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[Assistant] Show me that he was running the skinny post, not the big post that Dan Orlovsky is talking about. He runs seven steps, he puts his foot in the ground, and looks back at the ball like he's supposed to get the ball right around there.


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[Assistant] Now it's a crap throw and Zach Wilson to our homies point, his feet are off. He looks to the left at first and then comes back. It's like he looked to the left and let's see if we can just, I want to watch the start of the play again too.


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[Assistant] Uhm, looks to the left like, oh wait, maybe this is cover three or something of that nature here at first. And...


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[Assistant] Then realizes, wait, this is the coverage the coach told me to get back to the skinny post. Again, that's where I don't, I don't like making comments like, I don't know if he doesn't know the playbook when it looks like there's some different rules here. And I've had this rule in place in one of the offenses I was in. So that's where I would just.


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[Assistant] I'm not sure and I, yeaah, I just, again, he played like crap yesterday. I know it hasn't been beautiful.


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[Assistant] I don't sit here though through the five game win streak and come away and go, man he's missing plays and throws all over the field. You know that's how I judge it off of. You know that's what I do.


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[Assistant] I'm not afraid, even though, cause I made the guy my number one quarterback, I don't give a shit. Like I'm not, my ego is not that big, nor do I care to like say, hey I was wrong and this guy's playing like crap right now.


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[Assistant] I mean, anybody that's been listening to me knows I will do that. Yesterday was crappy, but it was a shitty offensive performance too. And then they got...


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[Assistant] You know, to me one of their biggest problems is some of the young guys just talk too much. That'd be the other thing I'd say. You know, Zach could answer that question better. Garrett Wilson's gotta stop acting like he's the state of the union addressor of the team now. Like he's been around and gone to seven Pro Bowls.


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[Assistant] You know, you got Elijah Moore talking like he's a, he's a bona fide superstar and he should be able to just call for the ball and I should be traded when I want to be like, get out of here. So those are some of the biggest issues around this issue as well as far as the Jets, but that was ugly and we'll see. I'll watch this film and I'll let you know. And if I see people wide open,


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[Assistant] But then, I'll go, man, Zach was horrible. But I know in the game, two games ago, against the Bills, he was really good. And I know in the two games before that against the Patriots, where it wasn't good,


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[Assistant] I came away going, there wasn't like four people open the whole day. He threw the ball crappy. I get that, so.


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[Assistant] You know, and again, the other thing I just want to say is they're five and two with him as a starter.


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[Assistant] They're five and two. I don't, I don't, and it's, it's a weird thing. I know it was ugly, but it's weird.


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[Assistant] Well, I want somebody to show me on Twitter, I mean, Dan Orlovsky, anybody, show me on Twitter plays where guys are wide open and that he's missing it. You know, again, I'll get there, I'll probably get there tomorrow before I start to watch that film, but, uh, that's where I just, I just wanna, he showed me a play where everybody was blanketed.


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[Assistant] And he's been under pressure the whole game already to that point. And now we're gonna talk about if he doesn't know the playbook. And I just don't think that's a fair assessment to make.


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[Assistant] Well, it's, it's, you know, again, I don't want to say this, but it's, it's crazy is I feel like it's, it's very similar to Josh Allen. And again, I'm not trying to say he's Josh Allen by any stretch of the imagination at this point, okay? But, it, it,


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[Assistant] I, I do feel like it's, it's just look for anything to jump on them. And Josh Allen, like in his second year when they were going to the playoffs.


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[Assistant] It was just every time he made a bad throw, they were like, Hey, let's stop the game and break it down and tell everybody why he shouldn't have been drafted out of Wyoming. And it's just, it's just look for anything all the time. And that's what bothers me. And that's why if you don't start to show me tangible evidence of people wide open and stuff like that, then I'm going to clap back at you. Cause I'm kind of like, I'm kind of sick of that.


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[Assistant] I feel bad in some ways for Nathaniel Hackett and some of the coaches out there, EJ Evero, that defense. You know, the encouraging thing was,


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[Assistant] It was a day where the pass game did some stuff. I mean, they made a few plays in the pass game. It wasn't like it was totally horrible. The Broncos you're talking about? Yeah. Russell Wilson and company made it. It wasn't like some of the games we've seen earlier in the year where you just go, wow, they can't do anything. They can't get anything going. You know, they did make some big plays. It is all over the place. There's no doubt.


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[Assistant] You know, the thing that's stinky too is the Raiders defense is not very good. So you would expect that type of performance. I think the more, the headline of this game to me is that


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[Assistant] McDaniels has cracked the code a little bit on this defense. He's the only guy this year that's moved the ball on Denver like this. This is the second time they played him. It's the second time that.


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[Assistant] I believe Josh Jacobs ran for 100 yards in the first matchup and they had their way with him in the pass game in the first matchup too. So there's obviously a great understanding there of the rules of the defense and how to expose it and I think that's why we saw


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[Assistant] You know, not only at the end of the game, but even the first touchdown pass of the game to Devontae Adams, he was wide open if I remember correctly. So, they obviously had a good feel. It was a good win for the Raiders. And I'm glad.


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[Assistant] A little bit like Zach Wilson. I feel like everybody just wants to jump on Josh McDaniels, and there's a little more to this story and context than I think than just, oh wait, they're three and seven and we should fire them. And I just don't think that's a fair assessment, so I'm glad they got that.


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[Assistant] The greatness of the Broncos defense against them, you know, how they, like your greatest strength is your greatest, they're really well coached, they understand what you're trying to do. You know, this is a play here, not similar to the play we just talked about with the Jets a little bit, where it's a guy running a post on the left, number 84, right? On the right side, you got a shallow cross and a guy that's,


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[Assistant] Trying to make it, the guy I'm talking about, the guy, Devonte Adams, number 17, trying to make it look like he's gonna run the deep cross over the top of that shallow crosser.


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[Assistant] Right? And I'm sure they ran this play a few times and they run this play every game. Everybody does. And I think Patrick Surtain saw that. He probably saw number 10 go shallow. He sees the formation. He saw Devontae Adams start to cross the field and he goes, Oh, here it comes. Post deep cross or shallow crosser. I'm going to undercut this so he can't, you know, make a play.


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[Assistant] But, I'm sure this is probably, I'm gonna guess they've already run this play during the game. Not this play, but the play where he crosses. And they probably went, Sir Tam is really aggressive undercutting this.


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[Assistant] And they probably held us in their back pocket for a moment like this to go, okay, let's call the okie doke here. Don't cross, stop when you get in the middle, come back out. And Sir Tan, who was still running to defend the cross, good night, game over, see you later.


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[Assistant] Let's have this in here, in case they overplay this concept, so we got something off of it, we think it could get them. I would bet more than likely, knowing Josh McDaniels and being around him, and even a guy like Derek Carr, that it's something they spotted earlier in the game. So I'll be interested to see when I watch that, but uh, that was a very impressive performance. And, you know, it's...


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[Assistant] I'm not shocked because the Raiders, even though it's a new coaching staff, do have a little culture of...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I understand they went to the playoffs last year. There's a little toughness there. Derek Carr's got some toughness. Devontae Adams got some toughness, no doubt about it. That was a big win for them, you know? And then, and then, you know, what adds to it also, not only the win, but then the end of the game shenanigans by Russell Wilson, right? Where he should have taken a sack.


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[Assistant] That's Russell Wilson right now. I, that, that was, you know, you know me. Struggling quarterbacks, what do I always say? Yeah, don't make it easy. Don't make it easy. Oh, they're blitzin'. Here's my one on one. I don't have to read anything. And I've had a horrible year of reading stuff. Yeah. So now you don't make me read anything. I did not understand that about the game yesterday. I will say that, as I watched a few times, I kept going,


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[Assistant] Why are they putting him in the only position he's shown to be able to succeed this year? Why? So that was a little surprising.


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[Assistant] I think he really has the crosser and like a guy like Russell Wilson is making 45 million dollars a year, I'd go, throw the rifle, hit him in the chest.


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[Assistant] I mean. So it was doubly bad. To me it was doubly bad because one, yes, the situation itself, like if you know you're not gonna throw it, or you're not gonna throw it with the intent to complete it, then go down and take the sack and let the clock run. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Right? And that, but what I want to say is, wait, you're, this is Russell freaking Wilson. We're talking about a Hall of Famer here. Like, there's a guy, I think it was Coraline Sudden, again, I got a lot of damn plays and names and shit going through my head right now. I'm pretty sure it was Coraline Sudden where I go, he's got him beat by a step.


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[Assistant] Hit him in the chest, game over. See you later. Go back to Las Vegas, Las Vegas. Instead, he does that.


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[Assistant] And now they're up by three and he gives them a chance not only to go kick the field goal to tie it, but now have plenty of time to go, Hey, if you want to go down and score a touchdown and beat us, I've thrown the ball in the dirt for you to do that. Thank you.


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[Assistant] And remember me next time I come to Las Vegas. Cop me at the Wynn Hotel, alright? I mean that, so that's where it's a little crazy. They skirted the touchdown.


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[Assistant] But it got dicey because of that decision and the Raiders were


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[Assistant] Right. Which is a shame. It's laughable. It's laughable. I just want to go. He's got to give him his play calling duties because the quarterback won't throw to anybody that's open.


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[Assistant] You know, again, that's where it's, it's a little different to me with the Russell Wilson, Zach Wilson thing, right? The Wilsons here, we talk about it.


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[Assistant] We've shown some plays on social media. Everybody who's doing the games that does it. We can show you plays where people are wide open, and he doesn't throw it to them. And we don't know why.


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[Assistant] But now the coach has to answer those questions, give up his play calling duty, even though people have been open for you to...


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[Assistant] That would be good, but we have to act like we have to go back to the drawing board and figure it out and play the politics of bullshit of the sport because the quarterback. And that's where I will defend Nathaniel Hackett right now. Again, you know, there's issues obviously, but the biggest issue is still the quarterback of that team.


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[Assistant] Now he'll give them the Italian Vendetta and he'll drop them to like 12th in the rankings because he's mad at them. You might be done with them forever now. This is an embarrassment to Mike Foria. No, he didn't give up on them by now.


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[Assistant] Well, I think it's, it's not like crazy to say that. He's, he's one of those kinds of guys. I mean, when you talk about running backs who are in space, who are dangerous in the football, I mean, you're crazy not to bring up Tony Pollard's name.


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[Assistant] I mean, how many weeks in a row do we gotta watch the guy run for a 50 yard touchdown before we start to go, you know, he's kinda good. I mean, it's, it's, it's run game, pass game.


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[Assistant] You know, Prescott made me one of his best games of the year. That was impressive. Dallas, you know, was...


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[Assistant] They dominated really in every phase. Other than the first ugly field goal drive by the Vikings where they kind of gutted it out and got down there and that wasn't even easy. After that, there was nothing to speak of. You know, I think the thing you look at with Minnesota is one, I don't think their running game is as dominant as people think it is with Dalvin Cook. You know, I think the numbers are maybe


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[Assistant] The numbers, the numbers actually are


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[Assistant] Are kind of actually lower than what you expect. I think we view them as better than what they actually are, is what I'm saying. And that's where I'm trying to get to here, where they didn't pose the same problems as the Packers did as far as the run game.


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[Assistant] And then the other aspect too that I think is a little different because of the, the RPOs and the quick passing game that the Packers brought to the table and hopefully the fact that the Cowboys realized, wait,


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[Assistant] We can't play these run defenses and then play bump in your face and let a guy like Justin Jefferson just have a one on one day on us like Christian Watson did to them last week.


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[Assistant] To me, one of the things I looked at early on in the football game is I saw a Dallas crowd the line of scrimmage, and when it was a play-action pass or a pass, they backed out and it wasn't man-to-man coverage. They played zones, and they're a good zone football team, and they're creative doing that.


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[Assistant] And when you do play zones, yea, the quarterback's gotta drop back, read the coverage, he passed the ball maybe one extra time, boom, Michael Parsons hits you from behind and now you strip sack fumble or something like that.


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[Assistant] That was a, that to me again is just, the Cowboys can go to the Super Bowl. They show,


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[Assistant] Games, quarters, moments of going, that's like an extremely dominant special football team. And when their offense plays like that and their defense doesn't play overly crazy aggressive like that, uh, you can see what they can do and, you know, it's, it's a misleading loss.


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[Assistant] Minnesota's not 37 points worse than Dallas, but I do think it showed some of the things we've talked about with Minnesota, why I'd never viewed them as one of the top teams in football. And it's three weeks in a row they've been outplayed. It's just they're fortunate they're two in one in that stretch where the other team played better than them.


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[Assistant] But they won two of them. There's something to that. I don't want to take away the credit, certainly, but that was an ass whooping yesterday.


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[Assistant] You know, I've heard from teams and I've heard that, you know, there was interest as far as Giants and Odell even wanting to flirt with the Giants once again.


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[Assistant] Right? The price tag's gonna be interesting as you've, you know, you've heard me say. I know that's a thing here. The teams are a little taken back by how much money he was asking for or expecting. I think he's looking for a little security here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's, it's funny, it seems like the Dallas, and I haven't snooped around about this over the last two weeks, I kind of let it go. It doesn't seem like the Buffalo thing is percolating like it was.


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[Assistant] Which I don't know why. And, just again, Ahmed, you know, I mean, people who are from that region of the country, he's from Louisiana, it's Dallas' king there in professional sports. They own that region of the country.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's, you know, that's, that's a big deal. That's one of those things where you're from Louisiana and, you know, grandma, grandpa and uncle are like, hey, you gonna go play with the Cowboys? You gonna play with the Cowboys? I mean, mom and dad are saying it. It's just, I feel like it's, it's going that way. And,


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[Assistant] You know, they have all the things we've talked about that make sense for him, and he makes sense for them. And, uh, it certainly seems like it could be a match made in heaven, no question. It does, and it's just money. It's just money at this point. You don't have to give up draft capital.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, again, I don't, and that's no disrespect to the Eagles. Again, I really, but I just, yeah, I look at Dallas as, you know, hey, the Dallas, the Eagles, uhm, the 49ers, the Kansas City Chiefs, the Tennessee Titans, the Buffalo Bills,


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[Assistant] The Baltimore Ravens, I look at those teams that just go, and I'm probably missing somebody else, they can match up against any team in football. There's no team where I'd ever go, oh, that's, you know, hey, some might be worse or better, but nothing's ever going to be like, oh wow, they got a real problem here today with this, this matchup.


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[Assistant] I agree with that, Amin. You know, and let's take it into context too, like what you're saying with Houston. Houston played the Giants last week, and it was a close football game.


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[Assistant] I mean, damn, they drove down the field, Damian Pierce fumbled inside the 20 yard line. He threw an interception in the end zone to the Giants. Uh, uh, Houston, even though their record's not great, they've been a pain in the butt. Before that, they played the Philadelphia Eagles. It was 14-14 at halftime.


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[Assistant] So they're not a team that anybody's really just blown off the field. And, to your point here, with what they did and how they played, like, this game was more dominant than 23-10.


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[Assistant] They were clearly in control of the football game throughout. And Washington, to what you're saying Ahmed, like, yeaah, watch out. They're a team, yes, that I look at. They get the playoffs, they can be scary.


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[Assistant] You know, for the second week in a row here, we're talking about run game that gets going a little bit, and they don't need much of a run game before then all, oh no, now it's great looks for Curtis Samuel and Terry McCorran.


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[Assistant] I know, and then Heineken, we know, he's gonna make a handful of plays, but yeaah, I just look at that and go, their defense is special.


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[Assistant] And can keep them against anybody, and the offense has got it going now. And even with that yesterday, you know, there was a few times in my row, I wrote Heineken.


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[Assistant] He missed some big throws in the game, where there were some people that were wide open for some huge passes. He missed them, but it, it doesn't really, it didn't matter, you know, for the most part. The way they controlled the game. The defense get the ball back, they run the ball, then, you know, he found his rhythm again, and they made some plays.


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[Assistant] The game was 23 to 3 or 20 to nothing, right? Or 20 to 3 for a long time and you felt like man, Washington kinda took their foot off the gas pedal and they got a garbage time touchdown in the Texans.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're creative. They're creative on the defensive back end as far as coverages. And then the front four, as we talked about a little last night, it's just special. I mean, there's, there's no other way to say it. It's, it's the most dominant duo of defensive tackles in the game. Montez Sweat's probably one of the most underrated pass rushers in football.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, and then yea, to have Chase Young coming back, like, you know, watch out. Washington is, uh, Washington is definitely one of those teams that could


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[Assistant] And they went behind Heinecke. Thank you for that. I'm glad you let me there because Ron Rivera said it's him going forward. Thank you. Yeah, I mean, we knew that and it should be that.


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[Assistant] He, and I feel bad for Carson Wentz in a lot of ways because a lot of problems that were there when he was the starting quarterback were not because of him. Uh, but either way, you gotta ride this hot hand and, and the team does seem to rally around Heineken. That seems to be a real tangible thing.


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[Assistant] I think they've turned a corner in the fact that yeaah, it's not just like, you're not playing the Lions anymore and you can look at it and go, we're just going to steamroll them and we're scoring 30 points. I know Justin Fields and company did, but yeaah, that's an offense that's, and him, that's pretty special and people was trying to still figure out the answers of how to defend them. But between yesterday and the way they look.


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[Assistant] You know, two weeks before this against the Green Bay Packers, where again, Green Bay moved the ball, made some mistakes, but at least it was a positive day defensively. McNeil was, it was one of those where I kept looking up going, how was Big 54?


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[Assistant] In the backfield so much. I love the Liam McNeil. Remember, he was one of our top D tackles at NC State, you know, the year he came out. Uhm, he's, he's a load to move, but I, I think, I mean, that was the story of the game. It was kinda, you stole what the Giants usually do. You guys ran the ball. You know, you guys stopped the run.


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[Assistant] You guys caused the turnover to give yourself the extra possession.


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[Assistant] You know, it was 6-3, and I'm going, man, the Giants got a hold of this, I think we're okay, we're gonna be alright. They get the ball back, and then the play of the day happened. And to me, the game was never the same. And again, I know there's probably more to it than that.


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[Assistant] But, I'm trying to watch 8 games at 1 o'clock, and I just, and in my notes, it was the one thing I wrote, like, it was the interception. Play action pass, Aiden Hutchinson, puts his big hands up, like a TJ Watt, comes down with the INT, and,


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[Assistant] Your Lions go score a touchdown, get a stop, get the ball back, score before the half, and all of a sudden it's 17-6 Lions, and the Giants were in deep crap and unable to do anything.


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[Assistant] He hasn't been like a dominant, dominant pass rusher, but it's, it's all, all the, the, the tools you need are there. And he's just a really good football player in the fact of, I mean, yeah, you see him dropping in zone coverage. He's got good awareness. He's very good and disruptive in the run game. It's probably where he's been his best.


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[Assistant] Shooting gaps, getting skinny, causing disruption in the backfield.


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[Assistant] You know, running, running down a run play to the right and he's on the left and he comes behind the line of scrimmage and stops it. I mean, that's where I feel like I've noticed them more than anything. Uh, but yeah, I mean, it was like after that point and that interception, it was like the Giants couldn't stop Detroit for the rest of the day. Detroit really.


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[Assistant] Kinda just went up and down the field, and then became, made the Giants into a passing football team, and the Giants aren't a passing football team. That's not what they wanna be.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Daniel Jones, you talk about through the second interception. It was a fourth down. He kind of had a force to throw. You know, they were down 24 to 6 at the time, I believe. So, uh, it was one of those where you can live with that interception. But yeah, that's again where


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[Assistant] Again, I hope people can understand like the same trepidation I've had about saying the Vikings are like one of the best teams in football. It's the same thing with the Giants. The game has to go a certain way. The Giants don't have much versatility in how they can win the game.


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[Assistant] You know, it's, it's, it's, we know how they have to play, and if you're more than, you know, seven points,


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[Assistant] 10 points late in the football game, I mean that just seems like it's a lot for the Giants to overcome, or they gotta make something happen and make a big turnover, or you gotta make a mistake, which was what they did do in some of those games they were down.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. There's, there's a skill to that. There's, you know, certain guys, like that's where I love, like Tony Pavan and Ezekiel Elliott.


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[Assistant] You know, Zeke, give him the ball inside the five, short yard situation. He's got power, he's got a great feel of kind of where to lean, where to go in those type of plays. Jamal Williams is very good at that. And I just look at them too, you know.


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[Assistant] I also look and just go, man, can DeAndre Swift get totally healthy to where we can see him, you know, unleashed again? Because there's plays in that game, even in last week where I go, ah, I mean, hey, I like Jamal Williams and I like the other running backs they got, but if that was DeAndre Swift, that was an extra 20 yards on that play. You know, there's some meat being left on the bone because they don't have


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[Assistant] You know, a really talented, explosive guy. Swift is clearly that guy for their, their offense and their running backs.


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[Assistant] Now, can you corral, you know, number 17 at 1230 on a Thursday afternoon? I don't know.


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[Assistant] Spread is nine for both games. I'd be more scared maybe for the Giants right now to get


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[Assistant] We started there, early on in the football game. I mean, the Browns were playing better football for the first quarter and a half of the game. I want to say around there, and to your point, you're talking about when they got down there, right, and had to settle for a field goal to go up 10-3, and, uh,


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[Assistant] They had the, what, the both, both drop touchdown passes down the middle. Yeaah. We had, I can't remember, it was uhm...


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[Assistant] I can't remember who the two guys were. It might have been Brown. Farrell Brown was one of them. Okay. Okay. But either way, two balls down the middle where you went.


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[Assistant] They could have came up with that, you know, put themselves in the driver's seat. And that, I don't know, that, that, that point, I guess the game was ten to, or, uh, seven to three bills at that point, or seven to three bills.


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[Assistant] Browns, excuse me, and they could have gone up 14 to 3. Instead only go up 10 to 3. And then have the subsequent drive of...


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[Assistant] Of, uh, Jacoby Percet fumbling the quarterback snap. Which I believe was either the next drive or the drive after that. So, it was a game early on where you went, man, Buffalo is...


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[Assistant] Doesn't look like Buffalo here. They might get caught off guard here today. And passing game, people were wide open. Jacoby Percet was tearing them apart. Josh Allen didn't look very good. But slowly but surely, the Bills got it going and really, I would say about halfway through the second quarter started to kind of control the flow of the football game.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I want to tend to lend more towards Cleveland Browns. Anybody and everybody can run on Cleveland Browns. As long as you have some sort of a pass game where they have to worry about it at all, then you can gash them all day long. And that's where I want to...


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[Assistant] That's again where I go, I don't know if it'll be as easy against your Detroit Lions. And then the way you guys run the football too, you can pose some problems to them where they gotta, you know.


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[Assistant] Bend like they did in this one where they overplay the run and now it's big plays in the pass game. That's kind of what happened in this football game. So no, I'm not sold on it. But I think the big point is this, to get the win with no practice on Wednesday, cause the team's got a lot of guys that are sick and beat up, then Thursday,


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[Assistant] Uh, have a practice. Friday, have Zoom meetings and do nothing. Saturday, do nothing.


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[Assistant] And just find a way to get to the airport to hopefully get to the game and then play. I mean, I, I'm...


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[Assistant] It's not shocking that they came out kinda looking rusty and not that good early on in the football game. So I gotta give them a little credit for kinda battling through the week and the circumstances after that loss to the Vikings and then still win this football game and end up kinda winning it handily. Uh, I will give, you know, Sean McDermott and company a lot of credit.


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[Assistant] Well, one of the other things, and Pete, I don't know if you could pull it off or anything there, but I saw on their social media is, and I don't know, they might have done it on Twitter, but they showed their flight plan on how they went back to Buffalo from Detroit, right? Well, here's Detroit.


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[Assistant] And then there's Buffalo, let's say a downwards triangle, right? They made the flight, they released the thing on social media where they took their flight plan, they flew to Cleveland and made a W and then flew to Buffalo. So that was pretty good. I thought that was pretty creative. Some of these teams in their social media right now is uh, it's just top notch.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, uh, Burrow and company are starting to carve people up. I think that's the encouraging thing, and I think that's what I would, that would be the big assessment of the football game overall. And then, run game was nothing special for them, but where I thought Burrow was really good, and you might have heard me say this last night is,


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[Assistant] You know, yeaah, big play bangles, but when it wasn't there, he was very good at checking it down to Joe Mixon, checking it down to P. Ryan, you know, didn't force the issue, make stupid plays where we know Pittsburgh thrives off of that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he was the story of the day. He was. And I gotta give, I will give Pittsburgh's offense some credit.


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[Assistant] I mean, Pittsburgh's offense, it was ugly and gritty and short passes and Pickett scrambles here and, you know, makes a big throw down the field to Pickens and they ran the ball okay.


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[Assistant] They've shown a little semblance of a running game here as of late to where they hung around, but there's just not enough offensive firepower right now. And Pittsburgh's defense isn't like years past where they can


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[Assistant] You know and we know they're still Pittsburgh and they're opportunistic that way.


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[Assistant] Uh, they're not dominant like we've seen the traditional Pittsburgh Steelers be where just it was too much. It's just, it's too much firepower from this Bengals offense. And the Bengals defenses, we said, they make you earn it. It doesn't matter who you are every week.


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[Assistant] We see that. They don't quite get the credit they deserve on that side of the football. DJ Reader being back for them I think is going to be big down the stretch. He's one of the best run stopping defensive tackles in football.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I think the biggest thing I just took away was, you know, Burrow, the passing game, was pretty damn special, and that was without Jamar Chase, and I think that's saying something.


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[Assistant] Spread the ball around. I mean, Joe Mixon, I'm still looking at the one play that he had for like a 24 yard game. He ran like an in-cut from the left, like a receiver. Uhm, but,


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[Assistant] Yeah, within their simplicities of their offense, their...


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[Assistant] They're finding ways to create some illusions of complexities and things like that. I think that's the biggest thing. And then what the other thing too, that just was a little surprising to me is, I, I did


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[Assistant] I was a little surprised that Pittsburgh plans maybe a little more man to man than I expected at times. I felt like when I saw a lot of the T Higgins big catches, I was just going, man, it's him on Cameron Sutton or it's him man to man against somebody. And that's just not a winning formula versus, you know, Joe Burrow and, and, uh, that company.


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[Assistant] As long as they have that element of run, you gotta worry about our short pass a little bit. Hopefully that'll be able to keep people having to defend that and now you can, you know, push the ball down the field and they can be the big play.


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[Assistant] They did, they did. It was, it was ugly. It was. And I think, you know.


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[Assistant] Again, I think a, a team that's got an athletic front seven and the speed to kind of.


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[Assistant] Hang in there with Lamar. I was surprised at how well they defended the run. I think the thing that I probably miss or didn't assess the correct way is just that, you know, I think Carolina probably felt pretty good about their guys covering.


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[Assistant] Uh, Baltimore, which really allowed them to load the box. And that's where, again, you can get into the questions of, you know, is there enough firepower? Is that offense?


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[Assistant] When matchups like this happen, you know, they struggle. Uh, but uhm, yeaah. I mean, Lamar did not look necessarily, looked like he was sick all week. Didn't look his explosive self.


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[Assistant] And uhm, just couldn't quite do anything in the run game throughout the day. It was. It was an ugly football game and the Ravens defense, uh, fortunately it was awesome creating turnovers and the big fumble they created on Smith to really give them the, uh, the chance to go ahead and kind of put the game away.


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[Assistant] They were kind of sleepwalking after the bye week is kind of what it felt like.


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[Assistant] And I think that's where, you know, a few of the times where I saw those type of plays where I just went, and I think it was a huge slant pass at one point where, again, I think it was just the...


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[Assistant] Carolina selling out to stop the run. They felt good with their cover guys against this group and Demarcus Robinson, you know, ended up being the benefactor of some of that man-to-man coverage there. But yeah, that was not a very impressive win by the Baltimore Ravens either way. Uh, but I still look at them to, you know, watch out seven and three.


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[Assistant] Uh, still very much in the thick of things in the AFC and definitely one of the


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[Assistant] See ya. It's night night time. Bye bye Rams. See ya in 2023. This is it. Good night. They're officially in your mind.


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[Assistant] It's done. They're just, it's, it's, they're a physically beaten football team. It's too much to overcome.


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[Assistant] Now you got Stafford and the concussion protocol.


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[Assistant] They're getting to the point here where they, they gotta be careful about where they go with the future of the team here, just as far as just not letting him get killed. He got killed yesterday again. He threw, he was phenomenal early on the game.


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[Assistant] I mean, made some huge passes, huge plays in the pass game while he was getting killed. There's just nothing there. You know, we've talked about it. Their defense is really good, but that was a tough matchup for them with this team because this team's got some balance and when they do


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[Assistant] competitive in the playoff conversation. It might be too late now, but this is one of the potential, you know, the run game and they can kinda control the line of scrimmage there. And then,


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[Assistant] You know, Andy Dalton in the offense looked like they cut it loose a little finally yesterday. It's the one thing that bothers me about them. Just not enough playmaking in the passing game. And, uh, they got that out of Chris Olavi.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he played a great game. He did. I mean, he really did. Big plays, was efficient. I mean, that was one of those where, you know, when you saw Stafford go down,


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[Assistant] I don't think they're going to be able to do much with Bryce Perkins at quarterback and amount of comeback and you know, basically the Saints kind of kept their foot on their throat and that was that in that football game.


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[Assistant] It really is. It's, it's, it's, it's rare that you see a team that went to the Super Bowl kind of just...


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[Assistant] Don't look. I'm never gonna, I'm not looking. I'm not even in the documents here. I'm on NFL Jesus, alright? Okay, alright. So...


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[Assistant] I'm, uh, yeaah. I'm, alright, so right off the bat, and don't tell me, I mean, if I'm right, tell me if I'm right, but if I'm wrong, don't tell me the answer here. I'm gonna say it's the 2016 Broncos after the 2015 Super Bowl win.


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[Assistant] I'm incorrect. So they still, they had a win, we're going losing record? Losing record, yes. Okay, hold on, don't get...


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[Assistant] You gotta go back three more years. Three more years? Is it the... the Buccaneers?


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[Assistant] Yes, I was there and the teams that won it before Pittsburgh were New England both times and they never fell off there. So I would have got there eventually. So are there similarities with that team? No. And this team? No. Our team was like,


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[Assistant] We started, I mean, people were talking about us going undefeated. We had some crazy losses.


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[Assistant] Right? Uh, we had a game against the Carolina Panthers where they blocked two field goals and the extra point to win the game. Right. I mean we lost some games where you were just like, I was sitting there on the sidelines and you were going like,


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[Assistant] Man, the Bears, they're, they're in control here. You know, Atlanta, I don't know. I don't know if they're going to be able to keep pace and, you know, Justin Fields was looking good and you're just going, okay, here we go. And then he returns that kick.


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[Assistant] And you just go, oh, okay, alright, we're back in the game. And then they get a stop. And then they make a nice little clutch drive to get the field goal at the half. And, you know, then it kind of felt like they were in control of the game for, for the second half of the game. And, uh, yeah, it just, hey, it was a coin flip type of football game.


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[Assistant] That Atlanta is very comfortable in this type of game. It's the Mike Vrabel in them, I feel like, with Arthur Smith there. Uh, but their run game


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[Assistant] So they're, again, another one of those teams where the formula can't vary. If we get outside the formula, they get blown out or get dominated. But if we can run the ball, right, and, you know.


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[Assistant] And not make many mistakes and stop the run usually, then hey, we can win the football game. Now stopping the run wasn't easy in this one because this group in Chicago can really run it, but yeah, good, good win by the Atlanta Falcons.


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[Assistant] And Justin Fields, as amazing as he was, man, another game where it took a lot of hits, and I'd like him to be careful a little bit.


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[Assistant] You know, and then they, they just have a toughness about them to where, yea, as long as they're not too...


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[Assistant] Outclassed by the talent of the other team, you go, ah, they're gonna, they're gonna hang in there and make it interesting cause he's gonna have the proper game plan and he's incredible in situational football, just like Mike Vrabel is. Uh, so yeah, another team that's, you know, not sexy and I don't imagine them being in the playoffs, but,


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[Assistant] You know, they're one of these teams that's gonna hang around and be scary and probably upset a few teams' playoff hopes as we go along here. Uh, and it's really, it's remarkable. Cause you just look at it and go, I don't really know what's, you know, there's no marquee thing to talk about with the football team. You know, the passing game is meh.


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[Assistant] Kyle Pitts almost got hurt yesterday. That was like the most scary thing for them. His knee got a little banged up. But yeaah, it's Smash Mouth and uhm.


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[Assistant] You know, defense kind of just hangs in there and they found a way to get it done. And again, Chicago, I'm still excited about what I see in Chicago. And I do think they're building something that has a chance to be damn good in the future.


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[Assistant] A team that poses some problems. Here's the first thing you, you've heard me say this is Vance Joseph to me is one of the few guys in football that's been able to match wits with Shanahan.


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[Assistant] And do some things on that side of the ball and with their personnel set and the speed of some of their second level guys, Isaiah Simmons, Collins, Buddha Baker down there a lot and that to where they can.


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[Assistant] They can kind of, they don't have issues with, wait, whoa, this guy's going that way. This guy's going this way. They're, they're athletic enough and creative enough to have some answers for it. And then on the offensive side of the ball, the one thing they do too is of course they're in a spread. They spread out that.


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[Assistant] That defense of the, uh, the San Francisco 49ers, the 49ers don't really play man to man a lot. So within that spread, it stretches their zone out a little bit.


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[Assistant] And then if you have the Kyler Murray effect of him being able to run the ball.


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[Assistant] Now that makes that guy play in the zone between the slot receiver and, Oh wait, I want to help out with the run, but I got to help out with the short passing game. It puts them in a little bit of a bind that way. So I have a hard time thinking that the 49ers are going to win by more than eight points. I like the Cardinals to cover this one all the way. I like the 49ers to win.


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[Assistant] I do, but, uh, I do think the Cardinals do some things here that give the 49ers some issues.


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[Assistant] You know, they, they, they kinda, or I think maybe it was 1-0, I think he only played the second game. They went 2-0 against the 49ers, McCoy only played in the second matchup. Uh, that, that does not affect my decision at all. It really doesn't.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I know Kyler Murray is capable of doing more explosive plays, but Cole McCoy can certainly run the offense, and if there's people open in that short passing game that we're talking about, and with the Andre Hopkins back,


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[Assistant] You talked about, we might get Hollywood Brown back tonight too, right? Maybe, I think it's unlikely. You know, but they're somewhat healthy on that side of the ball to where, yeaah, I have a hard time seeing that. I'm really surprised to see that that line went up to 10 points.


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[Assistant] Damn, it's about time. I haven't, I've been getting swept more


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[Assistant] So say you bet $100 on the Cardinals to win outright. If you win, you'll get $340 Ahmed and maybe a new pair of red pants that you're wearing. Okay. But if you lose, you'll still get $100 worth of free


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[Assistant] Nah, you can cab that one. That's up to you. It's all you there, slugger.


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[Assistant] Well, you're not gonna have to call him Big Effer, you're, you're gonna be safe. I'll have to make another bet. Yeah. Alright, well we'll make some bets, we'll come up with it. I mean, we certainly will. I mean, we should have made a bet for Giants Lions, and you probably could have won that, but you were, you know, sipping Pina Coladas. Why didn't we do that? Because you were in Turks and Caicos. Right. And the week before that, you were both with a bunch of horse's asses. That's true.


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[Assistant] Alright, well, speaking of ditching, I'm ditching almond for the Wednesday pod. The hell with this guy, alright?


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[Assistant] We're not doing that. No, we got a little bit of a different schedule because of Thanksgiving this week. And uhm, so,


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[Assistant] Today, you got this. Wednesday was just going to be the picks podcast with Florio. We're actually going to do two different picks podcast too. We'll pick the three Thanksgiving gay games. So that'll be a standalone pod and then we'll go and do a standalone pod for the rest of the games on Sunday. That'll be happening Wednesday. Uhm, so Ahmed,


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[Assistant] And this is like one of my bonding days of the year with my daughter. Like we love to get up and sit on the couch, put the blanket on, and enjoy the parade into the dog show, into, hey, turn off the dog show, the football game's on now, okay?


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[Assistant] It'll be on for a little bit, for sure. And then it'll go on to a secondary TV where, you know, the football will take over, but the dog show will be on in the Sims household.


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[Assistant] Cause there's my mom, my daughter, they all love to kind of keep their eye on it. So it'll be on like the kitchen TV, you know, that's where I think that'll go. And then, you know, the main family room TV will be, you know, on the lion's bills, which I'm really excited for my favorite holiday of the year.


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[Assistant] It's like a bunch of dogs. I mean, like a bunch of animals. Jeez, Pete, come on. Well, sugar is the precursor to any parents' disaster of a night. Yeah, it doesn't usually go well there. It usually doesn't end up well.


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[Assistant] Yeah, check it out. It's a good day on NBC, and of course that night on NBC will be Patriots-Vikings, which will be a great way to end your Thanksgiving. Alright, so no Treasure Hunters, no What the **** Happened Wednesday podcast. Ahmed, you the man, enjoy your Thanksgiving. Thank you, you too. Everybody out there, enjoy the Thanksgiving. Enjoy your family. Man, three great games that day. It's gonna be phenomenal. Can't wait for that. Be safe out there, okay? Don't do anything stupid.


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[Assistant] If you've had one too many, call Uber, call Lyft, call something, alright? It's not worth driving if you're a little tipsy. You know, let's enjoy the holidays, let's not ruin the holidays for other family members. Be good out there, peace out, enjoy it, clap it up.


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


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[Assistant] Yeah, it will be interesting because there are definitely other needy teams out there that could use a quarterback. I mean, Baker hasn't really shown much this year, last year, a little bit last year, but so he's still got to go through the process. It's not like the 49ers can just go everyone out of our way. No, we want this guy. Right. I mean, yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. Sorry. No, go. What were you going to say?


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[Assistant] But why would the 49ers want him when you have Brock Purdy? Mr. Irrelevant. Seriously. As we get into our first game, yes, we will hit every game. That is our promise to the homies out there. You know, we make that promise to you and we uphold that promise. It could take us three and a half hours, but we will talk about every single game from Sunday.


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[Assistant] That's our promise to you guys. We'll do it with them. Okay. Give me the headlines. We'll give you some Monday night football preview as well.


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[Assistant] Uh, but yeaah, let's get right into our first game here. We'll start with the big wins. The 49ers certainly had that big win. Big news, maybe they have a new quarterback, but they certainly do have a new quarterback right now. Jimmy Garoppolo out for the season with that foot injury. I'll tell you what. Yeaah, say it.


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[Assistant] That was impressive. Like, I give a lot, a lot of credit to Brock Purdy for preparing himself to be able to come in and do that against a defense that's pretty good. He's got some talent in the secondary for sure.


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[Assistant] And for Kyle Shanahan, that coaching staff, to be able to set a system where a seventh round rookie can come in with very little experience and do that, I don't think that happens many other places.


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[Assistant] Remember, we learned how to pronounce it. Yeah, I don't think you really got it yet. I forgot. I forgot how to pronounce it. So now we're just gonna go with Derbyobachter from here on out. Uh, two questions for the 49ers. One...


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[Assistant] Where do you see their ceiling for the 49ers for a playoff run after the injury to number 10? And number 2, isn't it remarkable that Mr. Irrelevant looks better in his rookie season than Trey Lance in his second year?


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[Assistant] Yeah. Speaking of your friend Kyle, as Pete notes here, this was a revenge weekend for some players out there, some coaches out there. I don't know if it's revenge when one of your disciples moves on, but I'll tell you what, that Kyle Shanahan coaching tree is looking pretty good out there. Maybe expand a little bit more with D'Amico Ryan's coming up too. But Mike McDaniel, he beats, uh, his protege.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I think we have a picture. Do we have that picture there? So, oh yeaah, if you're uh, listening, here's what it is. It's after the game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and Kyle's still engaged in the shoulder tap, and Mike is checking out, looking away. It's kind of a weird timing on that picture, but uhm, yeah, what do you think that's...


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[Assistant] What do you think? How good do you think this felt for Kyle? Uhm, where do you think that relationship stands? Cause they were super close when they were with the 49ers. Super close.


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[Assistant] It's like they still play 60 minutes, right? They had a time of possession of 1926. Uh, it is an all season worst for any team, right? That's the lowest for any. Oh, he's not sure but.


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[Assistant] I would almost venture a guess, it's gotta be, but uhm, for sure for the Dolphins, uh, Nick Bosa had three sacks out there.


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[Assistant] It's funny you bring up that Bills game, because Pete has done the research and it was that game that the Dolphins actually did have the worst time of possession of the season. 19 minutes 20 seconds in that game, but they won that game. 19 minutes 26 seconds yesterday. The Eagles have the third.


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[Assistant] Joe Burrow, although he was pretty good in this game. The Cincinnati big play bangles, making some big plays on defense as well. Taking down Patrick Mahomes in the Chiefs, 27-24. In fact, Joe Burrow, what? 3-0 lifetime versus Mahomes. So it's settled. He's better. He's better than Patrick Mahomes.


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[Assistant] Think about that, another good game for him. 21 carries, 160 yards, he's good out of the backfield, he's a pass catcher. I mean I know you've been a big Joe Mixon fan for a long time. But P Ryan's good. Does he give him more? Is he more dynamic?


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[Assistant] The next-gen stat of the game, according to the NFL on this one, the Chiefs defense generated a season-low 15.6 quarterback pressure percent. It was 25% from weeks 1 through 12, so the Chiefs did not pressure the quarterback as much as they have done all season.


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[Assistant] He's really, really special. And T Higgins is a legit number one wide receiver.


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[Assistant] But the hype train on Joe Burrow, it's getting going now. Chris is, uh, the conductor on that. The hype train on Mike White. That was going crazy going into this game. Vikings though.


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[Assistant] They slow down that locomotive. Yeah. 27-22 Vikings get the win at home. It was a game. It was a slow start for Kirk Cousins. It was one of those games where it was like, man, maybe this offense just won't get clicking. They eventually did. Uh, the Jets were able to move the ball up and down the field at times, but that red zone offense was not so good. Give credit to the Vikings.


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[Assistant] Uh, for making it difficult for them there. The Vikings offense in the red zone, three for three. The Jets in the red zone, one for six. That was the difference in the game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, through the ball 57 times did Mike White, 369 yards, no touchdowns, a lot of those yards to Garrett Wilson. That connection has been fun to watch so far. Threw at him 15 times, eight catches for Garrett Wilson, 162 yards. But back to the Vikings, something you brought up too. These one score games. The Vikings have won a lot of them. In fact,


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[Assistant] They're now 9-0 in one score games. No team since 1940 has gone 9-0 or better in a full season. Got a pop quiz for you. Pop quiz, asshole. So Pete is throwing this at you because you mentioned maybe this is sort of a learned skill at this point. Maybe we can count on the Vikings being able to do this for the rest of the regular season, maybe into the playoffs too. Who knows?


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[Assistant] One score wins. One score games are eight wins, two losses and a tie. Ooh, I almost should give it away maybe.


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[Assistant] Yeah, maybe they just didn't play a close enough, close enough game. I will say though, there was another team, in my notes here, I have the 2019 Seattle Seahawks, who had won nine one score games in a season, and they lost in the playoffs a one score game. Yeah.


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[Assistant] What'd you make of the t-shirts the Jets players made, that a lot of them were wearing, boarding the team playing


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[Assistant] Uh, congratulations to the Vikings. 10 wins. They're 10 and 2. And Vikings fans listening are going to go, I mean, what do we got to do to convince you guys? You know what? It's very simple. Win the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] Their own fans probably feel it too. Make a run through the playoffs, you know, get to the Super Bowl maybe even. I'll tell you that. You don't have to win the Super Bowl. Get to the Super Bowl. If you got to the Super Bowl, I'd be shocked.


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[Assistant] We're gonna give this headline to AJ Brown. It was a revenge game for him. And so he had this to say about his TD celebrations versus his former team yesterday.


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[Assistant] So there's your headline. I like him. Today is a whoopin', tomorrow I love ya.


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[Assistant] That we will see. I mean, who, I forget who the defensive back was. I mean, he was in his arms. He was hugging him. He was the guy, he was the guy he was hugging after he, uh, he whooped him. Who was it, Pete? Trey, Trey Avery? Trey Avery. It was Avery. I mean, you can't have pretty, I mean, he's looking back to the ball, wrapped up, probably past interference. No, I know.


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[Assistant] Second week in a woe, or in a row. In a woe. In a woe. It was uh, the woe is me, is what Derrick Henry was saying, see how I did that. 11 carries 30 yards, none longer than 6, so the Bengals last week were able to contain him.


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[Assistant] And then Bengal's good defense, Eagle's good defense, but still.


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[Assistant] You'd figure maybe Derrick Henry is a guy that even with a good defense is gonna have his big runs has not been the case the past couple weeks.


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[Assistant] So Pete did the research. Four players have been ejected for illegal blocks hits this season. Three of those were in prime time games, to your point. The other was in a 425 game. So none of the one o'clock games were a bunch of other games going on.


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[Assistant] There are a lot of people, and I, I looked on social media, I was like, what do you think of that hit? What do you think of that hit? Right? Marcus Saps. You know, he does go in with his shoulder. We've seen these plays made in the past. Maybe 10 years ago, we wouldn't even be talking about it. You know, it was really unfortunate that Traylon Brooks got hurt in it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but like you mentioned, it's textbook on what the NFL is not going to allow next year.


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[Assistant] I don't think it was malicious intent, at all.


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[Assistant] If you're a defensive back and if you're not in position to make a play without launching your head into someone else's head, then you've missed the play already.


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[Assistant] Well in basketball we've decided like if a guy's going for a dunk and you've been beat, you can't just take out his legs and throw him to the ground. Because some people in football would say, well what else is he supposed to do at that point? Just let him go dunk it? Well it's like yeah, we've made the decision that you can't just be dangerous with someone else's body. So I think that's what the NFL is trying to do and I think that's what they have to get to and hopefully they do it.


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[Assistant] So was the Cowboys win on Sunday Night Football with Mike Tirico and Chris Collinsworth on the call. Uh, they obliterate the Colts. Although it was a close game. Yeah. Until the fourth quarter. It's crazy. And then it became a giant blowout.


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[Assistant] Your headline for the Cowboys 54-19 win over the Colts.


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[Assistant] Never happened before. Uh, 54-19. It is the 1,074th unique final score in NFL history. And I'm getting kind of sad, because I think we're running out. We have to be running out, right? At a certain point, like, are my kids gonna get to enjoy squirigami? Probably not.


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[Assistant] It's almost over, so enjoy it now. Or if you hate it, just know that in a couple years it will be gone. Uhm, but this was, I mean, this was, wow.


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[Assistant] Pretty impressive. Against a Colts team that has kept games close against good opponents. Yes they have. Like they have been in games, they have talent on the defensive side. Offensively, they're not fun to watch at all. Uhm, but for, for the Cowboys able to do that at the end, what, yeaah, what'd you, what'd you make of it?


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[Assistant] Malik Hooker, 15th overall pick in the 2017 draft by the Colts, had an interception, had a fumble return for a touchdown. There was bad news though for the Cowboys. Anthony Brown reportedly out for the season with a torn Achilles. So OMPT asks you.


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[Assistant] Sure, maybe you, maybe you do. Who knows? No, I don't know. Who knows if they went out from here on, who knows, maybe, right?


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[Assistant] Touchdown was not enough for the Colts to win. Cowboys got a big win. One of the best things about the NFL, we have winners and losers. It's not like the World Cup out here, right? We don't have, we don't have draws or ties. We got winners and losers, which takes us to our next game, the commanders and the giants.


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[Assistant] Oh no, uh, it was a 2020 tie in this one. Your headline for this one is Taylor Tyneke ties the tie ins. Yeah, it happened. We had a tie, which by the way,


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[Assistant] I was, I was actually mad at the end of this game. I think both coaches were playing for a tie and I didn't like that. I think they were both playing fairly conservative at the end. There are some short fourth downs. I know it was right around midfield for both teams, but I mean your borderline playoff teams for both of them.


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[Assistant] I was like, this game, I was like, I know this probably helps both of you in your pursuit of the playoffs, I think this should eliminate.


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[Assistant] Seven, four, and one are the Giants. Commander seven, five, and one. Hopefully they never tie again. That was Give Me the Headlines presented by Hyundai. They play each other in two weeks.


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[Assistant] So damn okay, we start with the Seattle Seahawks who just mentioned, didn't like seeing that tie, wanted one of those teams to lose.


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[Assistant] Maybe they were half happy about that one. They were all happy with their comeback win against the Rams, the defending Super Bowl champs that are looking anything but, uh, like Super Bowl champs right now. 27-23, the final score are damn okay. Let's give a couple of them.


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[Assistant] Tarik Wolin, the rookie, continues to impress. Yeaah. Big interception. Seven tackles, big interception. Yeaah. Had three passes defended earlier in the game as well. Yeaah. Uh, so we'll give a damn okay to him. Yeaah. Big interception, the Rams are in field goal territory.


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[Assistant] I don't remember correctly. So that was, that was big. Defense stepping up. It looked like it could be a high scoring shootout kind of a game against a Rams team that doesn't have a whole lot of weapons. No Stafford, no cup.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but they stepped up late, give them credit, and also credit.


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[Assistant] of his career. Are you becoming more and more impressed with Gino? Of course, we were big Gino fans early in the year. You were saying that they're going to be bad, the Seahawks, but it's not going to be because of Gino Smith. Half right, I guess. He's been awesome. Teams hasn't been as bad as we thought. But have you even been more impressed with him as the season has gone on?


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[Assistant] There's seven and five right now. It was almost a revenge game. It could have been for Bobby Wagner against his former side. Had that interception that I, when I looked at it, I was like, I don't know.


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[Assistant] I don't know. It seems like he just ripped it away from the guy when he was already down. I don't know if that was, right? It was borderline. It was borderline. It was. But still, they were like, ah, it's a revenge game. Give it, give it to him. Probably not going to win anyway. Um, cause the Seahawks won. They're seven and five now. And the Rams, that first round pick for Detroit Lions.


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[Assistant] I never would have thought that happened. Uh, Pete has put in the rundown here that Pete Carroll said that Kenneth Walker jammed his ankle. We'll have to see what that means.


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[Assistant] So, hopefully it means nothing bad. Uh, time to give a damn okay to someone else out there, a rookie who is impressed, not just Tariq Wolin. Go over to the offensive side, a guy you liked in the draft process. He was your number two wide receiver. Damn okay, Christian Watson, as the Packers defeat the Bears, 28 to 19. Do we want to break out the song for Christian?


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[Assistant] Commander Frank says, I remember Chris getting a lot of heat for saying that Christian Watson was the number two receiver in the whole draft. And then Scott Goldstein says, Chris, you were right on Christian Watson 100%. How does a player like him last until


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[Assistant] Aaron Rodgers improves to 8-0 versus the Bears since 2019. In those games, 19 touchdown passes, no interceptions.


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[Assistant] I thought it was interesting after the game, right? During the game, he's saluting, right? The fans there in Chicago. You know, the history there, I own you or whatever. After the game, he says in his interview, you don't know when it may be your last. I don't know.


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[Assistant] I kinda got a weird feeling, like, we talked about this last week, I kinda got the weird feeling that he's preparing to say either goodbye to the NFL entirely, or this is it for me with the Packers playing against the Bears. I got a real, like, this is the last run vibe from Aaron Rodgers in those moments in the game. Did you get that at all?


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[Assistant] But the good news for the Packers, they won this game. They got a receiver of the future in Christian Watson. The receiver of the past is Devonte Adams doing big things for the Raiders still though. Our damn okay goes to Devonte Adams as the Raiders defeat the Chargers 27 to 20. Uh, it was like, uh, he got open when they wanted him to get open.


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[Assistant] I'll tell you what, and we were pumping up the Raiders, and I was specifically, a few weeks ago, and then they got, what, shut out by the Saints? Yeaah. It was embarrassing. Yeaah. One of the most embarrassing moments of my, uh, Sims unbuttoned career.


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[Assistant] Uh, they let me down. But I'll tell you what, if the Raiders somehow figure out a way, and I don't think they're gonna get in the playoffs, but if they got in the playoffs, I'd be like, they can win a game in the playoffs. Because I don't think, you play this game a million times, the Chargers, I don't think they win necessarily more than half. I think the Raiders are right there with the Chargers.


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[Assistant] Two superstars on offense, they have been created by, uh, Josh McDaniels. We're pretty good without him too. Devontae Adams, 177 yards. Josh Jacobs went over 150 scrimmage yards again with a touchdown. Uh, I don't know, I mean, they're five and seven. The Chargers are six and six. I don't know that they're totally out of the playoffs discussion yet, but I do think they, I don't know their schedules upcoming here, but I think it's possible they finished better than the Chargers, which-


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[Assistant] Here we go again. And they're going to disappoint me again, probably, right? Don't do that to me, Raiders. You've played so well at times. So congratulations to the Raiders. Congratulations to the Ravens who are 8 and 4 right now. Could have been 7 and 5 if they do not figure out a way to...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I called it a 64 yard drive, that included the penalties, but you're right, 91 yards and it started back there at the, at the 9, uh, and they went for 4th down too, with 4 minutes to go.


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[Assistant] I think John Harbaugh's been aggressive at times at their own 18 yard line. They're like, this is the game. Let's go for it. Could have punted right there. That's right. I forgot about that. There you go. This is it. This is all. And it turned out to be at 16 plays or however many plays later.


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[Assistant] I don't think Nathaniel Hackett makes it out of this year. And I don't think, as you've mentioned rightly, a lot of the problems are not necessarily his. It's a new situation for him. He's a rookie head coach. You got a veteran quarterback who you hope he can rely on, who he's not been able to do with Russell Wilson.


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[Assistant] But at a certain point, it just seems like almost by mistake, you gotta stumble into a couple games where you just, you're, you break out. They have had.


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[Assistant] Over 20? No, they scored over 20 twice. 23 points versus the Raiders in October was the most they've scored this year. Right.


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[Assistant] I mean, it just seems like, I get it, it's not all on him, but at a certain point in a 17 game season, it seems like you gotta have a couple games where it's like, alright, there's the blueprint, if we can just figure out how to do that more consistently. They haven't really done it once. No, well,


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[Assistant] Hasn't been fun. They have lost 6 times to an opponent that scored fewer than 20 points. And the Ravens just scored 10 and get a 1 point victory over the Denver Broncos who lose once again. Just a couple more games to go here. Last but not least, Pete puts it here, and I don't even know why the Lions are this far down here. Well, you know. My Detroit Lions? Yeah. F*** your Lions. This late in the pod?


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[Assistant] Yeah, because they beat the Giants previously. Yeah, we're getting paid back. We don't like it. And then they crushed the Jacksonville Jaguars, which is a team that you have, uh, said is you watch out for and they showed some things. I thought they'd keep it closed this week. I thought they'd pull off the upset. 40 to 14. Dan Campbell will give you the first words on this one.


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[Assistant] It's no mystery why, why they're playing hard still for him. After all those failures last year, early on this year, uh, they, they went again and I thought it was very interesting. Yeah. Congratulations to G.J. Chark coming back against his former team. It's awesome. Getting the game ball there.


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[Assistant] But the guy that threw it to him, Jared Goff. And it was the first time that I have


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[Assistant] Yea, say it. He's played well and you've complimented him. Yea, I said it's his best year of his career. It's his best year. Right. After that game, I'm like, you know what? They got two first round picks. Maybe they don't use either one of them on a quarterback. He's making it hard. He is. Maybe he's good enough on a team that has a lot around him.


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[Assistant] Cryptomug358 is thinking like me said, uh, what do you make of the Lions roster? They seem like they're building a genuine roster with two first round picks. Do you think Jared Goff is a long-term option in Detroit? And I do think, you know, from, from what I've heard, I think the GM is a big fan.


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[Assistant] So maybe it wasn't as bad of a game as we thought. Uhm. No, there's some good things about Pittsburgh in this game. Okay. So Mike Tomlin's doing it again, right? Never had a losing season and now they're five and seven and who knows, maybe they'll do it again. So what did you like from the Steelers then?


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[Assistant] Uh, from the Atlanta 35 up by three with 53 seconds left. I wasn't a huge fan of that. Um, but.


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[Assistant] Peter gave it the Peter Peter Peter watch of the week. At least right now. Right. Uh, Presley Harvin III bounced a perfect punt at the one yard line to pin Atlanta Minka Fitzpatrick with the game ceiling interception on the next play. It was not a good game for Marcus Mariota.


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[Assistant] And you might wonder, is it time to move on? Well yea, they're gonna move on. I can tell you that. What about like right now? Like they have Desmond Ritter on the roster.


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[Assistant] Give it to the gloved man, make one play, give it to Najah Harris, throw another man's head into the ground, and we win the game. One more game to talk about, the Browns beat the Texans, 27-14.


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[Assistant] Uh, the first time we have seen Deshaun Watson in a regular season game in 700 days. Uh, he did not look good. The offense did not look good, but they didn't need the offense. Two defensive touchdowns. Hilarious. They had a special teams touchdown. Hilarious. It was kind of a sad game. It was. In many respects for, for both teams for many reasons, but, uh, congrats to the Browns. They win and I guess they're still in it.


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[Assistant] Do you know why? Why? Cause now, for the first time this season,


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[Assistant] That team has been eliminated from the postseason. Is that why you're wearing red and blue today? That's why I'm wearing red and blue. Exactly. Put them in the ground, Ahmed. The Houston Texans, it's time to bury them. So if you're unfamiliar with the podcast, this is what we do every year. This is what I do. I write a poem.


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[Assistant] This is where my poetry writing skills- You're a great poetry writer, music guy, damn. You're just Johnny Creative over here. We call it Requiem for a Team.


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[Assistant] This is where we, we put to rest a team that has been eliminated and now the Houston Texans have been eliminated. We do that with music. Kristen, do we have the? We better. Oh my gosh, we do. I'm quitting the podcast if we don't have the music. We are back. Pay your respects. Here lie the Houston Texans.


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[Assistant] It's a team that had too little brawn. Their hope of a playoff spot is gone.


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[Assistant] They're at the back of the pack. They need a new quarterback. But at least they don't have to root.


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[Assistant] And one has gotten you eliminated. One more game to go. That's a Monday night game. Hasn't happened yet at the recording of this pod. When you're listening, maybe it does already happen so you can evaluate.


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[Assistant] Chris's analysis after knowing, no we're not that, it's not four hours.


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[Assistant] No, we're not that far into this pod, Pete. He said, uh, Monday night football starts in 20 minutes. The bet MGM parlay preview, Saints at Buccaneers. Chris said that the Bucs would have been by four in a low scoring game, 20 to 16 on Thursday's pod. The Bucs are favored by three. So you think they will cover in a game that will go under the over, under a 41. Do you still agree with that? Yeah, I do.


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[Assistant] I like Chris Olavi too, so I would like that. Simply download the BetMGM app today or go to betmgm.com, enter the bonus code SIMS to make your first wager risk free up to $1,000. And that is it. Three hours and 17 minutes later, we've made it all the way through the Monday recap. Troy and Joe, over to you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're good. You're good. All right. I'm so glad you are doing it with me. And it's like, couldn't be better. Like could not be a better day to do it. Let's do it together. You ready? You ready? What Mike, if you're not listening, if you're not watching, Mike is wearing his Vikings Jersey, right? After the big victory.


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[Assistant] Well, you got your revenge, okay? I mean, first off, we're gonna go home today and like watch the game back. Yes. You are, right? I heard you talking about this.


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[Assistant] It is the Cowboys, so they're gonna be pissed off and ready to go too, so that's gonna be an awesome game. That really is. I'm actually incredibly excited about that. Alright, let's get into this game a little bit. 33-30, overtime victory, Vikings win it, Justin Jefferson was phenomenal.


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[Assistant] Here's a cool stat. Since 1991, only two teams have won a game after turning the ball over on downs in a goal-to-go situation with under two minutes remaining. And it's in back-to-back weeks. It's last week with the Buccaneers and the Rams, and then this week with the Vikings and the Buffalo Bills. Pretty shocking.


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[Assistant] No. Unbelievable. Alright, so what, so give me like, you know, your, your thoughts of your team here. How much better do you feel about them? You've been one to sit here and, you've been saying like, I don't think we're as good as our record.


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[Assistant] How further did that make you feel as far as the confidence of your team? Like you guys are good, alright? I'll give my two cents at first.


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[Assistant] Listen, I hear you. It's tangible. It is tangible. There's no doubt about it. There's a lot of that. But they're gonna get teams here that are gonna be just as stubborn as they are, you know, who are gonna go, wait, we're not gonna mess this game up at the end of the game. So we'll see.


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[Assistant] I mean, it really was pretty amazing being down 27-10, then having the long run by Dalvin Cook.


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[Assistant] There's a little bit of arrogance there right now. And there is too much on Josh Allen. Again, you know, here's another big game where it's just, it's all on him to your point. You're right about that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, those are huge moments of the football game though. They really were. I mean, they were remarkable. And that, I guess that's why I just look at, you know, even that, that's a remarkable moment. Fourth and two, the game changes even if they, if they just get an interception or don't get an interception and he throws it away or it's an incomplete pass, you got the ball at the two yard line, it's going to be a different,


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[Assistant] That's amazing. It really is. Alright, so, you obviously believe in their, their, the magic, the mojo they got going, the belief.


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[Assistant] Alright, so, anything else you wanna say about that game? Cause we're gonna move on. I feel like we've hit it enough. You know, again, Josh Allen.


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[Assistant] Buffalo, I think it is, it's too much on him. They will be fine. He is obviously too loose with the football here as of late. I mean, that's gotta be corrected. Self-scout, do whatever you want, but the one thing we've seen here as of late is just inexplicable interceptions.


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[Assistant] And, uh, that's really hurting their team. Last week it gave the Jets a bunch of points, took points off the board for them.


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[Assistant] You know, the week before that against Green Bay Packers and then yesterday, you know, and again, I do think part of that is the fact of there's a lot on him. And when you have to, again, how many amazing plays did he make yesterday? You know, how many times was it third and 10, third and eight, third and 12, and he gets the first down.


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[Assistant] Uh, right now it might be going a little too hair around fire, loosey goosey.


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[Assistant] The intensity is never the same. Exactly right. The best thing that you get prepared for is just usually if you're on the other goal line going in. You know, you heard me say last night,


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[Assistant] I wasn't shocked to see a fumbled snap in that situation because think about like what you're talking about here. It's Mitch Morse, the center. It's two guys on either side of him.


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[Assistant] The Vikings moved right before the snap to kind of mess with it. So now he's, wait, I'm going to block here to my right the whole time. And now, oh wait, as I'm getting ready to snap, the guy's going to my left. I have to adjust. And then the center is nervous.


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[Assistant] He can sometimes be a little short with the ball and not put it in the sweet spot. And then he's making an abrupt like, whoa, I gotta get low. This guy's shooting down and trying to clog things up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know. That's never over with him. But it is crazy. And again, I sit there in this game and Minnesota fans, I don't mean to be a jerk, but I just looked at it and felt like the better team on the field is the Buffalo Bills. I don't know. I don't know. Can you depend on Miraculous and the other team making, you know, boneheaded mistakes on a regular basis here?


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[Assistant] I think you could, unless there's like nothing like huge breaking news this week to where maybe you'd probably be able to pull that off.


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[Assistant] No, our whole show got thrown for a loop yesterday because of that game. Alright, let's get into some other upsets here, okay? Alright, and, uh, we're gonna call this segment, uh, Kitty Has Claws, okay? In honor of Jackson DeVille, who, uh, okay? Why him?


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[Assistant] Your NFC North rivals, the Green Bay Packers, they get the big win yesterday against the Dallas Cowboys. Uhm, could be a, uh,


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[Assistant] Yes. Right? I say that just because offense looked as good as it's looked all year. Right? Ran the ball.


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[Assistant] They're getting comfortable in November. I don't disagree with you there. I totally don't. And hey, we might be on to something in the Green Bay. We'll see. You know, again, that was a special running, you know, performance, certainly. I think the one thing it might do is a little bit crack the code on Dallas a little bit. Dallas, we've talked about this on the show. They're not big upfront. They're about speed and chaos.


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[Assistant] Green Bay, even though I don't think it's like this dominant offensive line, they're very well coached. It's a good offensive line. They're well coached. They understand how to block all the different looks and they don't mess things up. I think that's the positive thing about them. But then the thing that puts it over the edge is the aggressive passing too.


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[Assistant] You know, Dallas, because of that run game, to your point, Mike, right, they had to load the box, they played some man to man, and that left people one on one with Christian Watson, who's, I think, going to be a star in football. I mean, he was my second favorite quarterback coming out in the draft, and actually, we got a comment here from Twitter, at the real Donald, uhm, I hope it's not Donald Trump, alright, so, but at


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[Assistant] I don't picture him listening to my podcast anyways, but he said somewhere at, at somewhere at Sea Sims QB is smiling about Christian Watson. Yes, I was smiling yesterday. I think he's going to be a star. All right. Here's a little pop quiz off of that.


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[Assistant] Oh, you did? Okay, I don't know. So hold on, let me ask here. So Watson is the second rookie ever with three TD catches in a game versus the Cowboys. Alright, are we talking long time ago or is it like somewhere recent? Like, can I have a clue there or no?


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[Assistant] That's one of the funny things about the game. It's like Mike McCarthy going back to Green Bay and kind of mismanaging the situation at the end of the football game was kind of ironic. It really was. Now, I don't know. What was your thoughts on the fourth and three in overtime? I don't think it was egregious. He was in a tough spot.


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[Assistant] He's doing horizontal instead of vertical to start the run. I hear you, there's valid points to that. There definitely is. You know, Green Bay, hey that was a solid start. I gotta see another game to believe it, I guess is what I'm saying. To see if they can actually make explosive plays in the past game.


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[Assistant] Run the ball like that to get man to man. Cowboys, hey, one of my things I've talked about with the Cowboys is maybe a hair too aggressive on the defensive side of the ball at times.


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[Assistant] And then leaving one on one opportunities. I don't understand why Trayvon Diggs was never thrown on, uh, to Christian Watson yesterday in coverage. That was something that bothered me. And then I think the other thing too that we got to take into account here, even though the Cowboys had a 28 to 14 lead and were controlling the game, even at 28 to 14,


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[Assistant] The, the Cowboys left points on the board with Dak Prescott, bad interception in the red area after they got the strip sack fumble from Aaron Rodgers down there backed up, right? Remember that DeMarcus Lawrence strip sacked him. He throws a bad INT that leaves points on the board. They're at least going to get a field goal and then throws another bad interception.


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[Assistant] You know, what was that? That was late second quarter. He throws the ball down the middle and Paris forward. I don't know if CD Lamb didn't.


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[Assistant] He was supposed to go underneath them. He goes over the top of them. Bad interception nonetheless leads to a touchdown for the Green Bay Packers. So there were some self-inflicted wounds there. You know, Dallas, again, I like the balance of their football team, but that's one where, you know, they might have to reevaluate how they play Green Bay the next time they go up there or see them in the playoffs when they're at home.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, you're exactly right. You're exactly right. And here are some interesting things too here. I mean, C.D. Lamb played great. We talk about Prescott's interceptions. Michael Parson, zero QB pressures on just eight pass rushers. This is why he's amazing, first off, that he's given the conversation for sack leader in the NFL. He doesn't get the attempts, but I think this is what the running


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[Assistant] For Green Bay did. Now, because they're running the ball, they use Michael Parsons more as the stand-up linebacker and get a bigger defensive end in there, and now it doesn't give him the opportunity, uhm, to, you know, come off the edge and play that game as much. And that was a huge part of the football game. The fact that they could still run the ball down 28 to 14,


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[Assistant] And not let Dallas get into some of their crazy coverages and we're gonna blitz and all the crazy stuff we do. Uh, that to me was the difference in the game. We'll see if Green Bay can keep that running attack up. Cause if they can, they'll get one on one. And then I think Rogers will have some confidence in this kid who's got three rockets up his ass.


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[Assistant] That's where it's, it's exactly right. They're gonna, they're gonna have to adjust how they're gonna, like how are we gonna play run defense and still


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[Assistant] It's just not possible, right? I mean, I think we're at the point now where, you know, the receivers, the offenses, they're too good just to think,


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[Assistant] Wait, my top tier corner is gonna cover this guy all over the field everywhere he goes, and that's where you gotta have, you know, you hear me during the game sometimes, like, you gotta have somebody to help on the crosser. There's gotta be another guy where, okay, like Christian Watson on his last two touchdown passes, he runs across the field, it's man-to-man coverage.


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[Assistant] He runs 4-2 everybody. What corner do we think is gonna chase him 50 yards across the field and be able to win that matchup all the time?


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[Assistant] So as soon as you get the release, the smart defenses, the Tennessee Titans, the New England Patriots, they always have somebody there to protect that corner because they know he's vulnerable to that. And that was a little surprising to me altogether. Alright.


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[Assistant] Do you think there's, is there more to this that I don't know about?


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[Assistant] That is the oddest thing of all. I mean, Saturday obviously had a conversation with Jim Ursay and was like, wait, if I can come back, then I just, there's no more Sam Allinger.


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[Assistant] Exactly. I would think that's kind of what happened. That's what I would think happened. He looked at some film. He talked to a few guys on the staff. The staff was like, I don't know, Sam, hey we like him and he's a nice little backup, but we should be playing Matt Ryan. And that again, I mean, I think we all know that this was all done because of the finances.


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[Assistant] It's amazing. Jeff Saturday, again, he didn't reinvent the game plan or how they play. The Colts defense is real, but he obviously gave them some energy.


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[Assistant] Right? There was some energy, a new vibe in the building. Saturday provided that. We heard all his ex teammates, Tony Giungi talked about the leader he is and how much he loves football. I think there's real value into that. And then maybe, you know, here's a guy that just


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[Assistant] Hey, I don't doubt it's football knowledge. I mean, again, I still doubt on how this works and this is still a weird thing we're going on.


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[Assistant] I don't doubt that he could have walked in there to what you were just talking about, Mike, even with the Matt Ryan situation, looked at everything and just went, wait.


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[Assistant] We're gonna play like this this week. I wanna do this. And then kinda gives the guidelines of how to play and what they're gonna do. And then of course him being an ex-offensive lineman, it's hard for me not to look at that aspect and go,


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[Assistant] That had to have something to do with the rushing attack yesterday, that he looked at it and went, wait, they're playing this way, I like these run plays, we gotta run this this way. That's where I could see him having some value. But either way,


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[Assistant] I think we both agree. Cults were kind of, really kind of dominant in the game for a period of time. I know it was a 25-20 victory, but let me just like show people this. It was 10 to nothing.


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[Assistant] Matt Ryan was playing great. They were running the ball well. They were driving down the field and in fugal territory and he threw a pass to Kiki Kutei down the middle for a significant gain to get them like red zone fringe and he fumbled. I don't know if you remember that happening. He fumbles.


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[Assistant] Right? So the Raiders go down and get a score and make it 10-7. They drive down again. Matt Ryan takes a, a, a bad sack.


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[Assistant] Right? Uh, and this might have been two drives later because they go and get the field goal. It takes a bad sack. They miss a field goal at the end of the half where they could have been, they should have been up 16 to seven, even more than that at that point.


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[Assistant] Nonetheless, they were sitting there in the third quarter, down 14 to 13, and that's when, next drive, Jonathan Taylor makes the, the big run, and, uh, it became kind of a fun game down the stretch, but, but, uh, the Colts, their defense, kind of, uh, bailed them out. Stephon Gilmore with the big pass breakup at the end of the game to win it for them.