Hall of Fame defender Bruce Smith recently spoke about the impact that Von Miller has had on the Buffalo Bills.
Several prolific pass rushers have suited up for the Buffalo Bills throughout the team’s 65-year history, with Cornelius Bennett and Mario Williams sticking out on a list that features no shortage of marquee names. No defender in Buffalo history was more successful at getting after opposing quarterbacks than Bruce Smith, however, as he tallied 171 sacks throughout his 15-year stint in Orchard Park before ultimately retiring with an NFL-record 200 quarterback takedowns.
Smith was a pivotal contributor on a Bills team that appeared in four consecutive Super Bowls in the early 1990s, a feat no team in football has since replicated.
He played some of his best football in recent weeks in Buffalo’s Week 11 win over the Kansas City Chiefs, recording his first sack since Week 3 in what was the team’s biggest game of the season thus far. It’s his ability to shine when the lights are brightest that, per Smith, initially made Miller an attractive option for the Bills, with the impact he’s made on Buffalo’s young pass rushers thus far being an added bonus..
“I know I was a part of those conversations, and we needed that guy that could make those plays at any given moment. When you put him in the mix with some of our current younger players who are turning out to be stars in their own right, I think it’s a perfect mixture, and the defensive line is playing extremely well and Marcus , the defensive line coach, is doing a very good job.”
The young defenders whom Smith refers to as “stars in their own right” are likely Greg Rousseau and A.J. Epenesa, who have tallied 5.5 and five sacks thus far this year, respectively.
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