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[Assistant] But you can't just play the same defense all game. That's the problem. That's what I would say. That to me would be the difference between the defenses that won the Super Bowl the last few years


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[Assistant] We had a lot of different variety, had like, oh wait, this team can attack our man-to-man, we gotta be able to do something else. The Bucks, they adjusted. Oh well, we're playing Kansas City. I like the boots and play man-to-man, Todd Bowles, but I'm not against Tyree Gill and Patrick Mahomes. We're gonna play cover two that night. Oh, we won the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] You know, defense is still very important. We know that.


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[Assistant] But you gotta be multiple on that side of the ball. And that's where I look at like, Buffalo, Baltimore, the 49ers. You know, there's just more things they can go to in their playbook as compared to maybe the Cowboys and Browns that are always like, let's play man to man. And that just becomes too predictable at some point.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so good. Good for you. Way to teach unbuttoned, uh, how to do a football podcast.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna still stay with the Eagles. I am scared. I don't remember having a wild card weekend where


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[Assistant] I'm like, you go back in my history and look at my playoff picks, I'm usually pretty spot on.


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[Assistant] This was the one of the first wild card weekends where I was like, like both games today, I was like, I'm kind of toss up, like with both of them. I don't know which one to pick. Right?


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[Assistant] You know, I was a little that way last night. I thought the Dolphins would keep it closer with Kansas City. Right? And, and the Bucks-Eagles game is what I'm saying is, I have that same feeling where I go, I don't know. I'm gonna go with the Eagles-Pedicoree and that's just the more talented football team. But I'm scared. And I clearly like the Bills. I do like the Bills. That's for sure. That's one I feel confident about.


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[Assistant] I mean we know, Steelers play all football, Stripsack fumble, Allen doing something stupid. Elements too. Elements and that game could change in a hurry. Uh, but yeaah, I like the Bills to win. You know, kind of control the game in an ugly fashion. And I like the Eagles, I think I had like a 27-24. You know, I think you will see some big plays out of both offenses in this game.


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[Assistant] I would agree with that. I think you're right too. It's a better matchup for TV viewing purposes. The Eagles, the ex Super Bowl team from the NFC coming into town trying to upset your chance to go to the Super Bowl and the 49ers and all that. I'm with you there.


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[Assistant] Castaway thing. And that rhyme, that was very good of you. I know, right? Baker vs. Goff, two casts off. Two casts off. Yea, that was very well done.


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[Assistant] I, uh, I think I'm sweating. Yeah, you are. I was gonna call you out when you raised your arms when the wind happened, but yep, there's your sweaty pits. I mean, you sweat through- That's a true fan. You sweat through a thick t-shirt and a thick hoodie.


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[Assistant] Send your tweets. We love the interaction. Ahmed, congratulations. Congratulations. Congratulations to the Lions. And damn, I mean, you must feel like football royalty. Michigan, Detroit. It's a good year.


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[Assistant] What's gonna happen here? Yea, it's been a great year so far. Way to go, way to go. Good job to the state of Michigan. You guys are kicking butt in the football world. Alright, we'll see you Wednesday. Peace out. Clap it up. Clap it up.


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[Assistant] I thought Brock was unbelievable. I mean, it's...


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[Assistant] You know, everyone has plays in a game, every single person that you want to take back, but Brock not turning the ball over in that game, making a number of plays.


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[Assistant] Uhm, taking us down there, uhm, to take the lead earlier on. I mean, at the very end of the game to take us down to make the, take the lead. Uhm, I thought...


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[Assistant] You know, we didn't get it done, so none of us, all of us obviously could have done another thing, but I was real happy with Brock played and real happy with how he played this year.


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[Assistant] I thought Brock was unbelievable. I mean, one of the most impressive seasons I've been around, um, for a football player and a quarterback. And, um, he was just a stud through it all.


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[Assistant] Let's go. Three, two, one, here we go. Great job by the horns section. We paid a lot of money to have that horns section here in Las Vegas for Super Bowl 58, the joint megapix podcast here at the Mandalay Bay Sportsbook. Chris Sims, Mike Flores, Chris Sims Unbuttoned, PFTPM.


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[Assistant] Well, he's got a copy, one of the only copies, cause not many were purchased by a father of mine, so happy to see him here. Our friends from Birmingham!


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[Assistant] U.K. U.K. Unbelievable. All the way from the U.K. We haven't made it to the U.K. They've made it over here. That is awesome. Sorry Birmingham. You haven't cursed yet. Sorry Birmingham. Alright.


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[Assistant] On tomorrow's show, when we are live on Sky Sports, you will say something you shouldn't say, and then you can say sorry, Berman. I'm right. I will be like, f*** you, Florio. Thank you. And then I will say...


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[Assistant] Three days so far this week. We got a couple more days to show. It's been fun. It's been great. You know, we were saying earlier today, and this is a byproduct of us being together for way too long. When we do an interview now,


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[Assistant] I still don't know why the chiefs are underdogs. I don't get it.


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[Assistant] They don't have Patrick Mahomes. So we know what the value is, and I think everybody understands, if you have Patrick Mahomes, you can be down ten points with seven minutes left. You can be down ten points in the second half like they were last year. At any point, the switch goes and Patrick Mahomes takes over.


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[Assistant] And we've seen it enough times now to not expect it to make an appearance. And he's also so aware of his legacy.


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[Assistant] He needs five more Super Bowl wins to catch Tom Brady, and that sounds like a lot, but he's got two. He could have a couple more.


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[Assistant] That's why I'm surprised they're underdogs. And I don't know why the big money people are so believing in the 49ers to the point where there's enough money out there that keeps that line at minus two.


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[Assistant] Up until the Christmas night game against the Ravens. Right.


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[Assistant] We believed as long as the key players on the 49ers were healthy, which was not a given because of the way they play, they were unstoppable. That it wasn't even going to be close. That no one was going to have a chance at them. They got humiliated that night. I got humiliated that night. I got called Mike Flores that night by Lamar Jackson.


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[Assistant] They've never really ascended. The Chiefs, embarrassed on that same day, at home by the Raiders.


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[Assistant] They started going up, and they keep going up, and they keep going up, and the 49ers just kinda like...


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[Assistant] Where are we? And you gotta give them credit for coming from behind and winning a couple of playoff games at home, but they never should have been in that situation. They shouldn't have been down 17 to the Lions. They shouldn't have been in a close game against the Packers. They're the better team.


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[Assistant] And that's what it comes down to. They blew a lot of games. They're the better team, but they're not playing better. Right. And that, I guess, would be my fear if I'm the chief. Well, right. That at some point in the last two weeks, they've said the right thing, they've done the right thing, they've figured something out where they get back to being that team that just goes out there and steamrolls everyone. Well, yes.


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[Assistant] That's the one thing that changes it. If it's a regular season game, if it's a playoff game when you have 21-3 against the Bengals and you start screwing around and you lose it. This is the Super Bowl. This is the chance for Mahomes to take it from 2.


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[Assistant] And Brock Purdy trying to establish himself beating Patrick Mahomes in his second year.


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[Assistant] The spread is less than a field goal in five of the last six Super Bowls. We were looking at this early and we were trying to remember which Super Bowl had a spread of more than a field goal out of the last six. I can remember. Do you remember which one?


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[Assistant] Going into the game, Pete, in which game was the spread more than a field goal? Out of the last six. Pete's looking it up. Pete knows it's five of six, he just doesn't know which one. Come on, Pete.


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[Assistant] It's Pete's fault. Uh, how about some chief stats here? Andy Reid is 11 and 2 when coming off of extended rest with Mahomes as his starter. The two losses were Super Bowl 45 against the Buccaneers and week 11 this season against the Eagles. And I remember us saying, when we picked the Chiefs to beat the Eagles,


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[Assistant] You give Andy Reed extra time, it's a no brainer. Uh, they are...


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[Assistant] By the way, Pete has come through the last time, the one time in the last six Super Bowls that a team was favored by more than a field goal was the Rams in 56 minus four against the Bengals and did not cover. Who remembers the time when every Super Bowl was a blowout and it was boring and it was like


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[Assistant] And so, and by three months, and then, uh, and then it changed, and I think it changed with Super Bowl 25, when your buddy Jeff Hosteller overcame shoes full of shaving cream that you put in there.


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[Assistant] But it was the exception to get a great game. Now it seems like the exception is to get a blowout. Right. No, I expect this game to go down to


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[Assistant] Mahomes is 9-3 in his career and 10-1-1 against the spread as an underdog, 3-0 in the postseason as an underdog, and he's an underdog for three straight games since his first three starts of his career in 2018. He is now an underdog for three games in a row, and he says he doesn't care about it.


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[Assistant] A couple of stats that are favorable to the 49ers efforts to win this Super Bowl. The last four defending champions who have made it back to the Super Bowl are 1-3 straight up and 0-4 against the spread. The Patriots are the last team


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[Assistant] Well, and one thing we know about football, it comes down to a handful of moments. Plays.


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[Assistant] Who makes the big catch at the right time? Right. Which way does the ball bounce? When it gets batted to the line of scrimmage. That's what I'm saying. With the Chiefs sometimes they do that. The Christmas night game. Right. Brock Purdy. The one interception, the first one was his fault. The rest of them, the ball gets hit. Tremendous plays by great players. And once it's up in the air, how many times do we see it just miss?


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[Assistant] And if the guy had been six inches over to the right, it changes everything. Bad calls. Every bad call that happens in a game includes a good call for the other team. That makes a difference. It's four or five moments that determine everything. And when you're talking about close games, evenly matched teams,


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[Assistant] Those four or five moments determine it, and it's like flipping a coin, and if it comes up the other way enough times, you're done.


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[Assistant] All the effort you put into it, all the time you put into it, it doesn't matter. Those coin flip moments, those jump balls as some call them. If the jump balls don't go your way, it's over and it's done. Alright, get to some Pro 49er stuff, man. We already did, I just did.


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[Assistant] More, yeaah, okay, more, sorry. That's all of it. Yeaah. We're gonna get some props now. Yeaah, fine. Somebody gotta drive this car. That was all of it. Cause you sure as shit can't drive right now.


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[Assistant] Don't, don't give him the keys to anything. Please, not right now. Alright, Super Bowl 58 rocks. Drive responsibly. Super Bowl MVP.


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[Assistant] Patrick Mahomes is the favorite, obviously, at plus 125. Not a surprise. If it's not him though, who's it gonna be? From the Chiefs!


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[Assistant] He actually gets better. He actually gets better. Alright, uh, so.


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[Assistant] I don't know that anybody would have succeeded with the Jets that year. If it's Trevor Lawrence, if it's Justin Fields, if it's Mack Jones, if it's anybody. The Jets have been a dysfunctional mess.


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[Assistant] Michael Badgley, not a good kicker. Right. And the gentleman here with the question said he's got more of an issue with the second fourth down play. See I got more of an issue with the first one. Right. Because the first one's the one to put you back up three scores. You gotta think of it in terms of scores. You just kept the 49ers to a field goal.


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[Assistant] And if he catches the pass, what does that get him? It gets him a first down, it doesn't get him a touchdown. It does run time.


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[Assistant] Here's a question. Chiefs have beaten the 49ers four out of the last five times they have met. Chris, what adjustments do you think the 49ers will make to make up that difference?


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[Assistant] Great question, great question. Excellent point. And by the way, I pay very close attention to the things you say. Okay, when you say that they should dangle in some man-to-man, is that the same as dangling your man-junk in someone's face after you make a tackle?


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[Assistant] Okay, I think you meant sprinkle, but happy Chris said dangle. I am wired to hear anytime he says dangle, I know where it may be going. Got a question right here.


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[Assistant] Who needs to prove more in this game, Brock Purdy or Kyle Shanahan? I'm Shanahan all the way.


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[Assistant] Any other questions for now? Anyone? Here we go. Yes, what do you got buddy? Go pack go.


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[Assistant] Yeah, oh, yeah, I think that, you know.


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[Assistant] They got so much crap for Jordan Love before the season, all these people saying he can't play our good buddy Adam Shine, hate Jordan Love, he can't play, loathe Jordan Love, he said. And we defended him because I felt bad for the guy. He got stuck in a bad situation between


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[Assistant] The front office and Aaron Rodgers with all that drama.


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[Assistant] Jordan Love's the only one that had no say in it. He got drafted into it. He sat for three years and it took him a while.


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[Assistant] And the Lions, I mean, I can't remember a time where the NFC North, NFC Central was this good.


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[Assistant] They've always been one really good team and kinda everybody else. They are top to bottom, good.


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[Assistant] Yes, anybody else? What else we got? Any other questions? Anyone? Anyone? Anyone? What's up? Lions fan, got a question? Lions fan?


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[Assistant] Swap it for a bunch of others. Keep Justin Fields and build a team. Right. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. Don't put pressure on Caleb Williams to come in and do better than Justin Fields wherever Justin Fields is because you know that's what we'll be saying all year.


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[Assistant] Look at what Caleb Williams is doing. Look at what Justin Fields is doing. Caleb Williams doesn't measure up. It's just more pressure that he doesn't need as he starts his career. Justin Fields has a


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[Assistant] I think that one of the reasons that the Patriots struggled with what to do with Bill Belichick was because they recognized he is a brilliant coach, game day, and also preparation.


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[Assistant] Knowing who the opponent is. Breaking down what the opponent does. Taking away what the opposing offense does best. We know he does it. We know he's gonna do it. He still does it.


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[Assistant] He gets a team ready to play and he gets the most out of the team that he has. The problem has been from a personnel standpoint. He has not done a great job of drafting players, developing players, and using the free agent dollars to get the best players available. That's what brought him down. Because there was no going back, there was no clawing back his power. Robert Kraft explained that four weeks ago tomorrow.


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[Assistant] Even though Bill Belichick seemed to be willing to give up some of his power, it's not practical. Because once you've been in control of that team, for as long as he was in control of that team,


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[Assistant] It becomes very awkward for somebody else to come in and be in control of the team. Right. It's just, yes, okay, in theory this person's in charge, but then it comes Bill Belichick, and he's grumbly, and he's- Not gonna happen. You're gonna do what Bill Belichick wants.


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[Assistant] You can't be an asshole. If you're an asshole, they're gonna turn on you. And they turned on him. They waited 20 years for their chance to turn on him. So, alright, other questions. Anyone and everyone who's got a question.


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[Assistant] Take that and how is that guy gonna perform when he's going against an NFL caliber defense? That's why I love Mahomes.


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[Assistant] Who else has a question? Anybody out there? Question time. Anyone else? We've answered plenty and we'll answer any more of the app. We'll keep, we'll keep, over here, hey, alright, got a question, what's up?


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[Assistant] You can come back a lot easier. Yea, and that's true. I mean, as the game becomes more and more offensive,


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[Assistant] It's easier for a team that falls behind to come back. And if you're down ten, if you're down seventeen, you're down twenty-eight to three, you still have a chance to come back. Alright, anybody else? Question? Anyone?


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[Assistant] You know, what do you think they could get for Justin Fields? Somebody asked me that earlier today. What do you think? Could you get multiple teams to come to the table and have a bidding war for Fields?


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[Assistant] Alright, last call for questions. Anybody else before we make our picks for Super Bowl 58? Anyone? Alright, let's go. Do it! Alright, one more. Don's got one more.


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[Assistant] Oh, you like a Cuckoo Cousins? I like a Cuckoo Cousins. The top of the market is $55 million right now.


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[Assistant] Kirk Cousins is making 35. I was looking at the list the other day. There's a lot of guys in the 40s. A lot of guys in the 40s. And the salary cap is going to go up again. They don't even know how high up it's going to go up. They're trying to slam the brakes on it. The owners want to smooth the salary cap. They don't want it to go up too much because then they got to pay guys. Because there's a salary floor too. I think for Cousins, they need to be willing to pay, what, 45? Is it 45 for Cousins?


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[Assistant] I think they should be willing to go between that 42 to 47 million dollar range.


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[Assistant] Their next Frank Tarkinon. They haven't had a true franchise quarterback since Frank Tarkinon.


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[Assistant] So, uh, let's do it. Let's do our pick. Ready? You ready? Yeaah. I know who you're gonna pick and you know who I'm gonna pick. Right, you don't know who I'm gonna pick. Alright, well, I'll go first.


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[Assistant] You don't know. We did this last year, and we did this four years ago. Right.


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[Assistant] When the Chiefs were playing the 49ers in Super Bowl 54 in Miami, you picked the 49ers and I took the Chiefs.


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[Assistant] So I don't doubt him, and I won't doubt him. Especially because he's got that Tom Brady factor that is pushing him to get to seven.


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[Assistant] So I will go, remember it was 31-20 last time, I will go 30-20 this time, Chiefs.


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[Assistant] We appreciate you guys out here. Before we wrap up, before we wrap up, because you know you don't work every day of the week. Right. And two of the people are here that I want to acknowledge.


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[Assistant] Get up and get the job done. Right. On the days when you're in your hammock. Right. Drinking a pina colada. We got Miles Simmons. Come on, Miles. Miles Simmons. Come on. Who fills in for Chris.


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[Assistant] Gets up at 4am pacific time to do the show. Shereen Williams who gets up at 6am Dallas time to do the show. We appreciate them very much and they are here with us tonight.


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[Assistant] And John, Stephen, McKenzie, Kelsey, and Jeff for everything you did to make this possible. Thanks to Pete. Thanks to JK. Thanks to Matt Casey.


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[Assistant] I mean, Rockets on his feet. What are you talking about, Devin McCourty? I am here with Ahmed Fareed. He is wearing some very bright blue pants and a bright zip-up


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[Assistant] Cause I came out Sunday night, week nine, and you were like, I think you should start doing this every week, this should be a new thing, and I wanna be like, I have, it's week nine, I've worked nine weeks in a row. No, I go, is it?


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[Assistant] Thank you to Ahmed for reading this suggestion of maybe you shouldn't do the Monday and Tuesday morning show on PFT with that little of sleep and, uh, did it didn't do Tuesday this week. It was great. It was a game changer.


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[Assistant] Actually, so I feel totally different this Wednesday morning where I'm usually in a fog and like literally starting the pod, drinking coffee and going,


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[Assistant] Okay, here we go. Let me get going here. Let me start thinking correctly. I feel like I'm thinking as correctly as I can think. I'm up to maximum capacity for Chris Sims right now at least.


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[Assistant] That had the U bleeped out and it said F star CK. Yeaah. Right? Uh, it was a great license plate. I need to get one like that.


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[Assistant] I mean again, I think it's to me a little bit frustrating and annoying that it's all quarterbacks other than Christian McCaffrey. Agreed. To me, there's something wrong with the process where only a quarterback can win MVP in football. It's like basically like


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[Assistant] You know, I mean, in other sports being like, well, you know, only, only a shooting guard can win, can win the MVP in basketball or only the guy who hits the most home runs.


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[Assistant] You know, or the best picture. I don't know. It just doesn't seem right. I don't think it's fair. Alright, so the first thing I would say...


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[Assistant] Is watch out for Lamar Jackson and Joe Burrow. Those would be the two guys that are on this list that I would certainly say, I feel like to your point and what you said about Burrow, arrow pointing up trajectory going steep upward incline to where I feel like stats are going to start to blow up to add into the fact of like, yes, they're both playing really good football. You know?


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[Assistant] I see, you know, Mahomes, I don't see MVP-ish week in, week out type of performances from Mahomes right now. Right. And Jalen Hertz, who's been really good this year, and I would argue has actually made more high level throws through nine weeks this year than he did last year.


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[Assistant] Right? In a lot of ways. But he's also what? Second in football and turnovers? You can't be the MVP with being second in football and turnovers. That doesn't make sense to me.


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[Assistant] Alright, here, if I was gonna pick an MVP right now from what we've seen, Tyree Kill is the MVP of football. He's your MVP. He is my MVP through the nine weeks of the season of what we've seen and who is most valuable to their team, let alone, you know, the most special entity in the game right now. I'm going Tyree Kill.


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[Assistant] The Dolphins, everything about them, you take him off the Dolphins, they're a good offense, I'm not sure they're a great offense. He's on pace still, even with the lackluster week last week of being right there at 2,000 yards and shattering the all-time record.


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[Assistant] You know, the guy with the ball in his hands is the most dangerous guy in the sport. The guy before the game even starts is the guy defensive coordinators worry about more than any other player in the sport in game planning and stopping him.


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[Assistant] So that's where, you know, I give Tyree Kill, and I'm ashamed AJ Brown isn't on that list too, because he should be above some of these quarterbacks, but Tyree Kill for me would be the MVP right now.


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[Assistant] I don't think the Dolphins offense, Tua, the stats are not going to be the same. He's more important to that offensive flow than any quarterback will be. Exactly, that's all I'm trying to say. It's not an indictment on Tua. Tua is really good, you know, I got that. But, you know, for me to sit here and you go, wait,


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[Assistant] You subtract him for him, like, they're gonna be in a much worse place, you know, without Tyree kill.


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[Assistant] And supplanting some other starting receiver in football there as compared to where if we took two out and put another starting quarterback there. Yeah, I think there's going to be a much bigger drop off in that department. Uh, so yeah, that's where I would go. I would go with Tyree kill. And again, I'm going to continue to be fair in this conversation and beat this down because


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[Assistant] It is stupid. It's not, I understand it's the most important position in sports. I get that.


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[Assistant] I also think that there's a lot of things that sometimes add to the quarterback stats and what they get and win losses of course that go on their stats as it is too. And I just don't think that's always fair or right. And that's why I'm going to support Tyreek.


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[Assistant] To make it work with that offense right now, the receivers certainly don't blow you out of the water, right? It's Kelsey and then it's just like, who's going to be the other guy that day? We never know, it kind of changes, whatever else. And you're right, it's Mahomes that gives that team belief and makes the offense work.


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[Assistant] You know, but as of right now, yea, that offense is, is not anything special. They kind of feast on the poor. And then when they got to play good teams, a little bit like we'll talk about with Miami, you know, their offense kind of struggles and it is very reliant on my homes to make extraordinary plays.


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[Assistant] That's where I just look at them and I look at the value they have to their football team right now and I just go, it's up there with anybody in the sport at any position and I don't understand why it doesn't get valued more in the public. What a great weapon to go.


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[Assistant] Oh, okay. It's third and, it's third and eight and I can throw the ball four yards and he can break two tackles and get first down.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's third and eight and they're blitzing us and I have nowhere to throw. Let me just throw it up to this guy and he'll go up and catch it. Right? Oh, it's first and ten.


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[Assistant] Let me just throw a screen over here and now he's gonna break a tackle and run up the sidelines for 45 yards. Like those are game changing special type things that I think are a little bit going undervalued in this conversation and that's where I just would like to see them get more love. Uh, are we worried though?


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[Assistant] No, I think there's definitely a worry there. You know, what you've seen now, the Chiefs, the Eagles, the Bills have certainly put a blueprint out a little bit to how to give that Dolphins


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[Assistant] Offense some problems, you know, but like, to me, the pills, the bills did some things there, you know, they're going to play them again. The bill's defense is going to be totally different when they play them because of the injuries, right? So that's one thing I look at. But the other thing I would look at is just go,


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[Assistant] You know, most defenses are not gonna have the type of talent that the Chiefs and the Eagles have to actually, and even the Bills, because that was before they all got injured on that side of the ball, you know.


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[Assistant] They don't have the talent to do some of the things we're talking about schematically. Now they play the Jets and the Ravens down the stretch and the Cowboys and I would think those are some teams that certainly have the talent and a defensive coordinator can think outside the box a little bit.


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[Assistant] The top five guys deserve to be there, really. You know, Max Crosby actually probably deserves more love, but the fact that he's not on a top tier defense and wins, he probably should be up there closer to the TJ Watt type of numbers as far as actual play on the field. Can I say it right now?


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[Assistant] What's he do, like, when you look at him, because I don't look at this type of stuff. What's his run defensive stuff? On the PFF grade? Yea.


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[Assistant] I mean, again, when you get into the pure aspect of value, yeaah, it should be a more, you know, a lower number, you know, as far as odds there.


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[Assistant] And if you made me pick one right now, right, and I got no problem with really, to me the top three guys are a little bit in the class of their own. Michael Parsons, Miles Garrett, TJ Watt.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, then there's Aiden Hutchinson, right? And like I said, I think Max Crosby should be closer to that TJ Watt number at plus 200. Uhm, I would go with Miles Garrett.


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[Assistant] He'd be the one I would look at right now. Miles Garra just week in and week out has such a great effect on the football game. Not that I've watched every game they've played on film, but I think it's been...


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[Assistant] Four or five at least. To say, yeaah, at least four or five. And it's not only...


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[Assistant] Pressures on the quarterback. It's pressures in big moments, strip sacks in big moments, right? There's big tackles for losses in the run game in big moments. He's an absolute force in the run game. The block field goal and jumping over the pile against the Colts. To me, it's just like,


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[Assistant] Not only is he always good, but I feel like this is a year where his level of play has gone to another level, especially in key moments of the football game. And I think that, and then you add on the fact that the Cleveland defense is doing some special things, and of course he's the best player on that defense, I would go with Miles Garrett.


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[Assistant] He's like, no signs of falling off at all. In fact, I mean, you know, really might be just starting to hit his prime, actually, when you just put it all together as far as where his physical ability is, and then I think where his mental aspect of his game is at as well, uh, and, you know,


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[Assistant] I would say I feel like he changes game plans maybe more than the rest of these guys in the group right now. Mike goes right up there with him as far as that.


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[Assistant] When you watch Miles Garrett and that, and no matter who they're playing,


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[Assistant] I mean teams are always, let's keep a tight end there, or let's have the tight end chip him before he goes out, running back chip him before he goes out. Let's see if we can slide his way. It's always the attention is on him and he always delivers.


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[Assistant] Being a great leader, and I think Jim Schwartz getting a little bit more out of him has made that whole defense turn the corner and become great.


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[Assistant] Love that song. It's been a long time since we played that song. I know, I love that song. I love the real-


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[Assistant] Well, okay, I mean, there's a few things. Again, I mean, I didn't get this job and get where I at, Matt, because I'm wrong all the time, okay? I'd like to think that I'm right more than I'm wrong. Yes, uhm, I agree. You know, one of the things I'm proud of, even though it hasn't been pretty, you know, picking Pittsburgh to go to the playoffs,


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[Assistant] Right? Picking Buffalo not to go to the playoffs as it stands right now. It doesn't look like that's going to happen. Alright? Uh, but I think...


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[Assistant] By far, and this is an obvious answer, because I feel like even on Football Night in America, it's like half the weeks of the year I've talked about this player, CJ Stroud.


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[Assistant] You know, to Houston and the level of play and the fact that yeaah, he was my number one quarterback and, I mean,


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[Assistant] I raised the question earlier this week. Have you ever seen a rookie quarterback play this good? I really don't know if we have. It's that special. Uh, so that would probably be the one I'm certainly the most proud of. Der Beobachter. Oh, he could have fixed our German.


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[Assistant] Awesome football players and all that. I didn't predict Puka Nakua to be, you know, anything there as far as what he is. I didn't see that coming. So I can't take, you know, credit for that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I'm trying to think if there's anything else there. You know, hey, Zay Flowers, even though the stats aren't huge, you know, the way he looks and everything like that, I mean, at least confirm to me he's really dangerous, and I had no problem saying he was the


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[Assistant] The best, you know, rookie receiver, Jordan Addison is certainly showing his ass and challenging that for sure. Yeah, Laporta for your...


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[Assistant] Detroit Lions would be one of them. Uh, so those are a few that jumped at least to my mind there. I think not that you don't usually, but I feel like you had a pretty good year.


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[Assistant] That's what the scary thing was, is just that, from where they were at, right?


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[Assistant] You know, if you got a high grade, it did not necessarily mean you were going to be a great football player. But to this point, and what I've heard from all my NFL friends, I will say this, is that yes, with a low score, it had pretty much, I think, been foolproof that that person had not been successful.


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[Assistant] So, that's what scared people off of CJ Stroud, you know, and obviously I'm glad this happens because this shows that this test is not the end all be all, and I know there's some other guys that


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[Assistant] Blowing me away, and by far my new man crush in the NFL.


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[Assistant] You know, the Packers talented roster. There's going to be a chip on their shoulders. So they were the one where I kind of went outside the football evaluation and went a little bit gut with it a little bit.


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[Assistant] And also being a little bit of a more maybe of a believer than I should have been on Jordan Love, right? I think all that kind of ties hand in hand.


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[Assistant] We're the one I look at to go, oh, I was certainly wrong about that. I mean, again, I feel like if the Rams have Matthew Stafford last week, they're going to beat the Packers. It just feels that way. Uh, again, I know that's a bold statement, whatever else, but yeah, certainly my, the one I feel most egregiously wrong about so far.


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[Assistant] I think that's what bothers me is I feel like it's actually kind of gone the other way, right? It's, it's instead of, you know, trending upwards or just plateauing a little bit and then we're going upwards little by little. No, there was a...


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[Assistant] Three or four week stretch where you go, I don't know, this might be getting worse, really. And that's what I think scares me. And I still think the jury's out.


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[Assistant] I do. I don't look at it yet or didn't even see anything last week that sits there and goes, okay, I think he's got it, right? No, I definitely have to see more. They're obviously gonna see more. I think the one thing that he could stand


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[Assistant] You know, or be confident about is, you know, since this was such a high profile move, decision, draft pick, whatever you wanna make, they're gonna let him...


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[Assistant] Nine lives. He's gonna have nine lives. He's gonna get to finish out the season, I think, regardless, just because, hey, they got rid of Aaron Rodgers for him, they drafted him in the first round, they're gonna give him every right to fail and fail again and fail again before they move on, and hopefully that doesn't happen and he can kind of fix things as we go here.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's alright. You gotta take a shot with a team here and there. You can't go chalk for 14 teams, you know, because there's always a few curve balls that get thrown at us.


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[Assistant] No, I don't think there's, I'm trying to look to see if there's anything else that I feel like


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[Assistant] That's probably the one. I can't remember, I was trying to think of any specific player like...


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[Assistant] Predictions I made or anything like that, like I picked Mahomes to win the MVP. As far as like quality of play that you expect from an MVP type of quarterback, yeaah, I don't think it's there right now. Now like you talked about a minute ago, because he's the quarterback and they might get the number one seed,


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[Assistant] Right? You know, maybe that still happens and all of that. And like you said, he's kind of making it happen with a group that I think is a little lackluster. Uh, but yeah, I don't feel necessarily comfortable about that.


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[Assistant] With guys that are a little under the radar. I mean, we know who the stars are and all that. I'm gonna go with Rashid Shaheed. Oh, yes. Okay? You talk about a guy that's leading the league in average yards per catch, right? He's one of the best big play receivers in all of football, alright?


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[Assistant] To me, he's the most dangerous receiver on...


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[Assistant] The New Orleans Saints football team. So he's the damn okay guy. I mean, I understand there's other guys out there that of course are worthy of damn okay type of, you know, things here. I get that. But to me, he's the one that's


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[Assistant] The under the radar, not a household name that I look at, and on a weekly basis we go, holy shit, look at him return that kick, the punt.


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[Assistant] Two honorable mentions are damn okay while you're flustered and try to regain yourself here, regather yourself.


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[Assistant] Alright, and then another one that, you know, not that it's going to be new to anybody in this podcast, but I want people to know how awesome this player is. And that is Jalen Carter. Jalen Carter.


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[Assistant] Jalen Carter is one of the guys, you know, we've sat here a few weeks where I've just gone, Oh my gosh, Jalen Carter. Oh my gosh, Jalen Carter. He might be the best defensive tackle in football already. I mean, he's that type of player. I don't think he's quite getting that attention or being put in that realm. And I'm trying to sit here and tell you, I do think he's that type of player.


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[Assistant] It's hard when you're the one that has to put your ass on the line to make a decision about a guy where you go, man, I've heard a few stories that are not that good and this is a game changing, life changing decision for our organization. Do I really want to do that?


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[Assistant] There's some other guys here that I like, maybe not as much as a player, but I trust them more off the field or whatever else. I'm gonna go with that, right? So it's hard when your ass is on the line and you gotta make those picks.


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[Assistant] Alright, well, we brought this guy up already, so I don't want to make this my main guy, but


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[Assistant] Max Crosby is the first one that comes to mind, right? I mean, they're four and five and like you just said, he is in the defense MVP conversation. Yep. Alright, but more importantly, I'm going to go with somebody even more on a losing team. DJ Moore. DJ Moore.


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[Assistant] You know, I think everybody got to see in that little period of when Justin Fields, right before he got hurt and everything there, how special DJ Moore is. You know, and now right now it's not quite the same and you know, you got a rookie quarterback and they got the training wheels on a little bit and all that. But DJ Moore is the guy I look at to go like,


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[Assistant] He's one of the best receivers on football and here he is for the second time in his life stuck in a pretty bad situation where the team can't even accentuate or show us all his talents because they're not good enough to support him and let it all show. So I'll go with him.


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[Assistant] He's got some, his high end talents, it is real. His ability to throw the ball down the field and make explosive plays with his arm and hang in the pocket with people around him and make big plays, it's damn good. It is towards the top of football in that department.


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[Assistant] Right? It is holding the ball too long at times, not knowing where to throw it away. You know, not patting the ball two extra times going, wait, he's not going to come open. He's covered. There's two guys on him. Check the ball down and let's get to second and five instead of being in second and 25. Cause now you took a 15 yard sack patting the ball 17 times.


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[Assistant] Waiting for Terry McCormick to get open, right? But that's part of the fun.


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[Assistant] To your point, that's why you're entertained by it. You know, and he is always looking for the big shot. If there was a part of his game that needs to get better, you know, is the, it's the short passing game. It's the intermediate passing game. It's just kind of a long, deliberate release. And we've talked about this with other quarterbacks and think about it when you talk about with Sam Howell here, right?


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[Assistant] You know, he doesn't really do sidearm or anything like that. So short game, shallow three-step drop or shallow crosses or things like that.


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[Assistant] That to me because he's so robotical and over the top with his motion is one of the areas that he's got to work on this offseason and working about, hey, let me find a lane here. Let me flick it with my wrist instead of having to go through this huge windup every time.


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[Assistant] It shouldn't be a huge fix. He should be able to do it. But I don't disagree with you that he's fun to watch and exciting every week. They should do that. He should get together with


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[Assistant] There's four or five completions in every game where you look at the great quarterbacks and go, wow, that's unbelievable. He threw his sidearm and got that done there. And you see other quarterbacks who don't have that.


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[Assistant] That to me is what it is, right? It's Shane Steichen.


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[Assistant] Again, they're doing this with, one, they didn't have Jonathan Taylor for five or six weeks, right? And then two, without a star receiver.


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[Assistant] Right? I mean, Michael Pittman Jr. played with his dad. Ultimate respect. Really awesome NFL starting receiver. Not a number one superstar receiver. In your perfect world, you want Michael Pittman Jr. to be your number two. Right?


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[Assistant] So, they're doing it without a game breaker at that position. Him and Alec Pearce are both like,


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[Assistant] You know, Pittman a little bit better, certainly, but the same guy kind of like can do everything you want at the receiver position.


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[Assistant] But not necessarily going to beat you deep for a 70 yard bomb or catch a slant and break a tackle and go for 70 yards that way.


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[Assistant] You know, they're kind of total complete receivers. They block in the run game. They're good route runners. They're tough over the middle. They can beat you deep, but it's not how they're going to make their money on a consistent basis, right? All that. They're well rounded. And that to me, the point you made is, is the point. Shane Steichen.


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[Assistant] Why they're exciting is because he comes up with plays and game plans that are, you know, outside the box and it leads to exciting plays on the offensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] They're not out of it yet. They're four and five right now. I know. They're four and five. I mean, you know, the last spot there. What they gotta hope is that...


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[Assistant] To me, like, teams like that, they gotta hope Cleveland, I mean, Cincinnati just continues to win. Get them out of the picture. And they need to hope that, like, Cincinnati and Baltimore


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[Assistant] Beat up on Pittsburgh and Cleveland and knock those teams down to where now maybe they have a fighting chance to jump into this. The disappointing thing with the Colts has been their defense this year. Their defense has been bad.


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[Assistant] If their defense played to the capacity it did last year or the year before with this offense, you know, I would go, ooh, they're dangerous. But their defense letting up a lot of big plays, certainly not the same. And we'll see where this goes. But yea, they're going to be a pain in the ass because, you know, they're a team that they can lose to the teams they're supposed to beat.


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[Assistant] But they can also beat the teams that they're not supposed to beat. AKA having Cleveland, you know, in big trouble, right? Or beating Baltimore Ravens in Baltimore. So that's where, you know, they're a juggernaut that way.


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[Assistant] You heard me, we did a breakdown last year at one point when Detroit played the Carolina Panthers and remember they ran for all, the Carolina Panthers ran for all those yards and I remember I came back and I was like, it wasn't the DeTacos fault, it wasn't their fault.


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[Assistant] I said the D.N.'s and the linebackers really messed up a lot of plays, right? Alex Enzelon last year did struggle. That's a very good one by our at 11 Jordan Cole. So I like that. That's what we're looking for. There's a few here.


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[Assistant] That I look at. I think if I was just gonna take one, okay?


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[Assistant] And, I saw Pete put this in the, in the doc, or early, yesterday. But, but I agree with it, and I'm gonna piggyback off it.


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[Assistant] It's Quincy Williams. Quincy Williams, Quinan Williams' brother, linebacker for the, the, the New York Jets. I mean...


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[Assistant] The Jets were brilliant in signing him to a three year, eighteen million dollar deal. Cause you could kinda see it last year, at the end of the year, start to go...


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[Assistant] And the speed, the explosiveness, and then the instincts on top of that, I think if you're gonna make me pick one guy that kinda came out of nowhere to where I go, no, no, no, now he's one of the best at his position in all of football, Quincy Williams would get my award. Alright. Another guy I'd love to give love to, Josh Swett of the Philadelphia Eagles, right? Eagles got so many damn good players.


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[Assistant] We usually don't mention him. You know, we go to, you know, Darius Slay and Jaylen Carter and Jordan Davis and Fletcher Cox and Hassan Reddick. And then you get to Josh Swett and Josh Swett's really probably having the best year of all of them as far as rushing the passer.


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[Assistant] So that's one that I, I certainly would love to give a little love to there. And then one more I'll throw on is Kavon Thibodeau. Right? He's been better than I ever expected this year. It's not perfect. His sacks are inflated. All right. A lot of his, you know, not a lot of them, but there's a good amount that of course with Wink Martindale and how creative he is.


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[Assistant] He sets Kavon Thibodeau up for success, but Thibodeau in the run game plays hard and, you know, at the end of the day it still is eight and a half sacks and he is around the quarterback and had some big plays and some big moments to where he's played better than I would have thought he did.


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[Assistant] This is how complicated, this is how complicated you are. It is, and I think it's hard with the Giants defense at times, because they're so crazy and exotic to know all the rules in which they're doing at times.


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[Assistant] And I think that's where you gotta be careful a little with, with some of these grading these defensive guys, especially in a defense like Winx, where there's a lot of moving parts and we look at it and we go, Oh, he should be setting the edge, but they might have a call where now you shoot inside and somebody else's response over the edge, whatever that may be. You know, is it fifth pick of the draft?


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[Assistant] Good? No. It's still not that, but it's better than, than, than I thought. That's what I'll say.


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[Assistant] I don't. I'd be interested to see if they can keep him. Because not that I think he'll get top of the market money at the ride receiver position.


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[Assistant] But he's gonna get that, you know, next group down of the guys that are like 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 on their list. It's gonna be in that category. And you know, again, how many guys can you pay?


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[Assistant] Top five or top six in football, your position on one football team, they got quite a few already in San Francisco. So, but yea, play's been good. I think it's his best year of his career so far, motivated by the contract.


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[Assistant] You know, the fact that they've had to focus on him a little bit because Deebo's been out I think has only helped him as well. And he's got a quarterback.


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[Assistant] I love this. I got a little feel for this already, cause I always think about this a little, you know, cause this is something we've done throughout the years, you and I working together.


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[Assistant] Right, teams that you look at and go, okay, like I know they can get in the playoffs and all that.


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[Assistant] And that goes with the Vikings, who we did say last year are not a team that can win the Super Bowl, even if they are 13 and 4, right? And they don't even look like they should be on the same field with the Giants, who couldn't even be on the same field as the Eagles. So that's why we're talking about this, this is where it's fun. And the AFC,


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[Assistant] There's seven teams in the playoffs right now. I'm gonna say six of them can go to the Super Bowl. Okay.


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[Assistant] That's a high number for me. I'm usually like, eh, eeh, eeh, eeh, okay.


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[Assistant] So I'm gonna look at, out of the seven teams. I know the team that you saved. You know it. It's Kansas City, Baltimore, Jacksonville, Miami, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Cincinnati. So Pittsburgh can't. Pittsburgh can't go to the Super Bowl. There's no way. You think any of those other teams could? I think the other teams, no, I would say Kansas City, Baltimore, Jacksonville, and Cincinnati are clearly my four top ones there, right? Miami, I'm a little skeptical about, but still.


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[Assistant] You know, there's still too much talent on that team for me to go, ehh, right? And I still think they're getting used to the Vic Fangio system on D, so there's still that little adjustment there. Jalen Ramsey just getting back healthy, all that.


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[Assistant] And then even Cleveland, where I'm putting at the bottom of this a little bit, but I still, if, with that defense, and if we're sitting here four weeks from now starting to go, man, Deshaun Watson is kind of lighting it up every week. I'm going to go, yeah, they're.


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[Assistant] Sure. But I don't think it's gonna go much farther than that. I think it would have to be, for them to win two playoff games, I think something would have to happen. Some sort of upset, somebody gets injured for a team they're about to play.


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[Assistant] Really balances things out into their favor or whatever else. So yeaah, I don't. And you know me, I'm a guy that a lot of years has looked at these type of things and gone, hey, this team that's number ten or number seven or eight on the list, they can still go to the Super Bowl and do that. I just don't see it this year. I think we kind of know.


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[Assistant] What we know. This is a different year. I don't think there's gonna be like dark horses that come out of nowhere late in the year like we've seen in some other seasons.


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[Assistant] It's not a whole lot different from what we just talked about with the AFC. Okay, the 49ers and the Eagles, clearly. The Detroit Lions, yes. Of course putting them in that conversation. The Dallas Cowboys are in that conversation.


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[Assistant] For sure. The only one I teeter about a little bit is the Seattle Seahawks, right? I mean, if you made me bet money I'd go, I don't think they're going to the Super Bowl, no.


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[Assistant] But I'm not willing to come out here and not put them on the list as of right now. I'm not. There's just too many good freakin' pyres on the team that they scare me. Alright? And, you know, they are a team that, you know, defensively usually gets better as the year goes along. Uh, and then I wanna see...


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[Assistant] You know, the offensive line, get healthy, see where that goes before I make this final judgment. But I am definitely worried about Seattle in that conversation, especially with the way the offense has looked at times, like we've talked about many times on Sunday nights.


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[Assistant] They're too good to have these stagnant games or periods of the game where you go, damn, it's two quarters, they haven't done shit on that side of the ball. That can't go on, so I am a little worried in that aspect.


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[Assistant] I really do. You know, like I said, I think if you take away their disease of fumbles early on in the year, we're looking at a team that's probably like seven and two, you know, six and three at the worst really.


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[Assistant] And the offense, I think, you know, with Kirk Cousins was functioning at the highest level we'd ever seen it. It was better than last year, actually, consistently through games. And then the defense has definitely given them a fighting chance. And let's not forget, that second week of the year, they were toe-to-toe with Philadelphia there for a while. They kind of messed it up.


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[Assistant] You know, with a number of penalties, fumbles, whatever else and, uh, but yeaah, I'm not willing to say Super Bowl is in their future.


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[Assistant] That's where I think it is, and that's why I think it was good we just did that exercise. I think it is clear, and I think this is a year where I look at it and go, I don't see that team.


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[Assistant] This year. I don't see that team that's like Jacksonville, uh, we were saying it last year, right? I mean, you know, I was saying it early on in the year. I kept picking them to win. They kept losing. I was going, man, I guess I'm going to be wrong about that.


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[Assistant] You know, they were a team, and even Cincinnati the year before that, where


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[Assistant] We prefaced it before they went on their run to go, I, we see things about their team.


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[Assistant] That are elite and that they can mess with the big boys a little bit and really make some waves and maybe disrupt the whole playoff system and looked at them and went, I don't see a lot of flaws with their football team or anywhere you can go. Ooh, they're really at a disadvantage there. So I kind of saw that coming with Jacksonville a little last year or Cincinnati the year before. I don't see.


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[Assistant] That I kinda look at, right? I just would go dark horse that, alright? Is the Atlanta Falcons. They're sitting there at four and five, right?


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[Assistant] Their O line has not played up to its potential this year yet. Their running game hasn't gone going the way it is. I think some of that is the quarterback play like we've talked about. But with that defense, and then if the offense can get going, they are the one team that I think I look at in all of this to go, okay, they got a losing record, but I could see them


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[Assistant] You know, still getting in the playoffs and maybe getting the playoffs and being really a pain in the butt once they get in there, but not a Super Bowl team.


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[Assistant] Well, I think the top three are all, to me, safe bets. I do. I think the one I look at to go, I think it should be up there a little bit more, is the Jaguars. The Jaguars would be the other one, if you're looking for more of like a value bet or whatever, that would be the one I would look at.


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[Assistant] Is getting there, but I still can't just say, ooh, the Dolphins over the Bills for sure, right? I mean, I gotta see the Dolphins beat some quality teams first before I say that's going to happen.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so I, I, I really kinda look and like that top four for sure. I think those are the ones. I just think the Jaguars are a little more underrated in this than they should be.


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[Assistant] No, and I don't expect Dallas to catch the Eagles. I know there's more of a chance of that happening because Dallas is really talented. Philly's got some tough games on the horizon, but I still expect them to win the division.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I, I, I think he is the favorite. I do.


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[Assistant] Detroit, the story, right? There actually was expectations, they're delivering. I think all of those, you know, I think he's, I think he's the guy.


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[Assistant] Part of the reason they are expected, he is the main reason they had the expectations going into the year anyways. He kinda flipped things around last year, right, and got it going that way. And so that's where, you know, I think it's worthy. I know they had the expectations of that already, I get it, I know what Pete's saying there too, but to deliver and


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[Assistant] Show yourself for most weeks of being one of the better teams in the NFC. Uh, I think he is worthy of that. To me, the next one...


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[Assistant] I know they haven't beat Grey Teens, but like...


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[Assistant] We're still seeing revolutionary things on the offensive side of the ball from Mike McDaniel and the Dolphins. They are still 6 and 3 and they're


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[Assistant] You know, got the leading quarterback in football, the leading offense in football, the most big plays. I mean, you go through just about every statistical thing in football and the offensive side of the ball, the Miami Dolphins are leading at, and Mike McDaniel's the one calling the plays and orchestrating all of it.


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[Assistant] So I have a hard time thinking why he's not a little bit higher up in the odds or a little closer in all of this. Those two to me are clearly the


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[Assistant] If they can win the division, that'll make me think a whole different thing. Agreed. I don't think you, I don't think you get coach of the year for going like, ah, they were better than we thought, they went eight and nine. You know, that to me does not merit coach of the year status, uh, and merits a good pat on the back and everybody telling you how good you are, but not coach of the year. Pete made a good point about that.


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[Assistant] It really is, actually, when you think about it. He's been there that long, never had a losing record, you know, been to the Super Bowl twice, won it once, and has never won Coach of the Year. In fact, it doesn't even feel like he's even come close. That's, that's what's weird. I know. Uhm, but doing an awesome job. The problem with that is that,


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[Assistant] They're winning because of his culture and his toughness and everything he instills on the defense.


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[Assistant] They're also pain to watch because he hired the offensive coordinator and this is the guy he believes in, so that's a major problem. Half the Steelers fan base thinks he's the greatest thing ever because they keep winning this way. The other half wants him fired because he hired Matt Canada, so it's kinda crazy. Alright, we gotta get to the film review here in a sec.


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[Assistant] I'm kinda trying to digest, I don't have any great answers for you here.


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[Assistant] I think there's just a lot of info to still be gathered here in this total conversation. I think that's where...


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[Assistant] It becomes hard. Cardinals, yea, I think the Kyle and Murray thing, where it goes, all that, how he looks, how do they like him, how does he digest their new offense, how does he work with the pieces they have there and how they see the vision of that offense looking, I think that's still yet to be


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[Assistant] You know, heard, told, whatever here. So I'd like to see where that goes here. Right? I'm not ready to sit here quite yet and go, oh, they're definitely going to pick quarterback one. I'm not ready.


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[Assistant] You know, and of course Kyla Murray's play and what he does in the football field doesn't have a lot of say. The Chicago Bears have picked two and three.


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[Assistant] I think it's another one where I'm not ready to sit here to say they definitely should do quarterback. I mean, man, that's where it stinks that Justin Fields got hurt. It kind of seemed like he was starting to show us like, hey, I'm turning the corner. Look at how I'm throwing the ball and making plays in the pocket here. So that's one where


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[Assistant] As a analyst, it's hard to get a feel for. That's one where...


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[Assistant] How do they feel about him in the building? How do they feel about, you know, his ability to handle all the offenses and make all the throws we know you need to make and do it on a consistent basis? How do they feel about that?


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[Assistant] And then you look at the Giants, and you go, well they got Daniel Jones next year, whether they like it or not. They can't get rid of him. Now, you know, the day of him being maybe the, like,


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[Assistant] Hey, you're the starter, here's the red carpet. I think that's probably done. I think they're probably gonna even bring in another backup that's gonna challenge him or at least be a big insurance policy because injuries have crept up on this guy here the last few years.


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[Assistant] So, that's where it's really going to be a great conversation the last part of the season here to kind of figure out and let this quarterback thing kind of...


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[Assistant] Let's filter out so to see what direction it all goes.


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[Assistant] That, that, that could be a possibility, and I think the Giants fans probably are, are intrigued by that possibility, even though I don't think they should give up quite as


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[Assistant] Easily on Daniel Jones as, as maybe they want, want to. Uh, but yeaah, that, that's gonna be interesting to see.


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[Assistant] Where this all goes, I will say out of this list and what we looked at here, teams that most desperately need a top two pick or a big time quarterback. To me, the ones I look at on this list, if you're watching on our YouTube page is number six, the Rams. Okay. And number. Hmm.


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[Assistant] And depending where it goes, maybe the number 8 Buccaneers. And it's not really necessarily an indictment on Baker Mayfield, it's just where I feel like their teams are going, in general.


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[Assistant] The Rams, Matthew Stafford's still really good. They're just young and still kind of like...


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[Assistant] And a rebuilding process. They're going to continue to get younger. Do you want an older?


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[Assistant] A veteran, beat up type quarterback leading that group into the future? Or would you rather maybe get some trade compensation for him and then start building a young nucleus around your young quarterback who you draft? Those are things that I think of there and kind of the same thing with the Bucks.


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[Assistant] The Bucks, the Mike Evans, the Chris Godwin, all of that. I think the shelf life of that offense is kind of coming to an end here.


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[Assistant] As far as like, I feel like, you know, again, not that I'm all in on college football every Saturday, but I feel like it's just always Caleb Williams and Drake May from whoever I watch.


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[Assistant] Like, I feel like people think that they'd be like a top 10 offense of Aaron Rodgers in there, and I want to go, uh, absolutely


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[Assistant] Not. No. You have one receiver who can separate in Garrett Wilson, and then you have an offensive line that is definitely in the bottom quarter of football.


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[Assistant] And that is not conducive to a quarterback who does not want to hold the ball and wait for people to come open downfield the last three seasons. And now you think he's going to do it in this game and with this team? Absolutely not.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he definitely is. His stretch run here is going to be very interesting. In fact, I feel like we might be getting to the point too if he doesn't start playing better and the offense doesn't start playing better. And if he has a bad two or three games in a row, he might, the Drew Law conversation might start.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I would say so. And that goes back to the quarterback conversation like we talked about. You know, they got such training wheels on him.


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[Assistant] Also added to that conversation, right? So that hurt them. The Raiders offense is certainly one that you could throw in there with that. The Pittsburgh Steelers offense is another one you could throw in there with that same rudderless approach. You know, uh, defensively he could get into the Bucks and the Chargers and some of those teams that


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[Assistant] Certainly seem like they've lost their way a little bit on that side of the ball, so there's a few out there.


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[Assistant] I think that's, I think that's fair to say. I think he's been the best edge player. None of the other


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[Assistant] Rookie first rounders, as far as edge guys.


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[Assistant] Nobody's played to his capabilities yet. Nobody has. You know, I don't think Tyree Wilson for Texas, you know, from Texas Tech or the Raiders. He's coming on a little bit. He's coming on. He's finally just finally getting healthy. He could end the season there. There was a few plays from the other night that I looked at and I went, Ooh,


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[Assistant] That was the guy I remembered on film there. I saw him get off the ball, turn the corner a few times, so maybe that's happened, but yea, no, I think that you're, you're picking the right guy as far as edge guys for sure. Byron Young for the Rams has played a ton. Really damn good. The kid, uh, Hall for Derrick Hall for the Seattle Seahawks has his moments every game.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, Keon White with the Patriots early on was popping a lot, you know, but I think you're right in Will Anderson. They got something going there.


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[Assistant] He unfortunately right now is the only guy that is popping back to our Colts being a little disappointing on that side of the ball on their front seven on a consistent basis. You know, no matter what game it is and what I, when I've watched the Colts on film this year, he is the one guy that stands out. Darius Leonard.


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[Assistant] Don't hear much about him. Doesn't look like the same guy ever since he got back from the back injury. And yea, there's nobody else that's a difference maker that makes you game plan for anything on the Coastie line. So that's why he's facing all those damn double teams.


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[Assistant] That's impressive. He is. He's a consistent game wrecker. Physical presence.


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[Assistant] I mean, again, the Steelers, their ability to find edge defenders and wide receivers is second to none. I mean, it really is. It's, it's amazing and you know, this is a guy that, you know, they saw


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[Assistant] That they felt like, ooh, we can make him a difference maker. And it's just a little, every year, it's just been better and better. And last year you started to go, whoa, this is like,


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[Assistant] Alright, so let's like, let's just, let me dive into like my thesis statement, right? Basically. Okay. And here what I would say, and I put out a, you're gonna see a few videos on social media today too, you know.


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[Assistant] Dominate the line of scrimmage. Dominate the edge. Great mixture of coverages and fronts. Play two deep coverages for the most part, but not the whole game. Right? And different two deep coverages. That's why I say, you know, it's not just like, oh Tampa too. It's different versions of things.


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[Assistant] Tactical when playing man coverage and, and the Chiefs were good when they did play man and then of course the tactical blitzing on first and second down that you hear me talk about with spags or any team that plays these great offenses, you gotta be willing to do it. They have incredible depth.


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[Assistant] And that's where it was important that the Chiefs won first and second down, cause they got the Chiefs the third, I mean the Dolphins the third down, and people go, and I've had a few people go, well what's that matter? Well because third down, you don't have to worry about the run game, reverses,


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[Assistant] Because, you get them the third down, one,


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[Assistant] Two was not a strong arm quarterback that's always going to be like, hey, everybody knows I'm passing, so I'm going to throw a laser in a tight window, right? That's the first thing.


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[Assistant] They don't have good pass protection, so therefore you feel like, oh, we could collapse the pocket. And three, two is not the best


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[Assistant] Oh, I'm going to stand in the pocket with the, with the pocket collapsing type of quarterback anyways, let alone, like you said, you don't have to worry about some of the McDaniel's tricks. And to me, that was the other part of my thesis statement was don't let the McDaniel's McDaniel's special beat you, right? Some of the screens and creative plays that he comes up with in this game.


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[Assistant] Was a few reverses. Other than that, they couldn't find some of those cheap ways to get explosive plays like they do on most weeks. And again, I think that was another big part of the game, uh, and, and, and why the Chiefs won.


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[Assistant] And, and, you know, and adding on that to, like we said, the first and second down, I know a part we want to hit on is the strategic blitzing, right? That's where, like, Spags is special.


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[Assistant] And you gotta be willing to me when you're like, you've heard me say, we've talked about the dolphins, the eagles, you gotta be willing to take a few chances on first and second down and go,


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[Assistant] I'm gonna bring this Blitz. I know it might leave this one area avoided, but I can't stop everything their offense does on first and second down. So we're gonna take a tactical chance. I'm gonna call this Blitz cause if they do this formation or this personnel set.


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[Assistant] I feel kind of like I got a clue of what they do on the offensive side of the ball, so I'll take a chance. And for this game, it was corner blitzes. Spags is the best corner blitz defensive coordinator in football.


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[Assistant] Every week he kinda sends a few and when you don't think it. And early on in this football game he sent a few and it got Miami thinking about it, worried about it on the sidelines, and of course got them behind the chains a few times that set up the Chiefs defense for success.


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[Assistant] Well, cause I know he's got some of the same beliefs I'm talking about. He's going, I don't care how perfectly I coach our defense with some of these offenses right now, you can't be right or sound with everything they're doing to you. So you've got to.


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[Assistant] And you better adjust off or not call some of these plays. And I think that's where it's great. And the other thing I think where they both realize is Spags or Flores is where they've stopped this. Oh, you want to bring your receiver in tight so we can't jam them or now he can use the natural pick. Well.


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[Assistant] We're gonna, you wanna bring our corner closer? Well we're gonna put our corner up there to jam him. We don't care that he might get picked a little bit. And...


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[Assistant] We might blitz him from time to time and you don't know when he's coming and it's going to mess up some of your plays and I think that's the reason they do it. The Dolphins do a lot of those tight splits and that's when it invited the Chiefs to kind of be daring and bring those blitzes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, and this is, uhm, this is 4th quarter, right? 5 minutes to go, 4th quarter.


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[Assistant] You know, that they're, they're great at and throughout the day, they did send some five man pressures.


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[Assistant] Right? The Chiefs, and before we show the next picture, let me just lay this out there, Pete, a little bit. You know, the Chiefs are great at blitz one, drop one. Blitz two, drop one. Right? So, you know, and then they have people standing in the line of scrimmage, so they confuse your protection schemes. Spagnola is the best at exposing protection schemes in all of football.


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[Assistant] Added to the fact that they can be emboldened by blitzing and doing that because they can play man to man.


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[Assistant] They're one of the few teams, like we talked about, the Eagles versus the Dolphins a few weeks ago. One, have size, right, to mess up with their offensive line. But two, when you turn on the game, most weeks you turn it on and go, man, the Dolphins are so fast. They're so much faster than the other team. And you turn on this game and you go, they're not much.


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[Assistant] Faster at all than the Chiefs. And that's kinda how I felt when I watched the Eagles game.


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[Assistant] It just went, okay, yeah, this is a short pass by Tyreek, but man, they're corralling him and running him down in a hurry here as a team in the back end. And the Chiefs, I would argue their back seven is as fast as anybody in football, especially when they have Nick Bolton and Willie Gay and they're healthy.


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[Assistant] So here, let's look at this play. Again, you gotta be willing to take some tactical chances against the Dolphins. So it's trips left.


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[Assistant] A receiver tight to the right. It doesn't, from this look right here, Ahmed, a quarterback would not be programmed to think there's a blitz here. They got three receivers to the left at only two DBs, right? So you're going, they can't blitz one of the DBs and have one DB covering three receivers? How could that be? So let's go to the next clip here, Pete.


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[Assistant] And you'll look at it, there's McDuffie at the top of the screen. He's going to come off the edge. Carlathus on the bottom of the screen. He goes in and drops back.


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[Assistant] And now what you got is a four-man rush where now they're late to adjust to McDuffie coming off the edge and they've dropped back and played Tampa two behind it, right? So they gave the illusion a little bit at snap that it was just going to be this normal four-man rush.


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[Assistant] Then, then you think, okay, everything's good. You're kind of getting there, you're going, wait, that guy over there can't blitz, so we're good all the way here.


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[Assistant] Oh, wait, he is blitzing, and then their top pass rusher on their team is dropping back on the other side, and we got people blocking no, nobody on one side, and then we don't even have enough people on the other side, and Tua, who's looking to his right, thinks he's probably okay here, cause he's going, wait, I got five blockers, they got four rushing, I should be good.


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[Assistant] But the way it was lined up and the way the Spags lines up the defense stresses out that protection and then there goes Trent McDuffie coming around the edge getting the sack.


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[Assistant] You should have, like, you mean for the concept to the left, right? You should have looked at that.


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[Assistant] The play here, he can work both sides. He does have, like, to what he's looking at on the right. That concept is good for this coverage. Okay? So it's a cover two concept where they're trying to high-low, luxurious need. The problem, and why he shouldn't look to the left here,


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[Assistant] The center, left guard and left tackle all slid left.


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[Assistant] And they have the 2D Lyman picked up, they should be able to pick out the third, but Tyron Armstead, who hasn't been playing because he's been injured, he was a little late to recognize, and as you can see on this picture right here, was late to bump out to get McDuffie, because you can see they got guys on guys, they should be okay. It's just they didn't adjust it and see quick enough.


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[Assistant] You can't let Tyree Kill have free releases, right? They had some plays where they jammed the shit out of Tyree Kill. Like to the point where you go, I don't see Tyree Kill get caught like this at the line of scrimmage, right? That's where I think the Chief's comfort of, we've practiced against him before, like Ligeria Sneed, he snuck him a few times and got him. But even whether it was zone or man,


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[Assistant] They challenged him and never really let him have free access releases.


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[Assistant] He was going to have to just in a stutter and try to set you up every time. And we've talked about that another week. You can't just let him fly up on your safety and be like, Hey, safety, you got Tyreek Hill flying at you a hundred miles per hour. And he can go any way he wants. Good luck covering them. Oh yeah. You're supposed to cover them. Yeah. Good luck. There's no way. So that's where they did a really good job.


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[Assistant] And you play the Dolphins, get them the third down like we talked about.


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[Assistant] The edge runs, where it's another thing we've talked about. They love the toss cracks. We're going to get the toss crack. We're going to have a receiver tight end split out and he's going to block down on your DN and your linebackers. And now we're going to get the edge and Raheem Mozart's a track star. That, that.


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[Assistant] The good teams stop that. The Eagles, the Chiefs, they blew up those blockers. And they never let them get outside the whole game and basically force them back inside. And then don't let the McDaniel specials, which I call them, beat you. Which was the screens, the fumble by Tyree Kill that gave it's turn for a touchdown. A McDaniel special.


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[Assistant] But because they're playing aggressive, in-your-face, man-to-man type coverage, two-man on that play, right? They recognize it right away, and you can see from the early on, one of the first plays of the game, they try to throw a wide receiver screen, they were so all over it and ready to stop that kind of stuff going on throughout the day, because you know, once that goes off, you're screwed.


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[Assistant] Then it's, oh no, now they're getting 20 yards on screen plays, now they're faking the screen and we're all overreacting and people are downfield doing that. There's just, it's a snowball of bad things that can happen once you let a little of those few things happen and they did a great job stopping it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, there is a lot to be happy about, proud about, if you're the, if you're the Dallas Cowboys. Right? We talked about Sunday night and...


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[Assistant] And everything. They, they should have the confidence to go, wait, if we play this team again, we can beat them, right? Uhm.


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[Assistant] I guess here's my thing. And again, I don't want this to be taken lightly because like you, like you said, they did a lot of good things. All right.


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[Assistant] I think again, if I start with my thesis statement, my problem with the Dallas D is too much lineup in it. Not enough tactical gambles like we just talked about, you know.


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[Assistant] The Eagles more than maybe anybody in football. Okay. I know the Dallas wants to play. They want to play.


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[Assistant] That's usually what they want to do, but they can't do that against Philadelphia, because if you play aggressive man to man, as we know all the time, sorry, AJ Brown and Devontae Smith are going to go off on you, right? Let alone Dallas Goddard and all that. They played more zone in this football game.


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[Assistant] More stuff like that, right? Okay? And I'm okay with that, to a degree, right? But, the Eagles may be more than anybody in football.


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[Assistant] Have shown that they can go on the longest, most patient drives in the history of the sport.


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[Assistant] I mean, we've seen 17 play drives, 18 play drives, 14 play drives, 11 play drives. You see it every week from the Philadelphia Eagles. So to think you were just going to go, Hey, we're going to.


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[Assistant] You know, to me, they've proven enough times that they will kill you with a slow death if you play that way. And to me, that's kind of how I felt with this one and that one. You know, and, and, uh, this is to me, you know, one of the reasons


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[Assistant] They, Cowboys can't beat, you know, some of the good teams or the teams that are better than them.


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[Assistant] Because, eh, they're in a bind because of lack of size on their D line.


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[Assistant] And then they want to play that way that I just explained, but that's not going to beat the really good teams and really good quarterbacks. And so that's where I worry about them a little bit, you know, in that capacity, still a really good game plan. I got that. I understand that I still felt like every time Philadelphia needed to make the drive, they were going to make the drive.


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[Assistant] That's what I will say. And I know people are gonna go, well what about the end of the game? Okay? Well the end, alright, so here's the second half. The second half, they go down and score a touchdown.


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[Assistant] First drive. Second drive. They go down and score another touchdown. Levin play 87 yards.


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[Assistant] Now, the third drive is when Dallas got stopped at the half inch line. So they started on their own half inch line and they kind of, yeaah, that messed up things. The first play was a push-tush just to give them some room. They ran it again to give a little bit more room. So they went three and out.


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[Assistant] The fourth drive, okay, again they were up 28-23 with very little time left in the football game and they were trying to run a run the clock out, hopefully get a first down and the game's over, you know.


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[Assistant] They got to a third and three on, on, on that fourth drive and he threw a go route up the left sideline to AJ Brown and he had him and he threw it out of bounds. But let alone he had the underneath guy for the first down wide open, right?


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[Assistant] Who he should have thrown to, I believe it was, uh, I wanna say it was Zacchaeus, alright?


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[Assistant] You know, so that happened and then of course now they get the ball back with a minute fifteen seconds left and they just run the ball three straight times because they're trying to run the clock out with a minute and seventeen left. So I didn't necessarily look at those moments and go, oh, the Dallas defense stopped them, right?


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[Assistant] I look at it a little bit as a situation made Philadelphia be a little conservative and not go for it like they normally would. And that played in Dallas' favor. Nothing against Dallas that way, but that is basically my thesis there of Dallas' performance on that side of the ball.


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[Assistant] You can score in 2 plays or 17 plays. Exactly. Yes, you have to. You know, and this is something we talked about last year and this is why you heard me gush so much about the Chiefs in the Super Bowl. Cause the Chiefs were the first team that went


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[Assistant] We can't stop them. You can't. We're gonna have to do some crazy shit to stop them. And they were bringing corner blitzes and all out blitzes on like first and 10 on the Eagles own 25 yard line. Like things you don't ever do, but you have to do to beat them. And that's where I think they need to go back. Not that they gotta be crazy.


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[Assistant] But they just gotta make Jaylen Hurts and the Eagles offense think a little bit more. There was way too many plays in this game where it was just like,


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[Assistant] We break, hey, ready, break, we break the huddle, oh, it's cover four. They're not moving, they're lining up and it's set hud, hey, it's cover four. And the first drive of the second half, it was almost arrogant by the Dallas Cowboys. They played man to man, six plays in a row. Guess what happened on play six?


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[Assistant] Bomb touchdown, Devontae Smith. Okay? So that's where, you know, you can't be predictable against them. You gotta change it up like we talk about with all the good defenses.


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[Assistant] He's a great go route thrower, right? We've always said that he's a good deep ball thrower, and then he has two guys that are phenomenal in one-on-one downfield situations, whether it's 50-50 or they can just beat you, right? And this was just an absolute dime perfect pass.


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[Assistant] Again, they must have been like, wait, they're calling man again? Okay, we gotta like send guys on go-routes. Enough of this crap. We can't let them get away with this. And the pocket was perfect. As you see, Hertz drops the ball right on the outside shoulder. Devontae Smith does a great job tracking it, catches it. Boom. You can't stop that.


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[Assistant] And that to me again is why you can't be that predictable that many plays in a row. Dallas' D-line, you know, in this game.


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[Assistant] With their front four, pressured hurts maybe as much as I've ever seen anybody pressure hurts with just their front four. So that was encouraging. But it still wasn't enough. And that's where again, you know,


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[Assistant] The tactical changes, hey, disguising coverages a little bit, hey, we're gonna blitz, but then we drop back into the conservative coverages we played, I think they would go a long way as compared to just lining up in it like they did in this football game.


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[Assistant] They can definitely play with eagles. I don't think they're ever gonna beat the eagles if the game goes status quo, right?


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[Assistant] They're not gonna, the Eagles don't turn the ball over, they're not gonna beat Philly. They're not. I just, I gotta see it to believe it. Philly's phenomenal that way, you know. So to me, yes, they can beat the Eagles, but


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[Assistant] They gotta do one thing extraordinary through the game. Whether it's a strip sack fumble, an interception, or something like that. They do need that. If they think we're just gonna play for, hey, the game's gonna be clean on both sides and we'll just go back and forth at each other, I'm gonna take the Eagles to win that kind of matchup every single time.


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[Assistant] Oh, higher. I like that. They have like different styles, right? They're both game plan specific.


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[Assistant] Stags may be a hair more aggressive, gonna send more of those tactical blitzes and all that, right? Luan Arumo doesn't really wanna blitz ever.


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[Assistant] Right? He wants to do some things every now and then that look like it might be a blitz or whatever but back out.


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[Assistant] You know, but their big thing is a million different coverages, combination zone coverages. Ooh, here's a snap of man to man to keep you honest.


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[Assistant] We're back to some crazy disguises. You don't know what we're in. Oh my gosh, it's All Out Blitz. Oh no, it's Tampa too. It wasn't All Out Blitz. Oh, it's All Out Blitz. Oh, it's a three man rush and we're playing cover three.


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[Assistant] Right? Oh, it's all out blitz. Oh, it's all out blitz. Oh, it's actually man-to-man in a three-man rush with a rat in the middle and a guy spying Josh Allen. So it's a little different way, but still, what's it doing Ahmed? Like we talk about, it's making the quarterback think, it's