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[Assistant] Doesn't matter. There's nobody in that box that's worth a damn for the Patriots. That's the big issue. And Lauren's guy missing last week, and I don't know where he is this week, but he's probably not gonna be 100%. He's their only legit run-stopping D lineman they got.


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[Assistant] Patriots could have two guys in one gap and it won't be as big as the one guy that's gonna be blocking both of them. Like, I mean, that's really where I just don't see how they stop it. Just like you saw with the 49ers tearing up the Patriots in the run game a few weeks ago. This is not a good matchup for them in that standpoint.


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[Assistant] Now, you know, the other side of the ball...


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[Assistant] You know, same type of thing. Now, I mean, I think New England will be able to run the ball a little bit. Just a little bit, but like, not much.


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[Assistant] Because Baltimore Secondary is awesome too. And they'll certainly be able to lock down.


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[Assistant] You know, these New England wide receivers. So, hey, it's Bill Belichick. It's New England. I think they hang tough. They'll probably have some creative things in the game plan that'll confuse Baltimore maybe for a little bit. But I think eventually they just wear them down. I'm going 27-14 Ravens.


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[Assistant] Well, eh, this is, uh, that's a good question. And you know, I mean, listen, Dalvin Cook, what he's doing, look what he's done. I mean, look at it. Look what he's done to you.


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[Assistant] You gave up. Now you're back on the bandwagon. Look at you wearing the sweatshirt today and everything. Look at Dalvin. Stop messing with my friend's head, Dalvin. He was just ready to cut ties. He had moved on and now you run for 200 yards every other week and look at him. He's now he's back to confusion. He doesn't know what the hell to do.


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[Assistant] See what you've done, Dalvin Cook, I'm holding you responsible. Alright, number 33 up in Minnesota.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I think it's a good matchup for the Bears. Of course, it won't be pretty. I mean, the Bears, it's the worst offense in football, scheme-wise. I mean, when you have...


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[Assistant] Arguably one of the worst offensive lines, and then I would say one of the worst starting running backs in football. Oh, really? You can't run the ball? No, shocker! And then they don't do anything on offense. I mean, it stinks, their scheme. It's horrible. But the Vikings are not good on defense this year.


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[Assistant] And I think that'll let Nick Foles just kind of pick you apart with little short passes, just enough. And the Bears defense is the real deal. They are.


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[Assistant] You know, their run defense as you've heard me say a few times this week is better than what their numbers show.


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[Assistant] They don't help their run defense. They play a lot. The safety's back. They don't try to overload the box cause they got so many big dudes in their front seven. They just go, you guys handle the front, the run game. We got other guys. We got to worry about the pass game. I'm going to go bears 20 to 17 ugly close football game. Sorry, Minnesota. You lose.


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[Assistant] I still like it. I love them, I love them not. I love being right. I love being right. I've gone out on a limb.


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[Assistant] Alright, well, I'm gonna go to our game on Sunday Night Football to start it off. I am. I'm going with the Ravens. You know, I know it's New England and it's scary and it's seven points and man, New England doesn't lose, you know, by more than seven or at home, but yet they do this year. I, I, I just, I don't


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[Assistant] I think this is a good matchup for them. They can't stop the run, not against this group. And then, you know, how are they supposed to move the ball? I just don't know how they can do it against the Ravens. I think they'll be able to lock up the receivers and they got enough big people to stop that Patriots run to a degree. So I went Ravens 27, uh, 14 and I'm, I'm riding them here with my best bets.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's a good one. I'm thinking about that. I'm probably chickening out here. I'm gonna go to your squad because I don't think they're gonna be able to win by two and a half and I don't think they're gonna win at all.


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[Assistant] I'm going with the Bears. Yeah, they're two and a half point dogs at home. They have a great run defense. You know, I think it's a great run defense. Like I've already said, it's better than it statistically shows.


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[Assistant] And because of that, I, that's the same. We know, I don't think the Vikings are gonna be able to win the game with Kirk Cousins just throwing the ball against that group. I don't. And the Vikings defense is just bad enough to where Nick falls and the Bears offense will have a little success to win an ugly football game. I'm going 2017 Chicago, taking them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's uh, I'm stuck between, that one is on my mind, I'm tempted to take the Saints with the nine points, that's on my mind, I'm tempted to take the Stealer, I mean the Bengals to keep that game close, but I don't think I can do it. You know, ultimately,


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[Assistant] So, I'm gonna go with it too. I just, that Jacksonville defense, it's just bad in all areas. And I can see that Rodgers will come out, establish a lead to start the game.


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[Assistant] And then it make Jacksonville have to throw the ball and that's when the Green Bay's at their best. So because of that, yeah, I'm going with it too. And I probably could have picked a bigger point spread really. So Packers, my last one.


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[Assistant] Hi, I'm Mike Tirico and thanks for watching. Make sure to hit subscribe for the latest news and highlights from NBC Sports.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, I have been saying in front of people. You haven't? In my life. You sang like a few weeks ago in the podcast. I know, I know, I did. You haven't rapped a whole lot, I guess. That's true, yea. Yea. I haven't rapped, but I've done that. Right. Basically, my whole life is an open book on this podcast now.


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[Assistant] My showering, my use of a bidet, me pitting out at the end of a podcast, and my rapping and singing ability is on full display. Listen, the more the people can get to know you.


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[Assistant] The better they'll like you. I mean, that's the way I feel. I just keep liking you more and more. So you think people are like, I was kind of on the fence with Ahmed, but now that I know he pits out, I don't like him.


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[Assistant] Good to be back, Chris, because we're gonna get through every game. Even the game, you know, now we're starting to get, as the season goes on, you get a few games that really don't matter, right? I mean, it's like they matter, but they don't matter. But we do those games. We touch on them. So we'll do that. We got two deep dives. We'll go deep into what happened with the Bucks and the Saints.


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[Assistant] That was weird. Was weird. It was weird. Yes. It was very weird. Uhm, but we'll go, so we'll see exactly what happened there, if there are any takeaways. Uhm, but we start, oh and we got the Trevor Lawrence Top Pick Power Rank. I can't wait. Which by the way. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Could have a huge shake-up. Today. Well, tonight? Tonight. Yeah. Yeah, it could be huge. Right. For the first time, the Jets may fall out of the number one spot.


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[Assistant] Of which one we'd be starting this podcast with, it probably would not have been Dolphins and Cardinals. No. But they have two of the most intriguing young quarterbacks in football.


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[Assistant] To have him play in this game against Kyler. Because you watch Kyler. Yes. And he is so dynamic. Right. And such a great runner. Like no one can compare. And so as good as the game was for Tua. Yes. Like, I wonder if it just didn't look as good because Kyler is so amazing. Well, I will, to your point.


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[Assistant] Let's start with the Dolphins offense, because we got a question, SportLover2010, and you'll get into this I'm sure, but he said, what did you see from Tua this week that showed you that he could become a superstar in the league, and where do you see room for improvement for him, because it's not like you, you weren't


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[Assistant] Gushing over him in the draft. No, I got my questions. You had Herbert over him, you had Burrow over him. Right. At one point you had Jordan Love over him, but then you kind of reconsidered. Right. And put 2 above him. Yep. So you had concerns. Yes. After watching this game, do you still have the same concerns that you had then?


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[Assistant] Those runs, if he was playing against Philip Rivers, would have looked a whole lot more impressive. Definitely, yes. You go like, wow, he can do something that other quarterback can't. And it did seem like in a couple of the big plays, even the runs, you know, I think there was one early in the fourth where he spun the wrong way and then snuck through the line, you're like,


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[Assistant] If you were to do this play again, like 9 times out of 10 is probably not going to work out as perfectly as it just did on some of those runs and some of those passes. Yea, sure. But there was one thing, and tell me if you agree, at the end of the first quarter I just saw a couple passes with him.


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[Assistant] Where it looked like he was going through his reads like super fast. It was like boom, boom, boom, like his third receiver, uh, pretty quickly. And so, like the confidence in the pocket to be able to go through the progressions like that in your second NFL stuff.


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[Assistant] How about the Cardinals D? Did they make things a little easier? Uh, well. They have a no- I mean Patrick Peterson's been up and down lately. Yes. Supposed to be your shut down guy in the secondary.


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[Assistant] Probably the better quarterback in this game, even though two have played great. Yeah, right. Kyler Murray and Christian Kirk were hooking up 123 yards for Christian Kirk. Uhm, it was, uh, it was, it was huge. It was, it was, it was huge. What'd you see from Kyler?


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[Assistant] Run on the fourth and one and second to last drive, two straight runs after that strike to Christian Kirk on the last drive. Why wouldn't you want the ball in Kyler's hands with a game on the line? So that's the balance you got to do, right? It's like you want to establish the run, but you hope at the crucial moments that you don't take the ball out of your most dynamic


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[Assistant] It just didn't work out in their favor in the football game. Second most rushing attempts by any Cardinal in a game under Cliff Kingsbury. There you go. I have a figure. Only the second running back in the NFL to have 25 plus carries in a loss this year. James Robinson.


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[Assistant] For Jacksonville. It blows up that stat. You remember? Usually it's that stat. Like if you're running back, runs 30 times a game, you win. It's like, well yea. Well, no duh. No duh. Right, exactly right. What did you think? This is from, uh, Shavar James 22. He really enjoyed seeing what Kyler did, even though he was super bummed at the end of the game and was very disappointed.


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[Assistant] In himself, uhm, he said was this the best you've ever seen Kyler play in this game? Where would you rank this of games that you've seen Kyler play in? Good defense, good defense, good secondary.


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[Assistant] Three quick hitters before we wrap up this game. DeAndre Hopkins, three catches, 30 yards. Drew some pass interference flags. So was that his effect in this game? Did the Dolphins do anything to take him out of it?


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[Assistant] And we found out in the offseason that Dolphin's Twitter, very vocal. Oh, well they don't like me. Pete was responding to them left and right. He became one of the most vocal fan bases because of where you're ranked too. Sure. And your rankings. So, MacDaddy35Mac.


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[Assistant] You know what? You're right. That is that mocon19 said everyone relax. Let's give him a three year sample size before anointing him after two games here.


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[Assistant] He has your back. Thank you, I appreciate that. So, okay, where would you, what you saw in that game, if he continues it, generally that same level, where does that rank in the Chris Sims 40 quarterback? About, where does that put him about?


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[Assistant] Uh, Bill's Defeat the Seahawks. How is this in the self-scout thyself area here? I guess on Thursdays.


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[Assistant] And they were, I guess they were one-dimensional, uh, the Bills. They just could throw and Seattle couldn't stop that. No, no. Bills beat the Seahawks by 10.


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[Assistant] Six quarterbacks have now thrown for over 300 yards versus Seattle. That's insane. And we're halfway through the year. Yeah. Uhm, and it really, there was a turning point though, because there was a point where it seemed like Seattle could come back. Yes, there was. It was 27-20.


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[Assistant] It was, the Bills had the ball. Third and 16 from the Seattle 35. Right. And they threw a little screen to John Brown. Went all the way down to the two. Zach Moss scored a touchdown.


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[Assistant] Then they got that, um, interception, interception, Trudevius white and ran it back inside the five. And then the game was over. That was pretty much over. So as bad as the Seattle Seahawk defense was, it was like, it was a crucial moment in the game that could have turned it.


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[Assistant] Luckily for both teams, the quarterbacks are really good. Yes, they are. Bills, despite not running the ball at all. Josh Allen on play action, 11 of 13, 171 yards and two touchdowns. Perfect passer rating. Derek Rudolph says, self-scout thyself.


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[Assistant] Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills came ready to play. Are they back in Super Bowl conversation? Is Allen back in the MVP conversation? Well, no, I think he does deserve to be in the MVP conversation. He just, he just is. We just had one. Yeah, well yeah, you're right.


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[Assistant] Then I might throw him in that conversation. You're going to talk even more about this game on Friday. Take a look at more specific plays. Hopefully there's still stuff to talk about. On Wednesday. On Wednesday. Would I say Friday? Friday we're on the next week. You're not even in the building on Friday. No, I'm not. It's my day off.


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[Assistant] You brought up the Steelers, barely beating the Cowboys, that, we're gonna put that in the self-scout thyself, because you along with the rest of the world, thought the Steelers would win by a ton, you thought it was one of your best bets, it was a 14.5 point spread, somehow the Cowboys kept it close, somehow it looked like at points they could win this game, uh, GJJ4L, do you think the Steelers are as good as their 8-0 record? They have played some, not all, cream puffs.


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[Assistant] It is choppy. You're right, because it's like Yontay Johnson at times. It's like Big Ben and Hinnom are not on the same page, and then they break that big play at the end of the game. Yes. It was like, okay, it came together at the right time. Yeah. Uhm. But few and far between in the competitive part of the football game.


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[Assistant] And they were lucky to get away with a win. One thing in this game, the Cowboy Special teams did a throwback across the field, which we're starting to see some momentum.


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[Assistant] on rugby entering football. I'm telling you, Rutgers has done it a little bit over the last couple of weeks. We've seen it, which is always what I've thought was what had to happen.


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[Assistant] Is you have to have a bad college team. Just go, you know what? We're not gonna win doing what we normally do anyway. Yeah, sure. Let's just start doing this rugby pitch back. Yeah, and so they've done it. And it's made some huge highlight real plays.


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[Assistant] That was a big play. They got the onside kick earlier in the year. Oh man. That was a big one. No doubt. Rugby is coming into football. I can feel it right here. Uh, Titans versus Bears. Titans got the win. This was another best bet though. Chris picked the Bears to cover. Titans were the six point favorite.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but Pete asks here, is it time for the Bears offense to self-scout itself? Yes!


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[Assistant] I mean, there was, they had nothing going up until the final, what?


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[Assistant] Two drives of this game where the Titans basically seemed like they had packed it in at that point. Uh, Bear's offense was terrible.


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[Assistant] Alright, so here you go, Aaron Tellez. Am I wrong to think Matt Nagy giving up the play calling might jump start the Bears office?


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[Assistant] Three in a row? Three in a row. I mean, it's gonna be- All ugly. I've made some good calls this year. You have. That bears one, that's looking good. Patriots not to make the playoffs, that's looking good. Doing very good. Uh, Steelers to win the Super Bowl, that's looking good. Right. Tomlin to win Coach of the Year.


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[Assistant] That's looking good. Damn, somebody's been reading their preseason stat line over here. All the other stuff, I'm not even... Like we make so many predictions, but I've got four.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, lions are probably not gonna make the playoffs, but that was more with the heart. Oh, okay, okay. Okay, so that's the self-scout thyself. We got through it. Wow. You actually feel pretty good about yourself. I do. I always do. I don't care. I like self-scouting thyself.


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[Assistant] Ah, it's like such a proud song. We were really in sync there too. We were. And we did not practice that one second. We don't need it. That was from a year and a half working together now.


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[Assistant] Which is good. Can't hang out because of viruses, but you know, here for this hour and a half, we are in sync. Uh, Victory Lap we're starting with...


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[Assistant] Raiders defeating the Chargers. Raiders. Chris picked the small upset as his best bet this week. One of the best bets. I don't even feel good about it. Raiders were one point underdogs. It was very, very close to not being correct. Holy cow. Which, you know, I feel like 2020 for me has been a wake up call.


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[Assistant] In, uh, predictions. Like, I now look at predictions as like, if you get it right, that means that you were lucky enough to get it right. You're right. So difficult. But here's from backjacker. Right.


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[Assistant] He won the intended air yards award this week. Did he? Good for him. 1.2 average pass downfield. Yes. Derek Carr, number one in the NFL. Uhm, and so that was good to see. Even though for the Chargers, I mean, there's some good. Justin Herbert. What? Continues to, to look so, so dynamic.


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[Assistant] That was, that's the kind of race we got here. Uh, the Chargers, yeah Chargers defensively didn't look, they're not good. Raiders were able to run on them, Devontae Booker had some good runs, that first touchdown run. Right. The Chargers have lost nine straight now versus AFC West opponents. Nine straight versus teams in their own division. And outside of the Chiefs, their own division's not great.


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[Assistant] Not very good. No. That's troubling for them. No, it is troubling. Uh, victory lap. Ravens defeat the Colts, 24 to 10. You picked the Ravens to win.


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[Assistant] Well done, good job. Even though they scored 24, uhm, the Colts defensively looked pretty good, just offensively they couldn't get anything.


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[Assistant] Which is what they do. I was looking up something, I think it was since Wink Martindale's been there. They lead the NFL in return touchdowns. Which I do think is an underrated fact. It's like, when your defense gets the ball, you should always be thinking score. Because there are


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[Assistant] Five offensive linemen on the field. True. That are not great at tackling. Right. There's a quarterback on the field that's not great at tackling. Yes. So if you get the ball, it's like that should be the thought. And I think for them, obviously it is. They go for it.


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[Assistant] Alright, so re-evaluating Lamar, Pete wants you real quick to re-evaluate Jonathan Taylor.


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[Assistant] He's perhaps fallen behind Jordan Wilkins in the backfield. He's not trustworthy. Six carries, 27 yards, did have a touchdown early. Yeaah, I've been disappointed.


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[Assistant] Is the team that you think is better than the Ravens right now in the AFC, the Chiefs. Beat the Panthers, it was close, 33-31. Pete says you threaded the needle on this one. You picked the Chiefs to win, but the Panthers to cover the ten and a half point spread. By the way, it says Chris tried to thread the needle five times last week.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but this was a good game and I'm super impressed with the Panthers this year because they were not supposed to do this. They got basically a whole new defense with a bunch of young dudes.


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[Assistant] Uh, and they're somehow able to do it and offensively without the dynamic quarterback, Teddy Bridgewater, more of a game manager, it's a dynamic offense.


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[Assistant] Wide right, uhm, but yeaah, I like what Carolina's doing. They're going for fourth down, fake puns, they're doing, it's just, it's fun to, fun to watch. It is. Yep. Right now.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know what time it is right now though? Oh, one note, hold on, before we do that. Christian McCaffrey, Pete is noting here. He's out. After returning from the ankle injury, day to day, with a shoulder injury.


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[Assistant] For sure. That sucks. Alright, now. Yeaah. It is time to take it up to 100. Whoa. Presented by Head and Shoulders. And we're gonna, we're gonna even do a double today.


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[Assistant] We're gonna go 100, we're gonna go past it, we're gonna go to 200. Times 2. Times 2. Okay. We're going times 2. Vikings defeat the Lions, 34 to 20.


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[Assistant] 206 rushing yards for Delvin Cook. Uh, second game in a row with over 225 scrimmage yards and two or more touchdowns for him. He's just the third player ever to do that. Two games in a row.


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[Assistant] Jim Brown, Deuce McAllister, the other two. Another call that Ahmed Freed made earlier this year was that Delvin Cook, when healthy is the best running back in football, looked like it the last couple games and looked like it against the Lions.


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[Assistant] And Stafford didn't practice all week because he was around someone that had coronavirus. Uh, it just, and he didn't look very good at all. Their defense continues to just be so porous. I mean they scored right before


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[Assistant] Uh, right before halftime to make it a three point game. And I was like, okay good. I was like, they're gonna keep it closer going into the break. Vikings go all the way down. Right down. And score a touchdown.


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[Assistant] This is, this is depressing. I know, I'm sorry. But the one good thing about them is I do like watching DeAndre Swift. I know you're a little down on him coming into this year, didn't, weren't quite as high.


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[Assistant] He does, you know, he's had some bad moments against the Bears. I would have won that game, but uhm, I don't wonder if playing with Adrian Peterson's helped him at all. You know, just watching the violence that AP has played his whole career with seems like Deandre Swift has some of that in his game too.


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[Assistant] I remember them, no one else cares, right? No one else remembers what I say or what I pick. And so I can just bring back the ones where I'm correct. The opposite is true for you. And for everyone else on the Sunday night crew. So if you're just listening, we're showing the tweet right now that shows, this has become a weekly meme, I feel like, because we've had some upsets.


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[Assistant] Uh, they show all of you guys, Chris, Tony, Mike, Rodney picking the bucks. Uhm, and it, and they did not win. And it was a blow out the, uh, the other direction. Which, as someone who's not a part of this panel or this show, this is very funny to me. I know to you it's not quite as funny.


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[Assistant] This is what we have to figure out. This is what we have to figure out. We have to figure out if this was just one of those one in a thousand games. Yeah, we're gonna see. Where they, it's 38 to 3.


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[Assistant] Or if this, if there are some things that happen in this game that are gonna move you from saying that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers were the best team in the NFC to now saying that is no longer the case or at least the Saints are even. So can we start with... Sure. What do you like more? I don't know, I'm torn here. I kinda wanna start with...


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[Assistant] The Saint, the good. I wanna start with the good. Yeaah. I wanna start with the Saints offense. Yeaah, okay. And how they got rolling, because I think we've been super down on Drew Brees. Right.


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[Assistant] Uhm, can't throw deep. This is an offense that did get Michael Thomas back. Yeah. Has relied heavily on Alvin Kamara. Right. But here you're facing a Buccaneers defense that has a lot of talent. Yeah. That you feel like can have their way against most offenses. And from you looking at the tape, we're


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[Assistant] Yeah, they were very versatile. They had three different passers, seven rushers, 12 receivers touched the ball last night. And he's done that in the past. I mean, that's, that's what they do. They just spread the ball around. They, you have no idea who, uh, who's going to get it. Usually Michael Thomas and then Alvin Kamara and then everyone else.


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[Assistant] The way they use him though and how physical he is. He's making some big hits. I was thinking like, the day that he becomes...


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[Assistant] The starting quarterback may never come. Because, you know what I mean? It's like, can your starting quarterback be that physical and used in that way? It just seems almost unlikely that you would just be that prototypical starting 16 games a year. No, maybe- And be able to play that way.


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[Assistant] Well, because no, that's what you're saying though. You're saying that what they, what the Bucks did offensively, or didn't do offensively, set up their offense with short fields.


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[Assistant] Uh, worse since 2006. First time in his career, 333 starts where he was down 30 or more points at halftime. First game with three interceptions since 2011 versus Buffalo.


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[Assistant] Did you see that? I mean they had five rushing attempts. No. Fewest in an NFL game ever. Is that right? Ever. Is that right? That's what Pete wrote down here. I mean we can fact check Pete. Alright, well see that makes me feel better.


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[Assistant] How, how does that happen? How does that happen? I, I just, I really don't understand. So could any quarterback, Matt Smith, 18-09-84, man, that might be a social security. Yeah. Lock up your account. Do you put more on the play calling for Brady than Brady himself? I mean, there might be a case for that. Yeah, no, I think so, definitely.


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[Assistant] DrewZimmy9 says, did you see anything different in their defensive game plan? So are those things they were doing differently just for Tom Brady that they haven't done before? Or do they have some of that, those elements in their game?


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[Assistant] And that third interception that Brady threw, I think it was his third one where he just threw it up. Oh, right. Yeah, the one across the field there. That's what I would do if I was in the NFL. Well, he was dead.


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[Assistant] Oh, was it a fourth down? I don't think it was. Maybe I'm wrong. I think it was though. Well, if it was, I'm gonna tone back my, uh, but that was really just-


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[Assistant] So would've still been a ju- if he would've kept running, it would've still been a jump ball between him and the two defenders.


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[Assistant] Okay, so here you go, the final verdict. You've been saying the Bucs are the best team in the NFC. Do you still think that's the case? No, I can't say that now. You can't. Not after that loss. Coaches do it all the time, like throw that game up. Well, you're gonna look at the game now.


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[Assistant] I mean, that kinda says it all right there. It summed up the whole game, right? It was the first time all year the Bucs did not score a touchdown in a goal to go situation and the first time all year the Saints did not, you know, stopped one. Stopped one. Exactly.


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[Assistant] Right, so there it was, but uh, you're right, that summed up the whole game. Good job, good job by the Saints there. Alright, we got three more games, and we're gonna do them in style. Oh baby. It's time for Gimme the Headlines, presented by Hyundai, and we go to the NFC East. Giants get the win! They hung on to beat Washington 23-20.


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[Assistant] Daniel Jones 4-1 vs Washington 1-16 vs everyone else. The Broncos do not come back against the Falcons, although the Falcons, eh, kind of tried. Falcons defeat the Broncos 34-27. Your headline for that one.


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[Assistant] For sure, and I mean if their defense was better or played better in the beginning of the year, Matt Ryan would be right in the MVP conversation, for sure. Why do you say that? Well I guess you would be.


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[Assistant] Got a little athleticism there too. Yeah, so it was fun. Every couple years the Jaguars get a 6th round quarterback. He needs to grow a mustache. He needs to have a nickname of some sort. But then everyone will be excited about that.


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[Assistant] And now, it's time for the Trevor Lawrence Top Pick Power Rankings, unsponsored. They're sponsored by Chris Sims. Yea, one day. Chris Sims, you're right, there we go. I'll sponsor him. Uhm, like buy me lunch or something like that. Yea, one day I will. I'll use it towards when I think about this.


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[Assistant] Uhm, oh, Pete notes that you do owe me. For the Brady Band. Remember, we bet that. We bet lunch. Yes.


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[Assistant] I said he'd go back to New England, you said he wouldn't. I got every other team. It seems like I had an advantage on that one. But, alright, so here we go. So this is, uhm, there's potential shakeup this week in the Trevor Lawrence Top Pick Power Rankings.


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[Assistant] We do have, uhm, a new team in the ranking. One team dropped out. I took out Denver. You were right. I was a little too down on them, or high on them, I guess. Right. Uhm, so they dropped out.


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[Assistant] Uh, Drew Lock is, although making mistakes, still looks too dangerous to put them here in the top five. They're not gonna get the number one.


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[Assistant] Okay, well if he doesn't tone that down, maybe he can get back into the rankings. Yeaah. Number five, almost dropping out. Pete's not gonna like this. The New York Giants. New York Giants, they're still in there. They were fourth last week. Uhm, but that win against Washington's not gonna do you any favors. So they're five right now, teetering on the cusp.


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[Assistant] Four is the Cowboys. So we got the Cowboys four because they kept it too close to the Steelers. A little worrying, but...


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[Assistant] Finding a way to lose is what you have to do. Number three, we're going almost a clean sweep here, NFC East. Football team, they were previously unranked. They've catapulted themselves to number three because, you know, the losing.


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[Assistant] Definitely. Defense scares me a little bit. Yeaah. I feel like they can win games just with their defense. Right. But their quarterback situation is such a mess right now. Ron Rivera saying that they might not have the franchise quarterback on their roster right now. That's pretty good. I, I, it's very good.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was a mistake. It wasn't pretty. Right. Uhm, number two remains the Jacksonville Jaguars. Oh yeaah. Close to the Texans and I am a little worried about this Luton guy. I don't want him to all of a sudden start producing, but I think they're a solid two.


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[Assistant] Like if the Jets win and win convincingly, that'll be disappointing and it might remove them from number one and put Jacksonville number one. Wow. So tonight, you're letting in all that one game.


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[Assistant] This is what I'm gonna do. After watching you guys on Sunday Night Football get crushed for wrong picks, it's like there's no benefit to picking the favorite. So I'm gonna, I'm gonna do this. Hold on. Ready? Three, two, one.


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[Assistant] Three, two, one. Alright, there's the clip. Right there. So now if the Jets do win, we play that. If they don't, it's like everyone forgets about it. I won't. I won't. I'll cue it up for next week.


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[Assistant] But honestly, I think they were almost as surprised as anyone on that result. You know what I mean? I don't think they would have. No, not like that. They would never have thought. They were like, I can't believe we beat them 38-3. Definitely not. You even surprised us. We don't want to admit that. Well done, we did it. We did it. You made it through all of them. Way to go. You got more on Wednesday.


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[Assistant] And then, uh, I don't know why I'm laying out your schedule for you. Thank you. And then I got more on Thursday.


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[Assistant] I do too. It's just amazing. You know, one, it's hard to be, to go from one way to another during a season.


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[Assistant] You can slowly do it. I think what the Bears have done on the offensive side is, has been tremendous. It really has. I give them a lot of credit. And I've said this, believe it, that now Trubisky,


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, he doesn't have the upper hand to stay with Chicago, that's for sure. I'm not 100% sure.


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[Assistant] They'll stay with him. I think the head coach, general manager will be there, but they found what works. It's Chicago Bear football.


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[Assistant] And the old thing is, you know, design an offense that works for your, for your people. So.


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[Assistant] It's amazing when I go back and look at matchups and just go, okay, I just wasted an hour and a half of my time because it has nothing to do with what you were saying about the Saints is so true. They're extremely aggressive.


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[Assistant] Uh, sometimes too much, whatever. Their defensive front is so underrated. And, you know, they just got, on both sides of the ball, the big thing about the Saints is, they got men.


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[Assistant] I've been in the NFL since. You know, everybody's big and whatever in the NFL.


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[Assistant] But the Saints just watching their offense. Their offensive line is huge, mobile, everything you want. Uhm, so, uh, it is gonna be interesting. The Saints do give up plays.


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[Assistant] They will play man to man. You gotta beat it when you get the chance. But, I'm a little shocked here of late. All the movement.


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[Assistant] All the clever stuff, you know, I'll just say it that way for everybody, that they're doing, I like it. And uhm, they got multiple pass rushers, that's for sure too. And, and so...


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[Assistant] It's interesting, I would be very surprised if Chicago could beat them, but you never know. The offense looks like it's back. Michael Thomas, if it plays. Drew Brees has gotten better every single game.


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[Assistant] You know, and as usual, as I watch the Saints offense, I go, oh, that's pretty clever. Oh, that's really good.


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[Assistant] You know, and some of these things I see, Ahmed and Christopher, are, they're plays from the 80's.


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[Assistant] Oh my gosh, we ran that against Buddy Ryan's defense every time we played them and they never covered it. And there they were playing, who was they were playing? They were playing Carolina. Right. It was the last game I watched. And they ran it and they threw it for a touchdown. I can't remember who caught it because.


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[Assistant] I had to look on my chart because they had people playing everywhere. Who's that? But, uh, really interesting, uh, and of course.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, you're right, there's not, eh, it's not like, uhm, they have a library of a hundred players.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, also you gotta worry about the bears and certain things.


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[Assistant] You can't sit there and go, oh, we got Khalil Mack and it came Hicks and these guys and whatever and think they're going to dominate.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm watching Andres Pete pull and just go and I just go.


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[Assistant] Look how big he is and he's his limber and his movable, whatever you want to say, is a tight end. I mean, so that's, it's a really tough matchup that way. And the Bears, you know, they, on defense,


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[Assistant] This time, True Breeze will, I think, have an easier time as far as getting completion.


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[Assistant] That's because they got all their guys back. It looks like right, Kamara's gonna play.


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[Assistant] I take em, and okay, I'll wait til tomorrow to really know, so.


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[Assistant] Uh, what was the other thing I was going to say when I was talking about Camaro? But Michael Thomas being back I think is a really big issue.


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[Assistant] You know, I always go back to this, learn so much and all that. Matt, our son, was down in a mini camp with, with the new All In Saints. And I said to him as he went down.


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[Assistant] That they're doing, they're looking to kill you.


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[Assistant] And I just go, Oh, they're looking to try to, you know, score this play. Maybe it wasn't there a couple of times they did, but sometimes when it's not there, it, you know, goes to whoever it has to. And you know, once again, I realized the protection by Drew of Drew Brees.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and the Bears, you said it, they like their shell defense.


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[Assistant] The New Orleans Saints would do a much better job of taking advantage of the, uh. Right.


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[Assistant] Listen, how many times does Drew Brees get under center and seize that coverage and you know it's gonna be that.


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[Assistant] Whatever, get a little more of a gap and throw the ball somewhere. I will bet you...


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[Assistant] 50% of the plays he throws, he knows pre-snap where the football is gonna go.


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[Assistant] The Lions, let's, let's, listen. The Lions, let's see, who are they like? Uh, there were a little bit of that, there did be...


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[Assistant] There are another version of the Atlanta Falcons. Let's play really well, but let's make sure we find a way to lose.


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[Assistant] Oh, well yeaah, that's, that's kinda always my thought all year long when I saw him at times.


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[Assistant] Go to too tight in route, you know, block, chip, do whatever. Tom Brady, weights, hitches.


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[Assistant] You know, gets room to do all that and throws, he's throwing the ball. You know, he throws it, he throws it great. I mean, it's great.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't even hear anybody anymore, the guys, the Tom Radiators on TV going, well I can really see a difference, his arm is out the same. Really?


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[Assistant] I don't think so. His arm maybe is as strong as it's ever been. That's for real.


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[Assistant] No doubt. I mean, he's striping it, and of course, he's going wild, throwing down in Tampa.


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[Assistant] It's a hell of a lot easier throwing a football up in New England, that's for sure.


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[Assistant] If he gets time, even though the Washington Front Four what it is, I will say this too, Jack Del Rio has done a really good job.


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[Assistant] The back seven, I think they're extremely coordinated in what they're doing.


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[Assistant] And, you know, just really kind of going at it, because I remember the first couple games going, wow, Jack Del Rio, he's not the head coach, he's not worried, let's go get him!


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[Assistant] But they've turned into, let's rush four, let's get the seven, find a combination.


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[Assistant] They pass guys off well. I've really been impressed with that. So it tells me they're really well coached.


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[Assistant] Smart, the corners are okay. Well they got Ronald Darby and Fuller at the corner. They're both solid, you know, NFL corners.


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[Assistant] The, just my first thought, I don't think the front four of the Washington football team.


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[Assistant] It's gonna have the impact on the game that everybody thinks they can have.


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[Assistant] The other thing I'm looking for, I'm sorry Amit, the other thing I'm looking for, they've already said it.


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[Assistant] Uh, Heineken might end up being, playing more than, than Alex Smith. Right. Because, you're gonna have to move in this game. Yeaah. And you're gonna have to. The rush is gonna...


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[Assistant] Uh, is gonna get there, whatever, and you need to move, and not that Heineken is...


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[Assistant] I really think he's like a much better version, not much, he's a better version of John Wolford. Yeaah. And, you know, got a better arm, can fire down the field when he came in a couple weeks ago. Shoot, who was that against? I can't remember.


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[Assistant] And made good decisions, threw the ball down the field, just whatever.


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[Assistant] That was the other night, if you were rooting for Washington, you're just going, how are we going to win this game? Because you could tell two things. Alex Smith was having, or couldn't move, and of course that was affecting his arm even more.


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[Assistant] So he wasn't really a threat to throw it down the field to make a big play.


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[Assistant] Because I think they had to sit there and watch that game against Philadelphia and just go, and I watched it, and listen, this is, I mean this from my heart.


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[Assistant] And you know, every, if he got hit or anything, I just, then they show the leg and he's got that grace or whatever.


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[Assistant] The guys look at me and go, who is that? I said, it's Antonia Gibson. He's really fast. And, and they go, wow, you know, everybody's like, yeah, but you're right. He wasn't even close to


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[Assistant] When we watched him. And things like that. Do not heal.


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[Assistant] Uh, in one week or whatever. So it's, it's gonna be tough. And uhm, you know, we'll see.


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[Assistant] We'll see how it goes, but I think we all have a great, the same feeling that, whatever, Washington plays tough. I mean, the other thing is too,


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[Assistant] Always think this. Yes, he got a really good defense up front. How many times can you really rush the


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[Assistant] You'll get rid of them. I think that's the buffalo idea. Just keep drawing, they'll get tired.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm not gonna argue with those, those are pretty standard of what you would think.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I've always thought all year long, I've never really got off of this, I always thought Tampa would be...


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[Assistant] Who they played lately, they're running up great points and all that, but they're healthy.


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[Assistant] They got all their big guys on the defensive frontback, you know, Kaleus Campbell, Wolf, Brandon Williams, that's pretty good.


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[Assistant] Janneken Gokwe has actually become a little bit of a factor. You know, you can see when he gets on the field what a difference he is compared to everybody else.


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[Assistant] And you know, they just got it rolling on the offense. I even said this Sunday, everybody's drawn up ways to do this and this. Baltimore just draws up more run plays.


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[Assistant] That's what they do. And that's who they are, run that damn thing, and then, you know, Lamar, I don't care what your numbers are, because what we gotta start putting, doing, Lamar drops back to throw, what are his passing numbers, for what are his running numbers off a pass?


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[Assistant] You know, we don't put that in there and we go, oh, he had a terrible day, their passing game is terrible. Yes, their passing game is subpar in the way we look at things, but it's not the factor for them that it is for everyone. They could run off tackle probably easier and get a, uh, an explosive play than they can't they drop back and try to find a pass to do it.


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[Assistant] You know, so that's what, they made mistakes. They made a huge mistake last year against Tennessee. They panicked. That's a terrible word to say. I thought they panicked. Stay with what you do, your run. And you know, Tennessee's not the same defense they saw last year.


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[Assistant] And I, I know what to expect and they, they know how to come from behind and it's what, you know, Baltimore very emotional team. You know, they're streaky when they get rolling, they go. So I would put Tampa just, just ahead of Baltimore.


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[Assistant] Washington V is the worst, but the Browns are not going to win the Super Bowl. They've already conquered.


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[Assistant] Can we let Baker Mayfield for one week just leave him alone and go, Oh, can Baker do it? Oh my God, here they are. Can Baker Mayfield carry the Browns? No, he can't carry them. You know, who's...


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[Assistant] Well, they're missing players. The head coach is not gonna be there.


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[Assistant] I understand why he's harshly judged because of a lot that went on last year, but you know, the head coach he had last year.


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[Assistant] Had quite a bit to do with the dysfunction and the play of those players on the field.


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[Assistant] When I think of the Cleveland Browns, I just go, can they win it? No. I don't think their defense is good enough to win playoff games one after another.


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[Assistant] And that would be my first thought when I think about it.


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[Assistant] We're not talking about the spread, we're just talking about winning the game.


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[Assistant] I think, I think Christopher agrees with me. He might have been the one that said a bunch of things to me. And then I did an interview where they said, hey, Josh Allen just imploded it and it was crazy.


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[Assistant] And I thought, man, I don't remember watching the game, seeing it that way. And so I, I'm gonna, I'm gonna...


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[Assistant] And when he did that lateral, oh that's right, they still kicked the tie in field goal. They did.


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[Assistant] That gets in the way. Gosh, let's don't talk about that. But they were a year ahead. And if you could get a lie detector test on anybody in the front office of the Buffalo Bills, they will tell you and probably say,


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[Assistant] We got to the playoffs and had the year we had strictly because of one guy. And that's Josh Allen. So, you know, and it's, it's, now they're a different football team. They've changed their philosophy. They're kind of hitting their stride. The defense has got healthy, whatever. They're playing better.


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[Assistant] And if you told me that they were going to make some of the throws and score like they did against the Miami defense, I know they didn't score all those points. The defense helped them too. And I said, no way. Miami...


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[Assistant] They can cover, they're clever, they got everything you want on the defensive side.


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[Assistant] Maybe a little young, but hey, same thing. Let's just keep throwing it and we'll break them.


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[Assistant] They're gonna keep pressuring you and, again, the rush.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you a great game that they did it on that really caught my eye. They've done it a couple times. The one when they did it to Pittsburgh on a night game up there.


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[Assistant] Can they run the ball? And all of a sudden, oh, there's no pressure. And then Josh Allen started picking them apart.


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[Assistant] When they saw him in person for the first time and they saw the passing attack.


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[Assistant] We have guys that go on TV and literally sit there and say...


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[Assistant] Let's ram it in there and then if we can, bump it outside every once in a while at Wisconsin's whatever you want to call that offense.


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[Assistant] And, and so he's really made a great transition. It took Derek Henry over a year to really become, I think, a pro.


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[Assistant] Football running back, he has done it during the year. The offensive line, I've been...


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[Assistant] Really most of the year I've said it many times, disappointed to not run the football better. Right. But now we see what...


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[Assistant] How he's moving. He made some great cuts last week during the game. I mean, it really did.


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[Assistant] Just going around people. Of course it was against Jacksonville, one of the worst run defenses in the NFL.


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[Assistant] We still made pro linebackers and safeties completely missing, but my thing with Indianapolis will be their defense.


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[Assistant] Very good as it goes, but just like I said, the rush dies down, and it just seems like in the second half, the rush dies a little bit, even though they got some depth on the defensive line, uh, that happens, and they lose their aggressiveness. And if you're gonna beat Buffalo, you've gotta stay aggressive the whole game. If you wanna win playoff games and win a Super Bowl, you gotta make those decisions that you might be second-guessed on.


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[Assistant] I'm talking about your style of play.


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[Assistant] It seems like just, just by my eye, I'm gonna get the numbers, uh, before the week's up.


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[Assistant] But when Indianapolis plays man to man and blitzes and stuff like that, they seem to play pretty good.


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[Assistant] But then when they get into their, let's rush four and stay back, they get shredded. That's just my-


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[Assistant] Just when I watch games without keeping numbers and looking at numbers, that's what I feel.


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[Assistant] Well, if they run the ball a lot and all that, I'd say, wow, that's really stupid.


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[Assistant] You know, one, I think maybe I overrate the Indianapolis front four sometimes. It's really good. I like it. But let's don't forget, Buffalo, they can pass protect too.


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[Assistant] And then you put a mobile quarterback back there and a guy that's not afraid to stand in there and take hits and throw, well he's willing to do that too. The other thing that really


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[Assistant] That we talk about all this with Indy's defense and everything that you have to worry about. The Buffalo Bills have as many, I don't want to say gotcha plays.


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[Assistant] Look, we had the big lime and I forgot who it was. Kindle Lamb?


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[Assistant] But when you really study their offense and look at it, you go, He's good. But man, they do a lot of good things for him. Oh.


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[Assistant] And all he has to do is find the smallest of windows because, you know, that rocket arm throws it in there.


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[Assistant] In the great example, you remember the play against the Patriots? He's coming across the field, they're running a two-man round.


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[Assistant] And if the post is not there, J.C. Jackson is trailing. He's gonna undercut.


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[Assistant] And Josh Allen lets it go, and J.C. Jackson goes, oh god, oh god, and, oh, he, it was gone. Could, did he bother really chasing?


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[Assistant] You can only do it when you have the quarterback and the receiving core and all this that goes with it, but to sit there and think that their lack of running game is gonna be the reason they lose, no, they'll lose.


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[Assistant] Yeah, let me say this before I go. Uhm, I'm actually gonna do an interview for CBS today.


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[Assistant] So I gotta make sure I gotta comb my hair and all that stuff. The thing about when you talk about those traits,


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[Assistant] And you're talking about two guys in the prime of their career and have many years left into that prime. So let's take a known qua- a quantity which we know they are. Oh no, we gotta save that draft pick. You know, the chances are 50-50, he won't be worth a damn.


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[Assistant] And I know this for a fact, when Indianapolis traded for DeForest Buckner, they said, Oh my God, this is it. We got it. Because the.


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[Assistant] They were close, and then you need the kingpin to put it over the top. And the same thing has happened for Buffalo's offense with Stefan Diggs. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Did you see the interview they had after the, what game would that have been? Maybe it was the Sentinel.


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[Assistant] With him and Diggs doing that interview, man, I tell you, that was, that was awesome.


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[Assistant] Listen, just two of them, to know how close the team is, it was real.


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[Assistant] Man, that was great. I almost was, I'm gonna run that back and listen again. Yeah.


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[Assistant] It says something about their football team, the culture they built, and you're right too, Christopher. And uhm, it just, those trades, the GMs,


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[Assistant] They really understand their whole team, where they're going and what they've been building. And it's taken a couple years, but they got them in a place.


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[Assistant] Whether, you know, they do have chances to do something special.


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[Assistant] That's what I'm saying. That's how this whole thing started. You gotta do it in the playoffs. It's gotta carry through.


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[Assistant] Hi I'm Mike Tirico and thanks for watching. Make sure to hit subscribe for the latest news and highlights from NBC Sports.


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[Assistant] Oh, I couldn't hear the opening. I'm glad you're giggling. We had some IMB issues, some technical issues, so I don't know what you're giggling about. Something about, give me the papers, give me the papers? Laughing at myself. Right, good.


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[Assistant] At like half times of games like, or did you see this? Or what are they doing? So, uh, I know he's on it and that's cool.


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[Assistant] Okay, well let me ask you one more question before we deep dive into this because it is NFL related. Yes. What did Trevor Lawrence look like in person? He looked awesome. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no doubt about it. I think he is. I mean, to me, he reminds me a lot of, really,


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[Assistant] Justin Herbert. I mean, I think it's the same player. Listen, I think if you put Justin Herbert in Clemson, you'd see a lot of the same results Clemson has had with Trevor Lawrence or anything. I'm not trying to take away anything from Trevor Lawrence. I'm just trying to say, hey, Trevor Lawrence is really good and I think he's like Justin Herbert, who I think everybody after this last weekend will go,


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[Assistant] Fine, I think finally everybody's arrived. With two guys this weekend. Herbert and Josh Allen. I feel like everybody finally was like, okay, they're good. I give up trying to be a hater on it anymore. Let's move on and accept it. Alright, so that's good.


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[Assistant] Well, no, he was not. He was not even close. There's no doubt. I mean, listen, I don't know how he felt, you know, as far as just physically what he felt like. I doubt he's 100% there. And again,


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[Assistant] It's, it's hard to feel comfortable in that type of, you know, setting where you're in. Even for a great like, like Drew Brees. You know, the game, just like we talk about, like the young rookie quarterback where it can, it's speed up, speed, speeds up.


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[Assistant] You know, the way he protected himself, I thought, with a few people around in the pocket. And then, of course, just the way he threw the football was all underwhelming. There's no doubt about that. And, you know, I just think, uhm,


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[Assistant] Hey, what are you gonna do if you're Sean Payton? I had this conversation with Tony Dungy last night. Like, what do you do? Because, you know, Taysom Hill was playing pretty good football. He was not the reason they lost to the Philadelphia Eagles.


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[Assistant] I think it's going to cause more problems than it's worth, probably. And I don't think Drew Brees is going to be the one that's going to be like, I'm only 90% okay coach, I'll listen to you, I'll sit out this game. Didn't look 90%.


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[Assistant] And not only the throws, to me one of the shocking things is the decision making. For a guy who is, I mean, the ultimate decision maker, he had some moments in the game where you were like, am I watching a raw rookie? Which one stood out the most to you?


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[Assistant] I mean, really, probably the first throw of the game. The first throw of the game, the little play action on the left sideline there, it's cover two.


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[Assistant] They're running a little concept like in the, in the West Coast Terminology, you'd call it Y-Sale. So it's a little play action fake. The outside guy's running the clear go or the clear post. And then the inside tight end's running a corner route. So they try to clear it out.


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[Assistant] Longer than Tom Brady's 50 yard touchdown did in the game yesterday. Which we'll talk about. We will talk about it. So that was, that was, of course, like alarming just to see Breed in that state, because you don't see that very often.


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[Assistant] I was gonna say. That's how rare this is. Yeaah, it's rare. But.


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[Assistant] Same old thing here. Okay? And we've talked about this before. Obviously Drew Brees was not at his best. So I don't want to be too, you know, harsh and critical here.


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[Assistant] But, what we saw too, what I gotta give a lot of credit to, is the Kansas City defense. That's one of the big things we gotta talk about. Spagnolo, again, ability to game plan, take away,


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[Assistant] Like a Belichick a little bit, the thing you do best and then force you into a corner a little bit. What is it that they do best without Michael Thomas? Well, it's still...


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[Assistant] Throw it to the back, out of the backfield, and a lot of the times a drew a breeze. Who's ever in the slot?


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[Assistant] They weren't gonna let the run game beat them. Not that they were like, everybody was at the line of scrimmage, but things were condensed. Like Sorensen and Matthew, when they were in base defense, where they were like, they were playing safety.


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[Assistant] But they were like 8, 9 yards deep, right? They weren't like, you know, you might see them against a big arm, high passing attack where they're 25 yards deep when they're playing cover 2. Now they were like 9, 12 yards deep, they were ready to,


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[Assistant] That Saints front is legit, and they held their own in the run game. And of course we're a pain in the butt, you know, pressuring the passer too, but I just thought overall Kansas City's defense was the most impressive thing I saw in the game.


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[Assistant] We didn't think they could stop Shanahan in the 49ers offense of the Super Bowl. They slowed him down.


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[Assistant] You know, they're, they're, they're very good that way. And that is because they're game plan specific. They got guys like Chris Jones and Frank Clark and Honey Badger who make plays at big times during the football game. And then they got a coach who's willing to think outside the box and take things away. And with the lack of speed at receiver with New Orleans, the, you know, the takeaway, the middle of the field,


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[Assistant] They were gonna make Breeze throw the ball outside into tight coverage. They were not afraid to get in the face of the Saints wide receivers. Saints don't have great speed there. So the Chiefs were comfortable in playing that matchup. That played in their hand and uh, you know, obviously they won the football game.


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[Assistant] To where we talk about complimentary football, right, with really good football teams.


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[Assistant] Right, right. Well, you know, short field started off the interception. That helped out.


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[Assistant] And I didn't watch this side of the film. Okay. So just to be totally transparent here, I'll give you a little more info on this side of the film either, because I tried to watch everything.


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[Assistant] Kansas City showed great patience. There's no doubt about that.


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[Assistant] Their ability to run the ball. Again, they showed us another way where they don't have to win with Mahomes' right arm and all these bombs all over the place. They won yesterday with their defense and their run game.


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[Assistant] And then yes, my home's made a handful of plays. But I think it's encouraging in a lot of ways. What I am, shit scared about. Okay? And this is why the Saints played this way, with the two deep safeties.


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[Assistant] Cause they said, our front four is gonna kick the shit out of the Chiefs offensive line. We're gonna get to my homes.


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[Assistant] Well, yes, there is, there definitely is. You know, now, New Orleans...


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[Assistant] I watched the Miami game and I went, man, he's under pressure a lot. It's just, he avoids it so much and then has a highlight reel throw off of it that we just wipe it out of our brain and go, that was awesome.


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[Assistant] But you don't realize that Dan really, the four to the last five times he's dropped back, he had to make somebody miss and do something. It changed the game yesterday. I don't think, you know, obviously he was uncomfortable. I don't think they could call plays aggressively down the field. That's why that spray shard was a little shorter.


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[Assistant] I believe it, because every time I feel like he made one of those throws too, he was getting crushed as he was throwing it. You know? So, there was that.


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[Assistant] And this is the other thing. I mean, have you ever seen more sprint outs in one game from a team? I mean, he must have sprinted right and left on designed sprint outs at least 12 times in the game. And that is because Andy Reid knows his offensive line can't block anybody. It's really become an issue.


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[Assistant] You know, to your question, because I've avoided it here for the last few minutes, I mean, Pittsburgh's the only front four in the AFC.


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[Assistant] That is like that. That can do what New Orleans did. But I don't think Pittsburgh's as good at covering man to man as New Orleans is. New Orleans is sneaky good. When you get Lattimore and Janoris Jenkins and some of the rest of that group there, they can cover you man to man.


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[Assistant] I mean, yes, I think so. I think, you know, another team that I would look at, you know, I think there's more, there's more, there's more teams in the NFC that match up with the Chiefs than there is the AFC, oddly enough. That's the way I look at it.


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[Assistant] In the, I mean the NFC, the Rams and Tampa I think actually match up well against Kansas City too.


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[Assistant] Buffalo, Buffalo is close too. When I look at it really, I know people might think I'm crazy, I think Buffalo might match up better with Kansas City than anybody. The way their defense is playing right now, and I think the way Josh Allen and that offense is playing right now.


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[Assistant] You know, hey, it's not hard to say Buffalo is the second best team in the AFC.


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[Assistant] They're right there with them. Yes. You know, it's, it's, it's a close one between those football teams. But Buffalo and Tennessee.


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[Assistant] They do have offensive firepower. I don't know, you've got me everywhere now. I know, I know. Either way, Kansas City's the king of the hill. Yep. We know that. They're the number one city.


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[Assistant] You know, they're not perfect. They're not. And there are some teams that match up well with them. But Pete hasn't said this yet, but I've kinda, I've, I've, I've...


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[Assistant] Green Bay, it was... 24-16, win over Carolina. Underwhelming. Yeah. Underwhelming game. You know, run game, offense looked efficient the first half, second half, it's like...


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[Assistant] There's no really group. I like their corners like we talked about, but okay, that's not a group. We're not talking the whole secondary. So, uh, I think you're going to have in, you know, little moments like that with Green Bay, you know, and, and Carolina, Carolina waited them out. They just basically said, we're going to play coverage and,


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know if you got that from Aaron Rodgers four or five years ago. That's, that's where, I thought that was like a very encouraging sign of the football game in general.


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[Assistant] Yes, not a dominant effort by their football team, uh, but it's Saturday night, maybe asleep at the wheel a little with Carolina coming into town and not that motivated. Rodgers called it one of those disappointing wins. Yeah.


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[Assistant] You know, the, the one guy that I think, I mean, Kelsey and Diggs are hard for me not to like those two guys. You know, their offense is just know how to feed them the ball at all times. Plus they're both the...


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[Assistant] Like, as awesome as Tyree Kill is, there's no disrespect to him. I feel like Kelsey is more of the...


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[Assistant] When Mahomes is in trouble, he looks for Kelsey. Nobody's open or I'm scrambling. He goes to Kelsey.


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[Assistant] And I feel like Josh Allen has that with Stefan Diggs. So let alone, hey, the offense.


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[Assistant] You know, it's got a formula to use each guy specifically in a lot of ways. Uhm, the quarterback likes throwing to those guys in a lot of ways too, to where I favor them, but I think the big thing is I probably favor, uh, Kelsey down the stretch here just because


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[Assistant] Buffalo's gotta play New England, and then Miami, who are of course really awesome in the secondary, really good defenses as far as past defense is concerned, and I would have a hard time thinking Diggs goes off on them.


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[Assistant] Like, whatever, the shoulder that got hurt up in New England or whatever, that must be healthy. I'll tell you the other thing that jumped out to me. The ball hasn't popped out of his hand like that in a long time.


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[Assistant] He threw the ball phenomenally yesterday, but you know where it all started? It all started with Cliff Kingsbury.


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[Assistant] I'm telling you, it was one of their better offensive game plans all year. What'd you like?


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[Assistant] They had some sustained drives and moments of doing some different things on offense. Where I went, way to go Arizona!


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[Assistant] You're gonna be a lot tougher to defend if you start making teams game plan for all of these other formations and personnel sets. But, you know, more than that, I thought I saw more variety in formations, personnel,


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[Assistant] They had a lot of play action schemes that were married to the run.


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[Assistant] But either way, I thought just the game plan itself, and people need to go back there and check too. Saw a lot of like,


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[Assistant] DeAndre Hopkins looked better because now he's not in the spread out here, you know, with one other receiver and a two by two set where, hey, you're limited in how many different combinations you can do with two guys out here.


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[Assistant] I mean, if they can play like this, like if their offense can show this diversity, you know, and what you saw yesterday, it opened up the run game a little bit, you know, but, but, it'll make me think differently of them.


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[Assistant] That showing made me feel better about the Cardinals. Now, the other thing about the Cardinals and why they need to continue to play with these, you know, two tight end sets and things like that. Listen, their tight ends are good.


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[Assistant] Dan Arnold is becoming one of the better pass catching tight ends in football. You can't take him off the field. That's stupid to me to just go four wide receiver sets. You know, so he's good at that. I saw a few Lamar Jackson design type runs for Kyler Murray. Okay, that was great.


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[Assistant] Well, it's all about his throwing that has to improve, and not that it's bad.


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[Assistant] You know, that's the big thing. And, you know, the one thing where I'll say like self-scout thyself, where maybe, you know, I'll say like, Jalen Hurts has been better than what I expected, that's for sure. You know, I think the big thing you gotta take into account with some of these guys like Jalen Hurts.


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[Assistant] Alright, not on some of these, cause there's not a lot of guys like Jalen Hurts. But when you can run the way you can run, like he can, it, it,


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[Assistant] There's no negative plays, you know, he doesn't take bad sacks or throw stupid interceptions and he keeps them in always manageable situations let alone he makes some plays with his legs and his arm every day.


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[Assistant] So that's what, but, but like controlling the football has been, it's been spot on. Accuracy. Very accurate. Yeaah. I mean he's really put the ball wherever he's wanted to put it. Now if it's gonna be about speeding it up.


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[Assistant] And he's showing that he's a natural thrower and a natural quarterback and a natural leader. And, you know, he's done this.


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[Assistant] Alright, well that's a crappy way to run your offense, your team. Now they have a little bit of an identity. And it's over. It's over.


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[Assistant] Like, Carson Wentz needs to get out of Philadelphia. It's done. I don't know any other way to say it. It's a no-win situation for him. It's over, and Philadelphia can be partly to blame here.


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[Assistant] From school that has like, like, you know, a true following. Oklahoma, Alabama, these people, they're clamoring for their guys to always be there.


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[Assistant] Carson Lentz needs to force his way out of Philadelphia.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, it was. It was unnecessary pressure to put on a guy who already had unnecessary pressure on him. He did. I mean, so you gave him more pressure. Yeah. Alright. Then did nothing to help him and the football team for him to succeed. And now we are here we are. And if I'm Carson Wentz,


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[Assistant] You'd wanna leave. Oh, I'm out. The fans have given up on me.


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[Assistant] Legends. He knows he's set in stone in Green Bay. Let alone, he got to watch a quarterback who nobody knows is a lightning rod and is very raw. So after about the third day of practice, he was like, I'm gonna start it here for a while. This guy's not gonna be ready.


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[Assistant] They drafted a folk hero from Oklahoma and Alabama, the Philadelphia Eagles. So this is what you get when your quarterback falters. At least he's playing well. At least he's giving him promise. It's awesome for him. I'm really excited for him. Uhm, but for Carson Wentz, yeaah, to me the move now is


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[Assistant] Get out of town. Get out of town. And the other thing is make it be known. Lessen your trade value. And also what I want to say to that too is just like


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[Assistant] I don't wanna, I don't, he's not worth a third round, so it might be a team that really knows him and wants him, like maybe a Frank Reich or something like that, that would give that


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[Assistant] I just think the connection of Frank Wright being there when they drafted Carson Wentz, Philip Rivers, probably in the last year or two, right, to where they think that could be a possibility. I get the connecting of the dots there. But you're right. You don't want to push Philip Rivers out the door yet. Man oh man. Yeaah. Okay.


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[Assistant] The bottom line, awesome for Jalen Hurts and awesome for Cliff Kingsbury and Kyler Murray because that excited me. You know, there was a, it was, it was 19 to 14. Let me just run you through these two plays. It was 12 personnel.


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[Assistant] And he's in the shotgun and he ran a fake speed sweep to DeAndre Hopkins and hit Arnold on a deep corner route.


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[Assistant] Then the next play, they had three receivers to the right, the back was to the right, and it was actually two tight ends, a receiver to the right.


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[Assistant] Killing it, killing it, killing it. It just shows you when your coach then goes, wait, what is my team good at? Instead of, hey team, do what I want to do. I know you guys might not fit, but I want to do this.


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[Assistant] You know, it's just, it's working for everybody. You know, I heard Matt Nagy, he talked about, hey, the offensive line, they've solidified that. There's no doubt that's been better. But I still think it's the attitude of the football team. David Montgomery is getting to play a true down the hill behind the quarterback.


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[Assistant] You know, type of running now. It's not in the shotgun where we talked about where it's a stepper, you know, sideways first. He gets to come downhill. He's got great quickness and shiftiness for a big guy, and he's got great vision.


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[Assistant] So he's perfect for running downhill in a zone scheme and oh wait is the cutback lane there or should I just go forward and try to make a guy miss here? He's awesome with that.


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[Assistant] It's the biggest transformation of all offense I've seen in football at this point of the year.


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[Assistant] You know, and three weeks in a row has been really good. I know. But they've changed the way they play.


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[Assistant] So now, they're another team where I go, your best starting 11 is when Colcomet, Jimmy Graham, Mooney, and Robinson, Allen Robinson are on the field. And then Montgomery at tailback. That's their best unit. So why would you not do that more?


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[Assistant] It's the best for Trubisky to play this way. Paul, the run numbers are good.


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[Assistant] But, where it's amazing in the NFL right now.


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[Assistant] No, you cannot at all. And again, I think that's because they're underneath the center. The play actions, the boots, all of that are all marrying together. And he's coming out and okay, right, I got some room and some separation and pass protection.


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[Assistant] That's where it's really worked, and it's really worked well for him. And it's, I mean, another team, just like we talked about again, where I just go,


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[Assistant] You know, there was even some improvements on what they did last week. They had the whole speed sweep thing going with Moony. They really did, like,


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[Assistant] It's going this way. You know how like five, six years ago we were going spread, spread, spread, spread. Well the Seattle scheme kind of ruined the spread because that was eight guys with the line of scrimmage. That's what happened to Peyton Manning and the Super Bowl against them. You know, all the pick plays and bubble screens. Oh shit, Cam Chancellor and Earl Thomas are down. I can't get any of those plays to go.


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[Assistant] That started to end the spread offense and the way defenses, I really think the next thing we're seeing a transformation of football right now.


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[Assistant] Where it's going old school. All the good off, most of the good offenses except for a few, it's all about run and play action pass and boots. Run and play action pass and boots. With the amount of


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[Assistant] Until you get a D-line that you just go is so dominant that they can start telling linebackers, hey slow play, slow play the run.


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[Assistant] I think they could. I do. Uhm, they've changed my thought of them. You know, right now, let's just say...


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[Assistant] If they got in at number, at the number 7 seed, they'd have to play New Orleans as it sits right now.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't love them, no. I think if I look here at total, and still, if you put them in the playoffs right now, I think, okay, the only team I would say they're better than is Washington.


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[Assistant] Big time. Yeah. I mean, it really, this game became a shootout.


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[Assistant] I mean, you're sitting there going, this is going to be Bears and Vikings, you know, NFC North Defensive Showdown. And all of a sudden we got to like the second quarter and you're like, whoa, I mean both teams are going up and down the field on each other.


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[Assistant] Uh, Cook is phenomenal, he really is. Vikings... Slipped. Yeah, but they're one of those teams too, just like the Bears. It's, it's play actions, boots, it's the same type of formula. Uhm, but good for the Bears. Trubisky and company, you know, play, playin' really well.


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[Assistant] He's on fire. I mean, well, it's another guy I think is just, you know, comfortable with...


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[Assistant] How the game's being played, and not only comfortable within the offense and like, hey, I know what I'm supposed to do, but like,


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[Assistant] You know, when you're a quarterback with a new coach,


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[Assistant] Yeah, listen, you're learning a new plays and an offense and all that. You're also listening, learning like a...


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[Assistant] A second, you know, intuitive language by what your coach is calling in certain situations and why.


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[Assistant] And that I think too is helps out. I heard, I heard Arians and Brady talking about this yesterday a little bit.


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[Assistant] You gotta save me. If the shot's not there, then I just want you to go to the back of the flat or throw it away and we'll play another down.


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[Assistant] But, now he's gotten so comfortable with the play actions and the boots, like last night, we started to see, whoa, they got shotgun, he's just feeling comfortable now, now he can hit everybody. Right. And he's playing really awesome football.


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[Assistant] One of the better offenses of football, it's all about run, play, action, boots. Multiple tight ends. Multiple tight ends. I mean, you start to really look at it, and you just take away, like, the Chiefs, and maybe,


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[Assistant] The Bills and the Cardinals, everybody else is running the run the ball, boots and play action. Yeah. Tennessee Titans is the number two offense in football. We know what they do.


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[Assistant] They're tied, I think, at the top. They're both at 31.1, them and the Chiefs. Uh, so I got it right here in front of me, don't question me.


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[Assistant] But, you know, but then the Titans, the Packers, the Vikings, you know.


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[Assistant] I would like to have seen the two field goals and, you know, just gain the early lead in confidence and go from there, but either way, good job by the Browns.


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[Assistant] I give them credit for one because they did something that they're not necessarily great at, but they looked at it and said, wait, this team we're playing is great at stopping passes and boots.


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[Assistant] And one on one balls that we've seen two of do. And they had their top five pass catchers out. And they had them out. Yep. So wait, they're not a great run stopping team. Let's just try to take advantage of that aspect. And man, I mean.


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[Assistant] It wasn't like overly complicated what they did.


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[Assistant] It was inside outside zone. It was like weak side run with the strong side guard pulling and then the strong side tight end.


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[Assistant] Pulling as well, so coming off the weak side, the big run you saw by Matt Breida in the fourth quarter.


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[Assistant] You know, you just be, they, the Dolphins play defense, run the football.


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[Assistant] And that was really the only bad play yet of the day, but yea, the run game, Flores, the attitude he's given the Dolphins is pretty awesome.


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[Assistant] They threw the ball one time. It was a nine-place, 72-yard drive. He threw a curl to the left to Max Hollins. Other than that...


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[Assistant] Forest said, run it. Keep running it. They can't stop us. Let's do it. And there's nothing wrong with that. And that was, that was cool to see.


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[Assistant] Okay, well, yeah, Baltimore, I mean, hey, the revenge for Janik and Gokwe, that was amazing. Okay. Two sacks against his old team. Yeah, I mean, you know, that was cool. A lot of that came when the game was out of hand.


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[Assistant] The thing I take away from the game anymore, like, hey, it's awesome that Yanni has gotten revenge on his old team, made some, you know, big plays.


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[Assistant] He's been one of the best defensive players on that Ravens defense the last few weeks. He's one of the few guys that pops on the defensive line. But I'll tell you, I was, I'm happy to see what I saw on Baltimore's offense too.


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[Assistant] You know, that, that to me was exciting. The way Lamar threw the football and


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[Assistant] Hollywood Brown, you know, he's the big topic. At least they're putting him in positions to get the ball now.


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[Assistant] You know, it's three or four weeks in a row where at least now they're putting them in the slot. I feel like they're making the number one read on a lot of the plays instead of way before where I feel like they were just, hey, you're here and maybe you get the ball and maybe you're the first read or not. They've made it a focal point and that I think has helped jumpstart their passing game just a little bit here and that looked pretty good yesterday.


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[Assistant] I mean, and what's awesome about them, you know,


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[Assistant] One, they both can do a lot of the slot over the middle, like awesome route running stuff.


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[Assistant] Okay, and that's where Beasley mostly lives. Diggs is a special animal and I say that with all due respect as in like a special animal because he's, he's, you know,


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[Assistant] He plays big, unreal route runner, unreal speed, the offense suits them, of course. You know, and Cole Beasley's got his little Julian Edelman niche in that offense, and it's the perfect combination. It really is. And then, you know, the guy throwing the football.


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[Assistant] He's pretty damn good, like, it's, it's, hey listen, 2020 football, Josh Allen has entered the stratosphere of Mahomes.


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[Assistant] The way they're playing on that side of the ball, with Diggs and Beasley being the main targets, man.


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[Assistant] This Denver defense was the same defense that Mahomes and Kansas City couldn't get in the endzone against a few weeks ago. Right. Josh Allen got in four times.


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[Assistant] He's got the aura right now, right? Absolutely. I agree. He's gotten, I really feel the loss of the Titans and the Chiefs made the Bills grow up as a football team. Like, woah, wait, they are on another level than us. Intensity, detail, all that.


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[Assistant] And I think he's grown up from that experience to know where he's gotta get to to be in the AFC Championship game or anything like that. But I think like to your point.


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[Assistant] He's playing with a confidence, to where you just, you can see it in him, where you just go, it's a big play, you're almost like Mahomes now, where you go, he's gonna make it, somehow, someway, he's gonna make the play.


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[Assistant] And like I said, it's not Mahomes or Rodgers yet. But it's Sam getting close to it. To where we're going, whoa, I need to watch. Like that's it. And listen, I put out a little tweet during the game the other night, like,


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[Assistant] And then I had somebody else go, who's he beaten this year? And I went like, what? Who has a better resume of who they've beaten? I mean, he's beat the Seahawks, the Patriots, the Raiders, the Rams, the Dolphins. Oh, the Steelers. Oh, oh yeah, them too. I mean, it speaks for itself.


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[Assistant] He's special, and to your point, it is. It's that. You just said it.


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[Assistant] It's not as a wide open, route running type offense as he's in right now. They're running, you know, the Brady 2014-2015 New England Patriots offense right now. And Diggs fits in that very nicely.


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[Assistant] Is Eric Mole? No, it's not Eric Moles. Is Eric Moles?


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[Assistant] Well, first off, I think that my first thing, more than anything, would be, like, Tom Brady throwing the football was amazing. Second half. I mean, was amazing. The ball coming out of his hand, laser beams, perfect spirals, I mean,


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[Assistant] 50 yard throws that are 8 feet off the ground. What's up with that, you think? I mean, I, I mean. Why'd you do that? You mean the one, like Antonio Brown? That one? The eventual game winning touchdown pass.


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[Assistant] And you know what else he did on that play? You know what else happened on that play? They kept the tight end in the block. Yeah. Right. You know. Alright, so here's just a brief overview because I want to answer that. Early in the game,


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[Assistant] Hey listen, the Falcons were doing some cool stuff on defense.


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[Assistant] I think that the Buccaneers early on were, had too many passes where it was a little too long developing down the field that allowed the pressure and the blitz to get to Brady a few times. Second half, there was the big difference to me was they came out and it was


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[Assistant] Keep it tight in the block, which they did a little in the first half, I don't want to take away from that. They had one good drive in the first half that got thrown off by like some penalties and a sack.


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[Assistant] Six and seven pass pros play actions with quicker, uh, quicker concepts.


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[Assistant] I mean, come on, this guy's 43 and doing that. I mean, that's just amazing. And then now let's get to your bombed-in Tony O'Brien. Yes. Right? Because...


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[Assistant] It was similar to the Mike Evans play that we just talked about down the middle. Right? It's, but now it's tight end in, Gronk blocking. Two receivers to his left now.


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[Assistant] And Antonio Brown had a safety on him. So right, then they kinda like, the guy comes in motion, he ran the inside bender, and now Antonio gets to run just the clear out go. And I don't know...


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[Assistant] Brady saw it, you're gonna blow your ear out there. Can you hear that over there? I did, I heard that. I mean, your ear might be blown out.


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[Assistant] I don't know if Brady, so he's got the pass protection, I don't know if he kinda looked somewhere else first and then saw it late? I think he saw, I think he saw it with the motion.


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[Assistant] That he had the coverage. Yeaah. Right. You think he looks somewhere else first? I think yeaah. I thought maybe he kinda looked down the middle to his rightish a little. Maybe he was just looking his safety off. I don't know. But either way, I think he got back and he was like, woah, he's farther downfield than I thought. And I think he saw like, I can't throw it up in the air, it's gonna be out of the end zone. So he had to kinda drive the football. Yeaah.