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[Assistant] You know, I know there's still one of the top offenses in football, uh, and they should be. Well, look at the talent. I know. But they should be more dominant. Right. To, you know, I mean, again, we, you know, we've broken it down many times. It's the best O-line in football.


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[Assistant] Right? I mean, the 49ers couldn't get within 10 feet of Jalen Hurts. And they just need to help these guys out a little bit and give them some advantage. It's the best duo receiver in football. If it's not the best, it's top two or three. The tight end's damn good. The running backs are pretty damn good.


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[Assistant] I mean, we know the quarterback, right? There's no excuse for them to be struggling the way they are on the offensive side of the ball. To be, you know, top ten is good, but it's not good for the Eagles. It should be top five, for sure.


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[Assistant] And the defense should be top 10 at the very worst and it's 22nd. And that's like inexcusable for the talent they have on that side of the ball.


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[Assistant] One, the quarterback, you know, trustworthiness, right? I don't think that's been there to where they can just open up the offense.


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[Assistant] Hold the ball too long in the end zone, get stripped sack, safety. You know, that was the game. So, you know, I think there's that aspect. I think the other aspect is


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[Assistant] We talked about this with Drake London when he came out. He's not a separation guy, right? He's a really good receiver. I don't think he's your bona fide, just number one superstar. He can be a number one.


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[Assistant] But then across from him, you need a really good two who can fly. That's what I would say. Right? The guy that can take a top off, open the field up, and now he can run routes and use his body and work.


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[Assistant] When he's the main go-to guy, and offences know that, and, I mean, defenses know that and all that, yeaah, he's not gonna separate and burn people and do all that, and I think, you know, a little bit of that with pits as well.


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[Assistant] Alright, it's just that he's a tight end. And they have a quarterback who's not going to slam it in there to tight windows all the time. They need some other things to take pressure off of those two guys to get them open would be my assessment.


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[Assistant] He's, he's almost like a blend of the two guys you just mentioned. He's got the Mike Williams size, but he's actually a great route runner like Keenan Allen and does all that. I don't think he's quite as fast as Mike Williams going down the field.


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[Assistant] Right? But he's- He's a contested catch guy all the way. But the route running's better than Mike Williams. And on there, on a Kenan Allen type of thing, to where, yeaah, I kinda look at Drake London and go, he's not the guy I would always want outside and go, oh, it's man to man, we're going to him.


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[Assistant] I go, I'd like to have him in the slot and him run routes and use his body and shield people off and catch the ball over the middle and take a shot and break a tackle. I almost look at him like that kind of guy, like a Michael Thomas-ish.


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[Assistant] Uh, in his prime more than the burner on the outside.


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[Assistant] Well, they're doing a great job of managing the offense without a superstar quarterback. They still gotta run the damn ball.


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[Assistant] Because I don't think they can realistically be what they wanna be if they're gonna be asking Joe Flacco to throw the ball 45 plus times, right?


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[Assistant] It is. And I would say, even like watching the Jaguars film, and I wrote a few notes on that too, the Jaguars went overboard on run defense, where you were just like, listen, this isn't like a rookie quarterback who can't throw. I mean, you can't play.


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[Assistant] You know, the fact that they can rely on the drop back pass game with a guy like Flacco is important, you know, and then their, their screen game is improved and their play action pass is improved.


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[Assistant] Right, early in the game last week, and I said this on Sunday night, and I confirmed it when I went back and watched it. I mean, I mean, early in the game, they just killed the Jags with play action passes.


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[Assistant] And people were wide open and they've done a really good job that way. But I put them in that pound the rock, run the damn ball category because that's what they are best at. I know they got some O-line injuries and that stinks and that hurts them there.


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[Assistant] I don't think it's realistic to think Flacco mid 40s passing the ball is going to be a recipe for success consistently.


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[Assistant] Right? I mean, in play of the game, really, it kind of felt like it was 21-14, and you kind of feel like, man, if the Jags stop them here, they kind of had the momentum. It's an all-out blitz, fourth and three. Now you see the three DBs, yea, right? You see the three DBs at top, right? So what they're doing here, Connor, is,


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[Assistant] I can't see, I forget who the point guy is, uhm, but the point guy is going to take the point guy of the bunch of receivers on the top right, right? And then they're trying to play with Darius Williams and Rayshon Jenkins, they're trying to play in and out. I got the first guy in, you got the first guy out.


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[Assistant] The problem is, alright, the point guy gets out of the way, and both guys go in.


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[Assistant] So now there's a mix up of wait, oh wait, who do I got? And go ahead into the next screenshot, right? And this is how you beat the In-N-Out coverage. If you send two guys outside or two guys inside, it makes it hard on them. So here they are.


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[Assistant] Going in, right? And Darius Williams takes the guy that keeps going in, instead of just waiting for the guy, which is Bell, as you see him there, he is now outside of the short crosser, and he should take him.


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[Assistant] But he took the cheese of the outside guy going underneath, and he realizes it as the ball's being thrown. He stops, puts the brakes on, he slips and falls. Now David Bell's totally wide open. Touchdown Browns, biggest play of the game. But, uh, yeah, good job.


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[Assistant] Good game plan designing there. They obviously knew that that's what they do. The little in and out, you know, with the point man, man to man like that. And found a good way to schematically screw them over there. And Ninjoku had a touchdown on a bust as well. Exactly right.


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[Assistant] Definitely, definitely. Jacksonville's D is reeling right now. And yeaah, I mean, in Joku, it's a third and one play action and goes uncovered. I mean, uncovered.


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[Assistant] Right? He had both touchdowns were play action. Ra'shawn Jenkins, I believe, was responsible for the first one. The second one was Alua Khan, I believe. And they ended up easy touchdowns for Dave Njoku.


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[Assistant] Well, they're scrappy. They're scrappy. They are. And that defense and what they do, I mean, nothing's a given. And then we know, hey, the Eagles, you know.


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[Assistant] They're gonna get a last-ditch effort from the Seattle Seahawks this week too, right? I mean, Seattle, it's like, oh shit, if we don't win tonight, we're in trouble. Right, but uhm, yeaah, that Cowboys schedule, that's why they're at plus 800. That's real right there. Their next three games are as tough as anybody in football.


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[Assistant] My money would be on the 49ers even though that Baltimore game on Christmas night is going to be a lot of fun and that certainly will be a coin flip type of football game.


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[Assistant] He really is. He's, you know, first off, where would he rank? He's, uh,


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[Assistant] To me, it's, it's, you know, when you talk about best offensive minds in the game, we've already hit on a few. McDaniel, Shanahan, right? Uhm.


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[Assistant] McVeigh still got it. McVeigh does, it's through a little bit of a different premise.


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[Assistant] You know, it's not as overly creative and wowing, but it's a formula that's tried and trued and he calls the right plays and knows how to package them all together. So you're exactly right about that. Shane Steichen, that was why I was blanking out. Kevin O'Connell in Minnesota and Ben Johnson. That would be kind of my...


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[Assistant] Probably his past game is a little more creative than his run game. Run game creative, they do a lot of different things, it's really good.


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[Assistant] Uh, pass game, you know, they always have a few plays where I just go, woah, that was cool, or wow, that was, you know, aggressive, or wow, that totally screwed the defense over. They're not afraid to run some trick plays and do stuff like that, so I think I'm probably more impressed with that, but,


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[Assistant] Their play action pass game is the key to their success. One, I mean yea, they need to run the ball, we know that, right? But they don't have nexus necessarily


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[Assistant] You know, big time explosive receivers down the field. They don't have a quarterback who does like a huge rocket arm and he's not going to make plays off schedule. So play actions the way to work for him and them.


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[Assistant] To get exposed to plays. And of course, he's not very good with people around him or having to move on the run either and play action, oops, slows the pass rush down a lot of the times and allows him to step in.


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[Assistant] No, and if they can just get Jameson Williams going here on a consistent basis, cause I mean you can see he's got speed and explosive ability, he's just gotta be a little more consistent in getting the ball, I mean damn they'll be scary fast and dangerous on that side of the ball with some of those guys you mentioned already.


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[Assistant] I don't think there's a lot of, you know, differences. I think it's...


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[Assistant] It's basic Shanahan is what I would call it. It's not quite...


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[Assistant] As creative and the motions and the...


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[Assistant] You know, Shanahan's such a master of like, you always hear me say, like,


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[Assistant] Oh, it's cool run to the left of McCaffrey. Cool run to the right of McCaffrey. Cool run to the left of McCaffrey. Oh, fake the run to McCaffrey. Deebo went around the other edge. Oh, we faked it to McCaffrey. We faked it to Deebo. Oh, we threw it to Kittle down the middle. Or Ayuk, right? That's where he's amazing.


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[Assistant] You know, and I think those things can come from Bobby Slawick. He's got a rookie quarterback. It's his first year, you know, and he's got some young weapons too. So he probably doesn't want to throw too much on their plate.


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[Assistant] It's still, what they do is their run game hasn't killed it, but you have to respect it because it is well thought out and well coached and pretty creative. And because of that,


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[Assistant] And the fact that they've stayed pretty patient with it in a lot of the games, that's what's helped CJ Stroud. That's about as far as the managing of CJ Stroud went. It's just like, hey, let's keep them thinking we're gonna run, cause if he runs play action, he's in a strike and hit big passes down the football field. I haven't watched that film yet, the Texas Jets game.


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[Assistant] I'm hoping I'll get to that either tomorrow or Friday a little because I do want to check it out and just see what the Jets did to that Texans, uh, offense a little bit.


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[Assistant] And hey, the injuries, Nico getting hurt, Tankdell not being in there, Dalton Schultz being banged up. It was a huge problem for the Texans here, but I love the offense and the trajectory is going.


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[Assistant] I've heard Bobby Slowick a little in head coaching conversations and I'm going to go, that's awesome, but don't do it Bobby. It's your first year as a play caller. Let's get another year or two under our belt here, you know, and really show what you can do.


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[Assistant] O'Connell, a little bit like McVeigh in that you don't, when you watch a pre-snap and all that, you don't go, oh wow, this is amazing.


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[Assistant] It's the right plays against the right coverages, and it's the nuance in how he teaches the routes for certain coverages that expose the defense. And that's where he's really good.


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[Assistant] And, you know, play action wizards for a team that they don't even run the ball that well.


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[Assistant] But they still run PlayAction out the wazoo because of I think the things we talked about.


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[Assistant] It helps protection. It opens up the field. It makes it easy for the quarterback to see down the field.


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[Assistant] Gives the receivers a little time to work downfield and they got those type of guys.


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[Assistant] And they're almost like the opposite. They do play action pass to help out the run game a little bit. Hey, play action, play action, play action. We've hit you with Justin Jefferson and everybody 10 times now. Now you're so worried about that. Now run up the middle for seven yards is very effective.


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[Assistant] Uh, that's where they're, they're really good and I would expect to see a better Vikings offense this week under Nick Mullins.


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[Assistant] I think so. That's basically what I'm saying. It's head coaches who were coaching their asses off, play callers, right?


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[Assistant] And if, like, found a formula in which, hey, it helps us win games, we're not gonna be the top offense in football or anything like that. But, you know, I mean, take the, the Broncos, for instance. I mean, every week is basically like,


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[Assistant] Right now, we're going, hey, Russell's great, Russell's great. It's like 180 yards and two touchdowns and no interceptions, right? 35, 40 rushing yards. Don't do anything crazy early on and then, hey, we'd like you to make a play or two at the end of the game to pull us through, right? That's basically what it is. So yea, to me, it's like unbelievable.


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[Assistant] Poaching, maximizing the offense, and finding new ways and tinkering to make it as best it could possibly be.


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[Assistant] It's conservative, it's a little boring at times. Their defense is playing awesome. I mean awesome. They came to life. Right? After a horrendous start. Nobody can do shit against them now. So, you know, that allows Sean to even sell that to Russell even more. It's a little bit like their Seattle Seahawks days. Hey, we're going to play D, we're going to run the ball. You just take care of the ball.


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[Assistant] And then we need you to make like four or five plays a game, just where it's like, Hey Russell, what a great throw or great job getting out of the pocket backyard ball.


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[Assistant] And if you could do that, we could win the football game. And, you know, we've seen that more weeks than not. Other than, uh, two weeks ago when he threw the three fourth quarter interceptions against the Houston Texans, and he was on his way kind of doing the same thing that day. Second half, magical plays. Uh, you know, they've stuck to the script and they become a real pain in the ass.


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[Assistant] He was banged up, and I guess they, you know, rookie, and they didn't know if they could trust him or whatever else.


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[Assistant] They need him, right? I mean, he's one of those guys, again, that you just go, he can do a lot of something with a little something, right? It looks different than when Joe Mixon gets the ball. He's got a little more explosion and just acceleration and top end speed. You know, Joe Mixon's still a good player, but yeah, I don't think he's capable of going


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[Assistant] 65 yards up the sideline like Brown did. Now he, you know, he's got a little more maybe of a physical element and can run some people over.


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[Assistant] I think that the thing that I, watching back that game, you know, watching the Monday night game against the Jaguars, okay, one, hey, run game, toughness, certainly, and that seems to be a Cincinnati thing at the end of the year, every year, where it's like the last six or seven games, all of a sudden they start to figure out how to run the ball and become tough there.


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[Assistant] The play, the movement of the motions has definitely gone up. And then, way more play action.


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[Assistant] You know, especially this last week. I mean, the play action, I promise you, in almost every significant completion in the football game that Jake Browning threw, was a play action pass. Every one, including the 126 yards and screen passes that he threw.


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[Assistant] He threw 126 yards of screen passes to Brown and Mixon and they were both off of play action fakes where then he looked down the field and then comes back to them and hits them there. So that to me was the biggest thing there. They, uh,


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[Assistant] I looked at, when that turned on the film this week, I literally went, man, this almost has more of a 49ers...


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[Assistant] Dolphins feel to their attack than it did the bangles that I'm used to with Joe Burrow and all of that.


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[Assistant] You know, he's a good thrower. He certainly is like Joe Burrow light and he understands the offense and all that. He still misses a few throws and this is why he's a backup quarterback everybody. Before we go to Josh Jobs land here and want to give him a hundred million guaranteed, right? There's still a few plays here.


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[Assistant] Every game, there you go, woah, he should have hit that. Now, they've gotten away with that and that's good, but, you know, they're doing a really good job.


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[Assistant] Re-finding a way to make this offense work and make the quarterback feel comfortable.


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[Assistant] Incredible. Both of them have way exceeded expectations. I mean, one, to hit on McVeigh real quick.


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[Assistant] You know, everybody, oh yea, he's an offensive genius, but just like Shanahan, he's gonna stay with the run. He wants to run the ball. He wants to play action too. But where he's amazing and where he just tortures people is he finds all these ways to go.


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[Assistant] Here's Pooka for six, here's Cooper for seven, here's Pooka for six, and everybody goes


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[Assistant] That's kinda how he does it, right? So it's not as sexy as some of the other guys, but he's a master play caller.


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[Assistant] You know, they're the only thing I say to them is just keep throwing the ball down in the field a little bit so they can keep everything else open. Gardner-Minshew, I think people know he doesn't have a big arm and they play for the intermediate, stop the run a little bit.


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[Assistant] If they throw the ball like they did a little like two weeks ago against the Titans where they took some shots, it just opens things up. Uh, but man, phenomenal job by, by all these coaches right here. So the blueprint you've seen Steichen lay out this year gives you a lot of hope for answers.


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[Assistant] I mean, I think it's just handmade for Richardson. He makes it easy for the quarterback.


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[Assistant] He plays through the run, he makes you defend that, right? And he has, you know, again, like all good play callers, when you start to overplay that or one aspect of his offense, like we were talking about with the Eagles last year.


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[Assistant] I used to go in games and go, oh, if this team stops this, they're going to stop the Eagles. And then he'd come out with a play and they'd go, oh shit, he's got that off of that this week? Oh, well no, they can't do that to stop that.


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[Assistant] Because that's gonna be open all game. He's always got something like that. There are another team, a little more talent there. You know, maybe another receiver in the off season. You know, the quarterback back healthy and all that. Like yea, gonna be dangerous.


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[Assistant] The scheme to me is the biggest issue. It really is. The offensive line plays into that. And that's where, you know,


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[Assistant] I do want to give an excuse for Shane Waldron and that their offensive line stinks. It's not very good.


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[Assistant] That's what I mean. They don't run the ball well. They don't protect all that well. So it's hard to be, you know, real effective. To me the biggest thing is, yea, they just gotta be better up front. But, yea, they have the type of


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[Assistant] They could go a lot of different ways with the group they got there.


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[Assistant] Fant, those three receivers, Kenneth Walker and Charbonne. I mean, that, that, that to me is what's exciting about the Seahawks in their future. Yeaah, maybe Gino's not back. They get another quarterback to, to the, the question here. I understand that. And maybe that will be, because he certainly hasn't played his best. I know that. He's definitely missed throws this year that he did not miss last year. But, I mean,


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[Assistant] They're a team I look at and go, yeah, they could like play spread and kind of spread you out and fight around the football field and be space and then go, oh, hey, here's Kenneth Walker and I got to stop this run game. Or do they get back to, wait, we're going to smash mouth, do that, run the football, play through the demons a little bit and then take deep shots down football. Right. Which is what I would expect.


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[Assistant] To see Pete Carroll do, that was my point and thank you for buttoning up my thought for me. That's why I'm here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, to me again, I think we can almost a little bit like the same thing, talk about the


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[Assistant] The offensive line a little bit. There's an issue there. So they don't have like a run game that they can regularly rely on, right? The pass game.


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[Assistant] It's solid, but I don't, again, don't look at it as going, oh wow, this is reinventing the wheel. This is amazing. Well, I will say where it gives them a fighting chance is that they, they are aggressive and they can make some plays that way.


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[Assistant] Right? I don't ever look at it sometimes and go, ooh, that was well thought, or that's cool, they're packaging that together. But between Baker's big right arm and him, his aggressive mindset, and like you said, Evans there, you know, they can be three and out. Three and out.


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[Assistant] Two play 70 yard touchdown. Three it out. Three it out. Four play 80 yard touchdown. Right? They can do that. Uhm, so, that's kind of what's a little frustrating with them in general. They ran the ball a little bit better with white last week.


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[Assistant] Maybe if they can get white involved in the pass game a little bit, the screen game, do all that, that can be another avenue to, to open up some of their stuff. We'll see where it goes, but yea, little underwhelming with the firepower they have.


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[Assistant] Well, and then you go like, what I think is crazy, yea, and Dave Canales too, Pete says, right? I mean, he was in Seattle, right? So yea, what's crazy to me is like,


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[Assistant] Head coaches like that, and I want to be like, Pete, you went to two Super Bowls, your offensive line was phenomenal. Like, why are we not investing in that a little bit more in Seattle over the last few years? And Tampa...


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[Assistant] And the Chiefs. That's right. I mean, I don't know. What more needs to be said? The Chiefs, I mean, they're still trying to figure out kind of what their identity is. They are run more, but they're still not a great running team. They got some screens and stuff that I like in their passing game that they've made a little bit of a staple there, but I don't know, the game plan goes a little bit


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[Assistant] Like week to week, wherever it goes, I don't know. You know, last week, again, they're a running team, but they didn't run it that much. They went back to let's throw the ball most of the time with Mahomes.


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[Assistant] You know, so yeaah, that, and then the same thing with, I mean, the Bills. I mean, what are the Bills? Other than Josh Allen running around with his fucking hair on fire making plays, right? So, you know, it's a little bit of both. And, you know, I think both of them, Mahomes and Allen have not played to their total capabilities because


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[Assistant] They're forcing things, they're feeling like they gotta carry the squad. Mahomes is definitely getting a little into the, you know...


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[Assistant] Trying to look for big plays and just go, Hey, there's a six yard completion here. Don't go crazy looking for the big plays like we did a few years ago and got caught up in that mix, right? Mess, that mess. And then I think Alan, the same thing, you know, it's, they've had moments of struggle, so he tries to force it to happen.


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[Assistant] Uh, but, but, um, yeaah, I think that's the big thing is, like, if people, when people ask me, what are the identity of the bills, I go, it's Josh Allen, and what are the identity of my homes, I go, ehh.


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[Assistant] Patrick Mahomes? I mean, I don't know exactly what you want to call the offense identity right now as a whole.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, he's like, he's like my homes. You're going to go like, do we want to blitz him? Are we sure? Cause you're really rolling the dice, right? I mean, he makes one guy miss in the backfield. Now he buys a little time. You're compromised downfield. You blitz a lot of the times. Yeah, there's less people in the secondary. There's one-on-one matchups to be had. Watch out, right? There's all of that.


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[Assistant] The other thing they did that I think was interesting in the football game is they threw the ball to James Cook.


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[Assistant] And a little bit because hey, the Chiefs play man to man. So I think they looked at it and said, wait, he can beat linebackers. The other thing they did is.


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[Assistant] The chiefs usually with their blitz, right? Force the running back to stay in.


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[Assistant] There was a number of plays in this game where Alan and the offensive line figured out how to pick up the Blitz and still get the back out. And that screwed over the Chiefs, right? To where they were like, wait.


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[Assistant] Right? And that's where, uh, they burned, uh, the chief's defense a few times in the football game. But yea, it was a fun game to watch. They were controlling the football game early on.


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[Assistant] And man, 14 to nothing, moving the ball, throws the ball across his body like he does.


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[Assistant] 27 Connor made a great play. I mean, he was way on the backside of the field, but hustled over just to get in the passing lane, and all of a sudden he must have been like, oh my gosh, he's about to throw to the guy here that I'm trying to run down, makes the interception, and that made, uh, that made the game very interesting from that point on.


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[Assistant] Two minutes, 23 seconds, right, and it's a, they're trying to run the fake wide receiver screen, right, and then send the guys upfield, so he's gonna pump the ball into the flat.


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[Assistant] Like, he's gonna pump it to Diggs, who's at the inside of the three receivers here. He's like, hey, it's a bubble screen. Go, hey, it's Diggs. You wanna cover him? And Alan...


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[Assistant] Look to Dalton Kincaid, the outside guy. Instead of, you're supposed to read this play inside out. This is Blitz by the Chiefs. He's got exactly what he wants. And, yeaah, misses an opportunity here.


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[Assistant] For a touchdown, easy touchdown, that would have made life very hard in the Chiefs at the end and put them up by a touchdown and said it's, it's, it becomes a gamble. And this is what we've seen from the, the, you know, the Bills a little bit this year and some of the losses is,


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[Assistant] Not that it's bad, but maybe not taking advantage of everything they had there.


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[Assistant] You know, whether it's Allen and the all-out blitz against the Eagles and he throws it one way and Gabe Davis goes the other way, right? Well, here's the payback from Allen making the mistake on Gabe Davis. He misses them in a chance where they could have gone up seven, but, uh, for the most part, to what you said earlier.


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[Assistant] When the Chiefs played coverages like this, Blitz, whatever, it was advantage Bills. It was. And that even goes for the Cook touchdown when he ran down the seam early on in the football game. That was a Blitz zone that screwed them all up. Uh, Bills did a few things in the game that


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[Assistant] The, with as complicated as the Chiefs are on the defensive side of the ball and all the things they do, it definitely confused them and they weren't quite sure how to defend it. Uhm, but, but all in all, that's still a really good Chiefs defense.


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[Assistant] They're relatively the same. You know, your second best threat is still a rookie receiver.


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[Assistant] I don't think you can forget, and I said this a little on Sunday, like, Juju Smith-Schuster for their football team last year and McColl-Hardman were veteran guys who had been there, right, and they did make a difference. Juju Smith-Schuster, everybody's gotta remember, he did catch for 900-something yards receiving last year. It's not sexy, but he knew how to work the under, he was almost like a de facto tight end.


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[Assistant] You know, slot, big tight end, could kinda work there, the ins and outs, the ace, the 10 yard completions, do wall of that.


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[Assistant] Veteran type of player, so can handle a lot of offense. Same for McColl-Hardman. Right? So, those are two elements that I look at that, yea, they don't have them. They've had to rely on younger guys this year. Uh, Valdez Scanling is not a guy you want to make your consistent go-to guy all the time. Sky Moore is...


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[Assistant] Really just a slot receiver. So that hurts them a little bit. Uh, and then I think you add on that they lost Eric Pianomi.


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[Assistant] You know, and again, these were all teams that are playoff, right? Playoff conversation teams. We, you know, I think we all know that the Carolina and New England could probably be, you know, in the stinks and not changing category, but we're not worried about that. It's just that I don't really know what


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[Assistant] The Steelers offense is trying to accomplish more times than not.


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[Assistant] You know, talk about identity, right? You know, I don't know what it is. I don't ever see tying a place together. I don't ever see, ooh, they're doing this to set up this later on in the football game.


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[Assistant] You know, all the things that I worried about with Kenny Pickett coming out in that draft are, this is what you're starting to hear out of Pittsburgh and their fan base a little bit.


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[Assistant] He doesn't do anything special, right? You know, he's not a high level thrower of the football.


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[Assistant] You know, and I think, gosh, what was that? Thursday night, right? Kirk Herbstreet and Al Michaels, they were letting you know, like, yeah, they got a decision to make on Kenny Pickett. They're not just pulling that out of their ass and saying that on Thursday night. They talked to people. They talked to people in Pittsburgh. They were like, eh, we're a little underwhelmed with this play. We're not sure if he's the quarterback of the future or not, right? That was the weird thing about that draft class. I love Corral's talent.


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[Assistant] quarterback play, but I didn't like his talent, right? So that was a weird one and uh, we'll see where it goes as far as the quarterback of the Steelers. And he was the only first round


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[Assistant] The Rock with Sean Connery and Ed Harris. Damn. Yes, I would not have pulled that out, but that was a good movie. Oh, I've seen it. It's good. It is a good movie.


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[Assistant] Alright. Sorry, Pete. We're old, Pete. These guys are just being born with the things we think are classics. So, we'll get him on it. We'll get him on it. He'll get there. I do my homework when I come on this show. You do. I always do. You do. You always do your homework. You don't need to watch movies.


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[Assistant] Alright, so, I mean, I don't know. They won't hire us a makeup artist for the show. So, are they gonna get us a band? I don't think so. Unless you want to pay for it yourself, don't buy every player a gift this year and buy the freaking band, okay? Mr. Rich Daddy Warbucks over there?


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[Assistant] Yeah, right. Until you're winning, you'll start caring about it. Yeah, it's all right. I'm still in striking distance in the other two as well. Gosh, it's just.


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[Assistant] What were you thinking? I don't know. They had the ball at 21-13 and they were around midfield and then they turned the ball over in two consecutive plays and the game totally freaking changed.


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[Assistant] It's a tough one. I mean, again, neither team is really good. I don't trust either team, you know, either way here. That's what makes a game like this tough to pick, right? I'm going to go by a little bit of what I've seen as of late.


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[Assistant] And I feel like Chicago's played better football than Carolina. Carolina I know got the win, ugly win off the bye against the Houston Texans, but it's that game. Last week wasn't very impressive. You know, before the bye wasn't impressive. I guess I'd just say I trust them.


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[Assistant] You know, less than I do the Chicago Bears. The Bears have showed glimmers, you know, whether it was the domination of the Raiders two weeks ago. Okay, the Chargers game I know wasn't their best, certainly. You know, but then last week, they stood toe-to-toe with the Saints for a long time.


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[Assistant] And made a lot of plays. And then of course made some mistakes that ultimately ended up, you know, costing them the football game there.


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[Assistant] There's some positives, I think, to be had there with Chicago more than the other side. You know, one, Chicago's offense, I think, poses some problems for a good Carolina defense in their running game, and Beijing


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[Assistant] He ain't afraid to stand there and make some throws. And of course, they have better weapons than Carolina on the outside. Uh, uh, and, and then, you know, just lack of weaponry around Bryce Young and that Carolina offense. Chicago plays a ton of man, which could be scary. I'm going to play it more that


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[Assistant] It's going to be hard for Carolina to wiggle free for the better part of this football game. I'm going to go with the Bears, going to have the Panthers covering the spread, kind of a late game field goal type of thing. I'm feeling Bears 20 to 19.


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[Assistant] I think the Patriots match up pretty well with the Colts. One, the Patriots can stop the run. I think that's where it starts with the Colts. And then the Colts, passing game, Gardner, Minshew, not big time weapons on the outside to scare you. I think that fits and is conducive to the Patriots putting up a good showing here.


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[Assistant] I've told you I'm disappointed in the Colts, I'm disappointed in their defense. That's been the thing that's let them down this year.


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[Assistant] Last year, it was a top 10-ish defense. This year, it's a bottom 10-ish defense. People score points, they make big plays on them, right? Nobody else makes plays on the Colts defense. We saw Kenny Moore last week, I get that. You know, but we gotta see more of that from them.


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[Assistant] Right, I feel like DeForest Buckner is really the only guy on the defensive side of the ball right now that consistently kinda...


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[Assistant] I feel like this is a game where New England gets back on the win column.


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[Assistant] I don't know why weird things happen in Europe, alright, and I look at it too and just go, it's a good matchup with the New England Patriots.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Patriots have been a little bit better as of late here and I think they can pose some problems for the Colts on the defensive side of the ball or as many problems they're capable of doing. I'm going to go with the Pats, 23 to 20 in Germany.


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[Assistant] Make me want to step on the break and be like, ah, I hear what you're saying. You know, where's the confidence? Where's the psyche of the Patriots at in totality is definitely a big question and something that does scare me. And I thought about that, you know, in this matchup where I went back and forth in my mind here, it's certainly not going to be a best bet. I could tell you that much.


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[Assistant] I'm going with the Ravens. I mean, the Ravens are the hottest team in the game right now, like you just said.


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[Assistant] Well, I love the Cleveland defense. I'm in awe of it. I like the Baltimore Ravens defense even more, let alone the Ravens have what? The number six offense in football?


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[Assistant] I mean, the Ravens are real. They are. Now, I think the Bengals are, I mean, the Browns are real, too. Excuse me. I do. But I just don't trust the Browns' offense yet. And there's potential for me to trust it and say, wow.


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[Assistant] Right? We know they can run the ball. They're one of the best screen teams in all of the NFL. Every week I watch and I go, man, Stefanski and them have so many good creative ways, you know, to screw over a defense with passes behind the line of scrimmage. They're great in that department.


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[Assistant] But it's in Baltimore. It's on the road. I don't think Deshaun is hitting on all cylinders yet. How could he be?


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[Assistant] You know, last week was kind of like, ooh, some impressive throws. And then also some, uh, damn, it looks like he hasn't played football in a little bit, right? So I think we're going to be in a defensive struggle. Uh, but ultimately I'm going with the Ravens. I'm going to pick them to win this game 21 to 13.


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[Assistant] Well, yes, I'm going with the Bengals. Do I think it's a little scary? Sure. You know, I don't know what to think. I think of what I look at as the Texans defense, right? I think that's, you know, and where I look at it, you know, I think what scares me more than anything,


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[Assistant] Is the health status of the Bangos receivers. That's of course a big determining factor here.


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[Assistant] You know, T Higgins, little injury in practice yesterday, right? Jamar Chase was nine feet up in the air and then landed on his back. I don't know if he's going to be able to go. So that, that worries me.


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[Assistant] I think the Bengals, like we were kinda talking about with the Ravens, are one of the hottest teams in the sport, obviously. Right? And I think they dominated that game against Buffalo last Sunday night a little better than what the score would even show there. Uh, and, you know, with the Texas defense,


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[Assistant] You know, I like it, right? Uh, they got torn up last week in a lot of ways. You know, there was a little running the ball by the Buccaneers and some big plays in the pass game. I think the Bengals are playing great on offense, capable of that. And here's the other thing I just bring to the table. The Bengals have showed me they know how to


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[Assistant] Yeah, have the right route combinations versus D'Amico Ryan's zone defense that he's so good at, right? A lot of similarities. Again, they played the 49ers. It's still the same system there. Yeah, Steve Wilkes isn't coaching as good as D'Amico Ryan's. We know that.


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[Assistant] There's an understanding of how to attack it. And I think between that and being on the road in Cincinnati and Cincinnati's defense is awesome at all three levels. I'm going to ride with them here 24 to 17, but uncomfortable 24 to 17.


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[Assistant] I hear you there. I hear you. I think your, your points are valid and I could certainly see them hanging around and making this very, very tight and interesting, especially if both receivers for Cincinnati are out. That's where I start to go, Oh, that scares me. And that's where Cincinnati's defense, I think we'll have to step up in a major way.


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[Assistant] Right? I can see ways that, you know, both teams win this football game.


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[Assistant] Right, you know, again, the, the, the Jaguars do some of the things. First off, they have great balance. They have a great running back. We know they protect pretty well.


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[Assistant] Uh, I think that's probably something they'd like to be a little bit better at. Uh, uh, we know Trevor Lawrence, they got weapons. You always hear me talk about, if you're going to play the 49ers, you got to be willing to throw the ball down the field and outside the numbers. Jacksonville can do that really well. So that scares me in that part of it. Right. But the other part of that is that.


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[Assistant] You know, this is a 49ers team that's, is a little desperate. You know, Jacksonville is coming off the bygone feeling good. We're section two. We've been playing great football. San Francisco went into the bygone. What the hell? We need to make some adjustments. We got to fix some things.


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[Assistant] Right? So that's where I look at the 49ers and go, I expect things to maybe look a little different on the defensive side of the ball. A few new wrinkles, some corrections, some adjustments by Steve Wilkes. And then of course you got the Chase Young aspect that's going to bring energy to that side of the ball.


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[Assistant] Offensively or the other side, right? Jaguars can stop the run.


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[Assistant] They can stop the run. They're not a great pass rushing team, but they're creative in how they attack the quarterback and do that both in the secondary and with blitzes.


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[Assistant] They cause turnovers, interceptions, forced fumbles. They're up there in the top of football. That department, the 49ers have had issues turning the ball over lately.


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[Assistant] The 49ers are healthy on the offense, it looks like, other than Trent Williams. And, you know, I think between that


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[Assistant] The desperation of, oh no, we can't lose four in a row. And having a different feel in the bye week. I'm gonna go with the 49ers here. I think it's a really evenly matched football game. But because of those factors, I'm going 49ers 24-20.


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[Assistant] I think Jacksonville is an elite team too. I do. That's what scares me.


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[Assistant] But I'm, I'm with you and it's the other, the external factors, the psychology again that I, I favor the 49ers in this one, but I certainly.


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[Assistant] Wouldn't be shocked if we came here on Monday talking and doing the show and we went, well, Jacksonville won 24 20 or 23 17. We shouldn't be there in the class of the 49ers. I just think like you said, the 49ers going to put their best foot forward in this one. All right, here we go.


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[Assistant] I'm going, I'm going 24 17 and you're damn right. I'm not going with the motherfucking Minnesota Vikings. I'm going with the saints. That's right. Yup. I'm going with the saints. You can believe all this bullshit and recency bias. I got to see it one more time. Okay. Yup. That's right. I got to see it.


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[Assistant] I think, listen, it was great last week. I get that. I think the game fell.


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[Assistant] The right way for them too, in a lot of ways too with, you know, Elena with a few self-inflicted mistakes and whatever else, right?


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[Assistant] I don't think that Josh Dobbs and his running is going to catch the Saints by surprise here. The Saints offense has got it going a little bit.


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[Assistant] I'm just not ready to buy into it yet. I gotta see it maybe one more week for me to go, okay, it's real. This is a tangible thing. Minnesota's got this figured out. I got great respect. You know that.


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[Assistant] Right? Uh, it's a, it's a Saints defense that's good. It's not great. Right? But I do think their offense has got to go in here a little bit as of late and making some plays. I'm going to take them to win this one. Ugly, but 24-17.


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[Assistant] I hear you there. You know, you say a lot of the right things. The Steelers defense got it going. They make plays every week. Jordan Love.


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[Assistant] Right? I mean, I don't, still don't trust them. Again, last week it took forever for their offense to get going. I don't trust them throwing the football. I don't trust them to get the ball out of his hands and not hold it too long unless strip sack fumbles happen. So I got that.


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[Assistant] I don't expect them to be able to move the ball very much on the Pittsburgh defense. I don't, I just because their offense is so basic right now, I got to see it to believe it. And then, yeah, I don't expect it to be pretty by the Pittsburgh


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[Assistant] Offense by any stretch of the imagination against the Packers, but I think it's going to kind of be what we always see it be.


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[Assistant] Ugly, you know, 10 points at the half, another drive or two in the second half to get some points and


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[Assistant] You know, that's all she wrote. And then they'll let their demons dominate from there. I'm gonna go stealers 20 to 10. I have a lot of the same thoughts you do.


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[Assistant] Uh, but this just feels like, yeah, their kind of game that they're made for. And this I think will be the first game all year that they outgain their opponent and win the game. I think that'll happen for the first time, which is still a remarkable stat.


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[Assistant] This is another game where it just feels like a titans type of football game for me.


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[Assistant] That's where I don't tr- like the Bucks offense was better last week. I got it. But I don't know if I'm ready to sit here and...


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[Assistant] Say, oh yeah, it's, it's, it's ready to turn the corner and put up points and 30 something points every game. No.


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[Assistant] I don't look at it that way. You know, one, I don't look at it enough to go, Ooh, I think they're going to be able to run the ball so much that it's going to stress the Tennessee Titans out to where they're going to have to play crazy aggressive coverages in the back end. Cause they're so worried about the run.


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[Assistant] To me, you know, the way the Bucs play is conducive to, yeaah, the Titans being able to let their front seven kind of do the work there and then they can use people in the pass game and make things tough on you even though their defense isn't great, you know, it's the kind of formula that helps them out.


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[Assistant] Right? And then, you know, the vice versa of that is


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[Assistant] I feel like Tennessee poses problems that stress the Buccaneers out. The Buccaneers.


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[Assistant] Always overplay the run, right? That's one of my problems with Todd Bowles. I mean, even the last week I had a joke in my podcast that Todd Bowles was playing run defense in the third quarter. We're already 300 yards passing in.


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[Assistant] Like he was playing the 93 Cowboys and Emmett Smith and he's still got eight guys in the line of scrimmage like they might run it all over us still. No, they're not Todd. They're throwing it all over you. Adjust.


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[Assistant] And I just think he's a meathead that way and their defense of coaches there to where they're going to go all in and worry about the running game and all that. And they're going to leave some opportunities for Will Leves in the passing game. Like we've seen, I'm going to go Titans 20 to 17.


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[Assistant] I don't know, no, no, I think it's fair. I don't know what the hell the NFL is doing. They're messing up and putting good games in marquee windows right now that I like, I feel like I've never seen it before. I want to go, well, what, what are we doing?


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[Assistant] Like this is our four o'clock, yeah, exactly, excuse me, sorry. I mean, the four o'clock slate is, is stinks. I mean, it stinks. I mean, come on, this is all the NFL could offer for us for a four o'clock football games on the 10th week of the year. I mean, that's ridiculous. That to me is like,


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[Assistant] I don't know, arrogant, self, selfish, it's ridiculous, I don't understand what they're doing.


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[Assistant] I know, it's scary. It's scary. There's a part of me that, I really, there's a part of me that sat here and I was like, should I take the Cardinals?


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[Assistant] The boost of Kyler Murray. I'm not sure about Atlanta.


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[Assistant] Right? I mean, they, they like, well, they just will screw anything up right now. They really will. So I don't know what to think of them. They scare me a little.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, the unveiling of Kyler Murray and some things that you haven't seen them do on film that you gotta worry about. Oh, that hell, we're better than Arizona anyways. We should be able to just show up and beat them, right? All those factors scare me.


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[Assistant] You know, but at the end of the day, I still can't pick Arizona. I can't, not, not yet.


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[Assistant] You know, this is big though. Like to me, this is a season defining moment for Atlanta. They lose this football game. I want to be like, uh, see you later. You guys don't have what it takes to get in the playoffs or win the NFC South.


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[Assistant] This is like, you better wake up and show up here and beat this football team, you know, and, and, and start to gain some momentum here. And I'm going to play that they do that. I am. The defense hasn't been as good as of late


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[Assistant] But I'm going to play more that Kyler Murray is rusty and not on his game. Might have some opportunities to make a few plays, might make, miss a few throws here and there, right? But I'm scared of that. I'm scared it could be the opposite and he's going to be like on his game and, and hitting people everywhere and they're going to be like, whoa, we don't know what hit us. And then I'm, I'm going to,


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[Assistant] You know, play the fact that the Falcons can get their run game going against this Arizona defense. I am. Now, what scares me too is the thing we always talk about with Atlanta, is just lack of people that scare you on the outside has really hurt them and their ability to run the ball as good as they should be able to with that offensive line.


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[Assistant] So we'll see where it goes, but I think because of the desperation and all that, I'm gonna take the Falcons in a close one, 23-21.


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[Assistant] Uh, but bi-week, I gotta think there was some recalibrations there and trying to fix some things. Uh, I think the thing that scares me, okay, and like I said, I'm taking the Lions, is the Lions like to play a lot of zone and I feel like Justin


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[Assistant] Uh, Justin Herbert and company, you know, could pick them apart to a degree and have some drives where it's 8 and 10 and 5 and 8 and 10 and do all that, right? I just don't think there's enough firepower in the Chargers offense when all's said and done.


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[Assistant] Keenan Allen's a real good player, but, you know, he's not a guy that scares you of making big plays. They have nobody else in the offense like that right now. They're not good enough running the football. Their defense is better in pain in the butt, but I just don't think they're as good as the Lions. I'm gonna go with the Lions on the road, 28-20.


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[Assistant] Well, just before you go on, I just, I'm shocked too what you said about Nance and Roma. I really am shocked that they're not going to be at Cleveland Baltimore. Man, with all the stars they got on the field and a seven and two and five and three team, I'm shocked by that.


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[Assistant] That's the lock right there, considering that you're 26 points above the spread there with your margin, right? You know, I hear what you're saying. I honestly, I mean, obviously think the Cowboys are going to win and dominate the football game.


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[Assistant] I feel like it could be more of like the Cowboys dominate the football game, but are bored and don't really, it's Tommy and DeVito coming to town and company. They don't feel threatened at all right now. They are literally like, we could take a nap at halftime. I think we'll still win the second half. I mean, so I got, that's where I worry about it.


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[Assistant] I, the, the other aspect I worry, or not worry, just that it's, it's not as a big plays and just all over the place. Maybe this is we think, and it could go the way you're talking about. I wouldn't be shocked.


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[Assistant] I think the other thing I looked at too was just to go, you know, the Giants defense didn't play well last week. It was really the first game all year their D didn't play well. I got to think there's a bounce back there and


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[Assistant] Dallas's offense is still very easy to figure out. It really is. So that's where I could see them kind of hanging around, but I'm going to go Cowboys 24 to 6, Mike. I mean, I'm going to have them cover for sure.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm going Seattle. It's tough to win in Seattle. The Seahawks are a different team when they are at home, right? It's a Washington offensive line that we know is a little shaky.


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[Assistant] Right, Seattle's got some good players up front. Also, I don't think Seattle's gonna have to worry about


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[Assistant] Stopping the run on a consistent basis versus Washington.


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[Assistant] Uh, so I think that favors them in that aspect. They can play past the events, try to stop Sam Howell, you know, from throwing big throws down the field with that crowd noise.


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[Assistant] Some of the blitz pressures that Seattle brings, I feel like this is a Sam Howell, take a few too many sacks in the football game type of game, maybe fumble back in his own territory once or twice. Uh, that's the things that worry me. Seattle's offense is concerning. It is.


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[Assistant] I don't think Washington's D is good enough to take advantage of it. I don't. Now I don't know if Seattle can run the ball, but I think Seattle should be able to get back into consistent drive, some big plays in the pass game versus Washington defense. I'm going to go Seattle 30 to 21 in this one. They got to start


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[Assistant] Playing consistent and getting that offense going. It's getting to the point where it's a little concerning and you're starting to go, I don't know if it's ever going to turn around and go in the right direction.


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[Assistant] Like that? That's what you mean? Yeah, yeah. Alright, I'm done.


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[Assistant] That's the most interesting thing to say about it. Let's move on. Okay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you say a lot of good things. It's an evenly matched football game.


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[Assistant] The Raiders defense, not super talented, but it's, it's good. It's really well coached.


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[Assistant] And they have a guy that creates disasters and Max Crosby, like you said.


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[Assistant] And then when you couple that, it's really well coached. It's good. They have a game wrecker and it's one of the worst offenses in football.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that doesn't look like you're going to score many points, right? And then, you know, I look at that and the one silver lining is I go, maybe the Jets can run the ball on the Raiders. That'd be the one thing I'd kind of look at.


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[Assistant] To a degree, uhm, but we'll see where that goes. Now, you flip it around to the other side of the ball, alright?


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[Assistant] And the Jets defense is special, like you said. I mean, it's special. It really is. It's special at every level. You know, they're even better than they're statistically ranked because the offense is so bad. They're constantly in bad positions here. A rookie quarterback, a run game that I'm still not.


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[Assistant] You know, it's better than it was three or four weeks ago but not great.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, I just think this is going to be an ugly, ugly game and 20, I don't know if they could make 23 17. If we took the defense off for half the game, I'm not sure they could do that. I'm going 12 to motherfucking 10 in this one. Jets win it on the road in some ugly fashion. I expect their defense to make a big play.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm not back on anything. I just think this matchup is conducive to them winning a game like this. This one, it fits them. Uh, but the things you said scare me, the bump from, you know, Pierce at head coach, all of that scares me, but yeah, I'm going to go with the Jets defense. Just there. They're enough to get it done in this one.


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[Assistant] Or are they? I wouldn't think they're gonna blow it. No, I'm gonna pick them to win the game. I think seven and a half points is a little too much though. I do. You know, Denver's defense has been a lot better.


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[Assistant] Right? It's a Bill's offense that, again, we know it's about one thing. That's all it is. It's number 17.


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[Assistant] And every time we look at a lull or why they're not doing good in a stretch is because


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[Assistant] The defense can slow him down, there's nobody else that ever can do fucking anything for their team. It's frustrating to watch. We know Diggs is the only guy there. So, I'm going with the Bills, but I think the Broncos will be able to move the ball in this Bills defense a little too. But Bills 24-20 at home, I think the Broncos keep it a little closer than they'd like.


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[Assistant] Alright, well I'm going to the Browns Ravens game to start it off, and I'm going with the Ravens.


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[Assistant] Right, I just, I look at it, you know, I think it, you know, sneaky, hang around for a while, but six, six points. Uh, I think the Ravens win by more than that. I could see them, I got a 21-13. I could see them stifling that Browns offense even more. I'm going Ravens.


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[Assistant] As well, this to me is just too much of a Steelers football game, slow grind it out, slowly just dominate and apply pressure to the neck and just finish off the Green Bay Packers. Like that description?


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[Assistant] Don't worry, Dr. Doom, we're not taking you too literal there, we gotcha. Uhm, at the end of the year- Watch, you'll get fired Tuesday. I'm gonna go with the Lions.


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[Assistant] Minus three, you know, favored by three, not enough points here for me on the bye week. You know, Chargers don't make enough plays on offense and I just think the lines are too balanced on the offensive side of the ball and the Chargers defense will have problems.


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[Assistant] I know. I wanted to pick it with you. I was scared. I don't know. There's something that just to me just seems like a Cowboys put their feet up and just think they're going to Watson there and win the game without, you know, being all over it.


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[Assistant] Oh man, well if I'm not in a bad mood today, I'll never be, because the Giants suck with a capital S. That's right, we're here, it's Sunday, it's week 10, it's almost all in the books, we got Raiders Jets still going on, we know we got Monday Night Football.


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[Assistant] But it is I, Chris Sims, and Ahmed Fareed, the man, the myth, the legend. We are here on a Sunday night to give you all the NFL Week 10 news. It is I.


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[Assistant] We've had that in a long time, right? I think I heard that, yea, that it was up there for sure, right? Alright, I'm going to say it's true.


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[Assistant] Yeah, incredible. I mean, it was, uh, it was a lot of fun to watch those one o'clock games, you know.


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[Assistant] It was some unexpected finishes. It became crazy down the stretch.


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[Assistant] And of course we had a few at the four o'clock games as well. It was a good day. I don't know if we had any of those huge, unbelievable marquee matchups, right? We had some good matchups, but we had a lot of...


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[Assistant] Good football games, you know, we're starting to get a better feel for some of these teams and, you know, the NFL is still crazy too in week 10 and it was a, it was, it was fun and we'll unpack it right now. How you feeling though? I'm good. You ready to go?


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[Assistant] It's just like, I'm trying to like pick, I'm just getting like re-energized. I kind of got like done with halftime show for something like football.


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[Assistant] I honestly, this, the Texans highlights at one point today, I was like,


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[Assistant] I think I've done Stroud like five weeks in a row. I was like, you should probably give them to somebody else, right? So Devin got to hit on it at the start of the show instead of me once again going CJ Stroud. But I think everybody's seeing what we've been talking about for the last six or seven weeks here, right? Now you're seeing wins. The stats are back, you know, backing it up.


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[Assistant] Uh, but you know, we, we've been here for four or five weeks at least of hearing me go, it's just unbelievable what we're seeing. And of course the, the lure of CJ Stroud even grows more today.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. Very well, you're right. So sometimes you know, you get a look, you get the look on defense, you go can, can or kill, kill, means kill the first play.


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[Assistant] But then, like, the defense is kind of disguising, and they go back to what you originally thought they might do, and then you gotta go reload, and everybody knows, okay, that goes back to the original play. Look at you listening though. I could be an NFL quarterback. Damn, you could be.


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[Assistant] No, no, he did not. And I think we saw glimpses of it. I think if you unpack it, like I, we did during, you know, the draft process and you start to look at it, you start to go, damn, there are a lot of good throws, right? You know, it's a lot of nice plays in the pocket. He puts the ball where he wants to all the time and that continued today.


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[Assistant] I mean, it did. They overcame, first off, they got out to a 20 to 10 lead, or 20 to 7, I should say, and it really probably should have been worse than that. That's where the game, and this is their resiliency, is amazing.


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[Assistant] They get down there far on one drive, he fumbles a fourth and one snap, okay? They got down there in field goal territory, another time he got stripped sacked by Logan Wilson, right? So they left some points on the board. It was one of those games at one point.


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[Assistant] In the second quarter, where you went, damn, they're going to go win a 10-7, and it feels, at halftime, you go, it felt like they totally outplayed Cincinnati. And it kind of gave you the feeling of, oh, well in the second half, Cincinnati's going to wake up and watch out. But it was just the opposite. You know, Texans came out and really kind of put the pressure on Cincinnati.


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[Assistant] For there, Cincinnati had to start opening up the offense, taking some chances there. Joe Burrow and company made a lot of big plays, definitely. Made some mistakes that we don't usually see them make. The interception in the end zone. Tyler Boyd with the drop touchdown pass to the end of the football game. Still, the shocking thing to me about the whole game is that


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[Assistant] Yes, 544 total yards of offense from the Texans on a Cincinnati Bengals defense that I think we all thought turned the corner and would be okay. And the Texans did whatever they wanted on them all day long. Pass game, run game, whatever they wanted. It was very impressive by them on the road.


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[Assistant] Maybe unfreezing cold takes for that one right there. That could be happening.


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[Assistant] Hey, we make proclamations, that's what we do. I think we're seeing one.


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[Assistant] When you have a special quarterback, you have a coach who's ready to be a head coach and understands how to, you know, uh, lead a football team. And then the other thing is you, you see what free agency and draft can do for a football team. And I think Nick Casario, I owe him an apology and saying that he's done, he did a little better in the draft than I thought, especially when it comes to players that fit in this scheme.


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[Assistant] And that's whether we talk about Will Anderson, but Jonathan Greener that we talked about. They get Sheldon Rankin's in free agency. He's the perfect guy in the middle of this Seattle type defense to create havoc. So they got a lot of things going. And then of course on the offensive side of the ball, they're trying to run the 49er Shanahan offense, right? Bobby Slowick, they got a very good offensive line.


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[Assistant] Get people open down the field. And then Stroud, it's like he's on a zipline with his ball to the receivers no matter where they are.


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[Assistant] Again, I know I've said all the superlatives about Stroud, but it's just, it's the throwing, it's decision making, it's the wow-ness of the throws, it's the location of the high difficulty throws, and then the nuance of, like we've talked about,


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm getting blitzed. I know where my hot route is or I'm about to take a sack and I know where to throw it away till I don't get, you know, take a sack or get a grounding penalty. It's those things that are just above and beyond mature for.


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[Assistant] Have I ever seen a CJ, anybody have a rookie play like CJ Stroud? Like I was talking to myself, so then I came out in the pod and said it. I'm pretty good with football history and got a pretty good feel for that stuff. I know that there's some discussion there to be had, but damn, here in recent history, I don't remember anybody lighting up the


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[Assistant] The, you know, the yardage, the scoreboard, anything like that. The Houston, really impressive. I mean,


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[Assistant] One, I was shocked they ran the ball that way on Cincinnati's defense. Two, I was shocked that they're, you know, they gave Burrow and company a lot of problems for a while. It wasn't until what, maybe late third quarter where you started to feel like, oh, Cincinnati finally got in a rhythm here and is starting to move the ball. Uh, but, but yea, really good team win by the Houston Texans.


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[Assistant] No, no, I hear you. I think with the stats, when you talk about the cast of weapons around him at Receiver, I don't think any of us are sitting here going like, oh my gosh, they're loaded.


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[Assistant] Whooping the Steelers in Houston, right? You know, the things that'll go work against them, the early season, you know, lost two games, they had that dud in Carolina, right? But I think for him to be in the conversation, I think is more than fair. And what I said to you, I think last week, I certainly said it to Floria, like,


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[Assistant] This is, this, he's gone beyond, this is a good rookie quarterback. This has gone, like, to, whoa, is he one of the ten best quarterbacks in football already?


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[Assistant] I am a little surprised, like I said, about the Bengals defense. Uh, I am, I was a little surprised it took them so long to kind of get going on the offensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] Burrow did move around. He avoided some sacks where he certainly was in trouble, you know, a few times. But, uh, yeaah. I'm not panicked about the Bengals. I guess I'm still just a little surprised their defense has had some of these moments so many times this year.


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[Assistant] All the big plays. I thought they had righted the ship in that department, right? A few weeks ago we were out here talking about they were leading the NFL in their defense as far as letting up explosive plays. Run game and pass game was kind of way up there, right?


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[Assistant] Where they went on this little win streak and he felt like, okay, that's, they're simmering that down a little bit and today it struck again and you know, CJ Stroud, his right arm, that offense, what they're doing there. And it honestly seemed like the Bengals had less


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[Assistant] Shovel pass or, you know, some freak receiver come around and I shovel it to you like right in front of you and I get passing yards even though you run for 60 yards or screens out in the edge. They don't have that.


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[Assistant] You know, that's, that's what we've been trying to wax poetically so much about this guy, right? You know, you've heard me, I've been making fun of it. It's not like it's dink and dunk and we're managing the guy. It's literally like, Hey, we need you to throw flame throwers and lasers all over the football field to some good receivers, not great receivers. And he just has continued to.


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[Assistant] I mean, I would put him up there with the elite of the elite in that category. When you say like, ooh, you need a 25-yard completion, right? I know we all think about Allen, Mahomes, Burrow, Justin Herbert.


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[Assistant] C.J. Stroud is helping that conversation for me now, without a doubt, right? He might even surpass Trevor Lawrence already here in that department. I know, and Trevor's the man, I know that, but I just can't get over, you know, the accuracy he has on these aggressive throws. We might have to stop.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, of course you have to dive into that stuff. Cause yeaah, you know, you can get a ten yard completion for throwing a screen one yard behind the line of scrimmage and they give you, oh that was ten yards on that attempt, right? And he's not getting that.


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[Assistant] And that's where context does matter when you dive into the Texans and CJ Stroud. Chris could go on for hours and hours on CJ Stroud. Seriously, you're making me seem like a stalker. Stop talking about him. Move on with this already.


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[Assistant] This is a little bit of a problem. I mean, this is the third, all three losses this year, I think they had the lead in the fourth quarter, or blew a fourth quarter lead. We saw it, it was an issue last year, remember that?


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[Assistant] Remember last year they blew a big lead to Buffalo, they blew a big lead to the Miami Dolphins, right? It's kind of been a thing, it's hard to put your finger on it. I don't think it's the same team as last year or anything like that, so I don't want to draw comparisons, it's just odd that it's that way. Uh, like you said,


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[Assistant] Complete domination of the game early on. I mean, to start the game, tip pass, interception, you know, you know,


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[Assistant] Four so threeing out or a punt from Cleveland and then Keaton Mitchell with the huge run, right? We've been talking about him. So you're just going, wow, they got it and they've been on fire like you said.


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[Assistant] The Cleveland Browns put a few drives together in the first half, but you felt like, oh, when they got down there, you didn't feel like they could really score a touchdown. You felt like it was such hard work to even get field goal range, right? And then, to me, the turning point was this a little bit.


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[Assistant] And they block the field goal, and they go and get a field goal before the half themselves, and instead of it going halftime 20 to 6, it ends up being 17 to 9, you know, and gives them a little life here to make it to a one score game. So I thought, oh, okay, now the next drive, squash that, right?


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[Assistant] You know, you see, they throw the 40 yard slant to Odell Beckham Jr. And you go, oh gosh, they're in trouble, but...


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[Assistant] That was about it for the Ravens offense for the rest of the day, right there, right?


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[Assistant] Right, now it's over, right? And then they make some plays. Watson starts to hit some passes down the field, and Joku, Elijah Moore, Amari Cooper.


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[Assistant] You know, Deshawn looked like he came alive and got more and more comfortable as this game went on.


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[Assistant] That was impressive, you know, but then yeaah, 31-24, tipped pass, Newsome gets the interception, picks six, and it's like holy crap, we're, you know, in a one point football game because they missed the extra point, and it just, you know, was kind of amazing at that point.


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[Assistant] I can't say enough about Cleveland. I think I've told you, they give me 2015 Broncos vibes on the defensive side of the ball, where they just make a, even if you score and make a few plays on them, they're gonna score and make some plays on you too. Just like again today, they lit up 31 points.


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[Assistant] But they blocked a field goal, you know. They had two interceptions on Lamar, right? One was a pick six. Uh, I'm trying to think whether anything else, uh, I guess that was it. That was only the two turnovers on the day, right?


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[Assistant] You know, they make plays on that side of the ball, and then if their offense could start making plays like we saw today. I know they're gonna be able to run the ball. I know that. They got one of the best O-line coaches in football over the last 30 years. They got a really good O-line.


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[Assistant] Ford is a good running back as we see. Kareem hunts a nice backup off of that. They got one of the best screen games in all of football. If they can just get Watson the pass game going, not even to the, it's not like they gotta be the greatest show on turf. Just, you know.


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[Assistant] It felt like Baltimore couldn't move the ball on Cleveland. It felt like they couldn't block them, and it felt like as I was sitting there, it just felt like Cleveland's D-line was in the backfield every play.


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[Assistant] And it's like once they got a kind of a feel for how they were being attacked and the Ravens got, you know, some of their game plan plays out of the system and put them on the film and the tablet and all that, they kind of go, okay, this is what they're doing to us today and kind of shut them down from that point on. And that's what's really impressive about them, how they can just put the clamps on you like that.


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[Assistant] You know, I love Gus Edwards. He's a sledgehammer. Right? But this is a guy that can go above and beyond a little bit. And like we talked about, I mean go 60 yards to the house or, you know,


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[Assistant] I would certainly start to feature him more and more in this offense, but I think the thing that's concerning with the Ravens here, and we saw this a little last year, just, you know, the inability to maybe run the ball.


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[Assistant] On Cleveland, when they had the lead to chew up some clock and, and, and kind of, you know, shorten the game that way.


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[Assistant] And Cleveland, you know, it looked like kind of called their bluff, loaded the line of scrimmage. And they're tough that way because they got those corners on the outside where they can go and gamble and go, hey, you know what, we'll, we'll play one on one and put a bunch of guys in the box and blitz and just create chaos and see where it goes. And more times than not, they come out on top in those situations.


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[Assistant] The offense being a little opportunistic, right? Special teams here and there. Uh, but Kevin Stavansky doing a really good job managing that offense. I'll give him credit there. And, you know, we know, like we said, I think they'll be able to continue to run the ball just on anybody. If they can get Watson to kind of look like he did today, and you can be a little scared of Cooper and Joku and that crew there, uh,


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[Assistant] Man, Cleveland's got the type of talent that you go, they could beat anybody in football.


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[Assistant] I don't know if I saw them all, right? I did not, the early one that they missed, the Lions, I thought that was, it was like a long fourth and two or fourth and three, and they could have kicked a field goal. That was the one I know I was complaining about the most. It was early on in the football game, I'm just like, take the points. Keep the pressure up. I think they could have gone up


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[Assistant] Thirteen to three in that moment. Maybe I could be off. In their defense. Yes.


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[Assistant] That is what Pete tells me seven times a week when I go kick the field goal and if the other team stops them and then they end up getting, you know, then they make the stop and they get the ball in field position. Pete turns around to me and goes, see that's why teams do it. That's why they do it. See, because the Lions did it again. So they failed on that fourth in short.


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[Assistant] I think let's start with the Lions offense, right? Lions offense, you guys have everything. When your old Lions healthy, you're scary, right? And I think your old Lions as healthy as it's been since the start of week one. So you look at that, the two headed monster running back, Gibbs is becoming special, like special. Montgomery's really good, don't get me wrong.


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[Assistant] But Gibbs has another gear that when you see him, you go, ooh, who's that guy with the ball? Right? I mean, it shows on TV, watching him. So to run for 200 yards, and then also throw for 333 yards, when the Lions can run the ball,


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[Assistant] At all? They're almost impossible to defend because of the play action pass and everything we talk about there. And then you can't rush the passer that's away. And golf, who's not great when he's under pressure, he's got a clean pocket, and he just tears you apart.


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[Assistant] Right? And they got so many creative ways to do it. Armand Ross St. Brown is damn good. Our man Laporte is kicking ass in the pass game, right? They got all that working. So that's impressive. Uh, the Chargers, their offense, you know, impressive again.


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[Assistant] I wasn't shocked to see them move the ball that I think they were going to score 38 points on your Lions team. No, I did not. But the thing I worry about with your Lions here as we go forward, we knew the Chargers defense stinks. Alright, we knew that. I worry about lack of


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[Assistant] Maybe one more big time playmaker and you've heard me say the fact that they play zone so much.


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[Assistant] You know, with teams that have some good zone offenses and a quarterback that knows how to manipulate the zone coverages and has, you know, an arm like Justin Herbert, that's what worries me about Detroit. That does, right?


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[Assistant] You know, it's, it's lack of ability to lock people down in man to man just a few times every drive that just changes it up or makes the quarterback make a throw or where you can blitz and go, okay, you know, zone blitz is different. Sometimes you blitz and you go, yeah, I hope it gets there, but it usually leaves a big void in the zone because you have one less guy covering. You've blitzed, right?


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[Assistant] You know, the rest of the really good teams in football, right? It's Aiden Hutchinson. He's the man. There's a lot of good around him. I don't know if there's enough great for me to think their defense is ever going to be great this year.


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[Assistant] We broke this down a few weeks ago with the Lions, right? I think when they beat the Bucs, we talked about they don't want to play man, they want to play zone. Remember we kind of did our deep dive into their defense. And that's what I worry about.


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[Assistant] We've talked about the charger. The chargers have receivers that don't separate downfield, right?


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[Assistant] So, if you have a team that can play man to man, and dabble in that a little bit,


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[Assistant] Like you saw with the Jets last week, we're starting to play more man to man against the Chargers. They couldn't get open. Nobody can separate. But with this matchup, it fit them. You guys play zone. They understand where to sit. Keenan Allen's a great route runner. He knows how to manipulate the zone, find the holes, do all those type of things. So that's where it makes sense.


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[Assistant] That Chargers defense stinks. We know that. It's gonna have to be Justin Herbert in the offense carrying the squad all year long. I don't think he can do that. I think they stay respectable here and are in the playoff mix, but I don't think they're a playoff football team.


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[Assistant] Lions, you guys are damn good. You just, that's the one thing that worries me when you play the cream of the crop offense is your defense in that secondary a little bit.


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[Assistant] Seattle, a little bit like we've talked about, moving the ball between the 30s, but as soon as they get in their red zone or anything like that, they can't make a play.


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[Assistant] To get to the one yard line or get in the end zone, right?


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[Assistant] Seattle, you know my thoughts on Seattle. I love their talent. I don't think their O-line's great. And I don't love their scheme altogether. They're a little bit like you've heard me say about them. I think I even said it before we started the pod. It's just that


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[Assistant] I don't know what they're trying to accomplish on the offensive side of the ball sometimes. It's just like, hey, we're in shotgun four plays in a row and we throw it.


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[Assistant] Now, it's the next drive, and we're underneath the center, and we're gonna play Smash Mouth. And then I'm like, okay, that's cool, but now where are we gonna tie it all together here? What are we trying to accomplish? What are we actually trying to expose or set up for later in the football game? And I never have a feel for that with Seattle. I think that's what bothers me about it. I've been trying to put my


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[Assistant] As we've talked about, they have some big-time playmakers on the offensive side of the ball. You know, and Gino had some time to throw the ball as the game went on, and yea, they started to dice them up in the pass game, you know, in the late third, fourth quarter. We were sitting there at a 12-9 field goal fest.


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[Assistant] Halfway through the third quarter, right? Then it becomes, uh,


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[Assistant] The short pass to Kenneth Walker, he breaks it down the sideline for a 64 yard touchdown pass to make it 16-12. And then the game kinda opened up.


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[Assistant] And that's where it went from there. And Sam Howell and that offense, they made some big plays in the past game. As they do every week, it seems like. They're fun to watch, right. They're certainly not shy. They're gonna go for it. They are. Uh, defense is not great. They can't run the ball that great against anybody. And, uhm,


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[Assistant] And what was I going to say? And they don't protect as good as you would like to. So those are their issues. Valuing an effort by them. I do want to give them a lot of credit for their effort on the road after trading away all these guys that are still fighting.


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[Assistant] Uh, yea, Seattle just out-dueled them, has more playmakers than they do right now.


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[Assistant] You know, a consistent, good running football team. You know, I don't ever look at it. Like, I could certainly maybe question his vision a little. His ability is top notch. It is. You know, I think what's weird at times is he comes out of the game,


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[Assistant] He can be a little bit of a look for the home run, right? Sometimes where you just go, hey, the hole was there, run through it a million miles per hour and get eight yards instead of like getting up there and going, ooh, if I bounce this here, I could get around the edge for 40, right? And it's just like, oh, now you got one and we should have got more. There's a little of that and that's where Charbonne is a nice effect.


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[Assistant] Cause Charbonne just comes downhill, he's a straight liner that way, right? I also think when Charbonne gets in the game, defenses are usually a little less scared. Cause Walker is the kind of guy, when I talk to other teams, they're always like, ooh, you know.


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[Assistant] Walker, he can score from anywhere. He's one of those guys that you gotta be worried about in that department a little bit. So I feel like the defense is


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[Assistant] You know, foot comes off the gas pedal. Uh, but nice game by Sam Howell. Hopefully this game gets Geno Smith and the Seahawks back on track. And even, you know, their defense. Seattle, I almost feel the same way of their offense and their defense. Just not quite to me performing to the actual


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[Assistant] A lot of good. They got blue chippers in the secondary. Who are the blue chippers in the front seven that are gonna start to take over for them? I think that's the thing I want to see.


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[Assistant] A lot of good there, uh, but they kind of do it by platooning in different guys, fresh bodies, scheme, uh, not necessarily guys that take over just with single individual efforts, uh, on the defensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] I, I can't say enough about Kyler Murray and the way he looked today during the game. To come and play football, first off, run the way he ran. He looked, you know, I'm not going to say he looked as fast as he did before the ACL, but still was like, okay, he's still one of the fastest quarterbacks in football, that's for sure. Right? You know, shifty.


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[Assistant] Through, controlled the ball, I couldn't, I thought really for the most part of the day, he put the ball where he wanted to, it looked like it was nice spirals, he was spinning it, you know, all of that, had a big drop at one point on a third down where they ended up having to punt the ball or maybe kick a long field though if I can't remember correctly.


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[Assistant] He had to come in and just be that way. You know, he's gonna put pressure on them there. What are they gonna do? You know, they can run the ball a little bit. They're creative. Their personnel fits him as a quarterback. It does.


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[Assistant] You know, they've been able to run the ball all year long and now you got the ability to run him too off of that. It's only going to make the holes bigger for James Connor. Let alone Rondale Moore and Hollywood Brown. They seem like jitterbug receivers, wide open field, spread the ball, Kyler Murray style. It seems like it fits them and they got a


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[Assistant] High end in this Trey McBride who is really starting to pop as of late on a week to week basis and he had a huge day today and none bigger than that big catch at the end that set up the game winning field goal.


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[Assistant] He is a one of one quarterback. He's special gifts. That's why I just, I don't think it's as easy as just being like, oh, he's small, so we're gonna get another quarterback in here. We're gonna draft somebody else. Right? I just don't think it's gonna be that easy.


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[Assistant] And I think that's why they gotta, they gotta play him and see what he can offer here and see what he's capable of and see if they, okay, do we believe in him and that we can build this thing the way we want to build it around him?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm gonna be interested to see where it goes. I, I, you know, like I said, we've said it all year, with Dobbs and that.


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[Assistant] We kept going. They're very creative in offense. They do a lot of good things. Dobbs would miss a few throws every game, and you'd go, oh man, if he just hit this or that, or could just make one play, they might have won, you know, a few more of those games.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I know we'll get to Dobbs in a minute, but yea, Murray's got special, special instincts and knows how to play and has just got big time skills. Now the other side of the ball, the Falcons, right? I mean, we're having the same conversation here.