Buffalo Bills LB Matt Milano out indefinitely with torn bicep: Where does the defense go from here?
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Buffalo Bills linebacker Matt Milano tore his bicep and will undergo surgery. Where does the defense go from here? On today’s episode, Host Joe Marino breaks down all of those dynamics including replacement options. The show is focused on the Buffalo Bills, Sean McDermott, Brandon Beane, Joe Brady, Josh Allen, Matt Milano, Terrel Bernard, Dorian Williams, Deion Jones, Nicholas Morrow, Baylon Spector, Shaquille Leonard, Kwon Alexander, Shaq Thompson, Bobby Babich, Keon Coleman, James Cook, Khalil Shakir and more!
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Favorite player out 2 years straight 🫠
Me too Chris. Really takes some of the pizzazz away for me this season
@@tjsumigray22 Mack Hollins is my new favorite
SAME!
The Tre White special
Another White situation
Looking like LB in round 1 next year! Can't believe our best defensive player is out for the second straight season! Praying for you Milano, stay positive brother!
Edge. I think we move up for an edge. 1st and both 2nds and see how high we can get
I think that depends on how well Dorian Williams fills in, my guess is if he's solid he'll be the starter and they'll go for edge in the 1st
Edge will most definitely be the priority next year
Who knows, maybe Milano will be able to strengthen his legs and come back in December and bring the Bills home for a playoff run.
@@nunoalvarespereira87WR could still be a priority. Also more cap space will be available, and could fill a need at DE there. Still wish they would've signed Trey Hendrickson several yrs ago and never signed Von Miller the following yr.
Milano is the 4th highest paid LB in the NFL and the oldest in the top 10 highest paid LB’s. This feels like Tre White 2.0. After this year it’s time to move on from Milano unfortunately. Keep up the great work Joe!! Go Bills!!
Tre White or Edmunds? Edmunds never missed a game.
@@timothycaver3768 Tre White
We shoulda keep tre Edmonds @j-mac57
@@jonjones6489Bernard is better!
@jonjones6489 he isn't worth what the Bears are paying him. No way. I was never high on Milano to start this season. Players at his position age 2x faster. Learn how to win without your best weapons, it's the NFL.
It's gotta be coaching. The injuries with the bills the last few seasons is unreal. Gotta be the staff either over working or not enough conditioning when is this gonna be not considered a coincidence or freak occurrence?
@@moneybagz82 Y'all are idiots lol
JFC.. unbelievable. Figures.. I was SO pumped to see Milano back and kickn ass again, with Bernard.
Me too. I think that was on pace to be the best position group on the field. Those two could create so much havoc for offenses. This injury has really drained the fun out of it. Very disappointed. What's next?
Thanks Joe for the quick pod
My heart is saddened to hear such terrible news and even more for Matt to go through another surgery and rehab. He's such a good player and to not have him on the field again this year is frankly heartbreaking 😭 Prayers for you Matt on a speedy recovery God Bless❤❤❤
Teams will pick on Dorian Williams ALL-DAY-LONG
He better get good
He is very talented athleticly. He lacks the mental strength. He often overshoots his gaps, or will over pursue. He needs to let the game slow down for him and he will become an all pro. He is a beast.
There's no way he starts it's going to be Jones, Williams will still be the third linebacker. As For the bills there's always next year.
@@stevenlacharite4433 I can't believe morons think he's going to be the starter instead of just still being the third linebacker. Jones will be the other starting linebacker at his peak he was just as good as molto right now he's still good enough.
@@TheTree1Bro is not a fan 😐
I know this may sound crazy. But Milano getting hurt is the one starter we can actually afford to go 10 weeks without. Williams was a 3rd round pick, Dion Jones is a great depth piece. Last year Williams was raw and Bernard got hurt in the playoffs. We are in better position now to replace Milano than last year by a mile. If he can make it to the playoffs, it also gives him more time to fully recover from his broken leg
I’m honestly not worried about this at all
Perfectly said. People freak out over things that can be replaced.
@@vivienneduong6541 Matthew Milano is an All-Pro player you Dingus! They don't grow on trees..
Are you saying Joe Andreessen has a chance? Looong shot. Maybe. Let’s go Buffalo!
Bills need to stay in Orchard Park just ONE year training camp. We we stayed there for COVID that was Josh Allen's BEST season & ZERO injuries. Gotta do it
The Bills need to hire Physiotherapist prodigy Kelly Starrett to help with injury prevention.
The Bills need to acknowledge that the injury bug is a trend with this team.
im crying, literally my favorite player out again i cant believe this shit
we hear ya man
Dorian Williams will make up the difference. This man has outstanding speed and agility. If he can develop his instincts he'll be an all pro.
I honestly hope, but Milano is an All Pro when healthy. Milano will be near impossible to replace!
@rebelsoul5980 true. Milano is special, but remember, when the Bills were amazing in the 90s, it was next man up and the Pats and Chiefs are personification of that as well. Hell, the Bills drafted him in the 3rd round to be a role player.
I hope he learns quickly. We have no choice but to hope.
@@bakugosrage8976 I don't recall the Bills losing their top defensive talent year after year in the 90s. I know Bruce missed a lot of time in 1991. This is bizarre. The Bills have lost their best defensive player or players for 4 years in a row now: Tre White in 2021, Von Miller in 2022, Matt Milano and Tre White (along with Jones and Benford for a good amount of time) in 2023, and now Milano again in 2024.
And you had Poyer, Hyde, missing chunks of time, and Von Miller was a shell of himself last year. All teams suffer injuries, but this is an ugly string of injuries.
Well hell, T Bass and Cook fell off the radar with that news. The only good news is it happened now vs mid season. Good report.
Sucks that this happened to him, bicep tendon ruptures are often sudden and happen without warning. The good news is post surgery it's not too hard getting the injured arm back to almost 100%.
All these injuries recently make me wonder what is going on with these guys' training and nutrition.
Milano had most of last year off, while recovering from his leg injury. Certainly he was still training and going through PT, but a bicep tendon rupture usually happens due to accumulation of fatigue and/or lack of recovery... I'm hoping these guys are getting enough/the right kind of food in along with proper stretching and mobility work. Might be time to review what is happening behind the scenes to make sure thess guys are getting properly taken care of
I agree is itstrength and conditioning issue?
@@thesuppcollector tell us more about something you have no insight into please
@@jakethethird1584 thanks for your valuable comment, you sure taught me a lesson about commenting on a UA-cam video. ⭐ There's your gold star for the day bud
@@user-kz9fm2kx3z with any injury it's hard to say for sure, but bicep tears are pretty rare in the NFL, so a review of the training and recovery programming might be beneficial.
@@thesuppcollector I feel the same about all that bull sh*t you typed.
Swear Bills have been in injury hell for four years straight now. That 2021 Thanksgiving game cursed us.
It’s long overdue to re-evaluate the strength and conditioning program and mindset of how the team approaches injury.
This is a stupid comment lol. You have no idea of what goes on regarding this. It's football. Every team in the league goes through this at some point in a season.
But a few years ago they were rolling into the playoffs at almost 100% health with the same staff. Injuries are luck and bad luck, always have been and always will be.
@@jakethethird1584um no it's not.
@MikeLandicovers wow, your insight totally changed my opinion on the topic
I don't think it's a stupid comment. This IS a problem and has been for years for the Buffalo Bills.
Makes me wanna cry AGAIN
This injury is a crushing blow. Super sad day for Bills Mafia. This is depressing. I was already concerned about the safety position and leadership with Milano and Poyer gone. LB I was hoping could be a strength. This is very concerning for weakness in the middle of the field. We dont even have Dodson around anymore who played well last year with Bernard. This is the most depressing day for me since last season ended as a fan. Way more than when Diggs got traded - I look forward to the future in this regard.
There is a huge problem with Buffalo’s strength and conditioning if this shit is happening all the time.
Agree 100%
This news finally made me call Betterhelp!
Great player but always hurt..availability is the best ability
He was literally hurt for the first time last year
Time for Bills to move on from Milano
I bet he gets cut next yr
Milano - Bills Baller! 🦬🏈❄️
Still Rockin his jersey in his honor #58
"I Am hurt, but not slain; I'll lay me down and Bleed awhile, And then I'll rise and fight again."... Marv Levy.. lets go Buffalo!!!
And then he lost four Super Bowls
real
the bills under josh allen or mcdermott havent made one@@michaelsturdevant9196
And most importantly the real key to having a legit shot at winning the Super Bowl - finally cutting loose the worst contract extension recipient - Sean Mcd ; We should have a parade to celebrate the liberation, Josh will have to biggest smile of all and we will finally hear what the players really thought about his reign of idiocy.
@@glenndemann333 Another dumb comment
He’s my favorite player man, never seen someone have so much Aura… that being said, the bills have to cut or trade him, I can’t handle another Tre White situation where we have to watch him struggle only to get hurt again while we pay big money
"And, featuring the 6 or so remaining members of the Buffalo Bills, we present to you Preseason Week 2!"
Milano is finished. Two years back to back with significant injuries. Cut candidate after season to save dap. What is the hit? Maybe it’s time to seriously think about these contract extensions at age 29, especially with these devastating injuries to the roster.
@@BuffaloStampede17 he's not going anywhere for like 2 years. Too much dead cap
@@peterwilson4865 just like Diggs….who also had “too much dead cap to be released.”
@@BuffaloStampede17 You say that like it happens regularly, yet Diggs's 30 million was the all time non-QB hit in league history. You think they've got another 29 million they can swallow with Milano now or something? Because they can't and won't, just like I said.
it’s 9 million in 25 and 11 in 26 more than doable for someone who might not return to his pro bowl level. Agree to disagree nothing more nor less.
@@BuffaloStampede17 it's 29 million this year, 17 million next year, and 11 million in 2026 according to Spotrac. Not sure where you're getting your numbers from. He got 30 million in new guarantees before the 2023 season. I think you're talking post June 1 designation in 2025 with those numbers, which means it'd be a little under 7 for 2025 in dead cap and another 11 million in 2026 also carried over. That's still not an easy pill to swallow on an injury that he's going to likely be recovered from by the January/Feb 2025 plus being another year removed from the leg break. I think they keep him through 2025 and then cut him before 2026. That's a cleaner break and still potentially allows them to get 1 more healthy year out of him.
You forgot about my guy Joe andreeson DONT SLEEP ON HIM💯
👍👍
40 years of coulda,woulda,shoulda. You continue to Billieve. Mafia on.
Damn this is par for our course.
Go Bills
Why do bills players get hurt more often than any other team in the NFL. What are we doing wrong? Every season, we lose all our best players to injuries. We need to invest in better strength and conditioning personnel. SOMETHING NEEDS TO CHANGE.
Jesus
Our passion for this team makes us feel like this.
Yes it sucks, but it's a brutal game!
Our luck needs to change.
exactly! Strength n big muscles one thing but need flexibility. So trainers suck or their hands r tied by a philosophy i dont know
Unreal
Very disappointing. That’s a tough injury for a linebacker. Doubt he’ll be back this year. Wish Matt the best though.
honestly milano being out till december is probably a good thing. that means he won't be injured on the field again anytime between now and then and he'll be available for the playoffs. fingers crossed. side note: this makes me feel like beane may have to look at that milano contract a bit more and whether it's something they need to get out of.
Man already he’s good wish he would have at least played
God hates the bills. Hopefully Dorian can fill the void because there's barely a non -zero chance that Spector doesn't get hurt at some point. We're not well covered at MLB, but they have a lot of athletic off ball options at WLB between Williams, Spector, Ulofoshio, and even Deion Jones.
We're Done !!!!!!!!!
FUCK !!!!!!!
Somebody is cursing us !!!!
@@AlphabetJune definitely not done, but definitely not an ideal way to start off the season.
Bills, Chargers, Vikings. The 3 worst energies in the league when it comes to the dark undercurrent that keeps them down. Everyone knows it's there but can't quite put a reason to it. Curses don't need reasoning, they just exist and persist ruthlessly.
If we see Milano working on his lower body as he deals with an upper body injury, it will go miles towards what will ultimately happen with matt.
What?
Of course he will be
He’s finished don’t try to hold on
I 100% KNOW the reason of the injuries. Bills have a state of the art top notch. Weight room, rest & recovery, preventative maintenance rooms in Orchard Park. They lose ALL of that when they go to st John fisher. Look at the COVID yr when we didn't go there for training camp. THAT was our BEST year with Joan and even better there were NO INJURIES
It's a shame that one of my favorite players on the team is injured again. I was hoping to get to see one of my other favorite players, Bernard, play together this season to see what kind fo havoc they could cause together.
Hope Bills sign Zach Cunningham. He played college football at Vandy and still remember Nick Saban at Bama commenting about what a beast he was at linebacker.
Swami says: Milano will be back for the final two regular season games and playoffs. As Joe points out, this gives the tibial plateau injury more time...and the biceps tear is not a leg injury. Daquon returned from the pec tear and that injury occurred in-season. If this holds true, Milano will have 29 less games of wear and will rock the rest of his contract.
One thing's certian. We'll NEVER hear from Milano about this... Or anything. . Lurch from the Adam's family talked more than Milano.
I never got excited about Milano and Bernard playing together because I never expected Milano to stay healthy very long
Actually, I felt the same way
That's a terrible way to live. That's not even realism, that's masochistic behavior. Loser mentality.
He's a glass cannon. Hopefully we get him back for the playoffs
Bills Carolina connection always there
Love your show Joe!
Can Josh play LB too?😂
For real though, it’s looking like a rough season on the way. Get to work fellas.
OMG that makes December his earliest comeback,, Bills need Mr Miyagi 2.0 with that thing that he does. GO BILLS
Now I really need Better Help😅 Sucks!
I hate the bills as a fins fan, but I feel bad for milano. Local kid from high school right behind universal studios. Get well dude.
Why are so many draft picks spent on guys who might be ready to go by the final year of their rookie deal…some how KC drafts a new defense every year and still whoops our ass
58 we prayin for you paisan
Is Milano turning into Tre White 2.0?
The Bills fans already there is always next year lol 😂
GO BILLS...Go Joe..
I guess I don't ask Baylon Spector to get my groceries!
Torn biceps can heal in 4 months after surgery, he will be back this season, but it sucks can he always gets hurt...
This is a silly thought and something we can't really predict or ever plan for, but I know Milano loves being in Buffalo. What do we think the odds are that he would do something like Von or Dawson and take a pay cut coming out of a season with injuries? Strikes me as a team-first type of player from everything we've seen and heard over the years. Cookie man 😭
If Williams can take all that physical talent, and sharpen his instincts, I think the LB room will be fine.
The Bills strength and conditioning is sus
Good Afternoon Joe
Believe we’re cursed man we need defense to step up this year and now this . Hope balin and Dorian step up this sucks .
Joe, great job today.
I question using the big safeties at LB instead of real ones. I get the speed but they’re liabilities in the run game and are super susceptible to injury.
We're one lb injury away from not being able to stop a nose bleed
The same story like Tre'Davious White, they should have traded Milano instead of Tremaine Edmunds
Gotta love all the experts commenting on meaningless scrimmages 😂😂😂😂
Milano is a great player and person. Sorry for him, but anything that expedites McDermott's firing is a good thing.
@@michaelsturdevant9196 100% dumb comment
I argue all the time with my coworker on the value of milano. He states milano is an injury prone liability. And actually gave milano 4 weeks before his major injury.it took 2 weeks. I hate he was right.
Relax my friends. If tgere is something we have practice on ,its making it work while Milano recovers. So it begins. AJ Klein better start working out.😂😢
This team's in trouble this year
What's up with our luck ???.... White signs huge extension ACL then Achilles.... We sign Von to huge contract .... ACL out for 2 years.... Milano gets huge extension.... Broken leg then torn bicep ... Diggs signs huge extension... Becomes diva....
It's not luck.
It's called strength and conditioning.
It's also called forecasting or projecting talent trajectory.
Which our GM has a proven track record of being terrible at on the defensive side of the ball.
There's a mastermind defensive head coach who is going to be on the hot seat by Week 6.
Wait for it...
He already was a diva
@HALFDEADHERMAN can't project injuries, you can say after the fact oh, so and so is old I knew he was gonna get hurt, but in the end, way more "old" players stay healthy than have season ending injuries. Just so happens that when it happens to the Bills, it's their best "old" players
How long have you been a Bills fan? This is par for the course.......
@user-gr1gy9rq4h ya, we stay healthy when the team sucks, but then when the team is good, injuries derail everything.
Unbelievable. So depressing.
After this year, what do we do? We paid him very recently but he keeps having injuries. Injuries added with another year older...doesnt work out long term..know its just an arm injurty(THIS TIME)but still..we knew something was coming
Do the bills need to evaluate their training staff lb shouldn't be made of glass
Dang that’s a harsh injury
Time to see what Dorian Williams has and maybe they shouldn't have gotten rid of tyrel Dodson
darn got to be tuff for Matt
Where did this curse originate? What did they do to deserve this? It makes you wanna quit. But you never quit because your a masochist. And you enjoy being punished by the never ending heart break.
I swear the Ralph was built on Native American burial grounds or something
@@awill3454 maybe when Beebe stepped out of bounds in his touchdown during the comeback? That doesn't seem comparable to everything this team has been through since 1-3-93.
Injury settlement and release. QB, LB, and WR. Let em go and move on.
Josh is wasting his peak with the Bills
It's looking that way isn't it? damm shame too.
Well that SUCKS. I wasn't super sure he would be back fully healthy this year anyway though. He's 30 and an incredibly physical player. Maybe his body is just breaking down. Too bad we had to give up Dodson, but I'm a fan of Dorian Williams. I like Spector too aside from his getting hurt too much. We'll have to maybe go to what we did last year with a 3rd safety...or this may be a way to get Elam on the field as a starter.
I hate to say it we should have kept traymond Edmunds he younger and is always available I don't think he been injured yet even on the bears
Is this a strength and conditioning problem or just at bad luck ? Unfortunately I think Milanos career is done. 2 big injuries in less than 2 years
Against the run, Williams and specter are quite capable of fulfilling Milano spot… and capable to defend the pass on third and long…. With more experience, they will improve and not be so easily duked On the remaining plays
Injuries to players have to be an accepted part of the game. The human body is just not made to play a physical game like football without getting hurt.
It’s not as big a deal as people think it is. No one player, other than QB, especially an off-ball lb, makes that much a difference to wins and loses. Relax people
I think being without Bernard and Milano was the biggest reason we lost to the Chiefs last season in the playoffs. Not any one player (short of QB) will throw a game or season, but a team can only handle losing so many extremely talented, key players before they can no longer stay afloat.
Sad with Milano. Had high hopes for the defense with him back in the mix. Well it's time for Williams to step up. He's not there for nothing. Let's go Buffalo 😎🍺🏈🦬
At this point I always expect the worst. If it weren't for bad luck, we'd have no luck at all. Beane has AJ's # on speed dial I'm sure.
Time to start thinking about life after Milano
Love the guy but he's horribly injury prone and unreliable as a result
HUGE blow and the season hasnt started even
I'm starting to believe the Bills stadium was built on top of an ancient burial ground. The curse continues.
Well it was. Now twice.
they better get Dorian grooming quick, Milano is turning into a glass cannon
I thought after this year ,there is no guaranteed money for him .
How much money do we have to afford a new LB
Offense better find their game big time. 30+ per game.
WTF is going on with s&c?
As the replacement sadly I don't see Dorian Williams as the right fit for this system. A different era like 1990-2009 Williams would be effective 2 down run stopper, but this era lacks agility & coverage ability. Why Bills drafted both Milano & Bernard as converted Safety tweeners who excel in coverage for this pass happy era with modified rules set making passing much easier.
We could always play base Dime?
Now we'll see what Williams has, 3rd round pick, that's pretty high, not a throw away pick. He doesn't have to be Milano just competent, hold down the position. More...he was a third round pick???
Joe, I now have 11 Bills hats. What’s your count?
It's gotta be at least 30 I'd say