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[Assistant] Like what happened to the Bills last week, it's 17 to 7, and the Eagles just run the ball all the way down the field, and then Jalen Hurts fakes a run, and there's A.J. Brown wide open with nobody covering him. The 49ers are never gonna have to be so compromised and go, oh no, we can't stop the run, that they're gonna have to go all in on that.


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[Assistant] 49ers, 24-20, they get their payback from the NSE Championship game. I think they're the more motivated team in this matchup too. Just throw that on top of the conversation.


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[Assistant] That's what it was. That's what I was going for. I was going for dark goth devil guy. I'm glad you got it. Okay, that means I did a pretty good job. I'm the devil.


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[Assistant] Here it is, here it is, here it is. Okay, go ahead. 31-24. 31-24. 31-24 Chiefs. Alright. Sounds like an exciting game. So they cover by one point. Yeah. Exciting game. I think we could get an exciting game.


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[Assistant] I feel like this game could go like three different ways for me. One, it could be chiefs dominate and kind of control the game and maybe even bull them out.


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[Assistant] The Packers win a nail biter. And let me just give you why I think that could happen.


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[Assistant] Right? One, the packers, the training wheels are off, it's full-fledged, go ahead with Jordan Love. The offense was as aggressive as we've seen all year, last year, I mean last week against Detroit, and it had been building up to that.


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[Assistant] They got, they're healthy on the offensive side. They can protect their own line. They're good at that, right? The three weapons on the outside are real.


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[Assistant] Dobbs, Watson, Jayden Reed, you better watch out. The Chiefs play a ton of man. That could be scary. And they like to throw it downfield. Musgrave can run it tight end.


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[Assistant] Right, so there are some things there that I look at that go, they can make some plays against this Chiefs defense. Now the other side of the ball, hey, the Chiefs have found some things I think that work for them. Last week I thought was one of the most versatile game plans I've ever seen them have.


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[Assistant] Two tight end sets, three tight end sets, a ton of screens, ran the ball, and an occasional shot play down the field. I like that a lot. I really do.


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[Assistant] I think the Packers are going to hang around in this one. I think the Packers are ultra talented on defense. They got young talent. They're not always perfectly sound, but I think they hang around and make it interesting. I'm going to go Chiefs 2320.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, it's hard to go with Cincinnati right now. Right? I mean...


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[Assistant] You know, but the Bengals defense, I think, is the disappointing thing. And the Jaguars offense that I think has found something. Tack down the field. We know they can run the ball. Their meat and potatoes intermediate pass game was always good. If they attack like they did against Houston, it opens up the whole field. The Bengals let up big plays everywhere. I like the Jaguars, 28-17.


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[Assistant] I mean, Christopher, you are up. I mean, listen, I'm gonna be, peel back the curtain. I like the Falcons, but I don't trust Desmond Ritter to make it a best bet. I like the Chargers, but I'd expect, you know, I worry about the Chargers Chargering. So I can't make that one. Alright? So here we go. Okay?


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[Assistant] I don't want, I want the glory hole closed up. Okay. That's right. No glory hole. I'm going Seahawks. The hole has been plugged. Sorry. All right. I'm picking the sea. I'm taking the Cowboys to win, but I'm going to pick the Seahawks to cover. Okay. That's my first best bet.


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[Assistant] Okay, fine. I'm going the Dolphins, okay? I'm going against the Dolphins, against the Commanders. I think they'd win convincingly.


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[Assistant] Alright, but you like the NFL football? Yea, it's the best football in the world.


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[Assistant] That's right. We're here to learn football. That's why you're here. We're gonna talk football.


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[Assistant] You want to talk movie references? Don't talk to Ahmed Farid. He's clueless. He really thought Paul Blart was an official security guard somewhere. He thought it was actually Dom DeSandro. He was like, damn, that's his real name, Paul Blart. There's Paul Blart.


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[Assistant] Mall Cop. You seen King of Queens ever? You ever seen that TV show? I have seen that, yeaah. It's a very good show. I would, I would recommend it in, in your adult, you know.


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[Assistant] The movie Mall Cup, I'm not gonna sit here and lie to you and tell you I recommend that. I'm sorry. Okay. Alright, so save your life. There's way better movies that you haven't seen that you should start with. The name's even in the


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[Assistant] Right, exactly right. And uhm, it just shows that there is a spot.


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[Assistant] In the social world that is very prevalent to most people in the world, and not even on your radar. It's quite impressive. Like it's really impressive. Do you even know who wins best picture at the Oscars ever? Absolutely not. And you don't even watch the Oscars? No I don't. Wow. No. That's amazing.


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[Assistant] I think your football takes are great. You're great. It's good to be here. It's Wednesday, December 6th. We got football tomorrow. Yes. It's real December football. We got some good ones to talk about today. We got lots of good subjects to break down today. So yes, we do. We have a what the f*** app. Oh my gosh.


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[Assistant] Your face gave it away, cause I was kinda reading the rundown and like thinking of some things, and your face made me realize that you just said the F word. What a f***ing idiot you are.


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[Assistant] So, I'm glad you brought it up, actually, because I saw some of that, too. And listen, you know, just rest a factor. Yeah, I mean, of course it is. We know that. I can't say that it looked like that on film. And as I think you see from my notes, early on in the football game, it seemed like the Eagles were kind of


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[Assistant] The team that was fresh and flying around and like, kind of like, Hey, 49ers, how dare you come back in here and this be this, this disrespect for us. We're going to show you. And they controlled as we know the whole first quarter of the football game. So that's where it'd be hard for me to.


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[Assistant] You know, look at it and go, Oh man, that was, you know, a big, big effect on the football game. You know, as the game goes on, do they get tired, whatever? You know, I don't know. I don't think so. Uh, but, but either way, it's been a tough stretch for them. I'm, I'm certainly aware of that and it didn't.


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[Assistant] That to me would be more of an example than, you know, oh, we played three games in a row that were tough, you know, Monday night, Sunday, Sunday. I'm not gonna, you know, totally buy into that aspect.


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[Assistant] Well, I think early on in the game, like we talked about, Philly dominated the line of scrimmage, right? I think Philly maybe came out and played a little bit more of a conservative


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[Assistant] Nature on the defensive side of the ball at first, if you, if you had to make me guess with how it looked.


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[Assistant] That I don't think the 49ers expected them to maybe play so many conservative coverages. They kind of played off, tried to keep people in front of them, almost like they did against the Miami Dolphins. And I think that caught Shanahan and the company by surprise a little bit. They called some plays early on in the game that were kind of aggressive and they were like,


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[Assistant] Whoa, wait, they're all back there. There's nothing we can do here. There's nobody open, right? So there was an adjustment period there.


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[Assistant] You know, let alone, like I said, the Eagles, their fans, the look of the night, all that, they kind of came out looking like they were a little bit of the more motivated, we're going to send a message type of football team, right? At least at first.


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[Assistant] I think it was, you know, it's that fourth drive, yeah, it was the fourth drive.


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[Assistant] Or the third drive maybe for the, uh, uh, San Francisco 49ers.


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[Assistant] They finally got into a rhythm, and I think the big thing was gotten a rhythm with just some short passes, right? Let's just take what they give us, let's go from there, and then that kind of opened up


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[Assistant] You know, Pandora's box to the rest of their offense and they got the defense reeling a little bit. But you know, I think the, the thing that.


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[Assistant] I would say, you know, really got them going, or the offensive thing that got them going overall. Purdy being efficient, making some big throws just to get it going.


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[Assistant] They run game to the left and then some game plan plays once Shanahan figured out how they were playing him with especially their 21 personnel, two backs, one tight end.


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[Assistant] That really stressed Philadelphia out. And between the run and the package of plays that they have out of that personnel set, the 49ers are very hard to defend when they play 21 personnel. I'll get into that in a second. But they slowly but surely started to have their way in almost all facets of offensive football.


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[Assistant] I think it's different than the Dolphins in what they do. And it's because of their personnel, right? When you talk about, let's talk about the two backs, the one tight end and the two receivers, right? The two backs first off and McCaffrey and Juszczyk are extremely versatile. They can do everything.


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[Assistant] You know, we know they got Kittle, who's a good tight end, who's same thing, can do everything. Elite run game blocker, elite pass game catcher.


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[Assistant] And then you got the two receivers on the outside where, yeah, Ayuk is a traditional receiver, but Debo is, is he a running back? Is he a fullback? Is he a wide receiver? I mean, he does everything for their offense. So you play defenses going, oh no, they're in two backs, one tight end. They're going to be able to run the ball on us.


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[Assistant] They can get into it and go, well now we're in ten personnel.


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[Assistant] You know, which 10% will be one back, no tight ends. And what I mean by that is they can get shotgun and go, hey, we're going to put everybody out at receiver, no backs in the backfield. And because all five of those guys can run routes like legit receivers, use check included.


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[Assistant] You know, he's really like a pass catching tight end who plays full back and can do that, almost like Kittle, but a different version of that.


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[Assistant] So they can do that, let alone that 21 personnel can look like one back, one tight end, three receivers, right? And they can play all these things off of each other.


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[Assistant] That really put a defense in of a bind to go, wait, wait, they might run it and smash it down our throat. So we want to put an extra linebacker in there or an extra D lineman in there.


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[Assistant] So we don't get overpowered, but then they spread the field out and they make the game fast and you go, oh damn, I wish we could take one of these D linemen off the field and put a Nickelback back in so we can cover Deebo on the, you know, the swing passes or McCaffrey coming out of the backfield running, you know, go routes from the seam route or whatever.


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[Assistant] And that's where they really put teams in a bind and make it very hard. Their versatility out of that personnel set is unlike anybody else in football. Run, pass, short run, short pass. Reverses.


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[Assistant] Right? Oh wait, Debo's in the backfield. They're not going to run the ball. McCaffrey's out there at receiver. Wait, they ran the ball between the tackles with Debo. Wait, we called a pass defense because they got in that formation. Right? There's just so much they can do with it.


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[Assistant] Uh, and then of course they start moving around and the shifts and the motions and everything like that, which again, this is a different scheme last year than last year's Eagles football team.


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[Assistant] But the motions and the shifts from the 49ers in this football game definitely affected the Philadelphia Eagles.


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[Assistant] It affected them not so much to where they were confused, there was definitely communication and some blown assignments, but also the motions just, you know, whether they spread the field or got one guy out of the box so now McCaffrey could be one on one or Debo could be one on one with the linebacker over the middle of the field.


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[Assistant] The defense wasn't capable of making the proper adjustments, and between the motions and the shifts,


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[Assistant] Shanahan found a way to crack their code, as I like to say, and go, wait, it's cover four, but now I'm going to move this guy there and this guy there, and now it's going to basically play like man to man, and it's going to be Morrow in the middle, man to man versus McCaffrey, or Deebo like I said, and of course that's advantage 49ers.


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[Assistant] This is where they really got it rolling, right? They got the ball back and you know, the Eagles didn't


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[Assistant] Capitalize on their early momentum, like we talked about, right? Two field goal drives, they were up 6-0 and got the ball back, up 6-0 with good field position, went 3-and-out and they had to punt the ball away and then the 49ers went on the drive and now here's the second drive. But you always hear me talking about, right, like, like tying plays together, right?


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[Assistant] Okay, you're gonna see here like the top screen, the top play is gonna be, end up being like a basically a little swing pass to Debo Samuel with lead blockers in front of him.


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[Assistant] Right? And they're in a little bit of a different formation, but watch, I want to show this how this goes to give you an idea of where this plays. You see on the top, it's tight end to the right, right? It's McCaffrey and Debo Samuel also to the right.


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[Assistant] Alright, and then Brandon Iuk's on the backside and you can't see him there on the top of the screen. On the bottom, which is two plays later, it's the same formation just flipped around, okay? So, let's let it play out, Pete, and let's, uh, let's see that next screenshot.


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[Assistant] The one up top, now again, it's the same motion, right? Medebo Samuel, he kinda goes across the motion, and then he turns back, and he goes behind the quarterback.


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[Assistant] Alright, so the play on the top, he's gonna go behind the quarterback, and, okay, as they do that, they're gonna basically, it's a toss sweep.


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[Assistant] Right? They took this play from the Miami Dolphins. The Miami Dolphins scored on this play at a touchdown, and he went, wait, that's McDaniel, I do all these motions, why don't I do this play like the Miami Dolphins and start, and, and, you know, putting in my offense. So.


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[Assistant] I saw the first play and they got out on the edge and Debo was like, he almost broke the last tackle and he could have been gone for 60 yards. So that's in my brain. It was just two plays ago, right? So go ahead Pete, go to the next play as you see or the next screenshot. Now the one at the top you can see here.


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[Assistant] For Deebo Samuel, and it's almost a lateral, uh, it ends up being a forward pass, but Purdy throws it out there.


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[Assistant] And Debo Samuel, you know, now is in space where Juszczyk is going to block Bradbury. And now it's like, oh, it's me and Hasan Reddick one on one as I shoot through a gap here and I like my chances of Debo. Now, so they saw that play and they went, whoa, you know, that's a, that's an issue. And then you could see on the play below it,


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[Assistant] They do all the same stuff before the snap, they send Debo wide going the other way, but this time they change the route combinations. This time they go, wait, we think they'll see that Debo play.


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[Assistant] Linebackers will be over-aggressive to go, wait, we gotta get over to stop Debo, which they do if you look on the bottom of the screen there. Blank and ship.


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[Assistant] And the, uh, middle linebacker, I think it's Stills in that one, 53, they overplayed the Debo Samuel aspect thinking, wait, I just saw this two plays ago and they gashed us, right? I gotta get over there and help out.


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[Assistant] And this time they go, no, we're going to send Kittle across the field and he's going to be wide open and Brock Purdy hits him. So that's what I'm talking about when you talk about tying plays together, setting things up, you know, making things look the same, but they're a little different.


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[Assistant] And that's where Shanahan's amazing, not only with the window dressing before the plays, the movements that stress you out there, but playing plays off of each other. Let alone the play that they ran in between those two plays.


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[Assistant] Was a run to the left, which he was also setting something up for that to come down the road, right? And so that's where it is. Oh, we're gonna run left, we're gonna run left, and then as I told you later in the game, what's he do? He gets down close to the end zone, they've been crushing him with the run left, he goes, wait, tight end shift left,


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[Assistant] Are you going motion left really fast? Wait, we're going to fake the run left to Christian McCaffrey, and then I'm going to toss the reverse to Deebo Samuel. He's going to run around the right side for a touchdown. And that's where Shanahan's next level with that type of stuff.


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[Assistant] I think it's your point though. I think it's correct. I think he just went, wait, this is these dudes, these dudes on Philadelphia are legit. Like if we want to run the ball, I want to run the ball behind my best people where I feel like we can be successful, right?


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[Assistant] And between Trent Williams, a left tackle, and Aaron Banks, their left guard, who's a road grader,


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[Assistant] And you know, went to Notre Dame and was that guy there and has been good at Smash Mouth football all along. I think they looked at that and just said, Hey, if we're going to run the ball against this group, let's just run behind our best football players here. And they had a, of course,


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[Assistant] Little different ways in which they ran left and made things happen, but I think it was as simple as that. I don't think, you know, there's no...


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[Assistant] Reinventing the wheel or like, man, what was the other reason they could be doing this? Was the defensive line on that side weaker? No. There was no telling who was going to be on that side of the defensive line or what personnel was going to be on there. They just went, we're going to run behind our best


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[Assistant] The C gap, you know, basically between the tight end and the left tackle to find little ways to open up holes that, again, it's not the same run every time. It looks a little different, but there's a little tweak to it. So the defense goes, oh, we got killed this way one time.


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[Assistant] Alright, we gotta overreact, and then they have something else that looks the same, but it's a little different, and they go, oh damn, he, now they hit it through a little bit of a different gap. And that's where the 49ers really become tough. The Eagles linebackers, right?


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[Assistant] They're, they're not very talented. It's a team of all-stars. It's, it's by far their weakest position on their football team. And Shanahan found ways to put pressure on them the whole game. That was one thing I think we gotta hit. And, and to add on top of that, not only is it their weakest position,


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[Assistant] As you know, and I watch things, I go, they're also being put in sometimes the most schematically


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[Assistant] The guys that are your worst players on your defense, you can't let that go down. That's gotta be, you gotta hide that to a degree. You can't just go, hey, we're awesome everywhere else against an awesome team and go, hey, they won't find a way to expose that. And, you know.


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[Assistant] Of course, Debo and some of the other passes and the runs and the reverses and all that tested the linebackers communication adjustments and you know, they were putting some tough spots where I go,


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[Assistant] You know, I don't want to blame Nicholas Mora. I want to go, that is a really tough spot you were put in. It's like cover the receiver or cover McAvery. Cover the receiver or oh no, it's Debo Samuel. I'm stuck in a tough spot here and that's not him.


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[Assistant] You know, he's being put in a spot that's not realistic for him to succeed. Yea, any linebacker who has to cover Christian McCaffrey, that is an unfair matchup. Right, well there's another good play of, you know, they get in a formation, they get the look they think they want, they motion,


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[Assistant] McAfee out of the backfield where he just goes sideways even though they're in the shotgun. He doesn't go to the line of scrimmage at all. He shuffles, but it's really just to clear out the picture a little bit for Purdy and the offense altogether. So now he goes, wait, he's kind of shuffling sideways.


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[Assistant] The linebacker's shuffling with him, right? And now we've opened the field a little bit to make this read and even the space in which McCaffrey can cut. Is he gonna go inside? Is he gonna go outside? Is he gonna go straight? There's more space and now the linebacker's like, oh well you shit, I got no chance here. And of course that's how they make big plays and that's where, you know, the 49ers are next level and amazing that way.


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[Assistant] It's a rare dude wearing number 19 in white and red. It's a rare dude. He makes a lot of DBs look like they don't want to tackle or they're not aggressive all the time. I did not watch the film and go,


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[Assistant] There was reluctance for them to make this tackle or do that. You know, they were well thought out plays where a lot of the times the corners had nothing to do. Darius Slay, like when he's chasing down Deebo Samuel on the 48 touchdown


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[Assistant] Yard touchdown pass down the middle. It's not cause of lack of aggressiveness. I mean, damn, he hustles, he runs him down. Deebo carries him for like four yards. I mean, again, it wasn't cause he was like, oh no, I want to


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[Assistant] Lightly jump on your back so you can keep running. He tried. He tried to swipe hard to hit the ball. I mean, Debo is a load. If people saw Debo Samuel, if some of the Eagles fans who were on Darius saw Debo, I'd go, I'll give you a million dollars, Mr. Eagles fan. Tackle Debo right now. Let's see how that goes for you.


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[Assistant] Alright, so that's where, let alone he was in space, he's quick as hell, he accelerates as hell, and a lot of the times too, he had blockers in front of him where the DBs are trying to take out a block and tackle him at the same time. So I don't look at it like that at all. Uhm, I just look at it as,


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[Assistant] They were in some tough spots and the 49ers were motivated and they had to tackle a guy that we know is like, you know, a handful when it comes to that.


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[Assistant] They just, they to me need to be infused into the lineup a little bit more. You know, they throw them a bone here and there just to go, hey, young guys, get in there, you're good. But you know, I don't know if they don't trust them or yet or whatever.


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[Assistant] But to me, those are guys, when I see them on the field, they, they pop out for the Philadelphia Eagles. You know? I'm sure they're not as smart as some of the older guys or whatever else, but they add an element of an explosiveness.


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[Assistant] To their defense that, you know, brings them up another level. And you know, all the talk about their safety play anyways, you know, Brown can fly and flies around like a kamikaze, just like his brother did as the Cincinnati Bengals running back the other night as you saw. Right? So I think they need to find a way. And Nolan Smith is just, he's just a freak of nature.


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[Assistant] You know, the way he can take on blocks, rush the pass or whatever. You know, he'd be the guy, if I had to play the 49ers again, I'd have him on the field more. When we talk about 21 personnel, they're gonna get bigger, they're gonna get fast. When you got a guy like Hassan Reddick and Nolan Smith on the field, that'll combat some of that 21 personnel stuff we talked about.


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[Assistant] Really, when all's said and done, once the 49ers got a little rhythm there on that first touchdown drive,


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[Assistant] Shanahan figured out how they were playing them and slowly but surely got to plays and got the Eagles in situations and in coverages that


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[Assistant] You know, playing their zone coverages for the most part. Yeah, it was just too comfortable for Purdy and Shanahan. And that's where we've talked about in the past. The Eagles need to find a way.


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[Assistant] To just trick it up a little bit, a little more illusion. I'm not saying they gotta reinvent the wheel, but like I said, there's too many times, and I, you know, I talk to people sometimes, they go, well, the Eagles, they run every coverage under the book, and I go, I know, but they line up in it, and you know what it is.


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[Assistant] Like you talk, like we talk about every week, I like the defenses who don't let the quarterback know what they're getting until they say set hut and then they look up and they go, oh crap, it's that coverage. It didn't look like that before the snap. And to me, they make the opposing team quarterback a little too comfortable at times.


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[Assistant] The traditional run game, right? They could beat the crap out of the Dolphins up front. So they didn't worry so much about the run game. They were like, we, we were okay there. We don't have to put 5D linemen in against the Dolphins. We're good. The 49ers, they went, woo.


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[Assistant] We could get out physical. They could gash us in the run game. We gotta worry about that. So we gotta take a guy out of coverage or be a little more aggressive with our fronts there. And that's the big difference, uh, as far as the output of, of the difference of the offenses. Shadahan's offense and McDaniel, you're totally right, are very similar.


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[Assistant] It's just McDaniels is a little bit more through the, the, the pass game and the speed of his football team.


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[Assistant] Shanahan, of course, is speed and has a pass game, but it's still premised on the physicality and the Shanahan run genius and then he does the other stuff off of that.


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[Assistant] You know, McDaniel's doing it off of past genius, past genius, past genius. Oh, you're taking away the past. Here's a toss crack or something out, and we're going to get our emotes turned out on the edge and do that. So it's a little different way in how the approach is. Got it.


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[Assistant] I think that was won by design. They did not want, you know.


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[Assistant] They learned their lesson in the NFC Championship game. Try to throw the ball deep down the field. Brock Purdy gets crushed and hit by Hassan Rinneke might not be playing, right? So they weren't gonna, you know, tempt fate too many times with that, right?


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[Assistant] So I think that's the first thing, but Purdy was magnificent. I mean, he really was. And even though none of the throws were, you know, down the field or highlight reel-ish type throws.


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[Assistant] Some of the throws regardless were big time throws. You know, whether, like I told you, some of the out routes early to Ayuk to kind of get them going. There was a 21 to 13, third and seven.


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[Assistant] He throws like a 12 yard out right. It's like, Ooh, it kind of feels like the Eagles might've got go momentum here. If the 49ers don't convert this, they're going to punt it back to the Eagles. The Eagles just drove down the field and scored, you know, uh-oh.


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[Assistant] Are we getting into this Eagles come back in the second half type of thing here and he throws an out route, right? Big pressure moment, elements not great on the money. First down allows them to keep the momentum going. You call that his play of the day. I think it was the play of the day. I think that was the play of the day as far as the Eagles were kind of doubting themselves.


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[Assistant] And that was kinda like, whoop, nope, nope, we're gonna continue marching down the field on you, get ready for that, you know, this assault is not done. And I do think that was the play of the day as far as the 49ers were concerned, to keep their momentum, squash the Eagles' momentum, and of course just stomp on the Eagles' throat there as the game went on.


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[Assistant] I think early on they moved, you know, they moved the ball, third down conversions. The big thing and the shock to me is two things, especially early on. The 49ers played a lot of man early on. They usually don't. You hear me talk about it all the time. The 49ers don't like to play man. That's not what they are. They're not real good at it, right? They don't have those type of corners. That's not what they do.


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[Assistant] They came out in this one and played a significant amount, the first two, three drives of the football game where I was kind of like, whoa, you know, and I was sitting there going like, why? I don't understand it. Like, why would you do this? But you know, I, I think


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[Assistant] I'm hearing some of their post-game comments and then...


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[Assistant] Thinking about the game big picture wise, I think it was two things. One,


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[Assistant] You know, they weren't gonna let the Eagles run game start getting off on them early in the game. You know, the Eagles start running the ball, and then you're so worried about the run, a little bit like we talk about the 49ers, now play action, pass, hurts, run game, works, all of it, and you're like, oh no, our heads are spinning. So they wanted to squash that. I think the other part of that is they wanted to squash hurts scrambling.


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[Assistant] They didn't want him to get into rhythm and start making the game this scramble fest to where he feels like he's gonna run all game. So I think they put an aspect, you know, an added emphasis on early in the game, they're not gonna run. Hertz isn't gonna run around on us. If he hits us and beats some passes man to man, then so be it. But I think they were willing to live with that rather than


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[Assistant] You know, oh my gosh, there goes Swift, 20 yards up the middle. There goes Swift, 20 yards off the right. Oh, hurts. You know, scrambled and got 15 yards. That is when the Eagles become a real pain in the ass. And I think that was the reason we saw that early on.


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[Assistant] We've hit on this. He's playing real good football. We know that, right? Am I shocked that he's still in the MVP conversation? A hundred percent. I don't, I don't understand that. I'm just gonna say that. Okay? I mean, it's a, it's one of the league leaders in turnovers, right? One of the league leaders in sacks with the most time to throw in all of football.


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[Assistant] And you've heard me say the last few weeks, there's some bad habits being performed here.


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[Assistant] Right? I'll even look, the play he got hurt on. There was people open. I don't know why he ran. Right? He just sees a lane and he runs and I go, step up in the pocket. You know, I think it was Zacchaeus on the right side is up the seam. He's wide open for a 20 yard completion.


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[Assistant] He's tempting the, the fate of the football gods a little too much. You know, I know we look at it and go, oh, he ran for five, but I want, I, there's a lot of plays lately where I've gone, yeah, but there's a completion open for 20. That was a great run for five. But if he just stayed in the pocket, he's going to throw a completion for 20 yards.


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[Assistant] So I feel like there's a little bit too much backyard football creeping into his game right now. That would be my one complaint. And I think he left a few plays on the field, you know, because of that, the other night. We've seen him in the past.


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[Assistant] Maybe putting a little too much pressure on himself to make plays, get things going. Their offense hasn't quite been the machine that we've known it to be, especially compared to last year, right? I think there's a little bit of that, you know? Uhm, but, but yeah, it was a weird one too, because as you saw from my notes,


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[Assistant] I've never seen anybody block the 49ers front like that in my life. I mean, you know, some of the sacks he took.


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[Assistant] Tush push, we get the first down, maybe we score a touchdown, right? You know, so there's just a handful of plays like that, where it's still really good, but I've set it against Kansas City, I set it against Buffalo, and I'd be not fair


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[Assistant] To my evaluations to tell you again that yes, there's a little bit of that creeping into his game right now that he's gotta clean up, let alone two.


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[Assistant] They are too pass happy. They are too pass happy.


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[Assistant] What did I write at one point? They were up 6-0 and they threw the ball 11 plays, 10 out of 11 plays out of that the next


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[Assistant] Where's the run game? You know, so I didn't understand that, but after those first two drives and them moving the ball down, the 49ers got out of that man to man and kind of got back to what they normally do, which is their Seattle threes, their cover fours and their other creative little zones that they like to run behind that great front four.


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[Assistant] That is, that, and that's what happened on the first few drives. I mean, early on in the game, I think they were like, you know, five for five or six for six on third downs, right? It was cause of what you were talking about. It was blitz. It was man to man. And he was like, wait, it's AJ Brown on this guy. Boom. I'm going to hit him. What's Devontae Smith on that guy? Boom. I'm going to hit him. He's better than your guy. And those were great. Those were the right plays all the way.


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[Assistant] I've never seen anybody do that to their D-line, and I've never seen anybody do what Lane Johnson did to Nick Bosa.


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[Assistant] And there's a bunch of place too where Nick Bosa comes in, speed to power, and he kind of moves Lane Johnson. You're like, oh, whoa, he's going to push him back into jail. And Lane Johnson just goes, and stops him like in his tracks. You're like, what, what kind of human are you? Cause I've seen Nick Bosa in person and.


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[Assistant] I don't think there's any human on earth that can stop him when he wants to run as hard as he can. And that was the incredible aspect of the football game.


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[Assistant] You know, the 49ers with their coverages, you know, and how well they are and the way the eagles attack, which I tell you again, you know.


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[Assistant] Is not as creative as it was last year when they had Shane Steichen. You know, they don't have as many answers in the past game as they used to. And I think that's one of the problems of the year, their offensive efficiency as well.


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[Assistant] You know, I think the 49ers are rolling, and I think the Seahawks are reeling. So one team's rolling, the other one's reeling, and I think it's a bad matchup for the Seahawks. I don't see a lot of avenues in which they can pull an upset, other than like,


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[Assistant] The struggles of the Seahawks on the red zone or third down, you know, those aren't good things with the 49ers because they thrive in that type of stuff.


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[Assistant] If they want to get it, it's now, right? Eagles are not playing their best football. You know, you just talked about how they were exhausted going to this game. Now they're going to go to another game just like it, right? I mean, they've played three battles in a row.


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[Assistant] And now they're going to Dallas who has had this marked on their calendar and they like to play at home and all of that. The big thing is going to be this, as we always talk about with this matchup.


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[Assistant] Can Dallas's speed disrupt the size of the Eagles? They are always compromised when they play the Eagles and the 49ers.


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[Assistant] Cause they get pushed around up front and they have to relegate more people to stopping the run game or stopping the front.


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[Assistant] Right? Isaiah Pacheco tore them apart the week before that. The whole 49ers team tore them apart last week. So, they got them real and certainly, uh, gonna be interesting to see how it plays out.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, Eagles are still really good. There's just some things. Hurts can play cleaner. They can be more patient with the run game. They need to trick it up on defense a little bit.


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[Assistant] I think they're a little too bland and simple at times, and I think that'll go a long way. We'll see where they go from here, but uh, yeaah, it's uh, it's interesting. And you know, yeaah, that's it. I'm good. That's it. We've put a period


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[Assistant] I get it, but when the much wasn't expected from the 49ers, Kyle didn't get any love there either. He's one of those guys that for some reason, cause he doesn't talk to the media, you know.


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[Assistant] Quite as quickly as he probably should've. His name is Shanahan. They think like his dad still call him plays, you know, from his home in Denver somewhere. Like, Kyle can't really be doing that. Let me just say this right off the bat.


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[Assistant] The best head coach in football is Kyle Shanahan, and I don't really think it's close right now. Okay, that's what I'm gonna tell you. Now you can look at his coaching tree, which there's a number of them on this graphic. Okay, that speaks to it.


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[Assistant] The GM's he has around football, right? I mean, you go through it. I mean, last year, why didn't he win last year? Was everybody expecting them to go to the NFC championship game with the Mr. Irrelevant?


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[Assistant] Why didn't he win it the year they went to the Super Bowl? They came out of nowhere and were the number one seed in the NFC playoffs with Jimmy Garoppolo. Why didn't he win it then? Jim Harbaugh won it.


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[Assistant] With a team that he went to the playoffs with the year before. I mean, what? So that's where I don't understand the whole thing. I'm going Shanahan 1. I've changed my thought.


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[Assistant] And go from there and you can tweak with it and play with it a little bit, but this is what we do here at the 49ers. I'm Kyle Shanahan. I run this organization. Right?


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[Assistant] I thought the expectations, everybody expected him to do this.


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[Assistant] I mean, so I don't understand it. O'Connell and what he's done with the quarterback situation is insane.


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[Assistant] Sean Payton's insane, right? You know, I mean...


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[Assistant] All those guys, I think, except the two in the middle, Sirianni and Shanahan have exceeded expectations.


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[Assistant] And, and I would say with the way the 49ers are playing, looking clearly like the best team in football, you know, and Sirianni and the Eagles kind of going through a tough spatch. That's where I would, I would definitely have Shanahan ahead of him right now. All right.


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[Assistant] I'm going to be on the unpopular one and say Shanahan should be one. Cause I'm just sick of kind of the BS around this conversation too. You want to give it to the guy you think is the best coach. If we're not going to give him to in the other years where he exceeded expectations, how about we give it to him in the year where he's actually the actual best coach in football.


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[Assistant] That's all I'll say. Now my number two will be Mike McDaniel. That would be my number two. You know, and again, I know the Dolphins had expectations, but come on.


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[Assistant] I mean, one, they're the number one seed in the AFC right now. Two, they revolutionize, revolutionizing the offense, like we talked about a few weeks ago. I mean, they're number one in like every offensive category in football. I mean, they're incredible.


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[Assistant] That is who I would make two, let alone, hey, like you talked about with Dan Campbell, he resurrected two and like a little bit of what he did last year should go into this year. Alright, then...


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[Assistant] You know, that's where I get into then, now the D'Amico, Ryan, Dan Campbell, Shane Steichen conversation where I want to go, wow, it's really close right there. Alright, so that, that's where.


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[Assistant] I think if I had to pick the third one, it would be Domingo Ryan's. Right? That would be my third. If you really were like,


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[Assistant] But damn, I don't say that lightly out of disrespect for Dan Campbell and all the things you said are totally correct. Or what Shane Steichen is doing.


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[Assistant] Where, one, they look better with a rookie quarterback than we expected. And then we're like, ah, the rookie quarterback shirt, that stinks. They're not going to be as good. And you go, oh, whoa, they're in the playoffs right now, uh, with Gardner Minshew. So incredible coach. It's a really, really tough year. As tough as I can ever remember with, you know, the quality of coaches we got right now in the NFL.


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[Assistant] How it ended last year, Frank Reich, right? Like how good can they possibly be? Their offensive line looked like it was on a decline last year. You know, the quarterback situation, like we talked about.


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[Assistant] Secondary doesn't have any marquee players. I mean, I totally understand him being every bit at the top of this list, like I talked about. This is where it's tough.


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[Assistant] Now, I mean, if they win and one goes in and they get in at nine and eight, like, that's not coach of the year material, right? And that could very easily happen with these two teams here, so we'll see how this plays out these last five weeks.


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[Assistant] They're awesome dudes, they're all over the sport, they got lots of great football thoughts, and of course they're all over anything. Betting, lines, having a feel for the market, the public, what they're doing. Drew and Jay are awesome human beings, let alone awesome


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[Assistant] Sports, colleagues, information, betters, I don't know. What is, what is the, what is their, their sharps? I was gonna say, what is their classification? What do you call them? Sharps, I guess.


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[Assistant] No, no, you're right. Well, it shows that they were able to overcome that. Uhm, yeah. I mean, the defense was solid early in the year, but now it does seem like it's falling apart, and good thing their offense is pretty elite in all areas to where they can put you in some tough


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[Assistant] Wow. I think this is more exciting than that era. I really do. I mean, he was the most exciting thing ever, but I think this era, like I can remember being 10 and 11 being like, the Lions aren't going to the Superbowl. I don't care. You know, like you knew they weren't and you never felt like that.


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[Assistant] Man, I don't think maybe that's maybe that's what he's trying to say. Maybe Jay was trying to say stike and in his Australian accent, it sounded like stick. And we just like, yeah, cool. Like he did with me on the Cody, Cody, Cody,


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[Assistant] Well listen, I'll make it clear, I know I said my top three or whatever, but I would have no problem with Shane Stike in, you know, one coach of the year. He is every bit worthy of that. You know I think the world of him. I think it's...


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[Assistant] One of the best offenses in football, right? I think that's how I look at it. And again, I don't know, and I know I wrote this down in one spot in my notes, I don't know where their motions and their shifts and the things we talk about, right, and all that that they do.


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[Assistant] It's up there with the 49ers or the Dolphins as far as, you know, that movement and stressing a defense out. I don't know if it's right there with them or if it's a little behind. I don't look up the stats, but I know cause I watch these guys a lot. They got a good old line across the board.


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[Assistant] They got a creative scheme. Run game and pass game.


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[Assistant] Right, and to like what we showed earlier with Shannon and the 49ers knows how to tie plays together. Hey, here's this. Hey, here's this. Oh, it's a fake this and there's that. Right, he's great at doing that. He's got tight ends and wide receivers who are willing to block, uh, big time.


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[Assistant] Uh, and get involved in the physical aspects of the game. I love that. I love a team that has that. They got multiple tight ends and then you got a guy like Alec Pierce and Michael Pittman who are tough SOBs for a wide receiver. And of course Michael Pittman is. I played with his dad. They don't get any tougher than the Pittmans. I can tell you that.


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[Assistant] They got some juice. I mean, you look at them and go, they need to be


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[Assistant] Involved in the pass game a little bit more in their offense, right? Pierce and Pittman are, you know, really good. Pierce is a guy that can take the top off of defense. He's got that type of speed.


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[Assistant] Pittman can do that, but also is awesome in the intermediate, tough catches over the middle, break a tackle, do all that type of stuff. But yeah, these tight ends, you know, a little bit like we talked about with the 49ers, they could put some people in some binds where, hey, we're going to get big. We're going to run the ball.


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[Assistant] Right? Oh no, now they're split out of receiver. It's an issue for you guys. Not to, not to, you know, to mention Mo Ali Cox is a part of the group too, who's just a giant human being that can do both.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that, you know, the rookie downs has come through in big time. The O-line played bad last year, you know, so I wondered, I mean, are they coming to the end of their shelf life a little bit? They're not, they're still going strong. And I think Steichen and his, you know,


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[Assistant] Vast array of run plays helps them out, let alone I think he knows how to, you know, put the poker right, you know, around the butt there and go, Hey, we gotta get going. You gotta play harder. You gotta be more physical. All that.


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[Assistant] They got a wide receiver screen game that also, like, if you overplay their runs, hey, woah, we'll smash you all in there, we'll throw it out in the edge and get 5, 8, 10 yards on a wide receiver screen. Uhm, but yeaah, like,


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[Assistant] This is a league-wide problem a little bit. It is. It is. And there's another point here later on that I want to bring this out in the conversation too, but maybe now is the time. But either way,


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[Assistant] And he misses a few plays down the field every game, I get that. But their offense is so damn good, the only thing I look at is just, they gotta back people off a little bit every now and then. And Pierce runs by everybody. Everybody. I mean,


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[Assistant] It's, it's amazing to see a white guy run that fast, you know, for lack of a better way to say it. It really is. And I think that sometimes DBs do the same thing. They're like,


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[Assistant] He's not that fast. He's not going to run by me. Oh no! And they're running like, you know, trying to catch up. So that is an aspect of their offense that I think it can make them more explosive and help out their run game and their RPOs and things like that just to open up the field like we talk about so much.


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[Assistant] Well, it's the, I think it was the Packers game a little bit, but it was also, uhm, hold on, let me get to it, cause I know, I wrote it right here.


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[Assistant] It was the Texans and the Broncos where you saw me right at the end where I said, the league needs to be more old school again.


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[Assistant] Right? The whole NFL needs to throw the ball deep more. I look at too many games every week and go the same thing, right? Every defense is calling the offense's bluff, right? There's too many second and nines and third and sevens where I watch and go,


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[Assistant] The defenses, they're calling your, they know you're going to, it's third and seventh, they know you want to throw it eight or nine yards. They got nobody deep. They're calling your bluff.


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[Assistant] And teams are letting them off the hook because they want to be efficient. And I came with this play and do that. And to me, you know, I say old school because, you know, when I grew up, there was an era where it wasn't, completion percentage wasn't always the number one thing.


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[Assistant] You know, really good throwers. Awesome throwers. Josh Allen, Mahomes, Burrow, you know, Jalen Hurts, whatever.


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[Assistant] When you're that good, the 20-yard in-cut shouldn't be any different than the 5-yard throw. The 25, the 30-yard throw shouldn't, oh, he's open, 30 yards down the field, who cares if it's 30 or who is 5, right?


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[Assistant] And, you know, we've gotten away from a little bit of that because we want managers and an offensive. Ooh, he, he diagnoses so quick to throw the five yard throw, whoopty.


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[Assistant] Well, it's, it's so much of that and then you add in the running quarterback said, yeah, I look at it all the time and go.


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[Assistant] It's third and four. They're playing everybody on the defense, five yards deep. And they're going to try to jam it in there for a six yard gain. And I want to go.


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[Assistant] You got this quarterback. You got this receiver. Throw the ball f***ing deep. They're literally going, you won't throw it down there, will you, you chickens?


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[Assistant] And I think it's a big reason in why points are down, right? It's a little bit of that. The lack of top tier throwers. We've gotten to game managers a little bit. The prototypical Tom Brady, Peyton Manning type guy is not as much in the NFL anymore. You know, Warren Moon back in the day, right?


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[Assistant] You know, and I think that's a little bit why we're seeing defenses down. The Houston Texans


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[Assistant] And we'll get to that game, and of course we're talking about the Colts and Titans right now, but the Texans like the 49ers do.


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[Assistant] Because Shanahan, he knows, I tear people apart. Like we sewed in the graphic with Purdy. He threw for 300 yards. He didn't throw one ball past 15 yards. Right?


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[Assistant] So, those defenses are going, Shanahan made the defenses go, wait, I kill everybody here, don't let everybody kill us like I kill everybody else, right? Remember the Netflix thing with Mahomes?


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[Assistant] I mean, the Netflix thinks it was my homes playing the 49ers. They were trying to play all the Kelsey stuff over the middle. And he goes, damn, they're not even playing the deep part of the field. He goes, that's disrespectful. They think they can get away with that shit against me. Or he said something like that. And he, they started throwing the ball down the field, right? So that to me is an overarching thing in football right now.


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[Assistant] Deep Menses know that, and they're going, hey, we're gonna be right here, where you're gonna try to throw these five and six yard throws, and it's making life hard. So thank you for letting me wax poetically about that for a minute.


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[Assistant] You know, I got to this a little and of course I see it on film and all that and, you know, I of course grew up in an era of that. I was telling the guys at the viewing room the other night, I got on Wednesday night, there's no football on, so I might get in bed at, you know, 10.30 and for a few minutes they go, let me turn something on.


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[Assistant] So I turn on old football games, right? Mainly my dad's, right? And the other, last week I turned on a 1988 game between him and Doug Williams, the Washington Redskins at the time, right? And they're playing a game. And you want to talk about quarterback efficiency? There was none! I mean, none! My dad was like,


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[Assistant] They're letting the defenses be too over aggressive and take things away. I don't know, it doesn't have to be 10 for 33 like I'm talking about, but there's something in the middle there that needs to be met with NFL offenses right now.


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[Assistant] I think that when you talk about team speed, they're up there with anybody, right? When I turn on Texas film every week or not every week, but we've had to watch them a lot of weeks for their Wednesday, what the F happened podcast. And I'm always like, man.


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[Assistant] Look at these dudes fly around the field. I mean, they can go. Now, they don't have a ton of size, and that's probably something they could address a little bit, right? You want to find that fine line of speed and size, like the 49ers have again, you know? Where it's like the D-line, they got the big dudes in the middle, and then they got the fast guys at all the other spots, right, that really help it out.


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[Assistant] I think that's the thing that jumps out right away. The front seven speed is up there with any top defense in football. Like you just said, the cornerbacks allow them to do a little bit more than I think D'Amico Ryan ever did with the 49ers because he goes man, Stingley, I mean Stingley can, he can cover some people, right?


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[Assistant] It really was, right? Was that not incredible as far as just going up to make that type of play? I mean, that was receiver-esque, like, type of ball skills.


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[Assistant] And it wasn't even really his responsibility all the way. It was him playing football and being smart. They ran a double move on the safety. It was cover four.


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[Assistant] So for him not to make the play, nobody was going to be on the film the next day and be like, how come you didn't get over there to make the play? It wasn't really, it's just like he had nobody in his area. He saw the play developing a little bit and he was like, Whoa, I better go help out. And he makes the play. Uh, but yeah, between him and, um, um,


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[Assistant] Got Stephen Nelson at the other corner, who's damn good. Okay. Then, they got two safeties.


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[Assistant] Who are really good against the pass and Petrie and Ward.


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[Assistant] But, and also to add to that, not only are they good against the pass and have speed, nobody told them that they're small and they shouldn't be able to hit like they do, right? It's like, hey guys, you're, nobody told you, hey, you're 5'10", 185, you shouldn't be hitting like that. They don't know. They think they're 6'2", 255, right? So they bring it. And that brings something to their offense too. Uh, so I think those are the things they're, of course,


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[Assistant] You know, the personnel meets the scheme and they're one of the best zone teams in football, like the 49ers, have a, you know, a master class in how to pass people off and zone certain sides of the field off and understand route combinations and all that, that really make them special and, and that's what I like about that Texans defense.


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[Assistant] And I wrote this in my notes, right? You play in the Texas, you got to throw the ball and be patient for four and five yard games, or you got to throw the ball 50 yards down the field.


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[Assistant] Like we said with Shanahan and what he did with his defense, he doesn't want people throwing the Deebo over the middle for 10, Deebo over the middle for 15, Deebo over the middle for 10, George Kittle over the middle for 10, right? So that's where it kind of lies. It's like.


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[Assistant] Hey, here's a little throw in the slot. Oh, it's second and five. Hey, maybe another few though, but you gotta take some shots down the field to back them up. You can't let Petrie be one-on-one versus Cortland-Sutton and let them get away with it.


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[Assistant] You know, John Gruden used to say that we owe it to them and the rest of the league to not let them do this and show them


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[Assistant] They can't put a safety on our best receiver, right? He used to say stuff like that. You're exactly right. They're cheating us here and we're wrong if we don't take advantage of it. So that's what teams got to do a little bit. But Russell, one of his worst games we've seen, definitely his worst game we've seen here recently.


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[Assistant] Missed throws, watching the rush too much, right, of course the turnovers, they were all issues. You know, he had one pass dropped down field, but he missed some, you know, some throws down the field that he should have had, and some ones also that were open.


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[Assistant] That he didn't see cause he was watching the rush. He got a little into some bad habits in this football game. There's no question about that. And that was a little disappointing, you know, cause they, they certainly had their chance to win this football game.


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[Assistant] You know, I should read my quote right at the end. Should I read it now? You know? Is this, oh, is this, yeah. Can we see it?


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[Assistant] I mean, if you see here in the bottom one, I wrote, the Packers do everything. I mean, even on plays the Chiefs D1 or wins, you were like, good thing they, that guy got pressure or they could have been...


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[Assistant] And I just wrote, the Packers O went from training wheels to crotch rocket, we're doing wheelies.


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[Assistant] The Chargers game was the jump off point. It had started a little before that. I think that gave him the confidence to go, okay, let's start unveiling it. He had a little success. He played good in that game. We think he's ready. And of course that continued to Thanksgiving. And then of course the last night.


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[Assistant] But every time I watch the Packers, I feel like they do more and more. More concepts, formations, way more movement and motions compared to earlier in the season, right? I'm sure they're, they're...


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[Assistant] Their numbers are not the same as the 49ers, the Colts or the Dolphins in totality. I would bet you they are the last three or four weeks. I mean, they have plays where there's motion twice on the same play, three times. It's like, wait, the receiver goes from here to there. Then they motion the tight end from there to over there. And then the receiver who moved from there to there, he goes back to the other spot really fast. They say, said Hut.


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[Assistant] You know, they're amazing at doing that. They really are. The offense is a lot like Shanahan and McDaniel. Not as creative as Shanahan with all the movement, not as wide open as the Dolphins and McDaniel, but based through the run game like Shanahan and, and, and, you know, of course I said McDaniel is more through the quick passes, right?


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[Assistant] 49ers, Dolphins, Colts, Lions, Texans, Vikings. I think those will be my favorite offenses to watch. I mean, it's, it's hard, you know, as I went through it, it was hard not to look at it and go, man, what would have Aaron Rodgers looked like in this offense? I, I had that thought many times watching it the last two weeks going, man,


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[Assistant] You know, man, he just wanted to line up and run slants and do that. He wouldn't have allowed it. Whoa, he could have done all this, but it's a great blend of


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[Assistant] Cool, get on the plays with what you just talked about. Aggressive play action passes and smash mouth up the middle. Right?


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[Assistant] I mean, they gotta, the reverses and sweeps are part of their game plan every week right now.


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[Assistant] They got wide receiver screens they get out there. They'll throw the, you know, the thing we saw the 49ers do with Debo Samuel, a toss sweep or it's like a lateral pass out in the edge. Let's get him out in the edge. And there's lead block. It's not like it's just like, Hey, you're in space now make something happen.


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[Assistant] They're getting out in the edge, whether it's the reverse, the little, you know, toss sweep, or even the, the little wide flair by the running back, and there's blockers in front of them. So you're going, yea, that's a space play.


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[Assistant] There's two guys in front of them ready to knock your head off, right? So it's not like it's like, Oh, this is, you know, two and touch football. They're bringing it that way.


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[Assistant] Let alone they'd stay patient with trying to run the ball up the middle. Their O line's getting better at run blocking because they're an amazing pass blocking group.


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[Assistant] But better run blocking, uhm, and, you know, with this game going on, they had the, they had the Chiefs, as I was amazed at the 49ers going, I've never seen an O-line do this to the 49ers D-line in pass protection. I, in this game, was equally as going, I've never seen the Chiefs defense have their head spinning.


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[Assistant] I feel, no, I don't, I think it is a little bit of a Packers problem. The Packers are talented, right? You've heard me say that is one of the reasons I picked them to win the NFC North before the year.


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[Assistant] So, their talent poses some problems. I think Spags and this one, Little got into, I don't know what the f*** they're gonna do, so I'm gonna be a little more conservative. And...


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[Assistant] But it's gonna ruin everything you wanna do. I felt like he missed that, like that tactical chance, blitz, you know.


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[Assistant] They were just outplayed. They were outplayed, they were out physical, and as you saw in my notes, there wasn't one standout on the Chiefs defense the whole game except for 95. I mean, Chris Jones was literally the only guy the whole game where I went,


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[Assistant] Oh, hey, there he is. Oh man, that was a play. Who was that? Oh, that was Chris Jones. Oh man, somebody got pressure on love. Who was that? Oh, it was Chris Jones again. I mean, so it was an underwhelming performance schematically and from the players on the football field.


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[Assistant] I know, I know, and I don't have to work Tuesday morning, so it makes it tempting. There is another game on during that game this week.


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[Assistant] We're the G-Men. We're not laying down for anything, all right? They're coming here. They better be ready. They better not be looking ahead in the schedule. That's what I'll say to that. But, but, you know, back to the Packers. Just a few more things real quick.


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[Assistant] Is really good in the pocket. He's aggressive with his decisions and he knows where his outlets are. And he, let me just say he's like, he's fearless in the pocket. That's what I love about him.


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[Assistant] He doesn't blink when people are around him. In fact, at times where you're like, damn, you're a little too casual. They're about to strip sack you here. Can you hurry it up a little bit? And he just, he don't care. So he's, he's, that's where they're kind of dangerous. He's, he allows things to open up down the field. He ain't looking to be checked down Charlie.


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[Assistant] And I think that's his ability to throw off his back foot. He made a number of those again in this game where you just go.


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[Assistant] It's phenomenal stuff. It really is. You know, but it's, it's the, it's the reverses, the speed sweeps, the throwing the ball down the field, uh, and the Packers do everything and, and I really went, I really like watching them and they're gonna be something to watch here down the stretch. They really are.


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[Assistant] Uh, because of that talent we talked about on both sides of the football. Last thing I wanted to get to, because I was very critical.


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[Assistant] Like, he deserves a lot of credit for the talent they have in their football team. I mean, they've drafted phenomenal.


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[Assistant] I mean, there was parts of the game the other night where you go, man, everybody on their front sevens in year one or two, and they're all damn good, and only getting better. So, you know, it's incredible. They are stacked on both sides of the ball, and I just wanted to give, you know, Guten Kuss a little credit for that. Sure.


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[Assistant] It's insane, okay, and I didn't say this because I knew we were going to get to McVeigh. It's insane that he's not on the list for Coach of the Year. He's plus, what did you say, Pete?


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[Assistant] Teams that you went, there's no way they're going to the playoffs this year.


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[Assistant] His coaching has far exceeded the talent they have on their football team. I mean, that's the big thing I would say. Right? Now, offensively they got some talent. Alright? You know, when you talk about puka and cup.


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[Assistant] And Higbee and Atwell and Kyron Williams, you go, that's a damn pretty good group right there. Their O line is bigger and more physical than years past. Stafford isn't under assault or manslaughter every other play like he was early in his career or all last year, early in the season.


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[Assistant] And what I always do with them when I watch them, they're, the word, the phrase I use is creatively basic. Which sounds like a backhanded compliment. Yeah, and I don't mean it like that at all, you know.


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[Assistant] McVeigh is, it's not like you're going, oh wow, that's so cool, I've never seen that or done that. But he just, again, knows how to package things together, right? That would be the one thing. Oh, you play this defense, I have this play called. Oh, you play that defense, I taught Stafford to check to another play.


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[Assistant] It might not be a wow, but it goes, they're perfect plays to run against this defense. Something positive is going to happen. Which sometimes is even more genius, right? When you can keep it.


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[Assistant] For a day in free agency and player movement and kids coming out of college who never heard of play in their life, they just looked over at the sideline and saw a picture of a cow and they were like, oh, I gotta run the cow route or whatever. Yes, it is. You're right to that. So there is some beauty to that.


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[Assistant] They execute, they run the right plays into the right looks and


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[Assistant] You always hear me say, checks and balances. He's got a great way of, hey, you're overplaying this, we're gonna hit you with that. You're being a little too aggressive here, we're gonna hit you with that.


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[Assistant] Right? Like the Puka Nakua touchdown, down the middle, 70 yarder, right? They were trying to play some, hey, we're going to scare you with a lot of people at the line of scrimmage. They were really trying to play Tampa too, but he was like, well, where you are, your safeties aren't going to be able to get back far enough. So now it's basically one-on-one with your middle linebacker, Taki Taki. And.


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[Assistant] Pukunakua. Advantage McVeigh and Pukunakua. Touchdown. Boom. And that's where they're really cool. Uh, they're surgical.


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[Assistant] Uh, and, and, and when the defense gets sick of it, and sick of the, oh man, Stafford's picking us apart, 5, 8, 10, 5, 8, 10, they throw a haymaker at you, right? That's where they're great. All of a sudden, oh bam, no, no, now it's Pukin' Nakua, 70 yards, or, you know, it's at well down the sideline for a 50 yard gainer. They stay with the run, right? Uh, they're good at that, and then, you know, like I've said, I think the O-line and the D-line,


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[Assistant] And, and, and in this game specifically, like we talk about when you play the game, play the Browns, right? Don't let the Browns D win the game. And they never, there wasn't a bad decision or a dicey moment all game long. So they really saw the, the picture well, and then you add on Puka and Cooper Cup.


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[Assistant] They block in the run game. They got some football players. So that's the offensive side of the ball and it's amazing what they're doing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're physical, it's more speed and chaos, so. Interesting. Right? So now they're like, I worried about, you know, the Browns. You know, the Browns got a good running game, and...


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[Assistant] I was like, man, the Browns, I don't know, can the Rams, I know they're bigger up front, can they stop this? But that was, you know, another litmus test for me to sit here and go, no, they're real up front. You can't move them very easily. And they got some unique, you know, unique


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[Assistant] It's, uh, Bobby Brown from Texas A&M. He's 330 pounds sitting in the middle, so that helps, right? And then they got Jonah Williams, who's like 290 plus, and then they got this, I don't even know if I'm saying it right,


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[Assistant] Hoyt, the brown defense alignment, he plays outside linebacker. He's 310 pounds.


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[Assistant] But he's got great hips and moves and can drop into coverage, so between him and then Byron Rung and the Edge, it gives him a little versatility up front.


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[Assistant] Their talent on defense is not wowing. It's good. But they have a wowing scheme behind it. And that, therefore, that's why they're making it work on that side of the ball. Uh, and that's what's impressive. And that's why I think Raheem Morris is one of the best coordinators in football. Pete tells us it is Hoyt. You got it right.


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[Assistant] Psychos in a good way, love ball, always trying to learn, always trying to progress their knowledge and, and do more. And then have the guts to try things where you go, I haven't seen anybody do this, nobody's ever taught me this, but I know football and I'm going to try this out in a football game because I think it's going to work. And a lot of coaches are like that and that's where I give these guys


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[Assistant] He's another guy that, was he on that original list we read out? I don't think he was, right? You know?


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[Assistant] Again, he is falling under, oh, he won it a few years ago.


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[Assistant] You know. They're supposed to be good. He's supposed to be good. They won a Super Bowl, all that. But man, made the tough decision, not only the Lamar drama, made the tough decision to get a new offensive coordinator, right?


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[Assistant] You know, got rid of Wink Martindale two years ago, and you're like, ooh man, does this Mike McDonald really do what Wink does? Yes, he does, every bit. So, hey, I think the world of John Harbaugh, I think he's one of the best coaches in football.


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[Assistant] I think it's, it'll be dicey. We'll see where it goes. They got the Raiders this week, I believe, right? I don't, have we heard who they're even gonna play a quarterback? I think it's gonna be Nick Mullins. We'll see.


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[Assistant] They've hinted Josh Dobbs. Pete's saying they hinted Josh Dobbs, but uh, agreed with O'Connell, and hopefully,


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[Assistant] You know, HTT, you've listened to the podcast over the last five or six weeks where I've praised Kevin O'Connell and his offensive prowess and genius.


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[Assistant] Uh, constantly. He's the man. I love their offense and I love the way he attacks defenses and


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[Assistant] Moving them back or making them like whiff a few times. Both. Right. Right. I mean like he had some moments in the game, right? Cause I watched both sides and we just got done diving in the notebook there where you don't see people do that to Joel Bantonio or Wyatt Teller very often. You know? And then like,


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[Assistant] And then there was a few times where I think he was like, Whoa, I better be ready here. He, I don't want to go for a ride again. And he tries to attack Aaron Donald a little bit, right? Instead of like, Hey, usually all line kind of sit there and they just absorb the blow and I'm big and I can lower my hips and I'll stay on my ground. And.


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[Assistant] So he a few times tried to kind of initiate the contact, and Aaron Donald's so amazing, he like-


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[Assistant] He saw him coming at him, he like pulled him by him and all of a sudden he's on Joe Flacco three steps later, right? And Flacco did a good job of getting the ball out of his hands most times and not, but, uh, yeah, Aaron Donovan, he might not be what he was three years ago, but he's still damn good and still one of the best D tackles in football.


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[Assistant] Pun blocked, tip the pass, or stingly got the first interception, right? You talk about the pressures. We talked about it Monday night. His instincts and physicality in the run game, they don't go on the stats sheet. They're second to none.


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[Assistant] It's up there with the TJ Watts and the Micah Parsons of the world as far as physicality and no regard for their body, right? That's, that's what I like out of those guys. Like I said, there's plays where it's like, whoa.


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[Assistant] You know, Williams is running through the hole here full speed. You're not in the hole, but he just dives in front of it like he's, you know, like saving a kid in front of a car, right? And just like, I'll take the shot, but you'll go down. I know that. I mean, he's just, he's amazing that way.


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[Assistant] Uh, Will Anderson, the motor, the explosion, the instincts, they're all top-notch.


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[Assistant] No, but we could be headed towards something like we saw last year.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, Tampa Bay won the division with a losing record and got to host the playoff home game, which is crazy. And that definitely could happen again here this year with the, the way the NFC South is. So we'll see where it goes. See if anybody can kind of take control. We got bucks Falcons this weekend.


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[Assistant] So that'll be a little bit of a, you know, give us a little bit more of a gleam into who's gonna take control there. That's true. Yep.


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[Assistant] As always, we appreciate your participation. And now because you listened to this podcast, you're definitely smarter than any of your other friends in football. No doubt. So feel free to parrot me or Ahmed on our great football takes and studying and all that. Uh, Ahmed, thanks as always.


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[Assistant] Wore your cute little blue Detroit Lions sweatshirt today. Lions 93. In honor of Dan Campbell, right? You brought in a horrible energy drink that's got an ugly can. How dare you? So bad for you.


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[Assistant] Come on, you're better than that. Alright, everybody else, continue to be better than Ahmed. Alright, take care of yourself. You know where to find us Thursday? We got the Chris Simms, PFTPM, Chris, uh, Joint Picks podcast.


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[Assistant] I'll say again, knock on wood, I'm kind of en fuego right now with picks, kind of, but knock on wood, we'll see if that can continue to going. I've stopped thinking so much and kind of just have gone into like,


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[Assistant] I know these teams don't overthink it. Who do we think is gonna win? And then come up with the reasons after that. So we'll see if I can continue that streak. I hope I didn't jinx myself. You know where to find us. Keep interacting. Appreciate all you homies. Have a good weekend. Enjoy Thursday Night Football. We'll see ya. Peace out. Clap it up.


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[Assistant] And my wife goes, you know what, I think this is probably good for him that they lost this game. Cause there were, there were tears afterwards after the game. He's nine. Um, she goes, because you don't want them to start out to spoil.


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[Assistant] This is so that Chris and I can face off eye to eye when we talk about Dan Campbell's decisions here. Uh, but our other desk is in route to Las Vegas right now for the Super Bowl. And that desk gets to go every year.


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[Assistant] I often don't get to go, but that will change this year. I will be there for at least a day to talk on Monday and do a pod from there. So I'm super excited about that. So in case you're watching and wondering where the other desk is, that's what's happening right now.


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[Assistant] What is this, like, I am devastated right now, and I've not often been in this situation, so I'm thinking of Ravens fans right now too. Like, I almost feel like, is it more devastating to lose in the Conference Championship than lose in the Super Bowl?


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[Assistant] What do you think? Like, this feeling I'm having, is it worse than if they had made it and lost in the Super Bowl?


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[Assistant] Seeing, uh, the offense struggle to convert some fourth downs. The defense struggled basically the entire game. A 17 point lead at halftime. Teams in the history of the NFL that were up 17 in the conference championship game were 21 and 0. So, uh, the Lions are always making history in one way or another.


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[Assistant] The third largest comeback in conference championship history.


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[Assistant] Bengals 2021. Oh, so the Chiefs, right, they were down.


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[Assistant] Because I feel like that's what people point to the most. Okay. You know, and I don't think it was the most important thing, right? Because I think...


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[Assistant] When you look at the Lions defense, what it's been all year. Yea. Right? Right. Like the fact, and I was talking to my buddy about this, he's a long time Lions fan. The fact that we had, what, the 26th, I think they gave up five and a half yards per play on defense all season long. That was 26th in the NFL.


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[Assistant] And you're in the final four with a 49ers team and a Ravens team and a Chiefs team that were all in the top ten. Right. I think they were almost all in the top five. Oh yea, San Francisco was seventh on defense in Yards per play. Chiefs were fifth. Baltimore was third.


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[Assistant] So, the defense was always going to catch up to him. At some point. And the fact that it took until the second half of the NFC Championship game, I think that's a huge victory for the Lions. Sure. And it's for that reason.


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[Assistant] Why? And I've always been more sympathetic to, you know, being, being aggressive and trying to, you know, go for the kill when you can. Especially when you have a defense that is proving that they cannot stop the 49ers the entire second half.


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[Assistant] I think all those decisions, I would take those all again. I would take those, the fourth and two, the fourth and three. Reynolds had the drop, should have converted that. It wasn't a great throw, but it was a drop, you know, and it's like, if you show me that play again, I'm like, yeah, we're going to make that play. Uhm, that's not why the Lions lost this game. I think it's like,


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[Assistant] The aggressiveness for the Lions is what got them to this game. They did. And Michael Badgley is their kicker. And I think that the fact that that's just like, Michael Badgley was not their kicker until December because he wasn't good enough to make a team. He was on a practice squad, you know? And it's not like we had Justin Tucker, Harrison Butcher, and it's not like we had an elite defense.


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[Assistant] For all those different factors, there's so many other things that I think are more interesting to talk about in this game. The Lions did not lose this game because Dan Campbell decided to go for fourth and three.


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[Assistant] They lost this game, in my opinion, because the defense didn't make stops, they didn't have a good enough kicker, and they made some drops and crucial bad plays in the second half, not converting.


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[Assistant] Are you sure? First drive, 12 plays. They missed a field goal. Second drive, 8 plays, 75 yards touchdown. Then they do get the play, the interception. And that's what they've done. They've been able to make enough plays. But that's basically their first stop. Three and out punt.


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[Assistant] From that point forward, it was basically two. Two possessions. Interception.


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[Assistant] Well, because I think, I think it takes, to make it all about the Dan Camp, and like, I wanted to start with that, but to make it all about those decisions, and not about the players, and not about the, you know, I'd rather make it about the Josh Reynolds drops, right? It's like, he catches,


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[Assistant] The crossing round he should catch. The fourth down throw is not easy. It's a bad throw.


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[Assistant] So, but that's what it is, right? Because if they go for the field goal and miss it, you go, well, what if they would have gone for fourth down? Why is Dan Campbell changing what he does? We're about to talk about the Baltimore Ravens. Why are they going against what they have been all season long?


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[Assistant] So if Reynolds catches that ball, what happens in the game?


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[Assistant] I would always roll. With like this makeup of this Lions team, third best offense, like I would always roll fourth and three. And it wasn't like Dan Campbell was gonna go for it fourth and eight or fourth and ten. But he has done that. But he wasn't gonna do that.


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[Assistant] I feel for you man. I get it. You know, I get it. It's just...


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[Assistant] Hindsight you can do this, you know, I talk about this in baseball all the time, it's just like we're always getting on the manager, why'd you pitch to that guy? He had a home run, why'd you pitch to that guy? It's just like, well, he didn't know that going into it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and those points are when it doesn't work out. You definitely need to go back and not do those. Uhm, but, like, I kind of feel bad because this should be, the 49ers made plays. Yes. In this game. Right. And, and regardless of what the, the lines didn't execute, fumble, drop passes.


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[Assistant] Uh, ill-advised 4th down if you will. But the 49ers won this game. Brock Purdy made plays with his legs to win this game. Made a ton of plays. From your vantage point, like what was the main reason


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[Assistant] Why the 49ers, like, credit to them, won this game.


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[Assistant] I mean, that was the biggest thing for me as a, as a Lions fan. I was like, crap, we're going to lose this game. When I saw Brock Purdy start to make some plays because early in the game, and correct me if I'm wrong, he, he did not throw the ball well in the, in the other game in the game against the Packers, but you're like, okay, rain, bad conditions. I didn't think he was throwing the ball that well early in this game.


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[Assistant] N M F C B says damn okay to Purdy's legs made three crucial runs to get a first down, avoid a big sack to throw a dart to use check. Second half Purdy was a hoot to watch. Love the pod and love from San Diego. Yeah. 48 rushing yards for Brock Purdy. Second most in his career.


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[Assistant] The Lions had some missed tackles, Cam Sutton struggled out there on an island, but it's like you got Debo Samuel and he's one of the strongest wide receivers, if not the strongest wide receiver. Christian McCaffrey breaking some tackles. It was Brandon Iuke is tough out there. It's just like once that offense got rolling for the 49ers, you can see why they're so tough to stop and I give them a lot of credit because


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[Assistant] I'm sure Diba wasn't 100% in this one. You saw him working on his shoulder. They got tough dudes who are physical and super super talented.


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[Assistant] Skill guys you can do at the Miami Dolphins way with a speedy wide receive. There are just so many different ways you can do it. You don't need a quarterback that puts the team on his shoulder. The Buffalo Bills have tried that and it's not worked out with Josh Allen because there's too much on his shoulder. Tomas Pena has something about the


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[Assistant] Run defense for the 49ers. Uh, he goes, what did the 49ers defense do to start stopping the Lions run game in the second half? People will point to many other obvious things for this comeback, but I believe the Lions having difficulty getting the run game going in the second half was a major factor.


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[Assistant] And when they had some good runs, I almost feel like it was Goff getting into those runs, killing the original play. Cause it seemed like their most successful runs. I was like, man, Goff is definitely on fire right now.


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[Assistant] But for the 49ers, it was like, you paid BOSA. He was, you know, hit and miss at times this year. He did show up in some really crucial spots.


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[Assistant] Brandon Iuke in between Cam Sutton and CJ Gardner-Johnson.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I, I get it. Aggression's not good when it doesn't work out. Um, uh, per PFF Detroit had 14 missed tackles. CJ and Cam Sutton each missed three. Uh, eight other Detroit defenders contributed one apiece. That, I think, is a bigger deal than aggression or going for fourth down and not converting those. Um, but that's just me too.


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[Assistant] So let me end with this, and this is a little piece of candy for Lions fans, because Realistic Takes says, just wanted to give props to Ahmed for coming in and recording this pod. Realistic Takes, I thought about not calling in sick or something.


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[Assistant] Last night, part of me was like, I'm gonna come in and just start letting it fly. Like F-bombs, S-bombs, uh, but it's Kristen's birthday today, so I didn't want to do that.


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[Assistant] But I was like, I just might like, because I was so like, yeaah, happy birthday Kristen, sorry about that. Uhm, you're right, I'm not feeling great about it.


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[Assistant] Maybe because they were just so good and so fun to watch, I wanted to watch them one more game. I know. He goes, uh, gotta feel for Detroit fans today, just too many missed opportunities in the end. And that's what it was. So that's why I want to end this with looking at the dots. We can go back to back on these. The Jameer Gibbs 15 yard touchdown run and the Jameson Williams 42 yard touchdown run. Can we do that? Yes. Just to get a good taste in my mouth to end it here.


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[Assistant] Okay. And I did feel bad because I'm on a text with, I was with you and with Matt and with Pete. And after this play with Jameson Williams, I just texted you guys rockets. And then I was like, Oh wait, Chris is not rooting for the lions. And I was like, and like Matt, Matt's wife is from the Bay area. I was like, Oh man.


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[Assistant] I finally, for the first time in my life, like people are not rooting for the Lions to, we're like a threat to people. Uhm, this play was awesome because


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[Assistant] I've, I've, my biggest concern with Jameson is he's super fast. But I'm like, I don't know that he plays with the physicality necessary sometimes. Like this was a run where he got, you know, ripped his shirt at the eight yard line, just physical enough, made the right cut and got it in the ass. I was like, dang, that's the first time I've seen really Williams be able to do that.


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[Assistant] I don't think we actually do have one. And to end on Jameson.


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[Assistant] He did have one that went through his, it would have been a tough catch. In the end zone though, but if he makes that catch, I'd probably win the game. It goes through his hands. I forget exactly what drive that was.


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[Assistant] But, uh, man, those are the plays that I think Jameson Williams, like, I don't know that he will ever make those plays. I think he had to scheme them up as the speed guy, number two receiver, you know, but we'll see. We'll see. I feel better after that. Thank you for letting me. Well, those plays specifically, let's not go back and talk about anything previously that we talked about in that recap.


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[Assistant] And that would be my point. I'd rather fall on that side of the line. If you're a little bit over, like, ah, I wish I would have had those back. I'd rather lose that way than be like, why did we start kicking field goals? We missed both of them and now we're sitting home and just like, why didn't I just roll the dice? You know what I mean? I would have a hard time stomaching.


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[Assistant] Two or one missed field goal costing us the game when it was just like, that's not how