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[Assistant] Well no, it's not. It's not. It's, it's not. And especially if you're not going to score touchdowns off of it either. I think that's maybe, you know, another aspect of, of how you look at it. Scoring is still important. Well, you know, just, hey, yeaah, it's, and the touchdowns are important. Yeaah. You know, you look at their, their drives, what do they do? Two touchdowns, two field goals.


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[Assistant] The Giants put together four drives the whole game. They scored three touchdowns and kicked one field goal. That's it. Those four drives were it. I mean, that was it.


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[Assistant] But they, they maximize when they do move the football. And, you know, again, they can run the ball.


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[Assistant] We talked about it, screens, bootlegs.


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[Assistant] Their pass protection is getting better. Their offensive line is big and overpowering. So it's real that way. Danny Dimes has been rewired. I mean, rewired. To like...


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[Assistant] Don't throw that ball into that tight window. It's not worth it. We'll just keep playing the way we play and if we got a punt, fine.


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[Assistant] Don't hold the ball for 12 seconds in the pocket. Look at one, look at two, throw it away, or start moving. And that's where Dayball has, you know, made them such a better football team because they know who they are and how they have to play to win a football game.


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[Assistant] They take no chances, right? They don't. Think about them. They don't take any chances. They really don't. Don't take chances. Danny Dimes, conservative, quick passes, get it out because they're better run blocking offensive line than pass blocking offensive line at this point right now. Do they have a good enough


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[Assistant] I don't know if they do. It's gonna still have to be a lot of wink tricks and stuff like that.


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[Assistant] And of course, they have a really favorable schedule. Uh, that is true. You know, you look at the Giants and what they're gonna do here in the next few weeks, they don't play a team that you ever look at and go, ooh, oh, ooh, that, that could be a problem.


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[Assistant] I mean, the Giants, the way they're playing right now, you can sit there and look at the schedule and go, they literally, like legitimately could be nine and one in a few weeks, or eight and two. Jaguars, Seahawks, Texans, Lions.


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[Assistant] So, they could be going into Thanksgiving going, we're eight and two! And we're playing Jerry Jones and company. But to answer the question, they're...


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[Assistant] They run the right plays under the right looks in the running game. They pick up blitzes perfectly all the time. They're never out coached in any area, right? And then, like, like we talked about rewiring him.


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[Assistant] You know, okay, it's, hey, it's Saquon Wildcat time. Let's throw a curveball. Or I got a cool play action pass here that I've game planned for them. And that. And, you know, that's, that's what's impressive about them right now, I guess, to answer the question.


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[Assistant] You know, Jahad Ward, what a career story. I mean, he was a defensive tackle.


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[Assistant] And then he became like big defensive end slash defensive tackle, and now he's here with Wink and he's playing outside linebacker. I mean, he's gotta be, I don't know how big Jahad Ward is. I'm gonna say he's 280-something pounds playing outside linebacker. I'll get to it right here in a second because I got it. Okay, but, I mean,


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[Assistant] Weird. I don't even know what to tell ya. And then, I always forget Z-Z-Z-Oshane Z-Z-Z-Zimenez. Zimenez. He, he, he's another guy that just, they got a lot of unheralded, not big names, but really good physical players on their defense. Alright, last thing.


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[Assistant] Okay, oh, you want to get to that now? We have to. Well, what I don't know, here's the first thing. The snap, right?


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[Assistant] I don't know, I think Lamar messed up. I think Lamar thought he called a dummy snap count or something.


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[Assistant] So Lamar lifted his leg, they had somebody come in motion to come back. Drake was coming back.


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[Assistant] And I don't know if he thought, like, I called it on the second leg, like, hey, first leg, don't snap it, second leg, I'm going to, I want you to snap it. But he lifted the leg the first time and they snapped the ball and everybody got off the ball at the same time to make me think that that was.


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[Assistant] You know, on one. Yeaah. So it wasn't a super high snap, I'm trying to remember. The ball was right in his right hip. He should have caught that easily. That's where I was shocked by, because a little on Sunday, I kind of just like watching the game and the highlights, and you know, we're doing so much, I kind of just thought, ooh, the snap looked like it was a little off.


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[Assistant] No, watching it back, the snap was absolutely fine. It was just, he was not ready for it, and I don't know exactly how that, you know, shook out there.


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[Assistant] You know, 20 yards behind the line of scrimmage, on the full speed run.


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[Assistant] Throwing to Patrick Ricard, who's a 290 pound fullback, like he was going to do something with it after, into a crowd of people where you couldn't have seen what really looks like around him or that. So that was, yeah, that was a bad one by Lamar. It's the worst play of the year for him so far. And again, that's where the Giants are amazing.


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[Assistant] The Giants eat clock, they stay ahead of the chains, they barely have negative


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[Assistant] And that's how they keep one of these football games. And it's, uh, it's really, it's.


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[Assistant] Amazing and confusing and everything in between right now.


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[Assistant] It's pretty amazing. And maybe we'll break that down. It's hard for me to completely put my head around it. I have some thoughts and things that I think are adding to that. Uh, but we probably don't have time to discuss all that. I'm not shocked to see these lines. They're not shocking to me.


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[Assistant] The Jaguars have more talent on their team than the Giants. You know?


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[Assistant] You know, Trevor Lawrence has struggled the last few weeks. He's gotta, they gotta make some plays in the passing game. I guess that's the thing, I look at the Jaguars. But I'm not shocked to see the Jaguars favored at home in this matchup. And then, you know, the Broncos...


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[Assistant] Again, like I kinda said when we were breaking down the Jets.


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[Assistant] I don't think the speed of the Jets D line is going to affect them as much as it did the Packers. And the Broncos D is the real deal. They're so good. They're so good.


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[Assistant] They've been overshadowed by how bad the offense has been. Exactly right. Exactly right. That defense is... They're phenomenal. So the weapons, the scheme of the jets is not going to scare them.


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[Assistant] Uh, and yeaah, I mean, if you made me look at that game, 39 and a half might be too much for that one. I agree. I mean, that one could be 16-13, 13-10. Yeaah. I wouldn't be shocked by any of that, really, in either one of these football games.


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[Assistant] That, and I do think the defense, I mean the offensive scoring thing. Right? Yea.


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[Assistant] Defenses are winning the battle, right? Yeah. Right? And it just, uhm, why? Yeah, exactly, why?


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[Assistant] I got some, I got some things for you there. A tease for next Wednesday.


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[Assistant] But you're on again tomorrow. I am on tomorrow. Me and Florio, PFTPM, PixPod. Yep. My picks have not been very good. Don't listen to Chris. Just listen to my information. Okay, listen to my information. I say a lot of good things information wise that I probably need to listen to myself to and go, oh, wait,


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[Assistant] I explained that team should have won, but I picked the other team. What an idiot I am.


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[Assistant] But, yep, we'll be the, me and Florio tomorrow. Amin and I back in the fold on Monday. Yep. And you the man, as always.


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[Assistant] Drink that disgusting energy drink. You've got a long day ahead of you, slugger. Alright, everybody keep sending them the questions. Hope you enjoyed the pod today. Check us out on Thursday on the picks pod. If not, enjoy the weekend of football, week seven in the NFL. Clap it up.


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


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[Assistant] I'm wondering if people are listening for the first time. If they're like more prone to listen to the whole podcast now or less prone.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's what we do. It's what we do in this podcast. And kids nowadays, they're swearing now. I mean, I feel like kids, the words that we think are bad, like kids are now.


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[Assistant] Yep, if the Steelers win the Super Bowl, you gotta kiss my feet again. That's the unfortunate part of this whole thing. Oh shit. Uh, you're right, this is, uh,


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[Assistant] We didn't see on first glance. And so these are new revelations about what you saw. Cause you dove into these games deeper than you were able to on Sunday. You went in Monday and so yeah, hidden, hidden, buried treasure. What do you think of that? I like it. So what you're saying,


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[Assistant] I wonder why. Is it like they want to use that time? It's like a practice, right? You have a two hour practice. You want to spend the time on other things.


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[Assistant] Jeez. Uh, I guess people are typing nowadays, which Pete has typed up our rundown. Yep. And he's put everything together here beautifully. So let's, let's go through it.


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[Assistant] The Hidden Treasures, Treasure Hunters are finding stuff with all these games. We're gonna talk about Joe Burrow.


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[Assistant] What we like, what we didn't like, Trey Lance, Aaron Rodgers, Kyler Murray, Derek Carr, the Patriots offense, Dolphins defense.


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[Assistant] Justin Jefferson, Patrick Mahomes, Tua. So you got something for everyone here in this podcast. Let's jump right into it. Okay. With our first game here, let's take a closer look at the Bengals. Crazy game against the Steelers, right? Joe Burrow, what, five turnovers in the game, four interceptions, had a fumble. Not a great start for them.


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[Assistant] Sometimes not all interceptions are created equal. No. So let's start right there. Yeah. The interceptions. Right. What did you see? Were these overall, like, was this a bad Joe Burrow game or just circumstances led to four interceptions?


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[Assistant] So it was a little bit of a combination there. You're saying Burrow played not very well. Yes. But the Steelers did some creative things with that zone defense. 100%.


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[Assistant] That's interesting because you would almost think you'd want to do the three step drop with TJ Watt. Don't give him time to get there. Right. But he has an answer for that.


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[Assistant] You think the NFL would want to protect, uh, Joe Burrow because his offensive line has not been doing that in recent history. So last year, obviously that we've talked about that ad nauseam. So they revamped the offensive line this year and he still got sacked what? Seven times. Um, he, he does hold the ball longer than he's trying to read the field. You said he might've been a little slow. A hundred percent. Yes. You're right.


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[Assistant] We're not his fault though. We had Jonah Williams out there, Cordell Volson, um, Lyle Collins, Ted Karras. You think all of them had their issues.


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[Assistant] So how would you have beaten the coverage? What would you have done? Exactly.


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[Assistant] Defense for the Steelers, good, should be good all year. T.J. Watt, obviously a huge injury, but he's going to try to come back, it sounds like, and play with an injured packer or get that as healed up as you can in the year. Middle of that defense, one last thing for the Steelers defense, Devin Bush.


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[Assistant] I know a lot of people, they're hoping he makes the next step. Right. For the Steelers, turns into that, he was a first round pick, correct? I know. Right. Into the first round. Correct. They traded up to get him. Do they believe in him?


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[Assistant] Alright, so there's some buried treasure hidden gems.


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[Assistant] The Treasure Hunters. The Treasure Hunters found some treasure. With Joe Burrow and exactly what happened there. Uh, the 49ers. Turn our attention to Trey Lance here. One of the biggest stories in the NFL. All season long will be that quarterback position for the 49ers. Just really interesting. Uhm, Trey Lance not good in the first game.


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[Assistant] Well that's the, so it's the eyes, and you noted multiple times, not just staring down Eddie Jack, or his receiver, and Eddie Jackson was able to read his eyes, but, The eyes in general. You said his eyes in general are looking at the rush. Yes. First and foremost.


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[Assistant] But the one thing you noted that he does better than Jimmy Garoppolo did was throw those deep outside the numbers. I mean, that's something we rarely, rarely saw with Jimmy Garoppolo. So that is, that is a feather in the cap for Trey Lance and his running ability as well. But you noted it again this week and you saw it last year. He's taken too many big hits on those runs.


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[Assistant] Uh, Debo Samuel was one of your top wide receivers. Where was he Pete? Where would you have, did you have him too? You had him just behind Jamar Chase ahead of Justin Jefferson. Right. Um, yeah, I forgot I wrote this. Where would he be in your top five running backs in the NFL?


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[Assistant] And he's got an incentive, I think, in his deal too, where if he runs a bunch, then... He gets extra money. He gets a little extra money. I forgot about that, right. Maybe they were like, alright, you like it, you like it now? And so, I mean, he's just such a, such a great weapon. He's so fun to watch. I think probably one of the hardest guys to bring down, it seems like.


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[Assistant] In the playoffs last year when he wanted the extra five yards, he got the extra five yards. Definitely.


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[Assistant] How much will your opinion ride on what you see here? Because yes, you can caveat this last game, it was the rain monsoon, first game of the year for the year that it is Trey Lance. But if you see some of the same things, which I mean, it's a lot of things to fix in a week, how worried will you be if he has another down performance against Seattle this week?


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[Assistant] I know, because that was a perfect segway. I had mapped that out. I was up late last night doing that. Can we do that one again? Three, two, one. Aaron Rodgers. Uh, and the Packers who lost to the Vikings. Uh, alright, so, so Aaron Rodgers here. You've sat on this podcast for a couple years now.


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[Assistant] I want him to take more chances. I want him to be more aggressive. I want him to throw more interceptions. You know, cause a lot of times we look at that low interception count, we're like, that's awesome. TD to interception ratio is amazing. And you go, no, I don't like that. Doesn't lend itself to big game football always. Was it more of the same in week number one of this year?


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[Assistant] I wonder how much Alan Lazard, cause he's talked up Alan Lazard. He's ready to take over that number one role. I wonder how much that affected their gameplay.


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[Assistant] You liked Christian Watson in the draft. The draft prep was one of your top five wide receivers. I think he was number two. Was he number two for you? He was number one. No, no. Jameson Williams was number two. He was number two. Dropped the long, sure touchdown pass early in this game. Other than that, uh, what, what'd you think?


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[Assistant] So bottom line on this Packers offense, and I think you said it really well in your notes, in cursive, uh, you said they play like they're the Patriots as 2016, 17, and 18. Yes, yes. What do you mean by that?


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[Assistant] So as disappointed as you may have been with the Packers offense and their conservativism, uh, the Vikings.


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[Assistant] Completely different. They, I mean, they were going big play. Justin Jefferson from the get-go. Uhm, from what you saw on tape, the buried treasures. Treasure hunter.


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[Assistant] Um, was it as good? I mean, sometimes just plays break down, you get a couple big plays and it's, it wasn't necessarily even designed like that. Were they designing to try to gash big plays? Yeah, they do.


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[Assistant] That's, that's interesting because after a week in seeing that, do you feel like the Vikings could win this division? Just from this one game?


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[Assistant] I tried to tell you, when I was making my picks, I got vikings in there, I don't have the cowboys in there. Listen to what I say is what you're saying. And I got that all from just listening to you, yea exactly. Uhm, so the Packers though,


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[Assistant] I do want to talk about Justin Jefferson one more time, but I think that's part of in conjunction with what the Packers did defensively here, and we talked about it a little bit on Monday's zone, uhm, where they could have gone maybe man to man with Jair.


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[Assistant] And that's what we said coming into this year, like maybe this is the year where the defense carries the Packers and Aaron Rodgers doesn't need to put up 30 points a game. So the secondary, maybe the players are there, they have the talent, the scheme just wasn't the right fit for this game. How about the defensive line for the Packers?


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[Assistant] Alright, so that is the Packers, that is the Vikings. You know a player who used to play for the Chiefs? Alex Smith. As we transition. As we transition to our other game here. Chiefs versus Cardinals. What if I just do that from now on? Every transition to every game just involves someone named Alex.


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[Assistant] I don't know if I know enough Alex's. So the Cardinals, did they ever have an Alex play quarterback for them? Not that I can remember. You know, Kyler Murray, his mother, was thinking of naming him Alex. Alex Murray would have been. Good note there. The Cardinals offense did not show up until late against the Chiefs, and so you looked at both the Cardinals offense and the Chiefs offense. There's a lot to look at there.


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[Assistant] But I think Cardinal's offense is interesting because uhm, they got down early.


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[Assistant] And they are, they are an offense where you think, you know, historically that, you know, they, they can come back. Some of these teams you look at, like the Patriots, you're like, oh, if they get down 10, 14, 21, they're done. Cardinals can come back.


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[Assistant] But they didn't until the game was basically over. So, Kyler Murray, new contract, taking a look deeper into the tape. What'd you see from that offense?


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[Assistant] Which is a problem, because like you just mentioned, they're not necessarily breaking people down with their scheme, and it seems like Kyler in the past has maybe broken teams down one on one. Right, right. You just, you know, my guy's better than your guy. I think you're right.


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[Assistant] I mean that, you said this is a team on a mission and Patrick Mahomes is on a mission. Man, if that defense plays like this all season long. Yes, I know.


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[Assistant] Hopefully Kyler sees that on film. I don't know that that'll be the case though. You're a funny guy. So chief's good on, on defense. Chief's obviously very good on, on offense here. And so basically, um, watching, watching Patrick Mahomes slice and dice this. I mean, was this basically just like,


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[Assistant] I mean, like, you wouldn't be able to watch us at work. It'd be like a restricted website. Basically here at work. For Christmas, at home, or wherever you are watching this.


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[Assistant] So he is awesome. He is awesome against, uh, the Blitz as we have seen in the past, but maybe the Cardinals had not seen that in the past. Kristen, I think we have a graphic that illustrates exactly how


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[Assistant] Uh, they attacked him. So here it is if you're watching on YouTube or Peacock. Uh, week one at the Cardinals, percentage of drop backs, 58% of the time they blitzed him. He was 16 at 23 with five touchdowns. All five of his touchdown passes came against the blitz zero interception.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was, is that, is that usual for them? Have they done that in the past? It's not. Probably not a real way to do it with Tyreek out there, right?


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[Assistant] I thought this was interesting too, where you said, they're so good in the past, they just need like two or three run plays mastered.


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[Assistant] So they gotta scheme up a couple running plays that they can master, but they've already mastered, like they're short, third and short at the goal line play. Is there, is there a team that's better than the Chiefs at those third and one, fourth and one goal line?


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[Assistant] You're feeling good about your Super Bowl pick after seeing that tape.


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[Assistant] So hey, hey, fiddle it back. Philip, fiddle it back to where it was before. Chargers, Chiefs, Thursday, uh, the debut for that Amazon Thursday night game. Uh, the Raiders, you took a closer look at Derek Carr, got a new coach over there with Josh McDaniels. You're very familiar with him. Yes, sir. Um, Raiders had some mistakes. There were some interceptions in this game.


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[Assistant] As they lost to, uh, the Chargers who will be playing the Chiefs on Thursday. Uh, so, as the same thing we talked about with Joe Burrow, right? You can have a game where you've got some interceptions and you're like, those weren't totally his fault. Derek Carr, some mistakes, totally his fault.


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[Assistant] He made some mistakes, forced it, maybe some bad plays, bad reads, but for the most part he was aggressive out there.


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[Assistant] So what was the biggest difference you noticed on film? Josh McDaniels, you talked about how he was going to be able to utilize Devontae Adams as a master at getting guys to run the great routes and that's what we've talked about Devontae Adams being a really good route runner. Special. Kind of sounds like a match made in heaven. It is. Is that what it looked like in game one?


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[Assistant] Chargers were able to close the door on him though. You mentioned that Khalil Mack and Joey Bost are going to be two guys that are going to help the Chargers do that. Been a problem in the past where they haven't been able to close out games. We saw Khalil Mack was able to do it in game, game number one with his new team against his former team.


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[Assistant] About that Chargers defense, we know the offense is going to be good, going to put up a lot of points with Justin Herbert.


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[Assistant] J.C. Jackson didn't even play in this game. They still had all those interceptions. That's a positive sign. Your question is still against a team that can run the ball. Raiders didn't really run the ball in this game. Don't necessarily have the guys to do that right now.


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[Assistant] So, I mean, is that, that's still a question for you.


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[Assistant] That was pretty cool. We got a little bonus on the Chargers-O right there, which you didn't even really look at. I know, I know. That was cool. But I mean that, now that you brought it up, I was looking at their running attack and Austin Echler was drafted high in a lot of fantasy leagues. So a lot of fantasy players are relying on Austin Echler. He just had 14 carries for 36 yards. That's something to watch.


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[Assistant] Raiders and Chargers gonna be in the playoff mix. Of course, they played last year, final game of the regular season, which the Raiders won. It was a different story in week one of this season. The Patriots...


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[Assistant] I don't know of a whole lot of people that have them in the playoffs right now, especially after their loss to the Dolphins in week number one. We had the Dolphins as a playoff team, you and I. You looked at the Patriots offense a little bit closer here, which is good because I don't know that


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[Assistant] Not a whole lot of people are talking about that. The big storyline out of this game was the Dolphins offense and you did take a little bit of a look at that too and we'll get to that. But okay, Patriots offense.


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[Assistant] I hear you. I just want to see that cause that would be really cool. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Uh, Pete says which unqualified person is making these play calls, but okay. So that was the narrative going into the game. Uh, the offense obviously didn't play that well, only scored seven points in this game. What'd you think of the play calling?


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[Assistant] So some people listening may go, oh, he was very complimentary of a team that scored seven points here, but that's maybe in part because you were really impressed with what you saw from that Dolphins defense. Scheme-wise and player ability.


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[Assistant] I was like, that's not a school. It is a school. They play football there. They teach commerce. He had a really good pro day, which I guess the school has a pro day too. He had a good pro day, good vertical, I think. Put him on the radar of a lot of teams out there. And I guess he was one of the more in demand.


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[Assistant] Undrafted free agents out there where you get a lot of calls. Dolphins called first and since preseason he has been, he's been very, very good for them.


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[Assistant] The Dolphins defense will go up against Lamar Jackson and the Ravens. So Lamar is going to have to figure out that defense, which also means that Tua and the offense is going to have to figure out that Ravens defense. A lot of big dudes up front there could give them some, uh, some issues.


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[Assistant] Uhm, taking a closer look at the Dolphins offense here. Mike McDaniel, the first time we really got to look at his scheme off the Kyle Shanahan coaching tree. Could you tell that? Definitely. When you watch the tape? Definitely.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's gonna be the question, right? You got Waddell and Tyreek, two really fast dudes who can get down the field. Yes. To reach their ceiling, you need a quarterback who can get the ball out there. Definitely.


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[Assistant] He played again, Alex Smith played against the Eagles at some point. I'm sure, right? He's on Washington. Oh yeah, that's right. So yeah, he did.


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[Assistant] Pete, what was his record? Um, uh, the last one we're going to look at here is the Eagles defense. Um, it was supposed to be really good. I mean, it should be pretty good. You've got a lot of big guys.


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[Assistant] You like what they've done in the off season, made some trades late, secondary should be pretty good, and they won against Detroit, but they gave up 35 points. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Uh, some of that was late. And so you were curious to see like, okay, were the problems just garbage time? They let up, let Detroit back in it. They did have 21 points up to that point. Yeah. Uhm, so Eagles won the game. Yes, a lot of positive things from Philadelphia right now, but.


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[Assistant] Was that defense at all concerning to you with how they played against Detroit?


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[Assistant] Completion percentage and then Tom Brady again in the wild card, which was a blowout. He completed 78% for 271 yards.


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[Assistant] And we forgot Justin Herbert. Not that we forgot, we just didn't have room in the graphic. 84% 356 yards for Justin Herbert.


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[Assistant] Was the all-butt game, right? Lions offensive line, Eagles defensive front.


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[Assistant] I'm glad we got some Lions love in there. One last thing for as discouraged maybe as you were with the plan for the Eagles on the defensive side of the ball. What did you think on offense?


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[Assistant] Eagles should be pretty good in our homies playoff predictions. Remember we did that. We got 813 responses for that. That's awesome. All the homies, uh, gave their predictions on what they think will happen. 83% shows the Eagles to win the NFC East. Wow. Just 14% shows the Cowboys. This is before week one. Yeah, they're smart. Well done, homies.


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[Assistant] Yeah, 83% chose the Eagles to win their division. Only 78% chose the Packers to win the NFC North.


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[Assistant] Something here. Although I had the Packers getting to the Super Bowl. Oh, you did. So that was a stupid pick by you. Plenty of time. Relax. Just relax here. Alright, some, uh, some hidden treasure. Hidden treasure. Treasure hunters.


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[Assistant] But it was no fluke that the Falcons were up 26-10 in that game. It was not. They deserved that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, we don't want to go there. We don't want to go there. We had a good pod. Everything was good. Uhm, and if you're a homie that made it to the end of the pod, you got a bonus nugget. Yeah. That's pretty cool. That is cool. Right?


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[Assistant] When I walked in, I thought I'm back. Yea, you're back. You are definitely back. I got the glasses on, I got the hoodie on. This is my look. I know. This is red pants, hoodie, glasses. I'm trying to hold off on my hoodie, just so it gets a little colder. I don't want to wear it out yet. I know it does seem like I'm going to the hoodie a little early here, but it's my style.


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[Assistant] Carolina Panthers. I had them winning. That was close.


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[Assistant] So, so first of all, if you're, if you're just listening and not watching, uh, uh, welcome to the pod, by the way. So rude of Chris not to welcome you on the day. Welcome, welcome.


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[Assistant] Uh, we are doing it remotely. We are in our homes right now. Chris has got the TV screen behind him that looks like he's in studio there at NBC. Don't be fooled. He's at home. He just got out of bed and rolled over there to his home. And I have, yes, I have a full set. That is a wallpaper brick wall. That is not real.


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[Assistant] Uh, that is, that is a real black wall that I painted. And then the two, uh, the two light skis in the back, Chris, you're gonna like this. You didn't even know this. I didn't preview this to you. Wow. We got a controller? Those can change.


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[Assistant] Yellow when we talk about, you know, the, the, the saints, right?


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[Assistant] Exactly. Well yeaah, it's a, you know, ever since, ever since the global pandemic, uh, we've all had to adjust. And uh, no, so this is, yeaah, whenever I do a, uh, a live stream, you know, NBC News, Lester Holt comes calling, I just go, alright Lester, I'll do it from my streaming.


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[Assistant] It was good. It was good. We've been watching Christmas movies. You'll be happy to know that. And so I've caught up seeing all three of the Santa clauses with Tim Allen now. Right. I watched Elf with the kids. And so, no, it was a real good day. I got to spend it at home, Chris. You had to work, unfortunately, but you still got Christmas morning with the family, right?


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[Assistant] It's like family. It's like family. You spend probably more time with them than you do your family at this point in football season. Uh, so we thought about it and Pete was like, well, we gotta still do a pod.


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[Assistant] We're gonna give, you know, Kristen the day off, Gabby, Morgan, they can be at home, although Kristen's texting you to keep the, uh, the f-bombs to a minimum today.


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[Assistant] I know. I thought about that too, cause I thought we were going to lose power and we have a fireplace, we have a couple of them, but I'm like, man, how are we going to keep warm? We don't have it. Yeah, right. It was freezing. Exactly. I know. I know. Crazy. But we got through it. We survived and now.


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[Assistant] So our, our promise to you, the homie, as we do every week here on Monday, we'll talk about every game included because it's Christmas, Chris. We're throwing in the Thursday game. We will legitimately talk about the Thursday game. A lot to talk about in that one. Trevor Lawrence, uh, getting another victory with the Jaguars looking like a playoff team at this point, but let's start.


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[Assistant] At the top here with probably the game of the weekend, although there are a lot of good ones. Uh, the Dallas Cowboys get the win over the Philadelphia Eagles 40 to 34. And I kept thinking during this game, because this was the big blow up during the week. Chris, for you, is that right? You know, you said that the, you, you dared say the Eagles would be not


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[Assistant] And, uh, Eagles fans tore you apart. They're like, how dare you say something like that again, against our team or against Jalen Hurts. But here you go. They weren't, uh, significantly worse than the Cowboys and they could have won this game if it weren't for some late turnovers of 40 to 34 was the final score. And I just kept thinking how many Eagles fans were out there being like,


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[Assistant] Gardner, don't win this game. Don't let Chris be right. Don't let Chris be right. You almost were, Chris.


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[Assistant] Like, I remember when, uh, Brock Purdy was inserted as the 49ers quarterback, the rookie, the seventh rounder, last pick of the draft. You were like, I think their ceiling is lowered now. Now, maybe that's changed since then. It has.


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[Assistant] Do you think that if, uh, Hertz is supposed to come back, he might even come back in the regular season, if they had to go the rest of the way with Gardner-Minshew, could they still win the Superbowl?


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[Assistant] Yeah. What do you make of the Dallas defense? Number one defense gave up 142 yards against Gardner Minshew. Did get the four turnovers though, although some were self-inflicted by the Eagles.


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[Assistant] Yeah, do you have concerns about the Cowboys defense? Cause I think the thought for a long time has been, you know, the offense can be good. It can be elite, but man, they can just rely on that defense to take them all the way to the big game. What do you make of Dallas's defense?


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[Assistant] Uh, we got a question from Amy X Joshua, back to Gardner Minshew. Damn okay, Gardner Minshew. Do you think that that performance, with that performance, he should be a starter in the league?


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[Assistant] Four turnovers is what it took for the Cowboys to win this game despite, uh, Gardner Minshew being in there, no Jalen Hurts and still only one by six and they actually have two.


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[Assistant] Well, it's weird that they're doing both. They're bending, they're breaking, they're doing a little bit of a combination of two of the worst things. Cause that T.Y. Hilton 52 yard catch on third and 30. That was a huge play in the game.


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[Assistant] It's funny, we haven't seen either team, uh, play. Well, we haven't seen the DAC versus Jalen Hurts game yet. It was Cooper Rush the first time they played and here at the hell, right. So if they play in the playoffs, hopefully we finally get that matchup. The NFC East has been so interesting all year long. The NFC East includes your giants.


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[Assistant] Who go down in a close one to the Minnesota Vikings, 27-24 the final score. And now the Vikings are 11-0 in one possession games. Most wins all time in a season. 11 wins in one possession games. We've never seen that before in the NFL. Wes Krueger.


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[Assistant] Starts this out with a question for you, Chris. Can you explain how the Vikings are undefeated in one score games? Explain how this has happened.


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[Assistant] So last year as a Lions fan, I got to win the Super Bowl with Matt Stafford. That was cool. We take credit for that. Uh, who knows maybe this year and we'll get to my Lions later on. We've buried them in this show. I don't even know where y'all are going to talk about them. Uh, but this year they could win the Super Bowl with TJ Hockinson. He had a career high 13 catches in this one in another game where Justin Jefferson, uh, went off too. I mean,


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[Assistant] Minnesota, for as much as they've just barely eeked out some wins and they have had to come back and it seems like it might be fool's gold.


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[Assistant] Offensively, they've got some serious weapons here and some talent and some guys who have proven it. I mean, what, what do you make about the Vikings? If we just, I mean, their defense has been porous and I think that's the reason why we're more skeptical. But if you just take a look at the offense, I mean, there aren't a whole lot that are better than the Minnesota Vikings. Would you agree with that?


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[Assistant] We've been able to score in a lot of games, but Pete noted, uh, in a tweet that he sent out yesterday and he has it here in our rundown is that the point differential of teams with 11 or more wins this year. It's crazy. The Bills have the best point differential in the NFL.


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[Assistant] Uh, plus 157, so they've scored 157 more points than they've given up. The 49ers right behind them at 145. Eagles are over a hundred, Cowboys over a hundred, Chiefs over a hundred, Bengals plus 85. And then you have the Minnesota Vikings at plus five.


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[Assistant] And it's going to be that defense. I mean, they've won so many close games. It's like, we see this in baseball too, one run games. Does that translate into the postseason being able to win one run games? Like I've said before on the pod.


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[Assistant] I think winning one score games in the NFL helps you get into the postseason. I don't think it necessarily helps you once you're in the postseason.


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[Assistant] I think that's bad. I don't think there's much debate about that. That's a, that's not a compliment to them. Uh, but they certainly have been exciting this year as have the Vikings or eight, six and one now they can still clinch a wild card.


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[Assistant] With one win in their final two games, the Colts, then they're at Eagles, can still get in with teams behind them lose too, which definitely could happen. Yea, Giants are in a good spot. Yea, we really could get this game again. In Minnesota, these two teams in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Giants currently in the playoffs right now, as are.


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[Assistant] The Washington commanders. We got all the NFC East teams in right now. They are the seventh seed, even though they lost to the 49ers. Final score in this one was 20, uh, 37 to 20. Uh, Taylor Heinecke got benched in this game. Carson Wentz came back in after the game was pretty much decided. Uh, let me start though with a 49ers side of things here.


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[Assistant] Like after this game, and of course working with you for so long, it's like you and Kyle are tight, so you really can't say this, but maybe I can. I was like, after that game, I was like,


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[Assistant] Kyle Shanahan is the coach of the year. I don't know that you can take any other coach and take away his starting quarterback.


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[Assistant] Go to Jimmy Garoppolo, who yes, very good and has taken him to the Superbowl before. And so that wasn't that much of a drop off. But now to get even better with the final pick in the draft, a Brock Purdy guy who's starting to look pretty, pretty good. Like, I don't know for me, he's my, he's my coach of the year right now. If the season were to end right now, he's my coach of the year. What do you think?


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[Assistant] Well, that's what a lot of people will say too. It's like, well, he's got the, he's got that great defense, but they're scoring, they're scoring a ton of points still. He's scored 30 points against a pretty good Washington defense here, but you're right.


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[Assistant] The 49ers defense gives him legit Super Bowl, uh, possibilities here. Nick Bosa, another big game for him, a couple sacks, a key fourth down stop, one of those sacks forced to fumble. He has now 17 and a half sacks on the two shot.


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[Assistant] Too shy of the all-time mark there in San Francisco. Alden Smith currently has that. You think it is? You think it's basically almost done? You think he's the Defensive Player of the Year?


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[Assistant] We'll have to go see what BetMGM says about that. Uhm, Brock Purdy has the second quarterback since 1950 to start at 3-0 with multiple touchdown passes in each of his first three career starts. We've been tracking that since the beginning.


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[Assistant] Kurt Warner's the other in 1999. So, uh, that went pretty well for.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Rams and Kurt Warner. He has unlocked George Kittle here. He had a season high, 120 receiving yards. What's happened there, you think? How come George Kittle's gotten going now that Brock parties the quarterback?


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[Assistant] Our friend Jake Croucher is all aboard the Brock Purdy has a chance at the offensive rookie of the year award. You know, I would like to throw my guy in the mix there too. Draft season, my favorite wide receiver, Jahan Dotson.


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[Assistant] I think he's had a pretty good, uh, rookie. And I think the last thing I'll say about this game is that the Washington commanders, I look at this team.


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[Assistant] You know, Chase Young back. Hopefully he comes back strong. Uhm, I feel like they're a quarterback away.


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[Assistant] You know, and I think they knew that, trying to get Carson Wentz in there, and it doesn't look like Taylor Heinecke's got much longer there in Washington, although we've said that in the past. I don't know, they seem like a team going into next year, if they can somehow figure out who's going to be their quarterback, and it's an upgrade.


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[Assistant] They've got the weapons. They've got some talent on defense. It seems like they're just a quarterback away. Do you agree?


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[Assistant] Uh, he is now the betting favorite for the MVP at minus 500 per bet. MGM Joe Burrow is plus 600. Jalen hurts is plus 900 now, uh, after getting hurt.


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[Assistant] Chiefs get the win over Gino Smith and the Seahawks. 24 to 10 is the final score. Uh, we'll get to the Seahawks side of things, but.


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[Assistant] I was watching you on football night and it's just like a weekly thing where you go, the magic man, Patrick Mahomes making magic happen. I mean, how cool was that play where he's diving in, does the one-handed like body plank and then barely reaches out and gets half an inch on the pylon.


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[Assistant] So Sean27upnext says to you, Hey Chris, when watching the Chiefs game, was Geno's performance more him missing throws or are a defense rounding into form?


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[Assistant] If Kenneth Walker was going to have over 100 yards in the game, you'd be like, uh-oh.


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[Assistant] Maybe they did some things here, but Seattle converted only two of 14 third downs. Right. And so throwing the football, everything else was pretty difficult for Seattle throughout the game that has now lost three games in a row, Chris. They are seven and eight. They are just outside the playoffs. They are currently the eighth seed.


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[Assistant] Uh, tied record wise with Detroit and Green Bay right now. I don't know. It seems like they're running out of steam.


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[Assistant] Yep, big win by the Chiefs on Christmas Eve. They got to celebrate.


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[Assistant] Uh, Christmas day, watch some other football. I was thinking, Chris, two things that, uh, disappear on Christmas. You know, Santa's gone for the year. You know what else disappears on Christmas? Tuanon. Never to be heard from again.


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[Assistant] Here as we got to watch this on Christmas Day, Packers and Dolphins. Aaron Rodgers and the Packers are not done yet. Uh, the Dolphins are not done either. They're eight and seven. They're barely hanging onto a playoff spot right now, but, uh,


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[Assistant] Aaron Rodgers brings the guys back in, in a game that in the first half, I was like, man, Packers could get blown out today. Like it was getting to the point where I was like, I don't know that they can stop them. And we know that their offense isn't anything super, super special. It was, I was maybe as shocked about.


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[Assistant] Like, one half to the next half in this game than any other game in the NFL this week.


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[Assistant] You know, and it comes right after a game in Buffalo where it was a good game for them. You know, I hear people saying now it's like, oh, the momentum's totally shifted on Miami because they've lost, what is it? They've lost a few in a row now. Four in a row.


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[Assistant] Four in a row. So it's like, but it was like, I feel like they had some momentum after last week's game against the Buffalo Bills. But yeah, clearly, uh, two, uh.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and they just needed one of those last four drives to maybe produce a touchdown and they win this game. They went field goal, interception, interception, interception at the end. The Packers win by six. So Miami still can clinch a wild card if they win out.


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[Assistant] So they control their own destiny. They're at the Patriots and against the Jets. Man, talk about two, two good defenses.


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[Assistant] Packers are still in it. It's amazing. Likely going to need to win out. Uh, they got Minnesota, they got Detroit. They're going to still need some help. So it's unlikely, but is mum.


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[Assistant] What have the Packers improved on the most in the last month? Where have you seen the biggest improvement from them, Chris?


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[Assistant] Speaking of a run game, we wondered if the Buffalo Bills would ever have one of those this year. They beat the Chicago Bears 35 to 13, the final score.


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[Assistant] It is maverick30 with a question to you to start this one off. He goes damn okay to the Buffalo Bills run game. First time this season we've had a real run game and think it could be huge for us down the stretch to make, or to take the pressure off of Josh Allen. This was a big, big one. 254 yards on 31 attempts.


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[Assistant] Yeah, let me save that, put a pin in that, because I wanted one more of this run game, because, okay, they did it against the Chicago Bears. You get into the postseason, you're in a shootout with Patrick Mahomes.


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[Assistant] Is it still, I mean, I'm unconvinced, even though as good as it was, I'm unconvinced. I'm unconvinced too.


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[Assistant] Buffalo still has the one seed to play for. They're tied record-wise with the Chiefs, although they have that head-to-head win, which helps them, gives them.


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[Assistant] The edge, they have clinched their third straight division title, have the Bills. They had none in the previous 24 years. Of course, the Patriots went in a bunch of those. Uh, yeah, over on the, the Bear side, how did they stop Justin Fields? So final numbers for him on the ground, at least seven carries, 11 yards.


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[Assistant] It's funny, you look at the top three teams in the AFC and I think you kind of had similar feelings probably on all of them this week. You're like the chiefs, come on, put them away. You know, you're kind of playing with them here. Bills, it took them till late in the game to put the Bears away. Cincinnati Bengals, they got lucky with a last second fumble by Romandre Stevenson on first and goal from the five with a minute left. I mean, it looked like I,


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[Assistant] I was like, Patriots are going to win this thing. They should just let them score so they have at least some time that Joe Burrow can come back and bring the Bengals back in this game.


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[Assistant] Uh, has a receiving touchdown, a punt return touchdown and an interception return for a touchdown of 40 or more yards.


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[Assistant] Deon Sanders, the only other player in the Super Bowl era to do that in his career. And he has done it in his first year in the league. Got a question here from Coach Grav who says, any thoughts on making Marcus Jones a full time?


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[Assistant] Offensive player for the Pats. Seems like they need some more explosiveness on that side of the ball. Already have some decent depth at cornerback. I mean, what, talk about old school two-way player. How cool is, uh, how cool is Jones so far? Yeah. What, what do you think is the best use of his talent?


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[Assistant] I don't know that he has a big personality. He needs to grow into that. Cause if he's gonna do all this stuff on the field, he needs to start acting like it. You know, act like Neon.


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[Assistant] Uh, real quick on the Bengals again here. So, I mean, the first half was awesome. I mean, 28 completions by Joe Burrow in the first half, most by a quarterback in a half this season.


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[Assistant] If you just forget the concerns in the second half, of course, how can you do that? But whatever. Uhm, like what we saw in the first half by the Bengals, that's why they're in the Super Bowl conversation again here, right? I mean it's like a defense that's stingy, it's tough to run against, and an offense that when it's rolling, I mean they put up 300 yards in the first half, it's like that version of the Bengals,


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[Assistant] Would you say is as good as the Bills at their best and as good as the Chiefs at their best?


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[Assistant] All of them, uh, the Baltimore defense, 25 points allowed per game in the first 11 games. That's really the headline. Good job by Pete putting that note is the first one here because if you would have told us that maybe early on the year Lamar is going to go down. The offense is going to shut down.


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[Assistant] You're gonna be like, well, we've seen this defense not quite as good as the Ravens defense in the past. Um, what do you make of that? The fact that they've been able to win three of these four games, despite the offense really not doing a whole bunch.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Ravens had 184 rushing yards, third straight game with over 180.


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[Assistant] They did have a receiver catch a touchdown pass to Marcus Robinson.


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[Assistant] It is the first Tyler Hunt touchdown this season. First reception touchdown by a Baltimore wide receiver since week number three.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know what? I do feel like one of these games because what did I have noted here? Atlanta outgained Baltimore. They had more first downs, ran 17 more plays. Almost feels like one of those games where one of these teams is used to winning. One of these teams is used to losing and the team that's used to winning found a way to win.


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[Assistant] Uh, because since we gave Kristen the day off, uh, she has the music and she wouldn't give it to us. So, uh, we can't play the music without, uh, we can't do Requiem without the music. So we'll do that on Wednesday for, uh, Atlanta Raid, lay them to rest, uh, officially moving on now to the Steelers.


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[Assistant] And the Raiders and this game, you know, Pete noted here, you can't fight fate on the week, uh, the 50th anniversary of the Immaculate reception, the passing of Franco Harris. And it was once again.


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[Assistant] A Steelers late comeback. It was a rookie quarterback that did it. Kenny Pickett. Um, kind of just like it was, uh, meant to be, Chris.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the Steelers somehow are still in playoff contention. They've not been officially eliminated. There's seven and eight right now. I'm rooting. I mean, Mike Tomlin, what? He hasn't had a losing season his entire career. I'm rooting for a, a win and a tie. Two wins here on out. Who knows? Maybe they squeak into the playoffs again. How crazy would that be?


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[Assistant] Thank God we didn't do that. Thank God. Thank God is right.


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[Assistant] Uhm, what, what do you make about, uh, the Raiders here? Cause we got a question from Lipsmacklinggood.


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[Assistant] That says, I know you are tight with McDaniels in the Patriots way, but do you think he brought too many people with him from the Patriots and needs to go outside with his hires? Just seems to be game management is their biggest issue and wondering if it's too much of an echo chamber with the Raiders right now.


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[Assistant] You don't want to do either, but if I had to choose, I think I'd rather eventually have a few leads throughout the course of a season. Uh, Devontae Adams, two catches, 15 yards, his fifth game this season, under 40 yards.


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[Assistant] He had four such games in his previous five seasons with the Packers.


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[Assistant] Uh, it was supposed to be this connection between his college teammate of Derek Carr. And now, you know, I follow a lot of Raiders people as well from my time out in the Bay area.


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[Assistant] And they got to make a decision on Derek Carr at the end of this year. I think it's a $40 million decision. And I've always been one who's been supportive of Derek Carr. I think he's at a, you know, solidly above average quarterback in the NFL. And I think he went to super bowl with, with Derek Carr, but that's a lot of money. And when you're constructing a roster, you got to think about things like that.


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[Assistant] I mean, what's your, what's your gut telling you? Do you think this is, we're going to see Derek Carr with the Raiders going forward?


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[Assistant] Yeah. If you do, who are you going to bring in? A guy like Brady, Tom Brady, maybe. Oh, who knows? Maybe he'll be out there as we transition to the next game. See, even on zoom, Chris, we can still do, we can still find the transitions. I mean, it doesn't change.


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[Assistant] Uh, Buccaneers defeat the Cardinals on Sunday night football on Christmas day in overtime. 19 to 16 wasn't a great one. Uh, we had Trace McSorley quarterbacking the Cardinals, being like, well, this is going to be a blowout. And it almost was for the Cardinals, strangely enough, in a game that they still didn't look very good.


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[Assistant] Uh, Tom Brady with his third, fourth quarter comeback this season, all scoring less than 20 points. And this is what I learned about fourth quarter comebacks from watching Matt Stafford and the Lions. I mean, Matt Stafford's got some of the most.


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[Assistant] You know, fourth quarter comebacks of any quarterback in history. Usually I feel like that stat, you know, yeah, you're, you're clutch. You came through when it mattered the most, but I feel like usually that stat means your team's not that good and you're in a lot of close games and hey.


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[Assistant] Congratulations to the Bucks. They've, they've won a few of those close games and Tom Brady did it again. What'd you, what'd you make of that, that win for the Bucks? It's like.


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[Assistant] Well, Pete's written in here into our rundown. He goes, this bucks team is so bad. It might be genuinely surprising when they beat the Cowboys in the wild card round.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, force rate games with an interception for Tom Brady. You mentioned it already. He's got seven in that span, a couple in this game, Thomas Espena. Great to have the homie, uh, Merry Christmas to Tomas out there. Damn okay to your guy, Marco Wilson. Great timing and awareness on those picks of Tom Brady.


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[Assistant] Other side Tampa Bay clinches the NFC South with a win versus Carolina this week. Those two play, uh, in a week. Speaking of the Carolina Panthers, they beat my Detroit Lions. Pete, we were supposed to take this one out of the rundown. I don't know how this one got hit.


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[Assistant] Barely edged past my Detroit Lions. It was cold, that kickoff. It was 20 degrees, the coldest home game in Carolina history. See, the Lions weren't prepared for that.


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[Assistant] It was like, they looked at the historical records, the farmers' almanac, and it was like, it's not going to be that cold there. I think we're going to be okay.


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[Assistant] They're like, this isn't supposed to be happening. Uh, they set a franchise record, did the Panthers in rushing yards and total yards, 570 total yards for the game, 320 on the ground. I mean, Deontay Foreman went over 160, had 165. Chuba Hubbard had 125. I think it was career highs for both of those guys. Um, they know that a hundred


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[Assistant] Okay, I already gave all those stats. I already kinda like said it was so bad for the lions.


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[Assistant] I want to give full credit to the Panthers because I don't really want to talk about the Lions on this side of it, although we will, but that was...


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[Assistant] Yeah, uhm, and this is why the, the Panthers are, are still in it. As crazy as that is, the Carolina Panthers have figured out kind of like probably what impresses you the most and makes you smile is they've, they figured out how they win best for the Carolina Panthers.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Detroit had got it inside the 10. They're at the eight yard line there in the fumble. And then you're right.


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[Assistant] Ninety-one yards, Carolina goes down and scores a touchdown, then scored a touchdown in the very next possession, then a field goal, then a touchdown. I mean, they had four straight scoring drives after that, that fumble, and basically the game was over. Lions offense did get going a little bit.


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[Assistant] After that, but Jared Goff's fumble was Detroit's first turnover in four games. And so that tells you why the Lions had.


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[Assistant] Uh, in this game, this basically, I don't know, it feels like it might be over for Detroit, although they can still get in, but they need help now in the wild card and realistically, like no one thought this was a playoff team, so.


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[Assistant] This is what it's called, like conditioning yourself to prepare yourself for the worst. As a Lions fan, I'm like, you know what? Good run. They've proven that they have some ability on offense. They've got some key playmakers on defense. Even if they don't make it into the postseason, I think it's still a win for Detroit this year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, which is fine, and thank goodness that I didn't have to read it until the end of the year. That's right, it's a win!


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[Assistant] January, that's a, that's certainly a win. Uh, Carolina can still clinch the NFC South if they win out there at Tampa. They're at New Orleans. They're now five and five under Steve Wilkes, who, who knows? I doubt he'll get a look as the main man, but he's at least put himself in the conversation.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the NFC South is a jumbled mess right now. Carolina is still in it. The AFC South.


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[Assistant] A jumbled mess as well. No team with a winning record. We got two teams at seven and eight.


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[Assistant] Atop the division, the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Tennessee Titans who lost their fifth straight. This is crazy. Never thought we'd see this with Mike Vrabel. They've had some injuries though at quarterback Tannahill.


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[Assistant] Uh, could not finish this game. Houston gets the win 19 to 14. Houston snaps her nine game losing streak in a game where Derek Henry went over a hundred yards at a long.


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[Assistant] Touchdown run, but lost another fumble. And so it's like this Tennessee team is, they don't make a whole lot of huge, huge plays outside of a Derek Henry.


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[Assistant] Where would you put the Tennessee Titans right now? It almost feels like one of those teams where it's like, if they just stopped playing, their fan base would be like, that's fine. Let's just take the rest of the year off and try again next year. Reboot.


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[Assistant] So yeah, the AFC South winner will be decided in the final game of the season between the Titans and Jaguars, regardless of what happens in week 17. I kind of had the same thought as you, although a lot of teams lost and so I do feel like


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[Assistant] Maybe the thing I'd be most depressed about if I was a Titans fan and started keep piling on, but we just talked about my lions and so I'm, I'm depressed myself now and want to bring other people down to my level, uh, is the fact that, you know, your current window, it looks like it might be closing.


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[Assistant] And your new windows opening up and you hope you have a franchise quarterback. You drafted Malik Willis. Not, not high in the draft, but you're kind of holding out hope that maybe he's the guy. He has three starts this year. He has 234 pass yards combined in those starts. No, they haven't thrown the ball that much.


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[Assistant] Obviously Shoney's more skilled right now, at least as a, as a running quarterback than a throwing quarterback. But I don't know. What do you think? We've gotten to see Malik Wells a little bit. What are your thoughts?


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[Assistant] There is a small, small chance, Pete has done the research here, that Tennessee wins the division and Jacksonville can still get the wild card.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Tennessee can only win the AFC South. If they lose week 18, they are out of the playoffs entirely. So they have no chance at a wild card. Jacksonville still does because they played so well lately. They got the win over the Jets 19 to three was the final score. They have won four of their last five games.


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[Assistant] The Jaguars are fun, they're a fun team. You know, it's like, if you talk about a franchise quarterback that's looking like a franchise quarterback right now, if you're the Jaguars, you're like, man.


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[Assistant] We got, we got something going here. Maybe, maybe this year we could squeak into the postseason.


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[Assistant] All right, we'll get to Zach Wilson in just one second because I want to give a hat tip to Evan Ingram. Used to play his, uh, home games in New York, 337 yards the last three weeks. That is third most in the NFL behind Justin Jefferson, AJ Brown. You've liked Evan Ingram for a long time. It was like, ah, he's got the potential.


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[Assistant] He could be a big time playmaker. We just hadn't necessarily seen it for a sustained period of time. And now we are seeing it at the end of the year. What do you think of him being like a legit guy who can help you do a whole lot of other things on offense?


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[Assistant] So I'm going to read a couple comments here. The first one you've already kind of talked about with the way that New York dealt with Evan Ingram.


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[Assistant] Zach Wilson, CryptoMug358, and you can address both of these together if you want, Chris says, can Zach Wilson turn it around in another system?


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[Assistant] Uh, you've defended him quite a bit and I agree with you on how the Jets handled his benching poorly, but you can't deny that he's playing bad football. His confidence is gone. He needs a fresh start in a new place. What do you think?


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[Assistant] So Pete has thrown in some examples of quarterbacks who if you are a homie and you're, you know, born.


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[Assistant] After, you know, 1975, uh, Alex Smith, Ryan Tannehill, Gino Smith, some other quarterbacks who you didn't see necessarily that.


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[Assistant] Time now, forgive me the headlines presented by Hyundai. I do that abrupt transition because, uh, we've been talking a long time about these games. We've got two more to go here. Not a whole lot to talk about in this first one. So we'll save most of the time for the second game, which we do have some breaking news about this other game we're going to talk about. Don't look, Chris. Have you seen it? Don't, don't, don't look, don't look.


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[Assistant] Don't look, I'll, we'll have you do the noise and everything. First, let's start with, oh man, okay.


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[Assistant] Okay, alright, we'll start with the Saints and Browns. Saints defeat the Browns. 17 to 10 is the final score. Your headline for this game is...


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[Assistant] It was cold. And so it was one of those games where you figure, all right, whichever team gets out to the lead is probably going to win because points are going to be hard to come by. It was the exact opposite though. So give the Saints credit. 17 unanswered points after falling behind.


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[Assistant] Uh, 10 to nothing to Sean Watson, a career worse passer rating in those bad conditions. Also didn't get a whole lot of help from his receivers for dropped passes. Most by any quarterback, uh, this week. And so yeah, it's Browns are in a murky territory right now. Uh, they got to figure out what they, what they got. And I guess the same still.


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[Assistant] Still have a chance here, uh, but they have to win out and the Bucks have to lose out for them to win.


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[Assistant] One more game to go, two teams that have no playoff hopes at this point. Uh, you might have to do a new headline on this one, Chris. You might have to like come up with one on the fly here. So Rams defeat the Broncos, 51-14 the final score. Chris, your headline for this is? That crap was so


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[Assistant] If you wanted to see what it's like when we come up with these, uh, uh, at that moment, that's what, that's what happens. Um, so that is the breaking news. Nathaniel Hackett is no longer with the Denver Broncos. Um, I guess not shocked. I mean, this year went so poorly in a year where their expectations were so high.


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[Assistant] Maybe an unfair situation for a first year head coach going into this too. New ownership. They didn't even hire him. I mean, it was just a weird year. So what do you think? Nathaniel Hackett no longer in Denver.


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[Assistant] Is this a good job? Is this a good job for a head coach out there? Can they, can they lure?


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[Assistant] I mean, there's only so many head coach openings every year, but.


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[Assistant] You're supposed to have all the pieces in place here, but it certainly didn't look like that. Where does Denver go from here?


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[Assistant] Whatever you did before, just do that again. Uh, there's more to talk about with the Rams here. We're going to have to talk about that another day, I think, because I think at the end of the year, it's going to be some interesting things with Baker Mayfield. Like, is he part of this team? Cam Akers? Um, just real quick, Chris, you know,


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[Assistant] 20 seconds, you know, Ram's big win in this one. What did we learn that can go into next year for them maybe?


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[Assistant] Final look at the final game and we've gone long on this, uh, holiday. We've given you a present to the homies. We've gone a little longer on this holiday edition of, uh, Chris Sims unbuttoned the bed MGM parlay preview chargers at Colts chargers favored by three and a half. The over-under is 44 and a half.


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[Assistant] So you have the Chargers covering in a game that's just barely going under. 24-20, that was your pick on Thursday's pot. And I believe if the Chargers win, right, they clinch. They're in the postseason.


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[Assistant] Alright, so how do you see, how do you see this playing out?


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[Assistant] And with that, we have come to the finish line on this day after Christmas, Chris Sims on butt.


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[Assistant] It's just wood. It's a two by four. Chris, we're at an hour and 55, 58 minutes now. We gotta wrap it up. Enough about my background.


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[Assistant] I don't know, the internet doesn't agree with you. And to it, Mike McDaniel. That's what we'll start, but we'll get to that later.


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[Assistant] That section of the internet does not agree. Which can mean like really it seems like the whole world. It does seem like. It doesn't mean like. Well. Sections can make you think that they're overrunning the country at times. For sure.


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[Assistant] Certain team, certain, certain city might have hijacked the process a little bit, uh, but we'll get to that, man. What's up? You good? I'm good. Yeah? It's been a long time. It has been a long time. I know you miss me.


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[Assistant] That might be as long as I've ever seen your hair. It's as long as I've had maybe at NBC. Uhm, you know, it's over. It's over. The other haircut's done. What? I'm moving on to a new one. Whoa! Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna go, I don't know what exactly I'm moving on to. I'm just growing it out first. And I'm gonna get it cleaned up this weekend. Okay. I'm thinking of going like, classic 50s, like Mad Men.


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[Assistant] Like, that kind of haircut. Like, kind of just traditional, like, semi-little fade, parted, slicked a little bit, boom, and just being like,


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[Assistant] Classic that way. Would it be combed back?


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[Assistant] Or comb to the side. Maybe like an in-betweener. I think more to the side though, more, you know, with a slight move to the back, but just around there. Everybody's sick of it in my family.


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[Assistant] Everybody. My haircut. My past haircut. I just got sick of hearing it. But were you sick of it? No, not really. I kinda liked it. Then I saw a clip today of me, old self, and I was like, damn, that haircut looks good. Old self. Old self looked good.


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[Assistant] New self looks shaggy, my hair's green, you can see grey hairs popping out, cause I've been in the pool, that's why it's green. Yea, I got some greys there.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, this is what, but I'm so sick of like hearing my wife or my mom like, oh, you don't want to let it grow out? Oh, you got another haircut? So those two, my sister, everybody, so.


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[Assistant] Uuuh. Yeaah. I couldn't. That's when I had enough of my kids. Because the long hair is in style with these kids right now. It's like the 70s. That's right. And they grow it out and there's like no refining of it either. It's just like, we want to let it go everywhere. Yes. And like they like this hair in their face. Yep. I cannot f-


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[Assistant] It's the worst haircut ever, and I had to put an end to it.


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[Assistant] If you wanna play basketball, we gotta get a haircut tomorrow, we're not playing anymore. I'm not gonna watch you run up and down the court playing with your hair as you're dribbling.


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[Assistant] Like that's just not going on. So that ended that. And he goes, at that point, I got the whole family on board to tell dad his haircuts. He was already telling me that. He was like, you're too old to have that haircut. And he kept telling me, no other dads have your haircuts.


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[Assistant] You're always itching to work. You love working. I do like work, yes. It was good. It was a good break. But after a while, you maybe get used to the time off.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was, I was relaxing quite nicely. I need to get back to work though. Get back on schedule. I was doing way too much retox. You're healthier. I'm healthier when I work. Yes. Right. When I have too much spare time, I smoke and drink too much, which can be a bad thing.


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[Assistant] Audio, like I know people like audio and all that stuff too, but like, can't you just like YouTube it in audio too and then take a look down every now and then when we have, so that's what I would do. That's what I do. A lot of people do. I don't watch the whole thing, but they listen to it. I don't have to sit there and wait and listen to it. Oh wait, this is like, what are they talking about? Let me see this graphic, whatever.


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[Assistant] Yeah, let me see almonds, red pants, let me see his sweat, sweaty pits.


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[Assistant] Somewhat, you know, somewhat close to that. You know, probably won't be quite as waved up in the front that way. It won't be like your hair. I know that. I'm so gray. Am I usually that gray or is that just the light hitting it? Uh, no, you're gray. No, it's the light. You're not that gray. Sitting here right now, you're not as gray as it looks there in that picture.


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[Assistant] Definitely not. Did you sweat your ass off yesterday? I did. Yea, how could you not?


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[Assistant] It's been, it's been like four or five years. It's awesome. Toronto is one of the places I went that got me really jump started on my spleen.


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[Assistant] Correction. Right. That got me down. There was a doctor there that knew, you know, the physical body as good as anybody. Right. What are you laughing at?


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[Assistant] I know. He was the first guy that gave me answers to go, nothing in your core works. Wow. And that's when I was like, what? And he's like, yeah, he's like, look, and he, I had an ultrasound thing on as I was doing setups and he's like, look,


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[Assistant] Not any of your muscles. None of them are contracting. You're like pulling with your arms or pulling with your, you know, using your back muscles. He got me going the right direction. I went there a few times during that process. The beginning of your spleen correction. Exactly. Trying to figure out what the hell was going on. Great study though, to your point. It was awesome.


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[Assistant] We're always talking about this. I don't want to become like, Mr. List Whore Guy, okay? Like, every time there's Chris Sims, the list whore guy, every time there's one, he's gotta make a list of something. I don't want to necessarily always be that guy. Pete'll ask me, he'll go, what should we do? I'll go, just make Chris do a list. Hey, right, you're very good at throwing work on my plate, as we know. But then like,


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[Assistant] But I feel like there's some times where it's needed a little bit, you know? And, and like with Neil, hey yeaah, I did it a few years ago, it caused some issues. But I'm not even gonna say maybe I got some of those wrong or didn't, maybe one was as good as I would have even liked to a degree.


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[Assistant] Like, right now, receivers, there's a lot of good ones, we know that. And I think within the, in lieu of the Madden ratings that have come out lately, and I've seen some other people do wide receiver rankings, yeaah, I'd like to get involved in the conversation. I would. Uhm, because one, I think the Madden ratings are


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[Assistant] Borderline horrible. Uh, in a lot of positions. Sorry, Madden. I don't know. I don't have to say sorry to him. R.I.P. to Mr. Madden. Yes. But something went wrong there. But yea, I think it's a good conversation. We got a lot of guys to talk about.


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[Assistant] It was July, it was July. There we go, okay.


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[Assistant] That was my top 10. In a lot of ways, you know, I sit here and look at it now and go, I don't, I don't really have a lot of issues with it there. What we're all saying is where I know that we're...


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[Assistant] You know, Davante Adams should have been in my top ten. There's no doubt about that. And that was the big stink at the time. That was the big stink at the time. I understand that. And he should have been. I was wrong.


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[Assistant] I might have played the potential of Cortland Sutton a little bit too much and he's a talented guy. I don't want people to not think that. You know, Amari Cooper was pretty damn good at that time. People gotta remember. I think though the ones that I look at to go is Devontae Adams, the neglection there. I was wrong. He should have been in the top 10. I don't believe he should have been in my top five.


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[Assistant] Going away from that. But then, the other one I think that's probably, you know, I went on a little bit of...


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[Assistant] A projection where the guy had been in his career came off from an injury season was AJ Green.


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[Assistant] AJ Green, probably the other guy that should not have been on there that year. So, those two were the ones that were glaring to me when I looked back at it. Uh, the rest of the list, I don't necessarily have that much of a problem with actually. I'm surprised to see Michael Thomas was number three on your list back then. Yeah, well, I mean, this has become the other thing too here. Michael Thomas is really good, again.


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[Assistant] But like, when did we get into this, whoever has the most catches is the best receiver in football? Because I don't remember anybody saying that about Wes Welker when he was catching the most balls in football for three and four years in a row. Nobody was going, he's the best. But now, because of fantasy and where it is, whoever has the most receptions is the best receiver. Bullshit. Like bull.


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[Assistant] That doesn't mean anything. I'm sorry. There's a lot of things that go into catches and stats can be padded that way. And that's where, you know, I don't agree with that necessarily. Um, so that's where, I don't know. We'll see. I made a top five list. I'm going to give you a bunch of number other names that I think are on the outside looking in.


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[Assistant] And that's where I'm maybe a little different, you know, than others, uh, that view the wide receiver position, and I'll get into that a little bit as we talk about it as we go here.


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[Assistant] Ha ha ha, yea. But, but, but, but, hey, it's, catches are good, we know that, yes, you know, yards, certainly.


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[Assistant] Uh, what you do with the ball in your hands, you know, what you do and how many receptions you make, you know, when you're covered, how you get open, all of those things, the importance to your offense, the fear you put in defense. I think all that has to be played out.


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[Assistant] You know, again, there's some receivers here that are not going to be in my top five where I'd go like, but like people are not valuing them the right way. Like to where I want to go, listen, you're, you're just, you're, you're looking at it and just looking at numbers and going, that's it. And I want to go some of these guys and I want, I don't want to give it up right now, but I want to just go.


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[Assistant] If you put them with a good quarterback, and they've been with nothing good, or average, or bad offenses, and they've still had good stats, it's just gonna blow up. Like, it's where I wanna go like...


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[Assistant] You know, like, let's just, who, who do I want to take for instance? Like Terry McLaurin. You don't think Terry McLaurin's stats would have been a little bit better if he played in Green Bay with Aaron Rodgers in that company?


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[Assistant] Like really? And do you not think Devonte Adams would have been a little less if he was in Washington with Fitzpatrick and Heinecke and all these other guys? I mean come on. That's where I just like, people are like lose sight of that stuff at times where I just don't understand it. So that's why we'll have a little talk here and uh, this should be a fun exercise. I mean it is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, right, you're just not going to make it work to where you can go, oh, I'm going to lead the league in all category stats wise. Like, no, yeah, you're right. You can't control that. You can't control who's calling the plays. You can't control your quarterback. Pass protection plays into this as well. You know, yeah, so.


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[Assistant] You know, again, there's a lot of things that go into that, and I think that's, uh, why we, we, this will be a good talk. It will. And, you know, again, as in beauty in the eye of the beholder, yeaah, there's, there's, you know, I, I legitimately think


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[Assistant] There's 20 top 10 receivers in football. I do think, and I say that jokingly because we've had fun with that in the past, but I do think we could get to a really awesome offensive coordinator in the NFL and a guy that you and me sit here and go, ah, I think he's about 14 or 15. That offensive coordinator might go, well, for me he's like eight or nine.


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[Assistant] And I understand that, it's a lot of talent at the position, there's no doubt. But for me, I do think...


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[Assistant] This is the top 5. Maybe there should have been a 6 that is in there, and I'll get into his name and what that, but I feel pretty damn good about my top 5 for sure.


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[Assistant] Love route runners, people who could do exactly, be precise. Coach taught it this way. He does it exactly that way. He never messes up according to the coverage and the little nuances of the routes. I love those guys. Don't get me wrong.


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[Assistant] Right? But yea, I err on, I'd rather have the physical freak who is maybe not as good running the...


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[Assistant] Post corner or the slant return route for four yards as I would, I just go, I'd rather have the, I could just throw the ball 50 yards and he catches it.


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[Assistant] Okay, the slant return route was cool, but I can promise you the defense is much more scared of the other guy on the other side of the field that's running by people for huge gains rather than the guy that, you know, got four receptions on four slant returns for seven yards apiece, right? So I erred on that guy. Here's a perfect, I mean, I had Brandon Marshall, right? So Brandon Marshall is certainly one guy that comes to just freak show.


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[Assistant] Oh, and what he can do after the catch, right? And all that. And then his route running was really good. That's where people don't realize. I mean, he was special. But here's another example I'll give you. I'm in Tampa. And this is no disrespect to anybody. This is ultimate respect. Keenan McCardell had him there, right?


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[Assistant] Awesome. Keenan McCardle is that guy. Precise route runner. Perfect route runner. Can catch 105 balls a year. Do everything John Gruden said. Any offensive coordinator who'll read the right coverage. All of that. That's really cool. That's awesome. I want him in my offense.


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[Assistant] But I don't want them in my offense more than I want Joey Galloway, who won't run all those routes exactly right. But man, if you press him man to man, it's over. It's, it's over.


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[Assistant] He's going to run by you or you're going to be so scared he's going to run by you that I'm going to throw him a slant, but you're going to still be running the go route and he's going to be going that way. So yeah, I'll trade off some of the things that Keenan McCardell was so precise with the route running.


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[Assistant] For the guy that, yea, was a little lesser in those departments, but brought, like,


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[Assistant] Open the field, explosion to our offense, made the defense play defenses they don't want to play, that didn't necessarily end up being great for his stat sheet, and got other people the ball.


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[Assistant] But that doesn't mean he wasn't as effective that day. And that's where I think people miss it sometimes. And to me, yes, again, love Keena McCardell, no disrespect. Yes, but a Joey Galloway type was more my guy.


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[Assistant] Exactly, right, right. Well, I mean, alright, so we're talking about receiver here, you know, and sometimes people go like, well, receiver, like, what are we talking about? Well, I don't know. Receivers this day and age are asked to


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[Assistant] Run reverses, speed sweeps, toss sweeps, get yards on screens. Yes, run go routes. We know that. You know, yes, all the intricate routes. We just talked about slant returns and all the double movements and all that stuff. Yeah, but that's, that's all of it. Like, so I don't like when people go, well.


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[Assistant] Cause I'd rather have the guy I can give the reverse to, to run for 60 yards over the guy again, who's going to run the most precise seven yard route ever. I don't care. I'll trade the explosive nature and the playmaking ability of the other guy and some of the unrefined, maybe route running for the, you know, I'll take that guy over the perfect route runner type guy.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, I'm just, well I'm going into the year, and you know, again, just like the quarterbacks, it's a little bit like, hey, you know, growth, it's year one into year two, to play all that into it. So number five for me is going to be Cooper Cup, right off the bat.


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[Assistant] Yes, Cooper Cup is phenomenal, right? He's definitely a top five receiver in football. He gets disrespected in a lot of ways. People will probably think I'm disrespecting him by making him number five.


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[Assistant] He's not number one or number two or number three for me. No, he's not.


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[Assistant] Really, in the conversation for maybe the most complete receiver, as far as there's no weakness to his football game, there's none. There's no one area you can look at and go, oh wow, he doesn't do that well. He's bigger than you think. He's bigger than you think, exactly right. So 50-50 balls, back shoulder balls, catching the ball over the middle in traffic, it's all really good.


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[Assistant] The route running is up there of the Devonte Adams level type route running. It's every bit as good as that.


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[Assistant] Alright, so he's special with all that type of stuff. He's smart as hell. We know his hands are phenomenal. And then to me, what puts him in the top five over some other guys that, you know, maybe have a little more physical ability or, you know, pure and physical ability.


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[Assistant] This guy has all the other stuff we talked about, and maybe I'm not phrasing this quite the right way, as Cooper Cup has more physical ability than he's given credit for. That's the one thing again that just constantly, like going back and watching him


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[Assistant] 10 days ago. And then even as you came into the office, I said, Hey, I'm just sitting here watching some highlights and writing a few other notes down, just things like that.


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[Assistant] The physical ability is real. I mean, I, you know, again, this is not just some, you know, white system wide receiver where we have to devise seven formations and, and crisscross receivers to get my guy open for a six yard gain. No.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's a big moment in the Super Bowl. It's a fourth down. Reverse to Cooper Cup. Oh, it's a big moment against the Bucs.


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[Assistant] Go deep on a post route and beat everybody with your speed for a huge gain. Oh, it's a big moment against the 49ers. Throw him a screen and he'll break tackles and run upfield and get 15 or 20 yards. So it's not like he's just a refined receiver. He does not get enough, uh, credit in my, in my,


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[Assistant] You know, opinion for the pure physical raw ability and the size, like you're talking about, that's really a skill. Yea, what is the size? Do we know the exact, uh, I'm gonna say 6'2 and change. It might be 6'3. It might even be 6'3. If Pete, you want me to look it up or you want to look it up?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a big 6'2", too, like to where, you know, it's broad shoulders, it's long arms, it's pretty thick legs and butt, like it's not just like, yeah, it's not some jitterbug, and, you know, he's not just some skinny, skinny guy, I mean, it's real, it really is, and, and, and, you know,


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[Assistant] Just like Matthew Stafford a little bit, but vice versa here.


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[Assistant] He needed a quarterback to kind of show all the things he can do. You know, again, Sean McVeigh and company can only dial up so many four yard flat routes for Cooper Cup and the Jared Goff offense. So now he gets to show the whole, you know, variety of route running ability that he has with him. And I think he showed his ass last year and showed you how damn good he is.


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[Assistant] Justin Jefferson, alright. Minnesota Vikings. Jefferson in a lot of ways.


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[Assistant] A lot like Cooper Cup. It's a complete wide receiver. It really is. Row running is special. Again, just like Cooper Cup. It's up there in the Devonte Adams that, that, you know, these guys are special that way.


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[Assistant] But to me where, like, Justin Jefferson separates himself is, you know, Jefferson, you can put him on the outside and people play him one on one and he will run by you.


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[Assistant] That to me is, you know, that's special. That is. So, one, you put him out there, he can run by you for, for a big game. He's phenomenal 50-50 back shoulders. I mean, he's in the conversation for as good as anybody in football.