Bills Face Receiver Challenges in Stefon Diggs Showdown

SportsGrid

Watch Bills Face Receiver Challenges in Stefon Diggs Showdown - SportsGrid on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00Let's go to the Bills and their game in Houston, the digs game.

00:11Obviously, everybody's talking about digs, but I want to ask you first about the Bills

00:16problems at receiver.

00:18Yeah.

00:19And look, this has been a problem.

00:21They've gotten away with it last week, of course, when they got blown out against the

00:24Ravens.

00:25But when you look at their situation, they did very little in free agency.

00:29They brought in Matt Collins, MVS.

00:33It's not a great group.

00:34Keon Coleman, their second rounder, who is really not starting yet.

00:38He's more or less their fourth receiver.

00:40But here's the problem.

00:41Khalil Shakir, I told you, was going to be a breakout candidate.

00:43He's been great so far.

00:44Shakir, unfortunately, he's got an injury and he didn't practice for the second straight

00:49day.

00:50Keon Coleman, as I understand it, they like to play some 11 personnel, some 12.

00:55Coleman would be a starter when they go three receivers.

00:58Tomorrow's a big day for Shakir with his first real injury this season.

01:01And the thing about Shakir that's very important, Scott, is they don't just line him up inside.

01:05They'll move him around for matchup purposes.

01:07Out of Boise State, Khalil Shakir is in his third year.

01:11Really good football player.

01:12Now, for the Texans, this is big.

01:14Joe Mechsen, he started working last week.

01:18He's got an ankle sprain.

01:19Some people on the league think it's a high ankle.

01:20He has not worked yet this week.

01:22If he doesn't work tomorrow, zero chance he plays.

01:25Kay Makers, a former first-round pick, you might remember him with the Rams.

01:30He fills in.

01:31He started last week.

01:32Actually looked pretty good.

01:33But that is big because pass protection, Mechsen's great.

01:36He's also really good at catching the football.

01:38It's not the same without him.

01:40This game, and by the way, which is one, I see why it is.

01:43I see why, depending on which book you look at, do the Texans or the Bills are a point

01:47favorite.

01:48It is very, very even.

01:49This is a tough game.

01:51But typically, when good teams, Scott, get blown out the week before, they get themselves

01:55together.

01:56They come out upset.

01:57And they play well on the road.

01:58And the Bills have shown they can win on the road, by the way.

01:59They didn't play well last week.

02:00But this, to me, is a very even game.

02:02Do you think there will be any Diggs drama in this game?

02:06Any shoving, arguing, trash talking, something?

02:11There's got to be something, right?

02:12Yeah, and they're not super deep a corner.

02:15And he'll have something for them.

02:16There's no question about it.

02:17He'll want to get the Bills back.

02:18I know the way veterans are.

02:22Some of the Bills kind of bad-mouthed him quietly, didn't say all the right things.

02:27He's aware of what's going on.

02:29This is going to be a fun matchup, because you've got the juice of Diggs going against

02:33his former team.

02:35The Bills have kind of changed up a little bit, the way that their offense is comprised.

02:40They're not as pass-happy as they were before.

02:43Things have changed for them.

02:44And James Cook, by the way, phenomenal at running back.

02:46This is yet another great game this week.

02:49I cannot wait for this game on Sunday.

Category

Transcript

Recommended