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[Assistant] And didn't do it, and as we see, when that happens in the NFL, you let a team hang around, yeah, every team's got a guy that can go, oh shit, he did some crazy shit, and the Bears got Justin Fields, and he did that, and helped them win the football game.


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[Assistant] You know, they had seen, you know, people had saw him in the preseason, saw him at training camp. That was, he's a year away from being a year away, right?


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[Assistant] The pressure of the situation, the optics of the situation, I think of put, you know, pressure on Shanahan, the 49ers organization and all that. And here's my last thing I'll say about this, because again, I don't think the 49ers are going anywhere.


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[Assistant] The 49ers are the more talented, explosive football team, and that was taken away from them in those elements. Debo Samuel, a few of those runs, I go, ehh, that was a dry, fast track right there. He might split those two guys and score.


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[Assistant] Right? There was a few plays like that. And they, they were hurt more by the elements than the Chicago Bears. Last thing too is, Trey Lance still takes way too many hits. Way too many. People get full-fledged every bit of him when he runs the football.


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[Assistant] Justin Fields, you don't see that happen with. I mean, Justin Fields has a great feel of getting down, oh, I'm about to get crushed, let me just, oh, I got out of the way and he hit my shoulder just barely and I said it was going down. Trey Lance gets, wah,


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[Assistant] And that to me goes back into the, he's not a natural quarterback. He's still working through some of that stuff and that concerns me and that's one reason it's good they got Jimmy G there too.


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[Assistant] That was the shock of the day. And then Saquon Barkley with six rockets up his ass. That was fun to watch. Saquon Barkley's back everybody. I mean, back. He's always been in the conversation for the most talented running back in football. And now that he's healthy, you see what he does there yesterday.


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[Assistant] Daniel Jones, I thought played very good other than the interception, where he had Saquon Barkley. He needs to throw it like two seconds earlier. He waited until he got in the end zone and the coverage got there. If you watch back the play, he got a little wheel route coming out of the backfield. If he just hits him at the four yard line and stops him, he's gonna score easily.


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[Assistant] So that was his one bad moment of the game, certainly, uh, but I just thought the day ball effect was real in this, that first off the O line was better, there's no doubt about that. They didn't, they let


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[Assistant] Let's get the ball out of Danny Dime's hands. Quick, quick, quick, quick. Okay, we got a little feel. Now let's take that shot to Sterling Shepard.


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[Assistant] Where, the old line's gotta, where they're getting in their groove a little, we're protecting a little better. You know, let's, let's, let's call that play that we knew was gonna screw them over. Boom, little corner post, up the field, boom, big touchdown. You know, that, you saw a little creativity on the defensive side of the ball. The Giants certainly weren't overwhelmed by the run game of the Tennessee Titans.


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[Assistant] You know, had a little bad luck on their side in this football game, no doubt about it, but, you know, overall, it's the fact of the way the Giants looked.


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[Assistant] Physically, the way they were coached and like, they approached the football game, I thought was all really, really impressive. It was awesome to see them get the victory. And then of course, come on. I mean, day ball? You know, I want to say something inappropriate, but I won't. Why?


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[Assistant] Okay, you're right. Bobby Big Ball's Brian Dayball just going for it, going screw it. Let's just screw it. Let's go for it. And having a play that he has confidence in.


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[Assistant] And really, very creative, Kansas City like, right? You think it's, oh, here's the sprint out pass by the quarterback, and he throws it kind of behind him, the Saquon, who makes a nice physical run. Yeaah, that, that to me, is like, you know,


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[Assistant] For young teams trying to find their way, we've talked about this with the Jets and other young teams. You gotta find a way to steal a game early in the year to build some confidence a little bit.


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[Assistant] And that was, that was big for them and their culture, right, as they say. Uh, I don't think it's Tennessee, I still think it's going to be a major player, but it's just good to see the Giants kind of get off on a winning start for the first time in a long time.


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[Assistant] At one point, that was not his fault. The left guard got beat by Jeffrey Simmons in like 0.2 seconds and he got hit and blindsided. But all in all, I thought it was a really good start.


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[Assistant] The, the marquee moment and player of the game was Saquon Barkley. And the fact that he, on that one long run, which was I think what, 60, 65 yards, that really changed the football game. They were backed up, you were going, man, Tennessee's controlling this football game, he breaks that run,


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[Assistant] They get a touchdown and all of a sudden, oh, it's a one score game. Oh, okay, the Giants are hanging around. And all of a sudden, the Sterling Shepard bomb happens and you go, oh crap, Giants got something. A little bit like we just talked about with the 49ers and Bears. One team kind of controlled it, but didn't kind of stomp the team away. You let a team hang around in the NFL and watch out. And that's kind of what happened to them.


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[Assistant] Kansas City, the whole team we could say damn okay. You've been hearing me say this for a few weeks. I've got the same feeling as I do with them with the Buffalo Billups. They're on a mission.


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[Assistant] I believe Patrick Mahomes watched Thursday night football. He watches every sporting event. I mean, he's always tweeting at it. He's amazing that way. I know he watched and he's going, I'm going to show that boy blue.


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[Assistant] Juju Smith Schuster is just a perfect fit for this offense. He really is. He gives him an over the middle presence and a little bit of a big guy presence on the outside if you want to throw a back shoulder or anything like that. But he's a good route runner and he's tough over the middle.


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[Assistant] And I think when you couple that with, okay, wait, I got Kelsey working over the middle or underneath on this side and Juju working it underneath on this side and then we got Valdez Scantling and McCole Hardman and some other guys that can stretch it, stretch it out deep


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[Assistant] It gives them a lot of options. And I'm, I am one of those that you've heard me say. I don't know. You know I think Tyree Kill is the absolute shit and he is the man.


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[Assistant] I just look at it and go, I think this is going to be the blessing in disguise to the Kansas City Chiefs. And I don't say that lightly, especially with Ty Rico, I've so long been like, he's the best receiver in football, and you gotta give him more respect. I think it is in a lot of ways, like,


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[Assistant] And, you know, I do think Mahomes tried to go out of his way to get in the ball at times. And now it's just, hey, I'm just going to run the offense and the offense is just where, where the defense plays. The offense will take me to the, to the right place to throw the football. And that's what we saw yesterday. And they were a machine from the get-go.


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[Assistant] Totally outclassed the Cardinals. I mean, 44 to 21 is like misleading to a degree. I agree. You know, it wasn't even that close. It was late bullcrap touchdowns by the Cardinals to even make it look like that.


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[Assistant] The pressure's on. How could you not throw to Tyree Kill? Exactly right. The whole week is dominated in the headlines to your point of, wait, we gotta get that guy the ball. How could they have done that without Tyree Kill? And then it becomes all about that. And of course the defense knows that. They're reading the same press clippings and they understand there's pressure on it. So I think it's a valid point by you for sure. Dirty Monkey 4-4-3.


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[Assistant] It's, I, I, you know, that's a tough thing to say, of course I'm not going to say it's better than the team that won the Super Bowl. Right.


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[Assistant] Or even that team that, you know, was the number one seed the year before that and they lost to the Patriots in the game that D-D-Ford jumped off sides. But I think the potential is there. I do. I think it's, that's what I love about, they, in the midst of going to Super Bowls and AFC Championship games have kind of like flipped over their roster in a lot of key areas.


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[Assistant] To where I go, yeah, it's special. I mean, the damn young corners they got are really good. The kid from Washington State, 35, I can't remember his name off the top of my head right now. He's a baller.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, we've talked about McDuffie, Carl Laftist, they got big people in the middle, I like the linebackers, the safety, how about Bucker getting hurt and Reed is kicking extra points and knocking it through, you know, the end zone and touchbacks, but I think that


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's potential there at Dirty Monkey 4-4-3. I don't want to go there yet, but I do think I look at it and go offensive line, as you've heard me say a lot, is special. The group of running backs, Clyde Edwards, Hilaire, was impressive in the game.


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[Assistant] First, it looked like he has put some effort into, let me stop being so quick and breaking everybody's ankles and just a little more, you know, no nonsense north and south and go that way. And I think that's gonna help them out. And then you talk about,


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[Assistant] You know, Jodie Fordston and some other just under the radar contributors in the pass game too. I just look across the board and yes, I just think the Chiefs are really well built.


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[Assistant] I think Mahomes and Andy Reid are on a mission and, uh, there's some real potential there at Dirty Monkey.


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[Assistant] I don't, yes, I think they're definitely a team to watch for here. You know, you know, we went through our playoff thing and I don't think either one of us were all that impressed with their roster when you had to break that down.


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[Assistant] O-line's okay. We like James Connor, but after that I think there's a drop-off.


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[Assistant] You know, receivers, there we are, you know, Rondell Moore here, he can't play, small guy, can't play. De'Andre out for a little while.


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[Assistant] You know, you gotta just ride, what, Dorch and Marquise Hollywood Brown? That, that, that to me is not gonna be like, oh, watch out defenses, you're, you're in trouble. And then, you know, we talked about big people lost in the middle.


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[Assistant] You know, Jordan Hicks missed in the middle, JJ Watt calf pull.


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[Assistant] Right? It's always the old guy that pulls the calf muscle. Almost every team I was ever on. Almost every team is crazy. And like, you get towards the end of the training camp, and it's like,


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[Assistant] Oh, guy that's oldest on the team just pulled his calf muscle. Shocker. Right? It's, it's one of those weird things. So yea, there's some concerns.


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[Assistant] No, definitely, and I think that's where you get into the pass rush tandem they have.


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[Assistant] That's where they're gonna come in, come into play here. They're closers. That's why you want those type of guys. That's why you see, hey, the Raiders went out and got Chandler Jones, right, to be opposite of Max Crosby. The NFL, as we've talked about so much, is set up for the fourth quarter for the quarterback to take over right now. Well, how do you combat that?


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[Assistant] It's, it's, island corners are not gonna really get it done.


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[Assistant] Co-coordinators, receivers are too talented to just think, oh, we got Deion Sanders over here and he can cover everybody. Okay, maybe Deion can, but that's like, you know, the greatest corner in the history of football.


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[Assistant] You know, so it's, it's, so what's the next move? Alright, we just gotta get guys that can get after the quarterback. We gotta have some depth and some fresh bodies and some studs who can get there. And that's the approach they're taking. And, uh, they have a good look about their football team. Herbert is unbelievable. I mean, he's an absolute machine.


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[Assistant] And as you've heard me say before, he's the best pure in the pocket passer in the game. When the pocket is clean...


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[Assistant] And there is somebody open, or barely open, Justin Herbert hits the bullseye every time.


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[Assistant] Right? Now he might not be the best of, oh back, I'm on my back foot, or I gotta throw a sidearm, or when I get outside the pocket, watch out here, right? He's dangerous, don't get me wrong, I just don't put him in my homes or Josh Allen's class when it gets to that. Right. But when things are clean,


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[Assistant] And he's got a little place to step into the ball. Forget about it. He's going to hit the bullseye every freaking time and that's how he started off the football game. I still worry about them not being able to run the football. I think that was a little bit of an issue there too. That's why they were kind of controlling the game and you let the Raiders back in because they just can't stay on the field and


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[Assistant] He did. Gerald Everett's talented. DeAndre Carter's a guy that's, yeaah. Where was Mike Williams? I kept looking for him. We did not have a big day. Two catches, 10 yards. It was not one of those big play down the field type of days for the Chargers. It was more efficient. A lot of great 10 and 15 yard throws.


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[Assistant] The defense made some plays. Derek Carr, their offensive line, little, little bit of an issue. He threw three interceptions, two of them really


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[Assistant] Well, only one of them cost, cost them a little bit, I should say.


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[Assistant] Yes, that was the interception that was the definite, the big one of the game. You're exactly right. I was just going there. He had the other one to Samuel, where he under-threw Devontae Adams.


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[Assistant] Where, you know, again, yea, they had a little momentum and it seemed like they were, you know, about to drive and move the ball down the field. And he had him. He had him. They had the right play call. He just didn't throw it out there far enough. And Samuel did a good, Asante Samuel did a good job of going to get that one. But, uhm, yea, the Raiders, I still think are going to be dangerous. I do.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know how, like, other than the pass rushers, I don't know how talented they are on the defensive side of the ball. I do question that. And I do worry about their offensive line a little bit. I do. I don't think it's that great of a group there, especially for what Josh McDaniels wants to do. So, I can see, you know,


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[Assistant] A lot of games being like this for them this year. Carr puts up big numbers. Waller puts up good numbers. Adams puts up big numbers. But don't have, you know, three guys aren't going to win you games every week. You know, to me there's just still a few players and some depth on their team that's missing as compared to the Chargers at least.


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[Assistant] Devonte Adams is made for Josh McDaniel's offense. He's made for it. McDaniel's is...


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[Assistant] A master in attacking defenses in the pass game, and he's a master in teaching the receivers how to run the route appropriately against the coverage, right? Hey, I know we all want to run a, you know, a 20 yard crossing about a certain way.


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[Assistant] McDaniels has ways of, wait, if it's man to man, I want it like this, if it's cover three, I want it like this, if it's cover two, and these little nuances.


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[Assistant] Guys open every time when we do it that way in this coverage. Like every time. In other offenses, I was in the past, I would go, uh.


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[Assistant] That's, he's, he'll never be open. That's just not gonna work. Oh wait, you told him to, you know, straight stem it up the field and push inside a little bit more, and now it's wide open every time. McDaniels is a master at that stuff. And then Adams, of course, is a master at running the routes, and he's coachable. So he listens and goes, damn, okay, that makes sense. I'll do that. And then, I mean,


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[Assistant] It's not a mistake. Wes Welker caught 97,000 balls and Julian Edelman caught 97,000 balls in New England with Josh McDaniels. And then you couple that with the Gronk thing, which is now Darren Waller.


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[Assistant] Like, he's gonna play mind games with defenses. Oh, here's Devonte Adams underneath running some intricate route. Oh, you doubled him and squoze on him, squeezed on him, whatever. Oh, there's Darren Waller down the middle wide. I mean, he's gonna play games with people that way, and we saw a little bit of that yesterday.


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[Assistant] You, you make them defend something, right? Ride it. You ride Devonte Adams until now, the next week you go, okay, they're f***ing doubling them every play. Now this is where Hunter Renfro comes into.


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[Assistant] But don't just call plays for Hunter Renfro because, well, we gotta get Hunter the ball. You go with your studs until somebody takes it away. And that's what I love about Josh. Josh is going to be like, oh wait, he had 44 catches in this game? So what? You didn't stop him. So what? I saw him do that one year with Brandon Marshall when on the Broncos. Brandon Marshall had 22 receptions in a game when we played the Colts one year.


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[Assistant] In 2009 when I was there, he had 22 receptions in a game, and dropped like 2 or 3 more. Yeaah. But he was just like, well they're not gonna defend him, he's our best player, they're not gonna do anything special, I'm gonna start keep calling these plays. And he'll do that until you take it away. JC Jackson did not play for the Chargers in this one too, and their defense still looked good.


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[Assistant] Smash the running back. Got to Rogers. The dude was on a mission. He was. He was. He's a physical presence. And if he can play like that, yea, the, the, the Vikings defense, or at least my thought of them, will, will change. Now there was two tackles missing for the Packers. Let's not forget about that. Bakhtiari was out.


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[Assistant] Right, so that, that, that, that's not, you know, easy, especially in Minnesota. Young receivers, we know all of that. But, the defense, other than...


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[Assistant] Other than the first play of the game, right, or the first drive of the game when Watson dropped the bomb touchdown, I don't remember seeing very many people open.


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[Assistant] I mean, what I really wanna say, I wouldn't even go like harsher than damn okay, I wanna go like damn what the f*** were you thinking Green Bay?


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[Assistant] Like, how many plays did Justin Jefferson get the ball and you went, there's not a packer in the screen. Like, where's the defense for, you know, one of the three best receivers in football? Where, where is it? I, that to me was shocking in the game. So they played zone much of the first half, I guess late


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[Assistant] Hey, like we've talked about, these new coaches have a little bit of an advantage in the first game because it's like, well, I don't know exactly how he's going to call the game or what's he going to do. So there's no tendencies to look at.


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[Assistant] The one thing we saw, just like we saw Cooper Cup with the Rams,


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[Assistant] They're gonna feed him the ball, just like we talked about with Devontae Adams and Josh McGinnis. It's the same thing. They're gonna go, we're gonna throw it to him 190 times a game until you take it away. I mean, that's just what they're gonna do, but that was a big, impressive win there.


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[Assistant] And the Vikings, you know, I worry about their, their defense or their, their corners a little bit, but if their front can play that way, uh, maybe I won't worry about it so much.


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[Assistant] That parcel Parcell's school of coaching.


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[Assistant] It's like, we're not really working unless we're all miserable, right? It's like, you know, a little bit of that old school thought that way. And...


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[Assistant] I don't know if it's necessarily needed all the time in this day and age in the NFL. Not even Bill Belichick is quite like that anymore. I mean, not. He's not.


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[Assistant] He, you know, I think has the right touch of, you know, hey, being able to muthafuck you and telling you you're doing wrong, but going, hey, look, look who you're doing right. And if you keep doing this, this is what can happen. Look at Cooper Cup tape and look at all this. So he's got a great way of that and motivating guys too. Uhm, but that was a great start by, by them. And of course, Kirk Cousins played really damn good too.


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[Assistant] Man, after week one, I know it's week one, and I had a hard time finding that seventh team for the playoffs. Yeaah. Yeaah, I mean I picked the Cowboys as that team, and I think your Minnesota one, they certainly looked more well-rounded than the Cowboys.


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[Assistant] And they looked awesome. They looked awesome. There's the, the big thing I thought was different about them this year and then the preseason and we talked about it and.


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[Assistant] So it's like, oh wait, you're tired. Don't, don't play three extra snaps. Get off the field. We got other good guys. We got Shaq Lawson coming in. We got all kind of Carlos Boogie Basham. We got plenty of guys that come in here and be fresh bodies. I think it's going to be a big difference for their football team.


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[Assistant] The corner position, you worry about them a little bit because they're young.


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[Assistant] They're not a team that puts them in man-to-man and stresses them a whole lot. And Akira Elam, hopefully he comes along. He didn't even start over the rookie from Villanova. Right. And then, you know, we'll get Trudevius White back.


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[Assistant] With Mahomes are to me clearly the two best quarterbacks in football. I'd like to say that one more time. I think they are clearly. Justin Herbert is nipping at their heels and there's no doubt. Burrow, we know.


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[Assistant] He goes all over the place. Exactly right, it's hard, it's hard. Now, you know, he threw the one interception trying to do a no look pass, and he can, he ate that shit, right? That was, that was, he tried to no look it.


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[Assistant] You know, I gotta think, you know, there were just a few throws I think in the game where I went, like the interception he threw out into the right flat, where he threw, I think it was his first interception in the game, and excuse me, it's been a few days, so I can't remember all the- This is why we don't do Thursdays. No, we gotta, this game was too good. But the one he threw out in the right flat, uhm, and I think that was Jackson who caught it,


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[Assistant] You know, little like five yard out route he was throwing a Higbee and he threw it like four feet behind him and it was an easy interception.


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[Assistant] What I wonder is, when your elbow is bothering you like that, are you going...


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[Assistant] Cause I've had this, I've had the elbow bother me, maybe not to this extent, where you're about to throw it and you go, mmm, it kind of hurts when I throw it like that. Let me just maybe drop my arm or do it just a little differently. Cause I know it feels a little bit better in that slot. And that's what I do wonder, you know, and I watched him in pregame.


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[Assistant] It's still bothering him. He can, they can say whatever they want. He throws a ball and he, he does like a little fidget with his arm and I could see him like flexing his elbow.


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[Assistant] You know, uh, even pregame before and he wasn't even throwing and he was talking to people. You know me, I watch people and watch their bodies and all that stuff. I like to do that.


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[Assistant] He was talking to Terry Bradshaw and straightening his arm and kind of doing it and fidgety. Like, those are things to me that, you know, as an ex quarterback and thrower, it's annoying him a little bit, even though he still might be able to play at a pretty high level. Alright, something to watch.


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[Assistant] Rams are gonna fall off, in my opinion. They're not, they're gonna be good, but they're not gonna be, I don't, I have no, like, I don't look at the Rams and go, ooh, there's a chance they could go back to the Super Bowl. I don't see that. I don't.


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[Assistant] Very comfortable. It's just, I think, a look into the bind they're gonna be able to put you in as a football team. You know, again, all we talk about is AJ Brown and Jalen Hurts, which we should. They were amazing. But then we look at it and you go, they ran for over 200 yards too. And that's what they're gonna be.


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[Assistant] I, I, you know, I think we're both the same here. We both look at Philadelphia and go, whoa, there's a lot to like about their football team. They're big dudes. They're big dudes, right? They really are.


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[Assistant] The thing I want to go back and watch a little bit is just, I know the defense let up the big run to DeAndre Swift early on in the football game.


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[Assistant] I'd like to, you know, some of the comeback I don't have a great feel for. You know, and two, it seemed like to me as I was watching it, just a little of that


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[Assistant] You know, this happens in the NFL. We saw this happen in week one last year with the 49ers in the Lions, where, you know, team starts, we got a big lead, let's protect it, let's play safe, you take your foot off the gas pedal a little bit, and all of a sudden it's hard to re-accelerate and put it back together there. And their defense just slowly but surely was, you know, just,


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[Assistant] No doubt. You're right. The Eagles, with that defensive line, I was surprised to see that. I was. And this is one where, if there's a thing that we need to watch for from the Eagles, and you and I talked about this a little bit last year, you know,


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[Assistant] Little too vanilla at times. Little too...


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[Assistant] Oh, we're just going to rush four. Remember, we even said this in the playoff game. Like, you can't just think you're going to rush four and like, okay, and play bland coverages and Tom Brady's not going to pick you apart. So remember with Justin Herbert, they went into Philly. He was like 26 of 28. They played Derek Hard. He was like 28 of 31.


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[Assistant] To me, you know, I understand when you got good players, you go, oh, we just want to play good sound defense, but I don't think they're, they're like...


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[Assistant] It's that freaky. This is not Seattle of 2013 where I go, oh, they can just play the same defense and they'll dominate. No. To me, that's the sense I got, and that's a game I'm definitely gonna go back and watch the film to get a little bit of a feel of it, but I hope they don't get too simple on that end. Because they gotta force some plays with some of those playmakers and put them in some positions to do that.


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[Assistant] Oh, he did. Let's just say that real quick. Just because Jalen Hurts... You've hated him for a long time. I know, I've hated him forever, right. He's, he's gotta, he's, he's again, even when they came back, he just, he doesn't flinch.


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[Assistant] To me, that is a big mistake. The great quarterbacks throw it high in the air because they know the receiver can adjust properly and the DB can't. And you saw that with AJ Brown yesterday, so I do want to give him some credit, no doubt.


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[Assistant] They're going to give a lot of teams issues, uh, you know, running the football, but, but at the same time.


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[Assistant] I think it's the movement, the look of the offense, and an offense that just fits to it.


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[Assistant] The Patriots, first drive of the game, right? You're going, okay, hey, over here, they got a good, you know, first...


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[Assistant] And when they got to that no man's land on fourth and seven from what, the 41 yard line or so, and he hit Jalen Waddle on the fourth and seven touchdown, I was like, oh, the game's over. It's, they're not going to, that offense is not going to come back against this defense and beat the Miami Dolphins. And, uh, of course they didn't.


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[Assistant] No, no, they would not. And that's where Josh was special. Because he could go, wait, I'll find ways to pick him apart 7, 8, 10 yards at a time and do that. You know, again, this is where


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[Assistant] I gotta see it to believe it still with Matt Patricia and Joe Judge. I think they're really great coaches. You know that. It doesn't mean I think they're going to be awesome offensive coordinators the first year ever doing it. This is weird. It is. I don't know why Bill Belichick did this. I don't. You know, I've thought about this a lot lately.


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[Assistant] We're just going like, why? Why would you do this? Why would you not get a real offensive mind in there? And to me, you know, I don't even mean to go down this route, but I'm just going to throw some of the things that have gone through my head lately here in this situation.


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[Assistant] Who you just drafted in the top 15 of the draft and you got a career special teams coach and a career defensive coach coaching him. I don't know.


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[Assistant] So yea, to your point though, that, that is real. They're not a big play offense. They gotta be efficient, not turn the ball over. They can't miss a...


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[Assistant] Uh, uh, uh, blitz off the left side and the left tackle not go out there to get it. That was not Mac Jones fault on the strip sack fumble. It was not. That was Trent Brown. I watched it closely. You know, that was a mental mistake by him.


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[Assistant] To where he should have gone out. They do things like that. Yeaah, they're not going to be able to win the game. They're going to have to play clean football.


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[Assistant] When he has to put all his effort to throw a 10 yard throw and you're like, oh my gosh, he tried to throw that as hard as he could and it barely got there. I don't know how you don't like look at that, but I don't know if it'll matter.


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[Assistant] Just like we've talked about with the 49ers and Jimmy G over there. They run the ball. They got a lot of people go in different ways and they'll find ways to, whoa, here's a guy wide open eight yards over the middle. That's where, that's where it's, it's promising.


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[Assistant] And now, we talk about those teams they had the last two years, but now they have, they have...


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[Assistant] Good offensive coaching. I mean, that's the difference. The last two years, we've always questioned the offense a little bit. Uh, the game plans, uh, uh, uh. There's nothing to question about that side of the ball now. And they can get it done with Tua and what he does there. Uhm, but yeaah, all in all, I thought it was a solid day. It was a solid day and they played the right way for what Tua is and what he will be.


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[Assistant] What was he doing? He must have been hanging out with Jack and Callie. They must have been at the weed bar or something like that smoking the good stuff. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Sounds like... Yes, that's the way Tariqo said it last night. Okay, go dek- go deki. I've been saying go deki. Okay.


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[Assistant] After the first drive of the game, I mean, did you, the Cowboys, uh, yeaah.


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm worried, I worry about the Cowboys. You know, we've talked about this last year where I don't think the offense is all that good.


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[Assistant] And if they can't run it, it really doesn't look good. How many times did we break down plays and stuff where I went, look, here's, here's a simple play. Here's a simple play. The defense is all over it. Their pass game lacks imagination in my opinion. And then when they can't run the ball, it gets exposed. Like you saw last night.


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[Assistant] And again, I don't think they're going to be able to run the ball all that special this year, right? I think their offensive line is overrated in my opinion. I've been saying that for two years. Zeke Elliott, he's, you know, solid. He's good. That's it.


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[Assistant] Pollard, you know, he's a good change of pace, got some explosive ability, but needs like holes. He's not a guy that's gonna run people over and then run somebody else over and get ten yard gains. That's not what he is.


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[Assistant] So they were outclassed last night. I mean, Brady and company were not even efficient on third downs. How many drives did they just move the ball down the field and kind of stalled out on a third and two, a third and four, right? Every one of the first half. Right.


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[Assistant] That's deep Dallas territory. Missed the third one, missed third one run, you know, missed a slant round on third and four, like it just, I mean, they could have easily won this game 35 to 3. I mean, really could have. There was never a doubt, but I think we saw a little bit of the Todd Bowles effect here, and I'm, this is where I'm, I'm


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[Assistant] And I think where you saw the Todd Bowles effect is he goes, well, we've got a great defense here and let's not be pass happy and just like, oh, we got to throw for 5,000 yards and 45 touchdowns just because we have Tom Brady. You know, I think there's going to be a physical element to them this year.


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[Assistant] Fournette's impressive. I like Fournette big. I do.


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[Assistant] You know, he's not gonna get faster at this age, so just get bigger and more powerful. Right? And, you know, I think that, and, I mean, the play we saw all night long, Ahmed, and you know this, you're just watching this, you know,


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[Assistant] It's the left side. Collinsworth even talked about it. It was blocked down, blocked down. Shaq, Mason, pull. Kick somebody out. Boom, and there's Alain and Leonard Fournette running through it. They just demolished this smaller cowboy defensive line. And other than Micah Parsons, I go...


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[Assistant] You know, who's really a playmaker on that D-line? Dexter Lawrence is good. Not Dexter Lawrence. DeMarcus. DeMarcus Lawrence, sorry. He's good, but I don't think he's a superstar anymore.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, I got questions about them on that side of the ball. And of course you've heard my questions on offense. Who scares you on offense? Nobody. I don't care. CD Lamb is good.


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[Assistant] He's not scaring people. People aren't going, oh my gosh, CD Lamb's gonna go for 80 yards over our head every play if we don't watch him. He can't go by anybody that way. He's a great middle of the field route runner type guy. He's not gonna scare anybody. And that's where I worry about them. And then with Dak's injury, I go, uh oh, there could be real trouble here in Dallas. He could be out a little bit.


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[Assistant] No biscuit to just no risket. No risket and let's just f*** them up and run it at them. I mean, that's where, and I think that's the effect you'll see a little bit where, you know, back in


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[Assistant] No risk getting no biscuit. You got Bruce Arians, Lefvitch, and Brady where they're going, hey, it's third and, you know, it's second and four. Let's throw it. Let's throw it. Who cares? You know, now Bowles is going to be like, hey, pull the guard again. We're smashing their face, run it again. And I think he'll get involved in that a little bit. And I think it's going to be better for Brady.


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[Assistant] You know, they're not as talented as a receiver. Julio looked good. Don't get me wrong. I know Mike Evans is a stud.


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[Assistant] Godwin got hurt, hamstring. Right, Godwin got hurt, and that could be a problem here for a little while, and I think Rodney Harrison made the right point. I don't understand why they rushed him back so quickly. It wasn't like, oh my gosh, if they don't have Chris Godwin against the Cowboys, they can't win. I don't know, I never understood that.


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[Assistant] At the same time, yeaah, I think, you know, they're, they're getting their footing underneath them too with some new, no Gronk, no Antonio Brown.


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[Assistant] You know, they got some new parts there at wide receiver that, you know, with Russell Gage and, uh, uh, I'm missing one other guy there, but either way, it's a good win by the Bucks and you saw that they're clearly one of the more talented, physically gifted, better looking teams in all of football.


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[Assistant] Like, learning how to play football in the NFL. I was, I was really, really proud of Jameis yesterday. This is a game, another game I want to go back and watch the film with a little bit. It's just because it didn't look like there was anything.


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[Assistant] And I think they just, you know, what I, what I took it as is they played a little bit match up ball, a little bit it looked like in the, in the, you know, second half a little. But they just said stop worrying about


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[Assistant] And then the defense just hung in there. They made some plays. Uhm, you know, the Falcons seemed like they had some chances to really kind of put


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[Assistant] The saints in a worse spot than down 26 to 10.


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[Assistant] And the Saints, what worries me is there's a real, they have a real issue with quarterbacks that can run.


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[Assistant] They can't beat Philadelphia and Jalen Hurts. And here they, yesterday it looked like they brought out some of those plays with Mariota and Cordell Patterson. And I couldn't get over how they just kept running the ball down the throat of the New Orleans Saints. That was a real issue for them all game long.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I love the way the falcons are, are


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[Assistant] Like coached, and I hope I've made that clear a little through the preseason. Like Arthur Smith, every preseason game I've watched, I go, ooh, I like what they're doing there. You know, they're physical, they're tough, he knows how to manage the football game the right way, and maybe they're a little more talented than I gave him credit for. We'll see.


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[Assistant] That would be the big thing too. You're exactly right. We're gonna see what that looks like. Dean Pease, you know, if he's on his game is a really creative defense of mine. But the way Drake London looked, I mean, you gotta be encouraged by that.


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[Assistant] Cordero was special that way. They're gonna be able to put you in a bind with this run game. I do think that for sure.


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[Assistant] You know, but I still do question, yea, is there enough there to get them over the edge? I wouldn't be shocked if we saw them lose a lot of close games this year. A little bit like we saw them last year. You know, where they just lost, they lose some heartbreakers, because there's just not quite enough good players on both sides of the ball. Uhm, but all in all, that was a gutsy win by the Saints, and I just want to make sure I don't miss, miss anything else. Uhm, you know, but yea, I think that was about it.


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[Assistant] Well, there was a part in the game where I just felt like the Falcons had a few, like I said, a few chances to really put the Saints back into some tough spots. Mariota had the fumble down near the goal line, right? I think that left some points on the board. Uh, there was a few other plays too, but, but I'll get into that Wednesday.


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[Assistant] I, I, I'll say this. The cults of the better football team, the cults to me,


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[Assistant] Made some crucial mistakes, okay? Uh, early in the game, another game, another team there I'd go, they could have really put the Texans in a tough spot early. And kinda messed it up themselves. Alec Pearce dropped one in the end zone.


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[Assistant] I know, my two guys, right, how dare they do that. They're never allowed on the podcast, you're banned forever. But, no, the, had the drop touchdown, you know, and I don't even remember what happened points-wise there, I think they got ended up


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[Assistant] I think on the next drive or maybe two drives later, Jerry Hughes makes the great catch on the, uh, interception on the, um, the screen pass that Matt Ryan throws. I mean, it's a screen pass. If it's close, throw it in the ground. So that, that was kind of bonehead. Matt Ryan fumbles a snap during, around midfield. So there was some things there where I just go,


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[Assistant] I don't think those are going to be consistently mistakes by the Colts. It's first game, they messed up a few things. Uh, I thought they, you know, of course then they battled back and made the game extremely, you know, close and tied it up. They should have won too. A 42 yard field goal in overtime. That was kind of shocking.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean 42 yards, there's no excuse for that. Not this day and age in the NFL. That's almost a gimme now.


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[Assistant] He does, he's a nice thrower of the football. Nice. He's a nice. It's not special, I'm just saying it's nice. He's, he's...


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[Assistant] So me it's, when the game is he can just play and we don't ask him to make any


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[Assistant] Great plays and hey, just be efficient and we'll play defense and we'll run the ball.


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[Assistant] You know, and we know Brandon Cook's a special, O.J. Howard getting a touchdown. I mean, gosh, he's been there for a week. He gets two touchdown catches. That was pretty unbelievable. You know, but I think, uhm, you know, all in all,


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[Assistant] Houston is not overly talented. It's gonna be about coaching and toughness and can they play efficient that way?


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[Assistant] Karsten once has talent. We've seen him be really good before, so it shouldn't be a shock, okay? We know that. He can do this.


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[Assistant] He played good in the preseason. You've heard us talk about that. He's looked good in all the preseason games. And, you kinda heard in the preseason, I'm pretty sure I made this statement multiple times where I just went,


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[Assistant] I don't think they're gonna be able to run the ball. I don't think they're offensive lines that physically overpowering where they're just gonna be opening up holes for, you know, Robinson before he got shot or Antonio Gibson. But, I do think that in the pass game, they can be f***ing dangerous.


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[Assistant] And they are. They showed you. It's hard to match up with those three guys at receiver. Those three guys can fly on that side of the ball. When you talk about McCorran,


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[Assistant] And then Jahan Dotson. Ooh, my guy. And then yeah, and then Curtis Samuel to add to that. Yeah.


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[Assistant] But I think their best way on offense is going to be through the right arm of Carson Wentz. And I wouldn't, I wouldn't be shocked to, to continue to see this where, yeaah, he throws it about 40 times a game and they make big plays and they rely on him to make the big plays to get it to those receivers.


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[Assistant] Definitely, they had some self-inflicted young, they showed their youngness in the game. He missed some throws there, right?


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[Assistant] They had a drop ball on fourth down at one time where they went forward on another, on another series. They missed a field goal, right? So there, there was, there was a little of everything to be had there in the football game. There's no doubt about it. And you know, I'm trying to remember Trevor's interception. I can't remember it exactly off the top of my head, but again, you know, I like the look of the Jaguars. I do.


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[Assistant] Learning how to win and play the game in a manner into which it sets you up to win is not easy in the NFL. I always go back to one of my first starts. I can remember sitting on the sidelines and we're playing against the Washington Redskins at the time and going,


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[Assistant] You know, hey, we're playing good, we should win, and all of a sudden they return a kick, and I was like, what? We're losing? I'm playing perfect, we're losing?


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[Assistant] I remember a coach looking at me and go, Hey, it's the NFL. Would you think they were just going to hand it to you? And I'm like, yeah, that's right. You know, I got to, I got two more quarters here. I got to play perfect to win this game. And, and it's just, that's what's crazy about the NFL. And that's what's crazy about young players. Cause in college you go, I messed up eight plays, but we still won by 20. Who cares?


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[Assistant] And then you get to college, I mean the NFL, and you're like, wait, I gotta be perfect on every play here to help us win? And the coach is like, yes, every play.


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[Assistant] Like maybe if you make one or two mistakes, we'll be able to, okay, but if you make more than that, we're f***ed. And that's not easy to learn. Christian Kirk looked good. James Robinson looked good. ATN looked good.


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[Assistant] We'll see how they look. Trayvon Walker looked good. You know, uhm, even at the end, I mean, Tyson Campbell was all over Jahan Dotson on the last game winning touchdown. He just didn't turn around and locate the football. Uh, but, but yeah, all in all, I love the way Wentz and the weapons look and Jacksonville.


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[Assistant] They're gonna be a pain in the ass. I wouldn't be shocked if they're in a lot of games like this. Can they win them? Is gonna be the big question.


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[Assistant] I was, I'm surprised they ran the ball without success, but you're exactly right. There's no doubt.


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[Assistant] You should. You should. I mean, they couldn't do shit early. I mean, they could not do anything. I mean, Baker couldn't do anything. They couldn't run the ball at all on Cleveland, you know.


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[Assistant] You know, they had issues, and you know, got down 14, what was it, 14 nothing, right? And really, 14 nothing, Baker throws a bad interception, and then they had a bad pass interference call. I mean, it wasn't a bad call, the guy was in the,


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[Assistant] He was in the right place. He was all over the receiver. He just, again, another guy that didn't look up to locate the ball, and then Cleveland gets the ball at the one yard line, right? So, touchdown, 7-0.


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[Assistant] Then, you know, I think Carolina goes three and out or five and out. The Browns get the ball back and it goes to your run game. Nick Chubb rips off a big run. Kareem Hunt rips off another big run. And I was like, Oh crap, we're down 14 nothing. And I give the, the Panthers credit for just hanging in there really for a while.


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[Assistant] I gotta, I wanna watch the roughing the passer, and I wanna watch the spike. Terry McCauley, right, our referee, ref super bowls.


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[Assistant] When I saw him in the dressing room around 6.30, he goes, and he goes, the referees blew the end of that Browns game. And I go, what do you mean? He goes, on the spike. And I go, yea, wait, the spike looked weird. They never really showed it on the telecast real clearly.


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[Assistant] It's kinda like, they, they, the NFL messed that up.


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[Assistant] And, you know, even Terry was even at the time going, well, look, the NFL hasn't made a statement about this yet because they know it's, it's wrong. They, the referees in the field, they bungled this little situation. When you spike the ball, you got to get the snap and it's got to be one motion throw it to the ground. If you pump.


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[Assistant] And then spike it, it's grounding. It should have been grounding. It's kind of, it's kind of very clean how it's stated, at least from how Terry explained it to me. And then the roughing the passer call.


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[Assistant] You know, I think that's another one where I'd like to go back and look at it.


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[Assistant] And I kind of saw it in real time. I haven't seen enough replays of it yet. You know, they called the old forcible blow to the head call in Jacoby Percet and that gave them the ball at the 40 yard line. That was a big play to kind of get their drive started. So those are things I definitely would like to go back and just get a little closer look, but it seems like there's a little controversy at the end of the football game.


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[Assistant] Halfway up the net, right? No doubt. I was like that was almost a 60 yard field goal. He crushed that. And I think it is gonna be a trend. Because...


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[Assistant] I think what you're seeing is these guys are weapons. I mean, they're real weapons. Middle of the round, middle of the draft.


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[Assistant] It's, it's an unbelievable, you know, thing to have at your disposal over a football team. But, you know, good victory for the Browns. Miles Garrett was a beast. Uhm, their defense played really well for the most part. And really, I just look at it, they gave up, you know,


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[Assistant] Like the, uh, big seam pass to Ian Thomas and the big pass to, you know, Robbie Anderson. Other than that, I felt like it was, it was hard to get anything going for that Panthers offense all game long.


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[Assistant] That's where I gotta see it again. They didn't really clearly show it on the telecast to ever really show it. So we'll, we'll, yeah, we'll check that out. But either way, Gutsy win by a talented football team in Cleveland, and if their defense can play like that,


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[Assistant] And then they can run the ball, and Jacoby Percent just not turn the ball over, they're gonna be a pain in the butt. Doesn't matter if there's no Deshaun Watson or not, they'll be tough to beat because they got a lot of talented guys across the roster.


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[Assistant] Well, I think you're, oh, I got a headline here, I forgot. Yeah, you missed the whole point of the segment. I totally lost where I am. No money, no problems. Yeah, yeah.


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[Assistant] You know, it's a stressful situation. It's weird for a team that, you know, I think is a Super Bowl caliber team.


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[Assistant] I'm really proud of Lamar Jackson. I know it wasn't like efficient and my homes are Josh Allen and 300 yards and you know, five touchdown and all that, but this is where I liked it.


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[Assistant] First off, their run game is not clicking yet. And damn, Joann James hurt. That stinks. Another injury to their O-line. It's unbelievable Baltimore. They are snake-bitten at the O-line position. Can't run the ball. Jets playing pretty good defense.


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[Assistant] Like, and I'm not comparing them, but like James Winston, you know, just let me, let's just hang in here. This is where I look at like Cincinnati and go, what the f*** were you thinking?


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[Assistant] Just play ugly for a little while. Get a feel for the game. Okay, we're up by 3-0 in the second quarter. Who gives a shit? You're better. The longer we play, the better team will rise to the top. And I feel like that's what happened in that football game. He wasn't gonna take any chances. He really didn't make any bad decisions the whole game, other than the interception, I think, early in the fourth quarter.


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[Assistant] You know, when the opportunities presented themselves for a play, he made them. I mean, his three big throws and really a big pass interference that set up the first touchdown pass to DuVernay, those were the difference in the football game. He had a good feel for, wait, our defense is...


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[Assistant] Yeah, exactly right. First off, like, yeah, Zach Wilson's better than Joe Flacco. So we all gotta get- and Zach Wilson gives the team energy and playmaking. I know- see, this is where, like, teams get fooled sometimes. They're like, well, Joe Flacco's been so good in practice. Yeah, it's-


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[Assistant] Maybe he should be starting. He's lighting up the practice field here, but then it gets out in the game and it's, whoa, they changed up a few things and there's pressure and there's an inability to make plays the same way a Joe Flacco used to make. Zach Wilson is going to bring some of that to you.


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[Assistant] To lead for the first points of the game. And then, what was it the other one? The other, the Jets have a,


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[Assistant] 18-yard punt that sets up another touchdown for the Baltimore Raven. So the defense should be proud of the way it played. Offense, yes, there's work to do. Michael Carter, the Michael Carter, the running back looked very good.


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[Assistant] Right? You know, and, you know, I think you get Zach Wilson back in the mix there, and let's, you know, again, let's not forget, like I told you.


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[Assistant] Hold on, you gotta take a drive or two here to figure out what the hell they're doing to us. That's where they're a pain in the butt that way, but uhm, yeaah. The Jets defense, we all were looking at that because they were horrible last year. They were not the problem. Their defense hung in there and played well enough.


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[Assistant] For them to have a chance to win the game, it's just the offense had no chance.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well yes, you did. But you know, when you run, you know, Michael Carter, 10 carries, 60 yards.


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[Assistant] You know, there was a few plays there to be had on the offensive side of the ball. And again, like I said, I think, you know, Zach Wilson will make more plays than a Joe Flacco in that situation. Uh, but the Ravens, the Ravens, if they can get their run game and their running backs healthy and the O-line healthy, I just think watch out for them. Cause I think their defense is going to be a force this whole year.


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[Assistant] You know, again, here's another nuance of having played at all in the regular, in the preseason.


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[Assistant] You know, it's the first time in a new offense. I know everyone's gonna be excited about Russell Wilson and all that. Seattle's gonna be motivated about sticking it to Russell Wilson too. There's no doubt. Let alone, Pete and company, they know how to manage a football game.


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[Assistant] You know, I guess I'm just still in a little bit, I gotta see it to believe it first on the offensive side of the ball. I know it's gonna be good, I'm just not sold it's gonna be great. And defensively, you've heard me say, I don't think there's a lot of marquee players in the front seven, they're secondary, I like that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so that'd be interesting, but yeaah, I think it's gonna be an ugly kind of victory for, for the Broncos here at, uh, in, in Seattle, I should say. So you're taking Let's Ride over Go Hawks.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think, right? Yeah, well we do. We've got a lot of stuff to dig into for Wednesday. And that's where, you know, hey homies, I'd like some of your input as far as what you'd like me to look at film-wise, if there's anything. I'm gonna do my best to watch everything that was kind of a...


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[Assistant] Ahmed, I'll lean on you too, because you're better at paying attention to social media and what the homies want and what people are really clamoring about. And we're gonna find the right way to talk about this podcast on Wednesday too.


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[Assistant] So we'll, we'll figure that out and, uh, we'll see you then. But what the f*** happened Wednesday is coming in two days. Yes. And, and Durr has tweeted us.


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[Assistant] It's special, you know, I don't know, it's a shame to see it. Queen Elizabeth has been a fixture of, you know, my whole life. You know, and she's, yeaah, the queen in a country where they still value it, but yet never


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[Assistant] The, the country of England is who it is because of their great kings and queens of the past. So I like that they kind of like, you know, pay homage to that to a degree. But yeah, RIP to her and, um, you know, long live the king and Charles the third. Yeah, we covered it.


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[Assistant] I don't know, I know. I don't have a German accent either. Alright everybody.


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[Assistant] That's right. If you got questions about tough names in the NFL, you have come to the right place.


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[Assistant] Don't ask Chris Sims, cause he can't get it right, but Ahmed Fareed, my other host, my co-host, he will set it straight. Okay. He's going to do that type of work and he's going to teach me and all of us.


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[Assistant] How to say all of these things. What's up everybody, it's Chris Imsum Button. It's a Thursday afternoon because yesterday I was hanging out with my boy Blue in Buffalo.


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[Assistant] Hang out with them. So it was a big day. We're going to get into that. We got some, we got a good day today. Ask me anything, some leftovers from that. We're going to do our top five rosters. Right, Ahmed? Uh, we're going to hit that. Ahmed did 10. He's very proud of that. I'm going to do five and give some honorable mentions. All right. Cause I found six to 10 to be very, very hard, but hold on.


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[Assistant] We're talking top five rosters. Excluding the quarterbacks. Excluding the quarterbacks. That's right. That's right. And that's where it is interesting. It is. It does. It's a game changer that way. And I think there's some good conversation to be had all together about rosters, even though you might not have a


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[Assistant] And that means I can smoke weed tomorrow. I'm going to do it. I have no, I'm not going to do it tonight. I'm going to wait till tomorrow cause I don't want to go like three day weekend style. So Friday, Saturday night.


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[Assistant] I'm back in the game with Mary Jane. Weed Free August is ending on August 27th. Yes. Weed Free most of August. He said I was going to go to December 1st. This is not going to happen. I want to enjoy my last two weeks of summer here a little bit. Do you feel like you'll pick up right where you left off? Well, no way. I've done this before.


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[Assistant] I was actually working for the Patriots. It was like the last time I did the full month. Okay. Alright. Cause it was like training camp and I was like,


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[Assistant] I did that and I think I had my, my life insurance exam or whatever too. So, you know, you're trying to do all of that, right? And make sure you look good. So I'm going to live forever. Give me a low premium rate here. So I took the full month, like a full 31 days and the first night I did it.


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[Assistant] We were going to a gathering with some friends in Boston, and I didn't know some of them. I only knew one of the couples, but they were having us over to kind of introduce us to some other people.


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[Assistant] You know, I was a pro before the break and now the break is going and I'm totally clean and I took like, I think like five, six hits and I was...


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[Assistant] Out of my mind, like, walked into this, like, across the street to this person's house, and I was like, oh, I mean, like, totally bugging out, you know, like that, to like, where, like, I know a few of the women when I was meeting them, I was, I could tell they were like,


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[Assistant] Are you okay? What's going on? Cause I couldn't focus. It was like everything was crazy. So I will not be able to, I was out of hand in July.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, yeaah, yeaah. In fact, they liked me. I don't know why. Maybe they liked me less from that point, actually. Maybe they were like, yeah, weird Chris is better than normal Chris. Uh, but yeaah, that was the last time it got like that. I've taken three weeks off, you know, that type of stuff, but that was the last time a full month, so.


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[Assistant] I am. I know. I was talking about like my wife was like, well, maybe we'll go to dinner and I was like, I don't know the first night in a while. I think we should


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[Assistant] I wish. I wanted to go there. I got, you know, the references from a few people associated with the Bills staff. These are Buffalo Wings. Home of the Buffalo Wings. Right. And I was a little pressed for time.


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[Assistant] So I did not get to go to one of the good ones. I went to like a dive bar right down the street from the stadium. Okay.


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[Assistant] It was really a dive bar. Okay. And, but, but the, the, the person warned me that told me he's like, it's, it's, you know.


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[Assistant] It's not the greatest inside and it's, it's a real bar and you're going to have drinkers in there. He's like, but the wings are pretty good. So I was like, all right, it can't be that crazy in there. I'll be going there. It was a real bar. It was like, it was like, whoa, no one was really there for the wings. I can tell you that it was, it was afternoon drinking time.


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[Assistant] And, uh, but I did, I did get that, but I know I did, I was pressed for time and didn't have time to go to one of the, the top, you know, uh, wing places cause I had the flight getting out of there and everything like that.


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[Assistant] And they were like, who are you? They definitely gave me that. They all turned around like, who are you? And what are you doing here? And why are you?


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[Assistant] It was amazing. I mean, first off, the fact that, I think we talked for more than 30 minutes or so and had a toss for, you know, most of the time. He got, you know me, we got into the quarterback mechanics stuff. That's what I love about your interviews, like Joe Burrow did the


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[Assistant] Yeah, that, that's, I hope so. I hope people take it for that. And we really got into some of the nitty gritties and


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[Assistant] You know, he was cool and, you know, he talked about how he stole a few things from...


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[Assistant] Some special quarterbacks around the league, right? I don't want to give that up, right? Took a, you know, had some fun with the Brady chunky thing, right? He did that. It was, which was really maybe maybe my favorite part because we kind of talked about that experience of playing in the match.


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[Assistant] And I was like, oh, Brady, you know, called you Chuck. He's like, yeah, that's messed up. Isn't it? He's like, I'm faster than him though. He's like, I'm stronger than him though. And he's like, he can't whoop me. So he, Josh Allen is so great. And I really think he's a, the cool thing about it is, you know,


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[Assistant] Like a Joe Burrow, there's humble and they know they got work to do and it's not going to be easy. But he's very aware of, you know, the circumstances around him.


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[Assistant] That they're looked at as a Super Bowl champion type of football team. You know, we got even into the.


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[Assistant] You know, like I asked him like, dude, you realize you're like in the midst of Manning Brady. You're living that right now. Like you're living Marino Elway. It's you and my homes and all that. So we got into all of that. That's cool. Yeah. So there was a lot of cool stuff and, uh, yeah, he, he really broke down some really cool things about his throwing.


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[Assistant] And like I said, stole some things from some other guys that he incorporated into his game that I thought were really interesting too.


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[Assistant] But I started off with like my boy blue and I was like, you, you know, I caught, and he's like, oh yeah, he knew I, you know, I called him boy blue, right?


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[Assistant] He goes, he goes, I wish you'd stop. He may be, he may be, but he was, uh, he was, he just, uhm,


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[Assistant] He's just got a great way about him. Like all really great quarterbacks do for the most part. That's why they're great leaders and why they're great quarterbacks is they accept the challenge. There's a humbleness to them and you get a self-confidence that's really special. Practice was awesome because the ones are not playing.


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[Assistant] So they went 1s vs 1s live scrimmage, right? Because they're not playing in the preseason. They are playing against


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[Assistant] Right. So they're not playing in this third preseason game at all. And, uh, so they got after a little bit and it, you know, again, I love it cause it wasn't perfect. You know, there are another team that I would go, they don't script for success. They're not worried about, oh, we got to throw for 95% in practice and look pretty on offense. They make it very game-like.


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[Assistant] The Bills are a different team and person. They're bigger than, you know, when I was up there two years ago. Their Dean Lyon is much bigger. Von Miller makes them look different. And just like we've said the last few weeks, like with the Chiefs too,


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[Assistant] There's an attitude of a team on a mission there. I mean, they're on a mission. You can tell it, there was an energy on the field as soon as we walked up, you know, onto the practice field. You know, Stefan Diggs looked great.


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[Assistant] I, you know, was talking to him a little bit. I was like, dude, you're, you're a little more muscular in tech. He was like, oh, thanks for noticing. Yeah, I am. I was like, I'm 205 this year. I've been playing at like 190, 192 the last years. I'm 205. He looked strong. A little chunky maybe. He wasn't chunky. That's the one thing. And those damn receivers, like when they, they're just freaks in nature. Gabe Davis.


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[Assistant] Holy crap, I didn't realize how big he was in person. Really? Gabe Davis is a specimen. 6'3", legs like trees, legs that I like, legs that you see in a running back, you know?


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[Assistant] Yeah, we'll see. I know he'll be, you know, certainly have a presence on that offense, and we'll see, but he, he, man, does he look the part. And, you know, Von Miller looked amazing, like I said. I think the other thing too, just to say this, at the end of practice,


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[Assistant] You know, and again, it wasn't the prettiest practice for the offense. They, they, you know, bills are blitzing them and doing crazy stuff and, uh, but man, they went into the two minute drill.


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[Assistant] And Josh Allen made this throw up the right sideline. And you know, everybody, you know, including the team and I woo, like it was like, and you know, they see this every day.


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[Assistant] I was walking and just sitting and just going, holy, and they were like, oh, that was amazing, right? And I was like, what? I was like, literally there's like five, six people in the history of the sport that could have just done that right there. You know, he's another one of those, like I've said about my homes and Rogers, when the ball


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[Assistant] When he throws it and it's really, you know, all perfect and he's not throwing off platform or like.


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[Assistant] The pace of the ball and how hard it spins, it makes you go like, wait, am I seeing that right? Is that, is that like an optical illusion? And that's how I felt when I saw Mahomes and Roger's throw the first time where I just went, whoa, like not only is the ball flying through the air, but it's spinning so hard that it's almost like,


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[Assistant] Can a human really do that? Like, is that a machine? Is that a jugs machine that's doing that? Like, you know what I mean? So, uh, that was really cool to see, but I'm so impressed by the bills altogether.


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[Assistant] Well, the joints practices, like, I mean, yea, like, we, like, you know, you're talking about Falcons, Jets. The practices were more competitive than the actual game. The Jets didn't play anybody. The Colts, the Lions. The practices were more competitive than the actual game. The Niners, Vikings.


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[Assistant] So there is that, you're right, like if you want to go see real football, you're better off going to some of those joint practices and seeing it there than maybe a pre-season game where again, like you're talking about, none of the starters are actually going to play.


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[Assistant] The way they went this last week against the cults, I mean, I don't know, I don't know if you've seen any of the visuals on social media. First off, they walk through the forest in Indianapolis on like a blue-yellow brick road. And then all of a sudden they come out to a field. And like Dan Campbell was like, this is the field of dreams, like this is crazy. It really was crazy.


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[Assistant] It is like, I think amazing. Like just the way he talks to his team, just to give your team a little love. I mean, he was literally talking about they're getting ready to go scrimmage them. And you know, of course he's so intense and, and this is, Hey man.


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[Assistant] This is, it's time to put the face paint on and sharpen the spears. Alright? I'm taking this shit serious. You know what I mean? You know, I'm going to take the game, you know, pretty serious, but the scrimmage is where I really want to see. And it just was, it was, it was a great watch. It really was. Yeah. So get HBO max. Okay. I shouldn't get that.


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[Assistant] They see through it. You know, you're around them too much, so if you're fake, somebody's finally gonna see the flaw, then go, ah, what a, he's full of shit. And no, you don't have to be an asshole, you just gotta be real.


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[Assistant] Listen, I don't think it's a really big deal. I don't. I think like, you know, it's a, do I think it would have hurt?


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[Assistant] You know, absolutely not. Do I think it would have helped? Absolutely, yes. You know, could they be?


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[Assistant] A week or two maybe ahead of where they are right now, and you know, you get the nerves and the jitters out about, oh my gosh, I'm with Aaron Rodgers. Like, and there's no doubt about it. You know, you heard, like, there were some comments Devonte Adams made, like, Rodgers has that


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[Assistant] Jordan like presence where when he's practicing, the whole team picks it up. That's what great quarterbacks do. Even when I was in New England.


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[Assistant] When Brady was out there, everybody's on their P's and Q's, and then he brings in energy, because the quarterback usually is the guy that loves football as much or more than anybody on the football team. Sure. You know? And, you know, Brady used to like throw a laser slam. Be like, ah, how do you like that? You know, you better get your hands up, I'm throwing bullets today, right?


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[Assistant] There's a different intensity and there's an enjoyment too that's where it's intense, but like, man, this is fun. This guy's crazy and cool and he wants to be awesome and let's join in on the energy. So I, I, I wish he was there. Yes, I do. You know, you know, I love Aaron Rodgers to the fullest.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't see how that would have hurt the situation, it would only have helped it. Now, do I look at it and go, oh man, they're screwed here? No, I'll bow to what Aaron Rodgers said last week a little bit, that hey, training camp's a long process, there's time to have lots of conversations here, and you know, get through it.


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[Assistant] So, again, I don't think it's gonna be like, aw man, they might lose two or three games now because of it. But, but it couldn't have hurt. It couldn't have hurt is the point.


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[Assistant] Well, I tried to say two was just as more accurate than, than my homes. Right. Right. And I want to go, I don't even know how that's comparable, but okay. I mean, wow. I don't know. My homes can throw three yard throws too. It's, it's, you know, it's, it's, um, so, so what do you make of this? Well, you know, I talked about this with Florio a little bit. This is a great conversation to me. This really is.


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[Assistant] First off, what I wanted to say to Sammy Watkins is, why say it? Well, what's the purpose? I understand, hey, you're playing with Aaron Rodgers and you want to give him love, but then just talk about Aaron Rodgers. Why, why put down Patrick Mahomes in the process, alright? So that's the first thing I want to say. And then I want to say, man, I mean, Sammy Watkins, like,


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[Assistant] You know, again, respect, but your career has not turned out what everybody thought it was going to be for a top 10 pick.


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[Assistant] Your career, the only moments people remember are as Mahomes throwing to you in the AFC Championship game and your great catch against the great throw and play against Richard Sherman in the Super Bowl, where it was the moment where we went,


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[Assistant] He threw the fade down the right side when we all went, the whole nation went, holy shit, these are going to come back and they're on fire right now. Here we go. It's Kansas City, my home's magic time. So why put down the guy that


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[Assistant] It's like, you know, you're kind of linked to as like, okay, this is the guy that everybody's going to remember you playing for. His best moments. Right. We have no memories of you on the Ravens or the Buffalo Bills or, you know, where the hell was he like? Oh, he was at the Ravens last year. Right. So why go there? That's where I just don't quite understand that aspect of it.


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[Assistant] I don't know if I do. I know, so I mean, that's where I don't think it is. That's a strong statement. That is strong. I will give you that. And then, I think the other thing I would go here with this, Ahmed, is, you know, first off, it's not fair. You're comparing Rodgers in, what year is this, 17 for him? Sure. And Mahomes in year three? That's what you're going back to here?


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[Assistant] You're three and four? Like, it's not fair to go down that road there.


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[Assistant] Because, you know, first off, come back to Patrick Mahomes in year 17. I guarantee he's gonna be, you know, all over certain things and, you know, be a little more nuanced and, hey, I've seen it all and,


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[Assistant] Directing traffic even more. He's already improved greatly in those areas already. He's special that way. I mean come on. It's not like we're talking about some guy that's some idiot. He's been leading this team to Super Bowl level play ever since he got on the field.


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[Assistant] I don't agree with that. I think Mahomes is on trajectory to be in that elite class.


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[Assistant] With Aaron Rodgers. You know I think Aaron Rodgers is like the greatest quarterback ever. You know? He's the people's champ. He's the players' champ. I know everyone's gonna always go, Brady's got the rings, and great. But damn, almost every coach and player I've ever talked to thinks Brady and Rodgers is better than Brady.


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[Assistant] But you can't say it because of the New England mafia. I can't even say it in my building because of my boss. He's gonna get mad at me here too. I guarantee he's gonna try to correct me later. Yeah, we'll be off the air.


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[Assistant] There's so much more into that conversation. And it's, you know...


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[Assistant] You know, so, so I guess where I wanna go with it is, I mean, first off, I think it explains to you how special Rogers is. Rogers is special.


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[Assistant] You know, we've talked about the quickest of 300 touchdowns in the history of football. The quickest of 400 touchdowns in the history of football. Still hasn't thrown 100 interceptions. Right? Quickest of 40,000 yards. Quickest of 50,000 yards. Right? With less talent.


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[Assistant] Then maybe Mahomes has had to this point, or the other great quarterbacks, that's where I would tell you.


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[Assistant] I love Rogers, but I would also say, hey,


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[Assistant] Watch out. And then, and then 2010 came around and we went, holy f-


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[Assistant] Is this the greatest sto- show I've seen? Is he better than Brett Farr? I mean, yea, that's what I mean. It really became that. And then it got into the playoff run that year, which was as much of a guy taking over games as I can remember at the time and going, I've never seen anything like this. This guy is like, he's unstoppable. Sounds like a guy that's on another level. Well, okay.


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[Assistant] Mahomes had his first year playing. He set out one year and in the first year won the MVP.


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[Assistant] And then, had Brady and New England beat in the AFC Championship game if D4 just doesn't line up off sides, right? Or wins maybe the toss in overtime, right? So, this is, this is a special player we're talking. To me they're very similar in a lot of ways. These are two of the greatest


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[Assistant] My home stats are gonna be right up there with Rogers when this is all said and done. I mean, I wouldn't, I wouldn't be shocked if he's the guy that eclipses the fastest to 300.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, there's some stats that have some relevancy to what you do and how you are and, and, and, you know, again,


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[Assistant] They might break them all, and it's just a long, it's a matter of how long he can play. But then also I think when you add into the fact of like, alright, well, let's look at the playoffs the last few years, since uh, Rogers and Mahomes have, you know, since Mahomes started.


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[Assistant] How did the playoffs look? Well, Mahomes blows him out of the wet, the water. I mean, he's 28 to 7, and then I think Rodgers is like 9 and


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[Assistant] 9 touchdowns, 4 interceptions. Mahomes is 28 touchdowns, 7 interceptions.


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[Assistant] There's that. And then of course, Mahomes has been to two Super Bowls. You're crushing a guy you love. Well, no, but I want to keep it real and give him love because you know I love Rodgers. He's the man. I don't like this comparison. And I'm saying it's not fair.


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[Assistant] I don't think his teams have been as good as my home. Sure. Rogers is a victim of his own greatness, what I'll always say. There's teams in years where he went to the championship game and stuff like that where I go...


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[Assistant] They recover an onside kick against Seattle. He's going to another Super Bowl. The year they played the Atlanta Falcons in the NFC Championship. Come on.


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[Assistant] Green Bay wasn't even one of like the three, four, five best teams in the league that year. They were there because of one guy.


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[Assistant] It's a little bit like where I tell you like LeBron or like Michael Jordan early in his career was like, he can't get to the championship game. It's like, well, they're not championship teams where they keep getting to the Eastern Conference finals against the Pistons because this guy's a freak show and they're writing a book about the Jordan rules to try to stop one guy.


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[Assistant] And that's where Rogers was, right? But Mahomes is that guy too. And I will say where he has an advantage to me over Rogers is he...


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[Assistant] I think puts more pressure on you in big game situations. Mahomes is gonna go down swinging. And it might make, it might be a mistake. He might throw an interception, right? But he's not, he's gonna, oh wait, I gotta move and scramble and throw a ball 30 yards up the field, sidearm to this guy booming. I mean, I've never seen anybody do it as regularly as he has. To the point where the first few years I was like,


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[Assistant] Whoa, he shouldn't throw that! Oh, complete. Whoa, he shouldn't! Oh, he complete. And to the point where you just were like...


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[Assistant] There's nothing he can't do. And I've never seen that. So I don't like that comparison. There's a lot more I could talk about here. To me, this is where these guys are in a different class.


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[Assistant] Then Tom Brady, like, well, I know to me, but this again, listen, no one's safe. Well, no, no one is safe. Brady never had to like carry the team his first four years in the football.


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[Assistant] When, when like Rogers and Elway and Marino and all, it was like, in my homes, it was, and Josh Allen, it was literally like, here, carry us.


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[Assistant] Alright, I mean, we can go to Super Bowl, the third Super Bowl victory for Brady, as I mentioned today against the Eagles. I mean, it's ISO left. It's ISO right. It's we can't score a point. Let's play through the defense. Let's manage the game. So again, as awesome as Brady is, and I know he's awesome again.


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[Assistant] These to me are a different class of a guy. I will always like, Brady is more like Derek Jeter to me, and I know people think I'm a hater. You know, he's the ultimate general, the ultimate captain, but he needs some support around him.


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[Assistant] Throw it 45 times a game and just make magic happen. And our offensive line's kinda good and our defense is not even actually that good at all. Like no, that wouldn't have happened. Right? He grew into that. He was groomed into that.


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[Assistant] And there's, these are special, special talents where you could just put them on any team and they could make it go no matter what the offensive situation. It's like you've heard me say too, you know, again, not fair with another level. The guys, we've been a starting quarterback for four years. It's four AFC championship games and two Superbowls. I mean, come on, it's insane.


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[Assistant] And then in the Super Bowl he played in, he had a bad foot, and his offensive line was hurt.


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[Assistant] You know, I, I, I say that too. I go damn it. If you switch the quarterbacks in that game, they would have been 70 to 10. I don't know what else to say. I'm sorry everybody. Right. So there we go. And I don't understand why in the NFL it can't be seen, but people can see it in college. Like is the quarterback for Georgia the best quarterback in college?


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[Assistant] He must be. Let's start it up right now, Pete. Let's start up. Put it on my Instagram. What's his name? I don't even know. Is the best quarterback in college football and should be the first round pick. Put it out there. Tweet it out. Because he won and so he should be drafted in front of Bryce Young. And so that's what's, but in college people see it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, Bennett, right. Stetson Bennett. Right, I couldn't even think of his first name. But, but see, that's what I mean. So you got me going here, and either way, I don't like the comment by Sammy Watkins, I'm sorry.


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[Assistant] I literally spent the first- You think it was really hate or just he's gushing too much over the current guy he's got? Gushing too much over, I mean even a little bit of the public hate a little of Mahomes, like the doubt of Mahomes. Yea, cause you get a half a billion dollar contract. I guess, but it's like- Throwing stone. This is what's crazy about our world right now. I tried to tell everybody Tyree Kill was one of the best receiver, top three, and everyone's, you're f***ing crazy. And then he leaves the team and they're like,


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[Assistant] He lost the best receiver in football. My home's isn't that good. It's like, it's literally, it's like it's got a 180.


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[Assistant] I honestly think we could talk about it for another 10-15 minutes.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know exactly why, but I'm not gonna go there. Alright, so the, the thing is here is, no, it's not gonna bother. It's not. You know, again, you know, there's, there's the military aspect of like the locker room. Guy's got a lot of patches on his, on his, you know, uniform.


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[Assistant] He's been the general. He's the man. We have no reason to doubt this guy. He's always ready, right? He's always ready to lead the troops and he knows the offense. He knows defenses. And I have a hard time thinking like 11 days. He just was like, I'm not doing, I'm not doing anything. I'm just going to stick sick, like put my feet up in the air and.


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[Assistant] Right, right, right. You know, Christian's a button on there, all that, right. So, but, but I, I, you know, I would think even during that period, he's still probably throwing footballs, he's still doing his TB12 workout.


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[Assistant] And, uh, so no, I don't think that will be an issue at all. And I, I actually feel bad now because I know I'm gonna get the Brady hate now. And I, from all the things I said there, gosh, I really respect Brady. But yeah, you could see I have those guys in a really special class in my.


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[Assistant] Why, I want to say one thing about that real quick, with Brady starting. Cause I'm really, we gotta see that they're all online.


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[Assistant] No doubt about it. We're going to have to see it. So that's going to be a big thing to me. And I wonder about that too. Is there a deal already in place where, you know, these coaches, they talk to each other.


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[Assistant] I wonder if the Colts are going to play their first team D line. You know what I mean? Those are things to look out for. I'm interested to watch that offensive line no matter what, just to see some of the new plays. Cause Tristan Wirfs is hurt, right? He's got the old bleak injury and then they're going to have a new center and a new guard. And I know they got Shaq Mason there and Donovan Smith who are really good, but yeah, that's certainly something to watch out for.


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[Assistant] It's actually, I think, even worse than that. I think it's some sort of fracture, and then like the kneecap I just saw earlier, a ruptured, uh, yeaah, I can't remember, um, what the hell was it? Yeah, I saw it before as I was kind of preparing for the podcast, an avosian fracture.


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[Assistant] The Cowboys are one of those teams where, you know, I, I look at them as like a fringe playoff team anyways. I don't, I'm not, I'm certainly not like stamping the Cowboys and going, oh, playoffs this year, no doubt about it. No, I mean.


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[Assistant] You know, first off, I've been one, you've heard me say, I think the O-line's a little overrated there. So, and they're a passing football team. They got Michael Gallup, not a hundred percent, right? And he won't be probably for a few more weeks. There's no more Cedric Wilson.


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[Assistant] You know, the defenses side of the ball, they've lost some people with Randy Gregory, of course, being the big name there. And then I think the other thing actually.


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[Assistant] You know, two was just like, okay, wait, so is that defense going to be any better? Cause I know we, we talk about it was like the biggest improvement in the history of sports last year. And it's like, it was only the 19th ranked defense in football. It just wasn't the worst. Like it was the year before. Is that what they are now? Or do they make another joke? I know. So we'll see. That's going to be the big thing. But yeah, I have my questions about them as a football team. I, I, you know, Noah Mari Cooper.


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[Assistant] There's some things, they're gonna, they say they're gonna run through Zeke.


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[Assistant] Their second best running back on their team. So yeaah, I'm not, I'm not sold on the Cowboys by any stretch of the imagination. Dak had some bad games last year and some of the Cowboy fans were right. Even seeing that. Well the offense I think is...


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[Assistant] When they can't run the ball is not the most creative in football in my opinion. And then I think when you add in, man, week one, like, I don't know if we have their schedule to pull up.


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[Assistant] Um, but like I can say it real quick. They play some legit defense. I mean, the Bucs week one, that's not the team you want to play with. You're trying to figure out who's going to be your new left tackle and, and get things straight there. The Bucs.


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[Assistant] I mean, those two games to start, Ahmed, I mean, Bucks and Bengals, they're two of the best pass rushing teams in the sport. Right, but then they got the commanders who got some guys there, and then it's, you know, the Rams, which we know they can rush the passer, and at the Eagles, and they can rush the passer, so yeaah, that makes me worry about them, there's no doubt about it.


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[Assistant] I mean, as we talked about in the top 40 countdown, and I probably didn't make him high, I mean, rank him high enough, and he's one of the best backups in football.


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[Assistant] You know, Ham Gardner-Minshew to me have been the backups that just blow me out of the water this preseason so far. I mean, and he's got a little bit of everything.


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[Assistant] You know, his arm is not as powerful as Lamar Jackson. He's not as fast as Lamar Jackson. And he doesn't have as many release points as Lamar Jackson. Right? So, I'm not gonna put him in Lamar Jackson's, and I don't think it gives him necessarily leverage. I don't think this is an apples to apples type of thing.