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[Assistant] During the day, I just looked at other receivers, you know, uh, Gala Day at Detroit. I said, yeah, I don't know about him, but I don't know when I stopped questioning that, maybe last year or whatever. I said, okay, we're all again there, big baby. And, you know, things like that. The other thing I took this week out of...


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[Assistant] Well, that's been pretty cool to watch. Just, just that. You know, just their graphics, how good they've been, and then I forgot about, you know, uh, shoot, what's his name? I should have brought it up. Mullin, I forgot that, that was the corner.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, I look at that stat, but you know, I look at that stat always in the context I watch the game and then decide.


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[Assistant] His motion has definitely gotten shorter on the short passes, which is really important. So, cause you can control the speed of the ball. And, uh,


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[Assistant] What else? Running with the ball, his ability to break tackles, to still not take big hits, and of course to make really special throws.


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[Assistant] Not just the one down the sideline that he threw to, uh, John Brown.


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[Assistant] And he gets completions, uh, drops his arm, threw a couple off his back foot, so, I don't know, am I saying enough good things about him?


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, and you know, it's not like he's, it's not like he plays on an offense that's what I call, you know, quarterback friendly.


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[Assistant] Now what do you, now what do you say? Cause you know, Christopher, you can't, and Paul, you can't, you can't teach accuracy. Oh, that's so, you, oh okay, sure you can't, you're right, you're right. We can't teach the nose tackle how to put his left hand on the right shoulder of the center and push. That's just asking way too much. I mean, Josh Allen was put on earth to throw something. That was evident from the time I watched him in Wyoming.


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[Assistant] The tremendously awful offense in Wyoming to terrific personnel.


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[Assistant] And, and I remember saying this, if he threw as many screens as the other quarterbacks, his percentage would have been just about as high as theirs.


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[Assistant] And, you know, there I am watching the Denver Broncos.


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[Assistant] Played the Minnesota Vikings up in Minnesota. And I'm sitting here thinking, Brandon Allen.


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[Assistant] When he tries to throw it hard, he, it could hit row two.


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[Assistant] It just has a little flow to it, much better than it did with Joe Flacco and you know,


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[Assistant] With the Los Angeles Chargers, I think it's really questionable what happens, just the fact that


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[Assistant] That, uh, Anthony Lynn, what did he say? Well, we're not gonna have, we're not looking at a quarterback change right now or something like that. I don't know.


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[Assistant] They're going to play the season out? What can they do? How can they turn? What if they win their last five? Does that make them stay with what they're doing? I don't know. My answer would be to all that is no. They have to find another way to try to win football games. And you know, look, you're the coach and general manager and all that. I don't know. You've got to worry about your job too.


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[Assistant] It's really interesting though, it's just interesting how...


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[Assistant] Just that game of all. Just yeaah. So uhm, and what would you say Mason Rudolph?


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[Assistant] Just, I don't know what to say, he's just not a, he's not a...


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[Assistant] Just doesn't have a strong arm. I even hear people on TV talking about it. And then, you know, you don't have to...


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[Assistant] I'm not overrating arm strength, but it's not, it's not average arm strength for the NFL. Throws it deep, nice. He is big. I like that. You know, he can move around a little, but uhm, you know, just the, here's what happens. You talk about backup quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] But once it just wears out after three, four, five weeks, it's over.


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[Assistant] If the plays add up on you, your starter's not in there.


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[Assistant] And that's why, you know, that's why there's a big separation on most teams between the starter and the backup.


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[Assistant] Well, it's, it's, it's really, really over the top. He actually throws ball, footballs, especially when they're crossing the field, over the middle, unless it's a lob one, you know, the deep cross or lob, he's okay.


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[Assistant] Well, when he tries to throw an in-cut at all, not to jump on him too much, but almost everyone has one common denominator. It's either gonna be high and, well, this, high and behind.


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[Assistant] And that's, that's, you know, people, like I say, teach them whatever, but I just know...


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[Assistant] Uh, but I did watch it, you know, on TV and everything, and Jameis Winston is like the golfer who can hit it 350 down the middle and he can birdie every hole, but also he's


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[Assistant] Just crushed it for nine holes, and then for the next three holes, he hits it out of bounds five times.


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[Assistant] And, and I would say if I really just watched him super close and watched him, that he missed, misses the target by himself.


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[Assistant] Now, we all know that doesn't sound like a lot. That's a lot for an NFL thrower and to be two yards off target on a curl route.


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[Assistant] Is the difference between getting a completion and maybe a run and interceptions and those plays have been happening to him. And he is definitely another one.


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[Assistant] But it gets away from him, down the field, and it's either long, high, interception, and I see it almost every single week.


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[Assistant] And then pencil in who you know is going to stay at quarterback and who could be floating out there.


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[Assistant] I'm telling you that list is, I'll bet you 20 deep of quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] Well, I, I can't think of the list. I did it last week on Showtime. I named about 20 guys. But let's just take Washington. Just start with him for one. Case Keenum and, uh, shoot, Cole McCoy, both could be there.


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[Assistant] It's, it's gonna be an interesting offseason for the NFL and the quarterback position.


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[Assistant] Just rip it in there all the time. And you know, Bruce Arians has had great success in NFL. I saw him with Andrew Luck and what he's done through all this quarterbacks or whatever. And it is really down the field throwing.


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[Assistant] And yea, that's great if we do some of it off a play action and not just dropping back, stand in there and let it go.


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[Assistant] If you're tweaking just a little, what do you get?


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[Assistant] Now we've seen Lamar Jackson, he tweaked it just a little bit. A lot better this year.


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[Assistant] You gotta admit, he's throwing the ball much better this year, controlling the football.


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[Assistant] And you know, he loves to drop his arm down and throw his sidearm a little that way and underneath or whatever, cause that makes him, that's when he really feels good.


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[Assistant] He's definitely moving his upper body more and just really relaxing and not falling forward when he throws a football. But his arm is not, you know, too over the top either. It was way over the top at times last year. Yea, you got two armies.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's great. And you know, even like you saw when he threw the post, I forgot who caught it in the end zone, was it Andrews? Probably Andrews. Somebody else I thought caught one, but even that throw, nobody's, he just kind of turned, he went around the ball a little more, more than I, than he usually does.


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[Assistant] It wasn't like a perfect spiral, but it was dead on target. That was what was important. And, hey look.


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[Assistant] Look at Lamar Jackson in college, running the football, and then look at him now.


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[Assistant] I mean, the first thing you're gonna notice from Louisville to now, it looks like he's


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[Assistant] He's a man, and back then he was just a young guy still growing.


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[Assistant] You know, you're gonna slowly pull back, and I, it's, that, that's, he's learning, he stays in the pocket, uh, he doesn't run, and really, until you make him.


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[Assistant] Look, when he curses, make him give you ten bucks.


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[Assistant] Barbara Sims was the step-sister of Willy Sims, okay? Did you know that? So my dad's mom and dad were step-brothers, step-sisters. Okay. You like that? What up, everybody? Chris Sims unbuttoned, and if that doesn't say unbuttoned,


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[Assistant] We can't say all the things that we were saying. Oh, I wish we could really dive into some of the things we just talked about, but we don't have enough of a comfortable position in this company yet to go there, so we won't do that.


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[Assistant] Yes, I know. Sorry everybody. I can't tell you what we were doing. It is too risque for this podcast, but what up? We got Chris Sims on button.


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[Assistant] Everybody said you and the Colts pick of the Five Worst. That was not popular. I will give you that. That was not popular at all because they have a traditional backing. But either way today we get into the five best ones. And after seeing your five worst, I'm very intrigued to see your five best. I really am.


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[Assistant] I'm a traditionalist a little bit, so I probably err on being a little boring that way. Uh, but we're gonna hit on that, some news.


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[Assistant] Yeah, okay, I get you there. Uhm, so we're gonna hit that as we talk about, hit some news going on in the NFL, Drew Brees, all that stuff going on, and then we got a little bit of like, uh, looking at this next, this off-season's landscape, and kind of just


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[Assistant] You know, we're going to play the game of like, hey, who's this year's Shaq Barrett? You know, who's this year's Tyron Matthew? Yeah, right. We're going to go along the, along the, uh, the off season outline of what we saw last year and players that stood out to us in the 2019 season and see if we can't, you know, peg a few names to that list and have a little fun with that.


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[Assistant] Okay, thanks. I hate the, the idea. Alright, go ahead. Let me hear you. Why? Why? What do you hate about it? Because I'm a little in between on certain things, uh, but I'd like to hear your thoughts.


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[Assistant] And it's not even close, right? I mean, it's, it's not even close. And then, you know, the last time I checked, I'm pretty sure football, I mean, uh, baseball, basketball and hockey don't make as much money as the NFL does. They'll just combine. So that just tells you where it's at.


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[Assistant] Now, you know, okay, if they're gonna make a change, like, I can live with this one to a degree. I can. Okay, I don't think it's going, like, too crazy. Uhm, I think the things, here's my first concerns.


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[Assistant] Right. Which, okay, that has some intrigue to it. I won't lie there. That's like the Rams might have been one of those teams you could argue and go, okay, maybe that would have been a better playoffs with them in there. I get that. But the playoffs are already a crapshoot. They are already a crapshoot. And now you're adding more of a crapshoot. And really, the biggest thing, I think, more than anything is


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[Assistant] You know, yes, I'm worried about the playoffs being watered down, uh, okay, but the other thing too, now here is a little bit of a good and a bad about it, okay.


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[Assistant] The bad is, I do think this is gonna accentuate the chances of the number one seed just ending up in the Super Bowl every beer. I do. I think, you know, it's just gonna make it that much harder for those other teams who are all gonna be playing a game.


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[Assistant] Before the divisional round, where the number one seed's gonna be sitting there at home, and as we've seen here in recent history, the number one and number two teams with the bye week have had a great advantage. I mean, they're kind of dominating the playoff landscape the last five or six years. So, I guess that scares me.


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[Assistant] I think it scares me a little bit. It does. Because, yeaah, I just don't know. Listen, I like it because it keeps the regular season very relevant to where teams have to win and keep playing and play well to get that number one seed. That buy is gonna be really coveted, right?


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[Assistant] But also, I look at it in some years and go, okay, what if we have two teams that are 14 and two, right? And one team wins by a tiebreaker. Right. Man, what a...


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[Assistant] What a, like a man, you were the 14-2, and now you're playing in a wild card game against 7-7 and 9 football team, and whoa, you know, all of a sudden, you lose two out of your three best players in that wild card game against a team that's crappy? Okay, maybe you lose that game, and now that crappy team gets to go on the next weekend, and we see more crappy football for them.


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[Assistant] Or your team does win and you're not at full strength and we see crappy football too because now your team's been hurt and players are banged up.


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[Assistant] From a game that wouldn't normally exist. Those are my issues.


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[Assistant] Right, something like you didn't play each other head to head and you're both 14 and 2. Right. And it comes down to silly tiebreaker, you're right, like right, net points or division winners or conference winners.


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[Assistant] I mean, even for the Super Bowl, that's where I get, I get worried about it. Let's just say the number three seed, yes, does make it in. Or the number two seed does make it to the Super Bowl. No, I think you're increasing your chances of not seeing the best Super Bowl product either.


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[Assistant] You know, so yes, I would like things to stay the freaking same way they have been, alright? That's where, why are we messing with this? And, you know, to the point of like,


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[Assistant] You know, we talked about it already, but you can go through most years, alright, and you can just look at it and go, I don't want to see that number 7 seed. I look at most years and go, I didn't really want to see that number 6 seed playoff game. I never thought there was any chance they could win a Super Bowl or go to the Super Bowl. I mean, even this past year, how many teams did we legitimately think


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[Assistant] Could go to the Super Bowl when we enter the playoffs. I mean, I think it was a very rare view, I think. Yeah. To me. Now here on this list, and if anybody's watching on our YouTube page. Here's the would-be number seven seeds. The would-be number seven seeds, which I just want to make everybody clear here. The would-be number seven seeds.


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[Assistant] The NFL is just angling to get this to be the would-be number 7 and 8 seed somewhere in the future. Okay, then we're gonna have like 7 and 9 football teams make the playoffs. Alright, and I don't want to see that.


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[Assistant] Alright, but out of this list here, and if you're watching on YouTube, right? Alright, there's like, you know, not a lot of these teams jump out to me.


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[Assistant] Other than like, maybe the Steelers of 2018.


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[Assistant] Of 9-6-1, where I go, ooh, if that team got in the playoffs, that could have been a little scary.


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[Assistant] Right? Because they went through some crazy stuff that year in the 2018 season with Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell being out and they had a few injuries here and there.


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[Assistant] But they were a team where I looked at the end of the year that kinda came together, and I went, ooh, remember they beat the Patriots late that year? They lost a really tough game to the Saints down in New Orleans, where Juju Smith-Schuster fumbled the ball late in the game. That is one instance.


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[Assistant] It's few and far between, cause a lot of the other years I just go, sorry.


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[Assistant] You know, these teams are not quality football teams, alright? You know, another one that jumps out to me is that, that in 2010, uh, New York Giants team.


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[Assistant] And be another team, you know, and especially because it was Eli Manning and it already showed that they could win as a sixth seed when they, you know, 2007, but that's where I worry about it. And then I also worry that they're just doing this to position themselves for an 18 playoff. And that's where I get really scared, you know, because then you're going to have teams like the Denver Broncos who were seven and nine this year.


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[Assistant] I mean, they're going to the playoffs? They weren't a playoff team. I'm sorry. They did a great job. They rebounded well the second half of the season, but not a playoff team.


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[Assistant] But Tennessee is a team that was on fire the second half of the year and really in the position they were in their position they were there because to me the biggest reason is they were just not willing to pull the trigger to go to Mario to Tannenhill quick enough.


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[Assistant] I think if they did that, I think really the Tennessee Titans are not a team that is 9-7. I think they would have been an 11-5, at least a 10-6 football team if they had made that switch a little earlier. So, I don't know, it's interesting. Either way, what I think ultimately NFL wants to do, and I've heard this from people, substantial people in the NFL, what they want to do is make it 18 games, regular season, make it 8 teams per conference,


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[Assistant] To get into the playoffs, 16 teams total, and they want to have the Super Bowl this past weekend. That's the big thing I've been told by people that- So that you have- You have President's Day weekend Super Bowl, so where nobody works on Monday, and it can become this huge, extravagant, big holiday thing. Now the NBA All-Star is not going to be very happy about that.


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[Assistant] It's three extra weeks, which, I mean, if you add an extra playoff game and an extra regular, we're adding two extra regular season games, it's gonna fit there, exactly. It's gonna fit exactly the way the formula is right now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I worry about that too. A watered down product, certainly. And with extra regular season games, and now an extra playoff game, I just worry about, hey, it could lead to...


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[Assistant] Well, I can understand them like this, than the more, than the more regular shooting game, right? Well, it's playoff, it's more money, it's only one more game for what? Two teams, right? Yeah, two teams.


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[Assistant] Right? Or no, it's going to be four teams ultimately because that number two season I have to play. So it's going to be one. So okay. And I think players can get...


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[Assistant] You know, they can, they can wrap themselves around that idea because it's the playoffs, it's not a guaranteed fact that you're gonna have to play an extra game, right? And it's the playoffs and it's a chance to improve your legendary status and have a chance to get a Super Bowl ring, which is everybody's goal in the NFL.


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[Assistant] 17, you know, playing 21 game seasons. I mean, we're gonna get to 22 game seasons here at some point.


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[Assistant] And I know they're trying to make the league safer and do all that, but wearing people down and getting them crushed a few more times a year is certainly not going to help out player safety either. So yeah, we'll see where it goes. You know, I like it the way it is. I mean, that's a valid point with the numbers and the percentage that Scott Walker just made.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but, you know, to me it's a little bit of like, uuuh, everybody in the rec league eight year old basketball deserves a blue ribbon. So we all should do it. And really at the end of the day, I think what bothers me when it's just about money for the owners. And that's where I don't love it. Sixty. Of course they want another playoff game. That's huge money. That's a huge money for, again, I like to explain this to people.


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[Assistant] It's huge for TV money, of course, that's gonna be probably worth a billion dollars to have two extra play games, playoff games, alright? And then the other thing is, the big thing is, owners love playoff games, cause you don't have to pay, you know,


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[Assistant] Uh, Russell Wilson, his two game, two million dollar game check that week, right? It's just a flat rate playoff check. Everybody gets thirty thousand dollars across the board. So they're not having to shell out some huge check to one of their star players. They're getting to keep that this time. And that's where they kill it. And that's where, you know, I'm, I'm a little concerned.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm a little surprised by that. But yeah, I mean, people are used to what they're used to right now. And you know, I think the big thing I will go back to is, and again, I think most years I go into the playoffs and go,


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[Assistant] There's only three or four teams that I think can make the Super Bowl. You know, and this year, I don't know, you tell me if I'm wrong. I mean, of course we thought Baltimore and Kansas City could get there. Let's say New England, because they're New England. I think we thought they could get there at the start of the playoffs. We obviously thought the 49ers


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[Assistant] And I'm gonna say the Saints, I didn't, I never thought Green Bay could make it to the Super Bowl. I thought they were gonna need a shamrock up their ass to get there. So, I mean, there we are this year, 12 teams, and I really only thought five could really make it to the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] You know, I thought everybody else needed some breaks or some, something to happen their way, something weird that way. So I guess that's where I don't lie. Alright, let's go, next subject.


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[Assistant] We were trying, so here he is first off. Do you think that's Hawaii in this? If you're watching on YouTube, here's the tweet with Drew Brees, Mountains, Ocean. Looks like a Pacific Ocean. It is Hawaii. We've confirmed that. Pete's confirmed. Pete just confirmed it.


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[Assistant] I don't know, this is the same guy who said Eric Weddle had the best hair in the history of the sport. So, let's not listen to him totally. Uhm, okay, so it is Hawaii. And, uh, yes, he had a Freudian slip.


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[Assistant] And I'm telling you, just the way he acted with that, uh, it really did ring true between body language, the look in his eye, the way he said it. I was like, oh, he's playing. I mean, I never doubted it after that.


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[Assistant] And they got a great support system around them. Of course, he's got Sean Payne. They have one of the better old lines in football. Pretty good running backs. Michael Thomas, Jared Cook. You know, they'll probably add another weapon. So there's a lot of things there that would go.


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[Assistant] Man, why would I want to give up on this team right now, right? And then if you're the Saints, like, are you sitting there going, oh my gosh, we don't have Drew Brees back, we can't, you know, be successful? No, obviously you proved that this year, but I still think he gives them their best chance. I mean, I still think that Drew Brees,


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[Assistant] In that offense with his experience there. And yeaah, listen, declining skills is better than Teddy Bridgewater in that offense. I do think that.


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[Assistant] And now they'll be able to balance. And I don't think they're quite ready to make that full-fledged switch to Taysom Hill. You're our starting quarterback. I think this buys them one more year to continue to give him reps, tinker that way, and they kind of get the best of both worlds. But that's going to be the next tricky thing now is working at the Taysom Hill contract.


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[Assistant] You know, and I expect he's gonna get some sort of significant contract to where he'll be out there playing probably more than we've seen in the last two years. But as Drew Brees told me and Mike Florio in Miami, I think he's totally fine with it. And I, he is totally fine with it. And I believe him. I really do. I think he's very comfortable with where he's at in his career and his legacy. And I think he just goes...


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[Assistant] You know, five years from now, if they win the Super Bowl, and who cares, Taysom Hill had ten passes in the Super Bowl and five runs. No, everyone's still gonna go Drew Brees won the Super Bowl twice. Right?


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[Assistant] Well no, you're right, I mean he's a competitor, he's not, but that's still different than just coming out for a few plays here and there. You know, there he was, yea, he was seeing a guy that was like threatening his job a little bit here.


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[Assistant] This is kind of like, hey, I'm a threat to your job, but I'm not taking over yet. We're kind of easing me into it, and you can kind of still be Drew Brees, and I think it works for the Saints.


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[Assistant] It's very evident that he is a love affair with Jason Hill. This is his toy, his baby. You know, he sees great things in him. And I think it also invigorates Sean Payton because I think he kind of wants to dabble in a new formula on the offensive side of the ball, which he's excited about.


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[Assistant] No, who is going to offer him 30 million dollars to come in and, you know, does he get a borderline really low level, maybe starting money, great backup money type contract? Yea, maybe, maybe, but I don't think anybody's going to get, that's not going to happen, sorry.


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[Assistant] I've had my eye on for a few years who does a great job at a backup role and I think this year he's gonna be able to, he's gonna leave his team.


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[Assistant] Roy Robertson Harris, okay, of the Chicago Bears. Yep, I told you you wouldn't know him. Okay?


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[Assistant] But he is a guy who has been an unbelievable quality backup for the Bears the last few years. Now they're stacked on their front seven, so he hasn't been able to crack the starting lineup, but he does play when guys have gotten hurt and then start. So he's, he plays a lot of snaps.


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[Assistant] When Nakeem Hicks got to play, you know, got hurt, he played more and more and got, I think, even a few starts in there, but really a guy that, you know, even back to my Bleacher Report days, I used to rave about a little bit. He's the guy that fell on Aaron Rodgers knee two years ago in that season opening game, right? Yeah. Uhm, he's, but he's really got,


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[Assistant] Defensive tackle slash defensive end flexibility too, to where, hey, listen, I'm not sitting here saying he's gonna lead the NFL in sacks next year, I just think he's gonna be a guy where he's gonna go on a team where you're gonna go, damn, this guy's a really good player, I'm glad we signed him in free agency, great sign by RGM, he's awesome.


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[Assistant] You know, where'd they get this guy? Oh, he was a backup for the Bears. I think he could be that guy. You know, what Shaq Barrett did this year is like, that's kind of special and unheard of. To say that you're going to find a backup that's going to go on the next year and lead the NFL in sacks and almost get 20 sacks.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's, I mean really, it's probably happened maybe once, twice, anything even comparable in the history of the NFL. So that, that was a unbelievable breakout year for Shaqberg. I got a guy who came on strong at the end of the year. I like it.


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[Assistant] He, uhm, you know, again, another example, like we've talked about with Minka Fitzpatrick a few times, was in Tennessee, wasn't really getting used the right way, and then he goes to Baltimore and they kind of find the niche for him and how to move him around, and I'm with you. He's a guy that could be that guy. That's a good one, Amin.


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[Assistant] That's like, yeaah. That was an amazing year by Shaq Barrett.


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[Assistant] I think Andy Dalton. And if you made me say a team, I'd go like Andy Dalton to the Chicago Bears. Right? I can just see that happening. Where he goes there, they bring him in because they go, man, if we don't all want to get fired, if Trubisky shits the bed for the first five weeks of the season.


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[Assistant] And I think you could see that. That would be my bet. If you had to make me pick one guy to do the Mario to Tannin Hill, it would be the Trubisky Dalton this year, where I could see that happening.


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[Assistant] That makes total sense, right? I just think that would be the type of thing I would look at if I was Andy Dalton. That would be the kind of position, like, oh, okay.


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[Assistant] He got benched, he came back. Well yeaah, but you know, when he came back, I mean, he was pissed off, he played well. You know, yeaah. Andy Dalton, again, you know, is not a superstar, he's not gonna carry your team, but he does, he, there's a lot of good things to like about him. He's a good athlete, he can make all throws.


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[Assistant] You know, he's not going to be like this Adonis big mouth leader of your football team either. That's not who he is. No, and I think that's why the Bears fit too. The Bears don't need the quarterback to be the leader that way. They just need a guy that's steady and consistent. They got some other personalities around their team on defense, especially who can be the leaders of the team.


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[Assistant] Alright, so I mean, I don't have teams pinned here, okay? Alright, I'm not going that far. We don't know yet. We don't know yet. And there's a few that are like, okay, maybe I could pin a team to them here and there, but this one's too hard. Like it's just, this is too open ended.


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[Assistant] Well, yeaah, I mean, but, but like, alright, here's the guy, like, we're talking about time on Matthew, we're talking about a guy who goes to a new team, obviously does well in the field, but has like, an attitude and a veteran leadership.


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[Assistant] Off the field that also improves the team. I mean, that's the one thing anybody I talked to around Kansas City, they were like,


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[Assistant] I mean, Tyron Matthews, awesome. He's our favorite player on the team. He's the coolest guy on the team.


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[Assistant] You know, and you hear Andy Reid tell stories during Super Bowl week. He said, like, Tyron Matthew ran the locker room, like, the second week he was there. Yeah. Like, because he's just that one personality. So, here's one guy, Chris Harris Jr.


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[Assistant] Alright, that's one guy I look at. Denver Broncos, somebody that needs a nickel corner somewhere, and you're looking for a guy to give your secondary a new attitude and something like that, I think Chris Harris Jr. could fit that mold. To bring a little swag.


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[Assistant] Smartness. I've been there. I've done that. I've won a Super Bowl. This is how we do it. You know, the thing I love about Tyron Matthew when guys would mess up, like, he would yell at them, but it wouldn't like go crazy to where you berate them, but like give them a look or be like, what?


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[Assistant] No, I think that's fair too. I mean, Dante Fowler I think is a guy that's a little bit better than maybe he gets perceived to be by the public and he does have an attitude and leadership there. I'm with you with your Devon McCordy. It's actually the first name I wrote down.


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[Assistant] Definitely. You do. You do. And those two seem to be leaders of that team in general, so that even accentuates it more. And then one other one I'll throw out to you is, is maybe Jimmy Ward from the San Francisco 49ers. I don't know how that plays out there in San Francisco. They got some cap issues and some big names that are available, but he would be a guy that if he went to another team,


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[Assistant] Uh, I do think he has the ability to kind of have that time zone. He's a similar player to honey badger. He can play nickel, he can play safety, he can play corner, can do it all. Those would be the guys that jump out to me, really.


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[Assistant] With his hands down his pants watching football on a Sunday is like, oh, Bud Dupree is a really good player. So he could fit that. There was another name you said that I thought could have fit that. Fowler? Yea, Fowler, same thing. I mean, you know, those are, to me those are under the radar, really good players who could go somewhere and blow up. But go ahead, I want to hear the rest of yours.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's, I'm with you. It's again, one of the first names I wrote, dude. I think you're spot on. He's really talented. He's one of the better free safeties in the NFL.


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[Assistant] And, uh, yeaah, I, I could see him going somewhere. And if yes, he got on a team that was relevant. We all go and, damn, this guy's a player. Like he can do everything. So I'm with you there. Same position. I'll throw another name out. Sean Davis from the Pittsburgh Steelers. Sean Davis to me is one of the best hybrid safeties in all of football.


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[Assistant] He really is. He's special, and I don't know, I doubt they re-signed him in Pittsburgh because they traded for Mink and Fitzpatrick, but I think he's in command. Big money.


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[Assistant] On the free agent, you know, contract tour here, to where he would be a guy that I'd go, ooh, he gets on a team, watch out.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna throw, you said, we said Bud Dupree, right? I'm gonna throw Marcus Golden.


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[Assistant] You know, he's a guy that I think is finally healthy after his ACL tear a few years ago, to where I think if he gets signed by somebody, he could be a guy where we look at, like a Zedaria Smith and go, he's got 12 sacks this year. He's really changed around their defense.


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[Assistant] Exactly. This is typical Chris Simms Robin Hood territory here. We take it from the rich and we have to give some credit to the poor here, okay? And yes, you're exactly right. Like James Bradbury, the corner for the Carolina Panthers. He's another guy I'd look at. Man.


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[Assistant] You know, you put him on the Seattle Seahawks with that length and that scheme and all of a sudden we all go, damn this guy's just like Richard Sherman. I think he's a guy like I would, I would throw right away.


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[Assistant] And I wouldn't be shocked if that's who ends up signing him, is the Seattle Seahawks. He fits that mold of being a big physical corner. You know, you maybe don't want to play a man to man every play, right? He's a lot like a Richard Sherman that way, so I can see that. The other one I'll say here, and...


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[Assistant] I like the guy on the field, off the field. He's had a few things where I'm not crazy about, but I'm going to say his name anyways. Robbie Anderson for the Jets. Robbie Anderson goes to the right team at offense next year.


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[Assistant] Like, I wouldn't be shocked if he came away like, man, Robbie Anderson got 1200 yards receiving and 7 touchdowns this year. He was their deep threat, he was amazing, blah, blah, blah. I can see that.


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[Assistant] You like that one? I do. I like that one a lot. And you know, and I had Corey Littleton, the middle linebacker from the Rams on my list too.


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[Assistant] Uh, I don't think he'll ever get out of Los Angeles. I think he's too important, but he would be a guy that at least fits the mold of a guy that's really an awesome player that I don't think really gets the credit from, you know, the fans quite yet.


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[Assistant] Listen, that might be one where I just look at and go, it just might be time for both the part ways. Like, if I'm Agent Green here, like, okay, you're getting to be 32 years old, you still got talent.


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[Assistant] Don't you, do you really want to be a part of this with the bangles right now? Do you really want to? Like AJ, don't do it man, don't do it. There's a market out there.


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[Assistant] I would think so. I mean, yes. Depending on his health, that's the scary thing. That is, right. You're gonna have to know where his foot is at and all of that. He had some issues there. But AJ Green, to me, would be that guy. And if I'm the Bengals too, Ahmed, like, if you're starting, like, okay, we're about to go Joe Burrow, we gotta head coaches in a second year, like,


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[Assistant] I don't know, I would start thinking about building my team young and having receivers that are young that all come up together with a Joe Burrow. Instead of like an old presence where Joe Burrow's in the huddle like, uh, uh, uh, Mr. Green, uhm, I'll get you the ball here. I'm sorry I haven't thrown the ball to you nine.


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[Assistant] Uh, the last nine pass plays, like that's what an old veteran superstar receiver can do to a young receiver, uh, young quarterback. It's kind of intimidated him too, right? Like, like I, I used this on the other day. Steve Smith Sr. with Cam Newton. I think that's a little what went on there. Like,


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[Assistant] Cam was, you know, being overshadowed as the leader of the offense, and they wanted him to be the leader as a young quarterback, and yet he had him, and I'm sure he was feeling the pressure of like, oh, that guy's so awesome and I like him, I want to give him the ball, and it ruins the development a little bit. And why not get the assets for AJ Green just to build your team? That's, that's, that's my, my, uh, thief forward, Frank Clark. Who you got?


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[Assistant] The 49ers. The 49ers have salary cap issues. We just named some of the, you know, Jimmy Ward, Kyle Yuscheck, Emmanuel Sanders needs to be re-signed. They gotta start thinking about DeForest Buckner, cause he's just a year behind Eric Armstead, and he's one of the better interior D linemen at all of football. So they have to think about him and his contract on their radar.


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[Assistant] You know, they want to work out some long-term deal, but then they start to realize, whoa, the numbers are way off and there's going to be a market for Eric Ormsted. I mean, he's, there's just not many people on earth built like him. And I could see that being another one.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, I mean, I would think that if I'm them, I mean, you can't lose Zedaria Smith and Matthew Judon in back to back years. Yeaah. Yeaah, so that would be, I think there's gotta be a priority there to try to keep him.


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[Assistant] I know, I mean, I said this the other day with Jalen Ramsey, cause I just wonder, like, the Rams, they gave up a lot to get him. Now he has such leverage. I would think he wants to be the highest paid corner in the history of football.


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[Assistant] And he probably wants to be up there with the highest paid defensive player in the history of football.


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[Assistant] And the Rams want to go down that road. So I'm, I've thrown his name out there, even though I doubt that happens. Yeah. But that would be a shock. It would be a shock. I'm going to throw, this is another one that there's been a little rumors of this out here lately. All right. And I'm just, but Stefan Diggs is the one that I will say I'm going to still throw on this.


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[Assistant] You know, Diggs is a guy where, you know, hey, where there's smoke, there's fire. We've heard him being a little, you know, weird about the Vikings. You know, there's been some rumors bubbling up this week a little bit. And, uh,


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[Assistant] I just, you know, you never know. And I think he is the kind of guy where teams will look at it and go, ooh, he's a good player. We need a receiver. His contract is not crazy money. And, uh, I can see that maybe happening.


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[Assistant] Restructuring a canoe contract, something. He's getting paid again, like he's one of the five or six best receivers of football, and of course he's not.


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[Assistant] Let's say, the Rams, or like, because Todd Gurley, it's Sean McVay running system. You know, or, he goes somewhere like that, that has the Shanahan run scheme kind of in place, and then becomes that guy, uh, for that team. I, I can certainly see that happening, and uh, you know, he's one guy that jumps out to me for sure.


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[Assistant] Mackenzie Alexander from the Vikings, the Nickel Corner. He could be a guy where, you know, he was a second round pick out of Clemson. He's...


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[Assistant] Got a niche. He's very good nickel corner. He could be a guy that goes to a new defense and we all go, oh man, he was, he is what they needed. He helped out their secondary, you know, to, to great extent.


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[Assistant] You know, whether that's the Detroit Lions or some team, you know, like that, the Houston Texans, right? Who are just horrible at pass defense. For Shawd Breland, for the Kansas City Chiefs would also fit that mold to me. He came on really strong the last half of the year. And one more, just to end this.


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[Assistant] Vance McDonald. If he gets out of the Steelers, I've always been a fan of him and I think he's got a great way about him in run game and pass game physicality. So he could be a guy that I think gets on the right team and we go, damn, he's a good tight end.


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[Assistant] Kevin Costner Robin Hood is very good. Okay, I like it. I'm a fan of it. And what's this recent one with the kid who played Elton John in the Elton John movie? I'm not asking you, I'm talking to Pete in the...


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[Assistant] You know, that kid who played, he did the Robin Hood movie too. It was pretty good too. Oh, Pete doesn't even know. Well, he's gotta look it up, but I know at least like Pete's probably seen the Elton John movie. You know, have you seen the Elton John movie? It's worth it.


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[Assistant] With Michael Bennett and Pelé Bennett. Okay, now let me just say this is some relationship they got to be doing a working podcast together. Man, they are happily married.


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[Assistant] The playoff player ever. He's one of the best defensive players to play in our league the last 10 years that nobody really knows about. And if anybody wants to go, Oh, Chris Sims, you're crazy. Michael Bennett, Michael Bennett's disruption


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[Assistant] Is, was almost Aaron Donald-ish for four or five years. That's how great it was. Now, the production, the bottom line stats do not tell the whole story with him. He ruined plays. And if anybody wants any more verification on that, go back and watch America's game when the New England Patriots had to play the Seattle Seahawks in Super Bowl 49.


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[Assistant] All Bill Belichick does is talk about how do we stop Michael Bennett.


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[Assistant] I mean, Tom Brady makes comments about, how do you stop Michael Bennett?


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[Assistant] He is an awesome football player and awesome social awareness.


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[Assistant] Got a great way about him. I'm a huge friend, fan of him and his brother. I don't know his wife, Pele, but if she's married to Michael, she's probably really cool too. And I would like to meet them regardless. So good luck with that and check that out. The mouthpiece by the Bennett lovers.


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[Assistant] Oh, it'll be interesting. I'm sure there'll be some arguments and it'll carry over to home. But like, you know, when you talk about politics, culture, race, parenting, football, you know, all of those things, man, I think this is going to be a great listen.


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[Assistant] Like Ben. And it was it. Yeaah. He was it. It was it. You know, uhm.


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[Assistant] I gotta question the sanity of Mr. Carter, okay? Sorry. Sorry, I don't know what. And it's not like the Wolverine helmet. The Wolverine helmet goes this way. It doesn't have random strikes. Yeah. And there's probably Wolverines at some point in the state of Michigan's history. Maybe. Once again.


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[Assistant] I'm not giving this up. I'm not giving it up. Cincinnati's gonna have to hear about this until they change it.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna lie, this didn't make my top 5, but it was very close. Yeah, it was close. I do like this one a whole lot.


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[Assistant] It is. I love the Redskins uniform, so I'm a big fan. Now they need to change the name, yes, okay? Gotta go, sorry.


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[Assistant] I think the helmet looks pretty cool. The helmet is special, and, you know, like, yeaah, I don't know really where we stand with that all together. I don't know either. But that Redskins name needs to change, I know that, but I am a fan of their helmet.


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[Assistant] Your list would be the ones I would think about from somewhere from 6 to 15. Okay. Like all those, they would be in that mix. The best of the rest. The best of the rest. But I, I mean, not, not, I have one, I think, of yours in my top pot. Okay, alright. I mean, my number five is the Pittsburgh Steelers.


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[Assistant] Yes, I like it, alright. Just get used to it, everybody. I'm going traditional, alright. I'm Johnny traditional. And the reason I like this helmet, first off, there's some unique things. Keep this up here, Pete.


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[Assistant] Is one, you see the yellow stripe, it's nice, black helmet, it's got the three little stars or whatever they hella, how hella they are for the three rivers, right, that convert there in Pittsburgh, cause this used to be Three Rivers Stadium, I believe that's why they're there.


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[Assistant] The numbers being in front of the helmet are unique. Nobody else in football has the number in front of the helmet like that, right? You see the number there? Yep. Okay. I do like that. Okay. That's a big plus for me. And I think it's really cool that the other side of the helmet has no emblem. And it's just steel. Like a stealer. Like it's steel. Cause it's a steel town and that's why they're the


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[Assistant] And no stripe down the middle. That is the other thing I do like about it. It's a little iconic that way as well. So I don't know. I like it. You're right. I'm probably a little entrenched on the history of the team as well. I do tend to lean that way, but I like the Bears one a lot.


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[Assistant] And it's, you know, it's a unique color scheme with the navy blue and the orange. I think that's kind of, you know, rare. We don't see that a whole lot in professional sports. Okay, number three.


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[Assistant] Can I go a little bit too, Ahmed, just to let you in on this? Like, you know, growing up watching my dad or myself playing


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[Assistant] As I was still growing up, is, I mean, there were certain teams where I just, I don't know, when they came out of the tunnel and I saw them across the field or if I was in the stands, I was just like, oh, and the Raiders are one of those teams. Like when you were in the, like the mezzanine level and you started to see guys gather in the tunnel, they were about to be like,


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[Assistant] Oh my gosh, yeah, it's the Raiders. I can see the silver. Oh, and like it just had a special way about it. And then of course the eyepatch and the guy with the cross and bones and all that crap. I mean, that's just cool. Do you know the story behind that? Oh, I don't. Demoletoletoletoletus was trying to tell me and I just tuned him out. So apparently, and I learned about this today too.


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[Assistant] But they've been around for a long time. The Packers. Back to forever ever, okay? But I mean, back to the team who has been here for more than 100 years of the NFL. I mean, the yellow...


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[Assistant] You know, the fact that Ray Nitschke and Bart Starr and Brett Favre and, you know, Reggie White and Aaron Rodgers have all worn this helmet, I guess does add to the lure and to think that Lombardi was there, but there's just something special to it.


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[Assistant] And, uh, yeaah, I like it. It pops, yet it has traditional values to it.


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[Assistant] You know just to have that star standing by itself, the blue and the silver.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know, it's just a great look to me. To me, uh, you know, it's very rare that just the emblem itself has such a special meaning. I don't know. That star, when you see star in America, you just go, that's Dallas Cowboys. You know it. And they've kind of cornered the market on that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I like the Cowboys uniforms. I love their uniforms when they wear, you know, their navy blue jersey. Yeah. With their silver pants. Oh yeah. You know, because they have two different pants, right? I told you that. And, uh, that's my top five. So I'm interested to see what people got out there and how they want to come at me and, or what their top fives are.


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[Assistant] Okay, and I'm not mad at you there. The Redskins was the one that I think was very close to being in my top five. Yeah. Okay. Uhm, let me just make sure. I like the Chiefs one, but just don't love it enough. See if I'm missing any others that, you know, listen, I'm a Cleveland Browns fan of the helmet. I am. I actually like that. Which a lot of, a lot


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[Assistant] You totally got me doing it. Alright, out of this, let me just ask you this, last question on helmets and then we're done.


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[Assistant] What's your favorite, like, new age one, right? Like, if you had, like, the Vikings, it's new age because it's mad, but it's not, you know what I mean? It's not new age.


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[Assistant] Because my new age helmet favorite one is a matte helmet too. It is? It's the Seattle Seahawks. I really like the Seahawks helmet. Seahawks are a team where out of all the new helmets in football,


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[Assistant] That I look at, I really go, man I like it. I don't know, I like the Seahawks uniforms and I'm not usually a fan of those new style uniforms.


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[Assistant] And, uh, that's why I say they're the bangles. They gotta, they're gonna need a coach or somebody in there to go, Hey, this, this shit ain't working. Yeah. Orange and stripes ain't working. We gotta move on.


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[Assistant] Pretty much. Pretty much. Alright, that's it. We're done. Okay? And, uh, next week we'll be at the Combine all week. Got a lot of great interviews lined up. Players, coaches. Uhm, we won't see each other next week. You'll be alright? You'll miss me? I will miss you. Okay, good. You better. Uhm, and, uh, full week.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we will. We'll FaceTime you. Maybe I'll do that during my podcast when I'm out there to say hi to you. And then also, PFT Live next week. It's four hours extravaganza on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, because we're at the Combine Live.


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[Assistant] We got such a great guest list, uh, four hours. It'll be great. That's what we did at the Super Bowl. And then check us out. Everything NBC Sports related on our YouTube page. You'll see lots of great stuff and interviews, uh, from, from all of us there. Peter King, me, Mike Florio, everyone. Alright, everybody. Ahmed, peace. You the man. Have a good weekend, everybody. Peace out.


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[Assistant] Yo yo, what's up? Come on man, subscribe on YouTube to Chris Simms Unbuttoned Podcast. I need you, please hit the subscribe button, please!


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[Assistant] He lied on one of those comments. He doesn't hate me. He really does like me, whether he wants to admit that or not. I know he does. He likes me, Mike Florio. And you don't hate all teams equally. Stop lying. That was Mike talking about his Minnesota Vikings.


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, yep, I think they're in deep shit this week, but we'll see. Okay, here we go. Chris Sims unbuttoned PFTPM collaboration. It's the picks podcast wild card edition. It's Sims and Florio. Last week, Mike, you were 10 and six straight up. Pretty good. Not as good as me. I was 12 and four.


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[Assistant] You're only two games up on me in the season straight up, buddy. Two games. I'm coming. No, the season's over. Regular season's over. I win. No, we continue this until the Superbowl is over. Stop ruining this. Okay. This is the way it works. Whereas no regular season and playoff champion. Okay.


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[Assistant] There's only one champion. Best bets. Mike, you are beating me by three games. Last week you won the Atlanta Tampa Bay over the Buffalo New York Jets underway to go and you didn't hit on Baltimore Pittsburgh under


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[Assistant] I won New Orleans and Tennessee last week. I lost the Green Bay Packers. So we both went two and one last week. You still have that three game lead. How are you? How you doing? How's your new year of 2020 kicked off so far? Well, my ass still hurts.


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[Assistant] Got some props I wanna read to you first here, alright? Just to kick off some discussion, just right off the bat. With Josh Allen, alright? I know you've been beating the drum a little bit about you think they're gonna run him in the playoffs. I think that's a very real, valid point that you make.


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[Assistant] You know, do you think he tops 34 and a half rushing yards for this game against the Houston Texans?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that's safe too. I hear you. Alright, so what uh, now let's just talk about the rest of the matchup. Bills, Texans, what are you thinking? What are you feeling here?


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[Assistant] No, I think you're right about that. I do. No, I think part of that, that, you know, answer to that question a little bit also has to do with, you know, he might be a little bit more


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[Assistant] Uh, have that swag you're talking about if he felt like there was another weapon on his offense that could really help him that way, right? Uh, so I think that also, you know, goes into what you're talking about, that doughy-eyed look or deer in the headlights at times, because I think a lot of the times he has to kind of make it happen himself.


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[Assistant] With such great throws or extending plays and making an unbelievable throw in the run. So there's tremendous pressure on him and just his physical ability there, uh, to this point still just because you know, yeah, they got something going there in Buffalo yet.


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[Assistant] But I think we would both agree there's no game breakers on that offense. I mean, he is kind of the game breaker. There's no guy yet. And I think that's why I really think the bills are a team to say, I say, watch out for next year because hopefully they can get that type of guy on the offensive side of the ball that a team has to double or worry about. So I think it's a very real point.


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[Assistant] Yeah, agreed. And you know, I think the other thing I look at with the Buffalo Bills, you know, yes, Josh Allen, great talent, all of that. We know the weakness of the Texas defense. It's been their secondary a little bit, but to like what you're saying, okay, yeah, it's a weakness.


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[Assistant] But is it a great enough strength for the Buffalo Bills to really take advantage of it? Am I just gonna sit here and go, oh yeah, Cole Beasley just gonna burn Vernon Hargraves and Jonathan Joseph all over the field?


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[Assistant] No, I don't feel that strongly about that mismatch. I don't, you know, and then the Buffalo Bills, I know they can run the football. I get that. And you know, if you look at things and the Texans defense, listen, statistically, it's not good in the run game or the pass game. It's not.


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[Assistant] You know, when, when, and you can't look at last week versus the Texans against the Tennessee Titans, too, where Derrick Henry ran for 200 yards, the Texans didn't play a lot of defensive guys on their front seven.


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[Assistant] So don't expect anything like that when the Texans played the Tennessee Titans a few weeks before that and beat the Tennessee Titans in Tennessee


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[Assistant] They did a pretty good job on Derek Henry. I mean, it was like 20 something, 21, 22 rushes for like 90 yards. That's a, that's a good day. That's a victory if they can do that type of thing to the Buffalo Bills. And I do think they have the size upfront.


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[Assistant] To kinda hone in on that, especially when there's no guy.


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[Assistant] In the past game to really scare to you, scare you with, I think on top, you know, something that we talked about on the show this morning, Romeo Cornell.


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[Assistant] I don't think it matchups or, you know, the matchup is, is, you know, lopsided as you might think there.


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[Assistant] Uh, so that's one thing that interests me. Now the other big question, Mike, right, is like, we know the Buffalo defense is the real deal. They're, they're great and McDermott's great.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we will. I mean, and then, I mean, Kenny Stills is banged up too, right? So that's another little issue and twisting this as well. And, you know, as is Laramie Tunsell, their left tackle. He's been limited all week with an ankle injury. Right. Which, you know, again,


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm picking this game right or wrong, I don't care. You know, I'm gonna pick the game thinking that these guys are gonna play. I know maybe they're not gonna be 100% but I'm picking it as of right now.


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[Assistant] You know, you know I love McDermott, uh, right? He's phenomenal. I guess what I worry about a little, okay? The Buffalo defense.


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[Assistant] You know, we saw the Ravens of course run on them. You know, I go back to the Philadelphia Eagles and that, and that went up in Buffalo. They ran the ball. The Cleveland Browns ran the ball.


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[Assistant] The Houston Texans can run the ball. They are, they are, theirs is not the same old line that we've seen them previous years. They're a little bit more of a formidable force here with Carlos Hyde. So if they can have that balance and then Mike, my big thing too is


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[Assistant] It'll be very rare, because I think they know they can't match up across the board there. When you play zone...


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[Assistant] I always worry about that a little bit with Deshaun Watson if you don't have a great, great pass rush.


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[Assistant] Because I do think he can buy time and then you buy time, you manipulate zones and holes become bigger and things like that. So that's where I worried about it a little bit for Buffalo's defense against the Sean Watson and company there. So


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[Assistant] Uh, it's really a fascinating matchup. I'm, I'm really very excited for this game. I mean, they're two super, one's a superstar quarterback, the other one has a chance and, uh, who you gonna take? What's your score gonna be?


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[Assistant] You know, like I said, I don't think Buffalo really wants to play man to man other than just a handful of times a game. And I don't think Trudevius White is a great matchup for Deandre Hopkins just because, you know, Hopkins is a big dude.


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[Assistant] He can, he wins when you get up in his face and play physical against him. Not only is he a great route runner because he had success against Stefan Gilmore. It was open more in that game than he even.


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[Assistant] Uh, got the ball, but when you play physical with him, I mean, you better watch out because he'll throw you to the ground and then all of a sudden it's like he's not being covered by anybody.


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[Assistant] So I think they will dabble in a whole lot of zone with just a man to man play here and there, but they're just not a team that's built to go man. And then you got to Levi Wallace who hurt his ankle last week, right? To start the other starting corner for Buffalo, which I think kind of.


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[Assistant] Handicaps him in the man to man department even more. Uhm, so do you want to make the pick first or do you want to make me make, not me?


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's right. I just, I mean, I just can't believe it. I just, I really, I just can't believe it. I'm taking the Texans- Can't believe what? I can't believe you're taking the Texans. I just thought for sure you were gonna take the Bills. You're annoying. I don't like you. Uhm, I'm taking the Texans too.


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[Assistant] I'm going, I'm going 23-20. I'm expecting one more field goal for each team than you are. I mean, that's really what I have, but I, I see the game playing out that way.


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[Assistant] You know, I just think without that lack of another game breaker or a singular game breaker with Buffalo on that offense, I just don't know if there's enough there.


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[Assistant] To take advantages of some of the weaknesses we've talked about with that Texans defense and plus with the knowledge of the scheme in general with Romeo Cornell between Brian Dayball, I think that favors the Houston, Texas as well. And then I think the last thing is like what you said.


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[Assistant] You know, listen, the best player on the field is, is number four in blue, Deshaun Watson. And I think he understands the magnitude of this and he'll understand the, like the, the, the, the,


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[Assistant] The grandiosity of this game a lot more this time than last time. So I'm with you. Okay, we're going Texans. Very, very well done that you got grand grandiosity on the first try. I'm pulling words all out of my ass today. I mean, they just feel right coming out of my mouth, but they're really coming out of my ass and I don't know somehow they're landing in the right spot.


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[Assistant] Yes, I can't remember now either because I've said a number of idiotic things. Okay, here we go. You ready for the next showdown? Are you ready?


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[Assistant] I'm ready. Okay, here we go. Tennis- Are you ready? I'm pulling up schedules, so I'm not quite ready. Uh, but Tennessee Titans at the New England- Wait, you gotta check and see what the next game is? No, no, I just pull up- I like to pull up both teams' full season schedules before I start talking about them.


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[Assistant] Because I have points and notes here that I want to make sure I hit and I just games look good. But it's the Titans at the Patriots.


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[Assistant] The Terminators, as Mike Florio has called the Patriots all week, they'll be back. The Patriots are favored by five and a half, the over under at 44 and a half. Uh, I'm, I'm truly


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[Assistant] Like so psyched for this game. I think this is going to be awesome. There's a lot of great storylines. I mean, starting off with the courses, New England playing in the wild card. Geez, Brady, you know,


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[Assistant] Alright, so what's your score then? Just get it out of the way. Tell me the damn score then.


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[Assistant] This is, uhm, there's so many things to unpack here. I guess, you know, the first thing we go to the Patriots offense versus the Tennessee Titans defense. Titans defense.


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[Assistant] You know, their biggest issue hands down is been stopping the pass game all year long. You know, they just, they play a little too aggressive at times. Sometimes they just have mix ups in general that aren't good, but that's really been the overall, you know, overarching issue.


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[Assistant] Well, okay, you know, New England, you know, who, who do they have that's really going to, we're going to sit here and just go, oh my gosh, they're going to torch this tight and secondary. That's, you know, towards the bottom of football and passing, you know, who Tom Brady? Well, yes, they got Tom Brady. I get that. But even the great Tom Brady needs some help.


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[Assistant] And yes, they got Julian Edelman. I understand that. But then you talked about like Vrabel knowing the tricks and the things that New England does.


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[Assistant] See, this is to me where, you know, the ex coaches get a little bit of a one leg up on most normal coaches against Bill Belichick.


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[Assistant] Because they understand formations, situations.


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[Assistant] When they want to feed Edelman the ball in a certain formation or when they want to call a screen down and distance wise.


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[Assistant] Uh, first down sack, and now it's second down on 18. They had a list of G bot plays, which were get back on track so they can get into third and seven or third and six or third and five. You know, those are the little things. I've just the nuances. Dean Pisa, Mike variable will be all over, let alone


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[Assistant] You know, listen, I-I-I think N'Kill Harry is coming along, but like, who else is gonna take advantage of the Titans and their pass defense? And really, the New England Patriots want to run the football.


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[Assistant] The Titans have big people. And the Titans, even with the Patriots 0 line, it's been better lately. There's no doubt about that. I don't know if I could just sit here and go, oh, they're going to dominate the Titans in the run game. I certainly don't think that. So I think that's interesting. You know, and then the flip side, the flip side, you know,


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[Assistant] Tannahill, AJ Brown, I think we both agree it's the hottest combo in the sport.


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[Assistant] You know, we've also seen that if you have an offensive line that's big and overpowering, the Tennessee Titans got that with the running back, that puts New England in a bind. You know, you look at their losses and that's kind of some of the things other than the Dolphins game last week. That's one of the things that was an issue for them.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, Houston was patient with the run and it led to favorable passing thing, passing situations. You know, even the Kansas City Chiefs, they didn't just air it out every play. Uh, but I, I just look at that and go, ooh, that's going to be tough for, for the New England defense. I really think for New England to win this football game.


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[Assistant] One thing they gotta do, uh, and you heard me say this already.


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[Assistant] It can't be Stefan Gilmore against AJ Brown. It just can't be. Because there's nothing that's gonna scare the Tennessee Titans away from that matchup.


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[Assistant] You know, they're, they're, they're not going to sit there and watch the game last week and go, well, Fitzpatrick and Devante Parker did this. Well, we should be scared of Stefan Gilmore and not do that. Tana Hill's going to go, Hey, I'm better than Ryan Fitzpatrick.


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[Assistant] And the coach is going to go, yes, you are marketably. And AJ Brown's going to go, I'm every bit as good as Devante Parker, if not better. And the coach is going to go, yes, you are.


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[Assistant] So, to me, that will be something New England has to do. You have to almost show the double pre-snap on certain plays, I think. So, Tannenhill just knows, like, oh, I can't feed him, because I don't think that anything's going to scare him away from AJ Brown. I mean, if I'm New England, I'm going somebody else.


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[Assistant] On the Tennessee wide receiving core beat me other than AJ Brown and I'll be interested to see what they do there. I think that really will be a key for me.


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[Assistant] I think the Titans are, are the better team. I, that's where I just come down to this. The New England Mystique is scary. All the things you said are scary. But when I go through it position for position again,


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[Assistant] The only position group I give New England the advantage in is secondary, right? Am I missing one? I mean, I'm not trying to be like Johnny Know-it-all, but that's the only clear-cut position I can look at and go, New England's right there, they're better.


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[Assistant] I hear you. I don't want to be wrong picking somebody just because of mystique and like other stuff. And that's why I'd rather be wrong for


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't know. That's probably close. I get you. I get you. But I'm just not going to fall into the trap. I'm taking the Tennessee Titans to win this game 24-21. And the Tennessee Titans...


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[Assistant] You're fearing two decades of stuff. I'm just going with what I've seen over the last month and I've seen New England play average football.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm not ready to crown the Bills the champs, all right? The Tennessee Titans though, you're saying too, as they play down to their competition or don't beat the teams they should be, that's not true with Ryan Tannehill.


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[Assistant] Their losses are on a crazy game against the Houston Texans. And they were, it was there to be had if a receiver doesn't fumble against the New Orleans Saints. It's a different team this time around. So I'm going with the Tennessee Titans 24-21. It's hard to do, but I'm doing it.


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[Assistant] I'm Pete Dimolittleleius. You gotta turn up the volume. I can't hear anything you're hearing, saying right now. I can't hear you. You just sound like you're mufflin' stuff into my ears. Okay? I fi- Yup.


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[Assistant] So, and to your point, Tannahill, 50 starts over the last four seasons. Brady, 40 career playoff starts. So it's close. Nonetheless, your point was very well taken.


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[Assistant] We get it. Um, alright, so, uh, what else? Anything else you want to talk about here? How did you feel? How did you feel in your first playoff game? Oh, what was it like? Yeah, no, I was, I was nervous. I really was.


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[Assistant] You know, to what we've heard people talk about and like to what you were talking about a few minutes ago with Deshaun Watson.


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[Assistant] There, there, there's a different sense in the building all week, and it carries over to the second you walk in the stadium on playoff game day. You know, I played in that like 4 30 Saturday wild card game against the Washington Redskins in the 2005 season.


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[Assistant] There was a different buzz than the crowd in the parking lot driving up. I mean, people were ready. It was crazy. The players were ready. The coaches I know had stayed up like all night every day that week. You know, you're just the


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[Assistant] It just, it's got an amazing atmosphere and feel. I just, it still puts chills on the back of my neck when I think about running out into the crowd in that game. It was probably one of my marquee moments of my whole football career, really, was to be able to play in that playoff game and


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[Assistant] Walk out in Tampa Bay and we had a bunch of pirate flags they gave to the, the people in the stands that day and all that. It was really cool. Uh, but you certainly knew it was a different game than week 17 or week 16 of the regular season.


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[Assistant] What were your stats that day? You know what? Uhm, I threw two interceptions. Neither one was really my fault. They both got tipped in the air. All right, Bruce Arians. I had a really good game and I, you know, John Gruden, Paul Hackett, they would tell you it was really one of the best games I ever played.


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[Assistant] Uh, we just got a little unlucky in that game. If you remember, that was the Sean Taylor picked up the fumble at like the 50 yard line and returned it for a touchdown.


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[Assistant] One of our first drives of the game, Mike, okay? First of all, the Calvin Johnson rule happened in my game before Calvin Johnson. That was Adele Shepard when we went to tie the game. We also had this that was crazy in that, Mike.


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[Assistant] Uh, down at like the two yard line because we were on the one yard line. I think when I threw the ball, he fumbled on the two yard line, but it wasn't reviewable then because he was called down by contact already and it was a clear picture that he fumbled before he was down and we had recovered it. So we got a little unlucky and that, uh, that one still hurts. All right.


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[Assistant] Because they had the fumble returned by Sean Taylor and then the interception I just talked about where LeVar Angton fumble. It was on the two yard line, so they had a one play two yard drive for a touchdown.


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeah, that was heartbreak. And that should be like, again, listen, you know me, I will tell you what I played like shit. I did not play like shit in that game. That the stats would lie in that game. And I really, I think that was like one of my


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[Assistant] You know, that was a good defense that year. That Redskins defense for the majority of that year was the number one defense in football. Uhm, so it was, it was no joke, but alright, enough of that.


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[Assistant] Oh, Marcus Washington. Oh, I wouldn't have got that. Okay. Marcus Washington. Yep. It was off a tip pass. Um, at the line of scrimmage really was heartbreaker. All right, here we go. You ready to do Sunday football here? Let's do Sunday football. Let's do it. Oh,


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[Assistant] It's the Vikings, Mike Floria's Vikings at the New Orleans Saints. The Saints are favored by seven and a half. The over and under is at 49 and a half. Mike lead us off with the great knowledge of your football team, the Minnesota Vikings, and please discuss the game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm with you there. And uhm, I mean, I think my sentiments are somewhat the same as you.


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[Assistant] You know, when I just think of Sean Payton and Drew Brees and Alvin Camara and Michael Thomas versus the Minnesota Vikings defense, let alone Jared Cook, who we know has come along, Trey Kwan Smith, who's come along as well. Like the Saints have that magic thing that we talk about, Mike.


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[Assistant] They have three weapons on offense. And it's just like, okay, yeah, double Michael Thomas or do something crazy to take him away. Then you're going to be screwed in some other area.


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[Assistant] So that's scary to me, let alone, you know, the Vikings lack of depth on the defensive line. I think lack of great size that worries me. You can, you know, the Vikings, their defense is good. It is good. No, there's no mistaking that.


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[Assistant] But it's not great, and I do think that you can run the ball on them a little bit.


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[Assistant] And of course I do think the Saints will be able to run the ball. The Saints not as good this year as running the ball as years past, but it's really come along lately with Alvin Kamara.


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[Assistant] Where they're going to throw a kitchen sink worth the plays, not only just to beat the Vikings, but to make playoff teams who have to defend the Saints start to go, Oh gosh, now there's the full taste some hill package. We got to worry about it. So that's going to be an issue.


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[Assistant] Okay, so I worry about and then when you start to be able to run the ball in Minnesota, that's scary because Minnesota, you know, as we know,


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[Assistant] And you said it great today. Like Zimmer has a system. It's not exactly every week of this, like creative, different defense. It's, you know, he does what he does for the most part without getting too technical. And I don't think that's a good formula against Sean Payton either. You know, as you know, I mean, Sean Payton is one of the greatest play designers we've ever seen in the history of the sport. He's amazing.


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[Assistant] And if he knows what defense you're gonna be in, that's a little bit of a trouble area. So I worry about that.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, when you go to the other side of the ball, Mike, you know, you know, I don't know. I mean, do you think that the Vikings pass offense? Would they drop back and pass? Not the bootleg games. Do you think they can drop back and shred the Saints? I don't either.


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[Assistant] You know, top tier football teams in the NFL discussion. You're right. And when it comes to the Vikings offense, I'm with you. I mean, the only thing you got to worry about, you know, okay, so Dalvin Cook, the run game. Hey, we know it's scary. Yes. But man, this Saints defense is we've talked about so much for the last eight weeks. I mean, it's just stout as can be.


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[Assistant] You know, they're, they're phenomenal against the run. I would just be shocked if Minnesota can have their way in the run game. And then what's scary is like we talked about the drop back pass game. I think you're right there too. And Minnesota is not a good pass protecting, uh, drop back pass offensive line.


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[Assistant] And the Saints, you know, yeaah, I don't care if Marcus Davenport's there or not, they can still get after the quarterback.


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[Assistant] Uh, really the only thing they have to worry about when it comes to the drop back pass game, too, is Stefan Diggs.


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[Assistant] So that's where I just go to New Orleans. They gotta do something on third. I don't think Adam Thielen is a totally 100%. He might be feeling really good, but the guy I've watched so far is not the same explosive Adam Thielen early in the year.


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[Assistant] So I, you know, I just don't know where the past offense comes from. And I think in obvious past situations, the Saints, the big thing is until proven otherwise, I just wouldn't let Stefan Diggs beat me, whether that's matching up Marshawn Latimore versus him.


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[Assistant] Or double teaming him or whatever it may be. But Marshall Latimore also gives them the latitude to do on first and second down where they could go, okay, hey, Marshawn, you take Stefan Diggs.


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[Assistant] And now we're gonna apply some combination zone to where we can worry about the bootleg game in the run game and stop that too. So there's some avenues here for.


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[Assistant] The Saints to get creative against Minnesota's offense too. And I just look at it kind of like you. I just think, listen, the Saints to me,


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[Assistant] Uh, are right in the conversation for the best team in football. You know, I wouldn't be mad at anybody for saying the Saints, the 49ers or the Ravens are the best team in football. I think the Saints fall in that, in that conversation and I'm picking the Saints to win this one convincingly. I'm going 31-14, uh, New Orleans at home. We both went with the 17 point margin.


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[Assistant] 16 and a half, I mean. And, uh, take the Saints. Yup. So, uh, that's that. You got anything more to say about that matchup? Or do you want to move, uh, move on?


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly right. So I mean, what we're basically saying is that the game goes status quo without craziness. We expect the Saints to dominate.


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[Assistant] You know, yeaah, if there's a punt return, or a pick six, or I don't know, somehow Calvin, you know, Dalvin Cook breaks two 40 plus yard touchdown runs, you're right, it'd be a different game altogether. But I just don't imagine that happening, and I think the Saints win this one easy, and I'll have a fun Sunday afternoon making fun of you and the Minnesota Vikings. Alright.


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[Assistant] You ready for our, uh, Sunday, Sunday football job? All right. We'll be on the pregame show. Florio and Sims. Here we go. It's a Sunday night football, but it's Sunday afternoon football on NBC.


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[Assistant] It's the Seattle Seahawks at the Philadelphia Eagles. This is a week 12 rematch, right? Both teams are in different spots than they were at that time of the year. Seahawks favored by one and a half on the road in Philly over under at 45 and a half Mike.


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[Assistant] Go ahead, man. What do you go here? This is a tough one. I've gone back and forth with this one all week long.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I think there's some very real possibilities there. I do. And you know, I mean, this is, this is intriguing. You know, first, when you start off with Seattle's offense versus the Philadelphia defense, you know, yeah, Philadelphia did the current state, you know, no Dwayne Brown, the running backs being heard in Seattle.


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[Assistant] They did. And it was Rashad Penny and it was some like cool little game plan design runs though. It wasn't like I went and saw, oh my gosh, they just bashed Philadelphia and crushed them around. He had like 120 something yards. Almost all the yards came on like three carries.


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[Assistant] I just, I don't know if that works this time around. So yes, I would tell Jim Schwartz of the Eagles, like, err on stopping the pass. Have belief in your front seven.


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[Assistant] Don't put extra people down in the box to stop the run early. Like you just said, I would call the bluff of the Seattle Seahawks a little and go, you know what? I'm not going to let Russell Wilson and DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett


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[Assistant] I mean, Jalen Mills and Ronald Darby have been torched a lot, so please don't leave them on an island one on one. You know, if you want to show you're in a run defense and bail out at the last second and get two safeties deep, save them, do something like that.


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[Assistant] Now, Jim Schwartz, he is a game plan specific guy. He will change things up from the first time of that matchup. And it was a 17 to 12 game. All right. And the Philadelphia Eagles turned the ball over five times and there are two touchdowns. One was on a flea flicker and then one was on a half back draw for like 60 yards by Rashad Penny.


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[Assistant] So there wasn't a lot of offense to go around in this game the first time around.


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[Assistant] Now you flip it around to Philly's offense, right, Mike? When they played in week 12, that was really one of the first weeks that Philadelphia had to play with these bunch of no names. I don't think they really figured out their formula and how they wanted to play to that point yet.


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[Assistant] They're definitely more concise and on the same page with their formula now than they were then. Now in that game,


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[Assistant] Seattle's D line kind of overwhelmed Philly and pass protection and Carson Wentz held the ball too long. He fumbled three times. He threw two interceptions, so it was not a good luck for Carson Wentz and company, but I think they're different now. I think they're a better running team right now and they're better at throwing the football and Carson Wentz has a hot hand.


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[Assistant] It's a tough one here. I don't, I, you know, I really go back and forth here too. The other thing I look at Mike is go Seattle plays the Seattle scheme on defense.


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[Assistant] You know, the, the, the Philadelphia Eagles are very used to that scheme. Not only have they played Seattle this year, but they played Dallas twice who runs that as well. And they just played it two weeks ago and I would go, Dallas has better talent on the defensive side than Seattle.


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[Assistant] Because of all those reasons and of being in Philadelphia and cold weather and on the grass, I'm going with the Philadelphia Eagles. Oh yeaah. Yeaah buddy, I am. Oh yeaah. It hurt, it hurt. But I just think with the predictability of the Seahawks,


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[Assistant] On the defensive side of the ball and Doug Peterson and Jim Schwartz being a little more game plan specific than the Seattle Seahawks coaches. I think they'll find a few new wrinkles and win a real ugly football game.


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[Assistant] And I'm gonna go eagle 17 to 14 at home in this one.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's a coin flip game. I'm not going to sit here and tell you I feel totally comfortable. It's Russell Wilson and that scares the hell out of me. But I just think them going across country after a brutal Sunday night game and dealing with that, that doesn't bode well for them either. And that's why I go Philadelphia 1714 Mike.


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[Assistant] No, I-I don't either. I don't think he'll freak out either. But I don't think Carson once is gonna freak out right now either. And that's where, you know...


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[Assistant] The Eagles are not a team to freak out as you've been saying for the last five weeks either. That's where it's interesting. It's almost like a, it's two teams who really play very similar football. It's like we want to play ugly. The game's going to be close and we think we'll just be a little more clutch at the end of the game, right? That's really how both teams play.


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[Assistant] And, uh, that's where it's fascinating to me. And I'm just gonna go with the team at home.


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[Assistant] And I just think the matchup and the fact that they lost the first time around.


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[Assistant] I think it's going to benefit more Philadelphia than Seattle. I think Philadelphia will make adjustments and Seattle's going to look at it and go, oh, well, we did these things pretty well the first time. Let's just stick with it. And I think Doug Peterson and Schwartz are just too smart for that. And that's why I'm going to give them an ugly, ugly win, uh, beating Seattle at home. All right. You ready to do this?


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[Assistant] Let's do it. Let's do it, home slice. Here we go. You wanna go the first? You wanna go first or you want me to go first?


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[Assistant] Hey, now it's time for best bets and we're only doing two best bets.


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[Assistant] Uh, this week because there's only four games. Let me just say, that was marketably better. Thank you very much. Than how we did it before. Thank you coach Mike Florio. But two best bets of the week, okay? I'm at, I am three games behind you in best bets. I'm going to win this, this, this category before this playoffs and Super Bowl are over. Just telling you, I'm gonna win it.


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[Assistant] So you're going to have like five chances to catch me. Great. And you're going to screw up two of them today and it's going to be down to a one point lead. It's, it's no problem. This is like, I got you right where I want you. This is like, I'm like the New England Patriots. This is the regular start of the regular season for me now.


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[Assistant] Wow, very poetically said there. Um, okay, I get you. I understand your logic there because I picked 23-20 Texans, so that would be the under by half a point there too. But you know what? I'm just going to go with one that I feel strong about. I'm taking the Saints to cover the seven and a half points. I am.


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[Assistant] You know, there's a reason this is seven and a half. And I just think they're clearly the better team. They're pissed off.


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[Assistant] I think they're better coached, uh, than the Minnesota Vikings and there's some matchups there as well. So yes, I am taking the Saints to cover the seven and a half point spread. I have the Saints winning 31 to 14.


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[Assistant] Alright, well I'm going that game with you as well, but I'm going with the under.


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[Assistant] I'm going back to the under. I don't think there's any way these teams get to 45.5 points. There's just no freaking way.


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[Assistant] I just, I mean, that's me. I just think this is going to be low scoring defensive struggle. I think it'll be very similar to the first time they played in week 12. You know, I have the Eagles winning 17 to 14 and just would be shocked.


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[Assistant] I would be. I don't think it's going to be that much. Uh, I think we're going to see a lot of defense, hard hitting physical football game. And I don't know if


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[Assistant] Either offense is all that explosive. And I think Russell Wilson on that grass, you know, and then Jim Schwartz, his ability to game plan will slow down his ability to buy time and extend plays and do that. He had issues with that the first time around.


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[Assistant] Plus you know I don't think Seattle's pass offense is overly creative and I think that bodes well for Jim Schwartz in Philadelphia too. So I just can't imagine there being a ton of points and I know Philadelphia can't score a ton of points on anybody.


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[Assistant] And Seattle's defense, even though it's not good, I don't think Philadelphia could take advantage of it's not goodness, especially in the secondary. So that's why I'm going under 1714 Eagles win. And that is that for the best bets. Whoo, baby.


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[Assistant] Yes, I'm just not going to count the Giants as a defense or anything like that. I know I'm just not going to go there yet. All right. So here's the best bets. Florio.


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[Assistant] He's got Buffalo Bills, Houston Texans. He's taking the under at 43 and a half.


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[Assistant] And then he's taking Seattle at Philadelphia to cover the one and a half point spread.


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[Assistant] I'm taking New Orleans, who's favored by seven and a half. I think they're going to blow Minnesota out and then Seattle at Philadelphia. I am going with the under at 45 and a half. I just don't think it'll happen. We'll see. I hope you lose both. I hope I win both.


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[Assistant] I think this is shaping up to be a great week. We have two disagreements, right? Straight up.