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[Assistant] I never have either. I mean, I have, but I mean, I guess if somebody did it and they were yelling at me like Daron Payne was, that would be a different thing. But there is definitely a no-no about touching someone's head or face, really, in kind of man's world in general. Some guys have a little more issue with it than everybody else. I mean, clearly, definitely. But like, I know there was,


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[Assistant] Oh, that was the haymaker we're going to knock you into next week. I mean, that was unbelievable. And I've said before, I had that little issue once in my life. I was messing around with a linebacker on the bucks one year, Adam Hayward. I mean, he was


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[Assistant] I don't know if I can reach you, but you know, listen, if it's a boxing fight against him, maybe I can hang in there for a little bit. But as soon as he gets me on the ground, he's going to overpower me and just beat the crap out of me. So, uh, yeah, don't mess with big people and don't touch their heads when you're not supposed to. A good reminder. Yep. Good reminder.


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[Assistant] Uhm, we got a lot of good stuff to talk about today. We do. Yeaah. I mean, the league's exciting right now. There's a lot of good storylines. Playoffs coming around. Covid's everywhere. That's freaking annoying. I'm not gonna lie. But either way, we got some real football stuff to talk about today.


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[Assistant] Glad you're saying it. And again, first off, I'm just gonna start like, absolute tragedy, he's not in the Pro Bowl. No way Lamar Jackson should make it in there before him this year. I mean, no way. So that's stupid, I just want to tell that to everybody. And then,


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[Assistant] Unreal performance, to jump off what you're saying. Unreal performance.


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[Assistant] Not like, really on any year, let alone the years when they're a top five-ish defense in the NFL and we know they're famous for their past defense and that's their strength and their bread and butter.


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[Assistant] And then it's, let alone when you go, wait, there's not really much of a run game to worry about in Buffalo. Ooh, no, that's an issue. They really only have Stefan Diggs. Ooh, that's kind of an issue. Right? So you got all of those things that you thought, well, that means they're going to be able to really focus on Josh Allen. And that's what we're going to show. Basically, like it didn't matter.


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[Assistant] Like to what your, to your point. Josh Allen was off the rails good. He is officially, I don't care, if you're not ready to put Josh


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[Assistant] Every defense under the sun. And it did not matter. Even on the plays where his defense won, to your point, Allen escaped the pressure. Oh wait, they called the perfect blitz. Oh, I'll make a miss and scramble out and still get a 10 yard game. And that's when you start to get the Bill Belichick hug after the football games.


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[Assistant] That's when, that's when you know. That's when you've reached like Peyton Manning, that's what he does with Aaron Rodgers, you know, Ed Reed. That's when you know you've reached the, we, we do a lot to game plan for you and we still can't stop you. So I'm going to come over here and give you a hug because you're officially on the Bill Belichick all time team. And that's where I think Josh Allen's gotten now.


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[Assistant] You know, last year, listen, what they did, it was magical and all that.


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[Assistant] His play went to another level. The way they attacked defenses kinda caught everybody by surprise. It's not catching them by surprise. There's more on his shoulders this year. This is why I thought they would lose a few more games this year, cause I went


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[Assistant] I don't know if you can really replicate what he did last year. That was amazing. You know, we've seen some games where, yeah, Jacksonville, he did some dumb stuff. But to your point again, it's all on him. And I don't know if you can replicate that going through the playoffs either. They're tough on defense. They're well coached.


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[Assistant] And, you know, playoffs, extra focus, all that, rising to the big, you know, big lights occasion and all that. Uh, and then Josh Allen's gonna be, nobody's gonna wanna see him rolling into town come playoff time just because he's so unstoppable out of the time.


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[Assistant] You know, I gotta look at the league wide conversion rate against all defenses with third and seven plus is probably in the mid thirties.


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[Assistant] I mean, hey, the thing we're gonna show here more than anything, and the point of all this is just like, it's, it's, it's, what we're gonna show, I think two, three plays here at Josh Allen, is just that the, the Patriots exhausted every option, they called every defense Belichick's ever run in his life to try to slow down Josh Allen.


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[Assistant] You know, what Josh Allen does is, you know, here's the first thing I would just say about the game in general. They did a great job, for the most part, not playing dink and dunk.


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[Assistant] Football. It's not going to be here on the, you know, the three yard line going in, but they called a lot of plays that are aggressive down the field and they trusted Allen.


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[Assistant] To make the right decision. Hey, if it's there, let it rip, go get it. If it's not, we trust you, we'll have somebody underneath working some coverage there, and you'll go to the ball that way. I mean, four-man rushes, all-out blitzes, cover two.


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[Assistant] Double this guy. Three man mushers with a QB spy. All of these things were run by Bill Belichick and the New England Patriots in this football game. And it just didn't really matter. And here's one I'm gonna show you right off the bat. This is where third down, you know, I mean it's a fourth down, excuse me, it's a kind of a


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[Assistant] Four man rush, but it's a four man rush and the fact of like, there's really a bunch of guys just spying him and trying to keep him in the pocket.


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[Assistant] Two guys really just spying him. I mean, he's watching anything up the middle.


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[Assistant] Uh, a defender here at the one yard line. Van Noy, who's rushing in one of the four just to eat up the space. He's really paying attention to him to not, you know, escape the pocket and make a play with his legs to run it in from the three or four yard line. All right. And then this is where to me, Josh Allen and like you heard Belichick say this stuff.


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[Assistant] He reads the defense as well. He goes through all the reads on his side of the ball. You know, he's accurate. You know, he listed off all the issues Josh Allen poses. And this is to me where he's become a different player over the last two years. He just, wait, you know, he has the presence of mind and this play right here got three receivers to his right.


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[Assistant] And have Devon Singletary come out and get a natural pick play with the two Patriot players. Patriots know what's coming. They switch it off perfectly. So that's where he looks first. Look, he's looking, and then it's like, oh crap, wait, they passed this off perfectly. Now, okay, wait, it's a three man rush. In his mind, he tells himself that.


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[Assistant] Okay, I got time, let me sit here, go through the pocket, and the patrons are trying to play, you know, a coverage in which they pass things off. As you can see, down here, we got


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[Assistant] Two under routes, right? Really what they're trying to do. Mackenzie's the first under route.


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[Assistant] Uh, Miles Bryant's gonna pass him off. Hey, Adrian Phillips, you got him. Now he's gonna kind of sift off because he knows somebody else is coming off here to get the under route by Diggs. And then J.C. Jackson should come back here to help out McCordy, who's in a compromised position on running the corner route. That's kind of the way they're playing it.


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[Assistant] Again, we're playing a guy here now who's, this is no longer just great physical ability, oh wow plays. It's a guy who knows how to play the quarterback position the right way.


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[Assistant] It's a special skill. Yeaah. It's a skill that I know is beaten into his brain by Brian Dayball. This is something New England used to talk about with me when I was, you know, playing for Josh McDaniels in Denver or even coaching there. Three man rush. Take a deep breath.


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[Assistant] You know, don't panic that you gotta get the ball out. Let the play develop, you know.


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[Assistant] And that's where he's unbelievable and as you see here, again, the patience and the trust they have in him right now, I think says it all. Sits there in the pocket. What a quick release. Patriots can't...


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[Assistant] I don't, when they play him, he makes plays. I don't know why he doesn't play more. Uh, but to me, he was a difference maker in this football game. He's one of the few guys on their team that I go, you play one on one, you better watch out cause he can run away from you. Really him and Diggs are the only two guys that do that to me.


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[Assistant] I think so too. I'm not really sure 100% there. Either way, he found the right place to go. Allen hit him. And it was just, again, another shot of what we're going to show you here again. Different defenses, Belichick, we could spend the whole show showing you different defenses Belichick tried to throw at the guy. It just doesn't matter. He's smart, he's talented, he's been coached well, and he was ready for


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[Assistant] Exactly right. They got the look we talk about all the time. There's five guys across here. Who's coming? Who's not? I'm not sure. And really one, two, three, four are to the right of the center. So, you know, they're scared of that. They're scared of that. So they're going to send.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, this is where you know, you know, knowledge of opponents. We've played this guy. I know Brian Dayball. Well, then that leaves Duggar wide open to rush. They've, they've, they've cracked the code on this pass protection and what they were going to get in this formation.


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[Assistant] So, not only did they do that, okay, but now it's a four-man rush. You see one guy's totally free. You got two guys dropping out underneath because they're worried about crossers, right? So, oh, the crossers are screwed.


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[Assistant] You're not gonna be able to throw that, alright? You got a guy here, waiting for the back out of the backfield. There's nowhere to go, and...


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[Assistant] The protection is screwed over by a great defensive play called by the Belichick's, alright. And you go, Belichick's probably sitting there going, well, we're going to win this play. Yep, we're going to win this play. We're going to win this play. We're going to win this play. We're going to win. What? He threw the ball 20 yards across the field.


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[Assistant] Rogers does it a little, but Rogers is more careful. Mahomes and Allen are the first ones I've seen where it looks like the coaches don't even say, don't do that. They're just like, if he's open, go ahead. We don't give a damn. You'll get it there. It's odd. I mean, these are, as we know, we grew up around this. I mean, these are quarterback no-nos.


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[Assistant] But here is a play where the Belichick's called everything perfect. The play should be stopped. It's third and ten.


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[Assistant] And he makes this play and they end up getting 12 yards for a first down on the perfect defensive call. And that kind of just encapsulizes, encapsulizes, am I right about that?


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[Assistant] Encapsulate. It's the second time today I think I've used encapsulizes.


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[Assistant] These both plays, of just what he got throughout the day. He was always mentally in the right place. And I think again, the big thing, you know, there was enough of a run game where the Patriots couldn't just go, oh we can just play past all game. They did just enough in sprinkling that in there to keep them honest. And to me the other thing too is, you know,


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[Assistant] I feel like in previous matchups, the Bills against the Patriots, and I know the windy game a few weeks ago is a tough one, but even the two last year, there was more of a...


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[Assistant] I don't know what the reasoning was, but in this one, to me, it just felt like, with my eye, that there was more plays called to attack them down the field. Attack them down the field. Make them cover that. And it's kind of the New England approach from when they want to throw the football, and I tell people this all the time, you know, New England, when they want to hit Edelman over the middle or do that,


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[Assistant] Their genius was, they called aggressive down the field passing plays to where it got the defense backed up in a way and Brady would read it out knowing like, wait, this is really a coverage I'm gonna go down to the short guy, you know, but I'm gonna still look at it just in case a guy falls down and maybe I got the post route or whatever, but knowing that


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[Assistant] I'm gonna come to the short guy and get my completion there if they play too much of a pass defense down the field. And I really got that sense throughout the game.


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[Assistant] That pressure really compromised the Patriots. They didn't trust it. They didn't trust defending Josh Allen's arm down the field. And then the other thing I think it did do too was it did help with the running game a little. And we talk about this too when you spend people downfield.


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[Assistant] It gives the quarterback some room to run. All of a sudden there's a big lane that opens up and it's, oh damn, he's going to rip off 20 yards here. We're kind of screwed because we're downfield covering 40 yard routes down there. Uh, that was a little bit of a change up to me for what the Bills did on that side of the ball too.


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[Assistant] Bills did a great job on first and second down. Hey, the Patriots are the king of, we're at second and sixth, we can kind of do anything we want, it's third and two, we can run it, we can run a reverse, we can run a screen, we can throw a 30-yard pass, and you're just, what defense do you call to stop all that stuff?


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[Assistant] So the Bills did a phenomenal job of winning first down. The Patriots were in second in 8 or 9 or 10 throughout the game. And the biggest thing that I think that sets that up is


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[Assistant] Again, the run game was good by the Patriots, but it wasn't the same gashing that they got the first time around. You know, hey, they ripped off a few big runs, there's no doubt about that.


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[Assistant] The first time around it was we ripped off a big run and every other run was 6 or 8 yards to go along with it. This time around it was, alright you ripped off 30.


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[Assistant] But the next three runs were one and two and one and two and one and two. Okay, now you ripped off 15. And to me that gave them a fighting chance. It really did. They were very disciplined in their run fits and they crowded the line of scrimmage.


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[Assistant] To stop the run, and you know, I've heard, you've heard me use this phrase, they shoot, shoot gaps, shoot their, shoot your gun.


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[Assistant] You know, don't sit there in the gap and wait for them to come to you and let the blocking develop. Just run through the damn gap, create chaos, because more than likely, the running back's gonna run through that same gap that's a big hole too.


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[Assistant] And that to me is a little bit of what they did. They had a better feel of what the Patriots like to do in the run game. So of course they were greased up and coached up on that off the last film to how to stop that a little bit better. And really, the Bills controlled the flow of this game throughout.


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[Assistant] You know, I know the Patriots stayed in there and made some great drives and hung in, and of course, you know, uh, it was a one score game late in the fourth quarter, but the, the, the, the flow of the football game, in my opinion, was always on the Bills side of the, of the field.


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[Assistant] The bills the first time around. And to me, this is just what I'm really showing you. This is a positive for the Patriots and just what they do a little bit. Bills were all over.


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[Assistant] Because the first time they played, okay, I mean the backside pulling guard with the full back leading the way like we're seeing here, I mean you'll see here, Karas pull guard, full back leads up, you know, block down, block down, block down. That killed the Bills the first time around.


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[Assistant] Second time around, the bills are ready for that. And I'm gonna show you some clips for it here in a second. They made all the proper adjustments at the second level when people pulled or that extra gap was formed on the front side. But what I want you to watch here is


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[Assistant] This is all a play about, we think they're gonna overplay the play we gashed the first time, right? He's gonna pull...


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[Assistant] That's Matt Milano, great player. His key is to watch him.


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[Assistant] Watch him as they do the pull and do all the action of the pulling guard power play and then flip it to Damien Howers at the backside. This is just great game planning, you know, seeing one step ahead of knowing like, hey, they're going to overplay that run we killed them with. And what I really, again,


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[Assistant] But he's keyed into what he's being coached to do. Watch how long he continues to stay in his gap because we pointed out the first time with the long run, it was his gap where they ran the toss, same kind of power play, and then he cut back all the way for the long touchdown play.


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[Assistant] This one, he's all keyed on him where he's supposed to go. Look, he's still in his gap. He's still in his gap. Look at him over here.


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[Assistant] They're always going to have something for you if you overplay something too much, and that was their kind of go-to play of the day a few times of third and short, whatever, we'll flip it out there because they'll be condensed trying to stop some of the inside power run game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they definitely came back better. You know, and like I said, the big thing is they won on first and second down. Now you're making a rookie quarterback against a pretty good defense.


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[Assistant] Have to read coverages in long-distance situations. The other thing I'm gonna show you about, with, with the, uh, or what I wanna say with the Bills, the Bills covered really well. They were not inflated to play man-to-man.


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[Assistant] On the Patriots. And the Patriots, you know, they're good receivers, but they're not weapon dangerous guys. And they said, alright, let's roll the dice there. Alright, so here, listen, this is going to be tough from this angle, but this is where I want to show everybody a little bit.


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[Assistant] It's hard to see because we're not in the end zone copy here, but then there's Tyron Johnson. Tyron Johnson's gap is on the outside.


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[Assistant] That's Jacobi Myers, okay? So that gap, alright, he's got the edge here because they're afraid of course he's gonna block down and now there's gonna be there so he's got the edge there, alright? So I'm gonna go through this one more time. He's got the edge off the tackle in between Jacobi Myers, right? He's got the true edge setter outside of Myers, alright? Now we got, uh, let me just make sure.


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[Assistant] Edmunds in this gap between the guard and the tackle. Phillips between the guard and the center, alright. You got linebacker, I believe that's Matt Milano, responsible for the other guard and center gap on the right. Ed Oliver between guard and tackle, alright. And now we got


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[Assistant] They're gonna run a play where Jacobi Meyer's gonna go in motion, and like I always tell you, now another gap is formed on the other side, right? There's gonna be another gap here, because he's gonna block, and now you gotta worry about this gap in between him and another gap on the outside. Where the Bills were really good throughout the day was, when this came, okay, like this, they all bumped over one gap.


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[Assistant] As they see this, and this is incredible coaching and recognition to where when they see this motion go, he now knows he doesn't have to worry about the gap outside of Jacoby Myers. Am I making sense to you, Paul? If I'm not, then, then tell me. I'm on it. Alright, good. Cause if you're not following, then the people listening ain't following too.


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[Assistant] So he knows that's gone, that gap. And like I told you, here, Basham, he's got the outside edge of a win on there. So now, they're bumping everybody over one gap.


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[Assistant] Because there's one less gap to worry about on the backside, because this guy's gonna go, and one more gap's formed on that side. And that's where great running offenses get you sometimes, is they do that type of stuff. So again, here was Edmonds


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[Assistant] Responsible for the gap between the left guard and the left tackle, alright? But now when that Myers goes at the snap, okay?


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[Assistant] And now Milano went to the gap that Poirier was responsible for and now Poirier bumps outside. I'm sorry that's a lot of talking, but either way, this just shows you first off how great of a coach Leslie Frazier, McDermott are to


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[Assistant] Be able to teach their guys this, for them to be able to realize, listen, you can even see, look at the top of the screen here, Matt Milano is just hopping.


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[Assistant] He's kind of almost like, look, you can see he's almost like pushing Jordan Poy over, like get over there, you gotta get out there, I'm in your gap now. The things have changed, there's gonna be another gap here after this, and he comes here and tries to get on the edge. And they're all over it. So, it shows two things, it shows one, unbelievable snap,


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[Assistant] After the snap adjustment and reading recognition by their defense. And then the other thing is I want you to watch Teron Johnson. What did we tell you? Like, if there's a huge hole, run through it.


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[Assistant] Wait, because he's gonna run through this hole, if he doesn't. Like, this is gonna be, this is gonna be Damian Harris cut back lane run once he sees all these backers kicking over to the strong side, but he's not gonna cut it back when you got a guy shooting your gun and running through the gap. So now he's stuck and he has to go front side.


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[Assistant] Again, they're not the biggest defense in the world. They did have Vernon Butler back, which helped them. It's a big body in there at 330 pounds, but they had a better understanding of how they were attacked off that first game.


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[Assistant] And they executed it the right way. And again, they got run on, but they didn't get annihilated in the run game. And they got better as the game went on too. They got better as the game went on. Exactly right. And controlled the game flow to where the Patriots couldn't


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[Assistant] They had a throw. We gotta keep going. We gotta extend the game. We can't stop Josh Allen. So, we gotta do that. And that's where they, you know,


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[Assistant] It's, it's a, I think part of the in huddle call that they've prepared for all week. Okay. And they know that within that in huddle call, that if something like that happens, we have to make the post snap adjustment. You gotta have a defense that's played together and some linebackers that are smart


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[Assistant] No doubt. He's got it. I think all those guys are real football nerds. Like a lot of the game. A lot of veterans have been there for a while. No, you're right. It's a lot of veterans. You said it right. Edmonds is what? This year four, five, four for him. You know, Matt Milano, I think is a year or two older than him.


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[Assistant] This is your three for him, right? I know. So yes, they're, they're greased up and they're two hell of a coaches on that defensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well this is gonna be again the great understanding of the Bills knowing how they were gonna be attacked by the Patriots and because they win first and second down or know what to expect.


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[Assistant] Off of certain plays or formations. Yeah, they were all over some stuff. They really were. I mean, this is gonna be a cool play to show. This is a, this is a famous New England play, the Pop Pass, okay? I mean, play at, it's gonna be very similar.


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[Assistant] Uh, to the, the, the first play we showed, okay, where it's, it's gonna be a backside pulling guard, alright?


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[Assistant] And then, within that backside pulling guard, like I told you, another gap is formed.


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[Assistant] So, now the guard's gone, 99 now has that whole gap between it, and the backers gotta kick over a gap. They show all of this on this play. Alright? But within that, AJ Klein, who, you know, here before the snap, alright, I'm just gonna try to snapshot this here for a second,


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[Assistant] AJ Klein, it's hard to see from this angle, is responsible for the gap in between the left guard and the left tackle. Alright? He's responsible for that gap, but that gap disappears.


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[Assistant] Because the guard pulls. So now he's got to bump over. He does bump over and you'll see all of them bump over to a degree. But it's the great ability of read and react once he knew or saw the pass set from maybe the other offensive lineman to get back underneath and make things cloudy.


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[Assistant] For Mac Jones, contest the throw. Make your throw into a tight window.


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[Assistant] And he gets a hand up on it, intercepts the pass, and another big play by the Buffalo defense. Mack was not on his best game, missed a few throws, alright? I mean, Mack at times gets too much into the over the top throwing, in my opinion, a little of that gets him in trouble, makes him miss a few throws.


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[Assistant] For the most part of the day, it was good, tight coverage, understanding where they want to go with the football, and you know, the fact that I think they didn't fear New England man-to-man-wise really helped them


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[Assistant] Overlooked a lot of times in really good pass defenses. And I would go, if you go through history and look at pass defenses, they have good safety in the box, two linebackers that are athletic, can cover ground.


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[Assistant] You know, have wingspans that can give you issues there. You know, that's, that's, uh, that's, that's the point. And they have athletic guys who understand football and can really read and react and move at a high level.


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[Assistant] I think they're gonna have to scare people just a little bit more on first down with throwing the football.


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[Assistant] Not let them all just overplay the run game all the time. And...


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[Assistant] You know, I'd like to see them take a shot or two more too. Just to back people off a little bit. People are so worried about the run game right now and trying to stop that and overcrowd the line of scrimmage and they went through a period of time where it didn't matter and they still just ran the ball on people. But you're seeing people start to adjust and learn how to play it. To me, the Bills showed everybody at the end of the first matchup


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[Assistant] Because, patrons are too well coached. You let the play develop just the way they thought you were gonna line up and be, they're gonna, they're gonna block it perfectly. And you're gonna get moved and they're gonna get an eight yard run.


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[Assistant] So teams are going, okay, we know they're going to block it perfectly. Let's be in spots where it messes up their blocking. They can't get to the next guy off the double team and let me get to the second level. And I think that's the thing we're seeing a little bit more into where, yea, it's putting a little more pressure on Mack Jones in the passing game.


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[Assistant] No, I don't think so at all. I mean, uh, really, the bills, I expect them to win the last two games. The Patriots, of course, this week, I expect them to win. And then got, you know, a tough one to go down in Miami, which will be, you know, certainly for playoff seeding, maybe be in the playoffs in


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[Assistant] That's the biggest thing. Now where I'm gonna defend Baker is in Interception 1 and 4 it was blatant passenger interference. Blatant. I mean blatant, blatant, blatant, blatant. The first one, I mean it's, at the very worst it should have been an incomplete post route down the middle.


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[Assistant] They got it. They got Green Bay in a bad spot. Rasul Douglas just cuts Donovan Peoples Jones off and doesn't let him run the post route. And that lets Darnell Savage get back and get the interception. So we got screwed that way. Interception number four, you know, and one at the end of the game, a lot of people have been talking about, yeah, Rasul Douglas grabbed the guy and slingshotting himself forward to catch the ball. Should have been pass interference.


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[Assistant] They got a little screwed over by that. Now the other two interceptions in between, Interception 2 and 3 by Baker, they were his fault, period. Horrible interceptions. And it cost them points. You know, the first interception, they're in the red zone fringe, it's third and long, he's got a guy open to the right, he's got some pressure.


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[Assistant] You know, the guy's open. He just, he throws it off his back foot and misses it by five feet. It's intercepted, cost of them field goal. You know, then before the half, he's got Jarvis Landry going up the sideline. You know, he doesn't really read out the play. He doesn't let the guy who's clearing, uh, Stokes out.


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[Assistant] Completely clear him out. He just goes, it was open in practice all week, I'm gonna fire it in there. And Stokes adjusted and saw it coming and makes the interception. I believe that was Stokes, I'm pretty sure it was. No, it might have been Shannon Sullivan on that one. Uh, I'm wrong, it was Sullivan.


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[Assistant] You know, those were big moments because then Green Bay went down and scored a touchdown for the half. So those turnovers were certainly


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[Assistant] The difference in the football game. You know, so I look at that, but this is what concerns me about Green Bay, everybody.


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[Assistant] This is where I've been trying to say, I know gr- they got the best record in football, I get it.


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[Assistant] They're not the most talented team in football. They're not the top three talented team in football. They're not a top five talented team in football. They have the MVP. They got the MVP and it's all on him and execution and we're not going to mess the game up.


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[Assistant] And that's all great. I just don't know. Again, I'm gonna say it for the 50 millionth time in the last month. I don't know if that can get you to the Super Bowl. I don't know.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Because Brady and the Cowboys, they got more talent. Prescott, Brady, they're gonna execute.


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[Assistant] They are. They're gonna execute too, so what are you gonna do when the other team executes like you do, and yet they have more talent? That's what scares me about the Packers is games like this where Cleveland was better than them. Period.


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[Assistant] Right, against a good team, if he throws one, it might be the difference. That's what I'm saying. You know, to me, so we'll break some things down. The run game for the Browns was dominant, 100%. The Packers defense is good, it's well coached. There's a lot of good. There's no great anywhere. There's no great anywhere.


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[Assistant] So, let's go to it. Let's get to it. We'll get to the run game first.


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[Assistant] Yeah, great success. This was, this was the run of the first half, okay? I mean, this was it right here. There was great, like, little concept. Center, right guard.


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[Assistant] You see there, there's our guy Wyatt Teller. Probably should have been called for a low block on the defense right there who tried to decapitate his knee and take it off. I don't think it was called. You know, again, the referees in the NFL, I don't know what they're watching sometimes. It only happened right in front of the ref, but.


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[Assistant] This was the play that continually gashed Green Bay in the first half. It was another play in the second half, but you see here, you know, the Green Bay Packers trying to kind of play a, you know, not a bearish front, but squeeze people in the middle of the, of the, of the offensive line. It is kind of a bearish front. It's a kind of a,


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[Assistant] Barish front to a degree. They're trying to stop the inside run game. So hey, what do we do? We're going to pin all you in there and get out on the edge and run from there.


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[Assistant] Inside zone. Inside zone cut. Green Bay got so worried about getting on the edge and stopping the edge, they started to just go, duh, force the edge and you'll find a cutback lane because they're going to be worried about these pulling guards and the blocking down.


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[Assistant] So, first half it was this run, second half it was inside zone, that gashem, and really, it was those two runs the whole game. It really wasn't much else than that. It might have been one or two different things sprinkled in there.


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[Assistant] With that offensive line, Bill Callahan coaching that running back, you don't need to be real tricky. You just gotta have a good feel of what they're gonna line up in and how they're playing you and just try to call the appropriate plays there. Just need to not have three or four in receptions. That's, that was, that was huge. Right.


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[Assistant] Way too conservative. That's all I can really say. There was nothing done on the other side of the bar that was like,


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[Assistant] The first drive was not bad, they tried to reverse, it got them behind the chains. So they ended up being like a second and twenty situation. So okay, they were screwed there, it was three and out. But Cleveland goes down now, you know, uh, has a long drive.


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[Assistant] Pin, uh, gets Green Bay back on their own territory here. Green Bay, run up the middle, run up the middle. Run the ball again on third and short. Didn't get it. Pun it away. Okay. Green Bay, uh, Cleveland gets the ball back. They go down and score. It's 24-22. Green Bay gets it. And it's, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, I missed a drive there. They went another drive where they went three and out, okay, and ran the ball, alright, and then they tried to reaccelerate, alright, as far as when it got to 24-22, but they had three, two drives where, you know, they're up by nine points where,


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[Assistant] I would definitely call the conservatives, like, to where, like,


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[Assistant] You know, again, I understand you're trying to run the clock and you're gonna run the ball and do all that, but they're playing some defenses and you had a first half where you just go, you need to continue to teach them the lesson of they can't play these pass defenses. You have Aaron Rodgers, you're letting them off the hook. Exactly. That would be my issue there.


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[Assistant] I think that's why a little bit sometimes it gets into a little bit, like yeaah, they like these one score games. You know, again, you're gonna get away with it against some of these teams that seem to screw it up by themselves a little bit.


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[Assistant] But are you going to get away with that against Dallas, or Tampa, or Arizona, or the Rams, or the 49ers? I don't think you are. I don't. Maybe the Eagles? Yea, maybe the Eagles, any of them. It's just, I don't think you're going to get away with that style of play. And to your point, yea, Rogers, they're too good in the pass game to just like go, okay, we're going to run the ball up the middle and just run the clock out.


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[Assistant] To me, you're letting the defense off the hook and especially when we add in the factor of how they defended Devontae Adams in this game. There you go. Which was they treated him like he was Paul Burmeister at wide receiver. They didn't even care. They were just like, he's another guy.


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[Assistant] This is my problem with this, this, this is the Seattle scheme, you know, and this is why you've seen Mahomes and company just totally annihilate the Raiders defense, right? And Rodgers here, you know, in the first half, like we're showing about, annihilated Cleveland.


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[Assistant] There's no, there's no, they just acted like he was another guy on the football field. Even though four out of every five times they drop back, they look for number 17. But just treat him like he's normal. Who cares?


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[Assistant] Alright, and hold on, I wanna pull up the Ross here, cause I'm gonna mess up this guy's name. And I wanna make sure I get it right, number 39. Right? Because number 39 is covering Devonte Adams.


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[Assistant] Richard LaCount from, from, uh, from LSU. Or no, Georgia, excuse me, good job there. Yes, like. He has no help. No help. Let's put a rookie. I'm offended sitting here. Who hasn't played a lot on the guy who's maybe the best weapon for any offense in all of football.


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[Assistant] Listen, again, I'm just gonna show you the two touchdowns. Just to go like, I don't know then. You know, what's the point of drafting Denzel Ward at pick number four? Greedy Williams in the second round. I know Newsom's not there. But, I mean, you got Greedy Williams covering Daguara. Why?


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[Assistant] Right. Why do you got Denzel Ward covering Alan Lazard? You know, put LaCount on Lazard. Put LaCount on Daguara. Let one of your top two corners cover Devonte Adams. Just stupidity. And then, like you said, just line up in it so Rogers can just get ready and know what we're in.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay, so Rodgers can just drop back. He knows he's not protected. It's all out blitz. He's outnumbered. And look at all this fancy work Devontae Adams had to do. He had to run and slightly take a right turn for a touchdown.


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[Assistant] This is practice. This is like literally practice. Again, run this. If you want to run this, fine, great. You know, have this same look. Have one of these guys drop out and kept the inside coverage on him. I mean, there's a lot of different things you can do, but there was never really


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[Assistant] I said this in the first game of the year when they played the Chiefs. It was the same thing last year in the playoff game when they played the Chiefs. I mean, it was just like, oh, Tyree Kill? We've never heard of him.


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[Assistant] Why would we cover him? I've never heard- is he good? Yeah, yeah, he's kinda good. Right, that's why you lose.


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[Assistant] So me it's where you're wasting assets. It's like you've heard me complain about the Rams when they don't play Jalen Ramsey in man coverage. I go, what's the point of paying them 20 million dollars? We can get another guy to learn how to play zone. You know, I know they might not be as good as him, but like, let's get our money's worth. And, and, and, and they're, they're slots hard.


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[Assistant] So, but slot's hard. And listen, there's plenty of teams that leave their good corners on the outside. That's fine.


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[Assistant] No, they don't. I know. They should. You're right. They have one play in the third quarter where they kind of double Devonte, Devonte finally, because it's a hundred something yards in three quarters. So they're finally like, oh boy, I guess we'll do something here.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, of course. But, but like, hey, JC Jackson was in the slot against Stefan Diggs the other day.


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[Assistant] Like, what the Patriots did when they had Darrell Rivas. They go, Darrell Rivas, you take the number two receiver, and we won't worry about him because you'll lock him down, and now we'll double the number one receiver.


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[Assistant] And, you know, it's too hard of an ass to ask one guy to cover a great receiver late. So we'll get two on him, and then you cover the guy that we know you can dominate. Find some combination to do it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, again, Devonte Adams, in the slot, right here, man to man. There's Lazard, Greedy Williams, there's Denzel, on, uh, that's Equinox, uh, uh, uh, EQ St. Brown.


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[Assistant] Like, good thing they got their best corner on EQ St. Brown, cause this is the fourth play he's been in this game, so you gotta watch out. It's obviously, they're hiding it. I mean, it's, it's annoying. As you can tell, I'm getting frustrated here. But, I'm offended, you're right. So here we go, little...


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[Assistant] And here's MJ Stewart, who he knows he does no safety help in the middle of the field, so he's playing a little inside leverage. There are linebackers there.


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[Assistant] Right? I know that, but still, there's not much help for them. He has to play inside leverage here. You know, again, if he plays outside or head up, Rogers could throw him a dart in this little dead area here between the linebacker and, and MJ Stewart.


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[Assistant] So, he makes a great move right off the line of scrimmage because that's where Devonte Adams is as good as anybody. Creates a little separation.


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[Assistant] I mean, MJ Stewart says he's a, he's a big nickel. He's a safety. And you got a cover in Devonte Adams. And again, I could sit here and show you the rest of the plays all day. It's Devonte Adams running through a cover three zone or running a slant against a zone and you just go, I mean,


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't study as hard as you guys do, and I know they're gonna throw the ball here. Everybody does. Everybody does. Thank you. Everybody does. Exactly.


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[Assistant] Cleveland should be able to run for 300 yards against Pittsburgh. I mean, they should be able to run all day long. So, let's see if they can do that. Hey, the first time around, they kinda screwed the game up on the offensive side of the ball too, and Pittsburgh got the big upset. I expect them to win. Vikings? Alright.


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[Assistant] I know. It's the last week for Under Armour. I mean, feel free to re-up Under Armour. Feel free. I'm a free agent right now. Wearing the shoes? I'm wearing the shoes. Gotta be the shoes. Alright, so here we go.


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[Assistant] This is my last one with Paul, who can compliment me on how well I read. We are supported by Under Armor, and just like us, Under Armor wants to give you an edge. They are focused on performing better and taking their game to the next level.


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[Assistant] No, no, I did not. I should have, I should have done that. Still time. I'll bring it up though on Monday, even though under, I would just go, hey, you know, we're concerned about you. Can we get somebody to make you a toothbrush?


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[Assistant] I do. You know, and again, it's been better as of late, but not good enough yet to where I'm going.


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[Assistant] Okay, he's got it. I mean, it's, it's back. I know he was great against Arizona and made some big throws. Seattle 20 to 10. No, he missed some throws and it was a little choppy on the offensive of the ball. And then this game here, yeah, it was choppy. It's scary. It's a little scary. You know, the one thing I wrote in my notes, I went,


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[Assistant] The Rams have turned the corner. I mean, the special teams is good. The defense has got it going. The run game's got it going. I said the only, Aaron Donald is playing like a superstar again the last few weeks. I don't know if he was hurt a little bit early in the year or not, but he's just dominant. Alright. They're using Jalen Ramsey the proper way.


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[Assistant] There's only one question. It's Matt Stafford in my opinion. You know I don't like to say that I'm a Matt Stafford fan. And I never


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[Assistant] There's just a little too much carelessness still with the football. Yea, the three picks. He could have thrown five or six picks. You know, every game I've come away going,


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[Assistant] He could have thrown two more picks there. He could have. You know, and again, I know they're, they're, they're, they're aggressive with what they do, but you know, this is to me where I don't know if he's adjusted to Rams football quite yet. You know, this is ain't, this ain't Detroit anymore. What's Rams football? Well, it just, they're a good team. You don't have to just be out there going,


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[Assistant] Wait, we're the Lions and we stink and I gotta make plays or we have no chance of even thinking about winning a game. No, you got a punny of pyres here.


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[Assistant] Like, nah, I don't want to say manage the game, but, you know, understand the big picture of the game. Don't just let it fly. Cause, hey, I'm going to let it fly. I'm Matt Stafford with McVeigh and weapons. No, they've been winning games with Jared Goff managing games. They got to the Superbowl doing that.


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[Assistant] Don't just go totally one way. He's gonna adjust a little bit. I don't know if he's not used to having the bullseye on his back for the first time. You think so? Maybe just the pressure of like expectations for the first time?


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[Assistant] Yeah. I think there's still, this is a work in progress still. I think that's the way to say it. It's still like getting out of this like, wait, this ain't Detroit, this ain't just like, just let it fly cause we're no good and we need you to make plays and there's just no governor the hell with it. It's not.


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[Assistant] You know, again, the Seattle game last week, games in control, dumbest interception in the world, down the middle to Quandary Diggs, and all of a sudden the game got dicey.


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[Assistant] You're gonna get away with it against Minnesota. I don't know if you're gonna get away with it against Tampa Bay or Dallas or the 49ers or some of those teams in the playoffs. Right.


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[Assistant] Shoulda been a pick, shoulda been a pick. I mean, you know, just again, some of the decision making is careless. The interceptions were pretty much all careless. Alright? And so that bothers me. Let alone there's a handful of throws, Paul, where I just go,


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[Assistant] Somebody of Matt Caliber Stafford should not miss some of these throws.


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[Assistant] So when you add that all together and you go, man, everything else on the Rams is going good. Yeah, I guess right now I'm going to be the guy to tell you that like, I'm a little concerned about Matt Stafford. I hope it goes away because you know I'm rooting for him. Alright, here's a play. We've shown this play. We saw this a few weeks ago, I think against the Cardinals. They're running the old corner post with Odell Beckham Jr. Alright, Van Jefferson's going to run across the field. Alright, so he does that. He's already thrown a pick.


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[Assistant] At this point, let me just, on this play already.


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[Assistant] Alright, where he just threw it. I'm gonna throw the deep throw and just throw it no matter what.


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[Assistant] This is early first quarter, so here we are, alright, and he's rolling out, play action pass, they've run this play twice a game, some version of it. But you can see here, the Vikings are ready for it.


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[Assistant] Odell's not going anywhere. Get off of it. Stop waiting for something that's not going to happen. You've played too much football to see this.


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[Assistant] Everson, I mean, uh, Van Jefferson's wide open. You're right. There's 20 yards of space. There's nobody around him. But, he's gonna continue to, let me just show this, gonna continue to look downfield, downfield, downfield. Wait, he might pop open. I wanna throw it. I wanna throw it.


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[Assistant] And now, Van Jefferson's across the middle of the field, and Eric Kendricks is there, who's a hell of a player, so he can't just throw a laser because he's afraid, hey, he sticks his hands up or whatever, he could tip interception, he's gonna try to just drop the ball over here. Well, Dantzler's over here waiting.


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[Assistant] And this is to me, this is just like, you're too good and you've played too much football to just throw a sidearm, let me loft it out there and see what happens. And it gets dropped. And Dantzler has it in his hands, he drops the interception.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's careless. And that's, you know, again it just, it shows up every game right now with Stafford. There hasn't been a real clean game in a while.


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[Assistant] Jacksonville might have been clean. Okay, great. You know, but that was just kind of the wearing them down and they weren't as good. I'm talking about, you know, clean against top quality opponents or higher quality opponents. Yeah, that would worry me a little bit.


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[Assistant] I still think there's hope of him being able to adjust here down the stretch and then get in the playoffs and go, wait, okay, hold on, Matt Stafford, like he's gotta talk to himself in the mirror a little bit. Would I say, you know,


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[Assistant] No, I don't think they're as dangerous as Tampa. I don't. And really, I probably wouldn't have said they're as dangerous as Dallas either right now. It's close though. It's close. Dallas' D-line getting healthy brought them back to another level that, you know, I even said a few times already, like, shame on me for forgetting how deep and talented they are there.


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[Assistant] So, I guess I'd go with over, uh, uh, go with them, but I don't, again.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm, I'm holding the Rams to your caliber, but we're talking, we're talking Super Bowl here. We're not talking about, oh, we got in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and this is where, this is the last phase. They need him to button it up a little bit. If they want to become that dangerous team you're talking about, or be able to really reel off three wins in a row.


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[Assistant] Oh, I mean, they should have been puking at home on Christmas Eve. That was as big an ass-whooping between two good teams, especially in the first half, that I've seen all year. Where we went, wait, these are two playoff teams.


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[Assistant] And one team absolutely kicked the shit out of another team. And it was only 10-0 and a half.


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[Assistant] That was the first problem. Cause, I mean, how many times have we had this conversation? You know, you dominate, you dominate, you let teams hang around in the NFL. They're gonna eventually get there. It was a total ass whooping.


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[Assistant] Shanahan had all these great first half calls. Boots, screens, all of it. Exactly right. That's what it was. It was boots, screens, and a few sprinkled in good drop back passes where Garoppolo threw the ball well. It did great. But as the game went on, it fell apart.


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[Assistant] He got to the second half, you know, the Titans are used to the flow of the game.


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[Assistant] They survived the initial surge of the 49ers, which is a real thing to me. Because the 49ers are so fast and aggressive and just free flowing and then Shanahan's aggressive nature of calling all these crazy plays. You know, a lot of teams get overwhelmed by San Francisco early in the game and it's just like, whoa.


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[Assistant] The Titans hung in there. They took some haymakers and hung in there and luckily got some mistakes by Jimmy Garoppolo that really helped them win the football game.


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[Assistant] No. You know, we're not gonna show the pick. You know, again, like, we didn't show Stafford's pick. It's not about, like, you guys can, everybody can go on and look at highlights of that. Just go online, look it up, you'll see that. We don't need to show all those all the time. I wanna show something a little broader. Hey, first interception, talk about it. Stupid as...


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[Assistant] 7-0, down there, dominating the football game. You just throw a curl route to George Kittle, and Jenor Jenkins standing in front of him. Like, you just, I don't even, I don't even get it. Alright? Missing use check on the wide open throw down the right sideline in the second quarter.


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[Assistant] Touchdown. Walk in. You and me are gonna hit it 99 out of 100 times. They don't even get any yards out of it. It goes out of bounds.


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[Assistant] Then the interception to start off the third quarter. I mean, trying to squeeze a ball over the middle. There's underneath coverage. There's two guys around him. Interception leads to a touchdown.


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[Assistant] But my answer to the question you're gonna ask, does it make me doubt it? Yes, it does. Cause it just goes, again, he, he a little bit, you know, maybe to a lesser extent than Stafford, I just don't trust him when the game gets thrown on his shoulders. He'll have his moments.


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[Assistant] Titan is just being tough and waiting it out and going, wait, we're bigger, we'll start to wear you down as the game goes along, just, we gotta hang in there. And then Ryan Tannehill on third down in the second half of the football game.


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[Assistant] There's uh, Brandon Ayuk on the bottom. Alright, what we're eventually gonna get is a little bit of a cover too. Alright, to this side, with the Tennessee Tigers. Listen, Shanahan knew the defense he was gonna get.


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[Assistant] He called the absolute perfect play here. All right. Crosser. All right. It's gonna widen this guy out. All right. Let me just make sure I get all these right here. All right. So, Crosser widened that guy out. Kittle who's being like carried up a seam. Get him out of there.


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[Assistant] Out route, out route. And really what they're doing here is because of the, it's a too deep coverage and they know this guy's gonna carry a kiddle, they're gonna spread this guy and this guy out to where


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[Assistant] Now, they're spread out, and Iukes should catch the ball right here and just go right up there for a first down. Alright? That's what they're doing. He knows what they're getting. Jimmy Garoppolo, he's probably told to, hey, listen, if you got the outrouts, take it. But when he gets the ball, he should see this and go, oh, it's covered too. The outrouts aren't gonna be there. I gotta get off of it. Garoppolo,


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[Assistant] Way too long looking at this concept, way too late getting to Brandon Ayuk underneath here, and then makes a bad throw. Alright, and as you see Ayuk come across here, watch how this opens up. I mean, again, here we go.


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[Assistant] Look at this. Guy carrying Kittle up the field. There's the out route. This is where you want. The ball should almost be going to him about right now. Garoppolo should be in the throwing motion to hit him so he could turn up right there where the guy's backs turn and get the first down. It's the perfect play call.


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[Assistant] It really does not get any more perfect than this. They got em!


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[Assistant] I don't know what Garoppolo's looking at. He looks at the right, he looks back, I think down the middle maybe to Kittle, uh, right there. And then...


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[Assistant] For some reason also is like running up in the pocket and doesn't need to be. Just stay in the throwing position. Do you think he couldn't see you? Maybe, maybe. With the two linemen in front. I mean, I'm reaching here. No, I hear you. No, I hear you.


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[Assistant] He, this is the, the play is designed for this. This is it. This is what he did, he designed this play for. And again, I said he was out, I'm sorry, he's clearing out, go. Doesn't matter, they're playing cover 2, so you don't have this.


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[Assistant] That's probably read one, but he should probably know right away. With the coverage and how they lined up, that's not gonna be there. He's called the right play, Shanahan. Ayuk should be catching the ball.


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[Assistant] Right now. Yep. With, with, uhm, that's, uh, J. Ron Brown, right, yeah, 55, I believe so, dropping back there. And he should just be able to catch the ball and go right up the seam there and get an easy first down.


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[Assistant] Easy first down, great play call, great play call, and a big gotta have it type of situation, and they don't even get the completion, and that just kinda summed up the night.


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[Assistant] Must've ruined my friend's Christmas weekend. I mean...


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[Assistant] He did his best to try to cover for, for Jimmy G and not say too much about him in the post game press conference. But you know, again, I haven't talked to Kyle in forever. I haven't talked to him since before the season. So everybody knows that.


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[Assistant] No, and it's like not that there was anything I can, there's nothing schematically I can show you to go, ugh, this is what changed here. You know, long tough field goal drive to make a 10-3. Kick the ball off.


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[Assistant] Two plays later, Jimmy G throws an interception. They return it down to the, you know, 18 yard line. They get a four play, 18 yard drive touchdown. It's 10-10. Get in your ass whooped. It's 10-10 now. And now, on the drive to make it 17 to 10,


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[Assistant] This is like, the whole second half just became third down conversions.


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[Assistant] And, you know, this is where the 49ers, where I say like, hey, they're small, they're fast, it's about emotion, they have those type of players, they start to wear out a little as the game goes on, so their speed starts to dissipate a little bit there, and I also think at times they're a little...


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[Assistant] As you've heard me say, predictable on defense. Now they're very talented to where I don't fault them as much as maybe some other teams when they're predictable.


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[Assistant] I think third down, they're a little predictable that way, and Tannahill stood in the pocket and made some big throws.


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[Assistant] Incomplete, they kick a field goal. Alright, let me just go to the next drive here. Alright, there's 10-0. Boom, boom, boom. I'm just gonna read them off real quick. Tennessee gets the ball. Third and 23. You know, the next drive now, it's 10-10. Third and 23.


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[Assistant] For a drive here still now where it's 17 10 they're winning. They get the ball in their own third yard, three yard line.


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[Assistant] It's, they make a few good plays, but then they have a third and eight, get another first down. Have a third and six, they finally get stopped. And make, they punt, 49ers get the ball, go get that game tying score. Uhm, but, eh, that, that really, listen, again, I'm not one to boil games down to things like that. That was really where we can boil it down in this one.


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[Assistant] I think so. I'm not giving up on the Tennessee Titans. I just, first off, the two things we always talk about that make a good, they're good up front on both sides of the ball. So there's no team that's just going to over match them completely. You know, they're extremely well coached.


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[Assistant] Hey yea, Tannahill's been struggled. They're gonna struggle without Derrick Henry. But hey, everybody can't forget, I mean, there's been, Julio Jones is not even a mirage of himself right now. He can barely run out there. And AJ Brown just got back.


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[Assistant] So, you know, let's not all of us be, uh, unrealistic with the results we expect with that many good players missing. Brown is back. It's going to change their football team. Julio.


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[Assistant] You know, he'll be healthy for the playoffs. He's still limping around and not himself there that way, but that's what's hurt them. But I am a believer in the Titans. I am. They know how to manage games. They had that little disease of turning the ball over for a few weeks. But for the most part, Tennessee is like,


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[Assistant] You know, they're New England-y. They kinda let you screw the game up. And we just hang in there. We play. We manage situations right. You'll screw up once or twice and we'll capitalize that and we'll win the game. Didn't look that great, but we won.


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[Assistant] Cause they're gonna have to deal with Xavier Howard and Byron Jones and all these crazy blitz looks and they're gonna get some opportunities. If they can do that, they'll take advantage.


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[Assistant] No, it's almost not fair. And this really, as I watched the game and turned on the film yesterday, I was like, this is unbelievable. Cause there's just, there's a bunch of throws where you just go,


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[Assistant] Jamar Chase runs a 10 yard curl route, there's not a corner within 5 yards of him, he throws it to him, he turns around, he runs for another 8 yards, 15 yard gain on a curl route.


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[Assistant] You know, 6 yard hitch route by Higgins, he catches the ball, he turns up the field, 15 yards.


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[Assistant] Right. Exactly. It kind of was like that. I felt like it was 7 on 7 at times. Yeaah. They were compromised and to me, the Ravens only have one real pass rusher and that's, uh, O-Way, the first rounder out of Penn State. He's the only one that's capable of doing it by himself.


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[Assistant] And if he couldn't get pressure, man, Burrowhead all day.


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[Assistant] And then, to get pressure, they hit a blitz. And of course, Borough can make a blitz or miss, or just figure out where to go with the football, and now you're compromised one on one with a matchup down the field you don't like.


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[Assistant] I mean, it doesn't, listen, the Ravens had to take some chances, and they did throughout the day. I mean, Wink Martindale, he's got every defense under the sun, like a Belichick or, you know, some of the great D coordinators in the game. I mean, listen, they had plays where,


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[Assistant] You hear me, like, be game plan specific, try to do something take away. I mean, they have plays in this game where they doubled Chase, they doubled Higgins, and they doubled Boyd all in the same play.


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[Assistant] All three guys, they put six guys on three and said, we're going to take you away. Few of them, it didn't matter. The long pass to Higgins that was down the field for the bomb route. That was one of those plays. All three receivers were doubled. He just said, ah, Higgins is six five and to freak him and throw it up. And he caught it.


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[Assistant] Out is a play they run a lot. I can't even remember what they do at the top of the screen. Oh, it's clear go and maybe a little out here. Alright. The Ravens are in man to man. Okay. And


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[Assistant] What's weird about it is it's odd. I think it's man to man. I don't see any other clues to say it's anything else other than this matchup right here.


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[Assistant] I mean, Patrick Queen's playing Tyler Boyd one on one.


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[Assistant] That's usually not man to man. Linebacker on receiver. Not a good idea. Now maybe Wink Martindale, defense coordinator for the Ravens, has taken a chance going, wait, listen, I gotta take some chances here and there.


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[Assistant] I got a good feel that when they get in these sets, they're gonna be short throws. Queen's really athletic. I'll trust him to cover Boyd on a five or eight yard route. I'll just, I'll roll the dice here.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I don't, but again, as you watch this play unfold, you're gonna see this corner's back.


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[Assistant] Turn to the middle of the field. This corner's back, turn to the middle of the field. Everything about this play to me says man coverage. And then this safety really flies over here. I guess he's worried about Chase and Higgins in that matchup. To where now, Void who runs the little out and up, safety gone, Queen takes the bait.


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[Assistant] There's nobody here to stop him. And you know, we've talked about cover three sometimes where this guy has to steal scenes, right? But his back's gonna be turned to the, to the, to the inside of the field. So it's man. And again, I don't know exactly what the deal was here. But again, if we still, still frame this right here,


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[Assistant] I mean, nothing here tells me it's a zone coverage. This is just man free. A guy lurking free in the middle of the field, safety deep, who's cheating over here, and I think they just rolled the dice. I think. Unless there's some crazy zone coverage call that I'm missing out on here.


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[Assistant] As you see there, Queen, who's playing the out route, he bites it, and almost like he's just like, oh, dumb beat, it's over.


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[Assistant] It's rare to see it, yeaah, on second and eight in the middle of the field.


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[Assistant] Easiest throw of Joe Burrow's NFL career here, where you hit Boyd, and I mean, it's gone. Nobody's even like close to him for the easiest touchdown both of those guys will get.


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[Assistant] Unbuttoned t-shirts. For real? Yes. And Ahmed wore it on the podcast on Monday. How was it? And I mean, I know I'm a little biased, but like, they look really cool.


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[Assistant] She did it, you know, for the podcast, I guess, or whatever. And, like, very impressive. So we're hoping to replicate some of those and maybe we'll get one to Tomas in Brazil.


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[Assistant] That's what I'm doing. That should be enough.


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[Assistant] Should always be enough. Stop. Don't be such a husband and always want more, Paul. I know. I know. I want more.


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[Assistant] That would be my choice as well. That's awesome. Yeah, it really is. It really is. And hopefully I'll be wearing one soon too. Uhm, alright everybody, be good. You know where to send the questions. You know where to find me. Thursday Picks Podcast.


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[Assistant] PFTPM Chris Simms collaboration. Check me and Florio out there.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah baby, that's right. That was Ahmaud Breed choking on himself last week, yeaah, last week at some point. Yeaah. Yes, he's recovered. You're doing okay, right?


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[Assistant] Presented by Under Armour, we are always very thrilled to have them as our sponsor, and yes, go ahead.


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[Assistant] You got your Currys. My Steph Currys. You finally got them. Wait, limited edition, like, haven't been released Cookie Monster. Alright? Curry Flow 9. You see that? Look at the box, everybody, if you're watching. Look at the box by Ahmed's feet there. Yes. I mean, like, look at, this is pretty plush right there.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna keep the shoes, I'm gonna keep the box. And the name of the shoe is Taking Cookies. Okay? Taking Cookies. Okay. Cause that's what, that's what Steph Curry does right now. He just- Oh my gosh. Taking cookies from Three Point Land and all that. Boom! Boom! His hands in the cookie jar all the time.


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[Assistant] It's always a good time, but he is taking over the NBA again. Right, it is. It seems like we're like, uh, it's like three years ago again, where you're just like, is Golden State about to just go on an unbelievable run here again? But gotta respect him.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah. So off the record here, you can be honest with me. Sure. Do you like them? Will you wear those around? I will wear them around 100%. I'll tell you what, first off, I like them too. They're very comfortable.


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[Assistant] And you know me with like my solid colors as far as like I wear all black or all blue or all gray. Like this will go with all of that. It does. So that's where I really base my sneakers on most of the time. Uh, so a hundred percent. You'll be seeing me wear these at every, every podcast until, um, until, uh, uh, um, Under Armour wants to send me more.


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[Assistant] I mean, it just shows you with Ben. Like, you know, uh, yesterday, just to, just to hit on that quickly, like Drew Brees and I were talking before we did our football night in America show and Torico asked Drew, he's like, so what do you think like with him not having practice? And like, we kind of both looked at each other and kind of like grin.


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[Assistant] Cause we're both like, I mean, practice to Big Ben is just not the same as everybody else. He's, hey, part of the reason I've always loved him is he's a little bit of just like, hey, just let me go out and play and let me do my thing and I'll make it happen. And that's what he is. I don't think he was ever at one point probably stressed that he was missing practice, like rhythm and timing.


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[Assistant] Having done interviews with him in the past, I don't even think there are thoughts with him at times. There really not.


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[Assistant] He's just like, oh, is he open? I'm gonna throw it. Oh, I'm a big fan. I know how to throw a football. I was put on Earth to do this. Uh, and you're right, it was like riding a bike for him. He certainly didn't seem to falter much at all last night.


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[Assistant] You know, I know you haven't been on here every week on a Monday, but it's been like, a lot of the time, hey, Pittsburgh, just offense, if you stay out of the way, you're gonna have a chance to win the game. Well, last night was like the first night, it was like, wait, defense is not the same. It's not. They're banged up.


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[Assistant] You know, Herbert was on fire, right, Fitzpatrick out, TJ Watt out. I mean, it's arguably two of the best at their positions in all of football, not playing on your defense. So it was the first time we looked at it where.


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[Assistant] I really felt like, man, by about halfway through the first quarter, I was like, well, this doesn't look good. Like, Pittsburgh defense is not going to be able to slow them down.


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[Assistant] There's no chance. And yeah, with the pressure on them, they still found ways to drive the ball down the field for the most part of the game.


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[Assistant] You know, of course we know the defense and special teams set up some plays as well, but I do think it's at least a little bit of like light at the end of the tunnel to go, wait, they don't need to be the most boring offense in the history of football to win a game. They can maybe push the envelope. Big Ben seems to be seeing the field pretty well.


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[Assistant] As of late, at least set into a groove. You know, so I think that's the encouraging thing to look at. I was discouraged though, ultimately too, that they didn't, I want to see what the Chargers were doing ultimately on defense, because I was a little shocked that Pittsburgh didn't run the ball with a little more success against a not good


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[Assistant] You know, run, run stopping defense with the Chargers. Uh, and I, I want to see, I guess what I couldn't tell is were the Chargers going all in to stop the run and that just forced Pittsburgh to say, okay, we gotta throw the football.


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[Assistant] Or is it one of those things where they just gotta feel like, man, we're just not blocking them tonight. We gotta rely on the pass game a little bit more. That's an answer I can't give you until I watch the film. But, either way, when you see Claypool, Deontay Johnson healthy for Pittsburgh on the offensive side of the ball, and Big Ben not trying to do too much, uh, they can still make plays and move the football.


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[Assistant] No, I know, exactly right. You know, I mean, hey, they were this close at one point to us going, oh, oh shit, they're about to get blown out of the gym here. It's 27-10. I don't know what they're going to be able to do. And then they managed to put together an ugly field goal drive. And then it was the block punt, uh, the next drive after that. And then all of a sudden we had a football game once again.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, really throughout the whole night, you know, that was the story of the game, I think, until the comeback at the very end of the fourth quarter. It was like, hey, Austin Eckler, great game. Yes, the four touchdowns. I love that. But I mean, you know, what I said last night on Peacock, I just went, it was the Justin Herbert show.


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[Assistant] I mean, it was Justin Herbert. He was, he was unbelievable in the football game. I mean, he went through a time there where, I mean, I believe he was like,


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[Assistant] 24 or 27 or 24 or 28. It just seemed like you weren't going to get him off the field on third down. If he did get pressure, he was going to break the pocket and run the football. He was doing everything.


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[Assistant] I mean, he was tearing up the Steelers defense. Here's my biggest thing I think, Ahmed, that I take away from the game. Credit to the Chargers played really well. Credit to the Steelers for coming back, battling, being the Steelers. That's just what they are. They never die. They really don't. Collinsworth said it right. You know, Tomlin's a psycho and the rest of his team's a psycho because of that. So they're never, they're always like, what?


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[Assistant] You know, it's a cage match, and I'm missing a leg, we still can win, I'm gonna come back, I don't care if you chop my leg off. That's just their mentality, that's maybe a horrible analogy, but you got what I'm saying. And I made you giggle, so it might have been good. They need their legs, or maybe they don't. Maybe they don't, right, right. But, I think the thing I took away from the game more than anything, was,


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[Assistant] I think what I'm mad at myself for not evaluating the matchup, you know, prior, is just going, wait, no Minka, who's the quarterback of their defense. No Joe Hayden. So now they're starting some young secondary players.


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[Assistant] And Pittsburgh's defense is very intricate and detailed and, and, and you know, confusing, you know, they're, they're schematically.


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[Assistant] But because there was no Jimmy's in the Joe's, the X's and O's were affected by that too.


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[Assistant] And I don't think you got to see a true Steelers defense performance to where like, again, if these two teams played each other in the playoffs and the Steelers defense was different, I think Justin Herbert would see a different experience altogether than he did last night.


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[Assistant] He jumped the slot receiver who didn't really come out to his area.


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[Assistant] So in a normal cover two rule, that would not be something you'd do. Now again, Pittsburgh will do some crazy stuff every now and then where you go, that's not really textbook or the way that's supposed to be done. But they'll play like, hey, when they have two receivers this side, they'll throw the slot receiver a lot, just jump it. We'll take a chance every now and then.


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[Assistant] That's what it looked like happen, uhm, but either way it left a huge gaping hole down the left sideline.


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[Assistant] And Edmonds, I believe there was a safety on that side, he just couldn't get over there fast enough, you know, with Herbert and the way he threw the football, and that was it. But to me, yes, it looked like a blown coverage. Typically in cover two like that, alright, Sutton would


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[Assistant] Then he sits and tries to make a play on it. But if there's nothing coming to the flat, which there wasn't there, you're supposed to then continue to retreat and kinda help


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[Assistant] You know, the hole be smaller there to where, hey, I'm getting back with the wide receiver and the safety's coming over there. Do you really want to try to fit that in? So yea, to me it looked like he took a chance and, and he got, you know, caught with his hand in the cookie jar.


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[Assistant] Well, it is. It's amazing. The, the AFC is amazing, and, you know, I know it's a game, well maybe we'll break it down later, I'm not even sure if it's on our docket today, but, yea, I mean, here's- We're doing all the games, what do you mean? We are? We're doing them last Thursday? No, we don't do Thursday. Thank you. That's what we don't do.


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[Assistant] I mean, Kansas City, who has not played its best ball, but is starting to slowly get better and better, here they are. Nobody put them away and here they are leading the AFC West and watch out. And to me, again, here's something I'll say.


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[Assistant] The Patriots are playing the best football in the AFC. The Patriots are the best team in the AFC right now. Period. They are. I mean, nobody has continued to go on upward consistently, both sides of the ball, and that to me is what's crazy about the AFC right now. If you made me take like a one game matchup with anybody right now,


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[Assistant] I mean the Patriots, I think they match up against everybody in the AFC. And yes, they're back. So sorry, there's your Thursday night last week preview.


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[Assistant] Beat the, they did play the Raiders. The Raiders offense is not a slouch.


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[Assistant] Alright, and then of course, but then, but last week kinda shits on all of that. Yesterday I mean. They beat Dallas. Exactly.


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[Assistant] Top tier-ish. Top tier-ish. They are. They are. I mean, they're getting there. They are. You know, again, I even saw lights of this and people who've been listening to the podcast, when they lost the Tennessee Titans 27-3, I was trying to tell you, I think you, I know Paul a number of times where I went,


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[Assistant] But I also know self-scouting myself by like week four, I was like, oh, I've seen enough. He needs to go back to defense to tackle. It's not working. You see how many more playsy effects, not only just


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[Assistant] Looking the plays up, pushing the pocket, you know, disrupting a run play.


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[Assistant] Tip pass at the end of the game that puts it away. He's one of the greatest in football at tipping passes. That's another thing that goes away. Then a proper adjustments in the secondary, you know, Sorensen out, Thornhill in.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, benching, uhm, I'm gonna bank on his name, the, the, the, Mike Hughes. They bench Mike Hughes. They start Legerrius Snead and have Shar-Sharverius Ward a corner.


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[Assistant] Fenton's been playing more the nickel position. So I think they've gotten their players right first off. And then I think the shock of the day to me, Ahmed, was just


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[Assistant] One, yes, they pushed around the Cowboys offensive line, and Chris Jones dominated the interior three. He really did. Didn't matter what guard it was, they had issues. And then,


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[Assistant] I think the second thing would be, yeaah, I know there was no CD-LAM, you know, in the second half of the game in a Noamara. CD-LAM was out there in the first half of the game, and I also know he dropped the pass and, and DAC wasn't on his best game, but


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[Assistant] Still, like, Michael Gallup and Cedric Wilson can go. They can go. They're, they're, I, to, for me to sit here and think, oh, the Chiefs are gonna be sticky and all over them, all game, the way they were, I think that was almost just as shocking as the, the Chiefs D-line kind of dominating the Cowboys offensive line. So, unbelievable, damn okay for the Chiefs defense.


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[Assistant] Well, he's, he's, he's the CEO to me, him and Aaron Donald and anybody that's listened to my podcast the last three or four years, I would go, they're definitely, he's definitely a CEO in the play up. That's what I do know. A hundred percent. He just a disruptor.


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[Assistant] And he makes so many plays that'll never go on the stat sheet like we always talked about. So yes, I mean, he is phenomenal that way. And then we had a Frank Clark sighting and like you just, you see once he gets going, it brings energy to the rest of the defense. And of course the offensive line becomes so concerned about him. It helps everybody else out in their matchups.


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[Assistant] Well it makes sense, they move those guys around. Sneed plays inside, he plays outside.


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[Assistant] They will blitz him. You know, he's kind of a weapon that way. He can really fly so he can cover, but when he does blitz off the edge, he could show up in a hurry and make plays that way. He is. He's phenomenal. He made a few plays yesterday where


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[Assistant] You know, I can't remember what receiver it was or maybe it was a running back and a check down. You went, well, there's a lot of space. Is he going to be able to make this tackle? And he brings them right down.


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[Assistant] You know, he is, he's a really good football player. And I think that's what's really impressive about the Chiefs right now. Now they got the D bat, the D the right way.


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[Assistant] Their ability to play man and just not give you any easy completions and then they sprinkle in a little bit of spagnolo magic as far as


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[Assistant] Disguises and some crazy coverages. And all of a sudden you go, whoa, wait, we can't block them up front. When they play man to man, it's not easy.


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[Assistant] They have a few crazy zone coverages that confuse you and make the quarterback pat the ball once or twice and it helps the pass rush get there. That's when you're playing good defense. And to me, that's what they've gotten to a little bit here. But yeaah, I think, mmm, that's a good way to put it. I mean, Ramsey is, of course, I would, yes, probably the best tackling, uh, defensive back as far as corners are concerned in all of football. Uhm, Snead is up there. There's no doubt.


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[Assistant] I think of J.C. Jackson, he's another one that's a phenomenal tackler that way.


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[Assistant] Uh, so yeaah, he's in that discussion. I don't think there's any doubt as I'm sitting here looking at the teams and kind of rolling through corners in my mind and trying to think about anybody else. Uh, but he's up there. And just the physical nature of how they're playing on that side of the ball, uhm, like amazing. Just the, the, the 180 they've had in the last five, six weeks.


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[Assistant] Well, still a lot of positives. I mean, here's the third week in a row, we've seen them, okay, let's see, it's Giants, Raiders, this game, right? That's the last three. Where are you going? Okay, hasn't been pretty, but...


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[Assistant] You know, they're pretty consistent. Mahomes definitely looks different. That's what I'll say more than anything. Everything was around the line of scrimmage. Everything was around the line of scrimmage. You know, it looked like Dallas was playing the typical Kansas City defense. We're not going to let up the big play. We do see better execution. You know, and then,


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[Assistant] It just, listen, they had chances to put the game away. I mean, you know, Kelsey catching the slant route on what was that a, was that a first down or a third? I mean, he's gonna have a first down. I think it was a third and six. You know, that pops in the air, interception by the Cowboys. That was a chance for them to put the game away. You know, of course, Mahomes.


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[Assistant] In the pocket, scrambling, kinda losing sight of who was around him.


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[Assistant] And then getting, you know, strip sack there at 1.2. Uh, and I believe that was, was that, was that Michael Parsons who got that one? Because, I mean, talk about a freak show. That guy's a freak show. I mean, that was the, that's the other point of this game. He's a freak show. He's unbelievable. I didn't mean to just go down like a right hand turn there, but he's one of the best even suppliers in football already.


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[Assistant] You know, the fact that he can be one of the best middle linebackers and then you can go, oh, you know, this week we want to play him a defense end and he's one of the better pass rushers on the field. I mean.


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[Assistant] That's insane. It really is. I've never seen a skill set quite like that. I really can't. But, you know, the Chief's offense is close. And you know what I like? Little patience with the run.


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[Assistant] Again, they have a big ol' line, let's keep doing that. I wanna see more tie re-kills, speed sweeps, and reverses. I wanna see McCall-Hardman involved in that too. To me, that has to be a part of their offense. That'll help generate some of the big plays too.


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[Assistant] You know, hey, run the ball. Oh, there is 6 yards. Oh, here's a reverse, 12 yards around the edge. Okay, hey, now we drop back and pass a ball, 15 yards.


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[Assistant] Oh wait, oh we faked the reverse and faked the run and it's a play action pass and now we got somebody like, that's to me where they gotta just continue to get better and grow their offense. And even like the wide receiver screen game, that would be the other thing too.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's in that discussion. You know, let me just, let's see. I mean, when I think about, let's see, running games right now that are the best in football.


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[Assistant] The Patriots are in that conversation, the Eagles are in that conversation, the Colts are in that conversation.


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[Assistant] And the Browns, yes. You know, the Browns, to me, they give up on it a little too quickly a time, but I would say those are the teams to look at. The hottest one in football, the hottest two in football right now are definitely the Patriots and the Eagles. They, they just dominate people. And, and again...


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[Assistant] Right, right, that's what I mean, Lamar's, I mean, the Ravens are statistically up there, I'm sure, in the rushing offense, but it's not,


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[Assistant] A good running offense, yea, quarterback runs are cool, but you gotta be able to run the ball the traditional way too.


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[Assistant] And that's where the Eagles can do that. And then they have the Jalen Hurts aspect that makes it double whammy. And I, I've broken them down a little bit, Ahmed, on some Wednesday podcasts lately. Hey, it's again, I know I've said this a lot. They're playing the right way for their football team. They have one of the biggest, most overpowering offensive lines in football and


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[Assistant] I mean, if the Saints can't stop them, then nobody can. That's what I want to say.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I am. They can do this against any two in the NFL. Yes. If you can do it against the Saints, you can do it against anybody. Wow. Yeah, the Saints have more big dudes on the defense line. This is one, I mean, I picked the Saints to win a close one because I was just like, I don't know if the Eagles can do it against this group. I just did not expect it to that capacity. But, you know, I think with


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[Assistant] They're, the fact that they're patient with it, you know, they got inside zone run plays that they're really good at. They have a few where they pull the center and pull a backside tackle. That's really cool. And you sprinkle that in with the read option and a design quarterback run every now and then. And you got defenses in a tough spot, let alone.


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[Assistant] That usually leads to some one-on-one matchups on the outside, and they got receivers that can beat one-on-one coverage. And that's where I go like, you know, when you talk about the, the NFC and that playoff picture right now, I know Minnesota's 6, New Orleans is 7. You know, they're both 5 and 5. 49ers are 5 and 5. Eagles are 5 and 6.


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[Assistant] I look at the Eagles and San Francisco I think to be the two dangerous teams there. You know, I think I would take them to win the matchup against Minnesota, New Orleans, or even Carolina. Uh, I would favor those two teams I think over the rest.


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[Assistant] The other one was last season versus the Eagles as well. Right. So there's, there's a matchup issue. I mean, the Eagles, again, why they won the Super Bowl four years ago and, you know, again, why they were able to go to the playoffs three years in a row because of that was, eh, they,


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[Assistant] They're big. I mean, they're a big physical football team.


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[Assistant] You know, and you break down that offensive line when you get to Lane Johnson and Kelsey and then Milada and now Landon Dickerson at left guard, uh, they got like four out of five where you go, there are true ass kickers there.


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[Assistant] You make mistakes and throw interceptions on early drives like Trevor Simeon did. Give them a short feel on the way they're running the football right now. It's going to be tough to beat the Philadelphia Eagles.