\n 2. “Not slowing down” \u2013 DE A.J. Epenesa grabs a pick six in Sunday’s practice<\/p>\n
While many position groups are dealing with injuries, the defensive line unit remains healthy, and it’s showing based on their play. Defensive end A.J. Epenesa had a practice to remember on Sunday.<\/p>\n
During the first team period, Epenesa muscled his way into a passing lane and came away with an interception, which he returned for a touchdown. The DE also batted a pass at the line of scrimmage later in practice.<\/p>\n
Instead of walking off the practice field feeling good about his day once practice concluded, Epenesa found left tackle Dion Dawkins to discuss a few reps he wasn’t proud of.<\/p>\n
“We were just talking technique a little bit because there were two run plays in particular that I just have stuck in my brain right now,” Epenesa said. “My technique wasn’t very solid, and I allowed Dion to get underneath my pads a little bit.”<\/p>\n
Dawkins walked through how he got the upper hand by showing his hand placement on Epenesa’s jersey, and Epenesa talked through how it can be avoided next time.<\/p>\n
“I’m thinking about what do I need to tighten up to not allow him to do that to me, or to be able to displace me a couple yards, which is all the world for the offense,” Epenesa added.<\/p>\n
After talking through his missteps, Epenesa addressed his best play of practice.<\/p>\n
“It was just kind of one of those feeling things,” Epenesa said of why he came away with the INT. “They didn’t block me. The way it kind of developed as a play, I kind of felt someone fly across my face.”<\/p>\n
Epenesa graded his practice as inconsistent and wants to focus on showing his coaches he can be dependable.<\/p>\n
“My goal is to show the coaches that I’m not slowing down,” Epenesa said. “I still play with that fire. I still play with that chip on my shoulder.”<\/p>\n
This season marks Epenesa’s sixth year as a pro. The DE has registered at last six sacks and 10 quarterback hits in each of the last three seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2. “Not slowing down” \u2013 DE A.J. Epenesa grabs a pick six in Sunday’s practice While many position…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259556,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[215,214,53,2086,7,199,6,8896],"class_list":{"0":"post-259555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-bills","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalobills","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-news-announcements","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-training-camp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114967131173704453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}