Marino on Hairston and Hoecht

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Joe Marino shares what he saw from Maxwell Hairston and Michael Hoecht in their Bills debut's

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00:00This defense that Brandon Bean, he went to overhaul the defense and it's maybe finally starting to see parts of it.

00:06Granted, Ed Oliver's absence will be big, but what did you see from Hairston?

00:09What did you see from Hoyt in terms of how this defense can play differently?

00:14And, you know, here comes your biggest test, Kansas City.

00:16We might want to see how they pass the test later in the year,

00:19but are they more equipped with those two in the lineup to try and deal with Kansas City in a week like this?

00:25Yeah, absolutely.

00:26And obviously the Chiefs offense is rolling right now.

00:30It's probably the best it's looked in three years.

00:33But I do think that they're positioned reasonably well with the reinforcements,

00:38especially the two you mentioned, Hoyt and Hairston.

00:40I really enjoy both players.

00:43Hoyt is a menace on the field.

00:45I mean, he's such a good all-around player,

00:49but his pass rush just gets me really excited with the athleticism that he has

00:54and the different alignments that he can play from.

00:56He's just collapsing offensive linemen left and right with his ability to just convert speed to power.

01:03And then while doing that, he gets his hands on their wrists and their elbows

01:06and just forces them to give up their chest.

01:09And he's just pushing dudes into the quarterback.

01:11And he's very tenacious.

01:13And you can tell he gets under people's skin.

01:15He's a really fun player that I'm excited to see with him.

01:18And Bosa and Rousseau and Epinesa and that group should really elevate this pass rush

01:23against a couple of tackles here for the Chiefs that are suspect, right?

01:26Jawan Taylor has kind of been a struggling player for a while at right tackle.

01:29And then they're struggling at left tackle where their first-round pick, you know,

01:33is kind of NIA right now with some challenges.

01:36And so there's some matchups to take advantage of there.

01:39And obviously, you know, affecting Mahomes is going to be so critical.

01:42But, yeah, Hoyt's really exciting.

01:44But I really, really enjoyed the Harrison tape as well.

01:47Not that he was challenged at all in coverage, which I think says something, right?

01:51He was kind of where he was supposed to be.

01:52He was the primary.

01:53He covered the primary once on an outbreaker.

01:56And it was press coverage.

01:57Got the hands on.

01:58Got the jam.

01:59Carried the route to the sideline.

02:00Dalton wanted to go to that throw.

02:03He couldn't, you know, wasn't available.

02:04He moved on and threw the ball away.

02:06But what he did against the run, there were a couple plays against the run that just had me so excited.

02:12His second snap was the Panthers ran a condensed formation.

02:16So he's having to kind of play up on the line of scrimmage as a D-gap defender.

02:21And they pulled the tight end across the formation to kick him out.

02:24And Harrison just, he hunkered down and took on the block with perfect technique.

02:28He deployed a wrong arm and was able to really squeeze that gap down.

02:32And positioned Dorian Williams and Jordan Poirier to combine for a tackle, showing a lot of physicality.

02:37We all saw the tackle he made in space, which was textbook technique.

02:40And then there was another play later on where he was, they were running outside to his area.

02:47And he was able to take Xavier Leggett and kind of push him back into the ball carrier

02:52and affect that ball carrier's flow and pushed him back into the pursuit of the defense.

02:56It was pretty cool to see.

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