"New" Bills Shine in Preseason Week 1

What did you think about the approach with the ones? And let's start with offense because we knew the ones were going to play.

We knew that Joe Brady had said that he wanted to get them some work.

And we also know that Josh Allen is not exactly the kind of person that you can say, go out there and half-ass it.

Go out there, and if it's not there, just throw it away or play it safe.

That's not in his mentality.

And the more I've been thinking about it, it's like, what good does that do him? He has to lather up in getting out of situations.

He's been in training camp where if anybody on that defense gets within five feet of them, they're getting thrown out of practice.

You don't touch the multimillion-dollar quarterback.

But what did you think about the offensive approach? Was there a point in time where it felt like, all right, that's enough Josh Allen? Or did they take him out at the exact time that you thought, OK, he just threw a touchdown pass.

We've seen two drives.

He's been on the ground a couple of times.

Now we're

good.

I would say this.

There's caveats to this that I will get into.

But just to give the overall answer, I'm OK and I like.

how it was handled in the sense of...

So I'm always, why are we even playing these guys? And I will even say Deion and Spencer Brown seem to be more in the going through the motion stages, it felt like, where they were...

handling rushes and things of that nature in a manner that I would say is not up to their standard on a snap by snap basis.

And to me, from an individual perspective, as in from Dion and Spencer looking at their health and well-being getting into the season, I fully embrace that and endorse it.

The caveat of that for this case is you are protecting the franchise.

You probably need to be doing a little bit more than going through the motions if, say, Jalen Phillips is going at you pretty hard on a third down or so.

That's one thing.

The other caveat is I like your point about you can't tell Josh Allen to go half-ass.

I will also say I would never tell a player to go half-ass because if you put, I feel like in professional sports in general, If you put it into the head of a player, of an individual to be cautious and or slow it down a little bit and or, you know, quote unquote, play half assed for your own well-being, for your health, whatever.