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[Assistant] And it's just one of those things, again, context clues where you go, man, what's he thinking? What's he doing here? Right? I know it's one thing, like if the whole area is voided, you might go, hey, let me just get it to my guy and let him run. But there was guys in front of him. It was soft coverage once again, like I've explained, it was soft coverage throughout the day.


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[Assistant] This is basic 101 here, where, oh, single safety defense, it's three deep zone, and I have a slant flat. You play the slant flat. Basic rules of the West Coast offense there. He doesn't for some reason and then throws an awkward, like I said, off his back foot throw. Again, more context clues of what the hell was Patrick Mahomes looking at. Here we got the interception in the second quarter. All right. It's Tampa too.


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[Assistant] Okay, it's Tampa 2, the inside of the, he's got trips right, he's got a receiver to the left, right? Tampa 2, with three verticals.


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[Assistant] Right? Okay, it's not really made for that. It's not. You know, the linebacker's gonna take the inside of the three verticals. Okay, the nickelback, he's got nothing underneath him to worry about, so he's gonna flow back, and he understands where the lanes are here, as far as making, uh, you know, trying to get an interception.


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[Assistant] Uh, and, and Mahomes, like we kinda talked about


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[Assistant] Makes, seems like he makes up his mind where he wants to go with the ball. Like, I'm gonna fit this ball into Travis Kelce for a seam route. I'm getting frustrated with how this day's going. I'm gonna make a big play.


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[Assistant] When in actuality, against this coverage, he should be working the backside incut, which is perfect.


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[Assistant] Against Tampa too, because the Will linebacker, he's worried about the trips receivers to the top. So he squeezes towards that side a little bit. There's a guy in the flat where Patrick Surtain, he is playing Tampa too. He has to worry about flat defense. And now there's a huge hole for Skye Moore in cover two on the left side for an easy 12 yard in cut.


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[Assistant] But for whatever reason, Mahomes had made up his mind. He was gonna throw the ball to Travis Kelce here. And, uh, one of the stars of the day.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Jaquan McMillan gets the interception. He was all over the field. All game long. Incredible job by him. Uh, and he gets the interception there. The first interception of Mahomes on the day. Okay. Here's right before halftime. You heard me say a few minutes ago.


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[Assistant] Points, completions. They're not easy to come by in the NFL, right? You can't turn, you can't turn them down. We get a completion here, Mahomes, right? It's not in rhythm. It's floating around Mahomes' magic. It ends up being a good game, game. My point is this. There was a touchdown to be had in this play.


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[Assistant] That's, that's the real point here. And guess what? There was a touchdown to be had and guess what happened on the next play? Patrick Mahomes got strip sacked, fumbled.


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[Assistant] And they don't get any points on this drive. Denver recovers, right? So that's what I mean. When you miss plays like this, there's a ripple effect usually. Mahomes and Company can get away with it more than anybody because he's, you know, one of the greatest quarterbacks we've ever seen all time. Let's go back to that last one just so I can explain it, okay? Just a little bit here. Because this is an overarching theme


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[Assistant] of the chiefs in general that I think they need to be more aware of. They run these middle posts a lot of times


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[Assistant] Alright, and when they get single safety defenses, this is something John Gruden taught me at an early age, where single safety defenses, you got three receivers to the left,


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[Assistant] And maybe the, or even two receivers to the left, but the one guy against a three deep zone or even a man to man is running like a deep cross post, right? A lot of the times it really puts the single safety who's playing his deep middle, he can't get over to defend the crosser. And as you can see on this picture here, Valdez Scanling has nobody within six yards of him.


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[Assistant] And if Mahomes throws a ball like I know he can throw the ball, Valda Skantling is going to catch the ball on the eight or nine yard line and be one on one with a safety and with a lot of space. And I'm going to say he probably scores. He doesn't score. Like I said, he gets a completion to Kelsey. It all looks good. But then the next play, let's go to it. Pete becomes the strip sack fumble. And you'll see here again where


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[Assistant] This is where I think Mahomes was looking at the rush a few times. You know, this again is another one where the coverage says to go to the backside in cut.


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[Assistant] He's, he, I do believe on this one, looks at the rush and then he's late to get his eyes up to realize, wait, Sky Moore is open on the same 12 yard in cut we showed two plays ago, right? And he now is stepping up in the pocket.


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[Assistant] And he, he's already missed Sky Moore open originally within the rhythm of the offense. But now he's moving and starting to scramble and do Mahomes magic. And Sky Moore is going to come open in those terms as well. But hey, yeah, the Denver defense with some of these edge guys, this Cooper, this Browning.


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[Assistant] You know, the, the Bonito, they're players. They fly around the football field.


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[Assistant] And of course, Mahomes loses who's around him in the pocket, and as he's gonna throw the sky more, gets stripsack fumbled, and the Denver Broncos end up getting the ball. But again, more examples of just Mahomes not being on his game. The pass protection was very good throughout. It wasn't an issue of, oh, he was under pressure.


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[Assistant] As you see right here, everybody's downfield and he doesn't have anybody with, around him, and he has a pocket to step up in.


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[Assistant] But I think because he was looking at the pocket and the rush a little bit, and I know he wasn't feeling himself, he definitely was off his game in this one. And that was an issue. We got one more here, right Pete?


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[Assistant] We got one more throw I wanna, wanna show here. This was...


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[Assistant] Uh, a pretty big moment. It was third quarter. We got a third and six here. And the Broncos, this is one of the few times they man and they blitz in the football game. As you see here on the screenshot, Mahomes has got a great pocket. There's nothing to worry about at all.


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[Assistant] And they have a little three man bunch combination on the top and the whole thing is to mess the defense up and man to man and we're going to have a combination where one of our guys is going to get open.


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[Assistant] Kelsey kinda comes off the ball, makes it look like he's on our out route, and he runs inside, and because of the two other receivers and how they were lined up around him, the guy covering Kelsey was playing outside leverage, now he couldn't get quite through the traffic. Kelsey's wide open.


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[Assistant] I mean he's wide open, right in front of Patrick Mahomes, you just don't see him do this much anymore.


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[Assistant] And he passes up the completion, and in my opinion, because he determined, wait, it's man to man, and I'm just gonna, I'm frustrated, I'm gonna make a big play right here, right now.


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[Assistant] Instead of kind of just reading it out and going, you know what? I'm going to look at my first read, which is Travis Kelsey. And if he's not open, then I'll push the ball down the field to the corner route to Justin Watson. He drops back here, lets the ball fly to Justin Watson on the corner route, who


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[Assistant] How to, had the guy beat by a step, but it was a tough throw. It's third and six. Take the best tight end in the history of football, get the first down and continue to move the ball down the field. Instead, it ends up where, I believe on this one, they


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[Assistant] Kicked a long field goal. They might have had a punt. I can't remember exactly what they did here. Uh, but either way it should have been a first down. And just another example of Mahomes not being on his game. Not comfortable in the pocket.


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[Assistant] The clock in his head wasn't correct and he certainly missed a few shots in that one. So this will be interesting here.


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[Assistant] He's gonna have to get back on his game. Got the Dolphins this week, right? The Dolphins we know are gonna be able to score some points and I think put some pressure on that Chiefs defense. They're gonna have to keep pace. Maybe this is what they needed. Maybe they needed Mahomes to get, you know, back, uh,


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[Assistant] Back on track here, a little bit of wake up call till he gets back to some of the basics and doesn't miss some of the plays that are there to be had. That's it on the Chiefs game.


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[Assistant] Right? Again, I wish I could tell you it was some brilliant game plan. What it was, was just a smart,


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[Assistant] We don't think they're going to be patient enough. We're not going to let them have the big play. And let's see if the Chiefs can work within that environment. And they showed that they could not exactly do that in this football game. Last game from the notebook here, okay. We got a little bit of the Cowboys over the Rams D. And I think the big thing, and I kind of hit on this Sunday a little bit.


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[Assistant] There was more of a vertical presence in the Cowboys pass game, uh, that I had seen in any other game this year. And I think that's really what I loved about the attack, right? And to me, the big thing with them doing that, they're, they're,


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[Assistant] Make the defense have to go, wait, we gotta worry about CD Lamb wherever he goes. I think that's only gonna make things better for Michael Gallup, Ferguson, uh, uh, Brandon Cooks. It's gonna, you know, uh,


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[Assistant] Of course, make their lives easier and give them an avenue to get the ball more if you start to feed CD Lamb. The big thing I loved about the vertical passing game, and I saw some examples of this too, where you guys have been listening to me, the Cowboys, it's everything, jam it in there for four and five yards. It's third and four, let's throw a five yard route and jam it in there and do all of that.


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[Assistant] Right, and the one thing I've been trying to preach here on the podcast a little bit, you know, if it's third and four, not everybody has to run a five yard route. We don't have to do that.


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[Assistant] If we want to throw it short, let's send some people deep. More times than not, people are playing defenses to stop the short pass, so there is some opportunities to get some aggressive plays down the field.


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[Assistant] And then, within that, when you start to show that and do that a little bit, what happens is you get defenses to play back and play off a little bit, you send people deep and then you got one guy working underneath.


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[Assistant] And now it's not like, oh, I'm going to jam it in there between seven people. It's like, wait, it's CD lamb underneath against a, a linebacker or he's one-on-one with somebody covering them. But we've cleared it out with our route concepts with everybody else and it opens up the field. So that to me is the thing that I loved about the game plan for the Cowboys. There was definitely.


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[Assistant] You know, a handful, six or seven more aggressive concepts that I watched throughout the game.


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[Assistant] Great, right? And this is where I think them just being a little more aggressive in the pass game is going to help them.


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[Assistant] One, they have a good screen game. They have a good screen playbook. You want to throw screens to the receivers or Tony Pollard?


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[Assistant] That's the best way to open that up. With people going downfield, you're worried about that. Oh, boom, there you go. Tony Pollard, big play.


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[Assistant] Right? That's one thing. It's gonna help their run game in Tony Pollard. Cause it's gonna get even more to safety defenses cause they're going, damn, Dak and Mike McCarthy are dialing up deeper plays here. And, you know, these guys, you know, Gallup, CD Lamb and Cooks can go. We can't.


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[Assistant] We can't just play man to man bump and run there. So I think all those things are going to help their


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[Assistant] Offense out, and it just makes the field more wide open. And that was kinda my summation of the game overall. I mean, the Cowboys are unbelievable. They really are.


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[Assistant] No, they're extremely talented and they can go on a run.


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[Assistant] Almost like we've seen the Chiefs be able to go on a run through their little dynasty here that you've never seen before. I mean the game was 10 to 3. The Cowboys got to pick 6. It goes 17 to 3. The Rams go 3 and out. The punt gets blocked for a safety. The Rams now have to kick the ball off to the Cowboys because of the safety.


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[Assistant] The basic thesis of what we saw, DAC was great.


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[Assistant] The offense is more wide open. Not like what it was like, oh wow, but just enough to now it opens up all the other stuff.


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[Assistant] They don't need to be a vertical and downfield passing team all the time, but when they do, it opens up the offense. Doesn't let a team play downhill all game like the 49ers and Chargers did where they were always like, hey, it's just going to be right here in front of us. Just get ready to come downhill, you know, break up a pass or hit him as soon as he catches the ball.


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[Assistant] You know, there's too much talent on this team to throw the ball short all the time. Love how they had some plays of send people deep to throw it short. It's very tough on a defense, as I explained. And here's the other, here's the things that it opens up.


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[Assistant] The Dak scramble lanes, right? Dak had a few scrambles in the game. That's going to be a nice weapon for them when you open up the field. The Pollard screen game, as I discussed already. The run game and all that will be helped by the, that will all be helped by the downfield passing game. And the Pollard passing game in general is going to have more, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, more validity to it because now everyone's downfield and Pollard can work underneath against a linebacker or safety. All of this will improve. Send these.


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[Assistant] Let number 20 or number 88 or number 3 work underneath and it's going to stress defenses out in a big way. So that's Inside the Notebook by Chris Sims. What the F happened Treasure Hunters edition right there. I hope everybody enjoyed that. We got one more thing to get to here in honor of my host who's missing.


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[Assistant] I don't know if we've ever had a repeat winner, but I think it's worthy, okay?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's right. The first Big Butt-a-Winner, Big Butt of the Week-a-Winner.


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[Assistant] The Wiko winner, is that what I just said? The Wiko winner is Sexy Dexy. The biggest butts of them all. The biggest butt of them all is Sexy Dexy Dexter Lawrence. I mean, yea, second week in a row.


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[Assistant] Let's just state it how it is. There hasn't been a defensive lineman more dominant than Dexter Lawrence the last two weeks. I mean, you go back and watch that game. You don't have to go back and watch it. If you watch it on Sunday, you realize that Dexter Lawrence was in the face of Zach Wilson all game long.


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[Assistant] He had 15 pressures according to PFF. That's tied for the second most in a single game in the PFF era. Alright?


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[Assistant] That's impressive. That really is. He's a one-man wrecking crew, right? He's a staple of that defense. And, uh, as we know and what we saw yesterday, I think the Giants are packing it up this year by trading Leonard Williams and throwing in the white towel and going, okay, we're going to start worrying about next year. The next one goes to


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[Assistant] Another pretty obvious one that I think all of you can recognize. If you watch Monday Night Football, Max Crosby. How awesome is Max Crosby, right?


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[Assistant] I just, is he everywhere? You know, he's definitely one of the best defensive ends in football. I think maybe we get, we overlook him at times, you know, compared to Bosa and TJ Watt and Micah Parsons and Miles Garrett. And I think we need to be clear that


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[Assistant] Max Crosby is in the class of those guys. He is. He's incredibly explosive. He's great at getting off blocks.


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[Assistant] Right? He plays a hundred miles per hour all game long. This is his first elephant trophy for Crosby. Right? It's long overdue. How dare Ahmed not give him the respect. You know, maybe Ahmed didn't like his butt. I don't know. Maybe it's not big enough. Alright?


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[Assistant] But either way, the play on the field warrants him winning the Big Bud Award. 86 snaps, or 23 more than the next highest edge player. That's insane. Because when you watch Max Crosby,


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[Assistant] It's not like he takes plays off and like manages his energy for the game. It's like every play is the last play of the game.


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[Assistant] So, you know, and then he leads all edge players and where you saw him the other night was what he could do in the run game. I mean, he's phenomenal in the run game. Eight tackles, a true dominant force, you know, that of course gives him no help on defense. It's not like you're worried about blocking anybody else.


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[Assistant] That was an unbelievable performance by Dexter Lawrence and Max Crosby.


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[Assistant] The big butt of the week award winners way to go, you know, and Ahmed wanted to be stated that is proof that you don't need to win the game to bring home the big butt trophy. AKA football is a team sport. Well said by Ahmed and Pete. All right.


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[Assistant] We got one little breaking news here as we go out. The Falcons will start Taylor Heinecke at quarterback over Desmond Ritter, not shocked by this decision. If you were watching the Tennessee Titan game last week, that was the best the offense looked at the Falcons all year. Desmond Ritter, this doesn't mean it's the end for him. You know, now he can go back, recalibrate a little bit.


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[Assistant] You know, but I think again, they've been winning games in spite of Desmond Ritter. The NFC South is there to be had. Taylor Heinecke's played a lot of football.


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[Assistant] Uh, he played really good the other day. I think they're going to be a better offense with him at the quarterback position. Desmond Ritter, hey, you're still young, keep fighting. I hear people go, well, this is going to ruin his confidence. I don't know if he'll be the same. Well, if it ruins his confidence and he won't be the same, then you know he's not your quarterback for the future anyways.


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[Assistant] Obstacles happen. I've saw Joe Montana get benched. If Joe Montana can get benched, anybody can get benched. Alright? That's all I gotta say about that. Desmond Ritter, keep fighting the good fight.


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[Assistant] I still got faith in you. Uh, this gives him a chance to take a deep breath and kind of reevaluate himself and how he was playing the position.


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[Assistant] Alright everybody, tomorrow, got the week 9 picks with Florio, PFTPM, Chris Sims on Button collaboration. You know where to find me on social media, at CSimsQB on Twitter, at Sims on Button on Instagram, at Sims on Button on TikTok. Yeah, I'm young, I'm cool, deal with it. Alright, peace out homies, clap it up.


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[Assistant] Yo yo, what up homies, thanks for watching. Remember, subscribe to Chris Sims on Button.


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[Assistant] I don't know where I came up with that. So I just heard a stat. Yeaah. I don't know if it's true or not. Right? But going into this week, the NFL had like the largest margin of victory that it has had in a long time. Right? Is that a made up stat?


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[Assistant] We're getting into this way too fast. Pretty amazing. There were five game winning field goals as time expired in the fourth quarter today. The most in a single day in NFL history.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I would be broken in too. Uh, Texas Defeat the Bengals, what a game. 30-27, I was just at Ohio State too, and Ryan Day was there, and of course CJ Stroud was lightening it up at Ohio State, but not lighting it up to this extent.


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[Assistant] And, and Todd Blackledge asked Ryan Day, he goes, are you surprised at all, what you're seeing from CJ? And he goes, no, not surprised. He's, you know, been, you know, quieting doubters for a long time. But I do wonder if a part of like, Ryan Day, they made it far last year and they were a kick away from making it to the national championship game.


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[Assistant] Part of you is just like, man, he didn't look like thi- He looked good! He didn't look like this his entire-


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[Assistant] Five and four now are the Houston Texans. They trail the Jacksonville Jaguars by one game in the AFC South, and both of us in the preseason were saying, there are a lot of teams in the AFC that can make the playoffs. The one team that probably can't is Houston, and now I'm saying they probably can't. Oh, we're in trouble on that one.


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[Assistant] Despite all this, I think this is not a situation where it's a sky is falling game for the Cincinnati Bengals because you mentioned it, you know, they did have some trouble, but their first drive of the game was like big play touchdown. I was like, oh boy, this could be, this could be their day. It's going to be rocking there in Cincinnati and they're going to have a fun day. And then they go three and out on like.


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[Assistant] And this is going to take a look at CJ Stroud one last time because he did something that we have not seen a whole lot of rookie quarterbacks do. Pushed the ball downfield in this victory against the Bengals. He averaged a career high 11.9 air yards per attempt.


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[Assistant] Degree of difficulty thrills for CJ Stroud, um, amazing.


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[Assistant] They might have to issue a restraining order. This is getting a little creepy at this point. That was Inside the Numbers powered by AWS on CJ Stroud. Uh, it's just amazing. No, no one in football has thrown for more yards on throws of 10 or more yards on the field. Through the air. Right. Through the air than CJ Stroud.


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[Assistant] This game, I thought this was Baltimore's game from the beginning. What? What? It was just dang.


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[Assistant] They're gonna do it again. It's like all these teams go into Baltimore that we think are pretty good and they just get blown out. They get run and it looked like even late in the game, right? Cleveland had to score the final 16 points after trailing 31-17 in the fourth quarter. But they came back, chipped away, made enough plays and Baltimore messed up just enough, right? Big win for the Browns.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because there was another play that I was like, this is it. It's over. It was the Muff pun in the fourth quarter by Cleveland. Prochet muffs the pun. Right. And then Baltimore kind of stalls out. Their offense is not good, but Cleveland just kept defensive holding and there we go. It was nine plays.


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[Assistant] Brown's offensive run game opened up the pass game. Fourth quarter Deshaun Watson was perfect. 7 of 7, 81 yards and a touchdown on the flip side. Lamar Jackson in the fourth quarter, 1 of 5, 11 yards and through the


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[Assistant] Interception. Right. Uh, Eric DePasta is concerned. He goes, anytime the Ravens lost this season, they have completely beat themselves. The utilization of Keaton Mitchell today was sad. So he ended up with just three carries and 34 yards.


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[Assistant] I guess he caught one pass for 32 yards. Explosive guy! Yea, he's got a pass catch of 32 yards, a run of 39 yards, and that was about it for him. Feed them, feed them the ball more.


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[Assistant] They had 31 points, they needed 3 more, but Silverlining, it's their 4th straight game with 30 or more points, just the second time in team history, they have done that.


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[Assistant] You thought that game had a whole lot of offense. How about in LA? Oh, baby. My Detroit Lions!


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[Assistant] They're different this year. Not the same old Lions. They're not the same old Lions. These are different Lions. 7 and 2 now. They get the last second field goal. Riley Patterson, 41 yarder with


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[Assistant] But if those teams aren't aggressive in those situations, I do think the Lions lose, and I don't think the Chargers, if they're not aggressive in those situations, I think they lose by more than three points in this one.


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[Assistant] See cause the Lions did it again, so they failed on that fourth and short, and then the next time they got down there, they had fourth and short again, and they were like, are they just going to kick it this time? Cause they were like, we gotta get some points from some of these. Dan's like, no, we're going to go for it again. They did score the touchdown that time, kicked off, and so the Chargers had better field position, went right down the field, and scored a touchdown.


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[Assistant] It has supplied us with the perfect stat for the discussion that we're having right now. Keenan Allen, this is per next gen stats, you know it's good. Keenan Allen caught 7 of his 8 targets against zone coverage for 118 yards and 2 touchdowns en route to a team leading 11 receptions 175 yards.


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[Assistant] Seahawks and Commanders. A three point game. Jason Myers.


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[Assistant] Congratulations, you're the game winner. The 43 yarder with no time on the clock.


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[Assistant] Seahawks getting the win here. Uh, it is their longest home winning streak. They've won four in a row now since 2020. They're starting to roll there. That home field advantage in Seattle. I like it when that place is rocking. Geno Smith maybe getting going a little bit late in the game. First game with two touchdowns and no interceptions since week two.


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[Assistant] I don't have a real great feel on this game, but uhm, I guess it's one of those where both teams got rolling late and Seattle just did a little bit more.


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[Assistant] Right now, good season, good start to the season for the Seattle Seahawks, uh, all told. One more buzzer beater, the Arizona Cardinals beat the Falcons, 25-23. Matt Prater, your old teammate. Yeaah. 23-yard field goal. That's nothing for him. Oh, nothing. He's 63.


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[Assistant] I'm almost insulted by this. It's like, you're really gonna drop me out there for a 20, I don't do 23 yard field goal. Alright, fine. As a game winner, I'll do it. Uh, Kyler Murray is back.


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[Assistant] And I think we should start with the Dots. Yeah. Pete, we have the Dots. If you're watching on Peacock or YouTube. That play, right? We gotta do the Dots play.


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[Assistant] So, uh, this one is the 13-yard scramble, where he goes back, this is what, 3rd and 10, end of the game, under the 2-minute mark, need this play, he goes back to the 20-yard line, and then goes forward, he has to run 20 yards just to get back to the line of scrimmage, and then goes another 13 for the first down.


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[Assistant] He ended up with 8 catches and 131 yards, so certainly a connection there.


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[Assistant] You're right, uh, Kyler Murray. And by the way, on that play, he ran 68 yards on that 13 yard scramble. He reached a top speed of over 20 miles an hour. That's his fastest since 2021.


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[Assistant] So he was booking it out there, and uh, they have a little nugget here, the win probability added after that play was 22%. So the Cardinals had a 22% chance, a better chance of winning after that one play. Which I would, I would venture a guess, when he was back at the 20, if you could do in play, win probability.


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[Assistant] Exactly. They're gonna lose this game. It's almost a lock. He is so fun to watch. Yeah, he is. And I kind of forgot. A little bit, right? You forget. You're just like, okay, yeah, he's good, he's a mobile quarterback, you know, he makes some mistakes with the arm, he tries to do too much.


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[Assistant] On the Falcons and make plays. So when you, when you scouted Drake London in college you said he can't separate. He can't separate. 50-50 balls he's good at. Great at.


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[Assistant] I'll give them credit for battling though. They battled and Heineken got hurt and then Ritter came in and made a couple of plays. I will give them some credit if they were in this game and they ran the ball for almost 200 yards. So that kind of makes you just flip those numbers around and be like, hey, they almost threw for 200 yards passing and ran for about 100. That's not bad. Just a different way of doing it.


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[Assistant] Zero's on the clock. That's so rare. Usually it's like, alright, you gotta kick off or something like that. Nope. Zero, zero, zero. Well done. Alright, time to go into the shop. The uh, the printing press.


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[Assistant] Give me the headlines presented by Hyundai. Let me find it in the rundown here. Hold on. I started scrolling prematurely. We're at it.


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[Assistant] 49ers beat the Jaguars 34-3. This was not a buzzer beater. At any point. No. This was the 49ers saying, we are angry that we had a three game losing streak. That's right. We never should have had that three game losing streak. That's right. And we're gonna take it out on the Jacksonville Jaguars. That's right. Your headline for this game is...


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[Assistant] Give you the credit and in the process we make fun of you. That's how it works, right? He passes on the credit. He goes, keep up my name out of your mouth. Uhm, the 49ers man, this is, so I don't know, I don't know, they just, this is the team that we were like, what happened to this team? Well, here they were. Here they were.


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[Assistant] So what about Wilkeson? I think we have a question from Mahome here. B-ball, Daniel 1, Damok, Niners D. What adjustments did Steve Wilkes make that paid off for the Jags? Maybe some more film review will have to be done before he can give a definitive answer on that. But I do know this. He was in the booth, then he went to the field.


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[Assistant] There's something to that? Is there something, like what, like Matt Canada, we'll talk about the Steelers here in a bit. He went Booth to Field, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was like, Doug Peterson is like, what happened there? And then Trevor Lawrence is like, don't worry, we got it. Second half. Like the Chargers game, like no, the game's over. This ain't the Chargers. It's the 49ers. Don't try to pull the Chargers on this one. Uh, Brock Purdy, three touchdowns, no interceptions. Uh, and that one pass to Kittle was awesome.


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[Assistant] Cowboys get a big win over the Giants. We put this in the printing press too. Just so you can put it to bad. Write the headline, write the story, and then ship it out and don't think about it ever again. For you. 49-17 is the final score. Your headline for this game is...


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[Assistant] Longest home win streak since 1979 and 81. They've won 12 in a row now at home dating back to last year.


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[Assistant] Look at that, 640 total yards to 172. What was Morgan saying, Morgan? Morgan was saying it was the largest disparity. In yards? In yards and...


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[Assistant] Oh, since 1979. When your dad was drafted. Yeah, that's when they start all stats. They go, when was Chris's dad drafted? Okay, 79, we'll start our stats there. Uhm, but that's insane. You just don't see that. Obviously, the Giants are in shambles. They've had injuries, but you just don't see that. No.


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[Assistant] We'll get to that one here in just a bit. So the Raiders get the win. Uh, Robert Sala doing a bro hug. Robert Sala, by the way, the beard is much darker. I think it's a much darker beard this week than it was last week. Yeah, it does seem a little darker.


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[Assistant] I'm sure. I'll ask him. Uhm, this is from, uh, Across the Bedroom. Yeaah. He says, damn okay, my king, Dak Prescott, lighting it up on the field, throwing for 1,000 plus yards in the last three games. My question, if Dak keeps playing like this,


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[Assistant] Do you wanna do, do you wanna do Sunday Night Football real quick? Is there anything else to say about it? Well, let's do it.


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[Assistant] Let's do it. Jets lose to the Raiders. Final score 16-12. Well done in the back. The graphic is up on the screen. Uh, now just, we need Chris's thoughts.


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[Assistant] Raiders are 4 and 5. I feel like they're gonna be right in that area. Both of those teams.


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[Assistant] They're streakin'. Uh, the Minnesota Vikings are one such team. They defeat the Saints 27 to 19. Now they're 6 and 4. They got the longest active win streak in the NFL with 5 straight wins and they're at Denver versus Chicago, a bye, and then at Las Vegas after that. This role, I mean, we saw the Lions at minus 1100 to win the division.


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[Assistant] Last week? I don't know. I'm starting to think the Vikings might have something to say about that. Josh Dobbs!


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[Assistant] He did it again. Uh, drug D out dragon. Oh, drugged out dragon. Drugged out dragon. Can we say that? Yea, you just did. Okay. Yea. I didn't know fully what. It's a drugged out dragon. I mean, damn. It could be legal drugs.


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[Assistant] This dragon says, what is the ceiling for the Pasternaut? I like that nickname. The Pasternaut and the Vikings. How far can we go? I mean, what is going on here?


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[Assistant] I know, and, and I, last week I almost just basically anointed Dan Campbell, the coach of the year, cause I was like, if they can get to the playoffs, it's like, you do that with the Lions, you automatically should get coach of the year, but if he continues to do this with quarterback after quarterback and your starter goes down, Dobbs comes over, you don't skip a beat, I don't know, he's going to be in the conversation.


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[Assistant] So can we, can we show the dots on the seven yard touchdown run if you're watching on Peacock or YouTube here? NextGenStats, uh, gives us the numbers on it. He ran 45 yards on this seven yard scramble and score. And we saw this last game too. Whenever he was in trouble, he would just get out of the pocket and either go with his legs or something would open up in the pass game. Maybe he'd get it to Hawkinson there. Uh, according to NextGenStats,


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[Assistant] Dobbs has gained 130 rushing yards, over expected on scramble runs this season. More than double the next closest quarterback, who is Patrick Mahomes, who is actually very good at doing that. And so, he is not only scrambling, but he is getting more yards than an average quarterback should get on these scrambles.


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[Assistant] Talk about the New Orleans Saints. They're like a team like you've talked about. It's just like, what's their identity? What are they? What is it? Outside of Elvin Kamara three yard passes down the field.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that's right, and James Swinson came in. Took a big shot. I guess it's not too too serious, and they have a bye week I think coming up. Shoulder, head, I think he got a little bit of both there. James didn't look bad in the game though. Well, James has got talent.


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[Assistant] The Pittsburgh Steelers. Yes they do. Getting outgained by their opponents. It happened again. It happened again. The Packers get 399 yards. The Steelers get 324 and yet they improve to 6-3. They are 6-0 in one possession games this season.


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[Assistant] AFC North, the Bengals are in last place at 5-4, with Cleveland at 6-3, Pittsburgh at 6-3, Baltimore at 7-3. We do have one question on Christian Watson here. He had seven targets, but just two catches in this game.


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[Assistant] PFT Go says, is it just me or are the Packers not putting Watson in the same spots that made him so deadly the second half of the season last year? Agreed, and I don't-


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[Assistant] In Frankfurt, taking on the Patriots, 10-6, low scoring affair. They didn't see a whole lot of offense in Frankfurt. They did see, although I don't know if the fans were there when it happened, although they're probably used to it over there. Did you see that, the roof?


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[Assistant] Yes. Oh, it's like an umbrella, and then it just closes? It's amazing. Why are they so much smarter than we are? They've been smarter than us for a long time. We're just, we're just not, we're just now


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[Assistant] All the rainouts. I know. I don't, I don't get it either. You know. We should steal that. Yea, try to figure that out for me, alright? Yea, we should take their technology and just steal it. Uhm, Peter, are you putting it in right now? Are you putting in the picture or something?


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[Assistant] Oh, okay. We might come back. It's a tease. If you're, if you're watching on Peacock or YouTube, we'll get back to that. Uh, but the Colts go, they're five and five now, surpasses their win total from all of last season where they were four, twelve and one. They're just allowing, you know, nine and a half points per game during this two game win streak.


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[Assistant] But I think, oh and here it is, here's the umbrella, if you haven't seen this. It's awesome. It is so cool. It really is. It's just like, no, it's, look at that, sunny day, just a few clouds.


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[Assistant] I think, you know, we'll get to the Colts, right, but for the Patriots, like this was like unusual for me. For the first time in a while, I was like, man, they're kind of floundering. Like what's, what is that move? Like I get it, it was a bad interception at the end by Mac Jones, but it seemed very un Belichick-like to make a move to put in your backup quarterback to win you the game with two minutes left.


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[Assistant] He just had three sacks in the first nine games this season, but I am Sammy Lambert's little concerned. He goes Shaq Leonard begs for more playing time. He looks like a statue. He is a statue. Is that him or Gus Bradley is doing? EJ Speed looks like the better option. That huge contract and disgruntledness doesn't seem like he will be on the Colts much longer.


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[Assistant] It worked today, whatever they did, but that was mainly, you know, because of what the Patriots didn't do maybe on the offensive side. Yeah, I think that's fair to say. Some credit to the Colts. One more game to talk about.


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[Assistant] Excuse me, I'm fading as we go into the sunset here. Uh, they just gave Tennessee problems on offense the entire game.


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[Assistant] For Tennessee, it's their worst start since 2015. This is not going to be it for Tennessee this year. It's going to be the development year for Will Lovis.


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[Assistant] Alright, we don't want to forget. Actually, maybe we do want to forget what happened on Thursday night. We normally do Thursday night in 60 seconds. We might not need 60 seconds this time. The Bears did defeat the Panthers 16-13. What's your big takeaway from that game? Did you watch it?


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[Assistant] We've done it again. Yes we did. Reached the part of the podcast where usually Matt Casey gives us his laptop with breaking news, but apparently there's no-


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[Assistant] Oh yea baby, I'm still here. The boss did not screw me and fire me. That's right, I made it. He understood that it was strong content.


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[Assistant] Being made for the peacock in NBC. We are here, it's week 8 NFL season, Sunday night. It's 10.25pm. My man Ahmed Farid is here. What's up big guy? How are you? Doing alright? Feeling fresh, spry?


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[Assistant] What everybody is looking for at the position, because he can play outside and win, and then he looks like he can play the slot too.


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[Assistant] So he's gonna be able to do both of those things? He did do both last night. Right. So that's where he's really impressive that way, like you said, with his pedigree. Hey, I like the quarterback too, Kyle McCord. He's a guy that's worked with my dad and my brother a little bit growing up. Oh, he has. Of course. St. Joe's, Philly. New Jersey. He'd come up, work with them a little bit. Uh, so yea, there's a little connection there. I'm rooting for him, but good for Ohio.


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[Assistant] We don't need to worry about the Sunday Night Football update this week. It's 27-7 Chargers. Okay, they're gonna beat the Bears.


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[Assistant] The Bears play man to man every play, they don't ever back out of it. The Bears should have had a touchdown on the first play of the game, I don't know why, that it was never challenged, why Darnell Mooney stopped running, uh, that certainly could have made the game a little different, but like Herbert in the offense for the Chargers, on fire,


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[Assistant] That they felt like fit the bear. So we can just hit this one right now. The fact that they got behind so quickly, so early, right? They didn't let their run game kind of.


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[Assistant] I agree, they need it as a team. He's like, been real good.


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[Assistant] You know, watching him on film this week to prepare for the game, uh, but not like great like we're used to Justin Herbert. He's definitely has missed a few throws here and there, had a few mistakes, but also, you know, like we talk about with everybody, you know, there's a lot on Herbert every week. They don't really run the ball. They can't play defense. You know, they have good receivers. I wouldn't say they're great.


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[Assistant] And, you know, so a lot's on him to stand in there.


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[Assistant] It did. Turnovers. Settling for field goals in the red zone. That being the issue. Yea, sloppiness by the Chiefs.


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[Assistant] Outplayed in all areas of the football game. We've had concerns about the Chiefs. We've said this a little bit.


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[Assistant] Right? I, you know, let's, well we're three or four weeks in, maybe five weeks where we've gotten the offense, the offense.


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[Assistant] You know, there's not a lot of plays within the rhythm of the offense, the normal rhythm of the offense, the thing that concerns me about the Chiefs, right, I know they put up a ton of points in yards last week against the Chargers, mainly in the first half, I get that, but even going back and studying the Chargers game for Sunday Night Football, there's very few where it's like,


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[Assistant] Hey, you know how we talk about quarterback play. One, two, three, four, five step drop. Oh, get it out. One, two, three, four, five step. First hitch. Oh, the guy's not open. Move on to the second guy. Oh, he's open. Boom.


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[Assistant] But the Chiefs, it's not like that very often. It's not. You know, a lot of it is Mahomes floating around waiting for somebody to get open and then he makes a play.


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[Assistant] I don't know if that, you know, is going to be a viable way to keep winning throughout. I know they're going to become a 1 or a 2 or a 3 seed in the AFC playoffs. I get that. I'm just saying the current formula, I don't know if they can win the Super Bowl that way. But this game, I mean, yeaah, they were, this was like,


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, we went to the World Series on Friday night, alright, we kinda, and man we got sick, alright, Mahomes is the man, you know I love Mahomes, I did not love seeing him in Texas on a Friday night when he had an away game in Colorado on Sunday. That wasn't like, oh wow, I was like, why is he doing that? It was strange, right? Yes. Right? And then he's sick today, so that didn't help out.


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[Assistant] Okay, but the game started with a great punt return by the Denver Broncos that set them up for the first TD.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, Mahomes made some magic. They did okay. Then he gets a completion to MBS. MBS fumbles when you kinda feel like, oh, they're on the move again here. They're gonna have a chance to make it 7-6 or maybe go up 10-7.


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[Assistant] That doesn't happen. And hey, uh, Russell made a handful of big plays in the game. The very next drive was really the biggest one. He had two big passes to Judy. One became a touchdown. So all of a sudden they were up 14 to 3. And yes, you know, it was a day where the Chiefs offense was spotty and that was enough to


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[Assistant] You know, again, the red zone troubles. Mahomes throws another interception. Mahomes, as they're driving, kinda loses where he's in the pocket. He makes a few people miss. Somebody finally gets there from behind. Stripsack fumble. So, it was one of those days where the Chiefs were frustrating. We go, they could have been better. It kinda looks like they went into the game.


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[Assistant] A little too confident or whatever else. It was a big game for the Broncos. They're sick of hearing about the losing streak to the Chiefs and all of that. And credit to Vance Joseph. Because the D, again, it was four weeks ago, it was 70 points.


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[Assistant] They've played the Chiefs two out of the three last three weeks, and they've let up


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[Assistant] 28 points total in the two games. And the 19 of that Thursday night game were not easy. So they've done the right things there. Goodbye Vance Joseph, kind of, you know, figuring something out.


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[Assistant] Michael Hardman fumbles the punt on the 5 yard line, they go in, I think 2 play drive, touchdown 21-9, and if I remember correctly too, the Chiefs drive the ball right down the field, they have a fourth down around the 25 yard line, he throws a great pass to Skye Moore in the back left corner of the end zone, would have been a tough catch.


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[Assistant] But still a catch you expect NFO wide receivers to make, and you go, ooh, that game would have been different there either way, they didn't come up with that opportunity. But I think you kinda said it, I said it, right?


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[Assistant] It was sloppy, it was sloppy, the Broncos did a good job of taking care of the ball, they ran the ball well, or I should say they were patient with the run, that chewed up some clock.


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[Assistant] They were okay on third downs, but yes, three for ten on third downs for Kansas City, 275 yards of total offense. That's not a Kansas City day. And then you add on five turnovers to go with that. Yeaah, bad day by Kansas City, uh, definitely gonna have to get back to the drawing board on that one.


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[Assistant] Hey, you're the man, thank you. You have a good night too. This is why Randy Gregory's not there anymore. This is why Frank Clark is not there anymore. They got these guys and Barrett Browning and Bonito coming off the edge that are, that are, their future, these are the next guys right now.


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[Assistant] You know, they're, they're going, no, no, we got the future here. Frank Clark, Randy Gregory, you're good, but you know, you're kind of on the end of your career here. Uh, so they got some young talent to kind of play with there in Denver and yeah, good for them. That was a, it was a signature win for Sean Payne. And even though Russell Wilson wasn't pretty,


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[Assistant] You know, got touchdowns and didn't have the big blunder towards the end of the game or anything like that that we've seen a few times this year that kind of solidified the win


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[Assistant] I think he's back. I think I would officially say he's back after this one. I've been like, I know in other games I've been like, eh.


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[Assistant] They're close, or I like some things, right? We're like, he's back with a question mark, but now we're like, he's back. Now we're like, no, he's back and like three exclamation points. Like the other one was like question mark exclamation point. We're not sure, we think, whatever.


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[Assistant] By far, the best of Bengals looked all year. By far. This game was not even, this game shouldn't have been as close as it was. I mean, the Bengals missed a chip shot field goal, the Bengals fumbled at the one yard line once going into score on a little, like, pick play, uh, by Irv Smith, the tight end. Uhm.


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[Assistant] It was a fun game to watch. It was. It really was, right? It was like heavyweight offenses for a good portion of the game. I mean, Burrow was great. Brock Purdy made a number of big time throws and plays too. I know we'll talk about some of his mistakes and all that, but damn, he made some plays too. But I still think the star of the day was the fact that the Bengals protected Burrow pretty well throughout.


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[Assistant] I know it wasn't perfect, but it wasn't a day where it was like, oh, if he doesn't throw to the first guy, he's gonna get his head knocked off, right? I mean, it wasn't that. But that was good. His movement!


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[Assistant] That's where you go, he's back. I mean, his ability to move and buy some time or scramble or get out of the pocket or whatever, you know, those extra few things right there, that's a huge weapon for the football team. There's a reason we've been calling him a slippery son of a bitch for the last three, four years, right? I mean, he's amazing though. He's got six cents in the pocket. And then, you know what we saw today?


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[Assistant] You know, I knew this was a tough matchup for the 49ers. I've been saying it all week. I didn't have the guts to pick the Bengals.


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[Assistant] Right, but like we saw the week before with the Vikings against the 49ers and we broke it down a little bit on the pod last week. You know, Zach Taylor, he's kind of from that McVeigh, O'Connell coaching tree.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm going to be interested to watch this back because they seemed like they had all the answers for the 49ers zones once again. The 49ers want to play zone almost all the time.


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[Assistant] And you give Joe Burrow a little time, he's the best zone quarterback in football. You heard me say that last year? I've never seen anybody who can read the zone quicker, make a quicker decision, move people with his eyes and then come back to a guy. He diced them up. I mean, at one point in the game, I want to say he was like,


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[Assistant] 19 for 20 or something like that. I mean it was something ridiculous. It's the 49ers were talking about. And what that did, I mean him,


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[Assistant] Pickin' apart the zones, doin' that, they had a little success runnin' the ball, and then what happened? We saw the 49ers get a little scared, they go, damn, he's gonna pick us apart all day, we gotta play some man. And then all of a sudden a big player, too, happens to Jamar Chase down the football field. You couple that with the Bengals D, that we know is really well coached, game plan specific, creative, all that.


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[Assistant] Right? They forced a few turnovers, uh, bangles, yes. I think that off the bye week, look like they've turned the corner for the good here and you're gonna start looking like the team we thought they were.


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[Assistant] There was definitely some tight window throws he made. But, but like, you know, again, where I think, hey, the general public sometimes just go, oh, we had another throw, another completion. Guys like me and Jason Garrett, when we're watching,


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[Assistant] You know, those, that's, those, some of the throws he made that I think these stats are talking about, that's where, you know, I'm not saying


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[Assistant] I'm the most trained eye in the world, but it's those throws that go, oh my gosh, where...


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[Assistant] You know, I try to tell people, like some of the throws we see from a Holmes or Josh Allen or Herbert or whatever, it's next level throws. It's not just like, oh, that's another completion over the middle.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, some of the throws he made today, just kinda feeling a receiver going into a second window, and you'd see Fred Warner or somebody dive in, and you're like, oh my gosh, he got it in there, holy cow. Uh, really, really well done. And, you know,


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[Assistant] Like I said, not only protecting well enough, but then also moving the 49ers off the ball in the run game too. So it wasn't like they could just play pass after.


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[Assistant] Play after play after play, uh, he looked really great today. Yes. And it looks like they've gotten a rhythm in the offense and they're, they're at least short passing game and throwing the ball to Jamar Chase and slowly but surely what are we seeing? We're starting to see everybody else start to get involved and the whole offense is starting to, you know, cycle and really look awesome out there.


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[Assistant] Didn't get to play in the preseason, didn't get to practice at all, all through training camp, right?


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[Assistant] You know, really was limited even early in the regular season with how much he could practice because of this damn calf injury.


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[Assistant] I think you're seeing Joe finally get into the like, okay, I'm in the groove of the season just like everybody else. Let alone like we've talked about.


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[Assistant] When their offense starts to get a feel for how defenses play, they start to, you know, oh wait, they play this, okay, we got these plays we like in this coverage. Joe gets them in it, they execute the right way, they add a wrinkle or two every week to now here we are four weeks later and you go, okay, hey, there's a few wrinkles in the offense now, right? The things that were annoying me a little bit.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, I think Burrow also what adds to that stat is his movement again too. You know, a few times sliding in the pocket or getting out of the pocket. Now the linebackers get sucked up cause they're worried about tackling him. Boom, he throws it behind him. Uh, but he was feeling it today and he answered the bell in a big way. Their whole team did. And of course that goes even to the defensive side as well.


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[Assistant] Damn, you wanna suspend me? All the love I, I'm always talking about the bangles, I love Joe Burrow, I mean, I'll be cool with the bangles girls though, don't worry, I'm cool with that, you're not embarrassing me, I'll try to work on it. I don't mean, I grew up saying the damn word. No, no, no, no, it's your thing. Bangles. It's your thing, you've been doing it for so long now, you have to just do it.


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[Assistant] Big play bangles, just rolls off the tongue. Alright, well hey Jefferson Baker, thanks for tuning in, we do appreciate it. For all six days. You wanna suspend me without play? Damn, you're kinda Roger Goodellish right there, I don't know if I


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[Assistant] The 49ers defense, some of the D linemen are not popping the way they should, right? That's for one. That would be one of the big things in the defense. Two, I think Steve Wilkes, as I've been saying, is still kind of getting used to how the 49ers want to do and call things and putting his own little, you know, style or wrinkle on the whole thing, right?


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[Assistant] No, no. They definitely went through some spots, right? There was a spot there like week 12, 13, 14 last year. Remember the Raiders? I think we talked about it. Yeah. Uh, with the Stetson Bennett tore them up. I mean, they've had some moments like this. They gotta tinker a little bit. It is a lot of zone. And when you play that much zone, your pass rush isn't kicking butt. You play a quarterback like Joe Burrow, he's gonna tear you up.


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[Assistant] You know, that's where, if I'm the 49ers, I might have thought, I might be thinking about, is there a corner out there I can get in a trade deadline this week. But, we'll also see with the 49ers, you know,


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[Assistant] A little too much on Purdy the last three weeks. I think that's the other thing I've come away with. You know, no Debo, no McCaffrey. I mean, McCaffrey, the running game, not quite what we know it to be. They're not dominating in that area.


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[Assistant] But he's not, again, the guy that's like, hey, carry, I get on my back, guys. If I gotta throw it 30 plus times and 370, you know, I'll make it happen and we'll win the game. He'll make a lot of plays, he'll do a lot of things well, but as you saw,


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[Assistant] The two interceptions were both bad. One was going into score. They were on back to back throws too. Right. One was going into score. One was backed up on the very next drive.


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[Assistant] Right? And then that became a touchdown, then that very next play to Jamar Chase. He threw an interception at the end of the game and got lucky with a roughing the passer call, but then he ended up fumbling the very next play after that. My point is,


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[Assistant] Purdy's real good, but he's not John Elway yet, where you're just like, hey, carry the team here. And, yeaah, the running game, no Debo, I do think has hurt them a little bit. Uh, I'm still not giving up on the 49ers, of course.


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[Assistant] But, but I definitely didn't think we were going to be sitting here going to the bye week after week five when they were 5-0 beating the Cowboys in Sunday Night Football and me and clearly everybody just about football was like, they're clearly the best team in football. They blow a game in Cleveland where they probably should have won it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but then the last two weeks were outplayed by the Vikings and the Bengals, and that's a little concerning for sure. It was Jared Stidham who tore him up, not Stetson Bennett. That's right. Alright, did I say Stetson Bennett? You did. I did. He was still at Georgia, I think, at that time. Yes, he was. I was like, man, that's impressive.


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[Assistant] They're talented. They're dangerous. That's for sure. You know, their defense is chaotic and causes, makes plays and does that. And we know their offense has got playmakers. You know, we've talked about their own line and the tackle being injured and all that. I don't think they're even playing at their best yet.


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[Assistant] You talk about a game of perseverance, really. You know, you kinda said it. Up 17-7 early, and then, I mean, after the first quarter,


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[Assistant] And the Browns, it felt like, kinda controlled the game.


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[Assistant] From that point on, and especially as we got into the second half, it was, you know, the Browns seemed like they were dominating time of possession. Every time I looked up, they had the ball, they were moving the ball. Every time I looked up, it looked like the Seahawks were punting it. And, you know, PJ Walker made a few big plays, certainly.


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[Assistant] Yeah, his interceptions, his interception to Woollen, which was a big moment, because Woollen, I don't know if you saw this play, he caught an interception where PJ Walker had somebody open, it was either on third or fourth down, he had a shallow cross, he overthrows it, Woollen catches it, and Joku,


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[Assistant] He hits what to me looked like he hit the ball before he hits anything else, why he's on the ground and knocks it out.


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[Assistant] I guess they deemed he touched Wolin somewhere, which now makes him down, right? Uhm, but that was a moment where the Browns were in field goal territory or on fringe tier, so that left some points on the board.


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[Assistant] Right? The strip sack early in the football game that you talked about, that gave the short field to the Seahawks to give them seven points. You know, the Browns defense still did some, some really good things. And then ultimately,


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[Assistant] You know, the thing that's gonna be vetted is the last interception. Where, hey, they're up 20 to 17 and I understand they're trying to put the game away. I get that. Uh, but they throw a ball over the middle on a slant route that


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[Assistant] You know, was a lot of people there. It was a short pass. They're trying to just, yea, get the first down on a third and three. They're at the 41 yard line. And I can't remember who it was, but the ball got kind of tipped at the line of scrimmage.


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[Assistant] I just, you know, two minutes, four seconds, I get the play call, I get it, I do, I'm not mad at that.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's just, the Browns, I just want to say what I would always say. Just err on conservative always. Your defense is like out of this world good.


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[Assistant] Alright, so that's where I just go, be careful with taking chances and see, what do I always say, like, sometimes these teams think, oh, let's do something conservative, and they go, let's throw a pass.


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[Assistant] Four yards down the field over the middle and I want to go, it's not as conservative as you think. There's a bunch of pans and bodies and like people in those situations they're playing for the short throw anyways. It's not as high percentage as you think.


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[Assistant] Or send a bunch of people 40 yards downfield and throw someone shallow. Or maybe do that, like you're saying. Take a shot, maybe get past interference. If you don't, so what? You're going to punt the ball and you're going to make them have to drive the field to get a field goal. Uhm, but I'm not like pissed at the play.


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[Assistant] Again, that was just a great play by the Seahawks in a big moment there and, uh, kind of a shocking way. I did not think they were going to win the game, but they were clutch on that last drive and made a few plays and Jigma got the touchdown.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, it wasn't easy, that's for sure. You know, I think for the most part, you know, I know Gino, I saw the one pick to Emerson. He had the other one that got tipped in the air by the Maurice Hurst, right? Intercepted it, right? Uhm, but, you know.


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[Assistant] And even though things weren't good for about two quarters in a row, they kind of hung in there, the defense made a play and that kind of jump started them and they go down and get the win. That's where they're scary. They're a momentum team that can flip it at any minute and they got guys on both sides of the ball that can go above and beyond the scheme. And that to me is always scary.


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[Assistant] Cause you got a guy like Wolin or Witherspoon, you know, uh, Jordan Brooks with the big strip sack when he came on the blitz. They got Jamal Adams as we know, right? So they got some dudes over there that are gonna scare any elite team in the NFL and good for the Seahawks to keep battling there.


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[Assistant] It's all odd, the whole situation, I get that, but as I said all last week, I'm not questioning Deshaun Watson in this.


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[Assistant] Category. We can question with a lot of things in life or whatever else. Toughness on the football field is not a question with that guy. I can tell you that. Now where I don't, where this stinks is here we're going another long period of time of Deshaun Watson not playing football. And that scares me.


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[Assistant] To where now he's gonna get back and they're gonna be like, well, we gotta kinda bring Deshawn along. And we're at the part of the season where we don't wanna bring anybody along, let alone our starting quarterback at this point and again, right? So that scares me a little bit when he does get back in the fold.


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[Assistant] You know, 6 to 3 forever. I mean, that's where it just is incredible. It really is. You know, but, but I'll say what I've been saying about the Jags. The Jags are impressive. They have everything.


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[Assistant] They got balance on offense. They're becoming more big plays in the passing game, right? ATN is one of the best running backs in football in both the run game and the pass game.


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[Assistant] He's special that way. Their defense is suffocating at times, right?


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[Assistant] Now again, what comes down to the Jaguars, and we see this a few times this year. We saw it in the Saints game on Thursday night a few weeks ago. You saw it again here today. Just mistakes and moments where they're about to control the football game. Whether Trevor throws a horrible interception. That was bad. Right? You saw that?


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[Assistant] Another time they were driving and they do a shovel pass to Evan Ingram as he kinda catches the shovel pass, he fumbles. That was another big moment in the game.


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[Assistant] Bigsby, the backup running back, when ATN, they were checking him out for a little injury at one point, he fumbled. So, you know, it was one of those games where you were going, wait, the Jags are clearly dominating, but are the Steelers gonna do this again? Like, are they just gonna...


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[Assistant] Hang around and find some magical way to do this. Stinks that picket got hurt.


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[Assistant] You know, maybe it would have increased their chances to pull magic if he was in there. Trubisky made some unbelievable plays and throws, but of course had the interceptions and ultimately it's the same thing with the Steelers. It's just too much on their defense and special teams and Mike Tomlin having to like, we just gotta hit harder.


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[Assistant] Right? They hit harder than everybody. That's just, it's hard to win in the NFL the way they're playing right now with no consistency on offense, never really a run game. And the pass game just has like moments here or there. And, uh, that, that definitely has to improve for Pittsburgh to get where they want to get. Yeah. Yeah. Their defense broke on that long one to each


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[Assistant] If they see somebody go to the flat, they'll call it quarter's trap. And all of a sudden it'll become cover too. And it's like Joey Porter saw the guy coming to the flat and he kinda played it like that. But Kazee didn't play over the top.


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[Assistant] He kinda looked like he was playing his guy man to man, so definitely some sort of communication. Great job by Trevor though, seeing it.


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[Assistant] And then ATN is smooth in the pass game. He really is. Jaguars, don't get it messed up here now. The Jaguars are one of the best teams in football. As I've said, I will continue to say.


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[Assistant] They are one of the best teams in the NFL. And, you know, like I said, it's not perfect. We've been saying they're young and everything else there, but they have everything in my book to go to a Super Bowl and be that type of team. They really do. I think their youth is the only thing you question.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna say, I was gonna say the bears, but I'm gonna say the giants. Not the giants. No?


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[Assistant] I wouldn't have guessed that with the Cardinals. They've kind of been sneaky better than you expect on offense. I agree with that. But now you think about it and you go, yeah, but maybe it's not been as good as I think. It's just beating our expectations.


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[Assistant] Hope it's okay, yea. You know, he put the elbow, you know like the elbow down? Yes.


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[Assistant] Whenever I see that, I always worry about Labrum. So it was good to hear that they were thinking ribs. Okay. Hoping he just like pulled some muscles underneath that armpit there, which can happen too. Be a little sensitive, might make him miss a game, but uh, you know, hopefully they averted disaster.


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[Assistant] I hope all of them. I hope all of them. I don't think they are, sorry. Okay, alright. I mean, Hudson was playing in 42, so I don't think he's there.


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[Assistant] 8 for 112 isn't a bad day when it comes to defending Tyree Kill right now. Right? You know, what I think kills the, the, the Patriots is like you make that manageable, but you're doing that, you're not expecting, oh wait, Waddle's gonna go for 7 for 121?


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[Assistant] That's the problem. They did an okay job stopping the run. They made Tua look a little uncomfortable at some moments. They're just not enough good players on that Patriots defense to slow that group down there right now. You know, they're a little different than they were in week two when they played the Dolphins. They were full secondary health.


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[Assistant] Matt Judon was healthy, Ushay was healthy, none of these guys are there right now. So that's an issue for them as they go forward. And then even saying all that, you know, they had some chances to make the game interesting and competitive. You know, they're in the red zone, it's 14 to 7.


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[Assistant] And Mac strikes again. I mean, Mac Jones has become like a poster child for at least one of the dumbest turnovers of the week on a weekly basis right now.


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[Assistant] And they run a little like fake screen, throw up the field.


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[Assistant] You know, and they're thinking Jalen Ramsey's gonna follow the post route. But Jalen Ramsey's smart. He's been around football before. He knows his job is not to follow the post route. So he comes off it, and Mac Jones hits him right in the chest. That was a big moment of the football game. It was 14-7, and you're going, okay, the Patriots are hanging in there.


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[Assistant] And then of course that became nothing, and then the Dolphins went down to get a field goal to make it 17-7, and you just kind of felt like the Patriots were chasing ever since that point. And uh, yeaah, it's unfortunate. They did some good things today, certainly, but they just don't have enough good players to hang with a team like the Miami Dolphins.


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[Assistant] Yeah, how much will he help that defense? He's gonna help them out in big ways. You know, first off, they're not a huge man-to-man defense, right? But, like, he can do multiple things. That's the good thing about Jalen. He's kind of like a secondary hybrid guy. You know, if you wanted to go, like, big nickel on second and ten, he can play nickel and be a really quality tackler, right?


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[Assistant] He's still got great ball skills, he's got great length and man to man coverage and all that. Like I said in the off season.


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[Assistant] He's really one of the top secondary players. Do I think he's one of the best island corners in football? No, absolutely not. He's down the list considerably. That's why he was only traded for a third-rounder. But he's gonna help them out, definitely.


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[Assistant] I mean, yes, he's smart as hell. Like I said, Fangio, for the most part, wants to play zones. He'll learn how to read routes, jump routes, do all that, you know. And then I think their pass rush is going to turn the corner here, hopefully, with Jalen Phillips continuing to be healthy. Uhm, yeaah, the Dolphins are still one of the elite teams in football.


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[Assistant] And this cutie pie right here, which he is some cute kid, he emulates it perfectly with the same clothes, same Rolex watch, look at the Rolex watch hanging off his wrist. Right, looks at the camera, takes off, probably a little faster than Mike McDaniel. He might be. Probably a little stronger than him too, Mike's a little frail.


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[Assistant] There's a bunch of dickos in the crowd today in Chicago and the LA crowd there, so that's cool, but good for Miami. Hey Miami, we know is real good. How good is real good is the question.


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[Assistant] Okay, what everybody and what everybody and their mother says to me right now is, yeah, but who'd the Dolphins beat? Right? That's what I get every time I go to the gym and I talk to Joey meathead jet fan, right? Yeah, but who'd the Dolphins


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[Assistant] I mean, yeah, they're good, but they're beating up on, you know, these bad teams in the NFL.


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[Assistant] I still think they're really good. Next week will be a great test in Germany against Mahomes and the pissed off Chiefs. It'll be fun to see. That'll be a tough matchup for the Chiefs. I think Miami matches up really well with them. I look at Miami's schedule with the Raiders, the Jets, the Commanders, the Titans, the Jets again.


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[Assistant] I have a hard time looking at it and thinking that there's not going to be a lot more wins on their schedule here. And some of the areas that we think maybe they need to get better on, defense, all that, hey, it's, it's, they're going to get there. They are. I don't have any doubt that they're one of the better teams in


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[Assistant] They got, you know, a little bit like Jacksonville, except there's a little more veteran battle-testedness with the Ravens, but I don't look at the Ravens as anything and going, where's the weakness? You tell me. You know, again, what you saw today. The defense was phenomenal.


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[Assistant] Right? I mean, Arizona outgained the Baltimore Ravens. The Ravens were not at their best. You know, they had one of those games where they were in some short fields and whatever else, and they're playing the Cardinals and probably were a little conservative knowing they were the better team.


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[Assistant] They were up 24 to 7 at one point and kind of doing it the right way, slow suffocation, not taking chances. So what if we get a kick of field goal, right? They've lost a few games this year being a little over aggressive. So I think they learned their lesson in that department. Still showed the ability to run the ball as we know. But yea, I mean you talked about


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[Assistant] You know, the turnovers, Gino Stone. There's a fourth down stop around midfield. There was another fourth down stop, uhm.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to remember when they, when the Cardinals were kind of in field goal territory, right? So the Ravens defense, size, creativity, playmakers, everything there. And you know, the offense, not their best day, we know that.


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[Assistant] Cardinals defense is a pain in the ass. It is. I mean, Jonathan Gannon's showing, like, he's coaching that defense and, you know, they got good, good game plans on a weekly basis, but yeah, it felt like the Ravens a little bit got into


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[Assistant] We know we're better than you, we're not going to mess the game up instead of trying to make big plays in the game and I think that kind of threw them out of rhythm on the offensive side of the ball too.


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[Assistant] The most one impressive one in seven team I feel like I've ever seen. Every week I'm like, whoa, they're not as good as this team and they're kind of hanging in there.


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[Assistant] I'm really interested to see if Kyler Murray comes back next week. As well as Josh Dobbs has done, as you heard me say early in the year, you know, when they were in the early stages, surprising us.


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[Assistant] There were still plays on film I'd go, damn, if they had Kyler Murray.


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[Assistant] That would have been a 50-yard completion, instead we got a check down for four or whatever. You know, Josh Dobbs, he's a great backup, he's all that, but he's still a backup.


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[Assistant] And whether it's mistakes or missed opportunities for some big plays, they show up in every game. I'm interested to see what Kyler looks like in this offense, because like we've talked about, they've got some weapons and some guys that are a little scary. I mean, it would break the internet if he is traded here in the next few days. I know. I can't imagine that happening, but


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[Assistant] But at the same time, I kind of got thought through the year here, hey, they're pretty good and don't they want to at least see what he looks like in this offense and how they orchestrate some things here? Do you want to?


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[Assistant] You know, necessarily, what if you don't get the number one pick? You had your eyes on Caleb Williams. How many assets are you going to have to trade to get him to get to the number one pick now? These are all things that they got to think about.


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[Assistant] Unless he gets traded though, I would expect to see him next week because they can't tell him not to play when he's been cleared to play and he's healthy.


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[Assistant] I know we talked about Tyree Kill, but like, this guy is, it's unreal. I mean, it's every week. It's every week. And it's not like the offense is like,


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[Assistant] Doing all these things for him where you're like, he's just wide open. It's just like, they throw a slam and he breaks four tackles or they throw a jump ball and he's like, rawr, I'm going to catch it or one handed or whatever and then dunk on you. I mean, he's unbelievable. You know, the physicality he has at receiver is, is rare. You just don't see that much in the NFL.


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[Assistant] Washington did some really good things. I mean, it's crazy. Washington, for some reason, seems like they can block and play offense better against the Eagles than they can against the rest of the NFL. Right?


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[Assistant] That's where it's like last week against the Giants, you're like how does that offense do that against the Giants, right? I know the Giants D is good and all that and we'll get to that, but I mean at one point during the game, I think, maybe I'm wrong, Howell was like 20 for 21. I mean he was dicing them up.


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[Assistant] They were having their way with the Eagles in the pass game. So that was a little concerning as we've talked about with Philly. Philly can tend to get into a little tendency of being a little simple on the defensive side of the ball. And making it a little too easy on quarterbacks all together. But still, I think it comes back to the Eagles. The Eagles are just so damn good. You know, where...


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[Assistant] It just, it feels like you can't be right defending them. That's where it really feels. You almost just hope like, hey, maybe we can get Jalen on a bad day, or hope we can just get a turnover. Cause it just never feels like you can stop them. Even on this day today, like,


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[Assistant] You know, I know they made some stops, but we had Gainwell fumble, right, as they were kind of going in. I think, I think he was kind of going into score at one point. Uh, yeaah, they fumbled on the five yard line.


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[Assistant] You had, uh, Jalen fumble the tush push on the one yard line going in. They fumbled the snap, right? So there they were and you're still going, damn, they left, they still left 14 points on the board and they still were kind of unstoppable on the offensive side of the ball. Um, Jason Garrett made this point where


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[Assistant] And I think it's a great point. Like, the 49ers have showed they kinda need to play a certain way to win. Where, well, you know.


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[Assistant] It can't be too much on Brock Purdy like we're talking about. And they need to kind of get a lead and then their defense can fly around. The Eagles have shown the versatility of like, it doesn't matter. You know, we've said we'd like to see them stay more patient with their run and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] But still, even in those games, it's not like, oh, we didn't think they could win or not do it. Still, they still make so many plays, no matter what. And, uh, yeaah, today, of course, the defense making plays to get them up by 14, and the big turnover, alright. I mean, Howell, as awesome as he played,


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[Assistant] You know, the interception to Blankenship. That was where it turned. That's where it turned, right? And that was... First turnover for the game for Washington. Yeaah. But by far his worst decision of the day. Right? Kind of threw a ball into tight coverage as it was, let alone he threw it high, right into Blankenship's arms, and that put up...


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[Assistant] They got, Hurst got the snap, he kinda tossed it out there, and of course, all you're worried about is stopping the tush push. That's gonna make things different. That's gonna make the next team go, woah, wait, we need to keep somebody on the edge. Right? So, yea, cool little wrinkle there today. Eagles are so damn good, as we know, and I don't even think they played necessarily their best full play.


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[Assistant] It just shows you they have a killer instinct. You know, they're a momentum team. When they kinda get rolling and start feeling themselves, watch out!


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[Assistant] Right? It's the other games that we see they have struggle with. It's like, oh, it's tight and we can't bully you and it's not, you know, a show out here and all of a sudden the game becomes ugly and you go, well they're not very good at ugly, but they're great on the big show. And when they're at home with a little crowd noise on the field turf,


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[Assistant] They're a different football team. They are. They're fast as hell, but of course the crowd noise helps their D line get off, and the offensive line, you know, is a little slow getting off that way too. But yes, you know,


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[Assistant] I did not expect them to steamroll the Rams offensive line the way they did. I thought the Rams offensive line was a little bit better than


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[Assistant] You know, previous years, but oh my gosh, I mean Matthew Stafford was absolutely getting killed really pretty much early on in the football game.


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[Assistant] I know they had the long field goal drive, but yea, the pick six by him, very rare to see that, throws the ball behind Cooper Cup on a little option out route, right into Ron Bland's hand, you know, and then yea, the punt return, which ended up in what, a safety? That was the next drive, and then Turbin returned


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[Assistant] The after the safety kickoff to the Cowboys a long way to give them the short field to where all the sudden the game was ten to three, pick six to bland, three and out Rams, block punt safety.


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[Assistant] Return the kickoff after the safety, and all of a sudden the game was 26-3. I mean it was really, it happened like that, where you got-


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[Assistant] I kind of saw some things with the Rams that I was like, ooh, the Rams, they're going to give the Cowboys the offensive problems. This is going to be interesting. And it didn't even matter after that. And then that just unleashed the Kraken for the Cowboys and that gave, made them bold. And then they started to be aggressive throwing the ball because they had the lead and they made big plays in the pass game and Dak Prescott played really,


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[Assistant] He came in last year and had a lot of big interceptions and big plays. He can play on an island. He's got a feel for the corner position and has tremendous


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[Assistant] The Rams will not be the same football team without Matthew Stafford.


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[Assistant] Matthew Stafford is covering in a lot of holes for that Rams football team.


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[Assistant] You know again, we don't, we don't think they're a team that's ever gonna be able to just consistently run the ball on people or do anything like that.


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[Assistant] They need him and his big play ability and his ability to read things quickly and, you know, throw pinpoint six and eight and ten yard passes. That's, that's what's made them so competitive this year. Uh, but yeah, without him, that'll be a different story. And then they're going to have, you know, they're going to have to be really creative to figure out offense after that score alert, just to put a


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[Assistant] I don't know if his elbows went into his rib, the ball, whatever. I need to see it again. Uh, but obviously they're a little concerned because it sounds like he's gonna spend the night in the hospital.


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[Assistant] They both had the ball 17 times. You know how hard that is? You know how shitty you have to be on offense? Both teams, they get the ball 17 times each.


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[Assistant] Kidding me? They basically made the rules in the NFL where it's like, you, you, your team has to leave the field not to get positive yards in the passing game anymore. So that was shocking. That was heartbreaking, man. That was heartbreaking. Okay?


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[Assistant] It's just like, the Giants managed the game and played it almost perfectly. I mean, there's really not much you can look at. They had no chance with Dana DeVito. Dana DeVito? Dana DeVito. Well, same kind of thing. Same kind of results.


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[Assistant] Exactly. Right. I mean at one point I was being silly and I was literally like, let's just kneel on the ball every play. Let's not let anything bad happen, okay? But no, you know, Saquon Ranta, the defense was absolutely phenomenal. The fact that they could


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[Assistant] You know, they kept us in the game for that long, uh, was, was amazing. And then, uh, the end of the game is just a shame. You know, Graham Ganoa was so great last year, he's been so great, he's been very inconsistent this year.


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[Assistant] You know, Brian Dayball, they're up 10-7, he kicks a 35-yard field goal, and you think, yea, that's the right decision. Kick the field goal, put them up by 6, right? There's not a lot of time left, they're not going to go down and score a touchdown. Miss the field goal? Shankapotamus?


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[Assistant] Then, Wilson makes a great play. I think he, I can't remember who he hit over the middle on the first one. It was Wilson on the first one, but here's the kicker.


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[Assistant] It's not the completion to Wilson. They have no timeouts. It's that cave on Thibodeau jumped off sides. So they got the completion and the clock stoppage. If Thibodeau doesn't jump off sides, and I'd want to make sure I say this right, Thibodeau played his best game of his career today. So I don't want, I'm not trying to bag him. He was awesome today. He really was. Yeah.


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[Assistant] That jumping off sides in that moment, now they get the completion, they get to stop the clock, that allows them just 13 seconds left to have one more chance to make a chunk play.


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[Assistant] They were all, you know, they were on it. I'm sure there was reminders in the huddle and whatever else. Soon as I throw the ball, start running to it. We gotta do it.


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[Assistant] And they, they just got it off. So 17 seconds. 17 seconds was the line of demarcation. I was always taught as a quarterback. That was our longer developing play. I just did scramble to the right. I threw the ball with 13 seconds. I think that's what we kind of got into. And, uh, yeah, good job by him. Zach Wilson. I mean, it wasn't pretty.


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[Assistant] But he made some big throws when he had to. But yeaah, here's the only thing you can question I think about the game for the Giants.


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[Assistant] Should they have kicked the ball off in overtime? Pete DeMalaitis, me and Matt Casey, we were all sitting there going, and I think Matt Casey was the one, right? He kind of looked at me and goes, do you, do you want to receive the ball here? And I said, good question actually, right? It was a field goal, field position game, the whole game.


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[Assistant] Right? And you got Danny DeVito, Danny, Tommy DeVito, and at a quarterback? Yea. Did you, you know, I think that's the one where we can go, uh, maybe we should have kicked it off.


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[Assistant] And we go, we really haven't moved the ball at all, and forever here.


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[Assistant] We're gonna end up giving the Jets the ball in good field position, and they're gonna kick the field goal, and that's exactly what happened, and that was game over. I mean, your best chance to score could have been. Was through our defense and field position and do that way. That's true. Yeaah. So that was maybe the one thing we can question. That's a hard thing to do though, okay?


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[Assistant] Alright, I mean, cause as we know, you kick the ball off, and somebody falls on a slant route, and the Jets score a touchdown, and everybody goes, WHAT THE FU-


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[Assistant] Nobody seems to like the turf at MetLife Stadium. I mean, that's been an ongoing discussion forever, really. Uhm, so, you know, I don't know what to say about it. I haven't been on this new turf. It's new from last year. You know, that's where I know they've changed it over.


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[Assistant] Uhm, no no, I don't know, I think that, you know, hey, this was a physical game, people were flying around.


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[Assistant] You know, what's the big injury he's talking about with, uh, Graham Ganell? Is it, is it, yeaah, was it, was it right? What?


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[Assistant] Oh, the 2-0 linemen, that's right, yeaah, that's right. They got hurt early on. I know, you know, I didn't get a chance to quite, quite see them or digest them the right way to know, right? They lost the center, McGovern, I think, early on in the football game, then lost his backup. So they were on to a third string.


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[Assistant] Uh, center there, but hey, the one thing that Jets can learn from this too, as we know, and hopefully Zach Wilson can, yea, make a few plays.


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[Assistant] If you don't turn the ball over, right, the Jets, that defense, they're good enough, they're gonna keep you in just about every football game. So, that's I think the lesson to be learned there. Uh, the Jets are a more talented team than the Giants, but man, it felt like the Giants outplayed them today and let one squeak by, that's for sure.