coordinator

coming back. So look, the expectation has to be hired for Josh. He has to take the next step. They they spent a lot of assets on him to move up in the draft. Josh Allen has to take that next step. And after this, they're gonna have to decide to fift your option next year. And if Josh isn't relied on now to win games, he can't be like a game manager anymore. He's gotta be relied on to win some football games. And if he can't take that step,

then they're gonna have questions. But I think that's where the evolution has to be. Yeah, there's a ton to unpack that. I love that you talked about, Salad. I

wrote some notes down here. First, I love your mention about your preconceived notions pre draft and post draft, how you feel about the player, and I agree that's unfortunately the world we do live in I think I wrote an article back in that draft when I wasn't with the Dolphins just yet, but I wrote an article about how if the Dolphins are gonna go after a quarterback in this draft, it would make sense to be Josh Allen because in the event that Ryan Tannehill doesn't pan

out in year seven whatever, it was at that point that Josh Allen has the highest ceiling to boom out of all those guys, and you see a lot of that ability, you know, as he gets into deep into year two and now into year three up there in Buffalo. I covered the game with Buffalo at Miami back in teen. You mentioned the inaccuracy issues and he missed some some throws on the field that day, but he also had like a hundred and thirty five rushing yards too, and

that counts just the same. So I completely agree that stuff gets a little bit overlooked at times. And then you mentioned the receiving corps as well. There sal you talk about Stefon Diggs, John Brown, Cole Beasley. One of my favorite podcast, one of my favorite pair of scouts is Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks on Move the Sticks and they talked about building a track team around Josh Allen because what can he do escape the pocket and

make big plays that way? So I think it all makes sense from my team building standpoint, like you mentioned, and that's where I want to go next, is that receiving corps. Because you did have Cole Beasley, who is the slot specialist. You've got John Brown first one thousand yards season since last year, and now you go out and get Stefon Diggs, who, for my money, he and Keenan Allen are right there is the US route runners in the NFL. I mean, what's the expectation with that group?

Do you think this is possibly one of the best receiving cores in the NFL. I think it's certainly up there. Um, look, they're they're receiving corps that you could argue that are better. There's no doubt about that. I think there's some very good ones in this league. But the bills I've done, you know, some poking around on what other people think about the receiving cords, and generally I think I find

them listed five, six, maybe seven in the league. And you gotta think from where they were a couple of years ago, travels. I mean they were the bottom. They were the worst receiving corps in the league basically just a couple of years ago. They moved that up the last year to the middle of the pack with Brown and Beasley. You know, Robert Foster was expected to make a bigger impact than because of what he did the second half of his rookie year. He didn't and now

next year adding in Stefon Diggs. What he does is he really moves the chess pieces around. Right. John Brown isn't a true number one receiver. He's very good though. He had a really good year next year. But now John Brown becomes your number two receiver, which is really where he fits. And now he's gonna see a lot of single coverage as opposed to team saying, well, they only really have John Brown and that's the guy we

have to shut down. So for this wide receiver corps, I think to go from where it was to where it is is a remarkable turnaround in the Bill's roster. And I do think they're probably one of the top five, six seven receivers receiving corps in the league. And you also mentioned the remade offensive line because Dion Dawkins last year was the only incumbent on the starting five up front.

And I'm curious to get your take here because the Dolphins, again comparisons abound, have made a bunch of changes to the offensive line or a bunch of additions, both in free agency and in the draft, and I'm curious to know where did it work for them, like what we're expectations going into the year, and did it take a while for that group to jel or did it hit right away where you said, Okay, now we have an offensive line in front of Josh Allen. You know, um,

last year they basically overhauled the entire offensive line. There was one returning starter and that was Dion Dawkins at left tackle. Every single other player was new and no one knew what to expect because other than Mitch More's they spent big money image More. He became the highest paid center in the league other than Mitch Morse. Everybody else was kind of on I'd say, like team friendly deals. Basically,

they got a John Feliciano from the Raiders. They went out and got Quentin Spain who was cut from the Titans. That was kind of a surprise. Spencer Long was an early freed and signing even before freedency began because he was cut from the Jets and people said, ah, you know, he's really not gonna do much. But what they also did was all of these guys they got position versatility was very important for the Bills to get position versatile players.

They drafted Cody Ford the second round tackler guard. What is he? They had Tie and Secki from the Redskins. He can play tackle, he can play guard, um John Feliciano can play center and guard. Spencer Long, center and guard. So they had a ton of flexibility and versatility. And the guy that really brought it all together Bobby Johnson, their offensive line coach. He did a heck of a job really getting this group to go and get together and really be uh really well jelled. I'd say now

they are. They were last year a group that was was good but not great. I thought at times teams overwhelmed them with the blitz. They had some trouble on that that should hopefully fix itself a little bit this year with more communication going back and looking having the same continuity. They were a very good run blocking unit last year when they weren't facing those blitzes, they did very well, you know against the past. Cody Ford did

struggle at tackle. There's been some talk whether or not he's gonna move to guard this year, but I'm not sure how they do that. They re signed Quentin Spain, they still have Fully Shiano, so Ford could still be the tackle. It's gonna be interesting. And then Dion Dawkins going to the last year of his contract. He's the left tackle. A lot of people believe, you know, he'll

be in line for a nice extension. This offensive line is in very good shape simply because they not only have five guys coming back, they have their top six coming back, counting the two right tackles in Ford and Secky, and they have their offensive coordinator, and they have their head, their offensive line coach, Bobby Johnson. Yeah, it's pretty rare these days to have continuity on the offensive line in

the league that really needs more offensive line help. We've got Sal Capaccio here of the Buffalo Bills, sideline beat reporter for the Buffalo Bills, i should say, and of w g R five fifty. You talk about the offensive line, the guys they blocked for there in the backfield, and I don't want to continue to get charged here as some sort of discrete Bills fan on the Dolphins podcast network. I just really appreciate the way they've built that roster.

And two of my big draft crushes over the last couple of years, where Devin Singletary in twenty nineteen and Zack Moss this year. How is that workload going to get split up between those two young running backs. It's a great question. I just wrote about this the other day asking the same thing. You know, when Devin Singletary was drafted in the third route and they had Lashaw McCoy, they had Frank Gore. McCoy winds up getting cut and everybody feels okay, now they say Singletary will have a

chance to really, you know, make his mark and get carries. Now, he did start, actually start. He was the first, you know, running back on the field in a lot of games, but he did not carry the ball much the first half of the season. Really was about midway through the year he became the number one back, taking over for Frank Gore. We saw in limited touches how dynamic he was early in the year, and really, I mean he he wound up with a fantastic yards per carry average.

He is dynamic, and he wound up taking becoming the lead back. Now, he did miss some games at the end of the year. There's about even or so when it came down to total running back carries. Now, no more Frank Gore. He's with the Jets. Obviously, I'm Slee McCoy is not there. It is Singletary, and they draft Zack Moss almost in the exact same spot they drafted Singletary just twelve spots later last year, and people are

wondering the same thing. But with this truncated offseason, with not having those reps, with not having him at the facility with the coaches, I don't think they know what they can get necessarily in Zack Moss where his conditioning is. So I would expect going into the year Singletary is gonna be the clear number one and then Zack Moss is going to be brought along. But at some point Zack Moss is going to be on the field quite a bit because they do have different skill sets and

they're they're dynamic in different ways. Singletary is a guy that's gonna just run around you, to be elusive, make a cut and a dime, uh and and get to the whole Zack Moss is gonna run you over. And he's got some speed to go along with that. So it's gonna be interesting to see how it is. I'm not sure exactly how whether they're going to divvy up the carries right there. But the thing that I think

I love that what the Bills have finally done. And you know, it took a long time for this organization to do this. In Brandon Beans, there's a lot of credit um. They're going with the model of we're not gonna pay running backs, We're gonna go with young, cheap running backs, and we're gonna be able to pay the rest of our roster. They have Devin Singletary and Zack Moss for the next three years combined for about five million dollars total over the course of those three years,

and and and scumulatively. Right. Yeah, that's that's crazy roster management there. I think I saw Joe Mario tweet that just the other day on his Twitter timeline there. He's the host of the Lockdown Bills podcast, And you talk about Zack mosson that lunch pale style running he does He just to me was always a Kyle winning Hand type of player there in Utah, and I think Kyle winning hand players are Sean McDermott type of players for

that same mentality. And speaking of Shirt Sean McDermott, his side of the ball on defense really something of a recreation of all those successful Panthers defense He's defenses he ran back in the day, and we saw them add Mario Addison this year they have Starlettula. They're also making the trek up north with McDermott. Let's go ahead and start there on the defensive line. Shack Lawson gone now

here in Miami, but I mentioned Addison coming in. Jerry Hughes is still there at Oliver a complete monster and shop wrecker. Who is who is the star of this group? And if there was one putten show question mark, where it might be like or where where there it might be a softball on this defensive line? Where would that be? And you can also say there isn't one, because that

too is a totally acceptable answer. Well, look, um, I think that the star should be at Oliver, but he might be a question mark too, simply because you know he had questionable decision making in the off season. He had the arrest. Obviously, he's been a guy that, you know, go back to the predraft process. There are a couple of questions that came up because you know, what happened

in Houston. Nothing big. I think people made a little too big deal about the code incident on the sidelines and things like things like that, But it's not a it's not a not big deal. When you get arrested, that is a big deal, and you know, the Bills have to deal with that. Now. I don't know what's gonna happen with that. He may face league discipline, he may not, and even if he does, it might not be till next year. But he should be the guy.

He should be the star. Last year, it took him a while and to kind of understand I think what they were asking of him. And he even said to us like he's used to be in the best player and he he went out there and thought he was gonna show up in the NFL and do that, and it took him a while to understand what his role is and how to fit in the defense. So he should be that guy. You know, if if there was

a question about this defensive line. I think that it's a question that was from last year, but they're hoping to solve it this year, and that is stopping the run up the middle. Now. Starlatula A he is a space eater. He's supposed to be there to stop the run, but Bills fans he's very polarizing with them because he doesn't put up numbers, but yet he's kind of he eats up some blockers, he allows other people to kind of do their thing. And the Bills do have a

penetrating tackle at Oliver who's undersized. Jordan Phillips was more of a penetrating tackle. He's gone. Now they signed Quentin Jefferson, a really nice signing I think for this team, who could play inside and outside. But if there is a question mark, I think it's can they get better at stopping the run up the middle with their defensive tackle group and moving back into the run defense in the linebacker position. I think that Matt Mlano really is one

of the most underrated players in all of football. And everyone knows about Tremaine Edmunds, a high draftic a couple of years ago. And I'd like to get your take on the entire unit But I'm also curious the difference in year one and year two with Tremaine because the counting stats, which you know, require context, those saw d off off last season, but he did go to the Pro Bowl, which also requires context. How would you differentiate

those two years for Tremayne Edmonds. I think when you talk about a year one to year two jump for almost any player, it almost has to be a different way you talk about it for Tremaine Edmonds for one reason, he is so young. It's incredible. Tremayne Edmonds started in the NFL at middle linebacker at nineteen years old. Travis, think about that. He was nineteen when he started, and I'm sorry he was drafted when he was nineteen. He started at twenty, but he had just turned twenty years old.

He didn't even turn twenty one to be able to drink a beer until his first offseason after being a rookie in the league. So he goes from twenty years old to twenty one. He was such a young kid that his year one to year two growth. This year one to year two jump, it was tremendous, but we really didn't see it until halfway through the year. I mean, it was like a light came out. I remember the game where it happened. It was in Cleveland, it was

about midway through the year. The Bills lost the game, but Tremayne just started playing faster and he was just all over the field. He had a safety sack, Baker made field in the end zone. And I've had I've had discussions with Leslie Fraser, the defensive cordin about this, and I said, you know, you know, what was it about Tremaine and and he said the same thing. And it's it's easy to say. There's no secret. He got older, he saw more football, He started to think quicker, he

started to recognize quicker. He started to get to get to places faster, understanding angles and things like that. You know, he got big. He's a super big guy, but he was getting eat up a little bit by a bigger offensive lineman who were more experienced this first year. That didn't happen. By the end of last year, Tremaine Edmonds was really starting to show up, which is why why

he got that Pro Bowl. Not so the numbers weren't going to be there because I think at the beginning of the year he was still kind of coming along. Boy did that light bulb turn on for Tremaine last year, and now here is he's gonna be. He's twenty two years old and he's already started thirty two NFL games. That's probably the craziest that you've got in the entire football team that you go back to when I was nineteen, probably cutting classes in junior college or something like that,

doing something stupid. So very impressive young man you've got there up in Buffalo, and we saved the best for the last year with the secondary. The strength of the team. For my money, with all pro Tray white out, there probably the best safety tannem in football, if not close to it, with Jordan Poyer and Micah Hyde. And I'm curious with those three first, there's gotta be some kind of secret sauce sell, some kind of secret drill they do because they have such absurd ball production when it

comes to interceptions and pass breakups among those three. What do they doing up there to get their hands on so many footballs? Well, it's a couple of things. They do a lot of ball drills. But you know what, I give credit to them. They're just really smart guys. They put themselves in good positions and look, Leslie Frasier is a great defensive coach and Sean McDermott is a great defensive coach, and you put those two together. They put those guys in the right position and they allow

them to do what they do best. Leslie Fraser's incredible. People might not know, maybe especially I think sometimes, Uh, you know, I'm older than I think sometimes you know, and um, I have to remind people. Leslie Fraser played for the n Bears, the Super Bowl champion eighty five Bears that almost went undefeated. He led the Bears and interceptions either that year or the year after. Like Leslie Frasier can ball. He knows how to do that. And he's been in this league as a coach for thirty

something years. He's been a head coach, a defensive coordinator, He's been around great football players. He's a great communicator. He knows how to get these guys a position. And then, of course Sean McDermott what he did in Carolina. We saw the defenses that he had, and then you add in these guys and how smart they are. I think one of the things the Bills really did well was they got two safeties who don't need to play free

or strong, or left or right. Yeah, they may stay on one side of the field most of the game, but Man Jordan player Michael Hide, they both can do so much that you never know where the other is coming from or where he's going to be. They can disguise coverages so much. And of course Tebus White, he's just a tremendous football player. He works as butt off Ryan Clark of ESPN, former L s U Tiger with him.

They're great friends. They work really hard together. In fact, Ryan Clark watches everyone of trades games and Jamal Adams game, another L s U guy, and he literally like sends them scouting reports on what they did well and not well during the game that he saw on film. And they go back and they work on things and trade as a lot of ball skills. Um, you know, he's a tremendous player. The question is opposite Trey White this year,

what's gonna happen. Levi Wallace is a really nice young player, but he took a bit of a step back last year after a good rookie season. So they went out and they signed Josh Norman, and who knows what you're gonna get from Josh Norman because he wasn't that good in Washington, but man, he was really good in show McDermott scheme in Carolina obviously, and if he can get even even close to anything like that, then the bill is gonna have another corner opposite Trey White who can

really reak havoc for this team. Yeah, that was gonna be My next question for you was what's gonna happen on the other side outside of Trey White there? Because the first Dolphins Bills game last year, they pretty much just threw the ball to whoever Trey White was not covering, and it was a lot of Levi Wallace in that game. You've got to Ron Johnson, like you mentioned, inside E J. Gaines, Dane Jackson, good depth there. But we got that answer,

that question answered for us. Here one more question about the Bills, and I want to ask you a Ryan Fitzpatrick question. The Buffalo Bills will be a playoff team if fill in the blank they don't screw it up. I mean, honestly, I mean, they have everything they need to be a playoff team. The Bills are in a position here to take the a f C East over this year at least for one year and we'll see where it goes. That's why they're the betting line favorites

right now in Vegas. They just need to not screw it up. They have everything in place, uh to to win this division and make the playoffs. And even if they were to win the division, especially with the expanded playoffs this year in three wild cards instead of two, it would be an incredible disappointment for this team not to make the playoffs after winning ten games last year, going to the playoffs, in returning twenty of twenty two starters and basically every single coach on the coaching staff.

I think they were top top three or four in the continuity ran They might have a number one actually in the continuity rankings on ESPN dot com the snaps returning article they put out a couple of weeks ago. But he is Sala Capaccio, Buffalo Bills dot Com, w g R five fifty at Sal Sports on Twitter. Sal it was a lot of fun, man. Maybe when we're up your way in Fregid January, you can show me the famed I want to say it's as a mulberries Ryan. It's Patrick mentioned it as spot is that the spot

you go to there in town. Yeah, Mulberry's is great. There's a lot of great ones up here. We have great restaurants here in Buffalo. And um, you know, don't don't don't let the cold scaria or foolia. Uh, you know, it's a I've lived in Florida, I'm from Buffalo. I lived in the Sunshine State for sixteen years. I was on the other coast. I was in the West Coast. I moved back to sunny Buffalo, New York because I

love it here so much. And you know, just outside right now we're doing this, we're talking and it's like eighty two degrees. My son's playing lacrosse outside right now with his his coaches who came over to teach him. So it's great. It's it's a great place to live. And even in December and January, the weather is not as bad as you think sometimes in the fok the food is great. And any time you're up here, let me know and I'll make sure that you see to that.

We are definitely gonna do that. So I appreciate your time so much today and go get back to your lacrosse practice and be well. My friend, all right man, thank you, and away he goes another really good in depth look at one of the a f C East divisional rivals. We're going to continue to know the enemy series as we go along here in the summer and get to know each of the dolphins thirteen opponents of course, Patriots, Wills, and Jets all on the schedule twice. We've got Jacksonville, Seattle,

San Francisco, and Denver coming up next. We'll get to those on future editions of the Drivetime podcast and we'll have written in depth breakdowns of each of Miami's opponents up on Miami Dolphins dot com. As for today show, that's gonna be my time. We've got jachem grant schedule for tomorrow's podcast as well as possibly some media availability, and we'll have Fins flashback on Friday. Check out all

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