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[Assistant] Okay. Okay. So, so, all right. So whatever, that doesn't matter. Texans beat the Colts. Chiefs beat the Chargers.


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[Assistant] And then the only other AFC matchup a Jags over the Titans jets over the Patriots. So just plug those in.


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[Assistant] If the Bills win, it's Houston is a seven seed at Buffalo is a two seed. And if the dolphins win, it's Houston is a six seed at KC is a three seed. So awesome. If Houston gets in.


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[Assistant] This is one where, when we, in the off season, when we say they had a great season, you can have a great season without winning the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] Not every team goes into the season thinking, can we win this? We can win the Super Bowl. I mean, they may think that it's not true. If the Texans make the playoffs and are competitive in a wild card, we can game at Buffalo or at Kansas City, then


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[Assistant] Big, big ol' golf claps all around. CJ Shroud's been incredible. They might have the offensive rookie of the year and the defensive rookie of the year. Will Anderson could steal it.


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[Assistant] Cause he had two sacks today and like Jalen Carter, I think is the favorite, but that's a pretty nebulous race.


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[Assistant] Now that hadn't fared well for the Jets after last season. But nevertheless, Houston is the trajectories up. And if you're a Texans fan, you have to feel good for the first time in a long time about where you're at.


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[Assistant] Yeah, your realm, but I think your wheelhouse.


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[Assistant] Houston traded up for a future first with Arizona at the time and to get Will Anderson third overall after taking a quarterback.


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[Assistant] Doing training a future first, you're going to pass rusher pretty bold at third overall.


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[Assistant] And he's, one, he's panned out and two, the pick is I think going to be at worst 15, like 15 would be the worst pick they give up, which I think to me is a net win. You always gamble when you do that. Way more than that.


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[Assistant] Yes, well. Because the Bucks would probably play the Eagles, as we said here. You know, again, you said this Wilson, it's a week to week league.


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[Assistant] A week ago it was like, yeah, that's true. The buckets. Hey, what? The Cowboys on the road against the Buccaneers. That's a problem for Dallas. Now it's like, I


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[Assistant] Um, I think we're going to better game for Baker and the bucks against Carolina, which I suppose is obvious. I mean, Carolina, again, coaches, the owners throwing drinks around in Jacksonville, like leave my Duval family alone. Yep. Um, your car still just wasn't.


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[Assistant] It's still just Charles checked down and the Saints defense showed up and shut down the Buccaneers until midway through the fourth quarter. Like that's the story. I mean, Derek Card mounted 20 points. He gets a horrible defense in Tampa Bay and he's not throwing picks. That's great.


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[Assistant] But he's not doing like anything that blows me away from a production standpoint. So, um.


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[Assistant] By the way, I'm getting texts from my aunts and uncles and my mom, my mom is texting me about David Tepper. Okay. Like that's how, that's how biggest, this is going to blow. It's going to be a big story. I'm going to texture my family, my mom, my mother who doesn't even like football.


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[Assistant] It was like the Titans Tex, you know, the Titans Texans thing.


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[Assistant] But Adam's given the double bird from the owner's box to a crowd that was booing him because he moved the team out of a city. This is David Timberlake losing his mind and lashing out by throwing a drink.


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[Assistant] That's three by the way. But suffice it, suffice it to say the point is I think Tampa wins the division because they get to play the Panthers in week 18 when David Tepper is like, I actually think


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[Assistant] We won't do an emergency podcast on this because we don't do emergency podcasts for GMs.


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[Assistant] I think there's a really good chance that in the next seven days, Scott Federer is fired by David Tepper because David Tepper has to blame somebody else for the problems of the Carolina Panthers. And since everyone knows it's not the coaching staff's fault, that it's his problem that is going to be laid at the foot of the GM.


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[Assistant] Well, no, here's, here's, here's the other part about it too though. You go for it on the seven yard line.


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[Assistant] And you're like, and that's one of those where, you know, you lose like a terrible blackjack hand and you're like F it. I'm shoving my, I'm still going in.


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[Assistant] I think, I think what he was doing was...


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[Assistant] The problem is when he got screwed by the refs, he sorta got tilted and then like doubled down and then didn't have the, the wherewithal to back down from the three. We just kick it and go to overtime. Now, I don't think he felt that way, but that's, that's


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[Assistant] Yeah, pretty silly, pretty silly, like hit you with a


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[Assistant] I'm an English major. Suck it, Carnegie. Hey, you went to David, you went to the David Tepper School of something, Carnegie Bell, right?


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[Assistant] At any rate, I do think that there is something to be said because remember staley that first year went for it like crazy and there was clearly a message from the front office and ownership. Hey buddy, this is too much.


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[Assistant] Dan Campbell is just saying this is who we are and how aggressive we're going to be. I think it will benefit him and his team in the playoffs because you won't have instances.


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[Assistant] Like the, the famous Matt LaFleur, the fourth and three from the whatever, where they kicked the field goal down, uh, like down 13.


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[Assistant] Dan, Dan, Jared golf and this offense all know what Dan Campbell is going to do in the moment in the playoffs. No one's going to hesitate. No one's going to flinch. No one's going to question him for doing it. They know he's going to be aggressive. And I think having that, um,


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[Assistant] Like knowing that in your head, going into the playoffs as, as, as, as these players makes a difference because you're not second guessing anything. You're like, dude, this is, this is what we do.


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[Assistant] I'm trying to think of like the teams all time that make the least amount of sense in the Vikings last year.


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[Assistant] But I mean like, does anything about the Steelers season this year make sense?


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[Assistant] I guess, man, I don't know. This team is so, I mean, I know, but I'm only going to get to say it one more time before 2024.


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[Assistant] No, you're going to say in the playoffs when they make their way to the Superbowl, you get a couple more weeks to say it. No, but I think we get blown out in the credit to my Tomlin credit to my Tomlin.


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[Assistant] He's, he can coach the hell out of a football team. He can't hire to save his life.


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[Assistant] His coaching tree stinks. His coaching tree stinks. He hires all the wrong people. He hired a bunch of NC State coaches. I don't understand this Steelers team.


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[Assistant] Kenny! Oh, Wilson, give us an old school Kenny picket real quick. I prefer Mason.


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[Assistant] You could play him for a half hat. No. And you tell they're acting crazy. I'm just saying you tell Todd Monkin if you call a designed run, you were not only fired, you are executed at midfield at halftime. There's no reason to play him then if he's just gonna be the ball off.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm just saying, you know, you go out there, he, he makes some throws, just don't let Labar run, but you can put the Steelers in a bad spot.


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[Assistant] I think the Bills are going to beat the pants off the Dolphins. And I'm not trolling Harry. I really just think that's what's going to happen in week 18. So I'll put the Bills at the two. Is that as that's as high as they can. Because Ravens, Ravens clinch one. I think Bills go to two. That means Dolphins at five.


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[Assistant] To get in as the four seed because they get the Panthers.


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[Assistant] Real quickly, Browns fans, stop tweeting me saying I predicted a 7-10 season. I did. I was wrong. You're starting your fourth quarterback. His name's Joe Flacco. I love Joe Flacco.


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[Assistant] Dashaun who played pretty terribly most of the season, PJ Walker, Dorian Thompson Robinson without Nick Chubb and multiple offensive linemen and winning 11 or 12 games. You fool. If you gave that scenario to Browns fans, every single Browns fan would be like, we're winning five games. So shut up and stop pleading.


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[Assistant] I don't want the Steelers to get in. I think Texans and uh, Steelers. I can't remember what numbers are. Breach?


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[Assistant] Breach just real quickly on that. I feel like Sean McVeigh had this opportunity previously a couple of years ago and decided to rest. He's like, we can't control who we're going to play. We can only control our health. We're resting our guys and he's playing Kyle Shanahan who's locked in the one seed.


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[Assistant] Take the under the 49ers Rams game at week 18 and the second you can, they're going to play nobody. They're going to run the ball into the ground.


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[Assistant] You got dragged by everybody everywhere in Philly for his weird comments. You know, blitz enough Philly fans complaining about Jonathan Gannion complaining. He doesn't blitz enough and he screwed up the Superbowl and cost him the Superbowl because he was interviewing for the Arizona Cardinals job.


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[Assistant] He takes this Cardinals team, a three win team, into Philly.


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[Assistant] James Connor runs 26 times for 128 yards. Kyler Murray, 25 or 31, 232 and three touchdowns. Looks like an upgraded version of Jalen hurts like a faster mighty mouse version of Jalen hurts wins the game.


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[Assistant] Really F's up the Eagles. Good for you, Jonathan Gannon. You got no good press. Here's a little snippet.


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[Assistant] Let's not do that, but before we get out of here, happy new year to everyone who watches and listens. Thank you as always for watching and listening. We wouldn't do this without you or something. That was sweet, Princeton.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think, I think we would actually be fired if we didn't do this, but we do love the Pixix community and listeners and viewers. Oh, Wilson, you're so jaded and old.


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[Assistant] What's up everybody? Welcome back to the Pick 6 Podcast. Today we're looking at week, ooh, we're looking at week 16, 15, I believe, 15, 16.


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[Assistant] Uh, the NFL season starts at 13 there. Um, Katie Mox here joined by Will Brinson and Sportsline's finest R.J. White and Alex Selznick. This episode of Pick Six is presented by Fandel Sportsbook. Make every moment more. If you like winning picks, make sure you sign up at sportsline.com and use the promo code PICK to get your first month for just


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay, yeaah. Oh wow, I gotta check that out. If you wanna check it out too, make sure you do on our YouTube channel or anywhere that you get your podcasts. Uhm, the week 15 recap. Fire it up, Harry.


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[Assistant] RJ, not the best week for you, but you are still...


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[Assistant] Yeah, maybe, maybe that's a sign that you gotta pick seven or something more today. Uhm, alright, we're gonna get, uh, right into the, uhm, this week slate of games just to make sure everybody knows that, you know, we're kicking this off at about 2 p.m. on Thursday.


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[Assistant] Starting things off here, the Bengals, oh wow, this line moved to two and a half, uhm, at the Steelers and this total is 38 and a half.


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[Assistant] This morning you could find it in some places at one and a half. Uhm, I like it at two. I guess for this sake I gotta do the two and a half. Uhm, still under a field goal. Look, I just think that Jake Browning.


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[Assistant] Looks really good, uhm, and Mason Rudolph or whoever they're putting forward at, uhm, quarterback does not look that.


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[Assistant] Yes, the Steelers won the first match up 16 to 10. I do see this being a bit more of a lower scoring game, but the Steelers offense just can't seem to get anything going. And I don't think that they'll be able to today. I know that there is no Jamar chase, but they still have weapons. You look at T Higgins, he had won a couple of touchdowns last Saturday. Tyler Boyd.


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[Assistant] Gonna get more in the mix, uhm, this week. And I just trust the Cincinnati offense more than I do, uhm, the Steelers. So that's my play for this game. Uhm, but RJ, you're on the other side.


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[Assistant] Uh, quick, quick question, and then I'll get to you. Prop, sorry. So I have, uhm, I'm in the fantasy playoffs up against all the fantasy football today, guys. I'm really, really close with my opponent this week. I think I have like a 51% edge. I've got Miami defense, which won it for me last week, but then I have the Steelers. Consensus, I should play the Steelers this week, right?


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[Assistant] I believe I'm, well, I think I beat Dave Richard last week. Suck it Dave!


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, I'll find it, but let's move on to the next thing. Oh wait, Propstars, what were you going to say?


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[Assistant] I'm up against Berkson and we're literally 50-50. We're both projected about 116, so I gotta be smart. Uhm, so I will get on that waiver wire.


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[Assistant] Falcons are free. Yep. Minus one and a half. Total 44 and a half. Uh, no Michael Pittman in this game, but Jonathan Taylor is expected to return very, very slim line here. No best bets for this game, but RJ, any thoughts?


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[Assistant] Okay, sorry, I'm really into my fantasy team right now. I've got Achan and I have Jonathan Taylor. Would we start Jonathan Taylor over Achan this week?


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[Assistant] I'm gonna win. I'm gonna win. I mean, I want to at least. Rinsen.


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[Assistant] Alright, the Browns laying two and a half at the Houston Texans, this total forty and a half. Uh, Brinson, big, uh, Joe Flacco guy, you're laying this two and a half.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's what I was going to ask you, Propstars, too. I mean, looking at Justin Jefferson props or even for fantasy seems like a good one to target this week because even though Nick Mullins is volatile, right, and he makes those mistakes, he's still getting the ball out, having a ton of pass yards, so it could still be a good week for Justin Jefferson.


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[Assistant] Alright, love to hear it. We are going to take a quick break here when we come back. It's the, uh, Pig Six parlay. That is yet to win yet. But again, this is our week. You're watching Pig Six, we'll be right back.


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[Assistant] Welcome back to the Pixix Podcast. The time has come for the Pixix Parlay where we each select a game of a four-leg Moneyline Parlay, but there are some rules first.


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[Assistant] Record, one of these has to be a dog. Uhm, I, last week we went half and half again. Uh, the Chiefs and the 49ers cashed, Giants and Packers, uhm, did not. Am I the person that put the Giants on there? I think I am, sorry guys.


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[Assistant] Alright, uhm, oh, I love that, the meme with Kylo Ren. Alright, moving on, the commanders at the New York Jets. This is, this is the game we talked about on Monday that absolutely nobody wanted to touch with the 10-put poll, but seems like we've got some bets on it. Jets link 3, this total 37 and a half. Brinson, you, you're on the Jets here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I agree with you 100%. I'm also laying this two and a half, uh, like it much better than the three. So shop around for that line. Uhm, and really just echoing everything that RJ said, Seattle's playing for their playoff lives right now and the Titans are.


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[Assistant] Already eliminated, uh, Will Levis, like you said, may miss this game. Even if he doesn't, you know, ankle injuries are really tough, especially for mobile quarterbacks. You look at how, uhm,


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[Assistant] The Eagles right now after that really stunning upset, not the Eagles, the Seahawks after that stunning upset of the Eagles, uhm, on Monday night football. Also the Titans pass defense, you know, resembles Swiss cheese. You look at Lockett, Metcalf, uhm, and even JSN I think should have pretty big numbers, uhm, against that pass defense. So I, uh, I really like Seattle here as well.


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[Assistant] Speaking of the Jacksonville Jaguars, uhm, and who's unfortunately a quarterback, I forgot. Uh, they're at Tampa Bay. They're laying one and a half. This total is 41 and a half. Wow, it dropped quite a bit. It was 43. It's dropped down to 41 and a half. Prop stars, you've got a props for us.


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[Assistant] Okay, wait, just want to check in with Propstars. Are you still good or, or do you have to hop off?


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[Assistant] Okay, cool. So let's get into Arizona Cardinals and Chicago Bears. The Bears laying four and a half, this total 43. I don't have a play on the actual game, but I am going to fade James Connor under 50 and a half rush yards here. He's been


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[Assistant] ballin' out. He's hit over this number in four of his last five games, but the Bears rush defense has been really stingy and probably one of the big reasons why they've kind of had this late season, uhm,


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[Assistant] Success, their fourth in yards per attempt at 3.6 and the bears our favorite.


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[Assistant] Favourites here at four and a half, so likely playing uhm, from behind. The Cardinals will be, which tends to lend itself more to the passing game. So I will take James Connor under the uhm, the 50 and a half. But yeah, what are your two best props are before we get into the break?


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[Assistant] That voiceover artist was something else.


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[Assistant] Oh, I wish they were too. But I don't know, that guy was pretty good and he was like a very...


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[Assistant] I like it. I like it. What else do we like, Princeton?


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[Assistant] I'm on the other side of it. I'm taking Dallas Moneyline on this one. Mostly more of a gut play, like you said, you know, to...


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[Assistant] more. They're 0 and 3 on the road this season, but if you look at who they lost to, it was the 49ers, it was the Bills, and it was the Eagles, uhm, all on the road. Those are three of the best teams in football. And not to say that Miami isn't, but to the point that it's been made probably a lot and beat to a dead horse on this show, they haven't been able to beat


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[Assistant] I think the Dallas gets their stuff together. They had some bad breaks in that game versus the Bills and I think they come out on top because they're in a very serious push right now.


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[Assistant] for the, um, NFC East. So I like that, but I'm also going to take Devon A Chan over on his.


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[Assistant] He's probably good to go. He may be slightly limited, which is going to favor Achan a little bit here and actually over half of Achan's perceptions.


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[Assistant] On the entire year have come in the last three games, 11 of 21 have come in these last three games. He's had at least 24 receiving yards in each of those last three games. Very, very high total, 51 and a half, 50 and a half, depending on where you got it, could be a shootout.


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[Assistant] Which of course lends itself, uhm, to the passing game as well. So I, I do like that overfray champ, but I'm, I'm taking, I'm taking the boys.


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[Assistant] Alright, now to a game that's less exciting. The New England Patriots at the Denver Broncos. Broncos laying six and a half. That's still there. Total 34 and a half. Um, RJ, you are taking the points with New England here, which is very interesting to me.


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[Assistant] I agree with you there. Uhm, one more, you got one more game for instance.


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[Assistant] Just a reminder that Propstar is on Jalen Hurts over one and a half passing touchdowns and AJ Brown over 72 and a half receiving yards. Final Christmas Day game is the Baltimore Ravens at the San Francisco 49ers. Niners laying five and a half.


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[Assistant] This totals, it's still 46 and a half. It is. This one didn't change, um, too much. Y'all already know the deal. Well, first of all, this is a huge matchup for both of them. It's the two best teams in each conference.


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[Assistant] Uh, yes, two best teams in each conference and have the best records in the NFL. And they also are on the longest winning streaks, active winning streaks in the NFL.


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[Assistant] Seen a team that scores at least 30 at home, which the 49ers have had at least 28 in every single home game this season, except for, uh, when they lost the Bengals and that was the, uh, the game right before the bi-week where everything changed. So yeah, I don't know why y'all don't tell me on this every single week and I'm talking to the audience.


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[Assistant] Let's ride. Yes, I love a squad ride on that. Alright, that's gonna do it for our show. Merry Christmas, everybody. Let's take one more look at these picks. Princeton.


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[Assistant] Oh yes, love it. I'm taking Cincinnati minus two and a half, uh, also laying the two and a half with Seattle, James Connor under 15 and a half rushing yards, Dallas Moneyline. I'm also taking HN over 24 and a half receiving yards. And of course the Mocs special, San Francisco team total over 26 and a half.


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[Assistant] Alright everybody, again, happy holidays. Hopefully you enjoy the Christmas holiday. That is gonna do it for our show. Make sure you join us all week long for more NFL coverage. Remember to like, comment, and subscribe on the YouTube page. Um, Brinson, what are the Super Friends doing this week? I'm assuming on Sunday. Is there...


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[Assistant] It'll be the jolliest bunch of, you know what, this side of the net house from listening to the audio version only. Make sure you download and leave a five star review. Tell your friends to listen and watch the pod again. Merry Christmas y'all. We'll see you next week or Christmas day.


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[Assistant] What's up everybody? Welcome to Pixie's Podcast, CBS Sports.


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[Assistant] NFL podcasts, Will Brinson along with Ryan Wilson and John breach back in the saddle.


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[Assistant] Mirror 16 hours after we wrapped up week 18 with the recap show. Um, I feel like I've been talking for, I got like three and a half hours of sleep feeling. I've been talking for 12 straight hours.


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[Assistant] The mid-season firings, or the in-season firings, we saw three of those.


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[Assistant] Do you attribute it to the fact that the two biggest names in the coaching cycle, sort of like the quarterback dominoes we see every year, Jim Harbaugh and Bill Belichick are still encumbered or is there some other factor?


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[Assistant] I think, I think to that point, there is a real possibility, Wilson, that we see. So we, we saw Brandon Staley of the chargers, Josh McDaniels of the Raiders and Frank Wright of the Panthers fired during the season.


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[Assistant] I'm reliably informed just to sort of push back on what we talked about last night that Arthur Smith was that the postgame melee with, uh, with Dennis Allen, the words exchange had no influence on the timing of that firing. It was simply game ended, had the meetings, let him go. Just so you know.


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[Assistant] Then we saw Ron Rivera released from his duties on Monday morning and neither one of those were particularly shocking. I will posit Wilson.


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[Assistant] That I think that over the next week or so.


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[Assistant] We could still see up to four, four coaches no longer employed by their current employers. Maybe more.


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[Assistant] Yeah. So I mean, Buffalo, Miami, uh, no dice, the jets, nothing. I'm just running through the standings here. I think new England obviously still very much on the table in terms of what could happen with Belichick. And I do think with Belichick and Mike variable that there, those two are good enough coaches.


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[Assistant] And Mike Tomlin of Pittsburgh too. I don't, I'm not saying Tomlin's getting fired during the, during the playoffs, but there, there was enough buzz about Tomlin, you know, maybe wanting to take a year off over the last couple


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[Assistant] I'm just saying that like, I'm saying that those three coaches in particular, those names.


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[Assistant] They are such well regarded coaches that if they were to be on the open market, that I think it would change the way that certain other teams think about their current coaching situation is all I'm saying. So New England.


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[Assistant] So anyway, so I think new England, new England, you can at least talk about Pittsburgh in the playoffs. No discussion. Um, Jacksonville.


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[Assistant] Dude, they gagged. They had a 98% chance to make the playoffs and completely choked. Tennessee, I think has to be in the discussion.


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[Assistant] But because Mike Vrabel might leave, he and he and he and there's something going on there right now. He's not on the same page.


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[Assistant] Me and Ron Carthon are getting along, and A.M. is shrunk, sort of forced a marriage, and there's just something, there's... Mike Vrabel...


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[Assistant] Has not, no, nobody involved in the Titans has come out and denied any of the stuff that's going on with the Titans. So I think I'm just saying like, I'm not saying there's going to be a change. I'm just saying that's one to watch. So New England, Tennessee.


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[Assistant] Dallas is definitely on the table, especially if Belichick leaves the Patriots and Mike McCarthy loses to the Packers as a set as a touchdown plus favorite at home in the postseason. Like I think it's so wild how the Eagles failures late this season


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[Assistant] May have opened up the door for Mike McCarthy to be in more hot water because now that you're, it was like, all right, the Eagles are 10 and one. What can you do? You just can't win the division. Well, the division got handed to McCarthy on a platter. They get the two seed.


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[Assistant] And now it's like, if you lose that playoff game, it is so significantly worse than losing on the road as the five seed, right?


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[Assistant] I think we just reversed ourselves into another team that could end up with an opening if the Eagles lose in the playoffs as well. So I think you throw them on there.


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[Assistant] The thing about James's explanation, I agree with you completely. That was the best is he's like, well, yeah, I just explained it to DA.


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[Assistant] Okay. So that's sort of where we're at right now. That's nine teams.


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[Assistant] So I don't think it's out of the question that we see three or four or five more teams open up. It looks like it's going to be way less than it was, but again, we're recording this at five o'clock on Monday night, Monday afternoon.


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[Assistant] Any things could change at any moment. And Jim Harbaugh is good. Jim Harbaugh and Bill Belichick are going to be domino factors here in terms of what else happens with the coaching cycle. Let's get to it.


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[Assistant] Bill Belichick looks awful today at his press conference. Actually, which, uh, you know what? Let's hear what Bill Belichick had to say at his press conference. Good morning, Bill.


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[Assistant] Looks like he doesn't feel great. It's also, I mean, I feel like that's how I looked all day on doing, doing that.


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[Assistant] Where do you think Belichick, what do you think happens with Belichick and the Patriots? Cause I do think you gotta be a little careful with these sometimes when we're talking about.


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[Assistant] These future situations, I think with this situation, it would be a pretty massive upset if the Belichick Patriots saga was resolved, you know, like right in a way that was not, um, a little bit drawn out.


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[Assistant] Got to this. I think, Breech, I think to your point, it is being treated as a fait accompli that Belichick's out and that he's going to go somewhere else and he's just Washington or the Chargers. I mean, that is an age where like he's going to, he, he, he is going to try to break Don Shula's record no matter where he has to go. I think.


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[Assistant] I would guess that he would vastly prefer to stay in New England to use the number three overall pick to try and get a quarterback.


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[Assistant] I really think, and, and again, and this is also, we saw this, remember we've seen this with quarterback cycles. It happened with Tom Brady and it happened with Aaron Rodgers where the process, which is normally so, usually like we've seen a bunch of interviews and stuff, reports of Washington interview, these people in Panthers interviewing GMs and all this.


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[Assistant] The process is going to be so bogged down, I think by Belichick, by Vrabel and by Jim Harbaugh because of the timelines involved with all these guys. So I think that's interesting to watch. And yeah, like.


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[Assistant] I don't know, man, you go to the, you put Belichick on the Falcons with Kirk Cousins or Justin Fields.


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[Assistant] Maybe you go to the Falcons and you get Mac Jones. Is there a picture of me Belichick with a beard that looks just like me except what we got Harry? Oh, look at that.


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[Assistant] When we come back, anything else you want to talk about from, um, I mean, I know we were going to talk about the coaches who were fired. It does feel like we covered Arthur Smith at length. We have a Ron Rivera, but Arthur Smith shouldn't be surprising. He went seven to 10, three straight years.


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[Assistant] You know, you just weren't winning. And when your office is that bad and you've invested was, uh, what pick was cow pits? Is he four?


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[Assistant] Yeah, fine. I know the, yeah, yeah. I know Bijan and Drake London, Bijan Robinson, Drake London were eighth overall. You, when your office is that bad and you've invested that much capital in it.


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[Assistant] Um, that's a problem. We also mentioned Terry Fontenot, the GM, he's going to be, uh, he's going to have input into the head coach search. There's a lot of smoke out there about the Falcons interest in Belichick.


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[Assistant] We'll get to that, uh, after, after this, we ranked the coaches, but I don't think really any huge surprise in terms of Ron Rivera and Arthur Smith. So let's take a break unless you guys have something else you want to tack on. And when we come back, we will rank.


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[Assistant] All the head coach openings. So that way I can still rerankings to use them for my article.


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[Assistant] Every time I see my phone light up, I keep waiting for like, all right, so we're going to break live while we're live on YouTube. Remember that time that, uh, um,


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[Assistant] David Johnson got traded for Deandre Hopkins and we were live on the internet. That was wild.


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[Assistant] For him and also the Bama stinks now too, apparently. So we've got five head coach openings currently, the Washington commanders, the Los Angeles chargers, the Las Vegas Raiders, the Atlanta Falcons and the Carolina Panthers. How would you rank those five openings? Wilson.


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[Assistant] Herbert, uhm, I don't think you would have traded. Commanders were my number two. Okay, uhm, here's the thing. So.


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[Assistant] This is in Washington, you have a revered franchise that was run into the ground by a one, well, really two men, Bruce Allen and Dan Snyder, but Dan Snyder just ran this franchise in the ground. Josh Harris has come in.


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[Assistant] And he's basically doing it's the, uh, not Dan system, the opposite of Dan Snyder. And you saw it. He waited until after he didn't fire Ron Rivera on his birthday, which is definitely what Dan Snyder would have done. If not before he's being patient. He brought in, he's going thinking outside the box. What's the guy's name for the, for the warriors that he brought in? Meyers Meyers and which we have to ask about now. Wilson, did you know?


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[Assistant] That Rick Spielman was going to be taking this consulting role with the Washington commanders. Or did you find out on Twitter?


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[Assistant] Yeah. I mean, which is, which is fair because like the way it came out was like Ron was like, Oh, and immediately he and Bob Myers were in the mix and I can't


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[Assistant] I mean, it does seem like this is not a GM role and Rick doesn't really want to get back in and be a GM or I don't know if it could be. It seems like this is so I can break


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[Assistant] Yeah, but I'm saying that they're bringing a guy who understands culture from a different sport who can, is going to say like, all right, let's try out these processes. Just a different viewpoint. And then Rick, who's got all these connections inside the football world. And I think it generally regarded as like, like, I mean.


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[Assistant] Everybody likes Rick Spielman, like he's a good guy. He, you know, he's going to, he's going to have like, you could see Josh Harris trying to build organizational culture in a way that it just wasn't there before. And when you have that number two overall pick, if you hit it on a quarterback.


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[Assistant] You're, you could be in better shape immediately than the Chargers who are also in the same division as Patrick Mahomes for the next 10 years.


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[Assistant] And by the way, if the Chargers miss on Jim Harbaugh and the Raiders get him, that's not exactly helping matters either. So I think that there's a lot of-


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[Assistant] That if, if you, if you get that place going, you turn around Washington and they will build you a statue. You win a Superbowl with Washington and like flip the dance thing on its head. You'll win a statue. I think that's why it'll be attracted to Belichick to some degree being from Annapolis, but we'll see. I have the number two overall pick. I think I have to take the chargers here. They have Justin Herbert.


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[Assistant] Who's your number? Wilson, who's your two though? Chargers. Chargers. Chargers were your one.


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[Assistant] Would anybody consider putting the Falcons above the Chargers or putting the Falcons above the, okay.


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[Assistant] They didn't have a quarterback. No, no, no. Arthur Smith who just got back. No, no, no. I think, I think Arthur blank is generally pretty patient as long as you're not a total unless you know what I heard.


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[Assistant] Okay. So I actually had the Falcons at number three as well breach. You, I guess get two picture. Yeah, go ahead and you can go back.


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[Assistant] Yep. I've got, I mean, I've got the list I've written down in this article, Raiders 4.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I mean, they were both loaded beyond belief at the beginning. So it wasn't, yeah. Matt rule ended up going to Nebraska. It worked out fine for him.


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[Assistant] I don't know if you heard this by the way, uhm, uh, Hayden Hirsch was talking.


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[Assistant] What do you think, uh, Scott Fitterer's future holds, uh, with the Carolina? I was like, what are you talking about? He's getting fired. You think David temper is going to miss a chance to fire somebody on black Friday, black Monday? Come on, please. Um,


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[Assistant] Hayden Hearst was asked about Bryce Young and said he had too many voices in his ear and basically insinuated that at the college level at Alabama.


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[Assistant] There is one voice, it is Nick Saban, the voice of God, so to speak, who controls everything and handles everything, keeps a streamline. And with this particular Panthers team, with all this, this big coaching staff, that there were a lot of voices in his ear and a lot of people who wanted to take credit when he was the next guy.


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[Assistant] Which I think is really interesting because you have an RC, you have a, you have a head coach, you got fired.


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[Assistant] David Throne's within the coaching staff, and I think that that all goes back to David Tepper.


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[Assistant] And that's why this job is fifth and it's not even like what job, is there a job in the NFL that could come open? Like just any job could come open that you would slot below the Panthers.


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[Assistant] Tepper's won the offensive line is two and then I think the weapons are probably three and then Bryce Young's four.


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[Assistant] Deborah, Deborah might be one through five, honestly. That's also- That's rare. Deborah was probably playing her-


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[Assistant] I can't help and like, it's just impossible for me to look at a draft board. And I mean, I'm not the billionaire who traded away the pick.


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[Assistant] It's impossible for me to look at a draft board and not see via Carolina.


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[Assistant] In a draft with potentially multiple franchise quarterbacks and one of the best young receivers we've seen in quite some time and Marvin Harrison Jr. That was a, with the first pick or cover three joke, maybe.


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[Assistant] Romay, is it Romay? Romay who? Romadunze. Romadunze who, for Washington who, so I mean, this, this draft is loaded and the Panthers gave up the number one overall pick in it. Even if Bryce Young had been good, like even if they, like,


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[Assistant] Let's say you like Bryce Young and you don't want to draft another quarterback, you could trade this first overall pick for a bounty.


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[Assistant] It is one of the, it is one of the worst trades, not because of Bryce Young, but because of what you were giving up draft capitalizing, DJ Moore and all these other picks. It's one of the worst trades in NFL history.


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[Assistant] Mmm, sad, sad save fairies. All right. Wilson, you drafted the Washington Commanders. You are Josh Harris. You get to hire. You are Rick Spielman. You are, you get to live out your dream and be Rick.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you are in charge of the Washington commanders. Who is your, it doesn't have to be a free agent.


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[Assistant] Can be, you know, hardball, bell check, whatever you want. Where are you going with your hire?


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[Assistant] I mean, dude, Jim Schwartz took over the, took over the lions when they were bad, bad, bad, and won some games and had them in a decent spot. And they went to the playoffs. He had that incredible line with Adamic and Sue, um, Cliff Avril. Who else was on that defensive line? Who am I missing?


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I mean, they had a really good defensive line. I feel like they had one more pass rusher. Anyway, uhm.


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[Assistant] That's amazing. He's very abrasive, so he hasn't really gotten a look since then, but that would be... Don't care. Airbnb's abrasive too. Yeah. I don't want Airbnb, but that's just me. Alright, I'm the Chargers. I am...


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[Assistant] And I, by the way, I should point out that I guess that makes me Dean Spanish, which I should point out. My son, John Spanish.


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[Assistant] Is a bit of a bit of an issue too with this franchise and sort of not talked about, uh, in a, in a way that, that needs to be, um, I don't know if you guys have checked out, uh, chargers.com and gone to the front office, but, uh, I hired this kid as a scout in 2003 and as he notes in his bio,


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[Assistant] These players keep, and that's my concern with the Chargers is this guy's in charge of, he's like the VP of football operations. Like he didn't, it's not even, um,


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[Assistant] Named executive vice president of football operations in 2013, one of his first priorities in that role was hiring a general manager, Tom Telesco. They haven't, they haven't updated the buyer. We're a little slack.


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[Assistant] The two have guided the Chargers to three playoff appearances. The two have guided them and a pair of postseason victory. So the whole, uh, that's it. That's a little bit of a concern for me, but I am going to go out and I'm going to spend, I'm going to get somebody who I'm probably going to end up fighting with in three years and I'm going to bring in Jim Harbaugh.


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[Assistant] Jim Harbaugh and Justin Herbert are, are, are in the AFC championship game within the first three years, at least once.


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[Assistant] He took over the, the Niners didn't have a winning season, hadn't had a winning season since 2002. He took over in 2011 and they went to three straight NFC championship games. That's insane.


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[Assistant] Alex Smith, yeaah. He made Alex Smith stop wearing a Padres hat and start wearing a Giants hat.


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[Assistant] Quarterback makeovers. Harbaugh just wins everywhere he goes. So Breach, you are.


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[Assistant] Artie Blank. Excuse me, Mr. Blank, as the kids call him. Mr. Blank.


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[Assistant] What if the Patriots said, what if the Patriots said, Belichick's yours for $283?


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[Assistant] I mean, what about, I mean, I, this is, I kind of regret saying this.


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[Assistant] But well, actually, you know what? One, you could draft Jayden Daniels. You could trade for Justin Fields. You could probably get back Jones for nothing and bring him to Atlanta with those weapons. I mean.


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[Assistant] You're now marked it. Wow. Arthur, you go from being Arthur blank who, who dresses to the nines on the sidelines.


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[Assistant] You are wearing a jumpsuit and covered in ketchup. So this is a lot more appropriate for you. I think you would, you're like, you're like a combo of Arthur blank and Mark Davis here. Who are you hiring for the Raiders?


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[Assistant] I do think that I think that that is a good example of what we should expect.


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[Assistant] From the Raiders is it's going to come down to can you.


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[Assistant] Will and look, Jim Harbaugh has Donny is his agent.


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[Assistant] Donny is connection. The Donny is going to play the Chargers against the Raiders and drive up Jim Harbaugh's price and get a bunch of money for him. And I wouldn't be shocked at all if he ended up going to the Raiders for mainly for personal control purposes. If that's but.


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[Assistant] If, if he doesn't and he goes to the chargers, then yeah, I think Antonio Pierce is the play. All right. Um, I'll be, it also is. All right. We need a, what?


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[Assistant] And Jimmy Grable, the current quarterback of the Oakland Raiders, the Las Vegas Raiders who they've negotiated with. Okay. We need a bald.


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[Assistant] Arrogant megalomaniac who went to Carnegie Mellon. Do we have any of those in the room?


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[Assistant] Yeaah. I mean, David Temper literally, his name is on the business school, according to the email. But, um, he bought it. He bought the buildings. He gets to put his name on it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, let me just do this by committee since David Tepper won't do a good job by himself. Hey, Ben Johnson's still out there.


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[Assistant] By the way, by the way, I said this, I said this this morning, I think, I mean, David Tepper needs like a, yeah.


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[Assistant] Average like middle-aged extra chinned Caucasian fella to tell him yes to every movie he wants to make for several million dollars a year. I'm here for it. I mean, I will.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's hubris. It's, it's like financial hubris basically.


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[Assistant] You know, you get it, you hit, you know, if you, you buy a distress asset and it flips around, you get a huge win. You're not going to fire a guy who's closing those deals in the NFL. You know, it is a meritocracy.


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[Assistant] And you're, you're not, you're not going to just win just because you just went out there and you spent the most money that never happens like that. We've seen that for years with these owners. And so I think that is probably the primary problem. The belief that he can just make, make it just, I'll just spend in this award. What's that through force of will. Yeah, exactly.


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[Assistant] All right. So that's our, uh, that's our black Monday roundup.


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[Assistant] I think they're going to have to end up either overpaying grossly for someone like Ben Johnson or hiring somebody who, I mean, be enemy.


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[Assistant] Frank Wright's coach, he was Frank Wright's coach when they were, when the Panthers first started in 95. Alright, that'll do it for us. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.


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[Assistant] For Breach, for Wilson, I'm Brent. So make sure to subscribe, like, rate, and review. See you guys later.


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[Assistant] What's up everybody? Welcome to the Pixix podcast. CBS Sports NFL podcast. I'm Will Brinton. I'm your host. Joining me for an emergency podcast.


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[Assistant] Frank Wright got fired by the Carolina Panthers, John Breach. Breach. I had my Panthers.


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[Assistant] Beanie or toboggan or whatever you're going to call it, I was going to wear, but it's warm enough in my house. So I don't think I need to do that. Instead. I thought I'd wear a hoodie from Superbowl 50, which is the last time the Panthers were relevant. Oh, um, Frank, right fired.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I don't think it's a shock that he's fired. I think it's probably a little surprising that he's fired now.


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[Assistant] But to me, the real story is that the Carolina Panthers have a David Tepper problem who's now fired three coaches mid season since he bought the team in 2018.


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[Assistant] You know, moved on from Cam in rather, you know, awkward fashion to following off season when he, when he hired Matt Ruhl, made a big deal out of hiring Matt Ruhl, flew a helicopter, like flew a private jet to bail, to, to Texas, Waker, Texas, like why did we dine him?


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[Assistant] With her knee, uh, eventually would move on from her knee, brought in Scott Federer as the GM. He's currently the GM fired Matt rule. He signed to a huge contract, two and a half seasons into his tenure. Now he'd done this after sort of forcing his hand in trading for Sam Darnold.


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[Assistant] You forced to trade for Baker Mayfield. It shouldn't have been that expensive. Uhm, you forced the GM to trade up and trade for Matt to trade and go draft Matt Corral in the third round.


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[Assistant] He's been with the Steelers. They are the most patient franchise in like sports. They've had three coaches since the Super Bowl era, since the merger in 1970. Chuck Noll, Bill Cower, and Mike Tomlin. They've had 10% that many since he took over. And so it's like,


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[Assistant] All right. You come for the Steelers. You're going to come in. You're going to be patient. You're going to be smart. You're going to let football people do football things and you're going to keep your hands off. You're going to do the business stuff.


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[Assistant] David Timberlake has done none of that. He's been, he's, his fingerprints all, all over everything. And Joe Person, our friend of the podcast of the athletic who covers the Panthers tweeted out on Sunday night after care or Sunday afternoon of Carolina lost to the Titans 17 to 10 in just humiliating fashion. Um,


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[Assistant] That David Temperer scene leaving the locker room just screaming F, like one F-bomb. He's like, BLEEP! Like just, EH!


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[Assistant] Screaming and walking away is like, this is like he, he can't, and look, they're one of 10. They're the worst team in football by a wide margin. They are.


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[Assistant] Impossible to watch. The only times that they've scored more than 17 points this entire season, they scored 17 against the Saints in week two. That was a backdoor touchdown to cut like back to recover touchdown. That was meaningless on Monday night at home.


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[Assistant] They scored 27 against the Seahawks when Andrew Gregory Dalton started the game and played. And most of that was garbage time.


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[Assistant] He scored 24 against the Lions in a 42-24 loss. And he scored 21 against the Dolphins in a 42-21 loss.


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[Assistant] They are the, they're the worst offensive footballers. I mean, and like Tommy Devito starting games and the Patriots exist. It's, it's, it's like, there's all kinds of issues with it.


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[Assistant] I mean, I get that this team is bad. I get that Matt rules teams were terrible. I get that Ron Rivera was at the end of his run, but like at some point I think it just becomes, this is clearly a David, David Tepper problem for the Panthers and it's not going to get better anytime soon, regardless of who they hire next.


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[Assistant] In exchange for the number one overall pick in 2024, which ostensibly will be Caleb Williams. Maybe Drake may it's quarterback. Jalen Carter.


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[Assistant] Who's been awesome with the Eagles? He was taking ninth overall, which is where the Panthers picked, um, DJ Moore and two second round picks. It's, it's looking right now like one of the worst trades in NFL draft history. And it would, it requires like Bryce Young to become a franchise quarterback to justify it and.


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[Assistant] It's it is really hard to turn around an NFL football team immediately. You can do it.


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[Assistant] If you have the pieces in place and you hit on the quarterback, CJ Stroud and the Texas are a great example. They brought in a good coach. They have a GM who's aligned with that coach's thinking.


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[Assistant] Uh, gone after this all season two or after the season two, the GM, the general manager there in Carolina, it would be surprising if he sticks around. I think David Tepper is going to clean house and.


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[Assistant] Blow it all up once again and bring in a new GM and a new, a new head coach. And you'll be curious to see whether or not.


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[Assistant] That GM and that head coach are like, how are they aligned? How, you know, who's, how much power the GM has been? We'll talk about some candidates in a second, but like,


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[Assistant] Who like Adam Maryland in the 1985 NFL draft, like he, I mean, he has.


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[Assistant] He, he won two Superballs, technically, uh, as a coaching intern and then as the offensive coordinator. He was a really well, he was a coach of the year, right? What'd he coach of the year? Am I crazy? Nah, man.


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[Assistant] I saw his stat. Frank Rake's 11 game. This is Albert Rear. 11 game run in Carolina. It was the shortest tenure for an NFL head coach in 45 years.


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[Assistant] 11 games, even Urban Meyer made it 13. The last time the plug was pulled this quick, Pete McCauley only made it nine games. The Niners coach in 1978 was replaced by Bill Walsh. Guessing that David Tempers, not kidding, is Bill Walsh, but we'll see.


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[Assistant] Do you think that this, all right, let's take a break. When we come back, we will talk about who's the next head coach and how much head coaching candidates for the Panthers and how much Bryce Young matters with that and what happens with Bryce Young next.


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[Assistant] Right, right out as the Panthers head coach Chris Taber taking over the special teams coordinator as head coaches. There's the interim head coach, the sixth head coach since including interims since David Tepper took over, um, Breach. I'm curious.


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[Assistant] So I think the Bryce young and the head coaching candidates kind of go hand in hand here.


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[Assistant] What, what candidates can you see being viable here with Carolina? Because he's got a, David Timbers got a ton of money.


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[Assistant] He's been turned down by several big name head coaches for the jobs before because they understand that he is in fact quite impetuous and willing to make moves quickly. But like if you, if you're, if your head coach who believes in Bryce young,


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[Assistant] And David Tepper will give you enough control and enough money.


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[Assistant] I think David Tepper will try and make a big splash. I really do.


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[Assistant] Now this first one is these, these first two that I'm going to throw out there. Now this is spicy producer. Harry points out bill Belichick. So I'm going to give like three like names. I just don't include Belichick as one too. I, I, three names that I don't think will work. One Belichick.


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[Assistant] You can trade for him. You don't have a first round pick, but you can give up your second round pick, which is basically a first round pick. Trade for Belichick.


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[Assistant] Give him total control. You got Bryce Young there. I don't think Belichick will want to work for David Tepper. I think he's the opposite of an owner of a, uh, of, uh, of like a Bob craft and


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[Assistant] We've talked, Wilson is like down on Belotec getting a, like ever getting a job in the NFL again, which I think is hilarious, but you and I have been pretty adamant that we think he could end up, you know, whether it's the Chargers or the Commanders, um,


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[Assistant] Chargers with the quarterback situation, the division is tough, but like, I think you make a case if you like Bryce young as a quarterback and you believe that the Panthers have enough on the offensive line that you could fix it.


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[Assistant] He's been suspended twice by the NCAA this season.


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[Assistant] Uh, Harbaugh would need a ton of control, would be a big splash, would be a terrible fit with David Tepper I think.


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[Assistant] Bill O'Brien is another name I think you have to include as well. Uh, the Patriots offense is terrible.


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[Assistant] But Bill O'Brien worked with, uh, uh, Bryce Young in college. And so maybe that could be a fit. I don't think there's a, Bill O'Brien also pretty good at grabbing power. I can see him and David Tapper being buddies. Um, but there's, you know,


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[Assistant] Ben Johnson definitely, uh, yeah, it's like the, the top, the name that comes to mind at the top. He was, he would flirt it with the job before last year.


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[Assistant] I think you have one, you have to like Bryce young and you better commit to telling David temper that you can fix brush on and all the problems that he had this year. And like, good luck with, you know, good luck with, um, with that. If you're, you know, good luck with that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, yeah. And dabble like, I don't know that his stick would work in the NFL. Uh, he's just, he is very close in terms of proximity. If he wants out of Clemson, maybe, maybe he would be willing to like float his name. I had just a thought.


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[Assistant] I think Frank is a good coach. Um, I think that I think they could really good coach. I think Dan Quinn makes a lot of sense. I'm just saying like last year about this, uh, last year when they fired Matt rule, I said that they were going to go take a wild swing at Sean Payton and probably Jim Harbaugh with completely.


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[Assistant] And then end up hiring Frank Reich or Dan Quinn. Cause they're sort of like established coaches.


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[Assistant] Different sides of the football. You trust them. Uh, you feel like the floor is really high. Obviously that wasn't the case with Frank right this year. Um, but yeah, Dan Quinn, and then I don't know who the second one you were throwing was, but I would throw out Mike McDonald to the rave is defensive coordinator.


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[Assistant] Oh, Brian Flores makes a lot of sense. Yeah. Brian floor is the total polar opposite of, of, of, uh, it would fit my ex-girlfriend theory that you go and get a Brian floor is the total polar opposite of Frank. Right.


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[Assistant] NC State. NC State beat Carolina. Uh, alright. One month for now. Will Brinson can be the Panthers next head coach.


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[Assistant] I think when David Timber reads the article that I'm writing about him from cdsports.com, that he is unlikely to hire me in any capacity movie.


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[Assistant] I mean, look, if, um, I think, I think I would say this for Panthers fans and I'm obviously I live in North Carolina. I've got a bunch of friends texting me. Uh, if you're a Panthers fan, I think there's a very good case to be made that you, you better be patient. It's going to get worse before it gets better.


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[Assistant] This reminds me a lot of the Cleveland Browns early on in Juby Haslam's tenure. And I think that David Tepper is more aggressive, much richer somehow and, um, willing to meddle even more somehow. Like John, I mean,


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[Assistant] I also think that there's a really, really good case to be made that there is no NFL team in worse shape.


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[Assistant] For the long, for the short and long term in the Carolina Panthers.


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[Assistant] Maybe the Patriots because you're stuck with the, like you're quote unquote stuck with Belichick and you've got Mac Jones. But I mean, Carolina has just fired his third coach in four years.


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[Assistant] They have, you have to go with Bryce Young. You have no first round pick to help him out on the offensive line or to draft Marvin Harrison Jr. Uh, who looks like a superstar. You have a second round pick. Maybe you can get somebody there, but you have an owner who refuses to look in the mirror still.


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[Assistant] People screamed at him so much because they love the Browns at Carolina. He's got a good, you know, the Panthers have good fans, but the, like the sort of the attention paid to it from a metropolitan standpoint in football is just vastly different. Can you name a team in worse shape than the Panthers?


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[Assistant] Like, you'd rather be the Cardinals. The Cardinals have two first round picks. You'd rather be the Bears. The Bears have two high first round picks. You'd rather be the Patriots. The Patriots might be in worse shape, but the Patriots at least have six


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[Assistant] Uh, going to be really awkward. They give away that first round pick and it's Caleb Williams or Drake may and that that person is really good for the Chicago bears or the bear straight for a huge hall. Either way, uh, the Panthers have fired Frank, right? Time is a flat circle. David Tepper fired somebody else. Good luck to the next head coach of the Carolina Panthers.


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[Assistant] You are going to be inheriting quite the mess. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening for breach. I'm Brenton. Make sure to tune in for the rest of the week at Monday. Early odds show at two PM Eastern time. Uh, plus a power ranking show on Tuesday content all week long. See you guys.


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[Assistant] Mike Vrabel. That's a good one, Breach. Uh, I'll take Antonio Pierce.


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[Assistant] I mean, Ron Rivera's a teddy bear, but that dude would wreck somebody. What about D'Amico Ryan's? Oh, that's a question.


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[Assistant] Well, and Harry, Harry mentioned Mike Mcdale's, Mike Mcdale could win a Hunger Games battle, but he'd get murdered. He'd get crushed in a steel cage.


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[Assistant] And I would say the hardest part about making the argument for running back to win MVP is really just look at


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[Assistant] The Christmas game at this, at the Ravens win where you had Christian McCaffrey go off for 131 yards and they still lost by two touchdowns. If you're the MVP and you have play out of your mind, your team is almost certainly going to win, not get destroyed. So it's just tough for.


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[Assistant] All right, now that we have gushed over the Ravens, let's move closer to where Pete is in Florida. Uh, Pete, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, you move them up six spots from 17. Your biggest riser. To 11.


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[Assistant] Did you only do that because you took them in your Super Bowl draft last week?


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[Assistant] Well, on that note, let me ask you a two-parter right here. Number one, if they win the MC South, they're probably locked into the four seed, playing the five seed, who appears to be the Dallas Cowboys. Can they beat the Cowboys in the wild card round? And, uh, would you walk up Baker Bayfield long-term as soon as the season ends?


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[Assistant] Eugene Cyril Smith III. Thank you, Breach.


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't know. It's happened what? Twice in NFL history we've seen a quarterback, a Folzian situation where it just seems like the odds are sad.


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[Assistant] No, I was against the Steelers. The Bengals suck against the AFC North team.


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[Assistant] The big difference between doing it once and doing it never.


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[Assistant] I feel pretty good about myself.


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[Assistant] Matthew Stafford played against the Lions in the playoffs. How many yards would he throw for? Over under 400.


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[Assistant] Go for a 370. 500 and a half over. Imagine Stafford beating the Lions.


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[Assistant] Oh, he came back. No, I might have taken the dolphins because they'd beaten the ca- because they had ju- they would be coming out the cowboys. Leave my dolphins alone. Maybe dolphins, cowboys.


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[Assistant] I'll do it. Don't look at the script, Wilson. Don't cheat.


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[Assistant] That's another story. Uh, here's your next one, Wilson. Two defensive players have won NFL MVP. This guy won it in 1986, Lawrence Taylor.


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[Assistant] And I noticed our resident Dolphins fan Harry picked two Tom Brady seasons where he lost the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] You just said they lost the Giants in the playoffs. Oh, shut up. They gave it away.


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[Assistant] Let's see, let's see, uh, the Giants beat the Buccaneers, Jeff Garcia, I didn't think he got the MVP vote.


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[Assistant] How did you get that up in three seconds? Because I had Tom Brady's career up because I was looking at 2007 versus 2017. And so it was easy to pick on.


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[Assistant] I was thinking about that. I hate wrapping presents. I do it on the 24th, like at 10pm.


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[Assistant] There's a hundred percent chance Breach is a great gift wrapper. Oh, he's a good gift wrapper. I'm average. There's a hundred percent chance.


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[Assistant] Did he, uh, did he get treated, did he get spoiled because he was the youngest?


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[Assistant] There's always a need for ditch diggers. I was like, yep, could be worse.


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[Assistant] And to be clear, me and Preach aren't complaining. I'll leave it at that.


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[Assistant] Well, that's why he has it for two and a half months. He gets it all in and then he's available for Christmas.


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[Assistant] Well, if you watch it around Christmastime. Look at that. What movies do you watch around Christmastime?


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[Assistant] Hey man, I, I don't, I don't hate you for that at all. I used to, when I was, uh, I grew up Baptist and I would, uh, after Sunday school, I would go sit in the car as like a 12 year old. Just so my parents, I didn't have to go to church. My parents caught me one time, like, what are you doing?


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[Assistant] Just got to sit here staring at the back of the seat because I did not want to sit there for an hour and a half. I tried to...


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[Assistant] Yeah, Danny was talking yesterday on HQ, I heard Danny talking about, um, he had gotten food poisoning once and they were just pumping him full of fluids when he was a backup at the Broncos. Um, and he said it was, it was hard to even like walk at that point. Um, so who knows what it was.


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[Assistant] So it's funny you mentioned Josh Allen and Jalen Hurst because I was thinking about this last night as they were very slowly unraveling.


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[Assistant] I think there's a very fine line because those two interceptions that Jalen hurt, that Jalen threw, one was probably a foot under thrown that bomb into the ends on the quiz walk and it's going to come up with. And the other one was a great play again, by doing love on the sidelines in that game. If they go different directions, we're probably having a different conversation. And that's sort of the line that Josh Allen has been living on.


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[Assistant] McCarthy-Dack, those two have found a happily median, uh, middle ground in terms of their, their play calling marriage. Ben Johnson-Goff, Dave Canales and Baker Mayfield, those two are like the, the, the face of, of how things can work out. Steichen and Minshew.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm just looking at the NFC playoff picture right now. O'Connell and what he's done with all those guys. Even Kurt was playing better before he got hurt. And then finally McVeigh and Matthew Stafford are having career years too. So I think that's a big point we're not talking about.


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[Assistant] We don't, we don't know that. I mean, we don't know if he was calling Pete Carroll stupid. Do we?


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[Assistant] As for the Seahawks, Pete, I wanna start here.


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[Assistant] Not with Eugene Stillsmith the third, but with Andrew Steven Locke the first, and the way that guy played down the stretch. And Pete, let's go back to Old Mobile Alabama back in 2020, when you got wise with Drew Locke, and he had a few choice words for you when you made fun of his little tiny hands. What'd he say to you?


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[Assistant] I'm not crushing Matt Patricia for that. I thought that evens actually played better with guys, a lot of rookies out there. They weren't great, obviously, but I think another thing that's worth noting and drew lock got emotional talking about this was how much Gino was in his corner and was supporting him and how much that meant to him. And I think.


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[Assistant] That talks about the cohesion on that team. And we heard Brady talk about, he was with Seattle for a little bit in training camp and how Pete Carroll got those guys pumped up to go to training camp practice. So I think that team has a legit chance to win out. Their record isn't that tough.


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[Assistant] I get it. Like I, I say, I understand why you're not trying. I would be fed up with Ms. Trubisky throwing the ball at my ankles.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Well, yeah, but he, he did some good things early on when he was in, when cook was in Sean's dog house and they had Murray had to run the ball. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I asked you this last week, but do you think that Sean sort of learned a lesson from all that stuff that came out? Because he seems a little...


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[Assistant] No. He seems a little more open to give people credit during the press conference, which was one of the knocks against him in Tide Dunn's story. I feel like maybe he's taking a moment to look at himself. You don't think so?


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[Assistant] Do you know what, you know what this is by the way, Pete? So producer Harry is a huge Dolphins fan. This is passive aggressive breach coming out. It really is. Unloading both barrels. I, I get this all the time when the steel is irrelevant, Harry. So just understand that when you're at the top,


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[Assistant] Uh, are we doing what we do? $10 each?


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[Assistant] We did $33 each, or, cause we had 25, so it's $25 each Pete, do you have $25? You're willing to devote to this? I don't know.


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[Assistant] By the way, uh, I would suggest that we rename this podcast random.org because I think that's more fitting than Pixix podcast. Uh, Breach, I'm going to make you the secretary of minutes. You keep up with the picks. I got it.


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[Assistant] Alright, so I'll take Miami and then I got another pick coming here. So let's see what we got going here. I gotta do some math. Wins over Wilson. Beep bop boop boop beep beep beep.


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[Assistant] Jeez, pizza boy, tough sledding, tough sledding out there. Uh, yay.


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[Assistant] I mean, I actually, I think I trusted Browns more than the Jaguars at this point.


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[Assistant] I'm fine leaving them. I want to, let me double back because the NFC is a hot mess too. All right.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go with, uh, my Joe Flacco's, the Cleveland Browns breach.


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[Assistant] So Breach, are you taking the bingles now or in two pics from now?


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[Assistant] Then this, uh, Saints at Home and then at the Bryce Youngs.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a good call, man. That team's playing well. That's what I wanted too.


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[Assistant] Alright, Brenton, you got the, uh, the scraps. Which scrap are you taking?


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[Assistant] By the way, your bowl prediction at the beginning of the year was that the Falcons have more wins than any team. They are still available.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, let me say quickly, Brenton, the reason that this B-Hall is pushing, in addition to the passive aggressive stuff with the Dolphins, he had the Dolphins finishing last in the division as one of them.


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[Assistant] God, that's a good, I was gonna take them. Dang it to heck. There's no way I'm taking the Gardner Menchus, am I? I need to get an NFC team in here.


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[Assistant] No, I, I would rather take Nick Mullins. Nick Mullins tried to throw 14 interceptions that game.


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[Assistant] Let me go through this quickly here, because uhm, I only have one NFC team and three AFC teams. Brinton, you have...


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[Assistant] Right now, they're second. Cleveland's five right now, and Indy's seven.


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[Assistant] Pete, you got the Chiefs division winner. Division winner. Are the Eagles winning the division? Probably. Probably.


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[Assistant] A quarter of the way through the season or a third of the way through the season. Breach got the Bengals when no one thought they were anything. They went to the Super Bowl if I recall correctly.


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[Assistant] We don't, you just don't know that. A lot could change in three weeks. That's why we do this earlier typically, but yea, I get it.


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[Assistant] Stop, why do you do that to producer Harry? He need, the guy needs some good news.


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[Assistant] I was confused at first because I thought it was like, uh, Broadway plays. I was like, there's no way Pete would know Broadway plays.


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[Assistant] Sorry, I didn't mean to. I got ahead of myself. That's fine! Yeah, go ahead.


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[Assistant] I actually watched this game live as a, gosh, I was like nine or something. Everson Wallace with a defensive back who couldn't, who was posterized literally on the cover of SI. All right, next up, Breach. This one's near and dear to your heart, geographically. Music City Miracle.


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[Assistant] Kenny Stills to Devonte Parker to Kenyon Drake, as you mentioned there Breach. This is interesting here, the Dolphins declined to kick the extra point, per the rule change for 2018 season following the Minnesota Miracle. I don't know what that means exactly, what's the thinking here?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I guess you could take a knee, but this just absolves you of having to do anything. Love it. All right. Where'd you put, where'd you put the ranking breach? I was trying to figure out the, the PAT row five. Okay. All right. This one. Oh boy. You got a lot to sort through on this one, buddy. Oh boy. David Tyree. Hero.


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[Assistant] To the end of time for the Giants because the helmet catch over Rodney Harrison in the Super Bowl that propelled the Giants to that Super Bowl win. That is awesome.


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[Assistant] So is there, knowing what you know now, would you rank them similarly or would you change the rankings?


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[Assistant] Or you say, you say Peyton Manning into one and you leave Tom Brady off the list. You read Peyton Manning first.


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[Assistant] Well, I think part of it is he was banged up to start the year too, right? I don't think he's a hundred percent healthy. And Brady, you know this, and this is not a jab at Kelsey at all. He's going to be a first ballot Hall of Famer, but we know eventually father time is undefeated, right? So when you get banged up in the year, you don't, you don't recover as fast as you get older in the league. And I think.


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[Assistant] Part of that is a little bit of that. I think he is pressing a little bit just because they've struggled on offense to, to find their true identity. And I've stated this a few weeks ago where we know a few years ago, it was the Tyreek Hill show. And you know, when my home's got in trouble, he could find and rely on Kelsey.


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[Assistant] And now it's just like it's Kelsey or bus and honestly think they should lean on it off of the line and run the ball more because Pacheco ran the ball really well versus the Packers the other day. And if you look at the Superbowl versus the Eagles, they came out and played bully ball and had a lot of success doing that. So I think until those receivers can come along, right? Develop more.


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[Assistant] I think they needed to lean on that run game. I think part of the issue is Kelsey's not 100% healthy, right? There's parts where he's dropping passes because I think he's reeling in trying to.


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[Assistant] Forced the issue, but also I think the Chiefs fundamentally don't know who they are on offense yet.


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[Assistant] Hey Will, is that, is that currently the lowest total for a game? I think I read somewhere that it's, it's creeping on being the lowest total in the NFL game.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think he's probably blessed to only have the high ankle because it looks like it could have been knee PCL the way he got bent back. Could have been a number of things, but to Brady's point, right? We as players, the last thing we want to do is go under tonight. Like I myself had a situation. Matter of fact, when I was with Jacksonville for two years.


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[Assistant] I staved off surgery on my ankle because I didn't want to get cut on. I had ligament damage, right? And now I'm dealing with some issues going forward, right?


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[Assistant] Anything, anytime you're a player, especially as young as Trevor Lawrence is right. You want to bank on the rehab being able to bring you back. You don't want to go under the knife because there was a connotation once you have surgery, right? And you don't know what could potentially happen in that surgery.


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[Assistant] There's risk for infection going forward too after a surgery. That happens a lot where guys have to get multiple surgeries because they have infection. So.


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[Assistant] That's something that Trevor Lawrence was probably thinking about. And if I'm him Brady, I'm probably not playing the next two weeks, right? If you look at who they play, right? Two of the top defenses in football. I'm not saying.


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[Assistant] You're playing the Baltimore Ravens. You're playing the Cincinnati Bengals. Yes, you're still essentially fighting for that number one seed, but Brady, you can speak to this too.


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[Assistant] A high ankle sprain, they say sometimes it's better to just break your ankle than have a high ankle sprain because it lingers, right? This is the thing that could really affect him going forward. We saw Patrick Mahomes had to deal with something similar to this last year in the playoffs. Now he was able to gut it out and look a lot better in the Superbowl than he did in the other playoff games.


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[Assistant] But this is a situation where you don't want it to make it, make it worse before it gets better because it's a thing that lingers. So if I'm Trevor Lawrence earlier this year, he played on a short week on a Thursday where I didn't think he could. And he ended up being, I think they're leading the rest of that game. So what do I know?


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[Assistant] Uh, this kid is tough, obviously. I just think if you're Jacksonville, this is the face of your franchise going forward. You gotta be cognizant of that. You need to be smart and realizing sometimes you gotta protect the player from himself. And with a high ankle sprain, this can linger. This is the last thing you want, especially going into the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Well, it's interesting, right? Uh, and Brady, you can attest to this, right? There are certain rules put into play to make sure that the quarterbacks don't get hurt, right? And I think it's ironic that in a year where


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[Assistant] Everything is called so closely when it comes to hitting the quarterback and what you can do to the quarterback.


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[Assistant] This has been one of the most injury-plagued years for quarterbacks, right?


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[Assistant] It lets you know that in a game of football, again, Brady can speak to this, like, you can put all the rules you want to, but at any fluke moment, somebody can go down and get hurt. It's a physical game. This is what happened. So, I mean, the Joe Burrow thing, he kind of landed on his elbow. He's out for the year.


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[Assistant] Four plays into the season, Aaron Rodgers getting tackled, plants his, his toe and then his Achilles goes out, right? So Kirk Cousins, you know, same thing. It's, it's just like.


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[Assistant] You can, you can implement all these rules where, you know, a lot of players, players that play the game are frustrated by the rules because it seems like you can't even touch quarterback. You can't touch anybody on offense, but then you look at that list. Well, you see nine guys on there and we're in week, what 14 this week.


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[Assistant] How many games are both backups playing and starting this week? Right? So it's just like.


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[Assistant] Again, at some point, it's just a violent physical game and you can't take away from the product by trying to micromanage injuries because it's a part of the game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, yeah, well, well, before we go on, I just, I just wanted to get Brady's perspective on this because you said a lot of stuff that I want to dive into. Like one, I cannot wait for the off season and free agency just to see if there is a.


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[Assistant] And then I think there's something to be said and Brady, this is what I wanted to ask you as a quarterback.


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[Assistant] Being in a system constantly for more than one year, right? Even as a backup, what that does for you. Look at Jake Browning and what he did the other day. He's been in that system three years. So I wonder, will there be an urgency of teams, right? And you can speak to this from a quarterback's perspective where


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[Assistant] Our backup guy, we're going to treat him like a development guy. We're going to keep him three years in the system just because if our guy goes down, we don't want some guy that's only been here for six months going out there and trying to run the offense. So I would just love to hear your thoughts on that.


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[Assistant] Uh, shocked, right? And to your point, I think maybe he was saying until Jalen's a hundred percent healthy, maybe it's better for Marcus to run the office. My thing is just say that, right? Don't get cute with your words because all they're going to do is print out.


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[Assistant] Jayden hurt, Jaylen hurts is having issues reading defenses, which is the furthest thing from the truth. Now you can tell 100% he's not healthy because he's not running the ball as much as he did last year.


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[Assistant] That's part of what makes this offense so dangerous, right? When he's able to use his legs, when he's carrying the ball seven or eight times a game, because Brady, you can speak to this. That's added one that the defense has to account for on defense, right? So.


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[Assistant] As far as some of that reading coverages, that's, that was nonsense to me. I'm gonna go ahead and put that out there. That was nonsense. But if.


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[Assistant] To the point that he was making as far as him being healthy right now.


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[Assistant] You gotta look at it. Like, I don't know if you guys remember watching the Bills game and it was in overtime. Brandon Graham, loud, boisterous.


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[Assistant] He said, wow, the bills were kicking the field goal. You don't know Jalen hurts like I know Jalen hurts, right? We're going to win this game. And that's the X factor. Jalen hurts has whether he's healthy or not. Right. And I don't know if Marcus Mariota has that. So yes, I get what you're saying. He may not be healthy enough.


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[Assistant] Let's not forget it guys. They still have the number one record in football right now. So to me, that point makes absolutely no sense. It'd be one thing Brady, if they lost three or four games in a row and you're saying, well, maybe we just need to get Jalen healthy so we can make a run in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] No, I actually tweeted when it happened, I was like, this must be AI, right? This has got to be AI, like, right?


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[Assistant] But when the reports, cause I'm going to put quotation marks out there, reports came out that he was reluctant to take the starting range. I actually tweeted and said, I don't blame him. Right? Like.


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[Assistant] Reluctancy and just refusing to do something is two totally different things. So let me go ahead and put that out there before people take this and run with it and say, you know, dude said, you know, Jack Wilson, I don't blame him for not wanting to start. No, I said, report said he was reluctant to start, right?


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[Assistant] First and foremost, they need to find out who the rat is in that locker room because if Zach was having those personal conversations with teammates, that's disgusting. That's a bigger issue right there. We always say, Brady, you can speak to this.


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[Assistant] Certain things have to stay in the locker room, right? Certain things should not be getting out to personnel and to...


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[Assistant] Reporters and everything else. Second of all, I'm with you a hundred percent Brady.


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[Assistant] Even Robert Stoller came out for the longest and said,


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[Assistant] And all these media pundits in New York and everybody else around, well, Tim Boyle maybe can give them a spark. I'm like, have you not seen Tim Boyle play? Robert Salah purposely, because of the guy he is, did not want to throw Tim Boyle and Trevor Simeon under the bus because he knew they weren't any good, right? He didn't want to throw them under the bus. So that's why weekend and week out, he kept saying,


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[Assistant] Zack, right now, gives us the best opportunity to win games. And once we found out, or once everybody else found out, they were like, oh, that's what he meant. I mean, a dude's only in practice with the other guys every day of the week. You don't think there's somebody else on the roster currently that was better? He wouldn't put them in the game, right? So.


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[Assistant] You know what that does mentally? Not only for a football player, but more specifically, Brady, a quarterback in New York?


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[Assistant] Like, you have to wonder where Zach Wilson's mental is right now.


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[Assistant] And I'm with you Brady. I stated it either on this podcast, whether we were on spotlight or HQ. I said, when they traded for Rogers, Zach Wilson should have been part of the trade package, right? Just so he can get a fresh start because I don't think people understand what it's like to be a quarterback in the city of New York.


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[Assistant] Right? Everything is magnified, right? You can't do anything right. And if you do anything right, right, they're just waiting for you to fail so they could talk about it.


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[Assistant] Right, so you have to be a different person when you're the quarterback of one of those two New York teams, right? We've seen Daniel Jones go through it, we've seen Zach Wilson, uh, we saw Sam Darnold go through it, right?


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[Assistant] Exactly. Like it's, it's, it's a different animal when you're a player in the city of New York. So like when I said, I don't blame him for being reluctant.


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[Assistant] I mean, look at what they've put this kid through the last couple weeks.


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[Assistant] And to your point, Brady, like people kept looking at him as the number two guy. He wasn't supposed to see the field. He was a backup quarterback this year.


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[Assistant] For you to say he hasn't progressed means you don't watch film. He's clearly gotten better this year, but you got to stop for a second and think that he's not the number two pick anymore. He's the backup to Aaron Rodgers. He's a backup quarterback. So.


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[Assistant] You're expecting backup type play. He was supposed to sit and watch Rogers for two years and then possibly take over the reins. But at this point, there's no way that's happened.


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[Assistant] I will say this, the offensive line has gotten healthier the last two weeks. I would say Tim Boyle had a lot of time in the pocket last week versus the Atlanta Falcons. So this will probably be the best O line he's played behind this whole year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm going to say brain. We both talked about this at Nazium, but I'll let you go and I'll go after you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I thought it was baffling that he tried to say that the 93 championship wasn't essentially the same thing when West Virginia, who was undefeated, got left out and he won a ring. And then, then he doubled down and saying, you know, if they hadn't got boat race that they, they could have claimed the national championship. Well, last time I checked.


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[Assistant] Perfect example, people make fun of UCF for claiming it in 2017. Like, where was the outrage when they went undefeated two years in a row, right? Like UCF walked so Cincinnati could run to the, to the final four, but.


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[Assistant] Get into the point, right? I thought the committee got it right, right? Because it even says in the bylaws, it's not the most deserving, right? It's the four best teams.


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[Assistant] And what I really love how everybody was arguing saying how Alabama, you know, barely beat a Auburn team. It took fourth and 31 to beat them in a rival game. Right? Let's not forget that. People tend to forget that New Mexico state.


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[Assistant] Went to the conference championship game. Like they weren't a terrible team. Now, again, they boat race Auburn, but this was a good team. And another thing that really pisses me off Brady is that people tend to forget the grand march playing that rival game with Florida state. Oh, but why is nobody bringing that up? They know that Florida didn't isn't bowl eligible, right?


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[Assistant] So you barely beat a team with its backup quarterback with your backup that isn't even bowl eligible. But yet you have the audacity to talk about Alabama on the road, barely beating an Auburn team that is bowl eligible just because they lost to a team that went to a conference championship game.


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[Assistant] Make it make sense to me. You can put whatever narrative you want to fit. But I honestly believe the committee did get it right. Now I am gutted for Florida State, right? Right? Because us as players, we're always taught.