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[Assistant] You know, what's the deal with Pittsburgh here? But we're seeing them completely fall apart here now. To where I go, that...


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[Assistant] And, you still can't run the ball all that well, and of course your pass game's just not good enough to rely on. No. It's over. They got the Ravens, the Vikings, the Titans, the Chiefs, the Browns, the Ravens down the stretch. There's no way. Alright?


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[Assistant] I will get down on this podcast and kiss your feet if the Pittsburgh Steelers make the playoffs, okay? There you go, I'm saying that right now.


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[Assistant] As long as they stay patient with the run game. That was the one thing I feel like they got away from a little bit before the bye week where it became, I got a little worried where I was like, oh, here's, here we are, Joe Burrow, 46 times a game throwing the ball. That, that to me is not taking advantage of all they had to offer. The last two weeks, what they've done,


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[Assistant] Yes, I'm giving their coaching staff and I think their defense has made adjustments too. Like they self scouted themselves during the bye week to realize, wait, there's some things we got to fix on both sides of the ball. And we're seeing, you know, the, the fruits of that labor, um, the last two weeks with, you know, 73 to 23 against the Raiders and the Steelers. Last thing on the Steelers.


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[Assistant] They let him do his thing, even though they're there in the building. Yeah, you know, you got to perform for the Rooney's and-


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[Assistant] And the NFL world that have kind of led me down this path that I trust. They're going to make a play for one of these big quarterbacks next year.


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[Assistant] They still think they're a team with Watt and Minka Fitzpatrick and a young Najee Harris and some few young offensive linemen and Claypool and Deontay Johnson and Friar Muth where they don't want to, I don't think they want to just start over from scratch. You got a lot of pieces that are still good.


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[Assistant] Right? I mean, just the names I named right there, I think made you go, yeah, you're right, they're kinda good, right? Right. So, I feel like they're gonna go, no, we just need to get a quarterback, a different quarterback in here, maybe add another piece or two to the defensive side of the ball, and they're gonna go.


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[Assistant] We're back, baby. We're the Steelers. Uhm, but for this year, they're not gonna be back. And I think I've seen enough, like I said, to say they're dead. D-E-D. Dead. Dead. You didn't know that movie.


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[Assistant] So a big win for the bangles. I want to say one more thing about the bangles, just that, you know.


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[Assistant] The comment you said that I said as far as that, yeaah. You know, you look at the AFC, I mean we know the Browns have issues. Issues. You know, we've seen their defense fall apart at times. We've seen the offense, like last night, it's just all over the place. You know, the pass game can't stand alone. You know, the Ravens.


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[Assistant] I know they're eight and three. It's the most unbelievable eight and three I've ever seen. Okay, that's what I'll say. It's the most unimpressive eight and three ever. I mean, yeah, they won last night, but I mean, we can't, it wasn't pretty. How many times have they done that this year? We talked to that before we went on air last night. It's just, they could easily be three and eight. And I don't know easily, but.


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[Assistant] Right. I mean, they can certainly easily be 5 and 6. 100%. That's for sure. I mean, so I look at it that way.


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[Assistant] You know, and then of course Pittsburgh, we just discussed them. The bangles, did you hear me state this to Drew Brees during...


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[Assistant] Earlier in the day, we kind of went over, we were talking about this, and I was like, I think the Bangos are the team I trust in the AFC North, and he's like, well why? And I kind of stated what you stated for me. Run game, quarterback, offensive line a little bit better, weapons on the outside, pretty good cover guys, two big run stoppers in the middle.


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[Assistant] You know, to me, there's just not that glaring weakness. I'm not saying they're perfect.


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[Assistant] But all the other three teams in the division have a glaring weakness, and the Bengals don't for my money. And that's where I just think they can be dangerous down the stretch here. And he goes, who day? And you go, who dat? Eh, who dat? We were confused of that yesterday. Me and Matt Casey, we were like, wait, are the Bengals who day or who dat?


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[Assistant] It's not in my contract. They didn't specifically say, you have to call our game the best in the day.


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[Assistant] They're like, they pop, like you said. Tyus Bowser, I don't know what I want to, this is what, year four maybe out of Houston?


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[Assistant] I wondered whether he was ever going to turn the corner and really be a player for them at any point. This year, it's just consistently gotten better to where, yeah, he's, he's a player on the edge. Got some size. He's athletic. They need some speed up front. And that's where like him and, and Odafeo away really like, you know, to me,


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[Assistant] You know, along with the big guys in the middle, it gives their defense a little bit of a different look. And they're versatile, both of them. Not only can they rush the passer, but they're that Leonard Floyd-ish


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[Assistant] Like that, that to me, and I, I think that was something I said during the draft process. You know, just to be that big and as strong as he is and still, yeah, he's not like the thickest guy in the world, but he's got long, he's long levers and to run the way he does and he's physical. I mean, he brings it.


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[Assistant] To me, he has superstar potential. Tyus Bowser is just another, you know, Ravens pillaging the earth for the biggest, baddest mofos on the planet. And they got a guy that's going to be a good edge guy for them for the future. Yeah, Bowser's in his fifth season. It's fifth season, okay.


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[Assistant] See, he's smart. See, they saw it coming and they went, let's get him now, get him for the low in case he ends up like, getting nine or ten sacks this year. And, you know, wants a ton of money.


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[Assistant] How did it happen? You know, you just lost control of the ball once or twice.


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[Assistant] Didn't see middle of the field defenders. I think that's the big thing. You know, he had two down the middle that were


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[Assistant] Kind of like, egregious, right? Where you're going like, man, you know, one where he was like looking to his right and he came back right to the middle.


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[Assistant] And he just never saw the defender. I can't remember which one was which anymore at this point. Uhm, so he had that one. He had the one to the, like, center left that kinda got tipped in the air and then intercepted. Which was, hey, that was, that was dicey too. There was a lot of bodies in there.


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[Assistant] He has the third one to mark Andrews on the right middle where Andrews broke out and he kind of threw it inside and that was just either miscommunication or he just missed the throw period.


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[Assistant] And then he had the post route, great interception, deep down the field, a little bit like we saw with Antoine Winfield in the Colts, remember he had Mark Andrews or it was John Johnson, and it looked like it was about to be past interference, but John Johnson just got his head around and made a miraculous interception. I don't blame that on, on, on Lamar. You know, that, that to me is,


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[Assistant] More times or not, it's gonna work out in his favor. Throw it up to my awesome tight end one-on-one with a safety downfield. Good play by Jon Johnson.


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[Assistant] So they just have a magic about them, the Ravens, where just they don't give up. They know how to win football games and battle. And then when you're playing another team who, you know, seems to


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[Assistant] Oh, find ways to not win games or mess up in like close.


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[Assistant] Get that platter. Get it away. We don't want free food. How so? What were they doing? Missed fuel goal.


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[Assistant] 12 people on the field, on a fourth and four, on a punt. Not only 12 people on the field, 12 people


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[Assistant] Argue with the ref because they didn't let you substitute, didn't even recognize they had 12 people before the stoppage, kept the 12 people on and then got penalized. Like what? So we have that. Then we have, hold on, I wanna make sure I get all these straight.


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[Assistant] Then we have, we're driving the ball, we're doing some good things. Let's put Jarvis Landry at quarterback. And you know, like to me, this is where it's stupid too, cause like, this is where it's like, I don't know, were you watching the game last week? I know last week Jarvis Landry got the ball at the quarterback position and scored a touchdown. He had a 16 yard run.


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[Assistant] Great play. Great play. Against the Lions, but still a good play. Wasn't drawn up that way. No, correct. It was an individual great play where your scheme and the play you thought was gonna work didn't


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[Assistant] So let's go back to it against the Ravens. Oh, and this time, let him hold it like he's Fran Tarkenton, and he's gonna make a read like he's a quarterback. Oh, he got strip sack fumbled? Is that right? Nooo. Nooo.


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[Assistant] You mean, it worked against the Lions, but not against the Ravens. Nooo. So, then we have that. Then, then we get the interception from Lamarr. You know, and I know I'm missing the paraphrasing here a little bit.


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[Assistant] No, I'm not gonna say, I don't know if it's gonna be that any better with Case Canem. I don't. You know, I mean...


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[Assistant] Will he make the mistakes Baker Mayfield will make? Yeah, probably not. Okay, so that's one thing. I mean, again, I'm just thinking about this now and kind of flushing this out live on the pod here.


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[Assistant] In case Keenum though, I don't think he's going to deliver some of the big plays Baker is capable of making, but Baker hasn't made that many big plays lately. So that's where it's like on the coaching staff to kind of have a feel for what you're putting out on the field and not let like the players tell you what to do. Baker's going to tell you he's okay no matter what.


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[Assistant] You know, he doesn't want to give Case Keenum a chance to play. And what, get on a hot streak? And all of a sudden they win two games with Adam? In a year where he's hoping to get a contract and all that? So uhm, that's up for them to figure out. That's a tough one for me to answer. It really is. It seems like Baker is off.


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[Assistant] Like, this is where I'm mad, I picked the browns, right? I kinda wanted to pick the ravens.


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[Assistant] And now I'm four and nine. I've lost six in a row. And it's embarrassing. My son's embarrassed by it lately. Like, he's embarrassed by it.


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[Assistant] Oh, you know. I mean, I've got a text from Warren Sapp the other night that said, uh,


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[Assistant] That's definitely a football saying I feel, but either way. I don't know. I just knew Warren Sapp. It wasn't going to be like anything roses or red and violets or blue. I knew that.


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[Assistant] This is where I'm stupid and I need to listen to myself more. What do I always say about Cleveland when they can't run the ball?


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[Assistant] I just say their pass game can't stand alone, right? They can't seem to ever really generate or get offense going. They can't really, there's nothing there.


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[Assistant] With a defense like Baltimore that's not great, but has a great coach in my opinion, and then does have big people up front?


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[Assistant] Like where I'm at is I didn't see that like, wait, there's not much to worry about in the past game. So Wink Martindale is going to have some things to go one more egg in the stop the run basket. Cause he's going to feel like, wait, there's nothing that scares me schematically. They're kind of simple.


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[Assistant] So why do I gotta play cover 2 and be so worried about it, right? That's where I'm at. I messed that up. And yeah, those are the concerns. I mean, 18 for 37.


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[Assistant] Against a Ravens defense that's not good against a pass. I mean, those numbers are a little concerning. Just not on Baker Mayfield all the way there either. It's the whole team. It's the offense, it's the receivers, it's everything.


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[Assistant] Well, that's what I mean. It's certainly very close. You know, it is. And like I said, there's less things about the full team that, you know, worry me.


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[Assistant] On the Bangles side as compared to the Ravens. Now the Ravens, the one, the great thing, they just, they have a belief. They're the Ravens. They're battle tested. They're just, they get on a field and they go, we're the Ravens. We're gonna find a way to win this game. And there is something to that. The Bangles are just getting to those infant stages of that. Like, wait.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we are gonna win this game. That's right, guys. Let's go win! Sure. They're just getting used to that. There's something to that. I agree. But, you know, okay, so you look at that. Let's hit the schedule real quick here. Just like Cleveland, they got the Ravens, the Raiders, the Packers, the Steelers, the Bengals. You know, it's a tough schedule. All these guys got tough schedules.


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[Assistant] I don't see that going in their favor, the last five games. I don't. I don't. That's Cleveland's schedule there? Yea, that's Cleveland's schedule. I see that two and three-ish maybe, I'm gonna say, to throw that out there. Alright. See you then.


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[Assistant] So, you know, again, the Ravens game after the bye is going to be incredibly intense. When you have to play a team back to back. That is crazy. And you sit there for a week and have to like just ruminate in it and you know, you watch the film and now you're going to prepare. That's going to be personal.


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[Assistant] That'd be interesting, but man, that's, that's not easy. That's not easy at all. I mean, not easy at all. That is, that's tough. I mean, again, those last four.


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[Assistant] They could go any way. Packers, bangles, rams, stealers?


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[Assistant] You know, the Ravens, the Vikings, the Titans, the Chiefs, the Browns, the Ravens.


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[Assistant] I would like to state for the second time in this podcast, it's over. Okay. It's over. I think it's over. You know, I don't see a lot of wins there for Pittsburgh and the way they're playing football right now. And trust me, I have a lot of respect for Mike Tomlin and the Pittsburgh way. Now you get to Cincinnati and that schedule.


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[Assistant] You know, and again, not that this is easy either. I know. Chargers, 49ers, at Broncos, Ravens, Chiefs, at Broncos. That might honestly be the hardest one.


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[Assistant] It's up there. I know. It's, it's, it's brutal. Oops. It's brutal. I know that's where it's, it's tough to really pick it, but you know, yes, they got, they got some home games. That, that's one good thing. It's four out of six at home.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and Pete brings up a good point, does home field really matter anymore? No, it doesn't. He's right, it does not matter. But, that's where-


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, the last two years, the road teams are winning more than the home teams.


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[Assistant] Okay, so, but either way, we see all their schedules are tough, right? They all were tough, but I'm just gonna go with the Bengals and the team that I think is the most well-rounded. Alright.


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[Assistant] That's right. So I mean, as long as you don't pick like the Jets, you got a chance to your team to have points. I mean, for the most part. Yes. All right. And then don't just bet this football season. Live your bet life with points bet. Yeah. Thank you. I don't know if that was a good read or not. It was a little all over the place, but we had fun.


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[Assistant] You know, I always called his dad's Patrick Surtain.


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[Assistant] There was, Teddy Bridgewater was already there, right?


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[Assistant] In Denver before that, they had already figured out they want to go that way. Vic Fangio, of course, he probably felt like his butt might have been, might be on the hot seat this year. He didn't want to go their young rookie quarterback route.


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[Assistant] He wanted to have somebody that he felt like he could kind of win with right now. So I think that's what led them, you know, to Patrick Chertain. He's a phenomenal football player. He has, he's been better than I even thought he was going to be, you know, going out of Alabama. He has.


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[Assistant] I guess what impresses me, I knew he can play, he's got great technique, he's got size, he's got ball skills. I think there's a little bit more raw physical explosiveness than I might have given him credit for.


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[Assistant] And that's where he's been really special. Uhm, but both interceptions he had yesterday were big. I mean, of course the pick six, we know that was big, kind of put the game out of reach. See you later, uh, Los Angeles. But I think the first one was really bigger. It was a game that had some weird ebbs and flows, Ahmed.


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[Assistant] Uh, Denver dominated early. Chargers offense couldn't do anything. First touchdown drive by the Broncos was kind of a field position drive where they pinned the Chargers in their own end zone. They got the ball at the 50 yard line. They go down. Teddy Bridgewater has a scrambling touchdown run. Nice job by him.


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[Assistant] You know, the next, you know, they score another drive, you know, a little while longer in the football game, which was just a nice substantial drive. But my point is like the Chargers could not do anything on the offensive side of the ball in the first half. And then.


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[Assistant] Teddy Bridgewater got banged up, gets crushed by a blindside blitz by Derwin James, and, you know, Drew Locke had to come in.


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[Assistant] And he just, he throws one of the dumbest interceptions of Sunday. I mean...


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[Assistant] Again, if he was trying to get anybody to get confidence in him to be a starter one day, he is squashing that confidence in a hurry. Tries to throw a sidearm and like a RPO with nobody open and tried to make like the greatest throw ever.


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[Assistant] And a game where you're dominating, and that kinda sparked the Chargers. Gave them the short field. They get a touchdown before the half, and you're sitting there going, oh no. And then really into the third quarter, the Chargers were kinda controlling the football game. And I went, man, it just kinda feels like the Chargers are gonna win an ugly game here. But, uhm,


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[Assistant] And Herbert throws the interception in the back of the end zone to Surtain's first interception. And to me that like, it took the momentum back the other way and it was, it was over from that point on. It never felt like the game was the same. Denver went down, scored a touchdown and, uh, that was all she wrote.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was a 3rd and 14 on an interception, he ran out to his right, and he grossly under-threw the ball. But you're right, so they were at the opportunities, they had the momentum, they're controlling the game, that interception happens, and Teddy Bridgewater come back in the game, and leaves him down on a 10-play 80-yard drive to go up 21-7, and it was over.


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[Assistant] Yeah, but they need, they need, this is something, you know, again, they're not a good run team, so teams don't care about coming up to the line of scrimmage and stopping a whole lot. Herbert's awesome.


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[Assistant] They need a real speed guy. You've heard me say this. Mike Williams is really awesome.


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[Assistant] And so was Keenan Allen, but they need a guy that can kind of like, uh, you know, uh, uh, take the top off the defense, stretch the field out a little bit. That's where they're, they're, they're not the same as last year. You know, last year there was a more of an explosive down the field passing element to their offense. This year, it's a little too much saints.


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[Assistant] Ended Drew Brees' career intermediate passing, in my opinion, so there's nothing that backs you off. And then when you're playing Vic Fangio, who's a brilliant defensive coordinator when it comes to the pass game, and he's got a talented secondary to go along with it, life's gonna be hard that way.


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[Assistant] So, you know, again, I've been saying this a little bit. The Chargers need another, they need to run the ball. They need a speed guy at receiver to open up the rest of their stuff.


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[Assistant] And they gotta stop, they gotta do something to push the ball or design some shot plays. It can't always be, hey Herbert, throw a great throw and make the proper read for an 8 yard gain. And just go, go 30 for 35 for 305 yards every game. That's just not realistic. I wanna see a stat line from Herbert where he's 20 for 36.


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[Assistant] How was that? How was that? Right? How was that? You got a quarterback who might be the best in the pocket passer in football right now, and we're gonna continue to throw six yard throws with them. I don't like that part of their offense.


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[Assistant] I wish I had an answer for you, but they've, they have found, you know, the way they want to play for sure. You know, I, you know, some young guys, certainly. I think they had some guys in the secondary, like Byron Jones early in the year. He wasn't a hundred percent. Xavier Howard wasn't a hundred percent a few times during the game.


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[Assistant] Or during the year. So that, that, that hurt them a little bit. You know, the emergence of like, Holland, the safety out of Oregon. There's a second round back. He's already one of the best safeties in football.


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[Assistant] You know, I think there's that aspect. Jalen Phillips, like the last five weeks has, I think Pete's heard me say, has kind of come on every week where I go, ooh, ooh. And yeah, he has a chance to be a superstar.


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[Assistant] You know, I think you just add that with like, yea, BFLO and company have got the defensive side of the ball and exactly how they want to play this. Wait, are we going to all out blitz? Are we going to drop out? You don't know what the hell we're going to do. And then two has been very consistent.


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[Assistant] You know, on the offensive side of the ball, they're trying to run it a little. And then, man, they got a, a, a star in Jalen Watto to where, yea, defense, Tua don't mess it up, make a few plays here and there.


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[Assistant] And they're tough to beat right now. But yes, I mean, they just captured this magical maybe a little too late here in the year.


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[Assistant] Is it fine? Well, it's fine in like that you're gonna have to play a style that fits that. You're gonna have to be...


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[Assistant] Where you came from, Brian Flores? You're gonna have to play Patriots football from the early 2000s a little bit. Yeaah. You're not gonna get, like, you know, to a Bombs Away show to, to Randy Moss or, you know, uh, some of those type of players. That's just not gonna happen. It's not in his DNA. He's not that type of guy.


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[Assistant] If he can play defense and, you know, come up with a scheme that, hey, he can, you know, make the right reads, he'll make the appropriate throws. He's very naturally, natural at the quarterback position and how to play it.


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[Assistant] To where you can win it that way, but no, he's not gonna be the superstar take over the game. You know, they're playing the way that they're built to play right now. You know, you block a punt that sets up your first touchdown, right?


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[Assistant] You know? Okay, Cam and company make their one pass play of the whole day to Moore down the middle, sets up their touchdown, and then their defense absolutely suffocated the Carolina Panthers from there on out. And the offense just went,


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[Assistant] Okay, we're, we're, our defenses got it, we're just gonna be conservative and we'll pick them apart and eventually we'll make a play here and there and that's, that's kinda what they've been doing as of late. And it's gonna work. It will work. You know, I think they got enough going there, but yeah, I mean, Cam had no chance. He wasn't good. Both interceptions were bad.


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[Assistant] And, uh, really it was one of those games when it was 21-7 in the second quarter.


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[Assistant] First off, you know, defense is a little disappointing, not as dominant as I maybe would have thought it would be. You can only keep it up for so long, right? That's the other problem too. It's like, we talk about this story a lot through the NFL, where defenses are statistically better than what they show, but yea, you know, when you're out there every fourth play,


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[Assistant] It's tough to be dominant when you're gonna get exhausted. The dam's gonna break eventually. Uhm, but that, yeaah, the quarterback situation in Carolina.


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[Assistant] You know, you've heard me say many times, like, people have caught on to Joe Brady and the offense for sure. So there's that issue. Uh, and, you know, McCaffrey not being


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[Assistant] Totally 100%, Michigan's stretch of time, I don't know, they're just all over the place right now, but the offense is their biggest issue in my opinion.


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[Assistant] The only way is through. That was good. Well, well done. Well done. You took two sentences on the front that kinda confused me. And I thought you were just gonna keep going, so that's why I had a little delay there. Sorry.


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[Assistant] Well, yea, they'll, exactly, and you know, they'll, they'll, they'll appreciate that we're not just about the end result, winning or glory. We want to get it right. Yea, we want to take a look at the tape.


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[Assistant] Yeah, horrible. Yeah, I mean, it probably shouldn't have came down to that. I mean, you know, again, Philadelphia falls into that, you know, that group of teams that I feel like we talk about where if they have to depend on their past game too much, they're not going to, they're not going to win games. They're not, you know, and they had some moments of just, again, being dominant in the run game. I mean, special that way.


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[Assistant] I know, but, you know, whether it's, hey, getting a little unlucky on the first interception that we broke down on the show last night. It was past interference. It was. He throws an in-cut. The guy kind of grabs him and slingshots himself in front, gets it. Alright. The second interception.


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[Assistant] I believe was the one at the end of the first half, right? That was that one, where...


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[Assistant] And now, okay, you drop back, you get the ball, you look at one read, you look at two read, and then you throw the ball away so you can still kick a field goal with two seconds left in the clock. He scrambles around, moves,


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[Assistant] It wasn't a special day by the New York Giants, but.


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[Assistant] You know, they get the victory either way, you know, making plays and not messing up the game. You know, how many times do we say that a week where it's just one team doesn't mess it up, and that's why they win. The other team, yeaah, is better. But see, to me, and this is where I want to go down this path a little bit, is like, this is, these are the reasons I don't want Joe Judge fired.


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[Assistant] They don't have the same, they're not in the same stratosphere of talent as the Eagles, but they beat them. They beat teams a lot and hang around against teams where I want to go, they're not in the same stratosphere talent-wise, but here they are, a game behind the Eagles who have


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[Assistant] Superstar receiver, some other good receivers, the best offensive line in football, good tight end, a running quarterback, a good defensive line, a shut down corner, and the Giants are only one game back.


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[Assistant] And to me, that's where I want to go, that's where I defend Joe Judge. You know, again, the way the game was approached, the way they played it, it wasn't pretty.


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[Assistant] But they win the game against a team that's better than them, and that to me comes down to coaching. And I see that a lot from the Giants. So that's where I'm gonna continue to defend Joe Judge. Okay. Do you think you're on an island with that? Do you think Giants fans would agree with that? I am. I'm trying to talk to... I know. I mean, yes. Pete's done with them. Right? You know? But like...


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[Assistant] Let's not be dumb with him, Pete. Let's hang in there and be a little loyal with him a little bit here. He's not a total idiot buffoon. I don't get a Ben McAdoo, Pat Shermer feel like I said last week. It's not that. Yeah, it hasn't been perfect. I know he's made a few mistakes.


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[Assistant] I think he's probably had Jason Garrett force fed down his throat a little bit as an offensive coordinator. And then he's got Dave Gettleman and, I mean, come on.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't have took that job if I knew he was the GM. So like, let's give it a chance here. Let's just see where it goes. Alright, you've changed Pete's mind. I don't know, he's saying that just to please me right now for the podcast. He's genuine. Pete's a genuine man.


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[Assistant] It was shaky at first, it really was. You know, again, he's gonna stop trying to be so perfect with placement of the football. The thing I keep saying, like, where if I saw Zach Wilson, uh, you know, again, and had a chance to talk to him again, cause I did see him this year at training camp, I'd go like, stop trying to place the ball on the bullseye. Throw the ball through the


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[Assistant] Definitely, 100%. That scarred him. He missed a few throws. Again, he's a rookie. He hasn't played in a few weeks. He's wearing a big knee brace on his leg. So that's always uncomfortable too. You're dropping back and you're like, damn, I feel like the Tin Man here. I don't feel the same.


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[Assistant] You know, so those things affect you. And again, like I said, you are a rookie with not the most talented offense in the world and you haven't played football in the last, what, five weeks? So I didn't expect it to be pretty, uh, but he did finally kind of catch a rhythm and get going.


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[Assistant] In the third quarter, and we saw some positive plays and, you know, good for the Jets, gutting out a good win there, you know, on the road in Houston.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and then, you know, uh, had another ugly drive, you know, they got a roughing the passer, made a, you know, good pass down the middle, got them down there, and, you know, they found a way to get in, Zach runs it in, but, yeah, not a pretty win, but good for the Jets, you know. Those are the games where you come away at the end of the year,


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's, he's, he's a special talent. Always been a freak show. It's a reason he's the number one pick or a first round pick, you know, coming out of Tennessee. And to me, he's, he's the, the icing on the cake for the Atlanta Falcons and the offense. They don't have a lot to offer. And when he's not in there, they're, they're not a very good offense. They're not.


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[Assistant] You know, but he keeps, you know, a little bit like the Devo Samuel thing, where you just go like, wait, what personnel are they in? Are they lining them up as a receiver? Is he playing running back here? We don't know what to do on the defensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] You know, good efficient first drive of the game. Uh, James Robinson fumbles on the Jaguars first or second drive of the game. They get a short field touchdown. They're up 14 to nothing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they made life hard on, on, uh, Jacksonville and company who kinda hung around and, yeah, made a game of it eventually. Uh, but being down 21 to 3.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't care how good your defense plays in the second half. It's hard to overcome that. And they're five and six now. They are. I mean, they're like in it somehow. They're like this handful of teams in football that we've talked about where you're just like, man, they have flaws, but


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[Assistant] They kind of beat the teams they're supposed to beat, and you know, they won one or two games where they probably shouldn't have, but they did, and here they are. It's like, I feel that way about them.


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[Assistant] I mean, I just feel like the only reason Seattle's even closely, there's only a half a point underdog. It's cause of Russell Wilson. Everyone's just like, well, it's Seattle.


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[Assistant] And they've been good for 10 years, and I was just gonna go, well, they're not good. I don't know. I'm gonna, Washington's a better team than them right now. Washington's defense has played well. Uhm, Heineken in the offense, they have a little balance. I mean, they can run the ball, and we know, we've talked about him a few times the last few weeks. He makes some plays in the pass game every week. McCorran is a superstar.


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[Assistant] You know, so I just look at that and I just go to Seattle with that defense. It's, yeah, it's been a little bit better. Okay. But the offense has not been good and I don't really know what to look at on the offense other than, oh, Russell's going to have to make some plays tonight for them to win. And because of that, I'm going to go with Washington in a tight one.


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[Assistant] You can't count them out yet. They're still, I mean, half the league, more than half the league still in the playoff race. That's what's amazing. It's a great year. It really is. I mean, this is what the NFL wanted. I don't know if it's necessarily great in the fact that like,


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[Assistant] Packers have been good. Packers, or uh, Bucks. Yeaah. It's just, it's interesting. It's not the dominant team. It's all over the place. It is. So that's where, uh, it's gonna be an exciting finish here down the stretch in December. Alright, well done. Thank you. Well done by you.


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[Assistant] So a team that plays in Arizona is based on the Northern Cardinal. At least they're no longer in the NFC East for a long time.


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[Assistant] Arizona Cardinals. Before that, the Phoenix Cardinals were in the NFC East when they moved from St. Louis. Even when they were in St. Louis, it wasn't the East, but hey, they did what they had to do to make it all fit.


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[Assistant] Alright, and the Cardinals have been around forever, forever. They were in Chicago, they were in St. Louis, and they haven't won a championship since, I don't know, I think literally the Truman administration, that's how long it's been, and then maybe they will this year. They're eight and two, and off they go.


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[Assistant] This week's picks podcast. It's PFTPM and Chris Sims on button presented by Under Armour. We sucked last week. Let's put the graphic up just long enough. Yes. Long enough for people to see that all the yellow yellow is good. White is bad. The yellow.


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[Assistant] I've got all six categories yellow. Although the numbers themselves are not impressive.


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[Assistant] All that matters to me is beating Chris. And, uh, boy, we both stunk against the spread last week. I'm barely above water straight up last week. It's been a tough couple of weeks and I love it how people think that we should actually be picking these upsets right, that we should know


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[Assistant] That a team like the Dolphins will beat the Ravens. That we should have known that the Broncos were going to stomp on the Dallas Cowboys the prior Sunday.


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[Assistant] That, that's, as a fan, it's great. As somebody who tries to pick the games, it is...


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[Assistant] I almost said the F word, I'll save it for later. It is freaking frustrating because you want to be right. So the fan in me, which loves chaos, loves it when the Ravens beat or lose to the Dolphins, but the guy that wants to be right is pissed off when the Dolphins beat the


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[Assistant] Every once in a while I'd get a picture of, of, uh, your hand rolled, uh, cigar that you're smoking that night. Oh, I know, you're right, I haven't done that.


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[Assistant] Let's start with tonight's game and we'll see if we disagree on this one. Although based upon our conversation from PFT live earlier today, I don't think we will. The New England Patriots traveling to Atlanta. They are six and a half point favorites against the Falcons with an over under of 47. Chris, start us off. Who wins tonight and why?


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[Assistant] This is, this is just one that, yea, and it would be fitting after the Patriots win 45-7 and the Falcons lose 43-3 for the Falcons to win this game. I just don't see the Patriots.


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[Assistant] Stepping into a pot hole tonight, especially after last year. We talked about this earlier. They won 45-0 on Sunday in LA against the Chargers. They stayed in LA to face the Rams on Thursday night and the Rams ran the ball down their throats. This team is better than it was last year. Bill Belichick is coaching them into a team that will


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[Assistant] I got 24-17, same thing with the 7.5 points spread, the Colts to cover, the Bills to win, the Colts run the ball well, their defense continues to be underrated, and I agree with you, the Bills offense just feels like


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[Assistant] It's missing something. As you argued last week, maybe they should have been one of the teams that was inquiring about Odell Beckham Jr. to give that offense a bit of a kick in the ass. Too much on


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[Assistant] On Josh Allen, and 45-17 went over the Jets, great, but...


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[Assistant] It was the Jets. Let's see what they do against a playoff contender that truly does believe in themselves and they fought through that early season adversity to get to 500. The Colts are a compelling team to watch down the stretch. They have that playoff formula. If they can get there, there will be a team that will be tough to beat in January.


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[Assistant] And a surprisingly compelling 1pm matchup thanks to the likelihood that Cam Newton will start for the Panthers. Carolina at home, Ron Rivera returning to Charlotte.


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[Assistant] To coach the Washington football team, his first game back in Bank of America Stadium since he was fired a couple of years ago by the Panthers. Carolina is a three and a half point favorite at home, even though Washington beat the Bucs by 10 last weekend. Over under is 43.


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[Assistant] Are you on upset alert for this one, even though it really wouldn't feel like much of an upset if Washington wins the game?


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[Assistant] I got Washington winning this one, so this gives you an opportunity to cut the deficit from 9 to 8. I just think that angle of Ron Rivera knowing Cam Newton.


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[Assistant] Superceeds these efforts by Matt Ruhl and Joe Brady.


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[Assistant] Confidence that comes from that and we know in the NFL confidence leads to more confidence. They have to be feeling good about themselves. Rivera, even though he said all the right things when he was asked the question yesterday about


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[Assistant] Being fired by the Panthers. There is a stark difference between public Ron and private Ron. And my guess is he's gonna be worked up. That team is gonna be worked up. I think Washington wins this game outright 24-20. So I got them winning and obviously covering the spread since they're getting points.


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[Assistant] Ravens reeling from that 22-10 loss to the Dolphins last Thursday night. Go to Chicago to face a Bears team coming off of their bye.


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[Assistant] Five point favorite are the Ravens, over under a 45.5. According to points bet sports book, which provides all of our odds for this program, 93% of the spread money is on the home team, the Chicago Bears. Are you putting your money on the Bears or the Ravens, Chris?


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[Assistant] The Ravens winning this one. This is a desperation game, not from the standpoint of winning, but from the standpoint of reestablishing themselves as a contender. The road gets tougher starting next week. This is their last, I don't want to call it an easy game because there's nothing easy about any NFL game unless you're playing the Texans or the Lions.


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[Assistant] And you have your starting quarterback if you're the Steelers, but this is one where the Ravens can...


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[Assistant] Points bet 93% of the spread money on Chicago be damned. I like the Ravens to win. I like the Ravens to cover. Let's keep it moving. Detroit Lions at Cleveland. The Browns is the Browns, but the Lions is the Lions. The Browns are favored by 11 and a half.


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[Assistant] With an over under of 43 and a half. Biggest spread of the week. 64% of the bats are on the Lions getting 11 and a half. But 83% of the money is on the Browns. And obviously Detroit looking like it will be starting Tim Boyle this weekend.


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[Assistant] Do you like the Browns to recover from that 45-7 loss they took in New England?


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're dangerously close to picking the Browns to cover. I'm gonna go the rest of the way and say the Browns will cover. And here's a couple of factors I'm influenced by. First of all, the Browns, and we've seen the Browns when they


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[Assistant] When they realize, you know what, we're not nearly as good as we were supposed to be this year, they kind of wake it up like they did against the Bengals. When they surprised us all with a big win in Cincinnati after the release of Odo Beckham Jr. Technically it was a day before, but they knew he was gone.


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[Assistant] And the Lions, the last time that they came close to winning a game, and I actually thought they would beat the Eagles at home, what happened? 44-6 I believe was the final score of that one. I think the Lions, when they come close to getting a victory, they empty the tank and they can't recover from it, and they know they've got that Thursday Thanksgiving game.


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[Assistant] And just as there's a story to be told that maybe we'll be told it someday about the relationship between Baker Mayfield and Jar, and, and Odo Beckham Jr., I feel like some of that's splashing over to Baker Mayfield and Jarvis Landry because all of a sudden Jarvis Landry's not getting the ball. Yeah, he's not that happy, right? Yeah, I know, I know. And he's starting to say it. And, and it just makes me wonder,


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[Assistant] And again, stuff always goes on that we're not gonna know about, what went on in that locker room, who picked sides, and does Baker Mayfield view Jarvis Landry as maybe being too


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[Assistant] Too close to and too aligned with OBJ and whatever went down between Mayfield and Beckham. It's just something to keep an eye on. Alright, we move on to the next game, the San Francisco 49ers. Short week, long trip, but they face the Jaguars in Jacksonville. Six point favorites are the 49ers with an over-under of 45. Chris, do your 49ers make it two in a row?


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[Assistant] So you've got them covering, and you know, my initial thought was a closer game, 23-20, but


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[Assistant] I don't want to be influenced by, and I'll admit this, I get pissed off if I trusted a team


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[Assistant] I feel like the 49ers have kind of caught something now and they're going to build on it and this is an opportunity to build on it. I got 30 to 20, you know, run the ball, run the ball, Debo Samuel, George Kittle against a team that


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[Assistant] Yes, they, they gave the Bills a hell of a shock along with the rest of us, but they, and that game last week against the Colts could have and should have been a lot.


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[Assistant] It coulda. It coulda. It looked like it was gonna be a boat race early. Right. And somehow they hung around and covered. So I think it's 30 to 20 San Francisco. Alright.


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[Assistant] Blow the horn, Minnesota Vikings, hosting the Green Bay Packers and Aaron Rodgers, who has the toe injury that kept him from practicing Wednesday, although he said,


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[Assistant] He definitely will play. He also said, yeah, I'm immunized back in August, so who knows whether to believe anything the guy says going forward. I say that only half facetiously. The Packers are one and a half point favorites over under a 49.5.


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[Assistant] Will the Vikings win or will the Packers pick up their latest win and basically wrap up the NFC North?


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[Assistant] The Vikings are good enough to consistently string wins together. They're good enough to be in games. They've led by seven or more every game this season.


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[Assistant] Kind of untold story of that team this year. The shutout last week.


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[Assistant] The Packers win and unofficially become the NFC North Champions. The only question left is, do they become the number one seed and force the road to LA?


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[Assistant] Dolphins look good. Last Thursday night, can they continue and get their third win in a row, Chris?


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[Assistant] Pete who let us ramble on through all of the prior games all of a sudden has realized we've taken too much time and is giving us his- my dad used to call-


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[Assistant] The Rush Act! And I'm wasting more time deliberately just to get back at Pete for not telling us earlier we needed to move faster. I'll take the Dolphins giving three and a half. Next game!


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[Assistant] New Orleans Saints at the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles are two and a half point favorites. It's the lowest over under of the week at 43. I can't believe the Saints are underdogs, but they've lost two in a row and the Eagles have looked pretty good. Who wins this one?


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[Assistant] I like the Saints to turn this around because that's kind of what they do under Sean Payton. When they start to sink, he finds a way to say the right thing during the week, to get the attention of his team, to get them refocused, to get them back on track, to get them to do what needs to be done, and I think they will do that.


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[Assistant] This weekend, uh, and get the victory that they need after losing in Tennessee a game that even without Alvin Kamara.


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[Assistant] And with Trevor Simeon at quarterback, they could have won, but for some...


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[Assistant] Horseshit call. Horseshit. Sorry. Go ahead. Sorry. Nothing to pass her.


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[Assistant] They should just not play the rest of the games this year. The Texans, everyone's punching bag. The Titans, 10 point favorites. Chris, what final score do you have for this one?


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[Assistant] I got 34-13. I don't see the Titans stepping in a pothole as they get ready to face the Patriots. Although, yeaah, one of the challenges for Mike Vrabel is get them to not peek ahead and treat this like an NFL opponent. Because even though it is the Texans, they continue to be in the NFL even if just barely. Let's take a break. When we return,


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[Assistant] The 4pm Eastern games for week 11, including perhaps the biggest shootout, we'll see.


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[Assistant] The entire season. We'll do that next year on PFTPM and Chris Sims on But.


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[Assistant] PFTPM Chris Sims Unbuttoned presented by Under Armor, the 4 o'clock Eastern games for week 11.


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[Assistant] Let's begin with the Cincinnati Bengals coming off of their bye and a couple of ugly losses just when everyone thought they were good. One point favorites at a Raiders team that is trying to avoid a second half collapse for the second straight season. The over under is 50.


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[Assistant] Get back on the right track or will the Bengals be the one to reverse their losing streak?


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[Assistant] Well there went Bengals, back to Bengals. I've got Bengals 28-21, not as many points from my perspective, but I do think that Bengals have the talent and the incentive to turn it around. I'm just not sure that the Raiders


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[Assistant] I can figure it out. Too much adversity. Rich Basacci is the head coach. He never would have been the head coach of this or any other team. He was in the right place at the right time. The worst possible time obviously for John Gruden. And I think it's starting to show. The absence of Gruden with each passing week is taking more and more out of this offense. We saw a couple of just ugly balls thrown up for grabs.


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[Assistant] By the way, by the way, I continue to get complaints from people about how you say bangles. You reminded me of something else that they're now complaining about. When you say defensive or offensive,


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[Assistant] You say defensa or offensa as you, I don't know if you've ever noticed that and I haven't either. But I heard you say defensa end and it's like, you know, these people are sending these emails, they're onto something. I probably do.


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[Assistant] And I hope it's over time, although I guess I don't hope it's over time because that's just...


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[Assistant] Even longer that the audiences don't turn into football night in America, frankly. So 30-24 in regulation, a fast moving game. Keep it moving. Keep it moving so we can watch it and so we know that people are actually watching us instead of watching the end of what would be a great game. But I've gone under and I'm not


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[Assistant] Seriously considering it as a bet bet, best bet. I'm just thinking that the Cowboys may try to shorten the possessions by running the ball, chewing the clock as we discussed earlier on PFT Live. So that's why I'm airing just under the 56 and a half. I can see that.


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[Assistant] Arizona at Seattle. The Cardinals two and a half, or two point, not two and a half, very important, two point favorites. Over under 48 and a half. Kyle Murray on track to return after missing a couple of games due to a sprained ankle. Seahawks very desperate at three and six. Very desperate. Do the Seahawks get a much needed win, Chris?


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[Assistant] I've got the Cardinals in a closer game, 27-24, but they are a much better team, and I don't want to get myself


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[Assistant] Heavily influenced by the fact that the Seahawks have been good, they've been good, they've been good, so they're going to find a way. They're three and six. There's a reason they're three and six. There's a reason they scored zero points against the Packers, notwithstanding some of the bad calls we chronicled yesterday.


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[Assistant] I think the Cardinals get this win, and I think the Seahawks move into


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[Assistant] Uh, playing out the string category when they lose this one in fall to three and seven. All right, let's go ahead and take a break. The prime time games for week 11. Steelers going to LA and Tom Brady welcoming an old nemesis to town. We'll discuss those next on this joint edition of PFTPM and Chris Sims on Bucks.


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[Assistant] After it, somewhere between 30 and 300. Do you ever rock any of his shoes? Are you like one that every? Yea, and he always knows. He always knows if I've worn his shoes. I don't know how, maybe it's the foot odor, I don't know. But he always knows if I've worn his shoes. I don't know how he knows, but he knows. Let's get to Sunday Night Football. The Chargers are


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[Assistant] Do you like the Chargers to get a victory at home or the Steelers in what likely will be a home away from home with all those terrible towels at SoFi Stadium?


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[Assistant] And I think that's the best way to put it. It's an attitude game. And this is a game that Steelers need to reestablish themselves. And I think they're gonna run the ball, run the ball, run the ball, run the ball, run the ball. They're gonna play good defense and they're gonna find a way.


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[Assistant] In the right place. So I've got 20 to 17. You've got 20 to 17. Let's move on to Monday Night Football. A game that got very interesting after the Buccaneers lost coming out of the bye-bye 10 on the road in Washington. They come home where they've played much better this year than on the road.


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[Assistant] Giants come to town coming off of their buy. 15 days to get ready for this one. The Bucks are 10 and a half point favorites. The over-under is 49 and a half.


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[Assistant] Could it be that the Buccaneers will lose three games in a row? Chris, who do you have?


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[Assistant] I love chaos, and even though I picked the Buccaneers to get to the Super Bowl, and I'm picking the Buccaneers to win,


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[Assistant] It's, it's kind of fun when the team that everyone thought was just gonna waltz their way into the playoffs and into the Super Bowl struggles. It is a little, you're right. Because it just, it, it, it makes it more interesting for everyone else. So, uh, and the Giants, very much alive. Everybody in the NFC except the Lions are alive. And Joe Judge knows Tom Brady. The Giants have bedeviled.


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[Assistant] Tom Brady, I still think the Bucks win 27 to 21 and they stop the losing streak and they've got a schedule that sets up pretty well for them down the stretch, although they do have the Bills coming to town in a few weeks, which


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[Assistant] Could be a Super Bowl preview. Who knows. Let's go ahead and take a break. And when we wrap up.


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[Assistant] This week's edition of the Joint Megapix podcast, our best bets, plus the Folsom Prison Blues pick. We'll do that next year on PFTPM and Chris Sims on Buzz.


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[Assistant] Bing up the week 11. PFTPM Chris Sims on Button Joint Megapix Podcast. Best Bets time. We actually have some time to breathe because once Pete says move, we move baby. So let's waste some time before we get to the best bets. We disagree on only


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[Assistant] One game this week, which means best case scenario, you'll be down eight, worst case scenario,


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[Assistant] You'll be down 10. It's Washington, Carolina.


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[Assistant] By the way, let me just say this, since we have a little bit of time and we're pissing it away. Every time I hear the phrase straight up, I am reminded of a classic scene from the movie Weird Science where Robert Downey Jr. and some other guy who was in a bunch of movies back at that time, but I don't remember his name, are asking for a drink. And the bartender says straight up.


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[Assistant] The guy with Robert Downey Jr. says, just give me the whole bottle. And the bartender says, how about what? How about this? You bend over and I'll shove it straight up your ass. Every time I hear the phrase, straight up, I think of that line. You bend over and I'll shove it straight up your ass. So he says, on the rocks is fine.


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[Assistant] First one for me is an underdog that I don't expect to win, but I expect to cover. Last week I picked the Jaguars to cover at Indianapolis.


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[Assistant] This week I think Indianapolis covers at Buffalo. Seven and a half, too much. I think the Bills win. Seven and a half is too much. I like the Colts to cover that spread even though I like the Bills to win the game.


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[Assistant] Alright, next one for me, I'm gonna go to New York, where the Dolphins are coming to town to face the Jets. The Jets have spun to Joe Flacco. The Mike White era is over. The Dolphins, I think, hey, they won two in a row.


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[Assistant] They've got a chance to get hot here. They've got a chance to get to 500. They've got a thin chance to try to get to the postseason. I think the Dolphins given three and a half. That's not nearly enough. I think the Dolphins are going to win this game. I like what they're doing right now and I don't like what the Jets are doing and I don't think the Jets recover quickly from the ass kicking that they took in


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[Assistant] Are at home against Buffalo last week, so give me the Dolphins. Alright, third one.


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[Assistant] I've got two I can choose from here and we've got road teams across the board. And my final two choices where I have to pick one of them, both road teams. It's either the Packers giving one and a half at Minnesota or the Cowboys getting points.


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[Assistant] In Kansas City. I'm going with the Cowboys getting the points. Because, oh, you never pick upsets. Well, I'm picking an upset. The Cowboys are not favored to win this game. I think the Cowboys will win this game. I think they are on the verge of letting themselves and everyone else know that they are a truly elite team and they're still trying to put that


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[Assistant] Whatever it was that happened against the Broncos behind them. Alright, it's Folsom Prison Blues time. The one game as we're laying, dying, not dead, because if we're already dead, we can't pick a game. We're dying in a gutter. We got one game we can pick this weekend. Straight up, straight up your ass. Who do you pick, Chris?


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[Assistant] I don't know what the rule is around here though. Anybody playing the Texans and the Titans, the best team in the AFC right now, facing the Houston Texans, I will take the Titans.


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[Assistant] You know, my other choice would have been, what other one did I like? I like tonight. I like tonight. But I don't like making those picks for tonight's game. You know how I feel about that, but you did it anyway, so thanks for nothing. Suck it!


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no. So this is what we're gonna do. So Pete has thought about this. We want to make you think, not only were you thinking about it all day yesterday, we want you to think about it all throughout the pod. Uh, so the homies tweeted us all throughout, and the homies out there, they remembered. They were making sure that we did not forget what you said a few weeks ago.


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[Assistant] End of the show. Wow. End of the show, however long that may take, so maybe we go longer. I do like your hoodie today, just to let you know. Thank you. New hoodie. Yeah, that's nice. Uhm, but I'm gonna celebrate this. You know, yeah, I was apprehensive at first, and I don't think I really wanted a guy to...


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[Assistant] Quickly hit em because some of these games deserve a little bit more of our time. We'll talk about the coaching changes and the firings. Flores is out. That was a surprise. We'll talk about that when we get to the Dolphins game. Mike Zimmer is out. More expected. Nagy is out. Fangio, we knew that. So we'll get into those as we go through here. But let's start.


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[Assistant] It was Sunday night football in the craziest game that maybe I can remember just because of all the circumstances that surrounded the talk of a tie and like, why don't teams just take a knee and do all that? Which right off the top here, if they really had done that, right? Just to snap the ball, taken a knee or played to a tie.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and you already mentioned a lot of what happened in this game.


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[Assistant] Literally nothing differentiating a tie from a win because they were at Buffalo either way. And so I did think at the end of the game in overtime there, I was like, the Raiders, I think they could have been a little more aggressive because if they had turned it over late, I don't think the Chargers were doing anything in overtime. I think they were, why wouldn't they be content just to run it out?


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[Assistant] Let's read it. Just wondering why didn't the Raiders let the clock run out instead of risking a potential field goal block as they were in the playoffs with a tie anyway?


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[Assistant] Because I think they should have been more aggressive, because after the game, yeah, totally. Because after the game, Basachi was like, yeah, we're thinking about maybe just playing for the tie there. And like you just mentioned, why? Because if you do turn the ball over the last couple of minutes of overtime.


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[Assistant] Does it influence you at all that all the analytic models showed that going for fourth down there was the proper decision, including next gen staff?


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[Assistant] I do think that it is possible that if you have an above average offense, which you would call the Chargers an above average offense, I do think it's possible that it does make sense to go for fourth and one specifically, not fourth and four, not fourth and ten.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but Justin Herbert was awesome. What? At the end of the game. Yep. Uh, as before we get into the Raiders and how awesome they were to win this game. But, but Justin Herbert, he deserved better. He deserved better this year. Everyone I think outside of Pittsburgh and Las Vegas wanted to see Justin Herbert in the playoffs. Yeah, right.


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[Assistant] The game has been on his shoulders in the two years he's been in the league through the ball 64 times in this game, career high in attempts, 383 yards. The final three scoring drives, basically all Herbert passes except for that one Austin Eckler four yard touchdown run.


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[Assistant] In overtime, but we will not see them in the postseason. We will see the Las Vegas Raiders.


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[Assistant] Passatia, hats off to him, first interim coach ever to get his team into the postseason.


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[Assistant] And Derek Carr now will play in the first playoff game in his eight year career. He was injured the last time the Raiders were there a few years ago. And I like Derek Carr. I'm a huge Derek Carr fan. I get it. I think he's underrated. And what a stabilizing force he's been for this team.


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[Assistant] What do you think about the Raiders post-season? Did you think that was possible?


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[Assistant] Put themselves in compromising situations. Yeah, a couple huge runs as Josh Jacobs in overtime, that 10 yard run put him in the field goal range. And in the first half, end of the first half, Jalen Richard with that big third and what was it? Third and 24?


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[Assistant] John Isaac 55, damn okay, how amazing is freaking Mad Max Crosby. Six tackles, couple sacks, three passes defended, career high, eleven quarterback pressures.


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[Assistant] I think he is a little bit of an underrated coach here. He gets the Pittsburgh Steelers back into the postseason when it looked like they were nowhere close to that quality of a team at some points throughout this year. Mehmet 305 says damn okay, Ahmed for predicting that the Steelers would make the playoffs.


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[Assistant] So I didn't do that, but now people are going to think I did because you're kissing my shoes about that whole thing.


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[Assistant] They've got a tough team. Uh, Ben is now third all time in fourth quarter comebacks after, who is it, Peyton Manning?


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[Assistant] And Tom Brady, Tom Brady 1, Peyton Manning 2 there. It's a tough, it's a tough team. Uh, the Ethan Mcnew says, damn okay. Najee Harris coming back in the game, playing through an injury. He is such a beast. He is a beast. Their whole team and they're about


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[Assistant] And to TJ Watt's credit, he does give credit to a lot of his teammates. He said, quote, a lot of selfless guys in that locker room that allow me to make plays so that record isn't just mine. He's a big F up the play guy too. And he realizes how important those guys are around him.


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[Assistant] Deal with the chiefs there. It's going to be really interesting. The coach of the year conversation because last week we were talking about the floor and Zach Taylor. And now this week you can talk about Mike Tomlin, getting them in the postseason and Basachi, the first interim coach ever. So I think.


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[Assistant] There's going to be some interesting discussions, a lot of deserving coaches, which is cool. You know, there's a lot and I was looking around a lot of really good coaches. I feel like in the NFL right now.


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[Assistant] A club that's trying to get that culture is the Jacksonville Jaguars. They've had a bit of a rocky go getting there this year, but it ends well for them. They eliminate the Indianapolis Colts in


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[Assistant] Perhaps one of the most shocking games of the season. The only question I can think of for this game is how. How did that happen?


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[Assistant] 2014, 2014, they haven't won in Jacksonville, which is crazy because the Jaguars have been not very good for a while. It was the number one team in the NFL in turnover differential, the Colts, against the worst team in that category, the Jaguars. And the Jaguars won the turnover battle in this game. Is Carson Wentz, I don't want to call him a loser, but is he not a winner?


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[Assistant] Yeah, Carson Wentz has doubters out there. Jimmy Garoppolo has a lot of doubters out there as well for the San Francisco 49ers. Before we get to that game, it is the beginning of Damn Okay presented by Under Armour.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Jimmy G did have that drive at the end of the game, but to your point, it was a lot of the running game up to that point. Yeah. Touchdown that made it 17, 17. That drive went 84 yards. It was run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run, run. And then Debo Samuel, 24 yard touchdown pass on the toss sweep pass. Right.


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[Assistant] The stats, one final point here to make. Do we have the stats first half versus second half for the 49ers here? Because, uh, they exploded just three points in the first half and then 24 in the second half. It's the largest comeback in the Kyle Shanahan era and it's the largest blown lead in the Sean McVay era. First time he's given up a halftime lead in his career.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's kinda getting a little stale, but I did think there was a painfully conservative call by Sean McVeigh late in this one. Yeaah, I think this is worth talking about. 37. Yes, right. A minute 40 left.


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[Assistant] You run the ball. You run the ball there to make the 49ers burn their final timeout.


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[Assistant] Yeah, 49ers and Cowboys in the first round. We got the Cardinals and the Rams in the first round as well. The New Orleans Saints for a second look like they might be playoff bound. Cause if they were scoreboard watching the 49ers, they were down and the Saints were.


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[Assistant] Leading, I think, all that game against the, uh, Atlanta Falcons. They do win 30 to 20, but cause the 49ers come back win, the Saints are out of it. But we gotta give props to our damn okay.


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[Assistant] Elvin Kamara, he had a career high 30 carries in this game, a season high 146 yards.


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[Assistant] And kudos to Sean Payton as well. Nine and eight season in a season where you, you lose your quarterback, Taysom Hill has injuries. He leaves this game with Camara and Payton. I think those two have.


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[Assistant] Buoyed this organization, they're strong elsewhere, strong lines, good defensively, but those two specifically seem like they have done a lot to put this organization where they are.


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[Assistant] But Liz Frank injury was what the reports were. Is that what they're saying? Yeah. Oh man. So he really.


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[Assistant] You know who else could be in the market for a quarterback? The Seattle Seahawks. And if this was the end for Russell Wilson with Seattle, he goes out with a victory. 38-30 over the Arizona Cardinals in a really entertaining game, a game that was important for Arizona.


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[Assistant] Right. Which they didn't do. Nope. And they've been a little up and down here the last second half of the season. Oh have they. And it showed up again in this game. What was your big takeaway from this game?


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[Assistant] Without Bobby Wagner, Jamal Adams, and his replacement losing Quandre Diggs during the game, they killed Arizona's high flying offense without the two turnovers. They held them to just 16 points. And so yeah, Carlos Dunlap was good, hit a couple sacks. Poota Ford had a sack and a half. Uh, Kerry Heider had a sack. And so Seahawks defense stepped up in this game.


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[Assistant] The Tampa Bay Buccaneers. They beat the Carolina Panthers their last game 41 17. The final are damn okay. We're going to give it to Rob Gronkowski. He needed seven catches, 85 yards.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and then Tom Brady, that was his last play. He came out, the one last play was to get Gronk that seventh catch. He finished with 137 yards, his most receiving yards in a game since 2017. It's going to be interesting for this Buccaneers team because


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[Assistant] You don't have all the weapons 100% like you did last year for the buck.


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[Assistant] If Brady can somehow get another Super Bowl out of this team that's a bit hobbled, Chris might finally put him in his top 20 quarterbacks of next year.


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[Assistant] Better team on the field in Miami yesterday was the Miami Dolphins. For that game, we dive into the headlines. It is time for give me the headlines presented by Hyundai. And we do start with the Dolphins winning their.


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[Assistant] Last regular season game in the tenure of Brian Flores. Didn't know it at the time, but that's what's happened here. The news we've gotten here on Monday. 33-24 was the final score. What's your headline in this game, Chris? It's not you, it's me.


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[Assistant] Have the Patriots, they're a playoff team, but have they collectively hit a bit of a wall here? Mac Jones, has he hit a wall? Has the team hit a wall?


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[Assistant] They are a playoff team though. They are a playoff team. Something that Miami is not despite finishing 9 and 8 after going 1 and 7 to start the year and finishing 10 and 6 last year. Yeah. Uhm, and so you got into a little bit of the stuff, Compass Traveler 1.


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[Assistant] Wanted to know the narrative behind the curtain with Brian Flores and more will come out.


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[Assistant] The Bills were playing for the AFC East title. A win against the Jets is all they needed to have. And for a while there, looked like it was more difficult than it should have been. They did end up getting the win. 17 points over the Jets. Your headline for this one is...


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[Assistant] All the time. Tom Brady is booty wrote in. He said, love the pod as always, but damn okay. Josh Allen on his first touchdown throw to Stefan Diggs breaks two tackles just to throw a laser while being tackled. If anyone asked for one play that defined Josh Allen, I'd show them that.


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[Assistant] I do think it's possible we are sleeping maybe a little bit on the bills because all 11 of their wins were by double digits and all but one of their losses were by one possession, I believe. So it's like they've won big and they've barely lost those losses. So perhaps, even though some of the weaknesses that you've pointed out are definitely legit.


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[Assistant] Dallas can pressure the other team with their defense this year, much improved. They did that against Philadelphia's second and third string team basically out there winning 51-26 on Saturday. Your headline for that game is? Uhm, sorry, I'm, uh, uh. Such a quick transition.


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[Assistant] Cedric Wilson looked good. He had a career high of 119 yards. A couple of touchdowns there. Michael Gallup hurt, and so maybe he can be a star for them in the postseason. That was Give Me the Headlines presented by Hyundai.


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[Assistant] They had the lead, chance to make it even more, but the fumble, Melvin Ingram hitting his former teammate, Melvin Gordon, and then Nick Bolton picks it up and bolts 86 yards for the touchdown. You kind of talked about this earlier a little bit. Not a real impressive win for the Chiefs in a game that they didn't really know.


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[Assistant] Tyreek Hill had a heel injury in pregame warmups. I saw some concern there. Travis Kelsey had a hip issue right at the end of the game there after his catch, which basically iced the game for the Chiefs. Uh, Jerrick McKinnon looked pretty good. Mikko Hardman had his first hundred yard game.


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[Assistant] Maybe they will. Maybe they will season they will. So Chiefs get the win there. A game that didn't mean a whole lot, but they were able to make the big play at the end. Another game that didn't mean a whole lot. Bengals and Browns. Browns get the win 21-16. Not a whole lot to take away from this game.


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[Assistant] Bengals didn't play their, their guys, uh, in this one. I guess the only, the big news in this one is that what happened after the game is that reports out of Cleveland were that the plan is to have Baker Mayfield as their quarterback next year. Yeah. And plans never change. Yeah. Well, I'm not shocked by that. I'm not. I mean, what do you think they're doing there? What do you think they're trying to say?


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[Assistant] The team that isn't always as fun to watch, the Tennessee Titans, although they are the number one seed in the AFC, they get the win, a hard-fought win over Houston. 28-25 was the final score.


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[Assistant] Titan Hunter wanted to give a damn okay to Ryan Tannehill. He says Tannehill doing his best Houdini made me say damn okay. And I think you think that Tannehill's, you know, he hasn't had that great year that we've, you know, seen maybe in the past where he's made bigger plays, but he's also hasn't had his guys around him this year and they still win.


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[Assistant] So that's how you see it in the AFC. I'm curious how Las Vegas see it, and specifically our friends over at PointsBet, the official sports book of AFC sports. So, here are the AFC champion odds, and Kansas City the favorite plus 190, Titans number 2.


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[Assistant] I mean again, yesterday. You could, you could make the case that he has had the most productive rookie season of all the quarterbacks, right?


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[Assistant] The team with the bye is not going to be the favorite to win. I bet you're not going to see that very often. No, you're right. It is very odd that the chiefs do play in the first round. I get it. I get it. Listen, you held a gun.


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[Assistant] Let's go over and look at the NFC. The Packers did lose to my Detroit Lions, 37 to 30. So how good can they be? They were biting some kneecaps yesterday. Aaron Rodgers did. They played a lot in the first half there and the Lions still had the lead. They did. You're right. Uh, points bet has the, has the odds for the NFC winner too. Kristen, do we have that board? There we go.


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[Assistant] The buy team dis, uh, does, uh, is the favorite here. Green Bay plus 170. The Bucks number two. Rams there three and Dallas four. So you got a big four in the NFC.


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[Assistant] Yeah, a little shaky, right? Yeah, normally rock solid. Right. He's been a little shaky this year, but not a whole lot to take away from this game. As we said, the Packers, although they did play their defense quite a bit in this game all throughout the game, Lions get the win. And there were a lot of people that were like, what are the Lions doing? If they lose that game, they get the number one pick.


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[Assistant] I have an unproven theory though, that in a year where there's no slam dunk number one, which I think we agree there's no slam dunk number one in the draft this year, no quarterback up there for sure, uh, it's better to have the number two pick because


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[Assistant] Being the number one pick puts pressure on you as a player. You have to live up to being the number one pick. Sure. Or being the number two pick, you kinda, you don't have that pressure.


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[Assistant] The Lions, I would. And I think the Lions are maybe the youngest or especially in the top five, uh, youngest teams in the NFL. So they've got some young players they're building with. And yeah, I, I totally agree. Even in a year where there is a slam dunk number one, it could be Trevor Lawrence where now after year one, you're like, Oh, it wasn't that good. Or Tua, Tank for Tua.


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[Assistant] Under Armour is about the hard work, the dedication, the cycle of training, competing, and recovering.


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[Assistant] We give you advantages, but not shortcuts. The only way is through. For one more podcast. Right? Are they with us tomorrow? Are they with us Wednesday? They're with us from Wednesday. And Thursday? Okay, alright.


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[Assistant] Maybe after they see the end of this podcast, uh, they will, uh, they'll want to stick around.


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[Assistant] Two more games here that we have to do, just because we always promised. Do we have to? Uh, just for 30 seconds. Uh, Vikings defeat the Bears, uh, and in a game that both Mike Zimmer and Rick Spielman, the GM and coach of the Vikings and Matt Nagy and Ryan Pace, the coach and GM of the Bears, now are, that was their last game. Yeah.


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[Assistant] We didn't really talk about Vic Fangio with the, the Broncos being fired there. So you got Fangio fired, you got Zimmer fired, you got Nagy fired and you got Flores fired. Of those four, do you think any of them are head coaches next year?


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[Assistant] Washington defeats the Giants, uh, it was the Clown Shore organization beating the Giants by 15 with that whole Joe Judge thing. And the Giants, uh, Pete Notes here ran a quarterback sneak on second, 11 and third and nine from inside their five. WTF Monday. It was a disaster.


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[Assistant] Reports that Dave Gettleman is retiring, quote unquote, but Joe Judge is staying. What do you think about that? A lot of calls for Joe Judge for this to be his final year.


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[Assistant] Alright, we've already put the Giants to rest. Yeaah. And the Washington football team to rest. Now it's time to put four more teams to rest. And the only way we can do that, the only way we know how to do that. There's only one way. Requiem with a team. Kristen's got the music there. So four teams we say goodbye to.


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[Assistant] I'll start here with the Indianapolis Colts. Okay, you ready? I'm ready. Here lie the Indianapolis Colts. It's a team that was close to its goals, even though they did have some holes. It is a shame, in the last game, they should have started Nick Foles. Right?


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[Assistant] Very nice of you. We should have figured out a way to do that. Here lie the Los Angeles Chargers, alright?


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[Assistant] Justin Herbert's one of the best around. One day, he could wear the crown. Oh my god, don't look now. I don't even know how. They just missed another fourth down.


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[Assistant] Here lie the Baltimore Ravens. Good year for them. You know, a lot of injuries here. This team often had to regroup.


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[Assistant] And finally, here lie the New Orleans Saints.


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[Assistant] This season was not very nice. It was like a bad roll of the dice. Unlucky they were. It's been a blur. I mean, Sean Payton got COVID twice. I mean, that's crazy, right? You talk about all the unlucky things you could have happen. Did you have that quarterback situation?


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[Assistant] You're right. They had a deal with a lot. They're doing well. So that's good. We put those teams to rest. We have the playoff teams now and we will put the playoff teams to rest. But one of those playoff teams has not done yet. Never did a requiem for the Pittsburgh Steelers is finally happening.


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[Assistant] Neither of us wants this, but I'm gonna, you know, I'm gonna celebrate this moment for Steeler Nation. Oh, look at Christopher Jones here. I like it. He goes, I can't stop smiling. I have been hoping for this from the beginning.


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[Assistant] Uh, Kristen's got kiss cam all framed up. So Kristen, do we, is that in the proper spot? Okay. All right. Do you know how you're going to do this?


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[Assistant] And here's the weird thing, if you want to know from my perspective there, I can feel your lips on my feet. Good, good. Very strange. Feel yourself blessed.


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[Assistant] I mean, feel blessed. Okay. Honestly, that might've been the first time in my life where lips have been close, that close to my feet.


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[Assistant] And Pete, great decision on doing it at the end of the podcast, cause it would have been awkward to do the whole podcast after that moment, right? It would have been like, how do you get past that? Yea, right. Can't believe it. Unbelievable. Didn't taste like anything.


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[Assistant] You will make, you will make your predictions though on Wednesday, right?


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[Assistant] I gotta draw up a play that does this and this and this and this, and look at that completion I got. How about just like, do this? It's real easy.


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[Assistant] Throughout the weekend, Saturday, Sunday, didn't matter. There was so much action. Every game had its own flavor. Hello Ahmed, how are you? Hello.


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[Assistant] Things Olympics was my point, and that's why I've been sitting here. Now, that was nice, great, my knee hit the light, let's talk about football. Don't ever do that again. Don't ever do that again. You're showing some favoritism, huh, on this podcast, huh? Why'd you say that? Wearing red, I mean, two teams wearing red, one, you're going Niners, was it more for the Niners or more for the Chiefs? More for the Niners. Oh, okay, alright.


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[Assistant] Game of the decade so far. Game of the decade so far. Let's give it that for sure. 100%. Game of the decade. One of the best divisional games we've ever seen in the history of football. Right. The, let me just say this, just so you know, the greatest quarterback duel I've ever seen.


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[Assistant] Greatest quarterback duel I've ever seen. When you talk about the way the game was played, how both of these teams are both so formulated around the quarterback. The quarterback's gotta be the guy to make the plays. We've orchestrated the offense around the quarterback anyways. They answered every bell.


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[Assistant] You know, defenses that do outside the box things on both sides of the ball.


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[Assistant] Never any like iffy decisions, mistakes, anything like that. The game was played clean with two of the most talented guys we've ever seen in the history of the sport of quarterback. They're the two best players in football right now. I know that doesn't mean they win the MVP.


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[Assistant] But when they're on their A game, there's nobody better than these two. The reason they're not going to win the MVP is because they did not play their A game every game this year. Rodgers did.


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[Assistant] Rogers, on his best day though, is not as good as these two guys. These are the two best players in football, and what they did was absolutely amazing. I mean, one, hey, yea, get the completions from the normal rhythm of the offense, oh yea, good job, way to go.


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[Assistant] Like, hey, nothing's there and you're not protected. Hey, you still got the normal, what we expected from the offense, even though the play was shit and we didn't block anybody and nobody's open. We got a 15 yard gain. How many times can we watch it? No dicey decisions. Perfection really from both sides.


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[Assistant] Don't talk to me about arm strength's not important anymore, anybody. Come on, what do you gotta see? What do you need to see? How many lasers around the field do we have to see from awkward positions and, you know, so come on, it's important. It's kind of a, kind of a thing.


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[Assistant] They were amazing. I just, really, I think the more the time goes on, the more this game will be remembered, and I really do. I mean, I know you think I'm being bold there. Yeah.


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[Assistant] I don't think I've seen a quarterback duel with that high quality of play, that many jaw dropping plays and throws from two guys, not only carrying it with their right arms, but then carrying it with their legs too. I never saw a game like that.


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[Assistant] Wow, or oh my god, or uh, holy shit, or what the, uh, so many times in the end of a football game, it was unbelievable. It really was, I mean, again, the plays that both teams made.


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[Assistant] And then, I mean, just look at a little look into my life. I was sitting there next to my wife who is a very casual football fan and my little boy who of course is a diehard Mahomes fan, right? And it just, to speak to your emotional roller coaster. It was all, my wife was yelling at the screen.


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[Assistant] Oh my gosh, this is amazing. These two are amazing. My little boy was crying, then happy, then crying, then happy. He's a big Mahomes guy. Oh, he's a big, he was crushed. He loves Josh Allen. But when it came down to these two, he wants Mahomes. And he's going to the Super Bowl this year. So he wants to see Mahomes at the Super Bowl. That's the thing that's playing into it.


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[Assistant] I mean, just delivered to all the goods. It really did. And I don't think I've ever seen, again, that's where I get into it. We've seen games like this where it's a good shootout.


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[Assistant] Where, hey, it's two awesome quality football teams and they're going back and forth. But usually only one quarterback's on fire doing magic. And the other one's like, hey, it's a good team with a good quarterback, but this is just a great game.


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[Assistant] These are two guys that I think, again, look at each other, have great respect, and understand, like,


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[Assistant] I'm a little threatened by that guy because he infringes on my I'm supposed to be the freakiest guy in the field territory. I think there is a real rivalry here. This has, like we said last week, this has Manning Brady written all over it except


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[Assistant] They have greater physical tools than Manning or Brady. And that's where it's different all together. But like, amazing. Amazing, Ahmed. And I think the other thing I come down to, again, in such a close football game,


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[Assistant] The one thing I look at is, hey yea, the quarterback play was phenomenal. The other thing I'll go back to in a game with lack of, you know, lack of mistakes to really point at is, you know, looking at the game,


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[Assistant] I still think what separates the Chiefs and the Bills is something that I said earlier in the year. The Chiefs just have a few more dudes or a few more studs on their team than the Bills do. Just a few more difference makers. Not to say the game isn't obviously really deadly close.


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[Assistant] I do think that between Hill and Kelsey, those two consistently can always depend on them.