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[Assistant] You know, I don't give a shit what it is. It's 2023.


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[Assistant] In 2023, against the Cardinals, 70 yards. And neither of your quarterbacks are named Tommy DeVito. I mean, that's the crazy thing about it. No, it's, it's, you know, they ran the ball good. Bijan did look good. There's no doubt about that. So that was nice to see.


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[Assistant] A little bit like we talk about with the chargers, right?


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[Assistant] He's, he's a good route runner. If you want to throw him slants or little short intermediate passes, fine. That's what he's good at. But if you think you're going to line him up and you go, oh, he's got one on one and he's going to dust somebody and just say, see you later, I'm going to run for a bomb or see you later, I'm going to run for a 20 yard in cut and be wide open. That is not going to happen.


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[Assistant] Right? And then, Kyle Pitts the same way. Yeaah, he's extremely talented for a tight end.


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[Assistant] You know, you gotta be able to run the ball and then create some plays off of play action and stuff to where he's matched up against linebackers and safety. He's not split out with a corner cover or anything there.


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[Assistant] To me, that's one of their big problems is lack of firepower at wide receiver, and that's affected their quarterbacks on, you know, whether it's Heineken or Ritter, nothing's been


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[Assistant] Yeah, Ritter did some good things too. You know, threw a ball down the field, got a big P.I. call, you know, had the read option run for a touchdown at the end of the football game that gave him the lead. Uh, but yeah, there's just a, there's not enough offense there in Atlanta. Not enough that scares you other than


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[Assistant] Wait, they're O-line in their run game. And, you know, even with that, like, yea, it was almost 200 yards rushing.


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[Assistant] A good chunk of that is Ritter Scramble and Heinecke Scramble, too, to where, you know, again, it's good, but I guess I'm just not as blown away by it as I thought I would be.


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[Assistant] That was crazy. Yea, it was. A lot of great games. It really is. I like that. I don't know why, like, five buzzer beaters seems like a lot, but I would have thought we'd had a Sunday throughout history that would have had more than five buzzer beaters. But I mean, these were all with, like, zeroes on the clock. Zeroes on the clock. That's so rare.


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[Assistant] Right, they're gonna go back to the lab in a week off and re-evaluate what they need to do, what needs to be tweaked, what needs to be changed, whatever. He's gonna get Steve Wilkes on his...


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[Assistant] And, and, you know, there's some other guys that were banged up on the defensive side of the ball that just get to come back and be totally, totally, you know, 100% fresh, healthy, and crazy mofos like they are. Yeaah, that's what jumped out to me. I think the big thing with the 49ers is,


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[Assistant] You know, one, well, oh man, Zach Wilson just threw a pick. He had a great drive here. The Raiders are gonna end up winning this one. 16-12. Made a lot of nice throws. Just threw a pick to Spillane. They're gonna lose. Jets are gonna lose. Uhm, okay. So, but going back to the 49ers there. Alright.


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[Assistant] Let me say some of the things on the offense. When Shanahan has the full cast of characters healthy, Kittle healthy, Ayuk, Deebo, McCaffrey, he's almost unstoppable because


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[Assistant] Like we talk about with some of the offenses that bother us, that don't tie things together. That's where Shanahan's brilliant. It's like, hey, we gotta toss to McCaffrey. Hey, we gotta toss to McCaffrey. But it's also about setting something else up off of it. Oh, here's the fake toss to McCaffrey. There goes Deebo on the reverse. Touchdown Deebo, right?


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[Assistant] There's always something to it there. And he's so good at playing...


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[Assistant] His stars off of each other. That's what I love about Shanahan more than anything. So he gets that going, right? A motivated group like you're talking about. O-line healthy.


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[Assistant] Uh, Purdy, Chip on his shoulder, you know, people telling me I'm Brady and now they're telling me I should be benched, which was wrong. He played great. And then I think when you add on the defensive side of the stuff, here's to me where it jumped out right away.


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[Assistant] Matt Casey, producer of Football Night in America, he's sitting here behind us. When the game started, I went, mmm.


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[Assistant] Niners just came out with 5D Lyman. They just came out with 5D Lyman and said, the hell with our coverage, you're not gonna have enough time to get anybody open down the field. We're gonna smother you right here.


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[Assistant] And that's how this game's gonna be. And to me, that was the big thing I looked at. We know those guys up front are awesome for them, right? But I felt like...


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[Assistant] There was some different alignments, like you've heard me talk about with the 49ers up front. Just to give their guys a little schematical advantages.


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[Assistant] You know, just not to be like, hey, it's a 4-2, cover 4, and we're just lining up in it, hello. You know, there was plays where it was like, wait, 3D Lyman are over here, Fred Warner's over here, with 1D Lyman, who's Blitzen, who's coming, how are they gonna do this, oh, they're doing a stunt off it. I felt like they gave some different looks up front.


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[Assistant] That stressed Jacksonville out in a big way and never let Jacksonville get into a rhythm. And then they got behind and then we'd always be talking about. Once you get behind in the 49ers,


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[Assistant] Good luck with that crew and those pass rushers guys and all them teeing off on ya.


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[Assistant] You know, leadership from guys get to get in their ear a little bit, encouragement, or like, what the hell are you doing, right? Or, hey, and then, you know, I think it's getting a, you get a little better feel for the flow of the game in person.


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[Assistant] You know, all the defense alignments sitting there. Oh, now he's coming over and checking you. Hey, we want to do this and let me show you this picture and all that. You know, he's the best coach on the defense side of the ball. So now the message is coming straight from him, straight to the players. I think there is some beauty in that.


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[Assistant] I think there is that and you're seeing it firsthand to go along with that instead of maybe relying on other coaches to tell you, oh, they're, they're doing this to us. We need to over adjust. And when you're on the field,


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[Assistant] You know, you might panic up in the box. You go, that sounds like we're a little panicked down there. Like we need to adjust to this. Let me adjust. Let me change this, right? Where you're on the field.


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[Assistant] You're like, we're okay. We're okay. Yeah, they're pros too. They made a play. We don't have to totally reorganize the game plan here because they made one 20-yard completion, right? So I think that's, all of that happens at some points there. But the one thing I wrote down,


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, and, and to answer our listeners, you know, question there.


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[Assistant] Is the 49ers D being more creative on the D line, right? It jumped out to me from the get go, and when the game was 10 to nothing, I wrote it again. Because I just saw some alignments where I went


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[Assistant] They haven't done this, or they haven't aligned like this all year long. Whether it was the five-man fronts or, you know, three guys to one side, a linebacker and another defense alignment to the left side. They just did some things there that I'm sure


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[Assistant] You know, we've talked about that, but they got a feel today for a team that knows how to rev it up as bad as anybody in football. And those are the type of teams you're gonna play as you get in later in the season, whether it's the Chiefs on the road, the Ravens, whoever, right? Where you're gonna go, no, no, no, our level of intensity, you know, detail, all that has to go up here if we're gonna beat these type of football teams.


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[Assistant] You know, I love that call. Second and inches, you know, defense is always overplayed. You're going to get optimal, perfect passing looks. He wants to throw, I think it was to Ayuk over the middle. It wasn't there.


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[Assistant] So, there he is, tries to re-cock it with somebody in his face, and puts a ball right on the money to kittle up the sideline and, and made things interesting. So, uh, yeaah, big play by him. Purdy, big bounce back. 49ers, big bounce back.


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[Assistant] Maybe dirty, I could say so many things, but I'll say home sweet home, because Dallas is damn good at home, they're a different team in that stadium, on the field turf, they're fast as hell, and it showed


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[Assistant] It's something. It is something. You know, they're a team that's built for that surface, for sure.


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[Assistant] They're a speed team, not a size team like we talk about, and when you have that, the field turf is...


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[Assistant] You know, definitely better than running on grass that way. I think it's the second week in a row we can look at it and go...


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[Assistant] You know, listen, we knew their defense was going to dominate. There's nothing to break down there. I mean, shit, I think you and me could have gone out there and played defense and held the Giants to maybe, you know, 20 points. Definitely. You know, somewhere. They had to hide us and game plan around us a little bit, but we got to figure it out. I mean, they had no chance, but I think, run game? Cowboys? I know.


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[Assistant] Disaster, right? The one thing I'll say with the cowboys...


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[Assistant] I like the way, uh, Doudel looks at running back. Oh yea. Right? He runs hard. I think they might find something there. Him with a great little combination with Pollard. And then, I think the other thing for the second week in a row, and I give Mike McCarthy a lot of credit, is he's breaking out of his mold of, like,


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[Assistant] The shortest passing team in football the first four or five weeks of the season and here we are two weeks in a row where it's like


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[Assistant] You know, screw the 5 yard slant. We're gonna look for the 50 yard post. We're gonna look for the 30 yard crossing route. And I feel like it's opened up the field for them. Right?


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[Assistant] And as we've talked about it before and you've heard me say this a million times.


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[Assistant] You know, all these coaches that think, oh, I'm going to make it easier on the quarterback and throw the ball four and five yards. It's, it's not easier. It's easier to read the field and see the field when things are spread out and people are down the field and creating separation. And Dak Prescott is great at hanging in the pocket and pushing the ball down the field. He has statistically been one of the best down the field.


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[Assistant] The Jets just threw a Hail Mary and almost caught it. I didn't think he'd be able to get it down there. His arm's special, right? He was running to the left almost out of bounds and threw the ball 60 yards, uh, and gave his guys a chance, but Raiders.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it does seem a little darker than last week. I don't know if that grew in more or if we're dying it. I don't think he would die it. I don't know. Maybe he would. We'll see. I don't know. We'll ask him. I'm sure. I'll ask him.


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[Assistant] And he missed some plays and throws in the pass game last year, let alone I didn't think he made as many plays off schedule.


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[Assistant] The way it looks right now, and the way he's been playing here as of late, yeaah, he certainly can get back into my top 10. I have so much respect for Dak Prescott, right? It's not always perfect, but...


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[Assistant] Toughness leader, never blinks, doesn't let Jerry Jones or the Cowboys fanbase and all that ever get him down. He just keeps staying the course.


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[Assistant] And that's why he's the perfect quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. And that's why I root for him because he does and handles himself the way an NFL quarterback should handle themselves.


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[Assistant] That's a cool thing to do, right? I love soup. I'm like a soup every day. You're a soup guy. I am. Every day? Every day. It seems excessive. I know. Do you eat a sandwich every day? I don't. Oh, you don't? Damn, what do you have for lunch every day? I don't know. Hard boiled eggs, protein and fiber.


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[Assistant] Damn, I know, damn, I don't want to be that healthy. Soup is high in sodium, you gotta watch out, you gotta be careful on that. Yeah, I'm a low in sodium, naturally guy, so it helps me out. Oh, that's interesting. It is, it is, yeah. But I do, I'm not even joking, a soup a day. Soup a day. For lunch?


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[Assistant] Sometimes I do both. Wow. Sometimes I literally, my wife's like, what do you want? And I'm like, well, I've had two soups already, but I'll have a third, like, cause I want to make it easier on her. I don't care. It's fulfilling.


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[Assistant] So it's one of those games where it felt like the Jets controlled the football game, right? And they kind of let


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[Assistant] Okay, and then Josh Jacobs breaks a big run, Oydin O'Connell throws a jump ball to Michael Mayer for a touchdown.


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[Assistant] And that put it up 16-9 in a game where, I don't know, you know, we didn't know if the Jets could go down and actually score a touchdown. Which they could, and they moved the ball a lot throughout the night. Zach Wilson made some very good throws throughout the night. Breece Hall certainly had some moments of poppin' here and there. Garrett Wilson played well.


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[Assistant] You know, and again, I know I was sitting here talking to you for the last quarter or so, but I still was keeping an eye on things there. This to me feels like one that got away from them a little bit.


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[Assistant] I'm amazed with the Raiders a little bit. I mean, to do this after Josh McDaniel's getting fired, you know, now they're gonna be sitting here, what, at five and five? Yeah. Right? Did they really need that big of a culture change there? I mean, it sounds like it.


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[Assistant] I know, I don't like to say it, you know, I like Josh McDaniels a lot, uh, but I haven't heard one guy act like they were sorry to see Josh McDaniel leave yet. I mean, in fact, it almost is like the opposite, like they were having a party as soon as he got fired.


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[Assistant] Late in the football game, as they were driving, they were down in field goal range. Spillane got it. That was really his big, you know, miss of the night. But overall, Zach Wilson did a lot of good things. I mean, led the team in rushing, by far. Made a lot of big plays in the pass game. Garrett Wilson got going. Uhm, this one to me, a little bit too, is just like,


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[Assistant] You know, it's a defensive struggle type of football game. I know the offense needs more, but, you know.


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[Assistant] Jets living up that touchdown drive to me is the difference in the football game. I just didn't think the Raiders would actually go down and punch one in the end zone on this Jets defense. That's where I was shocked.


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[Assistant] A guy who was on another team three weeks ago comes in here two weeks, gets thrown into the fire last week.


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[Assistant] And, I mean, today ran the offense like he had been there and been Kirk Cousins' backup for the last four years.


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[Assistant] I just, today was domination. I don't, 27-19, okay, that's all nice and well and, you know, some late game heroics from the, from the New Orleans Saints and stats and all that. Game was 27-3 at one point, right? I mean, Dobbs was making,


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[Assistant] Play after play with his feet and carving the Saints up in the pass game.


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[Assistant] I mean him and TJ Hawkinson, it was like they couldn't be stopped today. So they had it all going.


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[Assistant] And this is where it's sad about the Vikings, and I feel for Kirk Cousins, cause we said this a few weeks ago, when they were not even on the winning side of 500, right? Where I went, they feel like they're better than last year. You know, I had said that, I said that to Florio. I think when they were sitting there like 2 and 4, I was like, I think they're better than last year, which is the crazy thing.


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[Assistant] Now they're not turning the ball over. We're seeing the defense every week has a proper game plan, right? It's not a super talented defense.


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[Assistant] Nobody seems to just go, Oh, we're going to move the ball up and down the field on Minnesota and do whatever we want. Brian Forrest has certainly had the effect there.


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[Assistant] They have a guy or two that make a play every game, whether it's Daniel Hunter or, or, you know, Byron, uh, Byron Murphy, or it just, it always seems like somebody shows up at the right time here. So I give them a lot of credit. Kevin O'Connell is a phenomenal head coach.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's gonna be a threat. They end up getting to the playoff somehow in this formula with the way they are, right? Where we went, wait, they're not even a great running football team, so, you know, Kirk Cousins, I know I said, well, it's over for Minnesota. The passing game of Kirk Cousins is what they are, right? So, uh, that's where I would be shocked.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think I was just amazed with the ease in which they moved the ball down the field. Uhm, a solid Saints defense, right? A defense in the Saints that I think is ranked higher than it actually is. It's not as good as its ranking. But, I still was surprised by that.


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[Assistant] Sneaky or faster, faster than you think he is? I think that's the first thing, right?


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[Assistant] He's bigger than you think he is. So there's a lot of plays where it's like, oh, people got a hand on him or they're about to drag him down and he gets out of it, spins out of it and all of a sudden he's running around the edge for a bunch of yards, right?


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[Assistant] I think he's got great feel in the pocket or when to get out of town or get out of dodge that way.


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[Assistant] You know, also, he's the type of guy that is a good enough runner where you can sprinkle in a few quarterback design runs every game with him. That's what Arizona did too. So that's where he's gonna be a handful as we go forward. They're gonna be careful in that department because of course they don't have much of a quarterback situation with their injuries there. But, yeaah. And then, you know, the things that I...


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[Assistant] I think ended his time in Arizona, where I remember, you know, a few times I was like, yea, Dobbs is good, but there's a few throws every game he misses, where I go, aw, if he hit those, they might have won the game today, right? He ain't missing those the last two weeks. He's been on the money there.


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[Assistant] Uh, so I think that's a little Kevin O'Connell and this talent they got around him and what they're doing there. But yea, special. And then again, you know, we're back to New Orleans and we talk about that. Again, I think the defense is a little overrated.


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[Assistant] And the offense is simple. It's just two west coast basic simple. And a guy like Brian Flores, I'm sure, was all over their rules and things they do today. Uhm, so yeaah, it's, you know, they're in the NFC South. They're gonna be in this. But I don't necessarily get excited when I talk about the New Orleans Saints.


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[Assistant] Exactly, that's what I mean. Right. And then like, oh, we're just, we'll find a moment to where we'll throw a deep pass to Shaheed or Chris Olave. That's what it feels like. I do like Chris Olave. Oh, I know, he made some phenomenal plays today, right? But I mean, yea, it feels like it's short pass to Kamara, run to Kamara, short pass to Kamara.


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[Assistant] Maybe that'll develop into a Shaheed bomb or a Olavi bomb at some point, right? Uh, but it doesn't feel like it's sustainable and they might win the South, but I don't know. The Saints just feel like a team that's kind of a, if they get in the playoffs, a one and done type of football team. And we'll see where it goes. Derek Carr got banged up.


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[Assistant] Well, Jameis has got talent. I mean, Jameis was the scary, I was joking with Floria, who's a Vikings fan. I go, this is the worst thing that could happen to you. Cause Jameis don't give a damn. He's in a fire. He's, oh, what? We're down 27 to 3. He's like, you mean I can just throw it anywhere? And that's what he likes. And of course he made some phenomenal plays.


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[Assistant] All the way across the field. All the way across the field. A jump ball. He was like five yards from the left sideline. He set up and saw, uh, yeah. AT Perry. Yeah, AT Perry. It was AT Perry. Excuse me.


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[Assistant] All the way in the right corner of the endzone and he threw it and Perry made a nice play. Went up and got it.


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[Assistant] We let you get more yards than us, so you feel like you might beat us, and then we close it out at the end of the football game. Uh, I thought this was gonna be the week that it ended. I did. I didn't think Green Bay would move the ball.


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[Assistant] Quite as well as they did on Pittsburgh throughout the day. Whether it was run game and then, you know, Jordan Love kind of got in a groove in the second quarter and they made some plays in the pass game as the game went on. They did.


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[Assistant] Now they just, you know, them is getting in the end zone. That's another team, they're another team that they make a lot of plays or throws in the middle of the field but all of a sudden they get to the 20, 25, 30 yard line and everything stalls out and they have to kick field goals. That's one of the things that's been going on with them for a little while here. I think the thing the Steelers did look at


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[Assistant] You know, we talked about Matt Canada being on the field. Yep. You know, second week in a row. I do think their offense looks a little different. I'm not going to say I sit here and go, oh, watch out for them.


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[Assistant] Like, there is more consistency. You know, they're running the ball at a much better, you know, yard per carry, everything there, which is much more impressive, and that's how the Steelers want to play.


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[Assistant] No, I think there's something here. I do. You know, again, 200 yards is a lot, but I think they've found a little bit of groove in running the ball. I do. Uhm, you know, ran the ball on a Tennessee Titans defense last week that is pretty damn good defending the run as well. Right? So I think there's something there to look at. Uhm,


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[Assistant] Offensive line, it looks like it's a little more, they're getting underneath the center a little bit more. Letting Najee and Warren come downhill a little bit more.


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[Assistant] Sprinkle in a few passes from Pickett. Our defense will make a few plays. You know, they're amazing at the Steelers of when they do drive the ball.


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[Assistant] Which, you know, again, they could go three and out, three and out, but when they do drive, they always come away with points to a degree.


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[Assistant] I do feel like if they have four good drives in a game, two of them will end up being a touchdown. And the other thing that they're great at is, yeah, you drive the ball on them, you drive the ball on them, you drive the ball on them, and you don't ever get in the end zone. You kick field goals all the time. That's what they do to everybody.


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[Assistant] You know, I want to say they're, yeaah, I mean, defensively they're 31st in football, but scoring defense, okay, they're 13th in football. So they're a pain in the ass once you start to get down there close, they don't let you in the end zone.


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[Assistant] Watson to me does not look like, I question his health. I don't look like he's got, he looks like he has one less rocket up his ass compared to last year. He's lost a rocket. Well, and I know he pulled his hamstring early in the year, right, and he had to deal with that, so I do. I wonder if there's something going on there. He's certainly not as explosive.


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[Assistant] You know, and it does look like they feature Jayden Reed just about as much as anybody. Now I think, you know, with Watson and Dobbs on the outside,


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[Assistant] You know, it's beneficial for the slot receiver. He gets some better looks that way, but yeaah, I think there's something there to Watson. I need to take a little deeper look, but it certainly does not look as fast or explosive as I remember him looking last year.


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[Assistant] I don't know what the thing you look at too is like, you know, sometimes the guy like that who's maybe is a good leader


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[Assistant] Right? And knows how to talk to guys and kinda get the juices flowing and all that. Maybe that's what they were missing. And maybe that little bond that he has with the players and the team and the fact that they gotta look him in the face when they make mistakes or whatever else is just enough to, you know, kinda give him a kick in the ass here to be a better offensive unit altogether. We got the Colts.


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[Assistant] Just tuck it into the scoreboard. It's amazing. Yeah, it's a cool stadium. It really is. Cool atmosphere once again today, right? Same old Patriots, sucky ducky.


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[Assistant] That's exactly what I thought. Yeah, I just feel like, uhm, I don't know if it's...


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[Assistant] You know, Belichick's ego or whatever. It's just, you know, and I'm saying this in just some of the decisions that have been made over the last few years, whether it's making a special teams and a defensive coordinator.


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[Assistant] Your offensive coordinator, right? That move was...


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[Assistant] Really odd to me. Like when I was sitting there watching the game, I saw Zappy warming up.


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[Assistant] And I thought, well, he's having a catch with Mac Jones. They're not going to put in Billy Zappi right now, right? He just, he just staying warm in case he's got to go out there. And all of a sudden he trotted out there and I was like, what? That seems like the most un-Belichick thing ever. We're going to blame it on one guy now and we're going to put the game into a guy that


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[Assistant] What, we cut from the football team twice this year? And he wasn't even a backup for a few games? And now you're gonna ask him to come in the game and save the game?


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[Assistant] Like I kind of said in Football Night in America, Belichick's always been like, stay the course, we're on to Cincinnati. And now to make it all about Mac Jones, listen, Mac Jones, that interception was pitiful. I get it. That was horrible.


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[Assistant] He didn't really have that much pressure. He threw it like he was about to be hit. And it was like, no, the guy's still four yards from you. And he threw it off his back foot and threw the ball, what, 15 yards short to a wide open receiver? I mean, he's gonna score a touchdown. So, you know, I understand that, but it almost feels like,


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[Assistant] Frustration got the best of Belichick and Billy O'Brien there. This was a game today that the Patriots could have had. They should have had. They really, this was there. They outplayed the Colts for the most part of the day. To me the big part was whether it was Mack Jones, you know, interceptions like that, or


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[Assistant] The handful of times that Bailey's, I mean not Bailey's happy, Gardner Minshew made some incredible plays to extend drives and keep it going a little bit. That was really the difference in the football game when it all came down to it. But yea, even the, the, the, the,


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[Assistant] The, the, the Patriots get down there close one time, they get into like, maybe, I don't know, the seven, eight yard line, they can't punch it in, they gotta kick a field goal.


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[Assistant] You know, it was a day where it was there to be had. And it felt like they outplayed the Colts. It's just the Colts made the bigger plays and the bigger moments and, you know, that put them on top out in Frankfurt.


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[Assistant] Well Pete will tell you this, Matt Casey is sitting here with us, I was talking about this at the end of the game in the NBC viewing room, right? Shaq Leonard is not the same guy. He's not the same guy. He is not as good as EJ Speed or Zaire Franklin. He is not. It's not even close, right? He's


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[Assistant] 215 pounds and he had a serious back injury last year. Right? He's not as explosive and he does not seem as physical or kamikaze as he once was. Okay? And those other two guys are players. They are.


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[Assistant] And they're bigger than he is, they're faster than he is, and they're more physical than he is right now.


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[Assistant] So I know Darius Leonard last week came out in the press and said all these things, I don't understand why I'm not playing more, and I wish they would just tell me. You, come on, don't start all that. You know what's going on.


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[Assistant] You're watching the games. Everybody else is watching the games. He is not as good as those two.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, hopefully this is just a one year thing here with him and he's just kinda getting his feet back underneath him here after a year of, you know, being injured and banged up. But I'm a little worried. You know, again, I always worry about that smaller type of guy who hits like he's like Ray Lewis. But it's like, no, you're really like,


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[Assistant] A safety, and you're playing middle linebacker, and you worry about those kind of guys, their bodies wearing out. Usually they wear out in a hurry. And I do worry about that with Shaq Leonard.


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[Assistant] The whole day, like right? Did you ever, I mean, Levis never seemed like he was even remotely as close to comfortable as he was against Pittsburgh or, you know, the week before that when he threw the four touchdown passes. And nothing was easy.


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[Assistant] And he was. He had people around him. He was getting hit as he threw. He looked like he was confused by coverages and holding the ball a little too long or had a few throws where you're like, oh, that was dicey there. Like there's a few people that that could have been intercepted. You were lucky.


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[Assistant] Right, they had a, they were, they never seemed in sync the whole day. And then of course couldn't get the run game going either, and that's what they would like to do with Lulet.


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[Assistant] Will Levis at quarterback and lack of big time, you know, firepower at receiver, they need some semblance of a run game.


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[Assistant] Kind of an ugly football game that basically came down to Bucks defense played better and Baker made some big time throws in the pass game. I think that's all there is to it.


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[Assistant] You know, really, I mean, Mike Evans was damn good, a little splash of Chris Godwin in there, and that's all it took.


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[Assistant] You know, Evans, big touchdown pass. Rashad White turned down the chess one time. Rashad White's that big play down the sideline, right? That was certainly huge too. Uhm, that was the, uh, little like dump off to the left. I don't know if it was a screen or if it was a screen. It was a screen, right? Yea, so, that was good to see. It was good to see. They can be dangerous.


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[Assistant] You know, when their defense is healthy in Tampa, they got some guys that can make some plays. Whether it's Winfield, I like Carlton Davis, Vita Veja to me is the best player in their defense. When he's out there, they're a totally different defense. And then offensively, I don't love their offense.


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[Assistant] Baker's got a big arm, Mike Evans is still dangerous, Chris Godwin's still damn good, and if they can run the ball a little with White who's got some talent, yeaah, they're gonna be a pain in the ass here. I still think they're a team that can challenge to win the NFC South for sure.


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[Assistant] I see things about them that I like more than the leading New Orleans Saints a lot of the time. And more than Atlanta. And more than Atlanta as well. Now, you know, they've hit these moments of being


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[Assistant] And that's what you hope to kind of get out of their system here as we go along. But really they kind of won this game by more than 20 to 6. Now Mike Evans dropped a touchdown pass, they had to settle for a field goal after the ball hit him in the face in the end zone and he dropped it. But Baker, Baker looked good today, looked comfortable.


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[Assistant] Oh, of course. I don't ever miss a stand-alone football game. Ever. Did you re-watch it though? No, I did not re-watch it. I did not. Oh. Bears.


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[Assistant] Run the football, manage the ball, manage the game on the right side with the rookie quarterback in Beijing.


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[Assistant] The one thing I like about the Bears on defense is they play a ton of man.


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[Assistant] They don't let you have anything easy. They know they don't have like the best pass Russian football even though it's gotten better with Montez Sweat and company there. Right? So, they try to confuse you up front and at the line of scrimmage and now they got Montez Sweat. They're capable of maybe collapsing the pocket a little better than they ever have been.


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[Assistant] Still, for me, is that the number one pick does not look very number one pickish, right? And I'm not sitting here trying to bag on anybody, right? But to me, the biggest part in a boring game where you're talking about is a quarterback that


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[Assistant] You know, again, I know a slick can kick the ball out of his hands quick and all that, but misses way too many throws when the pockets are clean. There's too many wobblers, there's too many balls that hang in the air, and for as quick as releases are, and how he can see the field,


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[Assistant] It's just the opposite on the down the field throws. He loses time in the pocket because he cannot stand in there and make throws when the pocket's collapsing. Just like, I don't know if you saw the end of the game. He had the, an outroute. I want to say it was to Hayden Hirsch right before the fourth down. It might have been second down. And the pocket was collapsing.


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[Assistant] And, you know, because of his size and now he has to like raise his arm to get it over the people, he's not able to get enough accuracy and mustard on the ball to get it there. And that's what I worry about him going forward. I still question, are they going to be a run?


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[Assistant] And then run play action and boots off of him? Or are they going to spread it out and let him wheel and deal? That's the thing I'm not sure. They kind of dabble in both. I think they're trying to figure it out. And again, I want to give him...


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[Assistant] The benefit of, I know he doesn't have great talent around him. I get that. It's just I'm going by the look test there, right? Good win for the Bears. I just go, you know, the number one pick does not even look in the same planet as the number two pick, right? I think that's the big thing. Not even the same planet. And I think that's what's a little scary.


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[Assistant] You know, not only is the pressure, you're the number one pick. Whoa, you traded all these assets for this guy. And then you go, yeah, you traded all these assets too. And now you want them to carry the team and you give them nothing to help them out. And we'll see where they're gonna go this year because they got no first and second round pick in this draft because the Bears got it. Where we're gonna go is home.


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[Assistant] Interesting. I do. I mean, I'm gonna take the bills to win the football game. I am.


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[Assistant] You think the, you think the Broncos are catching some momentum here? I do. I think the Broncos have found their groove on the defensive side of the ball and for a Bills offense that we know


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[Assistant] Is not consistently dangerous on a week to week basis. I could see them slowing them down. And I could see Sean Payton and Russell Wilson having a good little game plan here to make this interesting. I'm going with the Bills to win the football game. Let me see what I, but I picked a 24-20. So I'm, I'm expecting the Broncos to hang around and make this thing interesting. So the Bills are favored by 7, so you, you have the


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[Assistant] I have the Broncos covering, coming off a bye. Yep, coming off a bye. Sean Payton specials, they've shown they've been able to run the ball a little bit, a little bit better as of late. Russell's getting more comfortable. Yeah, I think they're gonna make this a little too uncomfortable for the Bills in this one.


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[Assistant] Keep sending in the questions, thoughts. You know it. I love to hear your thoughts. Challenge me, question me, or ask me to expand on anything. Send in some tweets on who you want me to watch on film on Wednesday. I'm gonna get after that tomorrow. I usually listen to my group here and they point me in the right direction. But be good, homies. Enjoy Monday Night Football. We'll talk to you on Wednesday. Amen. Thanks for everything. You the man. Clap it up. Clap it up.


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[Assistant] Yo yo, what up homies, thanks for watching. Remember, subscribe to Chris Sims on Button.


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[Assistant] You know, I never say that. You know, you know I enjoy this. You know this is where I get to like let my hair down and just like relax and have a good time talking football and having you grade these teams. This is basically what this is. We can add another one.


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[Assistant] Treasure Hunters, uh, What the F happened, and uh, Report Card Time. Because we're gonna see maybe how they execute and how they, how they change as, as the weeks go on. Or if they change at all. Yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] In reading your notes, there are definitely a couple teams and a couple players and a couple schemes that were like, all right, we're not giving enough love or enough attention to this. I'm excited to get into that. So kind of a rough outline of where we're going to go. Take a closer look at that Sunday night game. 49ers destroying the Dallas Cowboys. Take a little bit closer look at the Jaguars defense and maybe some things they.


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[Assistant] Let's start with the Cowboys on offense, uh, cause we're going to look at both sides of the ball on this one for sure, but, but the Cowboys offense, you had made some criticisms in the past, Kellen Moore, a little too basic. And who knows how much of that is Kellen Moore and how much of that is Mike McCarthy too. And maybe we're learning more that it's maybe more of the head coach than the offensive coordinators at this point because they just scored 10 points.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so let's get into that take. So he said that, uh, cause Dak Prescott sucks.


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[Assistant] So here it is, here are the couple of plays that the Dallas Cowboys ran early and how would you describe these?


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[Assistant] He stood out to you, and then there was another player, and people say that the 49ers have not drafted well here lately, but this is a former fifth round pick who maybe is, uh, maybe is flying under the radar a little bit as a key piece to this defense. We're talking Dre Greenlaw.


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[Assistant] So the Cowboys did do one thing okay that you noted. If they, 49ers only, rush four, they did an okay job at it.


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[Assistant] In something you mentioned at the beginning of this whole discussion is the Cowboys just could not run the ball. Weeks one through four, they were averaging 141 yards per game. And then against the 49ers, just 57 on the ground, averaged three yards per rush. Didn't get in the end zone once in the running game. So that was all bad. And the interceptions were bad too. And so let's get back to that. The three interceptions by Dak Prescott. Who's to blame?


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[Assistant] So the offensive scheme for the Dallas Cowboys, not good enough against the San Francisco 49ers. How about on the other side? Let's take a look at the scheme first here. Is the defensive scheme just not good enough against this 49ers offensive scheme?


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[Assistant] That's 421 yards of total offense, 170 yards on the ground. On paper, looks bad.


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[Assistant] And in the middle of all this, 49ers offensive discussion is Brock Purdy. And is he a good quarterback? Is he a system quarterback? It's time to go inside the numbers powered by AWS and take a closer look.


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[Assistant] At the man leading the 49ers offense, if that's not Shanahan, which maybe you think it is, but it's Brock Purdy under center. Let's take a look at his passing chart here.


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[Assistant] When you see this passing chart, some of the most successful touchdown throws to the right side of the field, one deep there, 25 yards or so, what do you see from this passing chart?


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[Assistant] And what you'll notice too there from the chart and next gen stats alerts us to this Brock pretty through all four of his touchdown passes from outside the tackle box, the most in a game in the next gen stats era.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and it was going relatively deep. Purdy completed seven of his 10 passes over 10 air yards for 166 yards and three touchdowns. He leads the NFL in completion percentage on such passes this season, 72%. And that was Inside the Numbers powered by AWS.


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[Assistant] We've been going a long time on this one, but I do want to make sure to, uh, mention Micah Parsons and what you saw from him, because Richard Sherman, I believe, was on his show saying that Micah Parsons was nowhere to be found. He was absent in their biggest game of the year so far.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Trent Williams did not allow a pressure on any of his eight pass blocking matchups against Micah Parsons, which did include four double teams. So you had Trent Williams and another dude against Micah Parsons.


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[Assistant] 49ers at Cleveland, another good defense. Sneaky game. Sneaky trap game. Do they match up better defensively against the 49ers than the Cowboys?


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[Assistant] Oh, he might know how to slice and dice this Dallas defense too. Oh no, it could be two weeks in a row for Dan Quinn and nightmare situations. So that's coming up this week. Let's move on to the big thing, cool thing of the week.


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[Assistant] Our big thing cool thing of the week happened in the Jaguars Bills game. And the big thing cool thing you noted was how they utilized Tyson Campbell in this game. So we're deep diving into Jags and Bills across the pond. Why was this your big thing cool thing of the week, Chris?


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[Assistant] What did they do to keep Josh Allen from being Josh Allen, from that guy that's running around, kind of slicing and dicing, maybe ripping off 15, 20 yard gains on the ground. What did they do?


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[Assistant] So I think there are some people that would think that, uh, yes, the Jaguars are used to playing in London. You even mentioned that just a few minutes ago, that maybe this was a bad game for the Bills coming off that huge win against the Dolphins. You mentioned that a few minutes ago. But I also get the feeling though, these two teams are three and two. Like, are the talent levels that extreme one way or another, especially with all the injuries the Bills have?


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[Assistant] Alright, the Jaguars playing the Colts coming up next. Defeated, uh, Indianapolis 31-21 in week number one. So their season series will be done here after.


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[Assistant] This weekend of the Bills and Giants Sunday Night Football, our game, NBC. I guess we couldn't flex out of this one, right? I guess the Giants, do they deserve to be on Sunday Night Football?


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[Assistant] So I didn't even write, yeaah, I didn't even write this in here. Pete goes, is this an easy get-right game for the Buffalo offense? Ouch.


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[Assistant] But like you mentioned, the health of Daniel Jones will be a big thing that we'll be watching going into that game. The health of Joe Burrow has been something we have been watching since the preseason into the regular season, and now we think, maybe,


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[Assistant] So let's show those numbers. So week one through four, they were blitzed on Joe Burrow about 32% of the time on the drop back passing game, 27% of the time. So faced a few fewer blitzes, uh, completion percentage though. Uh, that's pretty good. 11 of 13, 88 yards and through the one touchdown, no interceptions.


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[Assistant] Yes. Right? Oh no. Is there a butt coming here? There is a little bit of a butt. Oh no. There is a little bit of a butt. Bengals fans were so happy with this.


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[Assistant] Well, we'll see if, uh, the Seattle Seahawks can gash that defense too, cause they have the ability to do that. It could be a high scoring game. Bengals versus Seahawks, we'll see how Chris picks that tomorrow on the Picks Pod.


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[Assistant] So Draft Kings has the odds on everything, imaginable. They also have the odds on the offensive player of the year, even if you can't imagine that, but they do. Uh, Jamar Chase may be a Dark Horse candidate. Pete was looking at this earlier today, and I think this is a good call. So right now, with the injury to Justin Jefferson, that sucks. You know, he's gonna be out for a while, right? He was probably the favorite.


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[Assistant] Before this, was he up there? He was up there, maybe. Yeah, Christian McCaffrey is the favorite. Yeah, he's probably been the favorite, uh, for a while. Plus 175. Tyreek Hill is the second choice. Plus 250. And then you get a drop off. And then you get...


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[Assistant] I agree, and I don't like the mental gymnastics that you have to do to say like, oh, he is the MVP, he is the corner, Tua is the MVP, but...


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[Assistant] I'm gonna think of a catchy campaign we can do here. Right. With like a good little headline or tagline. Maybe it rhymes, maybe it doesn't. And it'll be, it'll just percolate through the...


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[Assistant] After the game, you said that might be Desmond Ritter's best game that we have seen so far. And you've now watched the film though, and sometimes the film tells a different story.


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[Assistant] And they still were able to do that, a lot of it, the aggressive play calling with the play action pass. And so they called that 28% of the time this week and that was about on par with what they had done the first four weeks, but they were throwing it way farther down the field.


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[Assistant] So in the first four weeks on PlayAction, they had a total of 208 yards. They had 163 in this game and so their yards per attempt was basically three times what it was in the first four weeks of the season.


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[Assistant] Is that the first time that's ever happened in the history of the world? Let me make sure I get this name right.


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[Assistant] So the Falcons approve to 3 and 2 now, they go on the road to the Rams, and uh oh, that could be a problem because Desmond Ritter, as we noted, perfect throughout his NFL and college career at home, 5 and 0 in his NFL career at home as a starter, 0 and 4 on the road.


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[Assistant] You have a road quarterback, you have a home quarterback. Why not? Like in pitcher, pitchers in baseball, you got, you know, every five days. But you say they're on the road or at home? They're on, they're home this week, right?


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[Assistant] Alright, so Falcons on the way up. Desmond Ritter on the way up. The Eagles defense.


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[Assistant] Maybe on the way up too. We saw it in the second half against the Rams final score in this one. Uh, the Eagles did beat the Rams 23 to 14.


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[Assistant] Was there anything that you saw in the Eagles defense that changed in the second half? So as you flip to the notes here, let's, let's show.


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[Assistant] In the second half, uh, 168 yards given up in the first half, just 81 in the second half and third downs. They were awesome after the break there. They were terrible in the first half, five of seven, the Rams converted. But in the second half, one of seven, Chris has found his page.


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[Assistant] He sees the answer, the answer key to what the Eagles defense looked like to him first half versus second half.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they doubled him early in the third quarter, you noted, with Cooper Cup, because yeah, it was basically the Rams made a concerted effort to get Cooper Cup in the game. He was the first read, basically, for Stafford early in the game.


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[Assistant] Will Zach Wilson be running for his life this week against the Eagles? Won't be easy for him.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he might not hurt him as much when they blitz and he picks it up because you said Stafford on that touchdown to 2-2 Atwell, it's like he saw the blitz, he moved the production over and they had a plan for it.


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[Assistant] And now we save the best for last, the lions and that offense, which is catapulted itself into the top three in your mind.


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[Assistant] Uh, to be desired. So here, here's what I'm gonna throw at you here. Yeah, give it to me all. Ben Johnson, here's my theory. Ben Johnson has passed Kyle Shanahan, your good friend.


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[Assistant] As the best play caller and play designer in the NFL, because look at this. We have the dots for a play that the Lions ran. And then what, what is this Pete? A few hours later, the 49ers ran this same play.


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[Assistant] Let's start everywhere. Alright, so how about, how about the aggressiveness? It's like from the beginning, when you turn on the tape, from play number one, are they masters of the short passing game? Are they conservative? Are they creatively conservative? What are they?


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[Assistant] To that point, they're trying to do damage on first and second down. They're not trying to make it third and manageable or second manageable.


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[Assistant] So I think your two biggest growing crushes this year, because you've always had a crush on the 49ers offense here and the Dolphins offense and what they do. Your biggest growing crushes I think CJ Stroud, I think that's grown a lot in the first five weeks of the season and the Detroit Lions offense. I think those are your two biggest growing crushes.


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[Assistant] The big butt expert of the world says the edge big butt of the week is a Detroit lion. Congratulations, Aidan Hutchinson, Pro Football Focus's top graded edge of the week. And I don't always go by the grades, but when it's a lion that's number one, I always go by the grades from PFF.


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[Assistant] Second most pressures, he had eight. Chase young did have 11 pressures on the week and so he was causing some havoc. They got torched in that game against the bears. Uh, a freakish interception where he looked like the running back here and he now has, he now has twice as many career interceptions as sauce Gardner.


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[Assistant] He has four, Sauce has two. Good note thrown in there by Pete.


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[Assistant] Uh, Zach Seeler had, the most was seven, so that was a pretty good week for the defensive line there. But Christian Wilkins, big butt of the week at Defensive.


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[Assistant] They pay everyone and then get 40 million extra in salary cap money. So congratulations Christian Wilkins and Aidan Hutchinson here as Kristen has made the elephant trophy with the rears featuring the butts prominently.


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[Assistant] Some hamstring and thighs on them. It's all connected. And Pete has put here in our rundown. Thanks for doing this, Pete. All of the weekly winners so far. We don't have a repeat winner yet. No. We've all had first time winners throughout the week. Not yet.


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[Assistant] Maybe next Wednesday. Yeaah. I'm just thinking this on the pod. Yeaah. I could have saved this for after the pod. Yeaah. It's better now. It could be like, uh, like the Wednesday could be like challenge Chris. Like we do a pod every quarter. Sure. That's like the homies get to challenge Chris on what this takes. Sure. Yeaah. I'm fine with that. I like that. The battle. Always. The debate back and forth. Yeaah. Okay, good.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, right. Did you ever play any of those instruments growing up? Did you do any of that? Like, you didn't have to play an instrument in grade school, like, and do that kind of crap, right? Like where you had to like play the violin or like play the saxophone or do any of that? We had the


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[Assistant] I'm so disappointed. I tried not to overthink it this week. I did. You know, I took your advice. You told me Monday.


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[Assistant] I'm a little bit too much into, you know, sit there, write notes, think about things too much. I'm, I'm, I'm reeling right now. So it's a big week for me. I need to gain some ground in a big time way here. I'm sick of this. I really am. It actually like legit pisses me the


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[Assistant] Alright, it really does. I don't know what has happened to me. I don't know what has happened to me. I used to be like...


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[Assistant] The pick games guy. I, I mean, and, and it's like the last two, three years I've lost my way with it. And I don't know if it's, I'm too deep in the weeds or I look into things too much. Uh, but I can't figure it out and I can, I'm going to continue to tinker until I get this right.


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[Assistant] It's working better than my formula. Well yeaah, what gets me is I don't look at the numbers but I look at matchups and then I write a little note for the matchup this week and the game and then, you know, I might come back and look at it the next day and then I let that sway me too much in the decision just because of this one thing.


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[Assistant] And for whatever else, I can't do that. That's where I got to get out of that mold and just kind of go a little more gut and overall feel for the football team and stop looking at it like, Oh, I don't know. They might have a problem blocking the three technique this week. Right. That's where I get myself in trouble. It's where my film and knowing too much at times actually comes back and, um, see what the drive through as they say.


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[Assistant] Huge game, like you said, Ravens were a team leading into last week where you saw, we all thought, hey, maybe this is the best team in football. I still don't come off of that, right? They're still phenomenal. Closing out a game. Like I said to you earlier today, we've seen everything from the Ravens except for late


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[Assistant] Pull out a tight, close victory late in the football game, whether that's come from behind or a team that's close and put them away.


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[Assistant] That's the only thing we kinda haven't checked the box on to go, oop, the Ravens can do that. Alright, they're pretty unstoppable in all areas.


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[Assistant] Uh, I, I do think the Ravens, you know, I think their defense is awesome, right? But I think with Joe burrow, the, the ability of how he gets the ball out of his hands so quickly, they have a great short passing game. I think they'll move the ball and chew up some clock against Baltimore, but getting in the end zone and scoring points, I'm not so sure about that.


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[Assistant] Cincinnati's run game, it's been better as of late, but not great. Last week it kind of took a step back. So I, I, I don't think about that and try to depend on that.


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[Assistant] You know, and then the other side of the ball, the Bengals have a good feel for how to


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[Assistant] You know, defend this Ravens offense. They have, but.


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[Assistant] I think this Ravens offense has more answers than years past.


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[Assistant] We know their running game in Keaton Mitchell is good. Lamar has still been really damn good with all three of those receivers in that tight end. They got weapons there and the Bengals defense is not as good as we've seen the last two seasons.


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[Assistant] There is way too many big plays being let up. They're the 30th ranked defense in football and I kind of thought they were riding the ship in that department and then CJ Stroud just


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[Assistant] Carved him up one play after another. I'm going with the Ravens, Mike.


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[Assistant] It's a really close football game. Can't wait to watch it, but I'm going to go 20 to 17 Ravens.


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[Assistant] Yeah, agreed, agreed. And you know, like we talked a little bit earlier today too, is that the Cincinnati, their formula on offense...


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[Assistant] You know, kinda takes away the brilliance of the creativity of the Ravens and some of that burro. So good in the pocket, manipulating zones, right? It's hard to fool him with blitzes. He knows where to go or fix the protection or whatever else there.


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[Assistant] You know, because they throw the ball quick, I don't know if all the disguising and wait, these two guys blitz and this two guys drop is going to have the effect on the Bengals. So why that to your point, that's why I think they keep it close as well.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're gonna win, that's for sure. The game is on grass, right? Like you've talked about with Jason Garrett and all that. They're 0-3 on a grass football field. Oh, that's right. What am I thinking? Carolina?


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[Assistant] Changed, I know the good job, Matt Casey changes, uh, get into my ear there. Gosh, I'm, I'm, I'm still not used to them in the.


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[Assistant] Them and the Tennessee Titans, I'm not used to it yet because it's so long, they went grass and of course I played for the Titans and played against the Carolina Panthers on the Bucks, so I'm still in grass mode with them. Let alone, I kind of live in grass mode all the time. You know what I mean. Wink, wink. Alright, but uhm,


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[Assistant] Right? Mentally and physically, one of my issues with Bryce Young, as you know, is that he can't make throws when the pocket collapses. Right? If a quick throw is there to be had, okay, quick fade, pick-play, whatever, and that's what I would say scares me just a little for Dallas. If they play too much man-to-man,


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[Assistant] You know, Frank Reichen company will find a few ways to get the ball out of his hands quick and make some plays there. But ultimately, you know, his size with their protection being a work in progress versus that defense, I think Dallas is going on the up and up.


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[Assistant] I think that's a problem for Bryce Young in that offense and Dallas's offense, of course, has hit a stride here that's pretty damn special. I like this Carolina defense. You know that, right? I think you can run the ball on them a little bit. Dallas gets the run game going to the way Dak is throwing right now. Carolina's got no chance. I'm going 30 to 14 Cowboys.


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[Assistant] I can't wait for this game, right? I guess just cause I, you know, you know it's gonna be ugly and physical.


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[Assistant] Uh, I, I kind of sometimes find enjoyment out of good defensive struggle type of football games when the defenses are legitimately good, right? I mean, it's one thing if it's like Carolina and the Bears, alright, that's a different story. But this one, there's playmakers across the board.


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[Assistant] Neither defense lets you in the, in the end zone very easily. Pittsburgh might let you move the ball between the twenties, but they clamp down and don't let you score touchdowns a whole lot.


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[Assistant] We know the stat line of the Steelers, right? You know, they've been outgained in every game, right? But they're still six and three. It's incredible what they're doing.


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[Assistant] You know, this style of game fits both teams here.


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[Assistant] Alright, that's what I think is intriguing too. And, uh, we know the, the, the Steelers are comfortable with a 13, 10, 16, 13 type of game. And I think Cleveland's a perfectly comfortable in that game as well. Cleveland's team is better than Pittsburgh.


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[Assistant] Cleveland should be able to stop this run of Pittsburgh and man up those guys on the outside a little bit and give them problems. That's right. That's right. Reel it in. Reel it in. Right? And then the other side of the ball, Cleveland's offense, it's got a lot of good as we've talked about.


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[Assistant] Will DTR hold the ball too long or throw an interception, pick six, something like that, cause that's the only way they won the game the first time around. They were outplayed by Cleveland. I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go this way.


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[Assistant] This is the game that Pittsburgh finally outscored, outgained somebody on the offensive side of the ball. They're gonna outgain them and lose. They're gonna lose. Last week was a jump off point for Cleveland.


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[Assistant] That D, they know how good they are. They know who they got to carry. Ooh, I like yours moves. You showed a little, little actually like some grooves there. That's right. Get your damn terrible towel, your favorite team and pick your freaking Steelers. I'm going Brown 16 13. Do it. Let's go Brownie.


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[Assistant] Well, we talked like a little on Monday, right? The Chargers, Justin Herbert, you know, they can, they know how to pick apart a zone defense. The, the Lions play primarily zone. They don't have the corners to play man to man and lock you up that way.


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[Assistant] So, you know, if you have a good system and a quarterback that, you know, is precision, knows how to move people, read the holes and coverage, all that, you can, you can, you know, you can find ways to move the ball on the Detroit Lions. I don't, you know,


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[Assistant] Justin Fields has shown glimmers of that, right? They do have the weapons, but first game back, you know, in a long time, the thumb's still not there. I have a hard time thinking he's gonna pick a part.


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[Assistant] The Lions defense that way. The Lions are very good at stopping the run. I can't imagine that the Bears go off in that department. They know how to defend Justin Fields in the run game that way a little bit as well, right? This Bears defense has been tougher, but this Lions offense has everything.


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[Assistant] And you play as much man to man as the Bears do. I think that's dangerous in the run game and the pass game when you play the Lions. The Lions will mess up your run game fits. Hey, I'm covering the tight end man to man here and I gotta do the D gap. He might go this way and oh damn, now we got no D gap.


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[Assistant] Run player over here, for lack of a better example. Or Ben Johnson's just really good at, he'll find ways to pick them or cross them or do that. I'm going Lions, of course. Like you said, this is a game they should win, right? One seed is in play for them, 27-17 Lions.


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[Assistant] The Chargers defense is sucky ducky, we know that. They're horrible. And I think it could look a little bit like we saw last week from Green Bay. Jordan Love will make a few plays, right? I do think they should be able to run the ball on the Chargers. So I think we could see a fun game with some points here.


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[Assistant] You know, my problem is the Packers defense. I don't see the Packers defense really stopping the Chargers. That's, that's my problem, right? The Green Bay, there's the only team they've stopped here the last four or five weeks are the Rams with the guy that


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[Assistant] You know, Brett Rippon that really should be a practice squad quarterback. Nobody's backup. Like do we have to depend on them? That was insane. So yeah, there's their lone win and their lone game of like looking good on the defensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] Uh, Herbert and company and, and Kelvin Moore, I think have found a little bit of a groove. They've been playing pretty damn good on that side of the ball, right? So I just expect the Chargers to outscore the Packers. I don't have enough faith in that Packers defense and I don't think Jordan love in that offense are good enough yet.


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[Assistant] To win a shootout type of football game against this type of offense. I'm going 28, 24 chargers.


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[Assistant] 2005 Buccaneers team I was on. We went into Green Bay. They were not good that year. Brett Favre wasn't good. He was throwing interceptions like every time he dropped back, right? But our team was still revved up and ready to go and excited to play there because it was Green Bay and it was, you know, Lambeau Field and Lombardi and all that.


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[Assistant] And like you said, it's a special setting. If you haven't ever been to that stadium, you can't quite understand it, but it's like, yeah, it's like a Yankee stadium, a Fenway park, the great stadiums in our country that just have a nostalgic


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[Assistant] Feel about it, let alone the fans are so close and it just feels like football was born there. Uh, I hear you there, it's a good point by you and your pasta and meatballs.


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[Assistant] You set it on PFT today and my mind has been there all week.


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[Assistant] Like this is one of the games where I saw on the schedule when I looked like Monday night and I was like, you know, let me look at some of the games coming up this week, right? Cause I'm sick of getting my ass beat by Florio. Let me start thinking about things.


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[Assistant] Arizona's been better than we expected. They got pretty good defensive game plans on a week to week basis.


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[Assistant] Uh, their offense has some weapons and now of course they got Kyler back and all that. And yea, Houston who didn't have expectations is now the hunted a little bit and everybody around town is telling them how good they are. Either way, I still can't pick the Cardinals in this one. I do think it'll be close. I do.


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[Assistant] I'm like thinking like a Texans late field goal to win the football game kind of game here.


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[Assistant] I am, but I think ultimately what scares me is Arizona's defense versus Houston offense is why I can't pick it.


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[Assistant] Just because, uh, Arizona, they're not great against the run.


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[Assistant] Houston's going to run the ball, even if they have success or not, they're going to run it to protect their rookie quarterback.


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[Assistant] And to keep the play action pass alive, I expect them to be able to run it and gash them in the play action pass ultimately at the end of the day with Stroud and the way this crew is working right now. I'm going to go a tight one because I think uh, Murray will make some plays here too, but 2320 Texas.


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[Assistant] Right? I do. I, you know, you look forward, all those things. I hear what you're saying. I think the fact that they got their ass whooped the way they did, that they're going to be pretty focused on this one. It was an underwhelming effort. And, and, you know, they made, not only were they out physicaled and out played, they made mistakes and did stupid things.


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[Assistant] Penalties and all, all, all the things you don't wanna do to win a football game.


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[Assistant] I still think ultimately, of course they're better than the Titans football team. We know that.


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[Assistant] Right? And, you know, the Jaguars, I know it didn't show last week, but for the most part this year have been a balanced team, can beat you both ways.


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[Assistant] I think this Titans defense is better than it's statistically ranked, but it's not great, right? So I don't think they're just going to shut down Jacksonville by any stretch of the imagination. And what I do worry about is Tennessee's offense. You know, again, we're seeing


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[Assistant] Two weeks in a row here, you know, it's not Ryan Tannehill, right? Will Levis has certainly showed us promise, but there's lack of weaponry.


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[Assistant] And playmaking and all of that, that you talk about with Tennessee, that's still an issue, right? I mean, they, they couldn't move the ball last week against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And of course, Will Levis got hit a whole lot too.


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[Assistant] And this Jacksonville group, they're pretty good up front. They find ways to get around the quarterback and get after you. Uh, I expect their defense to give Tennessee problems again. I'm going to go Jaguars 24-14, Mike.


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[Assistant] Definitely, you know, I like your assessment there, and these are two big games. These are two teams that I will say in the next two weeks, the Titans and the Texans, they're better then. And then after that, they got the Bengals, Browns, and Ravens, which is not going to be easy.


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[Assistant] So I mean, that could be a stretch that doesn't work out in their favor here. So these are big football games and we'll see. You know, I'll never forget, you know, to the point, you know, that I brought up on Monday and that you're giving me credit for and thank you for that. It's just that, yeah, I remember my dad


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[Assistant] They played the 85 Bears, right? They thought, the Giants thought in 85 that they were really good and they were the physical team and could bring it and they played the Bears and they realized, whoa, there's another level we need to go up.


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[Assistant] And of course that is what was the jump off point for their 86 football team. They realized that there needed to be another level of craziness and physicality to the way they played the game. And hopefully that, that rings true with Jacksonville and learning that lesson against San Francisco last week. Hey, and to


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, the Raiders, like you said, five and five, it's admirable. There's no doubt about it. I think the last two weeks they probably played, if you could hand pick the two teams that you'd want to play, right, in their season to get a win.


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[Assistant] Well, they would pick the giants and the jets, you know, and the other one would be the Patriots who they beat a few weeks before that, right? So that's where I'm like, yeah, it's five and five, but you know, to your point, it's kind of fell just right for them. Uh, this is where, you know, this little


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[Assistant] It melts when Tyree Kill does his second backflip of the day after scoring a 60 yard touchdown.


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[Assistant] There's just, I just think the Miami defense is getting better. I think the week off, Miami recalibrates on the offensive side of the ball, has a few wrinkles, you know, there that they bring to the table. I think this is a week the Dolphins, you know,


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[Assistant] Say, Hey, we're back and put the Raiders in their place. 35 17 dolphins.


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[Assistant] First I had the commanders, I mean, you know, it's, it's, you said it, it's, that Giants offense is just, it's pitiful.


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[Assistant] It is, and now I know the commander's defense ain't anything special, but that doesn't matter. The Giants are scoring 13 points.


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[Assistant] The commander's offense is dangerous. The Giants defense is reeling.


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[Assistant] Ever since Xavier McKinney made those comments, it seems like it added dysfunction to the Giants locker room on that side of the ball about the defense and the defensive calls there. I'm going commanders 24 13 Giants can't keep up with the firepower of Sam Howell and those receivers and that Eric B enemy offense.


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[Assistant] Could have beat the Houston Texans the week before that. Offense made some big plays. I think ultimately though, you know, one, I think the 49ers are going to hit a groove or a run here, you know, like we saw in the game. I think they're, you know, going to be back on the domination track. Like we saw when they went five and oh, uh, the defense too damn good.


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[Assistant] Right? Tampa Bay's offense, even though it's been a little bit better the last two weeks, I'm not ready to sit here and go, Oh, it's going to move the ball up and down on the San Francisco 49ers. 49ers more creative with their fronts and things they did. They dressed up their defense a little last week. And what I'll also throw into this is


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[Assistant] Things that Tampa's offense did to the Houston Texans two weeks ago.


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[Assistant] I think the 49ers are going to be able to look at that and go, oh, we can't play this scheme when they line up in that because they're going to do what they did to D'Amico Ryan and company. It's the same defensive scheme. So I think they're going to learn from that, let alone, you know, with the 49ers healthy


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[Assistant] On the offensive side of the ball and the fact that they can run the ball and throw the ball at an elite level. I just think that's it's, you know, they're going to screw over this Tampa defense.


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[Assistant] Uh, Tampa, they like to play stop the run defense, but when you overdo it and play the stop the run defense against a team like the 49ers or the Texans with Stroud, right? They'll tear you up with the pass game as well. And of course this offense has more talent than that Texans offense. I, of course I'm going 49ers here, 31 17.


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[Assistant] That's gonna look ugly. I don't give a damn what they do.


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[Assistant] You know, they can bring in Eric Coryell, Shanahan, you know, Bill Walsh, whoever. It's not gonna get fixed this week. It ain't gonna look better against the Jets defense.


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[Assistant] Right, it's a Jets defense that's given the Bills the last three times they played them, they beat them two out of the last three times, and all three times they gave Josh Allen that offense problems. Right, there's, there's, there's the Jets, it's always eight people at the line of scrimmage, so they scare you from the run.


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[Assistant] The Jets then have a great pass rush and they drop those eight guys into zones and they don't let you throw deep like we talk about what every team does against the Bills and everybody's learning that.


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[Assistant] And the one thing the Jets haven't done the best job is just like, they go crazy in the pass rush and sometimes they let Josh Allen out of the pocket and make plays that way, but still they're so fast and athletic, they can run them down. Uh, the, the real, you know,


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[Assistant] The real thing is, if Josh Allen doesn't turn the ball over more than one time, like, okay, if he turns it over one time, they'll be okay. But if it becomes two or three turnovers by this Bill's offense, they'll, they'll, they'll lose the game. But I'm going to play the fact that.


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[Assistant] You know, they're gonna be on their P's and Q's after last week. They'll, they'll maybe even think about being a little more conservative on the offensive side of the ball with the Jets in town and that offense as bad as it is, right?


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[Assistant] So, uh, I'm going to take the Bills, gotta get a gut check win. I have no faith in the Jets offense as nor should you or I or anybody else that has eyes that has watched them play football. I'm going to go 20 to 10 Bills at home.


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm still gonna go with Seattle, right? I think it's dangerous. I think it's a close football game.


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[Assistant] I mean, you know, again, it's Matthew Stafford back in the lineup and, you know, they still got Puka Nakua and Cooper Cup. They're going to move the ball and make some plays there. Their defense has been a pain in the ass. We know that.


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[Assistant] Seattle's offense is a little all over the place, right? So I don't necessarily trust that.


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[Assistant] I do think Raheem Morris understands that Seattle offense because it's basically Sean McVeigh light ends up what the offense is with Waldron coming from the Rams. So I think that's where the Rams do pose some issues with Seattle.


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[Assistant] But I think ultimately Seattle is just a better football team right now. And, uh, Seattle I think is finding their groove on the defensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] They're making plays on a weekly basis. Their pass rush is starting to get after it here a little bit. I think they're going to harass Stafford enough, make enough plays on the offensive side of the ball where they win a close one, 24-21.


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[Assistant] I think for me, you know, that's where, you brought this up on PFT today. You can run on the Broncos. There's an interior part of that D line that's certainly not special there. But I don't know if you guys are good enough to really take advantage of that the way some other teams can.


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[Assistant] So I look at that and that Broncos defense has been better. Uh, the advanced Joseph ever since that.


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[Assistant] Uh, blowout down in Miami. You know, I think they've consolidated their defensive packages a little bit, got a little more simple and just allowing some of the young guys to fly around and play fast. It's worked for them. They haven't given up a ton of big plays against Mahomes or Josh Allen. They've been incredible that way. And like you said with Russell Wilson,


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[Assistant] You know, he's, it, early in the year it was just like kind of manage the game and don't make mistakes. Now we're getting into...


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[Assistant] Wait, not only does he understand the Sean Payton offense and you can see more at the line of scrimmage and getting into plays and the packages, but he's starting to get into like, not just don't screw the game up mode, let me take over the game mode.


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[Assistant] I haven't seen that in a while from Russell Wilson, right? I mean, when he threw that pass the other night against the Buffalo Bills, I think I texted you, I go, that might be the best play we've seen Russell Wilson make in two and a half years, right? It looked like the old Russell Wilson.


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[Assistant] So that's great. They can run the ball. I think they'll be able to run the ball on Minnesota. Minnesota's defense though is a pain in the ass.


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[Assistant] Brian Flores, all the things he does on defense. I know it's one of the top blitzing defenses in football. They got people coming from everywhere, who's standing, who's blitzing, who's dropping, all of that. They're very good that way. But if there's one guy that I feel like can


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[Assistant] Figure out how to settle that down and have a game plan to stop it. It's Sean Payton. I'm going to go with, I'm going to go with Denver at home. Yeah. The game last week was a big one, but I think again, it's more, I think it's going to be more of a like, Hey, we are good. Let's keep riding this wave. Let's believe in ourselves here. I'm going to take the Broncos 2116.


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[Assistant] Well, I'll let you go ahead first here again. You know, you, you on PFT today, I got the sense that you were leaning Kansas City. That's the sense I got. So let me see where this damn pasta and meatballs is at. Uhm, go ahead. Let me hear yours.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think it's, it's, I mean, I would expect a good game. I would. I'd be shocked if we don't get it. Right? I look at, I look at


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[Assistant] The Eagles defense, gotta think they're going to be motivated, right? From the fact that they got no sacks last year in the Superbowl against Mahomes and company. So I think that plays in their favor.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know, Mike, here's a question I'll pose to you. Does it play in their favor? The Eagles defense, the fact that they've gotten to see Eric Biennami twice this year already. Now, Biennami to me has more creativity than Matt Nagy and what the Chiefs are showing right now. And of course,


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[Assistant] The commanders have way better talent at wide receiver than the chiefs. That's not even close. So that's like an interesting thing I think about. I don't know. You got two cents on that that you think there? Who has the advantage in that department?


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[Assistant] It's definitely something I think about. It's interesting. You know, I don't know if that...


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[Assistant] The matchups with the commanders gives the Eagles a feel for how they might get attacked or maybe it gives Nagy and Reed to go, Hey, wait, this is how they stop some of their stuff. We need to zag instead of zig here, right? It could go either way, but I would expect the chiefs, uh, I mean the Eagles defense to be highly motivated with this one. And because of lack of.


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[Assistant] Real scary receivers by the Chiefs too. I, you know, I think the Eagles can play a little bit more man to man against the Chiefs than they can against the Washington Commanders. Uh, but that's gonna be, you know, the heavyweight battle right there. Mahomes versus that crew. We know that. It's not like this matchup on the other side is much, much worse though.


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[Assistant] The Chiefs defense is phenomenal. The Chiefs defense does something that I talk about on my podcast that you don't listen to all the time is that they, they will against these great offenses, Dolphins, Chiefs in the super, I mean Eagles in the Superbowl last year, they,


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[Assistant] We'll flip the script on you and go, Oh, you think we're going to just play cover two and we're going to try to be sound. We're going to do some crazy crap to you too. And it's going to mess up your plays and mess up how you think about calling things and everything. That's where spags is brilliant. And they have the type of corners that


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[Assistant] The Eagles can run the ball. We know that too. And that's going to put another little bit of stress on this Chiefs defense that they haven't seen. And Jalen Hurts is a better thrower and decision maker from the pocket than he was last year.


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[Assistant] I'm going Eagles. I'm going Eagles here on the road. I think because of the Superbowl loss, they'll be motivated. They'll be ready to go. That's right. I'm going Eagles 27 24 and a great Monday night before Thanksgiving type of game.


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[Assistant] There I do that. Yes. And I have great respect for all of those above. Okay. I love what the Eagles do as a football team. I respect Jalen hurts. I just don't call him one of the three or four best quarterbacks in football and people can't take that. Sorry.


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[Assistant] No, I'm not wearing that damn Eagles hoodie no matter what, okay? Unless they send me a check for a million dollars, I'm not wearing it. See? You hate the Eagles. See? We proved that you hate the Eagles. It's in my blood a little!


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[Assistant] I'm going with the Dolphins. I think that fairytale ends with Antonio Pierce and all that going down to the Raiders. Boom. Damn, this is a, I didn't want this. I knew we might end up doing chalk across the board here. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. That's fine.


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[Assistant] For the sake of this show, I'm gonna do the Eagles. I'll take with the Eagles. I'm going with the Eagles. This is my third best bet. Alright?


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[Assistant] Well, 30 I always thought was like, wow, I'm like an adult. Like, I'm not in my 20s anymore. 30 was significant. And then 40, you're like, wow, that's kind of sounding like an old adult at this point. But I still feel like 50 is the one where we all will have our moment where we're just like, woah.


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[Assistant] Do you think that arm flexibility is something that is just natural? Or you saw on the Netflix special, he does work on making himself flexible. Is that something he has developed? I think it's natural. I think it's natural.


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[Assistant] Alright, well you saw me point at Chris there, and he looked over his shoulder. And the reason he did that, if you were not with us, uh, what was this? This was two years ago now, Pete? It seems like that was last year. We had last year and two years.


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[Assistant] Uuuh, yeaah. I've never seen you more scared than you were when Morgan was just trying to present you with a birthday card.


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[Assistant] We've lost, well maybe you will trust me more now, because I have a gift for you. Do you really? You know, Pete and I were texting yesterday, and he was like, you know, it's Chris's big day tomorrow, it's his birthday, 43, he's joining you finally, in the ranks of a almost mid 40 year old, and I was like, that's a big deal.


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[Assistant] I went and got a t-shirt. We had a design that we brainstormed on.


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[Assistant] Ladies and gentlemen, we present you a t-shirt


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[Assistant] Custom for you, Chris Sims Unbuttoned, uh, with the phrase,


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[Assistant] I'm a little worried, I'm a little worried. Yeah, Pete wants to know if that's how you spell gamble-izing. And full disclosure, I did misspell it one time and printed it out.


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[Assistant] You are the strangest man in the world. I do impulse buys. I just like, one day I'm like, I'd like to make my own t-shirts. Why not? And so, I bought the stuff and yeaah, I got the iron press and everything. That's amazing. And I've made like six t-shirts in my life now. And now, there it is. So yeaah, happy birthday Chris.


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[Assistant] You're just like, let me just relax, you know, enjoy time with the family and study up on tape of East Carolina football players. That's all I want for my birthday. That's all I got. Cause you have a busy couple weeks here.


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[Assistant] I saw from, at this point, yes, I saw DJ Stewart, if you're listening and not watching, DJ Stewart is dousing Rafael Ortega with the water. He did not know it was coming. Swish did know it was coming. Oh, here's, here's a good view of it, cause Swish is getting all amped up.


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[Assistant] I try to keep them both in there together. I actually told Swish, I said, I go, hug him, hug him, cause I wanted Swish to get it too. Oh, of course, right. Uh, but he was out of there, so yea, it was a pretty good, uh, good day for the Mets. Damn.


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[Assistant] That would have been amazing. I should have stayed there and just gotten that there. Yeaah. But it was, I wanted it to be his moment. I didn't want to try to spoil his moment. Good peripheral by you. It was a big, it was a big weekend. You got a big day today. We got a big pod. Big pod. Because we got to go through our NFC and AFC and Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] Uh, we're not sick of each other here because we got the NFC playoff teams now. I keep trying to transition to the playoff picks. We'll get there one day. We'll get there right now. Uh, so let's start with the NFC.


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[Assistant] And so this is, you're gonna make your picks. You're gonna go, you, you do the bracket, you go all the way through.


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[Assistant] You say who's gonna play who, you say where the game's gonna be, so let's first take a look at the...


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[Assistant] Vikings and Falcons, your giants are on the second column. Yeaah. With the bears right behind them. That is surprising to me.


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no. I will tell you though, I do have two teams in that second column in the playoffs. Right. I won't give it away. Okay. But I do have two of those teams. Okay. Okay.


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[Assistant] There are some people that do think that with the guys they lost on defense, I mean they did, they did replace them in the draft, but they've lost some of the key pieces from that team.


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[Assistant] Hold on, with the Packers, as you saw in the odds, they're not even the two most likely team, according to Vegas, to win that division. The Vikings are there.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, and it's gonna sound funny because Aaron Rodgers has been so great and was an MVP recently here, but it wasn't like he was what we've seen from Aaron Rodgers in the pa- It wasn't like we were watching the Packers play last year and be like, Aaron Rodgers is carrying them.


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[Assistant] So your, your Falcons pick, I've heard, I've heard a lot lately. Yeah, I've heard a lot of that. I have heard that because they have, you know, defied expectations a little bit last year and it wasn't with great quarterback. No, two years in a row.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it seems like Arthur Smith has figured out a way in playing to the strengths of that football team, so I'm not surprised with that. Uh, we have some differences in my picks here, which is good, because I am putting my Detroit Lions in. As much as I am a, you know, skeptical Lions fan, I've got to.