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[Assistant] You know, I see CJ Stroud just make rockets and lasers all over the place, off his back foot, whatever, it doesn't even matter. You know, Bryce Young, I think he's still getting used to the NFL and they're gonna have to, you know, get used to him and start to continue to formulate offense around him where he feels really comfortable and can show what, you know, to show the best of what he's got to offer too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the, I'm with you on their offense. It has great potential, right? Their offensive line's nothing special like we've talked about, so they're always having to kind of...


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[Assistant] Protect that, worry about that to a degree. Alright. This was a weird game and they were dominating the football game early on.


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[Assistant] Right, dominating the football game, up 10-0. One of those games where you were like, wait, it feels like they should be up more?


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[Assistant] They get the ball, they get strip sack fumbled, right? They give the short field to the Patriots, they get a touchdown 10-7.


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[Assistant] They drive a little bit, have to punt the ball to the Patriots again, and they throw a screen pass to Ramandre Stevenson. No, it was a run off the right side, and he runs for 64 yards for a touchdown. And all of a sudden you're going, damn, the commanders have been like,


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[Assistant] Totally controlling this football game and I gotta give Ron Rivera credit after making those two trades and the organization basically saying


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[Assistant] We're giving up on this year and basically giving up on you too. For the team to come out and fight like that, I gotta give them credit for that.


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[Assistant] That would be the concern. That would be concern. The defense has given up plays all year long.


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[Assistant] Well, let's see, can their offense be enemy and how, like you're talking about, can they be explosive like they were today? That's still a pretty good defense in New England. You know, they made a number of big plays.


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[Assistant] You know, to the point too, right? Howell was great. He gets the strip sack fumble. He throws the horrible interception in the end zone before the half, right? To Kyle Dugger, another point in the football game where you're like, well, you know, they


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[Assistant] Just, it felt like they were controlling throughout. That's really what it felt like and it ended up them just eking out a game and having to rely on their defense to close it out to win the football game in the end. There's some talented guys, there's some dangerous guys there. I think they're gonna be in some sighting games. Uh, they'll...


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[Assistant] Keep fighting here, but I think, you know, seven and ten is kinda how I kinda see it all playing out for them, right?


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[Assistant] I mean, it's like, where, where do they go? Where, where's the hope? What do you, what do you look for, like we've talked about? Who's the head coach? I know. It's just, it's, you know, he's gonna finish the year out. I don't think anything like that's gonna happen. At least I hope it doesn't. But...


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[Assistant] This is, it has the looks of like, yeaah, we need to rebuild the New England Patriots. Like the lifeline of this team is already over if it ever was one to begin with.


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[Assistant] Right? Uhm, I know their defense has a little more talent and is better with the injuries. That's hurt them, certainly.


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[Assistant] But, you know, like we've talked about, I just think the lack of speed, linebackers that aren't fast enough, and then not having receivers like we've talked about for a bunch where it's like, oh, you like Washington, right? Oh, what do they have? Oh, three great receivers, right? And then, you know, you're looking at them and they're like, they gotta go do


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[Assistant] Juju Smith Schuster in the big moments because nobody wants Juju on their team, but he's their go-to guy in big moments, right? And that's just a tough way to live right now. And I don't mean to say that to be disrespectful to Juju Smith Schuster, but he's not a game breaker or anything like that. That's what I mean to say by that comment.


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[Assistant] I thought there was still, I think they held that hope the whole week that he might wake up on Sunday and be like, I can grip the ball and throw. That's kind of the feel and from the people I knew around the league, like I think they thought there was a chance as of Friday that he might be able to do it on Sunday. We're just going to see how it goes. He wanted a game with us.


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[Assistant] Survive with Brett Ripett. I just, I know that. They had no chance today on the offensive side of the ball. Right? Their defense played really good.


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[Assistant] They needed Brett Rippon not to throw in interceptions, not have a, you know, stupid fumble that he lost at one point where he dropped the ball, he picked it up, he tried to throw it, the ball fell out of his hands. I mean, this was one of those games where the offense had to just like, kneel the ball and get


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[Assistant] ...out of the way, and maybe the defense will make a play and make something happen. And the defense let him hang around forever. Forever.


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[Assistant] But it's like we always talk about, it's a great defensive performance, it's just only a matter of time though before we're like, okay, they're out there every four plays, the dam's gonna break, right? And that was the


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[Assistant] Exactly right. It's covering up a, it's making chicken salad out of chicken shit. I mean, definitely. And he is by far the most valuable player on their football team.


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[Assistant] 2. This game should have been worse. I just want to add this in. I mean, Aaron Jones fumbled in his own territory one time, and they had the WIC


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[Assistant] You know, the receiver reaching out, he, he tried to reach out on a play where he caught the ball, he got up, he tried to reach out and he fumbled the football and that gave the Rams the ball. So even the score is a little mislead. I don't want to say it was misleading, but the Packers controlled the game more than even 20 to 3 would say.


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[Assistant] I think the first thing you gotta do, you know, you always credit Pittsburgh, their four quarter play, uh, the fact that they just, it's physical and never die at any moment of the football game.


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[Assistant] You know, Will Levis was very impressive. He was. I mean, the first three quarters, they're often stalled out, kind of in the fourth quarter, the pass rush started to get there, they weren't being able to run the ball consistently, so it became a little too much on Will Levis. But, you know, through three quarters, it was like, you kind of kept going,


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[Assistant] Ah, can they keep- Oh man, woah, woah, woah, that was a good throw.


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[Assistant] Can they keep this? Woah, Levis made another good throw. I mean, it was fun to watch. And, you know, yea, as the game went on, you just started to get the feeling of, I don't know if Tennessee could consistently move the ball, and it felt like Kenny Pickett and the Steelers were starting to go a little crazy, and they just, you know,


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[Assistant] Oh, well, Pittsburgh, this is the greatest thing, is we talk about the hitting, the physicality, the creative on defense, they know who they are.


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[Assistant] That's the best thing about them right now. Even though it's not like best to watch, or if you're a Steelers fan, you're going, I wish it was more.


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[Assistant] Tomlin and the offense and picket at least no wig weight.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we're ugly. It's just the way it is, but we're not gonna make big mistakes. We'll manage. We're just gonna hang in there. They're the giants. A little last year. A little bit.


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[Assistant] Or the Steelers of the last three years. Right? But they just do that and they wait for you to make a mistake or they make a play on special teams or whatever it may be and they come out on top and they did it again. It's truly remarkable to be outgained in eight games and be five and three. I've never seen that in NFL history.


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[Assistant] Definitely. The Jets gotta be like, they gotta be like the Pittsburgh Steelers a little bit. Like, we're not gonna be pretty on offense. We'd like our quarterback to make


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[Assistant] Three, four throws a game, we want to run the ball, and we hope our defense just absolutely makes life miserable on whoever we're playing. They got a chance to do that tomorrow night.


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[Assistant] There's a coin toss type of football game. I took the Chargers. I took the Chargers because they can protect the passer and I think he'll stand in there and make a lot of great 5 and 8 yard throws. The Jets don't give you a lot of throws down the field. They make you basically throw short to intermediate throws where you be patient where you pick them apart.


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[Assistant] Herbert and company will do that, you know, and then the Jets...


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[Assistant] Being as simple and not scary in the pass game, I think they're gonna have a hard time running the ball on the Chargers to where I can see them just like controlling the game that way. I think Staley and Company will go all in to not let


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[Assistant] Paul won the game at the running back position. I took the Chargers 20-17 but I wouldn't bet money on it because I could certainly see it being 20-17 Jets too. So that means you listening should also


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[Assistant] Well, the AFC is good as it is, and we know that. I mean, we're starting to see the AFC like we thought. We knew. But like I said, the four teams that we mentioned before, you know, the Chiefs, the Ravens, the Jaguars,


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[Assistant] The Cincinnati Bengals, they are not going anywhere. And they're only getting better. And then you got teams like


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[Assistant] So yeaah, they can't fall behind and go 3 and 5 here, the chargers. They can't. They do that.


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[Assistant] You know, they're getting close to being out of this race altogether in, unless they go on some miraculous run at the end of the year. My god, we did it again. We did it again. We did it again. 11.56 PM. Perfect. On a Sunday night. We've hit all the games. We might have some breaking news. Breaking news.


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[Assistant] Guys with gloves don't ever fall off anybody anymore. He literally grabbed them with bare hands.


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[Assistant] That's my thing when you hear me talking about the damn, it's a bell, the middle linebacker safety guy. Right? You hear me talking about it. Gloves are an injury risk.


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[Assistant] Alright, roll that damn music again. I heard it and then I kept talking. That's what I do. One more thing, one more time. I hope everybody enjoyed the podcast. The week nine Sunday night edition in the books. Ahmed Fareed is the soldier of soldiers. Red eyes at home.


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[Assistant] I would say, you know, I'm sorry, but you're, yeah, I don't know what else to say. I'm not sure if I had COVID, but I had a lot of the same symptoms, certainly. And, uh, yeah, you, you probably do have it because of me. It's weird though. Cause like, like I told you, nobody else in my family


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[Assistant] Is having anything other than the sniffles. So, uh, but I don't know. I'm sorry. Tell your wife I'm sorry. I really am sorry for her. I don't really care about you that much.


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[Assistant] Yes, that's right. Yeah, we got it from the Wu, the Wu Hang Lab over there in China or something right there. I don't, I don't know where we got that duck from. Uh, we gotta watch, you know, gotta watch it. I don't know, but no, I don't think my ducks had it. They're, they're out in the free air all the time, so don't worry about them.


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[Assistant] Like, I've gone back and forth with this one. You know, the biggest reason, listen, I would probably favor the Lions for sure.


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[Assistant] But I'm worried about some of the offensive line injuries we got with the Detroit Lions. That does like make me think differently.


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[Assistant] You know, again, you, you've heard me kinda wax poetically about this Packers D line. They're talented, they're young, they got a little depth there.


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[Assistant] I mean, they've really done a good job the last two drafts bolstering that crew there. So I worry about that from the Lions in that standpoint. And the Packers showed an understanding last year of how to defend that Lions offense to a degree.


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[Assistant] So, that's, that does worry me. You know, the other side of the ball, like, hey, we like Jordan Love. It's certainly, you know, had some moments. I haven't, we haven't seen anything consistent through four quarters yet.


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[Assistant] And, you know, then there's Aaron Jones coming back and Christian Watson coming back there and still know, but David Bakatiari and this Lions defense is definitely better than it was last year and it's played pretty damn good the first three weeks. I think it's a close football game.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm not one that's gonna be a best bet for me at all. But I'm gonna take the Lions 24-20, uh, in a close one. I think it's gonna be a lot of fun, but I don't feel real confident about that. I could see it being 20-24-20 the other way too.


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[Assistant] This is, you know, the Falcons are a good team in just about every area except the most important area.


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[Assistant] So that's scary. It's hard to put your money behind them right now when you go wait.


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[Assistant] Um, it's 2023. It's a passing league. Oh, and this team can't pass. So I'm a little concerned about that right now. I mean, it's three games in a row of very underwhelming performances from the passing offense of the Atlanta Falcons and Desmond Ritter. It don't look good.


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[Assistant] So that's scary to me. I like everything else about the Falcons football team, but they need more in that department. And then I think, you know, I look at Jacksonville and of course we know they have a talented football team.


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[Assistant] Their offense, it's mistakes so far. They're a little like your Minnesota Vikings team.


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[Assistant] I mean, they had some mistakes in that first game that they won against the Colts, but they made it dicey. Of course, week two, it was red zone issues and turnovers too against the Kansas city chiefs and turnovers at a bad times last week too, let alone, you know, letting the fullback return a kick return for a touchdown.


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[Assistant] But I think the Jaguars are close. And I do think the Jaguars have the advantage in these type of games. Of course, they're, they're regulars over in London. Uh, so because of that and my, my lack of faith in the Falcons passing game, I'm going Jaguars 24-17.


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[Assistant] Man, I mean, this game's got it all. It really does.


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[Assistant] Now, with the Dolphins and everything there, the one thing, you know, you look at, you go, okay, offensive line.


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[Assistant] Right? Where's Tehran Armstead at right now? That's certainly something to look at.


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[Assistant] This dis, this Bill's D line's been real. The real deal the last two weeks especially. Jalen Phillips, the pass rusher.


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[Assistant] For the Miami Dolphins, is he going to be healthy and able to play? Right? Cause I mean, we know again, you let Josh Allen sit back there against a four man rush or anything like that. He's going to tear you apart. I don't care how good your secondary is. So those are two injuries that definitely worry me a little bit as far as the dolphin side of this whole thing.


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[Assistant] Now, you know, there's some banged up guys on, on the bills, but it doesn't look like it's like, oh, they're going to miss time or miss the game here. At least it doesn't seem that way. Maybe I'm wrong. I know Leonard Floyd's on the injury report. Jordan Poyer's got a little banged up, but he usually misses. So, you know, a Wednesday or Thursday practice because of his age or whatever else.


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[Assistant] And that to me is where it's gonna be all about. I mean, we saw week one, the Dolphins go up and down the field against the Chargers. Week two, defense, good defense in the Patriots, good game plan, good coaching, slowed it down a little bit. Game was, you know, upper grabs there kind of in the fourth quarter a little.


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[Assistant] Right, and then last week we saw the explosion. I think this is one we see more of a Dolphins offense that looked like it did against the New England Patriots. One, I do have faith in what the Bills D lines looked like right now.


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[Assistant] To their middle linebackers, Bernard and Matt Milano. They fly around the football field. They're both playing phenomenal. And McDermott is one of the kings of, I don't know what this defense is, but they dropped a whole lot of


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[Assistant] Over here and this is where they were trying to throw the ball and he's got it locked up. And they don't play man to man and they're really masters at passing off receivers in zone coverage. So at that, at home,


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[Assistant] That crazy ass crowd up there in Buffalo. And I think Josh Allen, the offensive found something here the last two weeks, running the ball a little bit. Gabe Davis infused in bold game plans.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go with the Bills, pull it off the Upset. Dolphins kinda feelin' themselves, and I know it's not an Upset cause they're favored. It's not an Upset. I know, I was shocked to see that. I'm gonna go Bills 2824.


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[Assistant] Well, uh, yes, I expect us to be doing that. Now, I don't think it's going to be easy. You know, one, it's, you know, in Carolina, that defense is good, we've seen that.


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[Assistant] I think you're going to get a little bit of a, you know, a desperation effort here by the Carolina Panthers. All of those things that kind of play into this, but ultimately I just.


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[Assistant] You know, again, it seems like we're gonna get Bryce Young this week.


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[Assistant] And, you know, Bryce Young offense is a little different than Andy Dalton offense. They're, they're, they manage brace young a little bit. Andy Dalton last week, they had no fear. Hold the ball. Who cares if he gets crushed and killed. So what? Throw the ball down the field. They're not going to play that way with Bryce young. They're, they're a little bit in protection mode there that way with him.


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeah, I don't have enough faith in their offense, even though this Vikings defense is nothing to write home about. Well, I just don't think there's enough there and firepower from the Panthers side of the ball and the offense to get it done. And really your Vikings offense has been damn good. I mean, it really has. Can they just get rid of the disease of


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm going Broncos. I have no faith in the Bears. No, no way. I mean, what, what are you going to get behind the Bears with the doc? The Broncos are some things you get behind. I mean, they should, they could easily be two in one.


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[Assistant] And they, they can. And Sean Payton's gonna still be able to sell that, hey, this game, this season's salvageable. We blew two games early on where we could have beat the commanders or the Raiders and we messed it up. Hey, week through we know is a debacle. I'm gonna play the fact that Sean Payton's gonna have the, the team highly motivated this week.


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[Assistant] They were embarrassed. The coaching staff was even embarrassed more so that they get their best, you know, effort from that standpoint. And then, you know, I just, like we've been saying, I, there's nothing I can like jump on with the Bears offense. There's nothing.


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[Assistant] I, you know, I'm sure there'll be ton of excuses of why Justin Fields didn't do good again this week. And the answer is, is cause he's an athlete who plays quarterback and he's not a quarterback who's an athlete. There's, there's an issue there and we're, we're seeing it.


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[Assistant] So I have no faith in that part. And then we know the defense is not special either. You know, and then that's, I just don't think that bodes well. I think you're going to get the best of Sean Payton, Russell Wilson this weekend. I think they win this one, 27-16.


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[Assistant] Yeah, listen, I agree with a lot of what you said there. Uh, I do. I think the big thing for me is, I mean, I could see this being a defensive struggle, right?


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[Assistant] Not being an easy football game. We know the Ravens got big people up front. They shouldn't be totally overmatched in the run game there.


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[Assistant] All right. They're very well coached on that side of the ball. You know, the Ravens defenses, but, but it isn't, it's a tough task because if Watson looks like he did last week.


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[Assistant] We know the Browns are gonna be able to run the ball to some degree, and you gotta be worried about it and put some extra people in the box to stop it. And if Watson's throwing the ball even close to what he was last week, they're gonna be tough to beat. They are.


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[Assistant] Right. And you look at the, without Marlon Humphrey right now, I don't think you sit there and go, Ooh, the corners for Baltimore are so good that they can shut down, you know, this group down in Cleveland.


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[Assistant] Now the other side of the ball is the big thing. You're right about that. Cleveland's D is real.


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[Assistant] At all three levels, the coaching's good.


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[Assistant] And Baltimore's offense is still figuring it out. I mean, it is. I don't know what else to say. You know, they had two good quarters there with the bangles game and, and, and made some plays. But other than that, it's been inconsistent and all over the place. The Ravens offense needs to be better.


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[Assistant] There's way too many assets and talent on that offense, and I know some of them are injured, but that's gotta stop happening too.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's a first round left tackle. He's, he's hurt all the time. Ronnie Stanley, Linda bomb, their first round center. He was hurt last week. They got Mark Andrews. They got Odell. They got Rashad Bateman. They got Zay Flowers. They got Lamar Jackson.


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[Assistant] If you're wondering what's going on, the Ravens offense needs to pick up. It's, you know, workmen share the load here.


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[Assistant] They're too talented, there's too much assets, there's too much money on that side of the ball for them to be having games like we see last week. It's just, it's too much of that. And I don't have any faith in this.


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[Assistant] I gotta like see it a little bit more to believe it, especially against this group. It sounds like Newsom's gonna be playing a corner. Those two corners are shut down. The pass rush is real. The linebackers are real. I'm gonna go with the Browns here. I'm going 23-21 Browns.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't think this is gonna be easy. This will not be a bet bet best bet. I'm gonna pick the Steelers, but


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[Assistant] I don't feel good about it. I don't. I think this is a game that could be upset alert. You know, like you're talking about a little bit of a messed week, messed up short week, right? And oh, we're playing the Texans. That'll be no problem. The Texas defense is a pain in the butt.


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[Assistant] You know, Will Anderson's a really damn good player. I'm not sure he's ever gonna be like 15 sacks, 15 sacks a year type of guy, but damn, he's good. They're front seven.


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[Assistant] Is fast and disruptive. Him and Greenert off the edge. Sheldon Rankins and Malik Collins in the middle. They cause issues. They're linebackers. They got two Alabama kids in there that are, that fly around the field.


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[Assistant] Right? Their scheme itself is good. And of course, I'm still not ready to write home about the Steelers offense. I mean, last week was certainly better, but I'm not sold that this is going to be like, oh, they're going to march the ball up and down the field on the Houston Texans. And what scares me a little bit is Houston.


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[Assistant] CJ Stroud's awesome. Like it's official. It's, it's, it's, he's really damn good. Like they can actually go, wait, we're going to ask you to like carry the team through three weeks of his rookie year. He's showing, he's like, okay, no problem guys. You need me to throw for 40 times every week. No, no problem. I got it.


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[Assistant] And, you know, this is a team that we know does stay patient with the run. I'm gonna pick the Steelers, but I don't feel great about it. 20-17 Steelers.


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[Assistant] One Richardson coming back is, is not good news for the Rams because it just, the Rams are not real big upfront.


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[Assistant] And now they're gonna have to deal with an offensive line and, and a running attack that's not bad and you add Anthony Richardson onto that and it becomes that much more dangerous. Right? So again, I don't think that's gonna be like pretty. I'm not expecting huge points or whatever else, but I do think they're gonna be able to chew some cock up.


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[Assistant] And because the Rams are going to have to put more people in the box to stop the run game than they would like, I think that's going to cause some, you know, some moments where we're going to go, ooh, nice throw by Anthony Richardson. Ooh, good job right there. You know, but my real worry is the other side of the ball. The cold Steve Vance is good. And as we've seen every week,


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[Assistant] Like Matthew Stafford, Stafford is in protect my life mode. It's unbelievable. They can't block anybody, right? What did Trey Hendrickson have last week? 27 quarterback pressures. I mean, it was something absurd. It was like 14 or 15, right? This, this D line for the Colts is good.


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[Assistant] I mean, Quiddipay, damn good off the edge. Ecubomb, damn good off the edge. And then they're not going to have anybody to block the fours. Buckner up the middle. Now, Buckner I know is dealing with a little groin thing and we'll see, but I really think that's going to be the issue right there. The Rams, it's going to be tough sledding. I'm going to go with the Colts winning this one, 1916 at home.


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[Assistant] Uh, the, the Saints offense, yeaah, I'm expecting Jamis Winston.


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[Assistant] There's going to be a bump, right? We got Alvin Kamara back this week, right? I'm, I'm, uh, good. I was doubting myself. I was like, wait, did I hear that right? I'm, I'm pretty sure that's going to help their football team out for sure.


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[Assistant] Right? Now this, this Saints offense, like, you, you heard me say, it's another one, like I'll say with the Ravens, it should be better than what it looks like so far. It should be.


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[Assistant] There's, there's too much money and good players on the O-line.


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[Assistant] There's too many weapons at receiver and all that. And now you got Camara back. It should not be being outgained by a hundred yards to Green Bay.


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[Assistant] And all those issues, you know, and it's a little bit of like what you hear me say about the bangles. It's just basic West coast bullshit offense. It's like you run two slants and you run a slant and a flat and they'll be all tricked.


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[Assistant] And we'll figure, they'll, they'll be, they won't know what to do. Double slant and slant flat. Oh shit. I mean, it's, it's annoying. It's too basic that way.


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[Assistant] I still think they're better than the Bucs, and I don't have any faith in the Bucs offense. That's really the problem there. Uh, so I'm gonna take the Saints to win a close one here, 20 to 17.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I'm gonna take the Eagles too. I, I, I do think it's scary. You know, I, I do. I mean, you know, we know that this Washington defense has got talent. They've shown the ability to slow the Eagles down a little bit. They did that last year.


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[Assistant] It's a big football game for them. I mean, you feel like Sam Howell will be better because of how reckless he was last week against the Buffalo Bills, right? So I can picture the Washington defense keeping them in this a little bit.


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[Assistant] You know, they're good enough with their four first rounders up front.


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[Assistant] And uh, and another first rounder at linebacker and Davis that I go, this might be one team that the Eagles can't just line up and run the same play all the way down the field and just go, you can't stop it, right? I mean, it's unbelievable. It really is. I don't think people really realize what they're watching.


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[Assistant] I mean, they, they literally can run the same play 10 plays in a row and go down and score a touchdown. It's like high school football. I've never seen anything like it in the NFL.


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[Assistant] Right, but this might be one group that could slow it down. My biggest concern, Mike, is the other side though.


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[Assistant] I mean, you saw, Washington couldn't block Buffalo last week. They ain't gonna block this group. Are you kidding me? This group was ridiculous. They're insane on that side of the ball too. So I'm gonna take the Eagles 28-17. I feel like it's gonna feel closer than that, but they kind of pull away late in the game.


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[Assistant] I feel like this is the kind of game that, you know, bodes well for the Titans, right? I mean, we're, you know, again, I just made fun of, like, the Saints and their offense. You know, again, the Bengals, are you, are you kidding me? Like, are you kidding me?


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[Assistant] It's embarrassing to be that talented, that much assets, that much money on that side of the ball, and they look the way they do. The fact that we have to show on the Monday night telecast that like, look!


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[Assistant] Look, look at this, like, Jamar Chase lined up on the left, and then he went to the right, and then he went to the slot, like it's some groundbreaking revelation that they've like changed offense forever.


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[Assistant] But the point is, that's how basic are, they are, that the ESPN analyst had to basically go, look, he actually never moves, and he moved tonight. That was their move. That was their, ooh, we spent all week in the lab, and we came up with, let's move him around a little bit.


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[Assistant] Like it's gotta get better on that side of the ball. And they're gonna let teams like the Titans hang around because they're so shitting on offense and so basic that they're easy to break down and figure out. So I'm gonna take the bangles here.


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[Assistant] Right? But it's a scary game for them. And yeaah, I mean, I'm only taking them not because of Joe Burrow or Jamar Chase or T. Higgins. I'm taking them because I have no faith in the Tennessee Titans offense and I think the Bengals defense is still damn good.


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[Assistant] And you know, the Titans can't throw, they're not that great at running right now and either, so I'm going bangles 20 to 19 on the road, I'm threading the needle.


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[Assistant] Cardinal, I mean, Chargers, as we know, like, the defense is, it's not good. I mean, again, self-inflicted wounds by...


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[Assistant] You know, your Minnesota Vikings football team last week and missed opportunities. Everybody moves the ball in the Chargers. So I don't expect that to change. I don't.


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[Assistant] Now, like to what extent can the Raiders move the ball? Because they're disappointing in the fact that they were one of the best running teams in football last year. And this year they're one of the worst. It's hard to put your finger on. Like how could the offensive line go from dominant last year to every time they run the ball? Now they're behind the line of scrimmage and pushback.


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[Assistant] Josh Jacobs as you heard me say last week is not the same.


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[Assistant] He's a guy that missed a month of training camp. It does not look like he's in shape or ready to go. So that worries me, but it's still the Chargers offense and McDaniel will find way. McDaniels will find ways to tear them up. I do think Jimmy Garoppolo and them are going to throw the ball effectively, you know, but the other side of the ball is, yeah, the Chargers are going to move the ball effectively too.


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[Assistant] I mean, they've been pretty awesome offensively through three weeks. I mean, they're saving the day. They're the ones that are making this game, you know, these games close in week one and two.


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[Assistant] Right? And then of course last week, Justin Herbert was absolutely on fire and phenomenal picking apart the Vikings defense. I'm going Chargers here. I think this one's gonna be high scoring though. I'm gonna go 34-28 Chargers.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't think this is the greatest matchup in the world for the Dallas Cowboys. Now, the first being that the Patriots defense is really good.


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[Assistant] And the Cowboys offense is good, but I'm not ready to say real good yet. I'm not, you know, they're another team. It's, it's very basic. It's stationary. If they can't run the ball and use play action, they're not the same football team that way.


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[Assistant] And we know this Patriots D is real. They got big people up front.


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[Assistant] On the defensive side of the ball, their secondary is damn good there too. There's some offensive line concerns with the Cowboys as far as injury related. So that worries me, right? The other side of the ball, like we've always talked about, the Cowboys are small up front. And you saw last week,


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[Assistant] You know, when they can't overload the box and just overwhelm the front with numbers, they get pushed around. Their D tackles are not very good. You never see them do anything. They never make any plays or disrupt or do anything that way. Right? Middle linebacker play ain't all that great for Dallas either right now.


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[Assistant] So that, that does worry me. And New England's gonna be smart and they're gonna try to like make this game move along at a, at a fast pace. And the fact of they're going to try to chew the clock, run the ball. They know they can't pass protect against the group and this speed of the Dallas Cowboys all night, all game long.


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[Assistant] I like wanna take the Patriots. I just don't quite have the guts to do it. So I'm going to take the Cowboys in a close one, 24-21. I think it's like a last second field goal that wins the game, but this will not be easy and I will not be surprised if the Patriots pull off an upset on the road here.


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[Assistant] I think I am. You know, I feel like I'm going to play the little bit of the, yeah, the Cardinals are better than we all thought.


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[Assistant] Right? The Cardinals, their game plan on both sides of the ball has been damn good every game.


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[Assistant] Now, you know, they're young and they don't have like superstar talent across the board, so they've, you know, messed some things up.


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[Assistant] And they got enough weaponry with Hollywood Brown and Rondale Moore and Michael Wilson, who they drafted out of Stanford.


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[Assistant] To where if you overplay stopping the run, those three guys can, can make plays and make something happen.


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[Assistant] And they do a good job of moving people around.


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[Assistant] And creating formations and like, you know, a little bit like we talk about with Shanahan and McDaniel.


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[Assistant] They don't just, you know, they don't do it because, oh, this looks cool, it's emotional. I mean, they have a rhyme and a reason. And they put the Cowboys in some schematical, like, headlocks last weekend with some of the things they did. And that's why, like, they were running through holes the size of Mack trucks. Cause, like, literally Dallas couldn't even adjust.


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[Assistant] To cover all the holes with some of the things they did.


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[Assistant] And I just think like, yeaah, the 49ers are the, one of the best teams in football. I can kinda picture this being a little bit like asleep at the wheel, eh, we're gonna beat them, we're favored by 14. So, I'm taking the 49ers to win, but the Cardinals to cover. I'm gonna go 31-20.


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[Assistant] Yes, and yes, uh, I am, but I will say, I mean, the Jets defense is still damn good, right? I mean, it is. It's a handful and they're going to pose problems for the Kansas City Chiefs.


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[Assistant] And you know what I, like, I worry about in this one, you know, just like things like, hey, you and I both know, the Chiefs are the ultimate, kind of like, ehhh.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's the Jets and they'll coast in and bullshit around and maybe do a stupid turn. That's what I worry about with them a little bit.


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[Assistant] I do, or, or them being like a little too aggressive on the defensive side of the ball and going, let's just go for the jugular and just


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[Assistant] Absolutely demolish the Jets offense and, you know, then therefore they take too many aggressive chances and maybe leave Garrett Wilson wide open or he beats somebody in man to man coverage. That's the only thing I see possible.


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[Assistant] I think the Jets hang around and are kind of annoying, but this is one that just slowly but surely the Chiefs pull away. 30-16 Chiefs, Sunday Night Football. Be there. We will be.


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[Assistant] I like the Seahawks. I do. I'm sorry, Pete. I know Pete's going to the game.


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[Assistant] You know, it's a good, good idea. In fact, I wish I probably would have gone as well, but, uh, it'll be fun. The stadium will be electric.


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[Assistant] The man-to-man, all of that, you know, it's effective, it can really disrupt some teams. I don't think this is going to be one of those teams. They better be careful with this group here.


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[Assistant] Just because of, again, Geno Smith with these receivers, too much man-to-man coverage, they're gonna make you pay.


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[Assistant] They are. And I'm just not sold that the Giants are, you know, an effective offensive machine quite yet. I think this game is fun. I think it goes back and forth, but I'm going to take the team that I look at to have a little bit more firepower and that's the Seahawks. I'm going to go 27-24.


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[Assistant] Alright, I'm gonna go with the Eagles, the first one. I do think the commanders hang around for a little bit, uh, and I can see their defense giving Philadelphia a few issues.


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[Assistant] But ultimately, they're just too talented, and what I really worry about is the past protection of Sam Howell versus that Eagles front. And he's been a little loose with the football in all three football games, and that just don't make me feel warm and cozy against this group that's got waves and waves of defensive linemen coming after you.


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[Assistant] I went with the ones, the high points last week and went two and one and beat you in best bets. So I'm not going to be scared to do that either there either. Yep. You too. Okay. So I think I will go with, I'm going to go with the Patriots here.


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[Assistant] I think the Patriots can pull off the upset on the road. I picked the Cowboys to win a close one, but six and a half points is just too much for me. I think this Patriots defense is damn good and it'll keep this game close and manageable for maybe a late steal of a game or whatever else. So Patriots will be my second one.


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[Assistant] Part of me that thought about, like, the Broncos, right? Bounce back game, the Bears stink.


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[Assistant] Right, but I've learned, like, I'm not gonna bet on teams that haven't shown me they know how to win yet. You know, that's the one that, you know, they find some way to screw it up, and so I'm not doing that. I'm gonna go with the Chiefs on Sunday Night Football. That's the one. I mean, I said 30 to 16, and then there's a part of me that feels like I was kinda being nice there.


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[Assistant] Right? But, you know, the, the, the chiefs are, we know damn good on offense. They'll be able to block good enough. They usually figure out ways to attack people downfield. And really the chief's defense has been smothering. And I think they will be all over Zach Wilson, the receivers, and that, that simple offense.


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[Assistant] Right, well I'm already dead in the gutter, so this is dead part two, okay? And yeaah, I'm gonna go with the Chiefs over the Jets. That's what I'm taking right there. Taking the Chiefs.


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[Assistant] The my god section. Yeaah. Uh, we have the big upset section. Yeaah. Uh, late game heroics. Right. We have taking care of business. Yeaah. And then we have, give me the headlines where we'll have two games.


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[Assistant] New York teams are in that one to give a little sneak peek of where you might go if you are a fan of either the Giants or the Jets. But if you're a fan of those teams, maybe you don't want to listen to the...


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[Assistant] The headlines are good, yeaah, so stick around for the headlines. Let's start with the My God section. Oh my gosh. It's seriously. The Miami Dolphins beat the Denver Broncos. So the Denver Broncos scored 20. The Denver Broncos scored 20 and lose by 50. They had 363 yards.


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[Assistant] Well, that's the thing, right? And he commented about the team last year being the worst coached team he'd ever seen. Imagine if this team was poorly coached. They would have given them 90.


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[Assistant] Right now the Miami Dolphins, uh, Tua throws for over 300 yards, and watching Tua operate in this offense, and I've said this before to you, like, It's made for him. It's almost like no one else could run this offense. It wouldn't look the same, and I almost feel like,


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[Assistant] For what Mike McDaniel wants to do, it's like, I don't know that even more talented quarterbacks could do it as well as Tua is doing.


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[Assistant] It's awesome to watch, unless you're a Denver Bronco or a Denver Bronco fan. Uh, so that was a shocker. Shocker. Just seeing 70 in an NFL game was a shocker. Our biggest shocking upset as we move over to the big upset section was the Cardinals and Jonathan Gannon getting his first win as a head coach.


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[Assistant] Of Arizona, I guess the tank is not on there in Phoenix. They beat the Cowboys, who coming into this game, look like the dominant number one team in the NFL.


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[Assistant] And the Cardinals didn't just beat them some fluky way. It's like they held the lead most, I think almost all the game, right? Yeah, they did the whole game. 28-16 was the final score. There were 12 and a half point underdogs.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's what makes it so frustrating to be a Cowboys fan here lately is that the dominant teams, and it was looking like the Dallas Cowboys were the dominant team in the NFL this year, one of them, one of the top five. Like, we haven't seen, like, the Eagles put up a performance like this against a team that they are outclassing talent-wise, right? Recently, or the 49ers, or the Patriots, when they were so good.


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[Assistant] We'll get to the 49ers in a bit. I know we will. Another upset. Yeaah. The Colts were 8 point underdogs against the Baltimore Ravens.


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[Assistant] So it was a good day for former coordinators for the Philadelphia Eagles, Jonathan Gannon and Shane Steichen, getting a win. A good day for a former coordinator with the San Francisco 49ers.


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[Assistant] Evan Edmiston says to us, Edmiston, sorry about that Evan. What's going on in Jacksonville? That was one of the stunners of the day in my eyes. I heard Peterson took over the play calling in the second half. Is that the solution to their offense?


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[Assistant] CJ Stroud, it looks real. We're getting close to getting to victory lap territory for you, uh, ranking him as the number one quarterback in this year's draft class, cause he, uh, throws for 280 yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions. Another clean, clean game in a game where they didn't run the ball all that effectively. No, no.


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[Assistant] Like, are we wrong on the Jags? Were we? Cause I kept calling them, I was like, this is a slam dunk division winner, they're clearly the best team in their division, and now here we are three weeks in, they're one and two, and they were not the better team on the field with the Houston Texans. It's early.


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[Assistant] And that, that has not happened yet. So many weapons, so many pass catches they can go to in running backs too. Uh, Pete's pushing the buttons back there, says we have the return of the dots.


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[Assistant] It's not 20. There's no way. It was 20. He got the 20? It was over 20 miles an hour. Wow. 20.37. I'm impressed. The first time a fullback has reached 20 or more miles an hour as a ball carrier since...


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[Assistant] So we go from the big upsets, we go to the late game heroics, and who knows, maybe we'll get some late game heroics in our Sunday night game. We appreciate that on NBC. Uh, they certainly had it in the Packers and Saints game. It looked like the Packers were gonna get nothing going. In this one it was 17-0 for most of it. Derek Carr got hurt in the third quarter, and then the Saints offense sputtered.


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[Assistant] And that was bad because the Packers picked it up then. They came back to win 18-17 was the final score. What was your, what was your biggest takeaway? What did Jordan love in that Packers offense show you in that late game comeback?


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[Assistant] Yeah, after the field goal in the second quarter by the Saints, they go punt, punt, punt, punt, punt, miss field goal at the end of the game.


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[Assistant] They get credit for it. The Packers have now won 11 consecutive home openers. How about that? And the New Orleans Saints has scored no more than 20 points in a game this season. Yeaah, it's the Saints


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[Assistant] I didn't see that. So it was pretty funny. Yes, yes. That will stick now. That will stick. That will stick. So the Packers get the one point win.


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[Assistant] Uh, in a back and forth game, the Chargers come back. Holy. Against the Vikings, the game where someone had to, had to not blow it. It was like one of those games. Only the Vikings can out-charger the Chargers. Okay? Leave it to them to do it. 28-24, Chargers P.F. Chang says to us, first damn okay of the year for


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[Assistant] Justin F'n Herbert. Seriously. You already, uh, know why the man saved Staley's job for at least another week. Damn okay. Yeah. Uhm, so yeaah, he's referencing the...


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[Assistant] Uh, Justin Herbert, we're gonna have his passing chart here. Now according to the next-gen stats, the Vikings blitzed Herbert on 41 of his 50 drop-backs, the second highest blitz rate, 82% in a game in the next-gen stats era. And he goes 40 of 47 for 405 yards and 3 touchdowns.


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[Assistant] Uh, specifically against the Blitz, Herbert goes 32 of 38 for 307 yards and all three of those, those touchdowns, excuse me.


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[Assistant] So he was rushed, his average time to throw was 2.26 seconds, his first game under 2.4 in his career. So this was very unusual for Justin Herbert. Okay. At this little time, he still excelled to that level. That's a lot of numbers, but I'm going to tell you that was Inside the Numbers powered by AWS.


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[Assistant] Where do they go here? Because you see some chatter, and I don't know where it comes from, but...


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[Assistant] Perhaps some Viking fans that are frustrated about the way last year ended and now this year's starting is just like, you know, trade Kirk Cousins, just this punt this year, this year's already...


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[Assistant] So they should not punt, they should not punt on the year. Something the Chicago Bears maybe have already done as we go to the taking care of business section of the podcast. The chief certainly did that at home in front of Taylor Swift. She was probably impressed, right? And he's like, dang Travis, you do have a good football team.


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[Assistant] You think he requested that? He's like, hey, Pat, do me a favor.


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[Assistant] No, I don't think so. That's where we're going. Yeah, Bears and Chiefs, right? Yeah, we're still in Bears and Chiefs. This is what happens. Now we're getting late in the pod now and we got too much going on. This game being close is gonna totally derail us. Uhm, but that's okay. Uh, no, so Mahomes, I think he's okay. Yeah. With the ankle, right?


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[Assistant] And the Bears are in the running for most depressing team in the NFL this year.


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[Assistant] Raiders did kick the field goal eventually here, so it's a five point game, 222 to go. They have all three of their timeouts. All three timeouts, I got a two minute warning here still, so yea, we'll see. We'll keep you updated.


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[Assistant] Browns beat the Titans. Titans got nothing going offensively in this one. 27-3 was the final score. I mean, how many yards did they end up with? Oh, total. It was low. I know that. I'm trying to go over to it too here.


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[Assistant] Almost worse than Iowa football, and that's pretty bad.


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[Assistant] Titans had no answer for Myles Garrett, who had, I think, three and a half sacks in this game. Oh yea, three and a half.


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[Assistant] And there goes the half. There's like five seconds, four, and then Rable's like just telling his team to get in the locker room. He's like not even trying to even pretend like there's any time to.


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[Assistant] He just said, get off the field, the hell with it, we gotta get the hell out of here. And yeah, it was, uh, it was that kind of day for them. And I immediately, I felt like, I was like, why did I retract my feeble statement on Ryan Tannehill? Although it wasn't just him, the whole team looked feeble. The whole offense.


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[Assistant] Brown's probably not going anywhere. The Bills, they're not going anywhere. Seems like that. Week 1.


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[Assistant] It's turning into more of an aberration. That's the way they play it against the Jets. They crushed the commanders. 37-3 is the final score.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that throw for Josh Allen on that touchdown was like a Tecmo Bowl touchdown. It was like the ball never really went into the air.


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[Assistant] The Raiders are gonna get the ball with about 15 seconds. No timeouts. No timeouts. That's about it. See, so they should have gone for the touchdown. Last time.


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[Assistant] Alright, so, we'll keep you updated if anything crazy happens there.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Lions, they bounce back. My Detroit Lions against the Atlanta Falcons, a game that I was worried about. Uh, 20-6 and as a Lions fan,


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[Assistant] They won this game in the most satisfying way possible, because I feel good about their offense. They're gonna score points this year, I know that, right? And they have some injuries, and David Montgomery, I hope he comes back, but they still ran the ball well. Jameer Gibbs is gonna be awesome.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so they're gonna score. But I was like dang it, their defense is just like it was last year. Seattle torched them last year, they did it again last week. To see them, they're better. Shut out, I mean.


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[Assistant] Atlanta's not, and maybe this is the way the teams they have to beat, right? They don't have a great passing game and they can kinda, they got some big bodies to shut down the running attack. Uh, but I was still happy to see the Lions 20-6 winners over the Falcons.


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[Assistant] That draft class for the Lions too is looking really, really good. Because you got Jameer Gibbs who goes for 80 yards in this one. Sam Laporta who you like coming out as a pass catching tight end. That was a nice play he had for the touchdown. Did you see that? Long one, 45 yards. They showed it on Lions Twitter after the game and he's talking to golf. He's like, I never thought that thing was going to come down.


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[Assistant] It was like I was waiting like 15 seconds for it to, to finally get into my hands. Uhm, and Brian Branch led the team in tackles with 11. Baller.


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[Assistant] Seahawks look much more creative on the offensive side of the ball. They are getting it done.


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[Assistant] Uh, wait, they are getting it done down their stud tackles. Oh yeah, that's right, because their tackles have been hurt. But yeah, they still ran the ball very, very effectively in this game. What'd they end up with running 146 yards? Walker looked good, yeah. He had 97 of those, and then Gino throws for almost 300 yards again.


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[Assistant] Oh, we got a quarterback controversy now. Andy Dalton in the number one overall pick.


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[Assistant] We got a final on Sunday Night Football. They're interviewing TJ Watt right now, who had two sacks, two tackles for loss, six total pressures. He did it again. Steelers beat the Raiders, 23 to 18. Uhm, we got a couple questions. Pete, did these come before the game? Are these relevant still, these questions here? I'm just looking at them now.


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[Assistant] Longest run was just 10 yards, so nothing explosive out of the run game. Turning the ball over in the pass game. Team Geo asks you, at what point do we start considering McDaniels on the hot seat? Two terrible outings and no run game, one dimensional offense and still a subpar defense.


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[Assistant] We go to give me the headlines presented by Hyundai. Can you do the sound?


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[Assistant] So we got the two New York teams. We'll start with the Patriots defeating the Jets. 15 to 10 was the final score. The headline for this game is Standing Pat.


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[Assistant] Andrew Hazard, 989. When will the Jets bench Zach Wilson? I was ride or die until today. A lot because of Chris. But they need a quarterback that can do the bare minimum. Please help.


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[Assistant] And get in the end zone that way. Yeah, Farrell Brown, his first target of the season goes for a 58 yard touchdown from, from Mac Jones. So they have that one big explosive play.


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[Assistant] And you mentioned the balance too, because Ezekiel Elliott goes for 80 yards.


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[Assistant] Giants were out west on Thursday, taking on the 49ers. 49ers won that one 30 to 12. We will give the headline for that one. Talk about that one briefly. Your headline for the 49ers win over your G-men.


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[Assistant] You're right, it just looks so difficult for the Giants to do anything offensively. 29 yards rushing total, and just over 130 through the air, so yeaah, it was difficult.


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[Assistant] They probably are the worst team in football, that's for sure. I think you're, you're correct with that. And that was Give Me the Headlines presented by Hyundai.


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[Assistant] As a Detroit Lions fan, so, but I don't mean to pile on because I do feel like Justin Fields is an interesting and fun player to root for. Uh, two more games. Monday Night Football. Eagles at Buccaneers, then we got Rams at Bengals. Uh, so the Eagles at Buccaneers is interesting because we got three


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[Assistant] Teams in the NFL after this week will be undefeated. You got the Dolphins, you got the 49ers, and the winner of Eagles at Buccaneers.


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[Assistant] Pete notes that he is driving the Baker Mayfield bandwagon. Hop on board. Although that makes me nervous because I feel like once the Baker bandwagon gets rolling, that's when it's like, okay. That's when he starts throwing some picks. How dare you.


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[Assistant] Don't jinx him. Yeah, yeah, keep it on the road. Uh, and then Rams at Bengals, man, this is, this is a big one. Huge. For the Bengals to get a win and Joe Burrow, we don't know how healthy he is right now. I don't think we have a status of like, is he definitely playing?


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[Assistant] I mean, you know I love me some Danny Dimes, but I'm not sure I can go there quite yet. It is still, oh Aaron Rodgers.


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[Assistant] This is Chris Simpson, but Named Fareed is here. That's why you listen to us. While you listen to us, maybe for some fun things in football, certainly not singing.


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[Assistant] Okay, we sound like idiots right there for sure. That was give me, give me the headlines on Sunday night. So we were both delirious and having fun with Tyson Bajent, who is secret Bajent man. Secret agent number 17, playing quarterback. We'll see him this week.


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[Assistant] But welcome to, uh, welcome everybody. We are here for the what the.


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[Assistant] Well, I think that like maybe they like terrible. Sometimes terrible plays well in 2023. Like I see things all the time that are terrible and I'm like, this is a popular thing. This is terrible. That's what makes it good. This guy's popular. He's terrible. It's not refined. They're not trying to be good. They're not trying to be funny.


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[Assistant] Yeah, we've been too long. We've neglected them for a long time here. So we gotta get them involved and hopefully we can answer some questions and have some fun there.


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[Assistant] Well, it is. Size beats speed, 100%. And in saying that too, like,


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[Assistant] I know we, you know, Philly is an, is a all time size team up front. Like I'm not like embellishing and going, I've been around football, you know that since the eighties and watched the old Philadelphia Eagles and Reggie White and the Giants and the Cowboys of the nineties and all that.


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[Assistant] It's not like Philly's slow, Philly's fast at the right positions, right? So they have an unbelievable combination, but their ability upfront, and let's just start right there and why, if you had to make it like you said, the macro assessment would be that Philly's front


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[Assistant] Basically go, we're gonna let our defensive line ruin the football game, we're gonna play really conservative in the back end, and just be soft zoned, keep you in front of us, and we think we'll rally and make the tackle, because you're gonna have to get it out quick, cause our guys are gonna get to your quarterback in a hurry.


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[Assistant] Right? Or if you do try to wait for something down the field, we're gonna be down there, and of course we think our pass rush will get there too to ruin that as well. So that's where it starts. Eagles specialness upfront.


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[Assistant] There you go, that's right. And, and within, within that, and I might be wrong, you know, I'm watching the film, I'm watching a bunch of stuff.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna say in the first half of the football game, man-to-man coverage.


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[Assistant] I don't know, maybe it was two plays. The only play I really thought was truly man to man, you know, and again, maybe I needed to go back. I was a little too far down the road to go wait.


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[Assistant] Was, you know, I felt like it was the first play, but the, the fade go route down the left sideline right before the halftime to Tyree kill.


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[Assistant] That I felt like was about the only play of man-to-man coverage the whole first half of the football game. So that shows you that they never had to compromise themselves or worry or put themselves in a position. And even on that, they double-teamed Tyree Kill and it was kind of one of those where he split them and they were like,


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[Assistant] Wait, we, we, I had inside, you had outside, but who had when he went straight? You know, it was kind of one of those things, like which way did he go? Uh, but that I think is yes, the key to the game and the key to Philadelphia and what makes them.


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[Assistant] So awesome, and what makes them a tough matchup for Miami, and that's something we're gonna watch as we go forward. This is two teams where when Buffalo was healthy on the D-line with depth, Eagles healthy on their D-line with depth, we saw that a Miami Dolphins offense does not look the same when they have those type of challenges.


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[Assistant] I think they have a specific problem in pass protection that they can probably get away with with most teams in football because of their offense and all the moving parts and all that, right? But not against teams like Philadelphia, right? It's something that we definitely all have to watch moving forward to see where this kind of goes with this.


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[Assistant] I do think, if you made me sit here today and go, I think anytime they play an elite D-line, life can be an issue for their offense. It's not gonna look like what we think it should look like or what it looks like when they feast on the middle class or the lower class of the NFL, right? And in this game too, you know,


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[Assistant] They had no run to take the pressure off of. First and second down for the most part, especially early on in the football game. It was five man fronts. They were just went, we're going to play five men front.


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[Assistant] You're not going to get the edge on us. You're not going to have, you know, Waddle's not going to be able to crack Hassan Reddick or Joshua Sweatt. We're going to run right through him if you try to run outside. So they couldn't do there. And of course on the interior part of the offensive line, they had no chance of moving those guys. No, no chance. I mean, again, like you said, Jalen Carter special.


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[Assistant] Butcher Cox is really good. Number 7, Hassan Reddick is awesome on the edge, along with Joshua, uh, along with, you know, the rest of the cast of characters. Jordan Davis is a handful too in the middle.


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[Assistant] They, they were ready for it, you know. You know, again, if I've been telling you the last few weeks, right, hey, when you smash people inside on defense and try to take away the inside run, they smash you in there and try to get on the edge. Well, they're seeing that.


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[Assistant] They understand that and they've seen so many teams, whether it was the Broncos or whoever, where we've broken down on the podcast where you'd go, is somebody going to set the edge against, you know,


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[Assistant] The Miami Dolphins? Are we just going to let Raheem Mostert run outside and get a 15 yard head start so he can look fast running down the sideline, right? They were not going to let that happen. And their physicality and athleticism on the edge


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[Assistant] And then, you know, again, of course, when they're out of the game, it's like, oh gosh, they're out of the game. Oh wait, it's still Brandon Graham and Barnett out here, like who are also very good and would, you know, Barnett would probably be a starter on most teams in football. Brandon Graham's a really high end backup defense end. So there's no let up with that group.


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[Assistant] And what they do. But, but I can't sit here and say that, like,


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[Assistant] I know everybody wants to hear like, oh, what did they do? They must have done something revolutionary here. No, they did, uh, we're bigger than you.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we're not gonna let you run on first and second down and then on third down, you know, we're hoping at that point we have you in third and four or more and now our front four will get there and we'll still be able to play zone coverages and make you pat the ball and do whatever else and you won't be able to get the ball out of your hand quick.


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[Assistant] Bills could, if they're totally healthy, which they're not right now, but yes, in their prime, yes.


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[Assistant] I look at a team like Jacksonville, they probably could do that to the Dolphins. I look at Cleveland, they could do it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, Dallas could probably do it as well. Be a little different for Dallas just because they're not as big, so it might not be quite the mismatch there up front. I'm missing somebody, oh, the Ravens. The Ravens would pose some of those same problems as well. Uh, as far as just


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[Assistant] You know, such an elite group, like your Lions are really good up front, but I don't know if I'm going to put them in the class of those guys quite yet to say they can just ruin a game to the same capacity maybe we just talked about with some of those other football teams.


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[Assistant] The Giants, you're right, the Giants would be a team that certainly, and we saw, the Giants gave the Dolphins some issues in their game, right? They did. It wasn't just like an easy track meet there for a while. The Giants' offense was the problem in that football game. But I think, yea, I think we hit, uhm, you know, really the, for the most part, the teams that


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[Assistant] I would kind of put in that category. Kansas City could maybe become a cause, but I don't think they're...


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[Assistant] I don't think they're upfront in the same category as some of the teams we just talked about either.


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[Assistant] Because of this, like, okay, some of the screens and edge plays, hey, get the receiver ball here and all that, since they were, you know, all playing zone and kind of off the ball,


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[Assistant] They were all able to kind of see the play and then rally to it, right? So then even like if they did anything like that, okay, there wasn't anywhere to run. Let alone, like I talked about already, Philadelphia is very fast.


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[Assistant] Okay, uhm, I think the other thing too is, yeaah, it was hard for them I think to dial up.


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[Assistant] So he had to rush things. They weren't able to let plays develop that way. I think then the play caller McDaniel was also a little reluctant to be aggressive that way. And yeaah, it put issues. And you know, where did I write it? I wrote it somewhere at one point here where, you know,


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[Assistant] Uh, it's, it's, it's, let me just see if I can get to it here, cause I had a spot where, or something I wanted to say.


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[Assistant] It's Chua uncomfortable, right? He's jumpy, you know, he's looking at the first guy and he wants to get it out, right? And Chua also, you know, he's not the kind of guy in this type of game where he's gonna


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[Assistant] You know, again, this is where a size quarterback would be different, you know?


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[Assistant] Even like when Mahomes back in the Super Bowl against Philadelphia, the pocket's collapsing. Hey, I'll stand in there and wait a few, uh, one extra little tick here to throw the ball 15 or 20 yards down the field. Tua wasn't gonna let them have a field day on him and just clean him out like that. So that affected, you know, decisions and things as well, uh, for the Miami offense.


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[Assistant] Well yea, big moment in the football game, right? Because they're trying to keep pace.


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[Assistant] You know, they're trying to keep up with the Philadelphia Eagles here. Uh, life is hard as is. And have a pretty good play call where, you know, if you're looking at my notebook, really, they're running a double move off a play that they run quite often. Where, okay, it's three receivers to the left.


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[Assistant] Okay, now, to the right is two receivers. The inside receiver is Motstert, and the outside receiver is Wattle.


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[Assistant] And a lot of the times they are in their offense, you know, we called this like read, halfback read or, uh, we had different, you know,


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[Assistant] Uh, language for it in certain offenses, but either way, really what the play is, is the halfbacks reading


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[Assistant] Oh, you know, linebacker, you wanna get aggressive on Mozart? Oh, then I'm gonna hit waddle behind you. If he plays man to man, he's gotta kind of read the leverage of how he's being played.


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[Assistant] And you know, more times than not, they take away the inside, they come up and they break out and it becomes like a five yard out route.


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[Assistant] You know, and so he kinda goes up and acts like he's gonna break out and then he goes up. So now the linebacker goes, Oh no. And then of course he kind of makes an aggressive move to stop that little out route. All right. And now he goes up on basically like a out and go, right. And I draw this in my nose.


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[Assistant] Exactly, going to like almost the front pile on there. Sure. And where Waddle, and where the play gets messed up and why Darius Sly gets the interception, Waddle on his in-cut, on this type of play here, more times than not is for like a too deep coverage, more than not.


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[Assistant] He needs to stay straight, right? He needs to go more towards the middle of the field.


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[Assistant] And brings everybody over there to Mozart.


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[Assistant] You know, again, you'd like to tell too, hey, see throws, make sure we don't let one, their mistake become our mistake, right? All of that. But that's still, that's tough because you're reading the double move and you're going, oh wait, he got him. Let me get it out and throw a softball and let him go run underneath it. And Watto kind of screwed him over and brings coverage over there. And that led to the interception. That was kind of night night for the football game.


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[Assistant] Or it's like four man and it's just zone. And like, I'm like, wait, you're, you know, give your guys a little advantage. Have a linebacker stand in the B gap every now and then just so they have to go, whoa, we have to worry about him. And then you drop out and do all that. That to me is when they're at their best. So they did that.


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[Assistant] You know, quite a few times in the football game, you're right. Uhm, go ahead, I didn't mean to, what else did you do? Anything else you wanted to rattle off there?


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[Assistant] You did that to me. When you start to see that many trick plays and you're getting away from the meat and potatoes of your offense, you're fishin'.


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[Assistant] You're like, we can't find anything to kind of get us going. Double passes, reverses, all that. You know, that all was going on there. And that just tells me, yes, that they were worried. You know, and then, you know, sustained drives as a whole in the football game.


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[Assistant] You know, they weren't, they were few and far between from the Dolphins. I mean, let's be serious. They had a pick six, they got the ball, uh, and had a seven play one yard drive. Okay, seven play.


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[Assistant] One yard drive after the turts fumble, you know, they had the end of the first half drive and the drive we just talked about where he threw the interception and that was all you had to talk about at the whole game, right?


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[Assistant] That's where, you know, you break down the game. It was just a series of plays. There was no sustained drives. It was 244 yards of total offense. There was two runs to talk about. There was two or three pop slants, what I call, where, like, they kinda, it's like not a three-step slant, it's a five-step slant, and they kinda hit people in the second window cause of the zone coverage.


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[Assistant] And I even draw a few plays out of that and I know it. There was a third and 18 out route.


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[Assistant] And the, the go route before the half to Tyree Kill. I mean you break the game down and it was really about those six or seven plays and there wasn't much else offense to talk about for the Miami Dolphins.


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[Assistant] Yes. They're not that way. They're not trying to like, last year, Gannon could be like, you know,


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[Assistant] You try to throw it one yard behind the line of scrimmage, we're gonna tackle you one yard behind the line of scrimmage. You try to throw it here, four yards, we're gonna, we're not gonna let you throw it four yards, right? So they're almost too aggressive to a point. The Eagles are not that way this year. I think they're looking at it a little bit like,


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[Assistant] If we be a little conservative on the back end, our front four is going to make enough havoc to where team goes out of ten play drive. I'm going to bet one of our badass.


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[Assistant] Sat there. They were literally, there's some plays where you're like, it's first and 10, they got a five man front and...


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[Assistant] The whole secondary, the first DB is like six yards off the ball, right? There's nobody in front of that.


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[Assistant] So, the motions, all that, they talked like, hey, hey, he's going over there, he's going over here, right? But they were in such simple zones and not really doing anything complicated that they could kind of just sit back and wait and go, let's see where they line up. And when they line up, we kind of know what they want to do and we'll react off of that. But they weren't going to put


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[Assistant] Or try to do anything super aggressive and give those speedy dudes some chances. And they have a team that they don't have to take those risks.


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[Assistant] Almost, really. I mean, it's almost the same type of thing. The size of the Philadelphia Eagles...


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[Assistant] They compromised the dolphins in such a way that they had a worry. All the time.


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[Assistant] About, we're gonna get bludgeoned in the run game. We're gonna get bludgeoned in the run game. And then, therefore, it becomes very simple, again, in the backend with coverages.


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[Assistant] And you're not gonna beat Philadelphia Simple in the back end with coverages. It's just not gonna happen. So yes, very similar aspect in that way too.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, and their offense, yeaah, you know, you look at big picture, team play, offense complement defense, right? Okay, the defense had a good feel for the offense. And then the other thing did, the offense controlled the ball and kept that Miami offense off the field.


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[Assistant] So they never got in rhythm and never got their speed guys going as well, but I never felt at any point in this game


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[Assistant] I know Hertz fumbled when he, you know, got stripped, stripped sacked. He had like seven seconds to throw the ball. He just, when you move up in the pocket like that, you know, put two hands on it. He kind of had one hand on it. Uhm, right? He had the, the, the interception.


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[Assistant] Uh, and on the, he's gonna learn a little RPO, read option RPO. He's about to throw it to AJ Brown and this is where


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[Assistant] 100%. He doesn't need it as much because he's usually protected really well.


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[Assistant] If you're gonna run those RPOs and screens out there and all that, and it's a part of the offense like it is, he's gonna continue to see people come off the edge like that, cause that's, that's gonna be the answer. We can't stop everything, so let's just see if we can get his face and make him, make him throw the ball quick, do whatever.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, that's where he needs to develop a little, hey, boom, right out the, you know, underneath the guy's arm. Sidearm to AJ Brown. He does that, yeaah, that'll...


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[Assistant] You know, add another two or three, four completions to his game on a weekly basis.


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[Assistant] It just had, they had to go two wall in on that. And the fact that, and another thing we've talked about with Philadelphia a little even last week.


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[Assistant] They stayed patient with the run. Even though it wasn't like...


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[Assistant] We're gonna get some looks downfield to where we're gonna tear them apart, you know, throwing the football.


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[Assistant] And I think that's the big thing. You know, it simplified Vic Fangio and that they were limited in


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[Assistant] You know, how creative they could be in the back end because they had to worry about run fits and getting up there and, and of course, you know, in any situation that even had the slightest chance of running the ball, they had to play five man fronts and they didn't want to play five man fronts and even with those five man fronts, you know, it was still hard for them to stop the run.


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[Assistant] Really pops almost on a weekly basis and is kind of one of their unsung heroes of their, their football team. Wilkins, like you talked about, he played solid. I mean, he was a big part of the reason the average yards per rest wasn't all that great. I mean,


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[Assistant] Not enough game wreckers on Miami quite yet. You know, not enough guys where, hey yea, you're kinda doing your job, but they still smashed it in there and got three or four yards. Where it's Philadelphia, it's like yea, you're doing your job, but you threw the guy off you and hit the guy in the backfield for a four yard loss, right? There's a difference there in that. And, well, the guy I came to,


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[Assistant] Is Jalen Phillips, of course. Jalen Phillips was the one guy, consistently, when they rushed for, that could push the pocket, and was around him. I know Bradley Chubb got the strip sack, but like I just told you,


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[Assistant] That was Jalen Hurts held the ball for seven seconds. I'm not sure what he saw in that play because he had De'Andre slipped wide open. I think maybe the guard and defensive tackle might have gotten his vision a little bit.


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[Assistant] Cause he's, he had him for an easy first down and then Chub got it. But yeah, for my money, Jalen Phillips is the guy on that defense. He is. It's hard to watch them and not look at him and go,


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[Assistant] He is phenomenal and he was the only guy throughout the game that could push Lane Johnson back on a consistent, you know, on a consistent basis. He certainly had some of his wins. Uh, but yeah, the size of the league was definitely an issue, you know, overall for the Miami Dolphins.


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[Assistant] You gotta have some tactical gambles against the Eagles, right? Because they're so good. I think also you look at it and...


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[Assistant] Doesn't always go to the right place with the ball in some of these moments, nor sometimes are their answers all that great. Unless they have a screen pass to the wide receiver or tight end dialed up.


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[Assistant] Right? A little bit like the Goddard touchdown, which that was that. But again, that's, they've already called that in the sideline because they're expecting the Blitz. Their answers aren't all that


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[Assistant] Scary, right? There's some teams where they get blitz and you go, oh, you know, you see one or two plays and you go, well, they won't call that again because they had a cute little wrinkle there to screw over that blitz.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's, yeah, they might throw a slam or do something, but it's nothing like where I think teams are like, oh man, if they do this, he'll get them into this play and oh no, then we'll be screwed in the blitz or whatever else. They kind of just kind of run their offense and tell them to get it out. And I think because of that, that kind of emboldens teams to blitz a little bit.


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[Assistant] He's got a little bit of a tendency right now of, and maybe this is where we're talking about, right, is look at the first guy and then kind of, if it's not open,


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[Assistant] Scramble. There was a few times in the game, and I know this last week, and I knew it the week before, where I want to go, wait, wait, you're good, you're protected, just stay there, you're good, and he's shown the ability to do this in the past.


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[Assistant] It's just lately, I feel like he's been like, no, let me get out of the pocket. I'm going to go, no, no, I know AJ wasn't open, but here comes Devante, just hang in there and throw the ball. You know, there was definitely a few plays in the game where I felt like he could have got to the second read and probably gashed them a little bit and kind of moved on and was looking to move and get out of the pocket a little.


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[Assistant] So this is, this is a great example. So there, yes, and, and okay, so he shouldn't throw this because you see the inside defender, right? He's got his eyes on Hurts. He's ready to drive on the ball. So it's going to be a bang, bang play or AJ Brown's going to get his head knocked off as he catches the football, right? But here, now let's go to the next frame.


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[Assistant] Now what they have is Goddard running, Goddard running an outroute, right? This is the coverage you teach all week to go, hey, they do this and they collapse on the under route by AJ Brown. You just throw the ball outside the numbers there, a 12 yard outroute and you're going to hit Goddard for a first down. But look, the pocket is absolutely clean.


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[Assistant] And he's already tucking the ball and looking to run and scramble.


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[Assistant] He makes a great play and gets out of the pocket and runs to the right and throws it to AJ Brown and gets the completion and that's all fine and dandy and a good play by him. My point is, as you hear me say a lot,


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[Assistant] Exactly, exactly right. There's some things that can go on there. But yea, that was an example I thought that kind of painted the picture of, you know, again, great play by him, but the normal rhythm of the offense gave you a completion and, you know, you pass that stuff up too many times, usually, you know, bad things will happen more times than not.


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[Assistant] Agreed, agreed. Washington's falling apart, and I feel like the Eagles, that was a get your attention week, where it was like, woah, they're kinda good, we better be on our game, and I think this is something that can, you know, ignite the Eagles a little bit. The Eagles played that game the right way. The defense played it the right way, and then their offense was patient.


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[Assistant] They did not look for big plays. They were gonna run the ball and we're just gonna take high percentage passes and it felt like they were very confident the whole night that they could play that way and we'll move the ball six yards at a play and we'll go down the field and they really did.


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[Assistant] You know, they just had some mistakes that were, you know, in my mind, almost kind of self-inflicted. It wasn't where I was like, oh, the Dolphins. You know, again, if you have seven seconds to throw the football and then get strip sack,


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[Assistant] That's not a, you know, a dolphin's, oh wow, they did it. That's a eagle's, you know, he should have ran or throw the ball away or found another completion already, right? So I don't, there's a difference there in that. And there's context to that strip sack fumble, you know, that doesn't translate to, oh yeah, they were dominating the game. Look, they strip sack fumble them, right? No, not at all.


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[Assistant] There's things to admire about that defense in New England. They will. I mean, again, they're better than what their stats say. They are the old adage of what we say.


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[Assistant] Oh, and you know, again, there's the old adage of what we always talk about. There's some defenses in the bottom 10 of football where I go, they're better than that, their offenses suck, and they put their defenses just


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[Assistant] Right? But their offense was so shitty early on in the year, kind of the same thing, and of course they played some really good teams too that made life hard on them.


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[Assistant] Bad offenses, right? Yeah, I think there's a good amount of that. The Steelers aren't the 30th best defense in football. They're better than that too, but it goes the same thing. Offense stinks, and yeah, life is hard on them at times on that side of the ball.


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[Assistant] Luckily. Yeah, luckily. Hey, tough matchup. It's, it's, are they on average 32 points better than you guys? No, no.


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[Assistant] You know, I think it's like the planets aligned the right way. Like we kind of talked about on Sunday night. You had the ravens scared going, wait, we're four and two and they're coming to town and they're good and we shouldn't be four and two. We should be five and one or six and oh, right? So they had that emotion. Your lions are feeling themselves and everybody's talking about how legit they are.


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[Assistant] And they match up with you guys. Some of the things that you guys usually put teams in such a bind with.


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[Assistant] The Ravens are like, they had the same much of a bind for us, we're okay in this, oh, they're all lines big and huge? Well, our D-line's bigger and huger, so we don't have to like, again, compromise and worry about it so much. So, that's where they had a little bit of advantage, and as we always talk about it, it's a matchup league.


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[Assistant] You know, again, it's not college football where it's just like, George is better than everybody, doesn't matter who they play. You know, no, no, it's the NFL, the teams, the salary cap, the coaching, all of that. There's certain teams that don't match up with other teams and this one is one of the tougher ones for you guys.


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[Assistant] I know, I wanted to look at my exact quote. That's where I'm sitting here looking. But, yeah, wait, hold on, where is it? Tell me where it is. Hold on a second, hold on a second.


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[Assistant] The way they disguise coverages, sometimes they play coverages and I'm like, wait.


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[Assistant] Is this quarters or is it like a lazy cover three? They've kind of made it look the same. It's hard for the quarterback with your rules, you know, sometimes when you have certain plays where they go, hey, if it's cover three, we'd like you to work over here. Hey, if it's cover four, kind of work over here. As a quarterback, you're like,


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[Assistant] Out of this world, good. They have the best defensive scheme in football, in my opinion. Okay? That's really where I'd go. And, you know, I wrote a few examples down as far as time and time clock and all of that, but uhm, you know, big in physical upfront,


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[Assistant] Better at rushing the passer this year than before, and then they find ways to, you know,


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[Assistant] Rush, it looks like it's a blitz and it's a four man rush. Cause two blitz and two drop out. One blitz, one drops out. You know, oh it is just a straight five man pressure this time. I mean they mix it up and do an incredible job. And then within that,


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[Assistant] Always have, yes, they can play man to man, but have great zone coverages behind it and really understand how to pass people off and play areas and their breakdowns of where the offenses like to attack are phenomenal and they have people dropping in those areas as good as anybody you see in football.


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[Assistant] And the play action pass was not a thing early on in the football game, the first half of the football game.


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[Assistant] And I, you know, I'm sitting there going, wait, why aren't they play actioning passing? Like, why wouldn't they want to come out and do that? And then I started to realize, I know what the reason is. Like, you can't, with some of these play action passes and these creative blitzes they do, they're not going to be able to pick it up and play action pass. Unless it's a really basic, like, hey, offensive line.


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[Assistant] Actually pass protect, and we're just gonna do a run fake with the quarterback and the running back.