Sal Explains Bills Defensive Strategy

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Sal Capaccio dives into how the Bills defense outplayed the Ravens offense, and stood up in big moments.

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00:00On yesterday's game Sal, I just saw you tweeting out the the snap counts for the game

00:05And we had spent so much time during the week of defensive game planning and Taryn Johnson versus Dorian Williams

00:13And they ended up doing what we kind of thought they do right like it was

00:18There was Taryn Johnson was still on the field a good amount, but they definitely mixed it up

00:2360-40 was basically the the amount I think a little bit is maybe skewed there because Taryn did go off the field for a play

00:30You know Dorian I think late in the game

00:32They might have done a couple things differently because they were going a little bit more dime

00:35I think Matt Milano came out the field for a few plays late in the game

00:38So I have to figure out how the personnel worked there

00:40But if you take a look the Bills had 59 total snaps guys on defense Taryn Johnson played

00:4436 of those that's 61 percent Dorian Williams played 24 of those that's 41 percent. So you add those up

00:50There's only one extra snap in there. So really I mean you could say it was just about just over

00:5460-40 they went nickel versus base and I would say the biggest reason was really simply matching personnel

01:00This was not a philosophical necessarily

01:04like

01:05You know, what just a big bad Ravens. We're gonna put more linebackers on the field. They were maxing they were mixing personnel and

01:12Matching personnel I should say and when the Ravens brought in two tight ends and a fullback

01:15It was completely Dorian Williams and base defense when they didn't when they went one tight end generally

01:21It was nickel with Taryn Johnson. There's gonna be probably some down and distance mixed in there

01:26But yeah, we made a big deal of it and look that that that's what happened

01:29We wondered how would the Bills do it how much base defense they played almost half their game in base defense?

01:34That's a lot for the Buffalo Bills to play but they were mixing and matching personnel for sure

01:37They also blitz Lamar Jackson. They sent five rushers quite often trying to get there trying to get some pressure

01:43So when you when you step back and look at how the defense played in this game, you know, what's your what's your main takeaway?

01:49Outside of like the base defense conversation who was it defensive line linebackers like I'm thinking about Terrell Bernard

01:56specifically how important he is to this defense a third-year player a captain a

02:00Splash player kind of guy and a guy that I was just watching tomorrow Hamlin talk about it

02:05How without him out there without Bernard out there?

02:08They're not the same defense and I thought that was clearly on display last night

02:12no doubt and we all know that they missed Bernard and Milano and Taryn Johnson in week number four and

02:18I think that the impact of Terrell Bernard shows up what you said mostly the splash plays

02:24We saw here Tremaine Edmonds for five years play middle linebacker and he was a good middle linebacker Tremaine Edmonds

02:30What did we always say was missing from Tremaine Edmonds game splash plays?

02:34He didn't make game-changing plays to rub Bernard makes game-changing plays Mark Andrews hadn't lost a fumble in five years

02:41Is it guys I think I read yeah, right

02:43I mean like the guy catches the ball to rub Bernard

02:46I mean that is

02:47Intentional what he does he sees that ball in a split second is able to punch it with his hand and punch it out

02:53That's not something to happen. It just happens stance. It just happens

02:56He did that intentionally my take on the defense is something I've talked about with a defense all year

03:01Which is kind of a scary thought but also hey here we are which is

03:04Can you really be sustainable getting turnovers all the time to kind of you know to win games the Bills gave up?

03:12460 yards of offense they did not force the Ravens to punt, but they turn them over three times

03:16That's that that's literally the difference in the game the turnovers are the difference in the game

03:20It's the Bills getting getting three of them forcing three of them and not turning the ball over themselves

03:26I mean that that's how they've lived this year now granted again. It's something that you say well

03:31You can't do that every every week

03:33They kind of have here really the only game they didn't was LA and look how that turned out

03:37But that's part of their mo

03:38So my take on the defense is the defense does what it did what it always does which is make big plays they ball hawk

03:45they go after the ball and they can afford to do that because they have an

03:48Offense that doesn't give the other team the ball and really to me that was the story of this game the big big plays on

03:54Defense that caused turnovers and the fact that the Buffalo Bills did not make mistakes the Bills didn't make mistakes in this game

04:00Those are penalized one time

04:01I mean they really did not make mistakes in this game the Ravens made mistakes in this game it

04:07Somebody said we were doing always game day in Buffalo last night and that what we said it was kind of a cheesy win

04:12Right she's the cheese for they wait for you to make mistakes and they capitalize. That's what the Bills did

04:18But that's what they've been doing all year guys

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