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[Assistant] 42-17 and potentially the game that, that greases the skids for Ron Rivera to be fired before the end of the season. Although as we discussed earlier, they seem to be committed to him through the end of the season. Maybe they don't want to do the interim coach thing, just get through the season.


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[Assistant] Make a clean break, make a fresh start, and pick your coach.


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[Assistant] They may already know who they want to hire. I mean, a lot of these owners, when they've made the decision unofficially, informally, behind the scenes as to who they're moving on from, they know who they're moving towards. So it's just a matter of time. But if it's bad enough, maybe on Monday, for the second straight Monday, there's a coach who gets fired. And I'm with you, 42 17.


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[Assistant] I just think the Dolphins are, are kind of in that zone right now. We know they beat the teams they should. They need to beat some teams they shouldn't. They'll have those opportunities, but not this weekend. This is a game they should win and we both believe they will win and we both believe they will cover.


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[Assistant] When we return the late games for Sunday, including this week's edition of the Game of the Year, 49ers-Eagles. We'll do that next year on Chris Hibbs on Button and PFTPA.


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[Assistant] Game for the Panthers this year without Frank Reich, or if David Tepper is saying it, Frank Reich as the head coach.


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[Assistant] Thomas Brown running the offense, Jim Caldwell helping out, Chris Taber the interim head coach. Does it make a difference as the Panthers try to get a win against a Buccaneers team that just kind of feels stuck in the mud, Chris?


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[Assistant] I have the Tampa Bay Buccaneers winning this one 21 to 20. I just think that


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[Assistant] The turmoil of this past week is not quickly forgotten in the locker room.


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[Assistant] You've probably got some players who disagree with David Tepper being heavy handed and firing the head coach.


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[Assistant] This point in the season, it's a lot to process. It's a lot to recover from. I don't see a bump. It's the second year in a row they've gone through this.


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[Assistant] And last year it provided a bump that carried all the way through to the end of the season, and Steve Wilkes didn't get fair consideration for the job. That's where David Tepper got it wrong. He should have just given Steve Wilkes another chance, just like Mark Davis should have given Rich Basaccia another chance a couple of years ago.


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[Assistant] I think this is the kind of thing that makes the players even harder pressed to get to the highest level of performance. And we've seen all year what the highest level of performance results, uh, in for the Panthers. So I think the Buccaneers win this one. They're still kind of on the fringes of playoff consideration.


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[Assistant] Taking on the Los Angeles Rams. The Rams favored by three and a half. The Browns are seven and four.


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[Assistant] The Rams are sub 500, and the Rams are favored by 3.5 points with an over-under of 40. Chris, are you taking the favorites, the home team, the Rams?


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[Assistant] There's gotta be better ways to mispronounce my name. There's gotta be. Phil. Come on, Phil. You can do better than that. Alright. I will next time. Okay, uh, so, so. What do I have here for this one?


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[Assistant] I believed in the Browns excessively last week.


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[Assistant] Are you making this up on the fly again?


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[Assistant] I'll peel back, I'll peel back the curtain, folks. I'm directing traffic with my writers and communicating with them because Von Miller is accused of


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[Assistant] The Browns defense is really good. Schwartz is going to know how to rattle Matthew Stafford.


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[Assistant] Even with Dorian Thompson Robinson in the concussion protocol, and apparently Joe Flacco will be the guy playing quarterback for the Browns, not PJ Walker if it comes down to that, and that may actually help this Browns offense. I think the Browns hold it together.


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[Assistant] They know that this chance of getting to the postseason is kind of hanging by a thread, even though they're seven and four, it can fall apart very quickly and you do a tone for last week's loss.


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[Assistant] Miles Garrett seems to be okay. He didn't practice on Wednesday and it was a combination of rest and shoulder. They had four players that fell into that category. I think Amari Cooper, rest and ribs and a couple of other starters as well. Rest plus


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[Assistant] Injury, so I really don't know how much of it was injury or rest for Miles Garrett.


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[Assistant] The way Kevin Stefanski spoke about it yesterday, I think he's good to go. I think that's bad news for the Rams. I think the Browns win this game 20 to 17, but it won't be a best bet for me. I don't feel great about this one. I am surprised the Rams are favored and maybe, maybe the Browns use that.


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[Assistant] As a little kick in the ass to try to get themselves extra motivated because they're the ones who should be favored in this game in my view.


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[Assistant] Alright, this week's version of the game of the year. It's gonna be a tough fact to follow with that Bill's Eagles game from last week that went to overtime with the Eagles winning 37 to 34.


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[Assistant] The 49ers come to town as now three point favorites. The line has been bet from two and a half to three. A lot of people believe in the 49ers on the road against the Eagles over under a 47.


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[Assistant] So you've got the 49ers winning and covering the three point spread. Yeah. For this one, yeah.


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[Assistant] This is a, an underrated rivalry. It's not a natural rivalry. There's no geographic connection. They're not in the same division. They don't have a long history of playoff games against each other, but...


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[Assistant] They've played each other a lot over the years, and this game made me think of, when I first picked the score,


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[Assistant] 2423. And I'm gonna adjust it, it's not the final score yet.


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[Assistant] But I thought, 24-23, I thought back to a game in 2011. It was Jim Harbaugh's first year.


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[Assistant] It was the year of the Eagles dream team. The Eagles were in danger of falling to 1-3. It was week 4 of the 2011 season. And I went out on a limb because the Eagles were favored.


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[Assistant] And I picked the 49ers to win that game for whatever reason. Why did I think 25-24? I don't know. I should have gone 24-23 because that was the final score of the game. The 49ers won 24-23. So I'm going back to the future. I think, I don't know.


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[Assistant] So the score I picked when these two teams met, week 4 of the 2011 season, I'm going 25-24, 49ers win, Eagles cover, and the final score will be 24-23, 49ers win, Eagles cover, but I want 25-24 to be the score, just, just because of that game from 12 years ago.


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[Assistant] I think the 49ers can match the physicality if not exceed it. They're going to be pissed and they're fully healthy. They're fully healthy. That's the key.


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[Assistant] Fully healthy, the 49ers are the best team in the NFL. That's why they're favored by three points. They may not come out of this game fully healthy, Chris, but they're going into it fully healthy, and I think it's enough for them to win. Okay, when we return, primetime games, including Patrick Mahomes' first trip ever to historic


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[Assistant] And revere. Lambeau feel. We'll discuss that next year on PF2PM and christen.


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[Assistant] Alright, apparently I didn't know this, but there's a priest on the way to the studio to perform an exorcism. That's what it was. That's what I was going for.


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[Assistant] That's what always freaked me out as a kid too. When...


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[Assistant] I've only ever seen The Exorcist once in my life because when I saw that like in 1980 when it was on Showtime or whatever,


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[Assistant] Six point favorites at one point, it looked like maybe the Exorcist would be a better watch on Sunday night, but this is a good game. Chiefs favored by six, Packers trying to will their way into the postseason field, 42 and a half over under. I have picked the Chiefs to win every game this season, so let me begin here.


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[Assistant] So you have the Packers covering, I have the Chiefs covering. I feel like we disagree on a lot of the covers this week. I just think the Chiefs the better team and they need it. And also Patrick Mahomes first trip ever to Lambeau Field. We talked about this a couple weeks ago with the Chargers, not that it helped the Chargers beat the Packers.


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[Assistant] But I think there's going to be something very meaningful to Patrick Mahomes about going to Lambeau Field and having a big game in his first game there. It's the last time he would have played there with a knee injury.


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[Assistant] I think the, did the Chiefs still win? Maybe they lost that one, I can't remember. Regardless, this is the first time Mahomes actually plays at Lambeau Field. Alright, Monday Night Football!


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[Assistant] Look like a great game a couple of weeks ago, but now the Cincinnati Bengals with Jake Browning, not Joe Burrow, a quarterback taking on the Jaguars who are nine point favorites at home with a 38 over under. Monday Night Football, who do you have? Jacksonville or Cincinnati?


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[Assistant] I got 24 to 10. There isn't much more to say about it. The Jaguars are in position to be the one seed. The Jaguars can't afford to stumble. And I still think, Chris, that the Jaguars learned. We talked about this after it happened.


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[Assistant] They got stomped by the 49ers and they got a glimpse of what they need to be. Last year their turning point game was the loss to the Broncos in London. This year the turning point game is the loss at home.


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[Assistant] In convincing fashion to the 49ers, I think that's propelled them to become the team they now are, and they'll keep it going on Monday night, 24 to 10. Alright, quick break. When we come back, best bets for week 13, and our Folsom Prison Blues picks. PFTPM, Kristen, back right now.


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[Assistant] They won't even need to play this. We're probably gonna have to send somebody a check now. Ah, you're going with the Steelers? They don't even need to play Renegade on Sunday. Ah, you're going with the Steelers. Steelers wins, Steelers cover.


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[Assistant] Give me your false prison blues. Give me it. Give me it. Give me it. Miami. Uh, Miami. I'm going Miami too. Alright.


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[Assistant] I'm from a small town, Cochran, Georgia, where it's not much there, 2,000 people. And uhm, I'm kind of country owned enough, you can hear it from my voice. Okay. I like to hog hunt when I go home. So literally, as soon as I get home Monday, that night, I'm going hog hunting.


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[Assistant] Jam92 says, damn okay, 49ers, not even Paul Blart could help the Eagles. I guess Paul Blart is a security official. You don't even know who Paul Blart is. I don't wait.


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[Assistant] There's just too much other stuff going on. I was doing college basketball last night. I gotta talk to you about NFL every, you know, twice a week. Uh, so this is, I don't have time for, for movies right now, but it was funny.


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[Assistant] They were like, uh, I've lost respect for Ama. He didn't even know who Paul Blart was. Which, I would say this, if you lost respect for me because of that, you're not a homie because you haven't been listening. You should have lost respect for me a long time ago. Right, when it comes to that. With all this stuff. You should know by this point.


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[Assistant] My Apple watch starts like blowing up. I'm like, okay, it must be a text from my wife. Look at that guy. If you're watching on Peacock or YouTube, I'm just like, oh, let me check what's coming in on my watch. Love the tie shirt combo. Thank you. The purple, when they hook me up with purple, I feel like that might be my best color. Good color for you. Thank you. Uhm, but I'm looking at my watch, I'm like, what's happening here? That's like 13 buzzes in a row. And they were...


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[Assistant] With maybe the statement of the year so far. I think she notes here and I think that's a good way to put it. The 49ers defeating the Eagles. You looked at both sides of the ball on this one because we want to dive deeper. We don't just want to take what we saw from the TV.


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[Assistant] A lot of people made this about, you know, the 49ers just had just more rest. They were coming off nine days rest, a blowout win at Seattle. The Eagles just six days rest. They had that overtime game against Buffalo. The defense had 95 snaps in that one.


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[Assistant] From what you saw from the film, where the Eagles, now the defense has not been great this year, was the Eagles a little slower, sluggish, was the rest a factor in this in your mind?


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[Assistant] Alright, so then more of a factor was what the 49ers did offensively and I've read over your notes here and you've been very complimentary obviously of Kyle Shanahan not just because he's one of your good friends out there because you love what he does in the NFL and I think a lot of people see that.


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[Assistant] They cracked the code. Yeah. In a lot of games. Yes. They were able to crack the code in this game. Right. By doing what specifically?


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[Assistant] Let's show that because I think that was something that in your notes you didn't expect to see necessarily the amount of times they ran to the left. The amount of times they ran to the left before they even ran to the right and in total


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[Assistant] What do you make of that? The fact that obviously you got Trent Williams on that left side too. You feel like the stronger side of your offensive line. There you go. You can set up a reverse late round of the game or something to the other side once you've done that. But 17 to 5, that does seem lopsided more so than usual. It is.


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[Assistant] Linebackers for the Eagles stuck out to you a little bit, being put in those difficult situations, not always succeeding. The cornerbacks stuck out for some people out there, including Eagles Hall of Famer Seth Joyner. Did you see this? Oh, I did see a little of this. Let me, let me hear this. He said after the game, he's a local analyst now for the Eagles. He said after the game, our cornerbacks are as disinterested at tackling as someone


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[Assistant] Uh, someone as a young kid coming out to play football for the first time. Um, so he threw that out there. He was, he was ripping on, on the aggressiveness and toughness of some of those corners and the corners didn't like that, including Darius Slate. He clapped back on Twitter and, uh, and Eagles fans, um,


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[Assistant] I saw this and said it was talking out of the side of your neck is what Darius Slay tweeted out there to, uh, this legend, this Hall of Famer and Seth Joyner. The funny thing is, and Pete noted this to me before we started talking about it,


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[Assistant] Eagles fans to the mentions were like, no, Darius, you guys were not good. You guys did not tackle that well. No. To the point where Darius Slay had to come out and be like, hey, everyone just chill out a bit here. I realized that. We didn't play that well. But what did you, what did you see from the, was it, was it that they were not disinterested in tackling at all? I don't think that. I don't think that.


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[Assistant] And there were some players that stood out to you on that Eagles defense. What did you like about Nolan Smith, a couple of the young guys here, their edge, Nolan Smith and their safety Sydney Brown.


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[Assistant] Brock Purdy because he shot up the MVP. He should. Odds for a lot of people out there and a lot of the sports books out there.


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[Assistant] And when you look at his numbers, you know, people say, ah, it's a dink and dunk. And there were so many yards after the catch in this game specifically for him because Debo Samuel, Samuel was so tough to take down. Passes of 20 yards or more downfield this season. He has an NFL high 63% completion percentage. So when they do throw deep.


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[Assistant] Because of Scheme and because of him and because of the wide receivers, they do hit it. Uhm, but his longest attempt versus the Eagles in this game was just 16 yards downfield. When you look at Brock Purdy in his game on film, what'd you see?


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[Assistant] Dominating early on, you mentioned it on Sunday night, you mentioned it earlier here, but they were just getting field goals instead of touchdowns, and then...


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[Assistant] It fizzled out a little bit. The 49ers made it very difficult on them. With your deeper dive, what did you see that maybe you didn't expect to see or that tells the story of why the Eagles had it harder against the 49ers?


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[Assistant] We've talked much about, you know, what Jalen Hurts can do, what he cannot do, uh, some of his limitations, some of the things that he's gotten better at and reading defenses and making the right play. Right. From watching the film on this, what are still, like, the main areas of improvement for Jalen Hurts moving forward? We've hit on this.


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[Assistant] There's a couple things here too, and the 49ers had to blitz a little bit, third down blitzes later in the game, I think too, and the Eagles actually were quite successful on converting some of those third downs.


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[Assistant] But they might have felt like they had to do that as the game went on because I think that was one of the more surprising things as you said that Lane Johnson just shut down Nick Bosa.


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[Assistant] It's not like the Seahawks are playing that much better since then, although they had a shootout with the Dallas Cowboys last time we saw them. What are your thoughts going into that one?


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[Assistant] Eagles, maybe, maybe, our biggest game on Sunday night this year. You got the 10 and 2 Eagles facing the 9 and 3 Dallas Cowboys. You mentioned the Seahawks are reeling, maybe the Cowboys, maybe this is their time.


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[Assistant] Uh, in our game of the year on Sunday Night Football on NBC. Uh, alright, you looked at other games, you did deep dives into some of these other games. We're gonna look at these in the context of


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[Assistant] Coach of the year. Cause we, we wanted the homies to chime in to who are their coach of the year candidates. Maybe give us a top three. And so the homies in droves have done that. So we're going to talk about a lot of these coaches, what they've done well, what your thoughts of what they've done well. Yep. We'll, uh, we'll start with, with toast Leonard five gave us his, uh, his, why'd you laugh?


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[Assistant] Oh, I thought you said toast. It's toast. Toast. Toast Leonard 5. Tochi maybe? Tochi Leonard 5.


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[Assistant] Uhm, he has Kyle Shanahan number one for his coach of the year candidate. Brock Purdy is the favorite quote unquote he put here for MVP. I'm not sure anything else more needs to be said. He goes number two, D'Amico Ryans.


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[Assistant] Many assumed he would be the worst team in the AFC, and they're sitting seven and five. And he goes, number three, Dan Campbell or Mike McDaniel. Figured they would be good, but still needed to prove it, so.


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[Assistant] We'll hear from some of the other homies here who chime in, but we just talked about Kyle Shanahan and all the things they're doing offensively with the San Francisco 49ers.


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[Assistant] He's his number one candidate right now, and I would bet you, for a lot of people out there as we look at the Draft King sportsbooks, it often doesn't go to the guy like Kyle Shanahan. You see his odds here plus 2,000, because much was expected of the San Francisco 49ers.


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[Assistant] This is like a, like one of those career achievement awards, right? It's like what he's done and built over the last three years have culminated into what the team is right now. Cause they're not in this spot with, with Dan Campbell. And I know that's not the award, right? It's about what you've done this year. But I think maybe that is the story for Dan Campbell is that what he's done over the past three years building culture, the second half of


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[Assistant] D'Amico Ryan is number two, Mike McDaniel three, Shane Steichen from the Colts is four, and then you get into the longer shot odds with the guys like Sirianni, Shanahan, and Matt LaFleur.


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[Assistant] They lost $561 every day just betting on it and now finally they get the million dollars. Congratulations to you. Uhm, but whenever we talk betting we gotta bring up our friend NBC betting analyst Jay Croucher because he's kinda like the, uh,


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[Assistant] The betting whisperer on stuff like this. He often sees before everyone else who will be trending and who will be talking about by the end of the year. And so he has listed for Pete here his top five coach of the year candidates in terms of likeliest to win.


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[Assistant] His number one, Shane Steichen, for the Indianapolis Colts.


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[Assistant] D'Amico Ryan, he has his number two, Dan Campbell, three, Mike McDaniel, four, and then Matt LaFleur. Wow. Because if they get hot and make a run here without Aaron Rodgers, finally he gets the credit. Exactly right. That he deserves. Yeah. Um, Jay also notes that the Texans play the Colts in week 18, perhaps the first ever


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[Assistant] What do you call them? Sharps? Are they whales? Right. Is whale, is that-


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[Assistant] And then sharks and whales too, right? That applies too. The whales are the big betters, right?


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[Assistant] Uhm, so yes, we've already gotten into a lot of the names here, but you tweeted out to the homies. I mentioned this already. Uh, who are your top three coach of the year candidates right now and why? Can I give you mine? Yeah, well, of course you can.


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[Assistant] I-I did see someone in Detroit tweet this, cause there are a lot of people in Detroit right now.


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[Assistant] But he was, he was saying, and this is, this is speaking reason into the conversation, he goes, you have a defense that is not very good. That is true. And you're nine and three right now.


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[Assistant] Listen to what you're saying. You have nine wins in a year where you're rooting for the Detroit Lions and they don't have a great defense. That is a win in a lot of people's books.


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[Assistant] They've got cap space, they've got draft picks next year, I think they're, the best is yet to come. I do think that actually is true. You know, it's like this year they're proving to themselves that they can be a playoff team.


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[Assistant] Uh, my number two is, uh, is Shane Steichen, and there are a lot of the homies out there that wanted to give some love to Shane Steichen. You've already done it here. Uh, he's the, the stick man per Jay Croucher. What does that mean? Pete, I see the, aka the stick man. What would that mean? The stick man. I don't know either.


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[Assistant] Uh, Bernardo Banos, his number one is Shane Steichen. He goes, he's seven and five with Gardner Minshew. Uh, let's, let's go back into the notebook here a little bit because you did take a look at the Colts offense a little bit more, right? So a lot of people are saying Shane Steichen here and you've complimented him for the last five weeks or


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[Assistant] Probably even more than that now, from what you've seen. You dug into the offense though, more than you have in the past. Yes. What were some of the things that stuck out to you about what he's doing and what they're able to do on it?


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[Assistant] So I feel like in reading your notes, you think in watching them and going through the film that they have, you've liked Pittman, you've liked Alec Pierce for a long time, but you think there might be even more offensive talent than you had previously thought on that side of the


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[Assistant] They do. And those type of guys, they go, oh shit. Could get a past interference. Right. Your guy could come down with it. Yeah. And if they do pick it off, it's probably just like a punt. A lot of times.


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[Assistant] Weren't considered a playoff team by many if any before the seasons.


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[Assistant] Gregorianism says number one, D'Amico Ryan's seeing what he's done with that team and how CJ Stroud has come along so fast as a testament to the culture he put in place. So he's got his fingerprints all over the defense, obviously for them. And you say it's a little bit different defense than what he ran.


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[Assistant] And in watching this tape, real quick, briefly touch on what you saw from the Denver Broncos and Russell Wilson. It seems like you were underwhelmed. Even though we've talked about an improvement for Russell Wilson from what we saw last year, you were still underwhelmed by this tape.


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[Assistant] The number five coach of the year candidate for our guy Jay Croucher was the Green Bay Packers coach, we've already talked about him, Matt LaFleur, uh, but you looked a little bit, we had to, right? I mean, we had to look at this game. If you do your notebook session and don't look at the Packers offense and how they have changed and what they have done here, we're not doing our job. We're not, we're not,


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[Assistant] Living up to the standard that we have set here on the Chris Simpson Button Podcast. Right. And so, uh, you called this team and quote,


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[Assistant] A wide open smash mouth football team. Yeah. For the Green Bay, the Green Bay Packers. I do like that. Uh, so we're going to go inside the numbers with this powered by AWS as we take a closer look at Matt LaFleur, what he has done and what this offense is, is turning into. These are next gen stats. Jordan loves passing chart. According to the next gen stats, he generated a career high.


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[Assistant] Plus 14.7 EPA that's expected points added on his drop backs in the Packers victory over the Chiefs. Loves through for over 100 yards off of play action for the third straight game.


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[Assistant] He leads all quarterbacks with 378 yards off of play action since week number 11. So there's a lot of things going on right there. He is playing above average quarterback now, at least he did in the last game over the Chiefs.


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[Assistant] A wide open smash mouth football team. A transformation of this Packers offense is what you've seen.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's on there. Alright, good. Let's do it. We'll go inside the notebook brought to you by no one yet. We're still working on that.


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[Assistant] So let me ask you there, because that's interesting. Was this a Packers problem that the Chiefs defense had in this game, or are there signs of regression?


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[Assistant] And the Rams who got 98 Jun says Sean McVay insane how the Rams are still in the playoff contention for a team with a bunch of third rounders.


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[Assistant] Plus six thousand right now. Sixty to one. You put one dollar on him, you get sixty bucks.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you think they're bigger, more physical, both on the front in the offensive line and also on the defensive line. I mean, a team that's had Aaron Donald for a long time has been quite physical there, at least with him.


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[Assistant] Although you only need to say it once, he said. You only need to say it twice for it. Uhm, that is true. Uhm, yeaah. Adam Blackall chimes in often. One of our, uh, most vocal homies has Sean McVay as number three for him. Uh, he goes, is it wrong though to have the Shanahan coaching tree just in the top three? Kyle Shanahan, Mike McDaniel too, and then Sean McVay three.


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[Assistant] Let me throw a couple other names out here that the homies have thrown out there to be in the conversation for Coach of the Year. I like this one too.


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[Assistant] Uh, Ted J. Rowland, his number one is John Harbaugh. Number one based on his philosophy of there being no poor plays, just poor execution and players following plays as intended. And Fionn NC 198.


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[Assistant] Had Kyle Shanahan won, he goes, obviously. But number three for him was John Harbaugh. I said Baltimore at powerhouse and getting Lamar back on track after the contract drama.


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[Assistant] He says Kevin O'Connell has to be top three, lost the league leading quarterback as well as league leading wide receiver still in the playoff hunt. I feel like for some of these guys, it depends on what happens from here on out, right? Like if, yeah, if the Vikings go on a run, but there are some signs like the Vikings might not be able to maintain the current trajectory.


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[Assistant] That's the book on Coach of the Year candidates. We end with the song portion of our podcast.


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[Assistant] Our first guy is not a butting superstar. He's a, he's a butted superstar. He's, he's been fully butted. He's full butted. Full butted. Full butted. Ram's defensive tackle, Aaron Donald, what he did against the Cleveland Browns is the second big butt of the


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[Assistant] Just starting. He is a butting superstar. He is. Will Anderson for the Houston Texans. What he did against the Denver Broncos. His first career big butt of the week award. He did lead all edge with eight pressures, two sacks, according to the PFF and had his first punt block in his career too. He was all over the field for Houston.


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[Assistant] There it is, Aaron Donald and Will Anderson, Perfect Shots by Kristen here. Your elephant trophies are in the mail, along with the merch and the t-shirt that we made for you. Yeah, right, sure, coming any day.


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[Assistant] It's all about performance, you know? Even if you have a small butt, you can still win the big butt of the week. Yeah, it's a fast man's game, as Pete says here. Alright, so that song always gets me going, right at the end of the podcast. But we end with, and if you've made it this far in the podcast, we didn't even tease this.


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[Assistant] So if you've made it this far in the podcast, tweet it, tweet it Chris and say you made it to Requiem for a Team for the first time. And if you do that, Pete will like your tweet under Chris's account. Uhm, so it is the Panthers. They're done, they're out of it.


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[Assistant] 1-11, they have been eliminated from playoff contention. Uh, we have our homies playoff prediction to know that we do in the early in the year. So sad to say 65 homies out there are wrong because 65 of the over 1000 homies did have the Carolina Panthers making the postseason.


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[Assistant] Here we go. If you're new to the podcast, we lay these teams to rest. We try to do it as appropriately as possible, right? Respectfully. Yea, please do. So we do the music, Kristen plays the music, and then we get kinda a little somber for a second. Gotta respect the dead. So here we go. Here lie the Carolina Panthers.


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[Assistant] He confirmed it all. He confirmed it all for us. Right there. Well, well done. At one press conference, uh, so we lay them to rest, the Carolina Panthers, and now Pete also, cause I was working basketball last night and he was like, I don't know, you'd be tired. You might not be able to come up with like five lines in a poem.


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[Assistant] So he came up with a poem, but uhm, it's got a swear word, and as you know, I don't swear on this podcast.


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[Assistant] You might as well make it too. I don't want to do that. Alright. You want to do it? So here's Pete's Requiem for a Team in the voice of Chris Simms. Here we go.


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[Assistant] So this week, the Cardinals, the Patriots, and the Titans could all be eliminated. So I'm gonna be in the shop writing some poems here. So the Cardinals, the Patriots, and who was the other one? Titans, you said?


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[Assistant] And so it's hard enough kind of keeping track of just the results of these games sometimes. But then it was like the added layer of keeping track of the results of the games and then like the seeding and like what that meant and who that eliminated.


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[Assistant] You may also know, listening right now, more about which head coaches have been fired and which ones have not been fired. We have a pretty good idea, but we don't know for sure at this point. So, but what we do know is what happened in these games.


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[Assistant] And so let's go through all of them. That's our promise to you, the homies, as always. And let's just start with, I think...


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[Assistant] I think the most disappointing team in the NFL this year.


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[Assistant] The Jacksonville Jaguars. They lose to the Tennessee Titans. All they needed to do to win the division, host a playoff game, was win against a very down Tennessee Titans team this year.


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[Assistant] 28-20 was the final score. They lost five of their last six games. Last year, remember? They won five games to get into the postseason. Won a postseason game. Almost beat the Chiefs. What happened? What happened with the Jaguars?


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[Assistant] I think that's the big thing too. That's what Doug Peterson said after the game. He goes, I think today's game is our season in a nutshell. Penalties, miss tackles, turnovers, failed to execute in critical situations. Carlito Frito asks us. He goes, what happened with Trevor Lawrence and the Jags? They were, they were eight and three. Would you agree they're the most disappointing team in the NFL this year?


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[Assistant] And there were some throws in this game where it's just like, ah, ball sailing on them. And there were other times where I...


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[Assistant] Yeah, Pete notes here that in our top 40 in your top 40 quarterback countdown, 8 of the 9 top quarterbacks were from the AFC. And we said at the time, oh, one's gonna miss the playoffs. In the end, only 3 of those AFC quarterbacks made the playoffs. Josh Allen.


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[Assistant] And of course didn't play their best football today. And Derek Henry, 153 yards in a touchdown and after the game waving to the fans saying, Titan fans, thank you for the greatest eight years of my life. He's a free agent. So this might be it. It looks like it is it. Yeah. Tajay Spears ran pretty well for them. Definitely. Well.


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[Assistant] I always say only do it if it's gonna work. That's my one rule on going for a fourth down. Uh, so one team makes the playoffs from the AFC South and that team is your division winning Houston Texans who beat the Colts 23-19.


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[Assistant] They win the AFC South. They make the playoffs for the first time since 2019. They are the 4C. They're gonna host the Browns. You can watch that exclusively on NBC. Also, you can stream it on Peacock, 4.30pm Eastern Time. And this is how I kept setting you up on the show today. I was like, it's your man crushes all over the field in this game.


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[Assistant] If the Colts had won this game, and they really could have, because they had the ball, they were driving late, they would have been hosting a playoff game, uhm, what'd you make of the end of the game here? Because a lot has been made. Sure. Of the Colts burning that time out. Right. Uh, so it didn't give them a chance with much time or any time on the clock to


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[Assistant] So here's the question on D'Amico Ryan. He'll be playing Kevin Stefanski in the Browns on NBC 430 on Saturday. Uh, one of those two is gonna win Coach of the Year, I think. Yeah, it seems like it. Who do you think it should be? I think I would ride with D'Amico.


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[Assistant] I'm excited to see. I think we got to the point, and I should have mentioned this with the Jaguars game, like you want the 14 best teams, most entertaining teams in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] So over in the NFC, the Dallas Cowboys had a chance to secure the number two seed, secure the NFC East, but they had to go on the road. On the road. They had to play on grass. Oh no. Good news. Oh gosh. They were playing the Washington commanders and they beat them by 28. 38 to 10 was the final score. So we have for the 19th straight season,


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[Assistant] It's not a repeat winner of the NFC East. We'll get to the Eagles again. We've already mentioned them a little bit here. We'll get to the Eagles a little bit later, but the Cowboys took care of business.


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[Assistant] Give him, uh, give him credit for that. Three straight seasons now with 12 or more wins.


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[Assistant] They, they, they looked the part. They did. They did what they needed to do which is more than a lot of teams can say.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that game is Sunday 430 on Fox. Mike McCarthy says about facing his old team, quote, the drama of it. I'm sure you guys will love. We do love it. Uh, I will not participate in it.


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[Assistant] Is he abstaining from this game? No, he just doesn't want to do the drama part. It's playoff time, doesn't matter who we play, to be honest with you. I think, uh, I saw Florio talking about Jerry Jones was asked about Mike McCarthy and his future and basically he said it was like, well, we'll see what happens here in the playoffs. Uhm, the good news for the Dallas Cowboys is...


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[Assistant] Is this three years in a row of twelve and five? Am I, am I wrong about that or am I wrong about that? I mean, it's three straight seasons with twelve or more wins. Is it all twelve and five? Have they been playing seventeen games now for three years in a row?


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[Assistant] Yeah, Dak threw the ball 36 times, just five incompletions in the game. For Washington, the consolation prize?


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, they might say, uh, Bill Belichick might write back though and say, uhm, let me see what happens in Dallas for the first, you know, I just heard something really interesting about Dallas, uh, let me see about that. Uh, my Detroit Lions, they won, they went all out, so they went for the number two seed, and I am glad that, uh,


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[Assistant] They all got hurt at some point, uh, but they beat the Vikings who did have something to play for in this one by 10. So Detroit's going to get the three seed. We do get the Matt Stafford bowl, but I also want to call it the Jared Goff bowl because he goes against his former team as well. Peacock, 8 PM Eastern time and also NBC. Um, so.


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[Assistant] The lines real quick. I would have preferred them to rest everyone. You would have? Absolutely, I would have.


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[Assistant] Maybe this is why they're good this year. And Dan Campbell, they're going for it. They're doing this dumb stuff to us, but it's like part of the magic and the secret sauce.


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[Assistant] Alright, time for give me the headline presented by Hyundai. Nothing more needs to be said about that game. We'll move on. Uh, so this is what we do. We got two games.


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[Assistant] You know what we do. We're in the printing press here. We gotta have a headline. It's late at night, and so the headlines might not be as good, but Chris usually comes through here. We got Rams defeating the 49ers to ensure that Stafford Ball rematch in Detroit. 21-20 a comeback win for the Rams. Yes sir. A nice, uh, with Carson Wentz there. What is your headline for this game?


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[Assistant] What an end of the year turnaround. Seven and one in the last eight games. It's their first regular season win versus the 49ers since 2018, so there's something at least right there. Pooka Nakua went off, mentioned that before too.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so the 49ers already locked into that number one seed. Right. Uh, but they are this year, are you worried at all about this? They are 1-3 this season in one possession games. Well, they're, they're not


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[Assistant] Again, we will watch that game, 8pm, Sunday night on NBC. DavidDave87 says, Rams and Lions just stick it in my veins. And Dcowboy777 says, We need Ahmed's thoughts on his worst nightmare scenario. Realize Stafford comes to town. He's so nervous, it's awesome. And I have to talk about it on TV as an impartial member of the media. Uhm, no, it's gonna be fun. I actually think it's gonna be fun.


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[Assistant] So if they get this first down, if it's an inch over the line, game's over.


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[Assistant] It's short. It's short. Wow, the Dolphins have a chance here. So where's the ball?


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[Assistant] We will keep you updated on a game that you already know the result to, but we don't, so screw it. No. We're into it.


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[Assistant] I mean, it is really bad. So now they're the five seed. They play at the Bucs next Monday. Uh, they had this game in week three. Philly won 25 to 11, but how do you even compare these teams from then and now? Uh, AJ Brown left in the first quarter with a knee injury. We saw Jalen Hertz's finger was pointing the wrong direction for a long time.


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[Assistant] They thought he was saying screw you, and they're like, ah, fine, you put your finger back together. He's like, no, I'm just trying to show you where the injury is there. Uh, so who knows about that? I think AJ Brown did not have, I think it's, the early results are good on that, but.


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[Assistant] Like, they have the talent that can do that. Yeaah. But you just wonder how, you don't...


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[Assistant] What do you make about this number, about your New York Giants? They were 5 and 6 this season when either Tyrod Taylor or Tommy DeVito started. They were 1 and 5 with Daniel Jones. Oh yea, that's not a great


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's interesting to see how that's gonna all shake out there. Uh, Pete is officially off the Daniel Jones train. He's jumped off. Gosh, Pete, don't do that. He's jumped off. Uhm, he's, he goes, but I could jump back on it.


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[Assistant] Once you get off a train though, it's very hard to get back on it. That thing's going fast. Uh, that was Give Me The Headlines presented by Hyundai. As promised, here we go.


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[Assistant] Sunday Night Football's final. The Bills get the win, 21-14, so now the whole playoff picture is set. The Bills, the two seed. They're the division winner. They get to host the Steelers 1pm Eastern on CBS. Pete has updated Gabby back there as well. Good job. Way to go, Gabby. Uhm, so we have the playoff bracket right now.


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[Assistant] Cleveland at, uh, Houston. That's on NBC, we know that. Miami in Kansas City on Peacock.


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[Assistant] Saturday night. Mahomes is all ours. We bought him and we said, we want you on Peacock. We own Mahomes and the Chiefs on Saturday night. And then Steelers hosting, er, uh, at the Bills. So, uh, alright, so let's talk about this Bills. Yeah. A lot of mistakes by Josh Allen. Interceptions fumble. What?


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[Assistant] It's really strange when you look at the box score, because yea, you have that punt return touchdown, you have, I mean, 2a through 2 interceptions in this one too, uh, the Bills outplayed them, they had 473 total yards to the Dolphins, 275, they converted 60% of their third downs, so the Bills did a whole lot of things right in this game, they just messed up at the worst possible.


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[Assistant] So, Buffalo, I think by the end of the year, I mean, we were wrong on the Bills. We both picked them to miss the playoffs. We were wrong. It looked like, at a certain point in the year, it looked like we were right. Well, shit, I mean, it could have been today, right? The Jaguars win.


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[Assistant] That's true. Uh, but by the end of the year, that's the weird thing about this. Yea, you're right. There's a scenario where they were not in the playoffs after, uh, the game today, but I think by the end of the year, you look at this division, they're clearly the best team.


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[Assistant] Alright, so the Bills and Dolphins, we will see them again in the playoffs, not playing each other though, are they? I'm kinda happy about that too. It could have been a rematch.


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[Assistant] They did what they needed to do against a Ravens team that sat Lamar Jackson had nothing to play for. They beat them 17 to 10 Pittsburgh to seven seed.


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[Assistant] As we just mentioned, playing at Buffalo, Sunday at 1 on CBS. So now, despite being a team that's just like, what do they have? Who, who is their...


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[Assistant] They don't even have a franchise quarterback. They're all hurt anyway. They've reached the playoffs for the third time in the last four seasons now.


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[Assistant] Well, they have a chance and they're also going to be one and done.


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[Assistant] We thought that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, maybe, were going to be going home. The Panthers were staying close with them. All the Bucs needed to do was win against the lowly Panthers and they would lock in that number 4 seed. Eventually they did it. 9-0 was the final score, so now they do host the Eagles Monday on ABC.


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[Assistant] Uh, and, and when it's all said and done now, the Bucs have won the NFC South for the third straight season. Yeah, it's pretty incredible.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, it's, they've won five of their last six games.


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[Assistant] Couple clunkers though, lost to the Saints, and this one wasn't great, but Todd Bowles now, Todd Bowles has his first winning season since 2015 with the Jets. How about that? Playoffs two years in a row, but first winning season since 2015. The upset was there today. Alright.


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[Assistant] So now they got the Mike McCarthy bowl at the Cowboys Sunday on Fox. It's their 10th straight win versus the Bears. Although this one was close. You thought it was gonna be close, and you picked the Bears, didn't you?


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[Assistant] That was a big letdown today. 430 total yards for the Packers, 192. Yea, 8 points does not indicate how lopsided this game really was. No, it does not. Jordan Love, over his last 8 games, 18 touchdown passes.


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[Assistant] A Compass Traveler wants to know, from a Bears fan, damn okay Jordan Love, I know Sims likes Fields, but this afternoon we saw one quarterback that has grown, another that has not, or not as much as he should be, unless we blame the different OC and not having continuity. I mean, that really is going to be the $150 million question in this offseason for the Bears. Take a quarterback number one, or pay Justin Fields.


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[Assistant] Let's keep fields and go from there. The thing you mentioned about if you think one of those quarterbacks is like the guy, if you think it's the next Patrick Mahomes, because that's what Jason Garrett, he made the point to me is like, it almost is less about fields and more about your evaluation of these guys. If you really think Caleb Williams is like instantly a top five quarterback in the NFL.


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[Assistant] They won, they didn't get the help, they beat the Cardinals 21-20. Uh, Seattle was eliminated with that Green Bay win. This is a game where good on the Seahawks to come back, but the Cardinals also probably should have won this game too.


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[Assistant] I'll be back. Sounds like fun for me to keep doing the thing that I enjoy doing. Uh, and Arizona, I think, you know, we'll have time in the off season to talk about them and what they might do. It seems like Kyler's our guy. Yeah. Right. Gannon said that and this is a nice end of the year for them. Right. Definitely. It's a lot of the Chicago


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[Assistant] I think you could say the same thing about the Saints team because they scored 48 points against the Atlanta Falcons. 48-17 was the final. Uh, they needed some help to get in. They did their job. They did not get the help they needed. They did outscore the Falcons in the second half, 31-0. This was a route. Derek Carr, four touchdown passes, uh, no interceptions. And then at the end of the game,


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[Assistant] Dennis Allen said to take a knee and James Winston and the team on the field had other ideas. They go, we don't want to do that. We want to give Jamal Williams a touchdown. So they did that. And so, uh, Arthur Smith got mad at Dennis Allen, swore at him a couple of times. Got mad. Got mad.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no, no. I can tell you what he said. Our beeping person doesn't want you to do that either. Uh, and then after the game Dennis Allen apologized. He goes, they went rogue on me. I didn't want to do that, but those guys, those guys did it out there. Go yell, go F-bomb them. Yeah, it's weird.


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[Assistant] But it's not the right, probably, I mean, like, a bad, like, his worst season in a long time, like, I'm sure he didn't want that, right? It's just like, it's a weird time to- It is weird. It seems weird not to do a send-off, but it also seems weird in that setting, in that environment. He wouldn't want that.


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[Assistant] In the Chiefs and Chargers, you're not alone in that opinion. Chiefs and Chargers, nothing to play for in this one. In fact, Mahomes and Kelsey did not play. But you know who did play? In the win for the Chiefs? Chris Jones.


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[Assistant] He needed half a sack to reach 10 sacks on the season, and that would lock in his $1.25 million incentive. So we go inside the numbers powered by AWS.


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[Assistant] On his 31st pass rush of the game, he got that sack. He got that million and a quarter. Uh, he had 12 pressures on 31 pass rushes. So he was trying to get it. Oh, he was. And so we're seeing the dots right here.


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[Assistant] Go in with momentum. Uh, Powerbomb has a good question about this though. He goes, damn okay. If everyone plays for each other and team is constantly preached with the.


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[Assistant] So that means that the Chiefs front office was rooting against Chris Jones in this game today. Maybe not the Chiefs front office, but the owner might have been. It's his money. Alright, so the Chiefs get the win there. They go in with momentum now. That's the important thing. They go in with momentum into the playoffs on Peacock exclusively $5.99 per month.


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[Assistant] Uh, Bengals got the win over the Browns. Neither team had anything to play for. We told you already about the Browns being the 5 seed playing the Texans on Saturday on NBC. Uh, OldGreg001. Let's give him the comment on this one. He goes, we need to acknowledge the Browns are a different team on the road.


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[Assistant] They're eight and one at home, three and five on the road. They allow 13.8 points per game at home and an NFL worst.


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[Assistant] I would not, I do not endorse that at all. Well no, first of all, no, no. Old Greg, how much do you have as life savings? Like if it's only like a few bucks, go for it. Go for it? Yea. If it's too, if it's over, if it's 1.25 million dollars, don't do that.


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[Assistant] So old Greg, you can bet your life savings minus $20. Does that $20 earmark for Chris Sims? We gotta bet old Greg 001? Come on buddy. Wednesday we'll talk more about that matchup, more about the Browns too there. One final game to talk about. Raiders defeat the Broncos 27-14.


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[Assistant] Ant dot dot dot has the million dollar question that may have already been answered when you're listening to this podcast. Has Antonio Pierce done enough?


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[Assistant] I think I would keep him. I would. So that's the big question this offseason for the Raiders. The big question for the Broncos. Who will be Sean Payton's quarterback in 2024? Yea, that is the big question.


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[Assistant] Alright, so we said this was going to be a short one because some of these games we didn't need to talk about at all. We were wrong. Yea, I mean you're a horrible host. You always lead me down the route of conversation. You really do. I ask one more question and you're like, that's actually a good point. And then you go far too long. No, it was perfect. It was perfect, yea. We yelled at Pete to be short and he was not. So we blame Pete for all of this.


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[Assistant] You're gonna hear the F word. I mean, that's just part of the podcast. You're just not used to hearing it from Ahmed Fareed. We'll see if Connor Rogers throws out a few today. He's usually professional. I don't know if I've actually heard him swear on this podcast either, but I will say he does swear in real life, unlike Ahmed. So maybe we can get that out of him. What's up, man? Good to see you.


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[Assistant] I think that's the real, that's, that would be the honest answer, right? That's where my mind goes. I mean, like, yeah, if my team has Mahomes and Travis Kelsey and Tyree kill, we're going to be pass first. I'm sorry. That's just the way it is. But I think in general, if you just gave me like,


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[Assistant] Alright, 11 okay football players or whatever. I am, I'm old school. I would tend to be a little bit more.


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[Assistant] Run oriented, I'm not saying it would be 50-50, but it certainly wouldn't be, I wouldn't be 70-30 pass or something like that. It would be 60-40 pass, 55-45.


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[Assistant] I just believe in physicality, controlling the line of scrimmage. You know, I also think, you know, the run game, if you're a little creative and thought, you know, well thought out in that department, it is tough for defenses to, to, you know, figure out how to stop that.


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[Assistant] And then the things you can do off of it, that's what I love. And then, you know, you talk about some of the top tier offenses in football, right? And I think you've heard me say this before.


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[Assistant] A lot of them play through the run game. I mean, the 49ers, we know what they're doing. The Ravens, we know what they're doing. The Dolphins, as awesome as they are at throwing, they still stay extremely patient with the run because they want those play actions and everything to create some of the disadvantages, right?


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[Assistant] Closer to 50-50 than ever before. You know, the Eagles. So, I do think the run game


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[Assistant] You know, opens up other avenues as far as play action pass, screens, screens to the wide receivers, and then gives your team an attitude.


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[Assistant] And, you know, and, and if it's the, and of course gives you other, I think, ways of like, hey, the elements are bad. Oh, well, we can run the ball. Okay. Oh, they have a good pass rush. Well, we can have a run game to slow them down a little bit. I think it does. And then I add it on top. And I know we've had this combo before too.


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[Assistant] In college football right now, they don't see pulling, block down, block down, pulling guard, oh no, now the fullback's coming around the edge to kick out too, right? So this is like for the young front seven players, the, the NFL run game is an adjustment for them and I think that gives you an advantage as well.


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[Assistant] Is the big thing. And all those awesome plays you see the 49ers and Dolphins make, you know, most weeks, not the Dolphins last week, but when you, when you see that a lot of the, oh, there goes Deebo around the edge on a reverse. Well, it was a fake run to McCaffrey, right? Oh, there goes Tyreek. Oh, it was a fake run to Modstert.


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[Assistant] Right? I mean, so much of what they do and some of the plays that we think are so cool are created because of run game stuff, and then the wrinkles off of it, and uh, yeaah. Let alone, hey!


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[Assistant] Defenses hurt this week. We want to control the ball, you know, keep the clocks, keep them fresh. We got a few banged up people. We don't like how we match up against this team. Oh well, we can run the ball and chew up some clock. It's another reason that, you know, I'd be a little bit more run oriented, let alone


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[Assistant] No, you cannot. You definitely can't. We're gonna get to some teams as we go through these tiers and break this down that, yeaah, we're gonna see teams have made that adjustment to protect their backup quarterback and keep them still competitive in the playoff hunt. So let's jump right into it.


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[Assistant] That's uh, that's true. He definitely seems more relaxed and at ease because he's got a quarterback that he knows he can trust and he doesn't have to manage and he doesn't have to worry about weight. I went over something 17 times this week and


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[Assistant] Is my quarterback gonna screw it up on Sunday? And he doesn't have to worry about any of that anymore. And I am one.


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[Assistant] That, uh, you know, I had to talk about this last week at at 49 or 701. I hope you heard me talk about it on the podcast. I think Shanahan is coach of the year. I'm sick of a little bit of the, oh, the exceeded expectations and all that. There's a lot of great people up for this this year, you know, but


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[Assistant] One, I almost look at it a little bit more and go, my main thesis, Connor, is I think Shanahan's the best head coach in football right now, and I honestly don't think it's close, right? I would think, I think him and Andy Reid are a little bit of a tier of their own.


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[Assistant] For the results and things they've done over the last five years, right? I mean, if Shanahan and the 49ers go to the NFC championship game, it'll be four to five years they have done that.


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[Assistant] Right? I don't know, you know, we, we, uh, people always tell me, oh, well, it's for the guys that exceed expectations. Man, did, did every, I mean,


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[Assistant] We went to the NFC Championship game with the third string quarterback last year. Did they not exceed expectations? Why didn't he win it that year? Did they think they were going to go to the Super Bowl the year they did with Jimmy Garoppolo? They came out of nowhere and were one of the best teams in football the year before they, you know, were 0-10 for the start of the year.


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[Assistant] So, he didn't get it that year. I just, I feel like it's a year here with what he's doing, what he's doing with Purdy, how dominant they are, and how they look like they are clearly the best team in football right now. I don't disagree with my man at 49 or 701.


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[Assistant] So yes, that's kind of my point too that this is why I should go into it. And to your point with the defensive thing and what I've been trying to tell people really over the last 10, 11 weeks is the defense is his.


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[Assistant] The defensive coordinators come in there and he goes, this is what I want on defense. Now you step in. Wilkes has to learn what they do in San Francisco. Wilkes doesn't get to bring his scheme in. Now I'm sure he's got some ideas and he gets to tweak and tinker a little bit, but yea, to that point


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[Assistant] You know, and then the drafting as well. That's all Shanahan as well. Now I know he messed up Trey Lance, but I can give you a long list of other ones he didn't mess up. And you know, mid round guys that are stars and everything like that. So, uh, that's why I stick up and I know I'm a little biased for my friend there.


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[Assistant] So I mean, I'm gonna, I'm thinking, uh, Shane Steichen's probably one of those, right? You said three are in the AFC? Three are in the AFC. Gosh. Uh, D'Amico, Ryan. Yep. Okay. And then Mike McDaniel. Yep. Nailed it. Yes.


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[Assistant] Two of those three guys are from his staff, of course, which I find hilarious. And then the one in the NFC. It's rapidly trending the wrong way. Well, that's gotta be Dan Campbell, the kneecap biter. Still the favorite though, Dan Campbell. Wow, still the favorite. Well, I understand that too. A little bit like you were talking about with Shanahan, I think there's a little bit of like,


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[Assistant] What he's done the last two years to also turn that around goes into this conversation. But yea, they're kind of limping here towards the finish line. Hopefully they can get that limp, you know, corrected. So let's talk a little bit about the night.


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[Assistant] The playbook is unlimited because of Brock and how smart he is and how he can digest everything, right? That's why Shanahan likes Matt Ryan and Kirk Cousins and those type of guys, right? That's why I like Mac Jones coming out in the draft, right? I can give them 70,000 plays and 70,000 rules.


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[Assistant] And they'll remember it all and execute it like I had talent and I could play quarterback, right? That's how he looks at it. So I think that's the big thing.


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[Assistant] Let alone, you know, and I know the system quarterback thing's a big thing with Brock Purdy. He does make plays outside of the system. It's not Josh Allen or Rahomes. I get that. We know that, right?


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[Assistant] There is, you know, better mobility than he gets credit for. So he makes a run or gets outside of the pocket and makes a few completions every game. That's, you know, backyard footballish, you know, his ability to sometimes see plays or have a feel for what's going to pop open before it even pops open. I think his next level, his anticipation.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think all of that, and then the subtle movements in the pocket, and it's throwing even though it's not a laser arm.


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[Assistant] It is like absolutely on target like almost all the time to where they don't leave yards on the field. If there's somebody open for a 70 yard bomb, he hits them in stride and they get a 70 yard bomb. They don't have to go back and catch it and fall down for a 38 yard gain and then we kick a field goal.


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[Assistant] They maximize it, right? Oh, here goes, you know, Deebo Samuel across the middle. You hit him on the run, it's a 60 yard touchdown. If you make him slow down and stop...


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[Assistant] Ah, it'll be first and 10 on the 25 and we might settle for a field goal. That's where he is special and takes advantage of all that's there to be had, let alone gives them a little extra too with, you know, some backyard type plays here and there.


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[Assistant] Matt Ryan, you know, a little taste of I think why he like Kirk Cousins too, but he didn't get an extended period of time applying and coaching him either. So, but I, yes, I think, yes, it has a lot of that feel and to your point, you know, yeah, they're not dinkin' dunk, right?


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[Assistant] What do we stop? It's the greatest run game in football. They throw screens out here really well, right? They got reverses and speed sweeps that we're worried about. Like, oh no, now it's D-ball going across the middle for a 44-yard gain, right? You gotta tackle them. You gotta tackle them. So there are just so many things that they throw out you, throw at you and


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[Assistant] He's really good at taking advantage of those. And his throwing down field and the aggressive explosive plays are definitely an improvement for last year.


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[Assistant] Last year it was good, but there was still a number of plays that I'd come on here and go, well, this play, like I was just saying, this should have been a touchdown, but it was, uh, he was out at the 25 or whatever. There was a lot of that that doesn't happen this year. And that was one of the encouraging things about their three game loss, their three game losing streak.


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[Assistant] I know we made mistakes in some of those games, but the bangles game, I remember sitting there watching it going,


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[Assistant] This might be the best I've ever seen Brock Purdy play. I know he had a few turnovers and mistakes, but he made some throws in the game to me that gave me confidence to go, wait, if they don't dominate in the run game and do everything the right way, they're going to still be okay. Cause Purdy can make some plays and decisions where you just go, that's next level. And that's where I do give him a lot of credit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a great question. And, and you know, there are a lot alike. They really are. I think where, uh, and I tried to explain this a few weeks ago where, you know, the motions, the shifts, the stressing of defensive rules are, this is where they're next level. Shanahan and, and, you know, McDaniel.


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[Assistant] I think that the, the Dolphins do it a little bit more through the pass premise, right? We're going to pull the ball and fake it and ding, boom, boom, screens, quick pass over the middle, boom, boom, and two is just going to dish it out where Shanahan


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[Assistant] Does all the movements and same stuff that McDaniel does too, but he just goes, we're going to do it so I can get McCaffrey up the middle for 10 and then 12 and then 10 and then he'll cut it back and get 70 or, and then we'll fake it to him and then I'll hit Debo over the middle or George Kittle. He'll be wide open. So that's how they do it.


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[Assistant] I think McDaniel and them do it the opposite way. They go, hey, Tua and Waddle, Tua and Waddle, and Tyreke and Tyreke and Waddle and Waddle and Tyreke. And then you're going, oh my gosh, I'm going to play past Stevens. And he goes, Mozart up the middle, Mozart on the edge. So it's just a little bit way of a different approach as far as how they attack you because of their personnel set.


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[Assistant] The 49ers have more of an advantage in the run game thing because their own line is physical and that's the way they are. The one thing I worry about with the Dolphins, and you saw it on Monday night, is if the game gets grimy and ugly, their own line gets overpowered.


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[Assistant] Right? And that's what I worry about. The Titans basically said, we're not gonna let you throw the ball the other night and we'll break it down here in a second.


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[Assistant] And they were outnumbered in the box, in the running game, almost the whole game. And, you know, 158 yards rushing, right?


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[Assistant] By Miami, that's a good number, I get that, but I think when you take into account that like,


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[Assistant] But we just think our front four will be able to do good enough to where you won't totally expose us in the run game. That was a win for the my, uh, the Tennessee Titans. And that's what does worry me about the Dolphins going forward against some of the upper tier type of football teams.


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[Assistant] I mean, probably not, but listen, I've been banging the table for this for the last five weeks. Why? Why can't he win the award? We all sit here every week and in the grand scheme of things, the whole NFL, we talk about Tyree Kill, the individual, more than any other player in all of football. Every week, all season long.


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[Assistant] The offense is doing revolutionary things and then the main driving force is him.


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[Assistant] So that's where, like, I'm trying to break barriers here a little bit and stop this, the quarterback just gets it no matter what. That's gotta end.


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[Assistant] I just don't understand that. And that's where I inject, you know, McCaffrey or Tyree kill, I think deserve to be in the conversation because the offenses run through them in both places. This is different than like


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[Assistant] You know, Kansas City where the offenses run through my homes and always has been. Right? This is like, no, we have some other guys and then the quarterback just wheels and deals off of that. And you know, they deserve to be in the conversation. I'm with that.


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[Assistant] Right? And we're going to get into a minute. I'm going to show you some pictures and some things that the Tennessee Titans did where it's a little disappointing the Dolphins didn't take advantage of it to where you go like, yeah, they're doing all this to stop Tyreek and they're basically going, here, if you want this, you can have it because we can't stop everything. So we're just betting on that you won't do this, right?


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[Assistant] And we'll get it to it, but yeaah, I think for me, through this point of the year, right now,


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[Assistant] And Dak Prescott's making a strong case right now, uh, and right up there with him. I, like last week, if you made me vote, I would have voted Tyree Kills the MVP of football.


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[Assistant] They couldn't do crap. So I understand when they went down and make, you know,


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[Assistant] They, they, they have the two turnovers late in the football game. You're going, well their, their offense hasn't done shit since the first half basically. They had one ugly field goal drive.


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[Assistant] You know, in the second half. Other than that, you were going, well damn, yeaah, they messed it up. That's it. It's 28-13, and all of a sudden they look like a different offense the last two drives down the football field. And you get Miami into, oh, we don't want to give the big play up, and they change their scheme a little bit, trying to protect and make the team run out the clock a little bit.


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[Assistant] Uh, but then yeaah, Will Levis just, you know, again continues to really, really impress and prove us all wrong. Who didn't have him ranked high as a draft quarterback or eligible draft quarterback last year, but impressive win by the Titans. You know, Vrabel's a master at managing games, right? Managers in the clock.


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[Assistant] I, you know, coming up with a game plan that certainly slowed down Miami. And then Miami, you know, the block field goal, the fumbling, the snap of the five, they could never get the game on their terms really, except to the end of the football game. And you know, that's when their defense kind of broke and Will Levis went up and down the football field.


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[Assistant] Well, so this, I, this is, this is a defense that they played throughout the night. Okay? You don't see this, and I want everybody to check this out a little bit. Okay? Cause they did this time and time again. Where...


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[Assistant] There's three safeties deep as you look like right here, right? They're playing, you know, a corner.


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[Assistant] Number 21 here, Nickelback when they get an 11 personnel as the weak side linebacker and the weak side corner basically, right?


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[Assistant] 21's a, uh, so, so, so you got like Sean Murphy Bunting, number zero, right on the top right there. He's actually the corner, but they're using him as the weak side.


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[Assistant] Okay, we got seven guys in the box, sure, but within doing that, there was nobody out over Waddle, right?


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[Assistant] And you could also, if you play actioned or ran 30 into the flat or anything like that, you could run the ball a week cause 21 had to worry about getting to the flat to be the cover two corner.


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[Assistant] Right? So, unusual alignment, but again what we talk about sometimes with these great offenses is you're gonna have to cheat something and take a tactical chance or risk and this is what they did throughout the night


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[Assistant] Right? And in different formations too. And I don't understand why the Dolphins, they could have thrown a 5 or a 10 yard out to Jalen Waddle the whole football game. Yea, let's look at that. I mean, here you go.


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[Assistant] Look at this right here. This is one play for you, alright? This is 21 person out. Look at Waddle down here. He has a corner that's 12 yards off of him and Sean Murphy bunting, right?


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[Assistant] He's over there as the weak side linebacker, but he's really playing weak side corner. He's there to just go, hey, we're here for the run game, but I'm not really here for the run game. I'm just here as a presence and a number to check. So my point is,


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[Assistant] And I could have shown you 20 screenshots like this. Where I'd go, all you have to do is fake a run.


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[Assistant] And he could just go like that right there, just run four yards and I'll hit you and turn around. You'll be one on one with Murphy Butting. Fake the run, run a five yard out. I'm going to throw it to you because 21, if you fake the run at him, McCreary, he's got to respect it because he's actually responsible for that run gap too.


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[Assistant] They could've, they could've gotten the titans out of this defense, if they just threw the ball to waddle, three or four times, they would've gone, aw fuck, they figured it out. We gotta get out, we gotta do something else. Uh, and now they're not gonna be able to maybe toy with Tyree Kill. But as you see, they have, and can you go back one picture, Pete, here? Sorry about that.


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[Assistant] It's just that, as you can see, they came to a determination through their numbers and their breakdown, Connor, where they must have gone,


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[Assistant] They don't throw the backside guy very much. And in fact, when they do, he probably comes that way to the front side. Right? So they were like, so what? And then they were probably also like, they don't throw out routes. So who cares? Their numbers don't show that. So let's take a risk here and see if they figure it out.


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[Assistant] And within that, you know, here you see there's four eligibles to a side here for the Miami Dolphins. And, you know, the Tennessee Titans got everybody over there.


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[Assistant] In dropping into the zone, so it makes it for tight windows and some of the plays and where they were designed for the first and second read weren't open because Miami McDaniel Tua let the Titans cheat. And I talk about this all the time on this podcast.


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[Assistant] They don't want to do that. They don't, you know, if he throws an out route, he wants to be able to throw one down the field where he can loft it up and kind of let Tyree go run and get it, right?


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[Assistant] You know, which he did throw a few of those during the game. Yeah. Where, you know, those cover two out routes where he'd get up on the safety and run like a 20 yard out route.


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[Assistant] Two has got great timing and feel and he puts it out there in the right spot and he's accurate and all that. But I think your point's right. I think that one, the Dolphins don't like to do that.


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[Assistant] That's, they gotta watch for stuff like that because teams are gonna cheat and do stuff because you just can't stop all that they do. And that was, you know, yeah, uh, uh, uh, a little disappointing that they didn't take advantage of, of the opportunity there to get, I mean, again,


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[Assistant] You know, little run fake throw a five yard out route to Waddle. He's going to be one on one when Sean Murphy bunting all night long, who's a phenomenal player. Don't get me wrong, but still I would like Waddle or Tyreek and those instances on the 10 yard out route, you know, to make something happen more times than not.


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[Assistant] He's not starting yet, so that tells you he's not totally back.


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[Assistant] It's coming. It's coming. Yeaah. You know, I still think you can see a little bit of reluctance to like really plant that leg in the ground and turn the corner like you used to. Right. But it's all getting better. He's a phenomenal football player. And listen, the Titans, you know, uh,


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[Assistant] Al Shair, Al Shair, Murphy Bunting, Deniko Autry, um, Amani Hooker, right? And of course Harold Landry, especially towards the end of the game. I mean, they really showed out and played big time football and popped a lot as I was watching this film.


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[Assistant] It's the shortest passing game in football and they just line up in it. So when, oh, hey, we're, oh, it's just this formation again. Oh, it's this boring ass play again. Oh yeah. And it's seven yards or shorter.


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[Assistant] I mean, you're not going to beat the good defenses in football playing that way. That's why they got stomped by the 49ers. The 49ers like, we know where they're going to be. We get to come downhill the whole game.


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[Assistant] And, you know, we've seen a lot of these plays in our first week of OTAs. Like, that's how basic it was. So, like, phenomenal adjustment by the Dallas Cowboys. The motion, the movement has all gone up, and I think the biggest thing...


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[Assistant] Is just the aggressive nature of the passing game. That's the biggest thing. I don't sit here and go, oh wow, this is McDaniel or Shanahan or whatever here. But I just go, wow, they're attacking. They attack now always. And they should. They can protect phenomenal.


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[Assistant] Dak can stand in there and throw the ball down the field at a phenomenally high level. And then they got the receivers to go along with that. Right? So, you look at it from that aspect, they were


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[Assistant] Leaving potential on the field by this five yard slant, six yard hitch route, right? And I give Mike McCarthy a lot of credit for making that adjustment.


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[Assistant] Right, uhm, the Eagles to me are a little too simple in the secondary. They're a little too like, oh, hey, this is what the coverage is, quarterback, you know what we're in, right? They're a little bit too in line on the Jimmy's and the Joe's right now. I wish they would disguise and change things up a little bit, right? That would be the first thing I would say.


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[Assistant] Now, I, this is a game where, you know, the secondary, I know statistically, it doesn't look great.


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[Assistant] Really, there was a number of plays early on in the game. I went, the eagles are kind of all over their pass game. It's just when Dak has five and a half seconds to throw.


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't, you can't cover that long. Somebody's gonna come open. Right? So that to me was one of the biggest issues. Is that, uh, the, the Eagles pass rush when it was just the front four.


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[Assistant] Absolutely no chance to get after Dak Prescott. And I just can't believe that. And again, that goes into something I've been saying too, is that they get a trick it up upfront to help out a little bit as well.


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[Assistant] I mean the 49ers don't just stand there with their four guys all the time and just go, you four go.


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[Assistant] They put Fred Warner in a gap here or there. They move three linemen to one side and one lineman on the other side. They give you different looks. The Dallas Cowboys, right? It's the best pass Russian football. So they just go, hey, front four, you do it yourself. They got a million people at the line of scrimmage. They create advantages.


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[Assistant] You know, that, that, that, what do I want to say? Prop up the pass rush to a greater level. Uh, and that to me was one of the concerning things about the Eagles in this football game.


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[Assistant] Well, and this be aggressive tier, right? To me, and it's not that, but I got the Cowboys, the Packers, the Jaguars, and the Saints just to hit them on this be aggressive phase here.


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[Assistant] And the big thing to me is just when they're aggressive, their offense is great.


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[Assistant] That, that's what I say. You know, they have good meat and potatoes of their offense, but when they push the ball down the field, it opens up all the meat and potatoes and makes them a much dangerous football team. So that's where I say these are teams where I just go, they have to have a little emphasis on


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[Assistant] Wait, we gotta remind ourselves to throw the ball down the field, maybe take a few shots, draw up a few plays in the dirt every week to do that, and it changes their offense drastically. And that's why I put these four teams in this area. So what was different for Jordan Love against the Giants? Yeah, well, first off, okay, he threw the ball like shit.


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[Assistant] I mean, Troy Aikman and Joe Buck, they were all like, hey, he's off early on, he's missing throws.


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[Assistant] That was the big thing. You know, the other, you know, I love their offense. They do a lot. You know, there was some plays and things to be had there early in the game where they could have got the Giants into a game they didn't want to play, but he didn't take advantage of it. Jordan Love, the one thing, I love all his arm angles. He's fearless in the pocket.


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[Assistant] His ability to throw off the back foot with pressure and all that is awesome.


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[Assistant] But when there's no pressure, we don't have to throw off the back foot and do this sidearm flick.


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[Assistant] It doesn't work in the elements like we had in the Northeast here on Monday night. It was cold and windy here. You need to get your feet underneath you, step into throws and throw lasers through it. And he started to do that at the end of the football game.


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[Assistant] But too many of the throws early on were, let me hang back there and kinda flick it and the wind blew it up. And he didn't have the same accuracy that we have seen over the last month. So that was the issue.


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[Assistant] Generally over the last month, the Packers have been extremely aggressive, tons of movement, motions, shifts, all that, and to me it unlocks Jordan Love and their offense and made them much more dangerous even though Monday night didn't show that.


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[Assistant] He's, he's big and he can fly. Like he's one of those guys that you'd go.


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[Assistant] Other than Tyreek Hill, if you put every, all the receivers in football in a race, you'd go, he might be one of the guys that wins it, right? If you take Tyreek Hill out of the race, I think he's at least in that conversation of guys. And yeah, he changes their offense. He's the guy that like, if it's one-on-one, we're going to him.


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[Assistant] And he's the guy too, a little bit like Tyreek, when he's on the field, teams go, ooh, we can't play this coverage. We got to do this because we got to protect against him. He can run by all our guys and it opens up other stuff within their offense. And that is, I mean, your point is real. It cannot be.


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[Assistant] Under-talked about, or what do I want to say? I don't know what I want to say. Understated. Understated. Thank you very much. Enough that his importance to that offense and everything that Jordan loved, the run game, the reverses, all of that work at a higher level when Watson's on the field.


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[Assistant] I, I mean, there's, I wonder. I do. I, I definitely has that thought crept into my brain a few times over the last, you know, six or seven weeks. Definitely.


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[Assistant] There are games and plays when I watch the Saints and go, Derek Carr was way too conservative. There was plays down the field. What's he looking at? Why did he check it down so early? Right? There's a lot of that. So yes, that's the problem. And yeah, with the Saints, it's, you know,


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[Assistant] It's, it's more Derek Carr-ish than the offense itself. That I just go, man, come on, just, you know, hang in there, have a little bit of a different mindset and fire it a little bit instead of like, you know, I don't know, managing the game, being a little too careful. Uh, I think he's making it harder on himself in that offense than he needs to.


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[Assistant] Exactly, that's where I, you know, you know, yes, that's, all year I've been like, ugh, the saints, ugh. There's no way they should be this boring or unexplosive as they are with this group of guys that you just mentioned.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they definitely will. I don't know if the personnel up front needs to change a whole lot. I think they just need to stay healthy.


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[Assistant] That's how I look at it. I think they're good enough to make any adjustment, you know.


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[Assistant] That you seem, that they necessary or seems necessary. I don't think that's the issue at least.


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[Assistant] You know, in my assessment, I think a little bit is just, is all of it put together is just that, hey, the offense is learning, the players are learning a new offense and a new scheme, Munkins learning his personnel a little bit.


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[Assistant] You know, Munkins learning, I think, you know, he had to learn some of their run plays and go, wait, wait, wait, I, I, yeah, they, they've been awesome at running the football here. Uh, I don't do these all the time, but let me start to learn how you do it so I can incorporate in my offense. Cause it's a good thing. I don't want to just lose this. So I think that's the big thing.


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[Assistant] You know, and then of course when you add on Lamar and his ability to keep the ball and run off of that, I think they're just a little bit still tinkering with all of it, right? But when they're at their best is when they run the ball effectively.


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[Assistant] Whether that's, and I don't mean Lamar scrambles, I mean true running the football, you know, with the running backs, Gus Edwards, Mitchell, design run by Lamar every now and then, when they do that,


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[Assistant] And the way Lamar's throwing the ball, they're gonna be unstoppable if they can just get that going because it's gonna be too hard to match up with all the guys they got in Lamar's right arm.


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[Assistant] It gives you just numbers advantages all the time, right? And it can affect...


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[Assistant] Coverages. And that's the biggest thing. Right? You know, when Lamar and Jalen Hurts and that running game are all encompassing, working at all levels, right?


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[Assistant] They get looks in the pass game where you just go, quarterbacks would lick their chops and go, Oh my God, they're going to play like this on second and eight because they're so worried about our run and everything we do. Like I'm getting this coverage against this play. Oh my gosh, this is going to be fun here, right? That's what it really does. That's the big thing.


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[Assistant] The big thing is, you gotta be able to, that's where like,


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[Assistant] But, but to me I would go, it's still not on the level of the 49ers in my opinion. The 49ers are getting no rushing production out of their quarterback, right? You know, they run it the traditional way and you gotta bend to all of that, right? Right now, in Philadelphia and in Baltimore, there's too many


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[Assistant] There's not enough of the traditional running. There's a little bit too much of the Lamar scramble and the Jalen Hurts scramble that's adding to that and I would like to see less of that and more of the traditional run with the quarterback design run with it. That's when they work and hit on all cylinders on both of those offenses.


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[Assistant] I don't disagree. This is, you know, you've been listening, you know, at TruthMatters233, you've been listening to the pod, hopefully, you've been hearing me say this. You know, I don't think Siriano is calling the plays. Sure, he's got his finger and what they're calling as far as the game plan during the week and all that.


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[Assistant] Bottom line is, I think he needs to get involved more. I do. You know, again, this is Brian Johnson. He's never called plays in the NFL and this is not disrespect to him and he's primarily got a college background. You know, and I don't think, he's learned on the fly too. He is. Let alone


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[Assistant] The plays are too basic. To the point of the route tree is horrible and the lack of motion. Yea, the plays are too basic. Almost like their defense, it's too reliant on the Jimmy's and the Joe's and the X's and the O's need to be picked up. Their run game, I mean, it's elementary.


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[Assistant] Again, they, they are the best offensive line in football. It's not close, but I don't care. If you only have two running plays, you're not going to be, you're not going to be the best running team in football. They have like two running plays, and I'm not joking.


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[Assistant] Like, it is a very limited Rolodex of plays they go to the run game. It's not gonna get it done against the good defenses in football. Last year,


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[Assistant] You're gonna have to gamble and do some crazy shit. That's where I got into, you know, Steve Spagnolo and going with the Dolphins and the Eagles last year. I just went, you gotta take chances and go like, you're gonna laugh to yourself and go, I can't believe I'm calling this defense right now, but there's no way you could stop all of the stuff they do.


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[Assistant] That is not the case this year. It's simple. Pass game, run game. And then I think when you add that into the players are pressing, Jalen Hertz isn't playing his best, AJ Brown, you know, fumbled, Devontae Smith fumbled. They're trying to make plays with their pure ability. It's leading to, you know, less than performances right now by the Philadelphia.