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[Assistant] They do. Last thing, last thing and we'll move to the other side of the ball. I do think this and this, I'm going to say this because these are bold statements, okay? I do think Drew Brees is aware of his lack of arm strength. Like you know, some of those three man rushes where I go,


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[Assistant] Man, you gotta smash that curl route in there. I know it's tight. I think he's very aware, like, ooh, I don't know if I can get that in there. So I'm gonna be conservative that way. And I'll say this last thing, because Drew Brees is tough as hell. And I respect him that way so much.


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[Assistant] It was about as flustered as I've ever seen him be in a game. I saw him...


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[Assistant] Damn, every time I've dropped back this year, this has been open. And now, what the hell do I do from here? I just, I never really saw that from Drew B's in a long, long time. And it just reared its ugly head. They'll get back right. It was a bad game by them in general. Coming off of Bideweek, reading your press clippings, everybody's telling you, you might be one of the best teams in the NFL. Uh, I expect them to bounce back.


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[Assistant] Yes. And allowed Matt to do just enough. Just enough, right. I mean, they kind of went with like, I almost want to say it was like the Oakland Raiders game plan. Let's run the ball. High, high percentage completions. We're not going to take any chances.


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[Assistant] You know, had the one deep pass to Julio Jones on the deep cross right after Lattimore got hurt. That was really the only big explosive pass by the game, right? I mean, I can't really think of another one, but I think you kind of hit it.


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[Assistant] And the one thing I liked, especially early, they didn't try to run up the middle on the Saints.


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[Assistant] You know, you're not gonna win that battle. You're not gonna run up the middle against the New Orleans Saints. Calvin Ridley got one off the edge, you know. They did a few of those, oh, you know, Matt Ryan, he comes out on the center and acts like he's in a toss sweep, but they flip it out the backside. You know, they did some of that to keep


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[Assistant] The Saints from just overpowering them at the middle. And if there's a weakness to the Saints defense, I would say it's their speed in their front seven. They are not fast. They're big and powerful. They are not fast. And the teams that have run on them have run on the edge.


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[Assistant] I think you kinda said it. They just played smart football. The Saints killed themselves.


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[Assistant] Uhm, with some special team stuff, okay, they let up a, a big punt return, uh, at one point where that gave the short field to the Atlanta Falcons early on, uh, and that ended up being a field goal drive, I believe.


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[Assistant] So they had that, and then they also had, what am I missing on this? They had another, they had a block, was it a block?


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[Assistant] Uhm, hold on, I wrote this down somewhere and I just can't remember. Oh, they're roughing the punter.


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[Assistant] You know, those are, those played factors in the game. They're roughing the punter that led to the score going from 20 to 9 to 23 to 9. That was big.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but really, more than less, it was a complete game and a cohesive game plan by the Falcons. A lot like, let's just say, the Colts playing the Chiefs on Sunday Night Football a long time ago. Let's run the ball, let's control the clock.


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[Assistant] Let's keep their offense off the field. They never really gotten rhythm. And they kind of just slow death the Saints that way. And that's ultimately what it was.


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[Assistant] And you're right about the Matt Ryan. The Matt Ryan runs, he had a fourth and four run. He had a third and thirteen run, I believe, I want to say. Or it was a third and nine at the twenty. It was thirteen to nine. Okay, this was a big run.


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[Assistant] And he, at the 20 yard line, and he ran and got a conversion, okay? Which led, uhm, to them scoring a touchdown a few plays later. Yeaah. So that's, those are huge. With a bad ankle in his thirties. Yeaah. And they couldn't get off the field, uh, on some of those drives. And I mean, the time of possession.


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[Assistant] What? 33? 33? That's probably worse than that. I thought it was actually worse than that. Sometimes that's that.


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[Assistant] Well, I know. Well, people- That looks pretty good. Well, I know. It's one week, but the Saints are 2-2 with Drew Brees. They're 5-0 with Teddy Bridgewater. Now, again,


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[Assistant] Drew Brees, I don't sit here like going like, oh I'm happy to put up a 12 and make him


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[Assistant] Uh, yes, this is, you know, again, some of the stuff I see from this offense, I don't sit here and just go, oh my gosh, Drew B's, Drew B's, Drew B's. I go, yo, Teddy Bridgewater did it too. And there's a lot of other quarterbacks that if you put in that same offense, they would do the same stuff. So I'm not going to sit here and just hold it into high regard all the time.


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[Assistant] And uh, yeaah, so I feel confident about that. That was good. Yeaah. We're just warming up though.


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[Assistant] We like to point out when things, you know. Well yeah, I mean, everybody likes to shit on me when I'm wrong, so I gotta, if I, if we don't stick up for me, then who the fuck's gonna stick up for me? I mean, that's really all it comes down to. Right. But uhm, yeah. I mean, I think you saw, again, Philip Rivers is still really good. And Jared Goff is still really good. It's not about that.


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[Assistant] To me, the biggest thing again, would like Philip Rivers. We'll go into that a little bit. See, what scares me with Philip Rivers is...


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[Assistant] He's, he's tough as hell, will hang in the pocket all day long.


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[Assistant] Like a Tom Brady, but there's a difference. Tom Brady still has a 100 mile per hour fastball. So Tom Brady doesn't need to throw the ball before the guy comes out of the break. He can sit there and go, ooh, he's come out of the break, I'm gonna rifle it in now. Bam.


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[Assistant] Philip Rivers, on the other hand, has to do it. When he has pressure, he doesn't move that well, he can't run to extend plays, so he has to do it with timing, and, ooh, he should come out here soon, so I'm gonna lay the ball into this little zone area, and hopefully, oh, the receiver slipped, oh, interception. You know, things like that.


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[Assistant] Too many mistakes at times for Philip Rivers for me to put him in the top 16. That's really all it comes down to.


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[Assistant] You know, that's really all it is, let alone with Jared Goff, the thing I would say there is, you know, again, he's being paid like he's one of the best players in the game.


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[Assistant] You know, and which is erroneous, and NFL GMs need to be like, held accountable to some of this stuff anyways. Like, they should offer them 28 million. I've been like, who else wants to offer them more out there in the NFL? Anybody else gonna offer them 35 million?


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[Assistant] You know, I would have liked to have seen that put to a test. But, I mean, somebody probably would have matched. Maybe. I mean, you're putting that on a, you're putting that on a...


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[Assistant] A maybe scale. You're probably right because right now that's the going rate. But my point is, just with like a Jared Goff, again, he's not the type of talent that is going to take over games when things aren't going good. That's my only thing. That's fair. I think Jeremy Garoppolo and Derek Carr and some of those can make more out of less than Jared Goff can.


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[Assistant] They're looking decent. Well, they're, they're, you know, just to get into that. I mean, just think about that game back on Thursday night. You know, I mean.


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[Assistant] Again, I'm not trying to take anything away from him. 21 completions for 218 yards. I mean, they run the ball. It's high percentage passes and then, I mean, I can only, I only remember one pass the whole game over 20 yards in the air. That was a Darren Waller throw. But it doesn't take anything away from him. He's still doing really good.


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[Assistant] It's a catchy little beat right there. I give some people the middle finger and the offices over there. Your hockey crew.


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[Assistant] Yes, yeaah, I know. That's why I don't have to deal with them, so I can give them the middle finger.


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[Assistant] I mean, let's start off with the man, the myth, the legend.


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[Assistant] I mean, let's just go to it. Can we so, can we show the shades first off, right off with Lamar Jackson? I mean, damn. Okay.


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[Assistant] Well no, he can only wear Oakley. He can, well on the sidelines, he can only wear Oakley. That's the only NFL mandated shades. So he has to wear Oakley, okay? Ball, or he's gonna get fined. They have a number of different styles. Yes, they do, you're right. But either way, I mean, they were having fun, and...


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[Assistant] Come on, that run yesterday? I know. Insane in the membrane. Yeah. I mean, that is like, redonkulous, okay? Not ridiculous, redonkulous. Would you like better that?


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[Assistant] Out of this world rare. Like, I mean, other than Michael Vick, nobody makes a run like that in the history of the game. Nobody.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I think he's quicker than Michael Vick. I don't think he's as fast as Michael Vick straight away. He didn't run his power. He's not as powerful. Yeah, Michael Vick had some acid legs on him. And I mean, he was like, I mean, Michael Vick was the fastest guy in the field. He was arguably the fastest guy in the NFL for a four or five year period. Lamar Jackson's really fast.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I'm not, he's not faster than Tyree Kill and some of the other guys in the league right now. You know, I take Jalen Ramsey in a race too, like some of those top end corners, but still, unreal what he did yesterday.


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[Assistant] The running, the throwing, all of it, and it's all based around him and his skill set. And it's, you know, the thing I like about Lamar, I don't know how much you like, and again, it wasn't a game I was like totally tuned in at 1 o'clock, but you know, 15 for 17, the use of


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[Assistant] You know, how many, you talk about a guy who can deliver from different platforms. I know, right? You know, so again, we can sit there sometimes with Lamar Jackson and go, oh, he missed that throw. But I want to go, well, let's watch the film because I'll show you three throws or four throws that nobody, only like a short list of people are going to hit these throws and he hits them too. So that's got to count for something as well.


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[Assistant] But, and then Deshaun Watson with his bye week, and then Aaron Rodgers not having like a great day yesterday. I mean, Lamar's the leader in the clubhouse right now. I don't think you can deny it. I don't care what his numbers are gonna look like at the end of the year. The bottom line is, every game I come away watching the Ravens,


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[Assistant] The three or four biggest plays of the game are made by Lamar Jackson on either side of the ball. So, whether the team he's playing or it's his team, he is making the biggest plays of the game, which more times than not is leading them winning football games.


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[Assistant] See, that just tells you I'm not looking at the stats. I'm kind of just watching the game. That's phenomenal. So Ivy League, way to go. There's, there's some players in the Ivy League. I mean, we're going to see Juice, uh, you know, Juice check tonight at a Harvard for the 49ers. He's back healthy at fullback.


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[Assistant] Ryan Flores. Oh, they're tanking for Tua. They're gonna lose every game deliberately. Somebody needs to tell the offense coaching staff then because they're still coaching the shit out of their team. I mean, they're not giving up. I mean, that's where I just, you know, I know those guys. I worked with those guys in New England. They're psychos.


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[Assistant] Hard ass psychos will fight players in the locker room if you don't like.


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[Assistant] Go at it and like work hard and be detailed every day. They're not giving up.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, give them a lot of credit yesterday. I mean, fours had the defense making plays. Uh, Ryan Fitzpatrick makes a few plays and they win an ugly one against the Colts. But there they are. It's really three weeks in a row. They had the Steelers on the ropes. Then they win last week, of course, and get another win here now.


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[Assistant] Somebody needs to tell them they're tanking. They're losing their spot at the top of the draft.


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[Assistant] We're the coaches. The coaches, like, it's, nobody's gonna, when, if Brian Flores gets fired five years from now, nobody's gonna go, oh, that year he went over 16, they were deliberately losing.


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[Assistant] But he can be a starter in the NFL, I do think that. I don't think he's a first round talent though.


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[Assistant] Leading the Ivy League. Oh, so Yale-Harvard this year, or Yale-Harvard is not going to be as big. Yale and Dartmouth are undefeated though, right?


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[Assistant] Damn, I just, just, uuuh. Damn Jets. I used to hurt me when I was a kid. Black uniforms are bad. I don't like them. Yea. I mean, you're the Jets. That's not what you wear. You're green and white. The green helmets look good. Yup, alright. Roto-World, okay, Football Podcast, those knuckleheads over there.


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[Assistant] Just listen to the Roto World Football Podcast. They'll get you right. They got it all covered.


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[Assistant] Uh, I talked to them throughout the building, you know, throughout the week. They're always walking around here. Good dudes, funny. I'm gonna bust in on their show on a Sunday one day. I've been warning them it's going to happen, but they will have you covered of who to start, who to sit.


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[Assistant] What are you gonna add if you don't care? Just your personality? Well, no, what do you mean? Oh, I'm gonna bust into the show and just rag on them and just ruin the flow of the show. I'm not gonna add anything other than like...


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[Assistant] You know. Disruption. Yeah, putting Josh Norris in like a, uh, uh, just giving him like a, what do I want to call that? Such a nice guy. Knucklehead.


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[Assistant] Nuggy, I couldn't think of the damn word. Yeah, nuggy, yeah. I'm gonna give him that, right. I'm gonna give him that. Alright, that's fair. Alright, you ready? Yeah.


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[Assistant] There we go, we got, uh, we got Chief's Titans next, and we're gonna play a little big, uh, Big Red Andy Reid, uh, post-game press conference first.


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[Assistant] How do they lose that game? Yeah, because, like, when you have those kind of numbers, right, you're not supposed to kick four field goals. That's the biggest difference. I mean, Titan scored five touchdowns, you know, the Chiefs scored three touchdowns and kicked four field goals, let alone didn't even get to attempt one because of a botched snap, and then of course had the one blocked at the end of the game.


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[Assistant] You know, hey, first off, just go to the end of the game. They're up by five points. They're about to kick a field goal and you're going to go the game's over. I don't know who messed up, the center or the holder. Either way, the ball was snapped when the holder was not ready for it to be snapped.


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[Assistant] Ro- like, roll to the right, throw an inside tight end screen, right? That's really what they were going to do. And, uhm,


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[Assistant] It wasn't there. So then he takes it. He lost five yards. So that, that took them from the 24 yard line back to the 29 yard line.


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[Assistant] They were just, they were gonna make Tennessee use that last timeout. They had one timeout left, and I'm sure Andy said, like, listen, if they don't, if you don't like it, fall down, so they have to use that last timeout, cause he's thinking, okay, we're gonna make the field load and go up by eight, and now they're gonna have to drive the field with no timeouts to score a touchdown.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a two-scorer game because you gotta score twice. It's called a two-point conversion. I hate everybody crying to say that. You know, you gotta score a touchdown and then you gotta score another touchdown. One possession. It's a one possession game. I like that. Okay.


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[Assistant] Yes, I get you, but I still like the chances of that rather than trusting my defense who was kind of falling apart a little bit at the second half. I think that's probably where he's scared.


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[Assistant] I think he, that's just not the way that, I'm not gonna like micromanage that situation too badly. He's gonna play aggressive. If I'm gonna complain about what I saw there at the end of the game, I'm gonna go, they ran the ball great between the tackles all day. Just run the f*** off the middle. It's third and two. Like if that's what you're gonna do, run it up the middle. You've had success there.


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[Assistant] And that's the only complaint I would have about that little scenario there. Uh, that's the big thing. I mean, the game was a blast to watch because Patrick Mahomes


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[Assistant] I'm with you, Steph Curry, it's almost like him watching him shoot in threes. You're just like, damn, did he just shoot that one out of that kind of like technique? Damn, splash. Like, oh, it's the same kind of thing. They just have tremendous feel, tremendous hand, hand and wrist. It's something my dad and I talk about a lot because you gotta make a lot of throws like that in the NFL.


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[Assistant] There's things alike about what they did offensively. You heard me say, their biggest problem is they settled for field goals. Listen, they're not there to settle for field goals. They got a lot of money and assets invested in that offensive side of the ball. They need to score touchdowns.


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[Assistant] I can't say anything down in the red area where I was like, you know, Tennessee's smart. They're pretty well coached on the defensive side of the ball. So, you know, those are New England guys. When you get down there close, they're not going to like give you one on one opportunities. They're going to drop people in coverage. They're going to double the right players more times than not. Uhm, but really,


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[Assistant] This, this one part of the game, and this is, Kansas City's built to come out.


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[Assistant] And overwhelm you with holy cow, plays, speed, his arm. Oh, we got him stopped. It didn't matter. He scrambled and still makes a great play. They overwhelm you. The greatness of what they did last year is more times than not, they put teams behind the eight ball before they like broke a sweat. They were like, oh,


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[Assistant] Damn, we're down 20 to nothing? I've just got warmed up. Like, and now you don't get to play your game. And they had Tennessee on the ropes. They're up 10 to nothing, okay? Now they had, you know, penalties, like there's no excuse. You know, they get a turnover.


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[Assistant] Uh, early in the game, they got the ball on the 8, uh, on the 8 yard line, right? Was it the 8 yard line or was it a 4 play 8 yard drive to enter the 30 yard field goal? And I can't remember, hold on, I got too many damn thoughts going through my head. How did they get that ball down there? It's gonna drive me crazy. I gotta look real quick, sorry everybody. Gotta be patient with me, one second. At what point of the game is it early? Here we go.


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[Assistant] Early, because Tennessee, oh, Chris Jones forces a fumble on Ryan Tannehill's sack. They got the short field. They're in first and 10 on the 20. They only get 8 yards, they don't get a first down, they gotta kick a field goal. Like that's a big moment to me, so they're up 10-0.


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[Assistant] Now, yeaah, I'd like to see that 14-0, but either way it's 10-0, and they didn't get 10-0, they stayed at 10-0, because, penalties! Right? It kept, it kept, penalties, penalties. Touchdown called back. Touchdown called back. Had a great, a screenplay to Travis Kelce that got him down as like second and short. That got called back.


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[Assistant] They had to basically battle just to make it get into a field goal position. But you're up 10-0. They get another stop on the Tennessee Titans. They got the ball around, I'm going to say their own 46, 47 yard line. And they have a third and 10.


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[Assistant] And I'm gonna take it back to two plays before that, okay? I'm just gonna read it verbatim here.


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[Assistant] Okay, I've liked some of the things I've seen from Kansas City early on. They're putting the homes underneath the center. They're running the play action passes that Matt Moore was doing that I went, wow. You asked for that. I asked for it. Like I want to see seven and eight man protections to let those dudes run downfield and make things happen. But here they are up 10 nothing and


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[Assistant] M'homes at this point, he has two plays where I go, man, Patrick M'homes almost any Sunday I've seen hits these plays and the game breaks wide open. And he on the first one, and I believe this was on first and 10, he's got a max protect and


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[Assistant] Tyree kill running a post down the middle of the field, they do a little play action, Sammy Watkins running a go up the right sidelines, he throws to either one, I mean he throws to Sammy Watkins, he's gonna walk in, he throws a deep ball to Tyree kill and overthrows him. Okay, they missed that, damn, alright. Second down, I think they ran, it doesn't really matter, who gives a shit. Third down,


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[Assistant] Tennessee brings the Max Blitz. They got two receivers to the right again. It's Hill and Watkins. Okay, they Max Protect again. Man, they got him.


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[Assistant] Mahomes fades away. They run, basically for everybody out there listening, they got Sammy, I mean Tyreek in the slot to the right, Sammy's outside of him. Tyreek runs a straight go route, Sammy Watkins is gonna run the in-cut. The defenders run into each other. Wide open. He's wide open. I mean he hits him, it might be a touchdown. He overthrows it, they have to punt the ball,


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[Assistant] Ryan Tannehill throws a bomb the next play, that first is a touchdown, but then they rule him down to 20, they score a touchdown a few plays there, the game was never the same.


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[Assistant] That's what the magic of them last year was. They took teams out of what they wanted to do because you're going...


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[Assistant] We're down 20 to nothing. We can't like be patient with the run game now. The game's going to be over by the time we get the run game going. Right. So that's, that's the greatness of what they do. But when they settle for field goals and miss those opportunities, yeah, eventually, uh, their defense broke and all of that. But I, I really think as a whole, again, I mean, he was so fun to watch. Damian Williams fumbling.


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[Assistant] You know, and then Rashad Evans picking it up for a 53 yard touchdown return. I mean, there, so it was 10 to 7, you know, and now the next drive, they fumble and now all of a sudden in a game where they were up 10-0 and about to knock them out because the Titans are wobbly on the ropes. I mean, it's like, damn, they're on the ropes. They're about to go down.


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[Assistant] And all of a sudden it's boom boom, they connected with a few punches and all of a sudden, oh shit, I'm back in a fight.


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[Assistant] And yeah, it went from bomb to touchdown two plays later, fumbled by Damian Williams. Holy shit, we're losing 13 to 10. How did that happen? Right. And they missed an extra point.


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[Assistant] Later on, you know, you had the two field goal botches at the end and that's how you lose a football game in the NFL. It's textbook right there. It's how you blow a football game when really they were the better team on the field.


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[Assistant] Right, well they're, you know, like we said, so the Titans holding them to field goals, kind of let them hang around, find their rhythm. Tannenhill, I came away looking at the game going, I mean, when Tannenhill had somewhere to throw it.


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[Assistant] You know, there'd be a few slam dunk completions every game where I'd go, damn, he missed that. Like, you can't miss that 20 yard out route right there. Tana Hill doesn't miss those. And like, I know it doesn't seem like a big deal, but in the context of close NFL football games, they do, they are a big deal. So uhm, I, I look at it like this.


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[Assistant] They actually did some very good things on the defensive side of the ball. I mean, it wasn't like they were blown out of the water. It was 371 yards and Tennessee got a lot of them on like the last drive of the game.


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[Assistant] The run game fits were an issue. They did actually a very good job in the pass game.


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[Assistant] Until that last drive, really. The last two drives.


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[Assistant] Tannahill's running beat them cause they got caught in some like, oh we're gonna play man robber, where it's man across the board everywhere, the two safeties.


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[Assistant] One goes, like kinda plays the middle of the field, the other one goes deep. So when you play those coverages, there's nobody there for the quarterback. Can't help but enough football to go, hey, they got nobody for me. I'm gonna tuck it if nobody's open.


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[Assistant] You know, there's another time they played two-man. Same thing, man across the board, but now the two safeties are deep.


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[Assistant] And he realized, oh, everybody's covered, there's a little lane, I'm gonna rip it off and make a nice run. How did Derrick Henry have that long of a touchdown run? Okay, so, this is the play. It's like what I would call, and John Gruden's offensive would be 97 boss, alright, back on support.


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[Assistant] And, it's eye formation. It's eye formation, tight end to the right, they motion the tight end across to the left side, and they basically run outside zone to the left.


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[Assistant] What happens here, and again, this is tough because I like this, they got Chris Jones at DN.


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[Assistant] The linebackers kick too far over that way as well, to where the weak side linebacker, Reggie Ragland, is head up. He's the weak linebacker, he's head up basically with the center. So can you picture that in your head, right?


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[Assistant] You have all three linebackers, if you're the quarterback and you're looking at the defense, all three linebackers are from the center to the left. You're overplaying your alignment right off the bat. And any smart running back's gonna go, the cutback might be there.


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[Assistant] It's double there when Chris Jones is 309 pounds all of a sudden has a gap again that's like 10 yards wide and he couldn't close it down far enough. So he didn't close it down and left a cutback lane for Derrick Henry. It looked kind of like the one from last week.


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[Assistant] And then they rotated really late, so Juan Hornthill, Thornhill, is rotating to get back in pass coverage, and now he sees the cutback, and he's trying to stop his breaks. Let me try to make a tackle, and good luck trying to come downhill, out of control, making a tackle against that beast.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they, they mashed them a little bit. Uhm, just as far as 12 and 13 personnel, which is one back two tight ends, one back three tight ends, they even did some 13 heavy, where they make like one of the tight ends as the extra offensive tackle, right? So you got six offensive linemen in and two tight ends, and they kind of just mauled them and pushed them back.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that really, that was really like, that was all I could really say as far as that is concerned in the run game. It's just kinda, they just kinda push them around more times than not in the run game, especially in the second half.


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[Assistant] That's really, cause he only had 49 yards at halftime. So, he had what, what does that equal? 139 yards in the second half? I mean, that's, that's just, uh, that was just pure domination, let alone, like you were saying, when he gets downhill steam,


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[Assistant] You know, linebacker arm tackles, no way. Linebacker is squaring him up. He's still gonna fall forward for three yards. There was a lot of that. And I think that was the big thing. I'm not as...


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[Assistant] I wasn't as concerned with the Chief's defense as I thought I was gonna be as I watched the film. What'd you think of Ryan Tannehill? Tannehill just, you know, he just knows how to play quarterback better than Marcus Mariota and, uh, I think his runs and the big post throw and the drive was phenomenal.


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[Assistant] And which is a great run too. While we're in his shoulder, tough, but yeah, he, he, his experience, he knew, ooh, okay, they're in those coverages we talked about, two man, man robber, where he knew nobody was there to account for him, and he's fast. I mean, he's...


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[Assistant] A 4-5 guy coming out of college. I mean, he went to Texas A&M. And here we go. Here's the play that won the game. Okay?


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[Assistant] Here it is, it's just four verticals. It's two-man coverage.


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[Assistant] Okay, and the play before this was the same exact play except he hit the tight end on the right side and then the next play they came back and said let's do it again.


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[Assistant] And they did it again, and as you see, the zebra slot receiver, anybody who's watching on YouTube, like Adam Humphries was in the slot to the left, it's two-man, so it's man-to-man underneath. You got the four corners covering the four receivers, a linebacker on the halfback, and Adam Humphries, go ahead, John-O-McDonald, look at it, look at that beauty drawn there.


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[Assistant] How are you holding that thing? I don't know. I'm a lefty. Everything's messed up. But he basically runs the four verticals but does a great job of like acting like he might run a little of the out route, turn to the shoulders and then hit it back to the middle.


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[Assistant] Exactly right, that's exactly what he is. But you're right, it was one scramble on the last drive, it was a scramble the drive before, so he had a scramble, and then two, four vertical plays,


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[Assistant] And, uh, they score in a four play drive. I mean, that's insane to do that. He scrambled left for 18 yards, he threw an incomplete pass, which was a great throw to AJ Brown, who dropped it down the left sideline. And then he throws the seam to the right.


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[Assistant] Uh, to Ferxer, Ferxer, I think, and then left to Adam Humphrey's touchdown, and then, hey, Kansas City still got down the field.


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[Assistant] And had a chance. I mean, just, just unbelievable. My big takeaway from that, again, the Chiefs are not going to be world beaters on defense.


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[Assistant] I still am not just like, oh they're horrible, horrible. They actually were all over the pass game for the most part of the day. This game came down to like, misalignment by the linebackers in some of those run plays. I talked to you about how they kicked them over and did things like that. There was a few times they lined up and I just went,


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[Assistant] I don't know how you defend the backside, you know, guard tackle gap. How, the weak side linebacker so far kicked over strong that


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[Assistant] There's nobody there. I mean, how can he get there if they just run straight downhill? There was a few of those runs where I just questioned the alignment of the linebackers by the Chiefs. And I'm sure that's how they were coached. They weren't just doing this. There was something in the game planning that week where they wanted them to kick over. And they just never readjusted after that.


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[Assistant] You know, hey, it's like the old New England philosophy. We score touchdowns, you kick field goals. We score touchdowns, you kick field goals.


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[Assistant] You know, again, you know, their defense getting run on a little bit, you know, but the offense has got to help out too. That's the one thing just week after week. I mean, you know, it just, it's just not enough consistency, you know, and, you know, Josh Allen's still raw and learning on the fly. Not that he played bad yesterday.


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[Assistant] You know, the run game too. I'm just, I don't like their running backs. That's my big problem with Buffalo too. They want to run the ball and I want to go, you don't have a runner that's faster than 4-7. Right. So it's hard to be really good at running the ball when all your running backs are slow. But good for Cleveland and we'll see. I mean, Buffalo is one of those teams you just look at and they go, can they hang on?


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[Assistant] Yes. It's like, can the defense good? Will Josh Allen make a mistake or make the big play to help them win it? It's like, I don't know which one it's gonna, which one it's gonna be.


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[Assistant] Thank God Stafford got hurt. I mean, yeaah, they lose to Stafford's plan. I don't have any doubt about that. They're often still as shitty yesterday.


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[Assistant] Can we sustain a drive? Can we get some rest? Can we get some help at some point? You know, they just die out at the end of every game. They're up 20 to 6, they're just dying because they're like, we're on the field the whole damn game. Here's an official number for you guys.


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[Assistant] That was about that. I mean, it was clearly passed. I was, you know, there's a reason they tried to convert him to a receiver last year, okay?


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[Assistant] He can't throw. There was chances there. It was there for the Lions. The staffer thing shocked me, uh, in general. But I mean, again, look at the Bears offense. Now, they're 2 for 12 on third down, 226 yards of offense. They really only had two drives the whole game.


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[Assistant] Okay, they really only had one, and it was the 10-play 80-yard drive.


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[Assistant] And he threw the touchdown pass to the tight end brown-necker or whatever. Okay? Other than that, it was, or no, it was two drives, I'm right. They had the other drive for a touchdown that gave them 13, and then Driscoll threw a really bad interception, backed up to start the third quarter, and that's how they got their third touchdown. But they're off, I still don't, the Bears,


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[Assistant] Yeah, he will stand in there and too long. Like there's times where I want to go, man, it's over, tuck it, run, move, do something. They're not coming open. You've been sitting there for six seconds. Like do it. But either way, he is proven that he is, he is a hell of a quarterback and he is a hell of a thrower. My headline would be, would be,


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[Assistant] The best football player in New York right now is Jamal Adams, okay, because of what he did yesterday. And hey, listen, he's a little bit of a, you know, you know, hot-headed times, what he says.


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[Assistant] You know, the sacks, the strip sack fumble for a touchdown, the fourth and one tackle he had, those were game changing, momentum changing type plays that were big time. And I think he kind of just reminded everybody like, hey, Saquon's good, Daniela Jones is good.


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[Assistant] What do I want to say? Persistence or like want to to do it too much? Uh, that's frustrating to me. I do think they're getting a little enamored with Daniel Jones throwing the ball all the time. And he's a great thrower. I get it. He's pinpoint. He throws perfect spirals. He can push it down the field. All those things. But they gotta find ways to get, uh, Saquon the ball more. But damn Jets.


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[Assistant] He is. Yes, he is. He's saying eat something. He's saying eat store high and transit. Did you know that? That's what it stands for? Really? Store high and transit. You just made that up. No, I did not. 100%.


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[Assistant] No? I promise you. I know, I promise you. I'm right on that one. Now I always thought fornication under consent of king. That's wrong. Somebody made that up.


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[Assistant] Yes. It's a fun watch. It was a fun watch. I had my eyes glued to it a number of times because it did. It was up and down the field, you know, Kyler, making it sloppy. I mean a fourth and one, he's going to throw a wide open touchdown pass to a tight end on a fourth and one. He loses in the sun and barely touches the ball. Uh,


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[Assistant] I guess, you know, two aggressive offenses. I think that was the fun thing about it. Just high flying football. Like, what situations? Forget that. We're throwing at 40 yards here. Uh, and the unforgotten


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[Assistant] Arguably best receiver in football again, just makes so many big plays. And Mike Evans, I mean, he's a freak show. The Bucks are wonderful to watch.


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[Assistant] You're right, cause they're, they're never bashful about throwing bombs, trying things like that, and their defense is gonna give up plays in a hurry too, so you're gonna see their offense back on the field in like four minutes, so you're gonna be, oh, they're back on, here they go, they're throwing deep to Mike Evans, and Kyla Murray is...


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[Assistant] We haven't hit him once. He's special. There's just no other way to say it. Like if that team was better, we would really be hitting him more and more. But some of the plays and throws he has on the run every week make my jaw drop. And he made some plays yesterday.


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[Assistant] You know, that system is still finding itself. He's making the system better than the system's making him at this point, certainly. Because a lot of times they just go, oh, you know, oh, it's, it's man to man. We just expect you to hit the guy 40 yards down the field on the money. And he goes, okay, no problem. Zoom! And he throws it. So, that's that.


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[Assistant] It's crazy. He's, you know, he's got a little of that like Aaron Rodgers in him where he's a gunslinger, but he has some great way of being able to take care of the football while being a gunslinger, which is very rare to play that style of football.


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[Assistant] And be that smart. But man, some of the throws and passes he had to Christian Kirk and things like that were just off the charts good. He's a special, special player.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I, I get that. I mean, I guess what else is he gonna say, right?


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[Assistant] Right. It was big, but like the two interceptions were Jameis' fault.


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[Assistant] You know, I mean, they were his fault. He tried to jam a ball in the middle of two people in the middle of the field and then tried to throw an out-route into a guy that was covered from get-go. And he just said, I'll throw it. And it got intercepted.


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[Assistant] It's just as bad as really bad. And that's where, you know, he frustrates you. If they end up under 500, it's hard to, it's hard to imagine that he will get paid. Who you got? Niners, Seahawks tonight. Who you got kid? Who you got? Who you got? I'm going Seahawks. You're going Seahawks. I'm going Seahawks. How dare you? Against your guys. I know. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think so. No. I don't. I think it's a bad matchup for them. Why? Why is it bad for them? Because, uh, Seahawks defense not great.


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[Assistant] They gotta worry about this 49ers offense, I think that's Strugglesville, and this is not the kind of game, I don't think the Seattle running game's gonna get going, and I don't think it's the kind of game Russell Wilson can take over. Not with Bosa and Ford on the edge, and that D-line, I think they can like, slow him down to where he just can't totally take it over.


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[Assistant] I can see that. That's understandable. I'm going to do that. I'm going to give it a scrub. Yep. And then go, okay, now you're clean. Mr. Lombardi, come into the bed with me.


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[Assistant] It's a big one, the NFL season, the hundredth one is in the books. We had a, I mean an awesome last day. Not a whole lot of meaningful games, but the games that were meaningful.


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[Assistant] I did a little deep dive into a few plays and situations throughout.


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[Assistant] You're right. Uh, we'll do a little wild card round first, uh, first look, right? And, uh, I'm pumped about that. My first thought right away is I'm just so happy as a football fan because I think the 12 best teams are in the playoffs. I think the 6 best teams in the NFC and the 6 best teams in the AFC are in, which always means better viewing, more fun.


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[Assistant] And of course, I'm always rooting for the best final 8, best final 4, best final 2 for viewing purposes. I just want to see it that way. So, uh, that's all in play right now. And uhm, let's get to it. Got anything else you want to say?


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[Assistant] And that's all there is to it. And then the 49ers have these great game plan offensive plays where you look at that game last night. Ahmed, I know you're watching, you like the 49ers. I mean, think about how many times


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[Assistant] You know, Kyle Shanahan designed a play to where either the receiver is wide open or


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[Assistant] Holy cow, the running back is 10 yards downfield and nobody's touched him yet. I mean, that to me is what great coaching is. Shanahan takes the pressure off the players at times to where, you know, they get in space and then all of a sudden they can continue to apply pressure. But to your point, you know, they kicked field goals early on and didn't score touchdowns and


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[Assistant] I agree. You know, the one thing I'll say about the Seahawks, they always fight and compete and hit hard and that's Pete Carroll and all that. But I just watched the second half of that football game and going like, huh.


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[Assistant] I wonder if Russell Wilson or the Seahawks cracked the code of what San Francisco was doing and found, and no, not really. No, they didn't, you know. Did they have a little bit better feel of maybe how the 49ers were attacking them? Sure, but at the end of the day, really what happened in the second half is Russell Wilson just started being Russell Wilson.


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[Assistant] You know, he started moving around in the pocket, made a crazy, the first touchdown pass, come on. I mean, running around in the pocket, running up into the pocket, then throwing a 25 yard laser into the back of the end zone to a guy who was pretty tightly covered. I mean, that's really all I chalk it up to. It's not great run game, like you're saying, they got injuries, all that. I don't watch the Seahawks and go, ooh wow.


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[Assistant] I mean, they are really doing some awesome stuff in the pass game. No, they don't. They're very basic. And it's on Russell Wilson and their players to make the plays. And yeah, I mean that's really all it came down to.


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[Assistant] There's none. I don't know. They saw Germana Fetty down. You're like, you and I talked about this a few minutes ago, cause I haven't heard Pete Carroll's explanation yet either. But Germana Fetty's down. He runs up the line of scrimmage. Okay?


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[Assistant] You know, at that point, when you see that he's 25 yards down the, down the field, you know, at some point, you would think the backup tackle is right there by the coach, like, okay, I gotta go in. You know, the coaches are, hey, you know, whoever you are, you gotta go in. They snap, you know, they snap the ball, they spike it.


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[Assistant] And it wasn't the right way and they took their time after they spiked the ball and to me what's more even more crazy is George Fant never even came out of the game. So he continued to play.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I just went back to double check that cause I was like, I'm pretty sure he was still in there. Let me just double check that one more time. Right. But uhm, yeaah, obviously weren't totally prepared to get the first down and what they were gonna do after that in the sequence events. Spike the ball, get the penalty, you're right. Their chances of scoring from the one yard line are far greater.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, when you finally get in there, yes. Yes, they had plenty of them. It was a great play on fourth and ten. I mean really, again, back to the point here, the Seattle Seahawks really don't do anything. It's an empty formation. I'll just paint the picture for you. It's three receivers to the right, two receivers to the left. The two receivers on the left just run straight go-rounds. Alright, so there it is. Line straight, line straight.


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[Assistant] The three receivers on the right, the two inside guys get like two yards in the end zone and stop and turn. The outside guy


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[Assistant] Goes into the deep corner of the end zone and stops and turn. Nobody's open. Russell Wilson scrambles to the right till like you're saying, here's Russell Wilson again to save the day. And he makes a throw on the run and puts it in the perfect spot to where the guy gets the first down by a yard and leaves them with a first and one at the goal, at the goal line. And then of course they spike the ball and get the penalty and all of that.


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[Assistant] So 49ers did nothing special. They played four down defensive linemen, two linebackers. They're in nickel defense. They played the same exact defense the last three plays of the game.


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[Assistant] Okay, so the first play is DK Metcalf running into the 49ers, uh, he throws a ball into the left corner of the end zone, DK Metcalf runs into one of the 49ers guys who's covering the guy who ran the slant route coming underneath DK Metcalf.


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[Assistant] The next play, third down, right, is now the Jacob Hollister pass interference. Did he initiate the contact either way? He definitely initiated the contact. He definitely initiated it, no doubt about it. I mean that's commonplace route running. Now where I would challenge that conversation though is, you know, okay,


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[Assistant] He initiated the context, certainly. Did he do it egregiously where he just threw hands out and was like, drive you out of the way? No. He kinda did it with his body and ran into him and then tried to lean out.


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[Assistant] The 49ers, you know, listen, I think they dodged a bullet here. That to me was pass interference. I know I'm not making the call and I'm not saying I know everything about football, but you know, when a guy is holding the arm of the receiver with one arm and then the other arm is around the guy's shoulder, yes, that's pass interference to me.


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[Assistant] You know, they just open themselves up for criticism. Now everybody looks at it, guys like me, I go, that's f***ing past interference. I don't know what else to say. But we don't even talk about it. It doesn't even get reviewed. Because it's like, woah, that's too big and too close. We don't wanna deal with that in this situation. Let's just move on and act like it didn't happen. Oh wait, it did happen, that's right. I mean, so, yea, I thought that was shaky.


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[Assistant] I mean, you know, again, I understand what you're saying, and I'm usually pro-defense.


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[Assistant] That's the point, Joe. I'm with you there. I'm more for let em play than over officiate and...


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[Assistant] You know, I'll go back to my new favorite phrase, is rubbing is racing. I mean, that's just, you know, I know you've never seen that movie, okay? Not Tropic Thunder. You heard me say that today. Days of Thunder. Which I would have thought, okay, that it wasn't. Sounds good. Yes, I know, because you know nothing about movies. But Days of Thunder, rubbing is racing. A little contact with receivers and DBs or tight ends and linebackers as part of football, but I do think it kind of floated with the egregious,


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[Assistant] The Seahawks called the right play to throw to Jacob Hollister in this play.


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[Assistant] Alright, so, so again, to paint the picture one more time here. So you've said that the 49ers played the same coverage on the last three plays. All three plays. All three plays. The same thing. Basically, like, cover four,


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[Assistant] Where cover four and then the two middle linebackers, whoever's on the inside are going to kind of carry them up the field. And cover four means just, you know, the two safeties got their quarters of the field. The corners got their quarters of the field.


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[Assistant] Now where it changes, and this is where I don't want to get too football-y, and I'm gonna do something on social media on Instagram here a little bit after this to draw this play up and show it. But the first two plays, they ran empty formations, okay?


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[Assistant] And, uh, of course nothing came of it. We saw the incompletion of Metcalf, the pass interference maybe to Hollister. Then it became, okay, here it is, fourth down. They didn't get into an empty formation. The two plays before that, they were in an empty formation with three to the left, two to the right. This time they brought the back into the backfield. And really,


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[Assistant] Really what screwed the Seahawks more than anything here, and this is where you're gonna, you've always heard me preach, like, this is where Kyle Shanahan and Sean Payton and Josh McDaniels set themselves


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[Assistant] Apart, I think, from the rest of the NFL, is they understand the rules of defenses. And they understand with certain route combinations, ooh, this guy's rule changes, or this does this, or this does that, whatever it may be.


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[Assistant] To me, this was an instance of Seattle called a play that works, but they didn't really understand the rules of the defense. And they have a back in the backfield, okay, and they have DK Metcalf on the right.


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[Assistant] How do I want to explain this? So I just told you it was quarters coverage, right? Okay, so quarters coverage, but in this type of coverage here, and I'm going to do my best to explain it.


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[Assistant] So on the right side here, here's Russell Wilson. He's in the shotgun. You're Travis Homer. DK Metcalf is out there. You run right into the flat, right? You ran right into the flat. Okay, you're in the flat. DK Metcalf ran like a deep in-cut in the back of the end zone. So this quarter's coverage, where we all, all four guys have their quarter of the field,


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[Assistant] It changes when they see the number 2 receiver, cause Metcalf is number 1 outside, you're number 2 cause you're the next guy in, right? Right. It changes almost to cover 2. Richard Sherman takes you into the flat now, okay? Which now puts the safety, uh, ward on DK Metcalf who's gonna run the in-cut right into him.


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[Assistant] Now 57 Greenlaw has nothing to worry about over there. He goes, okay, Richard Sherman's got that guy out there. Whoa, Jimmy Ward's got the guy that just ran vertical because he's gonna run right into Jimmy Ward.


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[Assistant] And what that combination allowed him to do was go, I have nothing to worry about. Let me look back across the formation. And he looked just in time to see Hollister coming at him. Right? It's Hollister, right? Hollister coming at him and he's able to react just quickly enough.


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[Assistant] To make the hit. If the Seahawks ran an empty formation like they did the two previous plays and ran the combination that they ran on second and third down after the spike slash delay a game


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[Assistant] This would have been more open because on the plays they ran before this, Greenlaw had to, he had responsibilities he had to be there for. If that can, if that, did that make sense? Did I explain that the right way you think?


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[Assistant] I think he was the only idea. I think this play is for him. This is what we would call why jerk in the west coast offense because he basically has like a


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[Assistant] He, he knows I'm, oh I'm man to man on this linebacker and I'm gonna kind of attack him and give him a little jiggle wiggle and then just cross his face and go across the field and...


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[Assistant] You know, in the perfect world, they're hoping Greenlaw is taken away by somebody over there to where now he's gonna be able to catch the ball and keep running. Instead, he catches the ball and as soon as he tucks it, it's BAM and Greenlaw makes a great hit. Well, that's the thing too, is that you still have to make the play.


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[Assistant] Very similar to what we saw Julio Jones score on two weeks ago when the Falcons upset the 49ers.


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[Assistant] It was very similar. A little different coverage, a little different route combination, but either way, I do think that play...


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[Assistant] Help the 49ers in this situation for some of the underneath coverage to look for things like that and be aware of, ooh, we're susceptible in this area, and once my responsibility is not there, I can get back over there and try to help it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, well, I just, no, the Seahawks, it definitely does not change my thoughts on the Seahawks. The Seahawks, they are kind of that right there. It's gonna be, their defense is gonna let up plays, and it's just gonna be about, can Russell Wilson step on the gas?


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[Assistant] At the right times and right situations and push the envelope and make plays that way. That's really what they are. I don't know any other way to say it. They can't dominate the line of scrimmage in the run game right now, nor are the runners they have good enough to really capitalize on what's there to be had. I know everybody wants Marshawn and yea, he had two or three good runs.


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[Assistant] You know, he looked good. I'm not gonna sit here and go, oh my gosh, it was so amazing. It's like he never lost a step. No. He looked a step slower than he did last year. Did you think he was more feast mode than beast mode? Feast mode? Yea, well I'm sure. I mean, I'm really impressed, but the most impressive thing he did all night was jump from the two and a half yard line. Yea, he got up. And the vertical he got for the size of the human being he is and everything.


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[Assistant] Really cool, I'm a big beast mode fan, I'm not trying to hate, I'm just trying to be realistic here. Uhm, the 49ers, my only thing with the 49ers is...


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[Assistant] Putting teams away. This is where, to me, like, Jimmy Garoppolo is really good, alright? Really good.


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[Assistant] But this is where he's not Deshaun Watson or Mahomes or some of the, what I call the most elite quarterbacks in football. Because when you get inside the 20, Aaron Rodgers, that group, they're almost unstoppable inside the red zone. And Garoppolo is just not the type of guy that's going to


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[Assistant] consistently make plays with his great physical ability.


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[Assistant] You know, he's not that type of quarterback to throw a laser or scramble around and make some crazy play. And then...


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[Assistant] To me, the defense, again, and you've heard me say it, it's just a little too simple. It's a little too predictable. And it can work against, you know, some of the not great offenses in football. But I'm not sure. Yea, but I'm not sure it's going to get away with it another time around against the Saints, uh, or somebody like that. That's what would scare me.


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[Assistant] All whites. And I have been, and Shanahan will tell you this, I think I said it when I interviewed him in the podcast at the Combine. First of all, Joey Bosa, yea, looks really good with a little dash of blood on his right quad. Very nice for him to believe that match.


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[Assistant] But I love it, and I've been asking Shanahan to wear the white cleats.


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[Assistant] Since he took the job. I've been constantly on him. Like, can we wear white cleats? I mean, the organization only won five Super Bowls in white cleats. Switched to black, everyone's shit. And he was like, yeah, that's a good idea, that's a good idea. I'll have to talk to Jed. Well, this year they've been wearing white cleats. I'm just saying, San Fran. I'm just saying.


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[Assistant] It might be me, I might be the reason you're 13-3 and had the first round by. All the credit.


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[Assistant] Very tough to win 13 games in NFL. It's amazing here. But I'm first year head coach. You're on, I hear you.


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[Assistant] It's like the most unimpressive number two seed I can remember in recent history. And I don't mean that. I do. I respect Matt LaFleur and Mike Petten and everything they've done. And of course you know Aaron Rodgers is my favorite player ever.


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[Assistant] I mean, I love Green Bay, but if I'm just gonna sit here and keep it real, yeaah, they're one of the worst two seeds I've ever seen.


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[Assistant] They really are. And they were really fortunate to play a really undermanned...


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[Assistant] Detroit team. I mean, Darius Slay got hurt, of course there's no Matthew Stafford, uh, you know, no Marvin Jones. I mean, the team you're playing, it's never...


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[Assistant] Never really a good thing when your leading passer is also your second leading receiver. I mean, David Blau was the second leading receiver in yards yesterday. Okay?


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[Assistant] And that tells you it all too. I mean, they ran out of tricks. They got up 17-3 and it's like, okay, I emptied out the cupboard on all my trick plays here. Now our normal offense is just not going to get it done. That was a win. That was a win.


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[Assistant] Because even when he got it going, I still feel like there was a few plays here and there where I went, damn, that's just not Aaron Rodgers. It's usually right on the money, or yea, they got it going, you got the first down, but the play before you had a guy wide open for like a 60 yard gain and you under threw it. So,


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[Assistant] Definitely the worst half I've ever seen him play. You're right. Worst game ever. And I know people are gonna go, well what about the 49ers game this year? Or that game he had back in 2015 when the Broncos held him to 78 yards. I don't look at that as Aaron Rodgers. See, to me that's...


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[Assistant] Their team got overwhelmed and Aaron Rodgers is not God, so he's not going to overcome everything.


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[Assistant] This was, there was plays there to be had. You were watching, there was receivers open. There was like, oh gosh, Aaron Rodgers dropped back, he's uncorking it, this is gonna watch out! What? Incomplete? What? Incomplete again? Aaron Jones open in the end zone? Incomplete again?


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[Assistant] My biggest critique, and anybody who's listened to the podcast over the last month, Roger's trying to be a little too perfect. Trying to place balls to hit the bullseye.


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[Assistant] No, like a quarterback goes, I'm gonna throw it right through your chest. I'm just gonna throw it through you. And it's your job to put your hands up to stop that from happening. That's what you do as a quarterback. You throw through targets occasionally.


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[Assistant] When it's a fade route, right? And I'm like covering you like this and you're running down the sideline. That's when you like wanna go boom and land it on the bullseye, right? But if you're running a curl route, a post route, anything like that, you gotta throw it through the target. And to me, he's just trying to be too careful. I think he does understand that interceptions


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'll tell you right now. Let's see. Uh, Rodgers was 26 and 4, so that was his 4th yesterday. Got it. Uhm, but yes, either way, pitiful, they were fortunate they were playing a not real good Detroit Lion football team, and then he caught fire and really made some great throws at the end of the football game, and somehow they pulled


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[Assistant] Again, I think home fielded, or home field a first round by, it was nobody more important to Green Bay. There was no way Green Bay was going to win three games in a row to go to the Super Bowl and two of them being on the road against the NFC elite. Now they have a chance. Now they do have a chance. And yea, like, I'm worried that


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[Assistant] Somehow they escaped not having to play the 49ers in the NFC championship game, and like, if they got Seattle at home, and you know, so if they beat the Saints somehow in the divisional round, and then got Seattle or somebody else at home, or just somehow got to the Super Bowl,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm worried about them having to play the Baltimore Ravens specifically and getting steamrolled.


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[Assistant] That is not a good matchup. They could get blown out by them. I'm just telling you right now, as much as I love Aaron Rodgers, I'm rooting for the Ravens and the Chiefs and the Saints and the 49ers to play each other, cause then we're guaranteed of a great Super Bowl, no matter what that matchup is. Any combination of those teams together. Any combination, we're gonna see a thriller, like it's gonna be a great game.


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[Assistant] It's amazing. It's amazing. I literally was pulling out my computer watching the game yesterday because we're getting dressed and we're like kinda on the set and stuff. And I'm like...


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[Assistant] Wait, who's this guy? I don't remember this guy. I gotta look him up. I mean, that's to where they've gotten at the wide receiver position. It's unbelievable. And it speaks to Carson Wentz once again.


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[Assistant] And to me- It speaks to what you're talking about with Carson Wentz. Yes, it speaks to he is a guy and what you just heard me talk about with like franchise quarterbacks or- Yesterday's another perfect example of just the greatness of Carson Wentz. Oh!


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[Assistant] Teams playing okay, but not great. Hey, don't worry guys, I'll keep us in the game. I'll keep answering. And then...


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[Assistant] Oh, finally, Malcolm Jenkins makes a strip sack fumble and somebody else made a play.


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[Assistant] And now it's a blowout, right? I mean that, that, that to me is what a franchise quarterback does. Keeps you in the game, or just keeps you one step ahead constantly. Hey, we're not at our best, but don't worry guys, I gotcha, I'll make plays when we need it and all that kind of stuff. It was unbelievable. He is putting on a show.


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[Assistant] As a thrower, the last 4 or 5 weeks of the NFL season. Really is. I mean, it's one high level throw after another. More 10 and 15 yard great throws, one after another, to people who are very rarely open, and he just puts it on the money.


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[Assistant] Throwing the ball through the bullseye, like I'm talking about. Like, just, just amazing. And I can't speak enough to that. And I'm, I'm really happy for the guy. Cause I mean, it's been a, it was rough. Can you imagine sitting on the sidelines watching another guy win a Super Bowl with your team when you were really the best player on the team all year?


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[Assistant] And then the next year, you come back in and things go good, but then the team gets banged up.


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[Assistant] And they start not playing well, everyone blames you, the team gets healthy, you get hurt, Nick Foles gets to come in and man, everything looks good again. What? Nick Foles, Nick Foles. So this is great for him to kind of get that payback on everybody.


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[Assistant] There's two things that I look at, where it's at home in Philly, you've got a good chance of it being good old January Northeast weather, it's on a grass field, I think that, that does not help Seattle, Seattle's probably the faster team, so that slows them down.


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[Assistant] The other thing I say just to this ah, Ahmet is, you've heard me say, Seattle's, like San Francisco or some of the other defense, they only play two or three defenses. It's too predictable.


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[Assistant] The Eagles are more game plan specific. That's where I give them another real advantage here in this matchup that really maybe closes the gap a little where I go, okay, maybe the Seahawks are a little bit better, but like Jim Schwartz will do some stuff in this game on defense that...


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[Assistant] Seattle's not gonna be prepared for it. No, he'll take a chance. I'm gonna double this guy, or I'm gonna do this crazy zone coverage on a third down, cause I think it takes away this and that for you, whatever it may be.


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[Assistant] Those are things I do look at, and you know, Philly's kind of feeding off this ugly style of football and winning games right now. No doubt. One win maybe, exactly right. Now, wait, wait.


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[Assistant] Because they've already beat Green Bay in Green Bay and we just talked about Green Bay not being that great. So what's to say that they can't go up to Green Bay and slow down Aaron Rodgers with really


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[Assistant] Who is it? Aaron Jones and Devonte Adams. That's all it is. You know, that's all they got. They got no other, well, you know, hopefully Lazard can come up here. But I think that's another matchup that, yeaah, I'd be a little scared for Green Bay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so maybe two, but maybe one and done.


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[Assistant] It's possible. It's possible. It's possible. I'd have to shake out that way for them as the five. They'd have to, they'd have to hope the Vikings beat the Saints.


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[Assistant] I think first of all, just with the Gilmore-DeVante-Parker matchup. First of all, it's tremendous pressure on Stefan Gilmore. I mean, tremendous.


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[Assistant] I don't know of another defensive player in football that has more pressure on them snap to snap than Stefan Gilmour. I really don't.


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[Assistant] It's unbelievable what they ask him to do. I'm telling you, it's unbelievable. They ask him to guard the number one receiver on the other team, get in his face, no big deal, he's only one of the freakiest athletes on the planet, and cover him all over the field like a cheetah and don't let anybody throw the ball. Oh, okay coach, no problem. He does it more times than not. You know, this was just...


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[Assistant] Not his best day. And a guy, Devonte Parker, who's gone to another


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[Assistant] You did it. You're right. And then maybe the Deebo Samuel is number three for the 49ers. But I think those are the names. I think you're right. They are emerging as like superstars right now. And Devonte Parker, you know, the Patriots


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[Assistant] First off, the Patriots did some things just throughout the normal, just the whole game. They did a few things game plan wise where...


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[Assistant] You know, I think they knew what the Patriots were going to call, and ooh, let's motion down and get in this stack formation when they're playing cover 2, and this will put them in the bind in this coverage. So there's that common knowledge, once again, of Brian Fleur is kind of knowing what the Patriots defense is doing, probably giving that message to Chad O'Shea. You know, this is talking about during the week. So there was some stuff there.


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[Assistant] The biggest thing, yeaah, one on one, and the thing I would take away more than anything is just, you know, they gotta give Gilmore some plays off. It just can't be like him, man to man, every time. And Devontae Parker, his catches, I think 7 out of the 8.


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[Assistant] We're all against Gilmore. One of them was his cover two zone where he ran like a slant over the middle after Fitzpatrick did a play action pass. He caught a slant over the middle. That was I think the only pass of the game where, you know, Gilmore wasn't responsible for covering Devante Parker. Alright, so all the other times it was, and what I just want to say, you know, for the Patriots too is,


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[Assistant] No, they gotta give him a break. Whether that's help him with a double team every now and then, or let him play the number two receiver every now and then, and then you double the number one receiver. That's what they used to do a lot with Darrell Rivas. He would cover number two, and then they would do their best to kind of do something crazy on the number one receiver.


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[Assistant] But this is asking a lot of a guy. I just don't know if it's realistic to continue to do this. I mean, AJ Brown's coming to town this week. Is he gonna be able to just sit there and lock AJ Brown up all game end to man?


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[Assistant] With the way he's catching it and Tana Hill's throwing, I would say no, I don't care how good you are, it's really


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[Assistant] Yes, it's 3rd and 10 with like maybe a minute 55 left. Right. They run the ball on 3rd and 10. They're going, we're not gonna do anything stupid and let this defense get an interception and get Brady the short field. We want to go into the half. Right, we're gonna go into the half.


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[Assistant] I mean, hey, Belichick, this is what they call being Belichick. We're gonna do the Belichick, which is score right before the half, get the second half kickoff.


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[Assistant] And then go down and score again and all of a sudden it's a 14 point swing or a 10 point swing or whatever it may be. That's what the Patriots are famous for. Deferring to the second half.


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[Assistant] Getting the ball last in the first half, and putting you in a bind that way. But they didn't call timeout, not only after the third down, and even after the third down run by the Dolphins, they thought, oh, maybe he's just saving them from the offensive side of the ball. But then they run the ball in first down. No timeout.


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[Assistant] Run the ball and second down. No timeout. Oh, that's it. They're going on the half. That's it. They didn't care. They were content at 10-10. Now, the question is why were they content at 10-10?


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[Assistant] Listen, I know Brady's got arm issues, maybe, and the elbows hurt. His elbows definitely hurt him, there's no doubt. You don't throw the ball and then jiggle your arm around every time unless something's bothering you. I've been there before. There's gotta be some, some sort of tendonitis in his elbow.


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[Assistant] To me, I think it was more of Belichick when


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[Assistant] Our defense played good in the first half. They only scored three points because remember, the Dolphins got their touchdown off of a pick six from Brady. So I think he was just going, you know, I'm not gonna let my offense or anything screw this up. Let's just go in 10-10. We'll reassess. I think Brady and the offense will get it going in the second half and my defense will continue to dominate.


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[Assistant] That changed. Because the second half, the Dolphins continued to drive the, I mean, didn't continue. They consistently drove the ball in the second half to score points all the time.


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[Assistant] And New England did move the ball on the offensive side of the ball in the second half too. They did some good things. But I just don't think Bill expected his defense was going to let up 17 second half points to Ryan Fitzpatrick and the Dolphins and be in the situation they were in.


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[Assistant] No, I think you're, what you're saying is probably part of the equation. I think he probably said, I don't trust my offense. You know, Brady's not great. Offensive line hasn't been great. He doesn't want to strip sack, fumble, anything like that.


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[Assistant] You know, doesn't want an unlucky interception and I think he's just going, I don't trust them and my defense is playing good and I'm gonna play to win this game.


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[Assistant] 20-13 or 24-13 or something like that. I really think that's what he did. I think he just envisioned it that way, playing out.


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[Assistant] I just don't think he expected in the second half for Fitzpatrick and company, like I said, to consistently make plays in the pass game and move the ball that way to where he went, oh no, now I gotta, I didn't realize I was gonna have to score 30 to win the game. Right. I don't think he, so I think you're right. I think it's a trust thing and him just kinda looking at the overall picture of the game and thinking,


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[Assistant] From what I've seen in the first half, I don't think they're going to be able to do a lot. And of course he was wrong. He's allowed to be wrong. He's God in the football world. There's no doubt about that. Uh, but he kind of, he, and who knows, maybe that's exactly what he needs.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, the Patriots are still dangerous, especially with that defense, and Brady, you know that. I mean, their ability to execute is still as good as it gets in football. The Dolphins, the one thing I'll say, the offense had an all-out blitz plan.


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[Assistant] They didn't let like the crazy blitzes from the Patriots like, oh gosh, we don't know where to throw it or like Fitzpatrick was ready for it. Oh, okay, they're bringing more blitzers than blockers. He had somewhere to go with the ball every time where a lot of teams get like caught off guard by that. So that was a big part of the football game.


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[Assistant] And the Patriots on the offensive side of the ball, there are some things to be encouraged about again. Again, the offensive line was not bad. They pass protected okay. They ran the ball okay. I mean, what would their, they ran the ball for 135 yards. That's a solid day. Sure. You know, I just think they don't, they didn't expect the Dolphins to hang up 27 points on them. And of course the pick six hurt too.


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[Assistant] You know, the pick six was just un-britty-like. He kinda looked to the left side, he had like a crosser and an in-cut.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, I don't think Josh Allen is on the level of the other guys quite yet. So I think I'm most excited to see Russell Wilson and Carson Wentz. They are, and two, I think the big thing is there, like they kind of have to carry their teams to win a football game.


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[Assistant] You know, and not to say that the other game doesn't. I really, yeaah, this is a tough one for me actually. But, I mean, Russell Wilson clearly one of the five best quarterbacks in football. And I think Carson Wentz is right on the outside of the top five looking in. Right? I mean, I'm gonna put Lamar


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[Assistant] Mahomes, you know, Watson, Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers, just above, I think, a Carson Wentz, who I'd probably have at 6 or 7. I haven't done my quarterback list in my mind in a while or anything like that, but I think he's right around there.


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[Assistant] Yup, uhm, let me just think if there's anybody else here. Let me just think. Underrated player that everyone's gonna realize is really good. I don't think there's the Eagles, there's anybody there, the Seahawks, no. Uhm, Bills and Texans.


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[Assistant] No, I think, I think I feel pretty good with, with that right there. I think, I think AJ Brown is, is probably the guy I would say watch out for, uh, this weekend. He's gonna get some one-on-one opportunities and get some chances to make


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, the tough ones about these, speed round, dammit, these are the ones I wish I would have known prior, just so I could have been a little quicker here. Is that a message to our producer? Yeah, I mean, what an asshole he is, what an asshole.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know. Uh, I don't, yeah, I don't know if he's capable of stepping up. Tom Brady? Tom Brady? No. I mean, Brady, I feel like people are no right now. Like, hey, it's still good, but it's not great. He's not the Tom Brady we once knew.


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[Assistant] And I just don't know, I mean the Seahawks corners are not good, so I don't look at them as being overrated.


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[Assistant] The Titans, the Bills, the Texans, I don't know if there's anybody there right now. You know, the one guy I always...


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[Assistant] Well, that's Matt Casey got in my eye. I mean, Xavier Rhodes, but I feel like people are starting to know that too. Uhm, I even would go to Anthony Barr a little bit in Minnesota as well. He's another guy. It's, you know, being paid like one of the best linebackers in football.


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[Assistant] To me, he does not have enough of a presence on the field for what he's being paid for on a weekly basis there. I guess those are the guys that jump out to me more than anybody, but I don't know if there's anybody more than that.


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[Assistant] As like a weapons galore because he caught like a three yard touchdown pass with one hand and then caught another touchdown pass with one hand that was four yards.


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[Assistant] Probably not, maybe a top 10 run blocker that way, but I can't say he's top 10 right now, no. But damn, I hate, I don't know, that's it, that's all I got.


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[Assistant] That would scare me a little bit, okay. Uhm, the vikings kicker, he's another guy that I would look at a little bit. And more just because I feel like the vikings are cursed with kickers. What the hell is the name of the vikings kicker? Damn it, it's blanking, I'm blanking on his name here. It's gonna drive me crazy, I gotta look it up here. Uhm, what the hell, Dan Bailey.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, but you're right. We don't ever give it the attention. But yeah, you look at the really good teams or the teams that have been in the playoffs, cause like the Patriots all these years have had Gus Kowsky and Vinitzeri. There's a reason. Yeah, cause they make a lot of big kicks in big situations. Dan Bailey is fifth.


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[Assistant] I just, I just feel that's gonna be Seattle and Philadelphia.


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[Assistant] Because I just think there's some areas of those teams that are just not adequate, like they're not special. So that lends itself to stupid stuff, or, and then of course the two quarterbacks, I think they can, you know, pull rabbits out of their ass. So where they'll do some shit there, uh, that I go, wow, that's unbelievable too.


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[Assistant] Well, and I also think of like, I mean, I don't think that's like, crazy. I, you know, I don't know if I say blow them out, that might be a little crazy. But the other thing is, I don't know if either, both of these two teams, especially with the fact that there's such New England lineage in Tennessee too,


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[Assistant] To go, they're not going to be afraid maybe to call trick plays, a la like what Bill Belichick does usually this time of the year to give his team a little bit of an advantage on a certain drive or a certain situation, whatever it may be. So you certainly could see some crazy shit in that game too.


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[Assistant] I really like, respect Jason Garrett. First of all, he's one of the best guys in football. I mean, he's like a true, normal human being. I do think he's a good coach. I don't think it's always easy coaching the Dallas Cowboys with the Jones family and doing that. But having said that, I do. I think it's run its course.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, you know, there's just no excuse, even if you, you know, just there's no excuse for the results they have. For them to be 8-8 with that talented of a football team, I'm sorry. Uh, that has to fall back onto the coaching staff.


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[Assistant] You know, there's just something there that doesn't make sense. Lack of identity, lack of situational football awareness, whatever it may be. Lack of knowing when to go for it or when not to. I think all of those things.


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[Assistant] Have, you know, at some point or another come up this year with the Dallas Cowboys. Like you've heard me talk about with their defense, lack of creativity and game plan that way. You know, the offense at times, they just go.


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[Assistant] Not really sure what they're trying to do this week, game plan wise. Just calling plays, going oh, we're good, and it'll just work. Just not the way the game works. They need a change. They need a refresh.


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[Assistant] I don't, yeah, I don't know. I don't really care if it's a big name. To me, it's just gotta be somebody that's truly ready for the job and understands NFL coaching. I don't think a college coach is the right guy for the Dallas Cowboys. I don't. This team's in the Super Bowl window right now, this second. They're there.


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[Assistant] You know, if they coach a little different this year, they're, they're, you know, not in the situation they're in right now.


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[Assistant] They need somebody, they can't do like a Lincoln Riley or I don't even think an Urban Meyer as much as the respect I have for him. It's a big transition from college football to the NFL. So I do, I think it's gotta be just a true NFL guy that's ready for the job. I'm not necessarily saying it has to be a big star or like even an ex head coach. You know, I don't, but I think it has to be a guy that understands what it takes to be a head coach.


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[Assistant] I said today on the show earlier with PFT and everything, like Dan Campbell of the New Orleans Saints is a guy that makes a lot of sense to me.


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[Assistant] He really does. Yeaah, he's not going to be like the offensive defensive coordinator, but he's been around Bill Parcells and Sean Payton and, you know, some other coaching staffs.


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[Assistant] You know, when he did take over the Dolphins, they played tougher. There was no doubt about that.


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[Assistant] They ran the ball. There was kind of a mantra to their team. He can do that. Head coach doesn't always have to be like, oh, X is an O's, X is an O's, X is an O's. Oh, well that is the trend right now. I know it is. I get it. But you know, Bill Belichick was a special teams coach. John Harbaugh was a special teams coach. I mean, I just get sick of that narrative all the time around.


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[Assistant] So to that point even further, like my dad would tell you this, Bill Parcells was not the X's and O's guys for the Patriots. I mean for the Giants when he was coaching them. He wasn't in there. Belichick was doing the defense. Ron Earhart was doing the offense. But what my dad would always say is like, he was amazing at coming in and going,


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[Assistant] That's what a good head coach does, is then you manage personality, situations, you know, do all the right things to get your team to be at its pinnacle when it comes Sunday. That's part of being a head coach. It's not always like, okay, you know, dance to West right slot, Z bingo, like it's not always about the plays. Uh, and I think there is something to that.


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[Assistant] I think that's very true. I mean, that's what I've heard. I know people in the NFL that are scared to take that job, but you know, just from what I've been told by like third parties where they're just, you know, hey, they like the Giants job or...


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[Assistant] People would like the job, but they don't want it with Dave Gettleman or whatever it may be. So I'm interested to see where that situation goes. Shermer was definitely deserved to be fired. He was losing on the field. He was losing press conferences too. I know we had this conversation during the year. Just not a good look. The Giant fans couldn't get behind Pat Shermer. He never endeared himself to the fans. And then when things went bad, he kind of just was surly.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, my number one guy for the New York Giants would be a Josh McDaniels. It would be. You know, I just look at Josh McDaniels, there's a lot of resemblance between the Giants and the Patriots and how the organizations run, of course, cause Bill came from there and he brought it to New England. Cause of the way he was taught.


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[Assistant] I do, because I don't think their ways are all that different. It's professional football, it's all about football and what you do on the football field and everything like that. Also the other thing too is Daniel Jones has a lot of similarities to Tom Brady.


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[Assistant] You know, and if you want to succeed and have that the right way, you know, I think McDaniels would really understand how to bring along and get the best out of Daniel Jones and even Saquon Barkley.


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[Assistant] And not only Saquon Barkley running the ball wise, but I think he would greatly improve Saquon Barkley into the backfield in the pass game too. That would be another thing. So, uh, he's, he's the first guy that jumps out to me more than anybody.


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[Assistant] You know, there's just only 32 of these things, and you never know what happens. You know, oh, okay, yea, you think you're gonna wait around and wait for the next job, or this job, or maybe the patron job, and...


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[Assistant] If you guys get hurt and all of a sudden your offense sucks and things are bad and all of a sudden you're not a candidate anymore.


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[Assistant] You know, it can change in a hurry as far as who loves you and who doesn't and everything like that.


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[Assistant] I think Josh realistically, you know, I don't know if Stephen Belichick plays into that or if he just knows, hey, this whole New England regime, Brady's coming to an end, Belichick's maybe down to the last four or five years. Maybe it's just time to move on and go into the next phase.


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[Assistant] I like it. I do. I think it's a good fit there. I mean, Ron Rivera, first off, his teams are always sound and tough. Alright, that's the first thing I'll say. If I had any issue with Ron Rivera,


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[Assistant] As creative offensively to utilize Cam Newton to the extent in which they should be. It was a lot of just pressure on, hey Cam, you're talented and we need you to make a big throw on third down or now you need to make a great run for us and do all that.


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[Assistant] You know, he did get North Turner in there the last few years and I think that greatly improved. So I hope he can get another good OC to be creative there. But I think the appeal of that job is the offense and defensive line is in pretty good shape there in Washington. That's the hard part of building a team. So when you got that and a guy in Ron Rivera who


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[Assistant] Believes in being the big physical team on the football field. I understand him liking that, also.


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[Assistant] He took the Carolina job. I mean, one of his first players on the team there was Cam Newton as the young quarterback. Dwayne Haskins there now, so he knows how to mold the young quarterback a little bit and do that.


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[Assistant] I do. Well, at the very least he's gonna be given that chance in nine lives to fail or succeed over the next two years before they move on. They're not gonna give up on the 15th pick this year for sure, uh, unless he just totally shit the bed in the 2020 season and like threw 30 interceptions and were like, holy shit, it's horrible. He's gonna have every chance in 2021 to succeed as well.


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[Assistant] Well, more than seven wins. I want to say he only had three years of a winning record, right? I want to say that. I believe I brought that to the attention of a lot of people on Pro Football Talk last, or two weeks ago when it came out, and people were like, what? Uhm, I'm pretty sure, are you there? You, like, got it looked up yet?


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[Assistant] I'm going to say another two years on top of that. Three years on top of that seven wins. Alright, so, and they made the playoffs one year at what, seven, eight and one?


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[Assistant] Right, in 2014, were they 7-8-1? Yeaah, 7-8-1. Right, won a playoff game and then went to Seattle and lost that game. Lost that one. Right, yep. So, yeaah, I get it, the overall look of that team is not as good maybe as we just first think with Ron Rivera, uh, but I do like the


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[Assistant] I know, well I think what scared them was that he went somewhere else and became, had another great year as an OC and then became a head coach somewhere and everybody in Cleveland going.


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[Assistant] Right, so that's basically the corner they were boxed into there and I think their first pick of the draft Baker Mayfield liked him and had a relationship and they thought okay, he did a pretty good job with the offense last year, let's try to give it a go. But I think they were smart in making this move and usually I'm all with what you're saying. I really am. But I think we gotta take in the whole


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[Assistant] Okay, one, he's kind of learning on the fly to admit that. Two, lot of personalities on the team, young.


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[Assistant] And I think ultimately there was talent on the team, they underperformed that way, and then they didn't conduct themselves the right way either. Sure. And nor did he.