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[Assistant] I think it's fair. I mean the big thing is, you know, they can't get a guy that's gonna pass rush and create the quarterback to throw the ball too fast other than Crosby, right? I mean they were one of those teams I told you about that sounded like they were in the conversation for Yannick and Gokwe for a little bit. Because they realized they need another pass rusher, another difference maker.


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[Assistant] You know, and then you look at Corner, like, okay, yeaah. I liked Trayvon Mullin when he came out of, uh, Clemson, certainly. But, you know, again, I think safety, the secondary itself.


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[Assistant] Prince Mukumara, okay. I like him, but I'm not gonna sit here and go, oh, that's a difference maker. Jonathan Abram coming back from his injury, that's good. Demarius Randall's had a very up and down career.


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[Assistant] You know, and I guess that's what I look at. When I look at their defense, they've improved it, I just don't think there's difference makers there. I don't. And I think that's ultimately kind of what scares me about them all together. And pain in the butt for a lot of teams, but I'm gonna go under.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we got Bulaga, they traded for Trey Turner, so hopefully that can help. They need one of these other guys that was part of the, you know, rotation at tackle last year to kind of come through for them as a football team. Uh, the defense, you know, yeah, we're going to be without Derwin James, it looks like, for the first part of the year there.


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[Assistant] But still, there's so much special throughout the defense.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, that's a pretty damn group, right? You know, Ray Sean Jenkins, he plays them. And Nasir Adderley was a second round pick for them two drafts ago at safety. He's a true free safety. So I think he'll be in the mix there this year. So they have talent, but they have Tyrod as their quarterback.


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[Assistant] Have tie rod as their quarterback, which to me is going to be a more conservative offensive approach, let alone


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[Assistant] You know, what do we have there? Mike Williams, he's banged up right now too, right? Pete, Pete, how long do they expect a Mike Williams to be out?


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[Assistant] You know, so those, those are things that are, that I look at. Now, their schedule early in the year, it's kinda like, ehm, like I don't look at it either way and feel like, alright, we know the Chiefs are better. Alright, but hey, the Panthers, the Bengals.


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[Assistant] You know, the Buccaneers, yeaah, okay, that's, I'm not ready to just anoint the Buccaneers better than the Chargers yet. I understand the potential there and all that. But there's some easy wins there to be had for them. The Jets, the Dolphins, I mean these are teams that, you know, you could certainly sit here and go, no, they're more talented than them.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna, it's seven and a half again, right? Seven and a half. Yeah, I'm gonna go over. I am. Okay. You believe it.


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[Assistant] I don't know if I believe it's a playoff, like, definite playoff team, but I look at them to be that team where they're in the playoff conversation. Yeah, I do. Like two weeks left and they might have to win the last two games of the year. Yep.


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[Assistant] A 49er-ish, and it's the same scheme, and Gus Bradley was with me in Tampa and played in Seattle, to where yeaah, that's what they're building there.


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[Assistant] So, what did I end up with? 10 overs and 6 unders?


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[Assistant] Yeah, just the over-under aspect of it. Do you want to look? Do you want to look at the? Yeah, just let me look at the over-unders again, just to look where we're at here. Okay. I am most confident about, I think right off the bat, is


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[Assistant] I would probably say the bills would be my first pick. Eight and a half to me is just too low. Eight and a half in a division where I'd go...


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[Assistant] They're the most talented team in the division and the team that they're battling that out with is going through a quarterback and a severe roster change and I go, they're definitely better than the Jets and the Dolphins. So yea, the Bills would be the first one I look at to go, that's too low, I like the Bills.


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[Assistant] I think I feel most confident though, and I'm sorry to be stalling here more than anything. You want to be right. So take as much time as you need. I'm going to go with the Texans. I think seven and a half is too low. I feel very good to go.


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[Assistant] No. Yeah, you can say all you want about Billy O'Brien the GM. What I like about the Texans is first of all, his teams are always tough and physical, alright, and I do think that Deshaun Watson and that offense are going to be dangerous as hell and I just have a hard time thinking.


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[Assistant] You know, maybe they go 7 and 9, but I really think the floor is 8 and 8 for that football team.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so those are your two best bets. I think so. Yup. Okay.


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[Assistant] Did I go over or under with the Jets? I went under with the Jets, right? Yes. I'll have to go back and listen to the podcast. Yep. Alright. Yeah. I'm just trying to look at if any of them I look at as I want to like a do-over.


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[Assistant] Or anything like that. But no, I think mine made sense the more I


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[Assistant] Yeah, go at least 8-8 or something. Yeah, I hear you. That was one of the teams I looked at too. The Chargers were the other team I looked at.


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[Assistant] Okay, good one. We got an NFC on Thursday. We got the NFC coming up on Thursday. And like anybody out there listening to the show, if there's something else you want to hear more about these breakdowns and like again, don't forget that we're going to be doing


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[Assistant] You know, the playoffs next week, so I'll do more in-depth stuff as far as why I think teams will make the playoffs and things like that. But if anybody wants to hear anything,


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[Assistant] I wanted to show some things of what Cam Newton will bring to that offense and just how simple you could take one play with Cam Newton and I can show you how it can grow into a full blown basically attack.


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[Assistant] Just from that one play to where you go, whoa, okay, that's a lot to worry about with one play off of one player with one guy at quarterback. And that's what, you know, these are things that I think the Patriots are going to have to balance out and what I'm excited about to watch Cam Newton there this year. Take a five minute break. Okay. And then we'll do that again. Sounds good.


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[Assistant] Geez, that's unreal. Paulie B is back in the fold here. Awesome to be here. Good, glad to have you, man.


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[Assistant] Yeah, good, good. And we'll catch you up on the NFL. Don't worry. Please do, because I need it. It's what I'm here for. I'm here to be the asshole to watch it all and have a big mouth and talk about it.


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[Assistant] Okay, thank you very much. And Eddie Vedder comparisons to Justin Herbert. We'll talk about him in a few minutes, because that is going to be one of the two games we break down. Chiefs, Chargers from yesterday.


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[Assistant] See him right there? Boom. We'll put him down for now. I mean, unbelievable the amount of injuries, uh, in week two.


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[Assistant] And also I guess the other positive thing I would say is a lot of good football games, a lot of good offensive numbers, excitement that way, big plays, and quarterbacks putting up big numbers for the second week in a row.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're right. Still, as I look at it, just on TV, and even again just watching film of like the two games we're gonna break down here in a minute and everything.


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[Assistant] Still underwhelmed by what I'm seeing on the defensive side of the ball. I still think we're in a very beginner's phase. Defenses are still getting their feet underneath them. I'm not coming away from games going, wow, that was a creative game plan, or whoa, those were some exotic coverages that I saw.


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[Assistant] I know. It is different now. It is. Just, well, you know, Tony Dungy made a good point last week. First off, you know,


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[Assistant] Tom Brady can go to the practice field and do 7 on 7. What's the defense do? What are they supposed to do during the lockout or during the pandemic? Nobody can be there. So that's very hard for them. And yeaah, I think also,


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[Assistant] It's hard to be a defensive coordinator and just go, I'm going to be creative. I'm going to blitz when you go, wait, this is only our second game. We haven't seen that much this year. We haven't had to communicate through a lot of motions and checks yet. We haven't even got to run this exotic coverage. I want to run.


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[Assistant] Only a few times in practice. I'm not sure we're greased up and ready to go yet. So I think all those things are kind of like still in the process here.


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[Assistant] Uhm, even New England last night. We'll talk about that again in a minute.


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[Assistant] Little even underwhelmed for what they usually do on the defensive side of the ball. So we'll keep our eye on it, but I do think that's the big reason we've seen big time quarterback numbers early on in the year so far.


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[Assistant] Well, I understand what they're saying there. That's a legitimate question. I'll say a little bit of what I said to Mike Florio this morning.


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[Assistant] This play has been dominating for them through two weeks. Even last night, they scored twice on this play. They scored two touchdowns on the exact same football play.


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[Assistant] When you have that overwhelming success like that and you start to feel like, man, our quarterback, this play,


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[Assistant] Not only is schematically putting the other team in a disadvantage, but it's almost like we're a physical force in nature here. Nobody's shown even the ability up into that point to even being close to stopping this type of play yet. I mean, he got an easy both times last night on this play. So I understand that now.


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[Assistant] This is where, yeaah, okay. You know, Pete Carroll.


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[Assistant] He's not afraid to take chances. They call it a proper timeout. It is the Seattle Seahawks. They're known for their defense, their aggressive nature. You know, I would have...


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[Assistant] At least thought about maybe we should do that fake run pass again or something like that because I feel like they're just, you know, they're foaming at the mouth Seattle to stop this play and stop Cam Newton to where I felt like they might go all out.


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[Assistant] Seattle played it different the third time. The first two times. And the guy that made the play is LJ Collier, number 91. Defense end, first round pick, 2019 draft.


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[Assistant] Early in the game, the two times the, the Patriots ran it, which I believe once was on the first drive of the game, and then the other one was early in the fourth quarter, uh, both, you know, down around the one yard line. The, the, the,


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[Assistant] The Patriots are in a big set, right? Yeah. It's seven offensive linemen. Yep. It's two tight ends, and then a fullback that's 255 pounds leading it up the hole for the 250 pound quarterback.


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[Assistant] So they're doing it like that. So the extra tight end to the left, who's the rookie, uh, from Michigan, number 71, and I can't say his name and I'm not gonna even pretend to try to say it right now, okay?


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[Assistant] Onu Wenyu, Onu Wenyu, no disrespect to him or his family, but he's the next draw, so I'm in Rookie of the Michigan.


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[Assistant] In the first two successful attempts with the touchdown run,


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[Assistant] Seattle was pinching it, like pinching. So Collier, even though he was lined up like head on with 71, maybe even slightly on the outside shoulder, he was going inside him.


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[Assistant] And then that led the guard to come around on the pole and then that fullback can lead up into the hole too. So they got two guys to lead in front of Cam Newton. Well, on this play, instead of doing that, Seattle actually went the other way.


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[Assistant] They didn't pinch down. They almost went to that weak side. So now, instead of him being, uh, blocked down by 71, he was on the edge of 71, on the outside shoulder.


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[Assistant] And I think that surprised 71, the fact that he went that way, cause I'm sure he was coached all week, and of course the two reps earlier in the game, and that he got him on the edge, he didn't adjust quite quick enough, he only got a shoulder on a shoulder, and Collier got in there, and of course knocked Cam Newton's legs up in the air, and that was that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, listen, you can go either way on this. I'm not gonna be mad on a level of again.


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[Assistant] If they decided to do something crazy and it didn't work, we all would have sat here and gone, what the f-


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[Assistant] I hear what you're saying, and I'm not saying I disagree, I'm just saying I'm not going to make a big deal about like, oh, I don't love that play call. It's hard to get mad at a team who runs a play where they've been dominating with that play when they go to the well one more time. Now, yea, Seattle made a good play.


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[Assistant] This time, shot the gap at middle linebacker. So Shaq Mason, the right guard, he's gonna pull to the left.


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[Assistant] No. I think he's telling that. I think he's telling them, hey, they're gonna run this play and I want you to play it this way this time. This will cause them. I mean, I would bet money on that's what he was telling them.


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[Assistant] Well, I, I, I mean, first off, going into the game, and I don't, you know, the pre, you know, pre-game show last night, Football Night in America, I, I, you know, I kinda, one of my last statements was, Seattle, it's Pete Carroll, it's old school, he's gonna have all these people in the line of scrimmage, he's not gonna die a slow death to the Patriot run game.


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[Assistant] Cam Newton's arm is going to have to win this game, or at least keep them honest. And, I mean, as you watch back the game...


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[Assistant] Other than the interception, where Quentin Dunbar made a good play, and I think really Cam Newton didn't re- Collinsworth explained it really well.


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[Assistant] Dunbar was outside already and playing a zone coverage. So he's outside leverage on the receiver and the receiver wants to go outside. That's hard to win on that route. And Dunbar is a great


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[Assistant] They're not, he took a chance, he said they're not gonna double move me. And I got a little leverage here, so I'm gonna go for it. And he makes a great play. Other than that.


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[Assistant] I don't s- I can't sit here and look at one other play where I went, stupid decision, bad throw, even on, you know, some incompletions.


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[Assistant] This was the last thing we needed to see answered about this football team. Because I do think they're going to be able to run the ball on most teams. Seattle's a different animal. And Seattle's playing defense differently than in years past. How so?


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[Assistant] We'll get to that in a second. But we'll get to that. They're pying differently than years back. And I think just, so...


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[Assistant] So New England had to be careful about that a little bit. I think with maybe some of the run game stuff they wanted to do last week or they did last week against Miami, I think they went in this game going, wait, as Seattle calls some of these defenses, they called Atlanta and what it looks like they're going to be.


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[Assistant] We're gonna have a hard time doing some of these because Jamal Adams will be in the backfield before we can even, like, the run play will develop. So I think that, that


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[Assistant] Forced them maybe to throw the ball a little bit more than they wanted to. But regardless, I mean the decision making...


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[Assistant] The pocket presence, his mechanics, I mean really, if you think about it, and you and me were ex-quarterbacks, just think about the game. I can't really recall a ball that came out of his hand funny.


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[Assistant] Or like, not exactly where he wanted it, except for maybe that quick out rap.


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[Assistant] Yeah, terrific. It was. Then let alone the plays that lent themselves to nothing being there, but then him making a high level throw to get a big play to Julian Edelman or in Keel Harry or whatever it is.


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[Assistant] That to me is the silver lining for the New England offense. You know, it really is. And yeaah, they didn't get to do what they wanted to do exactly on that side of the ball, but this Seahawks defense is different and I'm going to dive into that right now. You know, the first thing I want to say is,


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[Assistant] I watched New England's defense versus Seattle first. Then I went the other way around, and I went, alright, let me watch Cam versus Seattle's defense. When I turned on the game, the first thing I said is, I said, whoa, Seattle's defense isn't fast forward compared to New England's. Like, it's not even close. When you start to talk about


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[Assistant] You know, Bruce Servin at the end of the line of scrimmage, some of those other defensive linemen, Bobby Wagner, KJ Wright, Jamal Adams is up there by the line of scrimmage. You start, you go, whoa, okay. So New England had issues.


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[Assistant] And they kind of cause chaos that way. And New England had a hard time keeping up with that type of chaos. And then the linebackers are moving all around it. But to me, the first thing I want to do is give credit to Pete Carroll and John Schneider for really getting three different guys who changed their defense. And that is Dunbar, a corner who is the best corner on their football team.


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[Assistant] Getting Jamal Adams, who has completely changed the aura, the tenacity of their defense and everything. And then last year's trade with Quandre Diggs. And I know he didn't, he got hurt, I mean he got knocked out of the game because he took the cheap shot.


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[Assistant] They have given that team a different look, a different attitude, and it's emboldened them to finally branch out of the Seattle scheme.


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[Assistant] And going back to a little last week, because people started to go, you know, I mean is Seattle going to keep throwing the ball and doing these things? And then when I watched Seattle's defense last week in Atlanta, I went, oh no, this is going to be their new style. Because...


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[Assistant] It's let it fly on offense and it's let it fly on defense. So like more man coverage or? A little bit more of variations of coverages, but the biggest thing is more blitzing. And I told Pete, and I know he just sent me a text message because I said, Pete,


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[Assistant] I don't think Seattle's ever blitzed this much. Pete Carroll? No, they are Pete. Yeah, little lesser Pete, okay? Younger but lesser, okay? And a lot less poor, like not nearly as rich as Pete, okay? But either way, uhm,


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[Assistant] With, with uhm, yeaah, they're usually a...


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[Assistant] Rush four, drop seven, play their scheme, every now and then we'll rush five and still play zone behind it.


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[Assistant] They've been blitzing off the charts, and Jamal Adams has been one of those blitzers, and they have changed up some of the coverages and how they're approaching that way, and it's a little bit of like, shit or get off the pot approach on the defensive side of the ball, which I like, because their strength of their team is their offense, there's no doubt about that. So I'm just looking at this because he just sent it to me.


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[Assistant] Well, I think it's a lot of his because I also look at it and go, there's two things. Here's the other thing.


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[Assistant] Out of the 40% blitzes, 29% of them are DB blitzes. So that tells you too. So they're getting him in the backfield to cause chaos.


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[Assistant] Definitely, and never panicking in the pocket to what you're saying and staying in a good throwing motion. You know, that's where I was just so impressed and Collinsworth talked about it a little bit, but how many times in the past I'm just gonna stand up real quick, where I've seen like, okay, I don't know if everybody can see my head, I don't give a damn.


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[Assistant] I know I said this two weeks ago, other than Aaron Donald?


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[Assistant] And maybe a few other pass rushes in football. He's one of the best defensive players in football. Oh, for sure. He's just, he's, he's unbelievable.


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[Assistant] Has he been burned in past coverage a few times, uh, the last few weeks? Yeaah. They found him. They found him in coverage. They found him. He's learning a new system. So, he's learning a new system and they're putting him in some tough spots. I mean...


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[Assistant] But not like any foo- safeties in football are gonna be asked to cover Julian Edelman on a deep poster route, man to man down field, you know, 50 yards down the field. So, I think that's the big thing. And uhm,


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[Assistant] Let me just see if I miss anything here in my, in my notes. Uhm, verse, can throw in, mechanics, we hit that.


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[Assistant] The hard time. Yep, hold on, I just want to make sure I don't miss anything. Hard time blocking the chaos, we've said that. Secondary blitzes. Ken Norton Jr., we gotta give him credit because he has gone out of his realm of com- comfortable.


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[Assistant] You know, comfortableness or whatever the hell the word is. Outside his comfort zone. Yeaah, exactly, that's the better way to say it. And yeaah, they're changing up coverages a little bit. And like what they're doing with the blitzing, I really do like that. And, uh, yeaah, I think that's about it. I think that's about it.


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[Assistant] Either way, the Patriots pass game is alive now, and this is gonna be a good thing for them going forward. Because now teams are gonna play them and be like, damn.


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[Assistant] Okay, what do we stop here? This is gonna be a little bit tougher than we expected. We thought we were gonna go into cam, stop the running game and the creativity that way, but now you gotta worry about a drop back pass offense that certainly can gash you too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, right. I don't think there's really any I've looked at where I've just been like, aw man, he missed this or whatever. I mean, you're right. Just, just stupid ones or things that don't even pop out in your brain. On fire.


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[Assistant] Russell is still amazing, what we're seeing. And then this is, goes back to again.


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[Assistant] The, the change in approach on the offensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] You know, you see it last night, even though they were balanced last night, it's different than, we're gonna run the ball for the first three quarters, and now the fourth quarter we gotta throw, and now that's how we're gonna create our balance, where it was really all run, run, run, and now it's all pass, pass, pass for the last 30 plays of the game.


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[Assistant] Right now, they're coming out firing. And then they're going to the run game after that. Because they're starting to go, teams are starting to go, whoa, putting you in a bind. So they're, so I think the first thing I want to do is go, Pete Carroll, way to go, to have the vision to go, wait, my, my offense is the talent of my team right now. And, right, right. So that,


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[Assistant] Brian Schottenheimer. I mean, way to, way to go, dude. I mean, just the, the offense, I never thought I'd see Seattle like this. Motions, different formations, different personnel sets. I'm seeing different schematical passing plays down the field.


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[Assistant] Seein' them help him more, and now he's got talent around him. You know, I think that sometimes we all forget that, like, Patrick Mahomes does have Kelsey, and Tyree Kills, and Amy Watkins, and, you know, Andy Reid. And, here.


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[Assistant] You know, Russell Wilson, this is the first time he's had a group like this. And again, I know I've talked about this a little. Like, Doug Baldwin and Curse, they were great, but they're not this type of specimen that Locket and DK Metcalf is. I mean...


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[Assistant] And he might be, I mean, DK Metcalf is on pace right now to just go, I might be the best receiver in football before this year's over. But I think that's where I want to start. And then I think the second thing that just jumped out to me right off the bat, Paul, is


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[Assistant] And basic early on in a football game as he was in this. He's lining up and playing zone? Zones. Like, like he was like, I don't know, I don't trust getting in the face of these guys early on.


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[Assistant] I just don't trust it because, you know, the one thing they will do is they'll take their shots. And I think he was probably like, early on in the game, let me just, let's let our team get a feel for them. I think it was the ultimate respect, respect play for Russell Wilson, basically, where he's like,


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[Assistant] I'm not going to give him a chance early because he's going to burn me if we do. And I've never seen them do that. Now here's my other wrinkle to why I've never seen them do this. JC Jackson, nobody has talked about this yet. JC Jackson is undoubtedly one of the top 10 best corners in football. He did not play the first quarter of the game last night. I've text people


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[Assistant] In New England, and even, like, people in the Boston media, like, can someone figure this out? Why didn't he not play?


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[Assistant] No, nothing yet. But he didn't come into the second quarter. And then that's when their defense kind of changed a little bit and they were a little bit more willing to go to some man-to-man and things like that. But, I'll just say, when J.C. Jackson wasn't in there, there was two big touchdown passes on his replacement, which was McCordy.


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[Assistant] You know, the, not, not, uh, not Devon, the, uhm, what's the other McCordy's name? Jason. Jason McCordy, thank you. Yes, the first touchdown, scramble to the right, Russell Wilson throws it, bam.


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[Assistant] You know, they don't usually let people do those type of things. And Russell, just a number of times, this is just how on top of his game he is right now, other than the interception, right? Is just so accurate, sees the field so well, throws the deep ball so well, and then,


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[Assistant] Even when you have him bottled up on a bootleg and you go, Oh, he's not going to be able to do anything. Oh, he makes the defense and miss and he runs for five yards or throws a ball sidearm for a touchdown. I think that's the big thing I'm amazed by with him right now. And yeah, there's nobody playing better than Russell Wilson right now. He's on fire.


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[Assistant] No, it's a good question. You're right. We haven't seen it yet to know what that scheme or what it'll be. My early thought would be, because I thought New England really matched up well with them, right? Because they're secondary and I thought, okay, they'll be able to slow some of this stuff down and within their front seven now,


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[Assistant] Bill will be able to do creative things to slow him down from not scrambling and doing things like that. Well, the other issue that came into play here was the Patriots lack big people. They do not have a lot of big people on their roster this year.


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[Assistant] And this is where again, Schottenheimer and Pete Carroll playing through the pass is great, but they did a great job of also recognizing like, hey, I think we have an advantage just size-wise on them. Let's just push them around a little bit. And I think that, you know, is an issue too to where it made me after the game go, oh,


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[Assistant] Big physical front four and go, hey front four, we're not helping you out in the run today. You guys, it's all you.


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[Assistant] Where all these other guys are about Metcalfe and Russell Wilson scrambling, that's all we're worried about. And it might take some sort of formula like that. I don't think New England's upfront, upfront talented enough to do that, so they had to do it a different way, but that would be my...


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[Assistant] I think there's a few plays they missed them. The second level, the Patriots are so slow, they're linebackers. They could not tackle Russell Wilson on space. I would think Hightower would be a little bit better than they were. And then you saw that wide open shallow cross for the touchdown, right? Yea. I mean, that was a blown coverage. It's J.C. Jackson.


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[Assistant] You know, they tricked them up, but then again, Schottenheimer lines up Lockett in the backfield at tailback.


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[Assistant] And the Patriots are like trying to figure it out on the fly. And just as the ball snapped, they figure it out. But J.C. Jackson's not sure who's covering locket. So he stays there for a split because he sees him coming his way going, maybe I'll take him. Nobody's covering him. But then he realized, oh wait, the guy does got him. And now I got to go get my guy. And it was too late.


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[Assistant] No, it's definitely not. I'm very excited about it right now and it's making me feel better that I picked them to go to the Super Bowl as of this second. I'm feeling good about that. And I've never seen anybody


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[Assistant] What DK Metcalf did last night. Just to push him around. Just physicality. Gilmore usually always wins the physical matchups. And he was unable to do that. And then of course just the pure, you know, speed of Metcalf too.


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[Assistant] Put him in a bind to where he had to respect the speed. He couldn't totally get up in his face. And you saw some of the big plays down the field and just, you know, a few little short catches. He got extra yards on, but he's a beast.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no doubt. And I mean, he really gets his hand in there. It's amazing. DK caught it so clean and then powered through the tackle. But you're right. Wilson threw it about five yards short. And to add it again with Schottenheimer, I would bet you that was a tendency breaker play. I bet you that was. The way New England played it,


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[Assistant] They looked like they felt like they knew what route combination was coming. And it was a little bit like the old Tyree kill two jet wasps we saw.


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[Assistant] They, they're running, you know, it's slot receiver to the right, the inside guy's running the post to clear out the safety, and you're gonna run the in-cut behind it, right?


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[Assistant] Well, he threatens to the post and gets them all going that way, just like Tyree Kill against the 49ers in the Super Bowl, and then he went back out that way. And I think that caught Gilmore by surprise too, and then the safety was way over there thinking like, hey, this post is gonna run right to me, we're good. And, uh, it didn't work out, but, uh.


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[Assistant] Oh look at this, did it get passed up here? Oh my gosh, I didn't think it was that close. It was. So when we made the decision, the chiefs were up like by .2%.


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[Assistant] Now the Cowboys has gone ahead by 0.1%. Wow. But it's too late. We already watched Chief Charger, so. Voting. We're just getting ready for all things voting. We'll hit Cowboys, Falcons, Truly Deep Dive Wednesday.


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[Assistant] I mean, first off, I can't even imagine. You're just sitting there thinking like, okay, hey, where's the gum?


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[Assistant] And where's my clipboard and my hat and let me listen to the plays and see if I can learn what's going on out here and help out Tyra out of the offense. And all of a sudden, I mean, the way it's explained by Anthony Lynn and Herbert is it's like they're lining up for the kickoff.


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[Assistant] And they're going, he's going, hey, you're going to start today. And I think Anthony Lynn, I heard the comment last night as I was kind of falling asleep, like he said something like, I think he thought I was joking when I first said it. And, uh, either way.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the thing you talk about the week of angst is very interesting. The QB and the coaches. No doubt. And it does. You know, during the week, especially I felt like in my first few starts, I never thought about it.


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[Assistant] I don't think the, the guy, first off, played really well, considering the circumstances, and was unfazed by the moment, and really, other than one play, was very smart throughout the game. And I'll get to that in a second, that one play.


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[Assistant] Just as far as you're talking about the first drive, I mean, we saw it all.


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[Assistant] Yeah, poise, big-time arm, we saw him run for the touchdown. He was tested one time in an all-out blitz because I think Spagnolo's going, this rookie's not going to know where to go when I send all these people. He throws the ball in the right place there. So really efficient on the first drive.


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[Assistant] Big picture is the first throw I saw of the game and went, whoa, because you can barely see the ball on the film. I mean, he has a missile for an arm and he does it with ease. And I saw throws throughout the day where you just go, that's like,


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[Assistant] That's Mahomes or Kyler Murray type crap there. Like you're not supposed to throw that. What was your favorite one? I don't know if it's the touchdown in the back left corner.


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[Assistant] Right? Where the corner, his, he's doing his job the right way. He's supposed to midpoint the seam route and the guy on the outside of him.


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[Assistant] And I think he's sitting there going, well this guy's not Patrick Mahomes, he's not going to be able to throw some laser out here like this. And all of a sudden he was, and you can even see his reaction, like he was like, woah, that ball went fast by me. So that, he threw another throw, I want to say on the same drive, down the middle to Keenan Allen, uhm, into really tight coverage, but


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[Assistant] Yes, I don't know how you couldn't be impressed with what you saw from him yesterday and not an easy defense to play. Kansas City does a lot of different stuff. They game plan and they throw a lot of different looks at you that way to where it's not easy for a rookie and I thought they called the game the right way and of course he played well too.


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[Assistant] You want to go over to that side of the ball? You want to hit that now? You might as well, right? I don't think we have anything more unless you want to hit anything more in the Chief's, uh, Charger Chief's Day. I'm good to move, I'm good to move to this side. Let's do it. Let's do it.


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[Assistant] It's one of the ugliest games of his career, and now, we'll get into it, it's not, it's not because of him. Okay? Do I think he was a hair off early on in the game, and maybe there was a few throws where I went, oh, I mean, my home's usually hits that, and yet it was a little low at the knees, or things like that. Yeah, okay. But, this is...


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[Assistant] A scheme they have trouble with. And what is that? It's the Seattle scheme. The old, the old or the new? It's the ad, the old one, the old one. This is the, this is 20, we're down 20 to 10 in the fourth quarter of the 49ers. You know, we lose at home two years ago and on Thursday night to the Chargers. It's the same issue.


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[Assistant] Chargers last year in Mexico City. It was the same game.


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[Assistant] And then late in the game, he found the magic and figured out what to do. And it's the same type of thing.


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[Assistant] They have to find more ways, one, they need to find more ways to attack this scheme, because this scheme is a little bit of their kryptonite. And again, this is going to be a continuing theme. We saw it a little in week one, but in a different way, where teams are just going to play them and go, we're not going to give a big play.


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[Assistant] They couldn't get anything going. And then, you know, as we've talked about, you know, cross, post, in-cut, all these deep throws, well, they have a great front four. They have three first-rounders on their front four. And all three of them, Tillery, Bosa, and Ingram, can rush the quarterback.


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[Assistant] The Chiefs offensive line lost the battle in the game yesterday, and then when you continually call those type of plays that are down the field, down the field, and it's a zone coverage and they're dropping to areas, it's, it's just, it doesn't match up.


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[Assistant] And last year, this was the jumping off point that Mexico City did where they started to expand their underneath attack a little bit. And I don't know why we didn't see more of it yesterday.


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[Assistant] They really gotta do their due diligence on this. I mean, one, they could end up playing Seattle in the Super Bowl. That's who I picked to play. I mean, so you might see a lot of these type of schemes. Could see San Francisco again. Whatever it may be.


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[Assistant] They gotta go back to the, like, the lab and watch other teams who have had success against the scheme and do that. Because there's nothing schematically that changed in this football game. They won this game for one reason.


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[Assistant] Mahomes ability to move. That's it. There's no other way.


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[Assistant] There's nothing else I'm gonna be able to sit here and tell you. They played this Seattle coverage for the better part of the day. The one good thing that Gus Bradley and them did is in a few big situations,


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[Assistant] They might have played man or threw in a blitz here and there, but very minute. I think it was like one or two wall-out blitzes. They didn't blitz for the better part of the day. Cause they weren't gonna leave Tyreek or somebody one-on-one downfield for a big shot or anything like that.


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[Assistant] No, the game was won because of his ability to scramble and run. Whatever you want to talk about. You want to talk about, you know, the game tying drive, third and twenty.


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[Assistant] Okay, to get 21 yards? To go do that? Or do you want to talk about the first touchdown drive, the 6 play, uh, 95 yard drive that, oh no no, the first touchdown drive that gave them 6 points, the 10 play 73 yard drive that made it 7-6, those, the two biggest plays on that drive were Mahomes scrambling and running.


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[Assistant] He made big runs. So he makes a big run there. They get the short field on the interception, uh, by Justin Herbert, which was his worst play of the day. It was a second and two. He had the first down if he just ran it and he tried to throw a ball.


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[Assistant] Now you got 17-9. Think about the next one. The greatest throw we've seen this year, which is on the run, full speed, 55 yard laser. He's running out of the pocket to the right. Let him do that. So, there's that. And then...


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[Assistant] You get into uhm, the last drive in overtime again and things like that. It's, I mean, the last drive and then into overtime. It's his running. I mean, it's his movement. That's all there is to it. They didn't find any part of their scheme that they started to go, oh, wait, we found the answers. Here we go. Right. No. They just maybe called a few more underneath plays.


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[Assistant] This, this to me, and we said this at the end of last year, but this will be the big thing for them going forward.


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[Assistant] That they just, they need to go to like, they need to watch New England versus the Atlanta Falcons in the 28-3 comeback. They need to watch New England versus Seattle in Super Bowl 49. They need to watch New England versus the Chargers a few years ago in the divisional playoff and steal some ideas about how to stress


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[Assistant] The scheme itself out. They just don't have enough plays that attack the scheme. You know, they just run their plays and attack.


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[Assistant] And then they just go, we're good enough and we'll protect and he'll make plays.


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[Assistant] As you can see, I mean, they lived on the edge there yesterday, where one bounce of the ball the wrong way, and they're gonna lose the football game. Right. And, uh, I think that's the big thing, and I just wanna make sure, but you're right, some of those shallow crosses, he hits Kittle, uh, Kelsey over the middle a few times.


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[Assistant] Your favorite running back in the draft caught six balls. Caught six balls as well. That came in handy. You know, didn't see much screen game stuff, which I was surprised about, which you would think you would see, especially with a team that's dropping back that deep and then it has a front forward that's as aggressive as that.


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[Assistant] Well, I think so. I think so. Now, listen, yeaah, he's lost to the Chiefs. You know, he lost to Seattle and Seattle two years ago. You know, but yeaah, and then we saw what, you know, San Francisco did, but it is. You're gonna have a special front four to mess with this guy.


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[Assistant] And they do. You know, we've saw Tillery in person at Notre Dame for years. He's an unbelievable interior pass rusher. With those two freaks on the edge to go along with it. And now you got a Kenneth Murray who's a first rounder at middle linebacker. You know, I mean, it's pretty good. They got four first rounders and they're in front seven. And then Lin-Vell Joseph is no...


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[Assistant] You know, no push over either. But yeaah, they controlled the game for the most part.


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[Assistant] They couldn't find a running game in that front, did a great job there. And yeaah, they were all over Mahomes and just making him uncomfortable in the first half to where they couldn't get anything going. The biggest thing they made the mistake with is they just lost their gap integrity a few times.


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[Assistant] And especially on the third and twenty to set up the field goal that's third and twenty gets a twenty-one yard run. That was one of the few times all game they blitzed. They brought five and...


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[Assistant] You know, it's just one of those things, like this is one guy, he's smart.


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[Assistant] You know, he's, he's got great recognition skills now. He knows how people want to defend him. So when he sees that drop off like that, like, whoa, six or seven guys are going that deep. One of the first things that triggers in his mind now is let me buy time or let me see if I can run if they're going to do that. And he was really effective and led their team in rushing yesterday.


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[Assistant] Kudos to them. He's been down by 10 points or more the last five games in a row he's played, and then they win every one of them. It's been a matter, right? It's insane. Come back and win.


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[Assistant] Well, it's hard to put teams away when you don't have a running game and then...


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[Assistant] You don't have really a great front four either. It's just, it's hard to win those types of games. So, there they are, yeaah, they got ahead, and listen, they blew it. I'm not trying to get it, but it's not a great pass rush. They're not super talented in the secondary. And then they're playing a team that's got really good offensive line to pass protect.


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[Assistant] And is really talented at wide receiver. That's Anne. Anne, Elena.


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[Assistant] Is running last year's Seattle scheme. So they don't change anything. Yeaah. So that's a bad combination from when you have a lead. Right. And I think that lends to like 28-3 or what we saw here, uh, to letting teams that are talent, talented and have a little of a system so they can settle into the game and kind of expose them that way.


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[Assistant] Well, I think there's just the fact that they just kept firing. I mean, that's the one thing. I mean, the offense was certainly nothing


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[Assistant] To be concerned about through two weeks. Was it perfect week one? No. Yesterday was awesome other than the turnovers early on. I mean they came out and they played sloppy football, got down 20 to nothing and really


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[Assistant] After that point, start to control and dictate the game. Now, do the Falcons have chances to put it away? Yea, I mean Julio Jones dropping the pass from Gage, the receiver in the Wildcat formation, probably didn't game over if he catches that. That's it. You know? And of course, just jump on the onside kick that's, you know, slowly rolling to the 10 yard mark.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it was a great kick. Amazing. Of course, Zerline, John Fossil, I mean, they invent something new in special teams every year. So I don't know why we're surprised, but yeaah, that, that, that in itself, you know, and... How about Dan Quinn, two point conversion?


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[Assistant] Did we, did he, I didn't know he knew how the next two and a half quarters were going to play out.


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[Assistant] No, and I don't, well I definitely don't understand it in the second quarter of the game. It's the second quarter. It's 26 to 7.


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[Assistant] Well, just to trump that one, okay, there was a dumber one made by the other coach later on in the game. When the Cowboys are down by nine, and then try to go to two to make it, I mean, if they don't win that game yesterday,


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[Assistant] All sports radio and all the talking hands on TV, all we're talking about is what Mike McCarthy's thinking. For the second week in a row. That kind of saved him. It definitely saved him. No doubt. So yeaah, I think that with Dallas, Dallas offense, I mean it's impressive. I think it'll continue to be impressive.


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[Assistant] Dallas' defense, I don't know, there's question marks there. There's no doubt about that. But, uh, that's heartbreaking for the Atlanta Falcons. And that's what I go back to. Not having a closer on defense, not having a run game to rely on and being able to beat people up physically up front, it doesn't allow them to close football games out.


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[Assistant] Aaron's, yeaah, damn okay. Aaron Jones, wow. First off, the Lions, and I'll be interested to watch this on film, and we'll deep dive this maybe on Wednesday, but came out of the gates just firing. I mean, up and down the field.


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[Assistant] They really do, they can be fun to watch. You know, no Kenny Golliday yesterday, so you don't even have that, but, you know, before that game even gets going, you're going, whoa, it's 14-0, they're in trouble. Like, Green Bay looks like they're sluggish today.


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[Assistant] They just turn it on and the same thing as last week I just looked at. I just think they're more aggressive on that side of the ball. And yes. And because of that.


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[Assistant] They're a little bit of a pick your poison type attitude on defense where you go, man, are they, with Rogers and the way they're pushing the ball down the field, are we going to play coverage? And that leaves itself open to... 85 points in two games. Yeaah. They're letting it go. Rogers has been playing amazing. Yeaah. Uhm, and LeFleur...


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[Assistant] Just the two things I've noticed is just, it's not like, we're not looking to throw the ball for 6 yard gains anymore. We're trying to come out and throw for 20, 30, 40 yard gains when we're dropping back to pass. And I think Rodgers is feeling good about that.


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[Assistant] Uh, they're getting contributions from, you know, some other guys. It's not just Rodgers and Devontae Adams every game. Right. I mean, now with Aaron Jones in the mix, run game and pass game, they got some decent tight ends. Valdez, Skantling's coming along. So, yea, that game, uhm,


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[Assistant] When it got 14 to 10, right before the half, you went, oh okay, Packers are in good shape, and then the first play of the second half was the 80 yard touchdown or 75, and you just went, uh oh. And then came the pick six, and that was, that was it.


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[Assistant] Oh. Why is he not first? I didn't make the rundown. Pete? Get on Pete.


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[Assistant] Yes. They fixed it. He's got talent. He always has. Now they put a team around him. He's learning how to play the position in year three. He worked on mechanics and I'm sure there was plenty of throws that, you know, we watched and he watched last year and he went, damn, I should hit that. I'm too good to be missing those throws. Right.


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[Assistant] Other than Russell Wilson, this is the MVP of football through two weeks.


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[Assistant] I mean, and I think the big thing is, you could see,


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[Assistant] He's in the trust tree. He's in the circle of trusts. Okay? The way they treat him.


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[Assistant] With three minutes left in the game on a second down of nine, they let Josh Allen throw a deep post to try to win the game. They would have been like, oh, no way. He'll just throw it if we call it. We can't do that. He'll throw it. If there's seven guys there, he'll throw it. So let's not call it. Now this year, from what he's shown in the first weeks, they know he sees the field.


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[Assistant] I missed a lot just like that. It's not happening. No, it's not. I think he's throwing the ball higher.


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[Assistant] And of course the digs factor is huge too. I mean, digs makes John Brown better, he makes Cole Beasley better, he makes Josh Allen better.


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[Assistant] You know, he gives the team a different look. As a defense, you just, you're in a tough spot as far as who to, who to stop there. Who's called the plays there? Brian Dayball. Man. Who yeah, by the end of the year is going to be in the head coaching talk conversation. I do believe that. I think he was borderline on that at the end of last year with what he did.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it's, I think it's, yeah, I think it's all those. Well, from anything I've ever known, and I've been up there in the facility with Josh Allen, they love him up there. And they don't love him just because he's like cute and he's got a cute smile. They love him because he loves football. He's there every day. He lives it. And he's always studying and trying to get better.


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[Assistant] And that is, that emboldens the play caller. Because when he's in there every day and, you know, it's...


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[Assistant] It's, uh, yeaah, it's May 5th and I've been here for 14 hours. It's, it does a lot of good to go, damn, my quarterback's been here or on Zoom with me for like nine of them today. Right. Like,


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[Assistant] Damn, he's, he's starting to answer questions where I don't have to ask anymore. He's like, spinning out like, oh coach, we don't want to do that against that coverage. Third year. Third year. Yeah. Right, in a complicated New England type system. Right. And has some talent around him, and of course we know the player was raw coming in anyways.


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[Assistant] Yeah, tell me those two players they're gonna make up for Jamal Adams.


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[Assistant] Exactly, exactly right. And who are you to judge Pete Carroll and the John Schneiders of the world for what they need to get their team over the hump? That's where I think we all jumped too quickly.


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[Assistant] Doesn't matter at all. And this is their draft pick, and this is, this is a smart approach. Right. Top ten pick, franchise quarterback.


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[Assistant] You're the one that's going to get scrutinized head coach and GM if it doesn't work for that top 10 quarterback. So why not support them? Right? And then the other thing to what you're saying too, you make that trade, the pressure's on now too. Yeah. Where the coaching staff all of a sudden goes, wait.


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[Assistant] We had a little wiggle room last year to have an excuse for not a good passing game. That's gone this year. We better come up with some new plays that feature digs. And it makes them go back to the drawing, you know, to the lab a little bit and figure out ways to feature him in the offense to make the offense that much better. But they've been fun to watch.


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[Assistant] He's got unbelievable thighs and ass for a quarterback. Unbelievable.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I don't know, I think the throw out, there was a play last week where he's kinda like moving to his left.


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[Assistant] And then he reset up and threw just a laser down the left sideline where I just went, wow, like that was, that's unbelievable. Like he was about to run and then he stopped and he pulled up and he made a great throw.


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[Assistant] But I still think it's the deep balls that I'm looking at more than anything. Because like you said, last year that was all over the place. This year, I mean it's every time, it's right in the money.


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[Assistant] I can't think of a specific play, I'm sorry about that. Come back to it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, gave them a little bit of attitude. I think that's going to give them the confidence to go, wait, if we're up in a football game by two scores.


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[Assistant] We don't need to trust Philip Rivers anymore. This dude here can push the pile. One thing you'll say, if you go back, and again I didn't get to study this film.


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[Assistant] Number two running back in the draft. Number two behind Clyde Edwards over there, right? The thing that I think I loved about this more than anything is...


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[Assistant] And correct me if I'm wrong, Pete or anybody out there, I don't think he had a big run all game long.


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[Assistant] I just kept going, damn, up the middle, oh, broke a tackle, drunk somebody for three yards, oh, got seven yards, even though she'd only got two or three. Right. So that's gonna be a nice thing behind the blue wall there, who we know can move some people out of the way. And this just in, Minnesota sucks.


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[Assistant] I did today. Today we had like our little like, uh, we go, give the headline type of thing or you know, and uh, I went, okay, I got one for you. Dead. D-E-A-D. And he's like, who are you talking about? I go, the viking.


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[Assistant] Well, no digs. I mean, digs got more yards by himself yesterday than the whole Vikings team. Great stuff. Alright, so there's one for you. Um, Kubiak on the offensive side of the ball. Listen, I have great respect for Gary Kubiak. His career winning the Super Bowl. He brought toughness to that Broncos team.


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[Assistant] Didn't have the toughest to beat Seattle, but yet they had the toughest to beat Carolina. But the offense is flawed. I'm sorry. I don't know any other way to say it.


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[Assistant] No, it's, it's the actual scheme. It's just like, it's still 1998 Mike Shanahan offense. It's, it's, it's never evolved. I want to go mate, like this was a cool play in 98, but it's just not cool anymore. Everybody knows this.


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[Assistant] You know, players this day and age, they've been, they've seen this play since 8th grade. They're all over it.


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[Assistant] I mean, so, I just don't know if there's enough there, let alone their talent's not great other than one receiver. Jefferson looks good, the rookie receiver, but he's not ready to like take over games. And then they got a lot of moving parts on defense. Secondary, corners are gone. You know?


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[Assistant] Hunter's gone. Uh, Daniel, Daniel Hunter's not there, you know, and Everson-Griffin's and Yannick and Gokwe's there. They, they, you know, no good defensive tackles to really stand out. So that's why before the year,


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[Assistant] I know they're going to continue to fight and do those things because they have pride and Kirk Cousins and Zimmer are tough, but I just, I don't see how they can make this work.


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[Assistant] It's his DK MedCat part 2. Right. Just everybody get ready. This was the freakiest receiver in the draft. He was the freak. 6'4", 237. He like, at 439.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so he's raw, and they're taking it slowly with him, and I'm sure there's little nuances of their offense he doesn't quite know yet.


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[Assistant] Uh, cause I, even in week one, I was surprised. He made a big play down the right side in that game, and I just went, I'm surprised we haven't seen him more. But...


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[Assistant] He will continue to assert his value to that football team.


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[Assistant] No doubt, no doubt. And again too, even with Notre Dame, you know, I've told some of my coach friends this during the draft process, because they're like, you know, didn't he get in the dog house there in New England? I mean in New England. Notre Dame.


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[Assistant] And I was like, yeah, he did. I was like, but this is Notre Dame.


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[Assistant] You missed one class or you were five minutes late for a class. Right. I mean, if, if we did that at Texas, we wouldn't be able to fill teams on Saturday. I mean, so there's a different level too of scrutiny there to what they're held to as far as a standard.


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[Assistant] Where I felt like that was held against him with like some people I would talk to up in the draft process. That's a good, that's a good perspective. And I would be like, man, you know, nobody was, if he was at, you know, no disrespect at Florida. Right. Or Miami, or, I'm trying, I'm Texas, okay, I'm saying my own school. Just don't say Iowa. No, I wouldn't say Iowa. Because I don't think Kirk France, I don't know if he would deal with that.


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[Assistant] If you did that, he would have never been in the dog house if he went to those schools. It's a little stricter at Notre Dame. Alright. Turn to the page here.


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[Assistant] You know, the first thing I think, I mean, Jared Goff, good quarterback, you know, good on the move, you know, better arm than people give him credit for. And, you know, I said this a little last week, the first thing is just McVeigh in the way he's calling that offense right now.


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[Assistant] It's just, it's just last week was a little bit more like two tight ends and everything like that, but he's got teams on a swivel right now with their ability to run and the boots and the play actions like we saw him a few years ago. I'm going to be interested to see what the approach was this week, you know, as compared to last week, because last week,


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[Assistant] Few more formations, few more two tight end sets, few times one of those tight ends will move back to the regular full back position, and it looked like they were in 21 personnel. It wasn't like mind blowing, but it was like, okay, here's a few different looks for the defense.


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[Assistant] Yeah, definitely. They definitely had to. And I think it's given them a little bit of a schematical advantage. And, you know, golf, I think he just has a great understanding of what McVeigh wants to do. And it's not like there's a whole lot of high level throws that I see from golf.


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[Assistant] You know, last week, I really, out of all, he played a great game last week, and I really came away going, there's only like two throws he had to make in the game. And I'm not trying to like discredit him by saying any of this, you know. But what he's done, and I saw this a little yesterday, but when you play this way, McVay gets you a few of these completions, all of a sudden,


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[Assistant] So, McVeigh has, I think, emboldened him and got him confident, so now where he's in a rhythm to where whenever that day does come here soon, where McVeigh's shit doesn't work quite the right way, he'll be able to say, hey, my quarterback's in a good state of mind and he might be able to carry us a little bit.


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[Assistant] Well, I-I'm giving more credit to McVeigh right now. I am. But I-Goff does deserve credit. And he does. And again...


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[Assistant] You know, golf's ability to move, and he is tough in the pocket, like, sometimes it's one of my issues is like, moving the pocket a little more, because I think he's a better athlete than he gives himself credit for, but, you know, the bootlegs and his ability to throw in the run and move that way, and, yeaah, his toughness that way, it gives


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[Assistant] Uhm, because I just don't see it that way. And I'm not afraid to say, oh, like if I just started seeing like, McVeigh doing stuff, and I start going,


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[Assistant] He's on the edge, oh, there's somebody open. Guys are open, and he's doing his job. And he's doing his job. He is. And yesterday, I thought there was a few throws, and again, I need to take a closer look of, oh shit, McVeigh didn't call the best play.


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[Assistant] And that's when you put up 37 points and, you know, yeaah, that was, uh,


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[Assistant] From what it looked like on TV, the Eagles had no business being in that game. It's 21-9, Cooper Cup fumbles the punt and return right before the half, it gives the Eagles the cheap touchdown, gets them back in the game, and all of a sudden we were in a football game until the Rams got back a hold of it.


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[Assistant] All I know is it seemed like it was three and out, three and out. Them down the field, long field goal drive they got. They can't make big plays on offense. They have a hard time. Like after the first few drives of the last week's game, they couldn't find a way. Everything's hard. And their run game's not dominant. And they're beat up on the offensive line.


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[Assistant] Well, uhm, clutchness in the fourth quarter, I mean, saved his best plays for the last three drives of the game, you know, against Detroit yesterday.


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[Assistant] Right, and yesterday, 17-13 vs. the Giants, again, I'm not gonna sit here and go like, oh, this was amazing what I saw, but I still saw enough game-changing throws, game-changing throws, not stupid mistakes, and used his legs to get himself out of trouble.


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[Assistant] Third down, he's looking, doesn't see what he likes, he scrambles out to the right, hits David Montgomery, bam, lets him run and make a play.


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[Assistant] You know, I had a few other, had another scramble that I know we showed on Sunday Night Football last night where it was like a screenplay.


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[Assistant] I know, I just can't think of the exact play, uhm. What are you thinking of?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and one of the interceptions wasn't really his fault. Guy made a great play on the right sideline, Bradbury. It was a 50-50 ball. His receiver had the ball.


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[Assistant] And Bradbury ripped it out of his hands. So that was one of the interceptions. You can live with that type of play. I mean, you know, the other guys, they're getting paid a lot of money too. They can make plays too. Right.


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[Assistant] They're still fighting their way. They're not like, they don't have a great offensive line. Yeah. Yesterday was a start in okay, they ran the ball okay, which is good to see. They're another team that's been diving into the tight end set look a little bit more and changing up their looks.


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[Assistant] Even with what we think they look unstoppable.


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[Assistant] You know, last week, it just fell right for them. I'm not ready to sit here and tell you that it's unstoppable yet. No. Okay? But it is going the right direction is what you said. Right. Trubisky is not leaving plays out in the field a whole lot right now, and I think that's where you can be encouraged.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think I would right now, yes, clearly put the Bears at the bottom of that list. Now, there's some danger to them. I mean, that defense is still something to be reckoned with and came close to making a few plays yesterday, but uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, their offense is not up there for me to be putting them into that category quite yet. It's driving me crazy. I can't figure out that last touchdown pass. It's killing me. Here we go. I'm looking at it. I don't care.


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[Assistant] Okay. I gotta look. Tell us what you're looking at. I am. I'm gonna look at this play on my NFL game pass, but there's a, there's a, uh, Glitch? There's no, I have to listen to the, I have to look at the ad first.


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[Assistant] No, it's not. It was a 15 second app. I couldn't skip it. So here we go. I just want to look at it. Here we go. Here we go. Real quick. Okay. Oh, all right. So they're at the 15 yard line. This was a great play.


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[Assistant] What am I thinking? How did I forget this play? It's a lot of games. It's third and eight. Okay. Okay. It's a three man rush with a late fourth adder, right? Who's kind of watching him so he doesn't scramble. What's the score? And it's 10 nothing bears. It's right at the end of the first half, 20 seconds, third and eight.


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[Assistant] He knows it's a three man rush, he doesn't like what he sees, he doesn't panic and he starts to move around the pocket and he buys himself time. And then within doing that,


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[Assistant] The O line continues to block. He sets up again and makes a big time 30 yard throw across the field to Mooney who's coming back in the back in the end zone. So yeaah, that's huge.


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[Assistant] No, it is, it is. And you give that Bears team 17-0 lead, I don't think they should lose too many of those.


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[Assistant] I know, I know. I, I choked. I choked on the primetime lights. I said Bucky the Buccaneer or whatever. I didn't, you know, I wasn't, I wasn't even planning on addressing it, but then I saw Brett Favre with his t-shirt on yesterday at the game with Brady, uh, and I knew it was Bucko Bruce. I just messed up. I choked in the moment. Sorry.


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[Assistant] Everybody watching? Yeaah. Bring that back! Yeaah, no! Another example of like, hey, Cincinnati Bengals, it's time to rebrand. See, when you rebrand, teams win Super Bowls shortly after. Winking pirate with a knife in his mouth. Yeaah. He looks a little too, he's soft. I don't know. Bring it back. No, I like the old, the new emblem better. Okay.


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[Assistant] I don't know how, my headline for that game is Droppin' Like Flies. Holy crap, 49ers.


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[Assistant] No, but I, I will say honestly last week when the Pittsburgh Giants game played, I thought it looked weird. Now nobody else has complained about it other than the 49ers, but we saw three people get hurt last week in a Pittsburgh game where they...


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[Assistant] Uh, it looks sticky to me. It looks like there's not a lot enough rubber pebbles on that field turf. That would be my assessment, okay, as the grounds crew here at NBC.


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[Assistant] In the wake of going into a game where your team was really beat up, let alone, whoa, you get into that game and you get high ankle sprain Jimmy G, you lose Nick Bosa for the year, which is devastating. I mean, it's one of the best defensive players in the league. Two plays later, you lose Solomon Thomas.


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[Assistant] And then, oh yeaah, your most explosive player that was healthy right now, he sprains the MCL or whatever it is, Raheem Motster, and it's just unbelievable what they've had to deal with here this early on in the season.


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[Assistant] Size is overrated. Okay, do you know what I'm talking about?


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[Assistant] I'm talking about the quarterback, Kyler Murray. Get your head out of the gutter, dude. Get it out of the gutter, okay? I'm talking football here. Uh, right? But, Kyler Murray, I just, the second week in a row, he just


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[Assistant] Shut up. One of the best pass rushes in football. And that's because of him. He is a kryptonite to these types of teams that are built this way.


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[Assistant] That's why he is going to be a pain in the butt for the 49ers, the Rams.


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[Assistant] Like, a team that's built to spread it out, we have a fast quarterback, and oh, you have a great pass rush? Oh, you wanna fly upfield at us? Oh, zoop, zoop, zoop, he's gonna run around. Oh, we'll throw the ball quick, we'll tire out that pass rush.


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[Assistant] Wait, you can't really come after me full speed because, oh wait, I might be going this way, oh, and so the defensive line's always like, oh wait, he's going this way, oh no, he's going that way, so they can never just go after him either, and he's mature


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[Assistant] He's already one of the best players in the league. I don't care what his stats say or anything like that.


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[Assistant] What? Damn it. Washington are not capable of doing that to him because of his movement and how that offense is run.


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[Assistant] I mean, pick your poison. Good luck. That would be my headline. Like, uh, because last week we saw them tear you apart with Lamar Jackson in the pass game. This week, Houston went, whoa, that pass game is dangerous. And they said, okay, fine.


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[Assistant] You're gonna pick that poison? We got another poison that'll kill you. We'll just run the ball all over you. I mean, that's where they're amazing. Clearly playing the best football.


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[Assistant] The best team in the game right now, I think all around. It's hard after two weeks, and I know it's just two weeks, but yeaah, they've looked the most impressive to a talented Cleveland team and a Houston team that's got pride and enough players in Deshaun Watson and there was no doubt who the better team was in the field two weeks in a row.


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[Assistant] Because that's where I feel like the titans are. Alright, like nobody like- It's this quiet little 2-0 over here, right? Right, we're just kinda like, ehm, the titans won, oh yeaah. Once again that- It's Russell Crowe winning in the, you know, the Coliseum. It's that same identity.


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[Assistant] Are you not entertained? The quarterback throws for four touchdown passes and we don't even talk about them. We don't even, he doesn't even get a mention in top highlight shows or anything like that.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, well, I know. Well, you know, uh, Jacksonville is another one of those teams along those lines. But, uh, Tennessee, I was, I am surprised that Jacksonville moved the ball on them the way they did. I would, I am gonna go back and watch that too, cause, hey, Gardner Minshew, first off, I mean, he has proven that he is worthy of being a starting quarterback in football.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he could have. He definitely could have. I mean, just, you know, poise, we talked about, you know, the interceptions or whatever else, but he always gives them a chance to win the football game and he can make plays off schedule. Tannehill again is just the king. I saw this in week one against Denver too. There's just, there's never anything left on the field.


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[Assistant] Every throw is pinpoint on the money. They got a special tight end in Jonah Smith. Uh, I am surprised their defense got, uh, tore up like that. I really am. I, I'd like to see what went on there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're just kinda like, oh yeah, 2-0, nobody's talking about us, we'll see where it goes. Maybe Jacksonville's a little bit better than we thought too. Right, yeah, that would be nice.


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[Assistant] Thank you. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Alright, that's it. I mean, we did it.


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[Assistant] Week 2, NFL, Monday podcast, in the books. I think we hit every game, just about. We touched on every single game. We hit them all. We did. We gave it all. I think New Orleans wins tonight in a fun game. I'm gonna say high scoring over the Las Vegas Vaders, like 30-27. Okay. I don't think, I only picked one game wrong last week too, just one way out. Come on.


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[Assistant] We'll hit on all these, all these games we kind of mentioned today. I'll get into some more nuanced stuff of what really happened, but everybody be good. Enjoy Monday Night Football. Good to have you back Paulie. You're the man. Nice new coat too. Thank you. You didn't have that six months ago. That's true. Peace. We're out of here.


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[Assistant] That's worth it. I don't know. Right. This is the first time that we're doing the Chris Sims Unbuttoned PFTPM collaboration in my spot.


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[Assistant] The best decisions are made when you fly by the seat of your pants. Okay. At least that's what I've learned the past four years of- nevermind. Go ahead.


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[Assistant] Wait, wait, wait. And this, yes, because we're on a time schedule now because we have to fit it within an hour, but we're going to need to decide what constitutes a win because I won the most important of the three categories.


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[Assistant] Also we're leading through three quarters over the LA Chargers. I think the Browns can and should win this game.


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[Assistant] They have the overall better team. Overall, they just have to use their resources wisely. Run the ball, run the ball, and run the ball some more. Don't get away from it. Don't force the passing game.


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[Assistant] Well you know, last year in week one, the Lions blew a 17 point lead and ultimately came back the next week and defeated the Chargers.


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[Assistant] I think it's gonna be different this time around. They blew a 17 point lead, lost the game. Last year they pulled out a tie at least against the Cardinals.


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[Assistant] This time they go on the road after blowing a 17 point lead. It becomes a loss. They're facing Aaron Rodgers at home. We saw Aaron Rodgers commence his revenge tour against everyone, specifically the people in the organization that took Jordan Love in round one.


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[Assistant] I think this one is not going to be close. I think that Green Bay is going to blow the Lions off the field. I think the Lions are going to have a hard time recovering from what happened last week. This is the worst place you could drop them.


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[Assistant] The Vikings going on the road. The Vikings are gonna benefit from the flip side of what the Packers benefited from in Minnesota. Now even though there will be 2500 fans there, I don't think 2500 fans can create the kind of noise


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[Assistant] Preserves the home field advantage for the


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[Assistant] Home defense when the visiting offense is on the field in third and eight. I think the Vikings are going to be able to operate and they scored 34 points last week. Their offense is still potent. That's been overlooked by the fact that the defense was raw crap last week. The defense will hold up better against


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[Assistant] We'll see what Jonathan Taylor can do as the starting tailback for the Indianapolis Colts. But I think this Vikings defense is going to take what happened last week. Personally, I think Mike Zimmer individually and collectively put his foot up the butts of the various Vikings defensive players and the rest of his defensive coaching staff. I think the Vikings, who I'm surprised are


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[Assistant] Our two and a half point underdogs. I think they win this one straight up. I've got 30 to 21. They will give up points, but not more points than they'll score. I like the Vikings to get to one and one and send the Colts into a potential tailspin out of the gates.


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[Assistant] Philip Rivers faced the Vikings last December in LA and lost 39 to 10 through three interceptions.


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[Assistant] It almost was a Vikings home game, if you remember the shots of the stadium there. It's probably better that he's playing for the Colts in Indy with 2500 fans, all of whom will most likely be Colts fans, but it's a different team. It's a different circumstance. It's a different year. I just think that the Vikings offense.


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[Assistant] Which was overlooked last week. I think they'll get a chance to shine and outpace Philip Rivers and the defense will do just enough after getting torched by Aaron Rodgers.


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[Assistant] Look, they were down 17 points. And if you spot the Giants 17 points, I don't think they're gonna let you back in the game.


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[Assistant] I don't know how relevant this is, but back in 2014 when Jason Garrett was the coach of the Cowboys and Chuck Pagano was the coach of the Colts, the Cowboys beat the Colts 42-7. Now Pagano is the defensive coordinator in Chicago and Garrett's the offensive coordinator with the Giants. I just thought that was an intriguing contrast. I look at it this way.


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[Assistant] The Giants gave the Steelers everything they could handle. And the Steelers defense is much better than the Bears defense right now. And Saquon Barkley is not gonna get bottled up. And I think the Giants, when they go back and watch the film of the Monday night game, they're going to pick up confidence. And I know that


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[Assistant] You pick up more confidence from erasing a 17-point deficit and winning, but I kinda like this one for the Giants. I think the Giants, yeaah, there aren't a whole lot of wins that are screaming out on their schedule, so they gotta get them while they can, and I think this is an opportunity for them


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[Assistant] To really turn it around quickly, surprise the Bears, and pull off the victory. I'm going Giants 24-21, last second field goal if it comes down to that.


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[Assistant] Not just cover the spread, but win the game. I'm going, Joe Judge gets his first career win at Soldier Field.


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[Assistant] And I don't feel very strongly about this, because maybe the Rams aren't much better than they were last year.


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[Assistant] Maybe the Cowboys are just a lot worse and I have problems with the play calling down the stretch for the Cowboys. I don't like the offensive pass interference call that could have made the game closer, but I think the Cowboys will be able to do enough running the ball.


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[Assistant] Passing the ball, maybe learning from some of the mistakes that were made last Sunday and doing a better job of being efficient offensively also without having


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[Assistant] Aaron Donald and Jalen Ramsey to deal with should make it easier as well. That was a big difference for me. The Falcons don't have studs like that. They're going to consume so much of the attention of the offense. I got the Cowboys 24-17, although I'm nervous about this.


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[Assistant] This is one where it's easy to thread the needle. Where you can say, you know, Bucks win but the Panthers keep it close. My gut feeling on this one though, the Buccaneers win with a pissed off Tom Brady.


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[Assistant] They're at home, they're in their routine, they've had some more reps. I worry about Chris Godwin who's in the concussion protocol, but you know, it used to be if you're in the concussion protocol you miss at least one game. Now we see guys come back all the time.


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[Assistant] The challenge here though is Godwin was just put in it yesterday after a couple of days of being okay or at least not telling anyone he was having issues.


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[Assistant] I still think the Buccaneers pull this one off. I think the Raiders aren't as good as we thought. I think that's one of the reasons why the Panthers kept it close. And the Buccaneers aren't as bad as last week at New Orleans would suggest. I got Bucs 31-21.


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[Assistant] barely covering by a half point the win and the half point cover for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.


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[Assistant] I think they can and I think they will. I feel differently about the Rams after seeing what they did to the Dallas Cowboys, a team that at least is in the same conversation as the Eagles, but maybe better from a talent standpoint, especially in light of all the injuries. That's the problem. This offensive line, it got destroyed.


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[Assistant] By the Washington front seven. Now you've got Aaron Donald to deal with. Good luck with that makeshift patchwork Eagles offensive line. I think Donald is going to destroy the offensive game plan for the Eagles and I think the Rams. I'm stunned.


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[Assistant] They're only one and a half point favorites, which may give you an idea of what one of my best bets will be this week. But I think the Rams win this one 28 to 20, Chris, and maybe by more than that.


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[Assistant] The over under on the amount of time we need to talk about this game is 42 and a half seconds. I say the 49ers 24 to 9. They're gonna be pissed off. They're gonna be motivated. They're coming east for a full week. They're gonna be in West Virginia in between games, hunkering down.


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[Assistant] And I think they know, they desperately need to avoid starting 0-2 after going 13-3 last year. Injuries aside, they'll get this one done, Chris, and in part because the Jets...


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[Assistant] Unfortunately, don't seem to be ready to truly compete at a high level.


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[Assistant] I don't know if they blow them out. I think the Dolphins are a team that's built to not be blown out, but I don't see the Dolphins winning this game. You know, when I watched the Dolphins-Patriots game, I wasn't very impressed with the Dolphins offense. That may have something to do.


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[Assistant] Getting a crack at one of his former teams, although it's easier to list the teams he hasn't played for than it is to list the teams he has played for. I like the bills in this one by 10.


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[Assistant] 27-17 and they moved to 2-0 and put pressure on the Patriots to hold, uh, even when they play the Seahawks Sunday night.


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[Assistant] Titans barely won a game they should have won going away. Will be enough ammunition to get Mike Vrabel in a position where he secures the attention of his players.


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[Assistant] They're not going to come out and let that happen again. They're not going to have to rely on a late drive and a late field goal to beat the Jaguars. This one I think could get ugly. It's one of the bigger spreads of the week. I like the Titans by 10, 24 to 14. Derek Henry looked great last week. He's got what?


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[Assistant] Almost 1500 rushing yards over the last 10 games, something ridiculous like that. Ryan Tannehill looks the part. I think the Titans are going to be fine. And one of the big stories coming out of week one, that, that notion, the Jaguars aren't as bad as we thought. They aren't as bad as we thought, but that's too much to expect them to go into Tennessee and win.


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[Assistant] For Fangio to get it all pointed in the right direction with a tough opponent like this to come into Pittsburgh. It's good. You think it's jarring to see an empty stadium generally. Waiting to see the shots of the sea of yellow seats in Pittsburgh.


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[Assistant] With no one there, but it's not gonna matter. Fans or no fans. I think the Steelers good enough to just kind of methodically do to the Broncos what the Titans should have done.


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[Assistant] And win this game going away. I've got 24 to 13 Pittsburgh Steelers.


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[Assistant] Yeah, let's take a break. When we finish, we got the late games, Lamar versus Deshaun, Cam versus Russell, and our three best bets for the week when PFTPM slash Chris Sims on button continues right after this.


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[Assistant] BFTPM, Chris Sims on Button, Joint Megapix Podcast. We do it every Thursday during the regular season. Chris is taking the lead because he kicked my butt last week. He beat me by four games in our straight-up selections.


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[Assistant] In our picks against the spread, but I won when it came to the best bets. The best bets are looming, Chris, once we get through the remainder of the Sunday and Monday night games for this week.


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[Assistant] I wonder how often it happens that two teams face each other after coming back from double-digit deficits to win the game because the Cardinals were down 10-0, they won.


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[Assistant] Washington down 17, nothing they won. I'm just so impressed by Kyler Murray. I'm going to continue to ride that one. It meshes with one of our preseason narratives that he's going to take the NFL by storm and taking the NFL by storm includes running circles around that Washington front seven, not being tracked down, not being sacked.


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[Assistant] Knowing when to slide, knowing when to get out of bounds, knowing when to squirt away from the pressure and run for our first down on third and 17, like you did against the 49ers. Look, the 49ers are a better team than Washington, and Arizona went on the road and beat the 49ers. Sometimes it is that simple. I like the Cardinals in this game.


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[Assistant] 24 to 17, barely covering the spread. I like that touchdown margin. I don't think it's gonna be a blowout. I wouldn't be shocked if Washington wins, but I'm gonna go with the Cardinals in their home debut. No one there to see it, and that's a shame because you'll want to see Kyler Murray whenever you can.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, remember last week in the aftermath of the first game of the season, I said it looked like the Chiefs were playing a regular season game and the Texans were playing a preseason game. I think the Texans need more than one preseason game to truly get themselves where they want to be offensively and defensively.


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[Assistant] I think the Ravens picking up where they left off, motivated by what happened last year, trying to match and exceed the standard of the 14 and 2 record. They know they beat


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[Assistant] Texans handily last year, I think they go on the roe thing. No answer for Lamar Jackson spreading the ball around to guys like Myles Boykin and Hollywood Brown and Mark Andrews who had a great touchdown catch


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[Assistant] Week one, the running game with J.K. Dobbins and Mark Ingram. I just think it's more


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[Assistant] Then what the Texans can, can handle. It's just gonna be one of those gradual smotherings. I've got the Ravens 24 to 14. I think there's a chance it could be worse than that. And, uh, the, the Texans continue to wonder who they pissed off at the league office to start the year with the Chiefs and the Ravens back to back.


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[Assistant] We don't know and won't know until probably Sunday what's up with Joey Bosa. There's a chance he'll be ruled out.


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[Assistant] On Friday, he didn't practice on Wednesday with a triceps injury, but you know, look, I think you give Andy Reid extra time, even if it's just three extra days beyond the normal week. I think that that's enough to make a difference. Home or away, it doesn't matter. The Chiefs get a crack at that brand new stadium and I think that they handle


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[Assistant] The chargers. I've got 30 to 20. You know, I see that 8.5 point spread and it won't surprise me if the margin's only 7.


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[Assistant] But, uh, those extra three days are worth the extra three points to get the Chiefs to a ten point margin. Thirty to twenty Chiefs win. More Clyde Edwards, Allaire, and, uh, and more Patrick Mahomes, and just more Chiefs looking like they're in mid-season form with no preseason.


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[Assistant] And you know, the Seahawks, one of the teams that have held their own fairly well against Bill Belichick and the Patriots when they crossed paths. I know the Patriots won in the Super Bowl when it really counted, but still the Seahawks could have slash should have won that game.


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[Assistant] And this is one of those where you have to set aside your big picture view of the two teams and where you think the Patriots will be, because I think the Patriots will be in the conversation for a Super Bowl birth.


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[Assistant] And I think that if they were playing this game later in the year, the Patriots would be in a better position to compete and win it. And I think that if there were fans at this game in Seattle,