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[Assistant] I'll s- I think from the get-go I've been pretty standard here. I- I still think we're under-reacting to this injury. I do, yes. I mean, from the base, like, point I would make right off the bat, and I said this to Florio a few weeks on PFT when he first heard it, or we first heard about the injury,


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[Assistant] Like, and I really, I'm not trying to be a jerk here. I challenge any listener out there.


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[Assistant] Has, I don't know and cannot think and I haven't googled it or anything like that. I've never heard of a quarterback pulling their lat muscle. That is a really, really rare quarterback injury if ever. Right? That's more of a baseball type of injury.


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[Assistant] And I kinda went over this with Foria, because you know, baseball, as you know, you're pitching off a mound, your body's fully extended like this.


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[Assistant] It's a different motion than a quarterback where he's holding the ball up here and not, you know, extending himself to the level of a Clayton Kershaw or some of those guys. So it's a, that's where I think we're underreacting to it a little bit.


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[Assistant] You know, and of course it is his throwing shoulder and he has a lower leg injury to go along with it on the same side of that throwing shoulder where I don't know


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[Assistant] If he's using the full force of his leg to push off?


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[Assistant] And here, here's the last thing I'll say, you know, of course a lot of their season and the way it goes is dictated by him. I mean, they're a passing team. It's, it's his team. You know, the run game, all those things. Hey, great. No, it's going to be about Dak Prescott throwing the football. We know their defense will be better, but I don't expect it to be top 10 or anything like that.


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[Assistant] The one thing I like, I went back and looked at this and you, everybody listens to me, you know, I'm a psycho about quarterback mechanics and things and all of that.


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[Assistant] I, from the first time I saw him throw, this offseason,


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[Assistant] I thought it looked different than the years I've seen Dak Prescott the last few years in the NFL back to Mississippi State.


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[Assistant] And when I can went back and compared film from last year.


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[Assistant] Before his injury, and some of the throws I've seen on hard knocks and things like that, to me there is a little bit of a difference in the way he's throwing. And that's where I think people are underreacting. And not that I'm like, hey I'm rooting for Dak, you know that, I'm a Prescott fan, I've been on the, he's a top ten quarterback in football here for the last three years.


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[Assistant] I am concerned when your team is going to be based around throwing the football. You haven't played in a year. You have a lower leg injury that is part of.


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[Assistant] Pushing off and helping you gain power. And now I see a little bit something different in your throwing motion. See?


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[Assistant] And it's really, listen, it's tough, and I, I do consider myself a trained eye. You're not gonna see it much on, if you're watching the rollout throws, but here, like these are the throws I know sit. There is,


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[Assistant] There is, and I'm gonna kinda demonstrate this, there's a little bit more of a vertical-ness


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[Assistant] All my years, you can ask anybody. I threw, I throw, I was like the guy who was like, hey, you're throwing too much. I never had my lat feel sore. Ever. Ever throwing a football.


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[Assistant] And so here's what I hope people are watching on YouTube and everything like that. But here's to me the little bit of the difference in the motion, okay? You know, Dak Prescott last year, when I watched film before the injury, you know, it's kind of traditional. It may be not as round as much as I talk about, but the takeaway was more like this, right?


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[Assistant] You know, traditional, take it away, um, slot the arm perfectly, use the body, and then throw. Okay?


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[Assistant] What I see right now and even what we saw just like one or two of those clips is a little bit of a, a motion to get up like this. And that to me is what would anchor your lat into the throw. There's a little bit more of this, you know,


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[Assistant] Ball drops for a second and then it goes straight up instead of.


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[Assistant] Wait, before it used to be just right here in the middle of his chest and he would kind of pull away and it was a nice seamless smooth motion.


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[Assistant] You know, again, he, he's still gonna be good throwing this new way and all that. I think it's probably something that he created early on when he was getting back from rehab because he couldn't push off. So he was trying to throw and then to put a little extra mustard on it.


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[Assistant] This will not be like a 2 or 3 day where he'll be out of practice for 2 or 3 days. I told Wario then, I was like, I bet you that's not the case. And we went 10 days at least without him throwing.


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[Assistant] That's everything. Exactly right. Now he's compensating for that being hurt. So now he's using another muscle and then all of a sudden you get off the mound and you go, my right hip hurts. And you're like, you know, you go back and watch film and you go, well, that's why I can't push off with the, you know, whatever. You're right. It changes it that way.


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[Assistant] Plus being the fact that his arm is probably not as in good shape as it usually is because he had to do rehab and all those type of things. So again, I'm not like, I don't want to overly, overly, overly react. But I'm saying let's keep our eye on this a little bit.


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[Assistant] Well, as we said here Wednesday, McCarthy is already saying he doubts they're gonna see Dak Prescott this weekend in the Texans preseason game for preseason game number two, right? And I understand it. Again, I think they understand this is rare and there's a reason why you heard that they talked to the Yankees and the Texas Rangers because they were probably like,


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[Assistant] I've never had a quarterback pull this muscle. And they had to reach out to baseball people to do that.


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[Assistant] The fearoma, fearometer, fearometer, like if 10 was like, Oh my gosh, I'm so fearful. I'm like right down the middle right now. It's five. Okay. But I just think we all got to kind of still continue to gauge this and watch this because of the rare rarity of the injury for a thrower.


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[Assistant] To me, everybody's overreacting about how he looks and everything like that. Like, oh, it's gonna be better.


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[Assistant] So, what I'm saying here, let's just get the truth out as you're right.


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[Assistant] What I'm saying, what I wanna just say is everybody pump the brakes on that overreaction. That's really what I wanna say. Okay. Because, okay, yeaah, he looks great and all those things. And I don't know where it goes. And I'm rooting for Zeke. I really am. Again, I'm just trying to give you guys football knowledge, things I've seen in my life, been through, seen a lot of these guys in person, all of that.


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[Assistant] I think that it's a little putting the, what do I wanna say, the horse in front of the cart with this one. Sure. First off,


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[Assistant] You know, is it not a good thing though that he's lost weight? I don't think it's a good thing. I don't, I don't, I think there's, there's a thing about being in shape and doing it the right way. I'm not sold on his way is the right way. That's what I'm saying right now. You know, to, to where, okay, this is, this is the first thing, right? He's a power running back.


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[Assistant] He's car crash running back. He's not like 80 yards, I'm going down the sideline, touchdown running back. Zeke doesn't exist anymore. So now we're getting smaller and skinnier to do that.


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[Assistant] I don't know. This is what I'm saying is, I gotta see it to believe that this is gonna work. Alright? You know, I don't think it's a good look.


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[Assistant] When I watch hard knocks and you're sitting next to your quarterback and your quarterback's thighs are twice the size of the running backs. I don't think that's a good look.


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[Assistant] I saw players in the NFL, whether it be my dad's career, my own career, or even when I got out, where they get to that age where yea, physical ability starts to decline. And they think if I lose weight and get skinnier, I'll be faster and more what I used to be like.


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[Assistant] And my experience in that is that's a negative ghost rider. It actually ends up being the opposite effect. You don't get any faster, and then you start to lose your power and explosion, and of course some of your armor to protect you.


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[Assistant] You know, I can remember a little bit, I don't think he'll get mad at me for this, Derrick Brooks. He, one of my last years, I think it was my last year in Tampa, he was getting up there in age, right?


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[Assistant] He wasn't the same guy. I mean, this is Derrick Brooks now. He's Hall of Fame the man. I'm certainly not trying to disrespect, but he took that avenue and I can just remember sitting on the sidelines that year going,


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[Assistant] He's not really any faster and now I think he's lost some of his power and his ability to take on blockers and blow people up and do that. So all I'm saying with Zeke is I want to see how this skinnier, I've cut weight and got smaller experiment goes.


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[Assistant] And, you know, again, running backs are usually packed with muscle and jacked and some of the most jacked humans you'd ever see in your life. So, so far, you're pretty doom and


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[Assistant] But this one is one where I go, yeah, people are underreacting. I mean, Michael Parsons, again, you don't need to be a rocket scientist. If you watch the hall of fame game and you watch the Arizona preseason game last week, you go.


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[Assistant] I do think he's going to change that, you know, defense. You always, you always hear me say, first off, he's got a great energy. He's got Dan Quinn, who I do think is going to change the culture of that defense a little bit too. And if you're going to run that scheme, as we always talk about, you need your Bobby Wagner.


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[Assistant] And I think this is their Bobby Wagner, size, physicality, attitude, incredible speed for the size. Uh, I just, I've been blown away by just how comfortable and easy it is for him as a rookie. And he didn't even play last year in college football. So to me, like, yeah, I think people are underreacting is how impressive he's looked.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well I mean they were one of the worst in football last year to where like him with the combination of Dan Quinn and a few other plays.


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[Assistant] I mean, they, they, players, I mean, they could, you know, I think they're gonna jump up ten spots. Okay. Be in the middle of the NFL as far as, you know, first off, their scheme fits this


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[Assistant] Their, their players fit this scheme more than what they did with Nolan last year. And I think that's worth at least three or four spots in your ranking altogether. But Parsons, yea, it's second level NFL with the running quarterbacks, the read options, all those type of stuff. Very important position and they got a superstar there.


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[Assistant] Uh, are already looking. Have we underreacted to that? I, I do. You know, because all you hear about in week one is, I mean, what do you hear about? Quarterback, quarterback, quarterback, this quarterback, this quarterback. Yeah, there was a podcast on Monday that all they talked about was the quarterbacks. Yeah, and you want to be like, uh, there was 27 other picks in this round that weren't quarterbacks, right?


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[Assistant] Or, so Zaven Collins, I had the same exact feeling with Zaven Collins.


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[Assistant] As I did when I saw Michael Parsons at the Hall of Fame two weeks ago, I just went, who's that big guy in the middle? Who? Whoa, he can run. Who is this guy?


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[Assistant] You know, it's just, it's the modern day superstar NFL middle linebacker. And yeah, between, what I'm under reacting with that, or I think people are interacting with them is, you know,


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[Assistant] Yeah, you could see the guy is made for a middle linebacker. Everyone would pick him part during the draft. Oh, maybe you should be a rusher, a pass rusher because, you know, he played in the whatever conference Tulsa's in and is, can he really play a middle linebacker and do those types of things? Well, that's already over. I've already seen enough to go. He's going to be fine. Yeah. But I think the other thing I just love this being underreacted there is, Hey, again,


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[Assistant] Modern day NFL, you gotta have some linebackers like this. Him and Isaiah Simmons against those NFC West. Oh, Shanahan, you want to run Lance and do all that? Okay. These guys can run with Lance and they're going to hit them too. Same with Russell Wilson. You want to scramble? Oh, they got a QB spy for you and they can fly these two.


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[Assistant] So, they're game changers that way, let alone they're gonna have great


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[Assistant] You know, in fact, even on the McVeigh, speed sweep and all that type of stuff, extreme athleticism in the middle of that Arizona, Arizona defense, but love the way Zavin Collins looked.


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[Assistant] No, I think some of these guys get, this, I'm gonna say this as a bold statement right now. This will be, I'm betting that this is the year of the defense. I'm gonna say this is the year. Last year we had all, it was all the good teams with the good quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] We're gonna, I mean, it's hard to get prepared in a season like that, let alone a rookie who's like, what, no off season, COVID, all, it was a weird year. I would think the defenses are going to be different altogether this year because they're going to have to fully implement their system. You know, you got to think of a defensive coordinator a little bit. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Some of them probably wanted to do some crazy exotic defenses, but they're going, we didn't play preseason football. We didn't practice that much. We're not good, that good at the basic defenses. I can't give them this complicated like disguise and do this and this and this. We can't even do A, B and C yet.


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[Assistant] Just because, did we hit him? We didn't really hit him. Yea, I just want to hit on him real quick because, hey, we're underreacting because, you know, to me, first off, it's just rare that a linebacker like him, 215 pounds comes in, and again, right away, I mean, from the get-go, against the Jacksonville Jaguars, I mean, like, one of his first plays of the game is,


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[Assistant] Shuffle, shuffle, he's shuffling down the line of scrimmage as the outside zone's going away from him. And then, oh, now the running back's coming through this hole, and he, boom, tackle right away.


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[Assistant] And then his ability to just shoot gaps when he goes, I got this gap. If it opens up, he flies through it and creates chaos. You know, they needed that type of player in Cleveland. That was the missing link. They have an unbelievable roster. Now that they have him, we'll watch out. But I just thought he's phenomenal and versatile.


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[Assistant] This is where he's crazy, Ahmed. He's playing middle linebacker, all of a sudden they bring it all out, blitz, and they go, you cover the slot receiver. And he can cover him. So they're gonna be able to do some different type of crap because of his skill set.


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[Assistant] So much just like people get scared to take that first round. Yeah, it's a few million dollars. There's no doubt about it. Um, but he was a first round talent and yeah, you know, seeing people in person does help. There's no doubt. And he was a freak show the, my few years at Notre Dame.


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[Assistant] We're definitely underreacting to this, I think as a whole. Uh, and I want to see more football to see how it's going to go. But like, I know initially, initially when we heard this last year, we were like, oh man, that's going to be tough on the offenses.


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[Assistant] And the unintended consequence here, or at least through the first preseason game, is I went, oh shit, actually, I think it's going to be worse on the defense. Right? That's where you're just not sure.


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[Assistant] And listen, I don't have a concrete answer here. I don't have anything that I can just definitively say. I think, I want to see how some of these defensive coordinators are going to play these certain situations. Are they going to ask him to, I don't think they're going to ask him to shoulder the shoulder.


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[Assistant] How are they going to do this? Are they going to, you know, you don't want to tell a defender or a DB to do run around, right? Like run around, like all of a sudden that DB cuts inside of that guy to try to go make the play. Cause then if he misses the play, there's nobody outside and he's going to have a free run to the end zone.


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[Assistant] I guess the technique that some of these defensive coordinators are gonna tell their corners or safeties that gotta be put in these, these little positions to what they do. And I don't know, the thing that came to my mind right off the bat, like if we went, like if that old picture we just showed there with 20 against 62, maybe he's just gotta come high and around


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[Assistant] And that way, did I explain that right? Just run past him. Run past him and around him and try to break down and that's gonna be your way to have to cut him.


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[Assistant] You know, cut, make the running back cut back inside. You know, like here, like 20, maybe he's just gonna have to go around 62 on the outside. Right. And then just try to make a diving approach at the running backs legs.


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[Assistant] I'm hoping we get a few more clips of this this week to where I can see maybe what defensive coordinators are going to coach their players to do and go, Oh, that makes sense. Or you can't do that. I'm sure they're trying to kind of figure it out as we speak right now.


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[Assistant] We lose a few great offensive linemen every year because they think, okay, wait, I'm going to go block this DB and all of a sudden the DB just out of nowhere goes low and dives at his legs and he can't get his legs out of the ground and they tear an ACL or do something like that. You know, I feel like even like the, uh,


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[Assistant] Taysom Hill first off on the first drive made some really high level phenomenal throws. Drove them down the field, scrambled to his right and threw like a little hole shot up the right sideline. They fumbled the next play, didn't score. So the interception


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[Assistant] You know, Interception, I think, is a really cool play, actually, in general. Because, you know, I was watching the game live, and I seen people react and be like, well, that's why it's risky, but Taysom Hill, he's gotta hit throws like that. Okay, well, this is a little more complicated than you think.


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[Assistant] First of all, we gotta take some hill here in shotgun. You see Ty Montgomery on the left here. I hope everybody's watching on YouTube. Ty Montgomery's gonna run a shallow cross. Okay, there's rules for shallow crosses. I think I know the rules for Sean Payton. They're very similar to my John Gruden offense. If you see zone, you sit down, right? If it's man to man, you keep running.


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[Assistant] But there's little nuances too. If it's a zone, and everybody's way, way back, right?


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[Assistant] And there's no one in front of you running. We would call it the green grass rule. Keep running. There's nothing but green grass. So we don't have to, just because we said it's a zone.


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[Assistant] But the 4dbs are 30 yards deep. We don't want to sit down there. We'd like to hit you on the run so now you can make a play after the catch, right? Right. So that's what I think happened here. So let's go through it. You see Montgomery on your left. Taysom Hill's got in the shotgun. Next picture, Pete, when you get a chance. Here he goes. You see it's zone coverage. Look, right?


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[Assistant] You see, nobody's really matching. Everybody's going the linebacker that's on the emblem right in the middle of the field. He's looking at the wide receiver going up. And as you can see, the two defenders on the right, the corner and the safety, they're what, Ahmed?


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[Assistant] So now, do we have one more clip? I think we got one more picture. Now, now he stopped. Right. He doesn't, he hasn't even seen the ball yet, and the ball is already in the air. Right? Yep. And it ends up being intercepted by the guy that's six or seven yards behind him. If he kept running,


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't know, he might come up, catch the ball, and you know, run up between the numbers in the sideline on the right side there.


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[Assistant] You know, either way, to me, that was not a concerning interception. That, to me, was just a bunch of haters who don't want to believe Tayson Hill can do this, overreacting to something, uh, where, again, listen, I thought he looked the part, and I will be shocked if he's not the starting quarterback there.


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[Assistant] A kind of just lofted up jump ball type of situation. He brought the safety over there.


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[Assistant] That to me is like more of an egregious mistake than...


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[Assistant] Maybe a little communication error between the quarterback and the receiver and what should be done in preseason game number one. His was like, wait, it's man to man to the left, the safety's in the middle of the field. He just stared at him, had a little pressure through the ball late.


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[Assistant] Baltimore played their starters. Taysom Hill was out there against starters. Marcus Peters was out there. I mean, they had everybody out there. So, you know, there was something to that too. Jameis looked good. He did well. You know, Jameis does not have the strength in the arm that Taysom Hill has.


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[Assistant] He doesn't throw as a catchable ball, either, as Taysom Hill. Let alone, if there's no Michael Thomas for the first eight weeks of the year, I just think you're gonna need some of the Taysom Hill quarterback running stuff.


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[Assistant] To be another part of your offense. So, you know, again, uh, I like Jameis Winston, you know that, but I expected to beat Taysom Hill as the starting quarterback there.


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[Assistant] They aren't screwed, but I think this is like a legitimate, like, I mean, from the outside looking in, I'm worried a little. I feel like we're under-reacting a little bit to the significance of no Carson Wentz.


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[Assistant] Hey, we talked all off season. The Colts are in the Super Bowl window. Yep. There's no doubt. That's why they made the trade. That's why they made the trade. Exactly right. And now, we're handing the keys over


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[Assistant] To an unproven commodity who, you know, was a second round pick and a lot of reasons, second round pick, cause it was just like, wait, how professional is he? How detailed is he? You know, is he going to do all the right things? All those type of things. That's kind of why he fell. You know, Eason's got talent to what our, our, our Twitter guy said there.


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[Assistant] He can really throw it. He has an incredible arm, and he has size to go along with it. You know, but...


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[Assistant] They gotta be able to trust him too. And again, I don't have answers here, but like one thing that tells me that maybe they don't trust him all the way is he was given the starting quarterback. You be the, you be, take number one reps.


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[Assistant] And then all of a sudden about three days in, they were like, Sam Ellinger got a lot of reps with the ones today. To me, that means Jacob Eason probably did something or had a few bad days at practice or they're like, Whoa, like we can't trust him. So that's where I feel like.


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[Assistant] You know, we're underreacting a little bit and especially because the cult schedule early on is like.


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[Assistant] Insanity. I don't know if anybody has a tougher first aid games in the Indianapolis Colts. They have one break in week six against the Texans.


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[Assistant] But when you go Seahawks, Rams, at Titans, at Dolphins, at Ravens, five playoff teams, bam, right off the bat. And even though, I know it's a new year.


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[Assistant] Like, oh, it's a new year. Maybe all those teams aren't back in the playoffs. The one thing I can guarantee is all five of them will be in the playoff conversation. So, whatever. They're good. You get the Texans week seven, then at the 49ers on Sunday night footballs, uh, uh, on week seven, excuse me, Texans week six, and then the Titans week eight. So,


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[Assistant] You know, tough schedule on the get-go. You have a quarterback who's with a new team and now he might not be able to play the first week or two, right? And you've got an unproven commodity, so that could affect weeks three and four when Carson Wentz comes back because he hasn't got to play and practice and do all those things. And then, yeaah, we don't know who they're going to use week one if Carson Wentz can't play. You know?


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[Assistant] My base thought is Jacob Eason can run the Carson Wentz offense, and they don't have to do anything.


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[Assistant] Okay, yeaah, maybe you can, but maybe that ball gets tipped up and intercepted and all of a sudden you're losing 14-0 and your team can't come back and beat these two teams. That's what I worry about. So that's where I am with that. And like Ellinger, you know,


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[Assistant] They could probably play like control the ball, defense, quarterback runs, few throws for him here and there and do that.


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[Assistant] But I just don't know if that's going to win you games against those type of teams. You know, like if they were playing the bangles and some other lesser teams earlier in the year, they might be able to play Sam Elinger ball and win those games with the quality of their roster.


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[Assistant] I reported pretty early on that I knew they weren't overly concerned. The surgery went well, it wasn't as bad as they thought, and they thought there was a chance he could play week one. I know that from a very good source.


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[Assistant] So, I'm gonna say, you know, he's not gonna miss more than week one or two. That would be my bet. I think that's about as worse as it gets as far as what I've heard from credible people.


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[Assistant] I think so. I don't think it's got enough play. That, and we're talking Dwayne Haskins here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't think he's got enough credit for the way he's looked in the first two games. You know, I don't.


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[Assistant] You know, his professionalism, all those things, I think they're a little bit of a question. Now he's a really young kid, I know that too. You know, no doubt. But man, what I saw in the Hall of Fame game...


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[Assistant] And, you know, last week against Philadelphia, first off, right off the bat, here's the first thing that jumps out to me. Quick, decisive decisions. He knows where he's going with the ball. That's always a good thing to start off with, right? So there's that.


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[Assistant] He's fixed some of his issues throwing the football.


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[Assistant] And that has led to some wow-ometer type throws where I go, wow, like that was a big time freaking throw.


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[Assistant] You know, the biggest thing I've seen in his adjustment is throwing the football is he's more on balance as a thrower. You know, he's got more, I'm not going to stand up, but he's more here, right? He had this little, this little issue where he leaned forward too much.


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[Assistant] And then it was kind of an all-arm throw from there. Now he's always got his feet underneath him.


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[Assistant] And his motion's always been tight and quick, but now it's just more efficient and consistent time after time. And it's leading to an unbelievable amount of quality footballs, uh, that he has thrown down the field that have made me go, uh oh, he's getting it. And to me, here's the biggest thing too.


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[Assistant] Like, he was a top 20 pick for a reason. He's got talent, he's got size, he can move a little bit. He was also the youngest kid drafted in that draft. And where I think this is where it's awesome that he went to Pittsburgh.


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[Assistant] You've heard me talk about Mike Tomlin before. Mike Tomlin is just like the man's man of all men. I mean, that's what he is. He's an unbelievable leader. He doesn't want to hear any bullshit or excuses from anybody. Maybe Big Ben can have a few. Other than that, nobody else can.


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[Assistant] And he holds everybody to that. And I, I feel like that's what you see too here. Okay. Mechanical fixes.


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[Assistant] I just feel like you're a different man on the field, too. Like, no excuses, no bad body language, just, hey, you missed a throw, man up, walk off the damn sideline, let's go, next play, here we go, whatever. And, uh, I think that's where it could be big.


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[Assistant] I don't want to say shock. They might make Mason Rudolph the backup, right? They might do that.


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[Assistant] But I think if he is the backup and Ben gets hurt, it'll be a short leash for Mason Rudolph. Because there's no doubt that Dwayne Haskins is more talented than Mason Rudolph. I'll be interested to where it goes, but yea, I do think there's a chance he's the guy of the future. I'm a huge Mike Tomlin fan.


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[Assistant] The first thing is the quality of the throw. The second is...


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[Assistant] It's a throw that's usually not made against this coverage. And I know some people will go, well, is he making a mistake? I don't think it is because I feel like the receiver was kind of expecting the ball. And I think they kind of evaluated the way that Eagles play this certain defense to go, yeah, usually we wouldn't throw this route here, but I think it's okay.


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[Assistant] But this is what I like about it. He's in the shotgun and I want, there's the tight end and the two receivers on the top of the screen. The middle of the three receivers is going to get the ball.


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[Assistant] Usually that's a type of throw you make against like there's a single safety down the middle, right? And you kind of just keep your eyes on him or look him to the right. So boom, now I can come back and throw to that guy running up the seam. They're playing too deep here. There is a safety, but where I liked it.


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[Assistant] Not only did I say wow of the throw, I think Haskins realizes the safety is at like the four yard line right here. And they're on the 24. And I think he's going,


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[Assistant] Damn, the safety's 20 yards freakin' deep. And then he snaps the ball and he's up almost in the end zone to where he's almost like 30 yards deep.


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[Assistant] So, I, I, I just have seen great recognition and confidence in where to go with the football. And you can see here, the tight end's over the middle, you can see the guy right by the 2 and the 20 yard line running up the hash, and he knows there's a safety, you know, 15 yards in front of him, and he's gonna start to gear down.


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[Assistant] But Haskins sees this as well. And this is what I like about Haskins. You see here, he's gonna push up in the pocket. Here we go, let's go to the next, the next frame. And he's in a good position as far as where he's throwing the football.


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[Assistant] And he throws a laser and puts it on that guy to where he catches the ball and he doesn't get crushed or hit or anything like that. He actually protected them. And you see here, you're going to catch the ball about the eight, nine yard line for a big play that puts them in scoring position.


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[Assistant] To get a touchdown or get some points here at the end of the first half. There's just been a lot of those type of throws that have wowed me. And that was a special one. And again, I don't think that was a mistake. I think that was something they knew what they were doing. And I have no reason to think it was a mistake because really almost every throw I've seen them make in the preseason,


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[Assistant] Has been the right decision or the right place to go with the ball. So, encouraging for Dwayne Hassett.


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[Assistant] They let him off on the bus train. You know, he's a bust. He's a bust. You know, and you know me. He's a bust. He's put him on the bus bus. That's where I, you know, that's where, I don't go down with that. Whether I liked you or not, if you're going to already pigeonhole a guy into something,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think so. I think it's a little like, like what we just talked about. I think there's a little bit of a hater thing on him and it's where it's like, nobody wants to make a big deal about what he did on week one in the preseason. I know it's week one on the preseason, but damn, it looked awesome. Let's give the guy a little credit.


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[Assistant] You know, he looks like a different player. The decision making again is perfect. You know, I mean, it's quick. He knows where he wants to go with the ball. You know, throwing the ball looks phenomenal. And to me, the biggest thing with Drew Locke, I mean, first off, yeah, there was a, I mean,


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[Assistant] Right, okay, yeaah. Let's, let's, like, let the guy get into another gear in the NFL here, okay? It hasn't been the best situation in Denver either.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, again, it's the quality of some of the throws and plays he made in the game. It's not the same, like I know it's preseason game number one. And here's the other reason I say, like, people are underreacting. Bronco fans, Broncos, if you want to be the best possible team you can possibly be, and be in the playoffs,


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[Assistant] For my money, you need Drew Locker's to quarterback. You know, what, what, what the point of having Jerry Judy and Cortland Sutton and KJ Hamler with Teddy Bridgewater? He's not going to throw the ball deep to them and be aggressive and make plays that way. He's not, he just had Robbie Anderson and DJ Moore. And I mean, that's the reason they didn't want him there because it just, there's too many plays and yards left on the field.


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[Assistant] And you play in the AFC West, where you know like, yeaah, maybe you can beat Kansas City every now and then from your defense, but I would bet one out of those two matchups, you're gonna have to score 30, right? So, uh, I, I, I just really like the way he looked.


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[Assistant] Out there, he looks confident knowing what he's, where he's going with the football. He's always had talent.


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[Assistant] And I think he's cleaned up his, his mechanics a little bit too to be a little quicker and tighter. And we have a throw, like we need to show the post route. 80 yard touchdown.


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[Assistant] 80 yard touchdown to KJ Hammer. And to me, like, this is like the point of emphasis. This is where he can be different than Teddy Bridgewater. This is not Teddy Bridgewater's, you know, bread and butter type thing. And KJ Hamler and Judy and Cortland Sudden, they can fly. They can do some special things.


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[Assistant] These are, and then we know they want to run the ball. And have, they got a decent O line now and things like that. So, here we go, he's got a little play action pass, KJ Hamlers on the right. The Vikings are basically trying to, what I think, double cover.


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[Assistant] Both receivers. Judy on the left, I think the corner and safety are bracketing him. And then you got KJ Hamler on the right and I think the corner and the safety are bracketing those two. Leaving the front seven for the


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[Assistant] Inside-outside zone scheme, uh, that Munchek is so good at our offensive line coach. So now he, he pulls the ball, makes a good fake, go to the next picture, Pete.


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[Assistant] Here we go, I mean first off, I mean the guy he's gonna throw the ball to is not open right here, right? But he's got an aggressive mind set, he always has, you know, too aggressive at times to where this is where he's gotta learn and maybe, you know, dial it back a little bit.


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[Assistant] So, I'm gonna sit here and wait on it for a second. And he does. And of course, go to the next picture, Pete. You're gonna see, uh-oh, big trouble little China. That safety's like, oh, oh gosh, gosh, look, I can't hold him. He's trying to, he's trying to hold him and do anything right now because he knows he's screwed. And Drew's still holding the ball here. Drew's still holding the ball. He's gonna let him clear.


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[Assistant] This is not Teddy's bread and butter. There's no doubt. I don't know what Teddy would have done. But he's still holding the ball, letting him clear, probably made sure the backside safety wasn't like somewhere where he didn't seem to pick the ball off.


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[Assistant] See it clears it. Exactly right. It is the benefit. So he does and go ahead. Next picture, Pete. I mean, boom. On the money to where you can see nobody has a chance. He, you know, throws a 50 yard strike. I think it was 60 in the air. And that's the element he can bring.


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[Assistant] And again, let's just evaluate it for what it is. Let's wipe away from our memory what we saw in the rookie year with a dysfunctional team or things like that. Let's, let's give the guy a chance now that they got things kind of settled there in Denver and see where it goes.


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[Assistant] He's been the most, he was the most impressive rookie running back I've seen yet. The most impressive. I've already self scouted myself. I made him the number five running back. I'm just telling you early, early warning looks like I'm going to be wrong. Oh, look at, wait, hold on, hold on. Look at this beautiful married couple.


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[Assistant] I had to embarrass them. I had to embarrass them a little bit. Uhm, but, you know, yeaah, I gotta self-scout myself a little bit with these running backs. It's probably my weakest position, honestly, that I ranked so really.


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[Assistant] Right. And I was wrong there. I should have made Taylor one. But yeah, we'll see. I mean, it's some of the guys that I make three, four, and five I think that I'm like disappointed in at times. Okay, so you had Javontae Williams five.


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[Assistant] Well, I always go to scout myself here. That's true. But, but, you know, I think the thing I, you know, I would love to be able to see these guys in person a little bit. Sure. But I think the thing that, you know, sometimes I forget at running back is, it is, it's a, it's a size game. It's a size and power game.


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[Assistant] That doesn't mean it's going to translate to the NFL where everybody's faster and things like that.


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[Assistant] To where the power comes into play more. The ability to break tackles and run between the tackles and do all those type of things is a real thing.


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[Assistant] And that's where Williams, to me, just in the game, looks special. Whether he wanted to put his head down and drive the pile, but then he had the ability to, wait, I'm gonna put my head down and drive the pile. Oh, there's nothing there. I'm gonna bounce it outside and make a run down the sideline. To me, he just looked.


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[Assistant] Legit. And what I would say is like, you know, uhm, Melvin Gordon better watch out. He better get back healthy or he's gonna lose his starting job. Because that guy looks like a starting running back to me. Definitely. Yea, if I had to re-rank him just from what I've seen to this point so far, I'll keep ATN at 1. But like I might have Javante 2 and Najee Harris 3. You know, again, Najee. Yea, what do you think about,


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[Assistant] I think that's, that's the, that's what you're saying is exactly right. Yeaah. I think we are underreacting. No doubt about it. I, I won't lie. I didn't do a podcast that week, but with the Hall of Fame game, when I saw him, I went, ooh, I don't know if I like the way that looks.


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[Assistant] Now again, I'm not trying to judge too harshly. These are young guys learning a new system. They're nervous. They're thinking. You know, they got camp legs. Sometimes I got to remember that too. That's like, man, they've been running for 14 days straight twice a day. Like they might not be as fast as they really are or as explosive as they really are. Right. But man, last week I thought,


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[Assistant] They need him to be what we saw last week against Philadelphia. It's crucial. They're trying to change the, you know, the culture of their offense. They know they can't drop back with Big Ben 45 times a game and win.


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[Assistant] You know, so yeaah, they need him to play well, to establish the attitude for the offense, the offensive line, and do all those things. Yeaah, I mean, he might be up there with one of the most important rookies in all of football this year. Because they are a Super Bowl team, and if they can run the ball and do those type of things,


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[Assistant] I can promise you Big Ben will hit Chase Claypool and Deontay Johnson when they're open and he's protected. And that's what I'm interested to see as we go.


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[Assistant] This, this to me, cause we always overreact to Patrick Mahoney's, right? This is one I can't believe there's not more. Again, I pose this question to anybody out there, please answer me.


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[Assistant] Patrick Mahomes got his own sneaker. I don't know if you've seen the commercial yet. I didn't have it out. They're really cool. They're really cool sneakers. It's a cool commercial altogether. But what I'm saying and I'm under rea- whereas under reaction to is


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[Assistant] Has there been a football player that's had a sneaker since Bo Jackson or Deion Sanders?


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[Assistant] Sneaker for a football player is incredibly rare. I don't think we've had one this century.


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[Assistant] That has been sold as, this football player wears this sneaker.


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[Assistant] You know, of course football players wear cleats. It's different than basketball where it's like, hey, Steph Curry's wearing that sneaker and now I can buy it. I'm watching him play basketball and I can wear it.


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[Assistant] That just speaks to the celebrity and star that he is.


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[Assistant] Aaron Donald and Chris Jones are the two best interior defense alignment in all of football. It's Aaron Donald then Chris Jones. Period.


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[Assistant] And they're moving the second best player to his position to a new position. He's playing defense end now. He started the game last week against San Francisco at defense end.


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[Assistant] I mean, we're underreacting just from that aspect alone. The second best guy in his position in the sport has been moved to another position. That's, that's weird. You know, I mean, if we did that at any other position, you'd go, really? They're gonna do that? He's so awesome right there. Why mess with it? Why mess with it? Exactly right. But, we're, you know,


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[Assistant] First off, he's a freak athlete. They're trying to get their best 11 on the field. I know that because they have Jaron Reed now. Now you have Derek Nandi inside who they've had. So they put those two guys there. Jones is athletic enough to be a defense end at his size and do that type of stuff.


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[Assistant] So that's where, you know, it, it, it does make sense. And to me, this is where I think this is going to be a trend going forward because of the athletic quarterbacks we're seeing in football constantly. You know, when you have a Chris Jones and a Nandi and a Jaron Reed on your defensive line,


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[Assistant] You can ask them to do different things than maybe a smaller, faster group would do. And if you're going to play, let's say, Lamar Jackson or Kyle Shanahan and the Trey Lance running offense. Now you have.


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[Assistant] Three big guys, three defensive tackles as you're starting defense line. I know that weak side pass rusher. He's always going to be a little undersized in the short edge and all that, but that's what you want. But these other three guys are going to be able to be space eaters.


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[Assistant] And what I mean by that, like two gap, as you've heard me talk about, you know, be able to hold up a guy. I got two gaps and why I think it's going to be a trend as we go forward here is because of the running quarterback. So now you have more flexibility with your second level running a linebacker and safety to go, Oh wait, they're going to run the read option or they're going to do this with the quarterback design run.


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[Assistant] Right? We don't have to have you worry about like the A gap and now get over there to stop this run game on the outside. We got a big guy in the middle now who's got that gap. Don't worry. And he's got the other gap too. So you can hang around there, but as soon as you feel like it, get out there and get them.


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[Assistant] Right? I think it's gonna give teams more flexibility and diversity in how to defend some of these running quarterbacks. I think it's gonna go there. We'll see. I'm not saying I'm definitely right. I have a feeling that's why New England did what they did this offseason. I'm thinking they're gonna take that approach a little bit.


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[Assistant] Like, we got three big monsters, four big monsters up here. You know, okay, have fun trying to run your quarterback to size up. Our safety and linebackers should be free to just come and, you know, kick some ass. We'll see, but I think it's kind of a cool thing and I'm interested to see how it goes.


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[Assistant] I think they have all the, I think they have all, in the commercial they show like five different colors, right? So, but either way, I mean. Is that his own logo on the side? No, no, that's the three stripes is Adidas. Or some people say Adidas. Adidas. He does have his logo on the tongue.


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[Assistant] You're right, with the top button button. You're right, I forgot I got my own logo, but nobody's making sneakers out of it yet, so.


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[Assistant] We're, we're, no, I think people are overreacting with this one a little bit, like trying to be like, oh, he's gotta play in the preseason, it's a new offense, all those type of things.


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[Assistant] No, no. First off, you know, people like Matthew Stafford, Mahomes, Aaron Rodgers, they don't need to play in the preseason. You know, especially, especially when I say Mahomes, I mean Rodgers and Stafford because they've played longer than Mahomes and have done it for so long. Like, it's riding a bike to them.


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[Assistant] You know, yes, because I think here's the, here's the other thing that I think people are missing.


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[Assistant] Okay, but here's the other thing to your question, because I think that's the question. Can you really do that in practice?


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[Assistant] I think we're going to continue to see this trend that you're seeing with these preseason joint practices. You know, the Rams were practicing against the Cowboys last week.


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[Assistant] Now this week, or next week, they're going to be practicing against the Raiders, right?


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[Assistant] He's going to get plenty of somewhat live reps, even though he is, he's not going to get hit, hit, but at least different defenses. I don't know what they're doing. Different guys. Of course it's going to be competitive because you're going against another team to where they should feel fine. And the other thing we can't forget too, the Rams are one of those teams that have taken the approach of like,


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[Assistant] We're an all-star team. Our car starting 22 is awesome. We don't have a lot of depth behind it.


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[Assistant] And from that aspect too, if you're going to build your team like that, yeah, playing some of your great players in the preseason, you don't have the wiggle room to go, well, our second and third stringers are really good. We're not going to really miss that much. No, that's not the way they're built. So I think McVeigh and Stafford, I think people are overreacting to that.


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[Assistant] That's an interesting thought. I mean, I wouldn't care. It wouldn't make a difference to me to go, Oh, I'm watching an actual preseason game or I'm watching them practice two days before the game. And it's a legit live practice. You get to see Aaron Rodgers, Matt Stafford.


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[Assistant] That'd be interesting, right? Yea, it might. Maybe teams start to make that a thing. Like yea, we have our preseason game Friday night.


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[Assistant] But you can come to the stadium on Tuesday, Wednesday, or Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and watch us scrimmage this team. Yeah. And, you know, you don't have to worry about our quarterback getting killed or the receiver getting his head knocked off over the middle in those types of scenarios. I, I again, you know, New England started this trend.


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[Assistant] And of course they did, because they're the ones with all the brains in football. But to me, I just think this is the way the sport's going too. I think you're going to continue to see more and more of this because of like what you just said. The coaches can control.


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[Assistant] The outcome a little bit and feel better about playing their star players and doing that stuff. It's a more of a controlled setting and as you've heard me say before, it's better quality practice.


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[Assistant] Then when you're practicing against your own team, you know, the, the second stringer in the NFL football team.


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[Assistant] Okay, you're taking reps for your own defense, and now you gotta go do scout team for the offense, and you gotta take a bunch of reps there. You don't have to do that when the other team's there, because the other team goes in, and you get to do so by the sidelines, you know, get coached up a little bit, get a rest, to then maximize your reps the next time you're out there to impress the coach. I think that's where it's all headed.


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[Assistant] I- I- I do think there's a- There's something there. Uh, yeaah. There's somewhat of a- I just wanna go like, listen, I don't know, nobody's overreacting.


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[Assistant] But I think we're underreacting by just, let's bring up this point. First off, this is John Gruden, who's a psycho about his quarterbacks. I know firsthand. Okay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they didn't want to play car, mariotas banged up. There's definitely some sort of love affair with Nathan Peterman. I mean, you can see it in hard knocks, whatever it is.


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[Assistant] The way they came out and called the game, all the throws they gave them, even the start of the game, they came out aggressive. To me it looked like, hey, let's see what this guy's got.


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[Assistant] Let's see if we can make up something. What I'm saying to watch out for is watch out for them making Nathan Peterman the backup to Derek Carr and them trying to trade Marcus Mariota before the season's over. It's just something that has crossed my mind.


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[Assistant] It has. You know, there's going to be some teams out there that are going to be like, oh, we could use a backup quarterback because we kind of have a good team and we're not comfortable with our thing, our situation.


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[Assistant] We'll, we'll trade something for Marcus Marta. We know Mario was a little bit on the trade block early in the off season. I think they were looking for suitors and things like that. You know, he took a pay cut. So, again, I'm not saying anybody's overreacting this one. What I am saying is, knowing that coach out there,


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[Assistant] And just kinda reading between the tea leaves of the NFL and what I've heard all year, I would say, I think that's gonna be a possibility. I'd like to see where this goes.


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[Assistant] Alright, Cleveland, I mean, not Cleveland, the Colts. Yep. If they go, like, get through these next two precincts, they go, man, Eason and Ellinger, they're falling apart. We can't trust them. Wentz isn't going to be back till week three. Yep. You might see that. Here's another team that just jumps out to me. The Ravens. Like, why would you, you got a Super Bowl team.


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[Assistant] I'm sorry, if you get, if Lamar gets hurt, McSorley, who's hurt again, he barely played last year, he got hurt, he's barely, he played in a preseason game, he's hurt, you're gonna, you're gonna, the Super Bowl team, you're gonna risk it on McSorley?


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[Assistant] Like, like, I wouldn't. I mean, that's just what I would say. So those are two teams that jump out to me, like, right off the bat. And then, you know, just looking at other situations. I'm just trying to, and I didn't even plan to look at this. I'm just going off the top of my head here. Uhm, but, gosh. You know, I mean, mmm.


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[Assistant] Just trying to see if there's any teams that really jump out to me to where I would think, ooh, he makes sense there in case something happened. Who'd he say? Titans?


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[Assistant] They're not going to bring him back, I don't think. That's, that's just a little dicey. I know. I thought about the Titans for the thought. I know what you're thinking. Pete said, Pete said Titans. I know what he's thinking because they're a team too. You go, who's your backup? We don't even know. And you're of a Superbowl team.


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[Assistant] So that makes sense, but I think that's one place we could say no. I don't know. Would the cowboys want to go that route? Right? That would be one that jumps out to me there.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think it's, uh, interesting, the Mariota situation. I'm probably missing another team or two out there. That makes, that makes sense. What'd you say, Pete?


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[Assistant] Colt McCoy there. Oh Cardinals, I did look at them. I do like Colt. Uh, no, I think Mariota is definitely a step above Colt McCoy. I said the Lions, not that they're in a Super Bowl window or anything, but, you know, again, I don't look at their quarterback situation as being the best. I mean, he could, quite honestly.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so, I don't know, just, but I think it's food for thought nonetheless. That Raider situation, it caught my attention, I just wanted to hit on it.


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[Assistant] And that makes it harder for me to watch everything. But we'll hit on all that. I do think next Wednesday, Big Phil will be back in the fold. He had to do something today. So we'll get him on there. Pauly B is coming back. Pauly B is coming back next week. So we'll start the rotation between you two.


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[Assistant] Alright, good luck with that. You the man. Have fun in your blazer. Peace out. Ahmed, you the man. Thanks. See everybody on Monday. Clap it up.


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[Assistant] And I end up walking around the house. I really, that's what I've done. I've just made **** up. That's what happened with me, with my homie, my homie.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's right. That's into the great mind of the musical composer, A1 Wolfgang Sims, who's awesome at coming up with great songs. Whoa, baby, he's back. Pauly V's back. You look good, man. Looking good. Nice shirt. Guns are popping. You don't look too tired. Oh, that's, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, good. Alright, you're back in it. Alright, we're not gonna cut you much slack, so get your shit straight early here, okay? Alright, but... No preseason? No, no preseason time for you. You're a vet. You need to hit the ground running. You don't need preseason reps. There you go. You're Paul Burmeister. I would sit out those games, right? You would sit out those games, right? You're way too big time. You're like Rogers.


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[Assistant] All right. Uh, but we do have a good pod today. Lots of storylines. I mean, come on. Week two in the NFL, we got five rookie QBs who were freaking awesome. We're going to have a little game with that.


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[Assistant] You know, and just talk about their, their performances, hit a few other things that went on during, you know, the week, uh, or this past weekend in the NFL. A lot of, I think, interesting angles, matchups, things we saw, uh, things that popped out to me. But of course the storyline is the five rookie quarterbacks who again,


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[Assistant] I'd like to state five rookie first round quarterbacks. Man, they all look like they belong, right? I mean, there's really not a whole lot negative to say about any of them. Trevor Lawrence will see tonight on Monday night football. I can't wait to see that because that's like a.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's a threesome of quarterback fun. It's true. Because it's Taysom and Jameis and we get to see, well actually it's a foursome because Menchu's still involved too. Hey, we're getting risque over here. Uh, but, uh, but I am enjoying all of this and enjoying, of course, evaluating young players.


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[Assistant] We're seeing some teams play their veterans a decent amount, you know, which I come back to the old saying of like, all these new rules, you know, OTAs and, you know,


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[Assistant] Yeah, even in training camp and we can't tackle and there's only a certain amount of days you go, like I think some of these old school coaches are like, Hey, the only way we're going to get better at playing football is to play football. Right. And that's where you see.


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[Assistant] I mean, Belichick so far, a lot of the starters. Mahomes and Andy Reid in two games have played, I mean, they played into the second quarter last week, defense played a lot, did all of that.


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[Assistant] You know, I, I look at like, uh, I just want to throw out some other teams. The Dolphins, borderline playoff team, they're playing all their starters. Manda, they look the part. The Steelers, yeaah, they were a playoff team last year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they got Big Ben. They don't like the way the year ended. So they're looking to hit the ground running week one. They're not going to be like, oh, we'll see how we get used to the game in week one. So they're playing a ton of football, right? You know, the Broncos.


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[Assistant] They certainly were a team that jumped out. The 49ers last night played a lot, so we're still seeing like a lot of good starter quality football too, to where you can get a feel for at least a good amount of


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[Assistant] Yeah, no doubt. I mean, that's what stunk about like the Titans-Bucks preseason game. Right. Because none of the starters played because they had an intense few days of practice. So you don't get to see a lot other than a few young guys. Giants-Browns, same type of thing there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, you don't get to see much as far as the game's concerned because they got good quality work. So they're not worried about it. They're not going to risk, okay, we have a Super Bowl team in the Cleveland Browns and yeah, we'd like to take people to the ground and tackle and do all that, but we'll wait till week one. I get it. Every team is a little different.


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[Assistant] There's no doubt about it, uh, but interesting weekend of football nonetheless.


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[Assistant] It just, you, you don't ever like, the old days, if you had five first round quarterbacks, you would see two or three of them be like, whoa, they're overmatched. They need, yeah, they're lost. They don't know what they're doing. They need a year on the bench or anything like that.


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[Assistant] Like, uh, the new age here, the last two or three years, I mean rookies don't ever really look like that anymore.


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[Assistant] And I've had these conversations with Pete Dimolittle and everything like that. You know, one, maybe they're used to being showcased more than ever now, right? I mean, really, the day, the, the, the, the era we're living in right now, you're like, as a freshman, you're ranked, like, this is the top 10 freshman quarterbacks in the country. So they're used to that.


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[Assistant] There are all these 7 on 7 camps where they show themselves, I'm going here, I'm going there, I'm at the Nike thing, blah blah blah. So they're like used to being under the microscope. I watch my own damn kids.


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[Assistant] Do TikTok videos and dancing and stuff. And I'd go, man, when I was their age, I would have been way too embarrassed to do that and put that out there for everybody to see.


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[Assistant] I gotta think that's some part of this too, to where there's the social media has made them numb to like, what a camera's on me? Oh, that's time to perform. Let's go. They are kind of like that.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I admire it. I really do. And certainly none of them look like the game is too big. That's for sure, like you're talking about. So, yeaah, let's break it down. I think, uh, all of them had some, some interesting things about the game, their games this weekend and things we can certainly dissect a little bit.


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[Assistant] No, I have not seen enough. Absolutely not. You know, I understand, like, the thought, and I understand that, you know, when he signed Eddie Dalton, he made a promise, you'll be the starter, you know, and all of that. I get it.


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[Assistant] But from what we've seen through two weeks, and I know Justin Fields hasn't been out there as a starter quite yet, right? But I've seen enough of him to know that


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[Assistant] He can handle starting week one or week two or whatever it is. Yea, you're gonna have to manage him a little bit, certainly. Okay, big deal.


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[Assistant] I mean, my big thing is this, like, let's not just name Andy Dalton a starter just because you promised it to him. This is the NFL. There's no promises. I made fun of it today earlier on the PFT. Did he give him a promise ring to go along with it? Like, did he get down on a knee? Like, I promise you. Like, there's no such thing.


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[Assistant] You know, there really isn't. And I think the biggest thing I come back to is, and you've heard me say this before, listen, I'm not a big fan of Matt Nagy and the Bears offense. I'm not. I mean, it's not good.


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[Assistant] There's no, we've seen Mitch Trubisky in it, wasn't good. Nick Foles was supposed to come in and save the day.


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[Assistant] Wasn't good. I mean, so I don't know where, and then we see Mitch Trubisky go to another offense and tear the shit up of the Bears starting defense. Like you can't stop him. Like he's like the best quarterback in football. So I have issues and to me it's going to be that


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[Assistant] What type of offense have we been underwhelmed with with Andy Dalton when he's the quarterback?


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[Assistant] You know, and in, even in, you know, of course the first two games in this game here, you know, the stats are okay.


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[Assistant] That actually is exactly right. Now I know you had the interception. Hey, the receiver fell down. You know, I get all of that.


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[Assistant] I guess at the base level, from what we've seen with Justin Fields, first off he has very nice natural feel of like stay in the pocket or it's time to get out, he doesn't look like he's trying to run or do anything like that, right? But my biggest thing with him is,


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[Assistant] For an offense that has, you know, underwhelming schemes and not big time talent.


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[Assistant] Justin Fields is the number one schematical advantage on that offense. He is the number one thing they have that will be able to affect game plans and affect, you know, the way defenses play them.


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[Assistant] And also add creativity to the offense that's just not there. You know, and people may go, well, it's not, you know, they go, well, Chris, you just said the O line's that good. I'd rather have a not good O line with Justin Fields and Andy Dalton. What's Andy Dalton going to do behind it?


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[Assistant] Because of the quarterback design runs. Oh, he might keep it on a boot. Ooh, they might keep the quarterback out this way. It's gonna slow down the pass rush. It's gonna give the offensive line a little bit of advantage, you know, as far as, okay, maybe we're not as good as everybody thinks, but because this guy's behind us, the defense has to slow down and hesitate a little bit, and they're not sure what we're gonna do.


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[Assistant] And I think there is value in that. So yes, I have not seen enough from Andy Dawson to sit here and say the starter. I mean, I'm on the other side of almost going, I've seen enough to go, let's go and start the Justin Fields era. It's time. It's not perfect. You know, I still have some questions.


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[Assistant] Right, right. Well listen, you know, I, I know I said this back then, I, I liked all six of these guys. Right. That I like. I, I really, I mean, I said many times, it was the hardest year for me to rank. Because I, I didn't think any of them were like necessarily bad or undeserving of being towards the top. I get that.


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[Assistant] You know, my big question with fields and it's still not answered to this point. And we saw a little bit.


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[Assistant] Uh, in the game the other day, it's just throwing from the pocket. That is going to be the big question. And we're not going to really know the feel of that until he plays first team defenses and people can corral him and keep him in the pocket and all of that. And even so, I don't expect it to be at A plus level quite yet or anything like that. But what I've seen enough of is enough good throws from within the pocket and control of the ball.


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[Assistant] And the appropriate throws. Oh, the guy's five feet in front of me. I'm not going to knock his head off. Here's just a nice little flick of the wrist. Oh, here's an out route. Okay, I can push it a little harder.


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[Assistant] You know, would I like some of those things still to happen quicker and maybe explode out of his hands when he throws one of those power balls a little bit better? Sure.


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[Assistant] But it's still good enough to get it done, but the biggest thing is just the man, the athlete. That's the biggest thing where I think I just go, wait, he belongs, the athleticism's real, he is the fastest quarterback of this draft, he has another gear that I think even Trey Lance doesn't have.


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[Assistant] And because the offense is not great and it's less than creativity wise, that's where I just go quarterback design runs, boots, play actions. You know, the threat of him running is going to open up other lanes or other running backs in the backfield. And I think he gives them a great advantage that way as to where Andy Dalton, I want to go, I've seen this offense.


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[Assistant] That's not something I look at and go, Oh man, he's going to have a tough time figuring that out. He'll learn to look at defenses and the clues and go, wait, I'm my offensive line sliding this way.


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[Assistant] And then also within them, they need to protect them too. They don't need to play the game overly complicated with Justin Fields. Like we said, run the ball, he runs the ball, he runs the bootlegs, you run some play actions, and you hope to avoid


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's not going to be his wheelhouse, at least in my opinion right off the bat. You know, but I don't look at that as like a, you're going to have some issues as a rookie quarterback and that's not always going to be perfect like you're saying.


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[Assistant] But I, not enough to me to where it's going to change me. And here's the other thing I get from like a few friends. Cause I've said this to some like my football friends over the last few days. Well, man, they got the Rams the first week. Do you really want to throw him out there against the Rams?


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[Assistant] I want to go yeaah. I do. They got the bangles in week two. And honestly, the Andy Dalton Bears offense versus the Rams defense? Negative Ghost Rider. They're not going to win that game. I'm just calling it now, if that's the way it goes. With Justin Fields, okay, now you can go


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[Assistant] Wait, Rams, your defense is awesome. We know you're good at defending the drop back pass and what you did last year and all those type of things.


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[Assistant] But, we have these, all these runs you haven't prepared for from our quarterback. All these Lamar Jackson, Taysom Hill runs that you haven't seen all preseason, you haven't seen us do, you don't know how we're going to attack us, and this quarterback we got right now, he's been on the big stage before, he ain't scared, and the one thing we're seeing here too is,


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[Assistant] The, the, I think maybe the most impressive thing, he's taken care of the football. Even when he gets out of the pocket and nobody's open, he's not trying to force some highlight play or do something stupid like that too. I've been really impressed.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm not sitting here, I would love to see more from the drop back passing element and all those type of things. But everything I've seen is on the up and up to where I just want to go, okay, come on Chicago, let's start it.


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[Assistant] Let me ask you this. Do you think there's any politics involved in this decision?


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[Assistant] Practice, I know, okay, Andy Dalton might be a little bit better because he's a veteran and he knows how to practice and all those things, but are we really trying to win if we're putting him out there? I mean, there's that side of the story too. You could say opposite of the, I promise the guy.


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[Assistant] So, there's that, and then here's the politics part where I just, I would like,


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[Assistant] Like with the politics part, I just go with Andy Dalton. Okay, you start Andy Dalton, he loses, they start out one and four.


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[Assistant] Now Justin Fields comes in, saves the day. Does Matt Nagy now save himself from being on the hot seat because he's like, well, see when Justin Fields, I got my quarterback in there and he saved the year and now I'm good for next year, right guys? Cause look at what we did. We kind of built them. Uh, I guess sometimes I wonder if he's looking for that wiggle room that way.


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[Assistant] I know, I mean, I would think he is, and maybe that's what he's thinking, maybe he's just thinking like, the Rams, I'll start Andy Dalton, and then, you know, if it's just so-so, or not great, then the next week I start him at, I start Justin Fields at home against the Bengals, which is going to piss Andy Dalton off because he's going to want revenge against his old Bengals team.


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[Assistant] Hey, it is what it is, and like we're both saying here, we know what Andy Dalton is. Justin Fields, though, is the future of that organization. He showed promise, and I'm just over...


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[Assistant] Like, sit the rookie, do that, that day's over to me. Like I said, every now and then there's a circumstance. Sure, Jordan Love, he was extremely raw, didn't get a preseason, and okay, that was one I'm all for. You know, but this is one here where


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[Assistant] You know, we've seen the guy play at a high level for two years. He's got a special skill set. You know, we know what the other guy is. And I think bottom line is, like I said, to start it off, he is the number one schematical advantage they have on the offensive side of the ball. And that's kind of where I kind of look at it. So I'll be interested to see where this goes.


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[Assistant] Well, and I was like, the other thing I was trying to portray too, like, you know, you start with Fields, I mean Dalton, and if you don't get off good and then Fields comes in and you look better and saved his day, does that buy time for him to too to go, you know,


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[Assistant] I don't know with what. I don't know. To me it would be the fact that


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[Assistant] Jimmy threw an interception and he wanted him to go out there and play well right off the bat so he could go, it's Trainlands time.


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[Assistant] And he's pissed off about it. Like, well, like, can we replay that clip? Like, just to replay? I want everybody to listen to the first part of it. You know, when he's like, well, I would have liked him to close that gap. Like, he's saying like, yeah, I want the guy to close the gap. I'd like to, I'd like to be able to tell you something's changed here, but it hasn't. Like, go ahead, play it one more time.


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[Assistant] You know, alright, so, so full, this is why, listen, anybody that, self-scouting thyself. I was on PFT this morning, and I said, yeah, I was raw, and all of those things, but as long as Shanahan feels like he can trust Trae Lance to take care of the ball,


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[Assistant] I don't know, I think I might just start Trey Lance the week one too. And just get it over with. Like, don't play games. You know, first off, Shanahan's special. We've seen him do this with RG3 before with a way lesser team around him than what Trey Lance and the 49ers are. The 49ers are a Super Bowl caliber football team. And I do think Shanahan can manage him. But having said that, okay.


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[Assistant] Having said that, I went back and watched the film this morning of that game. Of course it became available this morning, so I turned it on. And... After that performance...


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[Assistant] I don't think he's going to be in Shanahan's trust tree quite yet. I mean, you kind of explained it. First off, he's got, and I know we got some pictures and we'll show, but I don't want to get there quite yet. Just, here's the first third down.


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[Assistant] Right, throws the high rocket behind Debo Samuel. Like listen, nobody on earth is going to catch that ball. That is not the appropriate throw of that football. Not every throw can be the Araldis Chapman 105 mile per hour fastball. The guy is seven yards in front of him. You can't throw it as hard as you can.


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[Assistant] You know, I understand some ball with, a ball with pace, right? Like Rogers or Josh Allen or whatever, they would have gone, wait, I know I could throw at 105.


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[Assistant] But a disaster might happen. Let me throw it 94, right, like that. So it's still a good pace, my guy can get it in a hurry, it's still, but there's gotta be some feel there. He doesn't have that, let alone when he steps on the gas, he loses some accuracy at times, as you see. Now, the next drive. Very similar route to the first third down he misses to Debo Samuel.


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[Assistant] It gets popped in the air and intercepted. Same type of thing. I want to say the same thing I just said with the first one.


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[Assistant] And off target. So let's look at the photos first off, just to check it out. And this is the, is this the incompletion? Yep. So here's the incompletion. Look, I mean, it's wide open. Now here's the, you know, you see Trey Lance, the position he's in. First off,


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[Assistant] His windup is long. I can already see in two weeks that defense alignments have tell on him.


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[Assistant] They, they get their hands up and he had a few balls in this game that were close to batted and batted because it's a, it's a, it's a, what do I want to say, a deliberate delivery? Yeah, it's quick, but it's long and it's looping with that right arm. So next frame here, wide open, right.


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[Assistant] Now, you know, again, Debo Samuel, I'd go, in the wide receiver room today in San Francisco, they're gonna go, we'd like you to catch that ball.


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[Assistant] But also in the quarterback room, Shanahan's going...


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[Assistant] Dude, we gotta throw a better football there. And it just, and you gotta throw it, no, not only more accurately, but you can't throw it that hard. It's not realistic to think that guy's gonna catch that like that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly, right. It's a little shorter than the Garoppolo Interception, too. So the guy's running at a faster speed. It's coming out of him out of nowhere. And the thing I've tried to portray, too, with Lance, and I think you're gonna continue to see this, and you've seen it in both games so far, drops, right? You've seen drops. Yeah, one, the ball's too hard. Something else I said on PFT today, too.


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[Assistant] He, he, he's, his ball's not an easy ball to catch. It does not spin, it's not perfect spirals, and it's a hard wobbler. He throws kind of a knuckle ball.


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[Assistant] So, that's gonna lead to the ball bouncing off people's hands or not catching it. You know, a spiral is easy to focus on. Whoa, that ball's spinning, I can look at the point, now I can focus on it and catch it. Boom, it's right there.


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[Assistant] I mean, here's the football. Perfect spiral. It's just boom. It's right there. If the ball's kind of coming in like this, oh man, the point hit my palm. I dropped it. Oh, the ball hit me a little sideways. It's harder to catch, especially if it's going that fast.


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[Assistant] So I think there is something to look for. And now we got, you want to show the other picture? Let's go to the other ones. I mean, here we go. Now we got the interception. You can see it's the same type of route. Here he comes in from the right. I can't remember who this was that dropped this one or the throw was intended to.


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[Assistant] Again, cycle through it, Pete. Here he is in the pocket. I like it, but I mean, yea, you see.


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[Assistant] I mean, okay, yeaah. You'd like your receiver to make an unbelievable catch over the middle. He is completely stretched out and jumping off the ground.


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[Assistant] And it's Mohammed Sanu who has like the strongest hands in America, I can tell you. Okay. I mean, Mohammed's from New Jersey. I've spent time around him. I mean, he's, balls don't overpower him. So there's that ball. High, hard, not easy to catch. Boom. Interception. So.


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[Assistant] Okay, now Richie James later in the game, there's this one too, just his third quarter, the first try. You know, again, people are gonna put this on Richie James and I'm gonna go, no way. From where he, his head's not turned around yet, I know he hasn't thrown the ball again, but this is a five yard out route. He throws it way too hard.


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[Assistant] And, and, and even that, the ball goes right through Richie James. So there it is, right? And, you know, this picture's not gonna do justice to what it looked like on TV or film. His head's around, yea, and you're gonna know he should've catch it. But it is truly flying through the air at such a hard


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[Assistant] Pace and everything like that. And forget that the ball goes through him. You should see the coaches and everybody behind him after the ball goes through them. They're all lit and out of the way like it's a bomb.


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[Assistant] Like, oh damn, get out, whoa, whoa. Like, I mean, that's literally what they're doing. So he's gotta learn to throw the ball with some variety and some touch and just some appropriateness as far as


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[Assistant] Wait, not every one has to be the hardest throw I've had. But, getting back to the point here of like,


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[Assistant] There's a lot to like about Lance. You see he's athletic, and he's quick, and the arm is powerful, and he does have the ability to throw a touch pass. We saw them do it right in this, uh, the two minute drive at the end of the second quarter. Little fade down the right sideline. Prettiest ball I've seen him throw yet.


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[Assistant] And the ball spinned and everything. Nice, catchable, appropriate football. We need to see more of that. But where I get back into where I was going, you know what? Shanahan should just start him.


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[Assistant] Right, he did it with RG3 and all those type of things and where I'm going, okay, wait, Chris, self-scout thyself, we need to pump the brakes. He went through a stretch there where I just want to, I want to explain this to everybody. He had the third down drop. Okay. Next drive, he got a completion or two, but then he throws the interception. All right, on the third down.


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[Assistant] The very next pass of the next series, he throws a tight end outroute.


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[Assistant] He threw it right into the chest of the defender. He dropped the interception. So, he has that.


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[Assistant] Now his very next throw after that was nobody's open. He's got the back and some short check down throws, but he's still looking downfield.


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[Assistant] And he'd be an inch away from getting strip sacked. He gets sacked, and I want to go, if those were the starters in there, if that was Joey Bosen company, that's a strip sack, and they've lost the ball.


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[Assistant] And now we've gone missed an open receiver on third down, intercepted on third down, you know, you know, interception could have been interception and hear a fumble. That's where you're going to get in the Shanahan. Whoa, you're not in my trust tree. Like no matter how much I like you and I want, want you to be the starter and everything like that. I, if we turn the ball over.


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[Assistant] I don't care how good we are as a team or how talented you are, it's gonna be hard for us to win football games. You know, so that's where, that was a scary stretch as you imagine, you said already. Those first three series, I mean that was bad, and that's stripped sack. Let me just say this too.


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[Assistant] See, now he's missed a few throws. There's a guy wide open in the middle of the field, but he was a little scared to pull the trigger because he had missed his last two throws, and now missing throws affect his decision making.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, I can't, I can't, but I'll say this just to your question, because that's a great point, you're right. But I can still see them going 11-6 and being a more dangerous team in the playoffs than they would be with Jimmy Garoppolo. And that to me is what you have to balance. And, you know, I don't know, ultimately,


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[Assistant] I don't know what Shanahan will do now. I don't know, last night's gonna be scary enough, I think, to where maybe Jimmy G does start, you just have a package of Trey Lance plays in the first few games, and then if Jimmy G doesn't play well, and you feel like Trey Lance is coming the right way, then maybe they make that switch.


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[Assistant] I kind of went in this morning just going, hey listen, I'm not a huge Jimmy G fan. I think he's a below average NFL starting quarterback. Obviously, I've made him 20 in my rankings. I think the 49ers feel the same way. They did everything they could on earth to try to replace him this year.


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[Assistant] So that's where I came in today going, man, let me just start the era. Shanahan can do it. He can make anybody look good. I mean, anybody. I just like to remind anybody.


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[Assistant] Nick Mullins was going into his 16th start as a quarterback and he was going to, he was on verge of throwing what, what was the stat? The second most yards in the history of football through 16 starts, right? So Shanahan can make chicken shit out of chicken, chicken salad out of chicken shit any day. I mean, Nick Mullins is probably not going to make the Philadelphia Eagles football team.


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[Assistant] And there he was, everybody was ready to anoint him the king of the world in the Shanahan offense. So I never put anything out of the realm. I do think their most dangerous team and offense can ultimately be at its highest potential with Lance.


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[Assistant] I'm glad you got there, because this is one of the points I wanted to make here. Here's the other thing, one of the other reasons I came in this morning on PFT going, just start the Trey Lance era.


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[Assistant] You know, again, Jimmy Garoppolo, yeaah, you know, he's not a great athlete, he's not a great down the field thrower, and if he's gonna be inaccurate with throws like we saw there and then cause turnovers and shit like that anyways, then go with the other guy. I mean, I don't know.


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[Assistant] I'm glad you brought this up because here's the other element we're missing here too.


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[Assistant] They haven't even run Traylands yet. Shanahan's saving all that stuff. He's saving it all.


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[Assistant] You know, and again, that's where I kinda came in the morning going, well, his runs, you know, the Trey Lance runs packaged with his normal runs, and the way he can do play actions and boot Shanahan, he could manage Trey Lance.


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[Assistant] I really think the last piece of the puzzle is he needs to be able to trust him on third down or obvious passing situations and last night's not gonna help him in that department. So to your point, yes, I think there's


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[Assistant] Will be a package of plays. Especially early on. They gotta, they traded three first round picks for the guy. They gotta get him to playing. You just said he's raw and hasn't played in two years. And even before that, it was raw. In the year he did play. Right.


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[Assistant] He's gotta get on the field to some extent. The problem is this.


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[Assistant] You know, as you get late in the year and the games start to count and things like that and Jeremy Garoppolo is still your starter. You know, and, you know, now they bringing in Trey Lance every now and then. You know, that one game where, whoa, Jimmy was awesome and they were up 14 to nothing.


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[Assistant] That's the problem you get there either way. But I don't know what to say about this one. I really don't. I really believe in my heart of hearts. Shanahan wants to start Tray Lance. He wants him to be the guy. He wants to start the new era with him. But last night is not going to help him. Trust him.


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[Assistant] You know, in an NFL regular season game with the way he took care of the football and how close he was to disaster more than just the one in


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[Assistant] It opens it a little bit. You know, I mean, I was sitting here before that was out going up. It's over, right? It's finally over. Cam, my thought after watching the game last weekend was,


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[Assistant] It would take a monumental meltdown this week, or a horrible game against the Giants in preseason game number three, for Cam not to be the starter. You know, for the reasons Belichick just talked about, and I know Belichick and company, they're reluctant to throw rookies out to the Wolves, especially a young quarterback.


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[Assistant] Where they know, wait as the season goes along, we can't just run these bass.


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[Assistant] Training camp drop back pass games. We're going to have to start getting more and more complex, which is like, yeah, I know this is a rookie and he's probably more NFL ready than anything, but he ain't New England NFL ready yet. Okay. There's something to that, right? It's, it's the hardest offense to learn in football and I don't doubt he can do it.


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[Assistant] But yea, Cam's got a little more experience and all that, and Cam played so well the other night. He did. He really did. And you know, I always come back to anybody that's been listening knows this too. You know, I do think the team has actually built more to fit Cam right now than it is Mac Jones.


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[Assistant] Just because of the two tight ends, the unbelievable run blocking offensive line they have, you know, I think their defense is going to be top notch, you know, so they can play kind of run the ball, control the clock, player defense, cam, few quarterback design runs and hit a few throws here and there, that style of football.


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[Assistant] You know, this is gonna just crack the door open a little bit. Just one more time. And you know, not really to the fact where I, I would be shocked if it changes a lot. But I think the unfortunate thing is just to go, damn,


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[Assistant] We got, it's positive. All last week it was, man, Cam had two good days at practice against the Philadelphia Eagles and he, you know, cemented it with a great game on Thursday night. And you're thinking, okay, Cam's comfortable. That's everything you're hearing out there and all that. And then, oh shit, now he can't practice for five days and do that crap?


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[Assistant] You know, so that's unfortunate for him, and yeaah, it's gonna certainly help Mac Jones and him give him a few more chances to impress everybody.


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[Assistant] You know, so there's that. And then, you know, from what we're reading, he left the New England area. And I don't know if he tried to give himself his own test every day, but either way, when you're not vaccinated, you're not allowed to leave the area right now. That's part of being unvaccinated in the NFL.