2. Phillips returns to the field; press new defensive lines
Bills defensive tackle Harrison Phillips returned to the field in full pads for the first time since his ACL injury in September of 2019. Phillips said today to mark 330 because he had been in pads. The defensive tackle came off the field and focused on a Zoom call with media where he sowed with happiness after his first practice since injury.
“To ride all the way up – clapping on helmets and shoulder pads, and to get out and not just play selfish football, which is obviously my biggest passion,” Phillips said. “But to go and be with my teammates, with the guys I love, and the guys who played such a great season last year, put all this offseasons work on a way to find a way to making sure we are all in shape and putting ourselves in position to do a stretch and a run here.
“Just to be back with those guys and be in the hut and to watch all my brothers play with them again. It’s the same reason that brought me into the game when I was 11 years old. was, and playing football with my friends. To be in a derby and to do that against a real blessing. “
Phillips thinks the defensive line this year has several ways to throw an offensive line. The new defensive lineman put up pads like the Buffalo Bills for the first time. Defensive lineman Mario Addison, defensive line Quinton Jefferson, defensive tackle Vernon Butler, defensive tackle AJ Epenesa, defensive tackle Bryan Cox Jr. defensive tackle Tanzel Smart and defensive tackle Justin Zimmer made their debut today.
“We have some dogs on the defensive line,” Phillips explained. “Honestly we have some guys who have come into this league and have already proven themselves and have multiple sacks in the NFL. Then we have young hungry guys who are still up and up and taking their game to the next level. want to take, get double-digit bags, make their Pro Bowls, win a Super Bowl.
“I look around the room and tell more and more to all the boys. I’m like, ‘Man look at how many rushers we have, we have guys who can hate the passerby.’ And it’s so great when you have so many different “groups can throw together. End on the inside, inside guys on the outside, a big group, a small group, a joker group – all these different combinations. It must be hard for an offensive lineman.”
