It\u2019s preseason! Well the end of it anyway. Regardless, my goal here was to talk about how it\u2019s time to tinker and figure things out. The Buffalo Bills went to Florida to take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to close out preseason action and defensive back Cole Bishop got a chance to show off what he can do.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve seen some buzz as Bishop potentially fighting for a starting safety position. Here are my thoughts below and since I was on the topic of tinkering, you might notice a different format for my clips on this game. Let me know what you think in the comments.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s not a ton to discuss in the clip, but I love how Cole Bishop weaves through traffic and finds the right lane to burst through to help make the tackle.<\/p>\n
Also, due to some mumbo jumbo with news\/aggregators\/whatnot, I\u2019ve always had a file-size limitation when making GIFs that led to me making sacrifices in clip quality. I\u2019m trying out hosting MP4 clips via Vimeo rather than straight embedding GIFs. Hope you like the change, but if not feel free to blast me in the comments.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re into etymology, then you\u2019re likely aware that the position is called a \u201csafety\u201d as they act as a safety net of sorts. In that regard, Bishop lined up this deep is a great example of the position being played. Bishop also seeing the play and crashing down to be that final line of defense would also be a good illustration of the position.<\/p>\n
Bishop had a very good game if you ask me, but being fair it was only 12 plays. That means I can only pull from a limited sample size in this game and it\u2019s honestly pretty great that I was able to pull multiple quality tackles from the guy. In none of the plays is Bishop shy about tackling, and in this particular one there\u2019s a very deliberate drive after the contact.<\/p>\n
The one thing I wasn\u2019t able to get too many clips of was Cole Bishop in meaningful coverage. I like this snap though with Bishop picking up a receiver going into his zone, flipping his head and hips, and providing coverage. This isn\u2019t the tightest coverage you\u2019ll ever see, but Bishop is making the throw considerably harder to anyone looking that way. A quarterback with a good deep ball would be able to fit that in over the top to be clear.<\/p>\n
I never like to make anything too definitive for conclusions when it comes to preseason football. The lack of true scheme and potential issues with quality of competition are just too significant.<\/p>\n
That said, you can get a good look at physical ability and on field \u201cpersonality\u201d and Cole Bishop\u2019s game against the Buccaneers was very good. Very good tackling, good play recognition and reaction, and solid coverage skills (in limited opportunities). Preseason is for putting your best foot forward in individual play and I believe Bishop did that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s preseason! Well the end of it anyway. Regardless, my goal here was to talk about how it\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2048],"tags":[90,215,214,53,2086,7,6,320],"class_list":{"0":"post-317019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-bills","8":"tag-analysis","9":"tag-bills","10":"tag-buffalo","11":"tag-buffalo-bills","12":"tag-buffalobills","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-opinion"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115090863158358386","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317019","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=317019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}