00:00Really a big game tonight between the Buffalo Bills and the Minnesota Vikings there in the
00:04Twin Cities.
00:05And really, I don't know what to expect from that Minnesota Vikings offense, but I do know
00:09what to expect from that Minnesota Vikings defense with Brian Flores.
00:14And this is really going to come down to Josh Allen versus Brian Flores.
00:18Jacob Kamaker from USA Today is here with us.
00:21Who do you got in that one?
00:22If you had to pick Josh Allen versus Brian Flores' defense, who are you going with?
00:28Yeah, so I'm almost always in the trust Brian Flores' defense camp because he's given us
00:33no reason to not believe it.
00:34But this is the type of matchup that I think can stress this defense because the thing that
00:40Minnesota does better than any other defense in the league is they generate pressure with
00:44exotic blitzes.
00:45You know, they walk up so many guys to the line of scrimmage.
00:48They keep quarterbacks confused.
00:50Josh Allen, because of his size and mobility and arm strength, he is equipped to deal with
00:56that pressure, uniquely so, escape from it and still make big downfield plays against
01:01the man coverage that Flores will be running on the back end.
01:04So I think that this is going to be a situation where the Vikings are going to give up more
01:08big plays in this game than any other this season just because Allen has the skill set
01:14needed to distress that defense.
01:15And I don't trust Minnesota's offense to score enough in this game that if it turns into even
01:20a mini shootout, even if the Bills get up to, say, 24 points in this game, I'm just not
01:25seeing enough from that Vikings offense to kind of trust them in this one.
01:29I know Carson Wentz is starting in place of Kyler Murray.
01:31Maybe that'll unlock a little something in the passing game, but I think this might be
01:35kind of the coming out party for the Bills where they say, hey, we can take care of this
01:39top defense.
01:39We have the best offense in the league, and it's going to be on every team in the league
01:43to try to either find a way to stop us or beat us in a shootout.
01:48You know, I thought you'd be going for Big Red tonight.
01:50Just I don't know why, but I thought maybe you'd be going for Carson Wentz tonight here,
01:56the Big Red arm there.
01:57So anyway, but hey, do you think that Brian Flores gets another opportunity to become a
02:03head football coach?
02:04I know there's a pending lawsuit right now with the league on what went on with all that
02:08crap down in Miami.
02:09The job that he's done in Minnesota has been remarkable.
02:12Really, the last couple of years here, you think he gets another opportunity?
02:17I think he eventually will.
02:18I don't know.
02:19Obviously, the lawsuit ongoing, I don't know how that's impacting teams ability to kind
02:24of assess him as a candidate.
02:25But I think you look at the pool of guys out there, you know, you have a couple good
02:28retreads available and Mike Tomlin and Sean McDermott if they want to come back and coach
02:32this year.
02:33But then the crop of coordinators out there, I think you have a case to make that Brian Flores
02:37is the best guy out there because you know when you hire him, he will turn your
02:42defense into a top five unit.
02:44He has done it at every stop he's been at in the NFL.
02:47So I think eventually a team maybe with a struggling defense and needing an identity is going to
02:52look at him and say, we need to just bring this guy in.
02:54We're going to take a chance.
02:56We're going to, you know, hope that he learned from whatever happened in Miami to make things
03:01better.
03:01But we know he's the best defensive mind in the game.
03:05And he's just someone that I would want on my sidelines if I'm an NFL owner.
03:09Absolutely.
03:10He turned the culture around in South Florida.
03:13And again, didn't get credit for turning that culture around.
03:16Really one of Bill Belichick's only true assistant coaches that have gone on to really show some
03:22type of success, him being up there in New England all them years.
