OBL: Training Camp Day 6 Full Recap | One Bills Live | Buffalo Bills

We’ll get right to the Bills news because there is important Bills news and you know we’ll probably get more details on it in the coming days. But Max Haristen, Buffalo’s top draft pick, uh had some kind of injury during individual position drills. the DBs were executing pass rush drills and it looks as though there was a um accidental collision uh where he got tripped up and he tweaked something uh on his right leg. We don’t know the nature of the injury. It hasn’t been officially disclosed by the club. So, we will find out at a later time presumably the next time Coach McDerman addresses the media. Uh he did walk off under his own power, so that was encouraging, but he was walking off very slowly uh and somewhat gingerly. So, we’ll await updates on that. Uh hopefully, it’s not serious or severe or keeps him out for any length of time as the injury list has gotten considerably longer in the last couple of days. The last two days being padded practices. Um although most of that long list happened before the first padded practice even got started. Yeah, none of the injuries before this one with Harrison, which we don’t know about. U, none of them seemed serious. Uh, the most serious one may be Spencer Brown’s back, which may be chronic. Other than that, it it’s pulled muscle here, pulled muscle there, popped calf, that kind of stuff. So, that’s, you know, the one thing that you that’s been good about it. It has been a long and and some of it is I think this team and their cautious approach to injuries in general. So they’re give they’ll give a guy a day off in training camp if he’s got a little soreness and that kind of thing. So there’s a little bit of that going on. But nevertheless u up until today there was nothing about the injury list even its length that really bothered me. And so you know Haristston’s really the first concerning thing to happen on that front for me in the entire camp. Right. So, you hope it’s nothing. On the positive side, Dalton Concade, after missing yesterday due to knee soreness, was back on the practice field and participating fully today. So, that was an encouraging sign that we witnessed on the practice field. Uh, new additions to the non-participation list. Two linemen, Alec Anderson, Mike Edwards, although both were out there walking around and observing practice. So, you know, you hope those guys maybe they got a rest day or whatever it is, it’s not serious. So, that’s the situation there. Also, KJ Hamler did not practice again today along with a long list of others including Tyrell Shavers, Kaden Prather, Spencer Brown, um Dawson Knox still not back, Tyler Bass, Terrell Bernard, Dorian Williams. So, the list is still considerable. Um but Kinc Kaid was one of the players back in action today. Um so that’s kind of the long and short of the injury list. And then you know as far as other Bills notes go um I would say that on offense we saw two very long touchdowns today. The first a 70der from Josh Allen to Steven Gznell. the rookie undrafted free agent made a nice play, got behind the defense, and then uh Mitch Trabiscy hit Dion Kane for a 60-yard touchdown. So that was good to see some big plays from the offense for the first time in camp. Um Milano and uh Dayquin Hardy with interceptions today on the defensive side of the ball. Milano’s almost looked like a gift. I I swear Jeff threw it right at him. I Yeah, I told you. I call that a morale ball. That’s almost like your offensive coordinator on a on a bad day for the defense will lean into the starting quarterback and say, “Hey, just throw him one. Give him one, would you?” Josh, make him feel better. It looked like Josh was throwing it right at him. I mean, yeah, cuz there was no other there was no receiver in the area. Yeah. So, I I’m teasing Yeah, I know a little bit of that, but Hardy had a nice interception deep over the middle. a sliding interception in the secondary. So, that was good to see from uh the the former seventh round pick in the 24 draft who was on the practice squad all last year. So, good for him. Uh PBU’s turned in by Cam Lewis, Greg Rouso again at the line of scrimmage for the second day in a row. And Tradavius White with a nice pass break up in the last 111 session deep down the left sideline intended for Coleman and he knocked it away. uh with his hands. So that was a good job by him. He was in trail technique because he knew he had safety help over the top. Yeah, it’s one of those days they were working on third and long. Third and long and two minute. Two minute. So, you know, there’s going to be some shots taken and uh and they they hit on a couple, but they also got defended. So, it was a it was a good day for both. It was it was fun to watch. It was one of those practices where you do get to see some action in this in this game some in the throwing game. And it was a it was a lively I thought it was a really good practice on both sides of the ball. Uh Shaq Thompson, the veteran who’s coming off an Achilles injury and has spent virtually his entire career with Carolina is uh flashing. He’s showing up. Second day in a row he’s out there making plays. Had a sack today. Um was really hard-hitting in the run game yesterday. You noticed him. You felt his presence on the field. And he’s been getting rotated up with the first unit. He is the third linebacker in their base set first team defense and he also got paired a few times with Matt Milano with Bernard out. So he’s he’s a veteran player who’s showing well coming off the Achilles injury and he’s getting more reps because of it from the coaching staff. Yeah, that’s guy knows his stuff, knows this scheme. Yeah, I it’s going to be interesting to see how this uh I don’t know what do you call it? how this training camp percolates this roster, right? Some guys percolate up and then some guys percolate the other way and you never know who are going to be the last 11 standing in offense, last 11 standing on defense. And usually, you know, obviously there’s maybe 15 guys on both sides of the ball that really play a bunch in sub packages. I got to tell you, I don’t know who’s going to be on either side. Yeah, there’s a lot still be determined. I think it is going to take preseason games to get the separation the coaching staff’s probably going to need to make just so they’re sure they’re making the right decision. Coach will tell you there’s the team you come into training camp, here’s the team we want to be, guys. Here we go. And then you go through training camp and then maybe the first couple of weeks of the regular season, okay guys, this is the team we need to be. You know, we wanted to be this, but we need to be this because here’s what we can do. Um, that’s the way it works. and teams like Buffalo offensively kind of do whatever they want um with a guy like Josh and the guys that they have and the way they’re running it and and the at the point of evolution they are defensively I think it’s a big find out mode now about what we’d love to be this kind of defense like Sean McDermott told us two days ago we want to be a nasty physical defense u you may need to be something else we don’t know that yet or they may be exactly that um defense is going to be a question until we see it. Uh guys that were noticeable among the rookies, tight end Jackson Haw and center Jacob Bayer, who is an undrafted rookie. He’s getting a lot more reps because Cedric Van Pan Granger has missed the entire training camp due to a calf injury suffered in workouts literally a week before camp started. Uh, so he is still on the shelf and Jacob Bayer has benefited because of it. Uh, Steve and I were watching him during one-on-one drills, one-on-one pass rush drills, and this guy is anchoring down and stoning Zion Log. He’s anchoring down and holding up Dion Walker, the biggest defensive lineman on the team. And Bayer is not big. He is kind of a squatty center. Yeah. But man, can he anchor. It was impressive to watch him. they because he went up against some guys like Loge and also Dion Walker. And of course, those two guys when you see a guy who’s shorter, you think, okay, I’m gonna try and bull this guy and get him back, get him raise him up and get him off his feet and get him on some skates toward the quarterback. Both and both those guys being bigger dudes think that’s that’s their strength, right? He wasn’t having it, man. And it was it was it was like wow he did it and like he did it once and like okay he did it did it again. Um yeah so it was impressive and that’s that’s the fun part of this whole thing and I think at this point in these training camps when you’re outside of the the old two a days and the padded practice and stuff those individual drills where they kind of go hard are really important for evaluation. And Brownie I Brownie and I I find it fascinating to go down there and watch those offensive and defensive line one-on- ons. Uh fascinating. And and yeah, Tylen Greyel had some good reps, too. Uh off the edge, he he won a one-on-one battle with AJ Epanessa and then he locked out Landon Jackson on another rep. Um and just kept him away from the pocket. It was and he wrote and then he had another rep where he was facing Hayden Harris and he rode him all the way around the the pocket and just kept going. 30 foot circle all the way I mean almost all the way around the circle. It was uh Greybel’s I think when you watch him the thing you start to notice that man he he can move. He can really move. He goes side to side for a lineman. He’s like a loose athlete but you don’t see a he looks like a regular offensive lineman. maybe a hair even short for a tackle given the guys that are standing around him. But he ran around that circle with Harris like it was nothing. Had him on there and he moves side to side, catches the up and under move. Uh stays with the swim move. He moves laterally very smooth. He’s an athlete and people will tell you and I had an old offensive lineman tell me left tackles are those elite athletes. They’re big. They’re huge. They’re strong. They can move. They’re they’re different. right tackles really all you need is a mean streak. That was his synopsis of and Greyel seems to be able to play both sides. So that’s kind of cool. And then finally near the tail end of practice, tempers flared and there was a scrap totally away near the defensive sideline by Chase Lunt and Jamarcus Ingram. Offensive tackle versus corner. Um, which may not sound like a fair fight, but it spilled over into the sideline. Huge pileon of players, like 30 or 40 players, guys getting knocked over, and it’s like, “Oh man, there’s too many people in there. Get them up, get them up, get them up.” Yeah. Um, Jamarcus Ingram had been having a long afternoon. He had gotten beaten for some big plays in the passing game. So, I would imagine he kind of boiled over when, you know, a tackle comes out there and he’s blocking him and kicking him out on the edge and it spilled over into a scrap. So, it’s it’s hot out here and it’s near the end of practice. You’ve had a rough day. You’re gonna get some of that. The defense has uh for whatever reason, they are taking it to the limit on on some of the downfield plays. They’re giving the extra one step finish off. Uh some guys are some guys are starting to take exception to it, all of that thing. U but it goes both ways too. The offense can finish off plays like that as well. And I think this is it. This training camp has been like that more than any training camp we’ve seen from Shawn McDermott. They’re the extra step, the extra thud, little extra grit. Um not I mean there hasn’t been a bunch of brawls like the one he just described, but it has been contentious on both sides. There’s a lot of yapping going on more so than in years past. Um don’t know if it’s the reason or what, but we you and I are having a conversation about Benford today. Maybe was it you I was having the conversation with. Um I was talk we talked to so many people on the sidelines. Benford is growing into quarterback. We were talking about that Benford has become the alpha guy back there. Uh and he’s owning it and he seemed always seemed to us kind of a quiet guy. Like he is not quiet. No, he’s more vocal not only from a trash talkinging standpoint but from a leadership standpoint too. and he’s also setting the tone physically on every rep. I think the the contract, the big contract extension was validation for him that he’s the man because he’s the highest paid defensive back on the team. Um, so I just think it cemented in his brain. Yeah. Oh, I am the guy. And it’s and and rightfully so. He probably says, you know what now? And they probably told him have given this message. I don’t know, but I I I know how this works. They give him that contract and the the GM and the owner and everybody’s over there shaking hands. Then he gets over to the football side and the coaches are looking at him and go, “Okay, now it’s you. We need you to do this and this. This is your team. This is your team. You know, step up and own it.” Um, he has responded to that message. No question about it. [Music]

Chris Brown and Steve Tasker broke down all the highlights from a hot day 6 at Bills Training Camp. They discussed the latest injury situation, the top plays made offensively by a duo of WRs, the defensive turnovers led by Matt Milano and Daequan Hardy, and the strong play by the defensive line. Finally, they went on to share their thoughts on the rookies who stood out.

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