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[Assistant] Buffalo from exit 46, which is Rochester, was about an hour away to another, to the Pennsylvania state line. Local travel bans may exist. Do not attempt to travel. So that was 3 PM today. So they were still seriously, uh, concerned about the weather. So.


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[Assistant] All right, we'll be back tomorrow night, that feels like Groundhog Day, uh, to recap the Monday night Super Wildcard Week in Action, and that's, uh, as we mentioned, Steelers Bills, Eagles Bucks, so check back for that. In the meantime, for, uh, Willie Bear Brinson, and for Johnny Boy Breach, I'm Ryan Wilson, and, uh, thanks to Producer Harry as always, and thanks to you guys who watch and listen and comment. We will see you guys in 22-ish hours.


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[Assistant] The biggest event in sports is coming to the entertainment capital of the world.


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[Assistant] And I do think too that that playoff game in Buffalo, if we don't have an insane weather event, the Bills probably hang like 40 on them.


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[Assistant] CJ Shroud's going to win offensive rookie of the year when NFL honors happens. Uhm, he obviously won the pick 60. If Will Anderson wins defensive rookie of the year, I believe that'll be the third time that a team has had both the offensive rookie of the year and the defensive rookie of the year in the same season and in the first time back to back years after Gain Green did it last year.


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[Assistant] Real quick. Oh boy. I hope that by the time people listen to this podcast, this will be an audio podcast, right? I think so. He's gonna stump for someone, I can feel it. That Tory Holt is in the daggum hall of fame! Come on now, voters, do it right!


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[Assistant] No, but I will change my opinion if Patrick Willis gets in tonight.


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[Assistant] For, uh, offensive player of the year, three times. He has somehow only been an all-pro three times, and somehow only made the pro ball four times. I think that the trade, when Ron Rivera got fired in Carolina.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I look at this coaching carousel when you talk about the vacancy, similar to what we see in free agency every off season. Usually.


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[Assistant] Nothing really happens until the big names are assigned and then the domino effect occurs, right? So it's like the top two candidates we believe is Ben Johnson.


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[Assistant] We won't see anything significant moving with him until his season is done. It could happen after this weekend or it can happen after the Super Bowl. We have to wait and see, but I think.


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[Assistant] When these two names are off the board, some of the other teams that were looking to try to potentially sign those two guys as head coaches might start looking elsewhere, you know, to some of the other names that are available.


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[Assistant] That's why when your name is hot, you gotta go. You gotta go take it. And I remember Byron Lefwich, my former teammate, as Leger mentioned,


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[Assistant] It seemed like he was a lot to get the Jacksonville Jaguar job, right? And I think it was some issues about the GM. He had to either stay in place or be left wanting to bring his own guy. I don't know the actual ins and outs of what made that contract not happen, but he decided to say, you know what? I'll go right back to Tampa.


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[Assistant] You know, and try to do it all over again. Didn't have the same success.


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[Assistant] And now, as you mentioned, like he's not even in the league coaching, which is crazy for me, but that's the nature of the game in regards to the NFL, especially when you're a coordinator and your name has been associated with so many potential head coaching jobs. And if you want to take a step back and say, you know what now?


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[Assistant] I'm okay. Then that's okay. Cool. Cause everyone doesn't have the resume that a Leslie Frazier currently has. He's been a head coach. He's been in league for such a long time. He has so much respect. His resume speaks for itself. So


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[Assistant] He could afford, he can afford to step away for a year.


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[Assistant] And he understands I'm probably going to have options. Might not be a head coaching option, but someone would bring me in as a coordinator, DC, if I legit let them know I'm ready to get back into the salad for some of these up and coming coaches. No, you have, you don't have that same type of resume and respect. So when you have that opportunity, it might be a bad job.


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[Assistant] We all see it as a bad job, but listen, if you can go into that bad situation and turn it to be a, make it a good situation, now you earned a lot of leverage.


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[Assistant] But the good thing about the Carolina job outside of what we've seen


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[Assistant] The thing that I like about this situation is that you made it known who is the head man in charge when you talk about putting the personnel together. So you don't have to worry about this voice speaking.


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[Assistant] This voice speaking, no, it's coming from one person. Of course, I'm willing to believe that Rand will also, you know, do his due diligence and consulting and talking to the people that he has working with him.


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[Assistant] To be able to put together a competitive like roster. So I like that. Number two, he's a former player as well. So he's relatable in regards to what the culture needs to be.


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[Assistant] Not to mention he came from San Francisco when you talk about having a solid foundation put in place to build the structure that you need to build on to be able to weather the storm and fight.


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[Assistant] This is kind of a rebuild. They kind of started all over. Derek Henry is not going to be a part of the organization. Ryan Tannehill is moving on. There are some other key contributors. They just lost Kevin Byert. You know, they traded him away during the season. So they started kind of bringing in a new flux of talent within the building and the best way to kind of get that


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[Assistant] And hopefully it sounds like he's not looking over his shoulder. There are a lot of organizations where you have a guy, give a guy a title.


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[Assistant] For us, it's something to talk about because we hear, we see what his title is, but with Inside the Builder, he's looking over his shoulder. So he can't really put together what he needs to put together because I gotta make sure, is this okay? Is that okay? So I'm okay with that. I like it.


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[Assistant] Me personally, if I'm Justin Herbert and that's the direction the organization wants to go in hiring Harbaugh and he's bringing in Greg Roman.


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[Assistant] I'm okay with it. And the reason why I say that guy is, guys, is because, as you mentioned Leger, everywhere that Jim Harbaugh has been, he's won.


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[Assistant] 13 games the first year eventually went to a Superbowl and was a possession or two away from winning that Superbowl.


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[Assistant] So when you factor in everywhere that Coach Harbaugh has been, he's been able to revitalize programs that were kind of dead in the water, bring life to them and make them relevant, not only doing that, but also to establishing


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[Assistant] New, profound quarterback production. That's the thing as well.


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[Assistant] San Francisco, all the success he had, he had, he did so with Colin Kaepernick. Remember what he did with Andrew Luck in Stanford. And then of course, currently, most recently, JJ McCarthy, who particularly could be a first round selection. So two things that I'm-


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[Assistant] Uh, his coaching resume as a head coach, he's won everywhere he's been and he's got outstanding production from his quarterbacks. Regardless of how you like their system or not, the quarterbacks in his systems, they've done fairly well. And I would say this as well to Justin Herbert's credit.


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[Assistant] Justin Herbert is w- is way more talented than all of those guys. Way more talented. So one with, with this new age and how we've seen Coach Harbaugh adjust.


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[Assistant] Calling plays and being involved offensively, he should be okay, I think.


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[Assistant] And real quick, LeJay, what people don't understand about Coach Hallball, which I love, and you would appreciate this as well.


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[Assistant] He, his style of coaching resonates to an old school style of play. Everywhere he's been, it's been hit you in the mouth on both sides of football. And most recently at Michigan, they're one of the few, if not the only college football program that still practice 907 drills. Think about that LeJay.


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[Assistant] And don't forget too, what a lot of people don't know is that the Broncos actually almost signed hardball last year. They had a deal in place. Yes.


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[Assistant] So Sean Payton wasn't the first option for Denver a year ago.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, that's, I didn't mean LeJay didn't talk about this, but I have Ben Johnson as well. I took Ben Johnson for some of the same reasons that LeJay mentioned. And I love the, the, the identity, the similar like identities. Offensively, you talked about Kyle Pitts, Drake London, but Bijon Robertson and Tyler Aijer.


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[Assistant] Kind of thunder and lightning what he's currently dealing with and working with, with David Montgomery and Jameer Gibbs in Detroit. So similar like backs, bigger style backs, you know, both physical and one guy is super fast and Bijan the same can be said for Jameer Gibbs and also too, I think the money they could throw at him.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean? In regards to just the coaching salary because Arthur Blank is what 81 years old right now? I mean, he has no time to be patient. He got to go out and try to go get a splash name at the head coaching position that can help his offense. Most importantly.


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[Assistant] Thrive to be the best that they can be. You talked about a water down division that has to be appealing as well. You just got to find the answer at the quarterback position. But outside of that, I think Ben Johnson would be, would be a great pick for Atlanta. I'm going to throw out Belichick.


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[Assistant] So here, here, this is why I don't think so. Number one, he's only interviewed with one organization.


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[Assistant] There's, there were, what, at one point, eight vacancies, correct? Correct.


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[Assistant] He's only interviewed with one. It's not like his team was in the playoffs. Their season was done at the end of the regular season. Only one team has interviewed him. That's alarming. Number two, Leger talked about what he's done over the last few years, especially without Tom Brady. It hasn't been appealing.


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[Assistant] So you're telling me you're hiring a guy to come into your organization over the last three years. He's been below average as a head coach, as a personnel decision maker as well. And then finally, when he's 71, 72, right?


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[Assistant] Build a 70-72-71. What do you think he has left in the tank? Maybe three years? So if you're an organization, do you want to have the-


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[Assistant] I go, I go slow as well. I go slow and I say make Bryce Young look like how CJ looked last year. That's it. That's what we need.


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[Assistant] For me, I go another defensive minded coach as well. I go Dan Quinn. Um, you know, previous head coach for the Atlanta Falcons. Remember, he got that team to the Super Bowl led by MVP, uh, Matt Ryan, and it's safe to say


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[Assistant] I mean, May Dallas, Dallas, one of the more productive defensive teams that we've seen in quite some time. And he, he understands the division, you know, he understands the division.


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[Assistant] He's a relatable coach as well. He's a player's coach. The way how he got everyone to buy in to what he was doing in Dallas, you know, proves that. And I believe he will be a head coach somewhere in the National Football League. We look at some of the openings that are still available and I think that would be a great, a great decision if Washington decides to go that route as well.


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[Assistant] No, Katie wins. Katie's the regular season champion. We're doing something a little different for the playoffs as people are going to hear in a second. So uhm, I don't know if it really makes sense to mix those.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Bryn, Brynston still has McCaffrey to be the offensive player of the year, so he gets some, some, some units off of that, but it's going to be hard to make up the gap because we've had a few people have really strong runs. Mackenzie Brooks just crushed it with everything she picked. And she has TJ Watt, defensive player of the year, CJ Stroud, offensive rookie of the year, Jalen Carter, defensive rookie of the year.


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[Assistant] This, uh, great stretch you had. So it was fun to do. We'll post the results once it's over and then looking forward to doing it again next year.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, so the concept is, uhm, we're gonna have, uh, this is pick six, so we're gonna have six picks to make. We're gonna have one spread and one total pick to make.


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[Assistant] We're going to have three props, one passing, one rushing, one receiving, um, to, to put Alex's specialty right in, in front, in foremost, not making him pick much spreads and totals.


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[Assistant] And then you get one more wild card, which could be anything, could be a double on what you think your strength is, so.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm talking about the thing we're going to do second, secondly. There's no 49ers this week. You don't have to, you can do whatever you want in this first thing we're going to talk about, which is just go over the Playoffs specials. Another bet you can do is betting on the leaders. Who's going to lead the postseason in rushing, receiving, passing, those type of things, um, in red yards, touchdowns, um, and certain categories like that. So we wanted to,


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[Assistant] And then you look at the AFC Lamar passing numbers don't have as high a ceiling as everyone and Josh Allen's in bad weather this week. So I think you want to pick.


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[Assistant] Uh, on a per game basis, he was about as good as Dak, and I'm a little more confident he's going to play the three games and, uh, he needs to, uh, to lead this prop. So, um, I'm taking Purdy as a better value than Prescott as, um, and the San Francisco to win NFC is minus 130, so we're getting Purdy at plus 450 here. I think there's a lot better value backing that than there is San Francisco to win NFC.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I actually do like Stafford. Stafford is a value bet. That's what I put in my column. We went over this on Sportsline with my best bets and values on each of these props. So I do like Stafford as a value bet. The one situation will, if the 7-C does upset the Cowboys, then the Rams would either go to Tampa Bay or Philly. So if you get them in Philly, you know, that's not a great indoor weather game.


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[Assistant] I would love it if this one coming, because I mean, the bills are in the Super Bowl. Uhm, and, and actually I do like the pick. I like the value of the pick. I mentioned it in my article. That wasn't my value pick for rushing. Uhm, and I'm not giving that out here. You can go check out the article if you want to see that.


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[Assistant] But I'm taking along the lines of what Princeton's saying, James Cook at plus 500. I just think it's very good value for a guy that could play four games. He should be the focal point of the offense this week in bad weather. Uhm, and, and put up a big number, put up over 100 yards this week.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I think that's good. I love Pacheco at 750. If you think the Chiefs beat the Bills next round, if you just think that they have their number, then I would go with Pacheco, but I'm gonna...


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[Assistant] More than likely, yeaah. Especially we know that that's what Sean McDermott wants to do after this offensive coordinator change mid-season.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the favorite here is CD Lam at two to one, and I, I don't think that's low enough. I think he should be getting more value considering that, uh, Christian McCaffrey is even lower in the Russian numbers. It's hard for me not to back the favorite. He's playing indoors at a, at a, at a stadium that the Cowboys simply do well in. It's a great matchup this week, has a great matchup likely next week playing Detroit at home there.


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[Assistant] So, and it's possible to win this with two big games. We saw Devontae Adams lead the, uh, the NFC or lead the playoffs in receiving a few years ago when the Packers only played two games and he put up


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[Assistant] Could be the similar type of player here that does it. So even at 2-1, I think Lamb is probably the best bet here, so that's what I'm doing.


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[Assistant] Same odds as Isaiah likely, and you would expect him to have a decent bit more than Isaiah likely, even if he only plays two games.


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[Assistant] Put them as my wild card pick and tease them up to plus eight. I don't think that the browns.


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[Assistant] Blow them out at all. Uhm, you know, I think the, the Houston will be able to get more pressure on Flacco than they did in the first meeting where Jonathan Grenard played three snaps and uh, Will Anderson missed that game. Will Anderson will be back for this game. We'll see about Grenard. Uhm, but Houston is defense's 12th and second on the season. So I think they can exploit these backup tackles and get some pressure here and have some success here.


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[Assistant] Um, so that's my teaser play. I'm also, you said passing yards, receiving yards, rushing yards. We could do like any passing, receiving rushing prop. So if that, if that wasn't clear, then, then it's me cheating a little bit, but I'm taking CJ Stroud under 0.5 interceptions at minus 130.


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[Assistant] Don't think he's going to throw a pick in this game. He's only thrown a pick in three of his 15 games this year. And we know the Cleveland defense struggles on the road more than they do at home. So I think he's going to have a good day protecting the ball here. And that's slide that in from my passing props pick.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we all are attacking the same type of thing in this game, it seems like, uh, the three of us, um, because I also have a Chiefs receiving prop over, I'm taking Travis Kelsey over 59 and a half receiving yards. Pretty low number for him. Yeah, when you just consider.


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[Assistant] Uh, the type of player he is and it's tailed out and it's low because he tailed off in the regular season. I mean, he had three.


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[Assistant] I think he was dealing with some nagging injuries there. The week off is going to help there. They obviously wanted to keep him healthy rather than let him go for the thousand yard season in that final game. And they're going to reap the benefits here because he should have a good game against this very beat up Miami defense, a bunch of linebackers getting hurt, getting put on the IR.


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[Assistant] And, um, I think he'll be able to eat in the middle of the field here and have his typical game, um, where the Chiefs finally show up. It's going to be hard to tackle him to in this extremely cold weather. I mean, you get these backups hitting Travis Kelsey. They're not going to be able to hold on and drag him to the ground, um, with how good of a player he is. So.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so we're getting close enough to game time that I'm a little bit more trustworthy and that's the weather we're going to see. It would be even worse than what we saw in that extreme weather game when the Bills played the Patriots and that was a 14-10 game where


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[Assistant] I think that's going to come into play here and it's going to take out a lot of the Bill's advantage of throwing the ball. Um, so I think 10 is going to be a hard number for them to.


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[Assistant] Big play in the game from Damian Harris, I think was a long touchdown and that set the tone for that game and we'll see if the Bills can kind of copy that in this game with Damian Harris now in their roster.


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[Assistant] This was the second half of my teaser. I teased it down Dallas minus one and a half, obviously at seven. I do like Dallas there, so I would not throw it in a teaser at this point, but for the purposes of our game, this is going to be my wild card teaser. Houston plus eight, Dallas minus one and a half. Green Bay's offense played really well down the stretch, finished eighth in yards for play, top 10 in Russian pass.


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[Assistant] We'll see how Stefan Gilmour's injury factors in. I didn't see if he practiced yesterday, but I know he dealt with an injury coming out of last game. And uhm, yeaah, I like the look of the Dallas team total going over because that Green Bay defense has been terrible at times. Coming off of two good games, but not really against dynamic offenses and


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[Assistant] Opponents in Dallas, of course, is first in points on this season, so this is gonna be the toughest matchup they've had all season. Don't see how the Cowboys don't go out and roll up at least 30, maybe even 40 in this game.


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[Assistant] I'm going to counter that real quick and say Alexander thought he had a great year. He's been looking at PFF grades, which I don't want to make the gospel. He's been kind of in the middle of the pack. Uhm, and like I mentioned, they didn't play a lot of tough offenses, so he hasn't really been.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the Lions get three points for home field at least, I think. And so you're, you're saying these teams are equal. Um, and that those fans are gonna be crazy in Detroit and, um, and the atmosphere is going to be incredible getting to face Matthew Stafford in their first home playoff game.


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[Assistant] And I just can't do that. I think the Lions overall do so much well that they're bad pass defense, which they are getting healthier. They got CJ Gardner Johnson back last week, Ali McNeil back that helps to run defense. So I think they're going to come out and win this game. My, my pick for this game is David Montgomery to go over 54 and a half rush yards.


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[Assistant] I think all of the focus on the passing games here means it's a little sneaky to go out and take some of the rush props over. And even Montgomery's had eight straight games at 55 plus rush yards before going 10 for 40 last week.


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[Assistant] And, uh, they're just going to run, run, run down their throats and try to control the run game there like they have for a lot of the season. So feel like Montgomery is going to get upwards of 12 carries, probably upwards of even 15 carries and be able to hit over 54 and a half rush yards pretty, pretty solidly. I'd be surprised if Detroit doesn't have over 125 rush yards as a team in this game.


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[Assistant] Let me ask you real quick, Brinson, would you play the 3? Because everybody listening to this is probably going to see 3 because it looks like it's coming down to 3 everywhere at this point. So would you play it at plus 3?


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[Assistant] Well, I, I mean, we have Alex going last, even though he went to a no, I don't think that's very fair. So I'm going to take the pressure off him to pick an underdog because I'm going to pick him. I like the dogs. Well, you could take a dog too.


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[Assistant] Neither of them worked out, but I'm taking the bucks. Uh, we're gonna get into why they're a best bet for me.


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[Assistant] At the bucks at, I believe, plus 134 on, on Vandal or something around there. Uhm, so this is just great value for us.


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[Assistant] Tampa, 13th in yards for pass. I think they're going to ex you consistently against this, this Eagles pass defense that has been very bad. And they're now also now 31st in third down rate and 30th in red zone rate. Very bad in situational spots too. Great job, Matt, Patricia, whatever you're doing is work and keep it up.


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[Assistant] And offense also beat up with AJ Brown injured in week 18. We'll see his status for this game. Devontae Smith obviously has been managing an ankle sprain as well. Jalen Hurts did not escape either, had a little finger injury. Probably not going to affect him too much, but we'll see. We'll see how.


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[Assistant] How that, that factors in once he gets in the game mode there. Uhm, and so even if those Philly injury reports get better, I mean, this Tampa Bay defense has gotten much healthier recently. I think they can outperform their ranking of 22nd in yards per play, uhm, on this season. I think they're better.


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[Assistant] And so even though Philly dominated the Week 3 matchup, they are a significantly worse team right now. They should not be laying points on the road against anyone in this postseason. So love getting plus three with Tampa. That's the best bet.


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[Assistant] Travis Kelsey over 59 and a half receiving yards, very low number for him. Pittsburgh Buffalo to go under 36 and a half in bad weather.


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[Assistant] Houston plus eight in Dallas minus one and a half is my teaser, although that Dallas number is now down to minus one. Do like playing them just on the minus seven. Uhm, so I wouldn't tease it at seven. Uh, David Montgomery over 54 and a half rush yards in Tampa Bay plus three.


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[Assistant] All right, boys. I'm starting Buffalo where the Bills jumped out to a 21-0 lead, messed around for the next 20 minutes or so, then stepped on the gas and they did it with Josh Allen playing at a high level. The type of level that the Bills are going to need to get past their next opponent.


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[Assistant] Do you feel like you can trust Josh Allen to be good Josh for the next month or so?


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[Assistant] They were 6-6 going into their bye, they came out and they won that game against the Chiefs, and that's when one person on this podcast said, I think that Bills can make the playoffs, and two people on this podcast laughed at that other person, but I don't want to name any of them.


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[Assistant] No, no, and it's funny you say that because, uh,


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[Assistant] I'll start with this. This game to me felt like Chiefs Dolphins, and no offense to producer Harry, but in that the Dolphins were undermanned and had a huge hill to climb. And that's why I wasn't putting too much in the Chiefs win in terms of what it means going forward in much the same way. It's a really good problem. But we'll find out. They gotta play each other. But in terms of how I felt about this game, I enjoyed it. And Harry was sending me a message in our little


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[Assistant] Group chat and privately, he said, hey, at least you gave the bills a fight.


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[Assistant] And uhm, my response was I don't even mind these games. I had zero expectations and it's just great to be playing in the playoffs is what I wrote. And I said, what I used to hate and used to really make me angry was when Big Ben would throw four interceptions in these games when they were supposed to win. This is just, uh, I described them as a plucky team. I thought.


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[Assistant] It was fun watching Mason Rudolph not be terrible. And look, when your biggest problem is George Pickens and Pat Friar Muth fumbling the ball, uh, that means that things are going worst case scenario and it's not the quarterback. T.J. Watt didn't play, the defense struggled to tackle, Breachy talked about how good.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Josh Allen was in the open field and that touchdown in addition to the throws that he made, they provided balance. And look, I'll say this. We thought of the, at the time when Sean McDermott fired Ken Dorsey, that he was just overreacting to trying to point the finger at someone. Turns out.


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[Assistant] Uh, Joe Brady, also William Mary Lum has balanced out that offensive attack. He's allowed James Cook to be part of that team, even when he makes some mistakes. He didn't make any mistakes in this game. And, um, the issue is, and producer Harry noted about this, and we'll talk about this in a second, they did have some injuries in this game, but everyone's hurt.


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[Assistant] But for the moment, I think this was best case scenario in terms of the way they play. They started strong, they finished strong.


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[Assistant] Had a lull in the middle and Breach, I know you had some issues and I historically, or weekly I should say, have issues with the way the Steelers do time management. And Mike Tomlin had an issue at the end of the second quarter that you maybe wanted to talk about.


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[Assistant] No, I understand what you're saying and my pushback was this isn't Baker Mayfield or Jalen Hurts, this is Josh Allen who on the very play before just missed like a 15 or 20 yard pass on the sideline. I understand what you're saying.


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[Assistant] Okay. I mean, at the end of the day, it didn't matter. And if you have nothing to lose, I get it. But I mean, that to me wasn't the breaking point. I've seen much more infuriating decisions made during the end of Habs.


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[Assistant] Christian Benford got hurt during the game. Russell Douglas, who they traded for the trade deadline, did not play because he was, he got hurt in week 18 and he's probably the underrated trade deadline.


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[Assistant] And that was, uh, his first round pick for a reason, but he has been on the bench and buried on the bench for much of the season. He may have to end up playing because they lost.


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[Assistant] Bernard, the linebacker, Benford, I mentioned, uh, left Dotson, the linebacker also left and Russell didn't play. And, uh, that's a concern. Breach, would you like to take an H.A. Klein victory lap before we continue with the, uh, the issues with the injuries?


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[Assistant] And Breach, let me preface it by saying this. AJ Klein had his RV packed up, was ready to go on a vacation, and he came out of retirement to whoop up on the Steelers.


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[Assistant] So uhm, any concerns about the injuries that we've talked about, mostly on the defensive side of the ball? I don't think there were any guys on offense that left off the top of my head. I haven't looked at any post game comments about that, but uhm,


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[Assistant] I would imagine being down two linebackers and two cornerbacks, although Russell Douglas might be able to play this week and we'll see where Benford is. It's not great news when you're facing even a chief team that only has a handful of great receivers instead of five or six.


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[Assistant] Okay, one second. Here, one second. There's something else to think about in terms of the bills. Is that the interior demons of line? Daquan Jones was back. Ed Oliver was getting after it. And I just looked this up. Uh, the bills pressured poor Mason Rudolph.


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[Assistant] 47% of the snaps, they only blitz on 17% of the snaps. So they were getting home with four guys. And that's just something to keep in mind when you talk about the Chiefs because the Steelers for as many holes as they have all over the place.


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[Assistant] Their offensive line has been okay. Last month and a half, two months, and we've had some issues, especially on the edge with the Chiefs offensive line. Uh, Ed Oliver generated a season-high 10 pressures on 28 pass rushes according to next-gen stats against the Steelers. The most pressures by defense attack on a playoff game over the last six years.


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[Assistant] Six of those came against Mason Cole, the center who has been a weak spot on that offensive line, but I just wanted to point that out.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's ask the important question. And I'm glad Harry put this on the rundown. Is Mike Tommy being fired or is he quitting? Breach. Is it time for the Steelers to change their quarterback?


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[Assistant] So, and you have Mitchell Trubisky and you picked 21st right now. And I have, and I mentioned this, I tweeted this out literally in the middle of that 52 yard Josh Allen run.


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[Assistant] I was thinking to myself, the Steelers have to find a way to trade up to get Jaden Daniels. And if you haven't watched a lot of college football, Jaden Daniels played at LSU, transferred from, um, Arizona State. He was sort of run out of town at Arizona State and he was fantastic this year. And he reminds me a lot of Lamar Jackson. Go watch some highlights on YouTube if you haven't seen it. If you have seen it, you know what I'm talking about.


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[Assistant] And my thinking is you can't win in today's NFL with a pocket passer. No disrespect to Mason, who has actually been fun to watch the last four games. So do they need to change up the quarterback strategy? Is Mike Tellman too stubborn to do so? What do you think?


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[Assistant] Oh, you're gonna trade up a long ass way. Don't get me wrong, it's gonna cost you.


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[Assistant] If you're the Steelers. Why would you want to keep him mediocre? And the other thing you failed to mention, and I appreciate you not mentioning it, Matt Canada, they had to literally tie him to a train car to get him out of town.


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[Assistant] They made the playoffs with Mason Rudolph. He won the last three games. Can you think it was her?


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[Assistant] Two games prior to that, it was Mr. Biskey, who lost two games.


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[Assistant] I don't think he has, I don't think he has final say in draft decisions. I know that he has a very big say in draft decisions. If he wanted to get a quarterback, he could go get one. You're muted.


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[Assistant] So 21 to 8 doesn't sound outrageous. To Breach's point, Mike Tolman is stubborn and I don't think it's going to happen either. That doesn't mean they shouldn't think about it. They kept Matt Canada for a year and a half too long.


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[Assistant] Alright Harry, roll the tape. We'll agree to disagree as the, uh, my grandpa.


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[Assistant] That is me listening to Brenton trying to explain why the Steelers should stick with Kenny Pickett.


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[Assistant] I would advise you to look up and watch out for the irony piano when you talk about pipe dream conversations. Do you think that's happening? No, but again, they traded it from 20 to 10 to get a line.


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[Assistant] Let's take a quick break and we come back. We'll talk about a quarterback that used to be in the AFC North and now is slanging it in the NFC South right after this.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Harry kindly put in the rundown if the Steelers are the worst team in the AFC North. There's no reason to talk about that now. We have all season to wallow in.


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[Assistant] I enjoyed the watching that game as I told producer Harry, I'll just look 30 seconds. Tomlin has one more year left in his deal. I'm not concerned about him doing anything other than coaching football. I don't think he needs to take time off. He strikes me with someone.


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[Assistant] Who doesn't need to be recharged. He's certainly at least 10 years, probably younger than Sean, Sean Payton. And, um, he likes coaching and I think he likes what's in addition to that, he likes helping these players. And you can sort of see that when he talks about George Pickens and, and guys like that. So that's my take. Nine years.


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[Assistant] Baker Mayfield. Selling in it. Uh, Baker, there are a lot of fun stories in this off season. Jared Goff, uh, even Matthew Safra coming home and playing well, uh, in that game against Detroit. That was fun to watch, but the sort of Jared Goff redemption story, I think there is no bigger redemption story than Baker Mayfield and


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[Assistant] He showed how incredibly tough he is with the way he played.


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[Assistant] One thing that I, I looked up before from week 13 on, he was one of the best in terms of, uh,


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[Assistant] Completions over 20 yards. I obviously because Mike Evans, a big part of that. Guess who the Eagles suck at defending deep ball plays. Uh, thank you, Matt, Patricia, and that played itself out in this game as well.


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[Assistant] Their next game is going to be tough, but let's just talk about what they did tonight. Brenton, are you surprised that they pulled the Eagles' pants down on national television and made the Eagles look like, uh, I don't know, a bad version of the Steelers it felt like?


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[Assistant] That's the question. Uh, let me, let me put it to you, Breach, and then we can circle back around. Uh, what did Jeff Lurie's face say to you as he was sitting in the, in the, at the end of the game? And to follow up on Brenton's point, who do you think is angry right now? Jeffrey Lurie or Jerry Jones?


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[Assistant] I'll just, um, I'll point out, AJ Brown was out, so that's why Devontae Smith had to be leaned on so heavily. He was literally the only show in town. Why was AJ Brown out?


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[Assistant] Something else I'll point out and this is no surprise because if you know Todd Bowles and how he operates, uh, he was going to go after Jalen Hurts and the Eagles. Uh, they blitzed on 53, almost 54% of the plays, which was the highest of any team, uh, in wild card weekend.


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[Assistant] By a large margin, 5% more than the Dolphins who they try to dial up the pressure. Vic Fangio did against the Chiefs to no avail. The difference is that the Eagles suck. The Eagles offense is absolutely terrible. One of the worst offenses against the Blitz and it showed itself time and time again. They have no answers for reasons that remain a mystery and they had no answers tonight.


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[Assistant] And Baker Mayfield made the plays he needed to make when his receivers weren't dropping the ball. That game could have been two touchdowns more in terms of difference.


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[Assistant] Oh, uh, it's gonna be like minus six and a half. Maybe more. I'll say six.


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[Assistant] I saw it and I think it's too high. I would put it at like five and a half. I think it's almost five and a half.


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[Assistant] And I think you do learn something about the teams that are going to continue to play. So I think in that sense, even though the games are probably well decided.


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[Assistant] Late into the second half, you gotta sense like, okay, Jordan Love can do this. What does this look like when we get to San Francisco? And that at least give you a glimpse for the future. I'll mention this quickly and then we'll take a quick break before we.


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[Assistant] Oh boy, do the old autopsy on the Eagles here. Um, Eagles defense allowed six plays of 20 or more yards. That was second worst over the weekend behind the Cowboys, Dan Quinn, they didn't show up. Uh, the Lions, Matthew Stafford had a lot of big plays and the Dolphins who gave us some big plays too.


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[Assistant] If you can imagine that for the Eagles. All right, say quick break and then we'll talk about what's next for the Eagles because it ain't going to be another playoff game right after this.


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[Assistant] Alright, so the Eagles collapse is a slow burn. I feel like the Cowboys collapse was epic and quick. Uh, Brenton, I'll ask you this. They're fueled by each other too, I mean. How do you fix the Eagles?


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[Assistant] Breach, this roster six weeks ago was 10-1. What, what, what, what are we doing?


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[Assistant] Uh, Belichick according to Atlanta Falcons interview with them on Monday night. So that's one down.


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[Assistant] Some could the Eagles hire Kenny Pickett as their head coach. They could, they certainly could. He would be out of his.


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[Assistant] To work with Des Ritter, that might be something else. One of the fake ass accounts, uh, uh, posing as a charter said they got their man in Jim Harbaugh and I fell for that for 10 seconds. Look, oh gosh.


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[Assistant] Though they said they, they said they hired them. They were one of the fake accounts that they hired. Right, right, right.


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[Assistant] Here's the thing I would start with with Bill Belichick.


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[Assistant] And the answers that the coordinators had on both sides of the ball were absolutely unacceptable at every single level. And people, the players knew it because as Breach mentioned, they were bickering.


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[Assistant] This team, to Breach's point, never was a 10-1 team. We talk about it every week, like how do they win this game, how do they win that game, but they were, you are what the record says you are until you start losing six in a row and then you're that record. So.


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[Assistant] Alright, I'll ask you the same question that I asked a moment ago, but rank this division right now.


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[Assistant] I mean for next year, if you told me the Eagles were the last place team, I wouldn't be shocked. No, I don't think that's crazy just because of what we've laid out here. I would imagine Jeffrey Lurie knew pretty early on this wasn't going to work. Probably when the coaches left and got a sense of how things were working.


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[Assistant] I'll say this, Mike McCarthy has done, and it's not even an argument, a heads and tails better job coaching that offense than whatever this version of the Eagles offense is.


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[Assistant] I'm going to go yes. I think Jerry is going to be tempted, especially if the Eagles fire, make their firing before Jerry has a chance to cause then the musical chairs.


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[Assistant] That's just bonkers. And Adam Schuster said back in October, I think, that they were going to be on average 6.8. And he thought, he said he'd take the over.


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[Assistant] I'm looking forward to someone explaining to me what exactly was the Eagles' plan this season offensively, defensively.


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[Assistant] Cowboys and Eagles fire their coaches and they, they both go after the same coach. We get a hard knocks on their pursuit. Yes, I love that.


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[Assistant] Let me introduce you to Breach's favorite Steelers team. What was their record Breach?


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[Assistant] Yeah, 100%. And he had a big smile on the sidelines, uh, towards the end of that game, as well he should have. All right.


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[Assistant] I'll give Josh Allen the honorable mention, uh, as Breech noted, we talked about him a lot. He had a great, great game, clinical as usual. I'm going to go with the College of William & Mary. Ooh.


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[Assistant] Mike Tomlin, Sean McDermott, Joe Brady, all coached. Two-thirds of them are winners today.


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[Assistant] In my book, they're all winners. Uh, but, uh, one coach has never had a losing season.


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[Assistant] And apparently is on the precipice of retirement, perhaps tomorrow. The other coach will be playing against the Kansas City Chiefs.


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[Assistant] And the man who fired him, when he was the defensive coordinator for the Eagles. So there's your revenge game, Brinson. Uh, even though they played before in the 13 seconds game would seem like it'd be more revenge, but. Buffalo.


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[Assistant] Hired Nick Saban. Nick Saban. Alright. Maybe he'll coach the Steelers. That's it, boys. That's a wrap.


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[Assistant] That's it for super wild card weekend. The Monday night recap, in addition to the two other recaps we did, uh, we'll be back later in the week.


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[Assistant] Probably hours from now, if you're listening to this live.


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[Assistant] Um, so just check the old feed or the old YouTube machine in the meantime for Will Brinson and John Breach and producer Harry. I'm Ryan Wilson. Thanks for joining us and commenting and leaving all your thoughts and we'll see you guys later in the week. Stay warm, Breach.


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[Assistant] Is that because they, are they like fights? Like they schedule matches between people with boxing gloves?


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[Assistant] Breach, Breach, before you, before you talk about Jake Browning, uhm,


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[Assistant] Chris Tripaso, the world's biggest Mason Rudolph fan recorded this for you.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I think what's pretty notable is that if you take the.


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[Assistant] And then you also have Baltimore who goes and destroys Seattle, destroys Detroit at home, and then goes on the road and beats San Francisco in what?


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[Assistant] Just because of how San Francisco has been playing, the only three losses are when Debo and Trent Williams are out.


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[Assistant] They are rolling Brock party is like minus one 90 to win the MVP and everyone like this line opened at five and climbed up to six and a half before close it before the game kicked off. But like San Francisco was nearly a touchdown favorite against the number one seed in the AFC.


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[Assistant] And while it took Baltimore a little while, a little ways to pull away here, um, you know, they needed two quick scores in the, in the third quarter to really turn this into a blowout.


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[Assistant] I thought it was very clear from the beginning that Baltimore felt disrespected by the, the national perception of what was going to happen in this game. The sort of the belief that the 49ers were going to roll and you know, they did it with their defense.


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[Assistant] Blue around the field. Those linebackers are so good. And I think it's like,


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[Assistant] You watch the way, the scheme and how they bring pressure and how they get pressure on, on Brock Hardy and how they, they generate it with these like, you know, the false, I don't know if they're not false fronts, I guess is like, is a fair word where they, they, it looks like they're bringing eight guys and they drop back. And then you have these linebackers who, you know, when we think about Kyle Shanahan's offense,


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[Assistant] And this is sort of the reason I like the Ravens against the spread, but you know, Kyle Shanahan constantly has these guys over the middle running wide open getting Yak. Well, the Ravens were able to get pressure on Brock Purdy or get their hands up and tip balls. And the linebackers were sort of eliminating a lot of that free space and.


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[Assistant] Baltimore is just a very complete team. They lost Mark Andrews, but


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[Assistant] It was a situation where Lamar Jackson only had to run seven times. I think if the game had been closer, he has a bigger game and people are really talking about him as an MVP favorite.


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[Assistant] Baltimore has flown under the radar about as much as you can as a one seed in the AFC because of the struggles with the Chiefs, the struggles with the Bills, the Dolphins and all their big performances. Um, you know, all these different storylines in the AFC have sort of allowed Baltimore to just plug along, pile up wins.


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[Assistant] And I think they're as good and complete as a team as San Francisco is on the other side and they just smoke the one seed and the other seed.


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[Assistant] Well, I, you know, they're not falling under there. I just feel like every, nobody.


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[Assistant] Do you think that this Raven's team with this version of Lamar and this version of Lamar is very different than 2019 Lamar and I mean that in


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[Assistant] Complementary to both versions. Lamar in 2019 is just like nuke bombing the entire.


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[Assistant] Like NFL with this rushing attack alive, what he did in Louisville. This version is, is almost like more subdued, but in a good way.


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[Assistant] He's more of a pocket passer. And I do think that they were really going to start using his legs more in December when he's fully healthy versus with the Greg Roman offenses of, of, you know, the last few years where they used his legs in September and he was hurt late in the season. I think, man, I think, I don't know that this version should scare. I opposing defense is more given how late in the season they're activating his legs and how much better of a passer he's.


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[Assistant] Shown to be, we all knew he was a great passer, but like in pocket passer now, you know what I mean?


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[Assistant] Wilson, I swear, I think, I may have mentioned this already, I thought it was you and me, um, doing HQ when someone asked us, what do we make, or like the podcast, and someone was like, what do you make of the Ravens?


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[Assistant] There are three losses, they have three losses this season. There are three losses are by a total of 12 points.


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[Assistant] Well, in, uhm, after week five when, you may recall when the Steelers were doing the Magic Beans thing, uhm. Remember that game.


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[Assistant] They, they got to, the Ravens, the Ravens were three and two, lost by three to the Colts and lost by seven to the Steelers. And remember, is that crazy? Like it was almost, it was hard to explain how they were losing and how they lost.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I'm just, and Pickett had the big touchdown too, right?


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[Assistant] I'm just saying the narrative was, oh, this Raven's team can't hold a lead, but they've lost one game since then.


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[Assistant] Right, but I guess, I guess, I guess this is my larger point, is when we, we couldn't understand why, how the Ravens weren't holding onto these leads, but to Breach's point, Wilson's point,


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[Assistant] They've had, they've had a lead 90% of the time this season, over 90%. I think the last team to do that was the 07 Patriots, if I'm not wrong, and maybe, maybe even a team, I mean, it was the 05 Colts, I think, who had a lead.


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[Assistant] I don't want to overreact to it too much. I don't think in Joe or pal Joe Musso, who, uh, is a loyal chat, YouTube watcher and chat, uh, avid chat.


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[Assistant] The Brock party stories over cute little run.


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[Assistant] On Christmas night with the entire world watching against the number one seed in the AFC when you're a seven point favorite is going to cost you the MVP award. That's just how it works when you're the favorite.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm not trying to flip it back on the Ravens, but I did to put more of this on.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, that's what I'm saying to pressure him. I think, I think Purdy is, is fine. I am concerned certainly that Trent Williams suffered an injury and had to leave this game.


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[Assistant] I don't know if this is more of an insult than the game manager thing.


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[Assistant] But it's not, it's not intended to be, it's just the reality of it. And look, it's hard to come back in the NFL. We have these Mahomes stats, like Patrick Mahomes is a winning record with a double digit when he's down double digits, which is just an insane stat. Brock Purdy ain't that. And this Brock Purdy and this 49ers offense as it's constituted are front runners. They are going to bury you if they are leading.


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[Assistant] From the, the play calls from Kyle Shanahan and the game scripts and the way that Brock party has to play change completely. Cause you're now no longer.


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[Assistant] You're no longer operating with the defense assuming that you're trying to run downhill on them and keep the clock moving and you have the freedom to run these play action passes that look exactly like their run plays. Instead, you are forced to drop back a ton.


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[Assistant] And the defense can play more pass like cheat coverage where they are dropping into coverage. They are taking up that space that where there's these guys live when the defenders collapse, trying to stop the run they think is coming.


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[Assistant] It's, it's just, it's sort of the nature of the game.


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[Assistant] You're, you're not operating with a freewheeling Patrick Mahomes behind Undercenter. You've got Brock Purdy.


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[Assistant] Well I think it's, sorry, just to point out too, I think it's notable that in all four of those losses,


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[Assistant] This season that the 49ers have won, they've managed to hit 27 points or more. And in all four of those losses, they did not hit 20 points because they were in a spot where the produce being rushed and they were trailing and they were trying to come back. And, and the 49ers are fine. They're a really good team. It's just, I'll see this.


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[Assistant] Breach's point about the Ravens and Lamar Jackson and the struggles in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] I think that applies more to the 49ers and my concerns with the 49ers playing from behind if you have to than it does this current iteration of Baltimore.


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't know that, I think the point I made before we popped on the podcast, we were sort of talking as we were waiting for Breach to come on HQ is like, I thought the most interesting thing to me about this game was that


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[Assistant] Huge throw down throw to Tyreek by, by Tua, but.


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[Assistant] You know, when the, when the dolphins do drive, they wouldn't got one.


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[Assistant] And these two teams in the, you know, the total here was 51 and a half. It dropped down to 49. A bunch of sharp people were hammering the under ends up being what? 22 to 20.


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[Assistant] A ton of field goals. I think Jason Sanders had five or Saunders had five and then Brandon Aubrey kept his perfect streak going.


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[Assistant] I don't know that I necessarily got an answer about either of my fraudulent concerns. The Cowboys didn't go on the road and win, but they easily could have.


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[Assistant] Look, I think you're right. The Dolphins even just really good too. I just, I don't think that the, the overwhelming concern about these two teams was necessarily answered by the, like, I thought one thing would be answered. And yes, the Dolphins did beat a team of about 500, but they didn't.


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[Assistant] I think San Francisco easily won by a wide, wide margin. I would put Miami 2 and then Dallas 3.


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[Assistant] Shortle up or whatever in this game badly, I guess, but.


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[Assistant] I don't trust this Cowboys team in a, in a close game of the playoffs. And now they, because of this loss are almost certainly going to have to win three road games in order to get to what the, they would have to win three road games to get to the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] Also when we talk about the dolphins and again, like I'm not, I'm not, I'm not trying to troll.


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[Assistant] Producer Harry here by any stretch of the imagination, but what does this conversation look like? Um, you know, six days from now on what time is that game on New Year's Eve?


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[Assistant] I mean, what, what would you, what odds would you, what odds would you need to take the Cowboys to win the NFC or the Dolphins to win the AFC?


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[Assistant] They lost Connor Williams, Ike Emergency Center now. They ran the ball well, but...


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know. It feels, it feels like the dolphins are getting some unfortunate injuries. Everybody gets hurt this time of year. I mean, Mark, again, Mark Andrews out, you know, you have like.


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[Assistant] He's banged up. I mean, contenders are losing players, right? But it feels like the dolphins are.


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[Assistant] Tucker's not a top three quarterback, I mean top three kicker for you this year?


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[Assistant] Um, as podcast devotees will note, uh, the, we had a Nissan thrilling play of the day segment. Um, I read it and it involved two Raiders defensive touchdowns in seven seconds. The chiefs. I don't, I still think here's where I'm at on the chiefs. They have big time problems.


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[Assistant] But it's still a very, very, very good player. Isaiah Bacheco banged up.


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[Assistant] Run game, you know, the offensive line hadn't been as elite as it has been in years past, but.


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[Assistant] Un, like all these, all these times the Chiefs have made these runs, you know, they have these runs. It's Mahomes and Andy Reid carrying them. And we say, what if the defense gets hot and can help them win a Super Bowl? And it's done that before.


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[Assistant] Well, what if the defense is just really good, has been good all year, is going to probably be good through the rest of the year. What if the offense gets hot? And I'm not saying that they're just going to magically find a receiver.


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[Assistant] Just that maybe my homes and Kelsey will just have three games of going wild, which is not implausible at all. Well, we've said this every year, but this year feels different.


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[Assistant] I was in the car watching the game, listening to the game, I should say.


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[Assistant] And I heard it, it was like amid the two defensive touchdowns from the Raiders. And I think the line was, I believe from Nance, you know, Tony, this team just feels like it just wants to get to the postseason already.


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[Assistant] And it does feel like that. Do you think it's possible? And this is what Nancy and Romo alluded to that, uh,


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[Assistant] Six, five straight years of playing all, playing basically into February.


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[Assistant] Has sort of, it's sort of like the Warriors corollary or like the LeBron James, Miami Heat, that Cav stuff where it's like, you play like every.


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[Assistant] Postseason run you go on is two, three, four extra games, or maybe it was the Patriots. We talked about the Patriots or that, like eventually it wears on you a little bit.


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[Assistant] Do you think that's catching up to them at all? And they're so frustrated with this wide receiver situation that they really do just want to get to the playoffs and see if they can flick a switch.


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[Assistant] Rashi Rice didn't have a great game, obviously. He's played a lot better. He's not Tyree. Nobody's Tyree kill.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm not gonna go down the path of they lost the Tyree Hill trade because they won the Super Bowl. I mean that seems...


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[Assistant] Hire Kil to be on that roster. That would make a difference.


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[Assistant] It does feel like there's just more to it than that though. Mahomes? Is it? I mean they just have guys that don't get open.


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[Assistant] I was gonna jokingly, I was gonna jokingly do it. Look, this team went on their week 10 buy and since then they are two and four.


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[Assistant] With wins at the Patriots and at the Raiders. I mean, what is happening?


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[Assistant] I think I heard, I think it was, um, it was during Christmas week. You do a lot of driving. I believe it was Mark Sessler around the NFL podcasts. Love the set. Love Sess pointing out that this has major league, uh, 98 Vinnie Testa Verde vibes.


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[Assistant] Where they went 12 and one with Testa Verde who was 35 at the time, 38, you know, new 35. Flacco's dropped back 40 plus times in all four of his games.


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[Assistant] They can't run the ball at all. And Flacco's just winging it.


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[Assistant] Him and Amari Cooper, he got thrown, Amari Cooper could have gone for 350 yards in this game.


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[Assistant] Like broken flipper, or is it flipper engine? Like three, three thirty six, three thirty six. That's right. I should know that because that's my area. Go to my telephone. Um, shout out hashtag three, three, six.


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[Assistant] Amongst others, Tori Holt, shout out. Anyway, I... If the 49ers had beaten... If the 49ers and Cowboys had won...


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[Assistant] There's like not a crazy, and I wrote about this on Sunday, not a crazy chance of the Browns getting the one seed as it stands.


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[Assistant] I do not think you want to play Joe Flacco in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] If I'm the Ravens, you don't want January Joe. You don't want June. Okay. All right. Can we look at Joe Flacco's numbers? All right. All right.


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[Assistant] What do I, I'm going to give out the numbers and can somebody do the math and prorate these for me. But basically.


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[Assistant] Is Joe Flacco, I think that Joe Flacco is on pace with.


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[Assistant] Thirteen hundred and seven yards, 10 touchdowns and seven picks in four games with a 59.4% completion percentage. He's.


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[Assistant] Basically putting together 2012 Joe Flacker's regular season.


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[Assistant] He flipped a switch in the postseason. He just has that, he has that, whatever the DNA, the gene, the vibe, the ability to be clutch, he has that.


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[Assistant] And I would not really, really, really would not want to play the Browns in the playoffs if January Joe was coming to town. I don't think he's going to lay some massive egg.


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[Assistant] In one of these playoff spots, if the Browns get to 10, 11, 11, 12 wins and they, and they're there.


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[Assistant] I think they can, I'll take the over. I think they win two plus playoff games.


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[Assistant] Joe Flacco is doing all the things that Kevin Stefanski is asking him to do as part of this offense and within the structure of this offense and the Browns offense as a whole looks substantially better than it ever did with Deshaun Watson doing everything outside of the structure of the offense.


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[Assistant] The world, the way it is millennials taking over avocados prices through the roof tick tock scourge of the earth.


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[Assistant] You don't know what's going to happen in the future. Are you trying to drag this out until the new year? What's going on here? There's one thing I do have faith in.


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[Assistant] What's that? And that's it. Mike McCarthy and the Dallas Cowboys.


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[Assistant] Are going to absolutely meltdown in the first round of the playoffs.


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[Assistant] And shows in some kind of impressive fashion.


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[Assistant] Devin White, Devin White was awesome in that game. The defense, uh, uh, Winfield is playing incredible, like the high level football. This, this Tampa defense is legit and Baker Mayfield is, uh, just another quarterback that Browns wish they hadn't sent to Sean Watson.


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[Assistant] Like the spread will be so short. People like the cowboys are obvious here. Two and a half point favorites and the box will beat them by double digits.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's been on 14, but it's, I mean, if you were Jason light, Buccaneers GM.


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[Assistant] And you're doing this retooling post Tom Brady and you've got Mike Evans. You still got Chris Goblin, um,


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[Assistant] Trey Palmer? Yeah, Trey Palmer looks like a, like a, like a pretty good little pick. Kate Otten, not bad. Rashad White's been awesome this season. I feel, I mean, Baker Mayfield.


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[Assistant] Is going to be the best quarterback in the NFC South for the next five years, barring some kind of surprise draft pick. Why not roll with it?


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[Assistant] Dude, Cleveland, the Browns of the Super Bowl would be a really good story, but Cleveland, Tampa Bay, when it looks like we might get like, you know, like Dallas Miami would be something I would not, I would not say that that would be the first pick of our bosses underestimating.


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[Assistant] Round fans in the Super Bowl would be, it would be like, it would be like Zombieland in Las Vegas. Vegas would turn into a giant thug pound.


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[Assistant] Uh, Tampa would be favored by one and a half, I think, the way that they're playing. Who are you taking? Uh, I'm taking Joe Flacco. Who are you taking, Breach?


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[Assistant] What do you give your third tattoo, Wilson? What'd you say? What do you give your third tattoo?


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[Assistant] You're getting a third tattoo. And it'll be on Wilson Money Nuts. This is not the worst midlife crisis in the world.


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[Assistant] So the lions are very much live to get the one seed right now because of San Francisco's loss. And the fact that the lions are at the Cowboys and then host the Vikings to close out the season. They will need the Rams to help them out. They got to win out and need the Rams to help them out, but they can get the one seed.


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[Assistant] I think it's viable. I mean, Dallas plays great at him. So you say whatever you want about it, but.


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[Assistant] I don't, I don't, I, I don't worry as much about this Lions defense as maybe the general consensus is, but that's because one,


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[Assistant] Well, we'll actually know it's just two, one. There's no two. There's just one. They're going to get guys back. Aline McNeil should be coming back and Chelsea Gardner Johnson might be back next week. I think that makes a huge difference for this defense and the lions are punching so far above their expected playing weight right now. What does that mean? We thought the lions would be good this year. We didn't think they'd be this good, right?


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[Assistant] They've had these, they see, I look at their, I look at their, their schedule in totality and just think that they had this incredibly hot stretch to start the season where, you know, they get to a six and two.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Yes. I think the Vikings in general are just like kind of linger. I don't know, man. I think you go in the division this late in the season on the road against a team that is a playoff caliber team, even with the backup and to come away with a win by six points is a pretty solid effort.


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[Assistant] If they're at 3 seed and they draw the rams, it sucks. If they are a... They'll be favored in that game though.


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[Assistant] No, I'm saying like, what is the pat? Like what is the matchup? The first one? Because it feels like if the lions can get the set.


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[Assistant] Cause if you feel like if the Lions get the two seed, they get the Packers or the Vikings at home in a playoff game, they're going to win that game.


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[Assistant] Yes, well, yeah, I just mean, you got a home game against not the Rams.


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[Assistant] Uh, number one is the Rams. I just think, so, so the way I look at this postseason,


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[Assistant] Give me just a minute. Oh yeah, yeah, I gotcha. Yeah. So the, yeah, I've got Rams, Alice.


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[Assistant] For me, I look at this postseason and I think that this feels like, and I could end up being wrong, that happens a lot, uhm, it feels like one of those postseasons where


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[Assistant] We're, it's going to be, it's going to be the, the hot court, like the quarterback who gets scorching hot in the postseason and can rip off a couple of wins just because they are playing. They can, and I think.


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[Assistant] Right. Exactly. I think Joe Flacco qualifies. I think the original Joe Flacco. Sorry. I think this year's Joe Flacco qualifies. Yeah. No, I agree. I think, I think Josh Allen qualifies. Yep. I think Matthew Stafford qualifies.


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[Assistant] Because it's just, it's just dudes who, if they start seeing the Matrix as passers, there's nothing you can do about it. Eli Manning did it, Ben Roethlisberger did it, Aaron Rodgers did it. The arm talent and the skill level, the ability to be a veteran enough quarterback where you can just, like, it just clicks and you are rolling.


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[Assistant] Stafford, that's why the Rams are my number one. If the Rams, if Stafford's healthy and they're protecting him and Cooper cop and Pooka the coo are healthy and he is, he's dialed in, they can beat anybody on that side of the bracket.


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[Assistant] I'm looking at it on the upshot right now. If the Rams beat the Giants.


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[Assistant] They obviously have to do that on the road. They lose to the Giants and get the F out. Uhm, and lose to the 49ers.


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[Assistant] Then there are two games. There's one, there's one game that the Steelers Steelers beat the Seahawks in Seattle. They would essentially be clinched and they would be rooting for the Vikings over the Packers in week 17 and then a week 18 Bears to beat the Packers.


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[Assistant] Lions to beat the Vikings and Cardinals to beat the Seahawks would be the games that they would be eyeing down. So in other words, they can still get in, but they, you know, they can, and they control their own destiny, but they will have to, and this is where it gets interesting too. What if the 49ers are playing for the one seed and the Rams are playing to give them the playoffs and.


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[Assistant] They haven't beaten them in nine regular season games and the Rams go and beat the 49ers. Sunday night game costed the one seed.


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[Assistant] I would, I would move the Seahawks up to my six in the question you asked above Dallas. I think the Mike McCarthy thing worries me and...


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[Assistant] When Pete Carroll and Gina Smith are just finding ways to win and you have DK and lock it and Jackson Smith or Jigba can walkers running. Well, defense creating some chaos. Seattle's a little dangerous. I wouldn't.


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[Assistant] I don't think you win three or four games and win the Super Bowl. Oh good lord, three or four, that's a lot.


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[Assistant] I think, I mean, this is pretty obvious. They just beat the Eagles.


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[Assistant] I think they could go to Detroit. They beat the Eagles at home. They beat Detroit on the road.


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[Assistant] Seattle and, and the Rams, the Rams and the Seahawks are chaos agents on the back end of this.


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[Assistant] Playoff bracket. Like if we get Rams at Lions, Seahawks at Eagles and Cowboys at Bucks, I think there was a very reasonable chance that all three road teams, or excuse me, all three underdogs win those games. The Bucks beat the Cowboys.


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[Assistant] Rams beat the Lions and Seahawks beat the Eagles. I don't think that's outrageous at all.


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[Assistant] It was like one of those, one of those week 18 seasons where Andy Dalton's, like people are like, people from the opposing team are donating to Andy Dalton's charity. Was it the Bills, Bills fans, the Bills got in because Andy Dalton beat the Ravens?


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[Assistant] Yeah, but those are the only two teams who are in, in the two, I see it 98%. I mean, they're, they're going to get in. Man.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna stick with the Jaguars, but do you feel great about it?


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[Assistant] I mean, I'll tell you who the team is. It's the John breach will be writing a story about them on Tuesday morning special. Who is it? Breach in the AFC.


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[Assistant] Um, do we have a, is it just all of week 16 or are we?


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[Assistant] That works Brown's Seagull game record for receiving yards. Joe Flacco dropping back 40 straight times for the fourth straight game. The Browns winning another one. And I'm telling you, man.


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[Assistant] 9.2 million dollar final prize to first place.


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[Assistant] Four people vying for it. And one of the guys that knocked out this guy named Sean Perry, who's been refused to chop and take a $400,000 pullout because he said he was the greatest gambler of all time.


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[Assistant] How about when T Higgins got the long touchdown pass and then Pickens immediately answered it right back with another long touchdown pass. How'd you feel there? Oh boy. Even worse. Just like, just, I mean, Aiden O'Connell deserves


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[Assistant] Hey Breach, Breach, just real quick, how, um, look over your left shoulder. Turn around and look over your left shoulder. There's a cat climbing on the wall. Look, turn around and look. He has three helmets. How those three teams do this weekend? Some of them won. One on one.


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[Assistant] That's the Buffalo bills are going to make the playoffs and that's if the bills, so the bills averaged 6.3 yards per pass attempt.


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[Assistant] And James Cook averaged 7.2 yards per rush attempt while, while carrying the ball 25 times against this Dallas defense. If the bills could run the ball like that and play defense the way that they play defense against Dallas and


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[Assistant] I think Greg Olson, uh, maybe pointed out that the, that the bills are kind of just a perfect defensive matchup for the Cowboys, which is a problem. Uh, but I don't know if this is necessarily, and you look at this list of bills history, anytime you're on a list with OJ Simpson, you know, you did something really good or really bad. Um,


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[Assistant] And James Cook is on there, uh, 200 scrimmage yards rush touchdown and receiving touchdown in a game. I mean, Josh Allen had 94 passing yards and said he felt like the kid in the group who got an a


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[Assistant] The group, the group project got an A and he didn't do any of the work. Which is how Brinton got through school. That's how I film his podcast every Sunday night.


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[Assistant] That was nice. Uh, Josh, Josh Allen scored a rushing touchdown. He facilitated the offense. I thought that, you know, conditions were kind of nasty for part of this. And more importantly, the bills came out, just exerted their will on the ground. And I think what we've seen from Buffalo the last couple of weeks and you can go back to before the buy really


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[Assistant] Been different. They've kind of opened things up in different ways and have just been, I don't know if it was a Ken Dorsey thing. They just, they just look like they're saying sleep it. We don't care. Let's just go. Let's go be physical, be aggressive and be, and be dominant. And I thought that Josh Allen was going to have a huge game of this one. He didn't have to, and the bill is still rolled.


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm sorry. I would, I would point this out too. I, I, I apologize for not knowing, not remembering who said this.


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[Assistant] Um, but actually it was, uh, it was, uh, okay. I'll remember a second, but.


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[Assistant] The bills under, under, uh, Joe Brady have started, they were like the bottom five team in terms of using pre snap motion under, um, Ken Dorsey. And now we're like in the top 10 or top five. And so, I mean, I don't know. That's a difference maker. When you start talking about like modern football approaches.


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[Assistant] Well, I was going to say, I mean, like there is a little bit of call correlation and causation too, where it's like, if you're winning football games, you're usually running them all. And so you, you go over a hundred, but I know what you're saying. I just want to make sure no one thinks you're like a stabster type of guy. I think to your point, the, the, that really strikes here for me is.


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[Assistant] This is, knowing that this running game is there for the bills.


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[Assistant] The confidence you're talking about, like, to me, it gives it to Josh Allen, where Josh Allen is not going to feel like he has to force things in certain situations because he knows that the team can come out and be balanced and run the football and he's less likely to


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[Assistant] You know, not less likely to be concerned about making a mistake. It's just that he's not gonna be pressing to push the ball down the field because he knows the team can run and can pick up chunk yardage and can, and can matriculate the ball via the run.


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[Assistant] So on, on the other bills too, like, and I think this is, it's, I just always find it important, especially this time of year to sort of take a step back and look at the team in totality. Um,


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[Assistant] Their losses, they don't have a single loss by more than one score.


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[Assistant] You know, they lost by six of the jets in overtime. You lose by five to the Jaguars in London when they traveled over the short week.


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[Assistant] You lose by four in that close game at the Patriots, which is still a terrible loss. Lose by six to the Bengals on the road. You lose by two at home against the Broncos the following week after that, again, in prime time and inexplicable one, uh, the 12 and on the field. And then you lose by three, uh, at, at Philadelphia and that's your last loss. And then to breach his point about the bills being a playoff mode, I don't think I mentioned it.


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[Assistant] Earlier in the week, but when, uh, or maybe it last week, Brian McFadden was on the show.


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[Assistant] And talked about how in 2005, the Steelers by week 12 or week 13, they were in playoff mode.


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[Assistant] And it was basically you can't like every week is a must win game and it does change your mentality. It's different than playing, you know, of course every, every NFL player is going to the stadium trying to win every game, but it's different when you're going to the stadium in December thinking this game could be the end of our season.


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[Assistant] Versus when you go to the stadium in September thinking, okay, you know, we believe we can be the best team in football. Uh, you know, it was a tough loss. We're going to move on from it. I mean, this is a, this team, the way that they came out and I think.


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[Assistant] Kansas City, maybe it was better, the better team overall. They were certainly better in New York for play last week, but Buffalo just found a way to win. This is, they were just a better team. I mean, they outclassed Alice and man, I know we'll talk about the Cowboys later, but.


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[Assistant] Do they have a good win? They have a good win I guess. They have a good win against eagles at home.


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[Assistant] I think if you did a, if you, let's say you take a, uh, so you just make the.


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[Assistant] Raiders or any, anybody you want, like a team that's not going to make the playoffs and they're magically the number two seed and you get to get, and they get to have a draft of, you have the two, how do you want to do it? Just do a draft of who do you not want to play in the playoffs right now? And I think the answer on the ASC side is Buffalo.


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[Assistant] At the Chargers versus the Patriots. We think the Bills win both of those, right? Yeah. Their schedule opens up. It's going to be fun. Home against the Cowboys at the Ravens.


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[Assistant] Well, by the way, real quickly, if you, if you were interested in this, um, they, I don't, I guess they haven't updated the odds yet. I don't, they can't have because Dak Prescott is ahead of Lamar Jackson on the MVP odds at DraftKings. Uh, but do you get Lamar Jackson at five to one on DraftKings right now for MVP? I think that's a pretty good bet. Lamar?


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[Assistant] Yeah. I was, I didn't hear you said. Yeah. Yeah. That's what I'm saying. They haven't updated from the afternoon games. I get Brock Purdy's minus one 90 Dak plus four 50 and Lamar five to one. I think Lamar is a really good bet there.


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[Assistant] I think you're playing too good. Okay. I'll push back here. One, the Rams. That was a game. The Rams knew they go in there and upset the apple cart there, beat the Ravens on the road. And all of a sudden they're in a really, really good spot for a playoff, uh, playoff, uh, playoff position. Then this one you have, by the way, this is a crazy stat.


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[Assistant] Let the final two minutes in each of their first 14 games. Remember Wilson, when we were trying to answer the question, why do the Ravens lose these games? And we like had no answer. Did we do that? Maybe I did with someone else. Well, the point being,


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[Assistant] Yeah, let's maybe just somebody, some other guy on HQ point being is, um.


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[Assistant] I think the answer is they just led, they've led 90%. The first team since the 2005 Colts to lead in 90 plus percent of the minutes through week 15, their first 15, 14 games, which is just her first 13 games, maybe, which is just an insane step. They showed it on Sunday night football.


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[Assistant] My takeaway from this was Lamar 12 carries in this game for 97 yards, 8.1 per carry. He is now using his legs. They are activating his legs on design plays or more scrambles that they need to. He was really, really conservative with his legs for the first 12 weeks of the season or 13 weeks in 12 games. What do you want to say?


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[Assistant] And now over the last two weeks, he has been running more. And I think that was by design. I believe the Ravens wanted to keep him completely healthy, didn't want to use his legs, wanted to have, you saw how many times in this game do they use Lamar's legs to get third and fourth down?


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[Assistant] Runs where it's like don't short and they would, they would sort of just boot him out and have him like scored around the end and pick it up so easily. I feel like this is something that they've had in the playbook that they've been saving. They want to use in these cut situations when it's, you know, it's, it's, it's bleak cutting time near and you're trying to, you're trying to get down to the nitty gritty and win these games to get that number one seed. And I thought he was good as a passer, maybe, maybe not great in this game.


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[Assistant] Made some just improvisational plays that were outstanding, ran the ball really well. The key, the Keaton Mitchell injury sucks because that looked like it.


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[Assistant] Probably a season or he was averaging 8.1 yards per carry when he went down. He was such an explosive addition to that, but Isaiah likely filling in for Mark Andrews. I think the Ravens have done a really nice job. Kudos to Eric DeCosta for building out this roster with depth.


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[Assistant] So when they, these injuries happen, Keaton Mitchell, Mark Andrews, um, JK Dobbins early, you know, early in the year, like these injuries happen and.


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[Assistant] They have guys who can replace them and they're still in good shape. And defensively, I'm not, I'm not worried about this scene. I think they played too good. I think they had two good opponents. One with the Rams coming in, looking, looking hot. And then two on the road in Jacksonville in prime time. Not, I'm not concerned about Baltimore at all. I think it's, it's Baltimore Buffalo AFC championship game for me right now.


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[Assistant] I'm not, I'm not going to sit here and like, and argue against Brock Prody winning the MVP because I think that he has been.


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[Assistant] Outstanding this year. All right. So a couple of things when you look at Brock Purdy.


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[Assistant] He cam Newton made a big stink about the thing with the game manager stuff and all that.


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[Assistant] And when you say that, people are like, oh, how can you say that? That's so insulting. System quarterback is not pejorative. System quarterback means that you are operating in a system. Tom Brady is a system quarterback. Tom Brady operated Josh McDaniel system really, really well. You know, like can Newton in 2015?


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[Assistant] I get where camp comes from with this because in 2015 he was not a system quarterback. He had Mike Shula's offense and was just basically take over and just win games by virtue of being a freak show athlete who could throw the ball on the field. Like, but.


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[Assistant] It should not. It should be. We shouldn't ding bright bright. He throws deep too. He throws the ball down the field and he finds guys open. He runs through his progressions perfectly in Kyle Shannon's offense. And that's what I mean. He's in the system.


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[Assistant] He's in calcium. He runs calcium in system perfectly. They wouldn't trade in a bunch of picks for Trey Lance and Trey Lance couldn't figure out how to operate calcium in system.


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[Assistant] But Brock Purdy, who is free at the end of the draft, can operate the system. And that's what's so interesting about the free system quarterback.


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[Assistant] But if you know, it's like football, it's like, it's a, his processing is just faster and his understanding of Kyle Shanahan system is just faster and he knows exactly what Kyle Shanahan wants him to do. And Matt Ryan did that too. And when he won the, when he won the MVP, he understood what Kyle Shanahan wanted out of that offense. And he understood where to deliver the ball.


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[Assistant] Matt Ryan was actually on CBS Sports HQ or, or a spotlight on Thursday and was talking about it. It was like, he's like, yeah, like.


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[Assistant] And he said something similar, you know, he's answering came to his comments. He's like, you can knock Brock Purdy all you want. The dude's throwing the ball down the field and it's having a huge year. And if Brock Purdy wins MVP, I don't have a problem with it at all because the 49ers are awesome. And if you were, if you're, it's, this is not a plug and play situation where you toss Sam Donald in there and you end up like getting the same results. I don't think you do.


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[Assistant] Um, I think like today, if I, if I was sitting in a ballot today, I think it would be the problem too is like,


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[Assistant] Is Christian McCaffrey on your ballot? You can vote for whoever you want. It's your ballot. No, no, no. I'm asking like if you have a five man ballot, is Christian McCaffrey on your ballot? Yes.


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[Assistant] That makes it a little tough to also have Brock Purdy, doesn't it?


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[Assistant] And, uh, it's, it's, you know, Tyreex, Tyreex, we'll get to him and Tyreex claim for MVP.


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[Assistant] Uh, so that, that kind of VP vote that year? Not a first place vote.


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[Assistant] That's right, cause Tom Brady almost won and then Brady found out and then went out and beat him, beat him, came back against him in the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] Man, the Jaguars demons has been taught bad. Brown should be able to run against them. They weren't able to run against the bears at all.


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[Assistant] Should be able to run against the Jaguars. Jaguars are decent against the run, but they should be able to move the ball against the Jaguars and the Browns defense is so good. It wouldn't shock me if they went in there and won that game. What would you, what if the Jaguars were favored by more than three points? I'm definitely taking the Browns against the spread. Absolutely.


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[Assistant] And then back to that games of 300 yards passing a two passing touchdowns and Brown's history.


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[Assistant] I got, I got, I just kind of did some quick and I have to do like to have to double check this later, but I did some quick playoff machine math. I'm just going to spit ball some stuff at you.


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[Assistant] Uh, Brown's, week 16, Brown's beat the Texans.


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[Assistant] Dolphins beat the Cowboys, which you can give the Cowboys the win if you want. I don't care. That doesn't matter for our purposes. And the Niners beat the Ravens. Okay. All seem fair.


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[Assistant] Week 17, Browns beat the Jets. Not out of this world. Dolphins beat the Ravens.


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[Assistant] The Bills beat the Dolphins, the Browns beat the Bengals, and the Ravens beat the Steelers. Playoff machine has the Browns as the one seed.


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[Assistant] But those, those wins and losses that I'm talking about are not outrageous at all. Like that's a perfectly reasonable way for this to play out. I don't think it's going to happen, but man, you give January Joe the one seed and the Browns might win the damn Superbowl.