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[Assistant] They rip off a 20-yard pass play, then they go back to 2 yards, 2 yards, 2 yards, 2 yards, and it does nothing. And then they settle for a 49-yard field goal. Whoa! They're exposed to plays like don't hold water. There's no merit to them.


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[Assistant] You know, there's no, there's a difference between, wait, we dink and dunk, we dink and dunk, we dink and dunk, we dink and dunk, and now everybody's in the line of scrimmage. Oh, and we threw a fade down the sideline for 30 yards. Whoopty can do.


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[Assistant] So, that doesn't mean Jack Diddley shit, alright? I know, I'm sick of like everybody just looking at numbers and going, the numbers say it, they don't lie. No, numbers do lie. This is a more complicated formula than just that.


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[Assistant] Really good explosive aggressive offenses are always calling plays to push the envelope, be aggressive. And the quarterback, I'm gonna be aggressive, okay, it's not there, they took it away. And then you throw it underneath. That's how you keep pressure on teams. The, the Packers, how many weeks in a row am I gonna say this? You know? Man, oh, we're in control of the game.


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[Assistant] So that's my issue with them and that's why they get these type of games right here.


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[Assistant] Well, and to that point, I'm great you brought that up, because look at the, we talked about this on the post game show a little bit.


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[Assistant] Their answer to go down the field is like, all right, they're playing man to man. Let's just throw a go route. He'll hit the bullseye from 55 yards away again. Like it's the, you know, the Packers Patriots game. That was their answer to run straight and the greatest thrower ever will just drop it in your pocket.


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[Assistant] Like, that's their answer, and that's just not good enough. It's not gonna get it done against the good teams in football.


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[Assistant] It's not, there's gotta be like, wait, we're designing plays so Rogers can hit a 35 yard crosser or a 45 yard post route and all that, but there's not, it's just dink and dunk, dink and dunk. Hey, they're all over our dink and dunk. So let's just send the guy down the field straight line.


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[Assistant] Woah. Good thing we came up with that this week. We made dubs, daubs run straight. I got paid 30 million dollars as an offensive coach and he ran straight. Woah. Like come up with something else that drives me fucking crazy as you can tell.


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[Assistant] I don't know what it is either. I don't know if they felt like the Giants' front was big, and they felt like, I would guess that was it. Giants' front's kind of big, they probably felt like Aaron Jones' speed element would be a little bit annoying and an element for them, and they wanted to keep him in the pass game, you know, but uhm,


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, I don't know, they kind of just lost their rhythm as a football team.


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[Assistant] And the Giants took away some of the dink and dunk when they got down, you know, 17-3 and 17-10. And then all of a sudden it was, wait, we got a lot of guys at the line of scrimmage, we're big there already. And now, okay, what are you going to have to do? You're going to have to push the envelope, push the ball down the football field.


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[Assistant] You know, Rodgers doesn't want to do that and the offense doesn't want to do that. And again, they're good, the Packers. And they're going to be in the thick of things. But I just, when I look at them right now, I go, there's no way you're going to win the Super Bowl continuing to play like this. There's no way.


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[Assistant] They can replicate. Listen, I wouldn't be shocked if it went that way. I really wouldn't be. Again, we understand, I think this is the surprise of the league. This is the surprise of the league.


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[Assistant] You know, I know people go, New York football, right? I would really go, the Jets are probably more talented than the Giants. They are. But...


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[Assistant] But the way Dayball has managed games, their schedule has been a little more, you know, you know, favorite, favorable to them.


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[Assistant] Uh, they're just, they're playing the right way. And that's what's awesome about football. You coach the right way. You got the right game plan on that week. You don't mess it up. That team messes it up. Yep. You could be the worst team, you know, 80 days in a row, but that one day things went your way. And that's the Giants seem to have that magic right now.


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[Assistant] Really, if this continues, he should be in the leader house, really.


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[Assistant] Thank you. Well, hey, G-Dub, I gave Elijah Vera Tucker some love on the pregame show last night. I brought him up when we talk about the young studs of the New York Jets.


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[Assistant] And Elijah Verretuckers their best offense lineman. He moves around, he can play guard or tackle at a pretty high level. To your point, G-Dub. I'm with you there.


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[Assistant] You know, and then of course we know, Garrett Wilson, Breece Hall.


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[Assistant] Elijah Moore, I mean, there's a lot of things to be excited about if you're a New York Jets football fan. Michael Carter, the backup, or starting runner, I don't know which one starts or whatever, who gives a shit? They're both good. You know, Sauce Gardner on that side of the ball, got linebackers that fly around.


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[Assistant] You know, Whitehead, I think he's a heat-seeking missile, uh, at safety.


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[Assistant] We know the defensive line's got a little, you know, size and speed to go with it. I think the Jets are a lot, are very fun to watch. I do. And again,


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[Assistant] First off, that was a bad call on the safety with Teddy Bridgewater. That should not have been a safety. It was not intentional grounding. So that was a bad call. They didn't deserve to be, you know, off to a 2-0 lead.


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[Assistant] You know, having said that and talking about the Jets, and I know it was the third string quarterback, listen, that was going to be a dangerous game with Teddy Bridgewater. The Dolphins are super talented. They're super talented. I don't give a shit who's that quarterback. They make the game easy for the quarterback. They do. You know, again, that's what I was trying to explain to people a little bit here.


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[Assistant] He did a good job. He put some drives together, you know, but rarely did he have to really have to make a big throw or anything like that. You know, that's what they're awesome at. They can run the ball and then, whoa, Tyree Keard waddle over there. Tyree Keard waddle over there. We only threw the ball four or five yards down the field, but it stresses you out and you know.


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[Assistant] And the game was never really the same. They scored a touchdown. I'm, I'm going to double check this just as I sit here because I'm, I'm pretty sure I'm right, but I just want to make sure I'm, I am right.


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[Assistant] They have some legitimate people to be scared of, and then when you have a quarterback who's got an arm like that, and really makes you defend the whole field, the thing I love about, you know, the Jets too, like they throw the ball outside the numbers down the field. They, oh Zach, 20 yard out route, it's there, they're giving it to us. Boom, let's throw it.


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[Assistant] You know, so that, that's, that's what's cool. You're right. I think there's a lot to look forward. And I don't even think they're close to kind of hitting on all cylinders yet. That's where you could be excited about the New York Jets. I mean, it's only the second game for Zach Wilson here. And damn, it's the Dolphins defense. Nobody was, the Dolphins defense was pretty healthy yesterday.


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[Assistant] He might about double check that. I'm not sure for sure. We're double checking. Pete's all over it. But either way, it was... I think he might have been out. 1917. Missed field goal. Alright.


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[Assistant] They go down, seven play drive, he hit a deep out rat to Corey Davis, that kind of put them in a good position. They score a touchdown with Michael Carter. Then, defense makes a play, right? Carl Lawson gets the strip sack fumbled, so touchdown again, now it's 33-17, alright? Miami,


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[Assistant] Now they're, they're a little bit desperate. They have fourth and one on their own 34 yard line. They go for it. Right? Down 16 in the fourth quarter. And that's where, uhm, you know, the Jets really put it away. And, and really, uh, that was the Brax and Barrios touchdown that ended it. But I'm excited about what the Jets can bring to the table.


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[Assistant] No, I know, I think when you add him, you know, Shaq Lawson, Quinnon,


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[Assistant] Jonathan Franklin Myers, who's like a huge strong side defense end slash defense tackle. The Jets have the ability to get big.


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[Assistant] And play the run and do that and they got some guys that can get after the passer for sure.


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[Assistant] So uhm, yeaah. Big time win for them. Big time. I know it was a third string quarterback, but either way, for a young team trying to build, you know, culture, chemistry, all those type of things, here's the jets. Three and two, and that's what you need as a young team. A little confidence early on in the season, and now they can build on that and maybe start to believe in themselves that they can play with anybody.


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[Assistant] Hey, we figured something out about the Jaguars. Here's the special confidential folder. Right? Oh wait, it's the, it's the, it's the, it's the idiot Urban Meyer Jaguars and now it's the smart Doug Peterson Jaguars. What, he got a file of it? I don't know. It's just amazing. It's just one of those things. Their uniforms make it impossible for them to stop this. I mean, it is kind of like, it is odd. And, uh, I have a hard time


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[Assistant] Figuring out what exactly happened here. Jacksonville was controlling this football game. When I was watching it, you know, to your point with the stats, and I know stats don't say everything,


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[Assistant] Man, it just seemed like the Texans were hanging on and, okay, moving the ball between the 40s a little bit, right? And like, okay, in that area, where Jacksonville seemed to be moving the ball into dangerous territory, always kind of put something together every drive, right? But, I mean, he missed some throws.


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[Assistant] 0 for 3 in the red zone, where the Jaguars are.


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[Assistant] Okay, so there you go. Right. I know there was a few fourth downs, you know, where they were kind of fringe field goal territory and all that, where they went for it and didn't get it. You know, so that's, that's something I need to go back and look at. But like, yea, definitely one of those games where I came, was watching going, Jacksonville is clearly the better team. Like, you could see that on the field.


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[Assistant] The Texans are another one of those teams that kind of know who they are, they manage the game the right way, and when they don't make mistakes, you know, they don't let up a lot of big plays and they just wait, ooh, you made a mistake, uh oh, now we're in a game. And, you know, the interception you spoke of with Trevor Lawrence to me was the play of the game. That was where


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[Assistant] You know, again, not that this was front and center of my attention yesterday, but as I'm sitting there watching other games and paying attention to Jacksonville, I'm going alright, here goes Jacksonville. They're finally going to take control and put the Texans in a bad spot.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, I know, I know. I love the bravado there. That's what corners are supposed to do. Taking it back! Yeaah, he's going D on prime time. But Stingley's been really damn good too. That's one guy that, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, it looks like I'm going to be wrong about that evaluation in the draft for sure. He's looks like the guy that was a freshman at LSU, really. I've been very impressed with him. But yeah, that was a disappointing win or loss for the Jacksonville Jaguars. I do think they're a better football team than that. I think they showed their youth and


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[Assistant] Baylish, they're one of those teams, I think, that we would classify under. They're missing sizzle. That's really what, I mean, there's a lot of depth. There's a lot of B-plus players on the roster. They don't have guys that can go like a Saquon above and beyond always. There's not enough of them on both sides of the ball. Alright? But Damian Pierce is one of those guys, for sure. I mean, he's...


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[Assistant] He's a bulldozer. That was the run of the day yesterday, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, he does not. I mean, that's why he was fun to watch in Florida. People were ducking to get out of the way.


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[Assistant] Uh, because he brings it. He really does. He brings a physical nature to their football team. But yea, that was a good win for the Texans. Good for them. They get off the schneid, get their first one of the year. I don't think wins are going to be something that we consistently see from that football team for sure. And, you know, it's a thing I do. I want to go back and watch a little bit with Jacksonville and just Doug Peterson. And were they too much in going forward on fourth down? You know, they have had that


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[Assistant] That issue, he's had that issue in the past before. And, uh, I do, I do just wonder that a little bit.


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[Assistant] They need him to stay healthy. They need that from him. You know, it just, it takes a little pressure off of him. I mean him as in Josh Allen and Diggs. That's for sure. They need, you know, you've heard me say this really for two years. They need that one other guy.


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[Assistant] You know, again, we're talking about a team that's Super Bowl caliber. That can just make some plays, you know, above and beyond. It seems to be our phrase of the day here. But, but, I mean...


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[Assistant] You're playing Madden on the lowest level of the game. Like, I'm gonna put it on to where they're slow, and it's like, what did they used to call that? Like, beginner? I think it's beginner on Madden, when you can change the level of play against the computer. Maybe rookie, Pete's saying. It might be. Yea. It was like he was playing against a rookie defense, and Madden was like,


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah. They don't adjust to the post down the middle ever, so we'll just keep hitting it. But, uhm, yeaah, Gabe Davis, awesome.


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[Assistant] 98-yard touchdown pass into the wind. I mean, the announcers are making a deal about the wind before the game starts and how going one way is gonna be tough. Not for Josh Allen and Buffalo. He just throws it right through it. And then on that deep pass play that I know you and I talked about last night, the more amazing thing, the 98-yard touchdown, was they double-teamed them.


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[Assistant] And he ran, it's like they expected him to run like a 15 or 20 yard curl, something intermediate. And it was one of those where he went right between them and they both kind of looked at each other and was like, wait, he's going by us. And that was that. And, uh, I just thought it was a...


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[Assistant] You know, their defense, the way the Bills played, not 100%, and then to just come out, and I, you know, I know Pittsburgh's not like the Pittsburgh defense we're accustomed to seeing, but they're still a pain in the ass and got playmakers, and they just absolutely shred them apart that way, and that was, that was pretty unbelievable. It really was.


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[Assistant] No. Do you want that job? I don't want to deal with that right now. Sorry, I'm too happy hanging out with my man here.


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[Assistant] You know, they're gonna have to figure out how they want to play. And this is where, you know, I know I asked you last week or I brought this up on the podcast on Wednesday, right? I wondered if they would maybe like...


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[Assistant] Just go, hey, let's get in the shotgun and let Kenny Pickett throw it every play. A little bit like Pitt.


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[Assistant] And I'm not so sure after watching yesterday that that legitimately is not their best way to play.


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[Assistant] There still seem to be banging their head against a wall of, we're gonna be balanced and run the ball and do that kind of shit early in the football game. 11 carries for Najee Harris, 20 yards. Yeaah. They're not, it's not gonna change. They're not gonna be able to do anything ever, running the ball.


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[Assistant] You know, for the skilled positions to really show themselves when you're so overmatched up front to that capacity. You know, I mean again, the Bills pushed a pocket, Kenny Pickett was...


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[Assistant] You know, people around them getting hit a lot early on in the football game.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm not, I'm just not so sure about their approach. They might need to realize what they are for this year. And then they're not Pittsburgh of the past where they can go, we're going to run the ball and our defense will keep us in it and we'll just out hit you. And at some point you'll fumble cause we'll out hit you and we'll win the game some ugly way. I almost feel like they got to go to spread it out, let him dink and dunk.


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[Assistant] Dink and dunk, make the right decisions, put the ball on the money, control the clock that way to a degree, wide receiver screens, and


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[Assistant] You know, the occasional, okay, now they're playing us up in our face because we're throwing the ball short. I almost feel like they're going to have to do something like that because they're trying to run the ball early and create some balance and control the line of scrimmage. I feel like they fall into that trap too much. And then I go, we're in the second quarter and the offense hasn't gotten a rhythm yet because we're still worried about, we're going to run the ball up the middle with Najee.


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[Assistant] So that would be one thing that jumps out to me about Pittsburgh, and the defense is not going to get much better. They're just...


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[Assistant] They're not incredibly talented on that side of the ball. Especially without PJ Watt.


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[Assistant] No, I'm not totally shocked. It just looks like they've gotten to a point where...


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's, there's no silver lining about them.


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[Assistant] I know there's not. And unfortunately, the biggest problem for Matt Ruhl has been the inability to find the right guy to run the offense. And I feel bad for Baker Mayfield. You heard me say that probably a few times yesterday because I just go, he's got no chance.


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[Assistant] You know, they're not very good schematically and they're not that great physically either in, in Carolina to where they can never get anything going that way.


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[Assistant] So that's, that's, you know, to me that's really where Matt ruled that kill is just the inability to have the right offensive mind and the inability to have, you know, maybe that franchise quarterback that they were so desperately looking for.


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[Assistant] He'll land on his feet somewhere though. I mean, he was a hell of a college coach.


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[Assistant] He really is, and I heard a lot of rumors last year, and you know, beyond rumors, I know, that if Jim Harbaugh left Michigan, he was going to be one of the lead candidates to be the head coach of the Michigan Wolverines.


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[Assistant] He'll end up back in college somewhere like that, but I'm not shocked by the firing. David Tepper seems like a no-nonsense guy. There have shown no signs of like, oh wait, this, they've lost some heartbreakers. They might turn it around. There's been a lot of good. The ball just hasn't bounced their way. No, they've been dominated. They were lucky to be in that game yesterday. They really were.


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[Assistant] I mean, 49ers, you know, they block a field goal with San Francisco. You know, they had a big kick return to start the third quarter that led to a short field to make it 17-9. But at no point in the football game did you feel like they were in the same class as the 49ers, and the 49ers just


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[Assistant] Absolutely wore them down from kinda that point on. Run the football, Jeff Wilson, he looked good. You know, Tevin Coleman looked good too. Caught a big pass, Kittle healthy. You know, this is where the 49ers, to me,


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[Assistant] If Jimmy can play somewhat good and not just do dumb things that we've discussed before, you know, here we are in a game like this, they score 37 points and Deebo Samuel really wasn't even a factor in the football game. So when they get healthy, that's where they're going to be scary. And I still look at the 49ers and I know people that might think I'm biased because it's my buddy, but


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[Assistant] I think there's no question in my mind that they are one of the best teams in football and I think as we continue to go they will continue to separate themselves and put themselves in that class.


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[Assistant] So I, I, you know, I, I know, hey, Trent's gonna be back and I'm not worried about that. But, like, the other thing too...


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[Assistant] Is, you know, I know there was a lot of people out there panicked about, you know, their guard situation in the preseason. And I know a few times I was like, relax, it's preseason football, they're getting used to it. Once Shanahan specifically game plans for teams too, he's going to help his guards out in things that


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[Assistant] You know, hey, maybe they're not that good. I'm not gonna ask my guy to make that block from that angle. That's too much to ask, right? You know, that doesn't go on in preseason. Sometimes they call plays and they're just like, well, yea, it's a f***ing tough job for the guard. He's just gonna have to figure that one out. You know, you get in a regular season game and Shanahan goes, well, damn, I can't ask him to...


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[Assistant] Block Derrick Brown like that, I gotta figure out another way to call another player or fix the run scheme there, so.


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[Assistant] The 49ers, they got it all going from that standpoint and I'd just be shocked if they didn't continue to get better and better.


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[Assistant] Well, I would say there's one thing in common that came to my mind right there with all those, right? You said Goff, Baker, Stafford, who was the other one?


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[Assistant] Other than Jameis, I would say the other three were, they had offensive lines that, you know, can overwhelm you a little bit. That the 49ers could overwhelm their offensive lines.


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[Assistant] That's to me is the beauty of the 49ers, and I know Nick Bosa came out of the game yesterday with a little bit of a groin pull I think or something like that, right? So that's a little concerning, but that's the beauty of the 49ers, is they don't have the blitz to get pressure.


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[Assistant] I don't believe Eric Armstead even played yesterday either, right? That's what's fucking scary about the 49ers.


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[Assistant] I mean, it really is. Trent Williams is not playing. Eric Armisen is not playing. Nick Bosa, he came out somewhere in the middle of the football game. Doesn't even matter. They're special that way. And hey, between Hufanga on the defensive side of the ball, it's safety. And then Charvarius Ward at corner.


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[Assistant] You know, that's, I don't know, they haven't had a corner like him the last few years. A guy with a little size, speed, can play the ball, you know. So between him and then the, you know, the nice pick six with Emanuel Mosley, uh, that was a good day. The 49ers is, to me, the best defense in football.


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[Assistant] If you made me go, hey Chris, you can take any of the events you want. Who's it going to be? And I'm talking about players and scheme together. I'm taking the 49ers. D'Amico Ryan deserves to be in this next head coaching conversation.


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[Assistant] Uh, type of guy there. And, you know, offensively, I just think it's a matter of time before they really kind of start to go into another gear and kind of establish themselves as one of the better offenses in football.


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[Assistant] That'll help. Well, and, and, you know, to your point, Eckler's a really good football player, but Nick Chubb is the marquee guy. Austin Eckler's the afterthought, right? I don't mean that to be disrespectful. Well, he's not what your enemy number one you're worried about when you're playing the Chargers. That's true. Right? Alright, that's all I'm saying. I know he's a really good player. I'm not trying to say that at all.


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[Assistant] A minute and, I'm gonna say 30 something. I can look it up real quick and get to it here in a hurry. I'll beat you to it. Uh, it was a minute and 14 left. A minute and 14. And they're up to...


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[Assistant] At their own 45. Their own 45. All week to come up with a gotta have it play and we run the, you know, my favorite thing.


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[Assistant] Three steps and run in. That's what I came up with this week.


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[Assistant] We paid the offensive staff 30 million dollars. I came up with this guy run a slant route in the big situation against a really good corner.


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[Assistant] Gosh, I'm good, woo! Yes, pay me another 30 million dollars, owner. I designed the single slam on the backside for us to win the game. That's what I came up with in the biggest moment of our year. Like, first off, I don't agree with the call, alright? I don't agree with it.


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[Assistant] This is one of those games where you come away, and I don't feel better about either team, I guess, to kind of tell you or say that. Sure. You know, first off, I'm disappointed in the Chargers. They're better than how they look. Their talent's better. You know, their defense should be more dominant.


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[Assistant] There's no other way to say it. The fact that the ball and people are running on them still here, it's a second year in a row, that they cannot even begin to even fathom stopping a running offense, that stinks, that's concerning.


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[Assistant] You know, and then, you know, offensively, hey, Eclair had a good day yesterday, but I, like, I don't look at it and go, oh, well, they're, they're going to be able to consistently run the ball. No, I almost, I just go, well, it's Cleveland. They're, they're a f***ing disaster on defense too. So they ran the ball on them, but it doesn't make me feel better about the Chargers run game going forward.


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[Assistant] So, I guess that's where I'm disappointed with the chargers all together.


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[Assistant] You know, it's a lot on Justin Herbert and them making it happen and, you know, Cleveland, uhm,


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[Assistant] It was a good game, it certainly was. They need more pa- more plays from their past game. And the biggest moment, more than anything, was Jacoby Verset throwing the interception late down in the end zone there. He makes a nice play, escapes.


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[Assistant] And really a horrible decision right there when they were down 30 to 28. If field goal puts you ahead, you just can't make that throw or even think about that type of throw in that situation. You got to protect the ball to have the chance to take the lead and let your defense hopefully close it out.


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[Assistant] They couldn't have ran the ball up the middle one time for 15 yards and then spiked the ball. I mean, there wasn't, so some of the reasoning made no sense. It shows you he's got no confidence. I don't understand some of the game management there. By either one of these coaches at times. That's why this game was probably, it was crazy. It really was. And you know, yea, the Browns too.


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[Assistant] Go up the way they were. You know, be up 14-nothing, right? And then that was when Eckler broke the 71-yard run. The Chargers had to settle for a field goal.


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[Assistant] Alright, then it's the Browns, I think, go three and out or five and out, and it's a big pass to Mike Williams, and all of a sudden, whoa, okay, it's fourteen to ten, and then it's right down the field, and the Browns go for it on a fourth and one down close, you know, to scoring, and get stopped, and


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[Assistant] The Chargers going a 99-yard drive to score a touchdown in the second quarter. And it just, yeaah, the game was all over the place and it's hard to get a feel for those two teams, I guess is what I'm trying to say at the end of the day.


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[Assistant] I was wrong there too, they punted the ball down into the one yard line, my bad, sorry. We'll clean it, we'll end it there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was, it was everybody over the middle and there's ten guys over the middle for the Tennessee Titans and yeah, they weren't easy throws or ever a clear passing lane for Carson Wentz to, you know, kind of put the ball in a spot where his guys could get it and nobody could get it. Here's the weird thing.


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[Assistant] It is, you know, a little bit like we talk about the Eagles a little bit, like the Titans seem to be one of those teams that runs out of tricks in the second half too. It is a few times this year where you go,


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[Assistant] Hey, they're running the ball good in the first half, and whoa, they got a few good screen passes to Derrick Henry, and they even had one to Hilliard for a touchdown on the running back after faking a run to Derrick Henry.


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[Assistant] And then, oh, you go, ooh, the play action pass is working, ooh, here they go.


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[Assistant] You know, the second half, it seems like they kind of run into a buzzsaw, the run game slows down, therefore the play action pass slows down, and they just don't have a whole lot of answers. They don't, after that.


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[Assistant] Uh, and, and, you know, really the, the play that they threw, threw the, the big pass to, uhm, you know, Westbrook Aquina, the, the 61 yarder when they were down 17-14, that kind of saved the day. And then ultimately, I mean, really the story of the day was, I, I felt like once again was really more the Titans. I don't know what the numbers.


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[Assistant] Ended up showing, but again, I never felt like.


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[Assistant] The commanders had any chance of doing really much of anything other than Carson Wentz was going to have to make it happen with big throws.


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[Assistant] We'll see if he can continue that. But that's kinda what I expected to see from the guy.


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[Assistant] Exactly right, post route, go route, he could fly. Uhm, and you know, maybe this kind of gives him some confidence and get going, you know, from here. And Jahan Dotson was out, he had to take over that role, so we'll see where it goes.


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[Assistant] You know, I think the encouraging thing for Washington was their D-line was really this, like to me, after those first few drives,


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[Assistant] Man, it felt like their D-line just whooped the shit out of the Tennessee Titans up front. Five sacks. Yeah, it is. Montez's sweat was everywhere. Tannenhill was getting hit a whole lot. So again, I feel good about the Titans. Not great though. I don't. I don't know if they're going to be able to


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[Assistant] You know, recap, they're not gonna be able to recapture number one seed, number two seed in the AFC playing this way right now. I still think the same issues we're talking about are real. Like, defense is good, but I don't think it's great.


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[Assistant] And I think if you have a team that can protect the passer a little bit and all that, that you can carve up the Titans in the secondary. And then on the offensive side of the ball,


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[Assistant] It's just, as we talked about, especially with no Traylon Berks, there's no other thing to worry about. It's Derrick Henry, and once that slows down, it seems to trickle effect where everything slows down, and I don't know if that's sustainable to be a dominant team in the AFC, at least not this year. I got a nickname for Carson Wentz. What? I just thought of it.


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[Assistant] You could. Well, and, and you know, again, I know a lot of people will probably be like, oh, Carson wins. They didn't win yesterday and blah, blah, blah, but.


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[Assistant] Come on. They don't have a lot there to help him. It's all about them throwing the ball and him making plays. He's to me one of the least concerning things about their team, you know, through five games. You think that'll catch on? Wentz coin?


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, it was a crazy game. I think the first thing is I'm, I'm.


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[Assistant] I would have never expected Seattle to make that many big plays on New Orleans defense. I was a little surprised by that.


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[Assistant] And to run the ball the way they did too. You know, poor Rashad Penny. Damn, I feel bad for him. Do we know how severe that is? I think he broke his fibula or tibula. It's one of the major ones there. He's done for the year.


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[Assistant] And that stinks because he was kind of emerging as one of the better running backs in football. Now good thing they got Kenneth Walker and he showed what he can do on that 69 yard touchdown run. Uhm, but, but I think the big thing, the big takeaway is


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[Assistant] That, and you heard me say this last night, it's the best game they've had on offense the whole year. I know the Seahawks defense is not very good, but the bigger picture thing is that Taysom Hill and what he can do for the offense has got to be a part of their overall scheme on a week to week basis. They're not good enough right now, they don't have enough


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[Assistant] Sean Payton's ability to dissect defenses and call the right plays and all that to where they need another element to help them out.


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[Assistant] And, you know, you see once you got him going, you know, it kind of feeds itself and then Alvin Kamara gets going and you're not then now not relying on Jameis Winston or Andy Dalton to have to win the football game. So I like that element. I mean, Taysom Hill is super talented and


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[Assistant] That was definitely one of the more creative games I've seen on the Saints, uh, this year for sure. It was the most creative game.


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[Assistant] Almost got him. He did get him. He just didn't tackle him the right way. He let the momentum go. I mean, I don't know if you were in the room when that went on. I mean, I was sitting there like, holy shit, did you see Tariq Wolin? I mean, he walked him down from straight behind.


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[Assistant] You know, he ran a 4-2 at the combine. He's real that way. He is. But yea, it looked like he was flying about as fast as I've seen. And Raheem Mostert, Week 2, that was what? 49ers vs. New York Jets. A stream, was it a stream? I think it was a toss play to start the game.


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[Assistant] Where Shanahan exposed Greg Williams runs, runs D-Vents a little bit. Chris going to the memory bank. Going to the memory. Weed does not wipe away all your memory. Yes, just some of it. Fletcher Mackle.


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[Assistant] I've always been a little bit in favor of that. I don't know. I'm going to say no. I just would like them to be used more in this kind of role right here. I do think Taysom Hill had the ability to play quarterback. You know, obviously there was something there Sean Payton didn't want to go with. You know, I think there's probably some...


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[Assistant] Consistency and his throwing that probably misses that Jameis Winston or Andy Dalton are better at.


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[Assistant] If you add him with the Wildcat and line him up next to the quarterback every now and then, run the football, you know, with him at the quarterback position, uhm, I think it, you know, certainly can present some problems for, uh, other defenses. That's for sure.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know, I think it's too late now. I'd want to just go, hey, you know, when we get Michael Thomas back, we want a quarterback that can...


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[Assistant] You know, deliver the ball to Landry and Olavi and Michael Thomas and all that, and then you can add that into the mix there. That's where I'd go, ooh, you got something there, for sure.


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[Assistant] So, you know, this is a game I want to go back and watch so I can digest it all. It was cool by the Saints for sure. But man, the Seahawks did some dumb shit too. I mean, the punter


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[Assistant] Yeaah, yeaah, yeaah. I know. Well, it's just, he's playing really good football. And I hope everybody can finally see it and back off a little bit and go, you know, Gino does have talent. Maybe, you know, we shouldn't judge him off when he was just with the shitty Jets when he was in the second year of his career.


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[Assistant] So, good for him, but that was some sort of offensive explosion type of football game.


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[Assistant] 17 for 17, Justin Jefferson had like 100 yards in the first half, didn't he? 138 and 10 catches in the first half. That's insane. It was unstoppable, really, for the majority of the first half, to where you just went, wow, they're just gonna march up and down the field on them, holy cow.


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[Assistant] Right? Pretty sure they had a good kick return, got him around midfield, and then he threw a deep pass down the left sideline to Darnell Mooney. And Mooney made an incredible catch. And that set them up to make it 21-10. And then...


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[Assistant] They got the ball to start the second, you know, the second half, third quarter, and they went on a good drive where Fields made some nice throws and they scored a touchdown and all of a sudden you're sitting there going, whoa, it's 21-16. And then I believe Kirk Cousins threw an interception not far after that.


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[Assistant] And that took it to 2119. Uh, I might be a drive off there, but either way, that's pretty much, you know.


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[Assistant] Somewhere in that range, but that just goes back to our conversation we were having earlier. It's just like, here's a team that was kind of controlling the football game, but all of a sudden,


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[Assistant] Wait, one team kind of puts a drive together. They go in a half time, they get the ball again.


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[Assistant] And all of a sudden you look up and go, well Dan, they've scored, you know, 13 on answer, and here we are in a football game, even though we've controlled it. And, uh, you know, credit to the Bears for hanging around. They seem to be good at this type of football, hanging around, but can't quite seem to pull it out when it's all said and done.


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[Assistant] You are, you should be. They're one of those teams, a little like the Giants, where I just go, I'm not sure how good they are yet.


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[Assistant] I think that's the say, the, the better way to put it. And I think there's probably, there's more talent I think maybe on their team than the New York Giants.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but I am interested to see how long this is sustained, right? Uh, because it's not like there are these huge confidence, like where I look at them and go, ooh, they're really dominant in this area or that. You know, they've been fortunate or, hey, they played the Saints, they beat your Lions, your Lions did some dumb crap, the Bears.


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[Assistant] I'll be interested to see through this next stretch of Dolphins, Cardinals,


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[Assistant] You know, they got Buffalo, the Cowboys, the Patriots coming up here in the next six weeks and so that's when I think we'll get a real good feel for how real Minnesota is.


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[Assistant] Like, referee, we didn't come here to see you dictate who wins. Headline part seven. You calling out Jerome Bolger? I am. It's two pitiful calls by him in the last two weeks. Uh oh. It was a pitiful call in the Ravens-Buffalo game, and it was a pitiful call yesterday.


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[Assistant] For the most part controlled the football game. I think the interesting thing is, is that it was the first game where I felt like they just came out and said the hell with them running the ball. We're not going to be bound. I know what happened.


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[Assistant] I think they just said, let's put the ball in Tom's hands. We got a pretty good receiving crew. You know, he completes a lot of passes. It keeps the clock movement anyways. And you know, Tom and the offense are in a rhythm that way. You know, it's another game where it felt like one team was clearly better than the other team. And then,


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[Assistant] The Bucks punt the ball. There's a good punt return by Atlanta. They have the ball on that side of the field with the Bucks down 21-0. They score a touchdown. It's 21-7. They get the ball back. They go on a long, ugly drive.


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[Assistant] And it's, they get the two point conversion and now it's 21 15. You're going, holy shit, like the bucks for controlling the game. And here we are.


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[Assistant] Like, if they don't drive down here and put the game away, Atlanta's gonna have the ball. And Atlanta should have had the ball. With four and a half minutes left. Until nothing the passers struck.


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[Assistant] Illegal talking to the quarterback too mean. Illegal, you tackled the quarterback too hard. And again, the thing that bothers me is, you know, it's rarely called on the freaky quarterback.


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[Assistant] And I know that Josh Allen got it last week and that was a horrible call too. But I just, I don't understand what you're supposed to do. And I know me and Tony Dungy were both going crazy. What was Grady Jarrett supposed to do? Is he supposed to let Tom Brady go? Is that what they want?


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[Assistant] I'm tackling you, but I'm in the act of tackling you too hard. So let me get, let me let you go. Is that where we're at right now?


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[Assistant] I mean, is that really where they're at? And the NFL hasn't come out and said anything yet, which tells me that they know they're wrong. And, you know, that's... I just...


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[Assistant] I, I, I just, I hate it. Yeaah. And Pete's saying, this is Jerome Bogart's MO. Yeaah, this is, he's way too protective of the quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] And uhm, yeaah, that's just unfortunate. It really is. I would have loved to have seen that game get tight and seen if Atlanta could have done something and drove down and made that interesting.


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[Assistant] No, not a lot of big plays. Obviously that's, Atlanta did something there to limit that aspect. And, you know, I think Atlanta, with a little bit, they have some size up front on the defensive line. I think they probably were like, you know what, we can hang in there in the run game with Hornet and company. Let's just not let, you know, big plays to Evans and Godwin consistently blow us up throughout the football game.


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[Assistant] Still not playing their best football. And uh, it's to the point where, I guess it worries me a little bit. Like where a few weeks ago, well okay, they'll get it together. But here we are, it's three and two. None of the wins have looked that great.


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[Assistant] And of course, you know, they've had some losses where, hey, they got a little unlucky against the Packers, but were dominated by the Kansas City Chiefs. I'm, I'm, I guess what I'm saying is, I'm on the fence where, to start the year, I would have gone Tampa's the cream of the crop in the NFC. Right now, I'm going, ehhh.


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[Assistant] Are they going to be the cream of the crop or am I going to continue to be going, they're the cream of the cro- I think they're the cream of the crop for five more weeks here. That's where I'm a little in between about them right now.


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[Assistant] Well, numbers lie. Again, this is another thing, like numbers don't tell the whole story. But they're, but they should have scored more than zero. Yes, they should have. What'd they do? Well, I think the big thing more than anything is that this was a game and you heard me say this last night. I mean,


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[Assistant] Dan Campbell bit his own kneecap off on this one. I don't, just, too much going for it. Forward down.


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[Assistant] You know, it's the New England Patriots, it's Bill Belichick. I don't know, they go forward on the first drive of the game on their own side of the field and, hey, Billy's, I mean, uh, you know, Zappi, Bailey Zappi, hey, you want some confidence? Here's a short field to just get things going and, you know, you're just one first down and you guys can kick a field goal and you're gonna be up 3-0. Alright, and then it's 6-0.


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[Assistant] And now, you're in field goal position. It's 6-fucking-nothing against the Patriots and Bailey's happy. And you go for it on 4th and 9? What? You're moving the ball!


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[Assistant] So there we, we got, there's, you're moving the ball, there's not, they're not shutting you out. Get some points, get some confidence in the game, pin Bailey Zappi back after the kick.


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[Assistant] You know, the kickoff after you make the field goal, but instead we go for it on fourth and nine and Jared Goff, I don't know what he was doing. He gets stripped sack and.


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[Assistant] Now they pick it up and it's 13-0. Let alone, in between there, you drove down when it was 3-0. Don't, don't put this on me. No, it's you, it's your fucking team. I'm the G-men, you're the Lions, okay? Let alone it's 3-0, you drive down the field, and again, offense is moving well. Jared Goff, that was a horrible interception.


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[Assistant] Right? So that to me was the story of the game. It was just that you gave them like false confidence and momentum early on in the football game by your coaching decision and then


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[Assistant] The other part of that is, your defense is not good, as you know. And they controlled the line of scrimmage, running the ball. I mean, Ramandre Steven was awesome. It was run, run, run.


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[Assistant] Hey, here's a guy wide open for Bailey Zappi to hit. Run, run, run. Here's a guy wide open for Bailey Zappi to hit. Just like he did in the Green Bay game last week. He wasn't asked to do a whole lot.


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[Assistant] Hey, we got a one-on-one matchup. Throw a go-round. If not, we got a play here. Here's a guy wide open over the middle and that's all you got to do. And it was, you know, a great job by him.


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[Assistant] Yeah, because, well, one, they got an eye for it. Two, they know how to coach them up, alright? Three,


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[Assistant] This is like JC Jackson part two, right? And Pete, you might have to look this up for me. I might get this wrong here.


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[Assistant] Because J.C. Jackson was at North Carolina and then transferred to Maryland. I believe I got that right. I'm just going off the top of my head here. But he was a top recruit, right, coming out of high school. He got in trouble at his first school and had a transfer.


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[Assistant] Jack Jones' story is very similar. Top recruit, went to USC, I don't know exactly what happened, but then he had a transfer to Arizona State.


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[Assistant] Then went to a community college, then Maryland, right. So, that's what I'm saying is,


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[Assistant] The Patriots are smart, and they go, wait, this guy was a five-star recruit, and he played early as a USC player, and they keep your eye on, they keep their eye on you.


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[Assistant] So there were some issues there. He's 24. But they kept their eye on him. There was a talent they liked.


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[Assistant] And that's where they're good. And then they, you know, everybody else is, I don't know, I'm scared of this guy. I don't know. Is there a problem? Is there a problem? And they do their due diligence and they go, yeah, there's a problem. We love them and we're taking them in the fourth round. Now you have a problem. You have a problem. And they got an eye for that. And then they know how to coach, you know, that way. And then, you know, again,


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[Assistant] It was a, it's a game too where your offensive line couldn't dominate them. You know, they, they got some big people there and then it became like, okay, here comes the passing game. And, um,


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[Assistant] I don't know how healthy Amon Ross Saint Brown was and all that, but it just seemed like they pressured golf and they were kind of all over some of the schemes and patterns down the field and they just slowly wore your football team down. After they got a 13-0 lead,


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[Assistant] It was defense and run the ball and just will kick field goals and they kind of played that game and wore the Lions out.


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[Assistant] Who are you going with in this one? I'm taking the Chiefs, of course. I picked the Chiefs to win 35-24.


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[Assistant] I will say this, here's some just elements that scare me. Josh McDaniels knows Steve Spagnolo in that defense.


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[Assistant] Right? He's got a history of whether it's the Chiefs and then, you know, of course he had to deal with them in the Super Bowl, so he knows. You know, and so I do worry about, you know, him having a game plan to where maybe he slowly picks apart the Chiefs defense.


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[Assistant] But I, you know, I think ultimately what worries me is I don't know if they'll be able to run the ball consistently. I don't know if they'll be able to pass, I mean pass protect consistently against this Chiefs front, which I think is damn good.


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[Assistant] Right? But that's just the worry, right? Obviously I'm picking the Chiefs. And on the other side of the ball, it's kind of the same thing. Patrick Graham, New England guy, right? I wouldn't be surprised to see Kansas City early on, like, trying to find its way. Wait, how are they attacking us? What are they doing here? But ultimately, I just, I don't think the Raiders, you've heard me say those enough times, don't have enough


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[Assistant] Like top end talent guys on the defensive side of the ball to where I think they're going to be able to stop.


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[Assistant] My homes and everybody. And you know, my homes in Kansas City continue to be patient, short passing game.


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[Assistant] Have enough actual plays for the short passing game. I find them to be almost, they'll be unstoppable like Josh Allen and the Bills. There's nothing you're going to be able to do and I'm hoping to see more of that from the Chiefs tonight.


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[Assistant] You know, Kansas City will double here and there, but they're not gonna live on the double world all the time.


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[Assistant] Ed, I do think there's an element of they might double Darren Waller in some situations and go, wait, we're not going to let him run down the middle of the field on us.


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[Assistant] I gotta think New England, Patrick Graham, Josh McDaniels, they're gonna go into this and be like,


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[Assistant] Anybody beat us but Kelsey. Let's see if Juju can beat us. Let's see if McCall Hardman can beat us.


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[Assistant] We're gonna, they're gonna double Kelsey, I would think. So from that standpoint, I would think Adams has more of a day this night than Kelsey, and Kelsey's almost more of the decoy attracting attention and opening up the field for everybody else.


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[Assistant] We did. We were probably too long as always, but that's what we do. I think that was about an hour and 40 minutes, but I don't know. Once we get going, it's hard to stop us. It really is.


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[Assistant] Well, anybody that watched our stuff last week, they saw what we talked about. Russell Wilson is not thrown into the open guy. There's open guys and he's not throwing it. I don't know what else to say.


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[Assistant] Check in on Wednesday, I'll have more to say about it, okay? Alright, Wednesday, you know, it's treasure hunting time. It's the What the Fuck Happened Wednesday podcast. We'll be back then. Enjoy the Monday Night Football Game. Ahmed, rest up. We're gonna need you for Wednesday.


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[Assistant] That's what we do. You the man, Ahmed. Thanks for driving the ship as always. Alright everybody, have a good few days. Enjoy Monday Night Football. We'll see you Wednesday. Clap it up!


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[Assistant] Thanks for watching, homies. Hit subscribe to see all my Unbuttoned videos. You get to see me, Ahmed Fareed, all the big player breakdowns, game breakdowns, player interviews, and my film analysis. So please subscribe. Chris Sims, Unbuttoned. Peace out.


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[Assistant] Well, I'm gonna be asking you a bunch of questions here, but I know you have the answer because it is Treasure Hunter Wednesday. What the F happened Wednesday, aka. Uh, you've gone through the tape on a lot of the games. I have. You've learned some things and you've seen them with your own eyes. Right. Maybe you didn't see or learn before. And so we can use these new lessons to apply.


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[Assistant] As the season goes on, and see how players are changing, or not changing, or what they're missing out there, if it's the case of Russell Wilson.


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[Assistant] You've gone through a bunch of games. Do we have a run down? Should we tease them here? Yea, give a tease. The Chiefs offensive play calling. You've been critical of that in the past. We'll take a closer look at that. The Eagles run game took off against the Jaguars. A very good defense. So how'd they do that? Ravens offense in the second half was not as good as the first half.


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[Assistant] Joe Burrow seems to be getting it in stride. Trevor Lawrence took a step back. Zach Wilson, the first time on the field. Kenny Pickett for the first time this year or ever in the NFL. Uh, Russell Wilson and more. Wow. That's a lot. We got a lot. I did a lot this week. I really did.


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[Assistant] We're gonna keep a good pace here, and we're gonna learn a lot in the time that we have. So let's start with the Chiefs. On offense, they scored 41 against the Buccaneers, who had previously been giving up 9 points per game. So how did they exactly do that?


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[Assistant] And you looked at the film and you just said Mahomes Magic. Alright, so moving on to the next game. Uh, no, you've been critical of them in the past. You say sometimes they have great plays, cool plays. Do they all link? Do they make sense? Is it part of a scheme? Yes, right. Is there something they're attacking? Exactly. Right. Did you see more of that in this game?


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[Assistant] Well that was going to be my question. Is that what got them to fear the run? They were able to do it somewhat successfully, but that's really the first time they've shown that.


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[Assistant] You can probably tell how a game went, by which team converted on third down, and the Chiefs did that a ton. I think, Chris and Pete.


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[Assistant] Uh, Morgan, who's on the floor here, Gabby back in the control room. We have a graphic on that. Here it is. Weeks one through three, they had thirty-third downs. They had seventeen-third downs. So give credit to the Bucs defense. They did force a lot of third downs, but the problem is that they converted twelve of those.


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[Assistant] So you mentioned that you don't want the Chiefs to try to be something that they're not, but in this game, they did run for 189 yards. Clyde Edwards, the layer had 92 yards. Isaiah Pacheco had 63. What'd you think of those two guys? And is that something now that you think like, all right, they've shown they can do it against the bucks. Maybe they can incorporate it.


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[Assistant] They play the Raiders on Monday night. What would be game plan specific against Las Vegas?


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[Assistant] Alright, so as we transition, let's stay on that theme though. Okay. Because we'll transition to the Broncos right here. Oh. Pro football focus. Fitting. Pro football focus. Yeah. Did rate Patrick Mahomes ahead of Tom Brady last week. They had Patrick Mahomes


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[Assistant] Uhm, there's Mahomesforth, and he was one ahead of our next guy we're gonna talk about, Russell Wilson.


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[Assistant] I go, we're going to be at a good pace here, but this is an interesting discussion because it incorporates the next year. We're going to talk about Russell Wilson here, who you have rated as one of the best quarterbacks in the NFL throughout his careers. His first year in Denver, um, had two touchdowns, 237 yards this past week, maybe on paper. It was his best game.


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[Assistant] PFF I just said, rated at the 5th best of the week of any quarterback.


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[Assistant] How good was Russell Wilson this week and what'd you see? He makes some plays.


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[Assistant] So how is he different? You noted this watching the games on Sunday, is that he is not scrambling, rushing around. Cause a lot of those plays that when he would go to his second or third read, it would be after he's flushed out of the pot, scrambling around, sees this guy open. The fact that he's maybe not as comfortable doing that now, or not allowed in the structure of this offense to do that.


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[Assistant] Let me throw two things at you. Could it be a lack of familiarity with those receivers? And that takes a while. Could be. I don't know how long that can take. There's no doubt. It could be. I don't doubt that. And a new offense here. And the fact that


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[Assistant] It's a defense that's pretty good. Maybe one of the better defenses out there. And so maybe that's part of the philosophy of just like, alright, don't screw it up.


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[Assistant] Broncos Mike Kane is worried. He goes, is Russ washed? Everyone seems to be piling on, but I don't see it.


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[Assistant] Javante Williams. Top 5 running back in the NFL, according down mid-free.


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[Assistant] Alright, we can all watch it, stream it on Amazon, The National Game on Thursday Night Football, our national game.


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[Assistant] On NBC, after Football Night in America starring Chris Sims. It is the Baltimore Ravens versus the Cincinnati Bengals. You want to take a closer look at what the Bills did to slow down Lamar Jackson and the Ravens, specifically in the second half, because that's when the Bills made their comeback and they held, what, the Ravens to


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[Assistant] Alright, so, and of course the infamous going forward on fourth and two and they couldn't get an interception that led to Buffalo driving down and kicking the game winning field goal. So, you saw the whole game, you didn't just watch the second half, you saw the first half and the second half. What'd the Bills do?


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[Assistant] So why do you think they did that? You think they did that because Baltimore's wide receivers don't scare them? They have some talent there.


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[Assistant] So, the gotta-have-it plays, I think this was interesting, you noted here in your notes, incursive once again, uh, which is, every time I show it to someone, they go, that's actually really good cursive. So, people are very complimentary. Oh, thank you, except for you and your wife.


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[Assistant] Question them now. I got a question. And Pete. Uh, the gotta have it play, as you said, it seems like they want to play man right there. But you did notice a little bit of zone defense from the Bills when they thought that the Ravens were in run sets or maybe it was a running down.


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[Assistant] Outside of Lamar, the run game really hasn't been all that scary this year, and it has been in the past. Uh, NellyMo2010 says, Hey Chris, do you think that some of the Raven's struggles on offense are because of scheme creativity or a shortage of elite jimmies and joes? The running game did get going a little bit more outside of Lamar in this game.


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[Assistant] So which offense do you think is going to play better on our Sunday night game? Bengals or Ravens?


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[Assistant] Because of Lamar, the Lamar factor, or overall. Just what they do, scheme, everything.


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[Assistant] Let's get into that. Let's switch to the Bengals offense here. Who did pull it out against the Miami Dolphins in that Thursday game where Tua got hurt, uh, unfortunately. So yeah, I mean, just continue on your, your thought here. Cause this is interesting. It sounds like watching the Bengals tape, you got angry. I did. I did.


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[Assistant] If you're a friend of Zach Taylor, play the podcast around him so he can hear what Chris just said.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and you want to be off the hook too for when you put your hand up next to Joe Burrow and people are blaming you for the slow start.


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[Assistant] Like that wasn't me. You're very funny. It's the offense. Uh, the homies are very smart. We've said that many times. Goal line stand to notice something you were just talking about.


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[Assistant] I'd love to see Chris break down how the Bengals attacked the Dolphins coverage with T. Higgins. It's a defense that originates from Belichick in 2014 using Rivas and Browner. So you kind of mentioned how they really didn't adjust all that much, but can you speak to the defense and the philosophy here that Miami Dolphins used against them?


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[Assistant] That's going to be interesting to see him take on the Ravens because the Ravens secondary hasn't been very good at all.


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[Assistant] I'll give you a second here, get a pen. Oh, 622, sorry. That was the wrong one. Although if you put an extra 2 in, it might still go through. I would think so.


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[Assistant] But here it is, 763-622 to sign up right now. Participation is mandatory. So we do need to say that. If you just heard me say that, you have to. You have to. No, it's optional.


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[Assistant] Alright, we're gonna take a closer look at the Eagles, the only undefeated team left in the NFL against the Jaguars. Two teams with a lot of big butts. So I feel like now is a good time to do the Weekly Wednesday Big Butt Awards.


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[Assistant] Sorry, we're not doing Eagles, Jaguars yet. I almost, I jumped the gun a little bit there. The Big Bud Awards, uh, Kristen was able to whip up a graphic in like 15 minutes last week and there it is.


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[Assistant] Yeah, perfect trophy. Alright, so if you were not with us last week, this is where I give an award to the defensive tackle and defensive end, or edge guy, uh, who, who had the biggest impact, according to me. Yeah, expert.


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[Assistant] So our big butt of the week award for defensive tackles, uh, it goes to your favorite team.


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[Assistant] Dexter Lawrence of the Giants. 58 snaps, you know, I like that. I like the defensive tackle. Condition for a big guy. He plays a lot. Eight hurries, most of a defensive tackle this week. He had two sacks, most of a defensive tackle this week. Five hurries, also the most. He was all over it. And if you noticed the C on his jersey, cause I think the Giants have like what? 10 captains or something like that.


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[Assistant] His C fell off. They had to put it back on. So, uh, even despite all of that, was able to focus and have a great game.


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[Assistant] Uh, he was your number two defensive tackle, according to Pete, in the draft that year. Probably to Quinn and Williams, I would guess.


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[Assistant] Christian Wilkins from the Dolphins are also in that draft. He's been pretty good. He's good. Jeffrey Simmons in that draft too.


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[Assistant] The defensive end, big bud of the week, our edge big bud of the week. I really couldn't go anywhere else. It was obvious.


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[Assistant] I mean, golf has been awesome for my Detroit Lions. He has six sacks already.


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[Assistant] He's on pace for 25 and a half this year. The single season sack record in danger. He can do it.


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[Assistant] You kind of wanted to dive deeper into the Jaguars. We did that last week too and looked at Trevor Lawrence and Doug Peterson's offense. And you really liked a lot of the things you saw there. And then he totally ruined it this past week. Although the wet conditions seem to have an effect on, on Trevor Lawrence, but let's start on the other side of the ball. Cause it was the Eagles showing the ability to come back.


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[Assistant] Against a pretty good defense. I think an above average defense in the league. And so I think that was impressive, right? And the Eagles have been impressive this year. Uhm, so you okay with starting with the Eagles offense here and what you saw here? So Eagles offense.


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[Assistant] Jalen Hurts trying to rub it in your face for leaving him off the top 40 list. The Eagles fans are trying to rub it in your face. They never forget. Well, he was in there this year.


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[Assistant] That's not high enough. That's, that's where I'm learning that already. Creeping, creeping up there. Uhm, the ability to come back, the ability to do it with the run, again, we've seen that before, dominate in the run game against a team that


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[Assistant] I don't think a whole lot of other teams are going to be able to run the ball as successfully against. Uhm, were you impressed when you took a closer look at the Eagles offense?


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[Assistant] He put him behind the 8 ball a little bit with a pick 6 early on to your guy Andrew Sisco, who you noted looks really fast. Really fast, no doubt about it. He definitely did. You said throw bad decision there, but from that point forward,


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[Assistant] A lot of running, a lot of screens, quick passes, kind of a lot of the same notes it seems like from the Chiefs game plan almost. It was just like short stuff, quick stuff. What did you see from Hertz?


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[Assistant] 134 yards for Miles Sanders. So can they, I mean, if they can do that against the Jag, whereas you noted maybe they had some injuries on that defensive front, but the offensive line for the Eagles has been good for a while, but we've been saying that with the Colts too. And we saw it with the Dallas Cowboys. At a certain point, sometimes those guys, Jason Kelsey has been around a long time, fade a little bit or fall off.


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[Assistant] Eagles defense too, you were critical of a little bit early on in the season, just weren't special enough, weren't doing enough things to confuse the offenses out there. You did know that they're doing more on D for Philly as we switch over to that side of the ball. Then they have maybe the first couple of weeks of the season. Is that right?


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[Assistant] Well, it's kind of like one of those things where it's like the going gets tough, right? Let's see you do it in a game where it's rainy and you got a good defense and you got the only undefeated team left in the NFL. And when things started to go bad, it snowballed for Trevor Lawrence. It did seem like he had trouble gripping the football.


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[Assistant] Jags were able to run against the four man front. As soon as the Eagles went to the five man front, they didn't have a chance.


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[Assistant] Is this just part of the learning process for Trevor? It's just like he's going to have games like last week where you're praising him, everything looks in sync, everything's flowing, and then he has games where it's rainy, things aren't going quite right, and he reverts back.


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[Assistant] Jaguar's got the Texans coming up, uh, Eagles at Arizona. Every game we look at now, we're like, oh, can they beat the Eagles? Can they be the team to pop the corks for the Miami Dolphins' undefeated season?


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[Assistant] Your original man crush before the Jacksonville Jaguars got so good this year. Uh, Kenny Pickett as well, his first start in the NFL.


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[Assistant] But first we want to do some quick hitters. Here's some, uh, some games that you watch, some of them on just TV. You didn't dive into the film, but you just saw got a good feel, a better feel now for them. So quick hitters on the Indianapolis Colts who lost to the Titans 24 17. Quick take on Matt Ryan. What's going on here? What's wrong?


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[Assistant] Over with the Titans, Lucas Seifert says, Hey Chris, have you figured out why the Titans are so crap in the second half? He didn't say crap, but I did. Also, what's wrong with our secondary? Double question.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so a win for the Titans, but still some concerning aspects for them, even more so for the Colts. I think the Washington Commanders got a lot of concerning things going on with that football team right now. Not least of which, they just lost to a division rival in the Dallas Cowboys 25-10.


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[Assistant] Real quick on the Dallas Cowboys offense here. Uhm, Cooper Rush has been getting a lot of praise. Well, deservedly so. You step in as a backup quarterback, you run the offense, to the point where some people are saying like, man,


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[Assistant] One thing about the commanders. I won the mums asks who is the bigger problem for the commanders, the defensive coordinator, Jack Del Rio, or the offensive coordinator, Scott Turner, or I'll give you this option, the players.


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[Assistant] I had a feeling that might be coming. Alright, who's to blame for the Rams offense? Not clicking so far. They lost to the 49ers 24-9. It could be Big Butt of the Week award winner Nick Bosa for this last week, but the Rams offense has not looked great all season long.


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[Assistant] So far. So you took a little bit closer look at that game. I don't know if you looked at the film for this one or not.


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[Assistant] Uhm, what's going on? Matthew Stafford's had that elbow injury. He doesn't look the same. Alan Robinson's like not even part of the offense. Alan Robinson's not the same.


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[Assistant] So. Oh yeaah, last year, uhm, last year was not a good year for him. It was two years. Yeaah, he was two years removed from his last thousand yard season. Uh, he only played eleven games last year. Right. So maybe yeaah, maybe he's not.


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[Assistant] It's not fun to watch. Cause I drafted Allen Robinson in my fantasy league and that has not been enjoyable. Cause he's been on the field. That's the crazy thing. He's been on the field a ton too. It's not like he's not playing or running a lot of routes. So now that the odds are shifting, according to our friends over at bet MGM in the NFC West, uh, everyone is two and two in this division right now. How about that?


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[Assistant] It's like we're right back to where we started in this division. Uh, so the odds last week compared to this week, if you're watching on YouTube or on Peacock right now, they've shifted. The Rams were the odds on favorite last week. Now they have the same odds as the 49ers. They're both plus 120 Cardinals.


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[Assistant] I've actually gotten a little worse at plus 650 and the Seahawks have gotten better, but they're still there at plus.


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[Assistant] 2,500, 2,500. So I mean, at this point, how can you not after watching that game yesterday and how good the 49ers defense is and you figure Jimmy Garoppolo will get in rhythm and I mean, they almost, they made the Superbowl with Jimmy Garoppolo where a throw away from winning it.


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[Assistant] I'm surprised that. Plus 120. We gotta get a representative here from BetMGM to explain himself, right?


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[Assistant] I mean, they must have the reasons they're smart. Vegas is always smart. Usually smarter than us. Right. But it does seem pretty clear right now.


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[Assistant] So I think last year Stafford got his, his due. As he should have. You know, I've always been a big-time proponent. He's been the best player that the Lions have had the last decade. I've always liked him. So I think he got his due. I think maybe the argument would be that right now, Jared Goff is playing better than Matthew Stafford.


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[Assistant] Little deal of the day and then we'll get to the pun of the day. We gotta, we gotta rip through this because we got plays to do on social media as well. Right. So we got a lot to still do here that I hope you are following Chris Sims on Twitter so you can see those. Um, I want to get a little bit on Zach Wilson and Kenny Pickett.


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[Assistant] First time we saw Zach Wilson this year. First time we've ever seen Kenny Pickett in a regular season football game. So Zach Wilson, first of all, brought his Jets back, made some big time throws as you noted. You've always been a lover of Zach Wilson.


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[Assistant] Did your love, did your love grow when watching the film with him this game?


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[Assistant] I don't think many people would disagree or argue with the fact that the Jets could do more with Zach Wilson than they could with Joe Flacco before. What about on the other side of the ball? Could the Steelers do more or did they do more with Kenny Pickett than they did previously with Mitchell Trabisky?


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[Assistant] I wonder if we'll scheme it up. You haven't been real happy with what you've seen schematically from the Steelers throughout the years, and so that'll be the question with them.


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[Assistant] He gets to go against that Buffalo Bills defense coming up, uh, this week, so that'll be interesting to see. While you were watching all the quarterbacks, Pete was watching the punters. There were 118 punts. Pete says he watched all of them. He watched all of them, reviewed the tape, uh, and he's got a punter of the week and a flyer of the week as it used to be called gunner.


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[Assistant] Politically incorrect now. Flyer of the week. So punter of the week first. Bears punter Trenton Gill.


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[Assistant] Five punts, one was inside the five. Two more inside the twenty.


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[Assistant] For the Bears, for them to win games, they're gonna need Trenton Gill to continue to step up.


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[Assistant] Trenton Gill, 51.8 was the average net, second best of the week. So, uh, Trenton Gill, congratulations, you got the Pete Punn Award, the flyer of the week.


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[Assistant] That goes to the Vikings corner, Chris Boyd. Pete notes here, forced a fair catch on a punt. Later, he overran a punt, but didn't give up on the play. Came back to force a fumble and recover it. Led to a field goal that put the Vikings up 16-7. See, I love that. These are these plays that.


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[Assistant] Sometimes you don't want to think about special teams plays that the funny thing is some people are like, I don't want to talk about kickers or punters or those games that that could be the whole game, right? It could be the whole game.


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[Assistant] All 10 seasons of Columbo can be streamed on Peacock. Wow. I'm a company man, I didn't even know it.


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[Assistant] I just try to, you know, get the best in the shortest amount of time. I feel like we respect the homies time. Yes. Yeah. And Kristen gets hungry. Pete gets hungry and I get hungry.


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[Assistant] Oh yeaah, that's right, it's Chris Sims on button, Ahmed Fareed's here to lead the charge, and that's what we do here. We let you know a little bit more than you should know at times, that's right, you get knowledge, right? Jackson Deville, he's...


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[Assistant] I mean, I'm just, yeaah, big news right now. I'm gonna just say it right off the bat, but I hope you guys don't mind. What? Well, just the Baker Mayfield thing. Baker Mayfield.


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[Assistant] So we're sitting here getting ready to do the show. We're about to talk about 49ers Dolphins, okay? So I'm just gonna go there, and I don't mean to change the... But it's just... You're getting right into it. I'm getting right into it. We're ready to go. We're ready to roll. I usually wanna talk to you and ask you out your weekend, but f*** the weekend. We got football to talk about. We got breaking news. Right. But, so, we know, I mean, of course, Jimmy Garoppolo's hurt. Done for the year.


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[Assistant] I was last night in the control room during Sunday Night Football going,


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[Assistant] Who's a team that's got three quarterbacks where one of them can maybe force them out of, force themselves out of town? Right? Who's the, who can pull that card? And then we hear, as we're getting ready to do the pod here. Yeah, Chris goes, Oh my God, it's happening. It's happening. I go Baker Mayfield. They're saying they're going to, the Carolina Panthers are going to release them. Now he's going to have to clear waivers.


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[Assistant] Okay, so we'll see where that goes. But, I just thought that was kinda coincidental. With the 49ers and Baker obviously no longer a part of the plans of the Carolina Panthers.


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[Assistant] You know, now there's, I would think there's some teams that try to claim Baker Mayfield, but he can also with his agent and everybody maybe just go, Hey, we don't want to play for you. So don't pick us up and we're going to make things miserable if you do pick us up.


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[Assistant] To where he could be there for the 49ers. I just found that very interesting. I think it's worth the thought. And I wouldn't be shocked to see it happen, uh, by the end of today or tomorrow, whenever that, you know, official deadline of clearing the waivers happens.


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[Assistant] Well, I was gonna say, like, you're right, and then I gotta think, like, you know, we were discussing, there's gotta be some teams that maybe really legitimately, like, maybe the Colts, maybe they wanna go, hey, let's, let's get a look at them. You know, and Matt Ryan, I mean, we know, it's the end.


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[Assistant] You know, there's a team that at least somewhat makes sense, right? I mean, even teams like Atlanta. But if I'm in the waivers and I'm in front of the 49ers and we're in direct competition to then, you know, be in the NFC playoffs.


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[Assistant] Like if I'm Seattle, and I'm in the waiver wire, and I'm ahead of the 49ers, I'm thinking about picking up Baker Mayfield no matter what. Just going, I'm not gonna let the 49ers take him. We'll just figure it out on our own roster, and he's gonna be here, and we'll make him.


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[Assistant] You don't feel good, just chalk it up for the day. Cause I need that sometimes, cause I'm kind of the guy that will always be like, I'll just push through it. I'll be okay. And so thank you.


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[Assistant] It's got some talent. It's secondary for sure. Yeah, they put pressure on you. That's the biggest thing.


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[Assistant] You know, he's very good at picking these low level, like good backup quarterbacks, right?


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[Assistant] Hey, they're kind of junkies and I know they're going to stay involved even when they're not playing and they could probably teach the offense to the other guys after a few weeks and all that. And I think that's what Brock Purdy is. And I think we saw that. I'm with you. I mean, to be thrown into that situation, really kind of game of the year situation and have a let down and oh shit, it's the Dolphins who


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[Assistant] Got a pretty good pass rush. They love the blitz. They play man to man in your face. You know, it's not an easy, uh, game to be thrown into the fire with. He, well, I mean, passed it with flying colors.


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[Assistant] About as pro offense as you can run in college football. So I think that's probably where Shanahan saw it and said, wait, he's used to being underneath the center. He does play action pass. He does all that. You saw he's a pretty good athlete.


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[Assistant] His arm actually looked better than I expected it to. Like the first few throws I was like woah.


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[Assistant] His arms got a little more poppin' than I expected, like I didn't think it was that different from Jimmy Garoppolo. I'm not saying he's better than Garoppolo, I'm just saying, yeaah, he looked like he belonged. And, uh, that was an impressive win by the 49ers, it really was. To weather that storm and then the emotions of it, you know, that's something you gotta think of too. And I'm like, aw man.


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[Assistant] Damn, like in the middle of the game, our quarterbacks hurt. Ooh, it sounds like it's bad. I'm hearing some rumors on the sideline. Man, is that going to affect us? Super Bowl, all of that. Those things go into your mind as a player, but they battled through and yeah, he was good. And I thought that was really one of the more, I think one of the pretty being great, being pretty good. And then.


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[Assistant] The run game for the 49ers was legit yesterday. It's the one piece that's kind of been off a little bit, just their ability to run the ball with the running backs, not the trick plays, you know, Ahmed? And they kind of got that going yesterday too. That was a huge help.


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[Assistant] And, you know, they, they, they pushed the Dolphins around up front a little bit, uh, but that was a big win for, for the 49ers. It really was to, to deal with that controversy and then to deal with that team, the Miami Dolphins, and for that defense again to play the way it did, uh, yeaah, pretty damn impressive. Sorry, good friend. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, you know, I, I know what you're saying there at the end. He's more seasoned. You know, it's just, you said it right. He played a lot of college football. Trey Lance, everybody's worry is he didn't play enough football, let alone he sat out a year for COVID, let alone, you know,


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[Assistant] He's, he's more of a potential guy. Whoa, I see a lot of high-end things he can do and we think we can groom it together and do that. Probably you knew what you were getting.


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[Assistant] Right? It's gonna be, it's gonna be pretty good all the time, but it's never gonna be pretty great. I think that's kind of what you say. You know, Lance has a chance to be pretty great. Uhm, so there's that. Now, the SARS, the, the, where do you see the ceiling for the 49ers? Yeah, that's the...


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[Assistant] That's the disappointing thing. Before this injury, you thought they could win the Super Bowl? 100%. 100%. To me, it's...


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[Assistant] Again, and I'll say it again, I just think them, and no disrespect to the Vikings, but them, the Eagles and Cowboys, to me,


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[Assistant] I gotta see a little more. I mean, you know, the 49ers are a playoff team still with Purdy. Yes, their team is amazing. The coaching staff's great. Shanahan will find more ways to help them out and do that as we always talk about.


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[Assistant] I just feel like, you know, Brock Purdy and the 49ers right here off, you know, base thought, are they gonna go in and beat the Eagles or the Cowboys in an NFC Championship game? I don't know, I guess I don't see that. And, uh, that's where it's disheartening, even for me personally, cause it's my friend and, you know, I send Kyle a lot of nice text messages during the year and,


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[Assistant] You know, one of the last ones I just sent him, like, a few days ago was like- Hope nothing happens to Jimmy.


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[Assistant] It was a little bit like, you guys are, you're close, you're almost healthy, you can win the Super Bowl this year. Oh no, that's almost as bad. Right? I mean, I guess so, but uh, damn. He just writes back today, thanks Chris. That hurt.


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[Assistant] I'm on the way out of the handshake, so it's like a weird pose right there.


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[Assistant] It's kind of his right hand man and his buddy in a lot of ways. So, uh, I think there's a great mutual respect. And of course, McDaniel's been around the Shanahan family from when Mike was coaching the Broncos. So he's not, you know, he's kind of a, an extension of their family that way. You know, this is one where it's like,


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[Assistant] I want to kick the shit out of my brother here in this game. You know what I mean? Like I don't want my brother to beat me one on one in the driveway or I don't want him, you know, to beat me in ping pong or whatever it is. You know how that is. Or, you know, so I think that's where it's more at, let alone all the hype around McDaniel. That's where the competitive juices start going. You know, he's probably going, what?


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[Assistant] You know, put a halt to the storyline of the Dolphins a little bit and the offense. Put a halt to it, so it was a bad game. Put a halt to it, at least for now, just as far as like the esteem that was rolling that way.


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[Assistant] They were missing two of their tackles. So that was a problem.


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[Assistant] Well, there's no problems, but I think, you know.


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[Assistant] Toa didn't play good, period. You did not. The stats are gonna say that it looked like he played okay. He missed a number of wide open receivers.


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[Assistant] And some of those were that 0-1-7 on third down conversions. But throughout the game, I mean, again, that's the one thing that me and Tony Dungy, we were sitting there and thinking, man, oh man, I missed that throw. Oh man, that guy was open. I mean, he was off target, let alone the interceptions he threw as well. You know, it was one of those games where it looked like they had, I mean, the people were open. It looked like though, you know,


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[Assistant] Again, they took away some of the cheap completions. We didn't see any of the screens and things like that break loose. We didn't see a Tyree kill like, you know, throw into the flat and all of a sudden he's running up the sidelines for 60 yards.


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[Assistant] So I think they took some of that away, but more than anything, I just felt like the 49ers size and speed of their defense made Tua a little uncomfortable and jumpy in the pocket, right? Where, you know,


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[Assistant] He's usually been smooth and comfortable all year, and yesterday I felt like he was like, oh man, these guys are fast, they're around me, let me get it out, you know what I mean, a little bit of that. And that happens too, and you know, that's where it can be a good learning experience for them as well, but uhm.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he was off throwing the football. He missed a lot of throws high throughout the day. Had a few out routes towards the sidelines. He threw low, let alone, you know, again, some of the turnovers, the fumble at the end of the game. So it was not his best performance, but you know, that was his first.


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[Assistant] You know, I just want to make sure. That was his first test against...


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[Assistant] You know, he didn't get to play against the Jets, right? It's because he was hurt. So that, that, he didn't get to see that kind of team, which is similar and fast and all that. I'm trying to look here just to pull up their schedule.


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[Assistant] Clearly, you know, the Bills, he was a fortunate member, and the Bills, they were missing about eight starters from their defense in week three. So he's seen nothing like this all year, and hopefully this can be something he can build on, and this will help him when he plays the Bills in two weeks, and the Patriots again, and all that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, right. That's, that's interesting. And then, you know, Hey, listen, the game they won against Buffalo.


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[Assistant] They were fortunate to win that. I think we've discussed that in depth there, but Miami's scary no matter what because even when they're kind of controlled in the football game,


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[Assistant] Just like we saw yesterday, it felt like, hey, 49ers in control.


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[Assistant] And then all of a sudden, Hufanga decides to jump a crossing route and...


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[Assistant] Let's tie, re-kill, run a post over the top, and you go, oh shit, there he is, oh damn, they scored, it was three plays, and here we go, and the game's close again. So they put tremendous pressure on you. And they do the same thing with the defensive side of the ball. Their team marries together the right way. That would be one of those yesterday a little bit.


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[Assistant] Where there was a few times, and I thought this was interesting with Shanahan too, is just that


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[Assistant] He knew the Dolphins were gonna blitz. So instead of trying to pick it up and sort everything out, he just sent all five guys out and he goes,


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[Assistant] Let's see if one of those blitzers is disciplined to get off their blitz and go cover our running back or whatever. And he did a good job of that I thought a few times. And you know my thing with blitzing too sometimes with the young quarterbacks, right? That did jump out to me a few times yesterday when I go, Miami, why, you're making the game easy on him. Oh, he's blitzing, he's in my face, I gotta get it out. There's no decision to be made.