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Kyle Van Noy – September 16, 2020 Download PDF version

Wednesday, September 16, 2020

LB Kyle Van Noy

(I guess it was a little surprising that you didn’t play every down last week. Was that because of the hand injury? Was there a reason given to you as to why you weren’t in there every play?) – “I’m going to let you come up with a story on your own on that one.”

(My question is about the challenges presented by the zone read on the offensive side, as you are kind of trying to read your keys. How much can that little delay as the quarterback rides that mesh point out impact your ability to make those reads on those keys?) – “That’s a good question. Obviously everyone thinks they are a football coach nowadays and thinks they know what your assignment is; but I was playing my assignment, taking my responsibility away in the game. Obviously it switches depending on what way they are running, and I just was trying to do my best. I think the more and more we go over it in practice and the guys get on the same page, the more and more we’ll get better at it. Cam Newton had a little success and I feel like we took it away but then there were other runs he started to create a little bit more. Hopefully we can limit those this week against Josh Allen, because we know that they are going to probably do it because it was successful against us. We’ve got to do a better job as a group. I’ve got to do a better job and hopefully we can get this QB run taken care of.”

(Will it help to have fans in the stands Sunday even if it’s only 13,000 people?) – “I actually like the fact that fans are going to be allowed. I hope that fans in the stadiums that NFL teams are at can go back to a more normalized – obviously I want to be safe and wear masks. But just to have that for them and for us. I think it’s going to be cool.”

(Does it help when you’re going against a similar quarterback back to back in terms of building on what you guys did right and wrong last week?) – “I think anytime you get a chance to see how a quarterback runs and does certain things and certain plays, you get a better understanding of how to defend them and how they were attacking us. I think we’ll be ready for all of those these week because we got a good challenge the first week, and Josh Allen is just as big a problem as Cam Newton running the ball.”

(You’ve been in the AFC East before, so you’ve played QB Josh Allen a few times. What are some of the similarities and differences of defending Josh versus defending QB Cam Newton?) – “I don’t want to get into comparisons. Just, Josh’s growth each and every year has been big. You can see his strides. His reads are getting better. Everything about his game is getting better. (Offensive Coordinator) Brian Daboll and (Sean) McDermott, they’ve done a really good job with his growth and development. I continue to see that after Week 1 this year. We’ve just got to do a good job. They ran him a lot. He actually threw a bunch too. I think he threw 46 times against the Jets, which was a lot, and he also made plays on the ground. He’s making strides.”

(I think you’re kind of aware of the criticism this defense has taken since the Patriots game. A, Do you think it’s warranted? And B, why are you convinced we won’t be writing the same thing in a week from now?) – “We gave up 217 yards rushing, so we should get criticized. That’s not good enough. We’ve got to do better and I hope we do better, practice better, do everything better this week and put a better performance out on Sunday for the fans, which they deserve, and for each other because we hold each other to a high standard.”

(In the past against the Bills, you’ve had some success sacking Josh Allen. You’ve had success forcing Josh Allen to fumble. He’s a guy who will fumble. He fumbled twice in the first game. How aware are you and your teammates of which quarterbacks are more susceptible to fumble and does that approach how do you attack the ball?) – “I think you want to attack the ball as much as you can playing any quarterback. They usually have one hand on the ball, so you want to put the pressure on every quarterback when you get the chance. Josh Allen is a target for that and we’re going to try to do everything we can to get the ball back into the offense’s hand.”

(We were unable to ask you about the postgame interaction with QB Cam Newton after the game. What happened there? It seemed like you were trying to mediate. You were a little more cordial than other players. What happened with the situation there at the end of the game?) – “Yeah, it was just ‘good game, keep it moving.’ They won.”  

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