Bills Knack for Forcing Fumbles

Jeremy and Joe talk about the Bills uncanny ability to punch balls out and force fumbles in the open field.

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00:00Baltimore came to play, and the Bills still got it done.

00:03They turned over Lamar, DeMar Hamlin with the pressure on the fumble that Vaughn recovers,

00:11Taylor Rapp with an interception, and Mark Andrews.

00:13The play that Terrell Bernard, to me, is the most impressive of the three.

00:17That is a punch out, and that's a play that Bernard has made a living doing this year.

00:23When I think about the Bills and how often they have forced fumbles, which they led the

00:26league in forced fumbles, it was not strip sacks of the quarterbacks, it was the Bernard

00:32play.

00:33How many times did they punch a ball out in the secondary?

00:35It is how this defense lived most of the year, and it's how they win this game, is with big

00:40plays.

00:41It's how they play, too, because that play by Bernard is a little risky.

00:46That is, in the open field, he's flying across Andrews, and he goes for the punch.

00:53If he doesn't get the ball, he's not really trying to make a tackle there.

00:58Andrews is going to run further.

00:59I don't know who the next closest defender was, so maybe it would have only been another

01:03yard or two, but doesn't that speak to what they go for as a defense?

01:11Terrell Bernard, the guy's got the ball after a 20-yard reception, and he doesn't even really

01:15try to make the tackle.

01:17It's a flying Superman punch instead, which gets the ball out.

01:23Cam Lewis almost punched the ball from Tylan Wallace on the final drive of the game.

01:28There's no play, it feels like, where somebody on the Bills isn't going for it.

01:31It's like a full-court press.

01:32They're hounding you all the time for the ball.

01:34I felt like I heard the Ravens address that this week, that they know the Bills do that.

01:39That's another part of the Andrews fumble on that play.

01:43He's got to know.

01:44Watch out.

01:45They're coming for every ball.

01:46They led the league in forced fumbles.

01:50Small security, but in conditions like that, maybe not as easy.