Mike Brown

Dre'Mont Jones, Craig Woodson, both of them out.

With Woodson out, it was J- a combination of Jalen Reid and Mike Brown.

We don't want either one of those.

Kevin Byard playing a full complement of snaps except for when it went to garbage time.

Uh, Craig Woodson, is he going to play? Will, will he be back? If not, then I think you can attack the safeties as well, especially Jalen Reed.

So when you're looking at Kevin Byard, Jalen Reed, and Mike Brown as your top three safeties, I, I think Buffalo would be very smart to try to attack those guys with the tight ends, and even mix in a running back catch or two, because I j- I just don't feel great about the ability of the linebackers especially, to stick with that type of talent.

I'm, I'm very interested in kind of building on what you said there with Milton Williams and Christian Barmore.

I know maybe some quiet performances so far this year, but those guys are awesome.

But thank God we have

Mike Brown on the practice squad.

Yeah.

Even with Quintavious Hutchins, who was seventh round pick, they reported a timeline that, oh, it might be closer to six weeks than four.

Uh, Baron Morton remains the emergency quarterback, but, uh, the Woodson one in particular, I think creates a whole, um, I think you'll see some Jalen Reed who, uh, filled in a little bit last week when Woodson left the game.

And also Mike Brown is one of the, um, one of the veterans, the Patriots elevator from the practice squad has some experience in the league.

I

And he was kind of the guy we thought was going to be that third safety going into camp.

Second year, he's been a really good player for them.

Troy, what do you expect from the Patriots' safeties today?

Well, I think, like, if you get Mike Brown out there on the football field, I think you see him down in the box, maybe some playing more zone defenses with him out on the field.

With Reed, I think he might get a little bit more man.

right.

But, yeah, so, I mean, if Woodson plays, if not, then I think it's like Mike Brown.

Then we're talking a different defense at this point when you're bringing up guys like that.

But, yeah, I mean, I think it's going to be more of like a zone blitz theme rather than that kind of man blitz overpower.

Keep like – know force us out of nickel keep like keep the ball away from our secondary i think that might be uh more what cohen's thinking so i like that bet a lot uh i'm going with the jags over and this is more so a bet on just i mentioned a guy i like and also this lack of safety depth as uh going into this week uh give me brendan strange 25 plus receiving yards uh that number is at minus 132.

Quick one-point play, and I think that is a bet on both.

Strange being a good tight end, and there's a chance that either Jalen Reed or Mike Brown is covering Brent Strange in most of the one-on-one looks that he gets, which is less than ideal.

What was the line again? Sorry, I know you're typing it.

And so, you know, I could see him being a replacement for Woodson as far as what they do with – with the Del Pettis spot, you know, I'm not really sure.

I mean, you know, Mike Brown's probably going to be brought up.

I wouldn't say that's his forte.

He's not exactly – you know, Schooler is on his way back.

I could see Schooler doing some of that as far as, you know, covering people and running around and blitzing.

That's more of Schooler's thing than it is Mike Brown, who's not exactly known for his speed.

So definitely a lot of, you know, balls in the air, you know, at safety.

And one of the things – and we're going to talk about this when we talk about the Jaguars matchup – The Jaguars, I think it might work out better for the Patriots in this game because I think it's going to be, for the first time in a long time, I think it's going to be a base game.

What causes your flare-ups?

Maybe less Jersey Mike's and more, like, real food? Maybe being

less Jewish would help.

Less Jewish, okay.

Uh, Weather's going to be good down there.

Folks, you have a feel, too.

Really? You and Mike.

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