Bills Debut "Boombuster"

The Bills unveiled a wacky new special teams device at Monday's OTA workouts. Its called the "Boombuster" and its made by Gilman, a football equipment company. Its a punt block machine, used in drills to help players block the ball off the foot of a punter. As you can see in the picture, ts a rubber leg (black) with a football attached to the foot. Levers allow a coach (or today, kicker Rian Lindell) to raise and lower the leg/ball to different heights to help the rushing players adjust. The players dive at the ball, and fall on a large matt placed near the machine.
Steve Tasker, a master at blocking punts, was there helping the players. The device is crazy looking but it allows the team to practice live punt rushing, something they could not do without risk of injury to the punters.
Special teams coordinator Bobby April is always on the cutting edge of workout techniques. This is just another example. There was some laughs and smiles from the players, who probably thought it was just as weird looking as the media did. Some even commented that the leg reminded them of the lamp in the famous movie "A Christmas Story."