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[Assistant] Can they get better? Can they improve your down the stretch and when they get healthy at wide receiver? Because, you know, there's still talent on that defense and talent when Joey Bosa comes back to where you go.


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[Assistant] Gosh, can they still have a say in this thing when it's all said and done? And I want to say yes, but they don't show a lot to make me think they're going to be a major player in the AFC.


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[Assistant] If it goes south, everybody's got their eyes on him, for sure. I hope it hasn't gotten there yet, but we'll see. You're right. I mean, again, he's a defensive coach too, and their defense has been an issue, so that's got to improve.


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[Assistant] Damn, I just can't believe that. I'm looking at like, uh, I had Chargers 27-23, so I was too much there. But you had a lot of 2017 games didn't you? I usually am always in the 20s. I had the Patriots Colts as 20-17, but that wasn't in work right. You know, the Bills Jets, I gave them too many points.


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[Assistant] Right? Who's our other 20? Oh, the Chiefs game. I picked 27-17, Chiefs. Uhm, yeaah. And Washington and the Vikings, which was 20-17.


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[Assistant] I picked 2320 commanders. So yeaah, I was just, I was flirting with it, but I didn't hit


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[Assistant] Alright, the dog pound, the dog pound. Cleveland! Damn, okay. The Cleveland Bulldogs. Those were good hints, Steve.


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[Assistant] The Bengals just kinda did whatever they want to start the football game. I mean...


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[Assistant] Right, right from the get-go. The first drive, nine plays, 90 yards. I mean, one of the things I wrote in my notes right off the, I was just, Bangos throwing the ball right down the field for a TD.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, uh, the Bangles are one of those teams, again, it just, it seems like it's gotta be the right matchup. And again, with some of the stuff I saw, it leads me to my thought that I always talk about, and I don't mean to like beat


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[Assistant] When they play teams that are a little over aggressive on the demons side of the ball, it opens up their chances to make big plays and then they capitalize. You know? So that...


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[Assistant] That's the one thing I came away a few times with the Panthers just going, man, I'm surprised by this defense. And then I think they tried to change and get out of it a little bit and back off and they just got totally gashed in the run game. And that, hey, listen, I, you know, I know Carolina's no, nothing to write home about right now.


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[Assistant] That was still an impressive day of running the football for the Cincinnati Bengals to where you go, can this be a jump off spot to where if they can just, the Bengals don't need much and they can be really dangerous. They just need a, like, or just a little bit of a run game.


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[Assistant] Just to get people a little off their pass game and get them some of those aggressive looks and open up the play action passes. You know, but like again, like the Cleveland game on Monday night last week, it was zone coverage. It was back a lot of the times and they can't figure out what to do then.


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[Assistant] And they haven't been able to run the ball on those defenses. So if they can just do that a little bit, that's where it's scary. That was a dominant effort yesterday. And Carolina, for one of those teams that's, I mean, beat the Bucs?


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[Assistant] They just gotta help the offense out with a little more schematics and just find one other angle.


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[Assistant] To help them out. I don't know what that is. If they want to get better at screenings. You've heard me talk about the motions and the formations. I wish more just a little bit of a run game. It's not going to take much to get them over the edge to where we go. The bangles are unstoppable.


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[Assistant] It wasn't much different than it was last year than this year, except last year they could just run the ball like we talked to. So then people were, oh we gotta play single safety defense, we gotta play man to man every now and then, oh shit we gotta bite up on that play action fake. And it was a simple formula, but effective when you have that guy at quarterback and those receivers. That was an impressive win. I know it's Carolina, but that still was an impressive win.


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[Assistant] You know, that, that, that to me shows it. And then we see teams like the Saints and Carolina where we're going to take away this, we're going to take away that. And I'm going to know you're going to take away nothing because they're just going to do whatever they want. Cause you're so worried about taking away stuff that it's just going to lead to over aggressive defensive calls.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so we'll see. I'm not giving up on the Bengals. I'm not. But they gotta help that offense out. I did a social video on it two weeks ago. You weren't there.


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[Assistant] So they're just like, oh well, this is what we gotta do to win today, and we're just gonna, you know, just slowly gonna step on your throat, and just, you'll suffocate eventually. I mean, it's really, it is that way.


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[Assistant] It really was. It infurthers the decision of why they didn't let Matt Ryan continue to be quarterback. Cause they would have been on, he'd, he'd, with that offensive line and the way they're playing, he's gonna get it. He would have got hurt and they would have been on the books for having to pay him 30 million next year.


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[Assistant] So, I understand that, but damn, that was an ass-whooping. And I just can't believe it with the Colts, because the Colts' defense is good. I mean, it's good.


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[Assistant] They did all they could to hang around in this game. I mean, this game was 0-0 forever. It was 3-0 forever. It was 6-0 forever.


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[Assistant] You know, it was, what, a block punt that finally set up the touchdown for the, uh, I'm right about that, right? The block punt set up the first touchdown to make it 13-nothing? Two yard, two yard line? Right, so it was like the most defensive struggle ever.


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[Assistant] But the Patriots, that's where they're great too. They just, okay, patient, we're fine with this kind of game. And, you know, got it done, but man.


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[Assistant] This is where I think the Patriots can be a little scary. And I think they're gonna be even better as they go here. Is... We know Judon's a freak.


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[Assistant] Where, that could make their, Ushay got hurt for a little bit. Him back healthy. I think he is a top tier Josh Ushay from Michigan. I think he is a top tier pass rusher in football.


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[Assistant] You gotta worry about those two coming off the edge, they got a little size. That's right, New England, they're five and four, but you know I'm not counting out New England. I'm not sure, I don't think they can go to the Super Bowl, but they, they can get to the playoffs and maybe upseat, upset a team or two and make things like,


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[Assistant] It's the shitty thing about the business. I think he's done a lot of good things too, Amin. You know, I think the first thing you say, you said it right. I mean...


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[Assistant] I'm in Kansas City for the divisional playoff game.


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[Assistant] The cults are 10 and 6. They're hot as hell down the stretch of the year.


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[Assistant] I mean, most people were picking the Colts to win that game. There was a lot of people, like, the Colts are gonna come in and upset Kansas City, who's had the week off, and they're not gonna be ready for this. I mean, we're looking at the Colts going, watch out, right?


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[Assistant] So, they're, you're looking, their franchise is all set up. Oh wait, he retires? They, they somehow manage to go seven and nine with Jacobi Percetta quarterback, right? 2020? They get Philip Rivers?


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[Assistant] They go 11 and 5? They got the Bills on the ropes in the, what was that, the divisional game? It was the wild card game. I mean they got them on the ropes. It's big trouble they're out playing. Josh Allen makes some incredible plays that like only my homes can make and they win the game.


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[Assistant] And then we get, okay, then the 2021 experience, Carson Wentz, they were right there to the end though. It was disappointing end. So.


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[Assistant] No, yeaah, I guess I'm surprised. I am. I mean, that was a major curveball that Andrew lucked through that organization. It really crushed him in a lot of ways. And it hasn't looked good. It has not. I understand that. Uhm, but I did not expect to hear Frank Wright getting fired today. Probably get another job if he wants it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I think that that stats gonna continue to get blown up through the NFL and all organizations because 17 points is just nothing in the NFL anymore. It means nothing. It really doesn't. I don't know, scoring is down. Yeah, I know. I hear you. I hear you. I know. I know.


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[Assistant] But I don't feel like teams that are, you know, down 17, it's, it's just not the same mindset anyway with the rules in the passing game and pass interference and the roughing the quarterback and all of that. Teams get conservative on the defensive side of the ball. I mean, all these were early too. They were up 20 nothing.


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[Assistant] I think it speaks to this. I don't think their team is all that great.


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[Assistant] I think again, the fact that they got in the playoffs last year in my, in my, in my mind is still somewhat miraculous. Things fell the right way for them. You know, Mertz Versace did a great job of rallying on the troops and getting them played tough.


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[Assistant] I did not think the Raiders were a playoff team this year. I did not. And you know, I do think we have to stop thinking that with like some of these teams where you just go, they went to the playoffs last year, they scored the playoffs again this year. Like what? It's the NFL. Like it's...


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[Assistant] I know, but there are some people out there too that I feel like want to be critical of Josh McDaniels where they want to harp on that. Like when they went to the playoffs, now they're worse. And they're like, okay, they don't want to play, you know, the Seattle scheme on defense and they got all these Seattle scheme type of guys.


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[Assistant] You know, their offensive line, the way Josh McDaniels wants to play is not quite the right way either.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, I think what you're seeing with these early leads is like great game planning and things where they come out and they catch these teams off guard and they're like, oh my gosh, they're attacking us like this. And then there's like in a period of, whoa, we got to adjust and figure out how to stop it. And then once we stop.


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[Assistant] Okay, wait. Alright, we stopped some of the McDaniel's tricks and some of the things he's got. They're not really that great, so now we can just start outplaying them. And that, to me, is the way it looked yesterday. There was an early fumble by, uhm,


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[Assistant] Uh, ATN, or it might have been ATN, I think it was ATN, it was a toss sweep where they just, they, they fumbled the ball, the Jags were driving.


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[Assistant] And it kind of started the momentum for the Raiders. They go right down and score a touchdown. He threw the big, you know, uh, they converted the fourth and one. He threw the big fade down the left sideline to Vonte Adams. They stopped the Jags, they came back, they got the ball back, they ran the


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[Assistant] Uh, the fake run, fake reverse, throw the ball down the field to Devonte Adams who was wide open for a touchdown. So it was 14-0. And uhm, you know, kind of just had the momentum early.


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[Assistant] This is like, could be a turning point for the Jaguars. Jaguars defense dominated really from that point on.


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[Assistant] They absolutely overwhelmed the offensive line for the Raiders. They couldn't really get the run game going. You know, they found a way to take away Devontae Adams and, uh, Trevor Lawrence and ATN made a lot of big plays on the offensive side of the ball. We got to give them credit cause we, you know, I've been a little critical of Trevor Lawrence not making the big plays when it counts and he did yesterday.


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[Assistant] Well, eh, you know, it's like, the ones they've lost a lot of the times have been like, man, I don't feel that bad. It was like, they, they...


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[Assistant] I mean, some of these losses, I went, I honestly think they were better on the field. They just got to learn to mature and grow as a team. And that's what we saw. You know, hey, Trevor Maine.


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[Assistant] You know, he's been efficient as far as completion percentage and all that. But it's the big throws to put the team away or put them, put the pressure on him.


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[Assistant] You know, he made, uh, some big runs in the football game, where we saw him use his legs, you know, and then, like,


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[Assistant] Over the past few weeks where I go, Oh, that was open and we could have got back in the game or made it a one score game there and we missed it and you're too good to miss that throw. And that to me is what didn't happen yesterday. I mean, ATN and Trevor Lawrence, they got it going and their defense, they have moments of where they just absolutely overwhelmed.


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[Assistant] That's what I mean. That's what I mean. Big plays. Running, passing. The big moment plays. Big moment plays. That's where, that's to me the only thing Jacksonville is kind of missing. Just got to mature and battle test it and all that. But then even, you know, at the, eh, the big, the big drive at the end of the game to be able to run that with Etan down their throat.


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[Assistant] You know, that was impressive. Uhm, yeaah, good win for Jacksonville. I wouldn't be shocked if they went on a little run here and got things going in the right direction.


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[Assistant] Like, I'm picking Baltimore. I got that. But the logic is there, I think the teams are very close. I think New Orleans really matches up well with them. There's, I wanted to, this is one of those games where, again, like Washington, Minnesota, where you go, where's the upset of the, where the upset's gonna happen, right? This is one where I almost picked. They match up well with Baltimore.


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[Assistant] In a lot of ways. There's only one reason I picked Baltimore. It's the Saint's history against running quarterbacks. I can't get out of my mind the last two years of them defending Jalen Hurts. That's the problem.


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[Assistant] The last two years they played Jalen Hurts and the quarterback design run stuff and stuff just absolutely obliterated them. In games where we thought, well New Orleans will win this game up in Philadelphia and do that and they didn't. So I think they have an issue, oddly enough, of stopping


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[Assistant] That type of run game, even though they practice it on their own field to take some hill, that's what worries me. But can I see them pulling off an upset here tonight?


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[Assistant] You know, again, they're gonna be able to run the ball, or at least put Baltimore in positions where they're gonna go, shit, we gotta put some extra guys in the box here.


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[Assistant] And New Orleans, as we know, does have some people who can beat some one-on-one coverage. So I'm going Baltimore just because I guess I trust them a little bit more. I think they're a little bit better, but I don't think this is going to be easy by any stretch of the imagination. I think this one comes down to the end. It's tight. Pete, who was ruled out after Chris made his decision?


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[Assistant] Mark Andrews. So, Mark Andrews not playing in this game. Yeaah. Yeaah. That hurts. I know. That does hurt. I know. Isaiah Lightly, he was awesome last week, so hopefully he can continue. Andrews, yeaah, what is it? Shoulder Pete or something like that, right? But, uh, yeaah, we'll see. This is, to me, I love these kind of games.


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[Assistant] Cause it's, you know, it's Tennessee Titan-ish. It's like, hey, we're the biggest, baddest dudes on the planet. We pride ourselves in outhitting you. It's two of these type of teams. And there's gonna be some physical football play. And that's why I'm excited to see.


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[Assistant] I can see Kamara having a decent night. I can see this maybe being a night where even Taysom Hill rips off a few big runs like quarterback and Wildcat for them. Fantasy team needs that. Yeaah, the Ravens run game is going to such a point right now where the Lamar run game off of it is very dangerous.


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[Assistant] You know, it stinks. There's not going to be any Gus Edwards tonight. They, you know, I liked the way he looked last Thursday night.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, and there's no J.K. Dobbins yet, but, but still, uh, I'm gonna go with Baltimore. Baltimore has shown moments this year, as we've talked about, of being elite. And, uh, let's see if they can continue that going.


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[Assistant] You know, take a puff here before the game starts and watch it. This might be one in honor of 420, and maybe I'll send you a picture. So you can, like, pretend you were there with me hanging. I might have a, uh, uh, drink. A cocktail?


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[Assistant] And, uh, again, please continue to subscribe, rate, review, send in questions, challenge me on my thoughts. I always welcome that stuff, certainly. Alright everybody, peace out, enjoy the game, clap it up.


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[Assistant] Wait, so wait, but what if I won something and we had to make you do something? What would that be? I know. I feel like it's the homies would want to hear you swear. Like if there was some team that I said is going to make the playoffs and you're like, no way. Yes. And you're like, I'll swear. I feel like.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, you could say what you want, right? I mean, the game plans, I think, were right on both sides of the ball. They might not have been perfect. There might have been a player call, play call here or there where you go, well, why would you call that in this situation?


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[Assistant] You know, something like I said to you before the pod, I mean, the bill's at 17 points with a minute and 40 seconds left in the game.


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[Assistant] That's not a good defensive performance and I don't know what is. He's the toughest quarterback to stop in football right now. So there was a lot of positives on both sides of the ball and it's something I brought up last week a little bit and I can't remember if I said it on the pod or if I


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[Assistant] Uh, set it on the matchup pile with Floria, but I just said I, you know, that wouldn't shock me.


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[Assistant] With these two defensive minds who are creative and of course these teams have seen each other a lot over the last few years where they might have some tricks for the other one and go, wait, we, we know what they like to do in this situation or in this formation.


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[Assistant] And we can, you know, devise a defense off of that. I think here's the biggest thing, if I had to make a theme overall, right, and we'll talk about the quarterbacks and how awesome they are and all that, is that it was almost like a role reversal.


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[Assistant] As far as the defenses were concerned, as compared to the last four matchups before this, where in years past, it was the Bills who had to make up for deficiencies in the matchup.


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[Assistant] And you know, like you've heard me say a number of times this year, Matt Milano at the line of scrimmage, Trey Edmonds at the line of scrimmage. We're, we're disguising this so hard and then we're going to drop off and do this just because if we just played normal defense, we're not good enough to beat you and you're going to just pick us apart and have all day.


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[Assistant] And that, that, that team that used to be able to just go, we're going to kind of play safe and normal defense, used to be Kansas City in this matchup. And it was Buffalo who had to do all the creative crazy, crazy shit and kind of compromise themselves a little bit.


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[Assistant] This was the first time in this matchup where I watched it and I went, oh, this is the other way around.


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[Assistant] There was one team that could not just sit back and play normal or they would have got absolutely torched and they would have lost the game and we would have had a 45 point showing. And then there was the other team and the Bills with now their new defense and what they have where they got to do what Kansas City's done the last few years and go,


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[Assistant] We don't need to do anything crazy. We're just going to be smart and sound and, you know, we can get after the quarterback with four and we're just going to make you be patient and do all that. So I think that would be my big overall theme.


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[Assistant] The cool thing about it is the game didn't start that way on either side of the ball. It's like they both started opposite of how they wanted to do, right? The Bills started the game kind of like, I was like, whoa.


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[Assistant] They're kind of playing aggressive and man to man and they're like in their face. And then after like the first drive or two, it was like, okay, that was just, we were just kidding. We don't really want to do that. And then the chiefs on the other hand, the first few drives were like, oh, we're going to do what we always do. We're going to play cover two against you guys and we're going to take away the big play. But.


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[Assistant] Then it was like all of a sudden in the middle of drive three, they realized that ain't gonna work. Buffalo's gonna run all over us, and he's patient and he'll throw it underneath. And they were like, okay, let's go to, you know, let's hit the red button here and go to the real game plan. And that's where they started to do


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[Assistant] Well, you're talking about the end of the half there, or the end of the game? Second half. Oh, second half, yes. The three man rush. The three man rush quarterback spy. How rare is this? Well, it's, I don't really see the Bills really ever do it. Yes. I don't, you know, and again, I'd have to go back and watch maybe film against, uh,


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[Assistant] They might have done it once or twice against the ravens if I remember correctly, and they got burned by it actually.


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[Assistant] It gives the quarterback too much time. Sometimes when it's a three man rush and it is a guy like Lamar Jackson, just the gaps are too big. So it's like he makes one guy miss and oh yeah, you have a spy, but he's one-on-one with Lamar Jackson and there's, you know, 40 yards of space. Like Lamar is going to win as awesome as Matt Milano is.


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[Assistant] Mahomes, we know, great runner, slippery, but he wants to...


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[Assistant] Different coverages behind it each time, and having a guy, more times than not, they had Von Miller


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[Assistant] Take the inside rush as the left end. If you're looking at the defense, the right to the offense and kind of come inside and make it inside pass rush to then flush my homes out like on the last interception of the game.


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[Assistant] And now he thinks, oh wait, I'm gonna get outside the pocket I got all day here. And no.


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[Assistant] Bills are like, no, we got Matt Milano. He is waiting for Vaughn to make this move. So then he could kind of fill in and pressure you to, oh gosh, I gotta make the throw now. I thought I was going to have all day here.


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[Assistant] And that was definitely an interesting wrinkle that was nowhere to be found really in the first three quarters until I think it was like the last drive of the third quarter and then sprinkled in and like I said in some of those obvious past situations.


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[Assistant] Hey, we haven't done it in a while. I don't want them to get in the total rhythm of what we're doing.


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[Assistant] And, you know, let's bring this guy off, let's bring the nickel guy off the edge. Or, okay, let's, let's shoot the, you know, the backer through a gap here. But it was, it was not the overall theme of the game. It was just, again, let's find a moment every now and then to break a tendency.


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[Assistant] Okay, now is the moment. We haven't pressured in 8, 10 plays. Let's do it now. And yeaah, that, that, so they were, they were more coverage, coverage, coverage throughout the day. And,


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[Assistant] As they always do, they're tactical, they're smart, Leslie Frazier and McDermott, and they just found their moments where they felt like, okay, we got a good feel for what they like to do in this moment here, now let's bring it and see if we can't force the issue a little bit.


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[Assistant] Problems there? Well, not problems. I'm not worried about the Chiefs offensive line as much as I just think the Bills D-line is real. I do. You know, again, Chiefs, I don't think it was their best game.


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[Assistant] But I didn't come away just going, oh man, this guy's just getting killed or abused. I just kind of realized that as a unit all together.


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[Assistant] This Buffalo Crew is real. When they got Ed Oliver in there, you know, along with Vaughn and Rousseau, I mean, they can do whatever they want, and they always have fresh bodies there. You know, if there's a weak link to the Chiefs, it is their right side of their offensive line.


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[Assistant] You know, that was, that was the big thing too, is, you know,


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[Assistant] They couldn't run the ball in that group either. You know, in years past too, they've been able to rely on, oh, you're going to play all this cover too and do all this.


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[Assistant] Really, or not the second week in a row for really a bunch of weeks in a row, but this game, the Rams game.


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[Assistant] You know, his ability to win one-on-one pass rush moves in moments at the end of the game when you know teams have to throw the football, it's, it's showing damn, was that a good signing? I mean, he still looks phenomenal and, uh, really played a really good game. But you know, for, like I said, I just want to hit on this.


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[Assistant] Uh, a lot of two shell, the whole game for the most part. You know, we saw the nine blitzes out of how many, you know, attempts overall, but, and then, you know,


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[Assistant] It's, it's great disguises and the, one of the new in vogue things in the NFL is disguise and get to Tampa too in some really unique ways. They're very good at that. And then they sprinkled in, Hey, wait, it looks like it's going to be Tampa too. Oh no, it's two man. Oh, we might do Tampa too again. And that'd be quarter quarter half.


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[Assistant] So different versions of the two-shell, too, to where read and be enemy can't just go, oh, it's Tampa two. It's Tampa, it's a Tampa two game. Let's go to those plays on our play sheet. And that's where, again,


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[Assistant] The sprinkling of that, an occasional blitz. Oh wait, now we're at the end of the game. Three man pressure. That was just enough to get them over the edge and give the Chiefs problems throughout the day.


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[Assistant] That was a, that was a huge play. I mean, again, my homestead two interceptions, the last one certainly on him. The first one,


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[Assistant] He was doing Mahomes things. He threw a perfect ball. He did. And the ball was gonna be, you know, right in Valdez Scantling, I think that was Valdez Scantling's hands. I mean, it wasn't his hands. His hands were up in the air, in the catching position, and the ball was gonna go right in there. But Elam, who,


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[Assistant] He had somebody underneath, and I can't remember exactly who, it was Sky Moore, I wrote it in my notes, good thing I wrote that. He was kinda on Sky Moore, and Mahomes sees that.


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[Assistant] And then as he's getting ready to throw, Elam, of course, I think can see his eyes and his body language. He's going, he's not going to throw to my guy. He's going to try to throw somebody behind him and he fell off.


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[Assistant] And he made a great play. He's a bigger corner. And, uh, of course that was a huge part in the game because they had a chance after the Bills had just gone down and squandered their little pitch play, Mackenzie fumble, you know, to jump up seven nothing and kind of get early control of the football game.


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[Assistant] Again, the Bills are different this year, um, and now both sides of the ball. Bills can protect the ball better a little this year. We've hit on, you know, uhm, Aaron Cromer is their new offensive line coach. Their running plays are a little more creative and what do I want to say, you know,


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[Assistant] Sound or right, where you go, ooh, that's, that's the run play. You want to run against that defensive front, right? They don't, they don't want to play and just go, well, we called it and damn, they got in that front and it's not the best, but we just run it anyways, right?


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[Assistant] They, they ran plays going like, oh, okay, well, oh, you're in this alignment. We're going to, you know, have a little trap block inside and it's going to be a huge hole. So they have that aspect and the Chiefs came out trying to play two shell.


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[Assistant] But it was just too easy. Alan is of course smart, the offense is good, and they're online.


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[Assistant] That to me was pretty apparent that like, uh oh, they're going to have to do something different. They can't just go, we're going to play too deep because they were going to die a slow death and he was going to end up being like, you know, 38 of 45 for 450 yards if they just sat there and played coverage like they've done years and years past in this matchup.


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[Assistant] Pick your poison. Exactly right. And that's where I, I'm not going to sit here and follow the defensive game plan. Again, it was 17 points with, I mean, he threw the touchdown with a minute and four seconds left in the game.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, ehm, he, he, they had to do this. This was out of necessity. This wasn't one where, you know me, I don't always like the over blitz team. But this is one where I go, uh, they had to. They had no choice. Yeaah, he got burned. You know, with the Davis throw and the digs throw.


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[Assistant] Also, within that, okay. I mean, it was the perfect throw. It was, it wasn't, it wasn't like it was like, how could you do this and leave this guy one on one with Stefan Diggs? This is insane. What, how stupid are they? It was, it was just his three touchdown passes.


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[Assistant] We're like, I just, they're unstoppable. The guy just, they don't even have to put up their hands. If they just opened up their pocket, it was going to fall in there. I mean, so yeah, that, that, um, it came back to bite him in the butt. And if there was going to be one that was going to be picky on, it would be.


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[Assistant] The Gabe Davis 34 yard pass because if I remember correctly that was like a 3rd and 10 situation maybe?


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[Assistant] To get off the goal line, that really, I mean, you know, was probably the play of the game, as far as that's concerned there. But, yeaah, that was maybe the only one I questioned a little bit, was that one right before the half, just because, hey, you know, time's ticking here, it's running out,


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[Assistant] Let them kick the field goal. It's a win. A field goal is a win. And it was like, it was like they went and were like, hey,


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[Assistant] Alright, and let me say this too. We saw the stats. He was 7 of 16. I want to preface this too. He was 7 of 16. The bill, it caught the bills by surprise. The blitzes and stuff. They, there was, the reason they went a few drives without not doing anything is they were like, oh shit.


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[Assistant] You know, we weren't quite ready for them to do all this stuff. It took them a little while to adjust. And the blitzes were, you know, what I like to, it was, uh, you know, cool ones too. It wasn't obvious. It was...


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[Assistant] Blitz two, drop one. So it was five man pressures and then they would change up the coverages behind it. Uhm, but yeaah, I, I guess to my, to that point that's the only one I questioned throughout the game. Yeaah. It's just that one there. And I know I wrote it down a distance, but I can't sit there and figure it out. They were kind of ready for it.


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[Assistant] Oh, wait, they're in a formation. They were clearly waiting for the pressure. It was two backs in the backfield. They had stepped up. They were going to sort it out. And they did, of course, sort it out. And that left Gabe Davis one on one. And like I said, he threw the perfect pass. But yeah, I mean, there was a number of.


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[Assistant] Unbelievable plays and throws on that drive. The one coming out of the end zone, like I said, the in cut. A third and twelve.


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[Assistant] I mean, he moves and then kind of stops and then pulls up and throws the ball there. And then he, a few plays later, they're playing cover two, not blitzing, and he hits Stefan Diggs on one of his amazing cover two hole shots that really, it's like him, Mahomes, and


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[Assistant] Justin Herbert, like, that's about it, and it can make those types of throws. He makes that throw, and then a few plays later, there was that, and uhm, yeaah, that was just, that was a key moment of the football game in my opinion.


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[Assistant] One of the most underrated old linemen in football. He really is. You know, Jason Kelsey is always the guy that we always talk about, you know, center, center, center. Mitch Morris has had a career that's, it's not that far off from Kelsey. He's that, he's the same type of guy, maybe not quite as athletic as Kelsey, but damn is he athletic.


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[Assistant] I mean, he's a phenomenal football player. He really is. And some of those run plays that he ran, you know, let alone.


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[Assistant] You know, his ability to pass block and reasons you don't hear Chris Jones' name a whole lot in the football game itself.


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[Assistant] That's cause he, he's damn good. And they can do some intricate stuff of like, like I was kind of telling you, like,


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[Assistant] You know, right guard blocked down. Now he pulls around real quick and gets up to the, the, the weak side linebacker. Those are things that not a lot, not a lot of centers in football can do to his level. And that does give them a little another advantage or wrinkle in their offense.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't be surprised the next game, if they match up, it won't, nothing will be taken away.


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[Assistant] Next game will be a shootout. Next game will be 45-40 or 38-34. Why? Cause they're not gonna get caught by surprise by any of this. This is one now where it'll go into, okay,


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[Assistant] Both offenses got curveballs a little bit in the game that they had not seen in the four previous, five previous matchups. And now they'll add this to their repertoire of how we beat the team.


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[Assistant] That's kind of how I envision it, really. If you made me call the next matchup, I think it's like a 38-35 type of football game, totally different than this one.


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[Assistant] Right. Yeah. I mean, it could be because the, you know, the bills will be ready and go, Oh, you want to blitz? So you thought those throws I threw to Gabe Davis and things were going to watch out for this. We'll get this play we got for you. And you know, I think my homes and company I'll have something for the three man rush.


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[Assistant] And, you know, have a little bit more like, wow, okay, they're D-lines better than we thought.


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[Assistant] And we gotta have some more zone coverage type of plays in our, in our


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[Assistant] Okay, you wanted to see if it was real. Wanted to see if it was real.


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[Assistant] Wanted to give a little bit closer look of just going like, how are they getting it done?


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[Assistant] You know, I've watched them on film in some other games, but not like as closely as I did in this one. And uhm, yeaah, I wanted to check that out. And then, you know, of course, any time I see the Shanahan


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[Assistant] Shanahan offense stymied in the run game, I'm always like, ooh, what did that team do? What was it? And I think that was the biggest reason that I wanted to go back and watch that one.


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[Assistant] You know, again, with all those stats and the things we're trying to compliment them on, they're still the 23rd ranked offense in football, right? So when you look at it that way, you just go, well wait, how are they doing this? But then you start to realize,


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[Assistant] You know, one, they're unbelievable. Arthur Smith is an unbelievable game manager. And a little bit like we've talked about with the Giants and some other teams, they know who they are. So they don't try to go like, wait, I want to run this play because I like this play. He's crossed those off the list and go, but I love this play, but not with this team. We're not good at that.


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[Assistant] You know, so where, where they get you is incredible patience, they got a big powerful offensive line.


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[Assistant] And then, what they do to kind of break plays open, or maybe even like you run for three, run for three, run for three, is a, Mariota's ability to keep the ball off of that. Right? And then they always have a few quarterback design runs for them too, that really just stress you out and put you in some tough situations.


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[Assistant] There you are getting bludgeoned for three, bludgeoned for four, bludgeoned for three. And then, okay, let me cram it in there more, and cram it in there more as a defense. And then he keeps it around the edge for a 20 yard gain.


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[Assistant] And then you're going, well, they were averaging three yards per run, but damn it.


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[Assistant] And then they get you into a position where it's like, okay, shoot, let's put another guy in the box. And then they go, well, Drake London's man to man outside. Well, just throw a slant. Okay, I'm 13 for 13 on high percentage throws. So they really just stick to that mold and he never gets.


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[Assistant] I mean Arthur Smith, David going off in the corner, they never get frustrated. They kind of just go, it's okay. We got a punt. That's all right. We'll let our defense do its thing. We'll come back. We'll go right back to what we've been doing. And you know, within that and a tactical maybe shot down the field every now and then that's kind of how they play football.


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[Assistant] But it was the Falcons that did it. It was, it was. It's just, uh, it was. It was a huge part of the game. The 43rd and 13, here's another one where, you know, I'll question this one. The 49ers blitz.


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[Assistant] Well, and I just want to go, why? They're not a very good drop back passing team. Just, like, that's not what they want to do.


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[Assistant] In fact, I would bet you they would have just like checked it down and been like, hey, we're going to punt and we're going to pin you back in your area. But they blitzed.


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[Assistant] Kind of people ran by him. He kind of made one guy miss. And all of a sudden, you know, the Red Sea parted and he ran up the middle. And it was a total game changing moment. The 49ers had gotten back home.


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[Assistant] You know, after the fumble by, uhm, Wilson, it's 14-0. I mean, they drove down the field like a machine, two times in a row. Jimmy Garoppolo made some big throws. The defense got them off the field, you know, in a series. And here you're going, nope, they're gonna get off the field again. It's 13-13. They got him. And they pressure, and he makes that run, and...


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[Assistant] It was crazy. It's like they never relinquished the momentum or the power of the game after that. From that point on, let alone the 49ers, you know, missed a few opportunities on the offensive side of the ball to kind of make some things closer too.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, you, you take into account that McCloud drops a big post down the middle.


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[Assistant] Uhm, the other tight end, who I always blank on his name, he dropped a big ball down the middle. So there was two big drops that, uhm, yea 89, where the game was still in the balance.


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[Assistant] And they left some opportunities to go down there and get close into scoring position. Jimmy G did miss one post route that he had, Ayuk. Okay, but there's, I could show you the great quarterbacks in football who missed post routes this week. Let's not overanalyze that. My big thing with them, you know, his interception was bad.


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[Assistant] Uh, the second of, uh, second of the two, right? The first one wasn't that bad. It was the end of the first half. And then he's just trying to kind of make something happen, hoping they can get in field goal position.


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[Assistant] Second one, he doesn't see the defender kind of in the middle of the football field. But, you know, overall, this is just not the kind of game the 49ers want to play. This is not who they are. When they start to go to 40 pass attempts with Jimmy Garoppolo, and we're having to play through him,


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[Assistant] You know, that's where, you know, they're just not as a, they don't eat up the clock. It doesn't open up some of the play action big time plays over the middle.


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[Assistant] You know, it doesn't let their screen game, which I think is the best in football and early on they had it going on, going on. But once Atlanta realized, oh wait, wait, like we can kind of stop the run today. We kind of got it going. You know, they were able to defend some of that stuff too. So, uh, it was Atlanta is.


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[Assistant] Maybe I misvalued their talent a little bit. And the one thing I like about them too, on the defensive side of the ball, they got big people. They got big people. And the 49ers are not 100% on the offensive line. They got injuries.


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[Assistant] Trent Williams out, right, McGlinchey only played a little bit. Yeah. You know, Brendel, uhm, who we talked about a little on Monday, right? Yeah. Some, some huge penalties and just inopportune moments that really put them back and, and put them beyond the eight ball. So, you know, all those things kind of reared their, their ugly head in this football game for the 49ers.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they had three timeouts left, and he just, they were just gonna make sure they got the first touchdown first. He was gonna do it the right way. That's all I came to, is he wasn't gonna, oh let's hurry up, hurry up and be disorganized, just so what, we score 30, 40 seconds before we should? You know, I think he was just,


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[Assistant] Making sure that they were going to execute and do it the right way. There were still going to be plenty of time for them to score, get down there, make a stop, and then get the ball back with plenty of time too. So again, I don't think there was a need for urgency quite at that moment. Uh, at least to the extent, you know, our homie, homie


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[Assistant] I think that they can get back, um, BOSA. I saw Shanahan's comment I think on Monday.


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[Assistant] Well yeaah, they are. But I think there was at least some possibility there. But, that would be, if they don't...


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[Assistant] Get healthier on the D-line, yeaah. They're not gonna beat the Chiefs. They're just, they're, they're, you just, you can't. They're, they're, they're under manned. And as much as I respect the depth on their team and it's still a good unit they got up there, uhm, yeaah, this is a different animal, as you know. And, and they're gonna need everything they, they got here to, to slow down Mahomes and the Chiefs offense.


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[Assistant] The Bengals had a hard time slowing down the run game of the Saints this past week. That's right. Which is very similar here. Big overpowering offensive line and, you know, some Taysom Hill element you gotta worry about. Same with Mariota. So that's where that's interesting. And then, you know, again,


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[Assistant] Atlanta, I mean, the Bengals, nothing's a guarantee with that offensive line. This is not a great pass rushing unit in Atlanta, but I would think they could play the game and go,


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[Assistant] We don't have to worry about, you know, our defensive line against your running game. We feel okay, you know, maybe compromising a little less run eggs in that basket and we'll stop Jamar chasing the pass game. That's where I do think it'll be a close game. I would be shocked if this is a blowout in any way.


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[Assistant] A little bit of both. Alright, I think there's a little bit of both in this one. One, I mean, Steelers obviously executed.


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[Assistant] The things we were concerned about with the Bucks, right, interior offensive line, they were, they were...


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[Assistant] Concernable. Is that a word? Concernable? Yeaah. I don't know. Concerning. Concerning. That's what you want to say? Yeaah. Yeaah. Close, close. I just made up my own word. Yeaah. They were concerning. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Pick of the litter as far as whooping up, whooping the crap out of the guys up front, especially the rookie, uh, got a key, right? He struggled, no doubt about it. He was outclassed by Cam Hayward. So that in itself,


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[Assistant] You know, allow them, again, like we've always talked about or talked about with any great quarterback. It just allowed them to play coverage. They're always good at disguises and doing all that.


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[Assistant] But when you can disguise and, oh wait, make the quarterback think just a little bit with that aspect, and now it's, oh gosh.


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[Assistant] Well, I got somebody here at my legs or my feet or whatever else.


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[Assistant] You know, Brady is, that's, we know, if there's a kryptonite in his game, people around him is, is, is affected, affects him more than other great quarterbacks in the history of the sport. I'll say that.


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[Assistant] It is. Because of his lack of mobility, you know, and his lack of real quickness there, that's not a thriving part of his game. And, you know, they were fortunate in this game that they, Ogunjobi and Hayward, whooped some ass in the middle of that offensive line all game long.


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[Assistant] No, not as jumpy as he was. There was definitely some of the early pressures affected him where, you know, like you've heard me say with Rodgers, there was a few plays where I go, you're Tom Brady, man, the protection's good, you need to stand in there and make that throw right there. There was definitely a few of those plays where he was, you know, feeling the heat


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[Assistant] Thought he was gonna get pressure, saw a stunt happening in front of him, didn't know if they were gonna pick it up.


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[Assistant] And got the ball out of his hand a little quickly and, uh, yeah, left some yards in a few plays on the football field. But overall, you know, this is an overarching theme I'm seeing here in Tampa Bay. You know, that's of course not been perfect all year. It was probably its worst we've seen in this game. And then I think when you add on top of, you know,


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[Assistant] Because of that, they can't run the ball or overpower people there. And then...


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[Assistant] They're just, they can't find ways to get explosive plays right now. That, that's their big thing. You know, they're not like all that effective in the red area. And they can't, you know, Tampa Bay's one of those teams where the last few years I've gone, oh, they're around the 30.


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[Assistant] Good night. It's over. He might throw it in from the 30.


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[Assistant] He might throw it in from the 27 or whatever, but there's none of that. They gotta work their ass way down and get down into the 5 or the 4 to score a touchdown. And 1, Brady, definitely not playing as good.


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[Assistant] Mike Evans, you know, I think I said this on Monday a little bit, he's lost a step. What was that? Is that your phone?


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[Assistant] We heard that Craig. Evans has lost a step to a degree. Godwin I don't think is totally 100%. And those have caused them to be, you know, a less dangerous offense than we thought they were going to be.


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[Assistant] So I don't think there's bad vibes. You know, again, you've heard me say this, like, at no point


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[Assistant] Did I think the rules were the same for me as they were for Warren Sapp? Or were they the same for me as Brian Dawkins when I was on the Denver Broncos? You know, it's, it's military rank.


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[Assistant] You know, Wednesday's off has been going on for a long time, so that's where people gotta realize that. I was in New England in 2012 and they were giving him Wednesday's off. Alright? So that's not a new thing. The media is trying to make it a thing here as of late because they're piling on to the 11 days off and training camp thing. You know, but...


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[Assistant] It's, it's just not. And does he seem a little haggard and...


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[Assistant] I don't know, giving off a different vibe or aura? Sure, sure. They're just, they don't have any mojo right now, but I don't think that the team is going to look at Brady and think, oh, he's not invested. But us? I mean, I think it's fair for us to question all of it.


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[Assistant] We've never seen him do this. Two days before a game, go to a wedding and hang out in New York and all that. I just...


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[Assistant] You know, again, I would never tell any quarterback to ever do that, let alone I wouldn't think Tom Brady would even do it.


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[Assistant] So I think all that's a little shocking, let alone we know the issues at home and some of the stuff he's dealing with there. He looks like a guy that's stressed out. I mean, that's what he looks like to me in every press conference, right? He looks like that on the field. It just doesn't seem like the quite, the smooth, calm Tom Brady that we're accustomed to seeing.


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[Assistant] I just want to say too, you know, to the point of this last thing with the Steelers that I thought they did a good job. First off,


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[Assistant] Plates of man to man, with all those injuries, I think speaks to what I was trying to say.


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[Assistant] They're not as scary as they used to be. And then, secondly, with their disguises and zones, this is another reason I just want to give a credit. This is a New England-y thing to do. They were incredible at getting


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[Assistant] And disrupting slot receivers off the line of scrimmage or the tight end off the line of scrimmage. So the defense end, yeah, you think, oh yeah, he's going to rush the passer.


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[Assistant] He would like jam the tight end for a second and then go rush the quarterback.


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[Assistant] And it threw off the rhythm and timing of some plays where I go, ooh, that guy's probably going to be open, but...


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[Assistant] Brady is going, wait, why is he not there right now? And he moves on. You go, oh, well, they disrupt the timing. If he just stood there a little extra time, it would have came open, but the quarterback internal clock gets up when things like that happen. You know, especially if it's your first or second read, because then if it's your first read,


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[Assistant] Oh wait, why isn't he where he is? And then you go to your second read and you're there too quick and then you go, wait, he's not there either. And it's like, well, because the first read was all messed up, you got off of it too quick and got to the second read too quick. And of course if the first read, you know, isn't there just naturally, not off the jam and the second read is a tight end and he's been jammed, you get to the second read and you're like,


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[Assistant] Wait, he's not there, and then you start to panic. So, they did a good job of that stuff, and I gotta think that was a Brian Flores influence on that one.


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[Assistant] I definitely did. You know, they had a few little creative ways to push the ball down the field. You know, the score touchdown there, like you said with the Najee Harris, kind of knowing what to expect. And, you know, the, the, the Buccaneers who are kind of sending a blitz


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[Assistant] You know, the guy, so, it's just hard to explain. They're sending six guys on pressure.


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[Assistant] If the back goes out, one of them got to come off and take him, right? Well, they let the back come out opposite of where he lined up, right? So he was on the right side of Pickett. They're blitzing.


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[Assistant] You know, and the guy to that side, he sees Najee, he takes a second because he's like, wait, I might have to cover him. And he sees him goes away and he goes, oh, I'm free. I can go. Right. So then he blitzes. I believe it's Devin White on the other side.


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[Assistant] He's not expecting it to come to his side. So he blitzes and kinda realizes it as the quarterbacks throw and like, it's like, oh shit. Uh, and I believe it was Devin White.


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[Assistant] You know, good way to, again, movement, creativity, teams that's aggressive, test their communication, their rules a little bit, and that was a good play overall.


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[Assistant] You know, the one, the Steelers as we've said for weeks, they're, they're...


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[Assistant] Not good at run blocking. They're not bad at pass blocking.


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[Assistant] And it's definitely a thing right now with the Bucks. And I know there's no Hakeem Hicks, but I don't really care. I expected more. They are not creating the chaos. And even last year with that stat right there, right? Where it's like a little down from 2020.


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[Assistant] I would say that's, that's a little misleading because teams last year were like, oh shit, it's the bucks. Let's keep a tight end in the block. Let's keep a, so they were getting the same amount of pressure, really pressure or having the same effect, but teams were keeping people in the block more because like we can't block these guys, right?


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[Assistant] So, that skewed the numbers a little bit as far as pressure, but now, yes, you know, and I'm sitting there watching the game, Ahmed, and I'm just going, damn, I mean, I don't know, if I really looked at a Buccaneer's, Demon's, or Lyman,


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[Assistant] Yet, they go, whoa, he's poppin', he's poppin', he's poppin'. This guy's catching my eye. Nobody.


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[Assistant] I mean, they're not really, you know, they're really nowhere to be found as far as rushing the passer a little bit. Now, you know, Pickett and Trubisky were good at getting the ball out of their hands pretty quick, especially Pickett. Every throw was short, get it out of your hands quick.


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[Assistant] Yeah, shocking. And then as I'm sitting there watching, I'm going, well, let me look up the stats, because I don't usually don't do that. But I'm going, I don't think there's anybody on their team that's like towards the top of football in quarterback sacks.


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[Assistant] And there I go. I pull up the top 50 sacks and sack leaders in the NFL. The only two people on the list from the Buccaneers. Not D. Lyman. One's a safety in Winfield and Devin White.


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[Assistant] Speaking to the Blitz. Yep. That's the only way they're getting there right now, and so...


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[Assistant] The money and Tampa's not performing. That's really the biggest thing.


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[Assistant] You know, Brady's not playing to his capability, they're not making as many explosive plays with their big money weapons out there, and this defensive line where there's a lot of assets and money there, they're not making it happen either. Vita Veja, Shaq Barrett,


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[Assistant] You know, try on Shianko, who's a first round pick from a few years ago. They're just, they're not influencing the game to the standard that they've set there in Tampa.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean on the defensive side of the ball it will be. They'll, they'll, they'll certainly whoop the shit out of the Carolina Panthers offense, but the other side of the ball, I'm not sold on that. I'm not. I could see them


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[Assistant] Having a decent day, but I have a hard time right now thinking Tampa's just gonna...


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[Assistant] Light up the sky. Anybody. Just about anybody. But in Carolina, again, there's more talent there than I think the statistics bear out. Now, they're a team where I'd go, I don't even know where they're ranked defensively, but I'd go, well,


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[Assistant] You'd be down eight or ten spots too if you had to play with that offense and you were on the field every four plays, right? The whole game. You're going to break two. So, uh, I could see them like making


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[Assistant] But, you know, yeaah, he made a handful of plays and...


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[Assistant] You know, even a scramble or two where you just wanna, good job, you're just getting out of harm's way there. And of course the play at the end of the game to Claypool to close it out was, was phenomenal.


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[Assistant] There was another throw that I wanted to talk about, but I can't remember which one it was exactly off the top of my head. But, uh, yea, Pickett did a really good job. He did. And it's a nice luxury for them to have. Even if they gotta play the Dolphins this week, yea, I mean, they're gonna be fine.


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[Assistant] They're gonna be fine. That's gonna be interesting too. See that Dolphins, the way they play defense against that crew of receivers. Do some interesting matchups there.


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[Assistant] Third and longs at the end of the game. They converted. Just to bang home that point. Yes. That's it. That's all I wanted to say. Just back in the old days, last year, the year before, you got the third and ten plus against the Bucs. Good night. Just go down on the fetal position and punt the ball. Now teams are going, eh, we can throw a first down here. No problem. So that was shocking.


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[Assistant] Wow, that's impressive. Zedaria Smith every game. And again, I didn't get a chance to go back and watch this, so I can't like speak to who he was whooping. Every game he's popped like this though. Yeah. I mean, pretty much. Talk about free agent signings that have made it


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[Assistant] Agreed. I mean, he really is. He's a force right now. I mean, it's, it's, uh, after last year, back injury, all of that, so it's cool to see, and he's definitely...


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[Assistant] Just check him. He's the best player on that Vikings defense so far this year. There's no doubt about that.


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[Assistant] He's, uh, just, he's, he's in the conversation. He's, he's reached the stratosphere of, you know, top D tackles in football. He's a big butt of the week award winner. Exactly. So now you know he's in that stratosphere. Right. I mean, he just, um,


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[Assistant] You know, the biggest thing is, he's just winning with quickness more this year than I think he's won in any of the other years. And he looked like that from the start to me, like he had shed a few pounds, lost some of his baby fat or whatever you want to say. But he was unblockable in this football game. I mean, one on one.


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[Assistant] He, he every week is an issue. And then the rest of the D-line there in New York is coming along with him. But yeah, he is the best player on that defense for sure. And, you know, it's a defense again that they don't want to blitz a ton and do stuff like that. They need their front forward to get home. It's the Seattle scheme. And he's, he's certainly doing that.


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[Assistant] I, I, I'm just, how could that be? Who were the 13 in front of them? That's, that's where I just, I don't know.


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[Assistant] I'm just, I'm shocked by that. How could that be? Uhm, yeaah, okay.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's one of those things, again, where you turn it on, and it jumps out to you. You turn it on, especially if you've watched another team before that, maybe that's not as fast, and you turn it on and you go, whoa.


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[Assistant] This group here is moving at a different level. You know, they're not overly complicated. See, this is the good thing about when you're not overly complicated. You can play fast and just react and go, go, go. All gas, no breaks like Robert Salas' theme is for the team this year.


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[Assistant] Their movement up front, you know, hey, everybody slant this way or everybody slant that way. They couldn't sort it out or deal with the movement, especially the two interior guys. Quinnen Williams, big butt of the week. Sheldon Rankins could have been junior big butt of the week. He was also kind of unblockable in this football game.


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[Assistant] That gave issues, Ahmed, you've heard me talk about their linebackers are extremely fast too. When you talk about the other Williams at linebacker, along with Mosley and Quan Alexander, man they fly around. And then you got Jordan Whitehead who plays around the line of scrimmage.


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[Assistant] Who, I, I love, I think he's like the most underrated safety in football.


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[Assistant] So you add that group right there, aggressive psychos who, you know, just cause chaos? I love it. I do. And that was like, not only did they cause the issues in the past game for Green Bay, and they couldn't block them that way, but it was also the run game. The run game, and you've heard me talk about this before,


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[Assistant] It was like a week where they said, hey, don't worry about shuffling down the line of scrimmage and being like in your gap, right? If you just see a hole, just


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[Assistant] And run through it. And go. And just create the chaos and havoc that way. And that's, it was a little different that way in this game. Uh, where I felt like the linebackers, I don't know what they coach or what they said, they were just giving the green light. Like where you see the hole, just run through it. The running back's probably going to be going through there soon.


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[Assistant] Uh, at some point anyways. And it just gave, it smothered the Packers. It gave them no chance to really run the ball or get it going at all at any point in the game.


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[Assistant] Right, and then you add in Lamarcus Joyner at safety along with Whitehead, and then, you know, DJ Reed and, yeah, DJ Reed and, um, and Sauce at corner, and then, you know, like you already said, and you saw it in my notes, Sauce is, Sauce is the real deal.


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[Assistant] I mean, Sauce is, he's special. He really is. To have that kind of length.


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[Assistant] You know, that, that's where it's just rare. It's usually guys like that or have more buildup speed or, you know, when they have to put their foot in the ground and then redirect, it takes a little longer than the corner that's 5'10 or 5'11, right? You know, so, but he, he moves like one of them.


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[Assistant] And that's where he's different. And he's got great feel too.


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[Assistant] So the Jets not only here are at a point where they can play man to man, and they don't want to live in that, but they're not afraid to.


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[Assistant] And then they're also incredible about passing receivers off in zones too, which has always been a Seattle scheme, you know, thing. And of course, Salah came from Seattle before the 49ers. So they're very good at that way too.


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[Assistant] It might, you know, you might think it's man to man and oh, here comes sauce. He's following the guy inside, but he sees somebody coming to his direction and he backs off and now takes that guy coming his way and switched it off with somebody else. They're very good in that department to go along with, you know, the talent they have too.


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[Assistant] So this adds to their team speed, to your point you're about to say, I think. I don't even know what you're going to say, but I think I know where you're going here.


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[Assistant] I really don't know. I have nothing to tell. I don't know what it is. My theory is that


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[Assistant] He's protecting his little bubble that he knows is his. Which is, you know, greatest quarterback rating, greatest touchdown to interception ratio in the history of football. You know, all of that stuff, completion percentage all goes into quarterback rating. It's almost, that, if you, Chris, give me your theory on why he's like this.


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[Assistant] It's what he wants to do and it's protective of that. It's like, I've said this to Florio on Tuesday. It's like, he knows Brady has all the rings. He's not going to be able to ever get there and be comparable, but he can come away going.


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[Assistant] You know, my quickness into 300 and 400 touchdowns blows you away. So he's gonna be able to stand on that. I don't know. But either way, this is not conducive to them winning football games or winning a championship more importantly. He's not the guy that you fell in love with. He's not the guy I fell in love with. He's changed. He's changed. I don't know who you are anymore.


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[Assistant] He's still one of my favorites of all time. It doesn't mean you get a free pass from Chris Sims and I just sit here and go, man, is he awesome. Even the, even when he's checking it down for minus two yards and there's completely, I'm not never going to be that guy. I'm never.


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[Assistant] It's just not gonna happen, and yeaah, it's, I'm evaluating the team and what's wrong with them, and this is wrong. One, their offensive line's a little overrated, okay, so that's the first thing we talk about. They're not as good, they're kind of feast on the poor in the run game.


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[Assistant] You know, they never run the ball good against good defenses. You ever notice that? Ever in a big game that they ever run it well on? You know, they run it well a lot of the times because of Rodgers and he gets them in the right running play and teams are so worried about him throwing the ball.


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[Assistant] It helped the run game going, but now it kind of plays hand to hand. Oh wait, they're going to, oh, they run game. Oh, well, they're just going to throw it a few yards farther than they're going to run it. They're going to run it right here and they're going to throw it like right here.


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[Assistant] A team like the Jets, they're built for that. Oh, hey, wait, we're, we're simple and fast and we can just f***ing fly around, pedal to the metal? Sure! We don't have to worry about anything behind us other than if we play man to man, he'll throw a go route.


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[Assistant] And again, I'm not totally blaming Rogers here. Maybe it's a little forward in the offense too.


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[Assistant] It's the constant. Again, I don't mean to beat this in the ground, but there's six, seven plays every week. You hear me say it. Where I go, I don't know. Why doesn't he read this play out? Here's a 20 yard gain.


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[Assistant] He didn't even give this play a chance because he's always looking to throw to the back in the flat that's got leverage, right? That's what he always is. And what I mean by leverage is like, Hey, my back, I'm in the shotgun, the backs offset to the left and


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[Assistant] Oh, I noticed the linebackers a little squeezed inside. So my guy running the flat route to the left should be able to get out there quicker than he does. And if I give him a ball, he'll turn it up or sidelines. Well, they have fast linebackers, so that wasn't as easy.


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[Assistant] And then, what else did they do that? Passing people off, right? So you think it's man, sauce is playing bump over there, I'm gonna have that guy. Oh shit, it's cover three Seattle.


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[Assistant] He came off his guy, now he's sitting there waiting for the guy in the flat, and we got a zero gain, zero yard gain, or I had to throw it in the feet because I've already abandoned the play to take the easy bullshit completion.


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[Assistant] And again, like I said, the league is set up right now for the Mahomes and the Allens of the world. Not the Dink and Dunks, Joe Montana, 1987 football here. And they're, they're dropping the ball. He's dropping the ball and yeah, just, it's not good on that side of the ball for them.


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[Assistant] Whoa, alright. Yeaah, he didn't, he let you know. Because I don't know what he means.


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[Assistant] I don't know what Rodgers means either. First off, he said they want to go simple, and then he talked about them messing up simple plays. Did he not say that? I asked Pete and them to rewind it, because we didn't just play that part again. I mean, it made no sense. It's the simplest offense in football. Period.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're all aligned, like I said, it, it, it got beat.


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[Assistant] It wasn't so obliterating to where I went, oh no, there wasn't some plays there, and Roger didn't have enough time at all the whole game. Again, I didn't look at it like that, but when the game is back in the flat, let me throw the back in the flat, let me throw a screen, or let me throw an RPO, I don't know how much simpler you can be.


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[Assistant] Rhythmic aggression in the offense. It's back in the flat screen, RPO. Back in the flat screen, RPO. Oh, they're playing man to man on us, bump and run. Let's throw a go-round down the sideline. Like that's, that's it. It's as simple as shit. Anybody watching football that knows X's and O's is watching Green Bay on film going that their offense is simple.


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[Assistant] So, I don't know where, what Aaron Rodgers is saying there. I don't know what he wants. It's like he wants to set it up even more so he can keep doing that.


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[Assistant] That's to me, what I look at, it's like he wants everybody to be stationary so he can audible to the right four yard route every play. That's what it kind of sounds like to me.


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[Assistant] Okay, sure. I mean, I don't disagree with that statement. You can have more tempo without motion, right. But motions and that to me cause more, way more pressures. And pressure on a defense.


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[Assistant] You know, but again, I don't think he cares about it. I don't think he cares about it. I think he wants to go...


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[Assistant] Yeah, tempo, let me get up there. Maybe it'll simplify them because we're hurrying up and I can throw another slant route and another slant route and another RPO and another slant route. And that's great. And again, it's going to beat a good amount of teams in football. But as you've heard me say, really from about the start of the year, it's not going to beat the quality teams in the game. And I think that's starting to show.


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[Assistant] I think it's starting to show here, pretty, pretty apparent across the board.


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[Assistant] Passing would be tough. I mean, they gotta block that group this week. That'll be, that'll be tough. I mean, Washington's defense is close.


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[Assistant] Now where they gotta win this game for sure is their Green Bay's offense.


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[Assistant] Green Bay's offense should smush, I mean Green Bay's defense should smush Washington's offense. So that's where they should win the game. But they're just...


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[Assistant] You know, there's too many empty yards for the Packers. That's the other thing too.


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[Assistant] You know, it's just, he threw for 140 yards in the first half, and it's like, okay, it's a pretty good first half. But what did that amount to?


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[Assistant] Nothing. Three points. Because it's all like, oh wait, we hit a go route and now let's go back to dink and dunk or run for nothing. Alright, or, or we hit a RPO and the guy ran far after it.


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[Assistant] That RPO's not going to fool them the next time. They're not going to miss the tackle at the four yard point. And, and to me that's where uhm, yeaah, they're frustrating right now. They're frustrating because you know, I like this quarterback too.


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[Assistant] I think they might be good enough up front to kind of sort out the speed and get that going. But the other, the other side is going to be interesting. Really, that's the clash of the titans there. The Jets offense, as we know, they have explosive ability. They do. They didn't have to.


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[Assistant] You know, they played this game the right way. They knew their defense, I think, was on to their offense and could stop Green Bay. And their offense, really, they played conservative and they just waited to take their chances and they made some plays when they had to.


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[Assistant] And, and of course between that and, and some of the playmakers they have, you know, it was a good way to play. They, they outla, they really beat Green Bay in a game they wanted to play. They out Green Bayed Green Bay in Green Bay.


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[Assistant] And we talked about this a little last year. Cause remember last year, they played a game against the Bangos where I went, they had a few sprinkled in downfield shots with their normal meat and potatoes of their offense is good.


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[Assistant] To throw the ball four yards at a clip, every game, all game long, when you have one of the best arms in the history of football, that quarterback? Yeah, I got a problem with that. I got a problem with that. You're letting another team off the hook with the way they play. Oh good, I know he's going to throw for 70%, but so what? You're almost losing to a team that you shouldn't lose to. Like, so they need to open it up a little bit and take a


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[Assistant] I know, but he's gotta realize as he's running up to go, wait, there's some people that might be in my area here. Like, get out of the way.


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[Assistant] Right? And of course the guy blocking him needs to have some awareness of where the ball is as well. Totally. Totally. But usually, no. It's the returner who can see everything, so it's on him to...


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[Assistant] Kind of direct some of that traffic and yeaah, it's not easy. Like you're saying, he's trying to focus on a ball, look down field, catch the ball, look down field, catch the ball, look down field. That's hard. You couldn't pay me to do that job.


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[Assistant] Alright, you were talking about stat or lie at something at the end. We'll still get to that at the time. What is their f***ing logic for going for 2 down 24 to 15? Well, you have to at some point.


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[Assistant] We'll just keep it to a one score game and we'll get there when we get there. But keep the, again, the pressure on them. Like, like, what's the point of making it a two possession game, you know?


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[Assistant] Definitely. They might not, they might not be as aggressive. They're gonna go, well shit, this is big here. I don't, I wanted to call that reverse to Tyquan Thornton, but I'm, I don't know. Gosh damn it's a one score game. Let's not do that and put ourselves in a bad position. Oh wait, we're up by two scores? Let's call it. Oh, touchdown. Now you're done. See you later.


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[Assistant] I guess, I guess. I mean you could throw the ifs and whats about all of it. I am always a believer again in just the, you know, put the pressure on, keep the team to have to


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[Assistant] You know, execute within the pressure of the game there a little bit, and they let the Patriots off the hook in my opinion. I know you gotta do it at some point, and I know the argument is, well now they know what they need. They knew, they would have known what they needed if they were down by eight. That was a touchdown and a two point conversion.


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[Assistant] And the game was setting up to where they were going to get the ball back.


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[Assistant] They're gonna get the ball back on that punt and be down, or they should have been down, one possession. But instead it was two possessions. So...


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[Assistant] I don't know. I just don't like that. I don't like the way the Browns manage the game. The Browns need to watch Giants and Falcons games and learn how to manage football like Dayball and Arthur Smith. They play like they're the 2001 Rams. Like they just...


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[Assistant] We'll get down here again in three minutes and score a touchdown. It doesn't matter that it's fourth and one or fourth and three or fourth and two and we have a field goal. Well, we're the greatest show on turf. We'll be right down there again. Like they don't talk about like teams that know who they are and don't know who they are. Cleveland is one of them. They don't know what they are.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean, got away from the running game, again, did some stupid stuff, it's 3-3, it's the 19 yard line, it's Bailey Zappi you're playing, kick the field goal, go up 6-3. They don't do that. You know? I don't understand that.


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[Assistant] I don't. Now, their lack of running in here in this game, like, I'm not gonna get mad at them. I would have liked to see them run the ball a little bit more. But, they weren't winning the battle there. They weren't. The Patriots D is good. It's good.


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[Assistant] That's a bigger headline here then. I think so. First off, they have a lot of big people.


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[Assistant] You know, the Browns have shown the ability, they're good, if you look at that list there, at blocking the faster, smaller d-linemen. Like the Jets, that's what they are, right? That's interesting. The Chargers are that way.


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[Assistant] You know, the Carolina Panthers are that way. So they're, they're able to adjust. They showed some issues here against some...


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[Assistant] Some run stuffers that, oh wait, we can't move them the way they can. Oh, usually can.


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[Assistant] And the other thing that's amazing about New England, and I think this caught by, caught the Browns by surprise too, it's just the size of their linebackers. I think a few plays where they were like, oh wait, we're going to block this this way and our lineman will kick out the linebacker on pulling guard here and we'll have a big hole.


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[Assistant] Not, not so vast. Not against Matt Judon and some of these outside linebackers they got. I mean, again, they have outside linebackers. Their linebackers are 270, 265. You know, they have huge people. And they overpowered Cleveland from that aspect and made running the ball very hard.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well they're a team that's so dependent on the run.


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[Assistant] They don't tie together their run and play action pass all that well. I don't find...


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[Assistant] Their drop back passing game, overly creative, alright.


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[Assistant] So the Patriots had no problem, like maybe rushing five.


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[Assistant] And being, oh, one less guy in the secondary, because I think they had great feel of like, okay, well, we know where their guys are going to end up in this formation. We can, we can figure out the zone coverage we want. So there was a little bit of aspect of that, let alone the Patriots are good man to man too. And they were like, well, your guys aren't that scary. Other than Amari Cooper. I don't know if there's anybody that really scares you going deep on that, that offense.


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[Assistant] So that played into their hand as well. And then, yeaah, he made some mistakes in this one. I mean, the first interception...


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[Assistant] Uh, was that the first drive of the game? It might have been, it was early on. Second play of the game? Second play of the game. I mean, he's got him. He's gotten Joko. Joko's got him beat. He just was too long in delivering the football.


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[Assistant] He was a step, two steps too late before he let it go where, you know, at that point, if you just let it, I mean, he, the guy had Kyle Dugger beat by, I mean, five yards, you know, when the play was supposed to be delivered, but he, he took a little longer to get it out there and let Dugger get back underneath it and got the interception.


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[Assistant] It's what we said Monday, right? The Browns sold out to stop the run. They sold out.


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[Assistant] Probably not. And, you know, to like, something you said earlier, you gotta pick your poison a little bit. So they went, okay, we're gonna have to pick one. Let's play that Bailey Zappi won't beat us. Sure. Ramon J. Stevens running up the middle through huge holes is definitely gonna beat us. And I think that's kind of where they got to.


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[Assistant] They're not, as we discussed last week against the Chargers and everybody, they're not good at stopping the run. They're a small defensive line that's a little banged up and not totally healthy.


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[Assistant] There's no marquee defense alignment on their team other than Myles Garrett. And then their linebackers are small too. It's just not a great matchup for them in that standpoint. So yeaah, they were way overplaying the run. And then too aggressive blitzing. I mean just too aggressive.


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[Assistant] That's where I, I don't get it. You know, again, I'm the guy that sits here and goes, when you play a young quarterback, make him sit in the pocket and make decisions and throw and read coverages into windows. Don't blitz and leave huge gaping areas to where you make the decision for him. Oh, it's one on one, I gotta throw a fade.


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[Assistant] Oh, it's a blitz right here. Let me throw my hot route. Oh, okay. I mean, you're making the game really easy for him. I know everyone thinks, oh, it's, it's going to make, it's going to pressure the rookie quarterback. Did they think New England wasn't going to be ready for the blitz with a rookie quarterback?


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[Assistant] You didn't think that they were going to coach up the offensive line to pick up the five man pressure?


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[Assistant] Oh no, yeaah. New England's gonna go into the game going, damn, they're bringing five. I don't know how to do that.


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[Assistant] Like, I don't know what they're thinking again. It doesn't match up to the team they are again. Once again, they play a defensive style like they got Mahomes and Josh Allen on the other side were like, you go down and score. It doesn't matter. We're going to go right down and score too. And I'm going to go, you're the Browns. I don't know what you're thinking here. The Browns is the Browns and it's because of the Browns right now.


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[Assistant] So that, as you can see, is frustrating me. You think in the second half they're like crap.


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[Assistant] Well, just like, how about the first touchdown of the game for the, for the New England? We talked a little bit on a Monday, a 31 yard run on third and 10. Like,


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[Assistant] They go for the kill like they're gonna knock them out of field goal range. And the Patriots are ready for it. Then he runs right up the middle and he doesn't get touched on a 31 yard run. I, that's where I, I don't, I don't, I just don't get it that way. I don't. The Browns are, uh,


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[Assistant] Annoying, annoying me there, and the Browns, you know, there's just not a plan for Blitz sometimes, where I go, what's the plan? Like, who is he supposed to throw to here? They all have Blitz, the last interception he threw to Jalen Mills. You know, it's just like, it was like, oh woah, they sent everybody, we weren't ready for that.


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[Assistant] So I, I don't understand that. And then, you know, had some moments too where I understand they have to load the box, but they're undisciplined, they make...


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[Assistant] Too over aggressive on the defensive side of the ball. And then they have moments where


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[Assistant] That's right. The Patriots, you know, again, using September as the preseason, and now they're starting to play football here, and their D is real. Alright, it's gonna be really good. And then, as


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[Assistant] As we talked about this going into the game, it's the hottest run game in football. Now, it didn't show it this week because they were like, whoa, this team's stupid and is going to overplay it to such a degree. We got to throw it. Um, but yeah, they're, they're putting you in a bind and I don't care Zappi, Mack Jones, whoever, you know, they're just, as long as they get efficient, solid play out of the quarterback


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[Assistant] But the same thing holds true passing games that are not that hard to break down to where they can put eggs in both. They can go, eh, we can play the extra egg in the run game stop basket. Cause you're not that creative on this end. So we'll figure out how to stop that too. And that's never a good formula. I have a feeling you're going to


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[Assistant] Raven's outplayed them. There's no doubt about it. There's no doubt. But it goes into again,


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[Assistant] The Giants, you know, knowing who they are, not making mistakes, they don't make very negative plays, and they kind of just wait for you to make a mistake and they pounce on it. And they play the field goal, field position game, and they got a little bit of that like,


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[Assistant] Alright, we went three and out and three and out and three and out, but now in this drive we put it together and we scored a touchdown. So you've outplayed us and moved the ball four drives in a row. We haven't moved it yet except this drive and here we are, we're winning 7-6.


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[Assistant] It's, it's like old school patriots a little bit in some ways that way. Uh, you know, uglier, but, but certainly effective in what they're doing right now.


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[Assistant] I think the Giants were, I don't, you know, again, I don't know, but if I had to like just read between the lines of what I saw on film and watched it, I think the Giants won.


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[Assistant] Hey, we're not the best cover corners in football, but without Rashad Bateman, I think we can kind of stay with them a little bit and do that.


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[Assistant] I thought that the sense really that they were more concerned with Lamar scrambling than anything at the end of the day. That was what they wanted to like not let him break loose. So yeah, that added to a lot of pressures and people doing that. And I do think.


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[Assistant] You know, yeah, I think instead of trying to go like, hey, we're going to be in every gap in the right spot, which is almost impossible against Baltimore because one guy flies this way and a guard pulls this way, but yet they ran the other way. And so you're always outnumbered. I think they tried to play like, let's just cause some chaos.


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[Assistant] They're, they are, the left side of their line is, I mean, with Ronnie Stanley back, and, and, um, Zeitler, and their center really good, you know, and, and, or Zeitler, both guards are good, and Powers, you start to go, ooh wow, their right tackle's a little bit of an issue, and Morgan Moses got hurt, and they had to wait on Skura, but,


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[Assistant] The whole game. The whole game. It was one play. Anybody go back and watch it if you got NFL game plus or NFL plus or anything like that. They ran just different ways of


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[Assistant] Patrick Ricard, big number 42, you go down, kick the, we're gonna block down, block down, block down, you come, kick the guy out on the end of the line of scrimmage, so it opens up a little hole, and then one of our pulling linemen on the back side's gonna come through and just look for work. Whoever shows, he's gonna come and block him. And every Kenyon Drake run was the same run. And then,


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[Assistant] Basically ran something similar with the Lamar runs. Lamar had one scramble the whole game. All his other running yards were off. Quarterback design runs. So that's the silver lining for the Ravens.


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[Assistant] The Giants, you know, for the most part, uh, you know, yeaah, they let up those big plays, but they made life hard scoring them, scoring touchdowns, and they didn't let the pass game go off. And, uh, that was kind of the good things for them.