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[Assistant] They're pissed off about what happened in Tennessee. They want to reestablish themselves. The Dolphins played in London and lost, came home and lost a tough game to the Falcons. They have the Deshaun Watson distraction constantly hovering and it's not going to be gone until this trade is over or not come Tuesday at 4pm Eastern. I think the Bills are going to destroy.


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[Assistant] The dolphin. So give me the bills, given 13 and a half points. I got three best bets and they're all double digit.


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[Assistant] Point spreads, and I think they're all gonna be busted by the favorite. Alright.


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[Assistant] Check out me and Paulie on the Peacock post game show this week. Yeaah, me and Paulie doing highlights. We're gonna kick some butt. Gotta be fun. He's subbin' in. He's Trevor Simeon to Jameis Winston.


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[Assistant] That's right baby, he's better than Trevor Simeon. Uh, that was plain disrespect.


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[Assistant] I gotta come up with somebody better than that, but Paulie Burmeister, Chris Sims, Colt McCoy. That's a good one. 22 out of 26. Yeaah, right. I like that. That's alright. I'm here with my fellow alum, Colt McCoy today. Uh, but what's up man? It's good to see you. Chris Sims on Button, presented by Under Armour. We're gonna hit


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[Assistant] I can't, I'm not smart enough, I don't want to waste any brain on things that don't really matter. That's kind of how I approach Sunday. Like let's just get a feel for the game, write down some big plays, oh wait,


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[Assistant] You know, this team just seems like they're running the ball well today. Or it just seems like the short passing game is surgical. And I just make it that instead of like, cause I'm not gonna see the details of like, oh they were playing this coverage and, you know, maybe in a few of the important plays, but I try to limit the things that don't make


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[Assistant] You can't help it. You can't help it. Uhm, and sometimes you gotta, I lean on Tony Dungy or Breeze, cause I may be watching two or three games, it's a big drive in those games, I'm trying to keep track.


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[Assistant] And then all of a sudden, something big happens in another game that I've kind of lost track of, and it's like, hey, Drew, you know, wait, wait, so what just happened on that drive? How'd they go down the field right there? You know, they were on their own 15, how are they on the five yard line going in now? You know, that's what you miss every now and then. You're like, what? How did I miss that? And they're like, well, they hit a screen and they hit a post, and now they're there, and you're like, damn, I missed.


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[Assistant] Yes, I am. Amanda, I have to stand up a little bit. I have, you know, I don't get the front row seat that Breeze, Terrico, and Dungey get cause they're big time. I'm in the second row. You are in the second row. I'm in the back row. It's true. Me and Bob Euker. Uh, but yeah, I just sit there and yeah, I got to stand up at certain points just because I get stiff, but I want to be able to like really


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[Assistant] See everything, so yeaah, I guess it's my nervous energy there, but either way, you know we're here, me and Pauly B, gonna be talking football, Chris Sims on button presented by Under Armour, and uhm, you lead it off, where do you want to start this at?


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[Assistant] Let's, let's, let's just like real quick if you don't mind, like just before we do that, like I, I do think it's interesting with the, hey, the underdogs, hey, the NFL, again, it's not college football, everything's so close. I don't care if you're significantly better than a team that you're playing, you make a few mistakes, that game's gonna be close.


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[Assistant] And then, hey, the other thing we're seeing, the road teams, right? I mean, I think this is one of the first times in the history of the NFL, the road teams maybe have the better record than the home teams altogether. It's up there. It's something like that.


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[Assistant] Uh, just the little details of, hey, when you're on the road team, it's you against the world.


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[Assistant] It really is. All week, the practice, the crowd noise is pumping. You're just ultra-focused, like, man, we gotta go into this environment, it's gonna be loud, we better be on our game. You get on the plane as a team, you know, you go to the team hotel, there's very little distractions. Yea, a few guys might have an uncle or an aunt at the game and they gotta go see them in the lobby.


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[Assistant] Well, it's the latter in our practice. Yeaah. You know, I know there's 80,000 here, but the way they pump up the big speakers in our practice, it's actually harder to communicate there than here. It's true. And, you know, I think you're exactly right. When you're the home team, you know, there's a tenant,


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[Assistant] You know, how Saturday after the walkthrough, gonna go sit on the couch and might have a bunch of family and friends there.


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[Assistant] And you are, then you might go to the team meeting that night and then try to go back home a little bit before you gotta go back to the hotel. Let me go hang out with the kids for an hour and a half, two hours before I have to be back for bed check at the hotel. And to me it's like little things like that where the other team's already in their room.


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[Assistant] They're just sitting there, they're studying their playbook, you know, they're just thinking about the game. It's all ball on the road. It's all ball on the road. So that would be my two cents. Sorry to kind of take us off track there.


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[Assistant] That's right. So I was right. I heard that. I know. I would not have guessed that. Pretty amazing. It really is. It really is. Last year we had no fans. I know we saw improvement from the road teams, but this year it's, it's continued and it is pretty impressive.


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[Assistant] I think that's to me the biggest thing of the game, right? I mean, again, hey, a lot of credit to the Tennessee Titans. I always, Mike Grable is one of those coaches where I just go,


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[Assistant] The way they play the game and approach the game on a weekly basis, whether they win or lose, I always go,


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[Assistant] That was the right approach for that game. Like, they were smart to play it that way. He's, you know, of course, Belichickian that way, as far as managing the game and playing the proper style that's conducive to them getting the win that week. And it's not always about sex appeal and big plays and everything there.


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[Assistant] I think where I'm shocked is that the Rams kinda fell into the trap, in my opinion, a little bit like, hey, we're on fire and we're just gonna go out and attack.


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[Assistant] And I'm a little surprised by that because McVay, I value him as a very good game manager himself. He usually sees the broad picture and is a little like, uh, there is no Derek Henry. You know, maybe I'll be a little safe early on with my offense and not do too many crazy things and just see if they can kind of get their offense going. I'm not sure they can without Derek Henry.


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[Assistant] That, that to me is, that's why it's like, great win. I don't know if we had anything answered about the Tennessee Titans offense the last night, right? There was nothing answered. You're right, it was kind of served up a little bit on a silver platter by Stafford and some done mistakes. You know, and then because of that, you know, the, the Tennessee Titans got to play really conservative on offense, never really had to open it up.


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[Assistant] And the defense continued a theme that we talked about a little last week where, you know, they're a little bit bend don't break, but they're, they're great zone football team. And you saw that last night, you know, I guess in some replays and of course even the Kevin Byard interception, they are great at passing people off within the zones.


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[Assistant] And that was the one thing I think that jumped out to both of us last night. We saw Stafford, yeaah, the Tennessee Titans D-line kick some butt on some plays. But I think on like half of those sacks, I went, he had plenty of time to throw. He did, right? He was patting the ball. He got to the top of his drop and took a hitch and took two hitches.


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[Assistant] He was confused, like woah, people aren't open. They got people there, so I'll be interested to see that film, but that was something that jumped out to me for sure.


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[Assistant] I think so. I think we're kind of getting there in the NFL because the quarterbacks are so talented, the offenses are so diverse that


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[Assistant] You know, one great pass rusher off the edge can be nullified to a degree. Through game plan, through let's chip him with the back, let's put a tight end over there, let's slide the line that way more times than not.


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[Assistant] And it wasn't like crazy blitzing or anything like that. It was through confusion of the pass schemes and then the quarterback going, wait, who came? Who didn't come? Oh wait, what the hell's the coverage? And I think that's what we saw last night. And Tennessee is one of those teams that, you know, I call it blitz change, right? Where it's, yeah, they brought


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[Assistant] Two blitzers, but two guys dropped out and it still was a four man rush. They're great at all that stuff. They're really well schooled on the back end as far as what to expect with route combinations and all of that.


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[Assistant] And, you know, yeah, they stymied that team a little bit, the Rams, and to your point, we never really got to see what the Titans offense will be about going forward. That's still a question, I think.


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[Assistant] It's like, that's where like, they're, they're like what we talk about a lot with game plan specific. Like, to me it loo- it was some form of a cover three zone.


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[Assistant] What they wanted to, but see, this is the other thing where they're really good. They're, they don't give you the picture until after the ball snap. They're very good and patient of going, it's this coverage, it's this coverage, sad, hut, oh no, it's this coverage, you were wrong.


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[Assistant] And that's where they're good. And they try to make every- they make- they try to make everything almost look like quarters. That's the- to me the thing they do. It looks like it's-


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[Assistant] To kind of be in that stop the one single cut guy and made a great play.


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[Assistant] No. Yeah. Completely surprised him. Yeah, completely surprised him. Then he, I mean, of course, he had the dumbest intersep- one of the dumbest interceptions we saw all year, but the 360, you know, that, of course, hurt their football team incredibly there. Uh, so, I mean, before the Rams really got going, or in any rhythm of their offense, they were down 14 to 3.


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[Assistant] And, you know, then the pressure's on to, oh no, we gotta get it going. They don't make anything happen. And Tennessee kinda goes on a slow, ugly drive before halftime.


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[Assistant] And Vrabel has the guts to go for it on fourth and goal, and Tannahill keeps it on the little, uh, bootleg quarterback sneak, I think.


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[Assistant] We were watching the game and I said, he's gonna keep it. You did? That's right. Because I could see Vrabel say, pull the ball. I saw Vrabel during the timeout say, hey, bleh, bleh, bleh.


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[Assistant] But just pull the ball. And when I said, oh, pull the ball, Tannehill's gonna keep this watch. And then he kept it. Uhm, but yeaah, I thought that was big. And then really to me, the other aspect of the game that I thought was big was that first drive. I believe it was the first drive of the second half. Maybe it was the second drive. Tennessee, I think, got the ball. Rams got it, drove down. And the fact that they had to settle for a field goal.


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[Assistant] Close. To make it, which again, it was 21-3. I had no problem kicking the field to make it 21-6. Make it a two score game.


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[Assistant] You know, the Twitter mob I was told was going crazy because they didn't go for it. They weren't aggressive. No. You know, I think Sean McVeigh looked at it and went, I think we're the better team here. Let's just keep this game going. Keep a little pressure on them. Two scorers with Matthew Stafford in my offense will be fine. Uhm, but I did think that was a big moment because, you know, hey, 21-6, you know,


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[Assistant] Van Jefferson was in the back of the end zone, I think on first down, tried to catch the ball with one hand, I don't know why, he could have easily lifted two, you know, that game could have been 21-10 and a total different feel, and then we would have got a little bit more of the


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[Assistant] Feel of what Tennessee's offense might look like with a little pressure, but that never really happened throughout the night, and it was a great win for the Tennessee Titans. Don't want to take that away from them.


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[Assistant] No, you know, I, you know, uhm, I, I think it is. I think they're the, to me... Look at the kind of wins they've had, like who they've beaten. I just think the way they're coached...


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[Assistant] They can physically win battles up front on the offensive line. They can do the same thing on the defensive line. We're seeing the past defense really come together, even though it's been a little banged up and whatever, it's still playing really well.


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[Assistant] You know, they take care of the ball, they very rarely beat themselves. Again, they're one of those teams right now. It's like, hey, we're gonna make our play here and there, but...


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[Assistant] We're betting you'll make a mistake at some point, Patrick Mahomes, Carson Wentz, Matthew Stafford.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think before we did our Peacock show last night, our producer, Steve Greenberg, kinda asked, he's like, who's the team you would take in the AFC? Or no, Tariko asked me. Yeah. And I was like, I think I'd still go with Tennessee. I got less questions about them as a football team. Two weeks ago, would you have said Buffalo?


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[Assistant] It would have been close, probably. It would have been close. It would have been. It would have been Buffalo. But I think after what I've seen for the last two weeks ago, I mean two weeks as far as Miami and yesterday, that makes me back off of that a little bit. It does. Uhm, yeaah. I look at Tennessee right now as being that team. And the other team that I think is just impressive to me that I think has great potential,


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[Assistant] It's been a little disappointing. We got on track yesterday. It was a Cleveland Brown. So I know we'll hit on all of that. Let's just keep pushing forward.


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[Assistant] I mean, Chase Edmonds goes out early in the game with an ankle issue. It's just, it's, it's uhm...


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[Assistant] I think it gets to something we've talked, there's a lot of talent on this team. You know, Steve Kime has built a team that is very impressive. So, I mean, you want to talk about guys who are GM of the year candidates, Steve Kime should be in that. There's depth, there's high end talent.


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[Assistant] Everywhere on the football field. And I think what we kinda surprised us a lot about yesterday's game, right, was just the fact that, you know, yeaah, Colt McCoy was efficient and played in the pocket and we've seen that they're a more efficient team in the pocket this year, even with Kyler Murray, he's been better that way.


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[Assistant] They can just beat you so many ways. Yeah. You know, oh, Cliff Kingsbury's got a trick play to help the offense jump start. Okay, great. That was nice. But, you know, they can do old school running, just smash mouth football. Great.


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[Assistant] You know, and of course they got some screens and, and just plays like that to always keep you off balance. And then let alone with their normal meat and potatoes or their offense, they have a little bit of everything to offer. So they're, unlike years past, not dependent.


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[Assistant] Necessarily on one guy or two guys to make things go. Yeaah. And that to me is when you become a dangerous football team. When you start to go, wait, they're missing? They're two best players? And it doesn't really affect how good of a football team? That's when you know you have depth, talent, you're well coached, and, you know, Arizona obviously, uh, best team in the NFC.


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[Assistant] You know, again, when you're just relying on one guy to make magic all the time, I don't care who you are, you're gonna lose games you shouldn't lose, you're gonna miss out on the playoffs after a hot start like they did last year.


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[Assistant] So now they got more versatility to play against different teams. Oh, we, they play this way. Okay, wait, we got pieces and schemes that, that can play that way too. That makes sense. Okay, great. So that's where they're just so much more dangerous. And you know, of course I think


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[Assistant] Uhm, we talk about the defense being talented, the offensive balance, your point with Kliff Kingsbury giving more offense. It's a lot like, to me like, you know,


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[Assistant] Yeah, people on Kyler Murray before the year is exactly right. It's like, no, it's not about Kyler Murray. He's fine. He's superstar. They gotta help him out a little bit.


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[Assistant] He's not gonna carry them with three rockets up his ass and a rocket right arm and go 16 and 0. Like that's just not gonna happen. You gotta do something there. Same thing with like Ryan Tannehill and the Tennessee Titans. I wanna go, I'm not worried about Ryan Tannehill, like one bit.


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[Assistant] Ryan Tannell is going to be fine. To me it's a Todd Downing question. Is the offense going to be able to deliver enough for him? So that's what we want to see, but you know.


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[Assistant] Cardinals, really good football team, like you're talking about. And I think the other thing too is,


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[Assistant] You know, he's not like overly explosive, but explosive enough like you saw to take a screen 50 yards of the house, you know.


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[Assistant] Not like, you don't look at him and go, oh my gosh, he's Christian Okoye powerhouse, but he can run between the tackles and get a lot of tough yards. He really has no weakness to his game. He can do a little bit of everything. Pass protects well, runs routes out of the backfield well when he is asked to do that in the pass game.


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[Assistant] So, he's been the perfect fit for their football team, along with Chase Edmonds. And I think that's again, it's the attitude of the Cardinals I think that jumps out to me more than anything. You know, even the uhm,


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[Assistant] Is it Eno Benjamin? Eno Benjamin, right? The kid from Arizona State? I mean, even his run for the 21 yard touchdown just runs over Dre Kirkpatrick. That's where they're like,


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[Assistant] High-flying, yeaah, Golden State Warriors offense, but they got a blend of like...


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[Assistant] Old school New York Knicks basketball to them too, where they're like, oh, you want to play ugly and physical? We could do that too. We could have Patrick Ewing and Charles Oakley in the post, no problem. Uhm, so, that's where the Cardinals, I think, are really impressive, and they're pretty, they're even more diverse on the defensive side with stuff they can do, which of course makes them tough too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I think a little bit, we're getting to that point, you know. Again, where I get high on the 49ers to a great degree is I watch the game and go, well, they're not like,


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[Assistant] Physically overmatched. They're not, I don't look at it and go, oh my gosh, they're just getting dominated on both sides of the ball.


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[Assistant] I mean, again, you know, George Kittle fumbles early on, sets up his short field. I mean, he's wide open down the middle. I don't know, what do you want to say? I mean, he's wide open, boom. Okay, now they're driving a little later in the game. I think it might have been, what was it, maybe, was it 17-7 at this point?


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[Assistant] Uh, might have been that. Maybe it was still, it might have been 17-0 still. They're driving. Jimmy Garoppolo throws a pass to a wide open Brandon Ayuk down the middle of the field.


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[Assistant] You know, he's catching the ball, he falls on the ground, he gets up, he fumbles at the five yard line.


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[Assistant] You know, that's where, you know, and I think the game was 14 to nothing at that point, and that led to a long field goal drive by the Arizona Cardinals. But, so that's to, you know, my mate there who's asking the question where I go, listen, there's like, I see a lot of good things they do. To where I go, if they just limit mistakes, that game's gonna be, you know, toe to toe in a battle there.


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[Assistant] They seem to mess up situations like that, or it's a third and long, and they let Colt McCoy run around the pocket and find somebody for a big pass, you know, or it's third and seventeen, and you go, wow, they got everything locked up.


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[Assistant] And he throws a check down to the back and the back goes and gets 20 yards. It's so, it's, it's I guess a little bit of that. Yeah, they're a little confusing that way. I see talent on their team, but I see a team that seems to


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[Assistant] I guess to our, our questioner's point there, just, yeaah, they're, they're messing up some situations and some big moments almost every week right now.


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[Assistant] Neither one of them is gonna give up. Like that's the one thing, I know both of these teams are coached by psychos and have a bunch of psycho football players. You know, Russell Wilson, of course him coming back, which it sounds like he might be back next week against Green Bay, right? I mean that changes things, definitely. I know that. I still look at the 49ers and think their team is better than Seattle.


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[Assistant] And, you know, them being a little healthier on the offensive side of the ball and Mitchell, I just look at the offense and I think it's more diverse.


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[Assistant] You know, I mean, you know, Seattle, again, we sit here a lot of weeks and go, I don't know what they were doing on offense. It's Russell Wilson making magic. It's boring. There's nothing, there's nothing what they do, they just ask him to make great plays. And then of course their defense,


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[Assistant] You know, one point this year was on pace to gonna be one of the worst defenses in football. So, I know it's been better as of late. I guess I still favor the 49ers in that conversation was I'm talking about. And even here, like, three and five? I know.


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[Assistant] But like, yeaah, don't count out Seattle and San Francisco. I mean, I look at San Francisco and I go, I think they're better than Minnesota, Carolina, and Atlanta that are better than them.


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[Assistant] I think so. I would think so. I would think so. One of those teams is going to get there. Now yea, they got a losing record right now. Where they get to at the end of the year. Can they get to 9 and 8 and be that kind of record? Yea, but I think one of those teams is going to get there kind of like to what you're talking about.


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[Assistant] Uh, and if you made me bet, yeaah, I'm not taking Carolina. No. I'm not taking Minnesota. I'm sorry, even though I know they've lost some tough ones. I just don't see the high end talent of their team that way.


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[Assistant] To me it would be Seattle or San Francisco to be that team. I don't have quite the faith in Chicago yet to put them there. Uh, so yeaah, I look at them as being the team that, you know, can maybe steal that seven spot from Atlanta when all is said and done.


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[Assistant] You don't capitalize early on in the football game for a few opportunities where they're kind of moving the ball.


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[Assistant] They could've gone up 6-0 if they decided to kick field goals. One of them might've been like a 50-something yarder. The next one was a chip shot. Would've been like a 37 yarder.


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[Assistant] You know, you leave those two opportunities out on the field, and we, I've had these conversations, again, I know, aggressive, aggressive, aggressive, but there is something to say every now and then about, hey, we got three points on the board, we got a little momentum, we got something positive to build on. Now that other team has to go the whole field to get some points.


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[Assistant] You know, instead of, oh wait, we just had two good drives and we come off the field dejected. And the defense wasn't ready to go on the field because they thought we were going to convert the fort down. And now the other team's coming on the field with all this energy going, wait, we've been outplayed for two series and we're still, it's still 0-0. Like, so.


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[Assistant] So, and yeaah, I've heard, you know, pizza in my ear going right now, the Broncos felt disrespected by the two early fourth down, like, attempts by the Cowboys. I don't know why they should feel disrespected, but obviously it gave them energy, I know that. Something good.


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[Assistant] They could not get Denver off the field on the other side of the ball. I mean, that's really what it was. And Dallas, again, is one of those teams that, hey, they're teams built around their offense. You know, we've been sitting here trying to tell you the defense is good. Yeah, it's better. It's not.


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[Assistant] It's why I've had a little questions about them because I just go, I don't see dominant. I see they play hard and they cause some chaos and get a turnover too every week.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure how great that defense is, and you got a little taste of that yesterday when the offense doesn't put them in the position of power throughout the game, uh, and they really struggled on that side of the ball too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, listen, I would like to go watch it myself, but, you know, there's not a lot of...


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[Assistant] Like overly big people on the Dallas defensive line. It's a little bit more what I would call, they, they, they tend to lean towards, let's go with the athlete over the size guy, right? So they got a lot of their biggest guys.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm gonna say probably 305, something like that. That's not big in the NFL anymore. A lot of the times they're playing Randy Gregory who's 260, you know.


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[Assistant] They got another defense end who's around the same thing, and then they got a defensive tackle, and like, uh, you know, Odigizua, who's like 285 or 290, and another defensive tackle that's 305, that's just not that big.


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[Assistant] And obviously it looked like they had some good scheme runs where they did some things and it just seemed like Javante Williams and, uh, uh, Gordon just hopped through some holes with a full head of steam and nobody touched them in the second level. So that's one thing I certainly would like to go back and watch and kind of dive in on the film to see what they did in the run game.


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[Assistant] Like, respectful forth, I wanna say. I respect what they do. You know, the ASC West is interesting because I think all the teams have like, some serious flaws about their team all together.


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[Assistant] But yea, I gotta see just a little bit more consistency. It's hard to make out what Denver really is quite yet. You know, again, I know we're 9 games into the year, but no, I'm not ready to sit here and go, oh, they're gonna go on a run here and dominate the AFC West. No, I'm not.


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[Assistant] Right, we haven't seen that consistently. We haven't seen a run game like that all, consistent like that all year. I know, that's what I mean. Is this an outlier performance or is this something to say, watch out, this is what they're going to be going forward? I don't know that. I tend to think it's an outlier as of right now. You know, and again, yea, they played a motivated football game and caught, I don't care who you are.


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[Assistant] Dak Prescott missed some, they had a few drops, I know, but he missed some easy throws that you go, he usually makes that with his eyes closed. That would have changed the game or made the game different, and that was a big aspect, and like we talked about, I think, you know,


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[Assistant] You know, missing that second forward down. Denver goes down for a nice drive, scores a touchdown.


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[Assistant] Dallas, I believe, goes three and out, or maybe gets one first down. Denver gets the ball back, and then he hits Tim Patrick for the long touchdown. It's 14-0. And that's where it just became, now Dallas couldn't stay on the field, and Denver just kept like,


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[Assistant] Bleeding them out on offense, slow, long drives, field goal, field goal, and Dallas just never caught rhythm or got to impose their will in the physical aspect of the run game, and it just all compounded into a


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, yeah, you know, there's talent on that Jacksonville defense. This is something I've tried to say to a few times during the year where I want to go like, Jacksonville's got talent on their football team altogether. And to me yesterday, you know, it just looked like they


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[Assistant] Managed the game appropriately. Had a really good feel for what Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills wanted to do on that side of the ball. Uhm, again,


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[Assistant] I mean, correct me if I'm wrong, podcast listeners, but I feel like I've been trying to tell people, top scoring offense, whatever you want to say, yippity-doo-dah, zippity-day, okay? They're not a top offense in football right now.


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[Assistant] They're not. Because? Because it's all about Josh Allen just making magic happen. Yeaah. That's not, doesn't like make you a top offense. You know, again.


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[Assistant] We can go back to really early in the year and I go, yeah, there's a lot of points on the board here. Miami week two, Washington week three. But I think if we went back and watched those games, you'd go,


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[Assistant] I'd go, well look, the defense gave them the ball at the 18 yard line going in. I know we're gonna go, whoa, they score a lot of points, but I wanna go, that was an impressive drive. Or the game itself was choppy on offense. Just because it led to a lot of points on the scoreboard, didn't mean the offense came out as surgical or dominant in the run game.


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[Assistant] No, because I think they got to a point like during the year where they went...


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[Assistant] It, it's, we're better off just keeping the pressure through our pass game.


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[Assistant] It's going to make Josh better. It's going to open up some play action offense. That's where I would agree with you 100%. You know, attempts are an underrated stat in the game.


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[Assistant] You know, just a few weeks ago against the Kansas City Chiefs, they ran it 29 times for 86 yards with Derrick Henry. It wasn't a special day, but they were going to keep Kansas City defending that because it helps their defense out, and it helps, most importantly, their play action pass game, what they want to live off of. Yea, Buffalo has nothing to offer there right now. They're in a funk on the offensive side of the ball. They're protecting just okay. It's not great.


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[Assistant] You know, Brian Dayball, offensive coordinator, a little bit of a funk himself, they're not, you know, getting people open as much. I think the other thing I would add to that, and you've heard me say this before, you know, I don't,


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[Assistant] Buffalo's talent is not that great on the offensive side of the ball. It's not. There's no game changer other than Diggs on that side of the ball. And I don't think Diggs is as game changing as some of the other top receivers in football. So I think with all that and then you get Josh Allen in a game yesterday like where he's, he tried to do too much.


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[Assistant] He reverted back to like old Josh Allen because he was getting frustrated and he was going, what? We should be beating this team and I gotta make a play. And he cost them. He cost them the game. You know, there's a game yesterday, I think, if you really look at it where you just go, they should have won that game like, maybe 15 to 9.


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[Assistant] You know, maybe, maybe, you know, 15 to 6, whatever. It was that type of game. But because he kind of played a little loose and they have to ride him so hard, that's some of the dangers you have when you play that way.


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[Assistant] Yeah, too much, it's too predictable. They're gonna be in the shotgun, he's gonna drop back. Right. And make it happen.


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[Assistant] I know. You gotta find a little bit more balance that way. You know, you know, and I think, you know, again, he just, he can't be the leading rusher and being asked to throw the ball and do everything on offense week in, week out. You know, I mean, what is this?


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[Assistant] It's gotta be about four or five weeks in a row where he's either the leading rusher or he was like a yard or two off from being the leading rusher in a game.


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[Assistant] And again, I know they're looking at it like, let's just keep pressure on people, and Josh Allen on the shotgun, and pressure, pressure, pressure, and we'll play that way. And it's gonna be effective a lot of ways. I get that. Uhm, and you know, again,


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[Assistant] They're like three inch quarter cleats away from maybe beating Tennessee a few weeks ago in the quarterback sink and he doesn't slip and fall on the ground. You know, there's still a lot of good to talk about with the football team, but what we're talking about right here is like, is this sustainable for them to go to the Super Bowl and play this way?


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[Assistant] I don't know about that. I'd say no right now. It's just, it's too much on him.


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[Assistant] If it was like 47 times and we were going, and it was just surgical, I'd be fine, that's great. They're using the short passing game as an extension of the run game, fine. He's their best player, that's great. But it's not working like that right now. Right. And they gotta find something else to, just like we've talked about with other teams, give the defense something else.


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[Assistant] I think so too, and I think when I look at them as compared to like, we talked about the AFC, all those teams have like question marks somewhere on their roster. With Buffalo, we don't question their defense, so that's a positive thing. We know the defense is top notch, really.


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[Assistant] You know, I think of all the things I look at to go, ooh, I think it could be better or it can get better.


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[Assistant] I do think Dayball and Josh Allen and McDermott probably added a few, two cents on like, hey, let's play this style just a little bit more. That they're a team I look at that might, I go, they can get this straight and get back into, they're a Super Bowl, legit Super Bowl contender in the AFC. And a nice division to be doing that.


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[Assistant] No doubt. I know, but they got somebody breathing down their necks. Yes they do. I was thinking more about the bottom two than it was the Patriots.


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[Assistant] Well, I, I went into our show last night going like I, I would pick Matthew Stafford before the game happened. I had to pick it for our, our Peacock show, right? Yeah. So, I mean, for me to this point, he's been the MVP. I'm not going to just let like, yeah, one half of football change everything about what we've seen all year. You know, it's still, it's been.


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[Assistant] They do do, they do have other elements of their offense they make you defend.


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[Assistant] So they never let you off the hook that way. So, you know, I look at it, I think more than anything on that list and go...


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[Assistant] Stafford, Brady, Kyler Murray are still the three I'd look at.


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[Assistant] Uh, I just can't imagine, their offenses have talent, they are talented, and, you know, even if they're off on a game or whatever, they got the type of team that can kinda keep them in it, you know, on the defense and with other elements of their team too. So I would guess those are the three. I'm still gonna go with Stafford for right now.


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[Assistant] I am, for now. Uhm, but I think, you know, Brady and Kyler Murray are certainly right there.


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[Assistant] It's everywhere right here. No, I know, it is everywhere. I appreciate that Under Armour, but nope, nope, it's an awesome sponsorship. It really is. Very lucky to have them.


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[Assistant] Ninety-nine yards. Ninety-nine yards. I, I mean, you know, game-changing moment. Great first drive by the Bagoes. You're going, wow, look at this, this is great. You know, awesome.


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[Assistant] You know, this is, hopefully this is what we'll see from the Browns more and more. As I've said, the Browns are disappointing because they're too talented on the defensive side of the ball to be doing some of the things they've done the last few weeks.


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[Assistant] Now maybe with them getting healthy, Denzel Willard being healthier at corner, maybe that can add another element to their defense where they can do a few different things, but he's, he's a special football player. I mean, again, he's, he's got good size and length and he runs 4-3.


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[Assistant] And he can change directions on a dime too. You know, and, and Jamar Chase on that play specifically tried to run a little like the, the slant, right, and then come back out. Denzel Ward did a great job of undercutting it, and, uh, showed his great speed, you know, going in for a touchdown there, which was, yeaah, a huge part of the game. I, I mean, really, I thought we were gonna get,


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[Assistant] A shootout at first in the football game. I kinda went, ooh, this is about to get fun. Because Cincinnati got the ball back and went right back down the field and scored again. Then Cleveland got the ball and went down and scored. And you're going, ooh, this is gonna be awesome. And then the Bengals got the ball back and started moving the ball.


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[Assistant] And I believe that was the Jamar Chase fumble, I wanna say, or it could have been, let me get this straight, it's gonna drive me crazy. Because it was going like, ooh, this is gonna be a shootout, and then, oh no, they went for it on fourth down.


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[Assistant] He threw it past the Boyd, they don't get it, the next play ends up being the deep post to Donovan People Jones. That's right. And that makes it 21-7 and all of a sudden you went uh-oh, now


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[Assistant] They're gonna have to throw it a lot. And uh-oh, Clowney and Miles Garrett are playing in this game. So uh-oh. And then that led to I think the next series where Jamar Chase fumbles.


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[Assistant] Cleveland gets the ball back, and it's 24-7, and you're going, well, hey, like, I love Joe Burrow in Cincinnati, but 24-7 against this talented Cleveland defense?


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[Assistant] They don't play a ton of man to man, but they play some zone defenses where it ends up being very man to man-ish on the outside. And he's smart, he's got great body control, he's another guy that's got good length like Denzel Ward on the other side of the ball, he's not as explosive as Denzel Ward.


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[Assistant] Hey, this is, to me, no doubt, gonna be one of the things. Like, if they can get a Wusukoromoa back.


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[Assistant] Both safeties, if not really, there's three of them when you add Delpit, John Johnson, and uhm, the kid from Alabama that I'm blanking on his name. You know, they got three good safeties, those corners, uhm, pretty good nickelback,


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[Assistant] You get a wussu kormo at the second level playing linebacker, and then of course that front four I think is very athletic. Rodney Harrison, thank you Pete Dimalilaitis. And, uh, yeaah. They caused some issues. I mean, Chase dropped a few footballs yesterday, I saw that too.


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[Assistant] You know, the Bengals are, I still think the Bengals have a lot to offer and they're not out of this. They blew a game in New York and then they've made mistakes again here in this one that really just, it became too much for them to overcome.


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[Assistant] I, I, I, I don't, I really don't know. Listen, like, I mean, OBJ is not the reason they scored 17 against the Broncos or 10 against the, like, I mean, what did he do?


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[Assistant] Defense has to worry about it. One of the things I'll say is Baker Mayfield does not play, he did not play the position true to form when Odell was in it. We've shown plays, there's plays every week. Okay, you go on any other shorts.


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[Assistant] They can blame Odell all they want for all that stuff. That's wrong. That's not. That was them.


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[Assistant] They, he was open a lot. Yea, did he make a mistake? Sure. But the energy, something about it. Something different about it. I don't know what it is. It obviously puts a, I always have, I've been saying this for a year and a half. I really do think there was something mental there with Baker thrown to Odell. Just couldn't quite get the rhythm or the timing of it down.


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[Assistant] And there was a little confidence lost in it. And then it became, yeaah, an issue to where I guess you think about it too much.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they, it's just funny where he got hurt in Cincinnati last year, and they kinda started to take off after that, and then it was this game this year where he's not there, but I think, you know, again, this just, this laid out the right way for them as well. It just laid out the right way, it just happened to be a team that,


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[Assistant] You know, they matched up pretty well with, they made some mistakes, and uhm, we're seeing the Cincinnati Bengals defense, they're gonna change it up a little bit. Too much quarters coverage, a little too predictable I think on the defensive side of the ball right now. To where you're seeing teams week after week kinda dial up plays on them like they know what they're gonna get.


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[Assistant] And of course when they get that run game with Nick Chubb and company going.


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[Assistant] Watch out, like damn, okay, Cleveland Browns. I'm not giving up on the Browns yet. There's too much talent on that football team. Uh, we'll see where they go from here.


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[Assistant] Kenny's a baller. I mean, this is, he's got a unique skill set coming out of Alabama and he was hurt a little last year as a rookie.


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[Assistant] Like, safety, nickel, can kinda do both of those jobs, you know, thinks he's 240 pounds and will hit you like that, like, and you're like, no dude, you're 190, like, relax, 195. But, you know, he's got incredible speed, he's got instincts, he really knows how to play, he changes their team a little bit. He makes them a little more versatile, you know, on the back end. And this, again,


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[Assistant] This is the reason, like, games like yesterday are why I defend Joe Judge. It's why I defend him. You know, again, the Giants aren't better than the Raiders.


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[Assistant] They manage and play the game exactly the right way, and they make you earn it.


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[Assistant] And that's what they did yesterday. Giants, it wasn't pretty. It wasn't. The offense just made a few plays when they had to. They got a little bit of a run game going, which again, does scare me about the Raiders because they're another one of those teams where I'd go, not enough big people in the middle of their defense. I worry if they're going to be able to stop.


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[Assistant] Overpowering running teams as we go forward. Uhm, but then, hey the Giants defense making big plays was certainly


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[Assistant] You know, the, the biggest thing going in this football game, whether it was his two interceptions or the strip sack fumble at the end, it led to a lot of empty yards from the Raiders. They moved the ball great, you know, between the 20 to the other 40, but they couldn't quite


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[Assistant] That's hard to do. That's hard to do, right. But the Giants made it a field goal game. Typical New England, Tennessee Titans type of thing.


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[Assistant] We'll bend, we'll bend, you'll kick a field goal, we hope we'll go score a touchdown, you'll bend, we'll bend, we hope you kick a field goal, and we might score another touchdown, and all of a sudden you go, it's been an even game, but we're scoring touchdowns, and you're kicking field goals, and look who's winning.


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[Assistant] And that's kind of the way the game felt yesterday. I mean it wasn't pretty by any stretch of the imagination, but they played the game the right way.


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[Assistant] And of course made a few plays on the defensive side of the ball that, uhm, were crucial. The Giants aren't gonna win pretty.


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[Assistant] They're, they're not good enough up front. Jason Garrett has to manage the game every week. They have to manage, they have to run the ball probably a little more than they want to because they're trying to protect the O-line and Daniel Jones. They have to be careful about what kind of pass plays they pick because they gotta pick, they gotta protect the offensive line a little bit.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but, but overall I just thought yeaah, it was kind of just an old school big blue type of win. BIG BLUE!


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[Assistant] Oh, I love it. You know, I'm a giant saying, hands down, no doubt about it, and uh, I root for Joe Judge, yeaah, cause I know him, but I do believe in him.


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[Assistant] I've gotten sick of the haters on Daniel Jones to where it's made me be like one of his biggest fans. Cause if they lose, everybody wants to get rid of him. Of course. And then when they win, I go, he's not that bad. And I want to go, he's the best player in their offense. Period. Like, get over it.


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[Assistant] 100%, you know, first off, he can still go, you know, I don't think he's quite as fast as Henry Ruggs, but still can, you know, have that same element to the offense and where it'll even be more seamless than anything. McVeigh...


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[Assistant] His, he runs John Gruden's offense. Now he's expanded it and had his own way of how he does it, but I would think the language is going to be very similar. He's going to go in there and go, oh, I know this play. Oh, we called it the same thing. I just called this play the same thing with the Rams and McVay. So I think it'll be very easy for him to jump in that way. Uhm, you know, the Raiders, you know, again, not, not giving up on them either.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think the one thing with the Raiders is, yeaah, they need a Deshaun Jackson. They, they, I know they can be surgical and boom, 8 yards, 7 yards, 8 yards, 12 yards, 8 yards, I know that. They need the big play element of their offense. That's where they're gonna miss Henry Ruggs. That's why they need a guy like Deshaun Jackson. And this is, let's be honest, one of the first games all year where we can go away and go, man, Derek Carr,


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[Assistant] You know, he was just, he was careless with the football twice, and it hurt their football team. This is one of the first time all year we can kinda pin a loss maybe on him a little bit.


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[Assistant] No, not yesterday, and, you know, again, they're up, you know, 13-10, right? It was 13-10, start the second half, he throws that out route, pick 6.


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[Assistant] And he's got a little cover hole, cover two hole shot down the right sideline. And he tries to rip it in there. Xavier McKinney got over there, intercepted it. That led to the field goal. You know, so that really, uh, was big. And also another last thing, Paul, I know I'm talking a lot about this game, but I'm excited because it's the Giants. But it was 20-16-2.


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[Assistant] Raiders drove down the field and in a chip shot, 25 yard field goal, they missed to the left. That's right. Right. So, you know, Giants, yeaah, some good breaks, definitely, but I think they made a lot of their own luck yesterday and it was a big win for Big Blue.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and like no threat of the run game really. They put it in his hands and said go big guy. And, you know, the thing that I think jumped out to me was


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[Assistant] Lotta, get the ball out of your hands quick, early on in the game. We know the Saints, they can get after you, they're confusing. And I think the other element that, that Drew Brees kinda threw me on a little bit yesterday goes, when they're getting in third downs, he goes, look, they're going hurry up, they're going tempo.


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[Assistant] So they were, and what that does for people out there, it simplifies the defense.


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[Assistant] They might try to run out their personnel real quick. Wait, it's third down, I'd like one extra DB out there, blah, blah, blah.


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[Assistant] But you're not gonna get crazy with some defensive call now and go like, Hey, I want, you know, under two, spy, flash, cover four, weak, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh.


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[Assistant] Where it's like, hey, we're showing this defense, we're going to buzz out, and then we're going to play that defense. Like that stuff goes out the window in those situations. They just start going, oh, cover two, uh, cover four, hurry up, they're about to staff the ball. And that was one of the elements of the game that I thought was very interesting and really got them off the schneid early and got them kicking butt and really, you know,


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[Assistant] He's got all the clubs in the bag. He's got all the clubs. I mean the only club he probably doesn't really have is he can't rip the 350 yard drive down the middle, right? Which you don't need to that often. You don't need to that often, right. You don't. You can certainly be a Super Bowl winning quarterback and kick ass and be an MVP without having that aspect. He does everything else the right way. You know, and I think uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, that's, that point, I'm glad you brought that up because that to me is, you know, again, they're so...


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[Assistant] Pits and Cordaro Patterson heavy. Yeaah. And what they do, and they make, they make, what I like about them is they make you like, you know, force the issue a little bit. Like, we're gonna use them. What are you gonna do to stop them? What are you gonna do about it? And that helps out other angles. And to your point, that one early on in the football game, you know, they put a lot, he's the tailback.


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[Assistant] This is what he does every week. So now he's the tailback.


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[Assistant] And they go, well wait, he's the tailback, we wanted to play man to man, we're gonna put our linebacker on there. Well, you gotta stop doing that shit. He's not a tailback.


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[Assistant] He was drafted as a first round receiver, kick returner. He's just a freak show and can do anything. I mean, if you saw Cordero Patterson in person, you'd go, holy shit. Are you kidding me? Like, he played with my brother at University of Tennessee in college. He is a freak show.


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[Assistant] He's one of those guys where he just walks in the room and you go, now I know why he just keeps hanging around the league. He's got three rockets up his ass and he's that big?


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yea, that and then it was him at the end of the game too, right? With the, uhm, the long throw down the right sideline. That's what I was talking about. Oh, I thought you were talking about the earlier one. No. Cause there was one on the first drive or the second drive of the game where they got a long one too.


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[Assistant] What we saw, really, uh, Falcons kind of got into, we're up 24 to 6, they started playing a little more conservative on defense, Simeon and company,


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[Assistant] It just seemed like it was a lot of five, six, eight yard passes. They kinda got in a rhythm and they scored three straight times and you're like, man, the Falcons can't do Jack Diddley's squad here. What's going to happen? He makes that big throw to ice the cake. So damn okay, Matt Ryan. Big time. Way to go. Damn okay, Matt Ryan. Damn okay, Xavier McKinney. Damn okay, Denzel Ward. Damn okay, Under Armour.


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[Assistant] To where I'd have those and people would be like, man, where'd you get that shirt you're working out? And I'm like, Under Armour. And they're awesome. And it became a thing. And of course other companies


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[Assistant] He just talked out of nowhere. I know. Usually I mess with them a little bit more on a Sunday. Yeah. Um, especially when Minnesota starts to lose games. Yeah. I love that. Uh, so I start like making fun of Kirk Cousins and the Vikings because he takes it so personal. But yeah, yeah, Florio, he's there typing away. Copy paste, copy paste, snarky comment.


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[Assistant] One thing I look at right there on that graphic, right, is I just go, other than New Orleans last year, where New Orleans last year in that week 15 game, he was under assault by the pass rush.


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[Assistant] You know, Green Bay, four and a half yards per attempt. Buffalo, five and a half yards per attempt.


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[Assistant] You know, earlier this year, Tennessee, you know what they all have in common? They're really good zone defenses. They understand how to pass people off. So you never get Tyree Kill or Kelsey on the island. You never. It's about offense, execution, you know, what schemes you got to take advantage of that, and can your quarterback pick it apart. And right now, that's a negative ghost rider.


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[Assistant] Well, it's a little bit like the same thing we talk about with a lot of offenses. There's struggle. There's just, there's not enough off to offer right now. It's just like, oh, it's, it's, it's Mahomes and Hill or Mahomes and Kelsey. And if they can't do that, what else do they do?


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[Assistant] Because there's nobody else to depend on, and I just want to go, if you look at other top offenses in football, they give you a little bit more to think about than two guys and a quarterback trying to throw it to them all the time. You know, so that would be one thing that jumps out to me. They tried to get in the run game going a little bit yesterday. You know, Green Bay is one of those teams though, just like we saw on that graphic there, where


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[Assistant] They, they just, they're just gonna sit back and go, we think you'll mess up and we're not gonna give the big play, we're gonna let you execute, see if you can do it the whole way down the field. Now the one good thing for like Kansas City yesterday is they didn't mess up.


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[Assistant] He threw the ball down the field. I don't know why there's a guy wide open seven yards in front of him. What's he doing? I don't understand it. You know, so I'm expecting to see some of that on the film once again. But yes, you know, they've lost their mojo completely. He's lost his mojo.


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[Assistant] Um, it's in his head right now to a degree, and I think it's in their whole team's head. Their team has lost their swagger. Right. You know, there's like, I think the first time in the Mahomes era, they're going, wait, are we gonna win this? Clearly. He's in like, he's in a slump. He's in a slump.


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[Assistant] I don't know if it's going to happen this year. I don't know. I mean, it might happen to where it gets a little bit better, but do I think it's like going to take off and just go on fire again here? Like I would have a hard time believing that. I think we're going to see maybe some moments of going, oh, that looks like the old Kansas City team, you know, might get, you know, good matchups against certain defenses here in the future.


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[Assistant] All in all, for me to sit here right now as it's looked and go, well, you know, hey, four or five weeks ago, there were some signs where I went, there's some stuff to build on. I think they can go in the right direction. After the last three weeks, I just go, I don't think so. I don't know if there's any, this might be who they are this year.


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[Assistant] Yesterday was the first time I ever felt like they actually were managing Patrick Mahomes. I think I said that to you last night. I said, the way they played the game a few times, it was like they were like


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[Assistant] Let's just win 13-7. Let's just not lose this game. Let's just not lose it. Yeaah. And, and, you know, again, that's where, hey, it's thanks for Aaron Rodgers, uh, in his situation, because I just think if he plays, there's no doubt they win that football game yesterday, uh, just ugly, ugly performance, uh, by the, by the Chiefs offense.


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[Assistant] They gotta do more. They gotta give something else. There's gotta be a new angle they approach offensively. I know they tried to run the ball yesterday a little bit, but even that, within the run game, I'm gonna go, there's gotta be more to the run game.


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[Assistant] You know, I look at their run schemes and just go, it's the same run every, it's always inside zone or outside zone. That's all they got. There's gotta be more there. And I think that's what disappoints me too. And like we've talked about, they were the kings of offense for so long, teams have kind of figured out how they want to attack.


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[Assistant] The routes they like to run and, uh, there's just not a lot to think about I think for defenses when they play Kansas City right now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I- I- a hundred percent. And I think to- to that point, I- I mean, I think there's- there's, like, definitely realness to that.


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[Assistant] The d- coaches, the defensive players are too good. I don't care who you are right now to just think like, we're gonna do this all game and you're not gonna stop it.


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[Assistant] Alright, you know, maybe if it's something new and it's a new talent and a new offense and a scheme that like people aren't used to, like Mahomes in Kansas City when he first jumped on the scene. Okay, fine, throw it 48 times a game. Who the hell cares about a run game?


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[Assistant] But, no, what you're seeing now is like, hey, people have caught up to what they wanna do, they're not playing as well, and they got no other answers on the board. They gotta go like, oh, you moved here?


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[Assistant] Alright, well we're gonna move here now. We got this element. And I think what like, I just pull up the top offenses in football. Alright?


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[Assistant] Chiefs are at seven, Bills are at eight. You going yards or points? I'm going yards right now.


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[Assistant] You know, and again, they're, they're misleading with their yards. You know, and again, they feasted on the weak a little bit earlier in the year, both of those teams. But you look at the other teams, the Cowboys, the Ravens, the Bucks, the Rams, the Cardinals, the Raiders.


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[Assistant] They all have, like, they have a lot to offer on their offense. You know, again.


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[Assistant] We saw like the Rams last night. Oh, the shotgun's not working early with McVeigh and Stafford.


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[Assistant] Let's get underneath the center. We're going to run the ball. We're going to play actions. We're going to boots. We're going to bring that back. Okay. We're driving down the field field goal. Hey, we're driving again down the field. They have other other avenues to go. Wait, we're not working in this area today. Now we can do that. And I think to our, to our question there with Orion is that, uh, yeah, it's just too hard.


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[Assistant] To play that way, week in and week out, and expect magic, Orion, uh, you know, at, just expect magic out of your quarterback. It's spelled Orion, O-R-I-O-N. Orion's Belt.


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[Assistant] It could be. It could be. You're right. Let's have Orion, okay? Please let us know how you would like your name pronounced and let's see who's closer, me or Paul.


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[Assistant] Honestly, it's kind of what I, it's what I expected, it's what's a little scary about Jordan Love. You know, it's a little bit what I saw in college. Like there's a few throws where I went, oh, look at that, that looked good. But then there was a whole bunch of throws where I want to go, well, what the hell, how do you miss that?


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[Assistant] How do you miss that throw? By that amount? Part of it you expect from a rookie making a good start. Sure. It's not easy going into arrowhead. That's exactly right. I'm not, I'm not trying to be overly critical, but I think there was


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[Assistant] More than a handful of throws where I went, listen, I know this isn't an easy environment, but like, the full back in the flat's wide open, it's a four yard throw, you can't throw it four yards over his head. Right. Right. You're moving in the pocket, there's really not pressure in you, and you're gonna throw the check down, and Aaron Jones is wide open.


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[Assistant] And he can't even get a hand on the ball. Like that to me goes beyond like, okay, it's just a tough situation. And yeaah, that to me is, yes, there's a little bit of...


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[Assistant] Right, it's the Zach Wilson disease with the Jets too, cause I'm sure he's watching


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[Assistant] You can't. You can't. You can't throw a fade route to Devonte Adams with both feet off the ground and think you're just gonna turn your body and make it happen. Rogers is a different animal. And of course he's played a ton. So he's comfortable like that. He can do whatever now.


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[Assistant] You know, he's like, he's like the golfer who's played 90,000 rounds. He's like, oh, you want me to hit the chip like this? No problem. Oh, I'm gonna, this time I'm gonna drive it, I'm gonna fade, I'm gonna hook, whatever. They can do everything. Like, don't do that. So, that was just some of the things that jumped out to me too, where I just wanna go,


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[Assistant] Like, you gotta play your mechanics a little bit more close to the vest and traditional right now, get in a rhythm and a flow, and then maybe down the road we can start being Aaron Rodgers.


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[Assistant] Yeah, agreed. You know, and I think even the good throws, they weren't like, we were like, oh wow.


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[Assistant] A lot of inaccuracy, you know, even I think on the completions that I look at that were kind of significant during the game, it was like, okay, guy was pretty open, he just threw it, you know, with nice rhythm and got it out there, right? Uh, but I'm with you there. I didn't see like,


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[Assistant] Oh, like I've said against, like, was Zach Wilson or Trevor Lawrence, like, ooh, I like the look, I know they threw two interceptions or whatever, but some of the throws they made, oh wow. Like, that's another level. I did not say that with Jordan Love, and hey, that was big yesterday. But having said all that,


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[Assistant] There they were, they had the ball. And they had a chance to win the game. Yeah. Against the Chiefs. 13-7. It's insane. And yeah, he made the mistakes. Certainly, they missed Rodgers. And like I said, I don't think there's any doubt they win that game of Rodgers playing.


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[Assistant] I mean, baller. Gosh. You know, again, maybe there's another guy that needs to be put in the MVP conversation a little bit more seriously. I mean, especially with the way they're winning. That's what I mean. Again, right there with Tennessee for the top team in the AFC. Comeback wins for some reason with Lamar Jackson don't get the same publicity as other quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's a little annoying though. I know, but like I feel like they were like, oh, if that was Mahomes or Josh Allen or Rogers or Brady B, oh, here they come again, leading their team from behind. But with like Lamar and the Ravens for some reason, nobody really wants to give him the credit like they would other people. That annoys me.


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[Assistant] You know, that makes me root for them a little harder because I just go, well why? Why? I mean, they were down big in that game. I know it wasn't all him.


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[Assistant] It was still a lot him. It's, it's a lot him. It's a lot of him making great throws. It's a lot of him making unbelievable runs. I mean, he's the best player on their team. There's six and two for one reason. Cause Lamar Jackson's awesome.


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[Assistant] There's a reason John Harbaugh comes up to him after the game and like wants to French kiss him and like hug him every time cause he's like, we wouldn't have won that game without you. You're amazing. Way to keep us in it. Way to be tough. Thank you. He's got like,


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[Assistant] You know, he's got some things about him that I really, really respect. And uhm, yeaah, that was a big one. That was a crazy game.


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[Assistant] I kind of expected to see the Ravens of what we saw in the second half. I kind of get what, I thought the Ravens would win this game by 17 points because I thought we would see what we saw in the second half. That they won't be able to get the run game going, the Ravens D lines pretty big, and the pass game so simple that they'll be all over some of the concepts.


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[Assistant] It looked like the Vikings had a few tendency breakers or some tricks early on. They led up a huge run to Dalvin Cook when they had him pinned back at one point. So it was a lot of big plays early on from the Vikings. Lamar threw the pick in the first half. That led to a short field field goal. They were down 17-3.


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[Assistant] You know, pretty quickly, drive down, get the touchdown before the half, but then,


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[Assistant] You go, okay, this is gonna be a game, it's 17 to 10, and then like you said, the first play of the second half ends up being kick return, and you're going, oh no, I don't know if the Ravens are gonna be able to do it today, it just doesn't look right. Uh, but they hang in there, and a lot of great drives in the second, they dominated the second half of play, there's no doubt about that.


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[Assistant] Oh, I gotta have some fun here. This is too easy. I said this on Sunday Night Football last night. You know, it plays into, you know, Sam Darnal a little bit. I see.


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[Assistant] They're horrible. They have officially reached horrible in offense. I don't know what else to say. Playing really good. Again, it wasn't as good as everybody tried to make it out to be, but it was good.


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[Assistant] He's playing horrible, people have caught on to Joe Brady's offense a hundred percent, and they can't do shit, really. I mean, again.


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[Assistant] They got six points early on because of Patriots mistakes.


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[Assistant] I mean, strip sack fumble on Mac Jones. Mac Jones had the interception to Stephon Gilmore. That led up to two short fields. You know, other than that, there was nothing to talk about until the third quarter, where now the Panthers were down 14-6.


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[Assistant] And Sam Donald threw a horrible interception that got returned, what was it, for 88 yards and a touchdown by J.C. Jackson. Right. And that was night-night. You know what was surprising?


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[Assistant] I don't think he can avoid it anymore. He'll look like he's playing favorites. He's got to send the message to his team that's like, it's not acceptable. It's not. And I mean, again, there's a bootleg. It's 14-6. He's running to his left.


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[Assistant] He looks like he's trying to throw to the back in the flat, or maybe Ian Thomas behind him. The throw was so bad, I'm not exactly sure who he was trying to throw to. And I know he's going against, you know, he's running to his left as a righty, but I mean, we're in 2021, that's not a thing anymore, right? And, J.C. Jackson again.


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[Assistant] I mean, J.C. Jackson's phenomenal. Yeah, I mean, two picks, the one at the end of the game was very easy. Darnold had to kind of force the issue, I get that, but J.C. Jackson was looking the whole time. I don't know what the hell he was thinking. Uh, J.C. Jackson's one of the best corners in football. The Patriots are going to have to pay him $20 million a year next year. And then there was the Jamie Collins interception.


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[Assistant] Which so, he throws three interceptions yesterday, two of them are on him.


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[Assistant] The Jamie Collins one, I'll say it was just a great play, right? I mean, he threw the ball over the middle, Jamie Collins was kind of in the line of scrimmage and in the fray, and just jumped up.


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[Assistant] They manage games, it's Bill Belichick, you know, it's again, it's why, you know, Joe Judge we've talked about, Mike Vrabel we've talked about, like, they don't care about sex appeal, they're just gonna do, what do we gotta do to win this game? Nobody's gonna remember four months from now and go, well they played a boring style to win 24-6. They're just gonna go, well they won 24-6, played a good game.


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[Assistant] You know, Mac is efficient and they're starting to run the ball on everybody.


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[Assistant] Remandre Stevens is a little like budding superstar for them, yeaah. And their defense is one of the best in football. So from that aspect, I just go watch out. Think about


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[Assistant] They lose a heartbreaker to the Cowboys. They lose a heartbreaker to the Bucks.


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[Assistant] And they outplayed the Miami Dolphins in week one.


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[Assistant] And mess that game up to where you go, there's three games right there where, I mean, the whole year's different. And that's why I say watch out for them. Cause they kinda got, like, they got their mojo, like, this is how we play, we don't care, we're gonna own it, and you're gonna see, I think, a lot of victories like this for New England.


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[Assistant] Jumper cables. Boy, I got it. Chargers charged up. Justin Herbert back on the ship. Uh, that, that Philadelphia pass defense reared its ugly head. What we saw a few weeks ago.


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[Assistant] Right, that's kind of the numbers Derek Carr had a few weeks ago. And to me it's the same offensive system, it's very west coast centric, a million ways to throw for 7 and 8 yard completions.


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[Assistant] Yeah, really at no point yesterday during that game where they slowed down. You know, I don't know, Pete, maybe you can look it up. Maybe they punted the ball once or twice, but it wasn't much. No. I mean, they went down the field, got stopped on fourth and one on the goal line. You know, they really never got stopped throughout the day.


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[Assistant] Zero puns. So that just tells you. Is that good? That is good. You know, they had a few mistakes here and there, and I think, you know, where they just had to turn the ball over on downs, but uhm, good win for the Chargers. Of course, what I'm a little worried about, I'm not worried about their offense. You know, I know it's, hey, it's the NFL, they might have some weeks where it doesn't look as good,


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[Assistant] Uh, but what I worry about is what we saw from their defense again too, and that's what's weird about the AFC West. Cause there's just, every team you look at, you go, not just a flaw, like there's like a significant flaw that I worry about. Yea, some pretty major concerns.


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[Assistant] That's right. Got them back on, you know, on the right track there. You know, and they're spreading the ball around.


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[Assistant] Uh, and you know, they're gonna have to win through it, through their offense. They just don't think their defense, their defense, I like them because they have some playmakers. But as you see yesterday, they couldn't really stop Philly either.


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[Assistant] And we're seeing almost every week, people just run the ball at will on the Chargers. I mean at will.


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[Assistant] I will say this just to give the Eagles something. I like the way the Eagles have played the last two weeks. They've stopped trying to be like, oh, we're going to make Jaylen Hurts a drop back quarterback. They're playing through the run game. They're using him in the run game and it led to 176 yards on the ground. I think that's the proper way, but they got to find some ways to tighten up defense a little bit and stop


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[Assistant] Playing so much bend don't break style to where they just get slowly killed week after week with intermediate to short passing game.


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[Assistant] I don't wanna call it the loser ball, but, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. Damn, that was the loser ball. That's your headline. Well, yeaah. I mean, damn. I mean, did anybody wanna win the game?


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[Assistant] I mean, it was unreal. I just, every time I looked up, I went, one team was driving.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Something like that. Something in that category. Ferris Bueller's classic. Like I make my kids watch that movie. Like you gotta watch Ferris Bueller. And they love it. Did they? Did they like it? They liked it. Alright. Yeaah. Yours didn't? I'm gonna go with that. I haven't tried yet. You should try. It's timeless. Yeaah. That's kid missing school and having fun. That translates to any kid.


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[Assistant] Cameron was in Egypt's land. Let my Cameron go. Ah, it's so great. Classic movie, classic movie. But yeah, I mean, every time I looked up, I went, oh, there, they're moving down the field. Oh, turnover. I mean, Tyra Taylor had some really bad ones. Three picks. Three picks. You know, one


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[Assistant] That was a good win. I expected the Texans to win with Tyrod Taylor being back, but again, what you see there too is you're out that long, you're not gonna be your same self there. Uh, good for the Miami Dolphins, but


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[Assistant] I don't know. I got no other silver lining or anything to talk about with the game in general to go, well, there was this or that, uh, it was pretty ugly and sloppy by both sides.


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[Assistant] Can you imagine turning the ball five times, turning the ball over five times and winning? Like I've never been a part of that. Five times and you won?


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[Assistant] I mean, that's, that is a shamrock up your ass. Maybe that's what we should have made the headline for this one. Uh, but either way. Damn, was that our last game? We got them through whole? That was it.


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[Assistant] No, I'm not. I, I, to me, this is the kind of game where


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[Assistant] I think the Bears will hang around. This is the kind of game, like, oh, you want to play ugly football? Well, we're, we're, we're, that's all we do is play ugly football.


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[Assistant] You know, they're very similar teams in that way where it's like, yeah, one's a rookie quarterback and one's a really old quarterback, but they kind of had to manage it a little bit. It's true. And, uh, I expect this to be a defensive battle where, you know, I'm thinking Big Ben will play pretty smart, you know, make a play or two in the passing game.


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[Assistant] And I think the Bears will hang around, but I think eventually like the Steelers defense is gonna make a play to help them win the game and give the short field to Ben. That's why I say 20 to 17. So, I don't know, I've had a lot of friends ask me about, I didn't pick this as my, oh I did pick this as one of my best bets I believe, or no I didn't, I left it out.


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[Assistant] Uh, but this is one of the games I've told my friends like, listen, I think Chicago will keep this close.


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[Assistant] It is one of my best bets. Okay, good. I can't remember. How'd you do last week with the picks, by the way? Not good, not good. Who could have done good last week? Those games yesterday.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, I'm not making as much money as Mahomes. He's expected to deliver way on a bigger scale than I am. Any success you have? When they start paying me 40 million from here, I'll start expecting better picks, okay? They're not? They're not.


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[Assistant] Are you gonna leave that shit? I can't believe they're not paying me 40 million either. What the fuck?


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[Assistant] Wednesday again, you and me. See, I told you last night you were with me on Wednesday. You didn't know that. You said three times. Oh.


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[Assistant] Alright, Matt, no, Orion. Yep, please Orion, get back to us and correct that for us. We'd like to know. So we can get on Paul, please. Alright everybody, peace out. Send in questions, Wednesday's podcast. We've got a lot of things to break down. I think there's a lot of different elements to talk about. A lot of ways to go. Yeah, a lot of ways to go.


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[Assistant] Uh, my toughest thing is just going to be picking out what we want to break down and really show. It is, definitely. But, uh, enjoy the Monday Night Football game. You know where to find us. You know where to find me on social media. Thanks as always to Under Armour for sponsoring Chris Sims on Button. Pauly B, you the man. See you Wednesday. Peace out everybody.


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[Assistant] Have 7 on 7. You're trying to get 700 touchdown passes in this game.


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[Assistant] Jump out to me. We got the 49ers offense and Shanahan's genius, what he's got going on right now. Rams, Packers, little bit of both sides there, things I'd want to point out. Uh, and then,


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[Assistant] It's like, uh, it's funny hearing the old man talk about Zoom. Right. Uh, but yes, uh, he'll be back and he's got some things that he wants to talk about. I know there's three quarterbacks that he really wants to hit on here. Have no idea where he wants to go with it. Yeah. But I know he wants to hit on Baker Mayfield, Stafford and Daniel Jones.


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[Assistant] He is practicing today. It's a Wednesday right now as we're doing this, but they did sign a Jake Fromm from Buffalo off the practice squad. I would think...


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[Assistant] Big month for him, big month for the Giants in general, and yes, you know, again, I think this will go a long way, and I think where dad's gonna wanna go with this is a little bit the fifth year option conversation. Yeah. Cause in April, they have to make a decision on that, so, uh, we'll dive into that, so, uh, alright, here we go, giddy up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and we're gonna get into some of those reasons. First off, it's those two guys right there on that graphic, alright? Just so everybody knows. And those two were. Xavier and Howard. There we go. And Byron Jones. Yeah. I mean, they're studs. They're definitely top ten corners in football.


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[Assistant] And that's what a lot, and Byron Jones, who I don't think was a hundred percent healthy early in the year, I think he, Xavier and Howard even had a few moments of being in and out where he wasn't a hundred percent, you know, the, the, the defenses we're going to show here, you can't play them unless you've got two elite corners. They got elite corners. And then I think the next thing that's a key to them, you know, Rayquan Davis.


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[Assistant] Big overpowering Alabama defensive tackle who they stole in the second round two years ago in the draft. He got hurt the first week of the year. He's back. So him with Christian Wilkins in the middle is like, okay, we got our 2D tackles. They can push the pocket and you're not going to move them.


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[Assistant] And then, guys like Jalen Phillips, their first rounder from this past year, coming off the edge is phenomenal. Their second round pick from this year, who we're gonna break down here to Jovan, uh, uh, Holland, uh, wait, Holland, uh, Holland, uh,


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[Assistant] Siobhan Holland, yes, I don't know why it didn't sound right coming out of my mouth. Uhm, from Oregon, is amazing football player, so I think health and maybe


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[Assistant] The breakdowns, probably, because this is a New England defensive staff, having the accumulation of how people are attacking them and kind of getting their shit straight has led to them, you know, dominating some offenses here lately.


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[Assistant] This is what they've been doing to everybody and this is where it all starts is these little formations we see right here. You know, and of course, yeah, you do with the first play of the game. They want to see what your plan of attack is, what you're going to really have in store for them. Can they continue to dial it up? You know, because we saw like the Baltimore Ravens three weeks ago.


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[Assistant] You know, they dialed this up constantly because they were just like, they got no answer. Let's just keep doing it. There's nothing they can do. Now, if they see you have a few answers, they don't do it as much. And we'll get to that here in a few moments because yeaah, there's a point in this game where they get burned and they get away from it for a little bit.


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[Assistant] And then they come back to it and try to frustrate you again. But again, look at this look. I mean, it's one, two, three, four across the board. Alright?


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[Assistant] So what allows them to do that, like I was just talking about, is Byron Jones, top ten corner, Xavier Howard, top ten corner.


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[Assistant] You got Javon Holland, who I think is already is one of the better safeties in all of football, is a true rookie. They got Eric Rowe over here playing safety, who really started his career off as a corner, so has ability to cover, right? But the, the magic of what they do is,


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[Assistant] All these guys at the line of scrimmage, you just have no idea who's coming, who's going, what's the, what, what do we do? How do we block all this?


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[Assistant] Exactly right. What is that? Yeah, what is that? And this is what they do. So you're, they basically make it to where you're not gonna be right. They're gonna get somebody free more times than not just because even if guys don't blitz and they drop out like you're gonna see here,


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[Assistant] You don't know that. They take a step up and you gotta worry about still committing to block them even though they drop back and that can leave you vulnerable off the edge. But what you're gonna see here is you got the four matchups one on one and then one of these two linebackers at the end of the line of scrimmage, alright, has


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[Assistant] McCaffrey in case he free releases. So you got man, and then you got...


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[Assistant] Man to man, and then as he gets here to the slot, man to man, and man to man, right? So there it is.


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[Assistant] Whoever this is, is gonna have McCaffrey. So you got the five one-on-ones. Now, the issue is, like Carolina, of course,


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[Assistant] Alright, they don't know who's coming. They, they, they, what we would call slide the protection. Everybody go this way, right? Now that's great. That's, you know, it's a common answer. Now as you're gonna see though here, and I'm gonna play it in slow motion, there's gonna be two guys in the inside that drop out.


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[Assistant] You know, there you go. I think it's Agba, and I think that's Rayquan Davis. Just in case you threw a real quick slam or something like that, they're gonna get their hands up and not get abused by that playing this formation all the time. And make things tough that way. But as you can see,


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[Assistant] Ultimately, they only bring one, two, three, four. And then five and six take a step and then come back out, right? So it's four man. It's four man, it's man to man.


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[Assistant] They have this aggressive gate back here, and they're banking on, you're not gonna pick the right forward to pick up. So they get the guy free. You can see here, Baker released because there's McCaffrey, they're not gonna let that, so there's the one on one there with the running back.


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[Assistant] And you know, again, this is not a bad answer or bad anything by Carolina to start the game, but it's just like, hey, this is what you're going to see today. And as you can see, as we play this too, look, I mean, they're aware to get the hands up. They miss it. All right.


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[Assistant] The other thing that adds to it when you have talented corners like Xavier Howard and Byron Jones, I mean you can see how quickly he's driving on the ball.


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[Assistant] He's also banking on, it's going to be a quick throw. There's no way he can hold it all day long with this look. So he's ready to break on the ball and as soon as you catch it, boom, boom, boom. Will you catch it? Will you fumble it? Or will it fall out of your hands? And what you're going to see on this play is Boomi gets hit right as he


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[Assistant] Right as he catches it, Eric Rowe gets over there, gets a lick on him, and it becomes an incompletion. It was a borderline almost fumble. I mean, it was pretty close, actually, because he had two feet control of the ball.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but that's the pressure they're putting on you right now. Now, it's not the only thing they do, cause again, if you continue to do that all game long,


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[Assistant] You know, you're, you're gonna, at some point the offense coordinator and everybody's gonna dial it up and gas you. Uh, so we're gonna shut, start showing some curve balls here that they bring too.


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[Assistant] And then just get out. And they get out. Right, right. Well they, cause they, teams got good at it. Just like everything in football.


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[Assistant] They got good at, oh wait, they just got out of there right away. They were, offensive lines were making calls as the snap was going to get like, hey, bump out the other way. These guys didn't come, like they're, so they got used to it. Really to me, the team that started this was New England.


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[Assistant] And of course this is a New England staff where they start to go, no, no, we're going to take a step or two. You're not going to be able to just reorganize the pass protection on the fly. You're going to have to stay here for a second. And that of course is what stresses the offensive line out. Messes with the offensive line. And you're right, there's a lot of teams doing this right now. A lot.


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[Assistant] Well, two plays later, and, like, you could see that, like, again... Again. Linus Grimmage, what? What, right. Two plays later...


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[Assistant] And, like, they probably were like, well, we're not scared of that slant answer they just had right there, so let's try it out again here. Now, what's great about them, and the Dolphins of course, is it's a different coverage here. I mean, as you see, all these people at the line of scrimmage,


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[Assistant] But as you just mentioned, two guys out, this time since it's third down, it's backers that get out, they're a little more athletic in space, and ultimately, it's a four-man rush. But, this is what I want to show here, like, it's hard to tell


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[Assistant] Why does this look any different than the play we just saw? But it is, it's a different coverage. And that's what you gotta be aware of a little bit with this. Alright, now, what's, what's hard here is there's a safety right there, and you can see his helmet, right? It's hard to see him there. I hope you can see him, I hope everybody on, on, uh, watching on YouTube, uh, can see that.


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[Assistant] You know, this is where the quarterback has to really be keyed in on just the little nuances of the looks to go, wait, that didn't look exactly like the one we saw last time. Remember last time we just had a four across straight look, right? This one has a little bit of a different look.


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[Assistant] To where, as a quarterback in Cam Newton, you should be going, mmm, I don't think this is gonna be the all out. Even though it still looks like it could be maybe one on one, and this guy, because the safety's here, you could think, okay, well, let me get on there. Maybe he's got that guy, and that releases him, right? And then you see one on one there.


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[Assistant] My other thing I would say to you too is all out blitz with bump and run? I don't know. That's even if you got great corners is very dicey.


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[Assistant] There's, there's different things to look at here to where this look, look, looks different and yeaah, you gotta be able to recognize that. Now, you know, as you see, they do like a pretty good job of picking it all up.


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[Assistant] Pretty good job, and they really drop into a zone coverage here.


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[Assistant] Where you see, I mean, it's really almost like...


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[Assistant] Cover three, he's got anything breaking in. They got another guy here. They're almost playing like cover two here.