00:00What do you think of this game tonight, Sal?
00:02The offense matching up with this defense.
00:05They're going to have a challenge like we just talked about.
00:08There might be without two of their starting offensive linemen.
00:12How do you think the Bills will approach it?
00:15Do you expect the Vikings to stick with their heavy blitz rate?
00:19Me and Brad talked earlier about this is a quarterback that you should probably not do that against in Josh
00:24Allen.
00:25But here they are, and this is what they do.
00:27It wouldn't stun me if they come in and say, all right, this is how we do it.
00:31Let's see it.
00:31Yeah, I think that's what Brian Flores does and what he's going to do.
00:34Now, they've got to be in situations like that to be able to blitz them.
00:38If the Bills are living in third and five or more, they're coming after them.
00:42It's just what's going to happen.
00:43It's what the Vikings do.
00:45That's what they believe, and that's their identity.
00:48We know Josh Allen can really beat the blitz.
00:50But look, I think this game is very much like a Ty Johnson game.
00:54Ty Johnson's got to be very important in this game as a blitz guy who picks up blitzes, a running
01:00back picking up blitzes,
01:01and an outlet for Josh as a third down back.
01:03The Bills often call him the best third down back in the league.
01:05And by the way, he might be.
01:06He's really good at that role.
01:08And he's going to have to come up big.
01:09However, to answer your question, you've got to run the ball in this game.
01:12I mean, guys, last week, I think really fortunate for the Bills that the Vikings played a team last week
01:20in the Lions who said,
01:21here's how you beat that defense, they went heavy, especially in the second half, 12 personnel, 13 personnel, two tight
01:28ends, three tight ends,
01:29so people understand they ran the ball for 230 yards against this defense last week.
01:35Talk to Paul Allen, their longtime play-by-play guy this week on the Always Game Day in Buffalo podcast.
01:39He said the run defense has been an issue at times.
01:43Guys, you have James Cook, right?
01:45I mean, you can run 12 and 13 personnel as good as any team in this league.
01:50I expect to see a lot of that tonight.
