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What Bills defensive coordinator Jim Leonard said at yesterday's press conference should have Bills fans fired up. As with an impressive performance versus the Los Angeles Chargers now in the rearview mirror, the defense now has their sights set on the New England Patriots as they hope to replicate and even improve upon that performance. So today we'll be taking a look at how the Bills are preparing for their Week 4 matchup, including the highlights from Jim Leonard's So welcome everybody to Bills Digest. I'm Ben Volker and here at Bills Digest we've got you covered with all things related to the Buffalo Bills. Whether it be news, rumors, matchup analysis, or reactions, we've got you covered here at Bills Digest. So if you don't want to miss a thing make sure to go ahead hit subscribe so that you can stay up to date on all content just like this. And ladies and gentlemen, I am happy to declare that it is officially Patriots Hate Week, my absolute favorite week of the NFL regular season. Yes, I love it more than Chiefs Week. I love it more than Ravens Week. I love it more than Jets or Dolphins Week. I look forward to Patriots Week every single year and this year even more so because the Bills have a chip on their shoulder. They are trying to reclaim that AFC East crown that was so rightfully stolen from the fraud Patriots last year. And look, I'll just come out and say it right now. I am Drake May's number one hater. I will plant my flag firmly in that territory. I've been his number one hater since last year and I'm so happy that people are finally starting to wake up and see Drake May for the quarterback that he truly is. He is not a top 10 quarterback. He's not even a top 15 quarterback in this league and I will die on that hill until the day Drake May retires. But okay, let's just pretend for a second that Drake May hasn't been off to an absolutely atrocious start to his 2026 season, which he almost certainly has. Let's say he was playing at this MVP level that he was playing last year. I still think that the Bills are going to handle Drake May, even if he did play well those first three weeks. And that the reason for that is one man in particular. That's right. I'm talking about Jim Leonard. And let's just give a massive shout out to Jim Leonard real quick because what he did in week three versus the Chargers after the Bills offense committed five turnovers. Holding the Chargers to 16 points was very, very, very impressive. Especially after the entire narrative around his Bills team the first two weeks was this defense is not going to get it done. They gave up 31 points in back-to-back weeks to the Texans and the Lions and people were saying if the Bills are going to lose games, it will be because of the defense. That was not the case in week three. So what Jim Leonard did very impressive. I am very excited to see what this defense does going forward and Jim Leonard has very a lot a lot of experience with dealing with Drake May and he knows what Drake May is capable of. But this is why I am so fired up as a Bills fan after what this Jim Leonard quote says because let's just go ahead take a look at this right here. This is what he said when asked about Drake May's struggles this year. He said look you turned the tape on from last year. It was dynamic. He was playing at a really high level. Obviously, he had some slip-ups in the playoffs. You're watching a guy now you can tell he's going through some stuff and look guys I know I'm hating on Drake May but I love the way that Jim Leonard is approaching this. Yes, Drake May has had a terrible start to the 2026 season. He's by far the worst quarterback in the NFL this year if you ask me, but you can't treat him like that. If you're the Bills defensive coordinator Jim Leonard, you cannot treat him like that. You have to do you do have to view him as the MVP runner-up. I don't have to view him as that but Jim Leonard does. So as they prepare for the Patriots, they need to prepare for the Drake May that scores five touchdowns against the defense that can't cook that can't even get a single turnover in 2025. They have to prepare for that version of Drake May even if their defense is loads better than pretty much every single defense that Drake May played throughout last year on in his MVP runner-up campaign and I will break down why I am so high on Jim Leonard and all of this in just a second. But first I've to let you guys know that today's video is sponsored by Calshi and on Calshi you're trading directly against other users not the house like traditional sports books. 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That is a great deal and if you are interested in trying out Calshi use the link in the description trade $25 with code DigestNFL and get $55 added to your account instantly. Thank you once again to Calshi for sponsoring today's video. All right look I'm gonna pull up the stats here this is what Drake May did last year. I know there's a lot of green a lot of good over 4,000 passing yards 33 touchdowns on eight interceptions 77 passer rating but this is like I said going up against defenses like the Jets last year that didn't bring in a single interception. Drake May struggled in the playoffs that's no secret last year and you know who was behind his worst game of the playoffs in the AFC championship? Well of course that was Jim Leonard and look at what Jim Leonard held Drake May to in this game. You can see it there at the bottom I'm going to pull this up full screen just so you can really take a look at that 10 of 21 on 86 passing yards five sacks by far the worst game of Drake May's 2025 season was against Jim Leonard's Broncos and I know what you're saying there the talent on the Bills defense is not as good as the talent on the Broncos defense and sure maybe it's not right now but Jim Leonard has the blueprint to shut down Drake May take into account how terrible Drake May has been playing throughout the first three years or through the first first three games this year it's not even close if you ask me Drake May is in trouble in this game I am firmly in that camp and a big reason I'm so confident in this is because of one player in particular that of course being Greg Rousseau who is off to a absolutely monster start to his 2026 campaign you see there six sacks in three games he's on pace for 34 sacks which would absolutely shatter the NFL sack record for the season obviously he is due to slow down there's no way he gets 34 sacks this year that would be absolutely insane but you look any major category for edge rushers and Greg Rousseau will be at the top force fumbles with three he's at the top four QB hits for win rate it's it's insane what Greg Rousseau has done this year and he's getting early defensive player of the year buzz for good reason and don't think Jim Leonard isn't aware of this because he had very high praise for Greg Rousseau today he said obviously when it looks right with Greg it's pretty and I mean the ability to win consistently with his power with his length and just continually pushing and affecting the pocket like the consistency that he can do that with it's a lot of fun right now and he feels it and look this is the key for the Bills defense the entire year not just in week four against the Patriots the entire year this is the motor for the Bills and with how well Greg Rousseau is playing it makes the rest of and what do I mean by that well Jim Leonard was asked what if how do you slow down Greg Rousseau like what what if he regresses how do you how do you prevent that from happening and I love Jim Leonard's answer here also because he said this about Greg Rousseau also you have to understand that offenses are going to make adjustments he's going to draw a lot of attention and that's why the rest of the group is what the rest of the group is doing is equally as impressive so just that group as a collective if they continue to play as well as they are and as connected as they are right now that makes it extremely difficult for offenses to target he's talking about guys like Deion Walker, Ed Oliver, Bradley Chubb who if the opposing offenses do decide to double team Greg Rousseau with the monster pace he's playing at that opens the door and for them to get after the quarterback and apply the pressure and it just I know this is football one-on-one but it creates that feedback loop where then the teams have to start focusing on Ed Oliver on Deion Walker on Bradley Chubb giving Greg Rousseau once again more opportunities to perform at a high level and I just I love I love what the Bills are building here and I just expect this to get better and better every single week but let me know what you guys think about Greg Rousseau's performances so far this year how many sacks will Greg Rousseau have will he break the record will he have 23 plus sacks or will he just miss it 22 to 20 will it be around 19 to 15 a very good season for a defensive player in general will it be 14 to 10 kind of regress back to the median or will he just absolutely follow the player and get less than 10. I'm gonna go with the 19 to 15 category here I think that's pretty reasonable there's no way that he maintains a two sack per game pace but still I do think he will score or that he will record 15 plus sacks this year but let me know what you guys think in the comments below and that is all the time that we have for today we will have a ton of more Patriots content coming your way throughout this entire week I should say anti-Patriots comment content Patriots hate content I am extremely excited for that so keep it right here on Bills Digest if you don't want to miss any of that as always thanks for watching and of course Go Bills!