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[Assistant] And that was on the touchdown that would have put them up 21-7. But Bellinger, if you remember, jumped offside or false started a little bit. As they had a guy in motion and then he kinda started early. They scored the touchdown, but it got called back. They had to settle for a field goal that only went up 17-7 instead of 21-7.


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[Assistant] Right, right, that was unreal. That was really one of the only negative spots you could talk about for the Giants all game long. You could talk about this game


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[Assistant] Agreed. Definitely. I mean, again, I think the defense coordinator's probably gonna come under some heat, so that's gonna be a question with that Donatelle. And then some players in the secondary, you know, another defensive tackle, they need something there. Yeah, but linebackers, pass rusher, okay.


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[Assistant] You know, the offense, you're right. They got what they need there. They could probably get a little better up front. They're probably...


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[Assistant] I would think the Thielen era as him being the number two guys about over. He's no longer what he was. So maybe get another receiver in the mix here. But yea, I expect Minnesota to still be very much in the mix in the NFC to your point. Just like your Detroit Lions. It was a really good year. It was a really good year.


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[Assistant] And they, they were clutch and won a lot of games that we sat here and go, man, they shouldn't have won that game. And unfortunately that leads to.


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[Assistant] Like, high expectations, because you kind of start to expect it, but I think the reality is, is like what you're saying. People with, I wasn't trying to be a jerk when I was going, I don't, I can't believe they won that game, or if you watched this game without the touchdowns, you would have gone, wait, they lost this game, right? At a point, having to give the, the reality of the situation.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. Right. And then at some point, yea, during the year, even though it was bad, they were making plays and stopping teams from at least scoring touchdowns and that started to fall apart too. They started to not make plays and teams were going down there and scoring touchdowns just like we saw the Giants do yesterday.


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[Assistant] Definitely, definitely. It's hard for me not to think that the Jaguars were all over the Jaguar stuff early on in the football game. They obviously...


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[Assistant] I found some tendencies and some rules that they could hard line teach their guys in the secondary go and like,


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[Assistant] You know, hey, if there's three receivers to the right and the second receiver breaks inside, the third receiver is going to break inside too. That's what I'm, that's what I mean by route reading. That's what teams are being taught. Even in man coverage, same type of thing. And I got that, you know, feeling.


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[Assistant] You know, from a few plays where I went, damn, the Chargers guy broke on that route before the Jaguars guy even made the break, right? You know, think about, I think it was the fourth interception.


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[Assistant] It was the Asante Samuel, he cut off the in-cut, kind of down the middle.


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[Assistant] I mean, he broke before the receiver did. See, those are, those are things that start to tell me like, oh, they got a beat. Like, Staley's taught them, if this guy goes there, this guy's gonna go there, right? And they certainly were all over it. But the second half, there was obviously some adjustments, and I think they started to get a feel for like, wait, they're jumping these type of things, so let's start to do this and that. Uh, like,


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[Assistant] I don't even know where to begin here. I think that where to begin is with the quarterback.


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[Assistant] Just like we talked about with Daniel Jones. I mean, you throw four interceptions. Five first half turnovers.


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[Assistant] Falter more. Crumble. That's where Trevor Lawrence, Doug Peterson's ability to make Trevor feel confident was very special.


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[Assistant] Everybody was texting me, in our company of course, including my boss, like, oh great, you jinxed Trevor, too many daps, too many


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[Assistant] Used to be, mister, just don't let anything bother me. Yeah.


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[Assistant] He understands what's being said about him and he uses it to give himself a little bit of a chip on his shoulder. Right? And that was cool, I thought. Where he's kind of embraced it. He also embraced the magnitude of the playoffs. That's why I wasn't like, when he started to kind of mount the comeback, I went and went, you know, cause he made it very aware that he was,


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[Assistant] You know, hey, numbers, they can be overrated, they don't tell the story, but I do pay attention to them and what other quarterbacks are doing because I want to be thought of as the best and I see what they do and I want to be up there with them. So, you know, there's a drive for a guy that's cool and calm and always has a smile on his face and doesn't ever seem to get pissed or yell at anybody, right?


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[Assistant] There is a drive to be great from the guy that is a parent and he's just got


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[Assistant] He just, you know, couldn't be a nicer guy in just a way about him of like, yea, you believe in him because you can tell he believes in himself. Yea, in a thick long neck, which I'm glad you said.


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[Assistant] It broke the ice a little bit, uh, yeaah, but it was, that was...


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[Assistant] One, like, let's go through it a little bit. The first interception. Not his fault. Right guard doesn't make the block. It's RPO. Sebastian Joseph Day does a great job getting his hand up, alright? Interception. Second interception.


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[Assistant] It's a fourth down, right? They run what we would call a seven stop, a reverse curl route, whatever. It's pass interference in the Santi Samuel. It's pass interference a thousand out of a thousand times all regular season in the first half of a football game.


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[Assistant] Not called. Which was an issue with me throughout this weekend. We saw no pass interference called. Where I want to go...


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[Assistant] This is called every time in every game during the regular season, all of a sudden it doesn't matter anymore, which is annoying to me. So that was a bad one. And then, I'm trying to think of the, the third one. I'm blanking on the third one. Uh, the third one was the shallow cross to Evan Ingram.


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[Assistant] Right? He's throwing the crossing route, Asante Samuel gets it, playing Tampa 2, playing the Tampa 2 corner. You know, there's rules there.


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[Assistant] One, Evan Ingram, usually in a shallow cross, you see zone, you have to sit down by the backside tackle. He didn't sit down, he kept running.


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[Assistant] That doesn't matter. Quarterbacks gotta see the throws. You can't just trust. And Trevor Lawrence has played enough football to drop back and go, Oh, that's Tampa too. Like he shouldn't continue to run and then I shouldn't throw the ball. Right. And then there was the in cut. We just talked about where Santi Samuel jumped, jumped all over it. So there was a little bit of bad play by Trevor, a little unlucky.


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[Assistant] Good defense of game planning by the Chargers, right? Then they drop the punt.


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[Assistant] Alright, and to me, this is one of the marquee moments of the game. I really, after one interception, they made the Chargers settle for a field goal as they got inside the 10 yard line. And then after the block punt, er, drop punt, 24-0.


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[Assistant] They got a chance if they scored a touchdown to go up 31. Right? And to me...


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[Assistant] I mean, that would've put, that even looks different than 27. Sure.


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[Assistant] And they held them to a field goal and then put the drive together late in the first half that I think was kind of the jump off point to, okay, wait, we're settled in. I got a little confidence. Doug Peterson did a great job on that drive, throwing some short passes, some swing passes, let them see the ball go in the basket a few times. Okay. I feel pretty good. And then Trevor came out in the second half firing.


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[Assistant] You know, it's interesting. So, if you'll see this play and you're watching here on YouTube, on the right, they're playing cover 2. On the left, they're kind of playing a quarters coverage, right? Asante Samuel, number 26 on the left of your screen here,


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[Assistant] He takes EvidentGurum who's running the little out route, right? Which he's supposed to do. He's right here. Now, Derwin James...


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[Assistant] Right? He is looking across the field and looking at the number three receiver, which is Christian Kirk. And I think his rule is to take that guy if he crosses. Right? But this is where...


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[Assistant] Coaching adjustment, game planning. Oh wait, I gotta play for that, the can screw this over comes in very handy. So what they did was they sent him over there and sat Christian Kirk right in front of Derwin James. Now he takes the cheese and now Zay Jones goes behind him.


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[Assistant] Now, I don't know exactly how this is supposed to be played. I don't know if everyone enjoy it, James, this is a great play and it's stressful to this coverage, no matter what.


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[Assistant] I mean this is, this is a good way to attack the quarters on the backside of this coverage and, and stress out its rules. I don't know if they want Derwin James here to take


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[Assistant] So either way, Derwin James is kind of the jump off point there. I don't know if he's right or wrong or whatever there. It's hard to tell and there's different rules within that stuff. But to me that was the moment too. Cause I went


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[Assistant] Two examples of stick with your young quarterback here in the show. Daniel Jones, right? We could easily gave up on him if we wanted the Jets attitude, or if we listened to the fan base of the Giants after two years, because there was a lot of fans. Morgan will tell you, she's a giant. Oh, there's Daniel Jones. He doesn't got it. Forget it. Let's move on.


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[Assistant] So, you know, yes, they've built Trevor Lawrence to this.


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[Assistant] And of course he went through his struggles early in the year and he survived it and fought through it and then started to carry the freaking team and do special things and of course you hang in there but that's a very funny witty question there and


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[Assistant] Uh, just kind of the culture down there right now. It's, it is a belief. They're young. They're starting to, they are figuring out how to win. He talked about that with me. Doug Peterson, of course, his ability there. And then, you know,


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[Assistant] Hey, the game settled in and they finally got to play the game they wanted to play a little bit. And it was hard early on. It's hard!


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[Assistant] You can't get a drive going, we can't get completions, we keep getting a little unlucky with turnovers and not do a dumb thing, whatever else, to where they never got in a rhythm. But again, that's where I go back to that drive at the end of the first half where I think that was big. And then in the second half, like, come on, let's talk about it. Like,


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[Assistant] The team that was down 27 to nothing ran the ball more than the team that was up 27 to nothing.


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[Assistant] Right, so I texted Pete, like, in the fourth quarter, and, you know, Matt Casey, and I was like, see, this is where run, people, like, don't realize run game's important. Because, again, I know the Chargers were staying on the field to a degree, and the drives weren't all three and out, but where people are missing is, you know,


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[Assistant] How many first and second down passes that were incomplete in the second half where you go, man, if that was just a screen or a swing pass or a run, hey, we still don't get yards, but the clock still runs, right? And that was the big thing. And that's because they couldn't depend on their run.


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[Assistant] And that's where you do need a run game and you, this is, that's when you do want to power running back a little bit. Maybe somebody different than Austin Eckler in that situation, but that's where.


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[Assistant] You know, they drop the ball and then of course the Jaguars who they're, they're, they're up against it. They start to, you know, take a few calculated risks and.


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[Assistant] Let's, you know, let's run this coverage here on first and 10 and it threw the Chargers off kilter. But there were the Jaguars who did a great job of being consistent and patient on the offensive side of the ball. They let their run game continue to go in the second half.


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[Assistant] And they let their offensive line kind of wear on the Chargers D line. They started to break a few 8 yard run, 9 yard run, 8 yard run.


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[Assistant] The passer started to whittle away as the game went away. And I think that was all effect of the size of the Jaguars and Doug Peterson staying patient with the run in the second half too. That made Bosa and Mack are like, shit, we're tired and you guys are fucking big at tackles here in Jacksonville. So we're really tired.


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[Assistant] And then of course, both of the losses cool, which didn't help the situation out a little bit as well. No it did not.


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[Assistant] Just get it right. You're going for the win right there, so what are you saving the timeouts for? Like, you're going for it there. I know, when they called the timeouts, I was like, ah.


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[Assistant] You know, cause you wanted them to have three timeouts cause you go, well, if they don't get it here, then they still got a chance to get the ball back. But at the same time, you got to balance out and go, wait, do we want to win the game right here or are we going to play like, oh, maybe we'll give ourselves one more chance in case we f**k the game up right here. Right. And he did the right thing. Wait, let's get on the sideline and let's get the play. We really want, let's talk about it.


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[Assistant] The play was awesome. Right. Lined up to make it look like you might be doing the quarterback sneak or something or fullback dive, right? It looked like it was gonna be that. We already saw Trevor do the QB sneak already, right?


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[Assistant] And, but like if you see here again with our next-gen stats and our dots here, there's so many people inside the tackle box. I mean, there's like five defense alignment inside the tackles, right? And then they just do a great job of like blocking down, Zay Jones cracks down. So Zay Jones, it looked like it, I showed you this before.


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[Assistant] It was close. It was close. You're right. It was a little hookage of the arm. I don't think it really mattered. He made the contact. Alohi-Gilman was not gonna make the play. Uh, I'm glad they did not call it. But I understand what you're talking about for sure.


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[Assistant] Samuel, great game, but in this, does he have outside contain? He does, but this is where it's hard, okay? And we've discussed this a little bit too.


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[Assistant] He's got Zay Jones. So he follows Zay Jones down cause he's, hey wait, maybe he's gonna work his way through and they're gonna run some play action pass, he's gonna run a crosser. Fake block, here he goes. Right, and there he goes across and I'm stuck running through trash, so he's worried about that. That's a good call. Right?


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[Assistant] So now, but that's the problem when you play man in those kind of run situations because now, wait, I covered my guy man, but damn, coach told me I do have the outside gap, which he is there for the outside gap, but it's just too late and there's a guy that runs, you know, 4-4 running around the edge.


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[Assistant] They were on the doorstep of making the playoffs last year.


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[Assistant] They make it this year. They dealt with a bunch of injuries and fought through a lot of adversity.


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[Assistant] Right? And again, I think a lot of people were sitting here going, well, the Chargers can make a run here in the playoffs, right? Stinks the way they blew the game. And if you listen to anybody that knows anything in the NFL,


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[Assistant] Sean Payton and Jim Harbaugh's number one choice is to go to the Chargers. That's kind of what anybody thinks in the NFL, right?


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[Assistant] That's where they'd like to go. And they're not gonna let that be known, of course, because there's a coach there that they're all, you know, going behind their back, politicking for this job, which isn't cool, but so is, and that's the business we're in here, right?


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[Assistant] I wanna say you don't fire him. I don't think I would fire him. I feel like he's gonna get fired though.


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[Assistant] I don't know. It's just the stigma around the situation. You like some of the things he's done. The Mike Williams injury.


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[Assistant] I do like some of the scheme-wise, some of the things he does. Thought he made it hard on the Dolphins, right? The defense, he does some creative things. I mean, he made it hard on the Jaguars. I mean, yeaah, he does some things that, schematically, outside the box thinking, that are, that are smart, and you go, oh wow, that's, that's really good. Uhm, but I think that,


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[Assistant] You know, for whatever reason some of the injury stuff's being put on him, which is not fair.


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[Assistant] Right? And that's kind of like an issue there, which I want to go. That's not necessarily Brandon Staley to me. It's more of a Joe Lombardi issue. He needs to be more creative on that side of the ball, you know, but, and then, you know, just the going forward on fourth down last year and then losing a game this way. Woo.


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[Assistant] I don't know where this is going to go. I really don't. It's, it's, it's, it's a weird one. I want to say it's crazy to think about firing Brandon Staley. That's what I want to say. And I certainly would have said that even if they lost the game just in a normal fashion. But 27-0.


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[Assistant] You know, I do feel like puts a little bit added pressure on the situation, but added pressure on the Spanos family who owns the Chargers. And, and yeah, they have a bright shiny object that every coach wants to coach right now. Justin Herbert. He's definitely a top five quarterback in football.


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[Assistant] So everybody's looking at that job going, wait, is that going to come open? Cause I'd like to go there. They got all the key pieces to kind of be good. And then I just got to fill in a few places here and there and whoa, we can, you know, be a player in the AFC for a while. I don't know. What do you think?


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[Assistant] You're maybe tough macho. It definitely doesn't have the Dan Campbell look where you're like, you know, it's, it's a, it's a little bit more of a nerdy calculated look like this guy.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I think that's where the Joey Bosa helmet is coming off. Those are the fair questions too.


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[Assistant] I think it's very much on the fence here. It really is. And I don't know, if you made me bet, I bet he's gonna get fired.


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[Assistant] Some big plays. Yeah, it was frustrating. It was not a good performance in that football game.


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[Assistant] You know, I think there's some positive points that we can talk about, but yeah, it was, uh, you know, they have a little bit of like...


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[Assistant] What I used to feel like more with the Chiefs or, and even still too, to this point of like,


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[Assistant] You know, they just can get a little unmotivated at times or go, oh, we got it in control. And they take their foot off the gas pedal and they.


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[Assistant] All of a sudden you're going, wait, you were just about to blow this team out, and now we're in a dogfight. Like, it was literally like, it was clear you were way better than this team, and what? Now we're kinda hanging on here? That's where they're frustrating. Right? And, and it's not.


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[Assistant] Well, yeah, they live on the edge because it's just, they ask one guy to play on the edge and carry, and that's always been our complaint. Right? That's where, again, I just go...


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[Assistant] You know, he's, he's, yes, he's just careless. I mean, he's definitely part of the reason we can sit here and blame.


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[Assistant] Right? To go, wow, this is, you're, you're one of the reasons the Dolphins got back in the football game. Right? He's, he's, he's always been, the last three years, he's been great at toeing the line of like, here's aggressive and here's crazy. And he's played it just right.


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[Assistant] Right? But we've seen here the second half of this season where he's gone over to the crazy line a few times, too many times, and we go, dude, come on. And the extra day was one of those moments, right? I mean, it's, it's, it's 17 to, uh, first off,


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[Assistant] They blew an opportunity when it's 14-0, they get down there, Dawson Knox is wide open, they throw the ball in the end zone, he drops the ball. It should be 21-0, right? They have to set over a field goal that's 17-0. They're in control of the football game, and, I don't know,


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[Assistant] He throws, gets a little pressure and just throws the ball up to John Brown, who yeaah, kinda screwed him over by stopping. But at the same time, you know, it's like we've talked about with


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[Assistant] Joe burrow in the bangles a few times or whatever. Like, have a feel for who you're playing. You're playing Skyler Thompson and the Dolphins. Like, they got nothing. Just...


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[Assistant] You're up 17 to 3, don't take those chances. You gotta make them work for everything. Cause they're, they're not, but you're, he gave them a play and gave them momentum and gave them the short field.


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[Assistant] And that's where Buffalo was frustrating yesterday. They kind of gave.


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[Assistant] Miami breath of fresh air a few times. You go, Hey, hey, come on, get back in this game. We, we want the ratings to be good for CBS. Come on. Right. I mean, it's really, it's, it's like what it felt like at times. And, um, yeah, that's where the bills are a little frustrating and it's also, we get frustrated with Josh Allen, but again,


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[Assistant] This is who they are. This is how they win. They don't, they can't do it any other way. And that's the other part too, that's like, so you gotta take a good little of the good with the bad, because he makes so many freaking unbelievable plays, but we've seen him toe the line the right way, and he just has to get back to that, cause he has gotten a little crazy.


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[Assistant] The, the, and this is where I, you know, I'd like them to come up with some other ways rather than just saying, hey, you run straight and I'll just throw it in and put it in the money, right?


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[Assistant] And again, I mean, one of those, the deep post down the middle, Shakir, talk about another moment that was dropped, you know, right before the half. They should be there inside, really, listen, Shakir falling to the ground, that was, he should walk in for the touchdown.


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[Assistant] He got nervous and fell to the ground and then dropped the ball together. He should have been able to stand. That ball was perfect. He should have been able to stand up and run in the end zone. But he hasn't played a ton. He just wanted to make the catch so he fell. They left points on the board there. But this is a good question. And here's the biggest question. You know, or here's the biggest, the biggest reason. And this is something that will not...


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[Assistant] Nobody is scared of the Buffalo Bills and their receivers! Nobody! And the Dolphins certainly weren't!


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[Assistant] So they were gonna go, hey, we're not gonna let you run the ball and pick us apart for five yard throws and play zone, and then the quarterback design runs beat us. They went, you know what, we'll take our chances with, we think our guys can cover and you won't hit every 50 yard throw down the field. That's what they did. And again, this is where I'm trying to tell people, this is where,


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[Assistant] It just, yeaah. The talent on the offensive side of the ball on Buffalo is just, it's a little overrated. That's where I think people have lost. It's John, nobody wanted John Brown. Nobody wanted Cole Beasley.


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[Assistant] You know, Gabe Davis had a good game. You know my thoughts on Gabe Davis. He's good. He's not a superstar. Josh Allen does not have the weapons some of the other quarterbacks on this playoffs have. Should they have kept Isaiah Hodgins? Who's now the star?


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[Assistant] Well, that's where they miss like Isaiah McKenzie, who's a little banged up, cause he has a little juice to him too, but that was the reason, I think.


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[Assistant] You know, and I was sitting there during the game, and Morgan could tell you, I kept going, man, the Dolphins have no fear. You know, they had Xavier on digs for a good part of the game, or they tried to favor some, you know, safeties over that way, but, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, at the end of the day, I think that was the big reason why they threw some of those 50-50 balls up in the air. And then, hey, even on the other side, you know, the Bills defense, the numbers are good, but what if you


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[Assistant] You know, they had a great, uh, punt return. They had a few good cook returns. They had the, the Bills kicked the ball out of bounds after scoring one time, gave them the short field. And then the defense with the interceptions, you know, the defense with getting pressure.


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[Assistant] Right? You know, I mean, Jalen Phillips was phenomenal yesterday. He was all around Josh Allen. The tackles of Buffalo could not block him that way.


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[Assistant] But, but, you know, this, this could be a good thing. And let's see, you know, this is one of those things that sometimes I look at teams when they play like this. They didn't play good, but they won. Yeah. So, they're gonna come in this week pissed off.


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[Assistant] Right? Some positive vibes we won, but no like, oh my gosh, if we play like that this week against the team we're about to play, the Cincinnati Bengals, we will lose. And that's where it could be a positive for them.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, uh, two, there's only one mistake I think Mike McDaniel made really the whole game. It was the third and long right, and that was the interception up the left sideline.


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[Assistant] And he's all, he's right about that, Tony, for sure. That's one where you just go, let's throw a screen. Let's throw a shallow cross.


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[Assistant] Let's see if he can weave through some guys and maybe get a first down, but let's just, punting's fine here. Punting saw your defenses playing good, you know? I know it's Josh Allen, it's Dicey and all that, but there was no reason to take that risk, let alone there was nothing there to say that was open, right? And that, that was a big moment of the football game.


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[Assistant] Exactly, right. Back on top, then they forced the Dolphins to go three and out and then got it, you know, it gave them momentum to go down and score again, right? Yep. But, you know, to your question with the, the Mike McDaniel thing, hey, I know we're all talking about the fourth and one where they got to delay a game. You know, Mike McDaniel after the game, he explained it. He goes, at first he was told it was a first down.


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[Assistant] You know? So I don't know what he saw. And for all those out there, like yeaah. He could have saw the referee do the old like, wave the chains, right? And then as soon as he sees that, he looks down at his pike sheet. Like, okay, let me get to my first down calls here. And he's going through it. And then it sounds like it's like someone told him like, hey, it's fourth down. He looked up. He was like, what?


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[Assistant] Getting the plays in on time, or getting out of the huddle was an issue all game. And this hasn't been an issue for the Dolphins this year. So this has to tell me it's the rookie quarterback in a tough environment. And how many times did we see him in the huddle reading his play?


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[Assistant] Team breaks huddle, few guys come back and are like, hey what did you just say? Or what play is that? And then he had to say it to them again. So obviously there was some stuff going on there. That's not an easy situation for a young quarterback to be in.


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[Assistant] Not playing to, you know, their standard, or the level we saw them play at their best. And I think that's a little bit like what we've seen here, you know, down the stretch with Buffalo all together. Right? I mean, even in the last game of the year.


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[Assistant] That wasn't a pretty game. They beat the Patriots. If they don't have the two kick returns, I don't know if they're gonna beat them though. There were some issues there. Right? And even the Bears game, before the Bengals game, right?


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[Assistant] Christmas Eve. It's 3513, but that game was dicey for a while. They were doing some dumb crap that day as well. And that's where it's a little like...


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[Assistant] We're not going into divisional round going. It doesn't feel like the Bills are hitting on all cylinders, right? Yeah. And we'll see. Maybe they can turn that around this weekend.


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[Assistant] Tyler Huntley is one of the better quarterbacks and backup quarterbacks in all of football.


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[Assistant] I've been 100% and you certainly made some crucial mistakes that we'll dive into here in a second. Were you concerned about the Bengals in this one? I'm more concerned about the Bengals.


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[Assistant] Started the freakin' Football Night in America show last night going, I think they're one of the most complete teams in football, in the AFC, from top to bottom. Right? Concern about...


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[Assistant] The right tackle is out for the year. Alex Capa didn't play yesterday. I don't know if he'll be back next week or not, but his injury was, it took a pretty big blow to his knee in week 17 or week 18 against the Ravens. Now Jonah Williams, the left tackle is hurt too. That concerns me, right?


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[Assistant] Because, yeaah, it's not, and Pete's in my ear going, he's on crutches in a knee brace. It doesn't look good. He ain't playing this week, I can tell you that much. I mean, his knee looked like it crumbled as he was trying to kind of hold his ground against a power pass rush, right? So, this was an offensive line that we know was not great.


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[Assistant] But had been playing good, 15 weeks of playing together, and they had gotten to the point where we started to go, wait, they're running the ball good enough, it's not great, that you have to worry about it.


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[Assistant] And they're pass directing good enough to where they can let some plays develop down the field now. But now we're back to like week three bangles again, where it's like,


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[Assistant] He's gonna have to have seven eyes in the back of his fucking head and also be able to pull out rabbits out of his ass in the meantime to avoid pressure. That was, that was concerning.


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[Assistant] Last night, you know. One, it looked like Baltimore was all over their pass game, their simple pass game that you've heard me talk about all year, right? And I was surprised with, you know, Baltimore's ability to run the ball on the Bengals. Uh, but yeah, I'm a little more concerned about the Bengals, I think, than the Bills.


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[Assistant] Makes it hard, exactly right. It's just, it's hard to live that way. And then when you have two receivers that you know can go down the field and like make some big plays, you're just, you're losing that opportunity.


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[Assistant] You know, the bills, hey, my concerns, yeaah, they're, they're there, but the bills are we, I think we put more into the classified of like,


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[Assistant] Hey, let's not do dumb shit, and let's just catch the ball, and right, there's a little of that. This is like, no, there's some physical issues here I'm worried about. Could totally blow up what we want to do offensively. That could blow up, exactly. The Ravens pass rush isn't that good, and we saw them collapse in the pocket pretty quickly, you know, throughout the game. Especially as the game went on.


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[Assistant] Uh, so that's, that's where I worry. You know, but I, I will say this. You know, one Baltimore outplayed Cincinnati. They should have won the game. They should have won the game. Their defense was great, right? Their offense


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[Assistant] You know, running the ball that way, consistently running the ball. And again, I'm concerned about that, but they might be the only team that can do that to the Bengals.


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[Assistant] I don't know, the only team I would go that would maybe do that to that group there would maybe be Philadelphia. Again, you know I think very highly of their run stopping abilities with DJ Reader and all that. Defensive line had a pretty good day, I mean like they caused some problems. They caused some problems, they did. It's just, I'm not used to seeing anybody run the ball on them and they did that. And, you know, the defense did some good things, definitely. But again, it's where,


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[Assistant] When a team can be like so bland and so patient and some of the basic stuff's working, then a few basic wrinkles work off of it, right? Oh, we're stopping the run and they're throwing it short. Stopping the run and throwing it short.


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[Assistant] Oh, Demarcus Robinson faked that short route, double move touchdown, right? Or hey, you know, run the ball bootleg, run the ball bootleg. Oh, he runs the bootleg, but oh, actually it's a throwback to Mark Andrews on the other side, right? They had some great wrinkles, they played the game just the right way.


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[Assistant] Really, Tyler Huntley's two big mistakes really were big. The interception in the first quarter that led to them scoring their first touchdown, right? They were kind of moving the ball.


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[Assistant] They were in Justin Tucker range. He throws the interception. He doesn't see the outside defender. Davis Gaither, the linebacker, does a good job, picks it off. And then of course the 14 point swing of the quarterback sneak. And then the pick up and the return for the touchdown.


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[Assistant] That's, that's one where it's like all you need to really talk about. A moment like that you almost always lose a game. In that big moment. And that was unfortunate for the Ravens.


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[Assistant] Bengals do a good job, Reader and Company do a good job of, of stalemating the offensive line.


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[Assistant] Because he's trying to go up and over, and it gets stalemated, he can't go over. He can only go up. Cause he can't clear it.


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[Assistant] Because they got enough push there to where he couldn't-


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[Assistant] Get his body horizontal, right? It was still going up in the vertical motion. And there's the ball. And then there goes Jermaine Pratt, who did a great job of going up, I think it sw- I think it was Jermaine Pratt? Was it Logan Wilson? Maybe it was. I can't remember. It was one of those middle linebackers, either way, and then, you know, Sam Hubbard gets it, and they return it, and it was unbelievable.


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[Assistant] It's football. Can you turn around? They're chasing the guy with the ball. Uh, and then they got away with a block in the back really. Uh, so.


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[Assistant] They're gonna have to be creative, I think, with the state of their offensive line right now. It's a game changer for them. It really is. It's gonna have to change the way they play, the way they call games. It's a little concerning. Where, I wouldn't have worried about that offensive line versus the Buffalo Bills defensive line a whole lot.


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[Assistant] If things were status quo. But, as it stands right now, I do. And that's clearly gonna be an advantage for the Bills in that matchup.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was, that was the one where he just went, and I think that was what, he threw the ball over the middle of the Dobbins, then they took forever to like- They huddled up, and then they hugged-


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[Assistant] 34 seconds. 34 seconds. I think I snapped the ball before that at a minute 17. That's where I was just like, I don't get what they're doing here. It's a mistake. What's going on here? You know, that was by far the most


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[Assistant] Bizarre moment. I don't, I don't know what the thought was. I can't defend it.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but yeaah, that's one where, call the timeout, re- regroup, and you can kind of assemble a game plan here for the current status, because I think that was their last timeout, right? No, they had one more timeout after that. They had one more timeout after that, yeaah. So, that's, that's, uh, I did not understand that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I mean they had kind of been in the no huddle mode. I don't know what the thought there was and that's where I gotta kind of go back and unpack it and kind of just see what exactly they were looking at. But yeah, they did not give themselves a fair opportunity there to take real legitimate shots at the end zone.


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[Assistant] Sometimes those guys can be a distraction, right? You know, even the night before the game, hey, that guy's not worried about anything. Hey, come to my room, I'm playing video games. Oh, shit, it's too late. Well, yeah, I don't have to play tomorrow. You do. See you later. They don't want that. Seems different, though, if it's your franchise quarterback. A little bit, yes.


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[Assistant] He is. I just don't know if it's going to be for them. I think it's fair to question. You heard Mike Florio last night. You've heard me talk behind the scenes. They're at the throw your hands up spot. They don't know what to do. They can't plan for the future.


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[Assistant] You know, yeaah, there's injury worries here. They can't figure out certain details of the contract.


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[Assistant] You know, I think there's some guys that think he could have maybe put the knee brace on and gutted it out and played. You know, as I told you a few weeks ago, I was told by people in the know there that, you know, it was just three weeks ago or maybe two and a half weeks ago, his knee was still the size of a bowling ball. And that was being questioned whether they thought he could even play for a wild card game back then.


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[Assistant] Right? But I think when you take all that into account and...


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[Assistant] Yeah, the situation, I think it's dicey in Baltimore. I do. And I don't think it's a good look for him that they got a deal done with Roquan Smith who has no agent, right? So, that doesn't make Lamar and his camp look any better here. It makes it look like they can get it done. It's something with you. Right?


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[Assistant] He's not gonna get a, I don't think he's gonna get a long-term deal from the Baltimore Ravens. He's gonna get franchised, and we'll see what happens, or he's gonna get franchised and he's gonna get traded.


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[Assistant] You know, and Florio seems to think that there was an offer made to him, which I had heard.


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[Assistant] Jake Glazier reported that and all that somewhere I think in the 180 million range as far as all that. Florio doesn't think if they make another offer he's not going to get the same size of an offer that he did. That the money will be lost over this year. Oh. Right. So. Well that would be a problem. It's going to be interesting. The one thing I keep connecting dots with because


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[Assistant] Yeah. I don't, I don't, I feel like this barrage is coming to an end. It does feel like that. It has that feel. And him being from South Florida and Miami.


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[Assistant] And I wonder where the Tua situation, that's the one area I keep looking at going, I could see Lamar, cause he would fit that offense.


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[Assistant] And of course, being from there. Now does Miami have the assets to trade and get them? I don't know. They might have to trade some players too, because they've traded a lot of picks away to get certain players. Uhm, but yeaah, it's just interesting and...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think there's an exhaustion from the Ravens of Lamar Jackson, and I don't know what Lamar Jackson's thoughts are, but I'm sure he doesn't feel great that he doesn't have a long-term deal yet.


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[Assistant] It's unbelievable. It really is. Unstoppable machine right now. And you know, and really, like,


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[Assistant] I'm not saying this to be critical. We're up 13-7 early and should have been more than that. He didn't play well early in the game, right? I mean, he missed some throws. He missed a touchdown on the first drive or, or I think it was the first drive. Maybe it was the second drive where they had to settle for a field goal, but he had Brandon Iook. He threw the ball like five seconds late. It should have been like no contest, easy touchdown, but he settled in.


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[Assistant] Seahawks battled, you know, early on. They were selling out to stop the run and take that away, you know, and Gino and them who struggled, they finally hung in there and put together a drive and, you know,


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[Assistant] Hung in there for a while where you're like, man, can Seattle keep this up? Are they going to be able to, you know, make a play every now and then on the 49ers offense? And then is Gino going to be able to make some plays like this consistently throughout the game? And it kind of felt like, man, they're going to keep answering the bell here.


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[Assistant] But, the pass rush of the 49ers got there, and once they got that strip sack at 23-17, the game was never the same after that.


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[Assistant] That's where they're scary. They can three yards, four yards, three yards, four yards, and then they get at like the 25 yard line, they get a 25 yard touchdown and you're like, whoa, okay. But yeah, they can kind of do both ways. They can eat up the clock and go on long drives. They're explosive and can do like we saw on their last touchdown drive, two play, 76 yard drive.


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[Assistant] It's like, it all starts with the run game.


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[Assistant] Like, magician of Kyle Shanahan's game planning. And the fact that Seattle was so overmatched in that department, right?


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[Assistant] That, we're sitting there watching the game. We made a tape for the, the high, you know, the pregame show on Saturday night before the Chargers-Jaguars. And, you know, they usually come to me, hey, what do you think the tape is for the 49ers game? What's the thought? And I was like, running the ball? And crossing routes. Because...


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[Assistant] I mean, every ball he threw was Kittle across the middle, Ayuk across the middle, this guy across the middle, and all shapes and sizes of them, but mainly like 15 and 20 yard crossing routes that were gashing the Seattle Seahawks defense because they were so worried about stopping the run.


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[Assistant] He's more consistent throwing those balls, I think, than Jimmy Garoppolo ever was. He just, he has great control that way. And what I think they did there, yeaah, that was by design. And it was by design because that's what the defense was telling Shanahan & Company to do.


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[Assistant] I think that's where it's cool, the 49ers. He's obviously in the trust tree to where the coach doesn't go.


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[Assistant] Like, wow, they're playing run defense, but I'm gonna keep running it cause I don't really trust them. He's like, oh wow, they're playing run defense like that? Well, I'm gonna dial it up. Brock's gonna hit it.


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[Assistant] And that's, that's amazing. And then the ability, like, go back and watch some of the plays and how they look exactly like the run play.


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[Assistant] Or it's the same pass pattern down the field, but they just changed up the fake behind it and the window dressing to where you don't think it's going to be the same play and you go, oh wait, they just burned me with the same play they burned me with five minutes ago. It was exactly the same except it just looked different at the start. And that's where he's amazing.


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[Assistant] He will be given the starting quarterback reps when they come back in OTAs and training camp. Definitely. Yea. Yea.


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[Assistant] Okay, listen to this. I'm telling you the keys to the play right here. Watch this guy. If you could just listen to me, it'll be open, right? That's all he needs. Now listen, if the offense and the team's not as good,


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[Assistant] Like, yea, Brock Purdy's not gonna be the guy that's gonna be like, hey, I'll scramble out of the pocket and throw sidearm lasers down the field and carry you that way. No, I don't think he's gonna be that. He's a quarterback that needs a little bit of a formula for success. But, the way their team looks right now,


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[Assistant] That formula's gonna be there for a few years. And so that'll be interesting. It really will be. But yea, to that point, I think, like, unless he throws...


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[Assistant] Four picks, and they lose one of these playoff games that way? I don't think there's any doubt that he's taking the first team reps when they come back in the spring in the training camp.


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[Assistant] Well, don't fall into the trap. You know, again, we've seen this from Shanahan before. I'm starting to see Brock Purdy, his first 10 starts are the greatest first 10 starts in the history of football. And he's up there with quarterbacks that are like first ballot hall of famers, you know, and that's where I just, that's the Shanahan effect. That's the genius of Shanahan. Nick Mullins went through the same type of thing. Now I think this guy's a better player than Nick Mullins.


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[Assistant] Debo, Kittle, McCaffrey, and most importantly, the biggest thing is, is just the running game. That's when this all started to explode. When they kinda got the O-line figured out, McCaffrey got there, and they started to go,


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[Assistant] We can run right up the middle, and you know it, and I know it, and my mama knows it, and we're still gonna get eight yards. And when they started doing that, then it becomes, oh shit, because everybody starts worrying about that, and then Shanahan can do all these things off of it that make them so tough. And, uh, they are...


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[Assistant] Definitely the hottest team in football, and definitely the best team in football right now. I know the Eagles are the number one seed, but we saw the Eagles kind of play unmotivated down the stretch.


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[Assistant] They're the only team I look at right now, the only team that I kind of go, they're hitting on all cylinders, right? When we just went through the bangles and the bills, obviously not hitting on all cylinders, right? The 49ers are that only team. The Chiefs, I feel like, kind of got on that week 18 and showed some


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[Assistant] Like glimmers of that down the stretch, but fell into that trap of like kind of unmotivated and we're the Chiefs and we'll just step on the gas pedal whenever we want, but the 49ers are clearly playing better football than anybody in the game right now.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think the office align, they're young, they will improve. I think there's a lot of things there to like.


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[Assistant] I mean, Gino, the way he played, Lockett, Metcalf, and Walker, you got something there. Nova, a tight end. There's plenty to work with there. It is all defense. They're a little like your Lions team. To me, it's a little bit like that, where you go, eh, a lot of things in offense are in place.


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[Assistant] They're gonna, yeaah, they got the Broncos pick, right? So, I know, I, you know, again, that's, that's what they're gonna have to decide. Do they want to go quarterback? Do they think they can ride the Geno wave? Geno's a young 33 or 4, whatever he is. And you can see, he still moves really well, his arm's still alive. Yeaah. Right? But, they need, they need some ass-kickers up front.


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[Assistant] And then it's 32. Okay, so he's 32. Uhm, need some big dudes. They need some difference makers, some disruptors, right? You know, I, I talk to most people, just normal fans, that they don't know anybody on the defensive line for the Seattle Seahawks, right? Ucheno Nobuo is really the only guy that pops, right? So they need some guys there to make a difference.


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[Assistant] You know, maybe another corner to add to the mix, but uhm, I think there's a lot of good things in Seattle for the future.


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[Assistant] Well, the Seahawks do, the ones that, yeah, because they got, uh, like probably $30,000 extra cash in their pocket, so they feel better. Yeah, that's a good point. From that playoff game. That's a good point. That's right. And they can just say they went to the playoff, so they got a little bragging rights over you guys there.


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[Assistant] I've never interviewed Mahomes, so that would be cool. You should, you should interview Mahomes. Uhm, but yeaah, I'm excited for that, I really am, and this, to me, coming up, is the best weekend of football of the year.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's the eight best teams. It is, and I know some people can argue the Jaguars, but I think everything else is, is just about right. And we'll see how it plays out tonight. Cause I am excited for this Buccaneers Cowboys game.


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[Assistant] Well, and Anne, Anne, to your point and what we talked about on last Wednesday's podcast.


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[Assistant] It's a matchup league, right? We talk about this all the time. Teams can be better in totality, but not necessarily in that specific matchup. I do think the Bucs posed some problems for the Bucs, uh, the Cowboys as far as this matchup. You know, cause like a little bit of what we saw, you know, what I got to see, and to me the biggest thing in this game is going to be, you know,


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[Assistant] Can the Buccaneers, how much can the Buccaneers stay out of obvious passing situations? If they have to be in too many second and nines and third and eights and all that, they are going to lose the game. They're not going to be, they can't block Dallas pass rushing. They couldn't block them week one. They won't be able to block them now.


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[Assistant] The run game is the one thing I go, can they do that? And it's weird. They are bigger than Dallas, we know that.


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[Assistant] Dallas, we've talked about it a lot, right? It's smaller, they have to put a lot of people to learn scrimmage.


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[Assistant] Tampa hasn't run the ball other than week one and then against the Seattle Seahawks in Germany. They have not really been able to run the ball on anybody. Dallas is better right now than they were in week one.


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[Assistant] So that to me is the, the, gonna be the key of the game. And within that too, like we talked about on Wednesday, is Dallas gonna have to go to such an extent to stop the run that it's gonna leave


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[Assistant] Diggs one on one against Evans and those type of matchups. Somebody, because that's going to favor Brady and them. They're going to win those. They're going to have the pick plays. They're going to throw back shoulders. He's going to throw the ball and the money down the field. They're going to have some of the screen plays to the receivers we talk about because you've got too many people bunched in trying to stop the run.


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[Assistant] So that's what I'm interested to say, but I'm gonna say, and I'm gonna go with what I saw all year. Not just, you know, cherry picking one or two games.


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[Assistant] That Dallas will be extremely motivated in this football game. The end of the year was weird. It was. They didn't really have much to play for.


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[Assistant] And then, uh, I, I, I think they're going to be able to slow down the run enough to where it's going to put Tampa into some real passing situations. And I think those totally favor, uh, the Dallas Cowboy defense. So that's where I like it. And again, I do think Dallas balanced offense, they'll be able to run the ball enough against this group. They're going to be a fun, close game. 24 20 Cowboys.


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[Assistant] It will be. Cowboys are, you know, talented football team, and by all due accounts, look like they should beat the Bucs. But they have not thrived in these situations. I think the, I mean, 2-12 win year, wins, your 2-12 wins.


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[Assistant] Yeah, maybe to his detriment. Maybe to his detriment, but. With coaches, you're right. I respect it. You're right. And the Bucks thing, you're right about that. I mean, this could be, hey, you gotta tune in tonight. This could be Tom Brady's last game. I mean, plain and simple. So that's worth the price of admission right there, and I'm excited to see Joe Buck and Troy McAuliffe.


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[Assistant] $100 on Zeke Elliott to score the first TD. You will win $800, but if you lose you still get $100.


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[Assistant] Eat it. I'm glad you lost your one point. I don't give a shit. Exactly. Yeah, give it to the casinos. They could use it. Right, yeah, right. They could use it, right. Alright everybody, that's it. We did it.


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[Assistant] Monday podcast, it's in the books, super wild card weekend, not


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[Assistant] Hopefully I should be able to watch that film even before we do the podcast. You know what we're going to do. We're going to break down the games a little further. What we saw. Look ahead. That's going to be probably the game plan. Look for us to break down a few plays on social media too that were relevant to last weekend and maybe relevant to some of the matchups this week. Everybody be good. Enjoy it.


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


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[Assistant] I haven't seen the tweet. It's an ongoing process. I'm following it very closely, just like everybody else is here and looking forward to a resolution. I'm excited thinking about Lamar all the time, thinking about him as our quarterback. We're building our offense around that idea and I'm just looking forward to getting back to football. I'm confident that's going to happen.


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[Assistant] He's got a little smokey smokey in in Kansas City. Yes, he did. That's right. Mike got to witness it too, which was even better. Pete, I don't think I've even told you that story yet. He got a giggle out of it, but yeah, we were, we were right.


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[Assistant] We had a great time at dinner. We had a few chiefs' mans come up to us and talk to us. Our man Doug, he was giving us the lay of the land on the history of football, right? Uh, but we got the drinking in early too. Doug from Little Rock.


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[Assistant] That's right. Right. And he's a, it was a Cowboys fan too. So he had it all going on, but yeah, we got our drinks in early and then we had a big meal. I don't know. I mean, I ate a steak that was, it was ambitious that I ordered it and it was a 24 ounce steak. I think I ate about 20 ounces of it, but that's certainly sucked up some of the alcohol.


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[Assistant] I would have if I figured you'd want it. You certainly could have asked. I didn't mean not to offer it. I didn't, but yeah, Mike got the little, you know, witness the that we walked what three, four blocks and.


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[Assistant] Uhm, not a lot of people around, so Chris went up and took a little stroll and let the food digest as Mary Jane did her magic. It was a good night, we had a good time.


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[Assistant] It is. I think this is where my film study does come in handy a little is this time of the year, just because the teams that we're talking about are the teams that I'm asked about on my podcast and I'm consistently, you know, Pete can tell you watching film, writing notes on these teams to where


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[Assistant] You know, again, not that I'm really good at it, but I got a good feel at least of these teams that are left. So thank you for giving me a little love there. I appreciate that. We got to figure out too, the big thing here is, you know, what we want to, we're going to pick one best bet today, right? I mean, we are going to do that, right?


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[Assistant] And are we gonna pick one best bet? Are we gonna pick a best bet for the Super Bowl? I dunno, I know you're in the lead by a game and a half. If we don't pick a best bet in the Super Bowl, then it's over. But if we do, then I've still got a chance. So, you know, that's what we gotta figure out here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's a busy week. Right, right. Well, they'll get it to you. Don't worry. Don't worry, Bobby, big time. They'll figure it out and they'll get your schedule all figured out. You'll be good to go.


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[Assistant] That was what I wanted to ask you before we start both in games. Which one, cause you were talking about the TV, right?


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[Assistant] You know, and I know the later game usually has the advantage, but this is Eagles 49ers, and it's huge. Like, which one do you think is going to get bigger ratings in the game? You know, w- w- w- it's really, cause there is the Borough of Mahomes thing, but it is Eagles Niners, huge markets, established traditional type teams there that seem to, you know, grab the attention of viewers too.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, it's an amazing matchup, right? We've hit on this a lot during the year. These are probably the most complete teams in all of football. They don't have


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[Assistant] You know, borough or my homes, but Jalen hurts obviously is established themselves as one of the better quarterbacks in football. That's for sure. And the MVP conversation, very important to what they do for their football team.


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[Assistant] It's the number one and number two defense in football. It's like we talked about on the show today, you know, it's, it's the all look, all ass kicker team. Again, if a fight broke out between the 32 teams in football, these would definitely be two of the teams that are in the final four.


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[Assistant] It's just, this is back to old school, who wins the line of scrimmage type of matchup, where I feel like the AFC games a little bit about the quarterbacks and the skilled guys.


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[Assistant] That's not to say this game doesn't have some skilled guys too. It's just they play it a little bit more through the physical manner, maybe then spreading it out and throwing it. I think, you know, the biggest thing and the first thing I just, I think I want to hit on is just this Eagles offense that we know special against the 49ers defense.


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[Assistant] And again, the 49ers are not a great man-to-man football team.


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[Assistant] But they might have to dab dabble in some man this week if they want to stop all the things the Eagles can do in the run game.


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[Assistant] You know, but normally, hey, the 49ers want to do things, Mike, like I explained earlier today, where, you know, the nickelback, he kind of plays in between the slot receiver, but he's ready to help the run game.


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[Assistant] And that's where I think, you know, screen games of the receivers can be a big thing. AJ Brown, bubble screen out in the edge. Devontae Smith. They're going to do things like that, let alone we know they're going to run the football.


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[Assistant] The Eagles last week actually simplified what they did on offense. They basically, and I heard Nick Sirianni say this before the Giants game. He went, we kind of went back in our week off and just looked at the things we did really well.


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[Assistant] And then said, how can we keep doing that? And when I heard that, I went, Oh, they're going to stop worrying about trying to check to this play and check to that play. And they're going to go, wait, there's so we can just call some of these plays and we're going to be good no matter what.


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[Assistant] Alright, so they can, they can impose their physical will on you in the run game. But I don't know if they can do that against the 49ers. That's gonna be the million dollar question. The 49ers run defense, and the Titans run defense, was in another class from the rest of football this year, as far as stopping the run is concerned.


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[Assistant] They got big up front. They got fast dudes on the edge of defense and, and they got the best duo of linebackers in football. And so their ability not only to stop the power run game, but then the read option off that they're set up to do that.


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[Assistant] You know, but I haven't seen them have to play an offense quite like this all year. And that's where, you know, that's the first part of the matchup that I think is very intriguing, Mike, and I'll leave it off there before we dive into the other side. But you know, what kind of jumps out at you as far as the 49ers D versus the Eagles offense in this matchup?


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[Assistant] Done it. They're comfortable in that setting. You know, they, they, I think they are. Yeah. Defense, you know, they, I think they opted to play that way last week, like we discussed on Monday and Tuesday.


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[Assistant] I think they were kind of reluctant on, I think they knew if we just play conservative and don't let Brock Purdy throw it 40 times a game and the Cowboys get a strip sack fumble and a one tip pass interception to Trayvon Diggs, we'll win the game. So I think they played conservative.


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[Assistant] So, that's where this is interesting too, Mike. I mean, I'm with you. I can see the defensive struggle, but on this one too, I can see the opposite a little too. Even though the defenses are 1-2 in football, we got two, neither one of these defenses played offense like the other this year.


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[Assistant] And then they have two very good coordinators on both sides where they can, they, they know how to attack rules on the defense. They just don't call plays and go, Oh, I like this play and it's got answers for everything. They're going to call a play and go, wait, they're playing this coverage. I am going to attack this coverage if they want to do that. And that's where, you know, it could get interesting too.


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[Assistant] Because you can't expect your defense to stop the Eagles offense completely. You know, they're way better on the offensive side of the ball than the Cowboys. And then I also, you know, look at it and go, the Eagles put the 49ers defense in some binds that they haven't been in in all year.


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[Assistant] And we saw some teams that, you know, we talked about the Raiders and the Miami Dolphins and even the Chiefs early in the year. They had an understanding of how the 49ers rules work and they attacked it and really made some big plays.


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[Assistant] That's something I'm looking at. Because again, Mike, the, the, the buying the 49ers are going to be in, like we said earlier, is they don't want to play man.


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[Assistant] So then, they play these four across looks, right? And they ask, like, Hufanga to be, Hey, we want you to kind of be a deep safety, but we want you to come down in a hurry and react to the run game.


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[Assistant] And he's gotten himself in trouble towards the end of the regular season by being too aggressive and letting up Devonta Adams big plays and things of that behind him. So, uh, that's, that's, uh, you know, you brought up a good point. I could really see the game going either way. Um, when it comes down to this 49ers.


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[Assistant] Defensers, Eagles offense, I do think the biggest thing to me will be yes, the controlling of the run game up the middle and couple that with the ability of Jalen Hurts to keep it on the edge.


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[Assistant] And can the 49ers contain that with their front six, right? You know, with the four linemen and the two backers, can they do that? Cause the moment they start going, wait, we gotta put more people down in here to help out.


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[Assistant] Then that's gonna give the Eagles some really easy looks and I don't think they can match up with the receivers on the outside. So that's to me where I really look at the key aspect of that matchup.


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[Assistant] You know, again, I, you know, Jalen Hurts is, I've never seen him- Or Gartner Minshew. I'll throw Minshew in too. Hey, well, you know, again, Jalen Hurts doesn't, he doesn't blink.


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[Assistant] And, the one thing where, you know, Jalen Hurts, you know, again, his, his, his throwing and passing has certainly come a long way. He's definitely not at, you know, the Mahomes Borough level yet.


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[Assistant] But one area he's very good at is the deep ball. That's the one thing he is top notch and he's a lead at it. He understands how to wait, make it a jump ball or let me throw it out there far enough and high enough to where the guy can now just go run under it. You know, he really got a good feel for that. So I would give Jalen Hurts the edge in that department.


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[Assistant] Purdy is in the conversation with Burrow, Allen, and Mahomes as the best quarterbacks in the sport. You didn't know?


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[Assistant] I mean, that's what it's gotten down to. I mean, I'm hearing conversations as, is he a top 10 quarterback? Is, you know, I'm just like, some of the things I've heard over the last week, I just want to go, wait, I got respect for Brock Purdy. He's doing a great job. Let's pump the brakes with two feet.


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[Assistant] Jam on him. Like come on, we're going to crazyville now. You know, again, it's been really good. He's doing a lot of good things. We know this team is awesome around them. They support them the right way. Um, but, but yeah, I hear what you're saying there.


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[Assistant] Exactly. Shanahan keeps track of that stuff, right?


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[Assistant] That's where, you know, again, they're special and like the Eagles, it's not necessarily quarterback centric.


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[Assistant] I think it's refreshing and cool. When I say that though, people think it's disrespectful. I'm not trying to say it's disrespectful. I don't know. I'm, I grew up with my dad won two super balls is the quarter. It wasn't a quarterback centric team. So I don't look at that as being offensive.


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[Assistant] Uh, but, but either way, you know, yes, I think the biggest thing is, Mike, to your point, I think you're spot on, it's more the system and all that. Is Shanahan just, he's creative, and because of the run game, you always have to worry about that to such an extent.


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[Assistant] And then it's like, there's, it's hard to have telltale signs about what he's going to do off the play action and the boot, right?


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[Assistant] You know, if they were a team that dropped back, dropped back past 40 times a game, then your point would be very real because then quarterbacks do have specific things they do in certain situations that they seem to rely on or always do. And those become, you know, a bit of an issue unless you correct them or whatever, but they don't play that way.


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[Assistant] And that's, you know, that's where they're an interesting football team. And then to that point, while we're on there, I think that's a big thing of the game. You know, again, I don't mean to be like, oh, it's about the running game. I never want to say that.


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[Assistant] And this one, this is, this holds true in both sides of the matchup. I mean, if Brock Purdy has to drop back 40 times in this game, the 49ers are gonna lose. I can just tell you that. That's a, this is one of the best pass rushes in the history of football.


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[Assistant] So, again, as good as that 49ers O line is, I don't think, you know, they're gonna be able to sit there and protect against that group all game long, let alone they're creative with how they blitz, let alone they can play zone and man behind it. They're good at both, unlike the Niners who are only good at zone.


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[Assistant] And Deebo Samuel has not been, you know, as great down the field separating as maybe last year and all that because of the injuries and all that. So that's where I don't look at that as being a thing for them.


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[Assistant] They need to be able to run the ball to a semblance of at least get the Eagles worried about it and make some things easier for Brock Purdy in the pass game and play action pass game off of that.


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[Assistant] It's very, very fair assessment. Exactly right. And those guys are rare, to your point. They're very rare. That's why I don't understand why people get so offended all the time when you talk about it. You know? Yea, you know, Joe Burrow, to a point, you know, is a game manager. He's awesome at it.


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[Assistant] And he never misses, and he never makes a mistake. And then...


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[Assistant] You know, to your point, maybe not like Josh Burr, you know, Josh Allen or Mahomes.


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[Assistant] But then he's just going to make, oh wait, people are covered. I got a little pressure. I'm going to slide around in the pocket and boom, I'm going to hit a 20 yard crosser as I'm kind of running up in the pocket, you know, to where, hey, it's, you know, I don't want to call Joe burrow a system quarterback, but I think I'm just trying to make the point to you that system quarterback, a guy that relies on the system. There's nothing wrong with that. There's not.


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[Assistant] Troy Aikman, damn, good team, executed the system to a perfection, made all the big clutch throws in the big moments, the stats will never go 350 yards, 3 tight touches, none of that.


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[Assistant] The importance and the timing of the big throws was important. And that's where I think Joe Burrow is amazing. Like, hey, there's a touchdown to be had in the second quarter. He's opened by four inches. Boom, touchdown. It's never like, oh, I missed it. They missed an opportunity and now they got a kick of field goal.


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[Assistant] So that's the big thing. Uhm, and I'm with you there. Hey, one other thing too I want to make a point with with the Eagles defense and the 49ers offense is just that


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[Assistant] Jonathan Gannon and what they do on the defensive side of the ball, you know, they do a lot of stuff. That's where I'm excited to see what Shanahan has in store for them. Gannon was, you know, you know, painfully simple last year and even a little bit early this year.


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[Assistant] But he like, and opened Pandora's box, and man, they do everything now.


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[Assistant] And that's where, you know, again, I don't think the 49ers can be as conservative on offenses last week. I think there's gonna have to be some more trickeration in the run game, more trickeration in the, you know, play action pass game, and maybe a few more reverses and speed sweeps and things like that, uhm, just to keep this Eagles defense off balance.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. Listen, you said a lot of good things there. You really did. Uh, you know, I think with a lot of the things, I totally agree with what you said with Brock Purdy and that situation. I understand that. Uhm, you know, I think also, I look at this, listen, I picked 49ers Chiefs before the year.


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[Assistant] You know who I'm rooting for? I want my buddy Kyle Shanahan to win and win the Super Bowl. That's no disrespect to Nick Sirianni of the Eagles.


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[Assistant] But my true football evaluation and getting down to that.


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[Assistant] I think the Eagles are gonna win the football game. I'm gonna take the Eagles 28 to 20.


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[Assistant] I do. I just look at it and go, I think the Eagles got more answers to the problems the 49ers pose as compared to the other way where I go, ooh, I don't know what the 49ers answers are going to be in this thing. And I gotta, you know, Shanahan, I know it was magical as you know, and you said too.


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[Assistant] You know, but I, I gotta see it. Cause as I, he's gonna have to show it to me. Cause I can't imagine it or figure it out right now to exactly how I can look at it and go.


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[Assistant] You know, oh yeah, they are going to move the ball up and down the field on the, on the Eagles defense all game long or, or, oh yeah, they will have all the right answers to stop the run and cover the freak shows outside in the pass game.


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[Assistant] So that's where I go with the Eagles. I think it's going to be an awesome football game, but I think ultimately the talent of the Eagles, them being at home, and yes, it's still a rookie quarterback to everything you were saying there. I just can't go with the Niners. Not logically. I'll be rooting for them in my heart and all of that, but my brain says the Eagles are going to win.


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[Assistant] You know, I guess, let's start, let's start with the Bengals O and the Chiefs D, right? Then go there first. Right? You know, and again, these games have been awesome. They've been close as hell. Right? You know, it's a little bit been just like, who has the ball last almost wins the game to a degree.


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[Assistant] You know, in the form, in the three matchups, I mean, again, Pete, you could correct me or Mike correct me if I'm wrong here, but the, the Chiefs were winning in the fourth quarter in all three matchups.


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[Assistant] And, you know, and again, it was 21-3 in the AFC Championship game. The regular season matchup last year, I think it was 21-7 and 28-14 at one point. The Bengals still won. And of course this year, I think it was 24-17.


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[Assistant] Chiefs at one point, early, fourth, late, third, so I might be off there a little bit.


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[Assistant] With this, and uhm, where did I say I was gonna start? With the Chiefs D and Bangalow, right? Yes, that's what I said.


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[Assistant] Again, I think that's why, you know, I couldn't pick them to win the game because of what we saw the weeks before that, where I went, man, this offensive line couldn't block Baltimore for shit. They couldn't run, they couldn't pass, they couldn't do anything. And on the road in Buffalo?


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[Assistant] You know? Again, I don't think any of us saw that coming. There's a reason Vegas had Buffalo as a six-point favorite at home, because they went, holy shit, the Bangles, Offens and Lions back to the way it was with Joe Burrow as rookie year.


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[Assistant] But then they come out and play their best game of the year. So that's where I don't know what to expect.


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[Assistant] The one thing I do know though is the Chief's D-Line is better than the Bill's D-Line. Definitely. 100%.


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[Assistant] So they pose more problems for them there. So that's the first thing. Can Chris Jones get off in this football game? You know, the first matchup, Alex Capo was all over him and blocked him by himself. And it's really like the only guy in football I've seen block them by himself with that kind of success.


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[Assistant] Alex Kappa? Yea, he's, it doesn't look like he's playing. Or Jonah Williams.


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[Assistant] So, you know, there, how much does the Chris Jones factor become an issue? But the biggest thing, Mike, as to what we broke down on PFT today for me in this part of the matchup. The Chiefs D has to be more expansive and diverse, and they have been towards the end of the year.


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[Assistant] In the previous matchups with the Bengals, as I showed, we showed some clips right this morning on PFT, if anybody wants to go back and watch it, where, you know, the, the Chiefs formula versus Joe Burrow has either been like blitz, all out blitz to where, okay, wait, we don't have enough blockers and I just got to get it out quick. And he's good at that. Or.


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[Assistant] They would just say, hey, crazy disguise, and then we end up in some form of cover two. Lots of different versions of it, but still cover two. But within that, like I've explained to you before,


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[Assistant] The bangles then just go, wait, okay, it's an all out blitz game and it's a cover two game and they can get to all their cover two plays that all work against Tampa two, two man quarters, quarter quarter half, whatever, whatever kind of two deep defense. And that's just Joe Burrows too good.


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[Assistant] You know, like Mahomes or Josh Allen, if you just play the same coverages all the time, they're going to be like, Oh, okay. It's that one again. Okay. Boom. And they're going to, they're going to be surgical and burrows the best zone quarterback in football.


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[Assistant] The Chiefs, when they got down 14-3 in the matchup this year earlier, they started to go outside, they went creativity.


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[Assistant] You know, they went to start doing some exotic type things and it gave the Bengals often some issues. That's my big thing, Mike.


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[Assistant] They can't sit there and just go blitz or cover two. It's gotta be, hey, double chase and play man. Hey, we're playing zone, but we're playing man on one guy. They gotta change up the looks, you know, send some blitzes every now and then because a burrow gets too comfortable like we saw in the second half last year in the AFC Championship game or the game earlier this year.


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[Assistant] It's just going to be slow death for the Chiefs defense. And to me, that's something I really look at that they got to change up a little bit.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that, that's where I, you know, I was trying to kind of say that before as far as him being like a game manager or whatever. He just knows how to play the game to win the game, you know, to win the game. He's not always into like, oh wait, this will be an awesome play and highlight and great throw if I fit this down there in the first quarter for a 30 yard game. He'll, he'll sometimes you'll go, oh man, he,


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[Assistant] You know, I'll, I'll echo a point you've heard me say through the year. You know, the Bengals offense is simple, but they have great talent at the skill positions. And you know, something I've tried to say on the podcast and Tony Romo said it in the fourth quarter of the game. And I know you've heard me say this already, Mike, but


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[Assistant] That's why the diversity of your defense is crucial against the Bengals. Because once they figure out how you're playing,


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[Assistant] You know, that's what they did last week. They were motioning people against the bills and they figured out they had a great feel and they knew how the bills were going to adjust to certain motions.


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[Assistant] And then they ran the ball into looks that were like, Oh wait, the nickel back isn't, he has to stop the C gap run with a pulling guard. Well, the nickel gap's not, the nickel back's not going to win that.


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[Assistant] You know, oh, it's a cover two game and then they get to their, even though they're kind of basic and they lack creativity, they're still right schematically on how they attack, you know, the, how they're being played. You can't do it. You gotta take a little risk every now and then.


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[Assistant] And, you know, I showed the play during PFT today where they doubled Jamar Chase. They got to do that every now and then. They got to dabble in man to man coverage every now and then. They got three corners who are supreme athletes. They don't want to live in man to man, but I think they got to take a chance every now and then.


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[Assistant] You know, and then to that point, you could crowd the line of scrimmage a little every now and then to where Joe Mixon doesn't go off. So we'll see what they do.


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[Assistant] You know, again, it's hard to say some of those stuff and, you know, you want to play man and do some of those aggressive things. But then the first time you get beat by Jamar Chase for a 50 yard bomb, you go, shit, I don't know if I want to call a man again the rest of the day. So I'm, I'm very excited to see how the Chiefs attack the Bengals offense.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're right. I think the biggest thing or the thing I feel confident is that yeah, he's not going to be able to run outside the pocket and then have somebody chase him and wheel back around the other way and then break somebody's eye. I don't think we're going to see that. That, that no.


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[Assistant] You know, the aspect of that, and you know, is one thing that I know you know, is the Bengals don't let quarterbacks do that.


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[Assistant] Josh Allen couldn't do it last week. Mahomes really hasn't been able to do it in any of the matchups against the Bengals. They are very good at understanding how to keep quarterbacks in the pocket. His movement within the pocket is the most important thing to me. Like we saw in that first drive of the game last week against the Jaguars.


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[Assistant] Hey, moving. Ooh, boom, throw here. Ooh, wait, I got a little pressure. Oh, jump throw. Oh, wait, I'm moving and now I'm being thrown to the ground and boom, I still throw it on the money. As long as he can move within that realm there.


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[Assistant] He'll be okay. He's not going to be as dangerous as he normally is, but Stam, he's, you know, it's like we talked about. One leg in my homes is probably still a top ten quarterback in football.


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[Assistant] The other thing here that, you know, has given the Chiefs problems are a little bit what I was just kind of trying to say the Chiefs need to do the Bengals. You know, the Bengals have every defense in the world.


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[Assistant] They do it all, and they're good at it all. That's why you and me believe Luan Arumo should be a head coaching candidate. He's one of the best demons of mines in the game.


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[Assistant] And you know, part of that reason is probably because he plays Joe Burrow on offense during training camp and OTAs and he goes, damn, if I just play the same coverage, a few plays in a row, they get to their plays and I can't stop them.


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[Assistant] So, you know, he's learned that the great quarterbacks, it's no longer just like, hey, this is what we do and we're going to be sound and do it the right way. You can't beat any of the good offenses and great quarterbacks that way.


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[Assistant] And the Chiefs have had issues with all the coverages being thrown at them. Like the clips we showed today. Three man rush.


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[Assistant] You know, sometimes it's covered three, sometimes it's Tampa two, sometimes it's covered three and somebody's just man on Travis Kelsey. Sometimes it's man to man and they double two guys and it's still a three man rush. They do so much on that side of the ball and they're great at zone and great at man.


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[Assistant] But where the Chiefs are different, Mike, and where we talked about this, and I think this week 13 matchup was part of the lights going on for the Chiefs a little bit.


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[Assistant] They're not just a Mahomes show right now. Like we saw last week, they have a real, tangible run game you have to defend for the first time in the Mahomes era. They can play Smash Mouth, and you can go, whoa, they ran it up the middle on us the last two plays for 25, 30 yards. Holy crap.


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[Assistant] So that is where I do look at this game a little bit to where if they can rely on the run a little, you can maybe simplify.


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[Assistant] The Cincinnati Bengals to where they can't always worry about, oh, we're going to play these coverages and have guys dropping all over the place. You start running, you start calling more basic defenses because you want to make sure, wait, I want to make sure my guys are in place to get in the gap to stop the run. And that'll be something, you know,


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[Assistant] Andy Reid's patience with the run, their success running the ball against a very good run stopping defense. Uh, that'll be interesting to see if they can have a little success there just to open up the other things we've, we've talked about.


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[Assistant] Too late, maybe 10 minutes late. Right. Start of the last hour. Yeah. Yeah.


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[Assistant] You know, like I was saying, and I wanna hit on this just before I do, like the run games, screen games, all of that are gonna be important for Kansas City. They are.


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[Assistant] And, you know, there's a part of me too that, you know, I just wanted to add this, where the Mahomes injury, like we talk about so much when the backup quarterback comes in,


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[Assistant] Now the offensive coordinator go, oh wait, we gotta, hey, we gotta help this guy out. We gotta do this. This might add them, you know, making them add a few more wrinkles to their game plan that maybe you wouldn't see on film.


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[Assistant] Because they go, well, we gotta help my homes a little bit. I'm interested to see that aspect. And the other thing that bothered me about the first matchup earlier this year, and you heard me say this on PFT, and I don't know where this comes from. I don't know if it's Valdez, Scanling, or Kadarius, Tony, or whoever.


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[Assistant] But there was a number of passing situations where the Bengals played to stop the


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[Assistant] It's a 12 yard pass where I'm going, oh my gosh, it's the chiefs and the safeties are nine yards deep. This is unreal.


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[Assistant] Cause it's like they were just waiting for the crossers or the fake crossers and the in-cut and they were gonna play that. Chief's gotta hit some deep balls to back them off a little bit too. And they haven't been great at that this year. All right. This game is so


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[Assistant] Awesome, I can't wait for it, alright? Because I think it's legacy, it's two teams that are chippy, I think both locker rooms are selling to each other that nobody respects us and they don't expect us to win.


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[Assistant] And I think it's the first time the Chiefs can legitimately sell that to their locker room in a while, let alone they've never had a team where they look at and go, wait, we can't beat this team? I mean, what's going on here? And then there's the Mahomes-Burrow angle. Mahomes not at 100%.


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[Assistant] But I gotta go with the Chiefs. I think the Chiefs got playmakers. They're at home. I think they're gonna be motivated. I gotta see the Bengals offensive line one more game. Do what it did last week. I just, I don't believe it all the way yet.


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[Assistant] So, uh, let me get my score here, but I'm picking Chiefs 24-20 over the Bengals, which will give it the Andy Reid Bowl, Eagles vs. Chiefs in the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] Yeah, listen, they're tough, they're gritty, like you talked about. They seem to thrive in these, you know, type of instances. So that's, I understand it. I, I feel less comfortable about this game than I do the first game.


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[Assistant] You know, that's the first thing. And that's where I mean, my best bet, I'm going with the Eagles as far as my best bet. That's the one I feel best about.


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[Assistant] Um, you know, and not that I feel totally great about that either, but yeah, the other one is so close and it's Kansas city at home and it's, you know, we lost three times and, and then it is Joe burrow and their magic. So I just, I'm not going to touch that one. I'm scared of it.


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[Assistant] That's it. There's no Folsom County Blues here or whatever the hell we call it, right? I mean, we're not gonna do that. It's the championship weekend. I'm not guaranteeing anybody to lose. Oh, Folsom Prism, sorry. First of all, first of all, it's


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[Assistant] I lost my Jersey accent when I left Jersey for a long period of time, and people were always like, oh, you don't sound like you're from Jersey. But then when I get around my Jersey friends a little, then all of a sudden I'm like, hey, hey, hey, F you, hey, get the hell out of here.


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[Assistant] Who knows? The future isn't written. That was like a Shanahan bad headline right there. Dr. Doom strikes again. If Jimmy Garoppolo is not dead, he'll be the starting quarterback of the 49ers. If Florio and Sims are not dead, they will do more podcasts next year. There are other complications other than


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[Assistant] You're right. You're right. I know. So I guess you won basically. I mean, we're gonna pick a bet, uh, who we're picking against the spread, right?