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[Assistant] To be 50 yards down the field against, you know, Tyree Kill. That would be my question. I would go to Joe Woods. I got a lot of respect for Joe Woods, but that's where I go. Man, like if you want to beat them in the divisional or the AFC Championship game, like those are things they gotta, they gotta correct a little bit.


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[Assistant] I mean, come on. You had all off-seasons to get ready. It's the last team you played.


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[Assistant] And you let the two guys that went off in the divisional game go off again to start the season. And there was no different approach. I know you got Clowney and Uluzu-Koromo and some better players.


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[Assistant] Still, this is like an all time special offense and quarterback, and for you to think you're just gonna do what you do, you know, uh, that, that doesn't fly.


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[Assistant] You know, let's not debate, like, this is an all-time great. An all-time great. And then Andy Reid, you know, of course we know he's always special for a few new tricks and his, his repertoire, you know, his, he's famous for coming off bye weeks and winning those games. So I think it speaks one to, yeah, they always have a few new wrinkles.


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[Assistant] They played a lot in the pre-season, so they hit the ground running. There's no like, oh wait, we gotta get used to football again, like we saw maybe Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay, right? So that's another aspect. And, and uh, and then of course just their pure talent is gonna jump up on people early in the year.


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[Assistant] It's where teams gotta get a feel again for what they do, how they play, you know, how fast these guys are, and then teams will continue to reassess as they go along. But hey, Cleveland, man, Baker Mayfield played amazing. I know he threw the interception.


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[Assistant] You know, but he made a lot of big time high level throws throughout the game.


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[Assistant] Definitely, I agree. They're gonna attack this year. They have confidence in their run game, and I think they got confidence that Baker really has a good feel for the offense, knows what he's doing, and you're right, they're not gonna, they're not trying to keep up with the Sheeps, you're gonna see that every week, all year from now. They're just playing the way they're gonna play. That's exactly right, Paul. I think they are. Hey, you know, the second half, again, still,


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[Assistant] You know, yeaah, it wasn't easy. It's the damn Chiefs. You know, you knew they're gonna make their run.


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[Assistant] And you go, like I said, three and out after a long series like that, you know, you make a turnover, the stupid punter drops the ball. You know, that's how you lose a football game in the fourth quarter to one of the better teams in football. So, uh, still, I think a lot of positives to really build on for their football team.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I would think it only gets better even on the defensive side of the ball. Let's not forget, there's some new pieces there too who are getting used to this system.


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[Assistant] Okay, let Russ cook, here we go again. You know, Shane Waldron?


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[Assistant] You know, again, I think the way the offense looked, and that's another one I'm excited to kind of just break down on film, but, like, I'm an idiot for picking the Colts to upset the Seahawks in this one. I did, I thought they might win a close one.


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[Assistant] You know, and be able to throw some new wrinkles out of the Seahawks defense. Two things jump out to me about this game. First off is what you said. I mean, damn, Russell Wilson and Tyler Lockett and you know, DK Metcalf. I just, I don't know if there's a better, you know,


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[Assistant] I'm gonna say trio or dual threat at the wide receiver position right now to two guys where you just go


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[Assistant] They can go to the house on any given play. Yep. Wilson's ability to be on the money with deep balls is as good as anybody in the sport. I think that's the first thing that just jumps out to me. You know, they ran the ball well and they run the ball well and then Waldron like we saw Sean McVay with Stafford last night can dial up some deep pass plays to be creative every week.


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[Assistant] That's gonna be really tough for every team to handle. It doesn't need to be complicated when you got a guy that can throw it like that and then you can control the line of scrimmage. The Colts were disappointing on both sides of the ball.


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[Assistant] I mean, the front seven, they got pushed around by Seattle. We saw Russell had a lot of time throwing the ball. There was no like scramble Russell Wilson magic plays where you were like, whoa, I mean, man, that was, that was good defense. That's just Russell Wilson being amazing. No, it was just an ass whooping by the Seahawks and then the other other side of the ball too. You know, I had questions about the Seahawks defense, but damn.


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[Assistant] Their, their front seven was all over Carson Wentz and company early on. And it looked like Carson Wentz of old too. I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm going to be interested to see that too. Was he holding the ball too long? Was he waiting for people or too aggressive in decision making? You know, he just got a little bit of that.


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[Assistant] Every play can't be the last play of the game. He's not going to make it through the year if he gets hit like he did again last, you know, talk about injury problems. He's part of the problem sometimes. He's got to learn to save his body and not take some of these hits. Sorry I'm blabbering. I'm excited now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well the first reaction is I think just Matt Stafford's gonna take the offense to a level we haven't seen under the McVay era. And I know Jared Goff did some really good things with them and I'm not trying to, you know, get down on him. It's just Stafford's his special talent. You know, I don't know, you listen to Drew Brees in our pregame show. You know, listen to anybody.


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[Assistant] You know, this is something I've been trying to yell at people for the last seven or eight years. It's one of the most talented players in our sport. He was in a


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[Assistant] Because it just didn't, so if they couldn't run the ball, you know, then of course the bootlegs and the play actions weren't there to the same capacity. And golf wasn't going to make high level wow type throws, you know, in those type of moments where, hey, the run game's not working and now I got to make some plays happen.


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[Assistant] We saw last night without the run game, the play action pass was still really effective because you can call a whole different variety of plays with Matthew Stafford. And then I think the last thing that really jumped out to me is, you know,


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[Assistant] Even when they went through little spurts of running and play action might not have been its best, the drop back pass game is going to be a real element of their offense. I mean, just the Cooper Cup touchdown down the middle, you know, Stafford is going to help McVeigh out because Stafford's been around a lot of, you know, there's been some good drop back pass offenses, right?


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[Assistant] To where he's gonna go, wait, McVeigh, hey, Sean, this is, we used to do this in empty, we used to do this in four wides, it's a pretty good play, I'm comfortable with it. He'll teach Sean and Sean will go, that makes sense, I like it, you like it, I like it, let's do it. And I think it's only gonna grow their offense too.


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[Assistant] McVeigh really knows how to manage a football game. And I think he probably knew like, wait, you know, this defensive front for Chicago is pretty good. We're not going to be able to just dominate in the running game. They've had issues the last three years against Chicago. If you really go back and watch the film, I mean, they lost the Super Bowl year in Chicago.


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[Assistant] And even the last two years, the Rams have beat the Bears, but it hasn't been easy.


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[Assistant] The Bears are a size team. The Rams are a speed and quickness team. So sometimes it's a tough matchup for them that way. But yea, McVeigh does a good job of


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[Assistant] You know, okay, I'm frustrated. It's not working all the way. Let's just throw everything at them. That's how you lose a game. Now Stafford throws an interception or somebody gets stripped sack fumbled or something. So he always plays within himself. He realizes that he's got a good defense too. He's not going to panic on one side of the ball.


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[Assistant] When he knows, wait, there's another offense over there that's not that good, and I got studs on defense. And he plays it the right way. And that's why they win a lot of close games. I know this game wasn't close, but that's why they do.


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[Assistant] Maybe as important to that offense as anybody on their team. You know, I know George Kittle's a star and everything like that, but it's, Deebo does all the other things. Deebo's a great run blocker. Deebo with the reverses and speed sweeps is special. Deebo is fearless over the middle.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm over in the middle. I mean, you know, I know why Shanahan likes him. Shanahan likes any guy that has no hesitation, right? He wants guys to run like they're


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[Assistant] You gotta run through the wall to get a first down here, run through the wall.


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[Assistant] He's got a whole team of those type of guys. And you see Debo Samuel, he catches balls over the middle and just rips them out of the air. He doesn't even wait for it to get him, he rips it out of the air so he can go and make moves right away. You know, just that aspect. Of course the one on one ball that he caught against Jeff Hakuta, I mean that was, you know,


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[Assistant] Garoppolo under pressure, just throwing it up going, wait, I got a 1 on 1 matchup, let me see if my guy can make a play, he makes a play, he does that. Now he had the fumble at the end of the game, which was a great call by Shanahan on 3rd and 12 to ice the game.


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[Assistant] And he just gotta have a better feel for like, oh, there's the sticks. I got the first down. Let me protect the ball and kind of go down. He tried to get a little greedy and go too far. Trey Flowers punched it out and gave the Lions a chance to, you know, steal the game or at least tie the game in a game they really had no business being in.


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[Assistant] Well, it, I mean, it looked like, you know, this is the


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[Assistant] Jimmy Garoppolo, 49ers of the Super Bowl run, what we saw yesterday. I mean, the first thing is, we know, when Shanahan gets the run game going like that, it's just like, good luck.


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[Assistant] Good luck whoever you're, whoever playing him. Because now he's got the run game going. Now he's exposing people at the second level.


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[Assistant] And Garoppolo is phenomenal at throwing the ball over the middle of the field and making quick decisions and getting the ball out of his hands quickly off of play action or even the quick drop back pass game.


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[Assistant] Hey, I'll say it all the time. The 49ers, I don't know why people don't crowd the middle of the field more. They don't throw the ball outside the numbers, but man, Shanahan's genius is just special that way. It really is. And, you know, I think yesterday, you know, I know they blew the lead, but


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[Assistant] You know, prevent defense, and okay, we're gonna be a little more conservative on offense, and yeaah, they had a few problems, missed the onside kick, and that let Detroit, this is the NFL, listen, two or three mistakes, the team can get back in the game, and that's kind of what we saw there, but, uh, I still think yeaah, this is a special football team, and more close to the 38-10 team than the... Right.


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[Assistant] No, I, you know, listen, I don't think Andy can push back much at all. Jimmy can have a ground to stand on to maybe push back. But I think at this point right now he could probably feel pretty comfortable in that he's the guy.


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[Assistant] And Trey Lance is gonna be a guy that they just throw in to screw with the defense every now and then. You know, even just touchdown pass Trey Lance through. It's a great, I mean, that's Shanahan genius. You're thinking, it's Trey Lance. They're gonna do a run, or some quarterback run.


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[Assistant] And then, of course, what does he do? He sends some motion, and they fake the run, and okay, off that action, you think the backside receiver's usually gonna run a shallow cross or something like, oh, he puts the brakes on, he goes back out, he's wide open, easy touchdown. So, that's great.


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[Assistant] You know, so I feel differently about the 49ers and their situation. Garoppolo's the quarterback. I don't think you can trust Traynlands yet from what I saw in the preseason. And I got no inside info in there, in this, so don't everybody think like, oh, he's talking to Kyle.


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[Assistant] You know, people like say things to like my dad and things like, we think your dad, your, your son's a mouthpiece for the 49 for Shanahan. Yeah. I haven't spoken very highly about his third pick of the draft, the whole training camp. You think he's telling me to say that? How stupid is everybody? Yeah. He's telling me the most crucial pick of his career.


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[Assistant] Like, yeaah. You know, bring some question marks up about my number three pick. Did he ever call you and say, hey can you lay off?


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[Assistant] No, he didn't. You know, he didn't. You know, that's what's cool too. He lets me be me. He's never been like, I think he knows I'm going to evaluate it for myself and he's not going to influence me anyway. So that's what I appreciate about my friend Kyle without a doubt. But that situation to me is different.


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[Assistant] That's where, okay, they don't need Tray Lance necessarily, it's a nice Wrinkle, and he's raw.


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[Assistant] Okay, now with Justin Fields and that thing, that's a different animal to me. I mean, you know my answers to some of that. I mean, again, it's not that Andy Dalton's bad. It's just, he's not gonna do anything special.


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[Assistant] He did fine, but your point is 38 temps for 206 yards. That's not going to beat the Rams. That's just not going to do it. It's not going to beat a lot of teams that are like equal to you or better. You know, the game is about explosive plays and they're like only explosive play of the night was the first one that first drive the run by Montgomery. You know, that's where I still will sit here and I think Justin Fields should be the quarterback.


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[Assistant] Right now again, you know, Andy, we have offensive line protection. You'd make the switch right now. I would, I would. Andy Dalton, he knows, he knows, you know, the offense, you know, what about last night can, what part of that could Justin Fields not do? I understand he might have not made every right decision, but I don't go like, man,


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[Assistant] No, and you'll still be able to run those plays because people are going to run defenses that go, wait,


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[Assistant] We got a give and take a little bit. This guy might keep the ball. They might have a quarterback design run. We better play something simple coverage and he'll be able to throw it. But like to your point, the Nagy offense is frustrating to me. How many times last night did we sit there and go,


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[Assistant] Whoa, Andy Dalton jammed it in for six yards! I mean, the risk reward is way higher risk than reward for their offense, and I think that's what bothers me. And the other thing I'll say too, compared to like, Trey Lance,


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[Assistant] He's a little more trustworthy with the ball, I felt like all through, uh, pre-season as far as, you know, just knowing what to do.


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay, a little unlucky, but damn, you throw an interception, you know, you're in the lesser team, you know, you need to get a momentum in those type of situations. If things start off slow last, next week against Cincinnati, which I know is cold-blooded to do to Andy Dalton, that stadium's gonna go crazy. They're gonna go crazy.


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[Assistant] But, but, I know, everybody's like, oh, Andy Dalton revenge game. I know, I know, it's the Bengals.


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[Assistant] They won't be sentimental about it. They can't be. They gotta worry about starting winning some football games. And I think your point is very real. Like, Andy Dalton's capable.


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[Assistant] But he has to have some sort of formula of support around him. He's not the kind of guy that's going to be like, hey, we're just okay on offense. I'll make us really good because I'll make plays and special throws and, and everything like that. That's just not who he is. And especially at this point of his career.


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[Assistant] Right. That's right, ball. Right. What'd you see? I think I saw that. I definitely saw, I watched a little, you know, a little of this film this morning.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, he just, you know, there was just, of course, a lot of movement before the snap that I like. They got, of course, some weapons. When you put Christian Kirk, DeAndre Hopkins, and then there's Rondale Moore on the field, and then sometimes AJ Green's in there, man, it's a lot of weapons to match up against. And then Kingsbury did a good job, I thought, of just,


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[Assistant] Hey, we're in this formation. Oh, watch this guy's flying this way. Oh no, he's going back the other way. Next time it's, we're in the pistol and the back's behind me. You know, oh wait, now there's a snap or two with Kylo Marie underneath the center. So I saw a little variety. That was, that's what you know, you and me have talked about a lot, right? We don't want to just see,


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[Assistant] Shotgun four wides. That's just not gonna get it done week in and week out in the NFL.


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[Assistant] So, the offense off to a good start. The number one thing that jumped out to me, besides Kyler Murray just being an absolute freak show, is


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[Assistant] They might have something with their offensive line this year. I mean, that's, that was to me the number one thing when I walked back and watched the film, I went, whoa.


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[Assistant] Protection was like elite. It was phenomenal. They couldn't get even close to Kyler Murray with the four man rush. I mean, he had...


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[Assistant] Tennessee got into some situations where they're like, shit, we gotta blitz, we gotta do something. Yeah. And then of course then you're one on one. And then there's a Christian Kirk off his back foot cause he knows he's got one on one. Let me throw it out there. That guy's got three rockets up his ass. So go catch the ball. So that, that to me was the biggest thing, let alone the run game to go with it.


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[Assistant] He's gonna be a tough matchup, because they can, he can, he's the type that can split out a receiver, and you can go, damn, he runs routes like a receiver. He's a legit slot receiver, like this. So, they have a lot of ways to attack you. I think that was really exciting to see on the offensive side of the ball. The offensive line really jumped out though. They really did, along with Cliff Kingsbury's, you know, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, versatility on the offensive side of the ball. And before we move on from this game, the defense. I just gotta talk about that a little bit.


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[Assistant] I'm actually got more excited about watching the defense than I did the offense. Really? I did. The offense was good. I'm not going to just go, I'm sold, they're back. I want to see more. Can, can Cliff, Cliff keep, you know, ahead of the curve, continue to be creative and throw a lot of different looks at you? I want to see that. I know Vance Joseph's a really good defensive coach and man, Paul,


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[Assistant] I don't know, I'm scared of course. I mean, this is overreaction Monday of week one, but just the way their first team defense looks on the field.


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[Assistant] Maybe I've underrated them. We'll see as we go forward. But here's, I mean, we know Chandler Jones is a beast. Probably the most underrated pass rusher in football. JJ Watt did look good. But where I was more excited is the second level of their defense.


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[Assistant] It's scary how fast they are when it's, listen, all three of their linebackers, Hicks, Zaven Collins, and Isaiah Simmons can all fly.


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[Assistant] Simmons was, it's the best game I think he's played as a pro.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, he's either right in the middle of the field, praying mantis, running all over, sideline to sideline, long arms, long legs, just everything in your way. You can't throw over the middle of the field. And then when they put him at the end of the line of scrimmage.


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[Assistant] You know, he's physical. He could set the edge. He'll take Derrick Henry on in the whole one-on-one and take him down. He did that a few times. And then like you said, the safeties when you add like Buddha Baker.


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[Assistant] into the equation when he gets down there. And even Byron Murphy at nickel a little bit, you just go, man, you know, you might make it through the first line, but that second group, man, they're coming. And like there's a few times where there was holes yesterday and I went, oh, Derek Henry might get 10 yards here and he got two because they just,


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[Assistant] He threw the ball amazing all day long. I mean just, you know, the first touchdown pass to DeAndre Hopkins in the back end line where Hopkins, I think that was the first one. I don't know. He threw so many damn touchdowns I can't remember. You know, a few whole shots up the sideline. You know, he was beat up last year. He was. He told us that.


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[Assistant] You know, when he, when Florio and I, Florio and I talked to him like in the spring at one point, he kinda alluded to it, cause I knew, I knew his throwing motion was off a little bit.


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[Assistant] And yeah, I think he was beat up at a time last year. Man, but yes, the variety throws and I want to get to this third and sixth row as I watch it because I can't remember exactly. I mean, I got it right here. I got it right here. I got it. Let me see if I got it. He's in the pocket. He's got trips to the left. Yeah, he's got trips to the left. He slides to the left just a little and he throws like a crossing round.


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[Assistant] That's where, like, if, that's where I go back to this Cliff Kingsbury thing to where, if he can continue to just...


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[Assistant] Give different looks, keep teams on edge a little bit. Yeah. The dude's gonna make a handful of plays every game to get you out of jail, like where you just go, wait, I screwed this play up.


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[Assistant] Oh, we didn't block it or somebody busted a route. Oh, it didn't matter. We got 25 yards. Exactly. And then if you can give them just some normal in rhythm plays and offense. Yes.


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[Assistant] Uh, phenomenal and like in this play, just as you're talking about it too, you know, they, they get a, it's the perfect situation. Again, it's pretty good pass protection and it's man to man and it's just like,


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[Assistant] I don't know. You don't have five people to match up against this group man to man. It's gonna be a very special defense that's gonna be able to do that.


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[Assistant] Um, but yeaah, it was awesome to watch yesterday. It really was. And, uh, excited for Kyler Murray. Uh, it was awesome to see the offensive line play that way. And yeaah, watch out. Arizona, the damn NFC West. I don't know. I mean, could we have a, could they, could they do it?


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[Assistant] Could they do it where all four teams end up going to the playoffs? I mean,


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[Assistant] You know, things would have to shake out the right way. A lot of other teams would have to lose, I think, for four teams in the same division. But yea, you got the Saints and Bucks good. That's gonna be really hard. You know, I don't know. Maybe, the way it looked yesterday, maybe nobody from the NFC North should be able to go to the playoffs.


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[Assistant] No, I'm, I mean, like, listen, this is one where I, you know, I'm, I'm self-scouting myself. And I would just say, I'm not going to overreact here yet. Yeah, it was, listen, Pittsburgh's like not the defense you always want to play week one. You know, they do a lot of crazy shit. It's, however,


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[Assistant] Smart. I mean, why? You know, why, why Blitz? Why let Josh Allen make the Blitzer miss? And now you have one last guy down the field covering.


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[Assistant] You know, so I, I think that is a smart gameplay. You got TJY, you got Cam Hayward, you got guys that should be able to at least get around him and, you know, not let him sit there all day long.


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[Assistant] Buffalo controlled this game, for the most part, until about the third quarter. They had plenty of chances. You know, Allen was a little off, certainly. This is definitely a game I'm gonna go back and watch, because I wanna see some of the coverages and things they were doing. But, Allen was a little off.


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[Assistant] The receivers dropped some big balls in a few moments. I mean, whether it was Emmanuel Sanders in one of the last drives of the game, Cole Beasley dropped a few balls. I mean, for one, he had one that was like a third down. It was like a 25-yard crossery drop. You know, so they didn't, as a whole, play their best offensively. And,


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[Assistant] You know, I guess to me the turning point of the game was one thing.


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[Assistant] They had the ball many times, at least two or three times, up ten to six. And couldn't quite just get into field goal territory or get down there to score a touchdown.


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[Assistant] Their defense was playing phenomenal. I mean really, Pittsburgh had shown really, I mean, everything was work.


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[Assistant] They have the fourth down, and I don't know where it was at, Pete. I'm gonna say it's at like the Pittsburgh 46 or 45. They're just over midfield. They had fourth and one, and he threw the little toss out to the left to Singletary.


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[Assistant] They were, I really, this is a play that will probably break down on Wednesday because it needs to be broken down. It wasn't the proper look to run that play is what I basically want to say.


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[Assistant] It's 10-6 there, and the game was never the same after that. That's where the game changed. Because now, they got a short field, and Big Ben and company went on a 4-play, 52-yard drive, got a little momentum, and then that next series, now it's, of course, 13-10.


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[Assistant] Buffalo's got the ball. He throws a seam route up the left side to Emmanuel Sanders.


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[Assistant] It hits him right in the chest, you get two hands on it, and the guy kinda hits him after it and knocks the ball out. Where you go, well that was a huge play, because a few plays later, they blocked the punt and returned it for a touchdown. So, that was, to me, the game right there. And now you're up 20 to 10?


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[Assistant] You don't want to be down 2010 to Pittsburgh. Right. Because now you know you're not going to get any blitzes. They're going to play soft coverage. They're going to let their front forward just go be wild crazy dogs and go get the quarterback. And I thought Josh Allen, in a few moments of the game, yeaah, it was a little too loose.


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[Assistant] It's Pittsburgh. When you get out of the pocket, you gotta give yourself a look around. TJ Watts coming. He didn't go, oh, he's out of the pocket. I'll just sit over here and wait for him to throw the ball. They're coming.


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[Assistant] And you know, they got the strip sack fumble and they had a few other plays like that too that were very close to disaster. So I'm not panicked on the Buffalo Bills. I think the one encouraging thing is the defense looked very good. I had questions about the defense and what they would look like.


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[Assistant] Buffalo, this game was very close. I mean, Buffalo should have been up by more than 10 to 6 and 10 to 3 at points. At least that was my feel watching it. You know, the stats even say, and again, I know I'm not always about the stats, but I think it's still fair to say they kind of controlled the flow of the football game for about


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[Assistant] Almost three quarters, at least two and a half, two and a, you know, three quarters of the game. And then the fourth quarter, Pittsburgh kind of took over from there. While they were controlling it, they weren't scoring.


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[Assistant] You know, Big Ben and the offense are always on the sidelines, right? It's only that. And really, I'm right, it's always three quarters. I'm, I'm wrong. It's, they, they, they controlled the game for three quarters. They did? Yeaah. That fourth down miss was in the fourth quarter, where then they got, drove down to that 52 yard drive and the block punt, that was all fourth quarter. So,


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[Assistant] It was three quarters and they just, you let Pittsburgh hang around.


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[Assistant] Definitely. It gives a little belief. I mean, the defense goes, okay, wait, we're still damn good. We don't have Bud Dupree. Alright, that's a good start for us right there. T.J. Watt didn't practice. I guess he can still play. Yeaah. T.J. Watt's still a baller. Even the offense


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[Assistant] We did see the ball get pushed down the field a little bit. Listen, they're going to give teams problems too when you play man to man on them a little bit. I mean, Juju, Chase Claypool, and Deontay Johnson, they're going to be just about anybody in football and man to man situations, let alone


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[Assistant] They're the, they're, they're coverage receivers. Even when they're covered, they're not. They have phenomenal, like we saw Deontay Johnson, he ball got tipped, he's still got his feet down.


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[Assistant] Chase Claypool caught a, a go route down the right sideline. It was under thrown and he plucked it off the guy's head and the guy had four hands on the ball and he still caught it. They're, they're great that way. Juju did the same way. So that's where they're dangerous. They still do gotta get the run game going though. The run game was nothing special yesterday.


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[Assistant] You know, it was really one run by Najee Harris with his stats for the day.


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[Assistant] 9 for 37, and I think one of them was like a 18 yard gain there that kind of got him down the red zone. He had one double-digit run, yeaah. Right, right. So, uh, I certainly would like to see more from that, that stance, but either way, it's Buffalo, like you said. It's a good football team. Buffalo's not going anywhere. Right. And, uh, it'll give, give them confidence. And man, you know, just Mike Tomlin deserves credit. I mean, come on.


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[Assistant] Nobody's chippier than him. He's, he's probably was nudging and edging his guys, all training camp. You better have your butts ready. We got Josh Allen on the Buffalo Bills. Remember what they did to us on Sunday Night Football last year. You know, they're, they're a


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[Assistant] I mean, yeah, it's the biggest ass whooping of the day. For sure. And the biggest surprise. And the biggest surprise, you know,


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[Assistant] There was never a point in the game where I went like, Green Bay will get back in this, Green Bay, I mean it was from the get go, it was smother job. Smother. Green Bay...


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[Assistant] Is not all that creative on the offensive side of the ball. If they don't have a little bit of the run game to go with it, then they can marry some of their cool play action passes. But, I think the Saints, and I'll be interested in when I watch this film too, I think they went with Bakhtiari out, a new center, they said,


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[Assistant] We're not gonna give you Rodgers any chances to change field position throw bombs. It looked like they played two safeties back all game long for the most part and just whooped the shit out of Green Bay's offensive line. So Green Bay couldn't run the ball. And listen, again, I'm not trying to give any excuses for Aaron Rodgers and company.


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[Assistant] Please, go back and watch the game, just from what I saw, of course, and I know I'm watching other games and everything, but I didn't see an open receiver all game long.


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[Assistant] And drop back pass game is, is not a special thing to me. It never has been. You know, even back to McCarthy, but even here with, with Le Fleur, I've never been like, oh.


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[Assistant] You know, yea, Lafleur brings some of that Shanahan play action. We're going to run the ball. He's good in that department. But when it gets to straight drop back, to me, it's too reliant on 12. It's just like.


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[Assistant] Basic concepts and, hey 12, throw it in there. And, you know, just against a team like the Saints.


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[Assistant] Who's pissed off at the world and everyone's writing them off because there's no Drew Brees.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they were all over it. They, I mean, I did not see anything. And I'm not trying to make excuses for Rodgers or anything like that. Devontae Adams, every time they showed him in a clip down the field.


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[Assistant] It was, it was that bad. It just, I don't know, we're gonna see where it goes. Yeaah. We are, I mean again, I don't think, I'm not like panicking on the Packers.


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[Assistant] Hey, off-season turmoil. You know, all that shit you go through. Another NFC championship let down.


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[Assistant] You know, Zedaria Smith not happy with his contract situation. I mean, they just, they got a lot of issues.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, we'll see. And then they met a team that, you know, was motivated, understood the scheme, and I think a tough matchup for them, you know, all together. And, uh, Jameis Winston played, played awesome. I want to get into the Saints, yeaah.


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[Assistant] I mean, okay, but I'm not gonna say I feel as confident about the buffal- I mean, as- as the buffalo builds. I'm more confident in buffalo's ability to-


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[Assistant] Maybe six wins, okay, maybe five and one. Like, I don't think it's gonna be much worse than that. Four and two might be as bad as it gets, I would think. Maybe, we'll see as we go forward here.


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[Assistant] I guess I have more faith, this is what I have more faith in with Buffalo. First off, Alan is capable of more than Rogers at this point of his career. He really is. He's, even when things are broken down, he is capable of making more magic happen. He has


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[Assistant] I think a better weaponry around him, even though I don't go, whoa, it's unbelievable. I mean, Diggs is amazing. Emmanuel Sanders is good. There's a reason this is third team in the last three years though, everybody is not a superstar anymore. You know, Cole Beasley is good. Dawson Knox is good at tight end, but I do think Buffalo's passing system, their system,


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[Assistant] It's just more creative, more in depth. I see way more route combinations and schemes as compared to.


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[Assistant] Green Bay, which in their drop back pass scheme is like west coast one on one. It's like still stuff sometimes where I go, yeah, okay, most of the old defensive coordinators know the rules of these plays just as good as your players do. They've been defending this since Bill Walsh in 85.


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[Assistant] So they know it. And that's where I get concerned with Green Bay a little bit, I guess, is that aspect. Right. So they are a little bit more, they're more reliant on needing the run than Buffalo.


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[Assistant] You know, Buffalo, they ran the ball yesterday, cause of like what you said. It looked like Pittsburgh was so deep off and running so many different crazy zone coverages and things like that, that they were like, shit, we gotta run the ball up the middle in a few draw plays and let Singletary go in there, cause it was stealing. Right.


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[Assistant] Well, I think when I see receivers not open like that, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, the scheme is gonna be the first thing I'm gonna say. There's too many plays on replay and everything.


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[Assistant] You know, I know Roger Stowe's The Interception when they're down there close. You know, but even that, they had a guy running with the shallow cross and they had another guy coming ready for the shallow cross. You know, that was a dumb throw by him. He wasn't that open. No, he was not that open. That's what I mean. But there was a, there was a beat on their offense. So that I think is the first thing I'm gonna watch is just to go,


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[Assistant] You know, listen, I know Rogers didn't play as good and the offensive line wasn't great, but to me the look was nobody was open all day. What did the Saints do? Where in the offense did they have a beat on what they were doing? I think is the first thing I want to check out.


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[Assistant] Crushing offensive line that's in the conversation for one of the best in football. We know how special the running back is off of that in Camara.


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[Assistant] So they're going to force your hands and Peyton is a, he's a run first play caller the last five or six years. This is not like 5,000 yards drew breeze back in 2013 or 12 and those years where he's looking to do that.


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[Assistant] So they make you creep up and respect their run game and they're gonna move most teams off the ball and that's where they're gonna be dangerous because then okay, now Callaway and Deontay Harris, they can stretch the field and Jameis certainly can push the ball.


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[Assistant] Listen, again, I'm not like the end all be all. Maybe you play this clip and send this out to all these people. I'm gonna sit here and tell you when I'm wrong. I don't think I'm gonna be right about every evaluation. I do 97 zillion fucking evaluations throughout the year.


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[Assistant] I, okay, every now and then I'll be nine hundred and six, nine hundred and sixty nine zillion zillion correct in one wrong. No, I'm just joking. Uh, he did. He looked really good.


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[Assistant] He looked good in the preseason, just in the ten snaps. You know, I did like the way he looked. Hey, I picked Philadelphia to win this football game. Just so people would know that right off the bat.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, the way he controlled the football, certainly was good.


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[Assistant] You know, the ball placement throughout the day, you know, I don't go, wow, what a laser, wow, what a spiral, but the ball is always right there where it needs to be. And then, of course, his ability to make plays outside of the pocket, like the touchdown before the end of the first half. I mean, that's special what he brings to their football team. And here's the thing I'll say too. You know, as I got closer to the season,


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[Assistant] I did sit there and go, man, maybe I'm a little low on Philadelphia. Because I think Pete would have tested this. What I've been saying over the last like 10 days or at least is just, man, their offensive line can be special. I mean special. When you talk about, you know, the big tackle, I'm gonna mess his name, we just signed up the contract extension.


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[Assistant] Malata, right, Malata. You got Kelsey. You got Brandon Brooks back healthy. Lane Johnson. I want to go, yeaah, that's one of the better groups I can talk about in football.


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[Assistant] You know, so they can protect him, but they also, because of that group, they're gonna make some defenses go, damn, we gotta put an extra guy in the box. They're gonna blow us off. They ran the ball a few times yesterday and the Atlanta Falcons, their whole front four was four yards down the field.


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[Assistant] You know, even the throw to Devontae Smith for the touchdown. Just the right trajectory. Excuse me, I'm drooling. Right ball. And the other thing too is I'm a believer in the offensive scheme.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm a huge Shane Steichen fan, the offensive coordinator there, who came from the Chargers last year with Justin Herbert. I'm a huge fan of his. Like to me, he is gonna be a head coach here in the next few years. And then, um, uh, Nick Sirianni, I'm the same way. You know, I didn't love his first


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[Assistant] Their D-line is another unit where I went, ugh, I think I'm at an underrated...


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[Assistant] You know, how they're gonna be able to push people around on both sides of the ball. And you saw yesterday, Falcons aren't ready for Tennessee Titans Derrick Henry football yet. They're not built for it. They got their asses whooped. Matt Ryan was under duress.


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[Assistant] And, uh, yeaah. You know, it's gonna be, I think it's gonna be a tough year for the Falcons. I don't see it.


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[Assistant] I really am. I'll tell you the other aspect that I love. Jalen Hurts is like...


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[Assistant] You know, when he gets asked the right question, he just, it's always the right answer. I always go...


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[Assistant] Guy gets it. He just gets it. And, you know, he just doesn't let much affect him. Deshaun Watts is gonna get traded. He doesn't give a crap. He just keeps going. He's just gonna keep biting just like he did from Alabama to Oklahoma and here he is now and he's improved himself in a short time as far as a passer and we'll see if he can...


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[Assistant] Yes, it is. Get used to this. It could be a year where he's going to throw maybe 25 touchdown passes and 25 interceptions. You know, one, they're not going to run the ball consistently good on anybody.


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[Assistant] You know, he's raw. Urban Meyer, like we've talked about, is getting used to the football. And listen, honestly, like, you know, I'm not going to sit here, they proved me wrong, but I just, the offensive coordinators and the people designing the offense down there in Jacksonville, you know,


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[Assistant] I need to see more too. I've never been like, oh, Darryl Bevel, watch out, you know. Oh, Brian Schottenheimer, watch out. I like Schottenheimer, some of the run stuff. You've heard me say that before. And I have respect for both of those guys.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've never been blown away by the creativity of their offenses. Either way. And that to me is another thing that, you know, we gotta continue to evaluate along with the Trevor Lawrence thing. Trevor Lawrence physically looks good. It's fine. It's just gonna be rough. They're not, they got a lot of new things going on there. That was the dumbest pick of my weekend. I had...


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[Assistant] I, I, oh, I'll show you my other notebook. I had the Texans winning the game. I got on the podcast with Florio on Friday morning. He got in your head. He started talking and I went, you know, man, Texans have been dysfunctional. Maybe Urban Meyer is going to do something special here. It was such a stupid pick.


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[Assistant] I mean, you know, the Texans said what you want, they still got a lot of pros and people have been around for a long time and there's some things that you can go, you know.


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[Assistant] Jags were three, I know, still, it was a dumb line by Vegas, that got down to like, they were smoking crack when they did that one. You know, they really were. But, but here's, I think, uhm, yeaah, expect this. You know, Trevor Lawrence, the game was easy for him in college. Not only because he was talented, but he was always on the best team.


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[Assistant] I don't want to say to manage the game, but just, yeaah, manage the game to a degree. Hey, it's 17 to 7. You're on your own 6 yard line. It's second and 9.


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[Assistant] You don't need to force a 20 yard out route when the corners dropped 18 yards already.


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[Assistant] You're just, that's not, you know, know the situation, know where you are in the field. Okay, at second night, the guy underneath was wide open, you could have thrown it to him, he probably would have got the first down. You know, just things like that throughout the game. Where, yeaah, he'll learn, but there's a lot on his shoulders. And there's a lot of newness there in that Jacksonville team. I think you're gonna see a lot of this all year long. Still though,


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[Assistant] I'm not like panicked about him. Physically, he's the real deal. Yeaah, he's the real deal. It's gonna be about the rest of the team and everybody helping him out and he's just gonna grow as a player and Jacksonville's gonna take their lumps this year.


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[Assistant] Carolina's gonna be good on defense. People are gonna learn that. I'll be shocked. I mean, again, I'll self-scout thyself in five weeks if I'm wrong about that one. But I would be shocked if they're not a pain in the ass for everybody. Really. I mean, their front four is good. Their second level linebackers are good.


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[Assistant] You know, the two safeties and JC Hornet corner with the other guy, uh, the, the, the, the kid from LSU at the other corner is like four year four. He's got three rockets up his ass. I'm blanking on his name. I mean, there, I would be shocked if Carolina's defense is in a pain in the ass for everybody all year long. I mean, you said it. Yeah. Early game was struggles.


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[Assistant] Okay, yeah, he's playing against a good team. His team's not that good and they couldn't run the ball, a lick. And then you saw the pass protection.


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't know how much you saw that game. Saw the whole game. The pass protection was brutal. Right. I mean, it was brutal. Not only brutal that they were getting beat man to man, but just again, here's another thing. I, I need to watch it on film, but felt like they had a jump on the schemes themselves. Like they ex like, Oh, when they're in this formation, they're going to slide the line this way. And if we kind of just,


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[Assistant] And he just kinda comes back right and fires. You know, yea, it's probably been open all preseason, all training camp. But now you got the starters in there. The game's a little different. And Shaq Thompson did a great job. Come on, he got one hand up, he knocked it, and then caught the ball. It was a great play. But I think your point is where I wanna go.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't care. I didn't expect the Jets to win. I don't expect the Jets to win a whole lot all year long.


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[Assistant] He still made the most eye-popping throws out of all the rookies. I mean, some of the throws he made in the second half, I don't care what anybody says, right? Were insane. Fourth and eight. Fourth and eight? The one, is that the one down the left sideline? Yes. I mean, to Denzel Mims? Yeah. I mean, come on, that's, that's Rodgers. That's Mahomes. I mean, there's just, there's not a lot of quarterbacks in football that do that.


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[Assistant] You know, you saw, you got to see him get outside the pocket and throw a touchdown to Corey Davis. I think there was a lot of good, if you're a Jets fan, to just go, man, this guy looks the part. You know, yea, they're crushed by injuries, but Kai Bekton's down now. You know, Elijah Vera Tucker's been hurt.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Sam Darnold. I mean, Carolina should have been up by more than, you know, 9-0 early on. I mean, this game had total domination. We probably should have been up 20-0, 23-0.


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[Assistant] You know, they got down in field goal range once, but there's an issue with their field goal kicker, so they punted the ball, and they're at like the 30 yard line. You know, of course they had the fourth and one at like the four yard line, and Sam Darnold hit the fullback as he was going to give it to Christian McCaffrey. It caused a fumble, they didn't get the conversion.


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[Assistant] Right, exactly right. That's what I mean. They weren't like, that was it. They weren't difference making throws, but you go, ooh, if he hit those, this game would have been a little more cushiony and comfortable. But either way, he looked good. And you could see McCaffrey and DJ Moore.


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[Assistant] We'll see. I know I picked Carolina to go to the playoffs, but I think their system fits their offensive skill set. I think they got talent on defense. We'll see where it goes. But, uh, yeaah, they should have won that game by more, but I give the Jets a lot of credit. Robert Sala and company just hanging in there and making it competitive at the end.


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[Assistant] Well, here's the two things that I'll go to right off the, right off the bat. I mean, Teddy Bridgewater 2 made two amazing, the game was very equal. I think this, when the score was 27 to 7, I think it was a little misleading.


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[Assistant] I mean, Bridgewater's play at the end of the first half to score a touchdown was seven seconds left. You know, I think it was, uh, let me just get this right. It was a, uh, two yard pass. He had like a little run pass option where it was like he could have run maybe he attacked the line of scrimmage and then he threw the ball out there to Tim Patrick right in the flat.


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[Assistant] Listen, that was a great play. It was a huge moment in the game. You know, you hold them, they're up, the Giants are up 7-3. You go in the halftime at 7-6, we're in a, it's a total different atmosphere. But then I think the other play, the, uh, and I'm not gonna say this guys, it was a fourth down. And Bridgewater now, they're up 10-7. They go for it down close to the Giants goal line.


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[Assistant] I mean, the, it's a busted play. Bridgewater makes the defense end miss and buys time and throws the ball out to Oko, Oko, I can't say his name.


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[Assistant] Okay, Okuwe Bunam. Okuwe Bunam. No disrespect to you, I just have to practice that. I'm sorry, Okuwe Bunam. I will get that. But, he makes a great play to get in the end zone to go 17-7. Okay, yeaah, Denver's controlling things. Giants come down the field, and now we get to the point you're talking about.


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[Assistant] He makes a nice scramble up the middle. You're down by 10 points. I mean even a field goal, you're going great, 17-10, no big deal. We're playing decent, our defense is okay.


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[Assistant] But he fumbles that ball and that's been his Achilles heel. It's his biggest issue of his career. He's just taking care of the football, whether he's in the pocket or whether he runs. And that to me was kind of the turning point of the football game.


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[Assistant] Denver's defense is good too. They're really good. Yea. I think they will be.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm not gonna give up on it yet. I'm not. You know, again too.


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[Assistant] Bradley Chubb and Von Miller against that offensive line? Everybody in football knows the Giants offensive line is an issue. I mean, that's a thing. The first thing, if you talk to anybody in football that's paying attention to the Giants, and I mean in the NFL, coaches, front office, they go, hey, how's that offensive line doing? Is that offensive line as bad as everybody's saying?


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[Assistant] So, I mean, they couldn't run the ball, a lick yesterday, alright. Now you gotta deal with Vic Fangio, who knows you can't run the ball and you're gonna throw the ball all the time. Listen, it's not gonna be easy. And then even into that, you know, hey, the game was 20 to 7. They had the ball at the 6 yard line. Going in to score.


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[Assistant] You know, they, they turned the ball over on downs, fourth down and six from the goal line. They couldn't, they couldn't punch it in.


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[Assistant] I mean that go, you go 20 to 14 right there again, we're in a ball game. So that's where it was a little bit misleading, but they didn't get that. And then of course, then it was a Melvin Gordon 70 yard touchdown around a few plays later and it was night night.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so yeaah, the Giants are a work in progress. Definitely. I mean, there's no doubt. I mean, I don't know how good they're gonna be. We'll see. I think they're gonna hang around, but they are not good enough right now to make those mistakes. That's what I guess the biggest thing is. You know, and they made some mistakes in some crucial moments of the football game. Every got to have it big moment.


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[Assistant] Denver made the play and the Giants didn't. And that's not all on Daniel Jones. Uh, Daniel Jones certainly we know needs to be better.


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[Assistant] I mean, I can claim victory in the fact that, yeaah, I mean, I guess to a degree. You know, let's watch. I'm not gonna overreact to that. But, it was consistent with what we saw all preseason. You know, again, it wasn't...


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[Assistant] Eye popping yesterday, but that was, that was a tough spot.


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[Assistant] That Dolphins defense is talented. They're talented. You know, they have two corners that can just go.


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[Assistant] And then they got a pretty good front. And then they got Brian Flores and the whole Patriot staff that knows Josh McDaniel's offense.


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[Assistant] Tough situation. That Dolphins defense made a lot of quarterbacks look stupid last year. I mean a lot. Mahomes had issues against them. Jared Goff and the Rams couldn't do anything against them. You know, so that's not like an easy group, but there he was, again, just


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[Assistant] You know, playing with it himself, really, I don't think other than throwing the ball backwards on a play where he tried to avoid a sack was the only stupid play he had all day. Didn't throw a pick. Didn't throw a pick. 29 out of 39. Had them, had them in field goal range with


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[Assistant] Three minutes left to win the game. The game, I mean, I don't know if they're going to win it, but they're certainly going to be in the lead and two is going to have to go down and score something. You know, and you know, Harris fumbles. So that's a big issue. But I mean, again, I just think for Mac Jones, it's just, yeah, he understands the big picture of the game. You know, he makes a lot of just


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[Assistant] Subtle plays in the pocket that maybe you not want to give a credit for when you watch on TV, but if we sat down and watched film, I'd go, man, look at that.


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[Assistant] You know, a little nice move. What a nice throw there. You know, there was plenty to build on positively there and, uh, yeaah, I feel good about, you know, my evaluation and where it's going for Mac Jones. How about Tua? 16 out of 27, 202. Yeaah, Tua was just a scrapper. He was a scrapper. I mean, that's the biggest thing.


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[Assistant] You know, I think the thing that, you know, few plays, they did a good job of getting the ball into Jalen Watto's hands.


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[Assistant] You know, he, he gave his guys a few opportunities to go make a play at Jalen Waddle one time up the left sideline one on one. He made a big play, I think maybe for his longest completion of the day. Same thing with Devontae Parker on the right sideline. Same type of thing. Had the, to a, you know, again, he can,


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[Assistant] You can win football games with Tua. There's no doubt about that. It's just gotta be a certain way, a little bit. I don't think you're gonna be able to ask Tua to carry you and go, wait, we gotta get in a shootout right here. We need you to make plays and throw lasers. Oh, we'll see where it goes from there. But I think they understand that.


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[Assistant] And he did a good job for the most part. The interception was really stupid. I don't know what he was thinking. He was real bad. Escaping to the right. He started to trip and stumble. Now a guy's about to hit him.


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[Assistant] And he tried to throw the ball to the, looked like to the first down marker. And of course it got intercepted and almost cost them the game. Uh, so that was not the, not the best. But the, you know my thing, my thing with Chua.


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[Assistant] What going forward and the thing when I went and just watched them in preseason one more time was


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[Assistant] They're, they wanna throw the ball down the middle of the field too.


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[Assistant] And you know, I think you're going to see more and more teams as they play them. They're going to force him to try to throw the ball outside the numbers because I think people question his arm strength and his ability to kind of, you know, hit the bullseye when he's got to step on the gas and throw a hundred mile per hour fastball.


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[Assistant] But either way, I think the Dolphins are gonna be a handful all year round. I didn't pick them to be in the playoffs, but I think they're gonna be right here in this conversation all year.


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[Assistant] He was, uh, he's one of the best pure passers in football. You know, I think I tried to say this to people last year, like, you know, he's already one of the best five, six best throwers in the game right now. There's no doubt. I mean, I'm talking about all of it too.


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[Assistant] You know, again, gotta step on the gas and hit the bullseye. Oh, you need a 40 yard laser down the sideline. You need me to hit them between the numbers. No problem, coach. I'll do it. Oh, you need me to off the back foot.


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[Assistant] Lop the ball perfectly to the back out of the backfield or the slot receivers running to fade and just drop it in there. No problem, coach. I got it. Oh, wait, he's covered and the defenders got his back turn. You need him to throw a back shoulder on the money. No problem, coach. I got it.


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[Assistant] That is just, it's high level. And, uh, I mean, how could you not be excited about that? Let alone some good receivers to go along with it. But I'll tell you, this is the number one thing that jumped out to me in the game, Paul. And this is where I would go, ooh, this might change my opinion on the chargers a little bit. I think I know where you're going here.


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[Assistant] Their pass protection. That was supposed to be the biggest, baddest pass Russian football. People, go back and watch.


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[Assistant] The Chargers were 14 for 19 on third down. Their first round pick or one of the, Ray Sean Slater? Yea, Ray Sean Slater. Ray Sean Slater. It was really good. Yea. I know. I mean, I last night had to do a little package on Herbert for our Peacock post game show and that was the first thing that jumped out to me as I started going through plays, I started going


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[Assistant] Look at this. Every third down, he's got nobody around him. I mean, nobody. They could not get close to him.


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[Assistant] If that's the type of protection he's gonna get this year, then the Chargers are gonna be in every game against every team. Because he's gonna hit people whether they're open or not open. Uh, so I thought that was really cool to see and, you know, of course Washington with the quarterback injury and everything like that's gonna be a hot button topic here.


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[Assistant] It's a two-way injury, it's the same thing, knee jammed into the ground, so the hip gets jammed back up into your body.


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[Assistant] I mean, it could be, maybe, I don't know, but I know that there's like- He will miss significant time. Significant time, for sure.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, I know. He's pretty good the whole time. One game. Yes, one game. Your biggest concern. You know, and even before that, it was okay. I just don't know if he's gonna make enough plays and throws in tight football games, like we said, we see yesterday to go.


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[Assistant] We can still win the game. You know, I, you know, again, the Chargers, they kind of controlled that game.


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[Assistant] They drove down Herbert through his worst pass of the day, the interception down there by the red zone when he tried to force like a deep out route into coverage there. So, you know, they dodged a bullet there a few times, but then of course Gibson fumbles the ball at the end and ended up letting San Diego score anyways. But yeah, I'm not sold on Heineken. I'm not sold that


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[Assistant] He has enough talent to take advantage of everything their offense has to present itself. I'm not.


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[Assistant] Yes, exactly right. Yeaah. I mean, 100%. How do they feel about him? I don't know. You know, again, I know he can manage the game and do some things here and there, but at the end of the day, I mean, if they want to get in the playoffs, it's going to have to be some plays. You're going to have to make some plays and do something like that. I don't know if they let it ride one more week and then kind of


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[Assistant] Get into the Cam Newton conversation. I mean, that's of course what we're going to be talking about all week long.


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[Assistant] I, I guess I'd probably still rather line up with Cam. I would, yea. I guess I have more confidence and I need to see more from Tyler Heineke. Heineke, I know like Cam, we got our questions, but


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[Assistant] They know how to manage Cam there too, and play, and they know Cam. I mean, that coaching staff's all from Carolina. So, listen, I don't know, maybe they won't want to deal with them because of the way things ended in Ca- I don't know what the story is there with that group there. Did Ron address it today, Pete? Is it? I haven't heard anything yet.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but that's gonna be the million dollar question. I would think they'd give Heinecke.


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[Assistant] One more week to see how it goes, see how he plays.


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[Assistant] So there you go. And it's a Thursday night game. I forgot about that. Ooh, that's gonna be tough too. But, but, uh, I would think that at least Cam's on their radar and they're gonna evaluate this as they go.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah, yeaah. I mean, you know, again, Cam is, he's a hot lightning rod topic too. Not everybody just wants to bring him into their organization and start the, are you going to play Cam Noon? Cam Noon? Cam Noon? Cam Noon? Cam Noon? Hey, Cam Noon's in our locker room. It's just, not everybody wants to deal with that. You know, they don't. So, uh, but Heinecke, you know, he's a scrapper.


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[Assistant] But there's nothing about his game that I look at for me to just go, man, okay, yeaah, he's got a chance to be a starter one day. I don't see it that way. His biggest throw of the day was to Terry McCorran, the little


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[Assistant] That ball up the left sideline should have been picked. I mean, the ball went right through the two defenders hands. It was a great catch by McCorran. I just, I gotta see more, I guess, before I buy into it. Yeah, stay with Heineken.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's all gonna be whether he's got a tear in like the labrum around the hip or anything like that. Like I know Florio last night reported that there was like a little dislocation of that.


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[Assistant] You know, hip bone or whatever there that came out, which of course is not good, but as long as there's not a tear in the labrum and the cartilage around the hip, then maybe he does get back in, you know, five, six weeks, something like that.


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[Assistant] I mean, to me, I don't know if there was a combination or more pressure in football yesterday than Joe Burrow and Jamar Chase. And that was great to see, especially the 50 yard bomb down the sideline. You know, hey, listen, I, again, I hope people listen to the podcast.


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[Assistant] It was, you know, concern. Okay, sure. Yeah. But let's not, it's not like panic time yet. Guy didn't play football last year. He's new to the NFL. Yeah. He got off to a rocky start and it became a big freaking issue.


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[Assistant] As we saw yesterday, he still remembers how to catch the ball, and he still remembers how to run fast. And I think it'll only get better. I just, again, I saw nothing but baller supreme in college.


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[Assistant] To where I'm just not getting off that chip. I mean, there was a reason he was my number one receiver. Yeah. Demonte Smith and him both got off to a good, good start yesterday. But yeah, that was good to see from Jamar Chase. Now the other thing I'm a little concerned with the Bangos just a little bit. I mean, Mixon looked awesome.


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[Assistant] This game, first off, they were up 21 to 7. Let me just say this. This was the turning point of the game that made it close. The Bengals were up 21-7 on their own 30-yard line and went forward on 4th and 1. A lot of going for it now. What the?


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[Assistant] Like it's like you were like, Hey, you know, we got to give you a chance for the ratings on TV here. So we're going to gamble on this one. Mike Zimmer, one of the greater defensive minds in the last 50 years of football. We're going to gamble. Oh, let's, I mean, what, that's just stupid. Like you're just begging to lose a game that way. Maddest I've seen you with the


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[Assistant] Because like, I like Zach Taylor, I like Joe Burrow, and like, don't let your emotions get the best of you in that moment.


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[Assistant] Terrific. Look comfortable. Good for him. Didn't make all the plays we were used to seeing them like scrambling and doing that. We're not gonna see that for a few weeks.


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[Assistant] Exactly, he knows where to go with the ball, he was smart. I mean, I thought he threw, the ball looked good coming out of his hand. Uh, that was good. Hey, I, I, I thought the Bengals would keep this close. I, I picked them to cover the spread. The Bengals are big up front, so I thought they could slow down Dalvin Cook in the run game.


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[Assistant] You know, and I'll say this too, Minnesota got a little unlucky. I don't think Dalvin Cook really fumbled at the end. I think his butt was down. You know, all my common sense says it, but...


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[Assistant] I'll give respect to the NFL where there was no clear video evidence to actually see it. You know, you could kind of somewhat piece it together and like, ah, I think he's down, but they called it a fumble on the field and there was nothing clearly to overturn it. And that's the rule book there. So, you know, good job by the NFL there. Um, but, uh, here's the other thing I want to say. Yep. Pete.


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[Assistant] T Higgins got hurt yesterday and that to me would be with a blow and I don't know and I want to say I saw him go off on the cart on the sidelines and then Pete if you just look that up or at least give me a clue.


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[Assistant] Okay, if it's a cramp, that's good, because they need T. Higgins. Uh, hey listen, when you talk about Mixon, Jamar Chase, Boyd, T. Higgins.


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[Assistant] If they can just win the line of scrimmage a little bit and keep people honest with the run game. Mixon is a super talented superstar running back. He's a superstar.


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[Assistant] You just, you know, again, if you have no holes, I don't care who you are. It's hard to run for yards where there's no holes and there's a bunch of 300 pound guys in the hole. So he had a few yesterday and you could see what he could do. He made a lot of great eight and seven and 10 yard runs. Um, I'm really happy for the Bengals. They squeaked that one out.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm a little, I'll say this, I'm expecting Gruden and Carr to have a plan for this Ravens defense.


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[Assistant] I would be shocked if Gruden doesn't have a lot of good ways to protect, get the ball out of hands, Derek Carr's hands early. You know, there's no Marcus Peters, of course there's an issue there. You know, my question about Baltimore is can they rush the passer without overly blitzing?


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[Assistant] You know, that's gonna be a thing I'm gonna watch. But yeaah, I'm still gonna take the Baltimore Ravens. I just don't, I don't trust the Raiders defense. I really don't. I think that's where it comes down to.


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[Assistant] Right, and you know, Baltimore still, I know we have the running back problems, but they still got a huge, big, powerful offensive line where I just, I gotta see it to believe it that the Raiders can hang in there and slow that down.


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[Assistant] That's not for a while. So we got, you back with us Wednesday?


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[Assistant] Cool, I like it. You're so hot to want to touch the high knee. So, yes, Paulie's back, Wednesday. We're gonna be breaking down some film here. You know, I think we're gonna do some deep dives. I've never heard of this.


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[Assistant] We're gonna get on the video board, and we're gonna break some shit down. We're gonna get into some of the biggest plays of the week, biggest moments, maybe some themes from some games, where I go, this team kept doing this, and look how they couldn't stop it. So, uh, again, send the questions, any plays.


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[Assistant] Hey homies, anybody out there, any place specifically where you wanna know what happened?


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[Assistant] Like if you're wondering, how did Cooper Cup get wide open running up the middle of the field with nobody there? How did he? I'll be able to explain it to you. Okay. Tune in Wednesday. It's a good tease. Good question. I'm gonna tune in from right here. Yeah. But that's it. Paulie, you the man. Good to see you. Thanks for driving the ship. Absolutely. You the man. Everybody be safe. Be good. Enjoy Monday Night Football. We'll see you back.


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[Assistant] Wednesday for the film breakdown on Chris Sims Unbuttoned, presented by Under Armour. The only way is through!


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[Assistant] Oh yeah, that's right. That is a weekly thing with Paul Burmeister. Right. You know, they always say when you get older, it's hard, hard to control your bladder. I mean, apparently you're having some of those problems.


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[Assistant] And if we do do it, I want to just keep it live and just have you walk off and walk back. I mean, people go to the bathroom. Yeah. Look behind the curtain. There they are. They go to the bathroom. It's still the pre-season. It's still the pre-season.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I'm guessing around after Mike Ryan, who we're going to have here, and I'm going to explain to you Mike Ryan, a great guest, who's going to really give us some inside info on some of the big injuries around the NFL. Was one of the, was the lead trainer for the New York Giants for a long, long time. He knew you as a kid. Knew him as a kid, right? And of course he worked for NBC.


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[Assistant] How you doing? I'm doing good, man. Yeah, doing good. Good game on Monday night. Good game on Monday night.


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[Assistant] Exactly. I mean, that's, you know, that's the one thing I've enjoyed about the preseason altogether. We've had a good amount of starters planned. And of course we got enough quarterback drama that it makes it worth the while to watch deep into these preseason games or sometimes you're like, damn,


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[Assistant] Yeah, cool. I like it. Yeah, let's hit it. I mean, there's, there's so much stuff, player evaluations, things going on in the NFL. Honestly, it's hard.


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[Assistant] Yeah, every now and then. I mean, I'll tell you, most of the time I do, I might go, damn, I wish that segment was a little longer. We could have unpacked that or I think we could have hit this subject today instead of talking about that subject. But yeah, I got the podcast, you know, I mean, I talk all day, so I ended up hitting it at some point.


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[Assistant] No, well, it's both. I think it's both. I'm going to give the change in coaching more than anything, but the, the breeze, breeze factor.


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[Assistant] Is just ads polish and professionalism and this is what you have to do if you want to be really good in this league for a long time. So we get to see that. But Sean Payton is the one that


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[Assistant] I mean, hey, he taught Breeze. I mean, he's gonna be able to really teach you offense, teach you things about certain plays and how to read it, where Jameis is gonna go, wait, I didn't, that's how you read it? Man, that's unbelievable. Oh wait, you're doing this formation.


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[Assistant] Oh, for this reason. I always wondered what the reason was behind that. So there's logic and answers behind everything. And Sean has a great way from everything I know and just being around him a little bit of like,


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[Assistant] Being hard on the quarterback, but also like I'm your buddy. It's like you got a great way of kind of toting that line there. And I think, you know,


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[Assistant] Ultimately, I think he's the perfect guy for what Jameis needed. You know, I actually hit this with Mike the other day on PFT. Like, you know, he went to Bruce Arias and company. It was no risket, no biscuit.


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[Assistant] And all of that. So this is like, whoa, rein it in. We got a good team. We're going to be efficient. We're not just going to throw a ball just because it's third and 12 and we got to throw it because you got to make the first down. Sometimes the defense wins, take the sack, throw the ball away, take the check down. Maybe you're a good player. Alvin Camaro makes a guy miss and gets the first down.


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[Assistant] James has got talent, and now he's refining him.


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[Assistant] You're right. It really is the perfect time. You're right. Because he doesn't have to worry about all the other things. He knows how to...


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[Assistant] Like you said, he's got experience playing. He doesn't have to think like, wait, can I go out there and do this? Can I do like, none of that's in the back of your mind. You know, he's been around football enough to know like, okay, yeah. And he treated, you know, Peyton taught me new nuances of the offense, but he's not like flooded with information because he's five, six years into the league. Like you said.


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[Assistant] Uh, so yeaah, that was exactly what he needed. Really, listen, I'm, you know, again, I really thought it would be Taysom Hill to start the year. I did. I thought just because he was Sean Payton's pet pee, you know, pet project, and I thought maybe Sean Payton, cause I had heard rumors that he was kind of intrigued of like the Taysom Hill offense and all those type of things.


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[Assistant] You know, from what you hear as far as Taysom Hill got off to a slow start in camp, Jameis the way he's played, especially the other night,


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[Assistant] And, you know, I think the other thing that I kind of hear continually throughout there too is they just don't want to move Taysom Hill also out of the role he's been in. He's too important with that H-back, full-back slot receiver type thing. The occasional Wildcat quarterback thing. I think that'll be a part of the offense still with Jameis Winston a quarterback. So, uh, they might have the best of both worlds here and man.


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[Assistant] Jamus, just one more thing here. When he was a free agent out of Tampa, and I know we might have talked about this, maybe it was Ahmed.


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[Assistant] There were so many good plays on film that where you went, man, this is really special. And of course we just had all the other bad ones. And you know, of course some of these coaches, they all think they can coach it out of them. I can forget and let me get my hands on them. I'll fix them. But he actually got to the guy that can really fix them.


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[Assistant] That's the point. That's exactly, that's a great way to button it up here. Because that's where, you know, when I went back, quarterback rankings, doing all that, that was the one thing that Jenna jumped out to me too, to just go,


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[Assistant] You know, no risk it, no biscuit was not the proper thing for him at that point. He didn't need that. He was already risking it and eating too many biscuits at that point. You know, he needed to, you know, no, no risk it, no avocado ice cream like Tom Brady did. And uh, that, that worked better.


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[Assistant] Well, first off, I am easy. Yes. When my wife says she wants some, I say, sure. I am so I'm very easy. Are you easy? No fight there. I'm very easy. Welcome to Chris Sims unbuttoned. Okay. But the, the, um, I think there's a little of everything he said right there.


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[Assistant] You know, it's a total rebuild there in Jacksonville. You got a lot of new moving parts. Of course, the rookie quarterback. They're trying to figure out the offensive line. There is young receivers or even new receivers to the scheme and Marvin Jones and people who are learning the offense. Urban Meyer is learning his way in the NFL here on the fly.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of things where, yeaah, it's not perfect in that world right now. You know, I'm not concerned with Trevor at all. I'm really not. I mean, physically he belongs, I can see it. His movement for his size is still very special. His arm is definitely good and great. You know, no.


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[Assistant] They, they gotta help him around him, okay? And here's a rea- and, and the second thing I wanna say, part of that, that question there is, this is part of the reason I made him my second quarterback.


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[Assistant] He was not as NFL ready as everybody thinks he was. That's why I kept saying during the process, he was in very collegey offense. It was very simple. Throw this screen.


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[Assistant] No, exactly right. Right. You know, I think just, you know, that's where I got to it. I went, well, you know, a few inconsistent throws that I always talk to you about where I was just like, he's too good to miss that throw.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, it's just, he's gonna have to learn on the fly. But I have no doubt he can do that and all those things. You know, I think it's all of that almost too about, yeaah, throwing the guy open. Yeaah, because most of the times the guy was open at Clemson, so he never had to throw anybody open. So he's learning that. You know, the pocket.


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[Assistant] Most of the time the pocket was clean and comes in. That's probably the biggest thing I've seen so far is he doesn't have a great feel of when to step up.


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[Assistant] When to kind of slide and move. We saw a little bit better of that the other night, a few times where I went, there you go, Trevor, that's how you do it. He threw a play action crosser.


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[Assistant] Does he look the part? Is he overwhelmed? Is his talent what I thought it looked like in college and everything? And I have no issues with that. There's a lot of other issues around him too that are gonna make him not look like the number one pick all the time right yet.


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[Assistant] You know, Urban Meyer, one of the reasons I think he can work in the NFL is...


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[Assistant] He's not the X's and O's guy. He knows X's and O's, I'm not trying to say that. He's an overseer.


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[Assistant] You know? Wait, we're not talented enough in this position. We gotta get better here. Alright, let's get these guys, blah blah blah.


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[Assistant] Hey, I don't know what you call that play there or whatever, but we need to do more of that, and this defense is weak here, so we need to attack that. That's the kind of guy he is. That's how Jimmy Johnson was. So that's where I think like, it can work here. There's no doubt about it. Where was I gonna go with this point there? Uhm, I had something else I wanted to-


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[Assistant] So, so, with that, you know, yes, you know, by the way they talked on the telecast and things like that, and that's where I brought it up to Mike on PFT on Monday. I think that's where you heard Tuesday after the game.


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[Assistant] And I just went, Mike, I don't think this is about like, is he better than Gardner? I mean, he's better. I don't, you saw the game the other night, even though it wasn't pretty, I know he's better than Gardner. Right. You know, I know that I got a lot of respect for Gardner. I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything like that, but I also think he's worried about Joe burrowing Trevor Lawrence with just the, he's going to have no,


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[Assistant] Because if he does hurt a shoulder or knee, he knows it's gonna screw up his whole plan, his career, the organization and everything. And that's where I think it's smart. He's in a very tough situation. Out of all the rookie quarterbacks, Trevor Lawrence is in the toughest spot. Because the team around him? Just the team around him, the coaches learning on the fly.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, you know, listen, I think there was concern with Tua and all that. The Deshaun Watson rumors and all that were real. I don't need to speck it. I know. I've been saying this all spring. If Deshaun Watson was made available, they were going to trade for him. Now it didn't happen. And for Tua's sake, good thing.


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[Assistant] He's definitely improved. He's been phenomenal in both preseason games. I mean, phenomenal. He had the one bad interception against the Bears down the middle of the field. And, you know, he'll learn his limitations and things like that. You know, do I ever think Tua's gonna be Mahomes or Aaron Rodgers? No, I don't think he's gonna be that.


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[Assistant] But do I think he can win games and you can get to the playoffs and the Super Bowl with Tua? You know, I-I do. I think so. I don't think they're gonna ask him to make the team all about him. The Dolphins...


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[Assistant] Early 2000 Patriots, 89-90 New York Giants type of football teams where they're big across the line, they're fast where they need to be, and they execute, they understand situations, and I am excited about that, but as far as Tua is concerned, like you said, the look test, I think there's


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[Assistant] First off, the movement in the pocket and the feel in the pocket. It's phenomenal. Yeaah, let's do that Paulie. Let's check this out. So the movement in the pocket and just the feel and the subtle slides and everything like that are phenomenal.


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[Assistant] Pretty, pretty top of his drop. Pretty good pocket. He's okay here, right? So let's go to the next picture. You see Gosecki down the middle. But look at this.


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[Assistant] You know, good feel, slides to the left, he's not tucking the ball going, oh I gotta run, this is getting scary in here. He's two hands on the ball, eyes are still down the field, he realizes 88 Gosecki in front of him is


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[Assistant] Going to be open if he runs the route the proper way. So he's like, f*** that, I'm not going to get off this guy. Because if he, what Gasecki's doing right now is straightening up the defender to make him run up field and then he's going to cross over the field to get the separation. So let's go to the next picture and as you can see there goes Gasecki, but this is the point I want to make more than anything. I don't think Tua last year throws this football.


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[Assistant] I think two of last year's like, they were way more open in Alabama. I don't want to throw this. You think he wouldn't have found a way to maneuver in the pocket? Maybe not either. He might have panicked a little bit and decided to run or tuck it or just get out of the pocket altogether. And I'm sure they showed him some Brady tape. I mean, that's all New England guys down there. God see you. And that's where Brady's amazing. But then look at the throw.


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[Assistant] You know, Tua does have a quick release and he's got a bunch of different deliveries.


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[Assistant] You know, he really does. Yea, it's not the most powerful arm in the world, but he can make every throw.


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[Assistant] That, I mean, that was impressive. And that's the one thing that I think's popped out to me more than anything. You can see he's more comfortable. He knows where he wants to go with the ball. There's more of an aggressive mindset. And he's not afraid to pull the trigger into a tight window now to go, wait, no, that's open in the NFL. It's tight, but that's open. I got to get it done.


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[Assistant] It is. It's two plays later. Here we go. We got second and goal, right? You could see Atlanta's got like a four across look, uh, right across the goal line. Go ahead, let it go. This is also another great play.


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[Assistant] You know, man, there might not be a chance for me to really throw the ball into the end zone and make the throw. But where he makes the play is he reads it through. And what I mean by that is he looks for the throws in the end zone. He doesn't go, oh wait, they're playing a prevent defense. Let me just check it down.


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[Assistant] His, his fact that he still tried to stay aggressive, maybe a corner falls down, maybe a safety falls down.


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[Assistant] That pushes the defense back even more. And then, there's the rhythm, let's go to the next picture, Petey, where again, here we go, stepping up in the pocket, and he has to step up aggressive here, as you can see, like two shoulders are a parallel line of scrimmage. And he gets up, okay, and let's go to the next one, you see there, avoids it, still has two hands on the ball.


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[Assistant] But then he knows, okay, I got my back against this coverage against a linebacker. And I looked downfield and gave it a chance and did all those things. And then.


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[Assistant] You know, unlike a, let's say a Trey Lance who we talked about on Monday.


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[Assistant] He always throws the appropriate ball on these types of throws. That's what I love too. He's not gonna throw a 105 mile per hour fastball where you're gonna go, well the f***ing running back can't catch that. Like that's not fair to him. You're in a mosh pit of people, he can barely see you, and now you're gonna throw it 105 miles per hour. It's just not fair. He has a great way of just kinda touch flicking it.


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[Assistant] Spins it nice, puts it in the spot where the guy can get it, doesn't have to stop or break stride, and boom, it's a touchdown.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think so. 100%. I think we had some conversations last year where I went, listen,


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[Assistant] They're running the same plays with Fitzpatrick and Tua. Tua just not throwing it and making the right decision. I don't know what else to tell you. It's not like Fitzpatrick was coming into the game and they were going, let's call the good plays now.


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[Assistant] You know, whatever, knowing the offense as well, as comfortable, you know, just, you know, not wanting to pull the trigger and all those type of things. No, no. And you know, I think the other thing too, just you bring up because it, you know, yeah, early on it was check downs and short passes and all those things, but you said it right. They still move the ball and all those types of things. And that's where you go, Hey,


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[Assistant] Okay, I'm fine with you doing it right there. They were kinda playing soft coverages and things like that. But what he did with the patience of doing that...


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[Assistant] All the sudden they started f***ing going, okay, he's, he's patient. He's gonna pick us apart here. We gotta start playing man to man and doing some things. And then he was like, well f*** you, I could throw the ball 15, 20 yards down the field too. So it was good to see. I'm rooting for two. I know everybody thinks I hate the guy. Not true. Sorry. Not true. Just gave you an evaluation for the draft and things that concern me. You can't rate every quarterback.


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[Assistant] And now you got, you know, last year we just missed out on the playoffs and went 10 and 6. You know, we know we belong. We got a few other pieces on the team. The one thing I, listen, anybody that knows me, the first thing I look at always on a team is go offense, defense, the line. I mean, they got.


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[Assistant] Great scheme on defense. Great corners. Pretty good safety play. Oh, receivers are better this year. So they just have the look of a team that again,


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[Assistant] I don't wanna, I don't wanna say playoffs, because the AFC is real, and especially the AFC East, but like, I just, I'd be shocked if they're not, again, like last year, right there, last game of the year, in it, or maybe even in the playoffs, I think they're that caliber of a team.


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[Assistant] The hate towards Lamar Jackson, I'm just like, what? Are you guys watching the same game I'm watching? But there can be concern. Sure. Sure. There can be concern. You're right. He's still got to continue to evolve as a quarterback. They have to push him to evolve as well, but we're seeing that where he's doing that. You know,


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[Assistant] It's not about figuring out Lamar Jackson. It's not.


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[Assistant] They're not going to figure him out, right? He's unbelievable in the open field. He throws the ball really good, okay? It's not great. He's one of the most dangerous open field runners in football. It is on the Baltimore Ravens to make sure they don't get figured out. That is the problem here.


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[Assistant] You know, that's what all good coaches do. You gotta have the next move, the next thing to help the player, to support him and do those type of things. Well, we talked about just like,


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[Assistant] You know, there's probably gotta be a little bit of change up to the run game and things like that. Everybody in the league's copied some of the things they do.