The Buffalo Bills defense played a significantly different brand of football vs the Ravens. In this film breakdown I dove into the metrics and tape to detail the differences we saw philosophically & schematically Link: buff.ly/ki6ZT5F

Drake “mario kart red shell” Thomas (32)

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Runaway moose energy from Josh Allen in space as he shakes the backer. And then makes sure to acknowledge what just happened

Te’Cory Couch played on Sunday like he’s been in this Bills defense for 10 years. Sound spatial awareness, reading route distributions, and playing with leverage, and all while calling/giving out adjustments & checks

Brackets for Flowers and Andrews on a 3rd & 6 for the Bills defense. Damar Hamlin (3) plays inside vs Flowers with Te’Cory Couch (33) playing outside. Hamlin does a good job playing the sticks and closing on the throw

Good gap and a half work from TJ Sanders (98) here + Deone Walker (96) throwing the Center off

First 3rd down for the Bills DEF vs BAL -Bills in Dime -3 Edges -Cole Bishop (24) aligned over the Center & looping as a contain rusher while the Bills DL slants to the offense’s left & runs a TEX stunt to the offense’s right -Geno Stone (25) smash

Jim Leonhard on the Bills defense vs the Ravens’ QB changes: “There was a couple things we got to the 2nd half that would not have been on the call sheet with Lamar at the quarterback. But for the most part, you’re attacking schemes, you’re attacking protections with your pressures, you’re worried about route combinations, and then obviously the quarterback gets factored into that and where the ball’s going”

Sounds like seeing the game from the booth vantage point mattered significantly to Jim Leonhard in running the defense, and he was able to make that move because the people element of his job was stable on the sidelines given the coaches and players the Bills have: “I just felt like it was gonna give me the best opportunity to call a clean game. I trust our coaches. We have emotionally a pretty stable group of coaches and emotionally a pretty mature group of players. So the more I got to see that over the first 6 weeks of the season, 7 weeks of the season, it trust me to go get away from it and not feel like I gotta lead and be face to face with guys. I can sit up there and just kind of get in the lab and get my thoughts rolling, get ahead of things. I know what I’m looking for from a substitution standpoint and different areas of the field. I didn’t necessarily have to rely on playing the telephone game and having a little bit of lag in communication at times. Just natural right, when you have to get information relayed to you. I think that helped me get to some things a little bit quicker”

Jim Leonhard on the Bills defense vs the Ravens: “Very attacking style as far as the physicality and the way we challenged receivers. Just proud of that. We learned a lot during the bye and kind of said there’s gonna be some things that change, and I think guys really bought into what the plan was throughout the week. It was by far the best week we’ve had from a preparation standpoint” The Ravens injuries at QB played a role in the results, but it sounds like the amount of blitzing & man coverage we saw from the Bills was planned at the very least to some degree. Which is great to hear. The gameplan we saw was the gameplan coming into the game. Now we’ll see how much that continues and/or how effective they are against healthier and/or better offenses

POV: you’re a Cornerback in hell trying to cover JSN

Nice play from Amani Hooker (37) for the INT. The Titans are trapping Chase in the slot, so once he breaks out Hooker takes off to 1 going vertical, and takes a good angle to the ball while tracking it

Wearing sleeves with a team’s secondary color always looks good and is the secret to Jeffery Simmons being a good football player. The red sleeves as a Titan and the orange tonight as a Bear

What a “right on schedule drive” from the Bears. Just kept gaining small & positive chunks play after play through the air & ground to chew up yards and clock

Caleb Williams’ throws on the move are very aesthetically pleasing. He gets so much snap and torque on them