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[Assistant] So them, a team like that, maybe even the Bills at the end of the round. Like, you know, I don't know. I'm just, that's the thought of at least the team I have. I don't think a team that's like, we need a lot of pieces and we're picking number eight and we're going to go with the running back. I don't see that happening.


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[Assistant] Definitely. They could use some defense alignment and people on their front side. A whole lot of defense. Alright, last thing before we go. Pass rushers, anybody else that


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[Assistant] You know, his first round quality, listen, we know about Will Anderson, you hit on him, we know Tyree Wilson, you know, another Clemson kid, Miles Murphy, you know, all in, who's, who's another guy or two where you go, they're going to sneak into the first round or their first round, there's not the detackle from Pitt, I know he's going there, but just somebody we're not talking about or maybe we're missing here.


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[Assistant] Yahya Diaby from Louisville, right? The body and the frame and the numbers just pop to me, okay? The ten yard is like an alien. It's an alien. Right. Derek Hall from Auburn. Yeah. Alright. Um, DJ Johnson, Oregon.


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[Assistant] Byron Young, Tennessee. I don't even know where these guys are in totality. But gimme, who's the best of that group right there? That's a good one.


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[Assistant] Yeah, definitely. Those guys all look like they have potential. I'm interested to see pass rushers, outside land backers in 3-4, but the unique, unique builds and what they did in the workout was pretty impressive. I love this.


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[Assistant] I don't think he's going to be the first choice of the draft. He's too raw. Uh, he has a lot of, you know, talent or explosive first pick type talent, but you're not, I don't think it's on the field yet there. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Will Anderson maybe, you know, the Jalen Carter thing. I still, again, it's a misdemeanor. We'll see where this goes. I still wouldn't put that out of this, you know, the stretch of the imagination. Tyree Wilson.


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[Assistant] Those are other ones that could creep into this. I just feel like after the weekend went by, and again, I have no inside info or anything.


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[Assistant] But I just feel like it's less likely that Bryce Young will be the first pick of the draft. That's just the way I feel. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying Bryce Young deserves that or anything. I'm just saying by the feel, by what I saw there, by what I saw from the other quarterbacks, I'll be interested to see what happens.


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[Assistant] No, I think one separated themselves as far as the workout portion. Still questions though. And then the other one, yeah, and he's got questions about the throwing and on quarterbacking. Yeah. And then CJ Stroud.


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[Assistant] You know, he won the quarterback portion of the combine. He won it, at least in my opinion, and there is a lot of good to see on film with


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[Assistant] What Connor explains, some potential to grow in some areas that you go, wait, I've seen him do this. He just got to get better at it. Uh, so that'll be interesting. It will be throughout here. I think this is going to be one of the more interesting years ever for first quarterback, first pick of the draft and us having no


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[Assistant] So say you bet on CJ Stroud to be the number one pick. If you win, you will get $400, Ahmed, but if you lose, you will still get $100 worth of


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[Assistant] But we'll be here. You know where to find us. We're going to continue the draft.


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[Assistant] Continue to research certain guides and prices I'm hearing and that's part of my life too. So everybody, subscribe, rate, review. You know where to find us. Connor, you the man. Thanks so much. Welcome to the squad. It's great to be here. You the man. Thanks for driving the ship. Everybody, peace out. We'll see you Wednesday. Clap it off.


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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] Touch me like that, and I don't think in my life. So it's, it's probably number one.


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[Assistant] Just something I was going around my team and saying, God's real. Like, you can't, you can't draw that one up, write that one up any better. Uhm, and I was just told by Kevin Curran, it's been three years and three months.


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[Assistant] It's been the last kickoff return, so it's pretty cool.


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[Assistant] Is that J.J. Watt up there? No, he's not actually J.J. Watt. It's Chris Sims.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they go, you do that podcast with JJ Watt, and they go, no it's not, it's Chris Simms, and they go, who?


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[Assistant] It's again, it's, it's well proportioned. Like is it one of those where the shirt, like the stomach area could be like a medium or a large, but the arms have to be, have to be.


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[Assistant] I saw something pop up on TikTok last night. It was a game. I was like, I forget what it was early 2000s when the NFL had one of the tiebreakers was points four. And it was the last week of the season in Carolina and green Bay. We're trying to get the final playoff spot. And so they were not playing each other.


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[Assistant] And in the games, they were happening at the same time. So they're trying to score. They were trying to score as much. So they both won their games like 40 something to 10. Right. But they had to watch the score of the other.


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[Assistant] That's why the league's awesome. So those people that say you can't change anything, well, you just tell them about that game and what is the NFL has done. But I think we've arrived at a good place. These will be intriguing games. Let's start with Seattle and San Francisco, even though we have seen it twice before. And in both those games, even though it's been a great year for Seattle.


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[Assistant] The 49ers won. First time was, uh, week two.


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[Assistant] It was when Trey Lance got hurt early in the game. Jimmy Garoppolo comes in, we go, Oh, they're still going to be good. 27 to seven. And then just a Thursday night on week 15, San Francisco goes into Seattle with Brock Purdy. Doesn't matter who their quarterback is. I guess all three have played against Seattle. Also they'll get Brock Purdy again here.


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[Assistant] Let's start with the Seattle offensive side. Let's start with that because I think that is where maybe this game hinges. Can they beat that 49ers defense? You looked at the tape from week 15.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it seems like the longest completion, uh, was, is that week two on the left side there, Pete? It was, uh, yeah, it's around 30 yards. Week two's on the left, week 15's on the right. Yeah, week 15 on the right. Yeah, he doesn't, he basically has none, yeah, none, no, no even incompletions. No, the only


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[Assistant] It's interesting though, because they have done that against other teams. You just say the pass rush from the 49ers has spooked them to such a degree that they have gotten away from what they do, because in the two games versus San Francisco, we just saw it there. 20 yards downfield, they got one pass. That's not who they are, to your point. In the 15 other games, Gino has 14 passing touchdowns leading the NFL. I know.


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[Assistant] Two stats in a lie, so we'll see if you can get, how good is Gino Benz?


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[Assistant] Was bottom three in yards after catch per completion this year in the NFL.


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[Assistant] No, you're right. Absolutely right. Congratulations. The one that was false was he actually has been hit the fourth most times. I thought so.


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[Assistant] But he's not helped out by yards after the catch. Per completion, the only two quarterbacks who are helped out less than him, Josh Allen and Kenny Pickett.


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[Assistant] Can they slow down the 49ers? That's going to be the question because they haven't been able to do that. George Kittle ran free last time, although the 49ers did only score just 21 points. When you take a look at that side of the ball, the 49ers offense seems to be running the ball as well as they have all season long. Can Seattle slow them down?


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[Assistant] Uh, so, yeah, some things for Seattle, but not all negative there. And who knows, maybe it'll be a sloppy game too. We have a weatherman. Is that right? Dean Kowalski. I don't know if he's a weatherman or not, but he's tweeting in to us. What effect do you think that the pouring rain will have on the 49ers and Seahawks game? Gonna be a very wet and sloppy one.


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[Assistant] So who will be the receiving, uh, leader on Saturday? Who's going to be the featured receiver? Bet MGM gives us the odds for receiving yards, the props here.


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[Assistant] And the two Seattle guys are out front. You got DK Metcalf there, 62 and a half. Tyler Lockett, 59 and a half. Then you got your San Francisco guys. Uh, Debo Samuel is back. Are we, are we sure about that?


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[Assistant] I might go the over 42 and a half for Deebo Samuel. Yeaah. Well, George Kittle too 42 and a half.


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[Assistant] Curious here, you know, you're giving Seattle some blueprint here and you were, you were heavy on...


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[Assistant] Think of the 49ers as that 10-point spread that they had that they could cover that pretty easily. Maybe you still feel that way, but, uh, as we transition to our next game- There's some scary aspects to your point. We're not quite done with this game yet, though, so you still have more you can say about it. One more thing? You're one more thing in me? Our one more thing has to do with the Big Butt Awards of the week. Oh, yeaah.


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[Assistant] Our buttting superstar at the edge position for the final week of the regular season was a Seattle Seahawk, Uchenna Nuoso.


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[Assistant] Uh, nine pressures led, uh, the NFL from the edge position this week. Had half a sack, four quarterback hits, had five hurries, even had a batted ball in the game out there. Nuosu, you got your first Big Butt of the Week award. He's their best edge football player.


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[Assistant] Many games that you've seen. Nothing easy for the Rams out there. Defensive tackle. We're going to give that one to an Indianapolis Colt for the first time. DeForest Bucknett. He's got to get a big butt of the week award. He had three quarterback hits in this, uh,


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[Assistant] One of the best games of the year against the Houston, Texas. Uh, that was tied for the most, uh, among defensive tackles this week. Eight pressures, uh, DeForest Buckner. I think he deserves, he deserves one because they made that trade. Chris Ballard, first round pick. He has lived up to everything that they could have hoped for.


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[Assistant] Someone I'd given it to before. Oh, you did? I forget exactly who it was this week.


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[Assistant] We promised more butts. We couldn't find butts for these guys. Damn. That's right. I thought we were going to start that. I thought we were going to only show butt pictures and then Omin had to figure it out from there. Well, we need to tell someone in NFL media to go around just taking butt shots.


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[Assistant] Exactly. You got the gist. You got the gist. It's never gonna happen. Uh, you know, uh, Dexter Lawrence. Chris Jones led the weekend pressures, by the way. There you go. There you go. You got it. Chris Jones. I could have given it to him, but I gave it to him in week 16, which was his second


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[Assistant] He's one of only two players ever to win the Big Butt of the Week award twice. The other was Dexter Lawrence of your New York Giants. Yep. Take on the Vikings. First team all pros right there. In Minnesota. So we've seen this game before, week 16.


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[Assistant] Uh, Giants had the lead late, but the Vikings did come back, squeaked it out because they're very good in those one possession games.


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[Assistant] Uh, Raul del Toro 15. Let's let you kick one off here, Raul. What can the Giants do differently? Scheme-wise, to pull off the upset.


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[Assistant] Staying on the offensive side here for the, for the Giants. Saquon Barkley broke a couple big ones, had that touchdown, 84 yards rushing. That's what I'm talking about. It was, it was easy at times, right? Yup. Yeah.


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[Assistant] That's the idea. That's the idea is that, uh, the Minnesota Vikings are so bad defensively, but their offense is so good that usually they can outscore the other team, outgain the other team. They did not outgain the New York Giants in this game. Total yardage at the end of this one, 445 yards for the Giants. The Vikings had 353. So, did the Giants make it difficult on them? They did.


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[Assistant] Do the Giants need to do better against Justin Jefferson and TJ Hawkinson? 133 yards for Jefferson in the game, 12 catches, Hawkinson 13 catches, 109 yards. I mean, they got all that and they still only won by three, needed a 61 yard field goal at the end to win it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, as you mentioned, both teams got a little pass happy. They definitely did. Daniel Jones threw it 42 times. Kirk causes through 48 times. I think we have the graphic on the play distribution for the Vikings. They threw the ball or they called pass plays 52 times, just 19 runs. They won't stay patient with the run. I don't know why.


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[Assistant] We do have a game for this next segment too. It's called Give Me The Headlines Presented by Hyundai. We normally do this segment, thanks to Hyundai, on Mondays where you give the headline of a game that already happened.


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[Assistant] We're gonna do it a little differently this time. You're gonna lay out how you think this game's gonna go, the strengths and weaknesses of the Dallas Cowboys and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and then I'm gonna predict what the headline will be.


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[Assistant] I was like, oh yeah, that would have been so much better. Duh. That's why we gotta farm this stuff out to the homies. Gosh, that was, that would have been awesome. The hive mind of the homies can come up with these headlines better than us. But I will try, after we get through this, when the Cowboys played


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[Assistant] Uh, the Buccaneers one time, it was week one. Seems like a, like a eternity. It was like a lifetime ago. It was not even this season, but it was this season. Yeah. Week one, it was our first Sunday night game. It's a hard one.


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[Assistant] To break down or look at a ton of relevance as far as between, you know, now and then a little bit.


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[Assistant] Uh, okay, let's do that. No matter if that's what we were saying or not, let's do that. Because yeaah, they scored three points in this game. A lot has changed since then. Uh, but what specifically has changed? What will be different than in that game?


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[Assistant] We saw the Dallas Cowboys just be bad on offense this past week. I know. I mean like, what's your gut tell you about the Cowboys right now?


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[Assistant] Other side of the ball, Tampa was able to run very effectively. Yes, they were. I think it was like 130 yards maybe for Leonard Fournette. Right. Best game of the year.


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[Assistant] Dallas, that defense, you say the Dallas defense got some issues too, but can they be successful the Bucs without running the football?


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[Assistant] Alright, so we'll do two stats in a lie about the run game for both these teams. We'll incorporate both the Cowboys and the Buccaneers. You're ready? You're one for one today. You've only ever gotten one wrong, so this is great. Uh, you ready? Yes. You focused? Yes. Okay. Ezekiel Elliott averaged more yards after contact than Tony Pollard.


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[Assistant] Ezekiel Elliott had more rushing first downs than Tony Pollard.


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[Assistant] Okay. So you're working towards the solution here. Leonard Fournette was a third from the bottom in rushing yards before a contact, so he was hit pretty immediately. Cam Akers and Kareem Hunt are in that crew as well. Bottom of the NFL, not easy for him. Man, the next ones are hard here.


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[Assistant] Uh, he was ahead of guys like Khalil Herbert, Josh Jacobs, Derek Henry, Nick Chubb, Tony Pollard, number one in the NFL, 2.6 yards after contact.


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[Assistant] Uh, this is about Dak, it's David Dave, 87. David Dave. I think it's the first time David Dave has ever tweeted you.


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[Assistant] Out of all the quarterbacks, does Dak have the most pressure to deliver a victory for his team?


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[Assistant] This is what I think actually could happen. I think the Dallas Cowboys go into Tampa, I think they get a win, I think they beat Brady, and I think the headline in Tampa is Brady's farewell question mark. I think it all starts the speculation of Brady


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[Assistant] Is he gone? Is he going to retire? Is he going to go to another team? What's going to happen here with the, it all starts after this weekend's game. Yeah. Okay. I like that. That's good. In Dallas is going to be Dak


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[Assistant] We end at what? He's gonna be dead. Yeah, I'm sure they'll be happy with that. So we got three more games here, not quite as much on these ones here as we've, uh, we've delved into the first three games deeply, which is what we do on this podcast, right?


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[Assistant] You don't dive in the shallow end. Exactly. No stone left unturned. So we go to our next game. This is a game that you will see on NBC. Chris will be talking before the game and in the middle of the game and then after the game. Are you doing a post game show? No, no more post game show.


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[Assistant] So watch them before the game. That's it. It is the Chargers in Jacksonville in Florida. It's the 5-4 matchup. We saw this game way back in week three.


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[Assistant] A lot has changed since then. Jacksonville won that game though 38 to 10, probably one of the more impressive games this year for Jacksonville. But if you remember, Justin Herbert was dealing with some rib deal and I don't think he was completely healthy. Although he did play in the game. Um, I don't know. Can we take anything away from that game?


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[Assistant] So I'm reading your notes from back then because you looked at the film. Uh, you go, when they have Evan Ingram, they have Marvin Jones, they have Christian Kirk, and they have Zay Jones on the field. Wow. Pretty tough to match up with. It is. They're tough to match up with.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you noted that in week three. You go, they play the Chargers D not to give up the big play. Right. Which was no problem for the Jags. Right. They were able to pick that apart. They picked it apart. Exactly right. It was really the first time we saw Trevor Lawrence have one, a game like that. Right. And then you praised him, I remember.


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[Assistant] Let's just flash the stats up there because it shows that Jacksonville ran for 151 yards in that game where the Chargers just ran for 26. It was basically on the arm of Justin Herbert on the ribs of him.


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[Assistant] Oh, it doesn't seem like a good idea, especially with him being all, all banged up. So the time of possession, I mean, Jacksonville dominated this game 38 minutes to 21. What do you think is going to be different from the charger side of the ball offensively in this game? Can they, they do more than score 10 points?


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[Assistant] That was our favorite over the Miami Dolphins, it's the 2-7 matchup, and...


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[Assistant] Line is probably increased a little bit because we did learn that there will be no two in this game for the Miami Dolphins.


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[Assistant] Uh, he has been ruled out. They are preparing for Schuyler Thompson. So no Teddy Bridgewater either for the Dolphins. The line has moved as Pete has put it here immediately. The line has moved from Buffalo favored by nine and a half to Buffalo favored by 13. So almost two touchdowns.


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[Assistant] Ari Levin asked the million dollar question for the Miami Dolphins, who lost twice to the Bills.


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[Assistant] Uh, he says, why does this Dolphins offense, which you've said has players running wide open all over the field in every play, not work at all whenever Tua is injured? Right. Cause Tua is an elite quarterback.


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[Assistant] So you think even if Tool was there, they would have a harder time? We've seen it.


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[Assistant] You said earlier that the, the Bills won twice. Actually, they did not. They split the season series. Yes.


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[Assistant] Week 3 win, I believe it was, Miami winning. Week 2, yea, week 3. That's right. 21-19 was the final score there, although in a game that you noted, the Bills made some mistakes, they dropped to pick 6, Milano in that game. But there still are, I mean, there are concerns here for, for Buffalo, maybe not as much.


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[Assistant] With this game and Skyler Thompson, but as we move through the playoffs and hoop stuff asks you this, I know there's a specific energy.


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[Assistant] Well, probably won't be talking about it as much with Skylar Thompson. Although who knows, you know, you mentioned a couple of ways that Miami could exploit that, but we will be talking about it again. If they're playing the chiefs or if they're playing your guy, Joe burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals, the last game on super wild card weekend as.


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[Assistant] As equipment's being moved all around here in Central Park. Gotta fight through the crowd noise. We're in the middle of a work zone right here. And you can see some plywood coming through right now if you're watching on Peacock or YouTube. It's an exciting time to be in the building once again.


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[Assistant] They've blocked us out at this point. Hopefully you have not because we have one more game to talk about it is Bengals. It is Ravens, a rematch of a game we just saw in week 18. You'll see it again on NBC.


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[Assistant] Played twice, played on Sunday night football earlier in this year, week five. It was a good game at the end where Joe burrow, uh, came back, got Cincinnati in the end zone, but then, uh, along Tucker field goal, won it for the Ravens.


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[Assistant] Obviously Lamar, not in this game. Is that official yet? Have they officially said that or? It's not looking good. Yeah. And just from what I know... No one knows where he is. They go, John, is he gonna play? We're like, we don't think so. We can't find him right now. We haven't talked to him in months. It's crazy.


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[Assistant] Alright, so I guess maybe one positive aspect of the game, the loss to the Bengals last week, is that second half, Bengals didn't do much. And you said on the pod Monday, you're like, okay, I want to figure out exactly what happened there. Did they take that foot off the gas? Was there anything the Ravens did? Were both teams kind of being coy? Cause they knew they were going to face each other the next week. So you did. What, what, what'd you see?


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[Assistant] Yeah, so in your notes there, I mean, cause you've been complimenting how they have been progressing at protecting Joe Burrow. And he does a good job of being able to be slippery and move around to the pocket. And so that makes it even easier for them. But you noted a couple of concerns. Hakeem was one of them, right? Definitely.


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[Assistant] Yeah, cause I think we have the numbers is just three first downs in the second half, 12 in the first half.


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[Assistant] Lamar reports that he is facing a quote uphill battle to play this week. See, there you go. If that was Aaron Rodgers, I'd be like, he's playing. He wants to set the narrative, right? I was even playing out there, but you're right.


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[Assistant] Question for you, who is going to have the most passing yards in wild card weekend? Bet MGM gives us the passing props here.


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[Assistant] The over-unders, so they have the highest over-under, 281 yards, Justin Herbert. They think he will have the most passing yards, at least that is what the betting line is set at. Joe Burroughs next, and then you got Tom Brady, Kirk Cousins. At the bottom of the list, Brock Purdy and Geno Smith.


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[Assistant] A low passing offense game in San Francisco they're calling.


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[Assistant] I'm seeing all these numbers and it's not making sense in my head. Well yea, where are you leaning with this one here? Like what are we trying to do here? Just see, like who's gonna have the most? Let's just do that. Cut and dry. Who would you bet on having the most passing yards?


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[Assistant] Yeah, it could be garbage time as Pete's noting here, maybe some games that get out of hand, you gotta throw, get back in the game. Could be the Bucs, if Dallas can hit some big plays.


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[Assistant] No, Trevor Lawrence had 260 last time they played. I know.


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[Assistant] Let's check in with the homies. Check it in. What up homies? How they do? We have, we have more answers to who is in the, we have all the answers now to who's in the playoffs, but we have all the answers as well to how many of you out there picked correctly. So, AFC North was decided.


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[Assistant] The Bengals won the division. Just 37% of the people. I guess the Ravens were the favorite. Yup. 60% including you picked them to win the division. I did. I was among those that picked the Bengals to win the division. So congratulations to me. I did well in the AFC. Congrats. Congrats. NFC did not do well. Uh, 3% picked the Steelers.


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[Assistant] 11% had them in the playoffs. Almost. Almost, that's right. Never count out Mike Tomlin. AFC South winner, 3% of you out there, listen to Chris on day one of the preseason and pick the Jaguars.


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[Assistant] I didn't even listen to Chris, so good job listening to me. I didn't listen to Chris. Well, that's not rare, no. 29% picked the Titans, including you. 46% had them in the playoffs, so who else? I had the Colts. Damn, the Colts really dominated this one.


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[Assistant] I mean, they were close. There was a game away and a Carson Wentz bad game away. Yeah, no, I totally understand the thought. I do. Dolphins 31% of the homies had them in the playoffs, including


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[Assistant] You and me? Yea. Way to go. I'm like you, I did good in the AFC too, the NFC is not my best. Patriots, 11% of you had them in the playoffs, so that was lower than I would have thought. Yea. They were a playoff team last year, you may be believing Bill Belichick, Matt Jones get a little bit better, but.


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[Assistant] Only 11% of you had the Patriots going in. NFC side of it, 83% picked the Eagles.


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[Assistant] 94% had them in the playoffs. Congratulations. 14% picked the Cowboys to win the division and just half had them in the playoffs. Right. I did not have the Cowboys in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] This is the rarest of rare, the Seahawks, just five homies picked them to the playoffs. That's amazing. That they deserve.


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[Assistant] It's when my wife Kathleen can get around to it, get the t-shirts in stock. We do want to give special shoutouts to five other homies.


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[Assistant] Because no one predicted all eight division winners, but seven of you out there.


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[Assistant] David Grunmeier, Emma Zupko, and Tyler Senko correctly predicted seven of the eight division winners. I'm going to clap it up. Clap it up for those five homies.


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[Assistant] Derrick Jasper nailed all seven AFC playoff teams. Bam. Congratulations, Derrick. Jasper, did I say David or Derrick? No, I think you said Derrick. You were good. I'm losing it here. Can't read. David Mazzini correctly predicted the two most unlikely wild cards, the Giants and Seahawks. Wow. That's impressive. Going off the board probably.


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[Assistant] You missed out on all the rest of them. Yea, right. I'm just going crazy. But he can live with that one. I'll get my name read. I'll get two of these right. Uh, and 214 homies.


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[Assistant] 26% have their final four teams still alive, including you, Chris. That's right. You could have the championship games correct.


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[Assistant] It's looking great. With the Chiefs beating them. They're probably the favorites, right? I mean, they're the 1-2 Seeds.


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[Assistant] Just 4% of you out there had my Lions in the playoffs, including Pete. Pete had faith in my Detroit Lions more than I did. Wow. Uh, which was unfounded. They were not a playoff team, Pete, so very wrong, very wrong. Yeah, they were very bad.


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[Assistant] Uh, the Packers, 96% of all of us. This had to be the biggest miss. Definitely. Right? Had them in the playoffs. I had them in the final eight, I'm sure. All wrong. Well, I had them in the Super Bowl. I had them in the Super Bowl. 6% of you out there, I'm sorry, had the Packers winning the Super Bowl. I am sad to report that will not be happening.


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[Assistant] We will post, I'm actually happy to report, Pete's right, I'm actually happy to report that. We will post all these stats on Twitter.


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[Assistant] I did not, I did not plagiarize. I did not use, uh, AI chat bot or anything or any of the homies out there, although the homies, uh, you can continue to submit cause we will do this throughout the playoffs when teams are eliminated. We just, we send them off in Requiem style. So let's start with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Kristen, do we have the, uh, the music here? Okay. Pittsburgh Steelers.


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[Assistant] It's a team that could not fill a stat sheet. Their offense and defense rendered obsolete, but I'm so thankful that we did not make a bet. Praise Jesus. You do not have to kiss my feet. Thank God.


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[Assistant] Sigh of relief. Damn. Alright, time for the Green Bay Packers, who I'm happy to say they're not in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] It's a team that was not as dangerous through the air. With Aaron Rodgers, that is quite rare. Now, I would not be surprised if the man who's immunized was advised to take his ayahuasca elsewhere.


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[Assistant] For a head coach with a military fixation. They need a stronger militia.


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[Assistant] That's a negative, but yeaah, there's a lot better than the Bears. Yep. Bears fans at home being like, we already went through our Requiem. Come on. Alright, one more. The Tennessee Titans. How surprising is this? I'm shocked, yeaah. One seed last year? Mhm.


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[Assistant] Uh, people who said they weren't the one seed last year now go, see? See what I mean? See what happened next year? The season just didn't feel right. They never really put up a fight. But we all feared it started to get weird when Vrabel cricked his neck on draft night. That was it.


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[Assistant] Don't do AJ Brown. AJ Brown. Do we have any receivers over here? Oh my gosh, that's good. That's it. We will continue it through the playoffs. Yeaah. As these teams are eliminated, three teams will be eliminated this weekend. Yes they will. Wild cards is six. It's super wild card.


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[Assistant] People are going to forget that, I mean, that rookie year for Trevor was a struggle. It was a struggle. Obviously, Urban Meyer there, and there are other reasons, but some of the things that you saw, yeah, manifested themselves in the first year. He corrected. Credit to him, totally. He has corrected it. Upward trajectory. That's right.


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[Assistant] See what I got to deal with here? This guy doesn't even want to talk on a talking podcast. He just wants to wrap it up and go on with life. I mean, geez, I don't know. I wanted to wax poetically. That is his unbelievable set there. His wood decorated with lights around it.


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[Assistant] Uh, phenomenal. This is Chris Imsum-Button. Ahmed Farid is here. We are together. This is not a Zoom session. We have...


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[Assistant] Our girl Morgan here today. She's got a ring on it.


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[Assistant] Let's clap it up. Congratulations, Morgan. I mean, we wouldn't be relevant on social media if it wasn't for our girl Morgan. And now she made her soon to be future husband relevant in the world. He's got something good and positive to talk about. So yeah, we clapped it up for Morgan.


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[Assistant] It was the ring. It was the ring. That thing is poppin' over there. It is poppin'.


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[Assistant] This is the hardest week I've had of waking up, like.


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[Assistant] Slept through my snooze. You know, slept to the end of the snooze. I'm a guy that hits the snooze at 5.30. It goes off again at 5.39. I usually


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[Assistant] At 532 or 533, right? Turn it off and get out of bed. And I'm like, okay, it's time to get up. Like the last two days.


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[Assistant] I can, I can spare a few minutes as long as everything else goes smoothly. I didn't have to rush it in.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's, it's like, it's, it's, yes. Or it's me screaming and yelling and totally flustered as I'm yelling, like running out of the house at 620 in the morning. Well, let's rally.


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[Assistant] Well, I think it's going to be Teddy Bridgewater. Unlikely to play, right? Very unlikely to play. I don't know if they've made it official. I think what we are hearing is that Teddy Bridgewater is going to be, oh, it's official. It is official. Yes. Okay, alright. So there we go. Doesn't change my thought on the game a whole lot.


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[Assistant] Again, and that's not disrespect to Tua or anything like that. We know the offense is special. Bridgewater's played before. I don't know, he can make all the throws. You know, the big thing is he's rusty and hasn't played a lot, but I don't look at it as like, oh wow, right? This is not one of those backup situations where you go, oh,


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[Assistant] You know, this is Cooper rushing the Cowboys, they gotta change the way they play. They can't just throw the ball over the field, right? So, at least they'll be able to still run their offense, and that's why they invested in Teddy Bridgewater in the offseason.


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[Assistant] I have a feeling the one that's not a lie is still the news isn't that great, I'm guessing, but I'm going to say the bottom two, the last two are the stats and that the first one is a lie.


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[Assistant] I wasn't, you know, I was kind of playing the angle that, you know what, I know they haven't scored a lot of points, but I was kind of playing the angle that like, man, maybe they're not in the red zone some of those times I'm thinking the drive stalled out to where it didn't count, right? So that was kind of my logic to get to that.


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[Assistant] Yes, I would. I mean, it's caught you off guard here, but. No, it's, it's, Josh has, they miss Josh everywhere. I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's no one area. It's every play I look at. There's an, every drive I go, oh, how did they do this? They would have never done this with Josh or their, the receivers would never be this close together or whatever. Uhm, but yeah, Josh had a, a real red zone attack.


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[Assistant] And understood how red zone defenses play. It had to me some plays and I know still does that like people in football have stolen and then people will still look at it and go, wait, how are they doing this? What is he doing here to get this guy open all the time? So he is special. You know, now I sit here and go, you know, bottom five in yards per play.


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[Assistant] You know, that's, that's, I should have thought of that a little bit just because, you know, they, they're like three and out, three and out, then they hit a go wrap down the sideline for, you know, 35.


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[Assistant] And they rip off a few big plays, and then they go three and out, three and out, and then it's, so yeaah, it's interesting, but it's hard to get your head around the attack or lack of attack with New England. It's still very unimpressive, and I honestly feel like it's actually going in the wrong direction right now as we talk about it.


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[Assistant] This is, this is one of those games that you chalk up, that you go, I just...


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[Assistant] Don't know how the game was ever 22 to 18, right? It's, it's one of those. It's.


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[Assistant] Look and shamrock up the Patriots ass and the bangles just things up to where you go. It shouldn't have been 22, nothing. It probably should have been 30 to nothing before they started that. But then you, you know, you miss a field goal. You're inside the three yard line and have to settle for a field goal. You.


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[Assistant] Your receiver stops running on a slant route inside the red zone where you go, well, at the very least, this should just be an incompletion. Instead of Boyd stops, lets McCordy intercept the ball. Golden rule, no, no to do on that route. You know, hey, Hail Mary.


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[Assistant] On a third and long, just throw it up, literally Hail Mary falls into your guy's arm for a touchdown. So there's, there's not a lot of bright spots for me to sit here and look at, Ahmed, to go.


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[Assistant] Well, I see light at the end of the tunnel. I almost feel like it's really gonna go in the other way.


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[Assistant] Cause I feel like we're getting to the point of the year where, yeaah, teams are better, right? There's more accumulation of what they do, tendencies and all that. So people are all, more over, all over their stuff than they were six and eight weeks ago. Right? Cincinnati had no fear.


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[Assistant] Of their d- of their team. The one thing I think Cincinnati was just like, okay, maybe their run game could be a little scary.


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[Assistant] They dominated in that department. I mean, you can't run Cincinnati's unbelievable run defense, but they couldn't do anything there and they got in their face.


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[Assistant] And played man to man. And one, I don't even think it's, I think there's probably a little fear of some of the speed. Like, you know, they got Tyquan Thornton who can run and all that. But I think it goes into also like, we kind of know the rats are going to run. So we're not necessarily like, he's going to run a go. He's going to run a deep cross. He's going to run a slant.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we can play man-to-man that. We know kind of their route tree, if that makes any sense too. Uhm, so yes, it's very underwhelming. It really is, and it was, like I said, it was...


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[Assistant] Clearly who the better team was on the football field in that football game, uh, and just one team who kinda fell asleep at the wheel a few times as they controlled the game.


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[Assistant] I was already like, well, it just, you know, you see, you, you see games sometimes and you go, Hey, the scores misleading or ooh, you know, I know they didn't score any points here early on in these first few drives, but you see some plays and things. You go, Ooh.


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[Assistant] This, things might break open here the next drive, maybe the drive after that, right? This was one of those where you were like...


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[Assistant] It's like the bad news bears sometimes. And that goes into like, we've talked about spacing with the receivers a few times. There's that. I mean, you know, what was the second, third down? You know, the, the second, third down, I don't even know who to blame. There were so many people messed up.


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[Assistant] Mac Jones signals to the receivers. They don't get it. Some are blocking. Some are running routes. Some guys are password tech. The other guys are, you know, run block. It just was, it's all over the place. And that's where it's, it's not real encouraging what you see on that side. You know, Bill. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean, not now. Like, Bill's not the one that's gonna like- Yeaah, I'm thinking more after this year. From everything I know, I've said this on PFT a little bit. And I know people connected to this situation. I'm not gonna say I know it 100%.


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[Assistant] But I know enough people connected that I think there's a very real possibility that Billy O'Brien is back there as the offensive coordinator when the season's over. Alabama gets done with their bowl game from the people I know in the world.


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[Assistant] That's where he's going. I don't know if it's a for sure thing, but that's what I've been told. I've said that on Pro Football Talk last week or maybe even two weeks ago. Uh, so that's what I would expect. Yes.


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[Assistant] This is not sustainable. And it's not sustainable not only for the product on the field, but it's just, it's going to add to the rumblings off the field about Bill's lost his touch and he's too old and maybe we need to get rid of him. To me it already had the look of a guy that was kind of


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[Assistant] They definitely did. I think, you know, I think, one, they played a team that I think poses some problems with them match up, or they were scared of. And as we've talked about, they played a quarterback who's, it's next level stuff.


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[Assistant] You know, it is. And the maturity that Joe Burrow has in year three, and you know, I always say that like, yea, it's okay, it's easy to be mature when you don't have great physical talent. You gotta play the game exactly by the book, right? But he's a guy that's got great physical talent. He can make crazy awesome throws and crazy escapes.


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[Assistant] But he kinda does it by the book a little bit more. And as we always talk about, he's just a little more surgical and plays within the pocket and doesn't move out of the pocket until he really has to.


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[Assistant] I don't think it's as good as we saw in the second half. I don't think it's as bad as we saw maybe in the first half. But I will say this, here's my problem with the Patriots, and I know I brought this up a little bit. And here's, let's just dive into the problem what they had in this Bangos game.


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[Assistant] Was, one, I think there was a real fear of, I don't want to play them man to man, right? As much as they have good corners and I think they like them, they don't have that one shut down guy. And I think they looked at it and went,


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[Assistant] Like, you really have to have a special duo at corner to think you can match up with T Higgins and Jamar Chase, right? It's, it's, it's, Chase is like, even when you cover him, he's not covered and same with T Higgins, let alone Chase can run by just about anybody. And even in this one, Chase dropped a big play down the left side, another moment where you go, well, they could have been


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[Assistant] Down the field here, inside the 10 once again, he dropped a go route and they had to punt the ball away. Right? So that goes into more of the, you know, they mess things up. Right.


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[Assistant] The Patriots was very obvious they wanted nothing to do with them man to man. So they played...


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[Assistant] A ton of zones in the first half. And as we talk about it, it's hard to do that. As basic as Cincinnati is, he's still smart and it's still...


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[Assistant] Within their basics, good enough to go four and five and six and eight and four and five and just pick you apart that way. So he did that.


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[Assistant] And then he just waits for his opportunity to kind of strike. He's like a fucking venom snake where he just like, he sits there with his head in the air and he bobs and weaves and fakes a few bites. But as soon as you put that hand out there long enough, he goes, now it's time. And that's it. He kind of just waits for that. And that's where he's scary good.


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[Assistant] But yes, I still felt like in the second half it was more of their mistakes, them being a hair conservative, and here's my thing I want to get to with the Patriots. I just wish they were a little more tactically aggressive or force the issue. And I don't mean like you have to go all out and be aggressive like the Miami Dolphins, but,


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[Assistant] You know, the good defenses in football at some point...


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[Assistant] They can find ways to, let me cause a little chaos, but I can still kind of play a sound defense. Buffalo's the master at it. To me. Where they can rush five and slant the defensive line, but still, you know,


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[Assistant] Be sound in the back end and play coverage the right way to where it puts pressure on the defense and the disguise and I don't know which guy's coming.


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[Assistant] But it's not so crazy to where you're like, oh, well, if they just pick up this guy, they're going to kill them down the field.


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[Assistant] To me, there's not enough of that tactical aggressiveness from New England. And I think we've seen that in some of the games where they just are a little too willing to die the slow death for me. And, uh, they're not good enough on offense. They gotta force the issue a little every now and then. Do they still have the talent on defense? Like, do they have the guys?


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[Assistant] It's not like super good. The secondary is good. I do think the fact that I don't see.


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[Assistant] I think because they don't have that marquee, shut down, Gilmore, Rivas, Akib Tlaib.


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[Assistant] I don't see as many of the creative coverages as we used to see in the past, you know, where we'd see one guy playing man and then the other six guys in the secondary doing something else on the other side of the field.


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[Assistant] Or, we doubled this guy, and this guy's man, and then we're playing zone over here. I see that being a different thing over there. So it's not great talent. The only area where I look at them to go their special is the two pass rushers.


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[Assistant] That's the only area. Because Uche is like a superstar. And Matt Junon we know is really good. But Uche is gonna be like one of the NFL sackleaders as we go on here. I do believe that.


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[Assistant] I am, I am. I don't want to see, I don't want to see anybody in the Big 12 in the championship game. I just, the Big 12 doesn't deserve to be in the final four, in my opinion. That's what I want to say, okay? Uh, so, uh, yes, for that matter, I'd like to see Michigan, Georgia, or Michigan, Ohio State in the national championship game.


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[Assistant] They had faked the Blitz like the whole game and dropped out. And I think that's what caught Borough and Company off guard. They were like, oh well they'll drop out. They've been dropping out all game. They don't want to be man to man with us, right? And Jamar Chase I think was supposed to run.


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[Assistant] Outroute or a comeback route and Joe tried to loft it up there and throw it as like, Hey, I got to throw it before you're breaking. So I'm going to throw a soft one, right to where you turn out and boom, it's right there. But chase like kind of.


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[Assistant] We saw the best defense in football play status quo against them, and they, if Tuval was on that day, they would have thrown for 500 yards against the best defense in football. So that's where, yeaah, they do too much to think you can just sit back and play vanilla and they'll make the mistake. You gotta find some ways to throw some curve balls at them.


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[Assistant] Well, like, just as much as, like, we just talked about, like, you know, Cincinnati messing the game up, and that shouldn't even have been a game with the Patriots. I think we could probably say the same thing here with Miami. I mean, Miami plays Green Bay, at least in my assessment, they win 9 out of 10 times. There was your one time Green Bay could win. That was it. It's one of those where you watch the game and you're going,


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[Assistant] There's no way this team is going to win this game, right? Even though I know the outcome, it's like still, you're still going, wait, one team can't really run. The other one's opening up holes that are gigantic for Mozart every play, you know, at one point he's,


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[Assistant] Seven completions for like 150 yards. And the other team is like, the only way they scored was on a short field. I just, it's, it's so, you know, because of a good kick return and they barely got in that time. I mean, so you're just going, well, there's no, there's just no way eventually this'll, you know, separate itself.


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[Assistant] You know, like we talked about on Monday, the Mozart fumble before the half, and then the mistakes in the second half, and Rodgers making a few plays, but here would be my big thing. Okay, I'm sorry, I just wanted to, you know, kind of lay the groundwork there.


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[Assistant] I went into this going, wait, let's see if this concussion really, maybe it did affect him and that's why he was off in the second half. And I don't doubt that maybe that's why he wasn't off a little bit, but he still has a few plays and throws in the half where you go, well, he's thinking clearly and made a great play here.


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[Assistant] Right? To where it's hard to go, okay, the concussion affect him. I, I, maybe it did to a degree. I, I don't know what happened to him a little bit here.


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[Assistant] This is the first like, what happened moment.


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[Assistant] This is the first game we've really said that. I've had other games where I go, I, you know, he left some yards in the field, or he should have hit this guy, or if he hits him in stride, it should have been a 70 yard touchdown. But these were like, I don't understand what he's thinking, and I don't even understand the type of ball he's throwing with these ones.


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[Assistant] And that's where I guess it was just a little troubling. Let alone Green Bay's offensive plays that they made, you know.


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[Assistant] Some of them I go, that's just unbelievable. I don't know if that's really sustainable to think they're going to be able to do that on a consistent basis. Uhm, so that was a crazy one. And that's one where out of all the four games Miami has lost,


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[Assistant] I would think they were the sickest after this one on Monday morning going, how did we lose this one? You know, we outplayed them, we out hit them, we out-schemed them, and we lost.


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[Assistant] Everything else I can question about their offense, alright? The one thing they'll be ready for is to pick up the Blitz.


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[Assistant] And that's where, one, I think you'd be crazy to do that against a struggling offense like this. And, you know, your players are better than them.


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[Assistant] Your scheme is better too, as long as you're not overly aggressive and give them too many shots to, let me just throw a ball, a go route to Taekwon Thornton.


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[Assistant] Or, you know, let me get everybody to the line of scrimmage and they give a reverse to Kendrick Bourne and he runs up the sidelines like last week for a 40 yard gain. That's where they gotta be careful here. They're clearly the more talented unit on the team. So, you know, that's...


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[Assistant] They have good run stopping defense alignment. The Patriots aren't running the ball that great as of late. That would be, yea, I would think this is...


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[Assistant] You know, be careful about the blitz in this game. You wanna play man to man, fine, but don't blitz. You know, play one robber and guys in the middle playing for crossers and doing that. Uh, I think that's the only way they really get burned in this one is if they just do too much of that. Play solid defense.


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[Assistant] And I think it's, it's one thing that yeah, I just wish there was a little more patience there. And again, I think we've talked about it. They're spoiled by how easy it's been in the passing game and everything there. And then Tua is very good at the RPOs.


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[Assistant] I don't think Teddy Bridgewater is gonna be as good in that department. He doesn't have as quick a release. He doesn't have as much experience with it as Tua does.


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[Assistant] To where maybe that lends itself to where we take the RPO option off on some of these and we just hand the ball off, no matter what.


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[Assistant] And to me, if they were just a little more patient and stubborn with the run,


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[Assistant] It's then going to open up the other stuff that we saw so, you know, easy during the year. And, and right now, yeah, teams are playing for them for the pass. They're, they're, they're more worried about that. They don't totally believe they're going to run. And yeah, this was another game. I think the third in a row where I kind of went, eh.


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[Assistant] They ran it good, but they probably shouldn't have ran the ball like 8 to 10 more times in this one.


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[Assistant] Well, like we talked about a few weeks ago when they played the Seattle Seahawks, right? We talked about them on a What the F happened Wednesday.


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[Assistant] They have an offensive line that I think has come together with Icky and Moten at right tackle and Corbett in the middle. They've found their groove and they're very patient with the run game. I think that's the biggest thing. They are totally in due. We're going to run the ball. We're going to eat the clock up.


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[Assistant] You know, if you're going to be way too aggressive man to man, we'll take a few shots of DJ Moore or somebody down the field, and then we're going to play through our defense. That's just kind of what they're doing.


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[Assistant] And they can move some people in the running game, and they got two running backs who can really hit the whole hard and form it and chub and hubbard. There's that. And, you know, the funny thing, and I kind of said this to you before the podcast, where when a team has that kind of rushing day, you expect to turn on the film and go, damn, their D-line must have got pushed around.


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[Assistant] Right? And I mean, I'm talking like the first five, six runs of the game, which was like six rushes, 120 yards or something like that. The D tackles had nothing to do with it. They were fine. They, they, they didn't get pushed around. It wasn't one of those where I'm sitting there watching the film going, man, look at that line of scrimmage go backwards every play. Like I say, some weeks, right? This was more, uh,


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[Assistant] I think the first thing is attacking the right parts of how the alignment was a few times and exposing that from the lions where


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[Assistant] You know, they might have done a few things where I just go, I don't know if I would defend it or line up this way. The second thing would be the linebacker play. The linebacker play was pretty below average in this one. It was pretty horrible actually.


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[Assistant] You know, whether you want to go with Anzalone or Rodriguez, it looked like they took Rodriguez out of the game for a period of the time, because I think


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[Assistant] They were messing up run fits. They weren't in the right hole. If they were in the right hole, they were, they were wrong shouldering it. If that makes sense, right? Does that make sense to use shoulder? Right. So, let's say my gap.


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[Assistant] Is, you're the fullback, right? And my gap now is between the fullback and, let's say, the left guard, right? I'm the middle linebacker, so to me it's the right guard, but to you it's the left guard, right? So, my, so now it's iso, and you're coming down on me as the fullback, right?


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[Assistant] Okay, I'm responsible for that gap between the guard and the fullback. And then we have a nose tackle or somebody else that's responsible for the gap between the center and the fullback, right?


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[Assistant] There's a certain shoulder you're supposed to take it on with, right? So, if my gap is between the fullback and the guard, you're gonna come at me, I'm gonna leave my, I'm gonna hit you with my inside shoulder, my left shoulder, and leave my right shoulder free to make the tackle and clog up the hole. So, they mess that up.


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[Assistant] Or they messed up going in the right gap and diagnosing the play the right way. So there was issues like that. Let alone, there was a few times where the defense was designed, hey we got all the gaps covered up.


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[Assistant] But we're going to leave this one gap and it's going to be the corner that's going to have to make the tackle. And corners usually aren't great at tackling, especially when they're


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[Assistant] Real cover guys, like a Jeff Acuta, where they got to him a few times in the gap, and they were like, alright, now you gotta make the tackle.


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[Assistant] He didn't get it done. So you don't take a guy number three to make tackles. Well, you don't, you don't, you don't. Well, there's a lot of teams in football that would organize it. And a lot of times they go, I'm not going to trust my corner to be in that gap right there because it's not going to end up well if the ball does get in there. Right. So, so that's where.


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[Assistant] Planning and alignment and how you assess the game does come in handy. So it wasn't as much as a physical whooping as some of the way things were defended schematically. And then players, especially the second level guys,


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[Assistant] You know, messing up some run fits in a big way. You do think that Sam Darnold adds a nice little element that does help the run? He does. One thing that's always kind of going to overlook that is his movement. And they do have the read option element with Sam Darnold.


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[Assistant] So, his ability to, hey, we've smashed it up the middle, smashed it up the middle, smashed it up the middle, and now that backside DN collapses.


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[Assistant] He can rip it off, rip off a 15 or 20 yard run. Let alone...


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[Assistant] He's a very good on-the-move bootleg thrower, right? One of my questions to Sam Darnold his whole career is just throwing in the pocket.


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[Assistant] Was the one where I'd go, I wish he was a little better that way. When he's moving or scrambling or playing backyard football, that's pretty good. He's getting better in the pocket department and they just seem like a team right now that kind of knows who they are. They know how they're playing.


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[Assistant] And they have a little bit more, it feels like belief than the bucks do, if that makes sense. With the bucks, I just, again, like kind of you said, it just feels like false belief and I'm not sure they


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[Assistant] 200. It's not gonna be below 50. It won't be. I think they've gotten too good at the running game.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, there's just not enough firepower.


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[Assistant] On the defensive line, for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to think that they're going to shut it down to below 50. So yeaah, I, you know, again, I don't expect 200 yards, but if you're going to give me one of those two options, I'm going to take that over the minus 50.


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[Assistant] They got, they got a little of everything. I mean, they got size, speed, they got a lot of interchangeable guys in the front seven, you know, for some versatility.


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[Assistant] I mean, Tampa's not gonna run on the Panthers, I know that.


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[Assistant] And that's to me what the Steve Wilkes era and him taking over has done. And I think you saw in my notes where...


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[Assistant] Uh, this is probably the third time I've kind of broken them down since he's taken over. And it's just, like I said, simplified. And the one thing he's got is like, you're not going to run and we're going to play a little more single safety defense. And there, and then they put pressure on their corners a little bit that way.


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[Assistant] And that's where I think this could be interesting. Cause they're gonna make Brady and them, you know, they're gonna get pressure on Brady, they're not gonna let them run. And these corners, as you heard me say a few weeks ago, are the real deal. So they're gonna make them throw under pressure into tight windows. Where I think this is a very, very dicey matchup.


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[Assistant] You know, and again, I don't know who I'm gonna pick in this, I gotta think about it a little more, but I'm leaning Panthers, I'm not gonna lie. It sounds like you are. I definitely am. You know, the game is played clean, and the Panthers don't just shit their bed, shit the bed, and are overwhelmed by the moment, and oh my gosh, we're in Tampa, and we can beat them, and we can actually be in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] It was, you know, big play to start with DJ Chark, right? You know, he made some big plays. I think it's the...


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[Assistant] The other plays, the minutia plays that were off. It was the.


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[Assistant] Why did I pick them? Literally, Wes. I'm like, not even joking. I know you saw that in my notes, where I was like, but I'm not even joking. Like, when I was sitting on the couch with my son on Saturday on Christmas Eve, I literally, the first thing I said was, oh my god, Jared Goff's wearing gloves. Like, what?


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[Assistant] Like, come on, that was like, it's 30 degrees! If you could have changed your pick right then, would you have changed your pick? I would have, I would have, I would have, oh shit, it's over.


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[Assistant] Again, the great throwers, the great, like,


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[Assistant] His hands were cold. Right, well it just, cold shouldn't help, shouldn't affect you. Like, listen, zero degrees, five degrees, minus five, I get that.


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[Assistant] I'm not, I'm all for it then. 30 degrees? That should not affect your ability to grip the ball and rip it around the, around the field. And uh, it obviously does with him. And to me it just shows it's in his head a little bit.


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[Assistant] That, that, that's, that's to me the, the biggest thing. But, yeaah, disappointing for the lions right there. Panthers...


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[Assistant] You know, I look at the Panthers and go, yeah, of course they can win this week and beat the Bucks. The other aspect I think of this, right, you want to hear something crazy too, just, again, because you guys, this is the way we're doing the pod, so I was thinking down the road, like,


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[Assistant] They're not a good matchup for the Cowboys. Like, that'd be one of the...


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[Assistant] The teams in the lower half of the league record wise, or I'd go, the Cowboys, that's not a great matchup for them. Big physical running team. We've seen the Cowboys have a problem with that, right?


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[Assistant] And then some talent in the secondary with a good coach, like I can see that being a little scary for them if they do get in. So this might be one, if you're the cowboy, you're rooting for the Buccaneers to win.


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[Assistant] And can it change? No, it can't change. They can't run.


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[Assistant] The O-line's not the same as we know. It's banged up. I mean, you know, Donovan Smith hurt, wasn't good anyways this year. You know, losing Jensen, you know, losing Kappa in free agency, you know, lose your left guard to retire, and then lose the replacement


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[Assistant] After that. So there's that. There's no Gronk mismatch. There's no...


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[Assistant] Jitterbug speed guy, right? That's where Antonio Brown really gave them extra life. Was, yea, he could beat you deep, but then he could all do that Julian Edelman stuff over the middle that was scary too.


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[Assistant] Mike Evans father time is catching up to him. He's not as explosive. I don't think Chris Godwin's ever really got to totally a hundred percent. So if that, and then you have a quarterback who's 45 and mad respect.


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[Assistant] But you're that age, didn't we see that? I see this with number 12 wearing green and yellow. They're antsy in the pocket. And when you're all lines like that, it's just he's antsy. It leads to bad decisions because he doesn't want to get hit or rushing the ball like you saw the other night. Some of those plays and throws were


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[Assistant] You know, it's, it's, it's antsy in the pocket. It's jittery. I don't want to wait any longer to see this. I'm just gonna get it out of my hand. Right? It's that. And, uh, I think that's the big thing that's changed.


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[Assistant] And then you come back, uh, after one point, god damn, I had Mike Evans down the middle for 20. Shit.


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[Assistant] You've been under pressure and you've been getting out of quick, so you get in that mode and then you start to leave plays and opportunities on the field. And I think that's what happens to the Bucs a little bit. You don't know who you're gonna pick yet, but I do.


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[Assistant] Either of these teams. So the Jets on film, I didn't watch it. Cause, you know, I just, that was the Thursday night standalone game. I got a feel for them. And we've watched the Jets a ton. So I did not watch that game on film, just with all transparency. Seattle, Kansas City? Yes, both sides.


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[Assistant] Well, no, that's what's funny. It's like, Jets fans admit that, but then when you talk about Zeke Wilson, they don't admit it. But, uh, no, it's struggling right now. It is. To me, this is, where our guy at C-Pain220 has taken us here, is definitely one of the keys to the game. Uhm.


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[Assistant] How do I want to say this? Yeah, the Jets, the running game has fallen apart, and how could it not? I mean, they've had some major injuries on the offensive line. You know, when they were healthy and stuff, that line was pretty damn good. But they're missing some crucial pieces.


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[Assistant] Right? And I don't think it's an overly creative run game in general. It's kind of basic. They're kind of like one of those just, this is what we do when we execute it. Uh, but.


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[Assistant] But like, where I think it's gonna be imperative to have some sort of run game this week, is just that Seattle is phenomenal in pass defense. They're a pain in the ass. They do, they're very creative in coverages, they're creative in how they can stress the pass protections out, and if you end up in


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[Assistant] Second and third and long. You can ask Patrick Mahomes how that's gonna work out from last week. It ain't that easy against this group. They got two corners on the outside. They can trust them to play man to man when they want. The safeties are pretty good.


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[Assistant] You know, the linebackers can run and pass coverage, so that's where I go, like, and they think they're gonna go up there, and that crowd noise.


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[Assistant] And throw it 47 times with Mike White like they did in Minnesota and win the game that way, I'd have a hard time believing that. Not that they have to have a huge game rushing, but they gotta have some success there. They gotta have, they can't be like last week.


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[Assistant] Where they couldn't even get the, find the line of scrimmage. If they can just have a running back around 60 or 70 yards rushing, that'll be fine.


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[Assistant] Right? 4 with 100 yards is a team rush stat. That'll be good enough to say, okay, maybe they can win the game. But that's a big if. That's a big if. Cause they have not blocked well at all as of late.


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[Assistant] Right, right. They couldn't stop anything. They were, I think they were one of those, like for the third year in a row, like on a historical pace at some point early in the year to be like the worst defense in the history of football. Maybe most improved? Definitely improved. To the point where I liked their scheme.


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[Assistant] And I think they do some cool things and coverages, and they're game plan specific, which I like.


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[Assistant] It's, it's that school of, of, of coaching, right? Uhm, I'm blanking out on, I know they have the old Bears D coordinator, Sean Desai up there, and they also have their other D coordinator who also has Chicago background. So that's what it is. So what is it that you like about that? I just like that it's got, you know, the, it's got some,


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[Assistant] Uhm, some zone coverages where it's like, uh, I'm messing with my word. You know, mixed zones. They're playing this kind of zone here, that kind of zone there.


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[Assistant] You know, the game plan specific part of it where they'll double the guy and play zone over here or, you know, they're just, they'll do anything. They play tendencies and formations and, you know, it's like, hey, this is cover three this week, like you always hear me say, but this team, this is


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[Assistant] Cover 3 is a little different this week because they attack it a little different. They're very good like that. They just don't have big time players up front.


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[Assistant] You know, that's the only, they can just get some difference makers on their front four.


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[Assistant] It's just, can Seattle block the Jets at all? So that's the question.


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[Assistant] Last week was their worst showing, you know, and it was, it was what I brought up in the picks podcast. One thing I was worried about was Jacksonville's size. Were they gonna be so big that it was just gonna negate the jet's speed?


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[Assistant] To the point where they were just like, yeah, well, we're not gonna, we're just gonna go this way. We're just gonna double team you downhill and not give you gaps and we're just gonna push you back and overpower you. And that's what they did. But the Seahawks team can't do that. And I, that's what I do worry about. There's a hundred, a hundred percent. Yeah, I mean, Geno Smith.


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[Assistant] We've seen last week against the Chiefs, the week before that against the 49ers, teams that can rush to pass her. I mean, holy shit, he's under pressure every time he drops back. They can't block anybody.


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[Assistant] And the run game isn't that special either. So, there's like, here's a, I think a system.


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[Assistant] And the way they call passing plays, that I think they can make some plays down the field against this Jets defense, but I'm not so sure he's gonna have the time to make it. That's, that's gonna be the problem. And it's the Seattle scheme they're running.


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[Assistant] I would think Pete is gonna have some, hey, I know there are rules when we line up in this formation. Let's run these plays. Right? So I would think there's gonna be some opportunities for them. But I don't...


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[Assistant] I don't know if they can block them. It's just the biggest thing. In any way. And that's what's scary about it altogether.


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[Assistant] Who's your guy? I can understand Garrett Wilson, you know, being the lead. I think he's been maybe the most consistently good out of all these guys throughout the year. You know, unfortunately,


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[Assistant] Injuries and like, things like that have played into the, the conference. Like Kenneth Walker, I feel like if he didn't get hurt and have a few games like that, his stats will be at a point where we go, oh no no, he's the rookie of the year. You know? Brock Purdy, I just don't know if he's gonna have enough time on the field to just play that.


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[Assistant] Well, I think it'll make people think he'll steal a few votes.


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[Assistant] Christian Watson I felt like was on his way there for a while. You know, if he could have maybe just made one more play on Sunday or one more time, like I think he'd probably be up in the second or third spot with that. But I think if you made me bet right now, I'd probably go with Garrett Wilson.


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[Assistant] You know, one, it's a big game, they can't, big final two games, they can't run the ball all that well, and they design the majority of their pass plays for him.


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[Assistant] And I would think he's going to be the main focus once again this week. And, and Seattle who, you know, again, like I said, I like their, they're, they're not afraid to take a chance every now and then they have to because their pass rush isn't that great. So then they have to blitz and, and do some things like that to where he could get some one-on-one opportunities against a Tariq Wolin and we'll see what happens there. Most rush yards that


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[Assistant] You know, yea, Algeria, unfortunately, he's just not involved in it, cause they're not good enough, I guess. They're not enough on the, he's a, he's a workhorse. Kind of a down year for, for the office.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Watson took a little while for him to get healthy and then get indoctrinated in the offense. Crystal Lava, I like what I've seen.


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[Assistant] Yes, it's just that their offense has gotten inconsistent at times. He had to deal with injury a few times himself.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, their quarterback play is just not always consistent in the passing game to help them out there. I know, like five weeks ago, I would have gone, the lobby looks like he's gonna win it. Five, six weeks ago. He was kind of a mainstay of that Saints attack. But, uh, they've kind of played a different way.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna say, uh, 65. Garrett Wilson has 71, and Olavi has 63. There we go. I was off by 2. Just a little.


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[Assistant] So say you bet $100 on your boy, Chris Olave, to win offensive rookie of the year. If you win, you'll get $3,000. Cha-ching. But if you lose, you'll still get $100 worth of free


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[Assistant] You looked at the Packers. I didn't watch the film with that. I watched the Giants-Vikings game very closely on Saturday, and gosh, I've watched Minnesota on film so much. I have a great feel for them. Uh, but the, uh, of course the Packers, I saw both of that against the Dolphins.


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[Assistant] I think that's what he's probably getting to on the transfer. I mean, that's what


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[Assistant] You know, we loved about him for years was, Hey, nobody's open. He's sitting there in the pocket and he'd manipulate people by a little shoulder or just a little flinch of the hand in the arm.


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[Assistant] Right? He's got giant hands like Pete's saying in my ear. Yeah, so he could do that. And then, oh man, he's looking over here, he's kind of pumping over there. And then he'd shift over to the other side of the field and throw a laser. And you'd go, oh my gosh, the guy's wide open. Yeah. Well, he looked over here for three seconds and pump baked six times to that side. So the whole defense moved over there.


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[Assistant] He doesn't hold the ball long enough to do any of that anymore. That's the big problem. You know? It's just, you know, as I said, midway part of the year, and you saw that again this week.


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[Assistant] He doesn't really throw the ball down the field unless it's bump man to man and he just goes, wait, I can throw a fade outside the numbers and put it in a spot where my guy gets it or nobody gets it.


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[Assistant] You know, that's to me where he's lost a little bit of that tactical aggressiveness within the normal rhythm of the offense. But, having said that, right, I think that formula's gonna hold true against Minnesota. Like, I actually think it's gonna put Minnesota in the bind here. Christian Watson's health would be crucial to this game.


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[Assistant] They have nobody in Minnesota secondary that can run demand to man. Minnesota plays normal, bland zone coverages.


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[Assistant] The RPO game and all those are gonna be wide open. Like, they're gonna force Minnesota into, I think, some defenses that they don't wanna play. Minnesota does not stop the run all that well. You know, Green Bay's pretty good at running the ball.


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[Assistant] A traditional run too. They don't rely on the quarterback to run. I bet you if you just took running back running things, Green Bay's would be even ranked higher in the running department.


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[Assistant] So, I could see that posing some problems for them a little.


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[Assistant] And again, with the conservative zones and Minnesota plays, I can see Green Bay eating up clock, doing all of that.


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[Assistant] Taking their time there. So, this is again, not a great Green Bay offense, but it's the worst defense in football, which is crazy to say about a 12-3 football team, but it's literally the worst. And, it's no longer can we say, oh well at least they don't let you score touchdowns. No, everybody scores touchdowns too now. We've all, they've all been figured out.


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[Assistant] And that's where I go, they might have to come out of their comfort zone because of this dink and dunk RPO shit that Aaron Rodgers started. You're smirking over there. What are you smirking about?


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[Assistant] I just, if there are top ten in rushing yards giving up, then I've been smoking way too much shit lately, okay?


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[Assistant] They are so bad at past defense, like I told you a few weeks ago. The New England Patriots


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[Assistant] They, who's pass off as stinks, by the way, as we've already discussed.


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[Assistant] Minnesota played past events the whole game, and Minnesota and New England still said, we're not even good at throwing it, but we're still gonna throw it on you guys. That's, that kinda says it all.


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[Assistant] They beg people to run the ball, and teams still throw the ball on them.


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[Assistant] That's scary, let alone this is a team that, yeaah, I think has got a lot of little ways to attack their cover forward man zone and do all of that. Let alone I think gonna run the ball a little too to where


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[Assistant] You know, now they're going to have to get out of that, and they might have to be on an island versus Dubs or Christian Watson. And again, that plays into Rogers.


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[Assistant] You know, Rodgers, what we saw last week, he missed a few shots down the field. Should have hit Christian Watson on the fourth down, right? You know, had another one, a go route that he missed too. But we saw him also hit two or three of them as well.


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[Assistant] That's where he feels comfortable. And that's where they can be scary. So we'll see. I don't know necessarily if their defense can stop Minnesota, but they're often going to get some issues.


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[Assistant] You know, do some, wait, we're gonna double Justin Jefferson here on a third down. You're gonna have to beat us with somebody else. They're not a huge team that does that.


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[Assistant] You know, again, Green Bay, yeah, their defense, I just, I know people want to jump on Joe Barry a little bit, and especially because it was good last year, and I think it exceeded expectations last year. I do think their talent's overrated. I'm sorry. I think people across the board,


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[Assistant] Anybody you name, I'll just go, eh, they're overrated, in my opinion. I mean, it really is. That's how I feel about it. I'm sorry. Uhm, I know, Clark, Kenny Clark is the only guy. And to me, he's not as good as people talk about him.


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[Assistant] That's where PFF has way too much power because we got too many people who are just looking at a PFF grade and going, well they must be right and I've already come up with


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[Assistant] It's gonna be a tough task for Greenback. It is. I would imagine they're favored though.


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[Assistant] It's in, in Green Bay, it's a must win for Green Bay. Minnesota, yeaah, I know there's the outside chance that they could still get the number one seed, but I think that's highly unlikely, and I think they know that. So I, I understand that, but yeaah, with Green Bay, I, you know,


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[Assistant] Like, to me, what's scary about this is Green Bay's run defense sucks. And like,


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[Assistant] Minnesota's not even a good running team, but if they get the running game going on you, forget about it. You'll have no chance of stopping Justin Jefferson and T.J. Hockinson.


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[Assistant] Because they will have a good play action pass attack off of that. So that's where I, you know, I can see this maybe being a little bit more of an offensive showing than you would think in a cold weather late December Green Bay game.


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[Assistant] I think with him, the health of Zedaria Smith, if they are, you know, 100% good to go, playoff time, they'll be a pain in the butt, for sure.


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[Assistant] You know, again, like I said, I was watching that game closely. Daniel Jones, I knew he was under pressure. I guess I didn't realize it was Daniel Hunter so much. I guess that's what I didn't give it credit for.


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[Assistant] You know, and that's shocking to hear. The Giants, again, they're offensive line better, it's still nothing special.


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[Assistant] And you can still, they're still playing a game of protecting their offensive line in the pass game. They don't hold the ball a whole lot. They have to move the quarterback and do boots and play actions to help them out. Uhm, but man, good showing by him right there. That's, that's pretty unbelievable. Nine pressures.


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[Assistant] Every play, I mean, it's just, he was everywhere. I, you know, that was one where, yeah, I did watch the tape and I would have gotten, it felt like it was more than nine pressures. And it felt like it was him all the time, you know, let alone batted passes and he's just


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[Assistant] He's a force. Or the amount of times he broke through the line of scrimmage and a run play and then Kenneth Walker has to redirect and go somewhere else and he gets three yard gain and somebody else gets a tackle but you're like, oh man, Chris Jones did it all right there, he's the guy.


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[Assistant] I didn't get to hit on this when we talked about the Seattle a little bit. Kansas City's defense last two, three weeks. Ever since the Cincinnati game.


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[Assistant] There's been a hair more of like, okay, we're going to trust the rookies to do a few more things schematically.


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[Assistant] And I feel like it's changed them. They're not, you know how earlier I was a little just like, it's either all-out blitz, man to man, or it's fake the all-out blitz and they end up in Tampa too, right? I'm seeing...


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[Assistant] Like, more in the repertoire here, the last few weeks. Think he's gonna come in handy. Think he trusts his rookies and the younger guys. And damn, I don't know, just watching that game.


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[Assistant] They just, I feel like their rookies have gotten comfortable to the point of the year where they can let it fly now.


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[Assistant] Carl Aftis is poppin', Williams is poppin', McDuffie is poppin', exactly right.


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[Assistant] The two linebackers they have, they're flying all over the field. One of the things I wrote in my notes about that game, and I know I didn't send you those notes because I just finished up this morning, was just that


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[Assistant] Like, that Kansas City defense, with Chris Jones up front and everybody, they got a little of everything as far as their versatility up front, but I'd be hard pressed to find a back seven that's much faster than the, uh, the Chiefs. It's, it's 1-4-3 and low 4-4 guy. Their two linebackers are both 4-4.


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[Assistant] Right? I think, I mean, one of them was like literally 4-4 flat will he get. You know, they're two corners.


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[Assistant] Now, Ligeria, Snead, and Williams, who are the outside corners when they're a nickel, they're both 4-3 guys.


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[Assistant] And a McDuffie's low 4-4. Juan Thornhill, their safety was 4-3. Justin Reed is 4-4. So, just to tell you there, that's where they can, you know, maybe become a better unit than we thought they could in the playoffs, now that they're kind of expanding the playbook a little bit.


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[Assistant] Our stratosphere, which, you know, in itself is almost its own award. Like, you've been so good for so long, we expect it, and you're not in this conversation anymore. Like, this is for newbies over here. Exactly. You know, guys that haven't been good and have exceeded our expectations, or somebody we never heard of and we didn't think he could do this job. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] You just like that AOC North matchup? Exactly, exactly. I was shocked, I thought I was gonna be Patriots, Dolphins for sure.


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[Assistant] Well, I think the picket injury was huge in the first game. You know, picket, you know, Trebrisky made some crucial mistakes, you know, with some aggressive throws in the red zone, fringe red zone. Picket's been really good for a rookie quarterback protecting the ball.


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[Assistant] You know, his mobility to run and get a few cheap first downs and his accuracy within the short to intermediate pass game is an advantage for them.


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[Assistant] You know, so they're good in that department. Where I was shocked the first time around.


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[Assistant] Was just that Baltimore ran the ball the way they did.


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[Assistant] But gosh, I still look at it in a lot of ways. I guess there's a part of me to think, I just have a hard time thinking Pittsburgh's gonna get gashed in the run game like that again. And again, I expect this to be close, field goal type of football game. And, you know, again, if Baltimore...


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[Assistant] If Baltimore has that type of day, 200 yards rushing, all that, they're gonna win the game. But if it's like, you know...


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[Assistant] 140 or below? I'd probably go, I'd like Pittsburgh to do that. Uh, that means that Baltimore hasn't controlled the clock quite the same, and they haven't ripped off, you know, maybe a few, as many big plays in the run game that way. Uh, I do think with Pittsburgh's


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[Assistant] Good enough running game, and the fact that Baltimore doesn't want to play man a whole lot, you know, that can play into their favor of being able to pick apart the zone a little bit, get the ball out of his hands quickly, and do all that. Uh, I don't know who I'm gonna pick in this one. This is a very even game.


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[Assistant] And it's one of those where I feel like yea run game and just whoever makes that one crucial turnover is going to affect this one. You've lost a couple lately on Football Night in America. I know, I know.


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[Assistant] Everyone picked the Bucks? Everybody picked the Bucks, right? We've had that a few times. I know. You know, the week before I chickened out with my Giants. I took Washington.


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[Assistant] So, yep, I ate that one. And then the week before that is the one I'm really mad at.


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[Assistant] Because that was the one where, did I do the Peacock show with you that week? Where I went, the Chargers match up, they can upset the Dolphins, but I still went with the Dolphins and didn't have the guts to do it. No, we didn't do it together, but yea.


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[Assistant] You never really sensed Chicago was stopping Buffalo. It was a little bit like we talked about with some of the other games.


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[Assistant] Buffalo doing some dumb shit. I mean, you know, throwing a curl route to Gabe Davis first down and he fumbles the ball as he's getting tackled. You know, Josh Allen, both of his interceptions, you know, one they're in the red zone fringe and he makes a bad decision and throws it into double coverage in the end zone. You know, the other one, he's throwing a check down to the back.


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[Assistant] There's no way the Bills are gonna run the ball in the Cincinnati Bengals. There's no way. Is DJ Reader dead? No, he's not, so he's playing. There's no way, alright? There's no way. So I, I just, again, it's a nice story, they did some things the right way in that football game. They're not gonna have those same opportunities.


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[Assistant] This is, this is an interesting one. I mean, I, we know it's a good game and it's close, it's gonna be close and it's two awesome quarterbacks. It's one where I look at Ahmed and go the defenses I think have the advantage in both sides.