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[Assistant] I would bet to a degree, you know, cause I think, you know, more like, uh, or, or,


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[Assistant] More than maybe other quarterbacks, and I think a lot of older quarterbacks get like this.


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[Assistant] They, they want guys that they know are gonna do exactly what they're supposed to do against the right coverages, be exactly where they're supposed to be in case there's pressure and you can't see it all that clearly. Okay, I know where he is and I don't think he had that guy in this game other than Randall Cobb and, and you know, Randall Cobb's not really a, you know, a go-to receiver anymore at this point of his career.


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[Assistant] I mean, he's got size and he's the fastest person on the field on either team, offense or defense. It does not matter. He's the fastest guy in the field. Should have caught the first play of the game for the touchdown. There's no doubt. The play that, uh, Rogers gets stripped sacked.


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[Assistant] Uh, he's gonna have, he's gonna have Christian Watson open for a touchdown.


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[Assistant] He is. He's going to launch it to him and it's going to be a TD. So he was getting open obviously on the one he dropped. He can, he can get up, but they just got to, they got to continue to find, you know, a role for them, probably find them, you know, a few cheap ways to get them the ball, just to get them going a little bit that way.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, that, that, that, uh, yeaah, if Rodgers didn't have to spin out and Zedaria Smith didn't just run over the guard and AJ Dillon.


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[Assistant] He's going to hit, he's going to hit Christian Watt. You could tell the Vikings players were like, whoa, like when he took off and got by them, they were like, whoa, he got by me in a hurry. And they were talking to each other like, oh, well, you know, like you're supposed to be there. I'm supposed to be there. Um, so he does look good, but he's got to catch the ball and they got to find a role for him in the offense.


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[Assistant] Yes. What do you mean by that? Well, they're just, those teams where, you know, I used to every now and then even complain about Brady and go, man, I wish he would just be a hair more aggressive, but he didn't have to be because the system was so good and he always had answers. So he'd be like, oh, second and 10. Maybe I could have squeezed it in there to Gronk.


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[Assistant] You know, the next play, let me just check it down, and now we got third and six.


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[Assistant] And the next play, we got a great offensive coordinator, and I'm smart, and I got a bunch of good route runners and stuff. We'll get the first down in the next play. He didn't take that. He plays that style, except it's not the Patriots. And the offense is not as creative as Joshua McDaniels, nor is the rest of their team as good as those teams. That's where I go like,


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[Assistant] He's, he's going to have to carry the load a little here this year. I do think he can't play this efficiency. I have the greatest quarterback rating in the history of football. You've been saying that for a couple of years now. Is he willing to do that? I don't know. You know, I watched like his Aubrey Marcus podcast, right? When he talks about the ayahuasca and all that. And you know me, I love Aaron Rodgers. I love him and his arm is still.


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[Assistant] In the conversation for the best arm in football, even at his age.


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[Assistant] You know, throw four touchdown passes and make them big time plays and everybody's gonna go, who gives a shit about the two interceptions? You won the game and your four touchdown throws where you threw lasers through the air were awesome. And I think he, we'll see. Lazard coming back will be a little bit of a tell here this week, but I think he's going to have to make more of those types of plays this year.


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[Assistant] They designed them, and you know, it's, it's, first off, their own line is good. It looks good too. You know, they, we know they've been good at run blocking the last few years. They look like they've gotten better at pass, pass blocking too. Excuse me. And that's, that's good to see.


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[Assistant] My big, I guess, overall statement with them is they just have more playbook than years past. There's more formations, there's more concepts, there's more answers for the coverages, and it's not, you know, they were very basic. You know, they were one of those teams, I think, the last few years where I go, if they don't run the ball, their past game's not very good.


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[Assistant] I don't think that's going to be the case this year. I think if they can't run the ball this year, which I expect them still to be able to run it, but if they can't and play that type of team,


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[Assistant] I think their past game's gonna offer up enough answers to where we're gonna go, they're okay, they're fine. And of course, he's a freak show. So that, that's I think the big thing about them. There's, there's more creativity, more motions. I thought watching the game on TV that they were moving Jefferson around even more.


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[Assistant] You know, but it, you know, again, they moved him around and moved him around more than in the past, but it wasn't crazy. You know, but it was a really good start. And like I said, you could tell there's a different vibe with that offense altogether.


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[Assistant] It makes me believe a little bit, certainly more. It does. It does. Because, Daniil Hunter looked good. Zidarius looked good. Alright.


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[Assistant] Their, their middle linebacker play, uh, with Jordan Hicks and Kendricks is very good.


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[Assistant] Safeties I got no issues with. You know, corners I think are something to question a little bit. But with that offense coupled with it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it is a more realistic, like if I could go back and do our playoff things right now, I would already go, let me cancel out Dallas and put Minnesota in, if that answers your question. I would do that right there, right now. And I go, it's week one, I'm not trying to overreact, but I did like the look of the Vikings.


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[Assistant] Too, too bland. Too bland. Too, too like, whoa, okay, it's just straight cover four and...


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[Assistant] You know, this quarterback's smart and this coach, they got smart and they're going to go, oh, you're going to play this. I got plenty of plays to, to, to tear this up. Right. So my thing with the, the Packers is, you know, again, maybe they're being safe. It's week one and you are playing a team that's pretty balanced on the offensive side of the ball. You're worried about that too. Uh, but, but also.


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[Assistant] The one thing I just, I will say to the Packers where I just go, you got two first round corners.


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[Assistant] What's the point of drafting a corner in the first round if you're not, I mean, you're just gonna get them to play cover four and cover two and like that stuff? Like, eh, you gotta find some spots here and there where...


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[Assistant] You know, he's matched up on Jeff, Justin Jefferson. And I know how impossible it is to cover a guy on an island all over the field, but you match them up and then.


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[Assistant] You know, have some help in a place, even though it's man, maybe the rest of the team is playing zone, but you got a safety in the middle of the field that goes, Hey, if he comes across the middle, I'm there for you. So you can overplay the outside a little bit. That to me is something that I look that I would hope they do as they go along. Cause those corners are good. Jair looks good. The kid from Georgia Stokes is really good too.


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[Assistant] For the most part, I'm not going to be too, you know, I thought it was pretty good. Uhm, I'm not going to say anybody popped, like I didn't, Rashawn Gary looked good, definitely, he definitely had some moments.


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[Assistant] But like, Devontae Wyatt, the first round pick, he didn't really get involved in any big plays.


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[Assistant] You know, I won't say that I looked at like Kenny Clark or Jaron Reed either and went, ooh wow, like, you know, Minnesota won the battle. And it wasn't by like, I'm going to sit here and say by a ton, but they won the battle for sure. And yeah, there wasn't a lot of difference making F up the play type of plays from the Green Bay front and hopefully


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[Assistant] And again, I think there's another team that you can put in the category of one team played in the preseason and was ready to, ready for, for battle. And another team that was like, Hey, yeah, it's week one. We'll be ready. We're ready. No, you're not.


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[Assistant] Not for this team. This team's on a mission. They are. And, you know, Murry didn't look bad. He did not.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I don't, but they were kind of overwhelmed in a lot of areas there early on in the football game. And the offense itself, you know, it stinks they have no DeAndre Hopkins.


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[Assistant] You know, they're O-Line, I worry about it a little. It's a little older, and they got some patch-up guys where I go, I don't know, the only guy is the right tackle, uh, yeaah, I think it's the right tackle, uhm, let me see, I got it here, hold on. Uhm, yeaah, is, is, uh, no, the left tackle, DJ Humphreys.


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[Assistant] Where, you know, he, he, uh, Jones is also in there at right tackle. That's who I'm thinking of. He looked good. But the other guys, Rodney Hudson, Pew didn't start, cause he's a little banged up.


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[Assistant] You know, Hudson, Will Hernandez, who the Giants got rid of, it's not the most impressive group. And they got their butts whooped by the Chiefs up front. There's no doubt about that. I mean, they were, they were all over Murray.


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[Assistant] The thing I think, you know, overall, and it was tough because, you know, they looked up and they had the ball once and they were down 14-0. It's crazy. Chase went down the field, scored. Cardinals went, what, three and out. Chase went down the skin, scored. And you go, oh my gosh, we got the ball and we're down 14-0. They put together a good drive.


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[Assistant] Scored on this next drive to make it 14-7 and even on that drive the biggest play was a play where the defense


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[Assistant] Thought the Cardinals false started and kind of stopped for a second and he hit a big play down the middle on the scoring drive there. But.


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[Assistant] For the Cardinals. You liked that. I did. There was variety in formations and pre-snap movement and the concepts. I went, oh, that's cool what they're doing. My problem is


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[Assistant] I don't know if there's rhyme or reason to it. That, that's, y-you know...


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[Assistant] Like, you gotta have rhyme or reason and what I mean by that is like, wait, I'm doing this play because they're playing this coverage and I'm gonna motion this guy and have these three guys over here run this route because they're gonna be screwed over and it's gonna break the rules in this coverage once I do this to them.


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[Assistant] To me, it more looks like, hey, this is a good play and it's got some answers and we're just gonna call it. And, you know, then you don't get the defense maybe you expect.


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[Assistant] And they're coached up pretty well on that side of the ball. And all of a sudden you go, wait, it didn't work. And it's just like, well, yeah, I know that's a cool play, but they called the defense and the coverage that


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[Assistant] It's not for that. So even though it's cool and it might be good verse cover three or whatever else, it's not good against this intricate coverage that the Chiefs are playing or what they did here. There's no rhyme or reason in my opinion. That's what I think bothers me more than anything when I, when I look at them on film.


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[Assistant] And, uh, without Hopkins and without, you know, Rondell Moore, like we talked about, you don't sit there and go, oh wow, look at this talent they got. You don't. I know we all want to say that because it's the spread and it's Kyler Murray and it's the big 12 offense and all that.


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[Assistant] I don't think it's scary to anybody without some of those guys.


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[Assistant] My guy can throw farther than your guy, and my guy's faster than your guy. Right, right. And you're gonna have to worry about me running, so that's gonna make you play some defenses you don't wanna play, and now we got a matchup we like, and...


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[Assistant] Boom. And oh wait, I found a lane and I'm going to run here. And he had one big run in the football game, but for the most part, you know, these defenses are getting used to these running quarterbacks. They're, they, it's, it's, this is, you know, six, seven years in a row of special quarterbacks in football.


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[Assistant] Where they're all starting to go, wait, we know how to defend these guys a little bit. We know how to stay in our lane. We know how to make, teach the linebacker to play zoned, but also keep an eye on the quarterback in case he takes off. So that's where the league is changing a little too. But the, the, the Chiefs D line is just, they, they, like we talked about with the Bills a little bit,


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[Assistant] They not only have some beasts, they got depth too.


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[Assistant] And that's, they just kept sending waves of people and Chris Jones and


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[Assistant] The Mike Dana kid, 51 from Michigan. So you noted him in your notes. He whoops some ass. He's a player. They got players on this football team. And that's where the Chiefs are, I'm excited for them. We know the offense is good, but I think the defense is going to be a real pain in the butt for everybody this year.


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[Assistant] You know, as the game went on, I think I lost track of him a little bit and they were in control, so I didn't, but...


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[Assistant] I didn't pay attention to the play he got heard, so I can't really speak to it. Uhm, that's on me. Uhm, but yeaah. You know, and again too. Hey, I'll say this.


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[Assistant] You know, they, they had the, a little unlucky for the Cardinals. I think you saw this in my notes. It's 20-7. It's the fifth drive of the game for the Cardinals. They got a fourth and two. He's gonna have Dortch in the flat for, for a touchdown.


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[Assistant] Or at least the first down here. And Dorch kinda trips.


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[Assistant] And Kyler sees it and he gets off him, but Dortch didn't lose, like fall to the ground. He kind of stumbled and got up. And if he just stayed with them for a half second longer, he's going to still throw it to him. He's going to get a first down and maybe more than that.


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[Assistant] But he got off of it because he's like, oh crap, he's going to fall down. And then he was stuck and he had to try to run and do something else. So, uh, that, that was, you know, unfortunate too. And sometimes bad luck happens.


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[Assistant] Watching this. Right. Right. I think the phrase we're looking for is Pornhub.com. Yes, it was. It was definitely that. No doubt about it. Yes, it really is.


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[Assistant] Where I feel like they might, you know, and I think he's gonna be dangerous this year. We know he's gonna make plays, backyard plays and all that. But I do think he's, you know, learned some lessons from last year of like, let me be patient. And I don't always have to have a magical play.


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[Assistant] If somebody's open for six yards here, let me get a take it. And I think that's where it was a good start for him and encouraging that way, let alone again, they're creative. It's a system unlike anybody else in football and they still got a ton of speed and weapons for him to throw to. And I just think he is absolutely on his game right now.


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[Assistant] Well a few of them are at like the two and three yard line, right? To where they're going all out to just stop anything and it's a tough spot. We'll excuse two or three. Right, which is I don't always like, those to me like, yea that was a blitz, but I go, yea it's on the two yard line, the goal line, of course you're gonna blitz. You're worried about a million different things, you're trying to force their hand a little bit, all of that. You know, I think they also got a little desperate.


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[Assistant] You know, at that, at that, eh, eh, eh, you know, at some certain points in the game where they're just going, he's just, he's picking us apart. So, we gotta try to do something. And then, added to that, and we talked about this over the last month, they don't have a good pass rush.


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[Assistant] They're probably gonna have to blitz a lot all year. They don't, who do they have that you're worried about rushing the passer? Didn't even have J.J. Watt in this game. No, exactly right. So that, that's where it's a little scary for the Cardinals. And, you know, the Chiefs just have so many different ways. You know, we talked about Clyde Edwards-Halera. He's more north and south. McKinnon looks good. Pachecha, Pachecho looks good.


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[Assistant] They got, you know, used some different sets with three tight ends that, you know, make you uncomfortable.


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[Assistant] Right, right. I think, you know, they've been always reluctant that way, but the tight ends they got can all really run. You know, they really can. And that's where...


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[Assistant] You know, it's, uh, Noah Ga- Noah Gray, Jodie Forsten, and Kelsey, where yeaah, they're bigger bodies, they're not killers in the run game, but you gotta respect it when they're in there. And then they can split out and you go, oh crap, like, they're, they're, they can run like wide receivers. So I wouldn't be shocked if we saw that as a, a new little change up for their offense on a consistent basis this year.


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[Assistant] I, I do. I wish they would just, yea, just find two or three that you just, you mastered. Don't worry about anything else, because as long as you have that with all the creativity you have on the, in the past game,


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[Assistant] And then you got a quarterback who, he just, he never lets you off the hook. He just never lets you off the hook. Every play he is looking for.


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[Assistant] I want to throw the, I want to throw the big play. I want to throw the big play. And what he showed to me here was, I want to throw the big play, but if it's not there, I'll come down and throw a smart play. And that's how you go, what did he go, 30 for 39 or whatever? Right?


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[Assistant] That, that, but that is, I think, something like, again, we're not looking them to be the Tennessee Titans, that's not who they are. But find two or three that you've mastered. I had a year in 2005, we had a play, and you probably heard Gruden used to say this, 96 Power King, right?


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[Assistant] I mean, we mastered it. We kind of made it our play in training camp.


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[Assistant] And we got into the year and we had Cadillac Williams and he was awesome. And we just said, so what if they know we're running 96 Power King? Let's just make sure we block it the right way. And if it's some crazy look that we look like, we go, whoa, well, all right, we can't master this look. We got to check with check to something else.


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[Assistant] I mean, we would call it so many times in a game, I'd be like, man, can we? I would be underneath the center going, can we really run this again? This is like,


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[Assistant] Yeah. And it's a little different defense, but yet we were coached up on it and boom, boom, boom. And I'd go, there's seven more yards. Holy crap. It's unbelievable. And that's sometimes all you need when you have that kind of quarterback and passing attack.


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[Assistant] Like, I think we talked about this a little with the Bengals and the Steelers when they got down to the goal line and were just, we're gonna run up the middle. And the Steelers on Monday, right? We were talking about, we're just gonna run up the middle. Okay, yeah. The Steelers don't think that's gonna come.


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[Assistant] Andy's smart enough to go, I don't care what team it is in the NFL now, everybody's got freaks in the middle to where when they think the run up the middle's coming, I don't care who we are, you can't just think you're gonna run it up the middle.


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[Assistant] Unless you got one of those just really, really special lines. But I even, so yeaah, that's where I think he's amazing. Cause he always has a good play on


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[Assistant] So he comes up with ways to help them and to me it goes overlooked because it extends drive so much and they never settle, they very rarely settle for fuel goals because of it.


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[Assistant] Those are little things as the season goes on that we don't give Andy Reid credit for where I go, this is why they're so tough to beat.


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[Assistant] Well the most thing I feel great about is just, my homes look different than last year. And my homes always look special. We know that. Healthier. Healthier running.


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[Assistant] Looks more in shape to me and the biggest thing, and you know me, I'm into the quality of the football.


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[Assistant] The ball is perfect spiral, spinning through the air, like out of a textbook. Last year, I can tell you early in the year, there was a lot of throws where I'd go, but that's not... Yeah, it's complete.


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[Assistant] You know, yeaah, that was a 30 yard gain, but that wasn't all that Mahomes has to offer. And that's where I get into, like, I think he's on a mission.


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[Assistant] Right? Yeah, I know, I know. I got, I'm actually, I thought about that today. I like on Thursday nights to watch in my barn that you've been to.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I have Apple TV in there. There has been a few times my little boy is fiddled with it in there when he's had friends over and I want to make sure like, so tonight I gotta check because you know tomorrow night's drinky drinky smoky smoky and I want to make sure I can sit and watch that game.


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[Assistant] Interception 1, for sure, his fault, right? And that was the one I think in the second quarter, right? I just want to make sure, because I don't know if I documented all these exactly.


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[Assistant] But the first one was the Drew Tranquil run, right? End of the first half. That was a bad one. And it was a bad one because...


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[Assistant] He's got Darren Waller going down the middle. He just didn't throw the appropriate ball and was a little hair late to get to it.


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[Assistant] You know, that was a bad one, not only because of that, but also the timing of the situation, where you were on the field, and it lent to another touchdown by the Chargers, right? So that was, if I remember correctly and got this right, it was 10-3, and that made it 17-3 because of that interception. So that was bad.


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[Assistant] There was another play when they got down to make it 3-3. On third down, they ran a play called 64 Sticks. I know the play, it's a great red zone New England play. He has Darren Waller for the touchdown, he just missed the throw. He missed it.


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[Assistant] He threw it a little too wide of him as he's crossing the formation, and that stunk. So their car looked good.


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[Assistant] Carr, I think you saw on my notes, through the, one of my complaints is always with Carr is, you know, sometimes he tries to place the ball and worry about accuracy too much. He let the ball go in this game. He threw a lot of rifles and great throws where I went, oh man, that looked good. Like, way to go Derrick Carr.


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[Assistant] Right? Staley's pretty creative on that side of the ball. So I didn't expect it to be perfect like we saw sometimes in games last year where he's mastered the offense. But I just liked the overall look of him and he still made a lot of big plays that were, you know, very, very impressive from that standpoint.


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[Assistant] It's, it's like we talked about Wes Welk or Julian Edelman, but this is a more talented guy who also can win on the outside and scare you there. And yea, he just-


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[Assistant] Puts him in so many positions to where, hey, I got you in a spot.


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[Assistant] We know what the defense is. Now you just gotta run the route on this guy right here and you beat him and run the route the way I taught it and the way you're capable of. There's no way they're gonna stop you.


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[Assistant] And that's what, you know, that's what I think jumped out to me more than anything. He played the games like we talked about, a lot of over and unders with, you know, Adams underneath and Waller behind it. I think it's going to be a deadly combination. I do. You know, just even his biggest reception of the day, right? I think he had like a, uh,


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[Assistant] Uh, I want to say it was like a 37, 47 yard completion. I think I got it right here. I'll get to it. Where he threw to Devonte Adams on a left sideline. Yeah, 41 yards, right? So.


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[Assistant] He, he, he makes it look like a play that you go, oh, the defense knows what's coming, right? Inside guys running a go post, outside guy, usually when that comes, they run an in-cut behind it.


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[Assistant] Well, McDaniels is like, hey, Staley's smart, they're smart, they're gonna kinda read this combination. You, you know, take that turn like you're gonna run the in-cut, put the brakes on, come back out, Carl throw a nice dime to you, and that guy's gonna be going, oh shit, I thought you were going inside.


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[Assistant] And now you ran a great route and you catch it and you got space and you run up the sideline for another 30 yards, right? That's where McDaniels is really cool and special.


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[Assistant] I know that I'm gonna do this, so I'm gonna have to do that. Exactly. And McDaniels is very, very, I've had enough experience with him to know that he's very smart that way. I've done this to him a few times. He'll correct this, and I gotta have something to, you know, combat that. And he's really smart that way, no doubt.


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[Assistant] It's still a question for me, against the elite. I gotta see it a little bit.


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[Assistant] Because again, we know their offense is really good and Herbert's amazing and their passing offense is real good, but I don't go, oh wow, it's the most creative thing. They're just like to me a little bit of like,


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[Assistant] They know the correct plays to run against the right coverage and he's smart and he's just really talented and if you do that for him, he'll make it happen.


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[Assistant] At the same time, I could see them playing some good defenses and go, Hey, wait, I know this system a little bit and we know what you're going to do here and take it away. Now are they going to be able to run the, uh, you know.


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[Assistant] Are they, are they going to be able to stop the run? I'm, I'm flipped over here. Sorry. I'm going to say that again because I do worry about that side of the ball with the Chargers too. Sorry. The Chargers, I worry about their run game, but yes, no, I worry about they're playing a great


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[Assistant] Running offense and do they still have enough big people to stop that? I love Sebastian Joseph Day. You know, I do. I Kyle Van Noyde, I didn't play a middle linebacker with, but still, I don't know if there's enough real big people to where I go.


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[Assistant] You play one of the elite running football teams. You had to play like the Eagles or the 49ers, right? I'm not sure you're gonna be able to handle them. I guess I gotta see it to believe it a little bit, uh, before I start. That was pretty cool.


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[Assistant] Yep, no doubt about that. Uhm, he'll, he'll, they'll find the role for him. They will. They got control of the game.


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[Assistant] And, you know, lost a little momentum I think trying to be like, hey, let's just, you know, not mess this up here.


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[Assistant] And they got a little lucky too with, with Derek Carr. You know, the three, you asked me about the three interceptions and I just want to make sure we get to that. So we talked about the first one, that was bad. The second one was bad in the fact that he just under threw it. He has Devonte Adams on a deep corner route.


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[Assistant] And he under-threw it by five or six yards. He was a little late to get to it all together. And then on the very next drive, that's when he threw the Bryce Callahan interception as well. And that was pretty bad as well. So, but they got lucky in that the Chargers didn't capitalize on that.


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[Assistant] And that's where I get into, you know, I think he's getting used to a new offense and things of that nature.


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[Assistant] But they didn't say that. They didn't say it. They showed video of him. They showed video. It looked like he was the one calling it in a few times. What if they did that?


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[Assistant] Look, I got, no, their offense looked good in a lot of ways. Okay? I mean, Xavier Howard makes the great interception. Alright, so I don't want to say good, maybe that's an overstatement.


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[Assistant] But I didn't come away going, oh man, they're really poorly coached, and oh man, they got flaws everywhere. I did not.


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[Assistant] You know, still, still coached really well in the run game. You know, still looked really well coached in the pass game overall.


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[Assistant] I think the big thing I took away, and even, even this aspect of it, like, you know, in the last few years, we've talked about the Dolphins with all their crazy looks, right? Eleven men up in the line of scrimmage. Who's blitz and who's dropping? You don't know what the hell they're going to do. They're great at it, right? They were ready for that.


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[Assistant] And, to the point where we just made of like, I know what you're gonna do soon, and you know what I'm gonna do, and all that, all the thing. Well, they have a, the Dolphins have a defense coordinator from New England. Right? And, the, the Patriots...


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[Assistant] I had a plan for it. And I think they were thinking and hoping they would get it more.


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[Assistant] But Boyer, Josh Boyer of the Dolphins, I think he was really smart to go, wait, these guys are smart over there. Bill's smart. He's not gonna let me do this to them. I know he's gonna have answers to this. So there was a few times they lined up in this, we're gonna bring this crazy blitz defense and all that.


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[Assistant] And the Patriots got in some formations where, oh no, they're going to be able to block this up. They got the back, right? Like standing behind the center in between the guard and the center, right? So that he can block that guy in between there. And, and they had ready, they got to check it. They checked out of it. The dolphins, they were like, you're not going to screw us over bill.


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[Assistant] You're not gonna do that. So that was impressive. But I think overall, the biggest thing that I would talk about is just like,


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[Assistant] The, the, the, for, for a lack of a better way, the trickery, the bullshit that they're missing. You know, that's where Josh McDaniels was special.


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[Assistant] You know, hey, okay, here's our normal offense meat and potatoes. That's good. Now we got our first and 10. Oh, I know they're going to play this defense and.


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[Assistant] I got a screenplay that I know they're not going to be able to handle over this. Oh, there's a cheap 12 yards, you know? Oh, here's, here's another just game plan play I came up with during the week where, yeah, this is not really part of our meat and potatoes offense, but


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[Assistant] I got a pretty good feel for them on third down and I'm creative and now I'm gonna screw you over and get a-


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[Assistant] That to me is what they missed in the game. There was nothing there. That's where I looked at to go. They were cheap yards. Every play was Mack Jones, you know.


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[Assistant] Just running the offense and boom, boom, boom. And there was nothing to ever give them an advantage. You know, and even when they got behind, it was just like,


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[Assistant] Run go routes and you'll just throw it on the money and hit a go route. And he hit one down the left sideline to Kedrick Bourne. But I think that was the thing that jumped up to me or jumped out to me more than anything is just, you know, we know they're not super, super playmaker heavy on their offense as far as players. Now they got to have the coaches come up with some ways.


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[Assistant] To get off on some cheap yards. And that's where I think they missed McDaniels. And that's the thing I think that jumped out to me more than anything. There were some things you liked. You thought Nelson Aguilar looked fast. He did look fast. Yes. Thought the running backs looked good. Yes, they did.


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[Assistant] Thought the offensive line looked good. Yeah, for the most part, really did. Pass protection, okay, I got maybe, uh, wish they were a little bit better, but for the most part, it was pretty damn good. How about Mac Jones? Mac Jones too! I, I like the way Mac Jones, I didn't look at it and go, oh man, Mac looks quick.


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[Assistant] You know, they ask Mac to make high level throws. It's not dink and dunk. He was throwing the ball down the field. He's throwing 15 yard out routes. All of that. So, you know, that, that was all good. It's just.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know if they're talented enough to where they can just play it so close to the vest and normal. They gotta find some ways for trick plays, cheap plays, creative plays, whatever you wanna call it, just to help them get some momentum and get some cheap yards every now and then so they don't have to go 12 plays, 85 yards, 7 yards at a time, right? It's just too hard. And that's where I'm gonna be looking as we go forward here.


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[Assistant] They got it all and that's out of the ball. All. They got it all.


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[Assistant] I think they can certainly be that. And they don't even have Byron Jones back at corner. You know, that's where, but yes, they have a great field of man, zone, blitz, blitz zone.


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[Assistant] You know, all out pressure, pressure, put a guy on an island, so what? We think you'll, you know, panic and won't be able to find the right place to throw the football. Uhm, they got tremendous team speed.


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[Assistant] They're, they're, they got the big boys in the middle and Wilkins and Raekwon Davis that are the real deal Holyfield. Seiler's a good player. You know, our man Jalen Phillips does a good job. I mean, they just, they got, they got players at every position to where you go.


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[Assistant] They're fine there. Javon Hollins, as you heard me say last year, I already think he's one of the best safeties in football already. Period. Right now. He's one of those type of players. So yeah, I'm thoroughly, thoroughly impressed with what they got on that side of the ball. There was one player too, undrafted rookie, Cater Cahoe. Right?


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[Assistant] He like popped for me. Like I kept going, who the hell is this little dude flying around the field here? You know where he went to college? Oh, it's a weird one, right? What is it? What is it? Texas A&M Commerce. Right, right. I was like, I've never even heard of it.


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[Assistant] 28 watch out for him. And then that's what I mean. It's just like


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[Assistant] You know, Brandon Jones, the Texas safety, he's all over the place where I'm going, yeah, he looks good. And you know, of course, the Xavier and Howard special. And then I think when you couple that with big guys and then pass rushers and, and like the adjustments on the fly, uh, you know, and I want to give Josh Boyer a little credit here again, too. Like, you know, he has some plays where.


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[Assistant] Oh, they're, they're kind of hitting us with shallow crossers and underneath. And what does he do? He calls a defense the next time where he thinks it's going to come in. Like there's no safety and deep in the middle of the field, but he's got like seven people in the middle. Like you're not going to, I don't care how many people you cross or whatever. We got somebody waiting for him in every spot.


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[Assistant] I was wondering how much it would look like that, but...


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[Assistant] I mean, I know you watch Shanahan cause, hey, they're good and you know he's my friend and I talk about their offense a lot, but a lot of similarities. I mean, just people going everywhere and you're going, I don't know where it's coming, where it's going. I, you know, I sit there sometimes just go, how do you, I don't even know how you defend some of this shit. How do they do it? I don't know how they do it.


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[Assistant] The Patriots defense did a pretty damn good job, but I do think the Dolphins left some plays out there on the field that could have made this game a little more comfortable. I do. But I love the flow of the offense. I do. Now, the big thing I need to see, and you know this, is...


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[Assistant] Tua, making big plays with his arm, not just being like delivered for him, alright. And then, what I also wonder too, is their own line gonna be good enough to run the ball like a Shanahan offense. I don't know about that yet either. Now this, the Patriots defense like we talked about on Monday, they got some stout big dudes up there.


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[Assistant] You know, that's where, okay, if they can't run the ball and now some of these movement tricks are not working, am I sold that it's all definitely gonna work? No, I'm not quite yet. Not quite yet. I gotta, I gotta see a little more from two. It was a good start, but even in this game, as you saw in my notes, you know, the O gives you a lot to think about.


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[Assistant] But, uh, does he have the arm to take advantage of some of the plays there that are there with Tyreek and Waddle? And that's the thing I'm gonna continue to watch here.


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[Assistant] First play of the game was a high snap, and


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[Assistant] They, as the snap comes high and he jumps up and gets it and follows it, the corner stops on the right side of the ball, like stops to the quarterback's right.


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[Assistant] And Tyreek is gone. I mean, it's a touchdown. He's uncovered.


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[Assistant] And I don't know what, Tua just like panicked or something and just threw it out there and it like fell to the feet of Tyreke like five yards short.


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[Assistant] It's like, oh, okay, hey, it's the first play of the game, blah, blah, blah. But, you know, that's what I mean by this. You know, first off, his arm did not look strong in the game. It did not. Even on some of the completions, there was even a few out routes that, hey, I'm glad he threw it and all that, but I just went,


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[Assistant] Man, I mean, he had to give it all he had to throw the 12 yard out route right there. That, that does worry me. And then, you know, there was a third and one on the first drive.


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[Assistant] Alright, so this is a few plays later where Tyreek's in a tight split to the right. The fullback is offset, right? So you think, oh, they might just run weak Iso and smash somebody. Well, Tyreek runs the post, the fullback comes out of the backfield and acts like he's in a block and goes straight ahead and then wheels up the sideline.


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[Assistant] I mean, maybe I'm wrong, but the first read I would think is let's look at Tyreek deep, and then go to the fullback. He's got Tyreek for a touchdown. I mean, he's got him for a touchdown. Either way, he goes to the fullback, but misses the throw. The fullback was open, so I'm not mad at the fact that he went there.


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[Assistant] You know, again, those are the things I just looked at and went, oh man, like, did he get back to the top of his drop and look at it and go, whoa, he's far down there, I don't know if I can reach him or what, I don't know. But there was a few instances like that where I just, again, like I said, no disrespect, great start, Dolphins look good, you just gotta see that with two of them.


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[Assistant] It just, it just as we always talk about. I'm not, you know, I'm not talking about a team here that we're gonna go, well, they're just, they just need to be 500. We're looking at the Dolphins going, they can be something.


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[Assistant] And if they want to beat the better defenses and better teams in football, that's all I'm holding it to that standard. I think he's going to put up pretty good numbers. And like I said, they're going to win games, but are they going to be able to maybe win the AFC East and maybe make a run in the playoffs? They're going to have to, then that's where two is going to have to do some of that stuff we're talking about.


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[Assistant] A hundred percent. It's the same thing we talked about last year. I know you and I talked about this a lot. I like their talent on their defense. They're well coached. They're never really out of position and I get that.


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[Assistant] I don't think that can win anymore in the NFL though. Just by going, we're going to be simple and we're well coached. It's just, it's not, it's not going to get it done. It's not. Now they were lucky in this game because it was the Lions and it's Jared Goff and they're not necessarily a top offense in football yet, but it's,


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[Assistant] Way too simple and bland and predictable to where, you know, I know we talked about this at one point last year too. When they played good offenses with a good quarterback,


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[Assistant] I mean, whether it was, here we go. Thank you, Pete. You the man. I mean, here's, look at this. This is, this is the teams I would classify from last year and, and Ahmed, you can bring up their schedule from last year too to look at this because they got a little lucky with not having to play a lot of great offenses and quarterbacks. But, you know, talk about this a little right here.


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[Assistant] That's what worries me. And again, I know they're good. I want to say I know they're going to be in the playoffs. We're holding them to a bigger standard than that here. This team has got more potential than


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[Assistant] We think you can just get in the playoffs. So yes, it's just, it's, it's way too bland that way. And, and the, I just, to me, they gotta, they gotta trick it up a little bit. It doesn't need to be a lot, but we can't just break the huddle and be like, we're in cover four. Hey.


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[Assistant] Hey, Mahomes, we're in cover four. Brady, Brady, it's the NFC Championship game. We're in cover three. You can see it already. Make sure you call a good cover three play.


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[Assistant] That's what they're doing basically. And that's where it's just not gonna get it done against those type of teams. You know, golf missed some opportunities early. You know, they could have gotten a shootout here and made this very interesting. There were some plays to be had. There definitely was.


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[Assistant] He had two slot receivers, they both ran what we call stick nod, right? So they're inside, they run a little five yard out, and then they run up, right? Because they run stick a lot, so you get the teams to be over aggressive and jump that, and then you hit the, the little double move up and off the seam.


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[Assistant] He threw it like it was the stick route. And the guy went up the scene. And...


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[Assistant] The guy was open up the seam, so I don't know who to blame there. Uhm, but yeaah, that was a bad one. Because, you know, that swayed the game into making, what, 21-7 at that point? And that's where, you know, it stunk for them. I just, I don't know what he was doing there.


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[Assistant] They gotta, they gotta, they gotta figure it out, because even, forget the past game, as the game went along too, I know they had the big run, but once, like, okay,


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[Assistant] We got a big run. Then the Eagles, like they had a few plays of where, Hey, we'll play the bear front and have five on five. And that'll slow you from running the ball down.


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[Assistant] But then as the game went on too, they got a, they got a feel for, oh wait, when we play with this formation, they get in this front, let's call this play, cause they're gonna, it's gonna be tough. They're not gonna be able to, I don't care how good their guys are, they're gonna have a tough time with that offensive line, cause we gotta give the Lions-O line some credit. They are some freaking killers. I loved watching them.


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[Assistant] And so, but they're predictable from that standpoint too, where, you know, you're gonna, they can play a good running team. I don't care how many big asses they got that we wanna see lined up next to each other. If they're playing a good run team that knows what to call in the right situation and has some good old line, they're gonna get gashed there too. So that's where I like to see them change.


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[Assistant] Both lines, yea, for the Eagles, they got it all there.


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[Assistant] Hurts is, of course, a very gifted runner. You know, again, the throwing doesn't wow me, but it's, it's good. And he, as we've talked about, he throws a good deep ball. Right? Uhm, and where they get you in a bind is,


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[Assistant] You try to get people out of the line of scrimmage because you're worried about, whoa, not only their run game, but then their ability for Jalen Hurst to keep the ball off the run game. And we're outnumbered and it's hard to cover all the gaps here.


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[Assistant] Like, they put you in a bind because Sirianni's smart too. And he goes, oh, okay, they're going to do that. Oh, well, here's a wide receiver screen. You get all those guys in there. We're going to mash them in there and throw a screen out here. And oh no, now he's doing this. And, and then, oh, it's, it's one on one on AJ Brown. Let's just throw a go down the sideline. He'll beat the guy. He'll beat it. Jaylen throws a nice ball down the sideline. Boom.


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[Assistant] That's where they put you in a real bind that way. And then the other thing is, Hertz has got incredible instincts and knowledge of when the team's playing the right defense or him to run. Two man.


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[Assistant] You know, two safe, two safeties deep. Everybody's manned underneath. Guys turn their backs to run with the receivers. He sees a lane. He goes, I'm out of here. See ya. There's nobody looking at me. Ooh, I'm running down the field and nobody's chasing me.


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[Assistant] Man to man covers the same way. You blitz thinking let's overpower the run game and do all that. Okay, he doesn't throw the go route or something like that. He's very, he makes a guy miss.


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[Assistant] And then it's, woah, there's nobody else there, everybody blitzed, I ran by him, I'm gone for another big game. The, the dolphins, I mean the lions did not have a plan for his scrambling, that's where I was a little like, what, what the hell, lions? Like how could you not have a little bit more plan for that? And, and I came away from the game, I think one of the things that I wrote was, uhm, you know, I would err on more on,


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[Assistant] You know, I'd rather have Hertz beat me with the pass game than him running around and doing that. And I don't know exactly what your formula is gonna be to do that.


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[Assistant] Some sort of zone where eyes are on the quarterback and you make him throw the ball into windows and do that and then he can't scramble that way.


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[Assistant] You know, now the problem with zone is sometimes it's, you know, you can't get people at the line of scrimmage to stop all the gaps and run all that, but I would think that's what I would do at a base level without getting too intricate there, but that's gonna be something to watch for them as well.


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[Assistant] Yeah, homies are smart. They've been listening. They know they've got a good roster.


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[Assistant] You know, I think that's probably higher than the normal football fan, because you and I have banged on the table about how good they are. I do think a lot of football fans realize with just some of their off-season moves that they're kind of a force to be reckoned with here, but you know, I think we're a little higher on them than most podcasts.


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[Assistant] Treasure Hunters. I wanna say one more thing, and I know you love this, cause you're like, would you please stop talking and shut up. No, no, no, I like that. I just wanna talk about one, just one quick thing about the Saints and Jameis Winston. Oh, okay. I just would like to hit that. This is a bonus nugget. A bonus nugget of, man, the Falcons defense was so impressive for three quarters, they really physically won the battle.


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[Assistant] Against the Saints offense and defense line. They really did, but specifically to the Saints offense won the battle, not only in the run game, but got pressure on Jameis Winston.


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[Assistant] Really, the run game stats are a little misleading because they had two big runs with the Taysom Hill Wildcat package. You take that away, they couldn't really do diddly squat in the run game, they couldn't protect. Fourth quarter came around.


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[Assistant] They got a little tired. I think, you know, Saints O-line settled in the game. Jameis pushed the envelope a little bit and made some just incredible great throws and things. And then of course Michael Thomas and Jarvis Landry made some incredible catches too. But yea, that to me,


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[Assistant] It was a big win for them. I think that's going to give them a little bit of a jump off confidence and, you know, they haven't.


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[Assistant] One that way with the Jameis Winston yet, right? You know, come back where it doesn't look good. We're getting whooped and now he does all the smart things and keeps us in there and then makes plays to help us win the game. I thought that was pretty cool. I want to give Atlanta credit.


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[Assistant] It was not. They deserved that. No. The Saints have a flaw with the quarterback running scheme.


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[Assistant] We've seen the Saints not be able to beat the Eagles the last two years with Jalen Hurts, right? Where they've run all over them.


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[Assistant] They have to figure out how they want to defend that type of offense because they have a real issue and I was surprised with just some of the normal plays that they just gashed them and Cordella Patterson just running through the middle of the line for 10, 12 yards. A bonus nugget. Bonus.


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[Assistant] Alright, that's cold as hell in this building, so I don't think anyone is worried about that. Uhm, alright, you good? You want to say anything else?


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[Assistant] Thanks for, uhm, leading the Chars as always. You the man. Thanks for your cursive notes. No problem. I'll continue to do that to drive you crazy on Wednesday nights. No doubt about that. Keep sending in questions. You know that. I'm trying to watch as much as I can and I'll continue to do that.


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[Assistant] Tomorrow is the PFT, uh, Chris Simms collaboration picks with Mike Florio. I do think you should pick some games too and hand them in. Okay. So we can keep track even just for us and our sake cause I don't get to do the picks with you. Maybe I'll do your best bets. Okay.


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[Assistant] I had the ravens covering against the jets, the dolphins covering against the patriots, and the chiefs covering against the cardinals. So we'll see if I can do that again this week.


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[Assistant] Alright, so everybody pay attention. Me and Florio are doing the podcast tomorrow. Subscribe, rate, review to this one, to the one tomorrow, and uh, hopefully you'll listen to the picks podcast with Florio, and you know we'll be back here Monday with reacting to all the games on Sunday. Ahmed, you the man, okay? Clap it up.


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[Assistant] Thanks for watching homies. Hit subscribe to see all my Unbuttoned videos. You get to see me, Ahmed Fareed, all the big player breakdowns, game breakdowns, player interviews, and my film analysis. So please subscribe. Chris Sims, Unbuttoned. Peace out.


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[Assistant] How could you not do that? Especially when it looks like you're in like...


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[Assistant] Instead of a normal pod today, I invited a few guests over and we're going to do the show live here in front of the brick wall and, um, my lighted skis that I have on the back over here.


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[Assistant] The Saints, right? The Steelers, right!


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[Assistant] This was built just to do this kind of stuff, or what'd you do here?


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[Assistant] Either way, at a personal level, did you have a good Christmas? Christmas Eve, everything good?


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[Assistant] I did. And most importantly, Christmas Eve, that's the one I care about the most. That's kind of the one where we have a big family dinner and, uh, I enjoy Christmas Eve, I think, more than Christmas, oddly enough, right? I don't know where that switched in my life, but I got to some age at some point where I like Christmas Eve the most.


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[Assistant] But it was awesome. I mean, and then with the NFL games going on.


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[Assistant] It was a great day. It was action packed. I mean, seriously, at the end of the one o'clock games, we have family coming in the house. You know, I've already now started to drink. The games are ending. It's crazy crap going on.


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[Assistant] I helped my wife put the presents out in front of the tree. Okay, it's the first time and...


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[Assistant] Yeah, he was. That wasn't around, right? Yeah, it was good. And then added on top of that, uh, Ahmed, as you could tell, we had no power here for 36 hours.


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[Assistant] So we woke up on Friday morning the 23rd with no power.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and then did not get power again till about 4 o'clock on Saturday afternoon on Christmas Eve.


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[Assistant] You know, we have a generator, thank God, that, that keeps some things alive. I had one TV alive with direct TV. That's how I was watching games early on. Uh, but yeah, that became a little bit of a, a panic mode, especially, you know, when we're cooking and got all these people coming over. Uh, it was, it was the two minute drill. We just got it done.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, I mean, again, you know, that's a tough part of the business, right? It was a great game. You said that. I mean, it was the marquee game of the weekend with these two teams, especially, and it'd be in the Cowboys and, uh, but,


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[Assistant] You know, and then of course at the end of the game, we have the interceptions and the fumbles too. And you know, Gardner wasn't perfect. It was his first time playing. Just think about that. You know, I had some people on social media like, there, see, it's not as good. And I want to be like, I didn't think it was going to be as good. Like.


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[Assistant] Here he hasn't played all year and it was still very good to where they were moving the ball like a machine up and down the field on one of the best defenses in the game. But hey, say what you want. I got concerns a little bit with both defenses. Dallas' playmakers made, made, made it happen at the end of the football game.


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[Assistant] You know, whether it's the strip on Miles Sanders, you know, how about the rookie Bland?


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[Assistant] With the interception, I mean, you know, hey, Gardner Minshew, both of his interceptions were tough. They were both good plays by the defenders, right? The second one, really a good play by Daron Bland, who we talked about him last week, right? Ahmed, he's, he's a player, but.


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[Assistant] Fun game to watch. Gardner-Minshew did a really good job. And my point was that Philadelphia would be just fine with Gardner-Minshew. And I think that point...


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[Assistant] Yes, but I don't think that necessarily means that their, you know, their ceiling is higher with Jalen Hurts. I do want to make sure that's, that's definitely felt.


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[Assistant] His playmaking ability, his running ability puts that offense to another edge, whether it's a scrambling or the quarterback design runs. It gives them another element that just makes them even tougher to defend, especially against the elite defenses in football. Do I still think that Philadelphia could win a Super Bowl with Gardner-Mitchell? Yes. And again, that's, you know, I'm in...


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[Assistant] And the backup went and won the Super Bowl. So I'm not trying to put anybody down or take credit from anybody.


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[Assistant] I'm just trying to explain football and how it works and how good this football team is. You know, I can't remember if I said this to you last week or not, but I mean, hey, Joe Montana left the 49ers and the, you know, Steve Young and the 49ers went to what?


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[Assistant] And we're the second best team in football. They just couldn't beat the Cowboys in a championship game. So that, that's all I was trying to say. Again, it's, it's not disrespect to Jalen Hurts, but, uh, that's a really good football team. We saw that, but how could you not be a little concerned? Forget Gardner, Mintchew and the offense. I'm not worried about that.


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[Assistant] It's the defense on both sides of the ball there that I would be more concerned with anything after seeing that game on Saturday afternoon.


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[Assistant] It's almost reversed, Ahmed. It's almost where I go, the offense is elite right now, and it's almost unstoppable. And the defense is, you know, good and got some playmakers, but inconsistent. And, and Ahmed, I think, you know, we've hit on it a lot. You know, this is, see, to me, when they have to play a team that is big and powerful upfront,


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[Assistant] And then, at least has somewhat of a good passing game. And we know Philadelphia has better than a somewhat of a good passing game. It puts them in a tough spot. See, that's why they could match up well with the Minnesota Vikings. Minnesota's run game's not scary, right?


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[Assistant] So that's why they could, oh, okay, we can, we can kinda, you know, play more pass defense and we still feel like we can stop the run.


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[Assistant] But with like teams like Jacksonville and Philadelphia who are really big up front and it poses a problem to them where they go, oh wait, we gotta put an extra guy down there. We gotta play some man to man. We gotta take run blitz to stop some of these runs and all that.


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[Assistant] And then as you're seeing a Trevor Lawrence or the Philadelphia Eagles, they have enough of a passing attack to go, boy, you're going to play us this aggressively? Well, we could take advantage of it too.


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[Assistant] That's where I worry about them. It's like we've said, it's a smaller defense. So therefore they have to use chaos and creativity to make plays. And when you do that, you can get burned as well. And I think we're seeing that a little bit here as a play.


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[Assistant] He hopefully gets a chance somewhere at one point here and gets a chance to prove himself to be a starter with at least a quality team around him, right? I honestly think in a lot of ways,


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[Assistant] Yeah, Taylor Heinecke, but I think he's actually a better thrower and a better player within the pocket than Taylor Heinecke. Maybe can't make some of those magic plays that we've seen.


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[Assistant] Ahmed, like a, you know, hey, we'll take a shot on this guy for a year and see maybe he can be the guy and if it's not, then we'll go to the draft. I feel like that's, you know, kind of where he is. Low level starter, big time high end backup.


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[Assistant] And become a little more creative and tactically aggressive. But that, for me, they're too talented and too good. There's too many plays and I'll be interested to go back and watch this film where I just go, like,


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[Assistant] The quarterback's too comfortable. He walks in the line of scrimmage. They knows the coverage. There's no disguise. It's just like, oh, here it is. And you know me and, and I think this is pretty true to modern day football. Unless you just have a super, super, super unbelievable, crazy, good defense, you've got to change it up and try to trick these quarterbacks a little bit.


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[Assistant] And take some calculated chances. And to me, Ahmed,


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[Assistant] So, I would like to see them change that. We'll see. And, you know, maybe that was a little bit of a wake-up call on, uh, Saturday afternoon.


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[Assistant] And it just seemed like they messed up some details in this game and got a little sloppy and, uh, you know, Dallas, Dallas wanted to make, make a point to go, hey, we can beat you. And I think we, you know, they played a good game and made their point and we'll see. I'm not so sure they could beat Philadelphia in Philadelphia with a healthy Jalen Hurts though. That's a, that's a different question.


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[Assistant] I don't know if I can explain it other than the fact that hey, they have been opportunistic as far as


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[Assistant] They found ways to make plays and some clutch moments, and...


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[Assistant] Kirk Cousins, Kevin O'Connell, Justin Jefferson have been able to execute big time situational football to


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[Assistant] Put their team in position to score a touchdown in the field goal in those big moments. But like, you know, again, let's just talk about like what, what set that off in this one, right? What it's 17-16.


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[Assistant] Giants looked like they were kind of controlling the game. They kicked the field goal, then the punt gets blocked. Oh, now Minnesota's got the field, short field. You know, so it seems like they always seem to make a play like that, even though the rest of the game is a little bit unimpressive.


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[Assistant] So, that's, it is truly remarkable. It's one of those games where I've disappointed the Giants loss, of course.


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[Assistant] But like, Pete and I were talking about this yesterday, where it's, you almost feel good about it in a lot of ways too.


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[Assistant] Wait, that's a really good football team. And we were toe to toe with them. And really made some mistakes that, you know, we don't typically make.


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[Assistant] So, uh, it is the weirdest thing ever. I felt good about the Giants after the game. I didn't feel much better about the Vikings. Yeah, because I don't think they're going to get away with this type of play against the elite teams in the NFC, but


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[Assistant] So what can you say? Credit to them for getting it done in the clutch moments once again.


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[Assistant] No, I would agree with that. And they have answers schematically for just about everything you do.


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[Assistant] It's a really good unit. I think the only part that keeps them away from me going, oh, it's just a top tier, you know, one of the upper echelon type of offense is just the offensive line is maybe not as physically dominant as some of those other offenses. And then maybe, you know,


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[Assistant] Her cousins can't make the off schedule plays like some of the other top offenses have quarterbacks, you know, like Alan and my homes and company that could Jalen Hurst that can do that. Um, but yes, they, they,


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[Assistant] They go, we'll just keep feeding them until you do, Ahmed, like we've talked about, that's their elite thing they do, is get him the ball, and then they make you adjust to, oh wait, okay, now we gotta take him away, and then that brings other guys into play, and this week it was Hawkinson. You know, and that's kind of the thing, or the question about them a little bit, is just that,


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[Assistant] You know, who can be that consistent other guy in a big playoff game if Justin Jefferson doesn't go off against the 49ers or the Eagles or the Cowboys or somebody like that?


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[Assistant] And that's where they're going to need Hawkinson and Fieldon to come in, you know, come into play. I'm not amazed by the offense, I'm in.


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[Assistant] But it's, it's really good and it has all the answers versus all the defenses and blitzes and, and it's checks and balances and all that. But I don't come away watching it on film going, oh wow, this is the most creative thing I've ever seen. It's just really good and solid and really well taught and detailed.


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[Assistant] Agreed, agreed with that. You know, again, it's just, it's a different type of team you're playing.


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[Assistant] There's teams take more tactical chances to go away. It's win or go home. We got to kind of, we got to, I don't want to play this defense, but we got to take Justin Jefferson away, right? So there's just, that's where, yeah, you don't think, at least I don't think that's sustainable to go on a playoff run. And you know, this is a stat that,


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[Assistant] It holds, you know, me, I don't always look at all stats. This stat is one that kinda holds water to me a little bit. It's one of those that's...


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[Assistant] Really kind of tried and true through the test of time in the NFL where, you know, point differential usually is somewhat of a telltale sign. And yes, I mean,


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[Assistant] or they're not down to a team that's one of the worst teams in football 33 to nothing, even though it was a great comeback. So that's where it's weird.


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[Assistant] I don't know if that's a nice compliment or a bad thing or what, but it's just what it is.


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[Assistant] And again, we saw that, that's what's weird. We're talking about a team that could be the number two seed and we really look at every team from five, six, seven and eight and go, well, they could probably go in there and it'll be a really fun, close game, right? That's where it's just weird. You know, they are the number two seed for now. They're certainly not to me in the class.


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[Assistant] of the Eagles or the 49ers, especially. Uh, but you're right. There's a very real chance we could see this. And you know, the Giants, nothing's going to be easy. Them playing the Colts next week, it'll probably be a close football game.


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[Assistant] I-I'm glad you-you went there. I am, because now it doesn't sound like it's-it's me propping up my friend, which-


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[Assistant] I was getting ready to go there with these comments about the 49ers. Cause I think there's a lot of comments like that to be made. I mean, you're saying it right?


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[Assistant] We're sitting here and I'm going, I don't know. Maybe they're the best team in football. They're certainly the hottest team in the sport right now. I mean, what they've done the last eight weeks, the way they're dominating football teams.


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[Assistant] I mean, there's been very few games where, ever since that Kansas City loss, where you've even gotten like...


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[Assistant] I even had a feeling that the 49ers are gonna lose the game. I mean, really, the Dolphins game was a little scary. The Chargers game was a little scary. Other than that, you just felt like, man, I'm watching the 49ers and they just seem like they're on a different level than the other team I'm watching here on the field.


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[Assistant] And they got it all. And then, you know, to your point...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think just how he keeps the team focused, the creativity, the toughness and mental fortitude the team has played with, with having to deal with these, it's all head coach stuff. And then, you know, just the way he has that quarterback in that last pick of the draft playing.


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[Assistant] That's what I think is amazing to me. To me, Shanahan has learned how to manage the game and a younger quarterback in a different way, Ahmed. And, you know, where


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[Assistant] We hit on this a little last week, but you know, it's, hey, the screens and all that. We know that, hey, boots, they're safe. And then we're seeing throws outside the numbers and down the field, and they're not asking them to jam the ball in the middle all the time, right? Where a lot of mistakes can happen.


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[Assistant] And I just look at that and go, oh my gosh, right now they seem harder to defend with the formula they got working, let alone that defenses is crazy and clearly the best in football.


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[Assistant] You know, I, I mean, one, I, I, even though player of the year is, yeah, outstanding play and then consistency, you know, I'm into that, right? Like we talked about that last year a little bit. I just feel like we're here every Monday and Nick Bosa's.


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[Assistant] In the conversation for a damn okay or hey, somebody tweets in something to the podcast and hey, what about Nick Bosa, right? I mean, you can't really talk about the 49ers right now without bringing him up and going, he just makes a handful of plays and puts stress on the offense every week.


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[Assistant] That, I don't think anybody has the effect of that right now. Uh, this is a really well-rounded football team. And they got it rolling. And Deebo Samuel's not even out there.


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[Assistant] And they're pushing the ball down the field. The defense swarms. Javon Kinlaw is getting close to coming back.


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[Assistant] You know, and I don't, you know, like, I like the fact that


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[Assistant] They didn't take any chances early on in this game. And we're just like, okay, we'll just go in a defensive tussle here early on. You know, they believe in themselves that the defense will make a player, the offense will get it going and there, you know, they get things going. He gets a little unlucky with the interception and you know, what happens? They're up 14 to seven.


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[Assistant] And the other team panicked. The other team panicked. That, to me, was one of the dumber calls of the weekend. The Washington commanders going for a quarterback sneak on fourth and one, right? On their own, what was it, 30-something yard line? You're down by seven.


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[Assistant] You're playing Brock Purdy and the 49ers. Your defense is clearly the standard of your football team.


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[Assistant] And you're just gonna let them have a short field and capitalize on momentum and get going that way. That was to me the moment where really the game swayed clearly in the 49ers favor and they felt like they controlled from that point on.


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[Assistant] I don't think it's necessarily Brock Purdy. I think it's the run game. That's the one thing like...


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[Assistant] You know, at least when, when I'm watching the games or I've been in, you know, the, the video room and we're watching with the, I just, when they unlock the running game.


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[Assistant] Now that's when he can play with you at the second level with George Kittle, right? Hey, we're going this way. George Kittle's the tight end where he's blocking. Oh, he comes across the field.


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[Assistant] Right? The play action pass becomes more available. He can just kind of tie it together more when the run game's really working. He starts to feel teams being over aggressive.


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[Assistant] Even though their lower percentage passes, we're seeing the ball push down the field more with Brock Purdy. And, you know,


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[Assistant] I mean, I feel like we didn't see that stuff with Jimmy Garoppolo. That's where I'm just amazed by this Brock Purdy, his calmness and, you know, his maturity for a rookie quarterback.


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[Assistant] I-I do agree. I-I got every- I'm not so sure that-


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[Assistant] You know, with the Carson Wentz decision, it doesn't happen this year. You know, Ahmed, you know I've been one the whole year going, I feel bad for Carson Wentz. He got to play when the coaches and the team failed him.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's why I didn't like when Ron Rivera was going, when Heineken came in, they were like, what's different about what he's doing? And he's going, winning after like three weeks before how he stuck up for.


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[Assistant] You know, everybody getting on Carson Wentz, he was all like, you gotta respect this guy.


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[Assistant] You know, he's done all the right things and then he shits on him himself three weeks later. And I want to go, no, no, no, you need to take some accountability there too. You couldn't run the ball and you couldn't protect them. And now you're just going to let everybody pile on them after you just tried to stop us from piling on them a few weeks before that.


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[Assistant] I did not love that aspect, okay, I just had to get that off my chest, but uhm, you know.


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[Assistant] I guarantee you why this became a thing, Ahmed. It's because...


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[Assistant] Uh, maybe we should throw him into the mix. And I think honestly, that's, that's probably what's happened there. You know, and then Heineken just being careless with the football. So, I'll be interested to see where that goes. Like, I still think Ahmed, to your point,


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[Assistant] They're dangerous. And if Carson Wentz could come in and not be stupid and make bad mistakes in that...


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[Assistant] You know, with his physical ability, and we've seen what he can do with that, they would be scary to me if they were at wild card weekend. You're going, oh no, that defense and Jahan Dotson, like you're talking about and Terry McCorn and the running game, the way it's going, uh, they could still be scary this year, but your point about next year is real and you're right on about that.


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[Assistant] It's every week he has a play where we just go, what? How? How do you do that? I mean, he's unlike anything we've seen.


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[Assistant] And, you know, that, that's what's amazing and annoying and like, let's, let's chalk this one up to Sunday being annoying Chief's game, where you just were like,


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[Assistant] You're controlling the game and they drop a pass or there's a penalty or the receiver doesn't get two feet in bounds. And it's just like, it's always on a thread of like, they're about to take over and blow the team out.


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[Assistant] Their offense, underneath the center, attitude, running the football, I'm a big fan of what they're doing that way.


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[Assistant] And their defense was dominant in the game. That was to me the shocker of it. I mean, for three quarters, I felt like every time I


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[Assistant] Looked at the screen of that game, I was going, Geno Smith's ducking, Geno Smith's on the ground, Geno Smith's slowly getting up. I mean, holy crap today hit him a lot.


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[Assistant] No, I think it's defense rounding in the form right there. And I'm interested to see if...


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[Assistant] You know, the Chiefs did some different things on defense. You know, you've heard me say they're great at disguising and they're great at creative blitzing.


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[Assistant] But a lot of the times the coverages end up being somewhat like, you know, like we've talked about, it's all out blitz.


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[Assistant] And there's no safety or it's we blitz one and it's just cover one or it's this crazy disguise and it ends up in Tampa too. But man, they seem like they pose problems for Gino who's been very good decision maker.


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[Assistant] You know, not afraid to throw the ball into tight windows and it just looked like he had nowhere to throw the ball and he just didn't have enough protection to even, you know, let things develop at times. Uh, so I, you know.


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[Assistant] It was one of those games where you went, man, Chiefs, you're annoying, but it's like the one thing you know is amazing about them is Mahomes in the passing game. And I'm like, well, that'll be good when it needs to be. They were just a little bit complacent in that one and, and, uh, ended up winning the game kind of in ugly dominant fashion.


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[Assistant] They're playing a part of their schedule where teams can kind of capitalize on their flaws.


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[Assistant] You know, you see again, they're a good defense. They just can't block these good defense alive. We saw in the 49ers game, right, two Thursdays ago.


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[Assistant] It's just, Gino's under duress and even think about the runs you saw in that game with Kenneth Walker. They weren't really blocked all that well. It was just like, it's freak show, Kenneth Walker. He runs over here, he stops, he cuts back and runs all the way to the other side of the field. It's just.


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[Assistant] So I think yes, the flaws or the issues with their team have finally come home to roost. It was, it exceeded expectations. And even for that game.


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[Assistant] You know, where they were being, they just, they, they fight, they play hard. And there it was, what was it? 1713?


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[Assistant] And that was the moment of the game where you went, oh man, that was their chance to come back and really make it like a nail biter.


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[Assistant] And the Chiefs, as they usually do, they're playmakers, make plays in big moments. And Thornhill came up with the big pick and then I believe it was the next drive where he threw a big pass to Kelsey and they put him down 24 to three. It might've been two drives later. I can't remember all the damn stuff I watched.


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[Assistant] When they went... Let me just make sure I got this right here. When they went...


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[Assistant] Close down there, oh, and they were up 17 to 10 and had a short field, right? After Green Bay, what did they fake the punt? They faked the punt, right?


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[Assistant] I right there went, well this is over, this is going to be 24-10 in 3 minutes and 3 plays here.


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[Assistant] And then they held them to a field goal. And I went, okay, Green Bay's gonna hang around a little bit. Then...


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[Assistant] You know, the fumble right before the half by Motster, right? It's 20 to 10 and they're at midfield and you're going, well, they're going to go down and score or at least get a field goal here.


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[Assistant] Then, you know, what happens is Green Bay gets a field goal. Green Bay starts the ball with the third quarter. They drive down the field and all of a sudden you're going, oh my gosh, wow. Like, I'm with you. I mean, it had the feel of Green Bay was barely hanging on to.


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[Assistant] Wait, we're in a ball game here, and even with that, at 2020, I just went up!


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[Assistant] That's alright, we've seen Miami do this and then they put the gas on, you know, the pedal of the metal and they leave you in the dust. But mistakes and clearly...


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[Assistant] You know, Tua's worst game. That's, that's for sure. The other three losses had a lot of silver lining to it. This game did not. And this game was one you could, you know, purely blame on Tua and the Dolphins making some bad mistakes.


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[Assistant] Well, it's almost a little bit like we talked with, uhm,


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[Assistant] Who are we talking about? Seattle a little bit. It's just that...


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[Assistant] And there's been enough of an accumulation of...


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[Assistant] You know, again, it's, it's, it's not a big arm quarterback. So when some of those offensive tactical plays that McDaniel's so good at with coming up kind of fail,


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's not the quarterback that's such a throw lasers around the field and say jump on my back. I got you guys. And you know, forget all that. And I knew he couldn't do that. It just was shocked by some of the decisions. The three interceptions were bad, right?


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[Assistant] I mean, the first one, the RPO, I mean, wow, was that a tight window when there were a lot of people over there, right? And he air mailed it and threw it a little high and Jair Alexander got it. The next one, hey, they answer and they're going right back down the field and you're going, okay, two was fine. They're good. And he's got Motzer in the slot.


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[Assistant] And like, wants to hit him right away, but it doesn't look like the play was designed for that. And most of it was running a seam route, it wasn't expecting the ball. Let alone, I think Tua was fooled by the coverage.


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[Assistant] And I don't think he saw Demandre Campbell. And then the last one was the worst one by far.


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[Assistant] Now fighting for their playoff lives here down the stretch.


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[Assistant] That's right. I mean, if they're gonna get in, Tula's gonna have to play well. You know, and he's gonna have to answer more questions for sure.


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[Assistant] You know, he got one at home, but he's gonna have to, you know, go up to New England and, you know, again, it's...


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[Assistant] We've seen teams of officially have a little bit of a...


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[Assistant] For how the Dolphins want to attack. We know they're explosive and can still make some big plays, but the last three or four weeks, we've seen more


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[Assistant] You know, what do we want to say? Dull moments or slow moments where we go a few drives and we go, oh, they didn't put things together here. And you know, I, I do think that's because of the teams are playing and because there's a little bit of a, you know, a feel for how they attack now.


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[Assistant] You know, some explosive plays on the offensive side of the ball. The defense is still concerning.


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[Assistant] It's like Jason Garrett said last night, we've seen little glimmers and moments of going, oh wait, the offense looks good.


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[Assistant] You know, but they've yet to seem to really put it all together.


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[Assistant] Uh, but, but I guess that's what I would say. A little more playmaking ability on the offensive side of the ball, the run games become dominant, and the defense has just been a little, at least a little opportunistic at making some plays in some big moments, even though they're still underwhelming as a whole this season.


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[Assistant] And again, it's not that they need a ton in that department, but it's just as we've always talked about.


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[Assistant] You know, it's just, they gotta take a little off of Josh Alex played at times. They just can't always be on him, making plays, moving, running, buying time in the pocket, throwing lasers. Like, it's just too much of that to think that's sustainable to win three or four big games to win the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, that was encouraging. You know, Dalvin, or, you know, sorry, James Cook.


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[Assistant] He looks like he's becoming very comfortable and that like now that he's feeling mentally comfortable, you're starting to see more burst and explosiveness when he runs the football.


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[Assistant] Singletary is pretty steady with how he plays, but it was nice to see them have another avenue to beat you. You know, it was another one of those games where, yeah, Buffalo was a little stoppy, made some mistakes, Allen, you know, made some,


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[Assistant] You know, they're the damnedest thing ever, Ahmed, where you can go, oh man, a little bit like the Chiefs and, and some of the great teams we see in the league where it's frustrating and you feel like, oh man, they're, they're being outplayed. And then all of a sudden, five minutes later, you're going, whoa, they turned it on and they're kicking the crap out of this team.


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[Assistant] Uh, even though they've made a handful of mistakes and that was one of these games here between the run game


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[Assistant] The defense started to make plays, Allen became a little sharper as the game went on, and they put the Bears away. I was impressed with the defensive game plan too, Ahmed. They had a plan for containing Justin Fields about as good as we've seen anybody all year long.


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[Assistant] I'm unconvinced too. We see one of these games every like five weeks from Buffalo where we go, Oh look, they ran the ball. We think it's going to turn around. And then they, you know, hey, listen, they're going to play through Josh Allen. That's what they're going to do. I think the thing that where they don't need to be a great running football team.


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[Assistant] But, they just need to be good enough to wear...


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[Assistant] They get in the playoffs and teams are playing safeties deep and just pass defense, pass defense to where you have to defend that still. And I think with their aggressiveness in as far as the plays they call in the pass game and how they're called to push the ball down the field.


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[Assistant] Cause teams are going to go, wait, we're not going to let Josh Allen's right arm beat us. We don't believe you can run the ball on us and all that. So we'll see.


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[Assistant] But I'm, I'm with you. I'm not sold here either. This is a Bears defense that's well coached but doesn't have a lot of talent and really had nothing to play for. And it did, you know, it felt like when the dam broke, they kind of were like, all right, this one's over. We'll see you next week. Yeah.


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[Assistant] You know, I wanted to make this a best bet on the pod last week, but I've been scared by Justin Fields because he always breaks four or five runs and I go, well, there goes, you know, the spread they've covered, right?


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[Assistant] One of the things I did point out when I broke this game down a little with Flory on Thursday is, Buffalo!


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[Assistant] They have a plan for these type of quarterbacks. They do the right things with their defensive line. They don't just let them go crazy and go, oh, you just rush the quarterback like it's some normal, you know, everyday Joe here.


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[Assistant] So they stay in their lanes, they stay in front of them to where they can react when he makes a move. And then the other thing to me that was a big factor in this, not an overly complicated pass game to worry about in Chicago, right?


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[Assistant] So I felt like Frazier and McDermott would be able to come up with enough zone coverages to stop the pass plays, but yet we're playing zone and what does zone do, Ahmed? You can look at the quarterback, right?


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[Assistant] And Buffalo is a heavy zoned team. And I think that was the big thing that they had all eyes on them all the time. And then they have two linebackers who can really run and even really good guy like Justin Fields make life hard on him in the open field. Uh, I think that was the thing that probably popped to me the most.


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[Assistant] Right? It was getting that close. And then I went, wait, this is the Patriots and this offense and you play defense because there's no fucking guarantee they're going to get in the end zone. I literally don't, I mean, I was thinking the same thing you were. I was a little bit like, wait, should they let them score it? And I was like, wait, no.


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[Assistant] The Bengals got a great defense. The offense of the Patriots is suspect. Hang in there. There's no, there's no guarantee they're gonna get in the end zone right here.


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[Assistant] It almost felt like it was the reverse of the game the Bangos played the week before. I was gonna go, like,


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[Assistant] Here's a, you know, like a first half where they should have been up by more than they were. And then they just messed things up in the second half. I mean, this is one of those games where, you know, they win it at halftime.


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[Assistant] And you went, Patrons should be happy it's only 22 to nothing. It should have been like 34 nothing and 28 nothing. I mean, whatever you want to say. I mean, it was total domination. Uhm, they hung in there and then that, that Marcus Jones interception return.


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[Assistant] You know, that's why I had that guy as my number 5 BB.


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[Assistant] And our rankings in the draft process, because you can see how electric he is, how explosive he made that return. It kind of rejuvenized the team a little bit. They put one drive together and then all of a sudden you're going, oh my gosh, they're going to pull off the upset here, but good play by the bangles defense and poor Ramon Dray Stevenson.


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[Assistant] I'd probably keep him on defense and then let him return and then.


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[Assistant] Hey, like Deon Sanders with the Cowboys in the mid-90s. Like yeaah, we got five offensive plays from him every week where we give him a reverse, we give him a stream. You know, maybe we fake a short pass to him and a double move and he goes down the field.