How a Healthy LB Duo of Terrel Bernard and Matt Milano Can Elevate Buffalo Bills Defense in 2025

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🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Buffalo Bills' linebacker corps faces crucial test in 2025. Can Matt Milano and Terrel Bernard stay healthy and elevate the defense? Joe Marino analyzes the Bills' linebacker situation, exploring reasons for excitement and concern. The addition of veteran Shaq Thompson raises questions about roster composition and defensive strategies. Marino also examines how Milano's health could impact the Bills' use of dime packages against elite quarterbacks like Lamar Jackson and Patrick Mahomes. Will the Bills' linebacker group overcome injury concerns and become a defensive powerhouse? Tune in for expert insights on Buffalo's defensive evolution.

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0:00.0	What type of impact can a healthy Matt Mulano and Terrell Bernard make on this Bill's defense?
0:05.8	We're breaking down the dynamics of the linebacker position entering 2025 today on
0:12.0	on Bill's.
0:18.1	You are Locked on Bills, your daily Buffalo Bills podcast.
0:23.6	Part of the Locked-on podcast network, your team every day.
0:29.5	What's up, Bill's Mafia?
0:31.4	It's Joe Marino, author of the Heard Mentality Substack, co-host of the Locked-on
0:36.7	NFL Scouting podcast, co-hosts of the NFL
0:39.4	First Read podcast, and I'm your host of Lockdown Bills. I want to thank you for making
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1:07.6	We're having a linebacker conversation today, just like we've done for all the offensive positions. We've done the defensive line as well. But today, the linebackers take center stage. We'll talk about reasons to be curious about this group, reasons to be concerned with this group. But I want to start with the reasons to be excited about the
1:29.9	Bills linebackers in 2025. And number one for me is you have Matt Milano and Terrell
1:38.9	Bernard entering this season healthy. And the idea of that is very exciting.
1:45.0	We've seen some of it.
1:46.6	And I go back to those first four games of 2023 when it was Bernard's first year as the
1:53.4	Mike linebacker taking the place of Tremaine Edmonds and how good that pair was to start
1:59.9	the season.
2:00.6	And then of course, Milano goes down against Jacksonville in the London game.
2:05.1	And it's been a while since we've gotten a chance to really see these guys at full strength.
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