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[Assistant] Yep. No doubt. No doubt. Yep. So, I mean, listen, we're coming to an end. We cut out our New England Patriots part of the conversation. I just want to say this- Is it me? Is it me? No, it's me. I took too long. It's really my dad. He took too long. Blame Philly's not here. I want to, I want us to say this one thing. Yeah. New England is a team to watch out for.


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[Assistant] Their running game, as people have heard me, is getting better and better. Like dad just said, it's like the 1990 Giants. It's like, we're gonna run right here, we're gonna pull a guard and a fullback's gonna come and we're gonna smash your face in. And Jones is, they're finding a way to make a few good


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[Assistant] Nobody's better than the Patriots. So that's what they got going for them. They're gonna be tough to deal with here cause it looks like they're starting to get it going a little bit and they're rolling. Uhm, and I just wanted to say that on the way out the door.


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[Assistant] Do think people are catching up to the Chargers offense just real quick, right? We, one thing I said to Pete, I do think they're missing a speed guy, like, you know, Baltimore wasn't scared to play them some man to man, the Patriots only played it as like a curveball, like, hey, we're gonna play man, it's been zone, zone, zone, zone, now it's man to man, okay?


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[Assistant] The other thing is, I do think people have caught on to the offense too. And that's one thing that jumped out to me a little bit the last few weeks with the Chargers. People are catching up to Joe Lombardi. It's the West Coast offense. Nobody knows the West Coast offense better than Bill Belichick, other than maybe Sean Payton and like John Gruden, who's not in the league anymore. He's all over that stuff. So that's it. That's the podcast. I've talked myself exhausted.


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[Assistant] My wife sometimes is offended. She's offended sometimes. She's like, why are you talking? And I'm like, cause I've talked for four hours straight today. Like I'm out. I need a rest. I'm gassed out.


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[Assistant] Thank you to Under Armour. Please subscribe, rate, review. Check out me and Florio tomorrow on the PFT, PFTPM. Chris Sims on ButtonPix collaboration. Everybody be safe. Keep sending the questions. You know I love it. Peace out. You the man, Paulie. You made it. You made it through.


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[Assistant] Let's do this on the pod, because you know, uh, Paul Burmeister played college football. Put your finger on his head, Wednesday, and see what happens, just like see what happens if his instincts kick in. Okay, okay.


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[Assistant] Oh my gosh, he's lined up in fullback and then went to tight end. How are we going to defend this? Oh my gosh. He's that slot receiver. We're screwed guys. We thought he was going to be the Wildcat quarterback.


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[Assistant] Awww, baby, you know what time it is. It's Wednesday, and there's only one thing that goes down on a Wednesday. It's what the-


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[Assistant] Captain Wednesday podcast, Paulie Burmeister here, Chris Sims, episode number 323. Wow. Here for NBC Sports, big number. They're paying me a million dollars per episode, so they owe me a lot of money.


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[Assistant] We're here to entertain you, and we got a lot of stuff to break down, certainly. Herbert, Burrow, Bucso, and Dee. Steelers, Ravens game, 49ers, Seahawks, we're gonna hit it all along with some other topics along the day. What's up everybody, I'm Chris Sims, this is Chris Sims on Button.


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[Assistant] Presented by Under Armour, and your Paulie Burmeister, the best dressed 50 year old man I know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, and I'll take a large fry with some chicken McNuggets. That is so crazy random. What's that mean? I don't know. We need the psychologists there for that one.


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[Assistant] Mixed up with, I mean the funnier thing is it's like in the past where your kids were younger too. I like that aspect of it. And McDonald's? Dreams, I can't make sense of them sometimes. I have no idea. Now I did, I was that dad that would like a few years ago


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[Assistant] I think if we got to a full count and there was too many balls after that because they weren't letting walks, then somebody had to come in.


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[Assistant] Used to Randy Johnson pitching here, so let's get down to their level where they're used to seeing a ball come out of somebody's hands.


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[Assistant] Well, I think the big thing I look at more than anything is the way they called the game, the way they approached this game a little bit against the Cincinnati Bengals. You know, yea, the Chargers are one of those teams you mentioned. Man, Cincinnati is also


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[Assistant] I think one of those teams I would put in there, I actually have less questions about Cincinnati than the Chargers. I'll say it, I don't mean to be disrespectful, I think if those two teams play each other ten times, I think the Bengals would probably win seven of them. Really? At least six, I'm gonna say.


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[Assistant] But I'm not like totally confident in that, but just from watching the game live, watching it on film, yeaah, did I come away thinking I felt Cincinnati was a little bit better of a team? Certainly, but not so much so to where a few great plays by Justin Herbert and company or some mistakes by Cincinnati can set them up. But I think the big thing for me, especially offensively, is, and we've talked about this in weeks past,


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[Assistant] Lack of a big play, lack of speed down the field.


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[Assistant] You know, too much six yard throws, eight yard throws where teams have been able to play aggressive. Now they got Pittsburgh on a night where, you know, they were undermanned, had a bunch of injuries and they tore them up.


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[Assistant] I didn't sit there and go, ooh, there's anything special schematically. This game, there was schematical like, wait, we're going to have an approach in this game.


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[Assistant] To take shots down the field, open up the field a little bit, Cincinnati will give us some one on one opportunities down the field, and you got two talented of the quarterback to continue to be throwing the ball six yards down the field. So true. Their meat and potatoes offense is really good, I like it.


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[Assistant] But even when you have a good meat and potatoes, you gotta have some other side dishes to keep people honest, right? And that's where I think I felt like they dropped the ball a little bit to some of their stale points where this week, like I said, there's, I would say eight to 10 plays where I go, oh, these are game plan just for this week and it makes their whole offense look better.


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[Assistant] You know, one, it got people off, it gets people off their running game a little bit, and then it gets, now there's six and eight yard passes they like to throw, right, New Orleans Saints style. Right. They're more open and there's just, there's a fear factor in the back end from Cincinnati because they got, whoa, you know, they're attacking us today. We can't just play downhill and aggressive on, on their normal stuff.


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[Assistant] No doubt about it. I mean, Drew Brees, we talked about it on Sunday Night Football a few weeks ago, same thing, when they got a little bit in one of the games where we were talking like, man, just let it go a little bit. You gotta attack.


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[Assistant] I think that's the thing of the game. Now of course, hey, Cincinnati messed up some things early on, right? But either way, it doesn't matter. The first three touchdowns from the Chargers offense were all set up.


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[Assistant] By a big pass play to get them in position to score the touchdown or it actually scored the touchdown. So I think I like that aspect of it. Hey, the other thing I think it just to bring up, you know, and again, I think I would like to say this. I don't look at numbers.


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[Assistant] Pete, I send Pete notes. You leave that to us. And I just go, my eye tells me they threw the ball more down the field in this game than any game all year.


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[Assistant] And then Pete goes, well, you know, he'll come in the meet the room the next morning and actually the numbers back it up. And that's what he tells me. And that makes me feel good. Um, but I think that's a good thing.


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[Assistant] You know, I'd like to see a little bit more trickeration and disguises and then back to our old favorite thing. I'd like to see a little bit more blitz two, drop two, a little bit of that. Not that they need a whole lot of it, almost like the vice versa of like what we're talking about with the chargers. You got a good meat and potatoes.


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[Assistant] We just need a few side dishes to change things up every now and then so a quarterback can't feel so comfortable or an offensive coordinator, uh, but either way I like the Chargers approach in this one big time.


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[Assistant] First drive of the game, right? They're in a running set. It's three receivers, but it's a running set.


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[Assistant] Alright, and you got Herbert underneath center, which I love too. Again, underneath center are some of the best ways to create big plays in the pass game. Alright, so there's that aspect. It's, it's a, it's a,


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[Assistant] Zone coverage, a three deep zone, alright, and of course it's like a match zone, so it's like to your thing where it's gonna look a little bit like man to man on the outside with the corners, alright, and it's a simple play.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's simple. It's gonna be, you know, fake the run to the left. Here comes the backside tight end to pull under and block to make it look like more of the run play itself. You know, we see usually typically, right, like the post route with the deep crosser here, right? We see that a lot. Every week teams run that. Well, instead of just doing that,


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[Assistant] They kinda changed it up and went fake the poles, corner route to Mike Williams, and then Keen and Allen ran the crossing route.


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[Assistant] They're ready to max protect. I mean, give the guy some time and let him read. Let your receivers who are talented work downfield.


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[Assistant] And this is where you can strike and make explosive plays. So you see, he's got pretty good protection, he's got a nice pocket to throw into, and here's the aspect I like about it a lot. Like, and this is to me, again, you gotta have guts to do this a little bit, but this is a real, has real value in the NFL. You see, it's a one on one shot, he's not wide open.


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[Assistant] You know, guys like Mike Williams, back to like what we've always talked about, 50-50 balls aren't really 50-50 balls with a guy like Mike Williams. They're not. It's more like a 70-30 ball.


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[Assistant] And you add that on to the fact that the DB's got his back turned as the ball's in the air. You're gonna like those chances anytime. Either way, it's a perfect throw, right?


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[Assistant] And not like it reinvented the wheel with, oh wow, this is some crazy play.


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[Assistant] But good basics, aggressive and tying together with an offensive play that you run a whole lot. You know what I mean? How many times have we broken down the inside zone?


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[Assistant] I don't know either. And that's where I think the coaching staff's dropped the ball there. That's where, and it added to it, you know, we talked a little last week with my father, right? Chargers are pass protecting. Great.


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[Assistant] They can, they have plenty of talent up front to let these type of plays develop.


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[Assistant] And let him throw the ball down the field. This is more of what we saw from him last year. I think if they add this element to their offense, they're going to be scary. And yes, you're right. It's as easy as it gets. To me, it's very...


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[Assistant] You know, I'm gonna say Tom Brady-ish. Yeaah. That's where Brady doesn't get his credit for his arm all the time too because they're so big and long. They can throw the ball 50 yards and it looks like, to your point, they're throwing a 5 yard pass. Yeaah. And less effort, less moving parts, ball on the money.


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[Assistant] I hope so, because again, you got, with Guyton, Williams, Kane and Allen, all have a little size. Exactly, all have a little speed, not that they're like game breaking speed.


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[Assistant] You know, then too, hey, they're all pretty good route runners too. So hey, let them post corner, corner post, work some double move type aggressive down the field throws. Uh, I really like the way they approach the start of this game.


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[Assistant] You know, with this play, they know the coverage they got here. It's a little bit like a,


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[Assistant] That's involved in like a man-to-man principle here as far as in the slot against Mike Williams, and I'm gonna stand up. Uhm, okay, but you got one, two, three, four. I think they're just letting him match up with Mike Williams. Mike Hilton versus Mike Williams.


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[Assistant] Nothing that is special here, okay. You know, first off, they're really trying to work the out route to Keenan Allen, alright.


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[Assistant] And there's two things I like about this. Again, the aggressive mentality like we're talking about. Not a crazy play. But this is the other thing we're seeing. I just feel like...


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[Assistant] Pittsburgh, ever since the Pittsburgh game, the, the light in his head has gone off to, wait, I'm a really good athlete. Let me run around and move in the pocket a little bit more. I don't need to be always Mr. Big Strong Guy. I'm going to just throw in the pocket or throw over people. He's going to get outside the pocket here. I'm all for that. Buys himself a little time. And again, like you see here,


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[Assistant] Now it basically plays like man to man down the field, and not like this is the most complicated play ever. I'm not trying to say, oh wow, but to me this was not even a part of their offense a lot of the time. It was always, let's be 75% completion percentage. Let's always keep our team in a good downed distance. That's cool, but it's hard like we've talked about.


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[Assistant] To go into the playoffs, play better defenses, and think you're going to go into a 12-play, 70-play drive. Right. Every game. Not gonna happen. At some point, you gotta make some explosive plays, like the Chiefs or the Bucks or, you know, all the other teams we've seen in the Super Bowls over the last few years. Yeah. Because they have that element. Yeah, they can do 12-play, 75, but they don't want to do that every drive. You gotta make some plays.


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[Assistant] Does that bother you at all? Yeah, it doesn't bother me because I haven't seen enough of it to go, oh wait, this is a habit or an issue. Okay. You know, I think here more or less, when he looked at Keenan Allen to his right side here on the little slide out route, you know, I think he was honestly still looking at him.


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[Assistant] You'll see, you know, he's, it is all on Keenan Allen. He's gonna slowly move out here. He's still looking at him. I think he still thinks, wait, this coverage, I should get him. But as we go on here, you're gonna see, and I'm gonna try to pause it right at the right spot here. You know, the safety has driven.


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[Assistant] On, on the, on the out route, right? So that's what leads it, I think to him ultimately going, wait the hell with it, I'm gonna let it go downfield. See, so, so when Keenan Allen comes out,


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[Assistant] Not only does Wilson float underneath it, this safety starts to drive down, and this safety is pushing over, I think his eyes just naturally took him over there.


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[Assistant] And that's what got him to it. But I love it. I do. I love it. And of course, if he got a real man to man type of coverage or something like that, that would probably be his first read to look at this play. So that's again, they're attacking at least. And I think that gives them a fighting chance going into the future.


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[Assistant] Bangle's back, backed off. So now Austin Eckler's catching the ball out of the backfield on drop, you know, little drop passes. I mean, uh, check down passes and he's getting six and eight yards per every time he touches the football. Because you've done this, now you've scared them to death to where, you know, underneath completions, you can start to really gash defenses as well.


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[Assistant] Yeah, 16 to nothing, you know, and again, we're not showing all there. There was another little package of plays I wanted to show too that I thought was cool as far as just game planning. And again, just like we're talking about a few wrinkles to


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[Assistant] To, you know, just spicing up the offense a little. Just make the defense think a little. Here, this, this to me is really cool. Now again, Herbert's gonna get the ball in the shotgun and roll to the right.


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[Assistant] I mean when people see Roll to the Right, I mean they're thinking,


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[Assistant] Wait, cross, maybe cross or here. This guy's gonna run an out route. Something of that nature. Something's gonna be coming across the middle. And they're gonna play to that effect here with the bangles and run, okay, run to the right Justin. And they're gonna make it look like, okay, he's clearing out.


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[Assistant] They're doing all this to hit Keenan Allen on an in-cut, right? And this guy's gonna run his single cut over here, and I can't even remember what he ran. I think he runs a deep out.


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[Assistant] That's what they, so, so the defense sees this route combination and they're going, oh, alright, he's just trying to come over one to two to the backside. But what they do is they throw a little curve ball. As he starts to get down here and kind of go through the inside shoulder of the safety, he breaks through the backside corner. And now,


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[Assistant] This is where the old adage of, hm, arm strength is not important, kinda shows to be important on these plays. Because now, first off, like, yeaah, sorry, the Washington football team's not calling this play with Tyler Heinecke. Alright, there's a handful of quarterbacks, but they're just not calling it. It's never gonna be on their radar, they'll never call it ever in the history of their game.


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[Assistant] It's a pretty good sized receiver, one on one downfield, and this time not even with a corner. It's Jesse Bates of safety, who I think is a hell of a player, not having his best year this year.


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[Assistant] Nonetheless, you take your top three receivers on a safety one-on-one down the field all the time. All the time. So that ends up in a touchdown, and to me that was the difference in the football game as far as, you know, they scored touchdowns.


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[Assistant] It wasn't efficient, oh we got down there, kicked a field goal, or any of that. It was aggressive, we're gonna push the envelope, and it put a lot of pressure on the Bengals defense.


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[Assistant] We were excited about the game plan. They probably realized, wait, why aren't we throwing the ball down the field more? Right. So to get those opportunities, and I would be shocked if it doesn't continue.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, again, I don't have the exact answer. What I would try to tell you by connecting dots a little bit, you got Joe Lombardi who came from the Saints. They're all about efficiency and you know, let's keep our offense in good positions because they believe in their playbook and they believe if you get in second and six or seven,


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[Assistant] They got a great list of plays for that. And if you get them in the third and two, they go, oh, we got you by the balls and we'll be able to do whatever we want. So that's kind of how they believe in New Orleans Joel Lombardi.


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[Assistant] You know, to me, again, it goes back to our old thing with like team building or assessing your own team.


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[Assistant] They definitely do. You know, you know, they're well coached in the pass game. They really are. They do have pass rushers. That's for sure. We talked about the only issue they really got is they can't stop the run. They can't, you know, and they're just, they're undersized in there. Um, the kid, they're, they're Covington. He played good in this game to slow down the run a little bit. Number 95, their defensive tackle.


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[Assistant] They did. They hung in there. You know, and again, where I would argue is just a little bit like where I'd love, I would have loved to have seen this game played a little cleaner, just really, I think we would have got a better feel for each team.


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[Assistant] Hey, the Bengals, before they got warmed up, they were down 16 to nothing. Right. You know, and then they went three and out and it was 24 to nothing. So, they had to get back to the pass. They never really got to like say, okay, we can lean on them with our run game a little bit. The game played out in a favor, in a way that I think favors the Chargers.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna take, you know, again, I know it sounds like I'm making excuses for them right now. Hey, Uchena Nwosu?


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[Assistant] I mean, hey, he beat the, he beat, uh, uh, Jonah Williams at left tackle. Man, mano y mano.


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[Assistant] You know, if there's an issue that I do look at with the Bengals, they're not the best pass protecting team. I really like their offense. I like the way they run the ball. I love the way they tie their play action and bootlegs together. They always take a few shots down the field, like we're talking about with the Chargers.


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[Assistant] Joe Burrow and those receivers, when they got one-on-ones on the outside, they'll take those and throw it. They will.


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[Assistant] You know, between strip sack fumble. Oh, we got a 60 yard bomb down the right sideline to Jamar Chase. What? He tipped the ball up and it got intercepted? You know, there you go right off the bat after a good first drive by the Chargers where you're down 16-0 and you got some issues there.


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[Assistant] I think so. I mean, you know, again, I should ask Pete and I didn't ask him this, but I'd be interested to know, I mean, how much did the Chargers really blitz? I didn't get the sense watching the game that it was crazy. I think they just realized, wait, we got some mismatches here. It's a, it's a kind of a young, still learning offensive line with Cincinnati.


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[Assistant] I think that's the big thing that, you know, I would say about them.


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[Assistant] Two guys on the right side that are, that are young as far as adenogy, and they started, uh, another young kid, uhm, I'm blanking on his name.


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[Assistant] Uh, I gotta look it up either way at right tackle. So they got him, Jonah Williams. Hey, this is his, you know, he's still learning left tackle. Uhm, so yeaah, they got beat just mano a mano, but I don't feel like it was dialing up the pressure that really did it. I just feel like it was Bosa, Tillery and company that, you know, got after their asses.


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[Assistant] They're like, Staley is one of the guys that does what we talk about a lot.


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[Assistant] It's gonna be the illusion of a Blitz. It's a lot of two guys drop out, two guys came.


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[Assistant] There's nothing like we've shown with the great defenses where you go, look at this, I don't know what the hell this is. Exactly right, exactly right. Thank you for getting me back on track there, yes. You got it. Uhm, yeaah, but that, that's something, and, and the Chargers are not that. The Chargers disguise well. The Chargers play defenses where you go, I'm not sure what the hell the coverage is over here, but they got everybody locked up.


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[Assistant] And, uh, that's where they can be a pain in the ass if they get you into the pass game only type of offense.


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[Assistant] I just, I can't imagine the Giants being in a position of power in this one. You know, the offensive course is going to have issues. The Giants, oh wait.


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[Assistant] I mean, you know, again, how do you take advantage of the Chargers defense? You run the ball. Well, the Giants can't run the freaking football. They stink at it.


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[Assistant] So I don't know if they're going to really be able to benefit from that. And now you got Jake Fromm passing the ball against the Chargers who got, you know, good corners, good safeties, athletic middle linebackers and a good pass rush. I mean, I don't like that. And then on the other side of the ball, you know, the Giants are smartly, smartly coached on the defensive side of the ball.


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[Assistant] You know, to me, lack high end talent. Have a lot of good, but there's no one great. And I don't know if that's gonna stop Justin Herbert and company in this showdown.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, you know, and we'll hit on some of this stuff with the 49ers. It is an intriguing game. I do think Cincinnati matches up pretty well with the 49ers as far as, hey, the 49ers, we know their defense is good. We, you and I have talked before already, like, you know, they, they, they can stop the run, right? Their pass defense is good.


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[Assistant] The Bengals, I don't know what the numbers were, Pete, I don't know if you got them by any chance as far as the Bengals outside the numbers, but my eye tells me through the season that if you give me 10 yard outs, if you give 20 yard comebacks, Joe Burrow will throw them, and he threw a phenomenal last week, and I would expect that to continue even with the dislocated pinky.


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[Assistant] Okay. All right. They're taking risks. Yeah, they're taking risks. He's, he's, they're not willing. They're not, they're not afraid. You know, again, and to me, their offense has just continued to expand as the year went on. It is a fun watch. It really is the last three weeks. I've really enjoyed watching them going,


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[Assistant] Wait, here come, they have a zig for every zag without getting too technical. You know, like we showed like, hey, the post crosser, right? You know, that we showed like, uh, everybody runs the post and the crosser.


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[Assistant] They'll run that play, but then a few plays later it'll be the guy stops the post and curls up over the ball like 25 yards downfield and the guy who's supposed to run the crosser, he ran to like where the ball was and then came all the way back out. So they always give you like, you can't just play as to what you've seen. We're going to have something off of that. And I always think that's a huge part.


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[Assistant] Here's the last thing I'll say I think about the Bengals that I just would like to see change a little bit. Because, you know, the, the Chargers with some of their blitz zone change and their pass rush and all that. And we talked about the Bengals, they're not the best pass protecting offensive line.


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[Assistant] Little Max Protect, let our guys work down the field a little. Don't always make it all on Joe to move in the pocket perfectly and feel like, hey, I gotta get this out somewhat on time or I gotta make a move and extend the play. You know, he gets hit a little too much for me still. And yea, keep a tight end in.


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[Assistant] Let Chase and Higgins and Boyd work downfield a little bit and do that. I'd love to see that aspect. That's the only little thing I'll say that's a little bit of a, I don't get why they don't do that more, but other than that,


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[Assistant] Uhm, man, the Bengals offense is really good, and hey, both these teams, you know, they're, they're, they're not out of it by any stretch of the imagination, and I still think the Bengals are gonna be a play.


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[Assistant] I think that's the key, the big thing. You know, again, the 49ers had the little disease again that we've talked about where man, they just, they wanna, they wanna mess things up.


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[Assistant] You know, whether it's, hey, you get a big turnover and then you get a safety, or.


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[Assistant] Well, I throw a ball down the middle of the field, five feet over the head of George Kittle, you know, on a first down, there's no reason. Or throw another first down interception where I run a play action pass and just think, wait, it's been open all year, let me just throw it. And Bobby Wagner hits him right in the belly button. Uhm, so they do that.


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[Assistant] You know, some personal fouls. I mean, you know, it was a little bit of like, I thought the 49ers had gotten these out of their system the last few weeks and it all came back again. And it's not that it was an overly pretty offensive showing from Seattle. No, it wasn't. But every time it was a gotta have a player moment, it was a lot of those. They won those.


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[Assistant] And I think my big issue more than anything would be, and this is going to come up in another game we're going to talk about.


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[Assistant] To me, the 49ers let the Seahawks off the hook with some of their defensive cause. That's what I would say. You got a struggling offense. A quarterback who's not playing his best.


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[Assistant] The offense itself has shown not the scheme to be able to get people open, right? To me, if I get in that type of game...


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[Assistant] And I'm the head coach or anybody in charge of telling anybody like, ooh, I would go, okay, let's just, let's, you know, play good sound defense and make them prove to us they can execute and do offense. Let's, let's limit our times where we play one on one and let them off the hook and now just make it about their player versus our player.


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[Assistant] And Seattle's not scared to do that. They don't do it enough in my opinion, and this game they got back to it a little bit and took advantage of the below average corners we talk about in San Francisco.


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[Assistant] Well, and, and like, to that point, like, 300, yeaah, you're right, 300 yards of offense in 2021 is Jack Diddley shit, no one cares.


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[Assistant] What's that get you right now? Yeah, I'll tell you. I'll tell you where you are. I mean, if you're averaging 300 a game, you are...


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[Assistant] 30th in football, 29th in football, like whoop-dee-doo. And let me just throw in even more to that.


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[Assistant] They put a few ugly drives together, but even on some of the ugly drives, there's two roughing the passer penalties, and, you know, just some stupid crap by the 49ers, who I think were still clearly the better team, but no Debo Samuel, no Fred Warner, and messing up of situational football, yeah, that's how you can lose a game on the road.


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[Assistant] Well, third and 14, you got a pretty good pass rush in San Francisco.


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[Assistant] You're right, it'd probably be 87, 88% of the time, I would think. And then, against an offense that you just said, hasn't had 300 yards since week 6, Russell Wilson's been all over the place throwing the football. It's affecting his decision making. I mean, to me,


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[Assistant] Why are we playing this aggressive man-to-man defense on third and 14? I mean, are we just, is it playing just to not let them get a field goal and not give them the cheap five yards?


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[Assistant] You know, at the end of the day, I don't know. I mean, I'm not gonna put my rookie corner.


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[Assistant] On the freakiest guy in football, bump and run on third and 14.


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[Assistant] I mean, Russell Wilson probably saw this and he was like, oh my gosh, I can't believe this. Oh my gosh, I can't believe this. I'm in the shotgun and they're playing bump and I don't really have to rely on my Shane Waldron offense or anything. I'm just going to be able to throw to a guy and I'm the best, one of the best deep ball throwers the last 10 years in football.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, it's totally single safety man coverage here. Alright, so it's uhm, let me just make sure I got this right. Alright, so you safeties, okay, it's man to man across the board, it's him here, it's him here.


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[Assistant] It's him here, him here, him here, right? There's two safeties back here. You know, one's gonna go down, the other one's gonna go deep. Again, the robber, the rat coverage, whatever. They're, they're obviously thinking something's gonna come across the middle of the field.


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[Assistant] But either way, they're rolling the dice with big DK Metcalf right here, one on one with a rookie corner. Alright, from Oregon.


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[Assistant] And as you see there, boom, there's, you know.


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[Assistant] There's your deep, there's your robber safety in the middle of the field. And as we just keep rolling the tape, there's the deep, the deep safety in Jimmy Warren who are stuck in the middle. They're not going to get there in time for this. They're not. And Russell Wilson, he does a good job of keeping his eyes down the field before he throws over there.


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[Assistant] Right? And he's just trying to keep that safety in the middle of the field so he can make this throw right there. It's not bad coverage. Again, I'm not really mad at the player.


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[Assistant] Definitely. I don't get it. It takes the thinking away. It takes the pressure off the offensive coordinator. You know, for a struggling offense, to me this is like you're saying, hey, get some confidence guys.


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[Assistant] And I'm sure Russell loved this. And again, as the game goes on, I mean almost all the big pass plays have this in common. Almost all of them.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean, again, same thing, third and six. You know, to me, I'm just playing like, let's just keep them to a field goal. You know, same thing. I mean, the Hawks can't run. They don't protect well.


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[Assistant] You know, I wrote, you know, they're almost like the Steelers. They just want to get one on one and play shots. That's how they want to play, like Big Ben. You know, and then, it's, of all games, you've heard me this year, like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, the, the, the, the 49ers play a lot of zone and cover four and they're Seattle three and all that. Where I go, oh, I wish they would play a little bit more man to man at times. This was the game we decided to do it? I, I would have gotten no. Just stick with what you've always done. This game, don't change it now. Not against this team. And it's, again, this is nothing special. It's nothing special at all. But, it's the same coverage, alright?


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[Assistant] It's the same coverage here. It's the same thing we saw. He's coming down to the middle to look for somebody in the middle. They got a safety back here, and you got your three one on ones, and I believe the mug here, the mugging linebacker, is just watching Travis Homer on the backfield. You know, he's just there to eat some space so the center can't, can't go. Alright?


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[Assistant] Uhm, and I might even be wrong. Maybe Hufanga here is actually down here to cover him if he does get out. I could be wrong. It could be wrong. It could be that. It could be that or Robber. I'm not really sure. Uhm, either way, there you go. Pretty. Wow. Beautiful throw.


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[Assistant] Tyler Lockett and Metcalf one-on-one opportunities. And like I said, almost every big pass play in the game came against man-to-man coverage, boom, touchdown, gives them 30 points, and it's game over. I mean, it's game over because the 49ers can't score again after this and don't even get close until that last drive of the game where the batter passed on 4th down.


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[Assistant] No doubt about it. They really were. I mean, he definitely threw the ball better. Okay? Uh, there's no doubt about that. And I think I am wrong. It is. Hufung goes down there to cover the back out of the backfield. And if the back doesn't do anything, then he gets to play rat in the middle of the field there. Uh, but either way, it ends up one-on-one outside and you can see the beautiful throw and catch.


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[Assistant] Yeah, of course not. And I, I mean, again, ehm, well, you look at their schedule. Alright, Cincinnati this week at Cincinnati. Alright, coin flip game. I certainly can see the 49ers winning, right? It's coin flip.


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[Assistant] Okay, then you got the Titans. Be tough football game. But I mean, they can match up with the Titans and beat them. You know, Houston.


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[Assistant] Right? The week after that. So right now we got two more wins, and even if we're not nice, we got two more losses, and we're eight and eight. Alright? And then you got the Rams the last game of the year, where the 49ers have had the Rams number.


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[Assistant] Right? So, I don't know, I mean if they go three and two here down the stretch and they're nine and eight, then that might get you in the playoffs this year.


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[Assistant] Yeaah. No, they're in that position. There's still a lot of talent on their football team. You know, I don't know, maybe this is the team they are. I thought they got this out of their system a little bit. Kinda like I thought Kansas City got drops and dumb interceptions and things out of their system. But maybe we just need to come to terms this is what they are this year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it kills that, it killed that, no Fred Warner, I mean both of those. The 49ers are very dependent on their stars. You know, they really are, maybe more than other teams because their scheme is so based around them.


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[Assistant] And yeah, Shanahan, they got back on the right track cause of Debo and his ability to be a weapon and use them in so many different ways. Um, that yeah, we've seen in the Shanahan era when there's injuries, they have a hard time kind of figuring out ways to win football games.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so yeaah, it hurts them. They need that other extra weapon or, or, or arsenal in their offense because...


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[Assistant] Yeah, Jimmy and the pass offense isn't great. It's not, they're not going to carry the team. It's good enough and certainly good enough when you have all the other things working, the run game, the Debo Samuel run game, all that working, then Jimmy and you can be a damn good football team and play with anybody.


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[Assistant] When they don't have that, yeaah, as you saw, there's some moments of struggling. And the other thing I'll say too.


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[Assistant] You know, one of the things I think was the theme of the weekend a little bit, it was a lot of divisional games. And the one thing as I went back and watched film more and more, I just, you know, you always forget divisional games.


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[Assistant] These teams know how to defend each other a little bit. They know some of the tricks of the trade. They know what these coaches like to do. Wait, I've been coaching against this guy for, you know, twice a year for the last few years. I know what he wants to go to. I know how he's trying to expose me.


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[Assistant] And they've tinkered throughout that process to find ways to wait. Wait, Shanahan in the run game have gashed me.


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[Assistant] Let me find ways that I can't continue to live this way if we're going to play him twice a year. Seattle understands how to defend the Shanahan run game. They understand how to play the back, the cutback lanes and the outside zone in that to where


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[Assistant] That's why I think they've had, Seattle's had San Francisco's 49ers number a little bit. And the fact that they can take away some of the


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[Assistant] Go to runs Shanahan usually delivers in most weeks.


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[Assistant] They take that away and they go, we're gonna make something else beat us. And that's where it always gets interesting and why we see, I think, you know, again, what is it, the Seahawks won four times in a row now against the 49ers? Is that what it is? I think it's four in a row, or five out of the last six, it's something like that. Something on their side. And it's because they have an understanding of that run game.


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[Assistant] You know, this is where I wish Pete could chime in, and I wanted to show some of these plays, uhm, during the podcast, but again, the last few podcasts we've gone like two hours plus, so we're trying to limit the plays a little bit.


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[Assistant] Pete will attest that I showed him a few plays this morning to go, listen, here, Jamal Adams, PFF grades, probably not that great this week.


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[Assistant] Here he is covering George Kittle, man to man, but he's also responsible for the Seagap.


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[Assistant] And it's the 49ers who run at the C gap better than anybody and they fake a run right at the C gap and George Kittle comes out like he's blocking. And of course he's going, wait, this is a great running team. Let me fill the hole. Oh wait. He snuck out and went out. Like that to me is not Jamal Adams fault. That to me is.


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[Assistant] You're putting a guy and expecting him to be Superman. He's still one of the most physically gifted safeties in football, uh, but it does stink about his shoulder and it's the second year in a row that he's dealing with this and that makes me worry about a guy who, you know, is a car crash safety hitter.


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[Assistant] Right, PFF gave him the worst coverage grade. I showed Pete two plays where I'd go, what is he supposed to do? There was at least two plays where I'd go, what do they expect him to do? He's not God or Superman.


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[Assistant] Or Bruce Banner. He's Jamal Adams. He's an awesome safety. But what they've asked him to do at times puts him in the position of like, either he makes the most miraculous play ever, or he's gonna be in a highlight for getting beat by 20 yards.


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[Assistant] Yes, exactly right. We're gonna do all these things because you're so great and we're gonna put you in a really tough spot. And man, you know, you're gonna lose your battles that way.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know. That's why I said it's a coin flip game. That's what you did. It really is. It's a close one. Over under 48.5 points.


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[Assistant] They'll throw the ball outside on one-on-one coverage, but then I also go, they're not the best pass protecting team like we talked about.


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[Assistant] You know, they're a little young there. Riley Reif, I think he's still going to be hurt this week, right Pete? I think. So you were in the 49ers could rush the passer. So for every like positive, I look at one team and go, well, there's a negative also here. And that's where I think it's going to be a fun game at 425 on Sunday afternoon.


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[Assistant] Definitely. It's hard to argue it. I mean, it is. I mean, he played good.


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[Assistant] Now, what I would get into is a little bit what we just talked about with the 49ers and the Seahawks.


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[Assistant] You got a struggling offense. Anybody who's been listening to my podcast this year, you've heard it.


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[Assistant] I mean, Big Ben and that offense, they can only make plays when it's man-to-man coverage and it's Claypool or Deontay Johnson one-on-one. That's the only time. The offense never delivers. You can't trust Big Ben to read things out and make the proper read, you know, and sit in the pocket and do all of that.


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[Assistant] So, you know, the offense not great, Big Ben not playing great, not reading coverage is great. Why would you just take that away and go, let me just make it a one-on-one game? And that's what bothered me about the Ravens in the fourth quarter. You know, same with the 49ers, like why the, we have to be so aggressive here. What? Why?


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[Assistant] And that's to me where the Ravens dropped the ball. As awesome as I think Wink Martindale, the defensive coordinator is, that would be just my critique of like, went for the jugular a few times where I want to go, why? You don't need to go for the jugular. Another cut on the leg here is going to hurt this guy a lot and they're in trouble. You don't need to cut the neck off and the head off right here.


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[Assistant] You don't have to play man. No, you don't have to play man. You know a lot of the best teams are playing blitz and some creative zone coverages behind it.


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[Assistant] Wait, the quarterback's going, wait, what the hell is this coverage? I'm not sure what I'm reading. Oh wait, I forgot they blitzed. Oh, I got hit. Like, that's what you wanna do in those situations.


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[Assistant] They unfortunately get into too much right now of they blitz and they all out blitz with like no safety in the middle of the field and they make it a one on one game. And we've seen teams that understand it or have a quarterback or a system that can


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I mean first off, it's 7-3 at the half, they played somewhat vanilla the whole first half, and Pittsburgh couldn't do anything. They played somewhat vanilla the whole third quarter. Pittsburgh couldn't do anything.


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[Assistant] Couldn't do anything. Like, so why not continue to, you're not a great, they're not a great pass protecting team.


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[Assistant] You know, as far as Pittsburgh's concerned, you know, they're not a great run team. You got a pretty good run stopping defense. You got some big guys there. Like why, why are we going for, it's the third and one.


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[Assistant] We gotta make sure they lose five yards defense. That's where I would just question it. And here, I mean, look at this. And again, this aren't my drawings. I can't remember. Is this a Tony Romo? I think this is Jimmy Tony. Tony Romo, yeaah. Writing on the board here. But yeaah, he sees the plays going. Hey, this is a play Pittsburgh used to do with Antonio Brown.


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[Assistant] You know, it's a cheap way to get explosive plays on short yardage situations. When you think, oh, everyone wants to stop the run. And it is a run formation. It's a run formation, right? The bunch, the Steelers like to just double team, do stuff like this and let him just kind of find a gap and, and smash it in there.


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[Assistant] Now, what I wanna say is like, okay, first off, you've been stopping the run with normal defenses all game long. So why do we have to commit, you know, everybody at the line of scrimmage? Patrick Queen's gonna blitz, you know, and do a run blitz here.


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[Assistant] Why do we have to do it this way? Okay? And here you go, you got Marlon Humphrey off the edge.


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[Assistant] Two, three, four, five, six, seven guys blitzing. And then you got really eight, cause Chuck Clark's gonna get up in there too. And now you just have two mat, two one on one matchups with Anthony Averitt. And I think that might be Jimmy Smith, the other guy. No, it's not Jimmy Smith.


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[Assistant] Uh, it's 21. 21's a young guy. I forget his name. But either way, it's Jimmy Smith up here one on one. And they're gonna do exactly what you see. Slam and deep cross. Well, if you protect it...


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[Assistant] Brandon Stevens is 21, thank you. Either way, okay, if you protect it, you're gonna have a shot to strike down the field. And you can see here, first off, when you blitz this many guys right between the tackles, guys end up in the same gaps.


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[Assistant] Anthony Everett has no chance here. He has no chance. He has to play a little outside leverage in case they ran some toss. He's the outside gap defender, so he's gotta be out there, and now it's a little run fake.


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[Assistant] Claypool takes the inside release and gets on the inside edge and the play's over right there. I mean the play's over. Claypool's 6-4 and runs 4-3. It's over. He's got to step on the guy. Anthony Average really fast too.


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[Assistant] Not as fast or the same fast as Chase Claypool. And here we go. I mean, Steelers offense couldn't do anything. Right. And now you've given them a little momentum to, you know, feel like they're doing okay.


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[Assistant] Hold on. It's my wire. You good? I'm back? I'm back. Yes. This thing's not screwed in. We gotta screw wires in for them to work. So that's not screwed in. Here we go. Everybody got me? Okay. Yes. Here we go.


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[Assistant] Screw you, wire. Alright, so there's that.


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[Assistant] An all-out blitz again. An all-out blitz.


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[Assistant] And this is one where, you know, I'm gonna just go right to the all 22 here so we could, we could watch it, alright, cause we got this, that right after this. Alright, so you see it's all out there, and it's gonna be the touchdown, but this is what I wanna get to right here.


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[Assistant] You know, again, this is, this is a game plan play. They must've felt comfortable about, you know, wait, we got the old four cross look a little bit here. That, whenever you see that, and I know this guy's down here in a bump, but when you see that, you gotta think something's up. And Baltimore's gonna bring the pressure. Guys off the edge, six man pressure.


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[Assistant] And Big Ben does a great job of kind of making Chuck Clark freeze with his pump fake right here because he's free coming off the edge.


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[Assistant] But I think he knows what he's got down the field. He just wants to buy himself one or two seconds. And within this, okay, they're not switching these off, right? So you got here Deontay Johnson post and McLeod running the corner route.


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[Assistant] And they don't switch them off. They play to where, no, you got him on the out route and you got him on the in route no matter what. So you guys better not run into each other. Okay, well, there you go. Here comes the all out blitz.


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[Assistant] And Big Ben does a good job on Chuck Clark just to make him jump, cause he's trying to protect Freermuth in the flat. But, you can see.


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[Assistant] No. And as you watch, they run into each other right here. And it doesn't even matter that they run into each other. The play is already over. There's no safety. He releases inside. What do you want Anthony Everett to do?


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[Assistant] And he can run 4-3-2 and there's no safety in the middle of the field. It's not even close. There's nothing you can do. And I'm sure Anthony Everett got a bad PFF recovery covering grade because of these two plays. And I want to go, Deion Sanders would have got beat on these two plays. This is not fair.


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[Assistant] They're inside the Ravens 10, and I'll just say too, there's two or three plays that were also man-to-man that led to this, and led to the field goal drive before this, to let them go up, or make it 13-12. So, I'm just trying to give everybody again a synopsis of what happened here. But, okay, big pass play. Baltimore. Like, okay, they're on the five yard line.


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[Assistant] Who ca- concede the f- I don't understand the aggressive, like, what's the aggressive all out play gonna really do for them? I mean, you get a sack, it's still a chip shot field goal. Exactly! What's the point? Like to me, the risk is not worth the reward.


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[Assistant] To what, to what end? Like what, oh wow, you made him kick a 7 yard more deeper field goal. Oh, it went from 22 to 28 yards. Oh no. I don't know if they'll be able to make it. I mean, to me, that's where I don't understand the logic here. And, you know, again, it's an all out blitz look.


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[Assistant] It's the Baltimore Ravens Pittsburgh Steelers. Do you think Pittsburgh doesn't understand some of the rules?


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[Assistant] All I gotta do is find my one guy I want on a matchup, and we're good. Or we'll have some route combination to screw them over like we just saw in the last play, where we cross them up. Well this one, you know what they're gonna do? They're gonna fake the cross.


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[Assistant] And Baltimore of course is worried about the cross because they've been beaten by it. So they're going to fake it and they're going to get burned by it because the guy's going to put the brakes on and stop back out. But also here's my other thing to this.


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[Assistant] 13-12, you're conceding the field goal already. Just don't let it be a touchdown.


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[Assistant] Now, okay great, it's 15-13. All Lamar has to do is drive the ball 40 yards for the greatest field goal kicker in the history of football to get him in range, and you're gonna win the game.


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[Assistant] But instead they change it to where we need a touchdown to tie the game two point conversion to win it. That to me, you know, not only am I, you know, again, I really respect the Ravens, so I don't want to ever like, I'm not trying to disrespect their coaches, I'm not.


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[Assistant] This week, it just didn't make sense to me. That's more than fair. And that's to me where it's like, I don't know why, like, why doesn't John Harbaugh just go, hey, you know, drop, let's play coverage. Let's just let them kick the field goal. Let's rush three. We've seen Big Ben all year long when he holds the ball and starts pumping it. He'll throw the ball to the other team. Yeah. For sure.


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[Assistant] They are playing the Ravens and they know them, so they're going, eh, this team, they're gonna blitz everybody. So you got five, six man protection.


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[Assistant] He's staying in, alright. What they do is run the other, the tight end out here, like he looks like he might run some sort of out route or something like that. But what he's really trying to do is just go this way to make sure Marlon Humphrey goes over the top.


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[Assistant] And Deontay Johnson's gonna come underneath, so Marlon Humphrey's worried about, damn, if he runs anything like that coming underneath.


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[Assistant] I gotta get em, cuz we don't switch off in this coverage. So I gotta get over there and be Superman, Bruce Banner, and who's the other guy I said before? God. You gotta be him, all in one thing here. Right? And as you see, watch how it plays out.


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[Assistant] I mean, here it is. Oh, he gets over the top. Great.


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[Assistant] I'm going back out. You're screwed. It's a touchdown. As long as Big Ben can hit the throw and he hits it.


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[Assistant] And unfortunate, that's where Marlon Humphrey tears his pectoral and ends up being done for the year. But again, it's again into a division. We kind of know what you're going to do. We're ready for it. And I just don't understand the over aggressive thought by


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[Assistant] They do get away from their man blocking stuff too much. I think it's a great question by Richard Baggins. It really is. It's not a great O-line. We know that. I don't think they're made for inside or outside zone because they're not great athletes.


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[Assistant] When we've had other Wednesdays and showed their off, we showed I think like them against Denver earlier this year, you know, they're at their best to me when they do pull alignment or they do what I, you know, 34, 35 double where they try to get.


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[Assistant] You know, a double on the nose tackle and one guy goes up to the linebacker. A double on the other tackle and another guy goes up to try to find a second level guy. And then they just let Najee Harris get the ball and come downhill and he's got great vision and change of direction skills.


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[Assistant] To where he can just find the hole and do that. That's what they got going a little bit in the third and fourth quarter to get some positive stuff in the run game. Again, it wasn't special as you can see by the numbers.


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[Assistant] I mean it wasn't a great day running for them, but that gave them a little bit something as far as momentum, chewing up the clock, and the other thing too I think is, you know,


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[Assistant] Baltimore has a little bit of the problem, Pittsburgh does, is they don't have a lot of depth on their front seven.


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[Assistant] So they started, I think just started to wear Baltimore's front out a little bit as the game went on there too. To where that got them some four and six yard runs and late in the third and fourth quarter that gave them some positive, uh, positive plays.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's, we talked about this, I think the, the Bangles game, remember at home earlier this year? I believe it was you with me. The Bangles game, of course we talked, we've talked about the Dolphins Thursday night game.


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[Assistant] They don't have a great understanding of how to beat the Blitz. One, I don't think their plan to beat it is that great offensively. And two, you know, Lamar at times, I don't know if he's doing necessarily the right thing either. So it's a little bit of like two things, meaning it ahead.


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[Assistant] So, wow, I mean that's, shouldn't be having some of these negative plays that they have against the Blitz. And I think teams see that, so they keep going to it, they keep going.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know if Lamar knows what he's doing, or if he's just relying on his legs to get him out of trouble, and I'm not sure necessarily if Greg Roman has a lot of answers either, so nobody's scared to kind of, you know, push the envelope a little bit on these blitzes.


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[Assistant] You know, Blitzing and Lamar's got nobody open or not knowing where they're going. He runs or holds the ball too long. And he fell into TJ Watts' lap, I think, two different times too. It happened more than once. Yeaah. So, so uhm, but yes, it just was an underwhelming effort by Lamar and the offense. I put it on both. I look at Lamar in this game and go,


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[Assistant] We're gonna show some plays where he missed it. I wanted to show some other plays to go also, like,


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[Assistant] The plan itself, and the other ten guys out there. You know, their offensive line's not at full strength. They're, they got backup running backs. They got third and fourth string running backs playing starting running back for them.


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[Assistant] You know, they don't, they never can consistently run the ball throughout a game. They're the most misleading top five running team in the history of football.


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[Assistant] Because of Lamar. Exactly right. A few game plan-designed runs by him and a scramble for 40 yards and you've rushed for 100 yards in a game. And you go, oh, they're a great running team. And I'm gonna go, not when they hand the ball off to the running back.


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[Assistant] Again, they fall apart after the first drive, the first 15, where they have a few little, you know, wrinkles, or the defense is getting used to how to play the Ravens, and after that, it becomes non-existent.


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[Assistant] So I think all of it kind of plays together, and uh, yeah, Lamar did not play his best, but like I said, the offense, and there was a few plays I wanted to show here, but we didn't have great angles of the coverage.


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[Assistant] On like the TV cuts and stuff to go, like look, here he's trying to throw to this guy, but they got four guys around it.


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[Assistant] And that's not helping, let alone he's not helping himself too.


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[Assistant] You know, again, maybe the biggest play of the game, really, when you look back at it.


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[Assistant] It's an all-out blitz look. You know, it's five on five and six, five guys covering five guys, and you got six pass rushers against five blockers. That's all it is. And, you know, again, this has reared its ugly head in Baltimore a lot.


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[Assistant] And what I don't understand here, and you know, and basically what we're gonna do here is, you're gonna have Andrews running the post down the middle, and Hollywood Brown on a shallow cross.


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[Assistant] Okay, against this Blitz. And you're gonna see...


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[Assistant] First off, I don't know why his eyes go over there.


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[Assistant] You can see, and I mean that with like what's over here that's going to be the answer. He's running. If you throw the ball to him, he's going to get hit, right? You know, the route up top.


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[Assistant] You know, again, you can see the route at the top of the screen. He's playing inside leverage. It's an all out blitz. So if he stops or do anything, he's going to be ready to jump it. He's thinking the ball's got to come out quick. Okay. So there's really no answers. I don't understand why he's looking over there. Here comes TJ Watt. I understand that, but what I really want to show everybody is like here.


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[Assistant] This is why this guy's running this route. It's for this right here.


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[Assistant] You know, on this specific play, hey, posts down the middle are good against all out blitz, but not the way they switch release this. It doesn't work out quite the same. In this play, shallow cross versus all out blitz, I can guarantee you since training camp they told you, hey, you get hot, look for your shallow cross, get the ball out of your hand.


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[Assistant] For some reason, he never really gets his eyes to Hollywood Brown. Now he sees TJ Watt bearing down on him, and he tries to make a miss, and...


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[Assistant] It just makes a horrible decision. Horrible.


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[Assistant] Kick a field goal. Kick a field goal. Against a team that we know is struggling on offense. You know? Through a Hail Mary. Just through a Hail Mary. Exactly right. So, you know, that, that of course was a chance for Baltimore to get up, get some momentum. You know, add a few more points on the board. And just a really bad play by Lamar Jackson. Definitely his worst play of the day.


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[Assistant] Quarters coverage, alright? It's quarters, it's third and four, boom, boom, boom, boom.


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[Assistant] Okay, it's going to be over here. Alright, let me just make sure. I want to make sure they don't. Alright, so it's quarters and it's quarters carry. Alright, sorry. So.


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[Assistant] This guy is going to carry the receiver up the seam, but ultimately, this play is the exact call for this defense. It's exactly what you wanted. So with all that, I just talked about hitch, hitch,


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[Assistant] And your number one passing target in Mark Andrews. They're gonna run a jerk route. This is, I mean, this is what you want. This is why you call the play. Alright? And here you go. I mean, here we are now. See? So you got a good feel for everything we got, right? It's quarters across the board.


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[Assistant] There's nothing. He's carrying this guy just in case he tries to run a beater. They're not going to let you run the little, you know, seam vertical beater and cross the face of the safeties and give an issue there. So here you go. You got one on one.


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[Assistant] It's gonna run a little stutter and then come across. He runs a jerk wrap. We call it a jerk wrap because you're supposed to make this guy look like a jerk, alright? And it's because you can do sit down and curl up, you can fake that way and break back out, you can fake out and go back across. He gives a little stutter and


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[Assistant] He's open. I mean, again, this is the NFL, that's open. It's a first down, throw it on him. Didn't even look at him though. Thank you. That's exactly what I don't understand. Like, he looks at him like right, maybe, I don't know if he looks at him there or not. I don't know what he's looking at here. It almost looks like he was looking at this guy thinking, I might get that down the middle of the field.


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[Assistant] Throws it out here to a guy who has nothing to worry about as far as a kilo witherspoon other than this guy because this guy's basically doubled so he's not worried about him at all. Not at all.


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[Assistant] It's him. And watch. When he throws, I want everybody to watch too. So this is just, if you want to throw this ball, you take, get the ball, set hut, take a drop, and you go right to it, right? You don't go, let me look somewhere else and then go late over in the flat to my running back first at corner. That's not, that's a recipe for disaster.


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[Assistant] Watch, watch, I love Mark Andrews. Mark Andrews, his body language here. Cause he's going, wait, this ball's coming to me, I'm gonna get the first down. Everybody watch him right here in the middle of the screen. When the ball doesn't go his way.


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[Assistant] Puts his arm, gives it the old head. I wish you could continue to see it on Coach's film. And if you put me back on camera, I mean, the ball goes incomplete. He turns around and he's like,


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[Assistant] Third down and ten, alright. It's a little bit similar to what we talk about on the first play, alright. It's all out.


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[Assistant] Once again, all out. Again, and what we've learned from all out the last few weeks, right? When you start to see this look as a quarterback right there, the old picket fence, you know, like wait, something's up. Something's up. And of course you see, here's the other seven guys at the line of scrimmage. All coming. They're all coming.


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[Assistant] And, you know, sometimes when you do these seven guys, like we talked about before, guys end up in the same gap to where even though there's only six blockers, they kind of eat each other up. And, you'll see here,


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[Assistant] He's got great pass protection. He's got great pass protection. And within that, this is how they're covering this. This is what, it's also a, it's a good disguise, but you should know this is a quarterback what this means right here. But what they're really doing here, let me just make sure I got it right, it's a man there.


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[Assistant] Alright, did you see him in the cover, the corner of your eye? Right, he's going over there and he's going to end up going down on, on little bit over towards him to cut him off in the shallow cross. Now there's two things here. One, like,


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[Assistant] Why are we leaving the pocket? That's the first thing I want to say. Pocket's good. Like you want to fade away a little bit or do something like that? Sure. But why run out to the right? And the other thing is, like, he has inside leverage on Minka Fitzpatrick.


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[Assistant] With this safety who comes down and you know, you just got to trust me or go watch coach's film on NFL game pass. Trust me, he's here.


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[Assistant] He's gonna break across Minka's face on the post route and if he just fades away like we talked about or just stays on his back foot, you could just throw the ball up and you're gonna get a big play.


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[Assistant] And instead he leaves the pocket too early. You know, now he's trying to make something happen. He actually almost gets a completion here, unbelievably. Oh, but here we go. I forgot we had this angle. All right. So now you don't have to believe me. You can just see it for yourself. Here we go. Look, see what I mean? He's here.


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[Assistant] Pockets still clean. Just hang in there and you're going to be able to throw this. Look, you don't have to worry about him because his bright lights are all over that guy. Just,


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[Assistant] I know, that's what I mean. Look, and this is what this route's for. Again, I've been coached by too many people, whether it's Josh McDaniels or John Gruden, whoever, this is what that route is there for.


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[Assistant] You wanna be able to, okay, the pocket's good, cut to me on camera if you can. Pocket's good, alright, I know they're coming, it's an all out blitz.


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[Assistant] That's all you gotta do. That's all you gotta do.


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[Assistant] Right, right. I think so. I think you just, at times yeaah, you get that and you predetermine and think, ah, they're not going to be able to protect me here. You know, but, he looks at the rush,


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[Assistant] And looks like he has like, he sees like nobody's there, I mean I don't know, I just, I'm surprised he left.


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[Assistant] That's right, it's like, Derek Carr did it to the Ravens, week one, I think two different times, just the same type of thing.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was, uh, no, it was at home in Vegas. But Derek Carr, Derek Carr threw a deep post against the Steelers, too, you're right, but it wasn't against All Out. Okay. You're right. But we did, we talked about that play. Good memory by you for a 50 year old.


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[Assistant] But, but this, this to me, they're gonna continue to see this. Because they just seem to screw it up every week.


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[Assistant] Great call, great call. And to add to it, hey of course TJ Watt makes things ugly and tough here, right?


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[Assistant] Now, Pittsburgh's smart. They're not gonna do, like, what Seattle does to Jamal Adams and always put their guys in, like, just an unwinnable position, right? So, within this, right, he's gonna give it a little run fake, alright? Andrews is gonna come out


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[Assistant] Too well coached on defense to go, that's realistic to ask this guy to go over there and cover him. Because of course if they run anything like this, right?


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[Assistant] He's gonna get picked and it's gonna be a slam dunk completion. So what they do is they have a call and it ends up being, if this guy crosses the formation, Devin Bush is the one that's gonna be responsible for getting him. Now he messes up.


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[Assistant] He doesn't get it, and that's why you're gonna see Mark Andrews wide open. Alright? But you'll see the reaction after to show you. You know, yeaah, he's worried about the run. You get that, right?


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[Assistant] So boom, and that, this is, I mean of course, this is the guy that makes the play, cause he didn't bite on the run fake at all.


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[Assistant] At all. And he knows he doesn't have to because he probably knows we got the blitz frontside. I'm just gonna let those guys run after the running back. I'm gonna take Lamar unless they do some quarterback, quarterback play or quarterback run. And that pressure, of course look, I mean Lamar's not expecting, he's like, oh my gosh, gets the ball.


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[Assistant] Just misses the throw. I mean, just misses it. And look, here we got Devon Bush running, right? And I want to, I want, I want, I hope we can see it on here. Because Edmunds turns around and Bush is like, oh gosh, cause they're, and they talk like, dude, you, that was you.


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[Assistant] And you know, Devin Bush is a little bit like, thank you for saving my ass, holy crap, I almost became the bad guy. But yes, you know, all in all, it was his job to see this guy come across, and he's gotta be in the flat, because again, you can't realistically ask him to cover across the field like that. And missed opportunity by the Ravens, you know, again.


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[Assistant] That's what that is. He got in the way. He's the reason the ball was off target. Lamar had to get it off quicker than he wanted to. So great job by him.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, I'd be fist bumping my way off the show if that happens.


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[Assistant] Yep. Toss, crack. Hey, anybody? You guys have been watching, uh, Chris Sims Unbuttoned presented by Under Armour. We talked about this a few weeks ago. Yes, yeaah. You know, the Patriots, the 49ers are the best toss, crack teams in all of football.


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[Assistant] They are. You know, they got great ways to stress you out with the outside run or the inside run. You know, just like we've talked about with San Francisco, you overplay one, they got an answer and go, okay, well, here comes this then you're overplaying that. All right. So, you know, again, we got to be patient with me here.


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[Assistant] The bills, they're not real big up front, alright.


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[Assistant] So, within that, and their linebackers aren't real huge either, they try to create a little chaos in their run game, alright, and they make, they want movement, you know, a little controlled chaos, mess up the blocking scheme, you know, hopefully that can help us out for not being the biggest football team in the NFL.


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[Assistant] Alright, so really what we got here, and I hope I get this right, you got


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[Assistant] This is Lota Lele, I believe, I could be wrong. They're trying to do a little like slant here, slant with the, the demons line. He's going to want to be responsible for this gap right here, okay?


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[Assistant] That's gonna make Edmonds be responsible for that gap.


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[Assistant] Milano responsible for that gap. This guy's also slanting this way, which is gonna make this guy be responsible for that gap. So that makes sense there? We're running the toss this way, you're gonna get the block down by Nikhil Harry, you're gonna get the pulling lineman around the edge, right? All of that.


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[Assistant] Okay, but they're trying to create some advantages with their athleticism up front because they know they're not big enough.


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[Assistant] So basically where every defender's defense alignment is leaving, the linebacker's got his back, right? Oh yea, you got there, I'm going back over to replace you there. Okay, you're going to this one, and I'm going to replace you right here down the middle. Alright, the key to this play is this right here. Matt Milano. And this is tough.


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[Assistant] It's really tough sledding. I mean, this is ultimately his gap that shoots, gets the touchdown.


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[Assistant] Okay, but also when you've seen a team on film,


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[Assistant] Run the toss crack and get outside and just burn everybody. What is that? I mean it makes guys want to get out there and get out there and stop it.


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[Assistant] You know, you're not thinking about, wait, they're tossing it out there, let me slow down because the guy might put on the brakes and cut back 10 yards the wrong way to hit an alley for the touchdown. It's tough. It really is. I mean, it's his fault.


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[Assistant] So as we go, there we go. We got the toss cracker. You see the block down. Here's 53 replacing. You see Edmonds there. Now this is where it goes wrong. Okay, I'm gonna clear this one more time.


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[Assistant] Clear. It goes wrong right here. See, he's in his gap, Milano. He's in his gap. But he sees the toss, so he wants to get over there and get out there, right?


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[Assistant] Cross the face, let me help out in case this thing hits up here so I can make a tackle. But what do we got working here?


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[Assistant] You see? So now, he's worked so hard to get over the top, and they're getting so good at running this play, they know people are taking away this, the outside. He's patient and looks for the cutback lane. And look at Matt Milano. He's screwed. He's screwed.


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[Assistant] And that means touchdown, right? And again, it's his fault, I know that, but it is really tough to be that disciplined, to play that back, that cutback lane on a toss action to the left side where you know they're very good and they get a lot of yards playing it this way.


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[Assistant] Great read. Awesome. You know, it goes into our like inside outside zone talk, right, where you gotta press the edge because it opens up those cut back lanes and hey, yeaah, they'd like, you know, some backside pursuit.


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[Assistant] To get there too. You know, and I think I'm wrong. This is Harrison Phillips. I think I said it was Loto Lele. Like hey, can you, can you get over there? Can, can somebody else get over there? Gregory Rousseau to help out?


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[Assistant] You know, that's the other thing, but yeaah, they all get walled off, you can see. They get walled off by Brown, the extra lineman Owen Yehue, uh, or the Michigan second year guy, right? So there's that, and boom, out the gate.


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[Assistant] He's gone, exactly right. See, so basically what we're saying is...


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[Assistant] He's gotta stay here, alright? He's gotta be over here. Don't worry about being so aggressive over the top. You got Micah Hyde who's gonna be here to clean up the trash, right? So, that's where...


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[Assistant] Six running plays, and they mastered them. In every defensive front you can possibly go against. And they always block it the right way, even when you try to slant or create chaos.


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[Assistant] Did he want me to answer a question there? You know?


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[Assistant] You know, the Patriots, of course, are the greatest of managing situations in the history of football. I mean, nobody's better than that.


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[Assistant] Their run game is an advantage against it, like we talked about. It's why I picked them to win the game, not that I, you know, was...


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[Assistant] You know, so confident, but it felt good because like what I've said leading up to the game, the Bills are not big up front.


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[Assistant] You know, teams like the Colts, teams like the Tennessee Titans, when they had a woe, my gosh, we're gonna get overpowered, we have to really commit to stopping the run.


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[Assistant] You know, it just becomes too much. It usually lends itself to some easy passes in the pass game. And that's where I go. At first I went, wait.


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[Assistant] You know, the wind is more of a detriment to Buffalo, but as the game went on, I went, wow, with the fact that they're running the ball, if they could throw the ball right now, they would gash Buffalo. I mean, Buffalo couldn't stop the run knowing they were going to run the ball and had 10 guys basically in the box. It was incredible, wasn't it? They still couldn't stop it.


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[Assistant] Right, and that's because again, the...


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[Assistant] They have checks and balances. Oh, you're going to play the toss crack too aggressively? Well of course we're going to teach our running back to be patient. Or if you start playing it that way.


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[Assistant] We'll, we'll have some play where we'll trap the inside and now that you're so worried about protecting the outside, we'll basically create a hole up the middle. So they have answers for everything for when you're overplaying it. That's what they do so special. And, and then of course their defense is special.


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[Assistant] I mean, again, I don't know where, is it third, they're third in football right now, it's the best defense in football. I don't give a shit what the stats say, there's no defense better, of course they're the number one scoring defense, and that's where they're really good, and when you don't have to worry about a run game with Buffalo, and you just have to worry about the pass, yea, advantage Patriots.


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[Assistant] That's right. Oh no, no DBs are coached better in football than the Patriot DBs. Let alone they have a ton of them and they're versatile and all that they can do. And I'm glad because I've said this other places and I haven't got a chance to say it on my damn podcast here.


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[Assistant] As amazing as it was that the Patriots only threw the ball three times and won. It was equally as amazing as, wait, one team doesn't even want to throw the ball into the wind, kick a field goal into the wind, or even punt the ball into the wind.


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[Assistant] We gotta let our guy just throw it. And he threw it right through the wind.


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[Assistant] The 50 yard bomb that Diggs dropped in the end zone. The play at the end of the game on the fourth down when he runs to the right, or no, it's the third down play. He runs to the right and throws it to Dawson Knox in the end zone. The ball got knocked down. But yeah, great play. 30 yard throw into Hurricane Wind.


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[Assistant] Oh, no big deal. It's Josh Allen. Don't worry. He'll just throw it right through it. It's very special. I hope everybody realizes it. And again, you'll see that they're too Josh Allen centric. There's no other way they can win games. He's got to run, he's got to throw, he's got to do everything.


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[Assistant] Ohhhh baby. I love it, I love it, I love it. Alright, so here we go. Oops, I'm rolled up on the cord.


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[Assistant] Kind of a staple play for a number of teams in this situation and a gotta have it.


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[Assistant] Right? You're gonna run this guy down the middle to take away this guy.


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[Assistant] Right? They're going to run this guy down the middle to kind of take away this guy. Also within doing that, of course these guys start to cheat over.


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[Assistant] What they teach him to do is, you know, inside shoulder at this safety and just try to, in the corner, excuse me, Dancer, and try to find a spot right here to where golf will hit, you know, as soon as he sees you making your break.


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[Assistant] That we could throw it low in the end zone and give you a spot.


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[Assistant] Here's the problem with the play. You know, there's two things. And again, it's, it's a great throw. It's great anticipation by Jared Goff to kind of feel it as soon as he's coming out of the break. Almond Ross A. Brown at first didn't even look like he was really ready for the ball. Watch him down here. Watch him down here. I mean, he looks like he's shocked when he sees the ball coming. At least he did to me. Like, oh gosh, it's here. Like, yes, it's here. And to me, this is where the play was, was messed up.


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[Assistant] One, like, stop backing up so far, Dansler, right? Stop. At some point, you know, make him run into you or be right here to where there's gonna be some contact, he's gonna run into you, whatever.


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[Assistant] You're not gonna throw the go route at this point behind you, okay? So do something there, but really where it all gets messed up is right here. That, that,


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[Assistant] And as you'll see, he gets pinned and now there's no underneath coverage, right? So that's where the play went wrong. And he just did not need to do it.


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[Assistant] Too deep. Right, that's what I was saying, like, you know, a dancer at some point, like, first off to where you, where you, uhm, where you lined up,


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[Assistant] Okay, at some point, hey, he's going back a little. Okay, that's fine, but like, how much farther are we gonna go back? Like, he's still in the back, like, I'm gonna protect the go route here as golf is gearing up to throw the football.


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[Assistant] You know, so that to me is where the real mistake is made between him and I'm blanking on 24. That is Mackenzie Alexander, okay. Uh, yeaah, it's those two guys where they just don't challenge it. But I think more of it is actually


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[Assistant] You know, it's like a, this is like a de facto quarters coverage, right? These guys are kind of responsible for this area right there. And Mackenzie got smushed in there to where it just leaves a huge gap. And again, like I like to say here is like,


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[Assistant] You know, imagine if he now is on the outside shoulder and just sitting right here, right? He's sitting here, boom, he's gonna intercept it, he's gonna knock it down, whatever, but the fact that he got pinned inside by the receiver, that is really what caused the open hole for Jared Goff. Nice little end of the play, end of the game play.


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[Assistant] I did the show play, it's, it's a Drew Brees, when he saw the play he goes, oh that would have been the play we would have called if I was with Sean Payton.


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[Assistant] You know, I know we had that play, I wanna say Josh McDaniels, you got one player from the 12 yard line, you gotta have it, right? Those are the kind of things you dial up because you're gonna see that type of coverage more times than not. Just that umbrella type defense, and there they got that guy pinned in and it was all over.


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[Assistant] Paulie, you the man. Way to drive the ship. Thank you buddy. Paulie's got a Zoom meeting he's got to get to. We've gone too long once again. That's what we do here on Chris Sims on Button, presented by Under Armour. Uh, Thursday, Chris Sims, PFTPM, Collaboration Picks Podcast.


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[Assistant] Florian and I have been pretty good with our best bets lately. How good? Uh, I mean, two in one, number of weeks in a row here, so we'll see. I mean, we're, we're 66%, right? Picking, picking our three best bets of the week. So, uh, we'll see if that can continue. Please check that out. As always, thank you to Under Armour. That's it. Peace out. Enjoy the rest of your week. We'll see ya.


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[Assistant] Throw it underneath and get onto the next play and make sure we have five or six and play it that way. Teams want to make us, they want, everybody's trying to take that away and we know that. So it's gonna be hard to get down the field.


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[Assistant] Chris, how are you doing? I'm well. Well, we're playing an away game, in honor of the great performances by the away team. Right. In all but one of the games, all but one of the pills, that was a great performance in Kansas City, even though they didn't win. We're gonna play an away game here, yeah, uh, it's a different spot because they shipped our desk to the Super Bowl. It was like, our desk is in LA before we are.


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[Assistant] Oh, see now if you're watching on YouTube or on Peacock, you see that Chris has full control of the lights with his feet. So all he's gotta do is he's gotta move his foot in another direction. That's alright.


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[Assistant] The game of the century, which we say that a lot in a lot of different respects, but I mean, this one was incredible.


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[Assistant] Was that good? But I guess apparently, you know, obviously, uh, Chiefs beat the Bills 42-36. Yeah, both guys go well over 300 yards. Four touchdowns for Josh Allen, three for Patrick Mahomes. They both led their teams in rushing as well.


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[Assistant] No interceptions. I think it was the first such game that we've ever seen in the playoffs, and then they both got it. It may have been the first time we've seen that in the regular season, too, where they've thrown for that many yards, that many touchdowns, no interceptions. I believe so. It just, like you said, almost perfect performances from both quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] That ended in overtime that a lot of people are, uh, are upset about. We'll talk about that in a second here. Uh, but here are the numbers for, for both those guys. They were awesome. It was amazing. 25 points in the final two minutes. That's a playoff record.


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[Assistant] And then Kristen, I think we have the win probability graphic that, uh, you probably have seen if you've been on Twitter. It's like a, uh, a heart meter. And that was all of our, that was our hearts at the end of the game. We're like, oh my God, I'm going to die.


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[Assistant] I think we have a photo of the passing chart for both these quarterbacks here in this game. It just showed a high level of difficulty for each of these.


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[Assistant] You know, there's some times where Patrick Mahomes had to dink and dunk and he had to do his fair share of that again, but he's going down the field and Josh Allen certainly going downfield, but real Brandon Lake says damn okay to Patrick Mahomes for all the struggles him and his team went through this season. He showed up clutch in the biggest moments of that Bills game. That sidearm throw that he made to Tyreek in the first quarter was, that was insane.


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[Assistant] Do you feel like with Alan that you're like the guy who liked the indie band and now everyone's jumping on the bandwagon and you're like, I was here first. I was here first with Josh Allen and now you've got competition in the world.