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[Assistant] Hey, the Shanahan's offense is still really good, alright. I know it's not top 5 in football yet. They've had some injuries. The Moats are things huge. It is. I don't, you know, people don't really realize it. You know, I could show you a bunch of runs that would be 10 and 15 yards where I go, if that's Raheem Mustard, that's a 60 yard gain. I'm just sorry. He's one of the fastest running backs in football.


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[Assistant] Hey, you know, let's go through it. Lions game, they were awesome on offense. Eagles game, okay, they weren't so great. Eagles have stymied, we've seen them stymie a few defenses, I know it didn't happen last week against the Las Vegas Raiders, and Jimmy Garoppolo didn't play well in that game, period.


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[Assistant] Green Bay, I mean, got off to a slow start.


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[Assistant] But the second half, I mean, the Green Bay couldn't stop them. They went up and down the field on them. Seattle looked good early, looked really good early, went down the field, scored a touchdown. Then Jimmy threw a dumb interception.


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[Assistant] Went down the field and missed a field goal. An easy field goal.


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[Assistant] And then Jimmy was hurt and that changes everything. So Seattle came back and won. Don't blame it on Shanahan on the offense there. You can blame it on Shanahan and D'Amico Ryan's in the defense. Sure.


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[Assistant] Arizona, now you're starting your rookie quarterback against the best team in football, Arizona Cardinals. Alright, and then last week it was a monsoon. I'm not panicked about it. People are trying to crap on Kyle and his offense right now. Kyle's offense is still really, really good. There's no doubt about it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's some things that haven't worked out, you know, and, and of course they've had to deal with a few issues that way, but.


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[Assistant] Uh, I still think he's really good as a course. I think he's still one of the best game planners in football. One thing I would say just, hey, I just think I want to see more misdirection and crazy stuff that we saw in the first drive of the game.


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[Assistant] So, that's where I think people are missing or dropping the ball a little bit and it's just gotten a little too critical on Shanahan in my opinion.


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[Assistant] I think it's fairly clear and the teams in front of them, Minnesota, Atlanta, Chicago, and Carolina, I think San Francisco's more talented than all of them. Yeah. Okay. And they got the Bears coming up this weekend. I'm going to pick them to win. We saw them lose only by seven points against Arizona with a rookie quarterback making his first start.


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[Assistant] So, okay, I mean, I'm not gonna say they can't beat Arizona at home two weeks from now. The Rams, the week after that, hey, there's a lot of common knowledge there. Yeah, they're not as good as the Rams, but who knows?


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[Assistant] Then they got Jacksonville, Minnesota, and Seattle. Those are teams that they are better than that. I feel very confident in saying that. We'll see if they win. It's the NFL, it's close, we know, but they're not out of this.


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[Assistant] I think as a full team they are, yes, but I mean of course we know the scary factor he brings to the table.


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[Assistant] Well, I think you can, you know, specifically blame it on the offense, period. I don't think there's any other way to really say that. I mean, again, here, there's four games in a row.


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[Assistant] The cowboy game. Hey, it's tough. You know, you're playing Dallas. They got weapons. Their defense didn't play as good as they would like. Sure.


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[Assistant] The offense didn't take advantage of what we already talked about, like a bottom ten defense in Dallas, and he had some turnovers in the second half that hurt them, let alone some calls in the first half. Next week against Philadelphia, defense was dominant, absolutely dominant in the game. Philly couldn't do anything.


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[Assistant] The offense stunk. I mean, they were, they were dominated by Philadelphia's defense on an equal way. Minnesota the next week, same type of thing. I know it says 34-28. It wasn't 34-28. It was a miracle they got 28 points and Minnesota's defense dominated them from the most point there, most part there. And then of course last week was a total debacle.


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[Assistant] Two things. Like one, I said this the last few weeks, the first three games weren't as good as everybody thinks as far as just the way they played and Sam Darnold played. It wasn't like, oh wow, I wasn't coming out here going, oh my god, it was good. It was going, whoa, it's going in the right direction. It's got a chance to be good. But Darnold has not played well.


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[Assistant] And Joe Brady, people have caught onto the offense. Now I don't know if it's, hey I know there's no Christian McCaffrey, it's a big element, no doubt.


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[Assistant] I also know, just like as we've talked about a little already today, when your quarterback's messing up like basic stuff, you tend to start to go more conservative because you're like, wait, if he doesn't know the first play we put in the offense and he's messing that up, then


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[Assistant] How am I gonna add more offense and feel comfortable about that? Right. You know, you gotta put yourself in the offensive coordinator's shoes. So, Joe Brady, yea, I'd like to see more, but I can understand him maybe not wanting to put in more too, cause he's like, I don't trust Sam Darnold right now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's a few. Again, I mean, there's more than a few. I mean, again, we just, we cherry picked it. I mean, hey, we could have shown you the interception, but you've seen the highlights in the interception. Had a post route, probably should have been a touchdown, decides to throw the ball into a mosh put of giant defenders for some reason, it becomes interception. All right.


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[Assistant] Some sort of too deep look. The rules for this play are very simple. There's rules. If it's a too deep look, you play the double slant up top. Okay? Because you basically end up getting 2-1-1 on this guy. Okay? So that's, that's the rule of this play.


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[Assistant] If it's cover three, there's going to be an extra guy down in here. And now it's going to be hard because they're going to pass it off like we saw Justin Fields with Tampa Bay earlier. It's hard. Now, that's when you want to play the slant flat.


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[Assistant] Because you'll have, you'll be able to, kind of, I'll show you in a second. You'll be able to spread out the guy that's down here and put them in a bind that way to where you can find a window for the slant and you make the one guy wrong. Alright?


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[Assistant] I mean, this is as easy as it gets, alright? Here we go. It's too deep. They don't change, right? They don't change. Alright, here we go. Look at the linebacker. He's working over here.


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[Assistant] Look at, I mean, you got two receivers right here. Boom! It's, it's, it's open. I don't know what else to say. It's open. That's where the ball goes. Both of them are open. Alright?


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[Assistant] He doesn't even look that way. That's, that's the first thing. That's concerning. Never looks. So it's like, is he really seeing the field the right way? Alright?


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[Assistant] Now, I mean, again, could he have fit this slant in here? Uhm, yeaah. He probably could've. There's a little, but it's gonna be a perfect throw. The linebacker's really working over, right?


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[Assistant] And this guy is supposed to even be more aggressive to the flat, let alone you got, uhm, uh, uh, the guy from USC playing corner from Tennessee breaking on the ball. Oh, Dory Jackson. Sorry, I can come up with the name.


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[Assistant] But as you can see, I mean, it's just not the preferred play here. It's not. I mean, anybody with a blind eye can see, but man, if you hit him running here, whoa, watch out, that could be dangerous, right?


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[Assistant] Or the guy behind him, right? If it just collapsed too hard and this guy made a play. But either way, I mean, I think it's pretty obvious. I would just throw the ball to that guy right there and go wave. At the very worst, even though I throw a ball and he falls down, we're gonna get six or seven yards. He doesn't do that. And of course, that's what happens right there. I mean, the, the corner


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[Assistant] On this side, because of where these linebackers are, I mean he knows he doesn't have to follow him inside. So he's just waiting to see, he's waiting to see the corner, just to like, let me just see him make a commitment with his eyes and his body, and I'm gonna come down and make the play. Either way, and boom.


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[Assistant] Nothing, right? Okay, so there's that play. Work the wrong side, left yards on the field.


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[Assistant] Concerning for a coordinator, because he's going, what, that's the most basic play in our playbook. Right. Alright?


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[Assistant] Double slant up here. Difference is, this time it's cover three. Alright. And let me see if I can get a clearer picture of, so you see here's a safety here. Alright. It's gonna drop out.


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[Assistant] Alright, it's, it's single safety. Alright, so now this is one where you don't want to throw double slant, right?


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[Assistant] I mean, you don't want to throw double, yeah, you don't want to throw double sun here.


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[Assistant] Look, they got a guy here as soon as he gets there. He's there if he goes that way. Right? And then of course there's a guy outside. It's three on two.


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[Assistant] This one's easy. Now it's just this guy. It's slant flat. You make him make a decision. Oh, he sits here and does this and takes away the slant. The flat's going to be wide open. Oh, he drives hard on the flat. Whoa, the slant in Robbie Anderson's going to be wide open. Okay. Jabro peppers.


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[Assistant] He, he kinda sees the slam, he stops. I mean, again, I know it's third and nine, but you get him the ball on rhythm on time. He's gonna be able to turn it up and maybe get the first down. Either, either way, you give your team a little room to punt the ball if you don't get the first down. Right. Alright. And this to me, of course, scares the crap


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[Assistant] Out of an offensive coordinator and just shows you that Sam Donald is not thinking clearly, seeing the field clearly and really I wish we would have shown one other play too because he has another play earlier in the game to DJ Moore.


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[Assistant] Where he's running, they got three receivers to the left, and he's running a slant route from the inside of the third. The inside guy, it was more like this, I'm just gonna draw it here. It was, it was three receivers, this guy ran a shallow cross, he ran kind of out in that way, and this guy just ran a go, and it's, he's got a first down to DJ Moore and maybe a touchdown.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I mean this is, again, this is the one thing where...


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[Assistant] A little predictable. I see repeat concepts. They've already run this play earlier in the game and the Giants were all over it then too. Okay. And here to me, it's a little bit of like a wasted play because you want this play versus man to man coverage. And let me see if I can get all these right here. I mean, it's going to be okay.


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[Assistant] Robbie Anderson, turn, okay. You're gonna have crossers to try to pick and you got the tail back running a wheel route, okay.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, that is a, it's a play from man to man. Alright, that, that's what it's for. And you can see that then the tight end is going right up the seam. Alright, I'm sorry. So I messed that up. Let me just get that right. There, to there.


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[Assistant] To, where am I at here? To Robbie Anderson here, to this guy across, to that right there. Okay? There's the play. The point being is, and this just kind of proves the example of like, and this right here you're gonna go, if I pause it right here you're gonna go, well people are open.


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[Assistant] No, they're not. There's people right here, there's people right here. They're so all over this play, it's scary. And I'll try to pause it one more time, just to like right here. Again, they're passing off these zone coverages. So, I mean, if he threw it here, this guy's gonna get crushed. This guy's gonna get crushed. You know?


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[Assistant] He is maybe a little late down the middle, but he was a little late down the middle because he was waiting for guys to clear so he could do it, and guys break on the ball and knock it down, let alone there's two guys out here for that wheel route we talked about.


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[Assistant] Okay, and now I just want to show the other angle that I think does it a little more justice just to show how all over the play they are, okay? And here we go. I mean first off, look.


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[Assistant] There's five guys in the screen here all looking at these guys right here. They're all ready to pass it off, alright? And then you got this guy and this guy ready for the wheel route.


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[Assistant] But my point being is, I've been seeing this a little bit the last few weeks, where teams are like,


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[Assistant] They're all over the play in general and ready for the concepts.


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[Assistant] And again, none of this is open, really. Yeaah, okay, maybe he was open. And maybe it's a hair late. You'd like the receiver to catch the ball. But I'm just telling you, when he was first ready to throw the ball, and when he maybe is open, look, there's two guys here. He can't throw it yet. So he's got to wade, he's got to wade. Now he's starting to throw it. And here comes the ball.


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[Assistant] And of course now they see it and boom boom play. And that just, that's my point. Again, I know this one's not like, you know, an exact science to break down. You're just gonna have to take my word for it.


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[Assistant] I really thought they would get well the last two weeks. I don't know what to, no, to me right now, the thing I'm going to tell you is I don't have faith in that side of the ball for them and I think it's going to be, have to be their defense to maybe jumpstart things, make a play, do something. The defense played plenty good the other day.


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[Assistant] Defense played good enough in Philadelphia. Defense played okay against Minnesota. They lit up some plays. There's no doubt about it. That was one of their poor performance. Something they played good enough in this game. This game was five to three with one minute left in the third quarter.


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[Assistant] So, the defense, how many stops can they make? With runners in scoring position. Yea, right, right. I mean, it's like the World Series game last night. Yea. I mean, exactly right. So, uh, they gotta get it fixed, but I don't, I can't say that I have a lot of faith in it right now. It's simple.


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[Assistant] As far as the schemes, and there's no Christian McCaffrey, and Sam Darnold's not playing well, I mean, so yeaah, it's gonna be, I don't know what to say, but I don't have faith in the offense to turn it around quite yet. Atlanta's defense not great, I know that. Uh, maybe that's what can kinda get them going, and get them going in the right direction.


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[Assistant] Alright, now it's time for our chief medical expert and long time friend who's known me since I was a little kid. Alright, my man, Mike Ryan, who's got, I don't know, is he like playing like


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[Assistant] Nerf Ball War behind him? What the hell is he hanging up on the wall? But what's up, Mike? How you doing, man? Those are my rollers. Oh, those are your rollers? Okay. He's the full rolling man. He's got the rollers.


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[Assistant] At that. Definitely. Uhm, alright, Mike, so you know, we got some big injuries across the NFL, of course. Uhm, let's, let's hit on, let's hit on Baker Mayfield, right? The shoulder injury, uh, kind of, you just tell us about it, lay it all out there, your concerns, everything, and we'll, we'll ask some questions probably afterwards.


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[Assistant] Mike, explain the humorous, like what, what that, that is exactly that, you know, the fracture there. Just so everybody out there can, can understand that.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I hear you that way. I hear you that way. Alright, I'm interested to see how that plays out. I mean, definitely. Alright, so let's go on to the next big one. I mean, Sunday Night Football, we got Cowboys Vikings on NBC. Uhm, Dak Prescott.


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[Assistant] You know, the calf injury reported yesterday that he's out of the walking boot. You know, what's your concern level there?


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[Assistant] Yeah, right. Is he gonna be able to push off or scramble out of the pocket if he really has to? Just, just my experience being around it, that, that's the scary thing that you're referring to pretty much. Right.


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[Assistant] All right, good. I do want to point out that I do think he got a concussion last year in the divisional playoff game against the Cleveland Browns, right? I do want to- I think you're right. All right. All right, good. It's the only time in my life I'm going to be correcting Mike Ryan on anything medical, but I got him there. I like it. Boom! One for me!


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[Assistant] It almost was like, I wondered, and then just your thought on this, like, you know, you see boxers sometimes get hit right on the chin, right? And it's not necessarily that their like, head was like,


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[Assistant] Whoa bash. It's just that the cutting off of the circulation to the brain real quick. Like is that a possibility to make you a little wobbly with the head in that position? It's just something that crossed my mind.


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[Assistant] His, his middle finger collapsed the other way. And that's when I went, oh no, it's that joint. That's crazy because of course that is, your middle finger is definitely one of the fingers you grip down pretty hard on to have control of the football. And it looked like he lost that. But I mean, Mike, you said it right. Russell Wilson is


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[Assistant] He drinks healing water and a bunch of other stuff and got great work ethic, so he probably will be back quicker than expected.


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[Assistant] That's the man, Mike Ryan. I mean, I love Mike. Great job. And I think he just gives us a good perspective. If you're a fan and you want information, whether you're gambling and using points bet or whatever, Hey, there's some information to know how things might unfold for Baker, Dak Prescott, Russell Wilson in the future. We'll see where it goes from there.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Every time Mike comes on. Mike's the man. He's the man. He's always keeping me up to date. Like Sunday after Sunday night, he texts me almost every week. Yeah. Just to go like, Hey, these, these injuries happen. They're big. Let me know if you guys want me in the podcast.


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[Assistant] Alright, that's it. We did it. We did a podcast. Look at that. Me and Paul. We've never done one before. Wow, finally. That's right. Yeah, that's right. And we did it. Yeah. Hope everybody enjoyed it.


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[Assistant] Alright everybody, be good. Keep sending the questions. Check out PFTPM, Chris Sims on button. PIX podcast on Thursday. It's the PIX collaboration with Smart Chris Sims and Dumb Mike Florio. Peace out. See you guys later.


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


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[Assistant] How could anybody have been that good last week? I mean, that was a crazy week in the NFL. I can't imagine that anybody had like, you know, a great record at any standpoint, at any point, and uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, uhm, yeaah, I don't know. I'm sure I'll split the baby a few times this week. We'll see. I don't know. I still have never heard that saying and I certainly didn't teach it in school in New Jersey. Uh, so I-


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[Assistant] We don't know that. You know, I don't know. I don't know. Let's not judge him. He might have been cool and done that.


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[Assistant] Greater grass. Right. Damn, that sounds like a Jesus move to me. I like that guy. I like him a lot.


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[Assistant] I'm going to say I'm going 2417 Ravens though. You know, I, you know, again, we've seen the Ravens sputter.


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[Assistant] And a lot of games this year, games where we go, well, they're the Ravens, they should win, they should dominate. I mean, just like last week, they were down big, you know, to start the second half.


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[Assistant] So again, I don't, I'm still, I know the Ravens are good. They have the it factor. You know, you've mentioned it a lot. They just have a belief in winning and they got Lamar Jackson. I'm still not sure how great of a football team they are, but there is a magic about them. There's no doubt about that.


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[Assistant] I think what I look at more than anything is, I think it's a Dolphins defense that can match up with the Ravens a little bit.


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[Assistant] Dolphins got some big people up front, think they can slow down the run game, play the Lamar Jackson run game the right way. You know, you heard me say, hey, the Ravens pass offense is getting better. Lamar's been great. I still don't look at it as to be the most creative thing in the world.


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[Assistant] And I think that, you know, that New England-y staff they got down there in Miami is going to be able to break that down, let alone they got some corners I think that can match up a little bit.


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[Assistant] With the Baltimore Ravens receivers, and at least slow down that attack. You know, the Ravens, as you've heard me say a lot,


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[Assistant] are not a great running football team. Lamar Jackson is great at running


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[Assistant] The Lamar Jackson element is good. And then of course his scrambles are good, but the traditional hand the ball to the running back part is not as less than this year. So I look at that and then, you know, the other thing, Hey, I think the Ravens of course are going to be able to slow down the dolphins. Um, but the Ravens give up.


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[Assistant] You know, or there's that talk there. You know, they're, I know they got nothing to apply for. They're not going to get into playoffs, but damn, it goes on your gravestone, these wins and losses. And I'm just going to play that they got a game plan and are a little motivated. So we're going opposite ends of the spectrum there. I'm interested to see how it goes, goes and plays out.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, I like the Dallas Cowboys, but I mean, for the second time in a row, I'm gonna be splitting the baby here again. I'm going Cowboys 34-27.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, uh, I think, you know, again, I expect the Cowboys offense to have their way, but I think the Atlanta offense has enough to it scheme wise, the way that Matt Ryan is playing and, you know, the pits, the Cordero Patterson,


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[Assistant] I think they're going to find ways to get open against the Dallas defense. Dallas, as we saw last week, they like to play man to man. And when they play man to man,


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[Assistant] There's some opportunities to make some big plays. There is. And I just think that the Atlanta offense will have enough there to take advantage of that, let alone, I think they have a few weapons to be able to take advantage of the Dallas corners in some man-to-man situations and be able to move the ball and have some success there. So I guess I'm a little like the public.


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[Assistant] You know, I, I could see Atlanta, you know, standing toe to toe. They've had the right approach on the offensive side of the ball every week.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, no doubt about it. I think that, you know, there is definitely going to be a psychological element that plays into the Cowboys' favor here. I do, but hey, you know, for whatever, Atlanta's been a pain in the butt.


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[Assistant] You know, and Arthur Smith, I think, manages games the right way too, where I just, every week, like, last week was the perfect example. I mean, they did a lot of good things to upset the Saints. You know, they're not as talented as the Saints, but it was the right approach. You know, again, I don't expect them to win, but I think they hang around.


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[Assistant] The Buffalo Bi- First off, Jacksonville's offense.


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[Assistant] It's nothing special. It's not even good. It's just average. It's NFL average. That's where they are. Now the Colts defense over the last few weeks, they got me thinking a little bit, you know, I don't know how good they are. I mean, you know, again, I, I sat there last week and go, it looked like it was going to be a blowout to all of a sudden I was like,


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[Assistant] Are, are they gonna let the Jets get into a one score game here? And, I mean, they just totally fell apart.


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[Assistant] You know, so that's a little scary to me. That's in the back of my mind. But I, I just don't have enough faith in that Jaguars offense quite yet. And, you know, even though it was a great performance last weekend by the Jaguars defense, I, I think what I really look at is like, well, yeah, it, it's,


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[Assistant] You know, it played into their hands. First off, Josh Allen had a tough day and you don't have to worry about the run game at all when you play.


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[Assistant] The, the Buffalo Bills. Well, that's not the case with the Indianapolis Colts. They got a lot, their scheme is more diverse and they have more to offer than the Buffalo Bills offense. I know that might sound crazy to say, yeah, they don't have Josh Allen and they don't have Stephon Diggs.


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[Assistant] But I think there's still more to defend as a complete offense. And that's where I think ultimately, you know, the Colts win this game and pull away. Jackson playing tough, yes.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but, but I just don't think they can match the, the firepower, or at least the offense, uh, the Colts have to offer.


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[Assistant] Phenomenal football. The Patriots defense, for my money, is one of the best defenses in football.


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[Assistant] Cleveland statistically on defense up there as far as one of the best defenses in football. Let me just check that to be specific. They're the number three defense in the game right now.


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[Assistant] But do I think they're the number three defense in the game? No, I don't. I think they got a lot of talent. They have the potential to be legitimately the number three defense, a top defense in the league. But I, I don't know that yet. I haven't seen enough to know. You know, last week I know they won 41 to 16.


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[Assistant] The Bengals marched the ball up and down the field a lot and just kind of screwed the game up. Interception, not 100 yard return. You know, you know, drive the ball down again.


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[Assistant] Joe Burrow misses a throw on 4th down. You know, drive the ball down again. Jamar Chase fumbles. I mean, they kind of were their own worst enemy there. So I don't know what to think of the Browns defense. I don't. They've had a very favorable schedule to


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[Assistant] You know, make their defense look good when you play the Texans, the Bears, you know, the Vikings, the Broncos, the Steelers, all those teams, yeaah, they whooped up on them.


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[Assistant] But when a team has a little balance and stuff, I don't know, as in, or just some firepower or scheme or whatever. And their defense was not a top three defense against the Cardinals, the Chargers, or the Chiefs. You know, so that's where I lean pats in this one. I, you know, the Brown's defense is a speed defense.


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[Assistant] And I think the Patriots are gonna be able to run the ball. I think the Browns are a little too predictable on what they do on the defensive side of the ball, and nor are they playing that scheme, you know, to perfection quite yet.


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[Assistant] You know, so they have a potential to be really great, but I think they'll still learning it. There's young guys, you know, they make plays, but I don't think they're going to do that. I don't think New England's going to shoot themselves in the foot.


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[Assistant] And I, and I think on the other side of the ball, the way and how big New England's front is right now, I think they'll be able to slow down the run game. And off of that, you know, I, I, you've always said, I don't think the Cleveland pass game can stand on its own. And especially not against this secondary in this coaching staff, I'm going


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[Assistant] Well, I'm, I'm stuck here. I got, I got, I got, yes, I do think the Bills will win.


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[Assistant] And I got them covering, or I got them right on the dot right now. I have 2716, so I gotta change that again. And I'm gonna make it...


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[Assistant] Uh, I don't know what I want to do here. I really don't. Dun, dun, dun. I know. Yeah, let me talk through it first. You're right. Pete's got it in my ear. He said talk through it first. Well, here's what I, the Jets defense even I thought was formidable for a good part of the year here, but has just totally fallen apart as of late. I mean, absolutely falling apart. So I guess that bothers me, but at the same time,


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[Assistant] There's not much to defend with the bills, as I keep trying to tell everybody.


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[Assistant] They're not the best offensive football. I don't care that they scored the most points. They've scored the most points because the defense has put them in a lot of good spots. And then of course they have a quarterback who's a superstar who can make plays that really nobody else in the sport can make except for like one or two other guys. So that's led us to believe that there's some high functioning machine there. They're not.


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[Assistant] It's Josh Allen, Josh Allen, Josh Allen, Stefan Diggs.


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[Assistant] Josh Allen's the best runner they got, he does everything for them in the run game, and in the pass game, yeaah. Right now, they've lost their groove.


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[Assistant] People have caught up to them a little bit and there's nobody to be scared about. They're getting a little bit of the Chiefs treatment right now where it's just like, let's take away the big play and let's see if they can be patient and go down the field and do that. Now I do think they have the inventory of offense.


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[Assistant] To do that, I've seen that from Brian Dayball. It's a little different than like Kansas City where I go, I've never seen the short passing game for them really to be able to dissect people. I do think Dayball and his years in New England have that. So I think I look at it from that way and then.


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[Assistant] You know, I think they're going to get back to that a little bit this week. And then, hey, the Jets on offense have been a whole lot better.


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[Assistant] Mike White, yes, I mean, it looked like he was about to get it going there on that second drive after a crappy first drive, but I'm still not sure there. And I know the Bills defense is good. So I think the more I sit here and think about this, I'm going to have the Bills cover at 28 to 16. Okay. And do that. Uh, because I just.


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[Assistant] I can't get behind a blowout. I gotta see it from that Bill's offense first, and I think Mike White will be smart enough at least to not turn the ball over or do dumb stuff to try to give his team a chance.


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[Assistant] That's for sure, and maybe that's where the short passing game comes along right now. And, you know, again, I get into this, you know, with what the Jets do on defense, it's that Seattle scheme. And to me, you know, again,


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[Assistant] You're just seeing like these schemes that like this is what we do. They fall apart as the year goes on.


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[Assistant] Teams just figure it out and they go, Oh, they're too easy to figure out. We can come up with plays and that does scare me. And I think that's a little bit what's happening with them. So I understand your thought process of going, you know, blowout central here. I'm going to be interested to see what the bill's got to offer on that side of the ball to get this thing going on the offense.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're going to win five wins in a row. I feel good about that. You know, to cover the spread, I don't know about that. I don't. You know, first off, Pittsburgh.


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[Assistant] You know, is, is challenged like we've talked about offensively. Now it's Detroit. They're certainly not special on the defensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] And the thing that's encouraging about Pittsburgh is I feel like Big Ben has finally grasped the reality of what he is and what they are as a team. And he's playing smart football.


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[Assistant] Throwing the ball when he's got to throw it away, take a sack when he's got to take it a sack, not try to like throw the ball with somebody hanging on him and throw the ball down the field like he used to in the old days. So I guess that's where, you know, I'm encouraged by them. And then, you know, I,


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[Assistant] I can see Detroit having the right game plan and approach.


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[Assistant] To give the Pittsburgh Steelers defense some issues or not issues, but you know, move the ball


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[Assistant] You know, control the clock a little bit. But I don't know, I don't have enough great confidence in that to think that they're gonna do that consistently throughout the game.


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[Assistant] Uh, so I, I look at this as like kind of an ugly game. I can see it being close. I think it's a game somewhere where the Steelers defense will get a turnover and give the Steelers a short field or Jared Goff will get strip sack fumbled. I'm going 23 13 Steelers. Um, so you do


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[Assistant] I do. You know, I think this is one where I look at and like, you know, I see the Tennessee Titans are favored, but...


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[Assistant] I would say upset alert. I'm, I'm unlike a little bit of a coin flip here with this football game. I am. You know, I think first off, I look at, we didn't get any answers to whether how the Tennessee Titans offense will be able to deliver, you know, without Derrick Henry. The Rams let them off the hook.


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[Assistant] I don't think the Saints are gonna let them off the hook. I don't. You know, and I think with the Saints defense, which I look at as special,


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[Assistant] Is going to be able to stop any kind of run game that Tennessee Titans have. And I think they're very creative on the back end still. And yea, the Titans might be able to steal a few things from what the Falcons did last week. But I think the Saints are smart and gonna be able to like,


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[Assistant] You know, combat what was done and have some answers. The Falcons for everybody out there didn't want to know what I'm talking about. Short passing game.


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[Assistant] You know, hurry up offense on third down so the Saints couldn't get their crazy calls in and their crazy disguises and do that. Simplified them. I think the Saints will have the next move on the checkerboard to combat that. You know, so I look at that, the Titans, you know, the defense.


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[Assistant] Awesome zone defense. I think it's one of the best in football, how they pass stuff off, but we got one of the best zone beater, offensive coordinators, head coach in the history of football and Sean Payden.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know, I don't look at a lot of like upset potential games this week, but this is one of them and I'm going to ride it and I'm going to go Saints 2320 in this one. Wow. Yeah. Wow.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I'm going bucks here. 35-20. You know, again, watching the defense has been better. There's no doubt.


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[Assistant] You know, but I, I just, again, I think so highly of this Bucks offense, you know, them having the nasty taste of losing to the Saints is not going to be good for, for Washington. You know, they're going to get back on track on that side of the ball. Brady's going to be on a mission, you know, and then I think also to, you know, I mean,


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[Assistant] I don't know what to think of the Washington offense. You know, it's just, as I've said a few times to people on talk radio and things like that, like Taylor Heinecke is just good enough to get you beat on a weekly basis. But on this defense,


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[Assistant] The Cardinals offense some issues. I definitely could, you know, you know, even with the Kyler Murray, a hundred percent, they got the right guys and even the way they play defense to kind of give issues there.


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[Assistant] But like ultimately, it just comes back to the same old story with the Carolina Panthers. I mean, what are you gonna get from their offense? You know, I don't know.


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[Assistant] You know, I, I really don't. And that's where it's, it's just, it's, it's not impressive.


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[Assistant] You know, yeaah, he's in his own head. The team probably doesn't believe in him because of some of the dumb mistakes he has made. So I think it's actually going to be a positive thing. But the element you've heard me say, like this is real now. You know, I thought it like two, three weeks ago, but now I know.


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[Assistant] Their offense just doesn't have enough to offer in Carolina. It's, I mean, last week there's some plays where I could show you and I go, the Patriots knew the plays, the, I mean, the DBs are running the routes for the, the Panthers players. They're running, they know exactly what's coming.


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[Assistant] Like they're all over it. And that's where I have a hard time getting behind the Panthers in any shape, way or form here. And I go Arizona 31 to 16. Like I said, I think the Panthers defense could kind of maybe


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[Assistant] Get Arizona off to a slow start, but eventually the dam will break and most likely it will be because of the offense and the fact that the defense has to be out there so much.


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[Assistant] I love them. They're very beautiful. They're very beautiful. And there's two different types, right? There's a cardinal and then there's the northeast cardinal.


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[Assistant] Uh, which are also, they're both beautiful. Did you know that? I'm just giving you some knowledge of nature and animals. Yes. What's the difference between the Cardinal and the Northeast Cardinal? The Northeast Cardinal has a little bit more of the, um, like the, the faux hawk in the middle.


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[Assistant] And then the cardinal you'll see maybe around the rest of the country doesn't have that. It has a little bit more of the rounded head. Alright, so yep, you can go look that up. Trust me, I'm right.


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[Assistant] Let's get it, we're getting closer to the region though at least. Uhm, but you're right, this is an interesting point, you know, and I, you know, I don't know.


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[Assistant] Um, listen, I've said they're not the best team. I've been going like with the Rams, but the way, again, the Cardinals, the way they, they messed up the game against the Packers in my opinion, I think you could clearly see they have more talent than the Packers. And then last week to go on the road without your star quarterback.


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[Assistant] And do what they did to the 49ers. I mean, I'm with you to your point, what you're saying, Mike. It's, it's, they're, they're, they're the best team in football. They are. And I think we got to start giving them that respect.


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[Assistant] I would say it was 70-30 New England fans to Chargers fans. It was a New England home game.


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[Assistant] So, uh, that will be interesting. I think this is going to be a shootout. I do. You know, this, this to me, first off, I mean, as you know, I'm not trying to tell you anything you don't know. Your Vikings defense is, it's not that good. It's not.


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[Assistant] You know, the Chargers offense, you know, it's a, it's an average running football team that runs the ball enough just to continue to pass the ball the way they want to. And I, you know, with no...


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[Assistant] Great pass rusher on your team at this point. You know, no great true cover guy. And I think a lot of Mike Zimmer, I just think the Chargers will march the ball up and down the field on the Vikings. And I think the other aspect and then the other aspect is of course the Chargers run defense is an embarrassment. They're an embarrassment.


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[Assistant] So, Dalvin Cook and Company are gonna go off in the run game. And then, that, what we always know leads to the Jefferson and Thielen going off with the boot and play action pass game. So, I'm going Chargers in this one. Obviously, I'm gonna pick them. Uh, but I'm, I'm going high scoring and I'm going 35-28 Chargers.


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[Assistant] Well, there's another one I'll go upset alert. I, I, I think this is an upset alert watch here. I do. You know, I mean, I guess, I guess the thing, you know, I'm going to pick the Broncos to win the game.


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[Assistant] I mean, are they just gonna get surgically destroyed every week now and let everybody throw for like a franchise record and completion percentage? I mean, that's what's scary.


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[Assistant] You know, I would think I'd probably pick the Eagles to win this game. I think they match up in a lot of ways to win it.


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[Assistant] But I can't get behind that. And I don't even think Teddy Bridgewater and that offense have necessarily all the plays to surgically destroy, you know, that defense, you know, eight, ten yards at a time. I don't. But it's just been bad. And I think the Broncos offensive run game has got a little something going there. Uh, Jerry Judy being back.


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[Assistant] Healthy. That's changed their offense a little bit. So I like that aspect. But I do worry, what I will say is...


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[Assistant] You know, I, I, I still, or not still, I don't believe in the Broncos ability to stop the run. And, you know, for the second week in a row, we've seen the Eagles kind of go all in on the run game. And I think that's their best play. I think that's where they stay close in the game, but ultimately I'm going 24-20 Broncos.


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[Assistant] Listen, I don't know what it is about this one.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know, this is another one where I would say, upset alert, upset alert.


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[Assistant] I-I-I do look at it that way. I think the only thing that's probably gonna scare me away ultimately is the fact that it's just been so long for Russell Wilson since he's...


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[Assistant] You know, their defense, kinda chaotic what they do. I can imagine them, you know, slowing down the run game from the Packers a little bit.


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[Assistant] And having a few little crazy coverages that take away Devontae Adams and kind of making Green Bay not look all that efficient on the offensive side of the ball. But I think eventually Rogers and company will figure it out. You know, and I do think a lot of this Packers defense, they are good. They're really well coached. They really are. And.


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[Assistant] You know, Rashawn Gary has quietly become one of their best defensive players on their football team.


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[Assistant] And I think that's one thing I look at just on a week to week basis to go, wow, he's damn good. I know Kenny Clark got hurt last week. I don't know what the status is there. Uh, but ultimately I just.


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[Assistant] I gotta pick the Packers here, but I just have a feeling it's gonna be ugly. The Seahawks, like I said, desperate, and you said it today, they haven't won there in what, 22 years or something like that? Yup. That's something that plays into


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I just couldn't do it at the end of the day. So, uh, yeaah, we're on the same page here.


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[Assistant] What? Like what is there to get behind with the Chiefs? Mahomes was bad last week. The offense was bad.


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[Assistant] Well, yeah, they were more, more awesome in my opinion, honestly, even though they lost, I get that. If there's anybody other than a quarterback making his first start ever in a game, the Chiefs are gonna lose last week. Period.


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[Assistant] I don't know what else to say. As I told you today on PFT, it's the first time ever. I felt like it was a game where they managed my homes. They were like, we don't know what he's going to do, what he's going to look at. Let's just manage them. Let's play the game to win 13 to seven. Fine.


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[Assistant] That's it. Cause you know, we just don't know what to expect from them. And there's plays in that game again, where I just go, I don't know what he's looking at. I don't know what he's doing. It's unbelievable. I've never seen.


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[Assistant] Fall or a drop this severe from a great great quarterback. Uhm, but, you know, hey the Raiders


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[Assistant] Their defense is always well coached. You know, it's not the most talented, but they know what to do. They're sound. There's a little splash of creativity every week. They can rush the passer a little bit.


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[Assistant] You know, so I look at that and then I think, you know, of course I don't think a lot of the Chiefs offense, but then the other side of the ball, Chiefs defense been playing better. You know, there's, there's definitely some encouraging things there, but the Raiders offense has a lot to offer and I don't think the Chiefs.


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[Assistant] You know, schematically, are as good as the Giants are last week, and I don't even think they're as good personnel-wise as the Giants on the defensive side of the ball. So it's like a double whammy. And Derek Carr, I don't think he's gonna throw two dumb interceptions in this game to cost them again.


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[Assistant] You know, and then Deshaun Jackson adding to that, you know, the Raiders can run the ball, you know, pretty effectively. And of course their pass game, I think has a lot to offer there. And now Deshaun Jackson's in it. So I'm going Raiders by seven. Booyah.


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[Assistant] I'm going Rams 2. I got it right on the dot here as far as the Rams winning by 4. I do think this is a game, again, I would say like, I put a little asterisk next to it to say, upset alert.


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[Assistant] Yeah, asterisk. Asterisk. Excuse me, I didn't add that esk in there. S in there. Uhm, I do think there is something to that. You know, again, the 49ers offense, I don't, Jimmy Garoppolo played pretty good last week. He did. He threw an interception late in the game when they were down. It was bad. Yeah, okay, but it was late. They're trying to force the issue a little bit.


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[Assistant] You know, but Brandon Iooks fumble on the three yard line, George Kittle catching a big pass, fumbling that ball. You know, they just find ways to shoot themselves in the foot. And a little like last week why I picked Arizona, cause I was just like, I gotta see the 49ers win one of these games before I pick them.


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[Assistant] And I just can't do that right now. I can't. I don't trust them. You know, I think their defense is a little too predictable. I do. You know, they're, they're, they're sound for the most part.


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[Assistant] You know, and I expect that, but you kind of know what to expect from them. And that to me is a little scary with McVeigh and the Rams. Like I can see the 49ers stopping the run game and making the Rams, you know, pass one dimensional type of game, but that they're different this year when it comes to that.


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[Assistant] And their defense isn't as creative as the Titans and doesn't have the pass rush the Titans have right now. Nick Bosa's not himself yet. So, you know, I'm going to go.


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[Assistant] I'm doing this, I think it's maybe the first time I've done it all year. It might be the second, and I think I hit on the first time I did it. I'm taking the under in the Lions-Steelers game. I am. That's where I'm gonna go.


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[Assistant] I can see that game being 20-10. You know, I'm picking it 23-13. I don't think it's going to be much more than that right there. I'm going with the under.


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[Assistant] I do. I guess I just get scared of their defense because I'm with you. I was close to kind of picking a blowout score there too. So I hear you there. All right. My next one. I'm going bucks. I'm going the bucks.


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[Assistant] Goin' the Raiders. I mean, the Raiders are underdogs. I got, they're gonna win by seven.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I don't know. The Houston Texans are playing, so it's tough. Yea, the Texans aren't playing, so we don't


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[Assistant] I'll be honest with you, you were a trailblazer here at NBC Sports. Thank you. I mean, I don't think we're dropping f-bombs before you got here.


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[Assistant] Well, you know why? I had to wear them. Big day. Big day. And that was the day after Adele sang about Brady returning to Foxborough. Yeah, and you're wearing your red for the bucks. Wearing red for the bucks. Right. Big time victory. Yep. Didn't cover the spread. I heard, what was it, like 90% or 98% of money was coming in on the bucks to cover the... I think that's what I heard.


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[Assistant] Well it was, we will start with that game, and I think, who knows, they might have covered if it wasn't so rainy. Uhm, and, I don't know if you saw,


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[Assistant] During the, the, the pregame show, we all had umbrellas there, hold on. And, if it ever rains here in studio, Chris, I want you to know, a la Rodney Harrison,


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[Assistant] Alright, so we're gonna go through every game. That's our promise to you. That's what we do. The homie out there. And we'll start with the big one. The hyped game, some would say overhyped by us here at NBC, but it was a huge game. Buccaneers defeat the Patriots, 1917. What do you think? Did the game live up to the hype?


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[Assistant] I thought that the game early on lacked the significance of what does it matter? A little bit. You know what I mean? It was a spectacle, right? But it's like, alright, if the Bucks lose...


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[Assistant] Good win for the Patriots, doesn't ruin the Bucks season. If the Patriots lose, they're kind of supposed to lose, it doesn't change what I think about the Patriots. So early on it kind of lacked the significance, but as the game was going and it was close late, I was like, oh, this is getting interesting now. You see how it's gonna, how it's gonna all play out. And I think a lot of people were looking at, obviously,


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[Assistant] The quarterback comparison, you got the GOAT there, the former Patriots quarterback versus the guy that's trying to take over, uh, Mack Jones. And so if you're watching on YouTube, here's the comparison. You see the, the numbers there. Yeah, you're right. Barely over 50% for Tom Brady. On the other hand, Mack Jones, just nine incompletions the whole game.


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[Assistant] He tied Brady's record for most, uh, completions in a row for a Patriot with 19 in a row. Uh, so that was pretty incredible in a rainy game. Yes. You know, not many deep throws if any, but I don't know if they could because the running game really wasn't where they weren't stretching that defense. And so they took what they could and I thought Mack Jones played really well.


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[Assistant] You've had experience with a wet football. Yeaah. That can't be fine.


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[Assistant] This is when you'd want it, right? Rookie quarterback, you figure like, let's give him the benefit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, close though late, Mack Jones was able to persevere and then Kamloy Jones says ball on the 39, 56 seconds on the clock, fourth and three, pouring rain, Brady waiting with two timeouts, kick or go for it.


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[Assistant] So Belichick kicked it, right? Missed the field goal. Long field goal. I was like, oh man, because it was. Yeah. 56 yards. Yeah. 56 yard. It was pouring at that time. I was like, this is a terrible right ball game. Then he kicked it and I was like, oh wow, he's going to make it. Yeah. And he barely missed it off the upright.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I guess if you look at the analytics of it, the Patriots had like a 37% chance of winning. And then when they attempted the kick, even before the result was known, it was like it already went down to 27%.


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[Assistant] You know, like we always say, that doesn't take into effect the rain and a bunch of different factors too. No, no. Uhm, but did you think it was justifiable kicking that field wolf about you?


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[Assistant] They're like, career long. I was like, career long. And Chris, on the broadcast, Collinsworth was saying like, oh, and he's dealing with a bit of a injury to his plant leg. And I was like, this is a disaster.


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[Assistant] There were a lot of yards in the first half. Yes. Not a lot of points. No, not a lot of points. Exactly. Last thing on this, then we'll move on. Um, the pass defense for the Bucks. What are we thinking about that? You got Carlton Davis carted off. Richard Sherman was playing in this one, faced eight targets, allowed eight receptions, 98 yards. Is that still an Achilles heel for this team?


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[Assistant] And that's the decision that you have to make when you bring back a team, you pay a lot of money to get your starters back, is that you sacrifice some depth, and now they're dipping into that depth, and it's going to be difficult for them.


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[Assistant] NFC West, Cardinals defeat the Rams 37 to 20. I think this for the Cardinals was the most surprising thing that happened on Sunday for me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that they won the game, that was surprising to me. I didn't think they had a chance to win the game. And the fact that they won the game fairly handily, I thought it was the most impressive thing I saw.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think we have some numbers on that. Kyler Murray's first four games versus the Rams. And in fact, Sean McVay was 8-0 versus the Cardinals coming into this game. Right. Lost for the first time here. So you see the first four games for.


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[Assistant] So, uh, our friends over at points bet say that Kyler Murray is now tied with Patrick Mahomes as the front runner in the MVP race at plus 550 odds there. So Kyler Murray putting himself in there. Arizona is the only team to score 30 or more points in every game this season. That's, that's impressive. This offense is...


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[Assistant] So maybe, uh, get him going a little bit more, but, uh, Met Kelb says damn okay, an early damn okay, we'll get to that section a little bit later on. He goes damn okay, the Jags defense, the only team to stifle that Arizona offense that looks explosive against the Rams and everyone else. Last thing here, because I want to give credit to the


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[Assistant] Uh, way to stay elusive, throw a perfect ball on the move into a tight window. Uh, Pete notes that Russ went four of five for 76 yards in a touchdown and passes 10 or more yards down the air. So they were the, the 49ers defense had them under control in that first quarter.


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[Assistant] You knew at some point Russ would get cooking, they got the short field on the muffed kickoff, and after that the 49ers couldn't stop him enough and couldn't score enough on the offensive side.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Russell Wilson still now has not lost three straight games in the same season in his career. They were in danger of doing that.


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[Assistant] Uh, in this game, in the 49ers, the strength of their team is the defense. And I think that they look good for most of this game, but the one thing they're not getting is turnovers. They're not getting the takeaways. They went into this game with just one tied for the fewest in the NFL. They did not get one in this game.


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[Assistant] Aladdin Bust You writes in and says, my homies, firstly, when is Pete making an appearance on the pod?


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[Assistant] Uhm, okay, and then, uh, that wasn't all for, uh, Aladdin Bust you. Says, uh, secondly, tell me you saw some good from Trey Lance after the slow start. So he's pleading with you. A 49ers fan pleading with you. Please say that you saw something good from Trey.


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[Assistant] Yeah, congratulations. You get a full week of game planning and you get to play the Arizona Cardinals defense.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was half of his yards for the game, and then without that he would have been below, uh, 50% throwing the ball. Bye!


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[Assistant] But it did happen, uhm, and so did some issues with the special teams. Robbie Gold was hurt, growing injury, so that hurt them as well. Didn't have to steal the whole kicker for the whole game. So this game could have been completely different without those special teams.


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[Assistant] So the 49ers can at least look at that and say, maybe that's the reason why we lost this game, which they did. Now we've given you a couple previews of damn okay. Now we're really getting into the segment presented by Under Armour.


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[Assistant] And here's a good thing. Pete has organized the damn okay to give a lot of love to some offensive lines out there. And I like that. You know, I don't know that we've, we, I think we gave a lot of love to defensive players a couple of weeks ago in the damn okay section. So these are not your necessarily, you know, not your quarterbacks, your wide receivers, your running backs that get all the love.


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[Assistant] Let's give some love to some offensive line, but I'm sure at the same time we'll also.


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[Assistant] Put some love on those skill position players around them, starting with the Dallas Cowboys defeating the Panthers 36 to 28. Um, Neil Moe 2010.


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[Assistant] Uh, oh no, it's Nelly, Nellymo2010, sorry Nelly, says, love your work all the way from South Africa. Woah, thank you. Uh, can we get a damn okay for that Cowboys offensive line in Zeke Elliott and the butt whoopin' they gave the Panthers. Thanks guys. And it really was the first time the Panthers defense looked beatable.


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[Assistant] Sure, but the fact is the Cowboys were able to put up a ton of points.


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[Assistant] Uh, 36 points, 245 rushing yards. Carolina had only allowed 30 points and 135 rushing yards in the first three games combined. They've been dominant. So, uh, so this was a really good showing by the Cowboys offense here. And then a splash of turnovers every week. They get one or two turnovers. Yes.


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[Assistant] That is a, uh, that's a reference that if we have any, you know, 50 year old moms watching, they might get that. Do you know what that reference is too? I don't think I do. That's an old show. Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman.


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[Assistant] And they did get beat up in the past game sometimes. Amari Cooper had a 35 yard touchdown against CJ Henderson. The new acquisition. Which I was looking at the tape, I was like, I don't know if he played before that play or after that play, but he came in to give up a touchdown. I did not expect to see him this week.


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[Assistant] Damn okay, Dallas offensive line. Damn okay to the Baltimore Ravens offensive line. They beat the Broncos 23 to 7.


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[Assistant] They bring in Lamar Jackson and the starters with three seconds left after they get the interception in the end zone to keep the streak. 43 games in a row of a hundred yards or more in the rushing game, which ties an NFL record.


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[Assistant] And, uh, first of all, I like, I do like that. I don't have a problem with it either. It's a meaningless record. You're bringing in Lamar Jackson. He could get hurt. I'm like, okay, what are the chances he gets hurt on that play? Probably like 1%, right? Or maybe even less than that. And it's not meaningless to them. No, it wasn't. It's something that means something to them. That's all that matters.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and one of the more impressive things about him having that time to throw is that the Ravens had some injuries on the offensive line. Denver tried to move around von Miller to exploit it. Um, Lamar too elusive at times. So that helps the offensive line, but, but you're right. The throwing ability of Lamar Jackson underrated for, for a long time now was able to hit.


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[Assistant] On that huge impact play, Hollywood Brown, who made a bounce back after dropping some passes against the Lions, 49, 49 yard touchdown. I looked at that play too. It's like he ran a similar route to what Tyreek ran in their game where he's like going down the middle of the field, makes a move like he's going to go to the flag.


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[Assistant] And then goes left to the post and the defender, the safety, it was Justin Simmons in this case, in this Baltimore game.


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[Assistant] I mean he went from 2 yards of separation to like 14 yards of separation. It was like over. And like I don't know if Justin was, you know, passing him off to another zone. I don't totally know there, but it was impressive to see how much separation Holly went through.


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[Assistant] Last thing, uh, Teddy Bridgewater, another Vikings 32nd round, or 32nd overall pick. 32nd round, yeaah. Uhm, just like Lamar. Uh, he got hurt, concussion protocol, Drew Lock comes in, 12 of 21, 113 yards, an interception. Did you see anything from Drew Lock in this game?


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[Assistant] Uh, another defense that's never easy to play is the Pittsburgh Steelers, but the Green Bay Packers were able to do just enough against them despite


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[Assistant] Missing arguably their two best offensive lineman in Bakhtiari and Jenkins. Rogers pressured on just seven of 39 drop backs, 18%. The Green Bay Packers old line and their victory over Pittsburgh gets our damn okay.


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[Assistant] They split the carries between AJ Dylan and Aaron Jones equally. 15 carries for Dylan, 81 yards, 15 carries for Jones, 48 yards. That's a good compliment. Aaron Rodgers ran in a touchdown, which he outran, uh,


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[Assistant] What he can do is he can still throw it on a dime and he did that to uh, Randall Cobb, which we've talked about in the past. I mean, still most of the attention for the Packers in the past game goes to Devontae Adams. But you wondered if eventually he's got to start developing another receiver or at least make defenses think like someone else can hurt us. And Randall Cobb did. Randall Cobb hurt him a couple times.


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[Assistant] So things are looking pretty good, a lot better than they did week one for the Packers. Uh, Big Ben and the Steelers, they got problems. Bronson. Yeah. Paradis. Yeah. Paradis. Says, how much of the blame is put on Ben for the Steelers offensive woes?


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[Assistant] Always a little weird when the legendary quarterback reaches the end. Obviously it's happening with Green Bay, except that Aaron Rodgers is still one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL. A little bit different situation in Pittsburgh right now. They got some things to figure out. Kansas City's got one of the best quarterbacks, if not the best quarterback in the NFL.


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[Assistant] And they defeat the Eagles, 42 to 30 Patrick Mahomes. We got to give a damn okay to the offensive line there as well. Pressured on a seasonal low, 12% of his drop backs. And then what happened? Well,


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[Assistant] He and Tyreek Hill just torched the Eagles. I think we have the numbers on that Kristen here. Uh, Tyreek Hill 11 catches 186 yards.


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[Assistant] Three touchdowns. Fifth career game with three touchdowns for Tyree Kelly. He's already got five of those.


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[Assistant] I mean, you can make the argument that he's better than Belichick. You really can. I know people say like, how can you make that argument? I was like, he's done it in two different places. He's proven he can do it with multiple different styles, multiple different quarterbacks. I think you can make that argument that he's the best coach in the NFL.


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[Assistant] To the Chicago Bears offensive line. Yeah. Bears beat my Lions 24-14. Gotta give credit where credit is due.


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[Assistant] They had just 46 rush yards the week before against Cleveland, nine sacks against my Lions. They go for 188 rushing yards, one sack. Uh, and Justin Fields looked so much better. I mean, like that Justin Fields on like, even though I don't like the bears, I root for them to lose all the time. He was fun to watch in that game. Definitely. Like.


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[Assistant] They had 5 trips to the red zone. They had a couple 4th downs and some turnovers on downs.


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[Assistant] Two fumbles, one on downs in the first three drives.


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[Assistant] I mean the total yards in the game bears 373, lions 348. And so between the 20s, the lions were elite. They were elite between the 20s. And then once you got to the red zone.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and Darnell Mooney. He could be a guy that Justin Fields hooks up with here. He showed some wheels out there.


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[Assistant] So Pete says they think he avoided the torn ACL.


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[Assistant] Unless all of a sudden he starts turning the ball over a ton and you just can't, can't do anything. But I, I agree. It looks like the bears have found something in Justin Fields and he is really fun to watch. Now this podcast has reached the New York portion of the pod here. And it was a good, it was a good time in New York. Normally we get the local stations here in Connecticut. And so I'm watching a Bruce.


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[Assistant] Right? Bruce Beck, right. Yeah, that's right. Sorry. Um, and every, every Sunday it's like, what's wrong? What's, this is bad. We're sorry that you have to watch these two teams and actually they've both played pretty well, well enough to win both in overtime. We'll start with the giants here.


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[Assistant] Um, Andrew Thomas, he allowed an NFL high 10 sacks last season as a rookie.


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[Assistant] Had a bad preseason this year, but has allowed zero sacks, just one quarterback hit on 166 pass block snaps this season. That is something, uh, that Pete threw in here, wanted to give some love to Andrew Thomas and Aru811 says, Chris, you need a victory lap on this one. You had a feeling about the Giants that few others do.


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[Assistant] Yeah, on that 54 yard touchdown by Saquon, he just blew past, uh, Lattimore. Yeah. I don't know what Lattimore was doing on that play.


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[Assistant] Uh, Kristen, do we have the numbers for Daniel Jones here in the fourth quarter and overtime? 14 of 19. This is in the fourth quarter and overtime alone. 203 yards and a touchdown. He goes over 400 yards for the first time in his career.


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[Assistant] And I think he's putting himself in position, not only to be a good starting quarterback, but like in your top 15, in your top 40 quarterback rankings.


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[Assistant] Very good for the Jets in their overtime victory over the Titans big time win 27.


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[Assistant] 24, Zach Wilson had been sacked four or more times in each of his first three games just once yesterday. As we take a look here, what he did in this week, as opposed to the other weeks, he was so much better. Zero touchdowns, six interceptions as previous two games. He had two touchdowns, one interception. I will say this, there were times late in that game.


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[Assistant] That's special stuff right there. That was pretty cool to see. Corey Davis stepped up versus his former team, 111 yards, one touchdown. They probably wish they had him. They definitely wish they had him because they didn't have AJ Brown, didn't have Julio Jones, both dealing with hamstring injuries. So that was going to make things harder for Ryan Tannehill and company, who Ryan Tannehill, by the way, looks way less mobile. You talk about Patrick Mahomes being, I guess, I don't know.


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[Assistant] The Williams wall. The new Williams wall. Quincy and Quinen Williams. The brothers. Became the first pair of brothers to have Saks in the same game for the same team since Saks became an official stat in 1982. I, I, I mean listen.


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[Assistant] Concern for the titans for sure. Probably a little different if they have AJ and Julio. That's tough to miss your two top receivers.


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[Assistant] Yep. So hopefully they can get those guys back on the field and get that offense going once again. Now it is time for give me the headlines presented by Hyundai and this is.


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[Assistant] Pete give me the headlines in my ear because I perhaps have forgotten them. This is one of my favorite parts of the podcast now. You go, Pete, what did I say again for this one? And so that'll be for all four of them. So Pete's ready to go here. We got four games to get through. Uh, Browns versus the Vikings, 14 to seven.


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[Assistant] Uh, and this was Kevin Stefanski against his former team. The pupil has become the master. Oh, there's your headline.


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[Assistant] Lucky for them is that they have, uh, a defense that has stepped up big time. Huge performance against Chicago last week. And then a big one here, Graham Bailey says, uh, you got to take a victory lap for a J. Okay. He looks special, has his inclusion in the Brown's defense in recent weeks, propelled them to the next level.


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[Assistant] Fell into the Brown's lap in the second round too. Fell in the draft and big part of that defense now. Bills defeat the Texans, 40 to nothing. Huge blowout. Give me the headline.


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[Assistant] Killed the Texans. Now we actually do have to put a blank. Now we have to actually blank that. We have to blink, blink, blink. Sorry, Kristen. Sorry, Kristen. Buffalo, second shutout in four games. Uh, Deluded Gooner says, damn okay, are the Bills the best team in the league?


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[Assistant] And there were people during draft season that wanted you to talk about, talk more about Davis Mills out of Stanford. You were kind of reluctant to do that. Maybe now we kind of see, see why.


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[Assistant] Yep, there was a very interesting quarterback playing for the Washington football team. His name is Taylor Heinecke, brought Washington back. They beat the Falcons 34 to 30. Your headline for that game is?


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[Assistant] And, uh, in the NFL, it's like a quarterback who's undrafted or drafted late, not a ton of athletic ability, but enough to like move around the pocket, undersized, make stuff happen. Kind of like Doug Flutie, um, Scrapper kind of a quarterback. That's my favorite Doug Taylor Heinecke is that.


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[Assistant] Despite that, a lackluster effort. Another one from the defensive side of the ball. Another team that really needed a win that got it. The Indianapolis Colts beat the Dolphins 27-17. Your headline there is fish out of water. Oh yeah. Fish out of water. Dolphins don't look, this is not great.


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[Assistant] Yeah. And Michael Pittman, uh, becoming a little bit of a combo with Carson Wentz. I think there were four of his six receptions came on third down. So he was looking for him in big time situations. So big win for the Colts. Congratulations to them. That was give me the headlines presented by Hyundai.


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[Assistant] You're doing the Peacock Show with Kathryn, which I watch every time. Thanks. And I couldn't sleep after it either. I don't know if I was just pumped up. Got you all excited, huh? Uh, from the game before.


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[Assistant] Uh, but we talked about it at the beginning of the pod here. The umbrella situation with Rodney Harrison made waves everywhere. We have done some research and here it is. There's a new Twitter account by the way, Umbrella Hand on Twitter if you want to follow them. Rodney Harrison's Umbrella Hand.


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[Assistant] Uh, we found out that the, uh, we found out who the hand was. Oh, did you? Yeah. What person? Pete did some digging.


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[Assistant] It was not Matt Casey. Darn it. Special thanks to our runner in Foxboro, Sydney, who I know well, see her a lot. Sydney, the person holding Rodney's umbrella.


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[Assistant] And I ho- I hope she either had a hoodie or someone was holding an umbrella for her. You know, I think that would make me feel better about the whole situation. Not that I feel- I hope he tipped her.


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[Assistant] We all like Rodney, we just do it out of the kindness of our heart. We know Rodney would have our back in a similar situation even though he was not doing it for anyone else.


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[Assistant] Okay, we're trying to get you out of here at 12.35, which we've almost done to the minute here. Final thing, you have a pick for Raiders and Chargers. Great Monday Night Game.


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[Assistant] Alright, Raiders and Cardinals, the only two remaining undefeated teams in the NFL. If the Raiders go down, then the Cardinals stand alone. You're back on Wednesday with Paul.


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[Assistant] I'm doing well. I thought you might continue it and say there would be no Paul Burmeister at NBC.


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[Assistant] That is a fact. He said he couldn't throw it 65 last year, but then he bragged about how well he could throw it underhand. Oh, he loves to do that.


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[Assistant] When dad turns 66, he lives pretty close to you. Is there a gift involved? Ah, there is a gift involved. Beyond an appearance on the show.


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[Assistant] I think we should, I think we should start with a journal of. Right. And talk about what that situation looks like. And guys, uhm, Phil, you can take this first, and Chris, I'd love to hear what you think too, but on the drive into work, I've got about a 20 minute commute. Turn off the podcast, turn off the music, and just thought about the Packers situation.


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[Assistant] Two things came to mind, Phil. Number one, I remembered how I felt when the Packers took Jordan Love, you know, a year and a half ago.


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[Assistant] In 15 or 16 years of covering the draft, my least favorite pick of all time. And I thought at the time, I can't wait to see this guy play.


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[Assistant] Can't wait to see if he's worth it. So a little over a year later, I'm excited. I mean, I'm disappointed the reason why he's playing, but I'm excited that we get to see what this guy's got, number one. And number two, I'm wondering if the expectations and the pressure on him and if this matters at all.


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[Assistant] It grows it all this week because Mike White, because Cooper Rush, because Trevor Simeon, three guys without a lot of recent experience or no recent experience came in and played very well for their teams.


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[Assistant] No doubt about it. So this, this Jordan Love playing quarterback for the Packers is a brand new story.


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[Assistant] Before we, before we ran this one back out there, the Jordan Love plane instead of Aaron Rodgers, you were kind of taking yourself down a road to talk about the Chief's offense and some strong thoughts you had there. It's been a real headline the last couple of weeks, uh, how they've been succeeding and not succeeding here recently. What are your Chief's offense thoughts?


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[Assistant] Hey Phil, Cowboys, Cowboys are always top of mind, especially when they've only lost one game heading into November and they just did it with Cooper Rush in dramatic fashion. You think of the Cowboys right now, what's your first thought?


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[Assistant] Phil, I want to get you on one more topic that has to do with the passing game here. Mike White and the Bengals. Mike White against the Bengals was outstanding. Over 80%, over 400 yards passing. They really still haven't stopped him. Why couldn't they slow him down and beat him?


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[Assistant] When teams, when there's such a discrepancy between the past attempts and their commitment to the run game, I always ask myself two questions. Well, was it a close game?


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[Assistant] This is close the entire time. Number two, well, maybe it just flat wasn't working. It was working fine. Jonathan Taylor was getting, I mean, not giant numbers, but decent. Good enough. So, I mean, like, the success he was having with the offensive line, the fact it was a close game,


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[Assistant] So as for his two interceptions, you mentioned Carolis. I thought his second pick, uh, was a worse quarterbacks pick than his first one, but the first one needs to be revisited any time it's, uh, I think he went opposite hand for the pick six. Needs one more look.


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[Assistant] That's incredible. He had three options and he went through the first two. I mean, there's no style points. I mean, just get it on the ground. He went down, then he went backhand, then he went to the left, which was by far really the only bad option was the left-handed hook shot he threw.


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[Assistant] One quick question. I thought it was interesting. Frank Reich blamed himself for the pick six. I've been around too long to know you don't call a screen pass backed up in that situation. I don't know. I mean, I don't know.


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[Assistant] I'd love to play for Frank Reich, play for him, but I mean I don't think he needed to throw that out.


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[Assistant] Okay, then the throw in overtime was, I mean, it was a legitimate throw. It was a terrible decision in a gigantic moment.


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[Assistant] And now they're down three games in the AFC South. And one other point about the Tennessee defense is to bring it back before we move on.


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[Assistant] You talked about how, how well they're playing zone defense. You can do that when you drop seven, instead of the rushing five. The first time you brought that up a year and a half ago, I'm like, I don't know, is it that big a difference? Huge difference. Dropping seven, you can have somebody 90 miles back to worry about the post, right?


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[Assistant] So now, Indianapolis, uh, they turn around right away and play Thursday nights. Right. Against New York, uh, Jets also a fun topic, as we talked about with Phil.


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[Assistant] Let's take a look at the, uh, at the points bet numbers here with the Jets and also the Colts coming up on Thursday nights. Uh, 10 and a half is the spread, over under 46 and a half. How many picks will Carson Wentz throw? What do you say?


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[Assistant] To be fair to him, even though he pointed out those two picks, they were pretty inexcusable for the entire season. 14 touchdowns, only three interceptions. So I think it's nice to finish with saying consider the entire picture instead of just a couple of bad moments there. Okay. As for that other team, Tennessee Titans.


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[Assistant] Wow. No Derrick Henry. Yeaah. No Derrick Henry. Giant game Sunday night. Uh huh. At the Rams.


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[Assistant] Led the NFL in rushing, led the NFL in rushing attempts both by significant amounts. It's hard to imagine a team that would miss a running back more than they would miss him. What strategy would you take with the Titans without him to try and hang in there against the Rams?


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[Assistant] The only, the only person with double digit attempts besides Derek on the team is, is Tannahill.


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[Assistant] Packers go from Aaron Rodgers to Jordan Love. It's like, ugh, okay. So I know it's different positions, but they don't have Derrick Henry, but at least they have Ryan Tannehill, who has been a 1A to Derrick Henry's 1 to see what he can do now if he's given a little bit bigger load.


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[Assistant] You know, getting into a game where they can even get into the high twenties. So their defense is going to have to come up with a kind of make the Rams a little bit lesser than what they have been. Alright, Tom Brady against the Saints defense. This was an awesome game to watch. All kinds of fun down to the end.


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[Assistant] Brady for as fantastic as he's been against everybody else. And he's had, he did have some really good moments on Sunday in the Superdome. However, you look at Brady against the Saints, not just over the weekend, but including the playoffs, what he's done against them, 1-4.


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[Assistant] With the Buccaneers two seasons. Everybody else, he's 20 and 4, and his individual number's down as well. Before we look at the specifics of what happened Sunday, why do you think he has struggled so much against this defense?


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[Assistant] I think the topic is worthy when you're talking about Tom Brady struggling consistently against one of the defenses. It certainly deserves an explanation. And I think we're going to get to some snapshots throughout the game, not just at the end, but from first half to second of what they were doing. So go ahead and get up there. We pick it up in the first quarter, early in the first, still no score.


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[Assistant] When you are, when you have the number one opponent passer rating in the NFC, I love that metric too because it basically says, it's really tough to play quarterback against us. It's really damn hard. Every single week. There are a lot of little things that go into it like that.


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[Assistant] Okay, that was first quarter, it was scoreless there. Let's go early second quarter here, Chris. Still tied, now it's 7-7, third down and six on the Saints 40.


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[Assistant] There are still questions there because, I mean, take it back to the snap there Chris for a second. Just want to point out, of the six players for the Saints defense, they're basically on the line of scrimmage. They're not all technically D linemen, but they're lined up in that area. Four of them are standing up. Four of them are standing up. So even if you're Tom Brady, you're like, I don't...


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[Assistant] And you have two of them that line up as interior defensive linemen turn and sprint to look up some kind of an under or a curl.


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[Assistant] This is, uhm, this is, so this is week 9. Is week 9 or week 10? This is drop the mic for you and Dennis Allen because not only with the confusion at the line of scrimmage, two guys who were lined up on the line of scrimmage sprinted


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[Assistant] And perfectly covered Godwin and Evans. From about 10 yards away. Exactly. And they knew exactly where they were going. Exactly. That was amazing.


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[Assistant] That they're not coming and that they're sprinting that way to cover two guys. Really, really well done.


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[Assistant] They got Brady to throw two picks. So let's, uh, let's get to those late second quarter. Two minutes left. Go ahead. Bucks down 10-7. It's first and 10.


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[Assistant] So, that was just to warm up for the interceptions. Yeaah, let's go to the interceptions, alright.


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[Assistant] That was a minor turnover. Okay, so now we're late second 10-7.


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[Assistant] There you go. Late, late in the game. Fourth quarter, 29-27. We've all seen this play in the highlights a million times. Brady's last pick. Yep. Why don't you give us a little detail here on it.


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[Assistant] This is it. Yep. Inside the final two minutes, two point game.


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[Assistant] Time out on the field. Time out on the field. Yeaah. 30 second. Of the 30 second variety. And uh, it's uh, I find it interesting too.


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[Assistant] That book ended the Saints defense, you know, all these good numbers throughout the season, but they gave Aaron Rodgers his worst game of the season. Game one, arguably gave Tom Brady his worst game in the last game. So it's not like even though they have played Geno Smith, they've played Taylor Heinecke and probably got well against them. They've also done it against the best quarterbacks in the league.


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[Assistant] I said about 5 or 6 minutes ago, it's a highlight we've seen, we've all seen a thousand times, it's the first time I've heard that and seen that.


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[Assistant] More than anything, and that's just really good coaching. So is that something, I mean that's a lot of somethings there, but what the Saints did, and they were clearly really well coached and executed it very well, something other teams can replicate against Brady.


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[Assistant] Couple of notes on the Saints offense here, Chris. Number one just came out. Michael Thomas will not play this season, so keep that in mind moving forward. Uh, Taysom Hill expected to be back from concussion. So if Taysom is back and available, looks like he will be. You have Simeon just came off a very good game against the Buccaneers. How would you handle the quarterback situation?


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[Assistant] They have found a way to win without a lot from the passing game anyway. I mean, Simeon to me garnered a lot of trust with the way he played last week.


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[Assistant] Is through. Self-deprecating, A. Okay. Thank you. Timely, working in some things that happened before. Right. Also an A. Right. Good honesty. Thank you. Good authenticity, good energy.


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[Assistant] No, no, come on man. Not perfect. I want to be perfect. I get these reads in the Notre Dame radio that are like six paragraphs and plays coming up and I feel like I have to go really fast. It's not as easy as it seems.


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[Assistant] Well done. Thank you. We do have time for one more game. Okay, cool. Okay, one more. Cool. Let's go to the AFC North, Browns offense against the Pittsburgh defense. Wasn't very long ago, we're talking about the Browns offense scoring in the 40s. Yeah. Against the Chargers. Right. I think they've been 10 points and 14 points since then. They stunk against the Steelers.


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[Assistant] What would you say is their biggest problem? While you think about that, just want to update the OBJ situation, was excused from practice today, so not productive, his family not really contributing to the positive environment through social media, they've been watching the show, is what I thought.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so uhm, you can go with the OBJ routes or what is really ailing this offense here?


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[Assistant] But, I mean, come on. Well, come on! The complete lack of numbers. It's insane. It's stupid. It's crazy. It's stupid. Everything you said is true. I know. Those defenses are good.


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[Assistant] Do you put that on, cause it's one of three things. It's the scheme, it's Baker regressing, or it's the weapons around him are not getting opened.


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[Assistant] Basic. Dating back to last year when they were running the ball well and getting those tight formations and Bakers under center, it looked, it looked terrific.


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[Assistant] I wanted to get to the offense because, I mean, the defense is leading the way. They've won three games in a row, but the offense is playing its part. They're doing okay. They're playing well enough to win with their formula. What do you like there?


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[Assistant] We love it when teams self-scout themselves, alright? Let's take a look here at Pete and Kristen at the Steelers offensive approach. First four games versus the last three. And again, they're on a three game win streak.


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[Assistant] They're passing the game significantly less, or they're passing the ball a lot less, 42 attempts per game down to 33, rushing attempts exactly twice as much.


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[Assistant] Okay, okay. I'll do that to him. I'll tell him it's from you.