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[Assistant] Right? So for everybody who can't see us just hanging out here. But there you go. We're watching the play. Underneath the center. Okay. Tight end to the left. There he is. He's staying in. Six man.


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[Assistant] So I don't, you know, you're right, he just, he looks like he's just token looking off the safety to the right, and then comes back, and I think he's just a little surprised at how far he's down the field.


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[Assistant] And I think he just went like, oh man, I gotta get this out there in a hurry. And he just went, he gave it the rrrr, and got it down there.


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[Assistant] I mean, it is a special, special arm. It's all me and my dad talked about through the mid-2000s. Brady throwing the ball. Yeah, I know Brett Favre was awesome and all that stuff too, but man, Brady.


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[Assistant] Arguably throw the ball almost as hard as Brett Favre in his prime. It just doesn't look the same with the huuuh. And you know, he doesn't have the Patrick Mahomes flair to it. He does it a little more of a smoother, efficient way.


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[Assistant] And TV doesn't do justice to how great his arm is, right? It's great. And you know, just the last thing with them is it just shows you, you know, again, if you just make him feel comfortable.


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[Assistant] Yeah, what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? Yeah, you're trying to chase a guy that's one of the freakiest guys in football.


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[Assistant] You're worried he's gonna outrun you to the edge because even though he's big and powerful, he's faster than you. So now you're running him down like a madman because you're trying to chase him down.


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[Assistant] And Henry sized him up. He knew he had it. He was like, oh, I got this guy working way too hard trying to tackle me. He kinda slowed down. He slowed down and gathered his body. He did, right? It was like he was gathering up his right jab. Like, Harry, hold on, just stay still.


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[Assistant] I just smashed him. It wasn't as good as the Josh Norman one, but still damn good. Hey, Derek Henry, 2,000 yards, he's...


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[Assistant] I know. Got the Packers run defense this week, which is nothing special.


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[Assistant] And then last week of the year is, I can't remember who it is. Who does Tennessee have? It's not a good defense. I'll pull it up right now because I got it for you. It's the Houston Texans.


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[Assistant] I think he is. I think he got something with his last deal. There was something about that. I hope so.


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[Assistant] It's just a special football player and you know, they're a special offense. It says right here they've scored one more point than the Chiefs.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, I've seen, you know, his math, like, you know, you're talking about Pete's math, Pete's math is really questionable. I'm gonna go with NFL Jesus over Pete. Where did Pete go to school? Pete, where'd you go to college?


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[Assistant] GSIS, it's NFLGS, which is Game Stats Information Site. Oh, you know. I thought it was somebody's handle. No, we call them, we call it Jesus, right? No disrespect to the real one. Oh, especially this time of year. Yes, definitely not. Don't want to piss them off now, you're on the naughty list. Right?


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, I think we, oh, but, oh, the titans, the titans though.


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[Assistant] You know, again, another team plays through the run, but just, it's amazing to me how explosive they are in the pass game. Yeaah. And, you know, I'll say it, said it before, say it again, Tannahill, deep ball throws, he just doesn't miss.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's, it's unbelievable. You know, the deep throw to Corey Davis in that moment of the football game, you know, uh, that.


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[Assistant] You know, that, that's where they're sneaky, one of the most dangerous offenses in football. They really are.


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[Assistant] Yes, I think I still will say that. We can revisit more. I know, it's a tough one. It's a tough one.


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[Assistant] They're both damn good. It depends on the defense who's playing them and who matches up with them. Yeah. But, you know, the interesting thing with the Titans is...


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[Assistant] Two things that really were awesome for him. Three things. One, great for him going back to LA. Winning a game there. Cool for him.


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[Assistant] His quick release and his movement in the pocket were big in this football game. Because it wasn't like the pass protection was just scotch free all day and he was just sitting back there, you know, baking cakes and doing whatever.


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[Assistant] To put some points on the board, but the story is the defense. The story is really the two guys in the middle.


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[Assistant] You know, Nathan Shepard 97 and Quinnon Williams before he got hurt, they kicked the shit out of the Rams in the middle of that defense. Then there's the other aspect. It's the same thing we always talk about. I'm sorry to sound like a broken record.


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[Assistant] Talking about the Rams offense? Yes. If they can't run the ball and bootlegs aren't there, they can't do anything. You know, their drop back pass game is underwhelming schematically and they have a quarterback who, I don't know, you know, just is not that special as a passer.


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[Assistant] He's towards the bottom of the league in throwing the football. Just purely throwing the football. Accuracy, different varieties of throws.


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[Assistant] Man, that's an NFL quarterback? He just threw a ball that looks like that? How about the top two picks of that draft right now? I, well I know. It's not looking good. That's for sure. You're right. Wentz in golf. Strugglesville big time.


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[Assistant] But that's what concerns me about the Rams. I mean it's the same thing almost every time we talk about the Rams losing a football game. It is. And I don't, I am trying, listen I'd love to tell you a different message or come up with something else different to say.


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[Assistant] You know, I think ultimately, yeaah, I just mentioned, you know, his ability to dice you apart with throws, make big time throws, you know, make plays off schedule. Those are, they're all towards the bottom of football.


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[Assistant] At least in my evaluations. Uhm, and that's where they struggle in those type of games when teams


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[Assistant] Well, definitely. Trevor Lawrence is going number one. There's no doubt.


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[Assistant] Listen, I know that people are mad up here in New York that the Jets won.


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[Assistant] I don't know, maybe that's why you fire a head coach a few weeks ago. Maybe that's why you do it. So then you don't have a head coach trying to win a game down the stretch. I don't know. But what do you expect them to do? Nobody on the Jets is going to like fold the tents. Adam Gase, even though he'll probably never be a head coach ever again in his life, he doesn't want Owen 16 on his, and he's not going to be there next year. So he doesn't give a shit about the draft pick. He doesn't care.


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[Assistant] You know, and the other thing I was gonna say is, you know, with the team in their own division, the Dolphins, you know, you gotta be careful about letting fanbases run the organization.


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[Assistant] You know, I sometimes this year have thought about the Dolphins and went...


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[Assistant] No, not to that class. Last year I knew with Burrow that Herbert was right nipping at his heels. This year I like the Ohio State kid, and again I haven't studied him, but I'm not sold on him like


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[Assistant] Like last year, halfway through the year, I was like, oh, Herbert and Burrow are the two guys. Like I felt confident of that. I don't feel necessarily confident with just saying that right away with Fields yet.


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[Assistant] Way beyond that. They've, I mean, improved their standing as a football team in my eyes as far as where they can go. You really take it away after that.


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[Assistant] Is disheartening because they were so close to really controlling the football game. In Russell Wilson's interception, that was a big moment. It was 20-9.


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[Assistant] Dwayne Haskins, little rough at the start, I was encouraged by what I saw overall yesterday. As the game went on, he made some throws and scrambled and moved, he's lost weight, he looked better that way.


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[Assistant] To go up 13-0, uh, or made it, you know, then 13-3 at halftime, but that was a big moment in the football game. Haskins almost did it the right way, you know.


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[Assistant] This week, rein it in big guy, you know, play it ultra conservative because as you can see they can almost win every game with their defense.


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[Assistant] Those were some good old days. The 49ers and Cowboys. I wanted Troy coming to Steve Young's. I didn't want Andy Dalton to Nick Mullins. You know, I'm sitting there yesterday and the opening of the game they're going, this is the first time the 49ers and Cowboys have been on CBS.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, what else do I, you know what I want to say about this game. I mean, yes, it was great to see the Cowboys do what they do. Alright, and Tony Pollard, you see, he's got some legit talent running the football. He was nominated for Damn Okay hereby.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. Damn okay for Tony Pollard. First career start and played a great game. Loved the show. From Brazil. And that's from? Leo Sangiorgi? Sangiorgi? I don't know if it's a hard G or not. I'm not sure either. Yeah. But either way, uh,


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was cool. P-Powler's got talent. He does. I mean, he's a nice little one-two punch with Zeke there all the way.


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[Assistant] Uh, and, you know, C.J. Beathard came in late, but Cowboy's not out of it. Definitely not. Made some plays with their defense, set some short fields early on, and took advantage and held onto the lead. Who's your daddy? Hoosier. Hoosier.


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[Assistant] Because it was in the Hoosier state, as in Indiana. I got it. Where the Colts are 16 and 3 against the Texans now. Pete gave me that stat actually. 16 and 3. 16 and 3. Colts at home versus the Texans, yeaah. So they're dominating that part of the uh, little rivalry there. Fun game to watch. I mean, Colts... Colts are playing. Colts are playing.


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[Assistant] I still have concerns a little here and there. I mean there's things I like.


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[Assistant] They have double-digit wins, right? They have double-digit wins. It's hard to complain about that. I think the thing that's been bothering me a little, their defense a little the last few weeks, you know, they were so dominant in the first half of the year and


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[Assistant] And then there he can buy time and make plays or make one guy miss just to let somebody get open downfield and he dices you up like that. Right. Uh, it's just where he's special. I mean Deshaun Watson's awesome. Deshaun Watson is the perfect example to show you that's not all about the quarterback. He's doing everything he can to win the football games. He just can't do it all. Goodbye. It's goodbye time. Goodbye time.


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[Assistant] Uh, well, she puts things on this elf app about what she is on her Christmas wish list. And I'm afraid she's gonna see this clip and I don't want to tell you, but I got her a good gift. She watches, she loves her godson.


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[Assistant] No, offline. Yeah, online, right. I mean, I got the wife to help me too. I can't lie. The wife? We got the wife. The wife takes care of a lot of stuff for me, as you could tell. Yeah. She does a lot of the heavy lifting for Christmas. Yeah. It's unfortunate, but...


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[Assistant] It is for sure. It's alright. You're right. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. She does it all. Well, happy holidays. Thank you. You too. Merry Christmas. Yep. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays to everybody out there.


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[Assistant] So on Wednesday, that is when Florio and I will do our, you know, joint pick collaboration. We have been so bad with Best Vets and stuff lately. Both of you. Oh, it's horrible. Really? I am in Shitsville. You know who you should have on as a guest picker? Yeah. Aunt Wendy.


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[Assistant] Listen to the information, don't go with my best bet, save your money, alright? Peace out, happy holidays to everybody out there, be good, enjoy the Monday Night Football game, we'll see you on Wednesday for Chris Sims on Button, presented by Verizon.


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[Assistant] It's coined from, from what you said about, uh, one player, you call them an under-talked about player. So I was like, let's make our under-talked about team. So we've got the all under-talked about people that should be talked about more. And we're going to rectify that situation. Yeah, you're right. We've got the, uh, you got your all pro team offense.


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[Assistant] And uh, I do want to say that during Super Bowl week, we are presented by locker room.


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[Assistant] The only place for live audio conversations about the sports you care about. Immediately downloaded it. Gonna check it out here later today. Seems like a cool thing. Live conversations with, uh, with fans of your favorite team all across the world. So that sounds like a cool thing. Kinda like what we do here on Unbuttoned.


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[Assistant] Chris, let's get into it. We're both from our home offices by the way because there's basically like a foot and a half of snow dumping on the northeast right now. So if there are a little glitches and if there are delays, Chris may have to come and go throughout. It's kind of like a live event. Like you don't know what's going to happen over the next hour and a half. It may go well, it may go poorly. You just don't know, Chris.


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[Assistant] Alright, so let's start with, uh, let's get into the Matthew Stafford, uh, Jared Goff, Rams, Lions, big blockbuster trade, two former number one picks, changing teams, one going to a little bit better location with a little bit better weather. This one comes from Brian.


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[Assistant] He just goes, first off, thoughts on the Stafford trade, WTAF. What in the actual F, Chris? So when you saw the deal, what was your, what's your gut reaction and what do you think now?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think Matt Stafford could definitely take a step forward. I don't know. I mean, I'm biased because you're right. He's like my second favorite player of all time behind Barry Sanders. But I think with a competent team and a franchise around him that knew what it was doing.


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[Assistant] I think we'd be talking about him as possible to be in a Hall of Fame quarterback because he's put up the numbers 40,000 yards. He was the quickest to get to that number. I don't know if you feel the same way. I know you're high on him. Uhm, but what did you think first of all, just about uhm,


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[Assistant] What does this turn the rams into? Does this make them, cause a lot of people said,


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[Assistant] The Rams have a strategy here, obviously. Their last number one first round pick was Jared Goff and they're not going to have one this year, next year, the year after they've traded some for Jalen Ramsey also. And I almost think I give them credit because once you start trading your, your number one picks,


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[Assistant] And you've got a team that the windows right now. I mean, why stop there? There's no reason to go halfway, right? If you feel like the missing piece is that that quarterback to take you that next level and you need to compete here in the next two or three years, what are those first round? I give the Rams credit for it's just like once you've started it, continue it. Chris, that's what I think.


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[Assistant] Yeah, look at who the Lions got with the number three overall pick, Jeff Okuda, who was one of the worst performing rookies, uh, this season was putting some tough spots, but you were not very high.


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[Assistant] You were right not to be high in them. So, here's what people are saying about the compensation here, and I think you did the show with Florio, he said the same thing, Josh tweeted in,


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[Assistant] You look at the other offers that were out there that have been reported on, apparently the Carolina Panthers offered a number 8 overall pick. Uhm, the Lions did not take that one, although you said on the show that that's because Matt Stafford basically didn't want to go to Carolina, right?


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[Assistant] So do you like it from the Lions perspective? Cause here you got no, no first round pick this year. Although I kind of like that because I feel like there's going to be no other year. There's more of a crapshoot in the draft than this year. You have some players that sat out the entire year. What do we have on some of these guys who even did play? And so while this year's a crapshoot, they get the third round pick.


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[Assistant] Then they can wait. They can get the two first round picks in subsequent years. Now they're not going to be very high, I don't think. And I'm not rooting against my guy, Matt Stafford, to make those picks. I just refuse to do it. I'm not going to do that.


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[Assistant] So they're going to be late first round picks you'd think. Uhm, but there's still value at the, at the end of the first round. And if nothing else, you can use those to trade up higher in the, to the round.


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[Assistant] Well, certainly, and then you have a team in the Rams that are going to be up against it in salary cap, maybe not as much now with getting rid of Jared Goff, but that's why they, they did it is that they have a little more flexibility right there. And so that is worth a first round pick to them. And I think from the Lions perspective, who knows, who knows if it was that.


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[Assistant] First round pick that future first round pick. I mean, who knows? It could have been, they could have valued him as a third round pick or they almost could have valued him as like neutral, like trade neutral, not trade positive or negative. Like we'll just take him on.


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[Assistant] Uh, for nothing because I think you're right. I think Detroit sees him as a guy that can have a shot on a team that's rebuilding. And if it doesn't work out in two years, what's the big deal? I mean, you, you weren't really planning on competing.


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[Assistant] This coming year or the year after probably anyway. And so you give Jared Goff a former number one pick a second chance and see, see if he comes in motivated to prove everyone wrong.


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[Assistant] So you said it puts them in the conversation for Super Bowl favorites right now. Would you say that this makes them the favorite to win a very difficult NFC West and part two to that question, Chris, how come your boy Kyle didn't step up and pay the price for Matt Stafford?


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[Assistant] So too early to tell on a favorite in the NFC West because yeaah, things can still change between now and next year. Final question comes from JT.


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[Assistant] You're the new GM, would you still consider if, uh, a quarterback, there are a few good quarterbacks in the draft this year, if there's a quarterback you like at seven, if you take them.


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[Assistant] Big blockbuster trade changed the trajectory of two teams. I would say that, although the trajectory of the Lions is unchanged for the last.


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[Assistant] So who knows what this will do. They just have some hope and some picks for the future. Detroit Lion getting draft capital and the LA Rams getting Matt Stafford and Ahmed Fareed as a secondary fan. So it's like a two for one deal for Sean McVay and the Rams. They gotta appreciate that.


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[Assistant] Alright Chris, are you ready? We, we, uh, we've got the under talked about awards coming up later. The homies choice awards for MVP. We got some more ask me anything questions, but right now it is time to unveil the Chris Samp.


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[Assistant] 2020 All Pro Team. And I think we'll start with your offensive players here. Uh, so if a player did not make the All Pro Team, if they did not make the Pro Bowl Team, no, it doesn't matter. Because they can still make the Chris Sims All Pro Team for 2020.


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[Assistant] If you had your pick, that's what you would pick. You're right. If you don't make it, then you hope you made one of those other two teams. Alright, so let's start. Uh, Chris, so with this team, was there any special criteria? Are these players that you liked the most? Are they players that had the best stats? Like what was your criteria for your team?


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[Assistant] With quarterback on the Chris Sims 2020 All Pro Team. I do not know the answers to these beforehand. You have not shared them with anyone, but we all know, and the homies will guess this one too, your quarterback is Aaron Rodgers.


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[Assistant] Man, this is, uh, the guys that you thought had a great year, and I did not think that you would get that fired up about your, your number one here. Uh, you'd pick Aaron Rodgers. I would have had Tom Brady as the quarterback, but that's just me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know that about me, how to put Tom there, just to fire you up even more. I'm just joking, by the way. Uh, okay, you're running back! Uh, you're all pro.


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[Assistant] You're right, I lied. That one was easy too. Aaron Rodgers, Derek Henry, number one. I mean, yeaah, there's some other names of guys that had pretty good years and pretty good runs. I think Alvin Kamara had a pretty good run this year, but, uh, nothing like Derek Henry did. Alright, three receivers you're putting.


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[Assistant] Three, three receivers you're putting on your team, so you're in a Trips formation, perhaps all on one side. Uh, who are your All Pro receivers?


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[Assistant] Uh, some other names out there. DeAndre Hopkins, Allen Robinson had a good year. Keenan had a lot of receptions. Uhm, Devante Adams of course was right there. Uh, Justin Jefferson, he was fourth this year. Wow. Fourth in yards this year for Justin Jefferson.


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[Assistant] All right. So, uh, some in consideration, but Chris goes with Hill, Diggs, Metcalf. Perhaps an early look at your top 10 receivers next year.


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[Assistant] More controversy coming with that list. It was the most controversial list, which it's, it's hard to beat your quarterback list because usually that creates some firestorms. I don't know how you did it with your wide receivers, but yeah, yeah, absolutely crushed it. Although that's not your goal. That's not your goal. All right, tight end. Uh, I'm thinking here, Travis Kelsey. I'll be surprised if it's anyone else.


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[Assistant] Yeah, very good, and proving it even more in the playoffs, like an unguardable force. You've got Hill, you've got Kelsey, and it's unfair with Patrick Mahomes. It doesn't, it doesn't even seem like he needs those kind of weapons, but he's got him in Andy Reid's system.


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[Assistant] One of the reasons why I enjoy doing the show with you all the time, Chris, is that we give love to the, to the big uglies up front. It's not all just about the, the quarterbacks and the wide receivers and the running backs. So, you're going to win position by position on the offensive line. We'll start


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[Assistant] On the left side of the line, your left tackle for 2020 All-Pro Chris Simms team.


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[Assistant] Uh, okay, so let's fill out your line. Let's go, uh, let's go to right tackle and then we'll finish with center. So let's go right tackle.


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[Assistant] Yeah, J.C. Treader, also another guy who's up there and no mystery why Cleveland was able to run the ball so well this year, right? Seems like we've mentioned every one of their offensive linemen.


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[Assistant] So Brandon Sheriff Pete Notes was the right guard on the NFL's All Pro Team. Jack Conklin was the right tackle. So they are left off of the Chris Sims 2020 All Pro Team, but they have a consolation prize there. Aaron Rodgers, Derek Henry.


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[Assistant] The, uh, the quarterback running back Tyreek Hill, Stefan Diggs, DK Metcalf, Travis Kelsey, your tight end, Trent Williams, Quentin Nelson, Corey Linsley, Joel Betonio, uh, Betonio, and Ryan Ramchek on your offensive line. That team's gonna win a few games. That team would win a few games right now.


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[Assistant] No, you leave off a lot of guys, you make a lot of people angry, they come at you, and then you go at them. And it's this vicious cycle of anger and hate that goes around and around that, uh, makes things go here on Chris Sims Unbuttoned. We'll get to your defense in just a second, Chris. Uhm, but let's get a few of the homies questions here. Uh, the Ask Me Anything. We haven't done one of these in a while. And I thought this one was kind of interesting, and so did Pete.


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[Assistant] Who would be the best player in the NFL? So if quarterbacks weren't this, you know, outlier of like by far the most important position and quarterbacks are always going to be the most important position in football. If every position was just as important as quarterback, who would be?


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[Assistant] The best player in the NFL. So I guess you have to think like who is far and away the best player at their position. Uh, and you might've just mentioned it at, at center there.


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[Assistant] For Corey Lindsley, but what do you think? Who is the best player in the NFL if they're all equal?


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[Assistant] You know, is the gap between him and Watson or him and Aaron Rodgers that much? Like Aaron Donald. I think Aaron Donald. You think of him and the next-


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[Assistant] It's a hard one. Derrick Henry, it seemed like this year was head and shoulders above everyone else at the running back position, so that might be one to consider as well. Uh, since we're talking about quarterbacks here, Chris, go Longhorns 45.


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[Assistant] If you're Urban Meyer, so this lions and rams trade got everyone thinking here is that if you're Urban Meyer.


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[Assistant] Do you offer the number one overall pick to Houston for Deshaun and perhaps another player or a pick there? So if you're sitting back, Jacksonville Jaguars, I think I asked you this about Matt Stafford before, but what if you see the opportunity to have Deshaun Watson and kickstart your, your rebuild with a new coach?


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[Assistant] Uh, that way, do you do it? Do you try to pull it off?


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[Assistant] What a mess this whole thing is. You've got a player with a no trade clause that wants to be traded. Uh, but it's just a, it's, it's gonna be a mess and it's gonna, it's gonna carry this podcast. We're gonna be talking about this for, for months on end. Maybe it'll get resolved sooner than that. I guess it has to. Uh, so here's one, here's a crazy one to throw it at you. UT Madden.


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[Assistant] Would you trade Lamar Jackson in a first round pick for Deshaun Watson? So more of a hypothetical, but if you were the Ravens and you had the chance to do that, would you consider it?


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[Assistant] There were a lot of questions, Chris, about, uh, about the 49ers. You addressed it a little bit with Kyle at the top of the show and talking about the Matt Stafford trade. Uh, this is from Quest for Six.


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[Assistant] So a 49ers fan, would you, uh, no, I'm sorry. Uh, yeah. Hey Chris, what would you give up for Watson if you are the Niners? Also, please convince Kyle, sincerely, every Niners fan. So he is speaking for all Niners fans and saying they want to give up whatever it takes to get to Shawn Watson.


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[Assistant] If it gets to that point, Chris, is it worth it? Like as great as Deshaun Watson is, like is it worth it? Because it does limit your ability to fill out the rest of your team. We've talked about that with quarterbacks and once you, once you get past that rookie deal, it does make it a little bit of a roster crunch. If you really had to give up four first round picks, would you do it?


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[Assistant] Uh oh. Chris is frozen. He will be back momentarily. This happens from time to time when his kids play Xbox. He's back. Chris.


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[Assistant] Okay, good. Alright, you just froze up there just for one second.


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[Assistant] So Chris, so, so while, you know, uh, this has got people thinking on the Philadelphia side as well, where was this question? Oh yea, Fillmore Museum.


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[Assistant] With everyone focused on Stafford sitting the market for Watson, do you think this move will have any effect on the went situation in Philly?


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[Assistant] So has this greased the wheels for anything that Philly might be able to do with Carson Wentz? I guess in the idea that you got this, this, uh, guy like a Jared Goff and you can pawn off, you might have to throw in some draft capital, uhm, but get something back that you really like.


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[Assistant] That's a tough, that's a tough thing to have to tell someone. Like I know you might want to stay, but I just want to let you know nobody likes you there. It's you, you, I just gonna be the one to tell you that. You just, they don't, that people hate you.


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[Assistant] Uh, alright, uhm, last one, and you mentioned it a little bit here, before we get back to your all-pro defensive team for 2020.


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[Assistant] GM break says, what were your thoughts on Nick Sirianni? Are the Eagles heading down Dallas territory with ownership meddling? You mentioned it, not the greatest press conference. Although I was sympathetic to him because


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[Assistant] Well, they play in a winnable division. That's the one good thing going for Philadelphia, if they can somewhat get things back together. Uh, the Chris Sims 2020 All-Pro defensive team, I am guessing will probably not have a Philadelphia Eagle on it. Unfortunately, you've got two edge, you got two interior defensive linemen. You're sporting three linebackers on this team, two corners and a couple safeties. Is that correct, Chris?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm almost thinking like if you didn't make the team and you're one of the, not one of the top two edge guys, you don't deserve to be mentioned, but maybe we will still mention them. Uh, yeah, let's start with your two edge guys, uh, on your Chris Sims 2020 All Pro team.


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[Assistant] Pro football focus, number one, Khalil Mack for the 2020 season.


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[Assistant] For TJ Watt, I give him a lot of credit because obviously you're living in the shadow of your, your brother a little bit. And there were a lot of people that said, you know, TJ can, can take that next step and be better than


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[Assistant] You know, he, he really, I mean, people called it, they said he, this could happen, and he actually was able to produce the season that put him, uh, up there amongst the best, Chris.


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[Assistant] Interior defensive line to help out those guys on the edge. Control the run game perhaps. Uh, you got two of these. One is Aaron Donald. I'm, Pete has put that in already.


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[Assistant] We've already put that in. And the other one is still blank though. Don't know that one. So Chris, you're two defensive linemen.


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[Assistant] You're infringing on my territory, which I stole from you, so be careful there. Uh, but uh, PFF, Pro Football Focus, agrees with you here. We don't like to have that happen too often, but he was the number two interior defensive lineman this year, according to them.


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[Assistant] He was Aaron Donald number one. You're three linebackers. You're sporting three linebackers, which honestly, if Chris Sims was running a defense, I would not have pegged you as a three linebacker guy.


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[Assistant] Do you think Devin White would have made your team though without his postseason performance? Cause he's played really well in the postseason too. You think that that helped him?


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[Assistant] We're gonna allow it either way, you know, and you might be right, but we're gonna allow it. And, uh, Pro Football Focus had him ranked 28th among 62 edge players. So we have disagreement here, which I do like. I don't like when you agree with Pro Football Focus too often.


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[Assistant] Things are back to normal. Alright, you're secondary. You got two corners. You got two safeties. Uh, one of your corners is Jalen Ramsey. You've already brought him up four times unprompted in this show. So Jalen Ramsey, I'm guessing is number one, but I don't know your other one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he is 12th according to Pro Football Focus for cornerbacks, but that's why, I mean, it's super difficult, even on offensive, uh, the offensive side of the ball is that it's difficult to parse out what the player is being asked to do, how difficult that is compared to what other players are being asked to do.


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[Assistant] Uhm, defensively that's super difficult as well because sometimes you're not privy to what scheme they're running, but you've made the case many times, you just made it for Marlon Humphrey, you've made the case for Jamal Adams that his grades will never look as good because of how many things that he's asked to do that other safeties in the league are not asked to do. Is Jamal Adams one of your two safeties?


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[Assistant] So do you have a free safety to pair up with a strong safety hybrid guy like Jamal Adams? Who's your other guy?


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[Assistant] So Jesse Bates in 2019, according to Pro Football Focus, was their 64th ranked safety out of 83. This year moved all the way up to first. They're in agreement with Chris Sims. Jesse Bates was their number one safety this year. They saw the similar, they saw the same jump you did from that guy. So well done.


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[Assistant] The things that we talked about with the Cincinnati Bengals, like, hey, they should be interesting to watch on the offensive side of the ball. Uh, but it's going to be fun for other teams when they're on defense. It wasn't that fun. I mean, they, they really did step up with some of the players up and down the rosters for Cincinnati. It wasn't all just the Joe Burrow show.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I thought they made a good jump on the defensive side. And we may or may not have one of the players in the under-talked-about award winners.


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[Assistant] Uh, in football. So this is what happened. So Chris, it was, I think, two and a half weeks ago.


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[Assistant] Uh, you were talking about Jair Alexander.


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[Assistant] Cornerback for the Green Bay Packers. This was before his big game where he had the two interceptions in the playoffs. And you said, he is one of the most, and you were, you paused, you said,


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[Assistant] Like under talked about players in the NFL and I think it made perfect sense because it means like a player who's really good that we should, why don't we talk about him more? And so people did start to talk about Jair Alexander after what he did.


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[Assistant] If you're talking about GameStop, sometimes things get a little tricky, uh, haywire. Alright, so we'll start, let's start with the defensive side of the ball, because I did name


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[Assistant] The defensive back in the under talked about award winner, Jair Alexander. I gave that to you because he is the original. He was the guy that started this whole thing.


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[Assistant] Uh, top overall cornerback grade from Pro Football Focus. He was number one, Chris. That might be a little surprising to you. So, they were talking about him internally there. Uh, he was just so good. He, uh, yeaah. So Jair Alexander is my under-talked about corner. Any qualms with that?


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[Assistant] Uh, I thought about Jesse Bates, cause I just did defensive backs here, so I thought about putting him there. I'm glad you gave him love on your all-pro Chris Sims defensive team. But there's another Bengal that I put on my under-talked-about team.


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[Assistant] And that is a defensive end for the Bengals, Carl Lawson, who led the NFL with 27 quarterback knockdowns this year. Who was 2 through 6 you ask? Oh, I'm glad you asked. He was just ahead of TJ Watt, Chris Jones, Joey Bosa, Leonard Williams, and DeForest Buckner.


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[Assistant] This is according to pro football reference. So Carl Lawson under talked about on the defensive line.


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[Assistant] Six quarterback hits in each of the two games versus Pittsburgh, five versus Cleveland. So we played well against those tough, uh, tough playoff teams. So that was cool to see as well. One more defensive player on the under talked about team that is, and this guy is perennially under talked about. I think you've mentioned them before linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings.


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[Assistant] Eric Kendricks on the under talked about team as a linebacker, Chris.


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[Assistant] Okay, offensive side, and we'll go to quarterback. I got quarterback, running back, one wide receiver, a tight end, and an offensive lineman.


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[Assistant] Uh, my quarterback is very difficult because all the quarterbacks are-


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[Assistant] Talked about. They're all, it's like there's no one that's under talked about in the NFL. But I think there's one player who isn't talked about enough as being good or maybe a little bit above average. And that player is Kurt Cousins, quarterback of the Minnesota Vikings.


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[Assistant] Uh, this year he was eighth in passing yards, he was sixth in touchdowns, uh, he was ninth in completed air yards per pass, and so they weren't just little dink and dunks, he's throwing the ball deep down the field as we saw to Adam Thielen, and I think you have to give him some credit.


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[Assistant] For what we saw from Justin Jefferson this year, you know, they got rid of Stefan Diggs, one of the best wide receivers in football. And here comes Justin Jefferson. Yeah, a lot of it is, is him, but a lot of it was Kirk Cousins bringing them into an offense, making things at least easy enough for him to excel. So I think Kirk Cousins is under-talked about and maybe under-appreciated. Chris, do you agree?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and, and the personality is a little out there, right? You're a little, maybe a little strange, a little different, and maybe that hurts them in people's eyes. But, uh, Kurt Cousins, I like his personality for being on, uh, on my team. Probably.


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[Assistant] Uh, the offensive lineman to protect Kurt Cousins is a Denver Bronco. A tackle.


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[Assistant] Who played every snap last year, played every snap except for one game.


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[Assistant] Illness this year, Garrett Bowles of the Denver Broncos, four year career, third tackle, uh, this year according to Pro Football Focus behind Trent Williams, behind David Bakhtiari. Garrett Bowles, we didn't talk about him enough, or the football community did not.


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[Assistant] Did not allow a sack all season, had the best pass blocking grade of any tackle to play 800 snaps. According to Pro Football Focus, Garrett Bowles undertalked about the jump that he made this year. Maybe it was because they could hold this year. You always got to throw that out there. Maybe you could just do that. And so maybe he did that. I'll have to take a look at the tape.


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[Assistant] Ran Free Guy Kyle in, uh, in San Francisco. Jeff Wilson, UndertalkedAbout.


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[Assistant] He averaged 4.8 yards per carry. That was up almost a full yard from the year before.


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[Assistant] 44% of his carries went over the expected, uh, the expected amount. That's a next-gen stats thing. It's like they gave him the ball. It's like, oh, he got more.


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[Assistant] Uh, 44% of the time than they expected him. That was 9th best in the NFL. And get this too, cause people were loading up in the box against him. He faced 8 or more in the box, 33% of the time. That's 8th most in the NFL. Still had a good year, led the 49ers with 10 total touchdowns. Jeff Wilson, under talked about this year, Chris.


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[Assistant] You know what's under talked about? The Ahmed Fareed under talked about players in the NFL. Like I feel like this will not get the love that it deserves, but thank you for appreciating it so far. Uh, Chris, two more. We got a wide receiver and a tight end.


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[Assistant] The wide receiver was hard for me. I didn't really settle on, I did settle on one, but it could have gone to a couple here. I kinda considered CD Lamb in there because even though he got some love, he ended up with what was it? 69 catches in the slot.


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[Assistant] 877 yards, that's the most by a rookie wide receiver in like 15 years.


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[Assistant] And he did it with, you know, Ben Danucci and Garrett Gilbert and Andy Dalton as the quarterback. So I was like, that's pretty good. I thought Tyler Lockett, even though we'd still talked about him, he had a career high in receptions, just off a career high in yards, 10 touchdowns. I was like, he had a really good year. We probably should talk about him a little bit more.


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[Assistant] But I think the winner is a guy that our guy, uh, Rodney Harrison really liked.


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[Assistant] Uh, plays for Tennessee, gets overshadowed by AJ Brown. Corey Davis, former fifth overall pick, uh, was huge this year. 15th in yards, uh, per reception with 15 yards per reception this year. He could get down the field and made a lot of big catches for them.


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[Assistant] And the final one, tight end, and I had to pick at least one Detroit lion from my list. Had a rough rookie year, was a little underwhelming, but TJ Hackenson is my under-talked about tight end.


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[Assistant] He had a PFF grade of 60 last year, jumped all the way up to 75th this year, so that was good. Uh, had the fourth most touchdowns of any tight end in the NFL, third most receiving yards behind Kelsey and behind Waller. TJ Hackinson had a, had a year where we should have talked about him a little bit more.


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[Assistant] Watch out kneecaps everywhere. TJ Hawkinson is coming for them now. Uh, and Pete reminds me too, cause we have Garrett Bowles on the team. We got Bowles in this house.


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[Assistant] Certified Freak and Undertalked about this year. I think we gotta make this a tradition. Maybe this is a bi-annual thing. The Undertalked about Chris Sims Unbuttoned Awards. Get these guys talking about it.


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[Assistant] Exactly, we need to get rid of some of these good players so that we can just focus on the few that are actually good. Alright, Chris, you ready? Let's finish it with...


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[Assistant] The Homies Choice Awards for 2021. You ready for this?


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[Assistant] Okay, so we, we, uh, made a little Google survey and let me check how many responses we got on this. 325. 325 total responses from the homies.


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[Assistant] On questions of the MVP, defensive player of the year, offensive player of the year, uh, rookie of the year. So I'm going to go through, I'm going to go through all of them here, Chris. Let me just go through all of them here. We can react at the end. Okay. How's that sound?


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[Assistant] Was Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes. So that of the MVP goes in a landslide to Aaron Rodgers. That's why they're my homies. Exactly, they know, they listen. Defensive player of the year and this is why they're the homies too.


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[Assistant] 51% of the vote, Aaron Donald. So basically they're just, they're living in your brain, Chris.


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[Assistant] Uh, the offensive player of the year, which goes to the non-MVP. It seems like that should be a rule. Like if you win MVP, you can't be offensive player of the year because that's how we treat it anyway. Uh, and the homies honored that rule. 46% of the vote.


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[Assistant] Going to Derrick Henry, but Chris, 20% of the vote went to Travis Kelsey. He was second. I was a little surprised by that.


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[Assistant] In, uh, third, with 9% of the votes, Devonte Adams. So that is an angry, uh, angry Devonte Adams contention coming at ya. In, uh, in the Homey's Choice Awards. Defensive Rookie of the Year. Uh, Defensive Rookie of the Year. This one was...


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[Assistant] Not that close, 59% of the vote goes to Chase Young, although I was surprised, second place, 25% of the vote, a player that you like very much, Antoine Winfield Jr. Got second according to the homies.


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[Assistant] Zeffron7 said, no Sneed on Defensive Rookie of the Year. I know he hasn't played a bunch of games, but when he has, he's been good. So we should have at least put him in that.


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[Assistant] Curl Scouts of USA said, it's a damn shame you don't have Ligeria Sneed on here. Dude has played lights out better than Jeff Okuda and CJ Henderson and he was the 13th cornerback picked in the draft. So I do blame you, Chris, for not putting him on there, even though you had nothing to do with it. You will carry the burden of that.


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[Assistant] Uh, and also Nick, Nick Brown, uh, commented too earlier. He goes, how can nobody remember to spell Devontae Adams name correctly? So apparently I misspelled that as well. The disrespect continues for Devontae Adams, uh, here on Chris Sims Fun Butt. Who is your coach of the year?


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[Assistant] Yes, uh, Coach of the Year and Comeback Player of the Year, the last two. Coach of the Year, 46% of the vote goes to Kevin Stefanski. Second was Sean McDermott with only 18% of the vote. And then...


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[Assistant] Third, and I was a little surprised by this, uh, Brian Flores, maybe not surprised, 10% of the vote for Brian Flores. So that's the top three according to the homies.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I put him on the ballot. What did he end up getting here? Hold on. Uh, there were 6% of the vote for Ron Rivera, so he got some love. Matt LaFleur got 5% of the vote.


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[Assistant] Andy Reid got 7% of the vote, so he was in there. I put Joe Judge on there, he got 5 votes. So Pete voted 5 times apparently.


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[Assistant] Sean Payton, I got, I put him on there, uh, he got three votes and Mike Tomlin got a vote. I like that one. I like that. He really would have been.


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[Assistant] Uh, I forgot, and Pete notes out, I forgot, uh, offensive rookie of the year. And this was a very close contest between Justin Herbert and Justin Jefferson with 51% of the vote. The winner was Justin Herbert for the chargers over Justin Jefferson. I'm surprised.


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[Assistant] The top vote getter for undrafted offensive rookie was James Robinson. He got 2% of the vote, but what a great year for.


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[Assistant] For him with uh, with Jacksonville, but overshadowed by the other, other two there. And the last one, the biggest landslide in the 2021 Homies Choice Awards, comeback player of the year with 94% of the vote.


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[Assistant] Alex Smith, Ben Roethlisberger got the remaining 5.8%. Alex Smith is the winner, comeback player of the year.


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[Assistant] Uh, one comment here from BradleyClem3, and it was about the offensive rookie of the year. He goes, so Ahmed, uh, Ahmed made the ballot, but is there really a better offensive rookie than Tristan Werfs? He gave up one sack all season to Khalil Mack. That's a good, that's a good throw in there if we were gonna give some love to, uh, I mean, what he was able to do for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and,


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[Assistant] Trust a rookie to protect Tom Brady and not only does he do it, but he excels at it. That's a good shout.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and uh, Bradley says he doesn't get much help anymore either. Uh, he wondered how much does having Brady influence how good the line is? Like does Brady do anything?


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[Assistant] Uhm, like, cause the line was not very good last year. Brady comes over there and they all step up. Did they just know that Tom Brady is a brittle man who would break if defensive players touched him and so they had to step up their game?


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[Assistant] So those are the Homies Choice Awards. Thanks to the 325 homies who voiced their opinion, voted in those. That was good. Well done there. That was a meaty pod. You got your all pro team. We got the under talked about team. That was a lot of stuff there, Chris, and your internet connection outside of a couple of times held up the whole time. That's, that's the biggest upset of this whole thing.


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[Assistant] Let's do it. Eh, one more shout. Pete says, under talked about your wifi connection holding up for the entire hour and a half. Chris Sims unbuttoned. Well done. The wifi.


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[Assistant] When the old farmhouse somehow was able to, to go the, go the distance.


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[Assistant] I don't think that record's all that horrible when we have to pick all the games.


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[Assistant] That's the one thing that I'll say there. I mean, I've had people tell me, like, oh, you're dancing around 500 for picking all the games against the spread? That's not bad. I think anything above 500, you're really kicking butt. You know, like we've talked about before, some of these games, you couldn't pay me to bet on the game. I wouldn't bet on them. They're coin tosses. Who knows what's gonna happen, but...


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[Assistant] Uhm, let's go. I'm ready this week, Mike. I'm ready. We're going. I sat down last night and was like, I've had enough of this bad best bets crap. So we'll see if, uh, me sitting down and thinking a little...


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[Assistant] Longer and harder about it. Help me out this week. We'll see.


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[Assistant] Well, I wouldn't feel comfortable betting on this football game. I wouldn't. I mean, I could see it being a three-point game.


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[Assistant] I can see it being a 10 point game. I mean, there's a lot of different ways to go here. You know, ultimately I am going to pick the New Orleans Saints to win the football game. I think they're the better football team. I expect Drew Brees to be better than what he was last week. I do. He'll just be more comfortable another week, a little healthier, getting reps, doing those types of things, seeing the field.


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[Assistant] You know, the Vikings, the defense for them, little all over the place, but I think the big thing for me is


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[Assistant] The Bears and their ability to run on Minnesota scares me with the, with the course, you know, the, the, the New Orleans Saints. They still got a really good offensive line. I got to think they're underwhelmed by their run game performance last week against the Chiefs.


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[Assistant] I think they're going to lean on that and I still have a lot of faith in the Saints defense. I mean, I really do. I just have a hard time thinking this year that like, like last year that Kirk Cousins, the bootlegs and the play action passes are going to get the Saints. I'm going Saints 23 to 17.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's where, that's where I, I couldn't give one team a blowout advantage or anything like that for the, some of the things you just talked about. The familiarity there. Zimmer has shown the ability to know the rules of the Sean Payton offense and be all over that. So we'll see. And you're right, the Drew Brees angle is...


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[Assistant] Certainly up in the air. I don't know. I'm just playing the angle that another week of practice and things will make them look sharper. And I thought for a second that you were going to go Vikings. I thought you were back on. It was a love me week again, but I guess not. Still, I love you not. Sorry.


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[Assistant] I'm going to say 14. That's going to be the number I'm going to pick. 38 to 24. Uh, just the way the Bucks have played, you know, the last two weeks on offense and even, you know, you heard me say the other day, even though the Falcons first half wasn't bad. I mean, it wasn't great. Excuse me.


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[Assistant] I thought the approach was still on the right path, right?


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[Assistant] So between that, the week before, the way Brady's throwing the football, you know, their defense still scares me a little bit. It's certainly against Matthew Stafford and his ability to make big plays and do that. They just seem to have moments of every game where they're a little asleep for a quarter here or there, whatever it may be.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't disagree with that statement. I don't. You know, oddly enough, I think there's more teams that can be a pain in the butt for the Chiefs in the NFC than there is the AFC just from a matchup standpoint. And hey, listen, last thing before we move on.


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[Assistant] I think, you know, there's a good chance we don't see Matt Stafford in Detroit next year, that that marriage splits. I think he's gonna be...


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[Assistant] The envy of a lot of teams looking for quarterbacks, you know, as we've discussed many times, Matt Stafford is way better than, you know, the common casual fan realizes. I think there's a lot more of a positive attitude towards him in the NFL because of the special things he could do. Sorry, let's go.


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[Assistant] It's hard to buy into the San Francisco 49ers right now. I mean, they, they find ways to kind of shoot themselves in the, in the foot every single football game. So between that and now, okay, we're going to go back to CJ Beathard as the starting quarterback and all of those types of things to where


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't think he's gonna hit the ground running and just gonna like, Oh, okay. I haven't missed a beat. I'm going to throw the ball all over the place. You know, so I think you got to like.


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[Assistant] It'll beware of a few bumps in the road there. And then I think the other aspect of this too is, Vance Joseph, even last year, even though they lost both times to the 49ers, he showed a pretty good understanding of how to slow down some of Shanahan's staples in his offense. So I think between that,


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[Assistant] You know, the 49ers defense solid, but not special. And I think Kyler Murray in Arizona got their offense going last week. I told you, I saw that a little more diversity and their attack on the offensive side of the ball was very encouraging. I'm going to go Cardinals 30 to 21.


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[Assistant] It's taking a page out of his book from last week going, Oh, that was smart that they let everybody believe that Taysom Hill was going to be the guy. So I still think we're going to see Marcus Mariota. I do. I think this is a dangerous.


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[Assistant] Match up, you know, for the Miami Dolphins. The Dolphins are the better football team, but the Raiders have some aspects to where they match up pretty well and could maybe be a pain in the butt if the Dolphins make one key mistake or something like that.


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[Assistant] You know, the Raiders, their offense, it's still good, as we know. Whether it's Derek Carr or Mariota, the offensive line, yeaah, it's not as perfect as it was earlier this year, but I think the run game is still there and enough of a threat.


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[Assistant] And we know they got weapons on the outside to throw to there. So they're not going to be blown out of the water by this really, really good Miami defense. On the other side of the ball, you know, this is not a really, really good Miami offense, but it's a bad Raiders defense. We know that. And just the way


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[Assistant] Miami has run the ball a little bit here lately, and especially with Brita being healthy.


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[Assistant] You know, I-I just look at that, and they didn't get to run the ball two weeks ago, cause the game kinda...


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[Assistant] You know, fell apart with them with the Kansas City Chiefs and they had to come back at all that, but it has looked better to where I think they do enough and the Raiders defense just not good enough. Close football game, but that Dolphins defense run game tool will make a lot of smart plays. I'm going to go 24-20 Dolphins.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that's probably a big part of Derek Carr's fear.


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[Assistant] You know, again, Derek Harz played some really good football, but as you and I both know, at the end of the day, if you're not consistently going to the playoffs or like in the playoff conversation or in the like MVP race, I don't give a damn who you are quarterback. You're going to be, they're going to be questioning it.


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[Assistant] They are. And those questions are there. I do think he's played well enough to be the starting quarterback there again next year. Definitely. But, uh, yeaah, this is a little interesting wrinkle, you know, at the end of the season here.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm gonna go with the Ravens, of course I am, but I don't think this is gonna be some blowout victory. I don't. You know, one...


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[Assistant] Joe Judge, other than going for it the two times last week, has managed just about every game the whole year, perfectly. I don't know why that fake field goal and going for it on fourth happened last week against the Browns, I don't know that. But other than that,


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[Assistant] The Giants approach to every football game has been the best possible approach for their team to win that game. That is such a New England type thing. I do think with their big defensive line and their defense in general and the lack of past game, that's gotten better with Baltimore, but I'm not going to sit here and go, oh, it's a game changer quite yet.


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[Assistant] And then you got a guy like Blake Martinez in the middle who, because of the big people in front of him, he just never has anybody on him and he gets to run around and just go run after the ball. I think they're gonna slow down the Ravens attack. I do. I just don't expect a lot from the Giants offense.


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[Assistant] You know, yeah, they're going to control the ball a little, try to run high percentage passes. I don't know what Daniel Jones status is and all that, but I'm going to pick Baltimore.


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[Assistant] 21 to 13, and I think it's, you know, a fairly competitive football game throughout.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, I'm picking the Texans to win the game. I am. I can't pick, you know, the Bengals yet, as impressive as that was the other night. I will say this, I think they can keep it close.


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[Assistant] Because Houston can't run the ball all that well, and we saw Cincinnati's secondary is for real.


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[Assistant] William Jackson is one of those guys that's one of the five best corners in football are in that combo.


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[Assistant] You know, Jesse Bates and Von Belis' safeties are really good, uh, good combo. Bates is a phenomenal football player. So I think they can make life, you know, very interesting, uh, as far as on the Texans offense. But, but ultimately I don't really trust Cincinnati's defense, or offense quite yet.


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[Assistant] To move the ball consistently, you know, on the Texas defense. I'm going Texas 27-24. I think it's going to be closer than that 8 points, that's for sure.


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[Assistant] Well, the way Chicago's playing on the offensive side of the ball, it's changed their football team. I mean, the Bears, hey!


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[Assistant] I'm just letting you know, if they play like this and look like this, like Chicago, Matt, Matt Nagy and Mitchell Trubisky should be your quarterback coach next year. Don't change anything. You're close. The team should not be blown up if we're going to do this. Okay. So I just got to say that.


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[Assistant] You know, it really is. I mean, it's just mind-boggling why they didn't run this type of offense from the get-go. Okay, but it's improved their football team. The Jaguars, we know, I don't think they'll try to even win the game now that they have Trevor Lawrence in hand, right? I don't know how that goes, but the Bears are better. 27-17.


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[Assistant] Of course I'm picking the Chiefs, we know that. I mean, yes, but I don't, again, I'm, I'm a little, this could be a best bet for me. Ten and a half points, I think that's too much. The way the Falcons defense has been playing, you know, on that side of the ball, you know, plus,


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[Assistant] This scheme itself has shown to give little issues to this Chiefs defense. We've talked about that a lot through the years, right? This is that Seattle scheme, but, but Raheem Morris has added a few more wrinkles to it and


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[Assistant] You know, again, I think the Falcons are gonna move the ball on the, on the Chiefs defense. I would be shocked if Matt Ryan and Calvin Ridley, and we don't know where Julio is, but...


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[Assistant] You know, he was close to playing last week, so I would think he's gonna play this week. I'm going Chiefs 34-31. I think Atlanta hangs in there all game, and it's one of those where, yeaah, the Chiefs are better, but they let them hang around for a long time, and the game's a lot closer than maybe we intended.


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[Assistant] Damn it, damn it, damn it, damn it, but okay, and you know, the other thing too, we, we didn't hit on this just for this game, right? You know, we've seen, we've talked about the Chiefs, their pass protection.


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[Assistant] Falcons have some speed up front, have been pressuring the quarterback. You know, they might be able to give Mahomes issues to where he can't scramble like we always see him do and he gets hit a little like he did last week. Uh, but yeah, I think this is a tricky game. I really do.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm not going to pick the Jets to win. And the one thing I would, that's killing me not to know this right here sitting Wednesday before the game is Quinnon Williams and where he's going to be at in this football game.


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[Assistant] Quinnen Williams has arrived, uhm, Michael Florio. Like, arrived.


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[Assistant] You know, it's been good the last few weeks. I would say last week might have been the best game I've seen him play as a pro. He kicked the crap out of the interior part of that Rams offensive line. And same with Nathan Shepard, number 97.


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[Assistant] Right? The Jets defense is not bad. It's not. It hasn't been bad all year. It's pretty good. It can stop the run. They play pretty smart on the back end where they don't let you make a lot of big plays and do things like that.


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[Assistant] I think the Jets can keep this game close. I do. Again, this Brown's defense. I'm not sitting here writing letters home going, oh my gosh, this is the greatest thing I've ever seen either.


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[Assistant] I think that I'm going, I'm going 23-20 Jets. I mean Cleveland, excuse me, I didn't mean to say that. 23-20 Cleveland, but I think the Jets hang around and make this game interesting.


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[Assistant] Well, uhm, you know, the Steelers defense is still good. We know the Steelers are reeling.


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[Assistant] The Colts, you know, playing good football, but not great.


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[Assistant] You know, again, like we've talked about, I mean, could have easily lost to the Texans both times. I mean, easily. You know, that, that's, the Colts defense is not as good as I thought, you know, six, seven, eight weeks ago. You know, they're a little bit, Mike, a little bit like Pittsburgh, where once their pass rush dies down,


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[Assistant] Everybody moves the ball on them. Everybody. They can't, they're not very good in the back end. They can't cover.


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[Assistant] You know, so, you know, that worries me a little bit as far as the Colts defense. And on the offensive side of the ball,


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[Assistant] You know, I worry about any time where I go, Philip Rivers might have to beat you. And I don't, I'm going Steelers get back on track in this game.


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[Assistant] I think the Steelers will slow down the run game. I think they're going to make Philip Rivers and his weak arm throw the ball in Pittsburgh and the cold weather and all those. It's not going to come out of his hand clean and pretty all day. I'm going Pittsburgh gets back on track here. 24 21.


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[Assistant] It's a coin flip game in a lot of ways for me. I mean, they played so close the first time around. Denver, uh, you know, found a way to win the football game in a game where, you know, in typical Chargers fashion.


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[Assistant] They blew it. They blew a number of opportunities, managing the clock, all those type of things. I just look at, I just think the way Justin Herbert's playing, the way the offense looks, you know, the Broncos defense not being a total full strength. And then, you know, the Broncos offense


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[Assistant] They're best when aggressive opportunities present themselves.


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[Assistant] And I don't know if those opportunities are gonna present themselves against the Chargers. You know, the one thing about the Chargers is...


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[Assistant] You know, for the most part, they're going to try to keep you in front of them and not let up a lot of big plays and do that and kind of the bend don't break type of offense. So I'm going to go with Justin Herbert and a defense that I think is just a little bit better right now. And I'm going to go with Chargers, 27-23.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the only thing that scares me with that game is just that, you know, that we see the Chargers defense sort of a few weeks ago against the Patriots and somehow they get overrun in the run game. But I'm just not willing to say that the Broncos are quite good enough to do that type of thing.


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[Assistant] I don't know what the hell is gonna happen. I wrote down the score of 1917 because I was so not even sure what team's gonna win. I just wrote, I think it's a 1917 type of football game and I'm gonna rest on it for the night and figure out who I want to pick on the pick in the morning. I think between


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[Assistant] I think the Carolina Panthers have the type of offense.


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[Assistant] And passing game that can kind of dink and dunk this Washington football team, you know, their, their defense and, and, and have a little success. Of course, I'm not expecting big time success.


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[Assistant] And agor- you know, with the Washington offense, I don't know what to expect.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't. I think Carolina's gonna win this game as long as their offense doesn't mess it up. As long as Teddy Bridgewater or somebody makes bad turnovers, we see that's how, you know, Washington wins football games. If you kind of play it clean on the front side or on the offensive side of the...


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[Assistant] Washington's offense isn't good enough to just go out there and win a game, or do anything like that.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go with the Panthers. You know, we know it's Ron Rivera, uh, Ron Rivera revenge. Three R's there.


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[Assistant] Let's not forget too that, you know, Matt Ruhl wants to beat the guy that used to, that he replaced too, to say like, no, it's my era now, we've started. I'm going Panthers, 1917.


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[Assistant] I mean, the 49ers basically said, hey, here's the ball, here's the ball, here's the ball. And what'd the Bengals do the week before? Here's the ball, here's the ball, here's the ball. I mean, I don't know if you can really even say the Cowboys won the last two games. I just go, no, the other two teams lost the last two games and they just happened to be playing the Cowboys. I, I, I, the Eagles have found something. There's an identity to their football team.


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[Assistant] You know, there, there's a toughness to their offense that Jalen Hurts has brought. With his running and, you know, throwing that's consistent. If there's somewhere to put the ball or a guy's open.


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[Assistant] He puts it in the spot where the guy can catch it. I'm not wowed by it and like, oh my gosh, look at these lasers, but it's effective. He's a football player and knows how to move his offense down the field. So.


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[Assistant] Between that and we know the Cowboys, you know, their defense, not good, stopping the run.


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[Assistant] And now with Jalen Hurts and that run game added to it, I just have no faith in that. And I still think the Eagles defense is a pretty damn solid unit to where they're gonna be able to match up with the Cowboys and slow them down. So I'm going Eagles 20 to 17. Close game, but Eagles win a tough one.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm gonna go with the Seattle Seahawks. You know, this is a, yea, you know, the Rams have had the advantage since McVeigh has been there. The Rams are just all over the place for me.


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[Assistant] I'm like, I'm just sick of kind of, I'm sick of actually trying to believe in them anymore. I really am. And I just think one, two, the Seattle defense has gotten good enough here where I just go, I think they're going to slow down the Rams attack. And I, of course, you know, I don't have the confidence in Jared golf to do anything special there.


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[Assistant] So between that and then Seattle, you know.


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[Assistant] I worry about their offense because the Rams defense matches up really well with Russell Wilson and what they want to do.


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[Assistant] But I do think the run game's more of a threat now for Seattle than it was the first time around, and they'll learn about how the Rams defended them the first time around with Jalen Ramsey on DK Metcalf to where maybe they have a little more success on the offensive side of the ball. I'm going Seattle, 27-24. Oh!


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[Assistant] I mean, listen, I can certainly see it that way. I, I can. Uh, I, I went, it's very even football game.


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[Assistant] I think the Seahawks are gonna be pissed that the Rams have gotten the best of them for the last three years. And the way Jared Goff is playing right now, I just can't get behind it. I can't. I'm just going, eh, I'm taking Russell over Goff and an even matchup. That's how I look at it.


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[Assistant] Well, I think, you know, to what you said there at the end is what we're gonna say. I would be shocked if we don't see a lot of points on the board. And big plays. I really would. You know, on both sides of the ball, it's strength versus weakness.


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[Assistant] You know, that's where it's Rogers and that offense. I mean, these are two of the three highest scoring offenses in football right now. I don't know if everybody realizes that I was a little surprised when I looked at it last week going, Whoa, okay. I didn't think I, I held them in that high of a regard.


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[Assistant] The Packers against that Titans defense that doesn't have great pass rushers. And of course we see just about everybody torch them in the pass game.


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[Assistant] To where I go, well, Rogers and Devonte Adams and Aaron Jones out of the backfield and all that. They're, they're going to have a field day. They're going to score points, you know, left and right. No doubt about it.


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[Assistant] But the problem is, on the other side, I can guarantee that's gonna happen too. I kid. The Tennessee Titans offense is arguably the most explosive offense in football. They can rip off 70 yard touchdown passes and 70 yard runs unlike any other team I've ever seen. I've never seen really a team that's built through the run.


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[Assistant] As explosive as the Tennessee Titans are. I mean, I really, I thought about this. I went like, really, have we ever seen a team built through the run who could throw the ball like this or at least even balance like that? And the only one I could really even think of, Mike, was like,


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[Assistant] Payton Manning, Edgeron James, Colts type offenses where yea, Edgeron can rip off a 40 yard run and you know, Payton can throw a 40 yard bomb to Marvin Harrison just as quickly. I think though,


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[Assistant] You know, with that aspect, and I think I'm going to play the I favor Mike Vrabel in that Lefleur versus Vrabel matchup.


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[Assistant] And the fact, the, the biggest reason why, you know, variable, they're a game plan specific type defense and yeah, they're not super, super talented, but I think the Green Bay offense, which is good, don't, you know, you know, I think it's good, but not like.


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[Assistant] Wow. Oh my gosh. I've never seen concepts like this. This is unbelievable. We saw last week, Carolina brought them to a snail's pace in that game on Saturday night. I think that the Titans will be able to break down the Packers enough to where they'll take away some of the things they like to do. I'm going Titans win the game on the road. 38 35. I've got 30 to


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[Assistant] No, yeaah, I hear, I think you're, you know, you said a lot of good things there, and you know, the fact that, again,


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[Assistant] You know me, I've been saying it all year. I've always worried about that interior part of the D line for the Green Bay Packers. We've seen just about any team that's got somewhat of a good offense and a run game.


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[Assistant] Runs the ball on the Green Bay Packers. The Tennessee Titans are gonna run the ball on the Green Bay Packers. You know, and I, I had like a, a few people question me this week where I saw like just, you know, like radio, whatever they're, well, the Packers defense is better than what you talk about it. It's a top 10, you know, it's a top 10 off defense in football. Okay.


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[Assistant] I, you know, again, the Packers really haven't played any great offenses this year either. We talked about it. They've only got like, what, what was it Mike? Two games, two wins against winning teams. You know, so it's one, one.


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[Assistant] So, they're 1 and 2 against teams with winning records. Yeaah, so that, it was the Saints early on when the Saints weren't even the Saints that they are now.


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[Assistant] So that's why I don't have great faith in that Packers defense. I think statistically it's overrated. And we've seen teams like the Minnesota Vikings in company a few, you know, a few weeks ago when they went up to Lambeau and beat them. Yeah, we got a little bit of a pass game and a run game. The green bag can't stop you. So I just don't trust the Packers. There's something about the Packers.


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[Assistant] I think we kind of said it all, about an 11-3 football team, just like last year, where I just don't buy they're as good as their record. I'm sorry, you know, I want to root for them, you know I'm rooting for Aaron Rodgers, but I think he's the only elite thing they have on the football team, truly elite thing they have.


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[Assistant] To me, it's gonna be about the matchups, you know, but we, like last year, again, we saw them, the Seattle Seahawks coming to town, they weren't supposed to be as good as Green Bay, and Aaron Rodgers had to make two or three unbelievable throws at the end of the game for them to win the game. You know, so, uh, yeaah, I don't feel confident.


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[Assistant] I certainly don't sit here and just go, well, they're definitely going to the Super Bowl, or they'll at least be in the NFC Championship game. No, depending on who comes to town in week one, they could lose their first game very easily.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I certainly am picking the Bills. Definitely. I mean, listen, you got them as the number two team in football.


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[Assistant] It's hard to argue that. They are. I mean, I think when you really look at it, you go, hell, who has played better than Buffalo the last eight weeks of the year?


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[Assistant] Really? It's been really awesome football on both sides of the ball. And I know the Patriots played them close the first time around and Cam Newton had the fumble and all that. I think there was still


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[Assistant] The big game fear of Buffalo and it's New England. Like I think that's all over. I think Buffalo's gone into a different stratosphere. They know they're a really good football team. Josh Allen knows he can beat really good football teams no matter what. Get on my shoulders if I gotta be, you know, patient or throw bombs or scramble or do whatever.


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[Assistant] I just feel like this is a game finally where they're gonna play the Patriots and just be like


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[Assistant] We're not scared of you anymore. It's official. In fact, we're going to lay the smack down on you. We'd like to whoop your ass. You know, I really do. I don't think there'll be any fear. Patriots still good on defense and they could still run that ball, but I'm going bills 27 17, but like control the game throughout. There's never really a doubt in the game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I see it the same way. And I hear you with the Bills. The Bills, I think the greatest thing you said there was those primetime games and everything about it.


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[Assistant] The bills being able to puff out their chests and have real belief in themselves because they should. Of the way they're playing, what they've done on the big stage, and uh, just the direction their organization is going in general. Yup, there's a new king in the AFC East. Alright, uh,


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[Assistant] Yup, uhm, I-I hear you there. It's one of the ones starred for me, and I'm still not sure what I'm gonna do there yet, so I'm not gonna go there first. I'm going with the Chiefs. I mean, the Falcons, excuse me, in the Chiefs game.


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[Assistant] I am, I just, I think they match up well with the Kansas City Chiefs football team. I don't expect them to win, but I think they're going to be able to move the ball on the Kansas City defense. And I think the way the Falcons defense has played


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[Assistant] I don't think the Chiefs are just gonna march the ball all over the field, so.


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[Assistant] I'm taking the Atlanta Falcons. I'm not going to be swayed by this this week. I've get swayed with these, my best bets way too much where I look at picks and I go, wait, I wanted to pick this game. And then we got into the podcast and I picked another game because of my explanation. I had this mark from the beginning. I'm sticking with it.


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[Assistant] I'm going Jets. Yes. I don't think the Jets are gonna lose by 10 points to the Cleveland Browns. I don't. Again, I think they match up well. I think they can stop the run game a little bit. And that Browns defense is not special. And Sam Darnold in the offense.


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[Assistant] Have been shown some lives to where, yeah, if you're not a good defense, they can move the ball on you a little bit. So I'm going with the Jets to cover the 10 points.


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[Assistant] One more, uhm, I'm gonna go with an over and under.


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[Assistant] Alright, I'm going to the Titans Packers game, I'm going with the over. I am. I don't give a damn that it's 56, it's the highest over-under of the week. That means they're expecting a 30-27 type game. I just think easily both teams score an extra touchdown on that. So I was gonna pick the Titans, but I'm not gonna do that.


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[Assistant] Lemme do, they, they did they thing bruh, to be honest with you. It was just, you know, they, what they did is every time we did a play action, they just shot the gaps, shot the gaps. The linebackers, you know, we got a couple of them to play a lot of fakes, that's why we were able to throw so much bubbles and slants and all that.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's right. We're right. We're not on the bidet right now. We're talking football. At least we hope we're not on the bidet right now. That would not be cool. But what's up, man? You doing good? Good to have you back. It's been a long time. It has been a long time. Damn, you've been sitting on the bidet for a long time. I have. I mean, geez, it's getting a little awkward.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm glad you've been paying attention. I wish you were there for some of these, too. You know, you're always good with helping with the backlash and things like that, or making light of it. We'll see. I mean, you know, again, Trevor Lawrence is going to be the number one pick.


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[Assistant] I had enough people in the NFL reach out to me.


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[Assistant] Already, that's what I told you before we started the other day, for me to go. I'm in a good place with my...


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[Assistant] Which is Zach Wilson number one. I don't think I'm the only person or guy that's in the NFL. Right. That has him as the number one quarterback. They go, we won't put our name on it. We will not go out there and help you. I'm not going to call these people out there. But certainly, that'll be fun to watch here and just see what the Jets do, all of that. But we got a lot of draft stuff coming up for us.


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[Assistant] Uh, so this is the first time this year I've kinda felt that way, and here's the funniest part about it. Why?


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[Assistant] Cause like, some TikToker, my little boy watches, who talks about football, quarterback, he did a thing on Chris Simms top five rankings. So that, I mean, that to me when I was like, oh, I'm next level now. He goes, dad, you've arrived.


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[Assistant] Listen, maybe more in some, in some capacity. Now this is where, this is where I get into this conversation, right, and just think of things like, you know, we've been working together for a while, alright, like Hollywood Brown two years ago. He goes in the first round.


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[Assistant] Now I know you had a little injury concerns, like I've always said even back then. You know, the difference was Hollywood Brown got to play with Kyler Murray and Baker Mayfield, and KJ Hamler at Penn State got to play with nobody.


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[Assistant] There's a few of those guys in this draft where I go Hollywood Brown KJ Hammer guys and what I mean by that are smaller, undersized, three rockets up their ass, type wide receivers. There's a few of those where I have size concerns but I would go


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[Assistant] There are enough speed and explosiveness here to where they can be justified in the first round. And we're gonna hit on those after we do the top six here to where I go, I'd watch out for these guys. All these guys that I'll say the best of the rest that we'll mention on later on here, they're, they're top 50 picks of the draft.


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[Assistant] Type of guys, and guys that can be huge difference makers. So it's a good class all together.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's actually not. It's very similar. The same thing. You know, again, it's just vice versa to where, you know, the quarterback, you go, okay, yeah, that was an incompletion, but nobody was open. Where do you want them to throw the football? I don't understand. Okay. I'm not going to give the negative to the quarterback there. There was pressure. There was no one open. He's not Superman wide receiver.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's the same thing. It's a little bit like Chase Claypool last year, where I went, you know,


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[Assistant] Yeaah, the stats are good, but when you really look at it, they should have been better. He was open a lot more.


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[Assistant] You know, so I take that into account too, not necessarily just to look at the guys and go, well, the stats, okay, yep, they're pretty good. Let me, now let me get in here. The stats are good. Let me see if the tape justifies it. No, not at all. You know, you've got to look at just the pure athlete, the pure specimen. Does he have the pure physical tools to play the position of wide receiver?


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[Assistant] Really not worry about the stats and the catches or anything like that because you can get stuck in a crappy offense with a crappy quarterback. I mean, I'll take you back to the, you know, the, the DK Metcalf and the AJ Brown conversation. It was the same thing I was arguing that year. You know, they were the top two receivers in the draft or I had two of the top three, I believe.


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[Assistant] And they just go, yeah, the stats aren't good, I don't know. It's like they were deliberately not trying to throw them the football. And the offense made no sense, and the quarterback wasn't that great. So, uh, no, to your point though, long story short, it's not that hard. As long as you don't get infatuated with the stats.


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[Assistant] Cause there's guys on here that we're not going to talk about that had some of the best stats and the best separation rates and all the college football and all that. And I want to go, that's fine, but stats and separation and all that can be created by an offense and a good offensive game planner and a play caller that way.


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[Assistant] To where that can give that receiver a huge advantage.


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[Assistant] Well, I think the first thing that I always look for more than anything is just pure explosion. You know, speed, explosion, acceleration.


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[Assistant] Like, are there traits there that make that player special that way? You know, I think that's the first thing I always look at. Now it's not the end-all be-all.


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[Assistant] Now if a guy has, okay, it's not A plus speed and A plus acceleration, but it's A minus, or B plus,


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[Assistant] But he's got A plus size and the ability to catch the ball in traffic, you know, then you balance it out. Like T Higgins last year. I wasn't sitting there going, oh wow, he's so fast and explosive, this is unbelievable. But I went, he's fast, he'll scare you.


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[Assistant] He catches the ball and can turn up field pretty quick. That's pretty good. Ooh. And damn, he's a giant out there. So even when he's covered, he's not covered. And then you have to balance it out that way. But I think the first thing I always start with


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[Assistant] It's just the ability to separate you, you, not, not the offense for you, not they moved you around and put you in the slot behind somebody and you got the benefit of the creative game planning for that perfect coverage to catch the ball that way.


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[Assistant] Can you separate? Can you run away from people? You know, can you come out of breaks and reaccelerate that way? That's what I look for more than anything. And then you start to take in the size and the ability to catch 50-50 balls and their adjustments. I think you go from there and start to piece it together.


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[Assistant] I talked about, like, everybody kept, when I would get done explaining, people would go, you talk like Justin Jefferson's your number one. And I was like, you know, I kinda do, you're right. It was very close between him and C.D. Lamb. Now, looking back at it, Justin Jefferson, I should have been one. C.D. Lamb was really good. There's no doubt.


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[Assistant] But I do also think CD Lam was a little bit of a benefactor of playing in the Big 12 in a wide open offense and a good quarterback and he's had other talent around him.


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[Assistant] To where it wasn't the same for Justin Jefferson. So that's where if you had to make me re-evaluate, I would go yeaah, Jefferson should be one.


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[Assistant] I let the circumstances like I do every year a little bit. And I'm not doing it this year. I'm going to have somebody in here that I think is going to surprise people in the top five.


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[Assistant] But yea, you'd heard me, I talked about Chase Claypool all year.


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[Assistant] I was telling friends around the NFL, he's a number one, he's a first round picket wide receiver.


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[Assistant] And all, I let some of the factors we just talked about about not evaluating wide receivers and things like that influence me. And then, you know, hearing where other people might have them and all that. I'm, I'm, I'm so mad at myself when I do that. But I would say what I'm more disappointed with that I didn't have him in there, right?


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[Assistant] Uh, Shanahan, 49ers pick. That is probably the other one I wish I probably would have had in there too. I mean, just to look after the evaluation and everything like that. But, you know, I really like KJ Hamler and I'm not giving up on him yet. I still think he could be a star.


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[Assistant] That he was at least the one or two, the top two receivers. I think that's, you know, whether he deserved to be in my top five or not. Hey, let's, let's see how the year plays out or the next year. But you know, I think at least I was justified in not having him in the top three for sure. So I'm going to give you for last year. Thanks.


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[Assistant] Uh, number six is gonna be Terrace Marshall Jr. AKA Justin Jefferson Jr. a little bit coming out of LSU. You know, really interesting prospect, first off. A lot of similarities to Justin Jefferson. Not quite the same player, you know, I'm not as high on the guy overall.


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[Assistant] When you look at the player altogether, there's not, there's not much not to like. I mean, first off, he can do it all.


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[Assistant] And when I say that, I mean, hey, he's got size 6'3", 200. And when I say he can do it all, I mean,