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[Assistant] Because now he can't go all in on, let me haul my creative coverages and crazy blitzes and guys drop out and all this stuff to where he can't, he has to worry about, wait, their offensive line is significantly bigger than us. I have to put some people down there to stop the run. And then of course the Jaguars are a team that


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[Assistant] You go too long in on that department, they, we see in here now. They're better at throwing the ball now than they were then.


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[Assistant] You know, and again, everybody out there, cause...


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[Assistant] You know, I think people are gonna go, well they couldn't throw the ball last week against the Tennessee Titans. Again, it's a matchup league. The Tennessee Titans literally have a front four where they go, we're not helping you with the run, nobody's gonna run on you guys anyways. So they can just play pass all the time. Cause they have this one part that kinda eliminates the one threat. The Jaguars don't have that.


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[Assistant] I mean the Chargers, excuse me, they don't have that up front. Right. So they're going to have to put five people at the line of scrimmage. And then therefore it's going to be, you know, this offense is creative enough and his arm is big enough and they got enough weapons to where they can make life hard on them, play action pass or some of those run defense looks on the pass game. And that's where I worry for the Chargers a little bit.


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[Assistant] Well, this is, you know, yes, they will. It won't look the same. But again, this is, again, this is not the greatest matchup for them. Well, this is where I say this. You know,


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[Assistant] Jacksonville's bad at stopping the run, but...


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[Assistant] Right? You know what? The Chargers don't run the ball that good. So it's like, oh wait, they're a weakness, you can't really exploit it. And now you gotta throw the ball against this group? They're a pain in the ass.


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[Assistant] They can do man and zone. And they can be creative. And be really tough that way. So that's where I look at it and go...


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[Assistant] No, I think the Chargers are going to have to come out of their comfort zone a little bit maybe and come up with some good design runs and maybe be a hair more patient with the run game than they would like to be. And have to play a game maybe that they don't really necessarily want to play. You know, because, you know,


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[Assistant] Their own line being healthier, I think will give them the chance to protect and throw some shots down the field, which helps them. Yeaah. But it's a pretty good pass rush by the Jaguars.


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[Assistant] And like I said, their secondary's got a little bit of it all. They got a guy in Tyson Campbell corner who, who can shut down receivers. He's one of the best man to man corners in football, let alone they do some cool creative stuff too. So.


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[Assistant] This is gonna be, I think this will be a very close football game. I know, I think a lot of people are thinking that the Chargers are gonna win this and, you know, I understand the Chargers in totality.


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[Assistant] I think are more dangerous to make a run through the AFC playoffs.


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[Assistant] This game, for me, as I evaluated it, y'know, yesterday and stuff, I go, ooh, this is very much 50-50. Don't... Jacksonville matches up very well with the lost game.


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[Assistant] Man, I like that. I mean, but he's, well, he sees it. He knows. It's, it's, it is. It's, and these, there's some things about those two matchups where you go, wait.


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[Assistant] You know, the, the strength of this team is this team's weakness. And you know, the weakness of this team's is also this team's weakness. So they can't exploit it. And that's when you start to go, uh-oh, it could be a little closer than people think.


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[Assistant] The week after, I think teams kind of figured out how to stop the RPO game, right? It's to me the number one thing, you ask anybody here at NBC the last few weeks I've been going, it's just like, I don't know, you know, the RPO, they can't even get it going anymore.


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[Assistant] We've seen it. The Packers game, they were all over it. It was the RPOs didn't really work. The Chargers game, how would that work? The two was playing that week, wasn't he? Wasn't he?


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[Assistant] Right, so, I, I, you know, I know Ari, that what you're saying there. I mean, they went to Buffalo week 15, scored 29. Right, and then I went back and watched it. It wasn't the RPO game. That's, that's one thing. But yeah, he made some great plays.


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[Assistant] They did. They hit some play action passes. Uh, I think, you know, we showed one of the plays on social where the Bills messed up a coverage one time, right? And the long waddle touchdown. So what do you think teams started doing then? I think that Brandon Staley showed


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[Assistant] Hey, wait, if you play these type of coverages to the side of the receivers where they can run the RPOs, you know, you can cheat a little bit on the backside, they're not looking to throw anything to that guy, and they, like, like, like the,


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[Assistant] What was it? The first interception of the Packers game, right? The one Jai Alexander had, right?


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[Assistant] I mean, just think about how many people were over there at the receiver side. They had like five people, he was trying to throw to two receivers who were running slant routes, right? They were so ready for it, and they made their alignment up front to go, wait, we're ready to stop the strong side run, and then the weak side, we got all these people in the pass game, so you can't RPO us that way.


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[Assistant] So that's what started it a little bit. And then I don't think they trust Skyler Thompson yet, you know, to read it.


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[Assistant] You know, again, that's, who was gifted as far as, we've always said this, his ability to get the ball out of his hand quickly and be accurate, I mean, that's his wheelhouse. You know, but I don't think it's necessarily


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[Assistant] Totally related to just Tua being injured here. It was going the wrong way with Tua, and then him not being in there, I think, totally chopped out the leg. As I went back and started to look at these things, I started to go, oh, well, here's RPO. We pulled it because it was the look to pull it.


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[Assistant] But it's kind of a bastard look, and your pass option is really not open. Now it's second and ten. Or I had to hold the ball, and I didn't know what to do, and now I can't throw it away because we're blocking downfield, right? And now I've taken a sack.


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[Assistant] I think they're starting to get a lot of negative plays on their RPO game. Because again, I think teams caught on to it a little bit, and that caused the issues.


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[Assistant] You know, I think the Bills, I think Josh Allen and McDermott and Leslie Frazier cover a lot of holes on their team. I do. I mean, you just, what was the stat we just used with Josh Allen? Right? Yeah. What was the, uh, I gotta go back up and look, I'm already forgetting him.


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[Assistant] And again, they're, they're leading Russia, and, and, you know, so all those things are concerning. Okay. You know, and then, you know, as far as the defense is concerned,


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[Assistant] They're another team that oddly, that's the word of the day.


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[Assistant] They're not, they're not good with balance. Now they might not have to play that in the AFC a whole lot. And we'll see. Can the Bills stay patient? I mean, can the Dolphins stay patient with the run game? I mean, that's the big thing too.


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[Assistant] They ran the ball in the Bills a few weeks ago, but they decided they then got obsessed with drop back pass, play action pass and all that. I still think they can make this game ugly.


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[Assistant] If they stay patient with it, can he find up a few trick ways to throw some screens and


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[Assistant] And their defense, as we've seen, they made life hard on Josh Allen. I mean, those were just great plays by Josh Allen that won the game the second time around. We didn't sit here necessarily and go, it was an awesome game to watch. Remember the last drive and everything? It wasn't like, oh wow, this is surgical and they're just picking them apart. It was like,


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[Assistant] Unbelievable throw down the left sideline. You know, oh my gosh, he avoided traffic and threw an outroute. Unbelievable throw. It was just like...


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[Assistant] Individual miraculous efforts there. So yeaah, I do worry about Buffalo that way. But they do have a belief, they know how they play, their formula in which they play is very hard according to the players that they got in the football field. And they can do McDermott and Frazier on the defense


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[Assistant] Along with Dorsey and Josh, they can do game plan specific stuff to where you can get in the game and go, wait, they didn't do this.


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[Assistant] I haven't seen this in five weeks. What the hell? And that's where they can be dangerous, but I am worried about that at Hoop stuff.


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[Assistant] Bring the wood here on Chris Sims on button.


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[Assistant] I don't think they know what the hell is going on either, honestly. I don't. It's just the sense I get. And yeah, I mean... Like what do you mean don't know what's going on? I just think it's...


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[Assistant] You know, the future prospects of the contract stuff, where that's going.


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[Assistant] He is kinda Superman-ish to where it's like, oh yea, your knee's swollen, but you can probably still run 4-4. He might play, I don't know, I'm sure that's gone through the Ravens, whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, like I think I told you a few weeks ago. I just, I knew from some people there that it wasn't that long ago that his knee was like still significantly swollen. And I was told at that time, like the first playoff game is still very dicey. I don't expect to see him this week.


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[Assistant] It's, they played, they played a conservative game a little bit. I think one, they know that their defense can slow down Baltimore, right? And I think they match up very good with Baltimore that way.


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[Assistant] Uh, I don't expect life to be very easy on the Ravens offense. You know, I don't think this, you know, again, I don't think the Ravens can, can dominate this group in the run game, which is going to make everything else harder. Uh, I'd be surprised if that happened.


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[Assistant] You know, early on, he was conservative. They played the field ball, field position game. You know, again, this is where I think, you know, I always use that phrase, ball control, passing offense. I think they're very smart in seeing the big picture of the game.


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[Assistant] They're, they're, unlike maybe the other teams we're talking about in the AFC with Kansas City and Buffalo, where they just wanna go, go, go, go. Kansas, I mean, Cincinnati's willing to go...


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[Assistant] We'll play ugly and win 2013. We don't care. We don't care how sexy we look. We're just going to win the game, right? So I think they have a little bit of that. And I think he's very good at seeing the big picture of the game too. So there's a few plays early on where I go, damn, throw that.


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[Assistant] You got him. You know, but I think he's going, nah, it's Anthony Brown and the Ravens over there. I'm not going to even take the chance to let, you know, Marlon Humphrey barely get a finger on it and tip it in the air and interception, right?


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[Assistant] Right. He made a number of plays, but he was ultra aggressive, and they lost the game they shouldn't have lost. Right? Yeaah. You know, I think he had five interceptions, and they still were on the one yard line to win the game at the end. Right? Yeaah. It was like bad snap, or back up snap. Right. That sent it to overtime. We thought the game was over. They were going to win in regulation.


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[Assistant] You know, I think all in all here, the biggest concern is a Den-a-Jay, a right tackle.


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[Assistant] I mean, the right tackle is an issue. I mean, that's, that stinks. I don't know, that they lost Lyle Collins over there. And then they lose Alex Kappa. And I don't know what the status is right now of him, but I mean, he's...


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[Assistant] He's their killer in the middle. He's the guy we talked about. He's one of the few guards in all of football that just went, I can take Chris Jones by myself. I'm not, oh, he's not going to overpower me. So that hurt them too. To where


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[Assistant] Like Baltimore's pass rush was a little bit more influential in the game than I thought it would be. They're just a front forward, not the blitzes and all that. So that, that's something to watch out for. Okay? Uhm, but I'll say this too.


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[Assistant] I think that, you know, they took the gas, their foot off the gas pedal, up 24 to 7, right?


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[Assistant] Yes, right. They went in totally conservative mode, didn't take a chance. It's hard to gauge too. I want to go, uuuh. It seems like they even got simple for them a little bit just to go, hey, let's not show them anymore anything. Where, where, where I look at it and just think that it could be a positive for the Bengals though, is,


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[Assistant] You know you gotta, it's risky to play man to man, right? So, Baltimore, they wanna blitz and cause some issues every now and then, but that's scary against this group and he's smart and usually knows where to go with the ball and gets protection the right way and all of that. Uh, Baltimore wants to play zone, he's great at zone, you know, he can pick you apart like we talked about, and I also would them to,


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[Assistant] When you're, this is where, like, being simple can play into your favor this time of the year. If you can get to this time of the year. Yeaah. Because you start to say, hey, oh, teams want to, they're going to defend us like this every time we get in this formation. And they're going to start to realize, well, because we run this a lot, and this a lot, and this a lot, and this a lot. Well, it's time to run this with that with it. Yeaah. The curve ball, right?


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[Assistant] And that's where sometimes you see these simple offenses kind of make a run in the playoffs because it's like, no, we have a thousand plays of them doing this one thing.


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[Assistant] And I can see them taking advantage of some things that way this week and being a little bit more aggressive. Uhm, but at the same time,


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[Assistant] It's a fine line. You're better than the Ravens. They don't have Lamar Jackson and you don't want to be so crazy aggressive that you're sitting there going, wait, we've outplayed them, but I tip interception. I threw a ball into a tight window and Jamar chase got crushed and the ball popped up and he fumbled their intercept and all of a sudden we're losing by three late in the fourth quarter.


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[Assistant] So that's where they gotta find the li- fine line, but I certainly think the Bengals have the advantage.


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[Assistant] I think it plays into it. I think it does, for sure. Yeaah. I mean, I understand that. It is a business. That's the way it is. Don't be bad at Lamar Jackson. This is the way the owner set it up. Right? And, uh, yeaah. They could not come to an agreement here. It's going to be interesting, this whole thing with the Ravens and Lamar going into the offseason and all that. I don't know where this is going to go.


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[Assistant] There's some interesting ones here. I mean, it definitely is. This one to me is, it's tough to call, really. Kind of. You know, I mean, we're seeing


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[Assistant] I understand the Justin Herbert thing. Cause they don't run the ball. They don't run the ball. I don't think they're going to try to run the ball a whole lot. And I think this is where they're going to live. So I get that. Uh, I do, but man, after, after their garbage


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[Assistant] I would. I don't know, I don't have necessarily a reason for that. I just feel like he's kinda hot.


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[Assistant] Miami plays too aggressive on that side of the ball.


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[Assistant] And they changed a few things up the last time they played them to where I think now it's like I don't know if they got another change up for them that can confuse them there. I just don't have, you know, the burl thing


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[Assistant] I'm just, I'm not sure about it. He could go off, but it could be like what we saw last week where it's like they kind of control the game and he can just be conservative and doesn't need to push the boundaries at all.


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[Assistant] That's where I do worry about that. I see Brady having a big day if the Cowboys are stupid and go all in on


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[Assistant] I could see them running more too. So that's where it's tough. There's a lot of different things. You know, of course, you know, Daniel Jones, I could see them sneaky having a good passing day, right? But I hope they don't. They need to run the ball more.


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[Assistant] This is a tough one. My thing here is we've given you some advice on some other ones. This one's a tough one and I don't feel necessarily comfortable with any or can give you a lean. I gave you my lean.


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[Assistant] I understand the Herbert thing. Brady and Josh Allen will be the ones after that.


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[Assistant] Say you bet $100 on Patrick Mahomes to be the Super Bowl MVP. Bet MGM just released those odds yesterday. If you win, you get $400. But if you lose, you still get $100 worth of free bets.


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[Assistant] I guess I had the Colts. Damn, the Colts really dominated this one. Well, you know, the Matt Ryan thing was a curveball for all of us.


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[Assistant] I had the Cowboys in the playoffs. Did you? I did. I think I had them as like the 7 seed, honestly, if I remember correctly.


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[Assistant] That's right. I believe, I think I kinda went chalk. I'm pretty sure I went Chiefs Bills and then Niners Eagles and I picked Niners Chiefs in the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] I would think so. You know, it's gotta be close. I think I actually saw something that is the... Those are the top four. Those are the top four teams, right.


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[Assistant] Yeah, through like three interceptions in the fourth quarter. It's true though, we will say goodbye to three teams. We will. And then three other teams. And then three other ones. Right, exactly right. Well, it should be good.


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[Assistant] I don't know if he does. I think he's a guy that seemed to be aware of me when I met him at the Hall of Fame this year and talked about him. And I think, and I think he's also probably a guy that's like,


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[Assistant] He's like, he's strong enough mentally to overcome my quarterback ranking, so he'll be okay. Will it come up when you talk to him? Of course. You know me. I don't ever not like bring something like that up and just, I, I, I, it is what it is. I thought Zach Wilson was better at that time. Right now I am definitely wrong. That's for sure.


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[Assistant] Trevor Lawrence is kicking butt, and it's, it's actually crazy.


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[Assistant] My evaluation, what was the reason I had Zach Wilson in front of Trevor Lawrence? Because I was going, Zach's just more consistent throwing the ball, right? And it's like, it's a roller version. Now Zach Wilson throws the ball a different way every time, and Trevor Lawrence has become a machine.


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[Assistant] That's right. That's right. When I saw him in that pregame warmup, I went, Oh my gosh, that was phenomenal. I was like, you fix some things, your mechanics. And that was, he was like,


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[Assistant] Hey, thanks for noticing. I did, I've been working on it. So it, it obviously was a part of, part of his off-season preparation there. You do a great job with those interviews. Yeah, I can't wait to hear it. Thanks. Everybody, uh, stay tuned.


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[Assistant] The, uh, Florio PFTPM Christmas on Button picks podcast will not happen until Friday morning. So that won't be out on an unusual Thursday afternoon schedule because of my interview with Trevor Lawrence.


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[Assistant] Everybody get ready for the weekend. It's super wild card weekend. One of my favorite ones of the year, baby. We got two games, three games and one game. And then it becomes.


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[Assistant] My actual favorite weekend of the year. Divisional weekend. Nothing beats divisional weekend to me. That's always the 8 best teams in the NFL playing each other. This is the best time of the year. It's like Christmas after Christmas or a holiday after a holiday. Yeaah. Right? Uhm, so everybody enjoy it. Be good, be safe.


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


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah baby, what's up? It's Monday morning. It's still the morning. I had to double check that because I'm a little late for our Monday morning podcast. It's almost the afternoon. What's up everybody? Week 14 of the books. Ahmed Farid is here. He's wearing his Chris Sims Unbuttoned t-shirt. He's got a zip down showing the pectoral muscles as well.


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[Assistant] Doing well, how are you today? Good. Good? Good weekend.


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[Assistant] It was a good weekend. Yeah? Yeah, watching football. Good, I know. Yesterday, you, you didn't have to work yesterday or do anything, right? I didn't, I was home. So at home on a nice cold day with flurries in the air, watching football? It was all alone. Actually, my dad came over and we watched the- Okay.


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[Assistant] Oh man, I relish that day. I relish that one playoff weekend or two playoff weekends where maybe we don't have to work on a Saturday and our game Sunday, right? And I get to sit home like a normal fan and go, man, this is awesome. Bowl of chips on the couch, just- Well, when you retire, what, what, 30 years from now? You can do it again.


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[Assistant] I know. I do wonder. It's like the gift and the curse. It's like a, it's a gift that I'm working on Sunday and a part of such a great thing. But yeah, uh, yeah, yeah, I miss my, you know.


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[Assistant] Sometimes even longer than we should. You're right, you're right. In fact, I'm gonna add a game to the list right now. Why? Just because it's on my mind.


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[Assistant] I just, real quick, like, Thursday night? Okay. That was the dumbest shit ever. Like, that was amazing by Baker Mayfield. That was the dumbest shit ever by the Raiders. Everyone was talking about that in the post game show. I just can't help it. I just gotta throw it out there real quick. I mean, the guy doesn't know the offense, so we're gonna play a defense where that, knowing the offense doesn't matter.


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[Assistant] So he can just play backyard one-on-one football and throw, Hey Ahmed, go deep.


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[Assistant] Hey Ahmed, go deep, they're playing ya bump man to man. That I can't believe. So the week always, it never, you know, lacks surprises or elements for us to talk about, but that on Thursday night with Baker kicking it off and the Raiders just doing dumb shit on defense. I just, I'm shocked.


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[Assistant] Wait, you shouldn't have done the opposite. Let's rush three, let's drop eight. He doesn't know the plays. Let's make him figure it out on the fly and make a mistake. So there's my first, uh, just little something off my chest, my stress relief, and now we can go to Sunday.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, you know, I wanted to like tweet at Big Cat at Barstool, cause he always, like anytime Tua plays well, he like sends me a tweet on social media with like big eyes open or whatever, right?


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[Assistant] And it's one of those too when you said, you know, you're like, I don't know, do I want to send it out and just start the shit storm and do that? And then Matt cakes, he's like, it's Twitter. It's always a shit storm. Send it out. And I was like, you're right. Here we go. And it's football. We can't take this stuff off.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, he's just, he's a special football player, as you see there. You know, again, they're not the most, they, they don't run the ball that great. They don't protect great, right?


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[Assistant] His ability to throw with people around him, hanging around. How many throws did you see like that last night?


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[Assistant] You know, again, he's about to get crushed, throws it, doesn't matter. Got people all around him, throws it down field, 15 yard gain. You know, oh, the guy's not really separating, doesn't matter, I'll throw it right underneath your chin, and if the guy's hand's not there, then they're not gonna stop the throw. I mean, so he's,


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[Assistant] He's arguably the best pocket passer in football. That's where he's amazing from that standpoint. Decision making, accuracy, and he posed problems for a defense that really the only problem they had to worry about was him.


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[Assistant] You know, I think they wanted to play man to man in Blitz and then they realized early on, ooh wait.


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[Assistant] They have a few answers for it and I think they got scared where they were like, they're just going to throw goes and back shoulders to Mike Williams and they're going to go down the field that way. So they tried to play zone, but then you play zone and he can, he's smart.


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[Assistant] And they, like I've said, they got all the good basic Sean Payton West Coast plays to where they pick you apart that way. But he was phenomenal. He was a man on a mission last night. That was a great game. And I gotta give the Chargers credit. I know the Chargers went into the game losing 3-4, right? And I know they've


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[Assistant] They've been a banged up football team. I'm one that's gonna stick up for Brandon Staley a little bit more than I think people have been, and me included. I'm not trying to say I haven't.


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[Assistant] It's been, it has been tough. They've had to deal with a lot of crap. And, you know, I know they lost to the Chiefs and the 49ers, but damn, they, they played them toe to toe. And we look at those two teams as two of the better teams in the sport.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the Raiders game, hey, disappointing, certainly. The Raiders threw out a different game plan that I think caught them by surprise a little bit. They kinda did what Miami did, and I don't think they were expecting, like, whoa, the Raiders blitzin', doin' all this crazy stuff, that, I think it was a curveball.


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[Assistant] But nonetheless, hang in their fight. So that's why we want to give them credit. It's not a great defense. And right now, it's going to be him having to make plays with his right arm like we saw last night for them to win football games.


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[Assistant] If you can get Joey Bosa back, right? And then you got, of course, Derwin James, and they had no Bryce Callahan last night.


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[Assistant] And get Bosa and Bryce Callahan and Turnwin James really healthy and good to go. Get the offensive line a little healthier there too.


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[Assistant] You know, I know we're not going to get, you know, our, uh, Rashawn Slater back, but I think they can get everybody else back along the, the, the group there to where, yeaah, I wouldn't want to see Justin Herbert and Brandon Staley again. What he showed me last night is he has a feel for this offense.


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[Assistant] You know, this was a different stopping of the Miami Dolphins as compared to last week. Like we talked last week, they didn't stop Miami. Tool was off again in San Francisco. He missed wide open people everywhere. Last night he was off.


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[Assistant] You saw the game. The coverage was tight. It wasn't like he was missing wide open receivers. It was like...


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[Assistant] You know, he was throwing the ball and you're just like, damn, give him a chance. You're not even giving the guy a chance. That's where he was off last night, but the defense was all over that. And Stanley must have a good feel for the McDaniels, Shanahan scheme and kind of how to slow it down. And I thought it was interesting last night too. I'm in, I didn't mean to keep talking here. He played more man to man than I've seen teams play them.


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[Assistant] I think that gave them, you know, whoa, wait, our RPOs aren't gonna work that way. So they had different versions of man, and they made Tua say,


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[Assistant] Okay, you gotta throw the ball into some tight windows here. We're gonna be kinda sticky on you that way. And uh, yeah, Chua did not deliver last night, for sure.


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[Assistant] Wax poetically about it every week. Last week was not a good week. McDaniel got them.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, they, they, they, on the scoreboard won, but like it can be talked about.


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[Assistant] I mean, if Tula just plays average last week, they're going to score an extra 10 points and he's going to have an extra 150 yards passing.


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[Assistant] So that was, that was bad. This was a different feel to it. This wasn't, oh, two was throwing it high, two was missing. Whoa, that guy was wide open down the middle. There was none of that last night.


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[Assistant] You know, he missed some throws and put some ugly balls out there, but it wasn't people just flying through the middle of the defense. So, you know, that's where, you know, Pete, maybe we have to send a tweet out to the 49er fans to explain that a little more, you know, after the podcast.


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[Assistant] No doubt. There's no, there's no, since it's third and it's usually, you know, five, six, seven, eight.


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[Assistant] The RPO is really not as much as available to where teams don't want to call that because it's usually a shorter pass. You're not guaranteed you're going to get to the sticks. The play action fake doesn't have as much merit there.


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[Assistant] So then it becomes into, wait, you actually have to just, we're going to have to, they're going to have to drop back. They're not going to be able to, you know, throw screens and do that. So they can have a feel for, okay, now it's just drop back pass offense. We don't have to worry about as much. And they definitely did that. That was a good catch by you. Something I was saying in the control room, you know, with the sky cam always where I'm going, look,


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[Assistant] It's been man first and second, third down. If they get them in third and five or plus, they were playing some sort of cover two zone or something like that.


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[Assistant] And, uh, yeaah, that's as much as we saw the Dolphins offense struggle this year.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't think it's even close, right? I don't think there's a game at all that looked like this.


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[Assistant] They don't run the ball enough early on. That's probably one thing I'm a little critical of. But it's easy to say that, you know. It's easy. First off, they're not a great dominant run team.


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[Assistant] Their run game usually starts to work cause why, Ahmed? You're worried about, whoa Tyree kills over here, Waddle's over here, this guy's over here, that guy. So you're so spread out trying to stop all that and then there's a huge gap over the middle and they hit that. That's usually what they, they're usually a pass first run football team. Right.


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[Assistant] And I can't blame them for that. I mean, as we've, it's been a highlight show all year from what they've done. They can't independently impose their will in the right game, right? Exactly. That's the way to say it. They're not just gonna, they're not just gonna come out in the game and go, we're running today, no matter what. We're gonna push you around. They're not at that level yet. Uh, they're still really good. They are. Um, but, but, um,


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[Assistant] There's no doubt Tua is off right now. And I'm not trying to say this, the year he's been really good. I get that.


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[Assistant] But the last two weeks, I'm just talking about me as a quarterback and a guy who watches people throw the ball all the time and evaluates that almond. You know, it's, we, obviously it's inaccurate right now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's uhm, and, and, you know, certainly inaccurate, but, but what's even a little concerning to me is just that


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[Assistant] And again, you can disagree if you like, but the quality of the ball doesn't look good the last two weeks. I think that's what's a little weird about it too. There was a lot of throws where you went,


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[Assistant] Whoa, is that, is that gonna hang in the air for seven minutes before that gets to the ten yard, you know, mark over the, and then the ball gets knocked down. And then just not tight spirals. And, you know, never a big arm, but I thought the last two weeks,


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[Assistant] There looked to be less pop in his arm. Maybe he's getting a little worn out, maybe he's got some injuries he is dealing with, I don't know. But that's just an assessment as a thrower, and I'm not even talking about the play. Uhm, but yeaah, Dolphins.


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[Assistant] It's just as crazy how the league can change in such a hurry. At Buffalo. Right. I mean, they could be sitting here going, we could be sitting here next Monday going, Dolphins were, we were talking about them being one of the best teams they have seen. They're eight and six now, three weeks later. It's 20 days later. They lost three in a row. And that's, that's shocking. And this will, again, we're getting to the point here where good defenses,


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[Assistant] Teams are starting to accumulate some knowledge on how to stop them.


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[Assistant] And now we're gonna get another thing of, we talked about all year, them going up to cold weather, Buffalo gonna have to throw in the elements and all of that. And the way it's looked the last two weeks, yeaah, that's a little concerning. So, uh, the Dolphins got some, some work to do here down the stretch. One last note. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Just, I don't know, what else is Jalen Phillips supposed to do? I mean, what is he supposed to do? And, you know what? The thing that bothers me more than anything, again, it's a stand-alone game.


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[Assistant] But, I mean, they're on the side. Justin Herbert was on the sideline.


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[Assistant] Ready for the punt, and the flag was dropped. Like he had no idea. Nobody thought it was roughing the passer. We, we showed, and I think we were being nice here at NBC by not exposing the NFL a little bit, but like, I'm, you know, we're in the control room. I can see all the replays and stuff.


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[Assistant] I mean, they're walking off the field, there's still no flag on the ground. That to me is, it's concerning. People not...


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[Assistant] Getting involved either in 345 Park and getting in their ear or just to huddle up and then make a decision two minutes after the play or, you know, 50 seconds after the play, uh, just, it's not a good look for the NFL at all, let alone it's, it,


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[Assistant] I mean, he literally is hitting him and on his way down, he's putting two hands out. He's gonna break his own elbows because he knows everybody's been talking about him. Hyper extend my elbows to protect the quarterback.


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[Assistant] And make 345 happy. And that's, that's wrong. And it is. And again, to me it's, what are we doing once again? We're penalizing the team that didn't play good football.


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[Assistant] You didn't block somebody. You guys didn't pick it up. You threw an incompletion. They played everything right.


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[Assistant] Hey, we just want to give you another chance. And I hate that. I don't like that.


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[Assistant] As we said last week, his arm looks every bit as strong as Jimmy Garoppolo's. And he looks to this point to be a better deep ball thrower. And as we've always said, you know,


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[Assistant] To me, one of the best things you can do, one of the safest places you can throw for a young quarterback is outside.


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[Assistant] There's less to read, there's less traffic, there's less arms you're throwing through with the line of scrimmage.


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[Assistant] You know, you don't have to worry about the receiver catching it and boom, getting crushed, ball pops in the interception. More dangerous things can happen over there. So I would love to see this be more of an element of the 49ers. I've been calling for this for a long time out of the San Francisco 49ers. You know that. Uhm, but yes, like I'm with you in the fact that


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[Assistant] This is not, doesn't look like, hey, this is a great team that's managing their quarterback and just trying to make it work.


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[Assistant] It looks like the offense is in. It doesn't look like they're doing a whole lot different. Now I'm sure there's a few things that are maybe next level that are maybe not as comfortable for Brock Purdy yet, but


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[Assistant] I don't think it's going to be something that like, we're going week 18 and they're going, well, he's still trying to find his way in the offense. And then it's the second week in a row, we're starting to see them dominate the line of scrimmage a little bit in the true running game. And that's when the 49ers to me become scary. Because once they, whoa, we can't stop the regular run.


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[Assistant] Shanahan starts to, this is where he's brilliant. Then he starts to do 74 different things off of that because you're worried about piling it in the box and stopping it in between the tackle runs. And then it becomes the other stuff that starts to gash you. So, you know, between the pass game, the way McCaffrey looks, the defense being dominant.


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[Assistant] The 49ers got a few calls that went their way yesterday, but that was an ass-whooping. And I think we can stop talking about the Bucks. Maybe you're gonna turn it around and find the Magic. That shit's over, alright? They're very fortunate to be 6 and 7 in the Bucks when you look at it in totality. And they could very easily be 4 and 9.


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[Assistant] I mean that very easily. They had no business being the Saints. They had no business being the Rams.


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[Assistant] I mean, you just take those two alone, let alone some other, you know, underwhelming performances. But yeah, I just look at the 49ers.


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[Assistant] And the offense itself kinda seems like it's hitting it's stride. And the defense definitely bounced back from not being at it's best last week against Miami and Tua and company.


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[Assistant] You know, but then, like, you saw his, like, little double move for the touchdown, right? One of those throws outside the numbers, one touchdown was to Ayuk for a touchdown, the other one was to McCaffrey. And he ran a little bit like the, like, I'm gonna run the slam, or he stopped like he was, and then he went by him, I mean, it's, it's, uh,


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[Assistant] And then, see that to me is the brilliance of Shanahan too. Oh well, they think it's Brock Purdy, so they think we're gonna throw it quick and get it out of his hand and be high percentage.


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[Assistant] So he almost with the defense mindset too. And they're thinking that all the week too. Are they going to run high percentage plays and try to get the guy ball out of the hand quick for this kid?


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[Assistant] So he kind of uses that thought against them, which is brilliant in itself too. And then, you know, of course the defense, how can you not talk about that and how uncomfortable just the Bucks look, Brady looked uncomfortable as, you know, as usual when you see pressure around him right now at this age. Uh, but that was a dominant win by the four.


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[Assistant] The replay of it. Yep, but that's good news. You know, and I feel like we'd know by now.


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[Assistant] If it was something more serious. Uhm, he runs so hard. Exactly right. His feet jammin' in the ground. Cause he's always trying to pull people and get that extra yard.


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[Assistant] This is a conversation I've had with Shanahan before, a lot. It's freaky guys like that, that usually end up getting bad injuries. Cause they just go, nobody's ever stopped me, rawr, get off me, get off me. I'm still running, right? It's like Bo Jackson.


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[Assistant] His hip came out of the socket and you're like, well, yeah, cause there was a guy jumped on his back and he just went, I'm going to keep running. I don't care.


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[Assistant] Right? He's a freak. He's like, I've run with every other guy on my back. Oh, my hip came out. It's a little like that at times, but uhm, yeaah. They need him. We know that. Especially to go to the Super Bowl. Especially to beat some, you know...


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[Assistant] The Eagles, somebody like that. But again, another notch where last week I went, I don't know if I can put the 49ers in the Super Bowl conversation anymore. I got to see more of Rock Purdy. This was definitely a positive little notch to go, okay, well.


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[Assistant] Maybe they do, uh, maybe they can do it still. And again, I don't want to make it definitive yet here, but as it's looked in two games, they certainly don't seem like they're desperate without Jimmy


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[Assistant] What a cool thing for his family, right? You saw his dad crying a little bit. It looked like it was his brother or whatever. What a great family moment, you know, to do that in San Francisco. You know how important it was for Brady to come back to his hometown and give one last hurrah there. Uhm, I thought the, here's one area where I thought the game slipped from the books. If I had to go back to


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[Assistant] You know, one decision that I felt like was wrong. They were down 7-0. And the Bucks put together a decent little drive.


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[Assistant] And they decided to attempt the 55 yard field goal. And it was one where I was like, ooh, I don't know if I'd do that. You know, it's Brock Purdy.


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[Assistant] You know, yeaah, they had a good first drive, but you know it's the Shanahan 1st 15 type of thing. Like, let's punt him down there and let him be in the back, you know, backed up to his own end zone.


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[Assistant] And see if the rookie can do s- go down the field on us again. I would have played a little bit, I think, the field position at that moment of the game. Instead, what do they do? They give them the short field, right? And they go right down and score eight plays later and all of a sudden now it's 14-0. And that's just not what you want to be involved with.


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[Assistant] With the 49ers, like Tony Dungy said last night, or Jason Garrett I think said it a few times. Once they get up by 14, it gets scary against San Francisco.


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[Assistant] Who does that stuff? I, I mean, I know you're probably sick of hearing me talk about this guy and like being so dramatic about it, but, I mean,


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[Assistant] We have three plays this year that are three of the damnedest plays I've ever seen in the history of football and they were made by one guy in the same season.


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[Assistant] I mean, the Steph Curry with a spiral and Week 2 with the Chargers, right? When he, like, weaved the ball between two people and still threw a spiral in the back of the end zone, like, in some weird sidearm way. We have the Bucks, Whirly Bird, throw the Olly Oop pass up for the Slam Dunk touchdown, right?


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[Assistant] When he did that towards the goal line, right? A whirly bird then went just like threw it up in the air like he was throwing an alley oop to LeBron from half court.


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[Assistant] He's gonna run, he's, it's third and maybe three or four. He's running to the edge, you know, of course he's in typical bombs. He's looking downfield as he's running to the edge. Nobody is open. So now he puts the ball in. Wait, I'm gonna tuck it and run and see if I can maybe turn the corner and get a tough first down here.


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[Assistant] And as he's doing that, the guy covering Jared McKinnon starts to come at him.


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[Assistant] So now he's, now it's so quick, he doesn't have enough time to gear up and throw the ball. He can't like take a normal throw, so he had to like,


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[Assistant] They're the, one of the all time momentum teams I've ever seen in my life, in football, in my lifetime at least, where he throws that play and...


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[Assistant] It's like the team went on fire for about a quarter and a half. Everybody, right? They did it, and it was like, and I was sitting in the control room just going, ah.


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[Assistant] That's the way they are. They're amazing that way. And all of a sudden everybody's making plays. And then you're like, holy, is this the best team in football? This is amazing to watch. And then it's like, oh, it's 27-0.


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[Assistant] We lost a little juice now from that momentum and we're just kind of hanging. And those three interceptions, they were bad. And that's where it just, man.


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[Assistant] Just rein it in just a little in some of those moments. Because those weren't outside the pocket magical plays, right? It wasn't that. It was in the pocket, I'm gonna try to squeeze something in tight here and put a little oomph on it.


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[Assistant] And it's just like, hey, you're up 27 nothing. There's no point in it right now. Don't do it. And you're right, he doesn't do it a lot.


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[Assistant] Every now and then has these moments and yeaah, those two interceptions clearly let them back in the football game. Denver got a little momentum.


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[Assistant] Then all of a sudden they throw a screen pass to Marlon Mack, and he's, nobody's around. And all of a sudden you're looking up going, what? It's 27-21? Yeaah. And it felt like really the Chiefs are kind of hanging on. I mean, they were being outplayed. There were some breakdowns, like Jerry Judy was open a couple times. Like wide open.


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[Assistant] Agreed, agreed. And that's where I, I would like to, I'm going to go back and look at this game a little bit, uhm, just for, for some of that. But, uh, yeaah. And then the Chiefs again, they find the acceleration and they put you away and...


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[Assistant] But still, a little too dicey for a team that's as good as they are, uh, but some of those plays and what they do, it's, it's just awesome to watch and Kansas City.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're, they're, they're drama. It's like a, it's like a soap opera.


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[Assistant] And Russell was missing some throws early on. I mean, he threw a few balls where it could have been intercepted. Of course, the interception itself on the fourth down to William Gay, which was a great play by him. But man, it's one guy there, right? Like, Mahomes would have never let that ball get tipped, right?


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[Assistant] My homes would have been like, wait, it's forward down. There's no way I'm going to let you tip the ball. And I got to have it moment. And he would have, I mean, throwing it between his legs if he had to knowing my homes, but it never would have happened. And then see that's where Russell doesn't have a different arm angle. It's the same throw every time. That's definitely, you know, not one of his strengths as far as that's concerned. Um, but I, I'm a,


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[Assistant] I'm a little concerned with the Chiefs defense. Yea? Yea, I am. I don't know how you can't be. Spags is a really good coach. I get that. They're pretty creative. But I think they're...


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[Assistant] Young and their D-line has not been as dominant. I think that bothers me a little bit and we just, yeaah, we've seen some teams make some plays on them here a little bit and, uh, we'll see. I just don't, that worries me against, you know, some of the elite as far as the, the AFC is concerned. They are 10 and 3 though. Yes they are.


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[Assistant] That's what they need to play for right now. You're saying that right. They need to play for...


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[Assistant] Let's get Russell and everybody feeling good so we can build on something when we get back in OTAs and start to show film of things we did and there can be a little bit of a positive vibe. There is something to that that can carry over.


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[Assistant] And, uh, they, they need to work. They have some, some big plays. And, and the other thing, Russell made some big runs. You know, that was another thing that jumped out to me in the game. Mahomes, they're down, it's 27-17. He throws the second stupid interception, and Russ's two big runs set them up to make it 27-14, which was encouraging to see too.


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[Assistant] For the big picture, that's what we've talked about. You know, they're looking at it going, wait, let's get Robert Quinn because we got to play Mahomes or f***ing Josh Allen and, you know, let's get, let's get a D line going here and there's some run stoppers here in case we got the 49ers in the NFC championship game. I mean, they're making moves, yes, Super Bowl wise, not just to be, well, we'll win the NFC East.


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[Assistant] This was a, we've already won this year. I don't even care what happens. This year exceeded our expectations. Of course I'm gonna keep rooting and hoping they can pull some magic out here. I'm a giant fan.


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[Assistant] In the, you know, everybody in the year where there's no great team, no, it's official. We have a great team. The Eagles are great. They're great. It's going to take a great performance by somebody else to knock them out of the playoffs or knock them out of the Super Bowl. It is. Plain and simple. I mean, there's just nothing you can look at right now. Their defense is rolling.


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[Assistant] They never let Saquon and the Daniel Jones run game get going. We knew that once they can't do that, the Giants pass game wasn't going to carry the squad. So that's not going to happen.


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[Assistant] Right? They're harassing people. They're pass rushers all over Daniel Jones early. And then, you know, then you add on the Giants making some, some bad mistakes too. Right? I mean, whether it's the


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[Assistant] The punt where we dropped it and hit the ground and tried to hit it off there and give them the short field. I mean those are just mistakes that you cannot make against the Philadelphia Eagles and they strike. And the Giants who like to crowd the line of scrimmage and wanna blitz and play man to man? What? That's Philadelphia's like, please, please.


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[Assistant] You know, he'll stand in there, and then it's AJ or Devontae Smith, uh, Devontae Smith one on one, and as you can see, I mean, the Giants had no chance of covering them yesterday.


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[Assistant] Clearly the most consistent team all year long, right? So from that standpoint, I totally understand it. I do. Uhm, and I think he's gonna be, he's not my MVP.


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[Assistant] He certainly deserves to be in this top two or three conversation. Who's your pick? Well, I'd still go with Mahomes. I would. I'm not gonna be a prisoner of just the three interceptions we saw yesterday. Uh, it's, it's, again,


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[Assistant] To me, the way I look at it a little bit more is Jalen Hurts is just a part of an unbelievable well-oiled machine where


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[Assistant] You know, with the bills and my homes and that, as you've heard me say, and Joe Burrow, they are the machine. And then people try, they try to fill in spots here and there and go, well, this will just help them out a little bit and, oh, we're not that great in this area, so we'll make it work here. But, oh, don't worry, my homes will cover up this area. Don't worry. So there's just a difference there.


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[Assistant] As far as what's being asked, and I don't mean that to be negative on Jalen Hurts.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, I always play the game of what if. What if we put that quarterback on this team, right? What if we put Justin Herbert on the Dolphins? What do you think it would look like? It would look better, everybody. A lot better.


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[Assistant] Let's, it's goodbye to it. It ain't Justin Herbert good, and it never will be. And that's where I just, I get into this a little bit where, yeaah, he's great, but I wanna say, you know what I wanna say, what do I wanna say?


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[Assistant] Top 5 for me, no. Well, top 10 is, you know, I think with his playmaking ability and all that when you add it all in, he's, he's right around that range. He is. You know, but again, there, I think he has to be a part of a team and a system that has a great offensive line and can run the ball and that has to be a part of it.


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[Assistant] If you had to throw him out in Buffalo right now and you had to go, wait, you got to float around and throw lasers and make unbelievable hap- things happen.


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[Assistant] With overrated talent in Buffalo, as I think people are starting to see again for year three in a row, it's not as good as everybody thinks. It's too centric on one guy. I just go, I don't know, I don't think it's going to look as pretty. Certainly not.


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[Assistant] But his throwing is better. I mean, his accuracy and decision making, all that, it's all really good. Don't get me wrong. But yeaah, I just don't hold him in that, you know, regard. Again, I think we're being a little...


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[Assistant] We're being a little skewed by how great the team is, and we're giving one guy a little bit of the credit, and I don't want to go overboard and be the hater, I'm not trying to be the hater, but you know me, I just want to make it realistic here a little bit, and what I think.


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[Assistant] That you were, you were too low on him. I was wrong. I was too low on him, right. He's, he's, he plays the position better than I thought, he's a better runner than I thought, and the throwing has gotten better, definitely. But, you know, to the point of the question here, by our man, uh, at, you know, John Yohannon,


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[Assistant] Very rarely does he have to throw balls into tight zone coverage or any, I mean everything is, they, they do such a great job of exposing you in so many ways to where the tightest balls he ever throws are what?


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[Assistant] Go route 50-50 balls to AJ Brown, right? You don't really see a whole lot of like, oh, he threaded the needle down the middle between the linebacker and the safety, right? You don't see that. Oh, he threw a, you know, a ball out by the numbers in between a dropping corner and a safety and just absolutely threw a laser in. But the argument would be that


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[Assistant] Oh no, he can't run for that effectively. He cannot. No, he's not gonna be that, that is, but, but, like, you don't think Justin Herbert could take the read option around the edge and still be effective to where you put him there and do that, to where you got to defend it? Yeah, I do. You know, so again, I, uh, he's, he's great player, and he's certainly proven me wrong.


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[Assistant] Uh, but they've done a great job, just like we talk about with Tua to me, and they have...


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[Assistant] They invented an offense for Jalen Hurts because he couldn't run the other offense. It wasn't going to work.


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[Assistant] Which is what you're supposed to do as a coach, right? Exactly right. I'm not, I know, I know. So I, you're right. Keep pushing me, pushing back on me. I got, you're right. You're supposed to do that. But I'm just trying again to explain that there's flaws to the game.


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[Assistant] And there's a reason that, you know, they were there in the offseason and the offseason before that flirting with people to come to town and be the quarterback. Because I think they were going, wait, when we run our realm or offense, practice doesn't look that great all the time.


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[Assistant] I think when I look at the schedules and the way teams are playing right now.


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[Assistant] I think your Lions and Washington have the inside track. I think Seattle's in deep shit. They got a tough schedule here. They got the 49ers, the Chiefs.


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[Assistant] And somebody else that's really good, and I'll look it up once we get to Seattle.


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[Assistant] Uhm, to where I went, they could, the Seahawks should lose three out of the last four for sure. The Giants, I mean, there's nobody on the schedule that we just look at and go, the Giants are better than them. You know, we know, they have to play a certain way. Uhm, so yeaah, I, I is, if you made me pick right now, I'm gonna go with your Lions and the Washington Commanders. Lions do own the team.


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[Assistant] And the big thing is, got the win. I mean, the Vikings, yeaah, they've looked like this a lot of weeks where teams tear them up and somehow they, they come away with the victory. But third downs, and then you guys scored touchdowns on them. That's, I think, the things you look at. They're usually kind of good on, not good on third, but okay on third.


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[Assistant] It seemed to be good in situational football, but more in the, wait, you drove down the field and now it's going to be hard to score a touchdown on us. You guys, Ben Johnson's awesome.


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[Assistant] Goth, um, fourth week in a row, I'm saying it's the best play of his career.


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[Assistant] They make you defend every part of the football field, let alone they got the talent to go along with it. So when you got all of that, you just start to go, shit, what do you stop? The run game's legit. And they always find a few little creative runs too to sprinkle in there a little bit. And then the pass game.


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[Assistant] I mean, they just do a little bit of everything on offense, and they don't look to...


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[Assistant] Throw for four yard completions. They, when they drop back, I mean, I mean, am I, am I wrong? It's like they look for, it's, we're looking for 10, we're looking for 15, we're looking for 25. And they put tremendous pressure on you that way. And then yes, he's pulling the trigger and putting the ball in spots that I've never seen him do till this year.


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[Assistant] So, I'm with you, Amin. He might be the quarterback of your future, and it's good to see. I'm really, I'm really happy for Jared Goff that he's turned the corner, and I think he is showing that he's a starting NFL quarterback for sure.


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[Assistant] Well, one, we gotta give it to Goff first. I mean, he deserves the credit. He's the one out there playing, doing it the right way. What I do feel, and I think I've said this to you a little bit, is just that I feel like they've done a good job and


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[Assistant] You know, massaging him a little bit. You know, slowly bringing his confidence up.


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[Assistant] Slowly like, hey, you gotta make this throw here. This is, this, you gotta throw it. It's, it's a little tight, I know, but I feel like they've pushed him a little bit. Little bit of the hot poker. And then he was backed into a corner that way and I think, you know, saw the writing on the wall a little bit to go like, wait, I, I don't start playing better. They're, I'm outta here and I'm not gonna be a starting quarterback.


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[Assistant] So I'm gonna give him the credit. But then I think you get into the play calling the offense.


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[Assistant] As I said, aggressive, but it really ties together nicely too. That's the other thing too. They have great play action passes off of their runs. And then I think when you add on the offense and what they do there, yeah, the talent, it's, it's good. I mean,


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[Assistant] O-line's damn good. Running backs are real good. Receivers with a healthy Jameson Williams for the first time we saw yesterday. You start to go, good luck matching up against DJ Chark and a healthy Jameson Williams and Amarase Brown. They're gonna run by anybody in football.


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[Assistant] So, it's really a combination of all, and uh, you know, much respect to Ben Johnson, the OC, and Dan Campbell, the head coach.


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[Assistant] I do. You're not going to get through the NFC playoffs with this style. They're not a real good running football team. We've said that quite often here lately. They want to run the ball after they start opening you up in the pass game. But the Lions defenses, it's changed.


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[Assistant] It's not as much as a pushover, I should say. Still not great. Threw for 425 yards. I get it. They find ways to get him the ball. They gotta find other ways to spread it out a little bit, though.


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[Assistant] Cause they're going to play some of these better defenses. They're going to have top corners or creative defensive coach who's going to, you know, they're going to have five ways to take him away. But the things we worry about with the Vikings kind of came to a head yesterday.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's two just Kirk Cousins and Justin Jefferson, and then the defense is just, it just gets torched every week.


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[Assistant] So I know they're 10 and 3, but it's one of the less impressive 10 and 3 teams I've seen. I will say here, there's two things that...


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[Assistant] The Dalvin Cook fumble in the goal line, right? They were going to run the little like Derrick Henry throw it over the line of scrimmage trick play, right? That was a huge moment in the game because I think we were going to see a back and forth just shoot out at that point. You're like, oh my gosh, no one's going to stop anybody. But I thought early on in the football game, they made a mistake.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, in the fact that the first drive, and I think it was their first drive, they went for it on fourth and one on the 45 or whatever. Their own 46 yard line.


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[Assistant] And I just, I didn't understand that. It's just, it's early in the game. Like, why, why? Like, why, like, punt it.


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[Assistant] I know your defense isn't great, but I mean, you're just going to give the Lions the ball at the 45 if they make a great, miraculous defense to play here. And all of a sudden, you know, you're just going to be down 7-0, and they were two plays later. I just, I don't understand some of that, especially early on in the game. Sure.


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[Assistant] Cleveland did a similar thing that we'll talk about in a minute, where I just, let's just feel the game out a little bit, let the teams play, don't give them fake momentum.


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[Assistant] And let it like, hey, you made a stop and now the offense is running on the field feeling good. And our defense was thinking we were going to get the first down on the fourth down. They were sitting there and kind of not ready because they were hopeful you guys would get it. And all of a sudden, shit, we're on the field.


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[Assistant] Like that's a real thing and I just think head coaches are a little blinded by that right now with the analytics, the guy and the analytics in their ear all the time. Alright, devil's advocate.


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[Assistant] It was. I mean, you're right. They were aggressive. They were aggressive. Dan, he's been like that all year long. They're not, and I respect that. They're not afraid to lose. No. No, they're not.


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[Assistant] I get you. I hear you there. And again, he's made a few mistakes during the year where I go, I wouldn't like to see that. Sure. You know, he did that in like New England, the first drive of the game. I just, okay. It's the first drive of the game. Get a little feel for the game first of all.


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[Assistant] And even with that play that you were discussing there, I mean, it's a great feel, and I gotta, you know, again, yeaah, I'm usually the guy that's punt the ball.


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[Assistant] They obviously felt there was something that Minnesota did on punt. So there was like, there was something, call that on fourth and seven. It wasn't like it was fourth and two. They obviously felt like, hey, they have a look that we like.


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[Assistant] We're gonna run this play, and they got it right there, and yeah, I mean, who was that that ran down the sidelines? I don't even know. I can't even remember either who it was. Cause I remember during the game going like, who the hell is this guy running down the sidelines? Seymour. Number 38. Yes. Nobody stops Seymour. Number 38. You're a Lions fan?


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[Assistant] Well, it's, it's, it's like we've talked about it. It's amazing they've won, but I, I, I...


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[Assistant] I've never seen a team win as much where I feel like they've gotten outplayed in a football game than the Minnesota Vikings this year.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so we'll see where it goes. I'm excited for your Lions this week. Got the Jets. That's gonna be a test for this offense, cause this Jets D is real. Yeaah. But then after that, Carolina, the Bears, the Packers, I mean I know you guys are no shooin' to beat anybody really, but... But they could run the table. They're better than those teams. You guys are better than the Panthers, Bears and Packers. You are.


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[Assistant] Now you just, the scary thing is you might have Aaron Rodgers with, he's gonna have nothing to play for maybe in week 18 and that could be scary because he might want to show you his ass and all of a sudden he just doesn't care and he starts throwing lasers around the football field. But I like your guys chances, I really do.


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[Assistant] Just showing signs of being a real pain in the butt here. You kind of encompassed it, right? The defense has got talent.


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[Assistant] He's, you know, changed a few things up on that side of the football. But the real story is just, you have the offense and the running game. I mean, their running game has become almost an unstoppable force here the last four or five weeks. I mean, it's just smash mouth. And it was one of the things I said on the picks podcast and I even wrote it down next to my


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[Assistant] You know, I picked the Seahawks to win, but I wrote, like, are the Panthers gonna run the ball at will with a question mark next to it? That was the thing that scared me about the game.


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[Assistant] Gino throws a really bad interception to start their first drive of the game. And now they got a short field. Carolina score is, so it's 10-0 right off the bat.


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[Assistant] And that, that was unfortunate for them. Then, the second Gino pick, I just want to add a little context here so people can know this. It's 17-7. I believe it was 17-7 at the point. The Panthers jumped off sides. He, they didn't call it. He thought he had a free play.


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[Assistant] And the announcers, I, I tuned in and like, you know, hey, put that on and I'm gonna see, hear what they're saying. Cause we had, you know, the other games on too. And they were saying the same, it looked pretty egregious. The guys, it looked like Brian Burns, I think it was Brian Burns, 53, who was clearly on the other side of the line of scrimmage.


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[Assistant] So Gino, now he's getting pressure, but he thinks he's got a free play. He kind of throws a ball aggressively down the middle off his back foot. See what's going to happen. And they didn't call it.


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[Assistant] And that gave Carolina the short field, and I feel like that's where they maybe got the, uh, maybe the field goal.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, they got a field goal to go up 20-7. Excuse me, I'm sorry. So that to me was a big part of the football game. And that Seahawks defense is just not very good as we know.


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[Assistant] And they rely on that offense to kind of get them out in front so then they can be crazy and not have to worry about stopping the run. And that didn't happen today.


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[Assistant] Pittsburgh is perfect. Oh, with defensive struggle, run the ball, they're going to be very comfortable. Tampa's going to be like that. The Saints are going to be like that. So that's the good thing for them. Carolina, I don't think is capable of winning too many games, 30 to 24, a whole lot. I don't think that's what they really want to be.


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[Assistant] But they're playing some teams here down the stretch that, you know, the game I think is going to be right in their wheelhouse of, you know, 20-17, 24-20, 17-14.


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[Assistant] Now the Detroit Lions on Christmas Eve is gonna be the one where...


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[Assistant] Yeah, they might have to score some points and match the scoreboard a little bit because we haven't seen anybody slow down Detroit. But, uh, if you just took it right now and went Tampa, Carolina,


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[Assistant] Carolina's playing better football than Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Yes. I mean, without a doubt. Tampa's had two clutch drives at the end of the game against two teams that have basically given up on the year with the Rams and the Saints. And if they didn't have that, we'd be going, man, Tampa stinks. They're just, they're not very good.


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[Assistant] I get it. I mean, I hear you. Every three, four years, we get a team like this, right? Where we go, damn, I mean, they've done this. But the problem is, too, we got into a few years where there's teams like this. Like, I remember Carolina won, you know, it was seven and nine. And then they win a playoff game. And you go, well, yeah. And then they almost won a second one. And we're like, holy shit.


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[Assistant] I get you. Maybe if there's anything, you know, again, I'm a traditionalist. I punt on fourth and seventh like you talked about. But, but, uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're gonna be okay without Von Miller. If other guys play like Von Miller, can they replace Von Miller? Yeah, right, right. They're gonna be okay without Von Miller. The Von Miller thing was like we've talked about. It's more about


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[Assistant] Those three or four games, those three or four instances where you just go...


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[Assistant] Wait, we're playing Kansas City and we can never corral Patrick Mahomes? Well guess who was corralling them when they beat them in Kansas City this year? I mean, we talked about at the end of the football game, Von Miller was the guy that was all over Patrick Mahomes. That's where they got Von Miller. They're gonna be okay against most teams.


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[Assistant] Period. Like not to like, oh, we'll be, we'll be 12 and 4 instead of 11 and 5. That's not why they made the move. And that's where I worry about it. It's just those games. The AFC, oh, you know, you could end up playing


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[Assistant] Lamar, Joe Burrow and Mahomes, three weeks in a row. And it could come down to the last two drives of the games and can you sack them and corral or make them throw a ball where, you know, he throws it before he doesn't want it. That's where they miss Von Miller. But as a whole, their defense is still really damn good. They got depth and they got a lot of good players on the D-line. So you're a Bills fan.


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[Assistant] So it's funny, they've played each other two times these two teams, and I feel like the team who played better lost in each game. Like I felt like Buffalo outplayed the Jets the first time, and Allen just made some bad mistakes. You thought the Jets outplayed the Bills? Yesterday, I felt like the Jets were the better team on the field. I did.


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[Assistant] Again, it's hard sometimes because Josh Allen erases things and makes a play every now and then.


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[Assistant] Hey, that Chet's defense is awesome. And you were saying it, right? I mean, the big part of the game was before, right after the two minute warning.


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[Assistant] It's the end of the second quarter and they fake the fourth and one snap on their own side of the field, but they're gonna punt the ball. Jets, you gotta be smart. Dawson Knox fakes like he's gonna be Travis Kelce and get the quarterback sneak, right? And C.J. Mosley goes Superman over the line of scrimmage, extends the drive, and that gets them going a little bit, and makes it 7-0.


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[Assistant] And, you know, the Jets made some mistakes, you know, throughout the second half of the football game. And you know, when I say that, I felt like they were the better team. I don't mean that by like, a lot. I just mean like, it felt like,


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[Assistant] The Jets were controlling a lot of areas of the football game. Again, there was no run game for Buffalo.


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[Assistant] You know, the pass game as you saw it, like, it wasn't Josh Allen missing throws, he missed a few, don't get me wrong, but man, when they were showing replays and stuff like that, you're going, I don't see much open, there ain't much there. And then that pass rush for the Jets is real, right? I mean, the big problem with the Jets is just


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[Assistant] You know, it's, it's protecting the quarterback.


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[Assistant] Uh, capitalizing on drives where you do move the football, that's been the issue for them the last two weeks. And, and, you know, they've had all these yards and big moments, but they can't score touchdowns. And that's their biggest issue, uh, and why they lost the two games in a row.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. He got crushed a few times. He did. He really did. Uhm, you know, credit to him. Hey, he played well. He did a lot of good things. Hung in there under pressure. You know, their first touchdown drive, I mean, they did it just because he made some great third down conversion throws to kind of keep the ball going that way. But, you know, that's where, this game, this game,


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[Assistant] Mike White getting hurt, and then them going to the drop back, and Pete could tell you, when Joe Flacco was coming into the game, I go, well this, Joe's gonna hold the ball too long, and he's gonna get strip-sacked. I was calling it.


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[Assistant] Well, I might say that every time. Well, because he does it every time. So should you speak up and say it first then, Pete? Okay? I said it.


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[Assistant] So, but yeaah, so I was like, oh, this just has the feel of him holding the ball too long, and then there that goes. And then you drive down the field one time, and there they are in field goal range, and Michael Carter fumbles, right?


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[Assistant] You know, I think Michael Carter fumbled on what was that, the 20, 18, 23, somewhere in that range there. So they really blew some opportunities to make this game very dicey, is just all I'm saying, Ahmed. You know, maybe I shouldn't say they were the be- I felt like they were the better team in the field, I am gonna say that.


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[Assistant] Not by much, but- Not by much, but their mistakes cost them the fact of showing, you know, we truly are the better team on the field, which is scary when you got Josh Allen, you just can't do that.


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[Assistant] So, uh, okay, Raven, Steelers, we're gonna do that. Give me the headlines. Bangles, Bangles, Browns. Let me think of that.


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[Assistant] Made some good plays. It's, it's unfortunate. Not more than the bad though. No, well the bad were just in, just the absolute worst moments.


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[Assistant] You know, again, early on, hey, Baltimore controlling the game, running the ball well, doing some things. Trubisky gets in the game, drives him down for a touchdown. They go, oh, that, that, you know, looked good, right? He made some great throws to make it 10-7.


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[Assistant] Raven's got the ball. Huntley, right, has the fourth and one. They don't get it. He gets hit in the head. He's in concussion protocol. Here they go. They're going down the field and you're going, uh, Steelers look like they kind of got the mojo and got the momentum of the game.


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[Assistant] Field goal range, horrible interception down the middle of the field. You know, followed up by another one, a little later, where...


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[Assistant] Field goal range. Mid, like, and, you know, again, a little bit like the last game where


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[Assistant] I kind of felt like as I was sitting there watching that Pittsburgh was playing better than Baltimore.


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[Assistant] But Baltimore just didn't have self-inflicted wounds and just hung in there and they ran the ball and controlled the clock a little bit.


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[Assistant] And that was really, you know, the difference in the game. I think like Mike Tom on the Steelers, they're really disappointed today because they're probably looking at going, that game is kind of going just the way we wanted it. You know, and I got to have a hard time thinking Kenny Pickett would have made some of those mistakes. That's the one thing he's been great at taking care of the ball, throwing efficient throws.


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[Assistant] High in defense, controlling the clock through the short pass game and the run game. And Trubisky just got too aggressive and too loose with the football.


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[Assistant] That was good. You're allowed to overtake my headline. Mine wasn't that great. That's a sub headline. Okay. To the article. I don't work for like, you know, the daily news or something, or you just gotta listen to what I say. Is that how the daily news operates? I guess.


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[Assistant] I was surprised. I was surprised. I thought Pittsburgh would be able to stop. You know, Pittsburgh's run defense has been pretty good all year. I thought, well, with that passing game, backup quarterback, all that type of stuff that...


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[Assistant] They'd, they'd feel comfortable or be able to stop the run knowing, hey, here it comes. We're going to stack the box, do that. But, you know, the Ravens, Ronnie Stanley's back and


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[Assistant] Man, they just got it going between Dobbins and Edwards.


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[Assistant] It just seemed like they pushed back the Steelers D-line quite a few times. I mean, the big run he had up the middle, the 44-yard gain that set up their first touchdown, you know, that


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[Assistant] It looked like they literally just went like, like, like just fire off the ball and we got double teams on guys and they just pushed people back and made a huge hole. The other big runs seemed like pulling guard type of plays, but Hey, you know me, Ahmed to me, that's when.


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[Assistant] They had to have that run game work yesterday because of the quarterback situation. They gotta have that run game work like that if they really want to make a run in the playoffs. Because we've discussed it. Their pass game is just not good enough to just go, oh well we can drop back 40 times and torch you and beat you that way. So that was encouraging for them and you know, then their defense makes a few plays. Another thing, the interceptions by Trubisky.


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[Assistant] I don't know, we'll see. It's just, everything seems a little bit of a struggle for them right now.


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[Assistant] You know, he's, uh, clearly, he's the best football player in that state, so I can say that, and he's a homegrown Ohio native, so I am gonna give him Joe-hi-o, okay? That's Joe-hi-o. He's Joe-mama! Browns, that's what he did to you.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, they just made it work yesterday. Like it wasn't pretty or sexy. It was kind of like a gritty, you know, performance by them. Not a lot of big plays in the pass game. You know, the flea flicker to Irwin down the middle was the play as far as that's concerned.


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[Assistant] Yeah, a good tough win against a team that, you know, for a lot of reasons matches up well with them a little bit.


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[Assistant] They didn't protect all that great yesterday. Clowney and Miles Garrett were around him a lot. Uhm, but he just doesn't let that ruin the game. And then, the Bengals, you know, for the most part,


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[Assistant] They don't shoot themselves in the foot a whole lot. They have the interception.


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[Assistant] And that was Judevion Clowney making like an unbelievable, you know, tip pass, right? I think that's how it went down. He tipped it and one of the linebackers got it.


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[Assistant] What I will say is like, hey, there were some things encouraging for the Browns. The Browns...


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[Assistant] Like, find a way to do self-inflicted stuff every week.


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[Assistant] You know, I know I brought them up early in the show. They drive down the field to start the game, and it's fourth and one, you know, again, I'm, just get the points, get something positive going on the sideline. I mean, they do shit like that, and then, you know, they're playing good defense, and they got the Bengals backed up, and they rough the punter.


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[Assistant] And now, oh, Joe gets to come back out. And then it's a big P.I. on Jamar Chase, and all of a sudden you go, well, the Bengals haven't really done shit, but they're going down the field and gonna score here. Cause just, the Browns are screwing shit up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, something like that. It never looked like he had anywhere to go. They're just a different defense now that DJ Reader's back and healthy. He's just, he's a killer in the run game.


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[Assistant] You know, just, you know, after that though, yeaah, they got up and then...


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[Assistant] Well, I hear you. Listen, they were a little, they did not play great yesterday. They were I think a little unmotivated, whatever, asleep at the wheel.


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[Assistant] Let's, let's, you know, again, don't always look at records and just go, oh, but just because our record's this and their record's that, we should blow them out, right? I mean, again, we saw this Texas team be 14-14 and a half with the Eagles five, six weeks ago. That's true. You know, they've been a pain in the ass for teams here. And, you know, there are teams where,


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[Assistant] Certain matchups happen, and I think with, again, the thing we see with the Cowboys is just a little scary, and we saw it again yesterday, just when,


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[Assistant] When a team has got a bigger physical offensive line and they got a run game, then things can get a little dicey for Dallas and then Dallas has to go too much on stopping the run and then all of a sudden that leads them a little vulnerable to some big passes in the pass game. You know, Texas played well, they made some


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[Assistant] You know, some big plays, certainly, but I looked at it more like Dallas asleep and Dallas making stupid mistakes more than anything. I mean, they drive right down the field. You feel like, oh my gosh, they're just carving them up. This is going to be easy as can be. They get a stop.


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[Assistant] And you're going, oh, here they go. And then Dallas is another team a little bit like Kansas City. It's a momentum team. They really are, right? This seems that way to me at least. Sure. And once they get going, they're like, oh, we're the Cowboys. How about them Cowboys? And here we go.


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[Assistant] And, uh, they just, they made some mistakes in some moments to give, you know, the Texans a second breath of fresh air all the time to where they can never really, you know, get in front of them and put them in an uncomfortable position.


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[Assistant] Great goal line stand by Dallas to make the stop there. You know, to keep it a three score, er, three point game and make it still 23-20. So that was, that was a big moment. But, you know, Dallas I'm not concerned with. I'd be more concerned with the way Minnesota looked yesterday as compared to Dallas.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's the NFL. Every team's got good teams, and you know, one, two mess up by your team, and this team, an NFL player makes an NFL type of play, and all of a sudden you go, shit, we were better, but it's close. It's the NFL, that's what's great. But I think your point's real. We've seen them be dominant really three games in a row. I mean, they killed the Vikings,


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[Assistant] You know, missed a field goal at the end and let the Giants go down and get a cheap touchdown. They could have won that game 31-13. They killed the Colts, what we saw, with that momentum swing in the fourth quarter of the last week, right? So yeaah, I think this is one of those games where


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[Assistant] The players get caught off guard a little bit, the Texans got pride, and they're living in the state of Texas, and they're sick of hearing about the Dallas Cowboys, so they're f***ing motivated that way, and Dallas is like, oh, the minor league team in the state's coming up to town here to play us. So there's a little bit of that human element that goes into that too. Here's my one concern a little here.


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[Assistant] I do not like the way Dak Prescott looks though. I don't like the way, again, I know there's still good throws and all that, and there was some great throws in the last drive.


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[Assistant] Last few weeks, I just feel like I've seen some throws where, yeah, I just.


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[Assistant] Loses control, doesn't have great pop on the ball.


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[Assistant] He's got a little bit of his front leg, lockout, come way over the top of the ball, issue working, and I know that's an issue with him because we've talked about it, him and I. Well we saw it last year too at the end of the year, remember that? I know, it goes through little phases of this every now and then where it's kind of his kryptonite. He falls back into this old, stroing motion that he used to have.


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[Assistant] You know, that's why he does those hip stuff and all that before the game because he's trying not to do that, but it's hard because it's naturally in him that way. Uhm, still, again, bad mistakes in the game. I know he's still good, but I'm just throwing out a little food for thought there as far as he hasn't been as sharp as I know.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Well we saw them do stuff that we don't see Tennessee do. And they can't afford to do some of it.


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[Assistant] You know, they're not like super, super talented. We know they're real good and tough and physical, right?


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[Assistant] This, this is another game like, it's almost like the other, where you chalk it up to go, here's a team that's kind of controlling, but it's the NFL, and all of a sudden you make a mistake or two, and the other team makes a play or two, and all of a sudden you're in a dog fight. It's 14 to 7.


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[Assistant] They're driving down the field and you're going, well, shit, they're just going to move the ball at will on Jacksonville again today here. I mean, fucking Derek Henry seemed like he had a hundred yards to like halfway through the second quarter running the football.


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[Assistant] So, you were just going, man, they're not going to be stopped. Tana Hill threw a horrible interception. Up 14 to 7 driving.


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[Assistant] You know, so that led to Jacksonville points and a field goal there. And then you have, you know, he got strip sacked early on in the football game by Trayvon Walker that gave them the first seven points.


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[Assistant] And then they drive down before the half right almond, and King Henry fumbles along the sideline.


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[Assistant] Jacksonville gets it, scores before the half. I mean that was more Jacksonville then. It was some big hits, right? Huge. Big plays. But we just, my point is we don't really see Tennessee do that stuff a whole lot. Sure. And they're not the type of team that can overcome those mistakes. You know, I think you would agree, right? They want to...


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[Assistant] Run the ball, play from ahead a little bit. They're not a team that once we get down by, you know, 10 points, you're going, oh, they're in trouble because they're not built to pass and come back and beat you.


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[Assistant] You know, I just, I actually picked the Titans to cover the spread just barely cause I was like, I'm so, I picked Jacksonville so many times to cover the spread and keep the game close. I give up. I've been burned too many times. And of course this is the day they, they do cover the spread and win that game outright. But yeah, Trevor.


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[Assistant] Trevor is, he's arrived. He's arrived. He just looks so comfortable and confident and assertive in how he's, you know, just letting the ball go. There's an element of every throw now where you look at it, it almost feels like


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[Assistant] And again, I don't want to put him in the homes or Herbert or, you know, but it just seems like when he's getting ready to throw, you're like, oh, you can tell he sees something. He's about to uncork it.


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[Assistant] There's just a little of that going on right now where you're going, Oh, he's ready to, he's going to hit Evan Ingram for a 30 yarder. He's going to hit Zay Jones for the big play. You know, there's a little of that going on right now, which is fun to watch. And yeah, he's feeling them.