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[Assistant] I could see that being a part. I think this guy could handle that. But man, yeaah, I would have a hard time kicking away from Nickle Corner. Like, no joke about that. He's got a chance by...


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[Assistant] He can be the best nickel corner in football for a long period of time.


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[Assistant] Yes, I would, I would. And I think there's probably less flaws with their team, as long as their own line can protect. The Stinks allow Collins towards ACL and is done for the year. But.


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[Assistant] You know, I think what you're saying, and again, you know, he had the interception of a courty one point. Like again, that was in the first half. And I think that was the first half. Maybe that was the third quarter. I can't remember off the top of my head, but another moment where you just like seemed like they were moving the ball and going to really put them in a tough spot. But yeah, I guess.


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[Assistant] I have less questions about them as a full team maybe than I do the other two teams, right? I'm not sure they have an area of their team that's an elite area, maybe as much as sometimes the Chiefs and Bills might have, but


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[Assistant] You know, Ahmed, the thing that just like was amazing, and you've heard me say this, you just can't be right on defense with him sometimes. You know, he understands his old life's not great, so he's always got the clock in his head going, I gotta get the ball out of his hand.


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[Assistant] I mean, it looked like New England played every defensive coverage in the history of football in the first half. And it didn't really matter.


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[Assistant] It's, oh, zone, boom, I'll pick you apart. Like we talk about, oh, it's man, I'm gonna throw a slant, a chase, or Higgins, or a back shoulder, whatever. So that's where he just makes you wrong no matter what.


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[Assistant] And that's where they're scary. Then when you talk about playoff football and.


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[Assistant] You know, hey, we'll, we'll try this play on offense and we'll do this play on defense this week. That's a little crazy and you know, and it's the playoffs and we're extra focused and our stars are going to play like stars and all that. Yeah, that's where the bangos are really dangerous and there's no doubt they're one of the best teams in football.


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[Assistant] I think it's in a lot of ways encouraging.


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[Assistant] You know, and you think, oh wait, when Lamar's back, of course, that's going to add another element to their offense, both in the run game and the pass game that makes them more dangerous.


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[Assistant] But yeah, I think it's, you know, another team we're seeing here win with team football and their defense is stingy.


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[Assistant] You know, that's the big, it's hard to run the ball on them. Atlanta didn't really seem like they had any much of a run game until late, you know, until the fourth quarter where they got a little something going on. But they're running the ball the right way. You know, and hey, it's a backup quarterback. And...


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[Assistant] They got some issues with receiver. I mean, they're, they actually like...


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[Assistant] How to play Sammy Watkins this week. That just tells you it all right there.


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[Assistant] I mean, they're, they're a little down in that department. So I think there's some positive things there with Baltimore and I think they're a pain in the butt and they're made for playoff football because they're going to be able to chew up the clock.


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[Assistant] They're creative on defense. They'll have a few game plan specific wrinkles in the playoffs. And you know, that's where, you know, they're going to, they're going to play that style, Ahmed, right? I mean, we talked about that last week with the Cleveland game, but they lost. They want to play right now. We're going to win 16 to 10 or 17 to 10.


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[Assistant] And not turn the ball over and play the ball and play the game that way. And that's kind of what they did in this one.


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[Assistant] That's it. That's right. They're battle tested. They know what they're doing. They're very comfortable in that type of football game. Atlanta's playing a rookie quarterback and


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[Assistant] You know, it was, it was, it was one of those. It's just like once, it was like once Baltimore got control of the game too, they became more conservative. They're like, well, our run game and defense will get it done. We're not going to take any chances and do anything stupid and let you get some false momentum that way.


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[Assistant] Uh, and that's where again, John Harbaugh's phenomenal. He understands his team and what needs to be done just to win the game that week.


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[Assistant] And then we'll worry about next week after that. And you know, it sounds like Lamar Jackson is getting close and we might see him here in the next two weeks or so.


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[Assistant] Had a great look on TV, even though it was a game that, you know, necessarily didn't have a lot of big plays, but yeah, the Frank O'Harris element and the fact that you could feel


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[Assistant] Like the pressure and the motivation for them to win for, for that cause. And yeah, there's not a lot of great X's and O's. The Steelers are another one of those teams like you're just talking about, Amin. They know who they are. They're just going to play to win the game that week. They don't care how it looks. And, you know, it was ugly, but they just were out.


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[Assistant] You know, they out-physicaled the Raiders and just didn't make mistakes and that's really all it came down to.


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[Assistant] No, I hear you there. Listen, Josh is a, it's a valid point, I get that. See, I think the first time around when he was the head coach of the Denver Broncos, there were a lot of people that were outside of the New England family that were brought there. And I think that was one of the issues to him, is that he couldn't get people to


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[Assistant] Understand the New England way and what it took and the detail. And yeah, I know the last coaching staff, you left at eight 30 at night, but New England, we still got like four more hours left. So suck it up. Right. And it's not always like lovely. The adjustment for the organization.


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[Assistant] But I think that's again why, like to the, to the question here, it's a good one. You gotta let it take its course. He's got nowhere near the team he wants right now to play his scheme on either side of the ball. And that's where I've just said, you know, they need to be patient there a little bit.


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[Assistant] And they've had some big injuries on the offensive side of the ball and, you know, they blew some games and some, you know, late game moments there. I understand that, but, uh, no, I think that at the end of the day, the fact that he has,


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[Assistant] But yeaah, that's what I would preach to the Raiders fans. Just let this process go here. They didn't make the Patriots a dynasty for 20 years by just getting it done in 6, 6, 8, 10 weeks, right?


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[Assistant] I would expect it. I'd be surprised. I mean, again,


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[Assistant] The thing I always fall into with these kind of questions is like, alright, so who's going to be out there that's definitely going to be better than Derek Carr? And, you know, you said it right. Derek Carr is definitely in the top half of football.


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[Assistant] Top 10-ish to a degree. This is a big adjustment. That's where I just, I, again, that's where I'm preaching here a little bit for the patience of this situation.


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[Assistant] $40 million is not necessarily all that crazy for a quarterback this day and age.


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[Assistant] You know, he's a guy that, like I was trying to say before the year, this is a totally different system.


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[Assistant] They're still in the infancy stages of this offense.


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[Assistant] And, and they haven't even gotten into the, wait, when teams overplay this so much, we got all these plays for Darren Waller and Hunter Renfro, which are going to screw defenses over. You know, them being injured, I think kind of hindered that progress too.


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[Assistant] They never had to go into the Gronkowski part of the playbook because Darren Waller's been hurt for so much.


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[Assistant] And the Edelman part of the playbook, and these again are very intricate and detailed and more sophisticated than a lot of offenses in football, where I, that's where I just preach the time for it. And I would, Derek Carter to me is the ultimate student. If you know he's going to work.


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[Assistant] The players like him, as you can see, he's a leader, and I just don't think you let a guy like that out the door very easily.


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[Assistant] Like, you should never be down 16 to 6 to trace McSorley in the Arizona Cardinals. It just, it just doesn't seem like anything is easy for them on either side of the ball. You know, the defense is still good, but it's not great.


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[Assistant] It's not. And, you know, they can make some plays. We know that and all that, but it's not a, it's not a dominant defensive line. That's an issue. We know the offensive line is not dominant either.


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[Assistant] You know, as you see last night too, you know, Brady, yeah, two interceptions, probably going to throw in another one or two to go along with that. It's just, this is who they are.


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[Assistant] I'm not so sure they are going to get in. You know, again, Carolina, I know is not great, but...


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[Assistant] They're, they're very much as equal to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers here. It's just going to be interesting to see that head to head matchup. So yeah, great clutch drives at the end and an overtime to win it. But.


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[Assistant] Yeah, underwhelming overall, and it's just hard to look at them and go, oh yeah, they're gonna, they're gonna match up with the better teams in the NFC and the playoffs and be able to hang in there. I just have a hard time to believe that.


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[Assistant] He's a player. I mean, he is. They have a secondary that I really like. I mean, I know Byron Murphy Jr. wasn't out there last night, but those two safeties, Marco Wilson.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they got some playmakers in that department. They're one thing with Arizona, they can just get a, you know.


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[Assistant] Maybe of another legit pass rusher to go along with the group. So they don't always have the blitz and create pressure that way. They'll become a more dangerous defense and hey, the defense.


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[Assistant] They could have easily just packed it in and been like, this year's over. They played tough last night and there they were, you know, 16 to 13 leading the game and driving and we...


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[Assistant] Fumble the handoff, right? And, and that, that, that just was unbelievable that way.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it was unbelievable that the Bucks were in that type of game, and then it was unbelievable the way Arizona kind of gave it up at the end and let them back in it and, you know, eventually lost.


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[Assistant] You know, it feels like it's never good to me when...


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[Assistant] You're an offensive coach, the majority of the money is on the offensive side of the ball, and that's clearly the weakness of your football team. That is never a good look.


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[Assistant] You know, and I just, I don't know how much influence Kyler Murray and his relationship with Kingsbury has. I don't know. That's the one part that kind of throws a wrench in this whole thing, but it, it does feel like we're maybe coming to the end here with, with that situation.


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[Assistant] That's right. You know, they're playing in an appropriate way for what they are. I think that's the biggest thing. And they're not going to deviate from that. And yeah, I, I, I, you know, again, it's, I gotta go back and watch this just to see what were the run plays that they were just dashing you guys with. You know, we, we've seen,


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[Assistant] I was shocked by that. I really was. And I thought they had kind of fixed that issue.


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[Assistant] But obviously Carolina found a schematical thing that they liked within the game. But I mean, just some of the runs, they just were...


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[Assistant] Like, woah, he's flying through the line of scrimmage and nobody's even touching him until 15 yards down the field. That's where it was shocking. And then, you know, even with as bad as that was, what were we at here? I just want to make sure I got this right. We were at 7-7.


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[Assistant] Right? Here's to me one of the big moments of the game. And it felt like your Lions had kind of swung momentum in their favour. They're driving down the field. And you have the fumbled snap. Right? By Jared Goff.


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[Assistant] And I, I don't know what really happened there. It looked like it was the, you know, the center made a really aggressive move to the left and that sometimes can make the ball just be a little off center as far as the snaps concerned. And.


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[Assistant] I went, oh, okay, well, they're way down there. You know, Carolina's not the type of team that's just gonna drive down. He threw, I believe, a big pass, Sam Donald to DJ Moore. It might have been Terrence Marshall, I believe, on this one. And it was like, they just jump-started it again, and they just started kicking the crap out of you guys again. It was unbelievable.


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[Assistant] Like, I'm just trying to figure this out because I should have had, I had it all printed out as far as the playoff scenarios and all that. I don't have it with me. But, yeaah, Washington? Could they lose out?


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's possibilities here still. You got the Bears. You guys certainly can beat the Packers. You got the head to head matchup against Washington here.


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[Assistant] So, we'll see in Washington against the Cleveland Browns, that won't be easy. And then Cowboys, you know, week six, eighteen, that's what could hurt you, Ahmed, is they could be playing Washington a game where,


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[Assistant] And then almost for surely give the, the Washington commanders a win. And then it's, you know, reckoning for a team for the, uh, Detroit lions.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, and he needs to get a second chance at some point in his career regardless. He got a, you know, an unfair shake in Arizona on how that went down.


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[Assistant] Uh, and yeaah, he's, he's certainly proven he understands how to manage a game, the appropriate way to play, and you know, it's cool to see. You know, I mean, this is kind of the, some of the talents I saw from this football team as far as their roster. It's cool to see them capitalize and play the right way.


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[Assistant] We'll see where this goes. I think they'll be toe to toe with Tampa Bay this week.


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[Assistant] They're certainly not gonna be out class and they know who they are, like you said, and they know how to play that style of football.


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[Assistant] You know, offensively run the ball, control the clock, right? Make a few plays in the pass game, and then we're gonna play through our defense. I think there's two things. The pass game is so less than, that they can't even depend on it, even...


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[Assistant] You know, as little as they want to depend on it already, if that makes any sense there. There's, you know, and then you add in, it's a rookie quarterback and the court, and you know, the wide receiver issues that are still a thing where it's like, if they had Ryan Tan, you know, okay, well, maybe they can make it work to a degree. It's still going to be really hard.


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[Assistant] You know, but then also the defense is just not quite as good and as dominant as we've seen with some of these last, you know, Tennessee Titan playoff teams. Uh, so that's where, you know, I don't know if it can carry them through here.


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[Assistant] And they don't have to play anybody this week. And I think they'd be smart to rest everybody so they can go all in on the week 18 matchup against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Um, but yeah, it just seems like it's, uh, just one too many things for this football team to overcome this year. And then they're really struggling here down the stretch.


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[Assistant] That, that's probably where I'd look at it more than anything. You know, they don't have a great conference record. That's going to hurt them as well. You know, but yeah, you know, again.


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[Assistant] Win the, or win this week and then lose to Jacksonville and things fall their right way. You're right. They might still be able to sneak in, but I think it's gotta be a lot of things that have to happen that way. I think their best bet.


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[Assistant] It would probably be to rest them up, try to win that game, then you get the home playoff game, then you see where it goes from there. Uh, and again, like we saw them with Jacksonville just a few weeks ago, really control the whole first half of that game. And then, to your point,


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[Assistant] They, they're, they're making some turnovers in some bad spots where


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[Assistant] They're just not good enough to overcome that. They need to run for a hundred yards, dominate time of possession, have no turnovers, and the defense has to be stingy and probably cause one turnover for them to win a football game. And that's a hard formula right now, I think, for the Tennessee Titans.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a tough situation. I mean, it's a raw quarterback.


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[Assistant] Who is being thrown into a situation, you know, as everybody is kind of hitting on all cylinders during the NFL season and he gets thrown in there. And then I think when you add on top of that, even with a good quarterback like Ryan Tannehill, this is a struggling passing game and has a hard time making plays that way.


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[Assistant] And now you add on a rookie with rawness to his game. I just think it's, yeah, it's a tough spot for him to be in. Not only just for him personally, but the offense isn't good enough to kind of help him out either.


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[Assistant] Uh, so, uh, I, I don't want to judge too critically of this situation that he's been put in here. You know, Malik Willis to me is a guy that, yea, he needs to play and you need to play a certain way, uh, for, to utilize his strengths to kind of,


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[Assistant] Buy some time to let some of the weaknesses get worked out so he can get better and more polished in the pocket making the right decisions. So this is hard to be thrown into this situation at the end of the year here where the offense has already been set up to kind of play one way and that's hard for a rookie to come in and do it.


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[Assistant] Of course they're winning. I've stopped picking them to win after picking them every game the first 10 games of the season. Now they're on fire.


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[Assistant] Alright, now I keep picking them, they'll lose close ones now and they keep winning them. But that was impressive.


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[Assistant] And, you know, the one thing I think happened during that game that I was a little worried about.


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[Assistant] Is that the, I picked the Jets to win the game, but one of the things I said during the Picks podcast, a little bit of a lot of it was like, the one thing that scares me is Jacksonville's much bigger than the Jets. And they can really overpower them.


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[Assistant] And I think we saw that. I mean here, here's the first thing we gotta say.


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[Assistant] Trevor Lawrence is for sure a top 10 quarterback in football. Right now, both.


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[Assistant] And I'm not so sure he's probably not in the top seven, six, seven, eight. It's, it's that good to where it's gotten. I mean, it's, it's not only I can run the system, but it's also weight, like get on my back and I can carry it through some crazy moments and make plays that are unbelievable. So that's the first thing I got to talk about. But then, yes.


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[Assistant] You know, the way they executed and just absolutely overpowered the Jets defense. I mean, just went up and down the field on them for the better part of the night. And a night where you knew you could overplay the run to a degree because it was not a pass the football over the field type of night.


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[Assistant] And that's where that was impressive. Uh, that was impressive. Their defense played really good. And then, of course, the Jets looked like they lost fire as a team, and Zach Wilson in the offense looked like absolute shit.


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[Assistant] He's got pro bowl type physical ability. He's got all pro type physical ability.


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[Assistant] He's got the type of ability to be one of the three or four or five best pass catching tight ends in football. You know, it's, it's, it's one of those stories a lot like Zach Wilson that we're going to talk about in a minute. He needed a scenery change.


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[Assistant] The New York fanbase had got out of it to such a point that if he ever made a mistake again, everybody would be like, oh my god, get rid of him, get him out of here. He's the number one Titan, oh my god, it's hard. So he was in a no-win situation.


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[Assistant] And now he's gotten to a place where, yeah, they know how to utilize him in the offense. He's comfortable and he's getting to show his, his physical ability. I thought there'd be a chance he would have a big knife. I did. He was, he was my.


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[Assistant] prop player of the game, right? For my bet MGM segment, Ahmed, because I thought the Jets...


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[Assistant] Might have a hard time with the size of the Jacksonville. They're going to be over aggressive, trying to fill run gaps and overwhelm them that way, which then always leads to the tight end taking advantage of some plays and that over aggressive nature there. They did a great job of kind of playing to both of those on Thursday night and that dominant win.


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[Assistant] I'm not hedging, but these games are so tight and I always try to give a little thing that scares me. I picked this game, but this scares me where the game could go the other way. And that was my scare me the other way thing. Uh, and I probably should have had more things that scared me the way that looked at the jets.


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[Assistant] Confidence in them. You know, again, it's two years in the NFL.


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[Assistant] If we just wrote off every quarterback after a year and a half, damn, we would have never saw Terry Bradshaw. We never saw Troy Aikman win Super Bowls.


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[Assistant] Steve Young, damn, throw him away, Phil Simms. I mean, there's, again, who the, eh, we've gotten into this point where we just think, yea, you're one, you should be a star and take over the league. Like, no, that happens every now and then, in special, special cases. So, yes, there's some problems.


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[Assistant] The confidence is an issue and that's where the Jets have caused that. They've caused doubt.


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[Assistant] Lack of confidence from the quarterback. How could he feel confident? How?


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[Assistant] Alright, that's where they gain confidence. How can you be confident to where they made you not dress for a few weeks?


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[Assistant] And then think like, oh, they feel good about me and I feel good about myself. And that makes the fan base feel better. So there's, there's a lot of issues here, but yes, it's over. It's over. I mean, Zach Wilson should not want to be here with the Jets anymore. And I'm, I mean, it sounds like the Jets fans don't want him either, you know, but there's, you know,


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[Assistant] Yeah, he has to fix some issues with his mechanics. There's no doubt about that. We've addressed that on another podcast.


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[Assistant] And then also on that, I just wanna go, you know, the Jets offense has issues.


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[Assistant] You know, again, what were they trying to get accomplished in the game the other night? I don't even know what they're trying to do at times. That would be the thing I would question.


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[Assistant] Uh, so yes, I, uh, I think it's over for Zach Wilson. They did a horrible job in this situation, orchestrating it the right way. And now they're going to be back in the market for a quarterback, you know, somehow, some way in the off season.


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[Assistant] got thrown in against the best defenses in football to where they played a style of football that when let's be conservative on an offense play through the defense. And then they wondered why he can't throw for 350 just, Hey, now it's time to throw for 350 and win us a game.


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[Assistant] Against the Patriots. Oh, okay. That's where it just, it's not realistic that way.


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[Assistant] You know, and there's other issues there too. And I, so it's, yeaah, he's gotta go back to the drawing board though and fix himself first.


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[Assistant] There's no doubt about that, but yes, the Jets deserve some of this blame here to go along with it. And now he's just got to find the right spot for next year, be a backup for someone where he knows if he gets a chance, he'll be around some talent and be able to do something.


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[Assistant] You know, I'd love to see him go to Kansas City and be my home's backup or something like that. That's the kind of scenario he'd be perfect for.


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[Assistant] Sorry. I thought it might happen today though.


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[Assistant] What? You can't Christianity and Catholic on Christmas Eve? Nobody loses like that. We should have known when you have that symbol on your helmet, you never lose on a day of holiness like that.


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[Assistant] Even if it isn't Cleveland, uh, so I don't know, that was a silly one, but hey, good job by the Saints gutting it out and some tough elements there and, uh, beating the Cleveland Browns who, you know, kind of been on a win streak and figured out how to win some games here as of late.


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[Assistant] You know, good win for the Saints, certainly. I mean, it's ugly. Like you said, it was just a defensive struggle. I'm not going to sit here and lie until you had a whole lot of attention on this football game. You know, I knew what was going on.


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[Assistant] Uhm, it seemed like Cleveland had control and...


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[Assistant] Saints kind of put together an ugly touchdown drive. And then the big play of the game was of course late in the game or the last touchdown set up by the New Orleans Saints. And yeaah, Watson's still not the Sean Watson. The Browns are playing for next year. Don't even worry about this year. This is just about getting Watson's feet wet.


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[Assistant] Getting your team and culture and things headed in the right direction so you can be legit in 2023. But yeah, little unlucky.


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[Assistant] You know, they're not extremely explosive in the past game. I think they're somewhat simplified because Deshaun Watson's still getting used to things. And, you know, New Orleans defense, not as dominant as we've seen in years past, but creative and a pain in the butt still nonetheless. Good job by them gutting it out and finding a way to win.


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[Assistant] I'm not surprised. I'm not. When we were watching the game yesterday, I was like, this is the kind of game that gets you fired when it's over. Like, even though they probably wanted to wait for the season was over to fire you.


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[Assistant] Your guy that's making quarter of a billion dollars looks like that, a quarterback.


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[Assistant] That's like, you know, even, I don't care who you are, the owner's gonna have a hard time dealing with that.


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[Assistant] You know, even if there is only two games left, it's like, oh, let's just cut the cord and get this energy out of the building and just start new. But that was a embarrassment, a disaster at all levels.


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[Assistant] Why did they get torn up? Because the offense was so bad and Russell Wilson was so bad that he led Baker Mayfield in the offense like, hey, here's a short field, get some confidence, get some going here, get a lead so you guys can just have no conscience and just go everywhere on us.


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[Assistant] It's, it's head-scratchingly bad by the Broncos, the offense, Russell Wilson, the way he looked. It's, it's...


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[Assistant] It's unbelievable at moments where you just go, is this year one? Is he a rookie? Did he play college football? Or is this a guy we talk about being a Hall of Famer? I just, I've never seen anything like it, Amund.


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[Assistant] I still think it's gonna be a pretty appealing job.


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[Assistant] You know, I think the big thing is, is just that head coach, is he going to be comfortable with Russell Wilson?


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[Assistant] And you know the things you hear about him as a person and a player and all those and do you think you can make it work?


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[Assistant] But I mean, as I look at it, I still think there's a lot of positives to talk about as far as the roster is concerned. You know, offensive line that needs to be fixing.


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[Assistant] You know, they'll get Javonte Williams back. We know the receivers are good. The defense is damn good. So yeaah, I think this'll be a...


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[Assistant] That a pretty appealing job that, that coaches are definitely going to want. But yeah, there's going to be that pressure looming over this about you have to correct Russell Wilson. We're stuck with him for the next four years. And.


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[Assistant] You know, that, that, that could give some coaches some trepidation, at least the ones that maybe have their, their pick of the litter and have some other options where they might go, I don't know, I don't know if I can fix this guy. So it'll be interesting to see.


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[Assistant] You see Baker Mayfield can still make throws and plays as a quarterback and then he's got starting caliber traits and he's a starting quarterback in football. Uh, the Rams say what you want.


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[Assistant] You know, that's the one thing I love about McVeigh. They're another team. No matter what they answer the bell, they come out, they hit, they play hard, right? Their defense is still stingy. They, they're not that far off. The Cooper Cubs healthy.


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[Assistant] Cam Akers healthy, you know, the rest of the receiving corps there, they gotta obviously probably use another receiver at the position to improve that group a little bit there. Hopefully Allen Robinson can be a little bit more of a, uh, uh, have a more of a presence this year.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't be shocked to see the Rams make the appropriate moves and be right back in the playoff conversation next year with, uh, out there in LA. I wouldn't be shocked by that.


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[Assistant] I would expect them to win, but I don't think this will be easy necessarily. There's two reasons. You know, again, Colt's defense...


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[Assistant] They're pretty sound and against an offense that you know you've heard me say is not overly creative or outside the box in the passing game.


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[Assistant] I think they can give that passing game some issues. And we know they're not a great running team. And then I think Nick Paul's a quarterback.


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[Assistant] As the Chargers defense is seeing on film all week preparing to the game, they're, they're not going to be able to have their safeties at seven yards deep. Like this quarterback, Nick Pauls is going to be able to throw post routes and go routes down the field to where you can't just be aggressive all the time.


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[Assistant] So that like gives Indianapolis a little bit of an advantage as far as the Chargers are not going to see some of the plays on film that are going to be called tonight with Nick Boles. And that could of course open up the run game a little bit to go along with that. I think the Colts will be a pain in the butt here, but the Chargers win the game.


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[Assistant] So say you bet $100 on Austin Eckler to score the first TD, which there always is a good chance that happened. It's the most popular bet on BetMGM right now. If you win, you'll get $400, but if you lose, you still get $100 worth of free bets.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say it at one point, but we were, we were already at an hour and 45 minutes and I was like, ah, okay. We were at the 49ers and I was like, can you make it red? Can you do something?


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[Assistant] That's okay. Next Christmas. That's what you say. Next Christmas. We'll be back on it. Are those skis? What the hell are those?


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[Assistant] The Treasure Hunters will be on it. Uh, definitely got some things I want to check out on film. Hope everybody enjoyed the holidays. Hope everybody enjoys this last day off. I guess it's still official holiday. Thanks for listening to Kristen's Unbuttoned. Ahmed, you the man as always.


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[Assistant] Thanks for dealing with me. Merry Christmas. Sorry about your lions. Hopefully you can be like the Giants and find a way in the playoffs at some point. We're gonna get in. I know it. I know it. Peace out homie. Honored you the man. Clap it up. Clap it up.


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[Assistant] Thanks for watching, homies. Hit subscribe to see all my Unbuttoned videos. You get to see me, Ahmed Fareed, all the big player breakdowns, game breakdowns, player interviews, and my film analysis. So please subscribe. Chris Sims, Unbuttoned. Peace out.


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[Assistant] Actually, it was really good. Although the one with Nicolas Cage, a lot of people came up to me and said, that was a good movie too. So I should see that.


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[Assistant] Nothing against Monday. I still love Monday. I don't want this to be like I'm bashing Monday. Right. Monday sucks.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but now you've had a chance to look at some of these games and dive deeper. And so here's what's on our list today. Treasure hunting. What gems did we find? What gold? Did we find gold or was it fool's gold? There's so many things we can use with this. Uh, the dolphins and what they did with Josh Allen.


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[Assistant] Uh, vice versa too here. Uh, maybe a little bit of the Dolphins offense here and what we saw was a little tougher sledding even though they won the game. Uh, Lamar.


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[Assistant] Perhaps the MVP right now. What that Ravens team is doing. They've been a run first team for a long time. Now there's a little twist on that. We've been talking about the Jaguars defense. How about the Jaguars offense? And Trevor Lawrence. Man Crush part two on the Jaguars. Who you were critical of at times last year.


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[Assistant] Chiefs are screwing some things up on offense and, uh, the old man bowl. The old man bowl. Revelations in the old man bowl between the Packers and Bucks. You like what one of those old men is doing more than the other old man. A hundred percent. Alright. Yes, I do. Those are my teases for the day. I like that. Treasure teases.


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[Assistant] Uh, what the F happened is also a, if you still prefer that name of today, you can go with that name. I think most people do still. Okay. And they're just waiting for you to swear and actually say the name of the...


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[Assistant] One day, one day, one day. Let's start with the Bills and Dolphins. Yes. Uh, and we'll start on the offensive side of the ball here with the Bills. Right. Um, and I think first of all, let's just start with this.


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[Assistant] Because we'll talk Bill's offense, Dolphin's defense, and I think we think the Dolphin's defense is going to be one of the better defenses this year in the NFL. Yes. But you saw a few things where you're like, man, if they play like this as opposed to that, they could be top one, two, three, and it's all about the Blitz. That stuck out to you in watching this game, right?


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[Assistant] Cause they got Christian Wilkins who you noted in your Curse of Writing. That Jalen Phillips. They got Melvin Ingram. They got Trey Flowers. You thought they were winning their battles during the Game 1.


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[Assistant] Early on it was not working for them. You noted first play, aggressive all out blitz, digs on that 28 yard.


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[Assistant] Right down the middle. Right. Uh, first time, I think there are touchdowns too. And I think we have a graphic on this too, Kristen and Pete, on Josh Allen and beating the Blitz. It just shows what you're talking about here. Against the Blitz, 22 pass attempts, completed 17 of those. His two passing touchdowns were against the Blitz.


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[Assistant] Uh, but when he was not blitzed, his yards per attempt was basically cut in half, no touchdowns there, sacked a couple of times. He was sacked as many times when he was not blitzed as when he was blitzed. Um, so do you give more credit to the Miami Dolphins for making that adjustment or more blame and like they probably shouldn't have been doing this in the first place?


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[Assistant] Buffalo was probably a little freaked out early on first quarter strip sack because they had what? A seven man pass protection and the Dolphins still got through. Still got there. They messed it up too.


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[Assistant] Anything more on Alan? We saw him miss a wide open receiver, didn't set his feet late in the game. Could have been the game winning or go ahead touchdown. Anything more? Was it an unusually sluggish game for him or?


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[Assistant] You did note that. You thought that the dolphin secondary may have gotten away with a couple holes. I thought a few.


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[Assistant] Uh, one more thing on the Bills offense here. Always looking for guys out of the backfield. You know, they have a weapon in Stephon Diggs, of course. Those receivers seem like they could be pretty good.


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[Assistant] Gabe and Mackenzie, but how about the guys out of the backfield? We did see Singletary with a big play, but you like some of the things they're doing with Reggie Gilliam, the H-back. He's a mismatch.


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[Assistant] Switching up their game plan and halftime and then figuring out a way to slow down that, that Bill's offense. But I think you really can give that Bill's defense a lot of credit too, because they were doing it down some men. And I know that Miami had some guys dinged up maybe and coming in and out of the game. Cramping was an issue in that hot game down there. So it's not like the Dolphins defense didn't do that as well, but as far as the Bills.


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[Assistant] You know they saw the tape. They saw what Tua did against the Ravens, embarrassing them. How did they attack this offense?


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[Assistant] And you wanted to give credit to the guys who were out there, were playing, the linebackers specifically, Tremaine Edmonds, Matt Milano. What did you see from those two?


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[Assistant] And when Milano dropped that pick six, that was a point in the game, you're watching this film, you're like, man, if he makes this play, that Dolphins offense was not looking good before that play and you wonder what they would have been after.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the third and 22, that was the other crucial moment where they converted that.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I think, you know, every week we have to have this, a referendum on Tua. Is he good? Is he bad? Uh, is he average? Is he okay? The things that he did well that you noted, you know, passing into the flat, some of the play action, the pop, the slant, the curl routes, the things that you liked with Tua.


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[Assistant] Put that in a tweet, quote Chris. Uh, no, that's a, that's a, that's a fair point. Alright, now, Kristen, now we can change the graphic. Thank you.


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[Assistant] We previously thought, but Lamar Jackson's a big play machine just by himself, a one man wrecking crew.


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[Assistant] For years we've said the Ravens are a run first team. Right. They're a run first team. They start with a run that opens up the pass. Is that still the case after taking a closer look at this offense?


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[Assistant] Alright, so let's take a closer look here at Lamar, and what he is doing perhaps better than he has done in the past, even maybe as MVP. How does he look in the pocket?


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[Assistant] He had four touchdown passes. I think that fourth touchdown pass is something you're talking about. Decision making, being able to identify what the defense is doing to you or trying to get you to do. You noted it was a blitzed safety man coverage. Yes.


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[Assistant] What do you, do you remember about that? I'm like, I've watched so many plays, hold on, let me just see here. I know, but it speaks to your point of, of that, you know, he's, he's comfortable in the pocket. He's comfortable throwing multiple arm slots and angles. He just seems overall more comfortable reading defenses, maybe too.


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[Assistant] The wide receivers have been impressing you with their ability and their speed. I got a question though here from Static. Can y'all address how the Ravens coaches don't scheme up targets for their actual wide receivers like other teams do while only creating plays for Mark Andrews?


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[Assistant] That makes sense. Complimentary football. Complimentary football. No doubt about it. If that can play to some of your strengths, which Mark Andrews is, one of their strengths, all more power to him. That offensive line.


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[Assistant] You know, we, we've talked about the running game, how it hasn't gotten going in the past. They've been able to score points and they're doing it a different way, which is fine. Uhm, you thought the interior of their offensive line with Zeitler and Ben Powers and Linderbaum.


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[Assistant] They had Daniel Falele in this game, which is, he's a rookie, the first time that he's played this much. I think Patrick Macari got hurt early in the game.


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[Assistant] Well, that's going to be an interesting thing to watch because you think, well, the Baltimore Ravens need to score 30 points a game. You wouldn't figure that. Ravens have had a pretty strong defense, opportunistic defense for a lot of years, creating turnovers, taking them back for a touchdown. So as we flip over to the other side, the Ravens defense, let's start there.


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[Assistant] What'd you see, pass rush wise first? Were they able to get to Mac Jones, make him uncomfortable? What'd they do there?


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[Assistant] Yeah, you noted they're not great at getting off blocks in the run game or the pass game.


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[Assistant] How about this Ravens team? Struggles playing defense. They're a pass first team with Lamars is completely different. Like what is this? Are we talking about the Ravens? Bizarro world. All right. So Patriots. Oh, then do you give Matt credit because he had some big plays against this defense, which might not be.


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[Assistant] Quite as good as we thought to start the year. Also had some interceptions and some bad plays overall for Mac from watching the tape. What'd you see?


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[Assistant] So, Brian Hoyer's gonna get the start if Matt can't go. Bill Belichick said that today. Brian, I was like, Brian Hoyer's still on the, he's still on the team, right? They can't go with Bailey's Abbey, right?


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[Assistant] You'll hear every pundit out there say that now maybe they're going to have to rely on the running game a little bit more. And you like those two running backs though in Stevenson and Davis. And I know they're switching up ways and experimenting with new ways and blocking for them. Oh, Harris, Damian Harris. What did I say?


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[Assistant] Davis. Davis, okay. I call him Davis. Yeah. Uh, Harris and Stevens, thanks Pete for the assist there. Uhm, what'd you see from them and their ability to run the ball and how they might have to lean on that maybe the next couple of weeks?


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[Assistant] Ravens and Bills coming up this week. That'll be a good one. We'll see if either defense can contain the offensive there. We'll see if Baltimore, they have to be blitz centric. They're not getting that rush with four men, but blitz has been something that has been able to be handled by Josh Allen. So that'll be an interesting strategy for them.


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[Assistant] Well, no one knows how to slow down the Jacksonville Jaguars right now. I mean, as we said coming into the year, they're going to be the most dominant team. They're going to beat the Chargers by 28.


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[Assistant] Just don't go back and listen to our preseason predictions. Although Chris has been very high on the Jaguars since he saw them in the preseason and they looked awesome. Now everyone's jumping on the bandwagon of the Jacksonville Jaguars. We took a look at the Jaguars offense against the Chargers defense here.


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[Assistant] Three touchdowns through the air. Uh, he's also dangerous with the legs, mobile moving around. So what, what did you see in this game specifically that made you go, wow, he's really turned a corner here. Or this is a different player than I saw last year.


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[Assistant] So maybe he's just a little bit more comfortable in the offense this year than he was last year. A little bit different offense, but second year in the league. What have you seen from Doug Peterson and what he is doing? Because we have a history with Doug Peterson. We know what he did in Philadelphia. It was a very successful form. A lot of times got him to a super bowl. Um, it's different.


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[Assistant] You wrote wow in your notes and tough to match up with Evan Ingram, Marvin Jones, Christian Kirk, Zay Jones, who you've already mentioned here.


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[Assistant] And also the running backs in James Robinson and there was that game changing play in the second half, fourth and one, 50 yard touchdown to make it 23 to 10. What did you see on that play? What did you like about the design by Doug Peterson on that 50 yard touchdown run?


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[Assistant] I think that's a good jumping off point for the Chargers in defense. Not a whole lot to talk about there. Uh, Bosa got hurt early in the game, so that's never gonna help him.


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[Assistant] They've had a problem for a year, over a year now, stopping the run. Maybe it's longer than that actually. Uh, that play specifically, uhm, are you starting to get some clues on what's, what's going wrong there?


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[Assistant] One of the games I'm circling for next week, Jaguars at Eagles, the Doug Peterson bowl. That's going to be, uh, be fun to watch, but the Jaguars are a hot team right now. Bet MGM wants in on the action here too. So we got some odds with the Jaguars. Interesting to see where they sit currently as opposed to where they were.


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[Assistant] There are odds to win the AFC South, plus 220, they were plus 300 before, so everything trending in a positive direction now. And to make the playoffs, I think this is the one that stands out the most to me.


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[Assistant] Simply download the BetMGM app today, or you can go to betmgm.com, enter the bonus code Sims.


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[Assistant] Pete, can I go to the Big Butt of the Week Awards here? Can we do that right now? Because just a real aside, we're about to get to the Chief's offense here. Cue the music here. I don't think we have


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[Assistant] A big butt of the week award. So I want to give one to a defensive tackle. Cool. And I want to give one to an edge guy.


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[Assistant] So I wanted to do it here because the Jacksonville Jaguars, you've been talking about that defense all season long, how good they are. My edge big butt of the week goes to Josh Allen, the other Josh Allen. I don't know. He keeps playing like this. He will maybe be the Josh Allen.


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[Assistant] Four quarterback hits on a quarterback that did not want to get hits at all with Justin Herbert. Ten hurries in the game, so he was around them. One batted ball, so he was doing it all. On the defensive line, uh, interior.


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[Assistant] The defensive tackle big butt of the week. I'm going with a Falcon, Grady Jarrett. Played 60 snaps. I like that. I like a defensive tackle who plays a lot too.


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[Assistant] I'm biased towards that. Had four hurries. Had a sack late in the game, which led to a game ceiling interception the very next play through three games. He has more sacks and tackles for a loss than he did all of last season. I'm giving the award this week to Grady Jerr.


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[Assistant] Football head with a button shirt on. That's your logo. Right.


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[Assistant] Tweet it out with no context. People are like, what are they doing over there?


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[Assistant] Uh, the Chiefs, what are they doing against the Colts? How can they lose this game? 2017 was the final score. We went through the game and kind of some of the things that we thought, uh, just a couple days ago.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but uhm, you've taken a closer look at this right now. And let's just start this off with a homie. Let's let a homie direct the beginning of this conversation. Okay, I like that. Nick's Leaks says this.


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[Assistant] Chiefs fan here, it seems like we never run a game plan specific offense. It's the same passing concepts and RPO game regardless of opponent. Why do you think Andy does it this way? I don't know, but I agree.


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[Assistant] Early on in this game though, you may have noted something. Uhm, do you have a text here? Is there something going on here?


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[Assistant] Oh, you have them in text form? I have a few things, right? Oh, I see. From the plays that...


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? You know, but I do think on those, you do have to be careful on that because if my Detroit Lions do stuff like that, you're like, well, yeah, that's just the Detroit Lions and they, they blew it. You know, it's like, you don't get bailed out by screwing up those. We just maybe bail the chiefs out because that's, we don't think that's typical. We don't think that'll happen.


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[Assistant] Now you say they didn't necessarily have a game plan specific offense here, there's just a bunch of plays that go together, but maybe early in this game they tried to convince the Colts that they were going to come out, try to run the ball a little bit, pound it.


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[Assistant] So you got into the weeds a little bit with some personnel groupings here. And I think we have a graphic that talks to it too. So running out of 12, 21, 22 personnel. So kind of explain what you saw and then we're seeing a graphic now if you're watching on YouTube or Peacock that goes into some nitty gritty here. So what is this all saying?


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[Assistant] You just looked at yards per carry, like you mentioned. Yes. Yeah. Go ahead. You rank seventh in the NFL. Okay. That's, that's pretty good. But like you mentioned, there are some big plays that are skewing that average where if you look at the percentage of carries in these formations for a loss or no gain, they're nearly 20%. And that is tied for the worst in the NFL.


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[Assistant] Yeah, run around, make a sidearm throw to Juju for a giant play, right? That is, that was so sick.


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[Assistant] That's what you said. Insane, I think, was your quote. Your cursive quote in your notes. I mean, yeaah. Pat being Pat.


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[Assistant] So the same things you said to Andy, previous week, still apply here. Uh, it's probably not gonna change. It's probably, the issues that you have with the Chiefs, I mean it's worked for him for a year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, last thing I think is the Colts, they did win this game. I feel like we haven't spent that much time on the Colts because it feels like the Chiefs side is more interesting here, but, you know, you mentioned DeForest Buckner already. Yannick N'Gakwe got a big sack in the game.


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[Assistant] Matt Ryan has the lowest number for intended air yards per pass in the NFL this year. Uh, lowest number this week of the week. The person that was just ahead of him, Aaron Rodgers. The Packers continue to


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[Assistant] To utilize that short passing game one in the game against the Buccaneers. So it worked, I guess enough to get the two point victory over Tom and the Bucs here as we switch to our last game of the week, the old man bowl.


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[Assistant] This is the last one. And then we got Pete's Punt Awards.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we, yeah, we, we, we gave you the week off. We only had, I think.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah. So, uh, so enjoy the vacation this week. You'll be back to work next week. Thank you. Uh, all right. Let's do quarterbacks. That's the big story in this game. Aaron Rodgers, Tom Brady. Let's just start big, big headline here. Right. You look closely at Aaron. You look closely at Tom. Right.


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[Assistant] What stuck out to you the most? I know how they approached the game, the chances they took.


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[Assistant] That's interesting. We'll take a closer look at that on Twitter with a actual visual play. Yeaah. So check that out on your


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[Assistant] Yeah, first two drives, 10 plays, 75 yards, touchdown. 12 plays, 71 yards, touchdown. Those are the only two touchdowns in the game. Yes. Cheese curd 19. Yeah. I'm guessing he's a Packers fan. Sounds like it. Cheese head. Uh, what adjustments did Tampa make to shut down my Packers after those first two drives? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Alright, so it's interesting, this game is interesting when you look at just the possessions too, because we just talked about the Packers having success on their first three possessions, scoring touchdowns on the first two, the fumble on the third, the Buccaneers didn't get it going until


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[Assistant] Way late in the, uh, in the game here, they had a 10 play drive to start, did not have a drive that was over 10 plays into the last one of the game where Tom was like, alright, I gotta do this, I guess. Now 13 plays, 82 yards, scored the touchdown.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeaah, what was your, first of all, just overall kind of impression of the, the Bucs offense that had a hard time getting it going until the very end of the game?


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[Assistant] Well maybe it's this with our friend Mehmet305. Okay, cool. Cause he has a question. This might not be your point, but it's a question that some people have out there. You gotta protect Tom Brady, maybe more than any quarterback in the NFL. Right. Is it fair to say that the issues Tampa Bay has on offense is caused by their interior offensive line, especially left guard and the center combination?


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[Assistant] Yeah, Tom Brady could have some of his weapons back. You don't know. Julio Jones seems like he is trending towards probably going to play. Yeah. Uh, which would be good because they got chiefs at Buccaneers on our network. I know Sunday night football and we need a good game. I don't think we've


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[Assistant] We'll see if that short passing game works against the New England Patriots this coming week for the Green Bay Packers. But yes, it is Chiefs Buccaneers.


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[Assistant] Sunday NBC. Oh my gosh. And now we got a new thing going on with Sunday Night Football. I was not aware of this until it showed up in the rundown. You can become a Sunday Night Football insider. Wow. Yea, you can watch the game from Chris Simms' house.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so all you gotta do is text Sunday NBC, Sunday NBC, to 7-6-3-6-2-2. How many people just whipped out a pen right now you think listening to it? Right. 7-6-3-6-2-2. Or they're punching it into their phone. To sign up right now. Uh, participation that we note this is optional.


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[Assistant] Message and data rates may apply. So we have, we do have to let you know that you're not obligated to do this. We're not going to come to your house and force you to text that, uh, in your phone.


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[Assistant] You know what, people feel pressured. They go, don't, don't, don't pressure it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, legally we have to tell people that we're not going to bully them into doing this. We just ask. If you want to, you can do it. So, uh, but what we do definitely want to do right now is Pete's Pun Awards. Oh, I like it.


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[Assistant] I will do it in honor of Pete here. So Pete really is obsessed with special teams. Like he watches, he's in that room with all you guys for Sunday night football, cutting tapes. He's doing a lot. And for the Sunday game with the Broncos and 49ers, it was like his Christmas. It was like there were so many great punt plays. The whole day on Sunday was everywhere.


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[Assistant] He is excited about it. And so his punter of the week, the inaugural punter of the week is the Texans punter, Cameron Johnston. He had five punts. All five went inside the 20. One was out of bounds. One was down. One was fair caught. The two other returned a total of one yard. So Cameron Johnston, congratulations.


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[Assistant] Your team lost. But, I mean, without that, I mean, it really is true, and those are plays that we gloss over, and people talk about that all the time. It's a huge aspect. Like, all these kickers, just to, uh, you know, the outcome of the game is relying on a right leg sometimes. Well, yeah, that's the way the game is set up, and you better play that all phases of the game with that in mind. It's a huge part of the game. Huge part of the game.


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[Assistant] So we are not forgetting. Pete is, Pete is making sure we remember the punters and the Flyers out there. No longer called Gunners according to Matt LaFleur. They're called now Flyers. Flyers. How appropriate. Flyer of the week for Pete is the 49ers corner. Samuel Womack the third. He jumped across the goal line if you remember down.


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[Assistant] That beautiful punt down. Great job. Knocking it back.


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[Assistant] Yeah, special teams was huge in that one. Field position was huge in that game. Samuel Womack the third, congratulations. You won the punt awards. So you've had the punt awards, we have the big butt awards, and I am hearing that in the matter of this podcast, we've got a trophy.


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[Assistant] That's it. That's the trophy right there. Can we make that? And then at the end of the year, at the end of the year, we award one big butt elephant trophy award. So Kristen put that together in a matter of 40. Oh, the big, big butt award. The big, big butt award.


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[Assistant] But we don't know how good those two first rounders were this year either. Evan Neal had some issues early on.


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[Assistant] Because I don't want to miss any more of the game. Let me get back there. Yeaah, yeaah. I'm sure the people behind them really appreciated that too. Like this random tall, this random tall, you know, blonde haired guy just cut the line in front of all of us. Who's got pretty good seats. I don't feel good at all. Alright, that's it. We did it. We went through the Treasure Hunters. I think we uncovered some gold there. Don't you think?


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[Assistant] And if you want an autograph from Chris, bring your own Sharpie. He does not carry a Sharpie.


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[Assistant] Watch out. Yeaah, the Big Butt Award will not be, uh, will not be prominent.


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[Assistant] Change our minds is what we call it. Super cool. And I've just seen the picture of it, of you sitting at the table with DeAndre Hopkins, best receiver in football, change our minds. And so you really did, you had random people just come up to you and talk about DeAndre Hopkins, where he ran.


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[Assistant] Probably helped, probably helped their fantasy team. No, and he recognized you too. It's a really interesting story, and I don't know if we're gonna hear it. We are gonna hear a part of it coming up a little bit later in this podcast with your discussion with him. So, I think he may have talked about him not realizing he was a fan of yours. Right. Until he met me. Oh my gosh.


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[Assistant] Not quite, but then when he did, he was like, wait a second, you were number two in Texas, a really cool moment. I think we'll probably hear it coming up in the podcast. So that's a little bit later on. Yes. You can subscribe. Uh, we got a lot. Uh, what are you, what are you trying?


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I'm going two buttons down if you're watching on YouTube right now.


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[Assistant] You know, our bosses came to it and they said they'd go, Ahmed.


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[Assistant] And so if you're watching on YouTube right now, we have increased the height of the table a little bit.


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[Assistant] So here's what, yeaah, here's what we're going to do. We're going to go through the AFC first, 1 through 16. We're going to name our number 1 seed in the AFC.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then we're gonna go through the NFC, 1 through 16, neighbor 1 seed, all the way, all the way out down through. So, it's like a power ranking, but it's NCAA tournament form. Yep. So we kinda, and where, where this is right now, this is not where,


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[Assistant] So we'll do the AFC first and then we'll do the NFC after that. So the number one seed in the AFC NCAA tournament


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[Assistant] Although they do have Ryan Fitzpatrick, no more Tana Hill, he was traded over to the Titans, but they do have Ryan Fitzpatrick, who I do feel is good for two games of 400 yards, but then a game of seven interceptions in the first half.


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[Assistant] Uh, still don't obviously know all the details there, but, uh, if that does come out to be true and there is a suspension, so, I mean, if they don't have Tyreek Hill, they're already without Kareem Hunt after what happened last year, that high-flying offense. I mean, how far do they drop down without, without the, the key playmakers that they had?


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[Assistant] I mean, you still got to learn the details of that story. Obviously what's happening off the field trumps anything that's going on on the field with the Kansas City Chief.


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[Assistant] You know more Marvin, no more Marvin Lewis. You can't scapegoat him anymore. And I feel, you know what, even though they got Zach Taylor, who knows Sean McVay very well, which is what got you a coaching job in football this year. You knew him, or you coached with him, you got a coaching job.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna, I'm gonna say I feel like maybe Bengals fans are gonna, they're gonna feel like, you know, maybe we had it better than we thought. Maybe, maybe, you know what, mediocrity every year was better than a 3 in 13 year.


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[Assistant] Let's do the bills. I'm gonna go with the bills there. They've been active. Yes. Got 10 free agents signed 9 on the offensive side of the ball. Right. Trying to give some help to Josh Allen. You got John Brown.


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[Assistant] I think the bills, I could have put them higher, but I think this is a good spot for them, 14C.


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[Assistant] So Caesars Palace just came out with their odds to win the divisions throughout football for 2019. In the AFC North, the favorite to win the AFC North right now, according to Caesars Palace, the Cleveland Browns.


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[Assistant] But do you realize what you just said? I do. You just said the Browns are the fourth best team in the AFC. Yes, I know. It's crazy. Does it make you feel nervous at all putting your neck out there like that?


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[Assistant] That's the part too. And I think we all want the Browns to be interesting and special and better. I wonder if we want that so badly that we're going to overrate that.


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[Assistant] And maybe I'm a little more down on this team than other people. Disclaimer! I'm gonna go with, out of the AFC South, the Jaguars. Jacksonville Jaguars. They got Nick Foles, obviously, no more Blake Bortles. They lost your guy, Malik Jackson. Yes they did. So there's some action on the free agent front.


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[Assistant] You know, according to Caesar, they are currently tied with the Jaguars to finish behind the Colts in the AFC South. Hey, the AFC South is a betting man. Is legit. They got some, yeaah, they got the Titans. How much of that ranking was influenced by the fact that you just met DeAndre Hopkins?


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[Assistant] This one's tough. There's a couple of teams I could go with here. Uhm, I'm gonna go with, I'm gonna go with the Raiders. Okay. As my 12 seed. Yeah. Which, you know,


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[Assistant] I would have probably had them the 15 seed or maybe even the 16 seed, but it seems like they're trying to win their final year in Oakland. You get Antonio Brown, you got Tyrell Williams. So you got some new weapons for Derek Carr, got Trent Brown. You're trying to upgrade on that offensive line. That wasn't very good last year. You hope Colton Miller comes back and has a better second year than this.


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[Assistant] All five is the Texans versus the Raiders. Maybe, maybe not an upset there if we're too high on the Raiders, but your number 6 seed in the AFC.


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[Assistant] Vic Fangio, the new man in charge, the new head man who I covered a little bit in San Francisco when he was the defensive coordinator for those really, really good teams for the 49ers. I mean, one of the best defensive coordinators that we've had in football for a long time. No question. Never got the shot to be the main man, so I think he'll have the respect of the locker room. I think a lot of people will like


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[Assistant] Vic Fangio, but will they have a good enough team? Uh, signed a couple of, uh, cornerbacks. Right. Bryce Callahan, Kareem Jackson, I think that was an upgrade there. Great signings. They signed him as well. Right. Uhm, Joe Flacco though, that's the question. John Elway did say that he does believe that Joe Flacco is entering the prime of his career.


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[Assistant] And at 34 years old, that makes me question John Elway. And if he's okay.


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[Assistant] Uh, they added that edge rusher in Cameron Wake. Yes. They got Roger Saffold to try to shore up the offensive line. That was a really good signing by them. You have Adam Humphreys at wide receiver given Marcus Mariota. Phenomenal signing. You like that one a lot.


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, so now you get to dictate my last pick because you get the 8 pick and then I'll have to take the remaining team with a 9 pick.


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[Assistant] So that means the Steelers first round opponent would be Le'Veon Bell and the New York Jets. Does that seem hot? I mean, we're 8-9 matchup for the Jets. I mean, they've added, they've added Lev Bell, you've got Jameson Crowder.


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[Assistant] Uh, you got CJ Mosley, you got Colleccio Semele on the offensive line from the Raiders, and then you got Greg Williams as your defensive coordinator who turned down 10 head coaching gigs to take that job.


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[Assistant] So you, you would have had the Jets lower. A little lower. Let's take a look at our, we got our bracket over there. So at the bottom of the rankings, you would maybe have the Bills a little higher, the Jaguars. Bills we have as a 14 seed, Jaguars as a 13 seed. Right. You'd have them a little higher. You'd have the Jets down a little farther, but you can see the promise in the Jets.


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[Assistant] I think we have some breaking news on the Bengals. Are you serious? Yeah, just get in my ear. Would they do? I don't know. Did they trade up to get a? Uh, Perfect has been released.


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[Assistant] That does not change my seating at all. No it does not. They're still better than the Dolphins. Still better than the Dolphins. We'll give them that. If they cut AJ Green, I would still hold them at 15. I still think they're better than the Dolphins.


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[Assistant] Who we're too high on, who we're too low on. Right. And this is just the information that we have right now. Uhm, this is all that we have right now. And so, we'd love to go through it too and pick the winners through it. Should we do that on our podcast, Pete? Should we pick the winners? Okay, we're not gonna do that. They don't want us to do that. They don't want us to do that? Maybe we'll do that Wednesday.


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[Assistant] The power of the conferences as they sit right now, because I think there are a lot of interesting, promising teams in the AFC, and I don't know if we're going to have that at the NFC, but it might be top heavy at the NFC, and the bottom teams are more of like, cellar dwellers.


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[Assistant] Offensively, defensively. Kicking game, not as much. You gotta figure that out. But I mean, they'll figure that out, right?


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[Assistant] I would think so. I mean, it can only get better. So the number 16 seed who has to face the Bears in that first round matchup, I'm going with, out of the NFC East,


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[Assistant] You know, you lost Odell, obviously. Eli seems like they're trying to make one final run with Eli and I don't know how prudent that is. Right. And the GM is basically, you know, Dave Gettleman, taking a lot of criticism for how they handle the Odell trade.


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[Assistant] Uhm, has come out and said, well, they, what they want to do is they want to run the ball more and feature Saquon Barkley more, which is, I feel like a good thought, but by coming out and saying that, I feel like now you're going to face, you know, 14 men in the box and that's going to be an issue for the Giants offensively.


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[Assistant] So bears ahead of the rams, still no saints in your top three. Uh, so bears number, uhm, uh, I'm sorry, the rams number two seed.


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[Assistant] I'm going with, for my 15 seed out of the NFC West, the, uh, the Cardinals. Yeaah. 3-13 last year, you got a new coach.


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[Assistant] You still got David Johnson. Maybe you can get him going. Yeaah. Maybe you'll have Kyler Murray as your quarterback. Right. You have Larry Fitzgerald that didn't want to retire because he wanted to go out on top or at least better than what they did last year. So maybe Larry, who I like a whole lot, can buy own his own, you know,


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[Assistant] Yep. So Cardinals, the 15th seed, uh, taking on the Rams in the first round of our NCAA NFC bracket. Number three seed. Number three seed. I think I know, right?


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[Assistant] Caesars does not believe in you. They have the Cowboys as the favorite to win the NFC East right now. Although, you can't always read too much into that because the Cowboys get so much money on them every year. I mean, there's so many Cowboy fans out there that just bet on the Cowboys that they have to reduce the odds.


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[Assistant] Uh, so maybe you're not too far off with that one. Oh, a lot of love for the Eagles. Okay, my next seed. So that would be the, uh, the 14. So you're going to 14, right? 14 seed.


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[Assistant] Which you got there. It'll be an all NFC beast matchup in the first round.


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[Assistant] It'll be Washington. Okay. With Washington is my number 14 seed. Uhm, they did add Landon Collins. They're big free agent signing. Maybe paid a little too much money for him, but that's okay. They got a still solid player even though you're, you've jumped off the bandwagon. There's some stuff you can do well.


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[Assistant] No doubt it's an improvement, for sure. Quarterback issues. They do have Case Keenum. Might not be done there. Yeaah. Jay Gruden and Doug Williams have said that they're, you know, they're taking a quarterback high in the draft, not off the table.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they brought back Adrian Peterson, who just turned 42. Uh, the other, no, he's, he's 33. I hope he keeps playing until he's like 42. I mean, he's unbelievable. Remember like Julio Franco in baseball? Remember that guy? Right. He played like he was like 47. He was 48. He was 48. That's insane. I hope Adrian plays until he's 48.


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[Assistant] Drew Brees, Drew Brees a year older, worries you. Tom Brady a year older, doesn't worry you. I mean, they're different level quarterbacks, but both elite quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't think it's crazy. I mean, you're- But I got Panthers as my number 13. It seems like they're never quite that low. You know, they're always in the mix. Yes. You know, they're a runaway, but they had a pretty rough stretch at the end of last year.


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[Assistant] So I mean, it's still incomplete, right? We're trying to, we're trying to seed these teams right with what we know right now. No doubt. They're going to make some improvements as the off season goes on and the draft goes on. But that's just, I mean, that's not a whole lot to go on. A healthier Cam Newton certainly helps, but got the Panthers at the 13 seed, your number five seed.


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[Assistant] I'm going to go with the, uh, 12 seed. Yeaah. Uh, often the upset matchup, 5-12. Uh, I'm going to go Bucks. Okay. I'm going to Tampa Bay Buccaneers. You got Bruce Arians, who I'm going to be rooting for him. Yep, I am too. I just love Bruce Arians and what he can do. What can he do with Jameis Winston?


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[Assistant] You got Bershad Perryman now as a wide receiver, got some big playability.


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[Assistant] You did trade away Deshaun Jackson. You lost those, uh, two 400 yard games in Ryan Fitzpatrick that are guaranteed. Oh no. Uhm, but I believe in Bruce Arians. I'm gonna put him 12.


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[Assistant] The 11 seed, I'm gonna go with the face of Seahawks in the first round, my hometown team, the Detroit Lions. Okay. Some people may think that's a little high, should have been below a couple of other teams, but...


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[Assistant] You were on our team for that play, basically. So, and in Matt Stafford, we trust. I've always thought that. Kenny Galladay took a huge step forward last year. Karrion Johnson, I feel like they finally found a running back. So, I mean, now that I'm talking about my Detroit Lions, maybe I should have put them even higher. But I believe, I believe in the Patriots West.


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[Assistant] Uhm, huh, interesting, you're right. Billy Turnon O-line, that was nice. Mercedes Lewis, a tight end. I'm filibusting for you, don't prob-, no worries, you figure it out. I'm gonna go with, uh, as my number 10 seed. Yes. As the Falcons. Okay. I'll put the Falcons right there. Okay. I don't know, just, you know,


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[Assistant] They haven't done a whole lot. A whole lot of headline moves, but you got Matt Ryan and you got a team that seems to be in the mix every year. I'm going with Alkins.


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[Assistant] In the NFC. The final countdown. The team that you were just talking about. Which is which team? The Minnesota Vikings. I'm gonna go with the Vikings here.


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[Assistant] Which is why we're talking about the NFC North being pretty stacked because there you got your, your third best team in the NFC North as an eight seed in the professional line.


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[Assistant] A week though, Anthony Barr changes his mind again and goes back to the Jets.


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[Assistant] This is also a team that did have the number two overall pick or does have the number two overall pick this year. And so that's a pretty big significant rise up the rankings for a team that


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[Assistant] Was hurt, yeaah, didn't have their quarterback, but just was not very good overall last year.


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[Assistant] And we were talking about this before the show, too, on the teams that make the big jump, the teams that, you know, you look at, do the free agents matter? Does it matter which team has the best off-season? Does it translate into the regular season? And a lot of times, it's the team that has the abundance of free agents or abundance of acquisitions where if you don't hit on all of them, you're gonna hit on some of them, and if you hit on most of them, then you really do make


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[Assistant] So let's take a look at our final NFC bracket. If you're watching on YouTube, you can just look here. If you're listening on the podcast, you're going to have to call up the video at some point. But so we got the one seed bears, the two seed rams, the three seed eagles. Do you see any upset matchups in all the games that we have there? What should be your potential?


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[Assistant] Upset game where you see a worse seeded team.


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[Assistant] So we got all the, all our brackets were completed now through 1 through 16 in the AFC, 1 through 16 in the NFC. We're posting them all to Twitter so you can go on there. You can vote and tell us that we were crazy or that you agree 100%. Or all mine were amazing and immense were not that good. I mean that's probably how it will work out. That's how it should work out too. You're the expert here. So feel free to chime in.


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[Assistant] I'm really excited to hear this, uh, DeAndre Hopkins interview. Yeah, he too, man. Uh, you were hanging out with him. Yeah. In New York. Right. Just walking around, talking like a couple of bros that have known each other for years. And which we didn't. Which you didn't, but it seems like it, by listening to it.


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[Assistant] We're gonna take a quick listen to it right now and then also a reminder that another clip is gonna be on youtube.com that has you sitting at a table with DeAndre where people are trying to convince you. Change our minds. Change your mind that DeAndre Hopkins is not.


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[Assistant] Good dude. He's a good dude. And he knew you and didn't even know he knew you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it just very, you know, seems humble, seems humble. He knows he's very good because he is very good. You should know you're good when you're very good, but seems very humble. It did seem like you were recruiting him to New York a few times or walking him around saying, look at all this.


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[Assistant] DeAndre Hopkins, cool to hear him, cool to hear you two guys together and check that out on YouTube. Before we go, winners and losers. Winners and losers from the weekend. Uhm, do you want to start with a winner?


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[Assistant] The winner is uh, Ryan Fitzpatrick. I'm gonna go a former player for my winner. Actually, just recently a former player. Heladi Noda. Uhm, is ne- what did I say? Heladi Noda.


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[Assistant] But I've got a question for you. So cows are bad for the environment. Shouldn't we be eating them? Just get them out of here.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Of the week. And this loser is basically whoever followed college basketball, like really follows it. Right. I would watch regular season games all the time. You're the loser of the week because you have zero chance of winning your pool. You're just not gonna do it.


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[Assistant] Anyone who has followed along in college basketball is not going to win their office pool because it inevitably will be won by someone who watched one or zero games throughout the season. That's how it works.


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[Assistant] We have a family pool and our family is like 30 people involved in it every year and the person who won it last year was an aunt of mine who has never watched a college basketball game in her life. Yea, that's embarrassing. And she won it and so it wasn't like I was some expert but yea, she won it. So if you follow college basketball you unfortunately are a loser because you will not win your pool.


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[Assistant] And you do hear the argument sometimes from fans that say, well, you can't have football, the injury rate is so high that you can't guarantee the deal because then teams are hamstrung with a salary cap.


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[Assistant] My counter to that is that yeaah, then figure it out. Pay the guy the money, don't count it against the cap. No, right. I mean, so let's give, if you sign a deal, this is a deal. We've agreed to something, here's the money, here's the money, I'm going to guarantee you. This has got to be collectively bargained, but


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[Assistant] And just don't count it against the salary cap. If that's your main concern is that it's gonna screw up a team's capologist and make him work harder. Just don't count injuries against the cap, but still pay the, pay the guy the money.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I like that too because I think it's nice to see players stay in one spot but still have leverage. Still be able to get paid for doing that. Alright, that's the podcast for today. That was a good one. Yeaah, it was a good one.


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[Assistant] Seated all the teams, one through 32. Coming up on Wednesday, we got Paul Burmeister back in this seat. You're gonna go through Dwayne Haskins pro day. He's throwing to his friends. You gotta break that down. I will. You know I will.


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[Assistant] Where are we starting? Well, I'm looking forward to those lists, and by the way, you've been very good about me, you know, kind of sorting through and saying, but why this? You said this.


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[Assistant] We're not starting there. I see it is on the intended list of topics to get to and I know that there might be a change from last week. I'm looking forward to seeing that officially. Before we talk draft, how about the Oakland Raiders quarterback situation going on right now? I immediately think of you because we all have opinions on the fact that the Raiders leaders are going out


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[Assistant] To fly to see Kyler Murray, to see Dwayne Haskins taking that level of interest, uh, to whatever it means in a month or so, we see that if you're with us on YouTube, a tweet there, uh, they are there with Kyler Murray, Kyler Murray, they also spent time with Dwayne Haskins in the same way.


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[Assistant] We all have opinions about this, but you have played quarterback for John Groot. I've been there. You can add a layer to it. Yeah. And I'm sure Derek Carr has opinions as well. He has tweeted out, this right here is very interesting. And again, if you can't see it, if you're with us only in the podcast, he's in his full uniform and he's pointing to his eyes like, I see you, I know what you're doing.


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[Assistant] I get that. They have reinvested in you with millions of dollars, paid you like you're the franchise. Right.


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[Assistant] I think most of what happens to a starting quarterback, the mental toughness and the thick skin and just being a pro is a level most of us will never have. And I think the majority of things that come up throughout his day throughout his week


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[Assistant] But when you are the guy, you're still in your 20s, you've been led to believe you're the guy, and the leadership is going out and spending time with other quarterbacks, I think you have a right


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[Assistant] I'm gonna keep doing my thing. I'm gonna keep working the way I always work, but can you tell me what's going on? Has he earned the right to do that?


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[Assistant] That's the right thing for Derek to do. To do that, I'm just quarterback of the team, I'm a pro, I'm gonna deal with it. Or should he walk down to the office, shut the door, and say, Coach, can you tell me what's up here?


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[Assistant] I'm gonna raise my hand, I'm just doing the due diligence. Doing due diligence is taking that 15 minute meeting at the combine, getting the gnoll, maybe going to his pro day.


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[Assistant] No, no success at all. Which is the way, you know, for better or worse. Yea, you're going to be judged. Alright, let's transition from the quarterback situation in Oakland to Quinn and Williams. And I saw you tweeted yesterday when you were watching film with the Alabama defensive lineman, how much you love him. I have Chris's notes here. The second line starts this way. I mean, holy shit.


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[Assistant] You always liked him. What about seeing him in the last few days took your level to the


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[Assistant] You like Quinn and Williams so much because he was nice to us on the phone and said he was going up to see his grandmother on her birthday and that was the time. I don't let that


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[Assistant] Had he been a jerk, you would have liked him just as much. I would have liked him just as much. No doubt about it.


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[Assistant] I'm going to set Quinn and Williams aside for now, but we will have, or Chris will have, full rankings, 1 through 5, maybe 1 through 8, or probably interior defensive lineman. That's coming up next week. Coming up next week. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Let's stay with the defensive front seven and move to the, uh, edge rushers last week. Yeah, right. And after talking about it, I said, you know, it sounds like you might need to make a couple changes there.


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[Assistant] At three and four. And for all of you who are with us on YouTube, you can watch. There's our new one through seven. It reads Nick Bosa at one, Rashaun Gary two, Montez Sweat three, Josh Allen at four. There's the flip-flop at three and four. Five Brian Burns, Florida State six, Jalen Ferguson, Louisiana Tech seven.


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[Assistant] Cleland Farrell, or Furl, however you would like to say that, he is at seven. Yes. There's your one through seven. Alright, the change. Yeah. Three and four. Right. How difficult was that?


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[Assistant] Hold on, hold on a sec, with Josh Allen, you dropped him from 3 to 4, but it sounds like, it doesn't sound like he is someone who should be as high as 4. If he doesn't have the bendability, if you worry about him with contact, why is he even at 4?


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[Assistant] I think it's great you point out how far coaching can go, even for these guys who are becoming professionals. So who was your quarterback coach in the NFL?


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[Assistant] Rashawn Gary. Yeah. Incredible athlete. Right. Incredible. All kinds of potential. Yes. You had him rated where? Three. At number three. Yeah. A couple of responses here. Oh, two. Excuse me. Sorry. Two. Two here, here, here. Two. Alright. Rashawn Gary at two.


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[Assistant] Gary is all traits, no production. Another one says, uh, this is from Apostic Baptist, I believe. Gary is a great athlete, but his own teammate grades better than him as a pass rusher.


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[Assistant] That was at the 2015 Super Bowl against Seattle. Yes, right. Yes. Here at NBC. And that was, uh, you didn't have to be watching for more than a play or two to be like, whoa. Exactly right. His stats, his stats.


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[Assistant] Cleland Furl, you had him at number 7, right? Jubeir22 says, watch him again, man. He has the highest floor of anyone other than Bosa.


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[Assistant] Do you hold it against him when you're watching him on film and there are multiple likely first round picks on that front seven that, uh, you know, that they have to worry about so many others that his job, uh, maybe is easier or different than other pros.


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[Assistant] Defense events. We did that last week and now our new one for this week and again.


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[Assistant] Next week on Wednesday, we're talking about the top interior defensive lineman. Yea. Look forward to that one. And tonight, or today, cornerbacks. Yea, cornerbacks. I see you're going seven, top seven cornerbacks before we get to the individual names.


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[Assistant] This group as a whole, it doesn't seem to be like a, seem to be like there's a sure top 20 pick where the past multiple top 20 picks a corner. Is that, is that a right read on the screen?


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[Assistant] And that's what I highlighted and underlined of all your notes here on him. To me, he looks like a zone coverage cornerback.


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[Assistant] I'd like to put a bow on these before we move on. Sounds like if you're a zone team, second round would be a good pick?


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[Assistant] I also highlighted here in your notes while watching film of him, has really good hips. How does that, because we hear that a lot about players this time, he has great hips. How does that translate on game day?


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[Assistant] Rock is six. You had DeAndre Baker, Georgia at seven, five. This is another player. Murphy, the cornerback out of Washington, who I see higher than five, so maybe you don't like him quite as much as others.


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[Assistant] I want to come back to what you said a moment ago, and I'm reading it right here from your notes. The value of Murphy is as a slot cornerback, and as quarterbacks in passing games go more toward it, they value that person in the slot. Think about how New England had so much success outside of Gronk.


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[Assistant] So maybe that's even more important to some teams than a cornerback who can be good in the outside.


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[Assistant] I know these picks are made by General Manager, but if I'm inside one of those facilities and I'm a defensive coordinator where my voice is heard, and this is true, if he really is one of the best slot corners in the draft, I would raise my hand and say, give me this guy in the first round. This is what we need to go to the next level.