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[Assistant] He's a big play guy. He would fit perfectly for the style of football you'd wanna play.


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[Assistant] With Justin Fields, let's run the ball. Let's run the ball. Let's run some play actions. Let's run some boots. Let's run a quarterback design run. Oh wait, they're pressing up on us a little bit. Zoom. There goes Mooney, right? Mooney and Alan Robinson together. That should be a really great combination for the style of football. They should play.


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[Assistant] Uh, in Chicago, so we'll see if it continues, but at least I like the look of the offense, and it seemed like they played it the right way yesterday.


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[Assistant] Okay, so hopefully it's just a sprain of the other ligaments and things and then maybe he can be back in five or six weeks, which would be huge.


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[Assistant] Daniel Williams can still go, so that'll be, he won't be a bad fill-in for sure. Uhm, but I'm excited to see what the Bears do going forward and how they build off this Justin Fields offense play altogether. I would think this means like, it's over.


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[Assistant] I-I-I didn't pick them to win, I did say that I-I-I- Just overall.


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[Assistant] I thought they would lose. I think I picked 2017 Saints. I said I would not be shocked if this was like one of those upset games though. They match up well with the Saints. They do. I think the shock of the game and where I did not think they could actually pull it off is a little bit like where Pete's given love, first off. You know, the one thing that jumped out to me, you know, ran the ball, okay, with like decent effectiveness, but the real thing was,


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[Assistant] When they had to throw the ball, they protected Daniel Jones. You know, I did a little thing last night on our Peacock post game show just to go like, hey, look at all these throws. First off, they were longer developing, you know, down the field, outside the number type throws by Daniel Jones. A lot of 15 yard outs, 20 yard outs, post route down the middle, you know.


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[Assistant] The whole shot down the left sideline for a touchdown to Rudolph. But the one thing that jumped out to me as we were kind of like building this tape was just to go.


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[Assistant] Man, I mean, this Saint Stephen's Align, who's been all over just about every quarterback they've played, he had a lot of clean pockets. So that's really positive to see out of the Giants on that side of the ball. I think that with Daniel Jones balling out and like, listen, again,


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[Assistant] Everybody get off Daniel Jones. Like you said in the Thursday night game, he might have been the best player on the field against Washington. Daniel Jones is not the problem with the New York Giants. He is plenty good enough to win football games. It's the rest of the team needs to start coming along and matching him a little bit. That's for sure. And now you see Saquon.


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[Assistant] Saquon fired up his third rocket in his ass yesterday. He only had like two and a half fire in.


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[Assistant] All systems go yesterday, which was amazing to see. So now you get a little bit big play element. You got some receivers that can stretch the field. You got Saquon with running or even just a short passing game to make some big plays. They could be a pain in the ass to defend as they go forward here.


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[Assistant] He can, he can hit the slot receiver. Okay. He was thinking, and I want to say that might have been like a, was it a third down in that play, do you know? Uhm, they were in an empty set.


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[Assistant] And it was Barclay outside, and I believe, I want to say maybe Kadarius Tony in the slot to the left, who's going to run a little slot out route, which the Giants run a lot.


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[Assistant] So Lattimore's probably looking at this going, alright, they won't throw to Saquon with me out here covering him. Right. Right? And he got a little ahead and tried to jump it. And Daniel Jones, again, great fight by him. Just to realize it and see it. And then, uh, yeah, go go gadget boosters. Oh, it was a first and ten play. Okay. First and ten.


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[Assistant] I think, I mean, as like, flirting with him. Flirting. I hear you. I, I do. I think he's breached that part of the conversation for sure. I mean, again, he's super athletic. People don't really want to talk about it. You'd go, no, no, no, actually Daniel Jones is one of the best running quarterbacks at football. He's legit fast. He's legit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he can go. So again, that's, people don't want to give that credit, you know, because of, hey, I'm probably part of the reason because of the narrative of coming out in the draft. You know, he's not a sexy, like throwing sidearm and all those kinds of crazy plays. So people think it's boring.


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[Assistant] Yeah, right. He gets a little crapped on that way just for being a little bit more reserved and let's just say a nerd, right? I mean that way, hey listen, my dad had to do the same thing in the New York area. Oh, this dumb guy from Kentucky, Morehead State. What? I mean, they took him to win the Super Bowl and play perfect in that game before they started going, yeah, he's pretty good. So that's the way they can be around here. But damn, you know, defense, uhm,


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[Assistant] One of the big moments of the game was, Jameis threw a deep pass, it got called back, they brought Taysom Hill in the game, and he threw a deep ball and it got intercepted.


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[Assistant] And when, when the Saints were kind of controlling the football game. Yeaah. You know, uh, what, what do they want to be on offense? I don't, I think they're still trying to figure it out too. I still think they're trying to figure it out too.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, Jameis wasn't bad yesterday. Certainly not. I mean, every time I looked at it, I went, damn, he's, you know, making good decisions, throwing the football the right way. But they've like been kind of hard. They can create a lot of big plays on offense. That's been an issue for them. It really has. You know, they ran the ball well yesterday.


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[Assistant] But I think they ran the ball well, and the fact that the Giants...


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[Assistant] Also, we're like, alright, we're not gonna let, the only, we're not gonna let you take any deep shots down the field, do that. They put a lot of pressure on their front. But wait, this is what I wanna get back to, last thing, we're the Giants, before we go there.


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[Assistant] The Giants offense, they can continue to block that way. And then you talk about, like we talked about, Galaday and Saquon. And then you see Jon Ross take off for the deep post. And uhm, who the hell am I missing? Uhm, oh, and they got the rookie first rounder, Kadarius Tony going yesterday.


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[Assistant] There's weapons out there. And again, if they can just protect, open up a few holes in the run game, I really think their offense can be a pain in the ass and be a difference maker. And we'll see. Maybe it's going to go that way here soon. It certainly looks like things are kind of going in that direction.


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[Assistant] No doubt, he missed some. He missed some throws late, but he also hit some. Yeaah, he did. He, uh, yeaah, there was one, I think, what, down in the red area maybe that we're thinking about where he had a guy.


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[Assistant] Right, you had to build the ball out to the right flat, and he missed it, right? It was wide open. He definitely choked that one off for sure. But, like,


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[Assistant] I think here's the big thing that I take away from Zach Wilson's performance. Stop trying, he stopped trying to be Johnny Robot in the pocket quarterback. You're too athletic to be sitting there all day long. Like he got out of the pocket and made some plays that way. He played football yesterday. I think that's the thing that jumped out to me more than anything.


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[Assistant] Like yeaah, you know, again, we've talked about this with Daniel Jones in the past and other rookie quarterbacks, you know, they try to, hey, coach said they want me to sit in the pocket and go one, two to three. And you start to be such a pleaser and you start to go, wait, I have faith in the offense. I want to give the plays a chance. And you start to lose like your natural, why you were the number two pick was like,


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[Assistant] When shit wasn't perfect, you can make unbelievable plays, escaping the pocket, moving around the pocket, making throws that way. I think that was the thing that jumped out to me more than anything. Yeaah, he still had some mistakes. You know, definitely had the one, uh, interception that was, that was dumb.


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[Assistant] You know, he predetermined, you know, it was a play, actually.


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[Assistant] The play he throws the interception on, this could be a cool play for what


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[Assistant] The Titan Defender like ran the route for Corey Davis on that play. There was a few plays yesterday where the Titan Defenders ran the routes for the Jets, guys, where I want to go, they might need to self-scout thyself, cause this is a few times I've seen this over the last few weeks, like the Patriots game the same way where I go,


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[Assistant] I think you might have some tells on your formations and what routes are going to be in run because people are all over them. Same with the protection we talked about, but either way, great job by Zach Wilson. And you can just see, again, game not perfect and all that, but I think you could see, anybody who's just watching football could see like


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[Assistant] Again, it's about the look. The guy has some special qualities about him. Just like we saw from Trevor Lawrence on Thursday night. I know it didn't translate to a win for him, but either way, there's things they can do where you go, wow, that's kind of awesome.


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[Assistant] Oh, you're just going to roll to the right from your own 45 yard line and just tell the guy to go deeper. Go deeper. I'm on the run. You're not open, but I'll just flick it out there 60 yards on the run and we'll throw a touchdown.


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[Assistant] Is he like even, it's like he's gotten in the trap of trying to stay in the pocket too. Yeah, and it's collapsing on him and he's not getting out. He's just not doing anything, right? He's just sitting there trying to have faith in the offense. And a day like yesterday, and again, the Jets defense.


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[Assistant] You said what you want, I know it wasn't perfect. Like, and I know that, you know, that Tennessee moved the ball. The Jets defense fights and plays hard every week. I mean, they were all over Tannehill a lot, in the pocket, you know, in some big moments, getting pressure.


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[Assistant] They had Jared, Jared Davis, and they had Shaq Lawson.


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[Assistant] And, they had, uhm, Lamarcus Joyner. Healthy. And I'm missing somebody else. I'd go, man, that Jets defense would be a pain in the ass. A real pain in the ass. But, good for them. They fought every game. That was cool to see. That wasn't easy. They really overcame some tough circumstances to get that victory yesterday.


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[Assistant] It's tough to miss your two top receivers. They had to make do with, with, you know.


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[Assistant] Backs out of the backfield, trying to stay probably even overly patient in the run game to where they didn't, they were probably like, damn, we're going to run the ball into this look, okay, let's just give it. I mean, Derek Henry was still a beast yesterday. That's always impressive. But yeah, they couldn't create a lot of big plays. Uh, everything was a long drive or a struggle it seemed like for the most part.


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[Assistant] No, I think what it was was, you know, we saw a game where two coaching staffs who had great knowledge of each other knew the next move each team was trying to make. I mean, really couldn't get anything going all together. Uh, the difference being, I think, really ultimately just like, hey,


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[Assistant] Cleveland's just more talented, period. I think that's where I would look at it more than anything. Made a few more plays.


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[Assistant] Their two-headed monster running back, you know, and their defense just every week seems to be getting better and better. Ever since that first week showing against Kansas City, it's been pretty damn good.


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[Assistant] You know, their ability just to impose their will with the two guys at running back, it is special. And they needed it yesterday. Because I'll say this, for the second week in a row, Baker Mayfield did not play well or throw the ball well. No way.


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[Assistant] He has thrown the ball as badly as I've seen him throw it in two games. Really, maybe since like his rookie year or some of those struggles in second year with Freddie Kitchens. He has a mental block.


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[Assistant] Odell was open way more than what he got. Like first week against the Bears, I mean I think he had like 6 for 75 or something like that. It should have been like 10 for 1 to 70.


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[Assistant] Yesterday, you know, again, I like to go back and watch the film, but there was definitely two or three throws. One of them, which was a wide open 60 yard touchdown.


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[Assistant] And Baker didn't even, could, Odell couldn't even get a hand on it. I mean, we're talking about Odell Beckham Jr. is like the greatest adjuster to the football in the history of the planet. Couldn't even do it. This is the weirdest thing. It's, I haven't seen anything like it since Jameis Winston to Deshaun Jackson with Tampa a few years ago, where Deshaun Jackson was probably open for like,


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[Assistant] 10 touchdowns and 700 yards of receiving during the year, and James Swenson could not hit him. There's something about the body language, or the explosiveness of how the guys come out of the cuts, that Baker's having a hard time reading, and he just cannot connect with the guy. It's unreal.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes, yes, yes. You know, it's a little bit like we talk about with like the Cardinals. It's just like, you know, not to that extent, but when you got an athlete like that at the second level,


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[Assistant] What they have a great advantage of is like, if you get in a passing formation, they're like, okay, he can play middle linebacker or we can kind of put him out of nickel. And yeah, they're in a passing formation, but we're kind of still with a decent run defense or you want to throw wide receiver screens, he's going to blow that up. And then of course, when you get back into like base looks, he's a great


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[Assistant] You know, stand up linebacker. He's all over the place. He's unbelievable. He's like, uh, I mean, uh,


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[Assistant] He just a guy, when you turn on the film, you just go, the speed, the aggressiveness, when he sees a, sees a hole in the run game, he runs through it quicker than the running backs, and yeaah, he has taken that defense to another level.


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[Assistant] Would you say this was a double entendre when I talked about this word? Double entendre. Bills. Blank. The Texans.


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[Assistant] As in they blank them on the score, and then you could also put a blank word there for like the bills.


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[Assistant] I think I would say they're the best, I'm gonna say they're the best team in the AFC. I will say that. And as far as the league's concerned,


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[Assistant] You know, they're in the running with them, the Cardinals, Tampa Bay, the Rams. They're in that elite class, I think. Yes. You know, especially, you know, again, I know I've said this the last few weeks, but I think it's the way they're beating people that I think is the most impressive.


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[Assistant] Just defense, running the ball, you know, a few splash plays from Josh Allen, but it's not like what we saw last year where you went, is it realistic? Can they really drop back 42 times a game and just think Josh Allen is going to make magic every week and go 13 and three or 13 and four or something like that? No, it's not. And they're showing you like, Hey, we got other ways to do it.


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[Assistant] I mean, the defense was amazing yesterday. I don't know, there was a, you know, other than maybe the first drive of the game or so, I never felt like Houston had a chance to move the ball. They had the ball in some good field position early on in the game.


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[Assistant] You know, I think off the Josh Allen interception, maybe it was early or just some field position. And they were kind of down on Buffalo side of the football field. And they, I mean, they couldn't do anything. They couldn't do anything.


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[Assistant] And I think that's what's amazing. I mean, they're whooping, they're whooping ass at the line of scrimmage. They got great schemes on the back end and creativity that way. And then with the offense, like again, just showing some run game and Alan.


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[Assistant] You know, him making a few plays running and then just a few laser beams. I mean, yeah, they're, they're definitely one of the best teams in football, no doubt. And I don't think their offense, like I said last week, is still hitting on all cylinders.


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[Assistant] You know, the Thursday night game against the Carolina Panthers or yesterday, just, there's just not a lot of high end talent. That's, he's, he could maybe be a starter in the football and NFL, but he needs, he's going to have to need a team and a system around him.


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[Assistant] He's not going to be able to like cover holes on your offense or carry the team when things are not going good. That's not what he is. And that's where, you know, I thought he was a little different than the other top quarterbacks in the draft.


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[Assistant] You know, just the common coolness about in the clutch. I think that's the biggest thing, right? Because listen, like,


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[Assistant] He has moments of being underwhelming in the first three quarters sometimes where I go, oh man, he should have hit that throw or man, he checked the ball down too quickly and there was somebody open downfield. He shouldn't have done that.


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[Assistant] You know, he never lets his game, his team kind of get out of the game. And there he is late in the ball game with two really clutch drives to win the football game.


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[Assistant] And a lot of those clutch drives, those two clutch drives and plays, I mean, were him, yea, making some high level throws, buying some time, I mean, come on, the last touchdown where he scrambles the left and throws to JD McKissick, that was, that was special.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's special, but it was really cool. I mean, the fact that he had the wherewithal to go to the left and go, wait, where's my back? Oh, he's over there. And then see it, cause that's a dangerous throw to make cause you don't know who's around the running back. Uh, really awesome by him. I mean, I'm still really disappointed by the Washington defense. I mean, they sucky ducky.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they do. Uhm, we've talked about it. D-line has not been dominant in any game so far. How is that possible? I don't know.


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[Assistant] And they can have kind of a plan of attack where like, I don't see any diversity in the scheme. I don't ever see anything that make like, ooh, look at that defense alignment there. You know, some of the other top defenses in football, whether it's the Cardinals, the Rams, whoever, you're just talking about top teams, they get in some defense alignments on second and third down. Sometimes I go, wait, I don't know.


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[Assistant] There's three linemen over here, there's two linebackers standing on the line of scrimmage over there, and then there's a defense end outside of them.


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[Assistant] No, I mean the horses always have advantages over fish or, or dolphins out of water. Always.


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[Assistant] Yeah, right. Dolphins got the advantage, right? I mean, Flipper's gonna be all over the place and that horse is gonna lose, but not on land, sorry. Grassfield, uhm, yes. Great win for the Colts. They needed it. They did need it, really.


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[Assistant] They're not as bad as they've looked probably. It's been a very difficult schedule. Very difficult schedule. I mean, really...


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[Assistant] You know, had a chance to beat the Rams. They've messed some things up. They're dealing with injuries. I think Carson Wentz played a pretty clean football game. I do think two weeks in a row, I've seen him be like a little bit more careful with his body, which is impressive. And then if they can get like they did yesterday, Jonathan Taylor running the ball the way he did the way he did.


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[Assistant] They could climb back in this thing and make things interesting. I mean, gosh, they're only one game behind the Tennessee Titans now in their division. Right? So here we go. You know, Tennessee dropped the ball against the Jets, and now the Colts got a chance, and you know, the Colts defense is solid. I do think Wentz will continue to get better and better. And, uh, you know,


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[Assistant] To run the ball on that Dolphins D like that, I mean, the Dolphins defense is really damn good. I hope everybody knows that.


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[Assistant] Don't look at the stats or what they are because their offense sucks. That's what's out of water right now. I mean, that's where they're suffocating. They just can't sustain any offense at all. Pass game, run game, there's nothing there. And uhm, yeaah, good for the Colts, good for Carson Wentz kinda getting everybody off his back for a little bit.


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[Assistant] I should have figured it was her. She's always babysitting Rodney on the road. It's always.


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[Assistant] She's awesome though. She really is. So that was her that was stuck there holding that. What a great way to make your debut on national TV. Hey mom, my left hand was on TV all day tonight.


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[Assistant] Like uhm, you know, he's like a pit bull. I look at Rodney and I think of a pit bull. Like if you let him off leash, you better watch out. He might go a little crazy on you. He'll crush you. He'll humiliate you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm gonna go with the Raiders. I am. Uh, the Raiders, you know, as you heard me say earlier in this podcast, I think they're, they're...


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[Assistant] You know, one of the best, if not the best offense in football, they have answers for everything. And when I say answers for everything and people think like, whatever the blitz is, whatever the defensive front,


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[Assistant] John Gruden has programmed Derek Card to get into the right play every time. So between that, and I think what scares me, you know, and again, I, I know the Chargers will make their, their handful of plays on the offensive side of the ball tonight too. Um, but I think the other thing too, that I, that I look at in this game, I would think the Raiders are going to be able to run the ball.


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[Assistant] On this Chargers defense. Chargers have runs defense issues. And I do think the Raiders have kind of got that going. They got it going last week. I don't know if Josh Jacobs will play tonight, but Peyton Barber was really good. I know Josh Jacobs is limited practice this week, but yeah, I expect like a close victory for the Raiders tonight.


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[Assistant] And, uh, your red pants are really cute today. They really pop. Alright, everybody check back in Wednesday. We'll see ya. Have a good start to your week. Clap it up!


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[Assistant] Of Philip Martin Sims. Big day today. He's gonna be coming out in a few minutes. What's up everybody? This is Chris Simms on Button presented by Under Armour. My man Paulie Burmeister is here today. How you doing big guy?


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[Assistant] No, you've made your own waves. You're kind of big time on your own. No. But I can say for myself, there'd be no me without him. That's for sure. That is a fact.


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[Assistant] Underhand doubted. I don't think he can create that kind of torque, but he is an impressive underhand thrower. I will vouch for him that way. And he still is good for 10 solid throws if you give him about 25 minutes to warm up. So that's where he's good.


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[Assistant] I'm letting him come on our show today for his birthday. I'm a very nice guy. Uh, yes. And you know, of course the conversation's always driven by my wife. My wife is a great gift giver and


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[Assistant] She knows, she's gotta please the king. And the king is Phil Simms. King is not you. So she's not, it's not. I'm just the prince. Uh, but she is very like, you know, hey dad, you know, he's been great to us. You know, he's dad, my dad's been great. So he, she is very into like,


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[Assistant] We gotta give him the right gift, right? And, and so she did it. She's got a good one. I'm not gonna give it up now, but I think it's something he'll thoroughly enjoy.


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[Assistant] A do, is that right? A do, right? That's correct. That's correct? Yeah. What's up big guy? Happy birthday dad. Happy birthday Phil. How are you?


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[Assistant] Yep, alright, alright, so we'll start talking about football and news. I mean, you know, first off,


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, you know, I guess, you know, go ahead, first start there. I don't know what you got to say about it. The, the thing that's troubling dad, and I don't know how much you know, or, you know, again, I'm not troubling. I'm not trying to over judge, but I'm going to judge from a football level. It doesn't sound like Aaron Rodgers is vaccinated.


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[Assistant] So, that is certainly has an issue, and what's gonna be more of an issue around it, is it means Green Bay's been breaking league rules, and he hasn't been wearing a mask at press conferences or on the sidelines, which is against league rules, so, gonna be interesting to see how that plays out, Dad, but, you know, kinda what were your thoughts on the whole thing?


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[Assistant] I don't know that for sure. I don't know. But all signs point, all that points to they have to sign somebody. And then I guess that means maybe Blake Bortles will get back in the fold because he was there a little earlier this year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no doubt about it. The numbers bear it out, dad, with Chris Jones. He has been playing inside more the last few weeks, so that's a real thing. And, you know, listen, I was a fan of the, like, hey, let's move him out to defense end, see what he's got, maybe get your four best on the field. But I think ultimately, like, what dad's referring to is, yeah, they got to a spot where,


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[Assistant] It's, he's not affecting the game the same way he was, you know, in previous years. He is...


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[Assistant] No doubt, and I think Dad would agree with this, the most disruptive interior defense alignment in football the last few years other than Aaron Donnell. He is. Oh yea, I agree. Yea, right. And then at defense end, you know, you can find ways to


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[Assistant] Tennessee was not horrible. People need to, I know they lost 27 to 3, but think about turnovers, everything. They hung in there. It wasn't bad. They are trending in the right direction. Uhm, so we'll see what they do on that side of the ball.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, Dad said all the right things, I think. I mean, Jordan Love, hey listen, if they're open, he can hit ya. I don't know yet if he's gonna be able to make high level, game-changing throws. Which they're used to getting there. Well that, that to me is, you know, what they're gonna miss. You're gonna miss a guy who, yes,


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[Assistant] You know, again, it's not about offensive explosion with Green Bay right now. They're about execution. We're going to execute you to death on both sides of the ball. And just like last week, we're kind of going to wait for you to screw up. And when you do, here comes our foot on your throat because we're going to score a touchdown. And now we're up a possession or two in the football game and you're playing a game that you're not


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[Assistant] You know, you didn't want to play necessarily. That's where they're great. And that's where, you know, I think, yeah, they're going to miss the handful of throws that you're alluding to that Rogers makes every game where we just go, holy crap. I mean, that was unbelievable. There was nothing there. That's an amazing throw. But I think ultimately too, what dad's getting too is just a little as, you know, they're going to miss.


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[Assistant] Now there's gonna be, hey, here's the play in the huddle, Jordan Love's gonna call the play and they're gonna walk, walk up to the line of scrimmage and they're gonna call that play. That's gonna, that's gonna be. You know, every now and then he'll have a check with me, okay? We wanted to run here, but the safety's here, so we're gonna run over there. Yes.


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[Assistant] But they're going to miss the element of Rodgers being able to really control the game at the line of scrimmage and do it the right way. And he's shown great patience all year. I think that's jumped out to dad too, I think. And just like, you're going to play too deep? We'll run the ball. We'll throw the short passes underneath. That's fine.


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[Assistant] We'll just kind of, you know, matriculate the ball down the field that way. And then when you get sick of that, I know. And then when you get sick of that, we'll try to take a shot down the field. And that's where I think it can be an uphill battle, uh, for Jordan Love. I mean, you, you agree with that dad or disagree or what?


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[Assistant] Yeah, no doubt about it. I did get that game in too, and we're gonna break that down here on the podcast in a little bit. Uh, my god, dad's referring, like we talked earlier, I hadn't watched the Patriots offense yet, so I got that in.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was. Dad, I wanna go, just wanna ask you personally about yourself. Like,


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[Assistant] Do you ever remember like in a 15 year career, I mean I know you had bad moments and stuff.


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[Assistant] But, he's right now so off kilter, like you said, just very rarely goes through the read true to form, very rarely manipulates the pocket the way you see a lot of the other top quarterbacks do that.


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[Assistant] Like, did you ever go through a period in your career where you were a little bit like, man, what, what am I doing? Why am I getting off the first read so quick and then just going right to the third read? I mean, can, can you speak to that at all? I didn't play enough to be able to speak to that. So I, I, I can't say, and I of course was never at your guys level.


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[Assistant] Oh, I mean, third time, third time we're cheated by it. I know. I mean, we had Mahomes get hurt with the kneecap injury. Yep. We had last year the NFC championship game where we're going, I mean, you know, you're thinking, oh my gosh, you know, we got a chance to have Rogers Mahomes. That doesn't happen. And now we got this here again. So I know it's killing me.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no doubt about it, dad. I know, you know, you, you, you, I mean, we know the offense is amazing. The defense is a surprise. I think dad hit this, hit it, you know, spot on. We've talked about it. Dan Quinn's not the same. It's not Seattle scheme covered three every play, every play, every play, every play. I mean, now it's like, I don't even know what, what the hell to call this defense. I really don't. It's hard. I mean, they do everything.


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[Assistant] Right. I mean do you look at them at all with any glaring weakness? Like I keep thinking something's gonna pop up. Like I thought maybe last week might have been the week. I thought maybe Minnesota's gonna be able to run it on Dallas. Dallas hasn't had to play a real good


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[Assistant] Running offense all year, maybe other than the Patriots who were kind of just getting, getting it going, you know, a few weeks ago on that side of the ball, running the ball. But I mean, I don't know if there's anything that really jumps out to me, dad, that I just look at them to go, well, this can be an issue down the road.


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[Assistant] No doubt. Alright, Doug, I know you gotta go, but I gotta, I don't know if you've heard me talk about this yet, too, but the bangles and the Mike White conversation annoys me right now. It annoys me. Period. It annoys me. I mean, first off...


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[Assistant] No, no, no doubt. They fell into the trap of, hey, puffing the chest out, we beat the Ravens, we're gonna beat the Jets. I mean, there's, there's all, the Jets coming off of ass whooping by the Patriots where they ran up the score on them. So it's the, the human emotions is a real thing. There's that aspect. You know, one other aspect I wish I would have thought about with Mike Lafour being up in the box too is,


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[Assistant] You know, I'm sure he took things from his brother and the, the, the Packers or the Bengals too.


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[Assistant] And then took off of that, but like the thing that drives me crazy, Paul, you probably haven't heard me say this because I said this on Monday's podcast.


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[Assistant] You know, up here in New York, he's the franchise now. Last week, what the f***? How could he be our backup? How could we do this with him as our backup? How stupid are the Jets? Now it's this week, trade Zach Wilson and Mike White's the future. And so I hate that, okay? And that's a person, that's a, well yeah, that's what it's become. I mean, I turned on talk radio Monday morning and I was like, I have to turn it off. It's, I'm getting stupider listening to it.


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[Assistant] Well, a real thing, exactly right. I mean, okay, so then let's, let's break it down. Like the Bengals, way too conservative, like dad said on, like they played the, well, let's let him mess it up. Okay, early on, he tried to mess it up. They didn't take advantage of opportunities. I mean, they tried.


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[Assistant] I mean, he did his best. He gave him the ball at the one and he gave him the ball like in the red zone with stupid interceptions. Dodge the bullet with a few other interceptions that hit Bangles players in the chest. At some point I would just want to go, okay, but now here we are in the third quarter. He's in a rhythm, Bangles. He's carving you up.


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[Assistant] Four yards at a time, let's change the freaking game plan. Like it's, it's, he's already, they never really did. They never really forced the issue.


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[Assistant] To me, here's my last part. This is my pet peeve. I hate this about the NFL. It's the backup quarterback. We gotta come up with a million ways to help him out.


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[Assistant] When I came in on Monday and I heard all this and talk radio and Pete did a little, little, I said, I said, Pete, he, he, he didn't make any throws the whole game. Dad probably mentioned the best throw of the game.


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[Assistant] Off his back foot, a crossing rat. Everything else. It was one of the shortest throwing performances of the year in the NFL. Only three other quarterbacks. It was only three other quarterbacks threw the ball shorter than he did in one game in the whole season. That is not sustainable New York Jets fans or New York fans or football fans. Not sustainable.


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[Assistant] The cults are gonna take away the four yard completion this week. I can promise you that. So we're gonna learn a lot about Mike White, but you could say I get fired up and I hate that shit. I hate it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, I know. That's it. I mean, if, if, if what happened with the Cowboys on Sunday night with Cooper Rush two years ago when the Dallas fans were still trying to go, oh, he's not good. And oh my gosh, he can't win every clutch game that we've ever played in. Like how dare he.


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[Assistant] And, you know, and the grading companies didn't grade them as high as they should. People would have shit on Dak Prescott. But now this game, because everybody's seen enough now and goes, he's special.


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[Assistant] They're like, okay, Cooper Rush, that was a good job, but we like, we like Dak now. So we like Dak. And yeah, the simple fact of the matter is if Dak was playing the other night, that would have been a blowout. Like, that's where people lose context. It would have been domination.


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[Assistant] The game would have been over. Do you see their defense could stop Minnesota? So either way, got me going. You can see I'm hot about this stuff.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there was only three quarterbacks that threw it shorter all year. It was Geno Smith, Jalen Hurts, and Jimmy G.


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[Assistant] Well, he threw screens to Michael Carter, and there he runs for 30 yards, and then it's Jameson Crowder in the slot, and nobody's covered him because they're playing a deep zone. He throws it 4 yards, he runs for 15 more. I mean, that's what it was, and that's where you're like, Cincinnati, what are you doing? He was 0 for 10 with any throws, 0 temps of 20 yards down the field.


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[Assistant] You the man, dad. Alright man, happy birthday. Alright man, thank you. Alright, see you later. Alright, bye. Good, that was a good talk. Yeaah. That was a good talk.


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[Assistant] That's right. They show you a few highlights of the best throws of the day. Here's to your point about


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[Assistant] Their leading receiver was Michael Carter, running back. Their third leading receiver was a running back. Alright? So, he threw to the running backs,


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[Assistant] He has 14 completions for 166 yards. Do you think they should let Zan Hulson do that more? Yea, yea, to me that's where, that's where I... Or instruct him to? That's where my thought was. That's where I was watching the game going...


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[Assistant] Where was, I watched Zach Wilson and they play action pass, max protection, two guys 40 yards down the field, throw a laser in there.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, coach. I'll just do that over and over. I mean, that's what they were doing. It's like, are you trying to help your rookie quarterback or not? That's, that's what bothers me. And of course, this is something I brought up and I've been talking about this for years because I've witnessed it, whether I was the backup or even if I was the starter and got hurt.


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[Assistant] Yeah, sure. I mean, there's, you know, first off, let's just talk broader game, really. I mean,


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[Assistant] The damn guy they played quarterback made a few plays and throws where I don't know what you want the defense to do. So that's gonna happen in this modern day NFL, but Carson Wentz is not Josh Allen for that matter, and of course this is a division team that they have a good feel for in the offense.


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[Assistant] It was Strugglesville all game long for the Colts on offense. All game long. They had the first drive. I understand that.


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[Assistant] Never put too much stock into the first drive with the first 15 and we're going to do things that they haven't seen and we're going to catch them off guard.


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[Assistant] Like, don't ever put, like, oh, look at that drive, they're gonna win the game now. Don't, don't. Those are special delivery plays. You don't know how the game's gonna go from there. The defense is gonna adjust after that and start to go. But the first drive was tough. The second drive was a one-place, seven-yard touchdown off of the Tannahill Interception.


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[Assistant] And then after that, I mean, it was tough sledding and it was pass interference that moved the ball for them for the most part. You know, so it was not easy. Here's my first thing I would say about the game, Paul. First off,


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[Assistant] Yeah, Carson Wentz held the ball a little too long, no doubt about it. He was a little off and throwing the ball.


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[Assistant] He got stuck on the first read a little bit too long, like we saw in weeks one, two and three when they were losing a few games where you're just going, man, you know, get off it. It's over. He's not, he's not going to be there.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then the other thing where I'll blame Frank Reich a little bit is just, he gets away from the run game at times too often. Too often. Now they had some holding penalties on some runs and I think he probably got frustrated with that going, damn, every time I get a run play, we end up back in, you know, first and 15, first and 20 and that bothered him, I'm sure. But in this type of game,


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[Assistant] And Taylor carries at 16. Exactly right. Exactly right. With right now an offensive line that's good at pass protecting, but I'm not going to say it's great.


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[Assistant] I mean, Fischer got his butt whooped a little bit on the left side. You know, Harold Landry, Dupree, they had their issues, alright. You know, their right guard, 62, I'm gonna blank on his name. You know, he's a little bit of a weak spot for them that way too. You know, you'd think, you know, running the ball helps protect that. And then, this is where I want to get to the tape and like, you know, the Titans


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[Assistant] Have caught into a team, like a thing that we talk about a lot. First off, they,


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[Assistant] They are like a team we're going to talk about in a few minutes where they've mastered zone coverage. They are like Syracuse in the 2-3 zone in basketball. When you do this, they know how to pass it off and play it perfectly. It doesn't matter how well, they are really well coached in the back end.


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[Assistant] So I want to make sure, you know, we give their defensive coaches their due respect that way. You know, the pass rush is coming alive when we talked about, and then.


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[Assistant] We blitzed two, but two dropped. It's still only four and still seven in coverage.


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[Assistant] And they have mastered that as well. And that to me would also be like, well, I don't want to throw the ball 51 times against that. Right? Uh, and not with our offense and a T. Y. Hilton who gets hurt and there's no Paris Campbell. So I thought the approach was a little wrong that way, let alone some careless moments by Carson Wentz.


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[Assistant] It's got to have one more look. And listen, this is not groundbreaking. We're not going to sit here and I'm not going to tell you anything schematically where anybody's going to go, oh my gosh. Like, you know, hey, yeah, it's a, it's a, uh, it's a screenplay. Okay. To Mo Ali Cox down here at the bottom of the screen. If everybody's watching, we got like tight end to the right.


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[Assistant] Here's Mo Ali Cox, you got Michael Pittman in a close split, real close to him, and then slot receivers to the top of the screen or to the left of the quarterback.


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[Assistant] Right, and they're, they're gonna run a little play action fake to Naheem Hines to get the defense flowing right away from, uh, Mo Ali Cox. Alright, but again, this is where


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[Assistant] This is a well coached football team, through and through. I mean, Mike Vrabel, New England, he's showing what he's all about. Now what I don't understand is, okay,


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[Assistant] He does a little play action fake, he looks down field, and that's what you're supposed to do. Look down field, get the coverage to drop, right? You know, buy a little time, let the screenplay develop, let the linebackers and secondary drop down the field because you think, hey, we're going to throw the ball down the field.


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[Assistant] Alright, then I'm fine with that. Everything to this point of what we're showing here is great.


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[Assistant] Now, he's sitting here, he's in the goal line, now he makes eye contact with his so-called the screener, Mo Alley-Cox.


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[Assistant] He's got, right? He's got people in his face. You know, Harold Landry is a foot away from Mo Ali Cox. He's about to throw the ball at Mo Ali Cox's feet.


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[Assistant] And this is what, I just, I don't, I don't understand that one. This one's just crazy to me. For a guy who's played as much football as he has, I don't know what he was expecting to happen or why he wouldn't have just thrown that ball at the ground or the feet somewhere in the vicinity by where Mo Ali Cox is. But then, like, you said it. I mean,


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[Assistant] No, exactly right. He, he took the, the worst door of the options there. And, and, you know, again, these are the kind of plays, too. I, I know people that'll defend him are gonna say, well, he's getting, he's afraid of getting grounding.


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[Assistant] When you got two eligible receivers behind the line of scrimmage that are even close to the vicinity, the refs don't really call, they're not going to call that. They're not. So that was just a total brain fart. I don't think there's any other way to say that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think he's just trying to stick up, take a little pressure off Carson Wentz. He understands how much, you know, it's such a...


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, you know, a bar topic of Wentz and what the hell is he gonna do? And we're used to seeing these type of plays. This is what everybody is scared of him about. He hasn't done it much this year, to your point. It's only been one interception. But this game, he floored it with danger a lot. He really did. And of course, this was the, the pinnacle of it right here.


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[Assistant] Just, I mean, there's no other way to say it too. Just a decision of...


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[Assistant] Like, this is Carson Wentz in his bad stretches with the Philadelphia Eagles, where you're just going, what are you looking at? Like, did you, you thought you were going to fit that ball in? I don't really understand his thought process here. And again, it's five minutes, five minutes, almost six minutes left in overtime. It's a first and ten play.


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[Assistant] It's a play action pass to the left, okay, to Jonathan Taylor, and they're gonna run.


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[Assistant] The old NCAA pass or whatever, the play that everybody puts in for the first play action pass of the year, which is just post over the top and then Michael Pittman on the deep crosser.


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[Assistant] Now they call these kind of plays probably two or three times a game, every game, and that's fine. And they run little different variations. Sometimes that post guy runs post corner. You know, they keep, they keep you honest that way. Alright? But, I think, uhm,


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[Assistant] As we'll see here. And you guys hear me okay? Did my mic go out? Okay, I thought I went out for a second. Okay, cool. Uhm, so now drop back. Protection's great. Protection's great. I wanted you to look here first off. Like.


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[Assistant] Two open guys! There's a check down to Jonathan Taylor. He's gonna catch the ball at five yards, and there's nobody in the screen. He's gonna get the first down.


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[Assistant] Mo Ali Cox is down here as well. Like same thing. I don't understand. He comes out throwing like it's the most wide open receiver he's ever seen in his life. Like he can't wait to get the ball out of his hands. Oh, he's open. I'm going to strike gold. What? What? What?


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[Assistant] I mean, there was nothing about this that was open. Absolutely nothing. And, yes. It's first in ten. It's first in ten.


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[Assistant] You can see here, they got everything all over. Safety cut across, the guy covering a man to man, or coming across with him was there to be there to make the play interesting, and underneath dropping defender was also there.


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[Assistant] I, it, to me is, I, I don't, I don't get it at all. I really don't. I don't understand it. Uhm, and this was, yeaah, a huge moment of the football game, of course. And just leaves it out there. You know, for, for,


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[Assistant] For the Titans to steal the game. Oh, and this is the point I want to make, you know, because we've talked about this a lot, because people are going to go, well why, you know, why is...


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[Assistant] The safety Kevin Beyer down there, does that mean the post rat was open? And I want to say no, it does not mean the post rat's open because as I've told you, Tennessee has become the master of passing off zone coverages. Look at Janoris Jenkins here at the top of the screen. The post rat is right there, that's why he doesn't throw it. So it's not there.


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[Assistant] You know, and they're, they're ready for this play. But there's three guys all over it. It was never open. I don't understand it. And an unfortunate loss to them because, you know, Tennessee was not playing their best football. They did a good job stopping Derrick Henry in the run. Tannahill made a few mistakes.


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[Assistant] But, you know, they just didn't quite take advantage of the opportunities. Of course, the Tyquan Lewis interception where he tears his knee and drops the ball and the Tennessee Titans get the ball back and score a touchdown was a huge part of the football game. But, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, just a crushing loss for the Colts where they had opportunities in this one to kind of control it or put Tennessee in a tough spot and just didn't do that and really as the game went on played worse and worse and Tennessee kind of got going more and more as the game went on.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. Exactly right. There's more options to pass things off. Yeaah. You know? Right. It's just, there's a lot less lanes to throw the ball. You're making the quarterback really read stuff.


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[Assistant] You know, and of course the way they do it with two guys coming this way and two guys dropping that way and everything, it makes it confusing. You feel like, I don't know if I'm seeing the coverage, am I being blitzed, am I pressured? You're kind of looking at the corner of your eye because you're like, whoa, that was a lot of chaos and snap. I'm not sure. Uh, but yeah, you know, with Tennessee right now, you know, when you talk about Landry Dupree,


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[Assistant] Um, Danico Autry, uh, the, the, the, the first rounder from two years ago from Mississippi State, uh, the, the defensive tackle 98, um, Jeffries. There you go. The kid who was hurt. But yeah, it was hurt in his rookie year a little bit. Right. I mean, he's a, that four, that front four is real. They're getting, Dupree is getting better and better.


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[Assistant] You better be willing to run the ball in Tennessee. Yeah, Jeffrey Simmons, excuse me, I'm blanked out on the name. You gotta be able to run the ball on them, or at least be patient with it, because if they get you into that game, they like it. They like it. You know, he gets to be Johnny creative on the back side.


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[Assistant] They're, uh, who's it? Shane Bowen and, and, and Vrabel as far as the defense.


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[Assistant] Okay, well, I mean again, he's gonna be scarred by last week, so he's gonna be extra careful. He's gonna be going into the game going, wait, we're better than them, so I just, I don't need to mess this game up or force the issue.


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[Assistant] So, let's see. I mean, I'm gonna say he throws one pick. Okay. I'm gonna go with one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's as far as I'm gonna go. I don't, I don't, listen, I think he's at a point in his career and Frank Reich and everybody, they realize that if this doesn't work and things don't work, you know, he might be relegated to backup quarterback somewhere. So he's gotta play this safe and hopefully they'll run the ball a little bit.


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[Assistant] You know, this Jets defense, they can be a pain in the butt. I know everybody looks at the Patriots game and goes, Oh, they got killed in that game. Game was kind of in the balance, you know, longer than you think. And just the Patriots kind of wore them down. But, uh, yeah, I'm just going to go with one there. I'm still going to play the way I've seen him all year, which has been fair.


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[Assistant] Barely cautious with the football and pretty good.


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[Assistant] I think again, I don't think they're gonna totally abandon who they are. I don't. I think if still, Vrebo's gonna still wanna run the football and try to keep you honest there. Now they're not gonna be able to do it at the same capacity or the same, you know, uh, amount of attempts.


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[Assistant] You know, is the fact that it was Derek Henry, Derek Henry, oh you're overplaying it, play action AJ Brown, play action AJ Brown, play action AJ Brown. You know, the big thing I want to see from Tennessee a little bit is, you know, can they do it without play action? I think that's the big question I have with them. They're one of those teams that's, yea, it's, you know, again, the last few years with Arthur Smith,


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[Assistant] Yeah, they were at their best when they ran the ball and play action, but there was enough offense there where I went, ooh, if they don't have that, they're still good enough.


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[Assistant] This year I don't know if I feel the same way with Todd Downing and the way the offense is run. It to me is a little bit more simple. I don't see as many great ideas in the pass game. And of course there's no Julio Jones either. So they're gonna have to rely on those two guys and Ryan Tannehill to dice it up in the pass game a little bit more. But I think totally different of the Titans without Derrick Henry. I do.


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[Assistant] And Tannahill, again, you know, the last few years, I always tell people, you know, aggressive throws, explosive plays throws, he's as good as there is in the sport.


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[Assistant] You know, what would scare me is just I guess a little bit of I need to see some diversity first before I can really buy into saying it's gonna work. Like right now I'll stand by the comment of I'm just gonna say


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[Assistant] You know, this is about when they, they got things going here as of late, as you could tell.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, they got the Bills, Chiefs, and Colts all defending Derrick Henry, worried about the running game, and it started to be play-action galore, AJ Brown, just like his touchdown last week. Again, it's like a reel. Last week was a play-action pass, 15-yard out-round, he catches it, he breaks a tackle, touchdown.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's where he's amazing. 25 catches in 3 weeks. I know, I know, they're feeding them, and that's what I mean. I mean, I gotta think that Raheem Morris and the Rams, he's gonna see a little Jalen Ramsey, he's gonna see a little bit of like,


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[Assistant] You know, we got two guys, or we're playing cover two to your side. I mean, to me, if the Rams don't do that, then they're, they're stupid. They're dropping the ball because I, this is definitely a game I'd go, no, somebody else has to beat us. It's not going to be that guy. And, uh, yeah, it's going to be one of the fascinating things for me to watch on Sunday night is what they do with this offense.


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[Assistant] Well, I think, you know, I always go get again, you know, divisional matchups. They know some of your tricks. They know that. I mean, this is definitely a game where, and we're going to show a few clips where I'm going to show you and go like, look, they kind of know what's coming or what's going on here, but they have the personnel. They're one of the,


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[Assistant] They're one of the few defenses that can match up physically with them up front. You know, the one thing with Tampa, we know they want to throw the ball, but if you're ridiculous and just keep playing pass defense and keep playing cover too, they will smash your face with Leonard Fornette and company. They got a big overpowering offensive line. The Saints have the ability to go, fine, try to smash it on us. We're still going to play too deep. You are guys up front. We'll take care of it.


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[Assistant] They did that. So they have that luxury of never really having to panic or, you know, come down and go, man, we just can't see Leonard Fournette go six yards up the middle again. And then you know what happens there. It's a play action pass and he hits, you know, Mike Evans or Chris Godwin on a deep end cut and you go, Oh, watch out. The bucks are rolling.


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[Assistant] Other thing that adds to the great coaching, Dennis Allen deserves to be in the head coaching conversation. I mean, how many years do we need to see the Saints defense kick ass? Not only physically, but schematically, you know, and they just have the right game plan, let alone their talent.


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[Assistant] They're talented in the secondary. I'm not going to say it's the most talented secondary, but when you talk about Marcus Williams and Jenkins at safety, and then we get into Marshawn Latimore, who can, you can go, hey, you got Evans a few plays. You just, you're on an island. Sorry. He can do that. He's done very well against him over the years. He got that.


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[Assistant] PJ Williams is not a bad cover guy. Chauncey Gardner- or Gardner Johnson.


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[Assistant] Is a hell of a nickel, helps out in the run, got good short area quickness. And our rookie Paul Sinadebo from Stanford, he can go too. I mean, he's playing well. Yeah, he's a rookie. He's given up a few plays, but that's why they match up. So I'm sorry for the long answer. I gave a lot of reasons.


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[Assistant] But they're one of the few teams that can really match up mano-e-mano and brain-to-brain a little bit with what the Bucs want to do.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, this is an easy one, okay? This is not like special, but it just shows to like, you know, the, the Saints are, they're next level a little bit with how they coach and think and everything. Look at the, right here, if you're listening, it's Leonard Fournette directly behind Brady.


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[Assistant] You know, I think the Saints are probably like, are they really going to throw to the eligible offensive tackle on the 44 yard line going in? Probably not. So let's, this is what I love. Again, Paul, what are we looking at? Two deep safeties, right? They're in a running formation and


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[Assistant] They're kinda like, ah screw you, we're still gonna keep two deep safeties. There's two receivers to the left, alright, there's two, and they're playing man. It's two man.


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[Assistant] Okay, these guys are going back, these two safeties.


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[Assistant] This is, I believe, Warner, or Warner, the rookie linebacker from Ohio State. He's got O.J. Howard, man to man. Demario Davis has...


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[Assistant] Tackle eligible, extra tackle to the right side. Oh no, this is Warner. He's got number seven. I don't know who this is over here. I can't remember who that is, that linebacker at the end of the line of scrimmage. Either way, there you go.


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[Assistant] So the two corners are over to your left, corners over, everything says to Brady, it's two man. This is great, it's two man. And they're gonna run a little play action pass to the left side. But, it's two man, and again, this is not like high level stuff.


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[Assistant] But, DeMario Davis, they've told him, hey screw coverage. Like, shoot a gap, run through the hole.


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[Assistant] And he knows he's got no coverage responsibility. I don't know what they tell him, if they tell him, hey, you're free to do whatever you want. If you see play action pass, blitz the gap. But Brady called the protection not to over there. You know, because I think he's thinking like, wait, he's, you know, by the laws of the land, he's supposed to cover him and this is not a blitz look. But DiMario Davis, who's awesome and they're coached well,


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[Assistant] He just, he splits the gap. They're not ready for it. They're thinking we're getting cover two. This is perfect to do the play action. Let's throw a screen. Let's run our receivers down the field and we'll hit him. They're calling this play for this coverage. It is a cover two man screen pass.


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[Assistant] They do, but DiMario Davis gets so quickly up on Brady because he has no coverage.


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[Assistant] Responsibility. That Brady misses the throw a little bit and it causes it to be off target. Just one little thing. It's not like the most brilliant thing in the world.


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[Assistant] But I just wanted to think where I went, oh, that's cool they did that. I think you'd see a lot of teams play them and go, well yea, we called cover two men and okay, I'll stay here and watch the tackle eligible for a second and then just get in the middle of the field and play it.


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[Assistant] You know, they play aggressive towards Tampa in a lot of ways and I do love that.


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[Assistant] That's, that's exactly it. It's the little things, let alone the creativity, but this to me is a little thing that is just an awesome element about how well they're coached and like, why waste this guy just sitting here, right here.


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[Assistant] And, you know, let them do whatever they want. They force the issue a little bit, and of course we know Brady with pressure and his lack of mobility is certainly one of the kryptonites, or maybe the only kryptonite he has as a player.


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[Assistant] Yep, third down and six, there's a little Troy Yakeman drawing on the screen there. Uhm, and, you know, this just is going to speak again to everything we've talked about, Paul. Like, creativity on the defensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] It's two deep safeties. It's not necessarily too deep. They do a lot of things where it still might be cover three, but the guy that comes down and cover three still is playing pretty deep and looking at crossers, but still there's two deeper presences, presence at all times. Okay.


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[Assistant] Now, you got like a formation here where you got Davenport to the left at the traditional defensive line spot. DiMario Davis on the inside edge of the left tackle. You know, I believe this is Quan Alexander on the inside shoulder of the right guard.


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[Assistant] And now you got two defensive linemen out on the right side. I think it's Passenon and Cam Jordan out here to where first off it's like, wait, who's coming?


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[Assistant] I don't know who's blitzin'. This guy could blitz over here on the edge, uh, over the edge of, uh, the tight end. Uhm, you know, uhm, what's his name? 84. I'm Cameron Bray. Way to go, Paul.


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[Assistant] So, there's a lot of things here to where even for Tom Brady who's seen every defense in the history of football and knows everything, he's gotta be looking at this going, I'm not exactly sure who's coming.


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[Assistant] I don't know what that guy is doing. I'm not sure. And this is Malcolm Jenkins over here.


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[Assistant] Let's see, what is it? One guy off the edge, Gardner Johnson, Malcolm Jenkins off the other edge. And then we got the two D linemen, Cam Jordan and Passenon to the right who rush. And then you got over here, which I believe is Davenport. So they end up with five one on ones.


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[Assistant] So, exactly, that's where we're gonna go to now. So now there's DeMario Davis inside with Quan Alexander. And this is to me, again, where...


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[Assistant] These are, this is where I classify as, they obviously had a feel for their offense. Because they got guys dropping, right? Where Brady and company want to throw the football, right? So I don't know exactly what their call is or whatever. It's called, Dennis Allen knows what the...


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[Assistant] But it is five on ones, and Brady, again, back to our, you know, these type of blitzes.


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[Assistant] You never feel comfortable all the time because you're just like, man, did everybody get picked up? Let me check here. Cameron Braid's got one on one basically on the outside here to the right side. You can see there's a safety lurking over the top of him a little bit and really looking for, you know, maybe anything inside from Cameron Braid or any type of deep crosser that comes his way.


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[Assistant] They basically play a cover 2 to the left side where there's 3 receivers over here.


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[Assistant] Alright, here's Lattimore, cover two, there's Marcus Williams going to cover two, and then the point that you brought up.


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[Assistant] It's just, there's a knowledge. Look how it all plays out. Look at this. Wow. Look at how it all plays out. So, you know, I think if Brady watched the film again, he'd probably go, you know, when they do this kind of crap, you know, maybe I should stay to the right a little bit longer and play cam and break just on the one on one up here to the right side. You see that there.


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[Assistant] You know, again, he's, it's a corner on the tight end, he's got Cameron Jordan up in his face, so he probably can't see it clearly, and now he's gonna try to get to, he doesn't really even try to get to the left side, I feel like, once he saw the people drop out. And you could see, Demario Davis,


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[Assistant] All over Godwin, Kwon Alexander following Evans up the seam. There's a receiver out here to the left where Lattimore and the cover two safety are over it and it's just the perfect defense.


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[Assistant] Yes, so they had a good feel and you know, Brady give, you know, uh, in fact as I see it on this angle, cause this is the first time I've actually seen this angle for everybody maybe watching or listening. I just watched the coaches film. I could see here, yeaah, when he saw DiMario Davis and Quan Alexander running to the left, he got off it. So here's, here's the snap. He looks to the left.


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[Assistant] And he probably doesn't think it's a two safety defense going that way. He thinks he's gonna have a huge hole. He's got nothing there. Now he comes back to the right. The pocket's collapsing cause they did a good job of getting five one on ones. You know? Again, this is smart five man pressure to me.


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[Assistant] And you got a corner who's clearly more athletic than a tight end, who's kind of squatting on the route. And Brady just goes, oh shit, there's nothing here. Let me just kind of throw it at his feet. Maybe he dives and catches it, but it's really a throw away. That's really what it is.


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[Assistant] No idea. No idea. Really, really well done. Really well done. They, they hold their disguises. They're really well coached. The Mario Davis is playing as good as I've ever seen him. He's like a coach on the football field.


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[Assistant] Yep, so let's get to it here, go ahead Kristen, whenever you're ready, we'll get to the next one. Alright, so, here you go, you got,


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[Assistant] Oh, this is the sack fumble first. Here we go. But again, this is just quick. I just want to show this because first off, it shows a little bit of the, again, the domination of the Saints D line. Look, three man rush. Both edge guys are collapsing the pocket and getting close to Brady. He's jumpy.


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[Assistant] He's a, oh crap. And then, so now they got eight guys in coverage. And, you know, the one thing they did all game long was, yeaah, got pressure. But if you have three receivers to one side, they had four defenders. If you had two receivers this place, they had three defenders. They never got outnumbered on the fast break, I guess is what I'm trying to say here. And again, you can see here,


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[Assistant] You know, there's really good knowledge obviously of where...


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[Assistant] Like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are trying to, trying to attack.


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[Assistant] I mean the corner- That stands out. It really does, right? I mean the corner up top, Lattimore, is playing outside leverage.


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[Assistant] And the receiver's trying to run outside. So it's like they knew, hey, when they put him out there, he must do that a lot. Plus he knows, I got all these guys inside.


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[Assistant] So I don't need to overplay anything inside. They always had people for the underneath option routes for the most part. They weren't gonna like die the slow death of like, you're gonna throw to Giovanni Bernard and, you know, Chris Godwin six yards at a time. And I know Godwin went off and had some big plays, but it wasn't because of that type of stuff.


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[Assistant] And you can see here, I mean, there's really nothing downfield. Look at this. I mean, again, there's nothing.


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[Assistant] Five, six, seven, eight. Exactly right. They were strategically placed. They're all over. Look at Malcolm Jenkins on the left side over here. He's gonna get outside like he's again expecting like, wait, I don't need to be inside. I don't need to be there. He's gonna run an out breaking route in this formation. We've been coached up. And you can see at the top of the screen, Lattimore's there ready to throw it if they throw it to Johnson over there.


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[Assistant] This ends up being the great play by Cam Jordan getting the strip sack fumble. Yeaah. And a big play in the game nonetheless, but this D is real.


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[Assistant] You know, this one is a little different. And again, you're playing Brady. You gotta be able to mix up what you're gonna do, the looks, the pressures, everything. Another five man pressure.


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[Assistant] Right? Because they must have felt like, again, maybe our front four isn't going to always get there. We got to give them a little advantage every now and then and make Brady uncomfortable. But like, it's tight coverage at the top of the screen. It's, this is just like mano e mano, let's beat the guy. You're going to see here, there's three receivers to the right.


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[Assistant] And let me see if I get this right. I think that's Godwin on the inside, but there's a safety there to help him. So they're kind of comfortable like letting him run that way. He's running into coverage. All right.


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[Assistant] Oh, I have this wrong, sorry. I have this wrong. I'm mixed up on my routes. Let me just get that right. The guy Chauncey Gardner is guarding is...


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[Assistant] Gonna be running the post down the middle. Godwin's gonna make it look like post Tyler Johnson and is then gonna run the out route. But the point I wanna make once again here is just


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[Assistant] The feel they must have had for the route combinations.


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[Assistant] Because yeaah, there's some bumping up top, definitely, between George, uh, Gardner Johnson, and I think that's, uh, the other Tyler Johnson. Yeaah, there's some of that going on, but he knows, like I said, he has the safety back here, and it gets to a certain point


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[Assistant] And he just, they must know, like hey, he's gonna run vertical, somebody's gonna run the out route. And he comes off his guy.


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[Assistant] I didn't do the best job of coaching that up. That's why sometimes I need to watch these plays back before we start the show.


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[Assistant] Give us a little detail here on it. Sure, we'll get to it. And to me, again, here's the end of this play. Great.


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[Assistant] Good return. I think this ends up in a touchdown for the Saints on this drive, so they go up 10 points going into halftime. Uh, but okay, let's go to the next play, Kristen. Next play is the play of the game, right? The last interception.


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[Assistant] And this is just like, not overly complicated. It's a little nuance that I thought was very cool. Uhm, you guys back there, are we gonna go to that next play? Okay.


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[Assistant] No doubt. They got, they have everything you need to be top tier, top defense in football. You know, like we've talked about. I don't care who you are.


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[Assistant] You know, you wanna play Smash Mouth Football, they can stop that. You wanna get run and gun, throw the ball out, they can stop that. They got everything, let alone like the coach, coaching like we talked about. Alright. So. This is like, basic.


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[Assistant] I don't know who that is. I don't think, is that, is that DeMario Davis? It's 96, right? I think that's Granderson. I think that's who it is.


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[Assistant] I know, I can't quite tell. I can't quite tell. Uh, you got a nose tackle right over the center. You got Davenport way out to the right. We're looking at this play from the pin angle, the backside of the defense, so we can see the protection. But here, here, here's the point, and more importantly than anything. This is straight two-man. Two-man. Two safeties deep.


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[Assistant] Five, five people underneath man to man, alright, on the five eligible. So you see Lattimore's man to man on Evans there. Kwan Alexander's up over the tackle only to like blitz the back, but he's really got


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[Assistant] Here's PJ Williams playing safety. Two deep. Guys go like this usually, right? You see cover two, right? That's how they do it. They kind of shoulders to the sidelines. Let me go back into an angle towards the sideline, right?


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[Assistant] This is again where I think the Saints are a little next level. They give you some bastard reads is what I would call it. And, like Brady gets the ball here.


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[Assistant] I don't know, Paul. I mean, again, this is me. Who do you think he's looking at right there?


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[Assistant] I think he's looking over here at this safety, right? I think so. Marcus Williams, who's to his right.


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[Assistant] You know, he's, again, any smart quarterback, when you say set hut, you look at the safeties first, because they're going to tell you a lot about what's coming, what's happening, who gets unlocked on blitzes, and I think he sees this right here and goes, well, Marcus Williams has the body presence looking like he's in a roll to the middle of the field, right?


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[Assistant] He's turned that way. I've learned this, and I learned this in New England. When, when we used to play the New England Jets, in the New England Jets, New York Jets, and Rex Ryan was in his prime with them, this is kind of the stuff they used to do.


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[Assistant] You go, wait, it's cover one single safety, but that guy's taking an angle like it's


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[Assistant] It's cover two, but it was still cover one, but the way he turned his shoulders was just unordi- it was not ordinary. Or the same thing like this. It's cover two, but he kinda made a move to the middle of the field, like it was gonna be a single safety, but he kinda stays in his spot for cover two, but gives you the body language like it's cover one.


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[Assistant] I think what happens here is Brady sees that and he's automatically, of course Brady is next level, automatically thinking the backside safety must be coming down into some sort of coverage, alright, to play some sort of single safety defense, cause he's seeing Marcus Williams, he thinks he's going deep third, deep middle.


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[Assistant] Alright, because this is the only way I can justify Brady making this, this interception or this play. And now,


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[Assistant] You're gonna see Chris Godwin. They got Evans on a shallow cross coming from Brady's left. Godwin is on his right and gonna run the deep cross. If it's a single safety defense where he goes this way and PJ Williams comes down.


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[Assistant] Godwin should be wide open and I think that's where I just thought this was a cool play because I think it's the nuance of the safety Marcus Williams who's a really good player and there's a reason they franchise tagged him.


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[Assistant] That, that's where Brady thinks that, and I don't think Brady realizes the safety's still there, back playing cover two safety, until he's letting the ball out of his hand.


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[Assistant] That, that, that's, that would be my take. It's believable. I mean, you know, again, I'd love to ask Tom Brady and have him on, but yes, that to me, again,


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[Assistant] If you're gonna trick guys like Brady and Rogers, it's little things like that, again, that are gonna do it.


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[Assistant] You know, yea, they're gonna know coverages all the time and be over awesome stuff, but you give them a bastard look like that. Really, again, if anybody's watching this on YouTube, he gets the ball, to me it looks like he looks exactly at Marcus Williams.


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[Assistant] He is looking right at him. Williams is giving the body language of like, hey, I'm floating to the middle of the field. This is a single safety defense. I think Brady's just thinking, okay.


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[Assistant] Chris Godavan is going to be open on a crosser. He won on the inside release right here. This is slam dunk. I'm going to hit him for a 30 yard gain. This is awesome. I don't think he ever locates the back safety until he's probably about mid throw where the ball is coming out of his hand and then boom, interception picks six.


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[Assistant] Well, I just think, again, like- That makes sense. I mean, to me it does, I'm not saying


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[Assistant] I didn't see it, but then when I turned on the film, I was like, wait, so why did he throw it right? And then I just started to look, and that's to me what jumped out.


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[Assistant] Not really, I don't think to that extent I don't. I think it's a, it's few and far between as far as the teams that can do that type of stuff. It's New England's.


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[Assistant] It's now, I think the Tennessee Titans are in that category. The Buffalo Bills who we talk about all the time have that magic of like, look at all the guys dropping right here. I don't know what coverage this is, but they're all dropping in the right area. You know, the Arizona Cardinals have a little bit of that.


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[Assistant] Uh, so there's some teams out there that certainly, you know, can replicate it. The Rams do it too.


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[Assistant] To where, yeaah, they're gonna have to deal with these issues and fight these issues a little bit, and when they get to primetime playoff time, because these are the things, they're too talented, the Bucks, they're too good.


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[Assistant] You're gonna have to do some of the little things the right way, take a chance here and there, a calculated smart chance, you know, like we saw like on the, uhm, the incompletion where he threw the tight end at his feet there, you know, yeaah, there's some spots open there, but they played the chances of like, wait, we're gonna blitz this, but we think we know where they're going,


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[Assistant] And our safeties are deep, so we'll take a chance. Yeaah, there's some big holes here, but...


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[Assistant] But it's a calculated risk, I think one that's thought out, and that's where they're good.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, Trevor Simeon did do a really good job. There's no doubt about that. I would pipe Taysom Hill though. I would. You know, again, it's a little bit-


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[Assistant] I'd start Taysom Hill. Again, they went 4-1 with him last year.


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[Assistant] He's gotten better. He had a pretty good preseason. You know, my thing all year, I think you remember me from the preseason, I was always going, you know, Taysom Hill, there's not a lot of weapons. I thought they would go with Taysom Hill. Cause I thought maybe he could bring some of the offense that they don't have.


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[Assistant] You know, and everybody's defense was, well, then you miss out on all the other things he does. Well, he doesn't do all that other things that much. So all that shit like, oh,


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[Assistant] No doubt about that. No doubt about that. I think he is definitely in the trust tree. You can see he understands the offense. He controls the football. There's a reason he was a starter in Denver there for a little while. He's got a little talent too.


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[Assistant] You know, I, I don't know. I just go, I don't know if they can continue to play like that week after week after week and just think the defense is going to totally dominate and we'll just be totally conservative on all offenses side of the ball. You know, again, this is a Tampa defense that's not at full strength, has some, uh, you know, injuries


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[Assistant] Uh, at the corner and secondary positions. Uhm, so.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, again, I say Taysom Hill, uhm, I won't be mad if they go Trevor Simien, but I think Taysom Hill brings something to the table that, you know, this offense could use.


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[Assistant] Oh man, that pissed me off that I messed that play up.


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[Assistant] Sure. Well, OBJ, I mean, let's just hit that real quick. I mean, first off, the one thing I want to say to OBJ is like, why didn't we do this a week ago? And then you probably could have forced yourself out of town here and been traded. I think maybe...


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[Assistant] Oh, I know, it was crucial. I mean, listen, again, I don't know what else to say. He's, he might not be the superstar he was three, four years ago with the New York Giants, I understand, but he's still damn good and still can get open and it's still about as fast as any receiver I see in football.


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[Assistant] You know, and yeaah, I know he's had some drops too. I get that. But it's like I've tugged on Mike Florio today too. You know, if Steph Curry doesn't get a shot until the third quarter, I don't know if he's going to definitely go in. I mean, he needs to get a little rhythm. I don't even, even Steph Curry does. And they never get him in any type of rhythm.


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[Assistant] So, you know, the thing I look at is they've played some good defenses. They have. There's no doubt about that.


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[Assistant] You know, I mean, the Bears, when we seen them, they gave them a tough issue. I know they won the game 26-6.


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[Assistant] You know, Zimmer knew their stuff, okay? I'm getting to a point here. Arizona has got talent.


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[Assistant] Alright? And overplayed the run game to a degree. Alright? And then the Steelers, of course we know, it's a Super Bowl caliber defense. But come on.


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[Assistant] To me, what you've seen is, when run game doesn't work, pass game not good enough to stand on its own. At really any point.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean to me, to me it's the Scheme and Baker. I have, and I said this to Florio a little today because he was asking me a little bit about this subject as well, and I just said,


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[Assistant] You know, I like their run scheme. One thing I didn't love about this game is...


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[Assistant] You know, I like their run scheme when they move a lot of people around and make you think a little bit and then run between the tackles. They seemed a little bland to me in the running attack, like here, we're just going to line up and this is where we're running. Man, that's tough to do against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Consistently, yea. I mean, yes. You know, off a bye week, fresh, ready to go.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so, you know, from, from that standpoint, but then, yes, when the run game doesn't work,


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[Assistant] It looks great when all that's wrong. It's just like, again, I'll go back to Minnesota just like that. That's why some weeks you go, whoa, Kirk Cousins was amazing. And look at them. And I go, well, usually it's cause Davencook gashed you, Davencook gashed you. And then they hit an open play action pass or a boot. And they just got you on a string. Cause you're like, damn, we can't stop the run. We got to stop that. And we're committing so hard to that. And then now.


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[Assistant] Thieland and Jefferson are open. Well, that's what happens to Cleveland. But when that doesn't happen...


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[Assistant] They're not good enough to just get in the shotgun or make the plays. I mean, even, you know, even the Denver Thursday night game the week before, I mean,


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[Assistant] So to run the ball the way they did and do that...


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[Assistant] And only win that game by three points? I thought that was one of the disappointments of the year. I mean, that really was. Bottom line with this game is, Pittsburgh.


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[Assistant] Played really well on defense, period. I mean, I can't sit here and like say it was anything like specific. It was just a good old ass whooping up front. I mean, Cam Hayward and company, they kick butt.


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[Assistant] But there was no fear of, you know, again, this is where it goes back to, well, we're going to put some eggs into the run game basket because,


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[Assistant] Well, we don't, we kind of got a feel for your pass game. We know what's coming. We're not really that scared of it. And Pittsburgh, I think is better at covering people than they get credit for. You know, I've always been shaky on them as the coverage wise, but they can man you up better than, than I maybe have given them the respect for us coming into the season. So I think that's the big thing. And yeah, between


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[Assistant] You know, Hayward, Highsmith, uhm, of course Watt.


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[Assistant] Uh, I'm missing one of the other interior d-lines. Oh, Chris Wormley played really well. You know, again, they didn't even have a Lu a Lu.


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[Assistant] Well, I just like that they're playing to what their team is right now. And again, I don't expect their offense to really ever catch fire here this year. To me, I'd be shocked if we ever went through a stretch where we're like, well, they scored 28, they scored 31. I don't think that's happening.


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[Assistant] They will be and win a lot of games. And they're gonna look like this, where you're gonna go, this is ugly. But they did it. That's what they are right now. And that's where, to me, Big Ben was good.


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[Assistant] Come up with a lot of different ways to run the ball. They had a few reverses in the game plan. They stayed patient with Najee Harris.


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[Assistant] And then when he got a one on one match up or something that jumped out to him, he made the appropriate throw, but he didn't try to be in the pocket and be Big Ben from seven years ago and pump the fake and be unrealistic with his abilities right now. And if they can play that way, just like we've seen him go through this stretch here.


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[Assistant] They're gonna be tough to beat because their defense is super bowl-ish, like I've said.


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[Assistant] To me, that's the key. They're going back to Duck Hodges and Mason Rudolph from a few years ago. Remember how they played that year? Yeaah. You know? To me, I want to just be like, just keep inventing more run plays. Put Najee Harris in Wildcat.


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[Assistant] You know, more Chase Claypool reverses than Deontay Johnson reverses. And then,


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[Assistant] You know, when you have the looks and you feel like Big Ben's in a good spot, like, okay, he can make a one on one throw or do something of that nature. That to me is what they're all about right now. And I think if they do that, you know.


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[Assistant] Hey, they got the Bears, the Lions, and the Chargers coming up. That's a good run. That's a good run. They can beat all three of those teams with the style of play we're talking about. All of a sudden we're going to be sitting here going, oh, there's seven and three. To me, it just comes down to that. Patience with the run. Big Ben.


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[Assistant] When in doubt, go down, throw it away and they can be in the playoffs and be a pain in the butt once they get there.


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[Assistant] I know, I know, it's an unbelievable division. November, December, play not. I'm rooting for all four to make the playoffs. Right? I would love it. I want to see somebody do it. I do. So that would be cool. Is that possible? It is possible, this new current format. Has it ever happened?


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[Assistant] Never four. We've had three. We've had three. But never four. AFC North and NFC West. But yea, it was never possible until they added this extra playoff team. So uhm. Do you remember watching