{"id":631128,"date":"2026-04-27T03:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/631128\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T03:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T03:54:08","slug":"bills-go-defense-on-nfl-draft-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/631128\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills go defense on NFL Draft Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Yahoo Sports Draft Live crew likes the direction the Bills are headed after Day 2 of the NFL Draft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-show-transcript\">View more<\/p>\n<p>Video Transcript<\/p>\n<p>There we go.<\/p>\n<p>CJ Parker, the edge rusher- Oh, man is the pick.<\/p>\n<p>This is what they needed.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Like this is great.<\/p>\n<p>Uh- They had to be mocking to him at some point.<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>I, I think it&#8217;s important also to point out here at least that we have a new head coach, right?<\/p>\n<p>Yeah.<\/p>\n<p>And so that means a new identity, especially when you&#8217;re coming off a head coach that had a defensive identity.<\/p>\n<p>So I do think it&#8217;s important I mean, the Bills basically said, &#8220;We think one person is the problem,&#8221; &#8217;cause the only thing they really changed was Sean McDermott, right?<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s see how this addresses some of that.<\/p>\n<p>I like this.<\/p>\n<p>They need guys that can push the pocket.<\/p>\n<p>They need guys that can set the edge against the run.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He works real hard.<\/p>\n<p>Like, as far as, like, he went on a Clemson team last year that struggled.<\/p>\n<p>He was just bringing it every single snap.<\/p>\n<p>He can kick outside on r- pass rush downs.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Leonard, who&#8217;s a very creative defensive coordinator, is gonna find a lot of use for him.<\/p>\n<p>Might not be the sexiest player, but I actually like this for a team that sometimes takes guys that are a little maybe flashier at the position, or has tried to address the position with vets like Joey Bosa, Von Miller.<\/p>\n<p>Now get a guy that&#8217;s maybe the hardworking type that I think they really needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"caas-hide-transcript\">Close<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Yahoo Sports Draft Live crew likes the direction the Bills are headed after Day 2 of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":631129,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82,183066],"class_list":{"0":"post-631128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-the-nfl-draft"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/631129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}