August 21, 2026 • 54 mins
The NFL season is upon us, and the balance of power in the AFC East has shifted. After winning the division and reaching the Super Bowl, the Patriots enter the season with sky-high expectations. We examine whether Buffalo can reclaim the crown, what's next for a Dolphins team searching for consistency, and whether the Jets can finally emerge from the cellar in a division that suddenly runs through New England.
Miami Dolphins (01:00)
Buffalo Bills (13:23)
New England Patriots (27:00)
New York Jets (41:11)
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Oh loat to all the football lovers out there. Game
preview guy here with a breakdown of all the moves
teams in the AFC East made ahead of twenty twenty six.
Apparently I sound like AI to some. If I am,
it means the NFL had developed AI voiceovers like ten
years ago, because there are lots of videos from back
then that sound just like me. Does that mean I'm
(00:21):
not real? And I just think I am AM? I
just a character in a Twilight Zone episode, But I digress. Expectation.
In the AFC East, it's a two team race between
New England, with Drake May heading into his year three
after making the Super Bowl in year two, a game
Josh Allen has yet to make, but maybe a change
at head coach will put them over the hump. Jets
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brought back Geno Smith and lots of new faces on
both sides of the ball, so maybe they can surprise
some people. Dolphins started a rebuild, new head coach, new quarterback,
but very low expectations big picture wise.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
They've got to be playing what what? What?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Miami Dolphins seven and ten last year, one win fewer
than the year before, four fewer than the year before.
That so time for a fresh start.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
What a pleasant surprise for Dolphins fans.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
These aren't your twenty twenty five Dolphins major remodel job.
Former Green Bay DC Jeff Haffley takes over as head coach.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
I am going to call plays. It's really important to me.
It's something that I love to do. It really connects
me with that group. I think will bring a lot
of energy to that side of the football, and I
think the details will be exactly how I want them.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Half Lee Plenty, familiar with the team's new quarterback. Miami
liked what they saw from Malik Willis when he was
on the field last year, enough to hand him the
keys to the offense.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
A textas great Bay Packers, how a sectional throat from
the league.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Willis the gamble. He wasn't on the field much, only
one start in twenty twenty five, two and twenty twenty four,
has six starts over his four year career, but had
the look of a possible hidden gem that could bloss
them with opportunity.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
What us fire in the middle, He's got whats in
ten of the fire to the ends up.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Bobby Slowick, his offensive coordinator, was in charge of Houston's
offense in twenty twenty three and twenty four. He is
not taking over the toua tyrek wattle show they're run
in South Beach is over. Remember all those tanking for
two a chance a few years back. While the tongue
of Iloa era in Miami did tank, de.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Levers over the battle picked off.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
To his inconsistent play and fifteen I nts last year
leading to his exit.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Back to pack Flyers, I did accept it.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Tongue of Iloa's play plus no Tyreek most of the
season made it tough for the offense to produce. In
twenty twenty five, back to throw.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
To a pressure that caught up. It's over. He's sacked
by Milton Williams.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Only twenty points per games, chuck the round, twenty sixth,
the yards per game, picked twenty seventh on third down,
and way too many giveaways.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
As a big.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Un, Willis and the offense will lean heavily on devon
a chan.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
In the touchdown.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
He's back at least and comes off a monster year
roun there he goes career best thirteen hundred and fifty
rush yards.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
He's gone forty. Nobody's gonna catch him.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
While leading the league at five point seven per carry.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
He's gonna walk into the end zone for a thirty
five yard touchdown.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Rock Plus, he led the team in receptions, piled on
four hundred and eighty eight receiving yards as well. Underrated
star a walk into the end zone year over year.
They won't miss Hill much, being he only gave him
four games last year anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Deeps Tyreek Hill at the forty.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Five traded waddle off a nine and ten yard six
TV season.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
He goes, you.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Can't kiss him, goodbye, wa touchdown.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
And out with tight end Darren Waller only played nine
games but did score six times to lead the team
on that front.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
All did he get his faith down? Yes, he did
touchdown Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So what does that leave willis to work with Greg
Dolcich returns at tight end three hundred and thirty five
yards and ten games last.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Year caught touchdown.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
They picked up Wilke Asmeric in the third round.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Two Chasmeric Agan more of the better blocker of the
two tight ends. Claire a little more athletic, Casmeric a
little more physical in the run game.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Wide receiver Maleak Washington is back.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
What a great return.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
My God, what a spid movement.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Right to the house.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Forty six catches, three hundred plus yards and three TVs.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
A year ago, quick hitterer into the end zone caught
for a touchdown by Leak Washington.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
New to the wide out fold Jalen Tolbert two hundred
yards and change in thirteen games for Dallas two to
two at well one and ninety two yards and ten
games for the Rams.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Try to start one here and he's got out.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
Well all alone, too well, and it's two too good bye.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And they grabbed three white outs in the draft, two
in the third round. Chris Bell and Caleb Douglas.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Tours ACL late in the year. If not, I think
he had a chance to be a first round pick.
He is very strong, Charles. You can see he is
fast for a guy who's carrying around two hundred.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
And twenty plus pounds.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Caleb Douglas ran a four to three nine and we
actually got that pick announced in under four point thirty
nine seconds, So that was impressive.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
All the way around.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Someone who's a big time vertical stretch receiver plays outside
O line Sitch.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Dolphins quarterbacks took thirty eight sacks middle of the pack
to a back to throw.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Here's the record, he's.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Going down, but they also got rid of the ball.
Third quickest rookie guard Jonas of Anama had a rough
go of it. He gave up eight and a half.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Sacks and Cam they were with the sack.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So when they were up in the first round of
the draft, they took Kayden Proctor with the twelfth pick.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
And when this guy is dialed in and ready to go,
he is impressed. You talk about anchor versus power. That
three hundred and fifty plus pounds, you're gonna have a
hard time getting through those pads.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
He represents. The only change to their starting five, takes
the place of guard Call Strange. Four of their five
are either first or second rounders. Patrick Paul a former second,
Austin Jackson, a former first. Miami's defense will also have
a different flavor to it. Didn't add any big names,
though last year's group wasn't much better than the offense.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Only to his right row up.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
They had a solid little run late in the year,
but the overall body of work still needs to hit
the gym.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Our rolls out to the right rows quickly touch down.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
My Joe gave up twenty four points per game twenty fourth.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Changed by Juda drink me on the line of his back,
gets away from Juddo and runs to the end zone.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Twenty second yards per game allowed. Wave not especially good
on third down or in the red zone. Touch down
no secondary easier to complete a pass.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
On as Ydel on the flat mine up.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Opposing quarterbacks completed a fast seventy two percent of them.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Stretching and reaching for it.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
His kincaide and he stumbles into the episode for the touchdown.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Only three teams with a higher rating allowed than their
one oh five.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
He's got an open man.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Didn't play the run well, gave up four to a
to carry twenty six than yards per game allowed.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Forty six yards to the house.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
That was a little shocking being they had two linebackers
rack up one hundred and twenty five plus tackles.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
It's clost to the Robinson gets picked up.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Jordan Brooks led the entire NFL in tackles.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
We'd come on, well, we didn't play well, bo we
didn't come to play well all dang.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
We so pay oh noil with one hundred and eighty
three ninety nine of those solo which he also led
the way in.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Burd eleven rogers in trouble and down he goes.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Brooks with three and a half sacks too. His partner
Tyrell Dodson with five one and twenty nine tackles on
his ledger.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Under pressure, lost the football knocked out of his hands.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Sack behind them. Jacob Rodriguez nabbed in the second round.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I know his favorite video game.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
It's Mike Tyson's Punch Out, because when you watch him play,
that's all he does is forced fumble after fumble after fumble.
Seven forced fumbles this year to go along with four interceptions.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Getting eight and a half sacks from their inside linebackers
help Miami at least finish middle of the pack and
QB takedowns.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
It's steps up in the pocket and he sacked.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
But they no longer have the services of their twenty
twenty five sack leader, Bradley Chubb and his eight and
a half bags are now in Buffalo. New in town
josh Usha, who once had eleven and a half sacks
in a year. That was back in twenty twenty two
with New England. The other five years he's never finished
with more than three.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Josh Ousha with his first as a Philadelphia Eagle.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
They still have Zach Sealer ten bags in twenty twenty
three and twenty four. Chipped in five and a half
from his spot in twenty twenty five b.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Hit from the backside of sack.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Kenneth Grant, a rookie last year, made at.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Home twice fades the second he's buried nonetheless, and Kenneth
Grant finally get to Burrow.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Didn't quite need everyone's expectations, and neither did Schob Robinson
ended his year with four.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Sacks, and we wish both of those players the best
football is out again.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
It started his career with six. They were hoping for
something close to ten. Last year. Rookie Jordan Phillips looking
to build off a thirty five tackle year, solid start
to his NFL journey the run.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Jordan Phillips the rookie yet of Maryland.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And they have hope for defensive tackle Zeke Biggers, who
got a small taste liked what they saw from the
sample size.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Back to throw, plenty of time out, pressure breaks down,
He goes down backside.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Audios to cornerback Rasuell Douglas, who held his targets to
a sub eighty eight team high thirteen passes defense.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It is Pets, It's Douglas.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Sale Oh to their second first rounder in the draft,
Chris Johnson.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
They take a very physical corner real well, put together strong.
Think about tr Davis White and how long he's played
in this league and how it's thinked if he was
in his prime. You see a lot of similarities there.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
No more Mika Fitzpatrick one hundred plus rate allowed in
the passing game, did make over eighty tackles.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It's intercepted. He did get quarts on the retard.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Also out the door cornerback Jack Jones, though he gave
up a one to twenty one rate, allowing eight touchdowns.
So fans will feel the same way Peter Gibbons did
about his job. Not really gonna miss him touchdown. Ravens
returning a couple second year dbs. They're optimistic about corner
Jason Marshall showed promise in his limited reps.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
He got infield, Yeah, then I was picked off.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
And safety Dante Trader played in all seventeen games, fifty
four tackles and a forced fumble to start his career.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Why that's a difference in this game.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
They're turnover by the Jets.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Brought in Zane Gonzalez, former Falcon, compete with Riley Patterson
for the kicking job. He was close to perfect for them,
thirty four for thirty five on extra points, twenty seven
for twenty nine on field goal Trieszkan Pardo. Fins hope
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to get a full year from the best name in
the game, cornerback Storm Duck. He's not new, but he
only played two games for them. In twenty twenty five.
They signed safety Lonnie Johnson, former Raider, played nine games
for them, gave up one hundred plus rating him and
Trader at the moment in line to take snaps previously
covered by Minka and Ashton Davis, who left town. Corner
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Darryl Baker there at the bottom is a former Titan.
Doesn't come off a great year playing the pass either.
Covered all the gents that make up their front seven.
Chubb the key loss. They need Chop and Grant to
step up and live up to their high draft pick potential.
Remember they were both first rounders. Robinson only started three
games last year. Grant Willis takes over for two act
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quarterback bell in for Waddle Douglas sort of in for
Hill again four games played, so not the same thing
as losing the Penguin from a playing time perspective. Dolsitch
and Cosmeric replace Waller at tight end a chan ready
for like a thousand touches. In twenty twenty six, Fins
season expectations are found on the bottom shelf with the
two buck Chuck. No team is a lower over under
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than their four and a half. One of the reasons
it's so low is they have the second hardest expected schedule.
That's based on their opponents twenty twenty six projected win totals.
But let's say Flipper was predicting their schedule. Here's an
overly optimistic view of what their season could look like.
Open With a win over Vegas, they're over unders just
five and a half. Who's to say Kyler is going
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to work out in Minnesota? Take the Jets after their
bye week, maybe a Miami miracle Part two versus the
Pats the next week Indianapolis could be a game they
can grab ground. The Jets twice knows how to beat
the Bears, and that's a home game. I know seven
games isn't a super high ceiling, but it seems that
would be quite the accomplishment for the roster they seem
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to be banking on. I don't have gills or a
dorsal fin, just a bag, and when I look out
of it, I don't see five wins from these blokes.
It feels like the start of a rebuild. They seem
like a contender for the number one pick.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
One last time, Bill Mafia say it like you mean it?
Where else would you rather be?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
That?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Right here?
Speaker 9 (13:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Forgive Bill's Mafia for feeling like Bill Murray and Groundhog
Day or Natasha Leone in Russian Doll. Buffalo football just
feels like it's been on the same loop year after year,
optimism followed by regular season success ending in postseason disappointment.
So fine, they hold the plug on McDermott ball, hoping
a new face at head coach leads to a different
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ending to their twenty twenty six tail.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Mission simple man, find a way to get it done.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Bill's didn't look far for their new leader. It was like,
we don't like Tony, but we think sil can get
the job done.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Hey, Joe Collin, Joe Collin.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Joe Brady was sitting upstairs calling the offense, guiding their
Josh Allen, James cook O, face to top shelf numbers
and he.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Skates it to the end zone for the touchdown.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Nothing new there and nothing new with Josh Allen.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
That's the Josh Allen that we've come to know in.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Buffalo, remains in the upper echelon of NFL quarterbacks. Fire
close to forty total touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
And looking for the exact.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Touchdown twenty five through the air. That's twenty five plus
tds six straight seasons.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
Fires and why open to the inside miss Jackson Laws
and it's.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Snow angel time one hundred plus rating back to back years.
It's salted contain along the ground five hundred plus yards
looking for.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
The endside and the piece doesn't fourteen touchdowns, Ali gonna
keep it, gonna look to pust it outside, lowers the shoulder,
the surge, pushing it forward, progress past it for the touchdown.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Twelve plus tds three straight years in a row.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Alli get to run it, clucks it and he reaches
the goal line.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
And with Brady still calling the offense, seems like we
should expect more of the same from Jerry Seinfeld's son
in law.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
Hell Outs, turning least down to the twenty eight yard line, ruffle,
young fan.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Ruffle, stupid AI bought thinks she's Jerry's daughter. Still that's
the standard. Brady still has a one to two punch
at his disposal. Only maybe Baltimore can compete.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
With and darts into the open and he is g
oh and he gone.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
James Cook led the NFL in rushing yards with over
sixteen hundred.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
As the Cook is in the didget, that's a.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Thousand plus yards three straight years.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
What a run by Cook forty four yards to the
end zone.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Has painted the zone twelve plus times back to back seasons.
Speaker 8 (16:27):
With that, he becomes the Bills all time later eight
consecutive games with a rushing touchdown.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Four point seven plus yards per carry all four years,
five point two and twenty twenty five. Those two the
fuel for an offense that was good for twenty eight
points per game.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Hook through another hole, head scampers into the end zone.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Top five good in yards per game, dive for the pylon,
and he's in third down and in the red zone, and.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
He's got knocks in the end zone for a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
This isn't an offense that needs to fix much production wise.
It's an offense trying to hold the line.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
James Cook extends the arm to the goal.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Line while coming through more often when all the marbles
are on the line.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
He had an open target to the back of the
end zone. Josh Allen just missed.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Now. Alan did take forty sacks. That's the most he's
ever taken in a season. Of course, part of it
is his style. He's bragged down guard Osiris Torrance got
tagged with a team high eight and a half sacks allowed.
Everybody else gave up four and a half to five apiece.
Bill's pass catchers now features a WR one type again,
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big trade landing them. Dj Moore traded off a six
hundred and eighty plus yard sixty d run fewest yards
in a year in his eight year career, but wasn't
always the first look anymore.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Catch may touchdown bear.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
He pairs with Khalil Shakir down Buffalo seven hundred yards
and change a year ago.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
How does he score? How does he score her? Dude
Jose's spun out of it and ram past the other guy.
The other guy thought he was going down, so he
was like on the round, spun out of it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Seventy plus catches, seven hundred plus yards four tds back
to back seasons as.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
A blocker in front, racing to the end zone.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
And he's in Keon Coleman a little over four hundred
yards and four scores.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Fuck.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
He regressed in his year two five hundred and fifty
six yards four tds in twenty twenty four, and he
got benched several games.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Too, tripped up at the ten yard line.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Goshua Palmer a little over three hundred yards in his
twelve games. That was a career low Allen leaned more
on his tight ends, Dawson Knox over four hundred yards
and four tds.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
It's complete to Dawson Knox.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
He was a five hundred plus yard type in twenty
twenty one and twenty two. Last year was the closest
he's come to matching that production.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
It's complete to knocks running for a first down, that
he's got it.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
He saw a few more targets, in part because Dalton
Kincaid only played twelve games.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
You gotta work on the celebration.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Everything else was close to four hundred and fifty yards
and five tds in the games he played.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
Stretching and reaching for it is Kinkaid and he stumbles
into the end zone for the touchdown.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Bill's defense has more room for improvement. Twenty fourth on
third down and twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
B rabbis up catch his back.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Not great in the red zone, but touchdown post. But
they also finished seventh and yards per game allowed.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
He drops up for a huge sack.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
And held teams to twenty one a game plenty respectable
closet the strength of their defense. That secondary held quarterbacks
to a sub eighty eight No team allowed fewer yards
per game, and they were top five good in yards
per attempt allowed and completely.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
It's intercepted, picked off by Shack Thompson coming the other
way forty thirty five and he's upended and tackled.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Corner Christian Benford has morphed into an elite cover guy.
Two sacks, held his targets to a mid eighties rate,
two interceptions, guarding lots of wr onsos.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Look on here Kristin Benford.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Maxwell Harriston looking to build off a rookie year that
saw him come down with a couple of picks over
his eleven games played.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
Looking for were they It's picked off by Maxwell Hairston.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
They shed a lot of dbs, though Trey day a
bill no more again. Tardavius White held it down to
a mid sixties rate while knocking down ten passes.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Deepa taking a shut down field, loot.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
It after good light, and Taron Johnson has gone. Won't
be manning the slot for them after eight years.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
On the job.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
One of the elite Nichols in the NFL broke it
up in his place.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
New corner d Alford had a really good twenty twenty
five in Atlanta. Twelve passes defensed, three I in t's
for a nice low eighties rate in his fourth year over.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
The break even a futed by the Aper.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Plus they drafted Davison Igbinosen in the second round.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Tall Rangye too many penalties, meeting, a lot of grabbing,
a lot of holes.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Long Lean can make plays on the football. He's a
type guy, get that arm in there late, make that
type of a play.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I will say those penalties occurred last year, two years ago,
and then this last season in twenty twenty five, he
cut those way down.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
He'll change at safety. Jordan Poyer also came and went
twice mid seventies rate, seventy tackles in ten games last year.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
That saers a sandwitched.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Cut ties with Taylor rap too. He only played six games.
Damar Hamlin Returns only got in five games last year.
Cole Bishops started all seventeen games in his second year.
How about a mid fifties rating three I in t's
and he led the team with eighty five tackles.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Picked up my tall Bishop game set.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Match safety cam Lewis also gone held quarterbacks to a
low eighties rate.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Cam Lewis, so they've gone after a few times today
was able to jarred loose.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
They added vet safety CJ. Gardner. Johnson finished last year
with Chicago, gave him three sacks and ten games and
two picks.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Again, ce Jay Gardner shuts it.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Bill's DB's played the pass great most games, despite having
a pass rush that only tallied thirty six sacks, but
they did at least hurry signal callers, finishing with a
healthy pressure rate.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Sanders missus him on the wrap up, but the follow DAGs.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Of their sack leader is back Gregory Russo with seven
seven to eight sacks three of the last four years.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Crazy, I said crazy.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Hoping to help increase the pressure. Bradley Chubb, former Dolphin
eight and a half bags a year ago, plus TJ.
Parker added in the second round of the draft.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
He'll be standing up on the edge. He'll be rushing
what she did at Clemson. And that's why I thought
he's a first round player. He was one of my
top thirty two guys. Thought he would come off the
board last night. Buffalo played this well, able to trade
down a few times, collect some extra picks, still get
a position of need, and still get in my opinion, a.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
First round player.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It would help if ed Oliver plays all year. Only
got in three games, first time with fewer than thirteen
games played in his seven years in the NFL. Joey
Bosa one and done signed on the dotted line five
times last year. Also a former bill now aj Epanessa
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only two and a half sacks off the bench, but
had two iron.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Ts intercepted by a Vanessa man.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
They shed a lot of guys that dt dake one
Jones is on the list of the departed three sacks
twelve games.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
It's intercepted. Take crook Jones.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Deon Walker is building off a rookie campaign that saw
him rack up close to forty tackles, eight of them
for a loss.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Ay J. F Vanessa is there, so too is Dieon Walker.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
The most glaring weakness last year with their defense stopping
runners gave up five point one yards per carry Q
Sarah Lynn. That's too much man. Their primary starters both
missed time hurt. That's not a new thing for Matt Mulano,
so he too is no longer in Buffalo. Sixty seven tackles,
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three and a half sacks in twelve games, and he's.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Stick from behind. Wall is out and the Bields had
the football.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Terrell Bernard back again only twelve games played as well
sixty five tackles when he played seven for a loss.
Bernard one hundred plus tackle guy in twenty twenty three
and twenty four did accept.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
It picked up by Terrell Bernard.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Dorian Williams ended up making nine starts in his third year,
cracked sixty tackles, one dred and seventeen tackles in his
second year. Saw dip in his personal production. Boollows good
special teams. Ray Davis comes off a first team All
Pro year as a kickoff returner, leading the league with
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thirty yards per return day. So lots of new faces
brought in on defense. Alford Abinoson, Gino, Stone, Gardner, Johnson
all new to the mafia, joining returnees Benford, Bishop and
Harriston in the dB room, Lewis, Poyer, trade A and
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Johnson all allowed to walk front seven said by to Bosa, Milano,
Jones and Epanessa Hello to Chubb and former chief Mike Dana.
Rest of the guys are all returneys from twenty twenty five. Still,
they have a lot of chemistry to develop on the
defensive side of the ball. The big change to the
offense more taking over the WR one mantle in theory
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really the only key change. Alan and Cook still the
focal points, Shakir, Palmer, Coleman still that wide receiver, Knox
and Dalton that tight end. Bill's schedule isn't supposed to
be hard or easy. Their trek is middle of the pack.
When you gauge teams by their twenty twenty six expected
win totals, Buffaloes ten and a half over underline in
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the sand is second highest. Only the Rams and the
Ravens are at eleven and a half. Six teams total
are at ten and a half. So they're still a
team that's supposed to have a good year.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
How good.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Let's look through rose colored glasses. Even if they lose
to the Rams and the Ravens to Denver on the road,
since they're also a ten and a half or the
rest of their opponents are supposed to be beatable. For
a team like Theirs, that's a fourteen win ceiling. That's
a little too high for game preview guys. Blood, but
Alan and Cook win eleven at the very least. Josh
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has won ten plus seven straight years, eleven plus the
last six, and he's just as hungry as ever, So
I'm going to side with history.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Come on to.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
New England Patriots fans. The one group of NFL fans
who thought Star Wars nine was Oscar worthy. Yes, yes, yes,
you thought you threw us down a shaft and that
was that. That's on you for not accounting for the obvious.
When you're that powerful, you just use the force to
stop your fall and boom. You're ready to stick it
to the rest of the NFL, just like old times.
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Can you imagine being Josh Allen? Okay, fine, that Brady
guy was better than me, but now it's my turn
to make the dance. Only to have a TV twelve
like clone show up and make it in just his
second year.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
Drake May often compared to Tom Brady. I'm a second
team All Pro quarterback in a second season.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
That's got a sting.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Right When you lose, say little, when you win, say less.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Drake Drake May May is like, what's the big deal?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
It's okay to smile?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Was that supposed to be hard?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
This is what players too. They take over the game
when the game's on the line. The buddy time, break
off falls, breakdof.
Speaker 7 (28:04):
Olcome on, that's the one right here.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Maybe the second best year from a QB since Dan Marino.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Nos into the end zone, the heading back to catch.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Touchdown Patriots Super Bowl appearance off the back of a
thirty one TV campaign.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Load swan back right at the end zone Austin Hooper,
He makes the catch and toe taps for a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Number two hundred and fifty passing yards per game to the.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Forties, thirty five, thirty twenty five, twenty speak one.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Sideliner beer job led the NFL in rating.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
It's a nice baked by May to get on to
the boot.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yards per attempt, Pastor Williams. That's perfect and completion percentage.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
Drake May was nearly perfect five touchdown passage was an
MVP type of performance today for Drake.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
May plus those stands part of.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
That's off tip five the line, right touchdown Patriots right
time us off.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Come on four hundred and fifty rushing yards.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Guys to get outside. He does. He's got the first.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Four more scores down low.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
To the five.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Touchdown Patriots runner up in the MVP race. Maybe he
got robbed.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Patriots had to their lead hot Drake May second touchdown.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
If we have Ton propelled their offense to the second
most points per game at twenty eight per.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Throw them at the ends up for tax witches up comes.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Down with the catch, third most yards per game, sixth
best on third down.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Throws it to the five easy rocking touchdown. Henry.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Now they could be better.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
The great thing about this league is there's one waiting force.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
There is another one wait force.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
They could clean up their act in the red.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Zone the ball the balls while.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Maybe take fewer sacks they took forty eight. May face
to high pressure.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Many patches, stiff farmson defender, but he can't get away.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
They need better protection on the left side. Left tackle
Will Campbell, left guard Jared Wilson each gave up eight
and a half sacks as rookies.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
None other than Miles Garrett.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
So they used their first round draft pick this year
on tackle Caleb Lomu.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
It's gonna be fascinating now. Is he go over to
the right side, Yes, but also could be some insurance there.
We'll see what happens to Will Campbell going forward as well,
but those will be the two tackles for them in
the future.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
They traded center Garrett Bradbury, so the idea is they
move Wilson to center and Elijah Vera Tucker who they
picked up a former jet takes over at guard, but
Lomu at the moment is on the outside looking in.
Watch to see if it stays that way through camp
May has a new wr one of course, patch trading
for the librarian time enough at last. Aj Brown one
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thousand plus yards back to back years thousand plus six
of his last seven years caught the ten and ron touchdown.
He takes over for Stefan Diggs. They're top white out
from twenty twenty five. He led the team with over
one thousand yards, had twenty five more catches than anybody else.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
He threaded the needle the dicks on the backside, slant
buddy player, bunny time.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Give us more booty. In twenty twenty six, that's a
motto everybody can agree with. Touchdown Patriots Kashawan with over
five hundred and fifty yards and a career high six
scores in his third year. He's a ridiculous catches machine.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
Reaches out with the right had balls it in touchdown
Patriots hot diving, grab my booty, and.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
This Romeo didn't care about Juliet, just playing ball. Dobbs
led Green Bay in receptions with a career high seven
hundred and twenty four yards and slammed home a six
pack of TDS.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah, tright up a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
If you think AI would have tied William Shakespeare to
an NFL player, don't go applying for any AI detection.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Jobs making.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Mac Hollins came through in some big spots five hundred
and fifty yards, second most he's had in his eight
year career.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Hollin's open makes the catch up with the show for
forty He's.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
Furst by the balls hangling out near sideline.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
De Mario Douglas four hundred and forty seven yards four
hundred and forty seven yards is the lowest he's had
in his three years.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Douglass touch job Patriots.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Tight end Hunter Henry, on the other hand, comes off
a career high in yards.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
Tell throw wide open up side Hunter Henry all Alad
Don't walks into the upsote.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Over seven hundred in his tenth year. Found Bob Rossland
seven times.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Too at a twenty eight yard dagger.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Drake utilized both his backs in the passing attack as well.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
That's sideline's cut for the touchdown.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Remandre Stevenson three hundred and forty five receiving yards.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
So the wide open Stevenson he stacks in touchdown Patriots.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Plus six hundred plus on the ground touch.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
Down Patriots can Monray Stevenson has New England takes.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
The lead on four to six a carry nine total
tds in his fourteen games.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
Steve to Crush through the middle of Closs the twenty
five twenty fifteen ten half the five spit around, take
it into.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
The end zone Trayveon Henderson over one thousand yards from
scrimmage as a rookie.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Do mon To be to the twenty five twenty fifty
ten touch down.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Patrio nine to eleven of those rushing.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Touch it left us the.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Way, Oh my god, nine tds and a very healthy
five point one yards per carry.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Chase five pair of mounts who won't touch him touchdown.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Patriots would be hard for New England's offense to be better,
but if they produce anywhere close to their twenty twenty
four levels versus the expected tougher competition, they'd be plenty happy.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
I amn't that backyard football coo Clowner, Hey, clowner.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
And the same applies to their defense.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
It's not the football left.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Just do what we gotta do, and just do it
a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
They held teams to eighteen a game. Fourth best is.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
That a lot of balls picked up by the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Eighth fewest yards per game allowed.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Sides of what tackler fumbles the.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Ball areas they could improve in they could play the pass.
Tougher gave up a ninety three rating to quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Fifty two yards Didham to Mims.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Was fairly easy to complete passes against, twenty fourth in
completion percentage allowed.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
It's complete to Yawson Knox.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
The holding passers to six point seven yards per attempt
is top shelf stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
A getta let's get a throw down at all tefy under.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Subject only allowed one hundred and ninety three passing yards
per game.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
With an undred jot by Christian Gonzale.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Defensive stuff for the years first to goals of the
time to stop at full state place.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
New England's five key dbs handled most of the snaps
last year.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
Turning around back publy under the end zone, it's Marcus
Jones another pick six against Cincinnatie.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
The headliner Christian Gonzalez career high sixty nine tackles a
sub eighty rate with ten passes defensed in his third year.
Many will tell you you're looking at the current corner
back king.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Rows of people down the right side.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Done tellers, We're going that corner. Carlton Davis a nice
New England debut sixty nine tackles ten passes defense, holding
his targets to a low nineties rate.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
At least he landed across the battery. They're gonna say
that the feet are in. HiT's a pick.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Marcus Jones needs to rebound as a corner anyway. He
gave up a team high seven touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Got by question Jack cart touchdown Joe said, but.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
He did lead the team with eleven passes defense and a.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Sept in Marcus Jones right twenty fifteen to ten. Jones's
tackled by Hutchinson takes.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Him to the pylon touchdown st Patriots, and he was
second team All Pro As a punt returner. He took
two back to the crib, all on the.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Near side, forty to the thirty. Marcus Jones gone to
the twenty to the tad to the house.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Other guy who's looking to play the pass better this year,
safety Craig Woodson. Rate allowed near one fifty. That's fat
Albert Rough but seventy nine tackles for for a loss.
Speaker 7 (36:03):
He's going to get away from the second initially and
not the second time. I'll actually drop down.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
He still had a good start to his career on
many fronts. They think he's going to take a leap
this season.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
And the Patriots pressure sped him into an in completion.
New England takes over.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Has a new partner, Kevin Bayered, coming off a first
team All Pro season with the Bears that saw him
lead the NFL in interceptions.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Bigger the game, the more atention they stay.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Lot d Both takes over for Jalen Hawkins, who did
hold his targets to a fifty five rating and picked
off four passes.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Bro he's got hoping that parma that God left it.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
It'll come those chaps working with the front that needs
to seal the deal more often this season. Thirty five
sacks last year, twenty second.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Patriots Joe blitz off his back foot lot to the
end zone. Oh for man Tucker the butt here.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
They had the tenth highest pressure rate, so they weren't
asleep up there.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
So he gets to the quarterback he went, he throws
him down.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Rush defense kind of the same deal. Could do better
than four to two a carry to the.
Speaker 7 (37:04):
Left side the king Is end.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
But they were tenth in yards per carry allowed and
held teams to the sixth fewest rushing yards per game.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, they're front seven members. Defensive end
Milton Williams three and a half sacks and twelve games,
pretty close to the production he gave Philadelphia in twenty
twenty four. So New England almost got what it paid for.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
Boys, Milton Williams delivered for the Pats this season.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Defensive end Christian Barmore played in all seventeen games after
only getting four in and twenty.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Twenty four, they can't get.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Up a couple of sacks, four tackles for loss. He's
there for the chili in between them, Corey Durdin. Unlike Tyler,
he's real thirty tackles, five for a loss, mostly coming
off the bench.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Last year and this time brought down right away Corey Durton.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Harold Landry led the team in sacks with eight and
a half. Chock it up to another free agency win.
He's hit eight and a half or better four straight years.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
And now he'll go down diving toward the line of
scrimmage as Landery closed in a hurry.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
No calevon Chase on across from him. Seven and a
half sacks last year.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
It's going to close on the cornerback and run him down.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
And they drafted Gabe Akis in the second round.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Twenty seven sacks in his career. That's second in Illinois history.
Stand up edge for Aaron Henry, their defensive coordinator, and
this is the guy that gets after the passer, which
they need in that division. Obviously with Josh Allen, he's
got steady power. Do you constantly see him on the
field or on the film. And then even when you're
calling the games. He's constantly in the backfield because of
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those heavy hands.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Added Landry's former mate Draymont Jones seven bags in twenty
twenty five, which was a career high in his seven seasons.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Hold down from behind.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Second level Christian Ellis ninety four tackles fifteen games, eighty
plus tackles his last two years back bets.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
He's in trouble pressure by Elis Boles loose.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
He would have cracked one hundred tackles, but he missed
those two games. Same as true of Robert Splane ninety
seven tackles in just thirteen games.
Speaker 7 (39:17):
In intersecond here comes playing in the thirty twenty five
twenty playing fifteen to ten learns Pepi five.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
They did lose depth guy Jack Gibbons ended the year
with eighty one tackles, eight for a loss.
Speaker 7 (39:30):
And driven backward with Gibbons to finish off the play.
One linebackers starts it, the other finishes.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Andy Borregalis kicking the flavor in your ear twenty seven
to thirty two on field goal tries, fifty three for
fifty five on extra points as a rookie.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Leg by Borregalis, the kicks sailing to the uprights, so.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Their front seven looks like this. Jones are replacing Chase
On on the edge, don't have gibbons anymore, but the
rest of their guys are the same as last year
for the most part. Secondary the one key change Hawkins
ou fired in Woodson, his partner, Davis, Jones and Gonzo
still their big three at corner. Two new wide outs
for me to play with Brown taking Diggs place, plus Dobbs, May, Booty, Hollins, Douglas, Henry, Stevenson,
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Henderson all back for another shot at it. New England's
twenty twenty six schedule isn't supposed to be too tough.
In fact, it falls on the easy side of things
when viewed through their opponents expected win totals. Though still
kind of middle of the pack, their own nine and
a half over under tag means they're not expected to
fall off a cliff, though. Let's run their ceiling exercise.
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Give them wins over all the teams that their nine
and a half mark or below, as well as wins
at home versus ten and a half's. That's wins over Pittsburgh, Jacksonville, Vegas,
the Jets, Bears, Miami, Green Bay, Chargers pencil a home
win over Buffalo, beat the Vikes, sweep Gang Green, take
Denver at home, and conclude with a victory over Miami
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for a potential thirteen win year. That's a steep ass
for this bag man, but I'm a May believer, and
that puts them in the ten win range at the
very least. New York Jets spent most of twenty twenty
five grounded three and fourteen record. Still Aaron Glenn returns
as the head pilot. Got the hope then that continuity
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in the cockpit will lead to a less turbulent twenty
twenty six am They did make those two big trades,
have to make all those picks they acquired. Count upgraded
the pass rush with snagging David Bailey with their first pick.
Speaker 6 (41:45):
I'm a big fan of his game. I mentioned that
get off, explosive first step. This was that playoff game
against Oregon. They could not block him that entire time.
He's dynamic, he can stack moves together. That shows you
the instinct we feel he.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Has as a rusher. Now some question the power. I
think you can see it. Here's element of it right here.
Speaker 6 (42:01):
He can cholch you, get you off your skis a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Then they went to work on their offense, adding tight
end Kenyon Sadik. You don't get the nickname Sadik the
freak for being slow.
Speaker 6 (42:10):
He is a very twitched up, explosive athlete. How about
my comparison Jets fans. I don't know if they're gonna
like it or not, but he reminded me of Dustin Keller.
When I watched him, it was undersized. What was real
physical and tough. It could absolutely run. Here he is
after the catch. You better bring your legs when you
go to tackle. I mean you're not gonna get him
on the ground.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
And wide receiver Omar Cooper, all three of those gents
first rounders.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
This guy is Deebo Lte. I love that comparison, DJ.
You made that, I would also make that. And I
love what he does with the ball in his hands
after the catch, DJ. I think that's where he's most electric.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
So pair Cooper with Garrett Wilson and they could give
dB some trouble. He only played seven games and still
led the team in receiving yards with three hundred and
ninety five scored four times. He's wr one material if
he stays healthy.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Great post Jared Wilson.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
How about tight end duo. Remember they drafted Mason Taylor
in the second round last year, led the team with
forty four catches in his rookie campaign.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
That's caught Mason Taylor.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Ad Ni Mitchell.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Touchdown and Ive Mitchell.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
Eight games, three hundred and one yards, and they still
have Breeze Hall at running backs on the string.
Speaker 7 (43:21):
Brace Hall once right to the thirty five, count inside
the twenty to the fifteen ten five.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
That's a jet touchdown.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Looking the bill on his first one thousand yard season
of his four year career.
Speaker 7 (43:32):
Finds a Chris runs left. He's in a the inzonte
for a jet touchdown.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Four point four yards per carry. Despite being the focal
point for many of the defenses, he ran into it.
Speaker 7 (43:43):
Some man missed inside the five, gets to the parlot
he's in.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
That's a jet touchdown twenty seven yards.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
The guy that's supposed to feed all of them, Gino
Smith off his back foot, lots.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
To the end zone. Open man is Tucker underneath it
put touchdown.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Raters call at the ultimate reboot, he crapped out on
the strip After leading the NFL in INT's last year,
out to.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
The end zone, popped up in the air, intercepted.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
But look at it this way. Seattle was Sam Darnold's
fourth different team after he left the Jets. New York
will be Gino's fourth different team after he left the Jets.
So maybe that's how the whole retread thing works.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Jena looked all over the field.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Had he fall Michael Man, and they'll be this year's
surprise Super Bowl team. Hey you can dream man? Who
knows he takes over for Justin Fields among others, so
doesn't really have big shoes.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
To fill Fields nowhere to go and he gets tackled.
Speaker 7 (44:38):
Hilo Fields takes the snap, pump thinks falling backwards.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
That's sack by a Sean Robinson.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
The field show went as well as Rocky the Musical.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
The back Build once more and that will surely do it.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
Now Fields, Tyrod Taylor, Brady Cook didn't matter who they tried.
No team had fewer TD passes than their fifteen.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
That passers packed down the sideline.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
No team threw for fewer yards per attempt in their
five point six, and he drilled.
Speaker 7 (45:05):
Garrett Wilson, who just couldn't hold onto the football.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
The team combined for the second lowest rate in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
Cook little fade pass the mat is picked just one.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
And forty passing yards per game.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Fumbles the snack It's loose on the ground.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Remarkably low, as it was twenty five yards per game,
fewer than the team that finished second to last.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
They are so good, Oh, one handed takeaway.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
Would be a feat for their offense to fare any
worse this season.
Speaker 7 (45:34):
Allen makes a man misses the back deal, break's a
tackle who lost the football four.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Point four yards per play, only one team worse. And
they're gonna get to Justin Fields brought down trying to
stack away from the rush. But he's gonna be culled
down thirty first in the red zone.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
Ball comes out of the RAVNS.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Recover twenty sixth on third down.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
And he sticked from behind. Paul is out and the
Bills have.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
The football twenty ninth in yards per game and points per.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Game under press lost the football.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
Averaging a mere seventeen per contest. Now Gino led all
quarterbacks in sacks taken with fifty five. New York's qbs
took sixty combined.
Speaker 8 (46:15):
And Sanders misses him on the lap up, but Apollo
tags him down.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
There was some consensus that their O line's core play
was more on the quarterbacks, but he's met in the backfield.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
Hist quins I was the first hit on the tackle.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
But left tackle Olu Fashanu gave up nine and a
half sacks.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Out sacks, it's a suck.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
Rookie right tackle armand Membu gave up twelve.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
But at justin fields get walloped.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
The team gave up the third highest pressure rate. Taylor
under pressure be sacked at least one. Jets website gave
Membo and Fashanu CE type grades for their play. Though
guard Elijah Vera Tucker departed off an injury shortened season,
they added former Vegas and Smith blocker guard Dylan Parham
gave up five sacks and a pressure rate slightly higher
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than the league average for guards. Jets offense hoping not
to be the one helping other defenses get right this year.
A man, we've discipline.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
I'm trying to lose that tlock right here.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
I did do wind, but their defense needs to make
up a lot of ground too.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
He gave gave the Lella playout did the Lela fly.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
On that Despite being top ten good on third down,
They gave up the second most points per game at
twenty nine pers is it for the score. No team
with fewer takeaways.
Speaker 4 (47:34):
Takes down to the fives fighting for the live.
Speaker 1 (47:37):
And they're lucky they came up with those four fumbles
because they were the first team in NFL history to
finish a season with zero interceptions.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
Slat pass catch, touchdown, back of it.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
No team gave up more than their thirty six passing
touchdowns to.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
It back to throw looking pressure Waller, did he get
his faith down?
Speaker 1 (47:56):
Yes he did, touchdown, which led to a last place
finish rating aloud at one ten.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
Touchdown quits year.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
Their pass rush hit the quarterback less often than any
other team second few of sacks, thus the motivation to
take Bailey with their first pick.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
Fakes a man miss pup fake.
Speaker 4 (48:17):
Now it's a round of defender running back to the fording.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
It is all number six.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
And completing the turd ferguson sandwich. Only three teams gave
up more rushing yards per game than they did.
Speaker 2 (48:26):
Puts it back and he's into the end zone for
the touchdown.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
They looked like one of those shoppers in a contest
in this year's free agency period, trying to load their
baskets with as much lowt as they can in five minutes.
Run change at linebacker in with the Mario Davis, longtime Saint,
longtime triple digit tackle monster over one forty last year,
over one hundred nine straight years.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
Now Jordan nice tackle but no more.
Speaker 1 (48:53):
Linebacker Quincy Williams off to Cleveland off a thirteen game
eighty three tackle, three and a half sack, year.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
Fourth sack of Gabriel and it's Quincy Williams.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Double deep hairs with Jamian Sherwood Woo one hundred and
fifty plus tackles for the second year in a row.
Speaker 7 (49:10):
Jamien Sherwood excellent coverage up the left sideline.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
Defensive linemen to Andre Sweat thirty four tackles twelve games
for Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
Trouble and Tofan tre Sweat brings him down.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
And they added vet David Anyamada comes off a career
high sixty two tackle campaign, seven for a.
Speaker 6 (49:30):
Loss lit but still heat it up and they never
get him down, just a bear hug and a whistle.
Speaker 1 (49:35):
They joined returnee Vett Harrison Phillips, who at least made
sixty tackles from the inside plenty respectable for a defensive tackle.
Speaker 8 (49:43):
But Jets are all over him at sacking loose football
and the Bucks look like they fell on it.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
The second year man, Juwan Briggs showed some promise, breaking
through for four sacks, made eight starts by the time
of the year, was wrapped up shut pressures.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
Come and see his sacks. Juwan Briggs the.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
Rest of the edge rushing group. They subtracted. Defensive end
Jermaine Johnson only three sacks in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (50:05):
And he's going down.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
Jamae Juhson also picked up Joseph Asi five sacks in
back to back seasons with Cincinnati. Ahead of his fifth year.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
The throw here comes Upliphon osigh Berry's Labar Jackson at.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
The team's top pass rush threat last season, Will McDonald,
who led the team with eight backs.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
He's in trouble. Heppy sacked well.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
McDonald and their secondary will have a different look. Minka Fitzpatrick,
swapping AFC East squads moved around some from Miami, played
a lot of slot corner. His one hundred rate against
partially a reflection of that position. He made over eighty tackles.
Still a force to be reckoned with and.
Speaker 2 (50:42):
All the road make up Bespatrick and.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
The Hope Corner. Nashan Wright can build off or maintain
at least the career year he put up with Chicago
last year. Broke out in his first year as a starter,
some eighty eight five picks, two forced fumbles and three
fumble recoveries. A splash playmate also picked up dB Dane
Belton from the Giants, gave up a rate over one
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hundred in the passing game. In his fourth year, also
broke out, making one hundred and twenty tackles. His previous
high was fifty six, and he only started nine games
for the g Man a year ago.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
You called it the Sutton. Oh what a big Ton
hit Belton.
Speaker 1 (51:23):
Plus they used a second round pick on corner. D'Angelo ponds.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
Look at my cop for this player. Felt good. Aaron
Glen just trapped in himself. I love it, D'Angelo pons.
Speaker 6 (51:32):
He plays exactly like his head coach, Aaron glenn is.
He is not he's short, he is not small. He
plays with unbelievable eyes and instincts.
Speaker 2 (51:41):
He is physical, he is feisty. He is tough no more.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
Isaiah Oliver fifty five tackles in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
Five masterful play by Oliver.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
Rookie safety Malachi Moore, a full time starter, racked up
over one hundred tackles in his first year. Slay Darcy
Turnover needs to clean up his play versus the pass.
He gave up one hundred plus rating. Cornerback Brandon Stevens
gave up one hundred and ten plus rating. He did
at least knock down a team high nine.
Speaker 7 (52:07):
Passes deep drop look through He's got Hollie can't make
the catch.
Speaker 1 (52:13):
Safety Andre Cisco is back, hoping to rebound after only
playing eight games. They bid a dude to safety Tony Adams.
He was their one dB who fared well against the pass,
holding his targets to a nice low sixty eight rating.
Speaker 2 (52:26):
How he sucked by Tony Adams special.
Speaker 1 (52:28):
Teams Isaiah Williams third in punt return yards. Took two
to the crib.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
We'll get all the way ten five pluck down, So.
Speaker 1 (52:37):
This is not your twenty twenty five Jets defense. Five
of their starting front seven are new On Yamada, Sweat Bailey,
Davis Osai plus and Nigbari and fourth rounder Darryl Jackson
coming off the bench and four new faces added to
the dB room with Ponds, Minka, Wright, and Belton new
to Gangreen, so possibly only four starters from last year
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defense take the field on day one. Gino, obviously the
major X factor for their new look offense, had that
resurgence when he first got to Seattle before bombing in Vegas.
Cooper Wilson, Adeni Mitchell former second rounder, probably the third guy,
Sadek and Taylor at tight end. Braylan Allen still around
a spell. Haul Jets have low expectations for the season.
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They're five and a half over under, the second lowest.
At the same time, they have the fifth easiest expected
schedule when you average out their opponents twenty twenty six
expected win totals. So let's put on some green lantern
colored glasses and shoot for the moon or ceiling in
this case, the most optimistic view possible. Tennessee isn't supposed
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to be strong, so start with a win. Green Bay
is home game number one, so what if they're supercharged
and they pull off an upset. Cleveland is a winnable game.
Miami and Vegas are at the met look. Kansas City
still has questions on offense, so maybe they off a
low scoring upset there, squish the fish twice, as they say,
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fly out and snag a win in the desert over
the Cards and maybe take Minnesota in their final home game.
That's nine wins without beating New England or Buffalo. I
don't wear green glasses or a green fireman's hat for
that matter, just a bag. The view from in here
is fewer than six wins.
Oh loat to all the football lovers out there. Game
preview guy here with a breakdown of all the moves
teams in the AFC East made ahead of twenty twenty six.
Apparently I sound like AI to some. If I am,
it means the NFL had developed AI voiceovers like ten
years ago, because there are lots of videos from back
then that sound just like me. Does that mean I'm
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not real? And I just think I am AM? I
just a character in a Twilight Zone episode, But I digress. Expectation.
In the AFC East, it's a two team race between
New England, with Drake May heading into his year three
after making the Super Bowl in year two, a game
Josh Allen has yet to make, but maybe a change
at head coach will put them over the hump. Jets
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brought back Geno Smith and lots of new faces on
both sides of the ball, so maybe they can surprise
some people. Dolphins started a rebuild, new head coach, new quarterback,
but very low expectations big picture wise.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
They've got to be playing what what? What?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
What?
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Miami Dolphins seven and ten last year, one win fewer
than the year before, four fewer than the year before.
That so time for a fresh start.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
What a pleasant surprise for Dolphins fans.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
These aren't your twenty twenty five Dolphins major remodel job.
Former Green Bay DC Jeff Haffley takes over as head coach.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
I am going to call plays. It's really important to me.
It's something that I love to do. It really connects
me with that group. I think will bring a lot
of energy to that side of the football, and I
think the details will be exactly how I want them.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Half Lee Plenty, familiar with the team's new quarterback. Miami
liked what they saw from Malik Willis when he was
on the field last year, enough to hand him the
keys to the offense.
Speaker 6 (01:40):
A textas great Bay Packers, how a sectional throat from
the league.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
Willis the gamble. He wasn't on the field much, only
one start in twenty twenty five, two and twenty twenty four,
has six starts over his four year career, but had
the look of a possible hidden gem that could bloss
them with opportunity.
Speaker 7 (02:01):
What us fire in the middle, He's got whats in
ten of the fire to the ends up.
Speaker 1 (02:06):
Bobby Slowick, his offensive coordinator, was in charge of Houston's
offense in twenty twenty three and twenty four. He is
not taking over the toua tyrek wattle show they're run
in South Beach is over. Remember all those tanking for
two a chance a few years back. While the tongue
of Iloa era in Miami did tank, de.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Levers over the battle picked off.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
To his inconsistent play and fifteen I nts last year
leading to his exit.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Back to pack Flyers, I did accept it.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Tongue of Iloa's play plus no Tyreek most of the
season made it tough for the offense to produce. In
twenty twenty five, back to throw.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
To a pressure that caught up. It's over. He's sacked
by Milton Williams.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
Only twenty points per games, chuck the round, twenty sixth,
the yards per game, picked twenty seventh on third down,
and way too many giveaways.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
As a big.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
Un, Willis and the offense will lean heavily on devon
a chan.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
In the touchdown.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
He's back at least and comes off a monster year
roun there he goes career best thirteen hundred and fifty
rush yards.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
He's gone forty. Nobody's gonna catch him.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
While leading the league at five point seven per carry.
Speaker 8 (03:25):
He's gonna walk into the end zone for a thirty
five yard touchdown.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Rock Plus, he led the team in receptions, piled on
four hundred and eighty eight receiving yards as well. Underrated
star a walk into the end zone year over year.
They won't miss Hill much, being he only gave him
four games last year anyway.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Deeps Tyreek Hill at the forty.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
Five traded waddle off a nine and ten yard six
TV season.
Speaker 2 (03:51):
He goes, you.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
Can't kiss him, goodbye, wa touchdown.
Speaker 1 (03:59):
And out with tight end Darren Waller only played nine
games but did score six times to lead the team
on that front.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
All did he get his faith down? Yes, he did
touchdown Dolphins.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
So what does that leave willis to work with Greg
Dolcich returns at tight end three hundred and thirty five
yards and ten games last.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Year caught touchdown.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
They picked up Wilke Asmeric in the third round.
Speaker 6 (04:22):
Two Chasmeric Agan more of the better blocker of the
two tight ends. Claire a little more athletic, Casmeric a
little more physical in the run game.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
Wide receiver Maleak Washington is back.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
What a great return.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
My God, what a spid movement.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Right to the house.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Forty six catches, three hundred plus yards and three TVs.
Speaker 8 (04:41):
A year ago, quick hitterer into the end zone caught
for a touchdown by Leak Washington.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
New to the wide out fold Jalen Tolbert two hundred
yards and change in thirteen games for Dallas two to
two at well one and ninety two yards and ten
games for the Rams.
Speaker 2 (04:57):
Try to start one here and he's got out.
Speaker 7 (04:59):
Well all alone, too well, and it's two too good bye.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
And they grabbed three white outs in the draft, two
in the third round. Chris Bell and Caleb Douglas.
Speaker 6 (05:11):
Tours ACL late in the year. If not, I think
he had a chance to be a first round pick.
He is very strong, Charles. You can see he is
fast for a guy who's carrying around two hundred.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
And twenty plus pounds.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Caleb Douglas ran a four to three nine and we
actually got that pick announced in under four point thirty
nine seconds, So that was impressive.
Speaker 1 (05:29):
All the way around.
Speaker 6 (05:30):
Someone who's a big time vertical stretch receiver plays outside
O line Sitch.
Speaker 1 (05:35):
Dolphins quarterbacks took thirty eight sacks middle of the pack
to a back to throw.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Here's the record, he's.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Going down, but they also got rid of the ball.
Third quickest rookie guard Jonas of Anama had a rough
go of it. He gave up eight and a half.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Sacks and Cam they were with the sack.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
So when they were up in the first round of
the draft, they took Kayden Proctor with the twelfth pick.
Speaker 6 (05:57):
And when this guy is dialed in and ready to go,
he is impressed. You talk about anchor versus power. That
three hundred and fifty plus pounds, you're gonna have a
hard time getting through those pads.
Speaker 1 (06:06):
He represents. The only change to their starting five, takes
the place of guard Call Strange. Four of their five
are either first or second rounders. Patrick Paul a former second,
Austin Jackson, a former first. Miami's defense will also have
a different flavor to it. Didn't add any big names,
though last year's group wasn't much better than the offense.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Only to his right row up.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
They had a solid little run late in the year,
but the overall body of work still needs to hit
the gym.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
Our rolls out to the right rows quickly touch down.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
My Joe gave up twenty four points per game twenty fourth.
Speaker 7 (06:43):
Changed by Juda drink me on the line of his back,
gets away from Juddo and runs to the end zone.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
Twenty second yards per game allowed. Wave not especially good
on third down or in the red zone. Touch down
no secondary easier to complete a pass.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
On as Ydel on the flat mine up.
Speaker 1 (07:05):
Opposing quarterbacks completed a fast seventy two percent of them.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Stretching and reaching for it.
Speaker 8 (07:10):
His kincaide and he stumbles into the episode for the touchdown.
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Only three teams with a higher rating allowed than their
one oh five.
Speaker 2 (07:18):
He's got an open man.
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Didn't play the run well, gave up four to a
to carry twenty six than yards per game allowed.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
Forty six yards to the house.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
That was a little shocking being they had two linebackers
rack up one hundred and twenty five plus tackles.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
It's clost to the Robinson gets picked up.
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Jordan Brooks led the entire NFL in tackles.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
We'd come on, well, we didn't play well, bo we
didn't come to play well all dang.
Speaker 1 (07:45):
We so pay oh noil with one hundred and eighty
three ninety nine of those solo which he also led
the way in.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Burd eleven rogers in trouble and down he goes.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Brooks with three and a half sacks too. His partner
Tyrell Dodson with five one and twenty nine tackles on
his ledger.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
Under pressure, lost the football knocked out of his hands.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
Sack behind them. Jacob Rodriguez nabbed in the second round.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
I know his favorite video game.
Speaker 6 (08:12):
It's Mike Tyson's Punch Out, because when you watch him play,
that's all he does is forced fumble after fumble after fumble.
Seven forced fumbles this year to go along with four interceptions.
Speaker 1 (08:23):
Getting eight and a half sacks from their inside linebackers
help Miami at least finish middle of the pack and
QB takedowns.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
It's steps up in the pocket and he sacked.
Speaker 1 (08:32):
But they no longer have the services of their twenty
twenty five sack leader, Bradley Chubb and his eight and
a half bags are now in Buffalo. New in town
josh Usha, who once had eleven and a half sacks
in a year. That was back in twenty twenty two
with New England. The other five years he's never finished
with more than three.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Josh Ousha with his first as a Philadelphia Eagle.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
They still have Zach Sealer ten bags in twenty twenty
three and twenty four. Chipped in five and a half
from his spot in twenty twenty five b.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Hit from the backside of sack.
Speaker 1 (09:09):
Kenneth Grant, a rookie last year, made at.
Speaker 7 (09:11):
Home twice fades the second he's buried nonetheless, and Kenneth
Grant finally get to Burrow.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
Didn't quite need everyone's expectations, and neither did Schob Robinson
ended his year with four.
Speaker 7 (09:23):
Sacks, and we wish both of those players the best
football is out again.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
It started his career with six. They were hoping for
something close to ten. Last year. Rookie Jordan Phillips looking
to build off a thirty five tackle year, solid start
to his NFL journey the run.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Jordan Phillips the rookie yet of Maryland.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And they have hope for defensive tackle Zeke Biggers, who
got a small taste liked what they saw from the
sample size.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
Back to throw, plenty of time out, pressure breaks down,
He goes down backside.
Speaker 1 (09:50):
Audios to cornerback Rasuell Douglas, who held his targets to
a sub eighty eight team high thirteen passes defense.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
It is Pets, It's Douglas.
Speaker 1 (09:59):
Sale Oh to their second first rounder in the draft,
Chris Johnson.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
They take a very physical corner real well, put together strong.
Think about tr Davis White and how long he's played
in this league and how it's thinked if he was
in his prime. You see a lot of similarities there.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
No more Mika Fitzpatrick one hundred plus rate allowed in
the passing game, did make over eighty tackles.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It's intercepted. He did get quarts on the retard.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Also out the door cornerback Jack Jones, though he gave
up a one to twenty one rate, allowing eight touchdowns.
So fans will feel the same way Peter Gibbons did
about his job. Not really gonna miss him touchdown. Ravens
returning a couple second year dbs. They're optimistic about corner
Jason Marshall showed promise in his limited reps.
Speaker 8 (10:43):
He got infield, Yeah, then I was picked off.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
And safety Dante Trader played in all seventeen games, fifty
four tackles and a forced fumble to start his career.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
Why that's a difference in this game.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
They're turnover by the Jets.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Brought in Zane Gonzalez, former Falcon, compete with Riley Patterson
for the kicking job. He was close to perfect for them,
thirty four for thirty five on extra points, twenty seven
for twenty nine on field goal Trieszkan Pardo. Fins hope
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to get a full year from the best name in
the game, cornerback Storm Duck. He's not new, but he
only played two games for them. In twenty twenty five.
They signed safety Lonnie Johnson, former Raider, played nine games
for them, gave up one hundred plus rating him and
Trader at the moment in line to take snaps previously
covered by Minka and Ashton Davis, who left town. Corner
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Darryl Baker there at the bottom is a former Titan.
Doesn't come off a great year playing the pass either.
Covered all the gents that make up their front seven.
Chubb the key loss. They need Chop and Grant to
step up and live up to their high draft pick potential.
Remember they were both first rounders. Robinson only started three
games last year. Grant Willis takes over for two act
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quarterback bell in for Waddle Douglas sort of in for
Hill again four games played, so not the same thing
as losing the Penguin from a playing time perspective. Dolsitch
and Cosmeric replace Waller at tight end a chan ready
for like a thousand touches. In twenty twenty six, Fins
season expectations are found on the bottom shelf with the
two buck Chuck. No team is a lower over under
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than their four and a half. One of the reasons
it's so low is they have the second hardest expected schedule.
That's based on their opponents twenty twenty six projected win totals.
But let's say Flipper was predicting their schedule. Here's an
overly optimistic view of what their season could look like.
Open With a win over Vegas, they're over unders just
five and a half. Who's to say Kyler is going
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to work out in Minnesota? Take the Jets after their
bye week, maybe a Miami miracle Part two versus the
Pats the next week Indianapolis could be a game they
can grab ground. The Jets twice knows how to beat
the Bears, and that's a home game. I know seven
games isn't a super high ceiling, but it seems that
would be quite the accomplishment for the roster they seem
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to be banking on. I don't have gills or a
dorsal fin, just a bag, and when I look out
of it, I don't see five wins from these blokes.
It feels like the start of a rebuild. They seem
like a contender for the number one pick.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
One last time, Bill Mafia say it like you mean it?
Where else would you rather be?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
That?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
Right here?
Speaker 9 (13:41):
Right?
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Forgive Bill's Mafia for feeling like Bill Murray and Groundhog
Day or Natasha Leone in Russian Doll. Buffalo football just
feels like it's been on the same loop year after year,
optimism followed by regular season success ending in postseason disappointment.
So fine, they hold the plug on McDermott ball, hoping
a new face at head coach leads to a different
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ending to their twenty twenty six tail.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Mission simple man, find a way to get it done.
Speaker 1 (14:09):
Bill's didn't look far for their new leader. It was like,
we don't like Tony, but we think sil can get
the job done.
Speaker 7 (14:15):
Hey, Joe Collin, Joe Collin.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
Joe Brady was sitting upstairs calling the offense, guiding their
Josh Allen, James cook O, face to top shelf numbers
and he.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
Skates it to the end zone for the touchdown.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Nothing new there and nothing new with Josh Allen.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
That's the Josh Allen that we've come to know in.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Buffalo, remains in the upper echelon of NFL quarterbacks. Fire
close to forty total touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
And looking for the exact.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Touchdown twenty five through the air. That's twenty five plus
tds six straight seasons.
Speaker 8 (15:02):
Fires and why open to the inside miss Jackson Laws
and it's.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Snow angel time one hundred plus rating back to back years.
It's salted contain along the ground five hundred plus yards
looking for.
Speaker 9 (15:16):
The endside and the piece doesn't fourteen touchdowns, Ali gonna
keep it, gonna look to pust it outside, lowers the shoulder,
the surge, pushing it forward, progress past it for the touchdown.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Twelve plus tds three straight years in a row.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
Alli get to run it, clucks it and he reaches
the goal line.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
And with Brady still calling the offense, seems like we
should expect more of the same from Jerry Seinfeld's son
in law.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
Hell Outs, turning least down to the twenty eight yard line, ruffle,
young fan.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
Ruffle, stupid AI bought thinks she's Jerry's daughter. Still that's
the standard. Brady still has a one to two punch
at his disposal. Only maybe Baltimore can compete.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
With and darts into the open and he is g
oh and he gone.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
James Cook led the NFL in rushing yards with over
sixteen hundred.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
As the Cook is in the didget, that's a.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Thousand plus yards three straight years.
Speaker 2 (16:19):
What a run by Cook forty four yards to the
end zone.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
Has painted the zone twelve plus times back to back seasons.
Speaker 8 (16:27):
With that, he becomes the Bills all time later eight
consecutive games with a rushing touchdown.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Four point seven plus yards per carry all four years,
five point two and twenty twenty five. Those two the
fuel for an offense that was good for twenty eight
points per game.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Hook through another hole, head scampers into the end zone.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Top five good in yards per game, dive for the pylon,
and he's in third down and in the red zone, and.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
He's got knocks in the end zone for a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (17:03):
This isn't an offense that needs to fix much production wise.
It's an offense trying to hold the line.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
James Cook extends the arm to the goal.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Line while coming through more often when all the marbles
are on the line.
Speaker 2 (17:16):
He had an open target to the back of the
end zone. Josh Allen just missed.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Now. Alan did take forty sacks. That's the most he's
ever taken in a season. Of course, part of it
is his style. He's bragged down guard Osiris Torrance got
tagged with a team high eight and a half sacks allowed.
Everybody else gave up four and a half to five apiece.
Bill's pass catchers now features a WR one type again,
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big trade landing them. Dj Moore traded off a six
hundred and eighty plus yard sixty d run fewest yards
in a year in his eight year career, but wasn't
always the first look anymore.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Catch may touchdown bear.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
He pairs with Khalil Shakir down Buffalo seven hundred yards
and change a year ago.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
How does he score? How does he score her? Dude
Jose's spun out of it and ram past the other guy.
The other guy thought he was going down, so he
was like on the round, spun out of it.
Speaker 1 (18:12):
Seventy plus catches, seven hundred plus yards four tds back
to back seasons as.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
A blocker in front, racing to the end zone.
Speaker 1 (18:19):
And he's in Keon Coleman a little over four hundred
yards and four scores.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Fuck.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
He regressed in his year two five hundred and fifty
six yards four tds in twenty twenty four, and he
got benched several games.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Too, tripped up at the ten yard line.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
Goshua Palmer a little over three hundred yards in his
twelve games. That was a career low Allen leaned more
on his tight ends, Dawson Knox over four hundred yards
and four tds.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
It's complete to Dawson Knox.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
He was a five hundred plus yard type in twenty
twenty one and twenty two. Last year was the closest
he's come to matching that production.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
It's complete to knocks running for a first down, that
he's got it.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
He saw a few more targets, in part because Dalton
Kincaid only played twelve games.
Speaker 4 (19:07):
You gotta work on the celebration.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Everything else was close to four hundred and fifty yards
and five tds in the games he played.
Speaker 8 (19:15):
Stretching and reaching for it is Kinkaid and he stumbles
into the end zone for the touchdown.
Speaker 1 (19:20):
Bill's defense has more room for improvement. Twenty fourth on
third down and twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
B rabbis up catch his back.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Not great in the red zone, but touchdown post. But
they also finished seventh and yards per game allowed.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
He drops up for a huge sack.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
And held teams to twenty one a game plenty respectable
closet the strength of their defense. That secondary held quarterbacks
to a sub eighty eight No team allowed fewer yards
per game, and they were top five good in yards
per attempt allowed and completely.
Speaker 8 (20:00):
It's intercepted, picked off by Shack Thompson coming the other
way forty thirty five and he's upended and tackled.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
Corner Christian Benford has morphed into an elite cover guy.
Two sacks, held his targets to a mid eighties rate,
two interceptions, guarding lots of wr onsos.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
Look on here Kristin Benford.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
Maxwell Harriston looking to build off a rookie year that
saw him come down with a couple of picks over
his eleven games played.
Speaker 8 (20:28):
Looking for were they It's picked off by Maxwell Hairston.
Speaker 1 (20:32):
They shed a lot of dbs, though Trey day a
bill no more again. Tardavius White held it down to
a mid sixties rate while knocking down ten passes.
Speaker 4 (20:42):
Deepa taking a shut down field, loot.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
It after good light, and Taron Johnson has gone. Won't
be manning the slot for them after eight years.
Speaker 7 (20:53):
On the job.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
One of the elite Nichols in the NFL broke it
up in his place.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
New corner d Alford had a really good twenty twenty
five in Atlanta. Twelve passes defensed, three I in t's
for a nice low eighties rate in his fourth year over.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
The break even a futed by the Aper.
Speaker 1 (21:10):
Plus they drafted Davison Igbinosen in the second round.
Speaker 6 (21:14):
Tall Rangye too many penalties, meeting, a lot of grabbing,
a lot of holes.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
Long Lean can make plays on the football. He's a
type guy, get that arm in there late, make that
type of a play.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
I will say those penalties occurred last year, two years ago,
and then this last season in twenty twenty five, he
cut those way down.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
He'll change at safety. Jordan Poyer also came and went
twice mid seventies rate, seventy tackles in ten games last year.
Speaker 2 (21:41):
That saers a sandwitched.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Cut ties with Taylor rap too. He only played six games.
Damar Hamlin Returns only got in five games last year.
Cole Bishops started all seventeen games in his second year.
How about a mid fifties rating three I in t's
and he led the team with eighty five tackles.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
Picked up my tall Bishop game set.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
Match safety cam Lewis also gone held quarterbacks to a
low eighties rate.
Speaker 7 (22:08):
Cam Lewis, so they've gone after a few times today
was able to jarred loose.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
They added vet safety CJ. Gardner. Johnson finished last year
with Chicago, gave him three sacks and ten games and
two picks.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Again, ce Jay Gardner shuts it.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Bill's DB's played the pass great most games, despite having
a pass rush that only tallied thirty six sacks, but
they did at least hurry signal callers, finishing with a
healthy pressure rate.
Speaker 2 (22:38):
Sanders missus him on the wrap up, but the follow DAGs.
Speaker 1 (22:42):
Of their sack leader is back Gregory Russo with seven
seven to eight sacks three of the last four years.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
Crazy, I said crazy.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Hoping to help increase the pressure. Bradley Chubb, former Dolphin
eight and a half bags a year ago, plus TJ.
Parker added in the second round of the draft.
Speaker 6 (23:03):
He'll be standing up on the edge. He'll be rushing
what she did at Clemson. And that's why I thought
he's a first round player. He was one of my
top thirty two guys. Thought he would come off the
board last night. Buffalo played this well, able to trade
down a few times, collect some extra picks, still get
a position of need, and still get in my opinion, a.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
First round player.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
It would help if ed Oliver plays all year. Only
got in three games, first time with fewer than thirteen
games played in his seven years in the NFL. Joey
Bosa one and done signed on the dotted line five
times last year. Also a former bill now aj Epanessa
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only two and a half sacks off the bench, but
had two iron.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Ts intercepted by a Vanessa man.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
They shed a lot of guys that dt dake one
Jones is on the list of the departed three sacks
twelve games.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
It's intercepted. Take crook Jones.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Deon Walker is building off a rookie campaign that saw
him rack up close to forty tackles, eight of them
for a loss.
Speaker 2 (24:05):
Ay J. F Vanessa is there, so too is Dieon Walker.
Speaker 1 (24:10):
The most glaring weakness last year with their defense stopping
runners gave up five point one yards per carry Q
Sarah Lynn. That's too much man. Their primary starters both
missed time hurt. That's not a new thing for Matt Mulano,
so he too is no longer in Buffalo. Sixty seven tackles,
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three and a half sacks in twelve games, and he's.
Speaker 2 (24:33):
Stick from behind. Wall is out and the Bields had
the football.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
Terrell Bernard back again only twelve games played as well
sixty five tackles when he played seven for a loss.
Bernard one hundred plus tackle guy in twenty twenty three
and twenty four did accept.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
It picked up by Terrell Bernard.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
Dorian Williams ended up making nine starts in his third year,
cracked sixty tackles, one dred and seventeen tackles in his
second year. Saw dip in his personal production. Boollows good
special teams. Ray Davis comes off a first team All
Pro year as a kickoff returner, leading the league with
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thirty yards per return day. So lots of new faces
brought in on defense. Alford Abinoson, Gino, Stone, Gardner, Johnson
all new to the mafia, joining returnees Benford, Bishop and
Harriston in the dB room, Lewis, Poyer, trade A and
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Johnson all allowed to walk front seven said by to Bosa, Milano,
Jones and Epanessa Hello to Chubb and former chief Mike Dana.
Rest of the guys are all returneys from twenty twenty five. Still,
they have a lot of chemistry to develop on the
defensive side of the ball. The big change to the
offense more taking over the WR one mantle in theory
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really the only key change. Alan and Cook still the
focal points, Shakir, Palmer, Coleman still that wide receiver, Knox
and Dalton that tight end. Bill's schedule isn't supposed to
be hard or easy. Their trek is middle of the pack.
When you gauge teams by their twenty twenty six expected
win totals, Buffaloes ten and a half over underline in
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the sand is second highest. Only the Rams and the
Ravens are at eleven and a half. Six teams total
are at ten and a half. So they're still a
team that's supposed to have a good year.
Speaker 4 (26:29):
How good.
Speaker 1 (26:30):
Let's look through rose colored glasses. Even if they lose
to the Rams and the Ravens to Denver on the road,
since they're also a ten and a half or the
rest of their opponents are supposed to be beatable. For
a team like Theirs, that's a fourteen win ceiling. That's
a little too high for game preview guys. Blood, but
Alan and Cook win eleven at the very least. Josh
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has won ten plus seven straight years, eleven plus the
last six, and he's just as hungry as ever, So
I'm going to side with history.
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Come on to.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
New England Patriots fans. The one group of NFL fans
who thought Star Wars nine was Oscar worthy. Yes, yes, yes,
you thought you threw us down a shaft and that
was that. That's on you for not accounting for the obvious.
When you're that powerful, you just use the force to
stop your fall and boom. You're ready to stick it
to the rest of the NFL, just like old times.
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Can you imagine being Josh Allen? Okay, fine, that Brady
guy was better than me, but now it's my turn
to make the dance. Only to have a TV twelve
like clone show up and make it in just his
second year.
Speaker 7 (27:42):
Drake May often compared to Tom Brady. I'm a second
team All Pro quarterback in a second season.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
That's got a sting.
Speaker 2 (27:48):
Right When you lose, say little, when you win, say less.
Speaker 1 (27:51):
Drake Drake May May is like, what's the big deal?
Speaker 2 (27:56):
It's okay to smile?
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Was that supposed to be hard?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
This is what players too. They take over the game
when the game's on the line. The buddy time, break
off falls, breakdof.
Speaker 7 (28:04):
Olcome on, that's the one right here.
Speaker 1 (28:06):
Maybe the second best year from a QB since Dan Marino.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
Nos into the end zone, the heading back to catch.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
Touchdown Patriots Super Bowl appearance off the back of a
thirty one TV campaign.
Speaker 7 (28:19):
Load swan back right at the end zone Austin Hooper,
He makes the catch and toe taps for a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (28:25):
Number two hundred and fifty passing yards per game to the.
Speaker 2 (28:28):
Forties, thirty five, thirty twenty five, twenty speak one.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
Sideliner beer job led the NFL in rating.
Speaker 2 (28:34):
It's a nice baked by May to get on to
the boot.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yards per attempt, Pastor Williams. That's perfect and completion percentage.
Speaker 7 (28:42):
Drake May was nearly perfect five touchdown passage was an
MVP type of performance today for Drake.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
May plus those stands part of.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
That's off tip five the line, right touchdown Patriots right
time us off.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
Come on four hundred and fifty rushing yards.
Speaker 2 (29:02):
Guys to get outside. He does. He's got the first.
Speaker 1 (29:09):
Four more scores down low.
Speaker 2 (29:11):
To the five.
Speaker 1 (29:14):
Touchdown Patriots runner up in the MVP race. Maybe he
got robbed.
Speaker 7 (29:19):
Patriots had to their lead hot Drake May second touchdown.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
If we have Ton propelled their offense to the second
most points per game at twenty eight per.
Speaker 2 (29:28):
Throw them at the ends up for tax witches up comes.
Speaker 1 (29:31):
Down with the catch, third most yards per game, sixth
best on third down.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
Throws it to the five easy rocking touchdown. Henry.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Now they could be better.
Speaker 2 (29:45):
The great thing about this league is there's one waiting force.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
There is another one wait force.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
They could clean up their act in the red.
Speaker 2 (29:51):
Zone the ball the balls while.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Maybe take fewer sacks they took forty eight. May face
to high pressure.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Many patches, stiff farmson defender, but he can't get away.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
They need better protection on the left side. Left tackle
Will Campbell, left guard Jared Wilson each gave up eight
and a half sacks as rookies.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
None other than Miles Garrett.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
So they used their first round draft pick this year
on tackle Caleb Lomu.
Speaker 6 (30:18):
It's gonna be fascinating now. Is he go over to
the right side, Yes, but also could be some insurance there.
We'll see what happens to Will Campbell going forward as well,
but those will be the two tackles for them in
the future.
Speaker 1 (30:28):
They traded center Garrett Bradbury, so the idea is they
move Wilson to center and Elijah Vera Tucker who they
picked up a former jet takes over at guard, but
Lomu at the moment is on the outside looking in.
Watch to see if it stays that way through camp
May has a new wr one of course, patch trading
for the librarian time enough at last. Aj Brown one
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thousand plus yards back to back years thousand plus six
of his last seven years caught the ten and ron touchdown.
He takes over for Stefan Diggs. They're top white out
from twenty twenty five. He led the team with over
one thousand yards, had twenty five more catches than anybody else.
Speaker 7 (31:08):
He threaded the needle the dicks on the backside, slant
buddy player, bunny time.
Speaker 1 (31:13):
Give us more booty. In twenty twenty six, that's a
motto everybody can agree with. Touchdown Patriots Kashawan with over
five hundred and fifty yards and a career high six
scores in his third year. He's a ridiculous catches machine.
Speaker 7 (31:27):
Reaches out with the right had balls it in touchdown
Patriots hot diving, grab my booty, and.
Speaker 1 (31:35):
This Romeo didn't care about Juliet, just playing ball. Dobbs
led Green Bay in receptions with a career high seven
hundred and twenty four yards and slammed home a six
pack of TDS.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
Yeah, tright up a touchdown.
Speaker 1 (31:48):
If you think AI would have tied William Shakespeare to
an NFL player, don't go applying for any AI detection.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Jobs making.
Speaker 1 (31:57):
Mac Hollins came through in some big spots five hundred
and fifty yards, second most he's had in his eight
year career.
Speaker 2 (32:03):
Hollin's open makes the catch up with the show for
forty He's.
Speaker 7 (32:06):
Furst by the balls hangling out near sideline.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
De Mario Douglas four hundred and forty seven yards four
hundred and forty seven yards is the lowest he's had
in his three years.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
Douglass touch job Patriots.
Speaker 1 (32:18):
Tight end Hunter Henry, on the other hand, comes off
a career high in yards.
Speaker 7 (32:23):
Tell throw wide open up side Hunter Henry all Alad
Don't walks into the upsote.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Over seven hundred in his tenth year. Found Bob Rossland
seven times.
Speaker 2 (32:32):
Too at a twenty eight yard dagger.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
Drake utilized both his backs in the passing attack as well.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
That's sideline's cut for the touchdown.
Speaker 1 (32:40):
Remandre Stevenson three hundred and forty five receiving yards.
Speaker 7 (32:43):
So the wide open Stevenson he stacks in touchdown Patriots.
Speaker 1 (32:47):
Plus six hundred plus on the ground touch.
Speaker 7 (32:50):
Down Patriots can Monray Stevenson has New England takes.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
The lead on four to six a carry nine total
tds in his fourteen games.
Speaker 7 (32:59):
Steve to Crush through the middle of Closs the twenty
five twenty fifteen ten half the five spit around, take
it into.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
The end zone Trayveon Henderson over one thousand yards from
scrimmage as a rookie.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Do mon To be to the twenty five twenty fifty
ten touch down.
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Patrio nine to eleven of those rushing.
Speaker 2 (33:18):
Touch it left us the.
Speaker 1 (33:22):
Way, Oh my god, nine tds and a very healthy
five point one yards per carry.
Speaker 2 (33:29):
Chase five pair of mounts who won't touch him touchdown.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
Patriots would be hard for New England's offense to be better,
but if they produce anywhere close to their twenty twenty
four levels versus the expected tougher competition, they'd be plenty happy.
Speaker 6 (33:43):
I amn't that backyard football coo Clowner, Hey, clowner.
Speaker 1 (33:49):
And the same applies to their defense.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
It's not the football left.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
Just do what we gotta do, and just do it
a little bit better.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
They held teams to eighteen a game. Fourth best is.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
That a lot of balls picked up by the Patriots.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Eighth fewest yards per game allowed.
Speaker 2 (34:04):
Sides of what tackler fumbles the.
Speaker 1 (34:06):
Ball areas they could improve in they could play the pass.
Tougher gave up a ninety three rating to quarterbacks.
Speaker 2 (34:12):
Fifty two yards Didham to Mims.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
Was fairly easy to complete passes against, twenty fourth in
completion percentage allowed.
Speaker 2 (34:20):
It's complete to Yawson Knox.
Speaker 1 (34:23):
The holding passers to six point seven yards per attempt
is top shelf stuff.
Speaker 2 (34:27):
A getta let's get a throw down at all tefy under.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
Subject only allowed one hundred and ninety three passing yards
per game.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
With an undred jot by Christian Gonzale.
Speaker 4 (34:36):
Defensive stuff for the years first to goals of the
time to stop at full state place.
Speaker 1 (34:41):
New England's five key dbs handled most of the snaps
last year.
Speaker 7 (34:45):
Turning around back publy under the end zone, it's Marcus
Jones another pick six against Cincinnatie.
Speaker 1 (34:51):
The headliner Christian Gonzalez career high sixty nine tackles a
sub eighty rate with ten passes defensed in his third year.
Many will tell you you're looking at the current corner
back king.
Speaker 2 (35:03):
Rows of people down the right side.
Speaker 1 (35:04):
Done tellers, We're going that corner. Carlton Davis a nice
New England debut sixty nine tackles ten passes defense, holding
his targets to a low nineties rate.
Speaker 2 (35:15):
At least he landed across the battery. They're gonna say
that the feet are in. HiT's a pick.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
Marcus Jones needs to rebound as a corner anyway. He
gave up a team high seven touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (35:26):
Got by question Jack cart touchdown Joe said, but.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
He did lead the team with eleven passes defense and a.
Speaker 2 (35:33):
Sept in Marcus Jones right twenty fifteen to ten. Jones's
tackled by Hutchinson takes.
Speaker 1 (35:38):
Him to the pylon touchdown st Patriots, and he was
second team All Pro As a punt returner. He took
two back to the crib, all on the.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Near side, forty to the thirty. Marcus Jones gone to
the twenty to the tad to the house.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Other guy who's looking to play the pass better this year,
safety Craig Woodson. Rate allowed near one fifty. That's fat
Albert Rough but seventy nine tackles for for a loss.
Speaker 7 (36:03):
He's going to get away from the second initially and
not the second time. I'll actually drop down.
Speaker 1 (36:08):
He still had a good start to his career on
many fronts. They think he's going to take a leap
this season.
Speaker 2 (36:13):
And the Patriots pressure sped him into an in completion.
New England takes over.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
Has a new partner, Kevin Bayered, coming off a first
team All Pro season with the Bears that saw him
lead the NFL in interceptions.
Speaker 2 (36:26):
Bigger the game, the more atention they stay.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Lot d Both takes over for Jalen Hawkins, who did
hold his targets to a fifty five rating and picked
off four passes.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
Bro he's got hoping that parma that God left it.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
It'll come those chaps working with the front that needs
to seal the deal more often this season. Thirty five
sacks last year, twenty second.
Speaker 2 (36:47):
Patriots Joe blitz off his back foot lot to the
end zone. Oh for man Tucker the butt here.
Speaker 1 (36:52):
They had the tenth highest pressure rate, so they weren't
asleep up there.
Speaker 2 (36:56):
So he gets to the quarterback he went, he throws
him down.
Speaker 1 (37:00):
Rush defense kind of the same deal. Could do better
than four to two a carry to the.
Speaker 7 (37:04):
Left side the king Is end.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
But they were tenth in yards per carry allowed and
held teams to the sixth fewest rushing yards per game.
Oh yeah, oh yeah, they're front seven members. Defensive end
Milton Williams three and a half sacks and twelve games,
pretty close to the production he gave Philadelphia in twenty
twenty four. So New England almost got what it paid for.
Speaker 7 (37:29):
Boys, Milton Williams delivered for the Pats this season.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
Defensive end Christian Barmore played in all seventeen games after
only getting four in and twenty.
Speaker 2 (37:38):
Twenty four, they can't get.
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Up a couple of sacks, four tackles for loss. He's
there for the chili in between them, Corey Durdin. Unlike Tyler,
he's real thirty tackles, five for a loss, mostly coming
off the bench.
Speaker 2 (38:00):
Last year and this time brought down right away Corey Durton.
Speaker 1 (38:06):
Harold Landry led the team in sacks with eight and
a half. Chock it up to another free agency win.
He's hit eight and a half or better four straight years.
Speaker 7 (38:14):
And now he'll go down diving toward the line of
scrimmage as Landery closed in a hurry.
Speaker 1 (38:19):
No calevon Chase on across from him. Seven and a
half sacks last year.
Speaker 2 (38:23):
It's going to close on the cornerback and run him down.
Speaker 1 (38:26):
And they drafted Gabe Akis in the second round.
Speaker 3 (38:29):
Twenty seven sacks in his career. That's second in Illinois history.
Stand up edge for Aaron Henry, their defensive coordinator, and
this is the guy that gets after the passer, which
they need in that division. Obviously with Josh Allen, he's
got steady power. Do you constantly see him on the
field or on the film. And then even when you're
calling the games. He's constantly in the backfield because of
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those heavy hands.
Speaker 1 (38:51):
Added Landry's former mate Draymont Jones seven bags in twenty
twenty five, which was a career high in his seven seasons.
Speaker 2 (38:59):
Hold down from behind.
Speaker 1 (39:01):
Second level Christian Ellis ninety four tackles fifteen games, eighty
plus tackles his last two years back bets.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
He's in trouble pressure by Elis Boles loose.
Speaker 1 (39:10):
He would have cracked one hundred tackles, but he missed
those two games. Same as true of Robert Splane ninety
seven tackles in just thirteen games.
Speaker 7 (39:17):
In intersecond here comes playing in the thirty twenty five
twenty playing fifteen to ten learns Pepi five.
Speaker 1 (39:25):
They did lose depth guy Jack Gibbons ended the year
with eighty one tackles, eight for a loss.
Speaker 7 (39:30):
And driven backward with Gibbons to finish off the play.
One linebackers starts it, the other finishes.
Speaker 1 (39:35):
Andy Borregalis kicking the flavor in your ear twenty seven
to thirty two on field goal tries, fifty three for
fifty five on extra points as a rookie.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
Leg by Borregalis, the kicks sailing to the uprights, so.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Their front seven looks like this. Jones are replacing Chase
On on the edge, don't have gibbons anymore, but the
rest of their guys are the same as last year
for the most part. Secondary the one key change Hawkins
ou fired in Woodson, his partner, Davis, Jones and Gonzo
still their big three at corner. Two new wide outs
for me to play with Brown taking Diggs place, plus Dobbs, May, Booty, Hollins, Douglas, Henry, Stevenson,
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Henderson all back for another shot at it. New England's
twenty twenty six schedule isn't supposed to be too tough.
In fact, it falls on the easy side of things
when viewed through their opponents expected win totals. Though still
kind of middle of the pack, their own nine and
a half over under tag means they're not expected to
fall off a cliff, though. Let's run their ceiling exercise.
(40:37):
Give them wins over all the teams that their nine
and a half mark or below, as well as wins
at home versus ten and a half's. That's wins over Pittsburgh, Jacksonville, Vegas,
the Jets, Bears, Miami, Green Bay, Chargers pencil a home
win over Buffalo, beat the Vikes, sweep Gang Green, take
Denver at home, and conclude with a victory over Miami
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for a potential thirteen win year. That's a steep ass
for this bag man, but I'm a May believer, and
that puts them in the ten win range at the
very least. New York Jets spent most of twenty twenty
five grounded three and fourteen record. Still Aaron Glenn returns
as the head pilot. Got the hope then that continuity
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in the cockpit will lead to a less turbulent twenty
twenty six am They did make those two big trades,
have to make all those picks they acquired. Count upgraded
the pass rush with snagging David Bailey with their first pick.
Speaker 6 (41:45):
I'm a big fan of his game. I mentioned that
get off, explosive first step. This was that playoff game
against Oregon. They could not block him that entire time.
He's dynamic, he can stack moves together. That shows you
the instinct we feel he.
Speaker 2 (41:56):
Has as a rusher. Now some question the power. I
think you can see it. Here's element of it right here.
Speaker 6 (42:01):
He can cholch you, get you off your skis a
little bit.
Speaker 1 (42:04):
Then they went to work on their offense, adding tight
end Kenyon Sadik. You don't get the nickname Sadik the
freak for being slow.
Speaker 6 (42:10):
He is a very twitched up, explosive athlete. How about
my comparison Jets fans. I don't know if they're gonna
like it or not, but he reminded me of Dustin Keller.
When I watched him, it was undersized. What was real
physical and tough. It could absolutely run. Here he is
after the catch. You better bring your legs when you
go to tackle. I mean you're not gonna get him
on the ground.
Speaker 1 (42:26):
And wide receiver Omar Cooper, all three of those gents
first rounders.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
This guy is Deebo Lte. I love that comparison, DJ.
You made that, I would also make that. And I
love what he does with the ball in his hands
after the catch, DJ. I think that's where he's most electric.
Speaker 1 (42:43):
So pair Cooper with Garrett Wilson and they could give
dB some trouble. He only played seven games and still
led the team in receiving yards with three hundred and
ninety five scored four times. He's wr one material if
he stays healthy.
Speaker 2 (42:56):
Great post Jared Wilson.
Speaker 1 (42:59):
How about tight end duo. Remember they drafted Mason Taylor
in the second round last year, led the team with
forty four catches in his rookie campaign.
Speaker 2 (43:07):
That's caught Mason Taylor.
Speaker 1 (43:10):
Ad Ni Mitchell.
Speaker 2 (43:12):
Touchdown and Ive Mitchell.
Speaker 1 (43:15):
Eight games, three hundred and one yards, and they still
have Breeze Hall at running backs on the string.
Speaker 7 (43:21):
Brace Hall once right to the thirty five, count inside
the twenty to the fifteen ten five.
Speaker 2 (43:27):
That's a jet touchdown.
Speaker 1 (43:28):
Looking the bill on his first one thousand yard season
of his four year career.
Speaker 7 (43:32):
Finds a Chris runs left. He's in a the inzonte
for a jet touchdown.
Speaker 1 (43:37):
Four point four yards per carry. Despite being the focal
point for many of the defenses, he ran into it.
Speaker 7 (43:43):
Some man missed inside the five, gets to the parlot
he's in.
Speaker 2 (43:47):
That's a jet touchdown twenty seven yards.
Speaker 1 (43:49):
The guy that's supposed to feed all of them, Gino
Smith off his back foot, lots.
Speaker 2 (43:54):
To the end zone. Open man is Tucker underneath it
put touchdown.
Speaker 1 (43:59):
Raters call at the ultimate reboot, he crapped out on
the strip After leading the NFL in INT's last year,
out to.
Speaker 2 (44:05):
The end zone, popped up in the air, intercepted.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
But look at it this way. Seattle was Sam Darnold's
fourth different team after he left the Jets. New York
will be Gino's fourth different team after he left the Jets.
So maybe that's how the whole retread thing works.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Jena looked all over the field.
Speaker 1 (44:23):
Had he fall Michael Man, and they'll be this year's
surprise Super Bowl team. Hey you can dream man? Who
knows he takes over for Justin Fields among others, so
doesn't really have big shoes.
Speaker 4 (44:35):
To fill Fields nowhere to go and he gets tackled.
Speaker 7 (44:38):
Hilo Fields takes the snap, pump thinks falling backwards.
Speaker 4 (44:42):
That's sack by a Sean Robinson.
Speaker 1 (44:45):
The field show went as well as Rocky the Musical.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
The back Build once more and that will surely do it.
Speaker 1 (44:50):
Now Fields, Tyrod Taylor, Brady Cook didn't matter who they tried.
No team had fewer TD passes than their fifteen.
Speaker 4 (44:58):
That passers packed down the sideline.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
No team threw for fewer yards per attempt in their
five point six, and he drilled.
Speaker 7 (45:05):
Garrett Wilson, who just couldn't hold onto the football.
Speaker 1 (45:08):
The team combined for the second lowest rate in the NFL.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
Cook little fade pass the mat is picked just one.
Speaker 1 (45:16):
And forty passing yards per game.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Fumbles the snack It's loose on the ground.
Speaker 1 (45:21):
Remarkably low, as it was twenty five yards per game,
fewer than the team that finished second to last.
Speaker 2 (45:27):
They are so good, Oh, one handed takeaway.
Speaker 1 (45:31):
Would be a feat for their offense to fare any
worse this season.
Speaker 7 (45:34):
Allen makes a man misses the back deal, break's a
tackle who lost the football four.
Speaker 1 (45:38):
Point four yards per play, only one team worse. And
they're gonna get to Justin Fields brought down trying to
stack away from the rush. But he's gonna be culled
down thirty first in the red zone.
Speaker 2 (45:48):
Ball comes out of the RAVNS.
Speaker 1 (45:50):
Recover twenty sixth on third down.
Speaker 2 (45:52):
And he sticked from behind. Paul is out and the
Bills have.
Speaker 1 (45:55):
The football twenty ninth in yards per game and points per.
Speaker 2 (45:58):
Game under press lost the football.
Speaker 1 (46:01):
Averaging a mere seventeen per contest. Now Gino led all
quarterbacks in sacks taken with fifty five. New York's qbs
took sixty combined.
Speaker 8 (46:15):
And Sanders misses him on the lap up, but Apollo
tags him down.
Speaker 1 (46:20):
There was some consensus that their O line's core play
was more on the quarterbacks, but he's met in the backfield.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
Hist quins I was the first hit on the tackle.
Speaker 1 (46:29):
But left tackle Olu Fashanu gave up nine and a
half sacks.
Speaker 2 (46:33):
Out sacks, it's a suck.
Speaker 1 (46:37):
Rookie right tackle armand Membu gave up twelve.
Speaker 2 (46:40):
But at justin fields get walloped.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
The team gave up the third highest pressure rate. Taylor
under pressure be sacked at least one. Jets website gave
Membo and Fashanu CE type grades for their play. Though
guard Elijah Vera Tucker departed off an injury shortened season,
they added former Vegas and Smith blocker guard Dylan Parham
gave up five sacks and a pressure rate slightly higher
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than the league average for guards. Jets offense hoping not
to be the one helping other defenses get right this year.
A man, we've discipline.
Speaker 2 (47:11):
I'm trying to lose that tlock right here.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
I did do wind, but their defense needs to make
up a lot of ground too.
Speaker 2 (47:18):
He gave gave the Lella playout did the Lela fly.
Speaker 1 (47:22):
On that Despite being top ten good on third down,
They gave up the second most points per game at
twenty nine pers is it for the score. No team
with fewer takeaways.
Speaker 4 (47:34):
Takes down to the fives fighting for the live.
Speaker 1 (47:37):
And they're lucky they came up with those four fumbles
because they were the first team in NFL history to
finish a season with zero interceptions.
Speaker 2 (47:45):
Slat pass catch, touchdown, back of it.
Speaker 1 (47:48):
No team gave up more than their thirty six passing
touchdowns to.
Speaker 2 (47:51):
It back to throw looking pressure Waller, did he get
his faith down?
Speaker 1 (47:56):
Yes he did, touchdown, which led to a last place
finish rating aloud at one ten.
Speaker 2 (48:02):
Touchdown quits year.
Speaker 1 (48:04):
Their pass rush hit the quarterback less often than any
other team second few of sacks, thus the motivation to
take Bailey with their first pick.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
Fakes a man miss pup fake.
Speaker 4 (48:17):
Now it's a round of defender running back to the fording.
Speaker 2 (48:18):
It is all number six.
Speaker 1 (48:20):
And completing the turd ferguson sandwich. Only three teams gave
up more rushing yards per game than they did.
Speaker 2 (48:26):
Puts it back and he's into the end zone for
the touchdown.
Speaker 1 (48:29):
They looked like one of those shoppers in a contest
in this year's free agency period, trying to load their
baskets with as much lowt as they can in five minutes.
Run change at linebacker in with the Mario Davis, longtime Saint,
longtime triple digit tackle monster over one forty last year,
over one hundred nine straight years.
Speaker 2 (48:49):
Now Jordan nice tackle but no more.
Speaker 1 (48:53):
Linebacker Quincy Williams off to Cleveland off a thirteen game
eighty three tackle, three and a half sack, year.
Speaker 2 (49:00):
Fourth sack of Gabriel and it's Quincy Williams.
Speaker 1 (49:03):
Double deep hairs with Jamian Sherwood Woo one hundred and
fifty plus tackles for the second year in a row.
Speaker 7 (49:10):
Jamien Sherwood excellent coverage up the left sideline.
Speaker 1 (49:16):
Defensive linemen to Andre Sweat thirty four tackles twelve games
for Tennessee.
Speaker 2 (49:21):
Trouble and Tofan tre Sweat brings him down.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
And they added vet David Anyamada comes off a career
high sixty two tackle campaign, seven for a.
Speaker 6 (49:30):
Loss lit but still heat it up and they never
get him down, just a bear hug and a whistle.
Speaker 1 (49:35):
They joined returnee Vett Harrison Phillips, who at least made
sixty tackles from the inside plenty respectable for a defensive tackle.
Speaker 8 (49:43):
But Jets are all over him at sacking loose football
and the Bucks look like they fell on it.
Speaker 1 (49:47):
The second year man, Juwan Briggs showed some promise, breaking
through for four sacks, made eight starts by the time
of the year, was wrapped up shut pressures.
Speaker 2 (49:55):
Come and see his sacks. Juwan Briggs the.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
Rest of the edge rushing group. They subtracted. Defensive end
Jermaine Johnson only three sacks in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (50:05):
And he's going down.
Speaker 1 (50:06):
Jamae Juhson also picked up Joseph Asi five sacks in
back to back seasons with Cincinnati. Ahead of his fifth year.
Speaker 2 (50:13):
The throw here comes Upliphon osigh Berry's Labar Jackson at.
Speaker 1 (50:18):
The team's top pass rush threat last season, Will McDonald,
who led the team with eight backs.
Speaker 2 (50:22):
He's in trouble. Heppy sacked well.
Speaker 1 (50:25):
McDonald and their secondary will have a different look. Minka Fitzpatrick,
swapping AFC East squads moved around some from Miami, played
a lot of slot corner. His one hundred rate against
partially a reflection of that position. He made over eighty tackles.
Still a force to be reckoned with and.
Speaker 2 (50:42):
All the road make up Bespatrick and.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
The Hope Corner. Nashan Wright can build off or maintain
at least the career year he put up with Chicago
last year. Broke out in his first year as a starter,
some eighty eight five picks, two forced fumbles and three
fumble recoveries. A splash playmate also picked up dB Dane
Belton from the Giants, gave up a rate over one
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hundred in the passing game. In his fourth year, also
broke out, making one hundred and twenty tackles. His previous
high was fifty six, and he only started nine games
for the g Man a year ago.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
You called it the Sutton. Oh what a big Ton
hit Belton.
Speaker 1 (51:23):
Plus they used a second round pick on corner. D'Angelo ponds.
Speaker 2 (51:26):
Look at my cop for this player. Felt good. Aaron
Glen just trapped in himself. I love it, D'Angelo pons.
Speaker 6 (51:32):
He plays exactly like his head coach, Aaron glenn is.
He is not he's short, he is not small. He
plays with unbelievable eyes and instincts.
Speaker 2 (51:41):
He is physical, he is feisty. He is tough no more.
Speaker 1 (51:45):
Isaiah Oliver fifty five tackles in twenty twenty.
Speaker 2 (51:47):
Five masterful play by Oliver.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
Rookie safety Malachi Moore, a full time starter, racked up
over one hundred tackles in his first year. Slay Darcy
Turnover needs to clean up his play versus the pass.
He gave up one hundred plus rating. Cornerback Brandon Stevens
gave up one hundred and ten plus rating. He did
at least knock down a team high nine.
Speaker 7 (52:07):
Passes deep drop look through He's got Hollie can't make
the catch.
Speaker 1 (52:13):
Safety Andre Cisco is back, hoping to rebound after only
playing eight games. They bid a dude to safety Tony Adams.
He was their one dB who fared well against the pass,
holding his targets to a nice low sixty eight rating.
Speaker 2 (52:26):
How he sucked by Tony Adams special.
Speaker 1 (52:28):
Teams Isaiah Williams third in punt return yards. Took two
to the crib.
Speaker 2 (52:33):
We'll get all the way ten five pluck down, So.
Speaker 1 (52:37):
This is not your twenty twenty five Jets defense. Five
of their starting front seven are new On Yamada, Sweat Bailey,
Davis Osai plus and Nigbari and fourth rounder Darryl Jackson
coming off the bench and four new faces added to
the dB room with Ponds, Minka, Wright, and Belton new
to Gangreen, so possibly only four starters from last year
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defense take the field on day one. Gino, obviously the
major X factor for their new look offense, had that
resurgence when he first got to Seattle before bombing in Vegas.
Cooper Wilson, Adeni Mitchell former second rounder, probably the third guy,
Sadek and Taylor at tight end. Braylan Allen still around
a spell. Haul Jets have low expectations for the season.
(53:23):
They're five and a half over under, the second lowest.
At the same time, they have the fifth easiest expected
schedule when you average out their opponents twenty twenty six
expected win totals. So let's put on some green lantern
colored glasses and shoot for the moon or ceiling in
this case, the most optimistic view possible. Tennessee isn't supposed
(53:44):
to be strong, so start with a win. Green Bay
is home game number one, so what if they're supercharged
and they pull off an upset. Cleveland is a winnable game.
Miami and Vegas are at the met look. Kansas City
still has questions on offense, so maybe they off a
low scoring upset there, squish the fish twice, as they say,
(54:04):
fly out and snag a win in the desert over
the Cards and maybe take Minnesota in their final home game.
That's nine wins without beating New England or Buffalo. I
don't wear green glasses or a green fireman's hat for
that matter, just a bag. The view from in here
is fewer than six wins.
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