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[Assistant] With this guy, he's a half field safety. Here's like a linebacker who's just looking for anything coming into his lane. And he's gonna protect like the deep middle in case this guy goes down the middle, right?


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[Assistant] So, they're playing a different way. Again, a similar look. Stresses your protection. Makes the quarterback feel frenzied and I don't know what I'm getting. Am I protected? Let me look downfield. What the hell is the coverage?


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[Assistant] Those to me are little things that go a long way to flustering a quarterback in offense in general. And again,


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[Assistant] You know, there seem to be very good as far as knowing what to expect.


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[Assistant] The, the beauty of is, you know, once you show what they did that first play,


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[Assistant] Now, every time they call a play, they're calling a play to worry about, man, it's gonna be that all-out blitz. So we gotta have something ready for that. And really, he's running a route to pick him so it can be like this if it's an all-out blitz. But it's not an all-out blitz. And there's people sitting here ready for it this time. So, he throws it in there.


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[Assistant] And of course, he gets alligator arms because he's like, whoa, that guy's big and he's flying at me. And he's going to take my head off if I catch this football right here. And of course, this is another aspect that I get to give Miami credit for. Duke Riley, Van Ginkle.


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[Assistant] Baker, you know, they're very good in space. They're very athletic, so that allows them to blitz, be good at dropping out, coverage, react, make a hit like that. But there we go, there's two plays, look very similar, complicated on a quarterback.


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[Assistant] And you don't know what you're gonna get at the line of scrimmage or in coverage. And that's why...


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[Assistant] To the graphic we showed, they're killing it on defense right now.


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[Assistant] No doubt. I mean, to the point that you made, they haven't had to play a high octane awesome pass offense yet here. Right.


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[Assistant] Here it is. And then here's some, oh wait, we're not totally all out. We're gonna back out here. And I think too, again, they have a good feel for awake. Ooh, wait, they have a good plan. Let's back off this for a little while. We'll dial it up a little later down the road again. See if we can mess with them then. But this is, to your point, gonna be one of those plays right here.


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[Assistant] This way certainly goes their way. And again, I think this is one of the keys, like for a quarterback, you gotta look at that right there. That's like, you know, when you start to see that across look, you know, that's man. That's to me, it's man and it's probably all out.


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[Assistant] Right, because again, it's all out, right? If it, if it, and you were bump and run.


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[Assistant] You know, again, you're just like, you're gonna let Cam Newton, what, just catch the ball, and if DJ Moore gets a good release off the line of scrimmage, you just throw it up, and now it's like, well damn, there's no point in all-out blitzin' if you're just gonna let him do that, right? So, hey, here we go again, and they're gonna dial it up the right way here, alright? I mean, they, they, they got it this time.


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[Assistant] Slide the protection this way. They got a blocker here in the tight end. Both backs are looking for work to the strong side of this or to the tight end side of this formation. Alright? And so now you got an eight man protection.


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[Assistant] They got an 8-man protection. So, you know, they're not going to get there this time. And as you can see, they're dropping people out again just for anything quick like that to where, you know, they can, they can defend it. But ultimately what they're going to do here is Robbie Moore is going to run a little, uh, Robbie Anderson, not Robbie Moore, is going to run a little out route.


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[Assistant] And DJ Moore is gonna kinda bend it out and run to the post. And it looks like Miami is trying to switch this off a little bit. Like, okay, you go out, you know, as you see here, you go out, now you take him, and he's gonna come in, and you gotta take him. Very hard to do.


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[Assistant] But they're also not really expecting to have to do it because they're thinking, again, we're sending all these people, we're going to get somebody there, they're not going to be able to throw a 60 yard bomb down the field. And here they go, they dial it up perfectly.


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[Assistant] And you could see that Byron Jones is a little too late to react. I don't know if they're supposed to do that or not. To me on film, it looked like they were supposed to switch it off.


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[Assistant] And Byron Jones doesn't get mad at Xavier Howard after the play for like not staying with him. So I think this is what they are coached to do here to switch that off. And again, Cam makes the great throw. But what I want to say too is this is literally the last good play for the Carolina Panthers offense the rest of the game. This is it. That's it. Now they get out of this defense for a little while.


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[Assistant] They don't play it for a little while, they get back into man's and cover threes and disguising and they do, they do all the base defenses really good as well. You know, it's not just this stuff, but it starts with this stuff and it's this stuff that dictates a lot of the game and it dictates what the quarterback and offensive coordinator do because they can never call a play not thinking


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[Assistant] Is this going to come? So you're always like, okay, it's third and four. I want to call this play. I like it, but I got to be ready for the all out blitz look.


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[Assistant] And, so they're playing off that a lot, and this is the only time this game they get


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[Assistant] Yeah, you could. And they, they will do that every now and then where they blitz, but like right here, they're more interested in, we want to outnumber how many blockers you have.


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[Assistant] That's really what this, so they had to try, they got two guys covering and nine guys at the line of scrimmage. Yeaah. We said there's eight blockers, they got one more.


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[Assistant] That's all they're trying to do. You know, so yes, they're taking risk with that, certainly. But again, it goes back to what we started off with. When you have two of these guys that are special like this, they're willing to roll the dice and put a little pressure on their $15 million a year corners.


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[Assistant] They do have it figured out pretty well. Well, they do have it figured out pretty well. Exactly right. Yeaah. We can't argue with the results too much. And I think the other thing too is because, like, I had, I had uhm, somebody said something to me on Sunday when we were watching the game. They go, why don't teams just do that all the time? Because I go, they do enough of the dropping out and now it's coverage to what?


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[Assistant] So that's where they keep you off balance too sometimes to not know like, I can't always do max protect and, and then that's again where I want to see this go against a, a Josh Allen again or some other offense. You know, they get another crack at New England. They're going to have some answers or some interesting things and I'm going to give you some answers here in a minute with one of these looks.


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[Assistant] But again, what's our look? There we go, nobody in the middle of the field. It's all eight, and here's our look again. So my money would be it's an all out blitz.


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[Assistant] Right? It's all out. It's got a different look than, you know, the corner down here and the corner down here and, you know, another guy kind of hovering. It's not the same look. They're all three looking at the quarterback. Exactly.


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[Assistant] The ball is going to get out quick. I want to read the quarterback's eyes right away. We're expecting a little bit of, they're going to kind of look and try to see this because they're thinking it's going to be a slam, a quick out. They want to read the drop a little bit so they can just break on it. And at the very worst, okay, you get the catch, but we tackle you or hit you right away.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, they're gonna play it that way. Because, yeaah, I don't know, they don't necessarily want to be all eyes on here, uh, all the way. And then, you know, they run a little double move or something to where they don't see the quarterback at all, or if he's gonna get it out. So they're trying to see the whole picture to a degree. Alright? But this play, they're gonna run the ball.


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[Assistant] Like they're gonna run the ball. And what I wanna say is just like, what a waste of a play. It's second and nine, and watch what happens. I mean,


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[Assistant] First off, it just, I mean, it has no chance. You know, this is, this is not good offensive football. And I don't know if this is on Cam or Joe Brady or what.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but this is just not gonna get it done, right? And to me, that's your, alright, second and nine, oh great, now we're in third and eleven, third and twelve.


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[Assistant] No chance there. Now this is where like, you gotta have checks at the line of scrimmage. You gotta have, you know, some signals to the receivers to do certain things. And to me, what it really comes down to in these type of things, where I think you would see, uhm,


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[Assistant] Other high octane offenses, the thing that's gonna scare them more than anything to get out of these type of looks, is to get a guy like him with the ball, DJ Moore, one on one, right here, right now, and then just make it about, is your guy gonna tackle our freak receiver? To me, that's how you beat it.


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[Assistant] Hey, you could do a lot of different things. You could just, hey, hey, turn around, catch it. It's Robbie Anderson, one-on-one with Byron Jones. Let's see how you go there. You could do the old bubble screen, right? Now, you know, you'd want that to be DJ Moore or somebody like that. The old bubble, and then he comes down and blocks one of the guys and it becomes one-on-one.


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[Assistant] Right? You could do that. You could check to, hey, let's get a six man protection, a seven man protection, and


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[Assistant] You know, I know they still got us outnumbered to a degree, but I might have a chance here to hold on something a little bit to where you send this guy right at him, and then you bring him underneath for a slant route, and now it's uh oh, it's one on one on DJ Moore. You wanna keep playing this game?


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[Assistant] You know, there's that aspect. Uhm, so there's, there's some different answers that you can give here that can be


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[Assistant] Fade back a little bit. Let me just show me on this camera, Pete, a little bit. Like, no one guy's gonna get free, but we're gonna let maybe the farthest guy from you get free. Fade away a little bit as the pressure's coming just to buy yourself a hair of time. Send him on a go, okay?


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[Assistant] Send him on a go and you kind of just have this guy who attacks the inside leverage and just goes right there.


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[Assistant] You know, so you don't even have to send this guy in to go. Maybe you send him on just a little out route, right? So now he breaks, and now you fade away, and you're fading away from pressure, and you throw a ball down here, just in the general vicinity, a little bit like we saw, and that'll get defenses out of this. There's no doubt.


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[Assistant] Or some sort of jailbreak, you get this, here comes this guy, this guy, they're all gonna come out here for a screen, and boom, all of a sudden it's that. To me, those are the type of answers you have to have here, but what I do know is,


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[Assistant] Whatever. Give them the ball right here. Right. Now this guy blocks one of the two, whoever comes first. And now it's one on one football. But agreed. That's what you're gonna have to do. And damn, there was a game I watched on film here. Oh, it was the Steelers.


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[Assistant] With Jamar Chase. Okay. They had a similar look just like this. They threw it out there to Jamar Chase. He was a shoelace from going sixty


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[Assistant] Hey, hey, hey, hey, receivers, receivers, receivers. You know, cut it down here, come here. Alright, let's put you here. Let's put you here. Hey, McCaffrey, get on this side of me, right? Okay? And then I do this. Block down, crack him. Block down, crack him. So they set a wall there. Pull the guard around, toss it to McCaffrey. Who's gonna get him? They're all stuck in there.


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[Assistant] You gotta have like four or five plays that you teach your quarterback during the week to go, they're gonna bring this up. When you get that a straight across look, it's probably gonna be all out.


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[Assistant] Here's your answers and let's, and we're going to make sure we're going to have our best players to your point in a spot where they get the ball and now it's one on one. And do you want to keep playing that way Miami? And that's what you're going to have to do.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, it's a, it's a valid point. It's a valid point. The one thing I'd be scared about a little bit, is again, it's a New England staff, and they're gonna have some answers. Okay. And you do have some talented receivers in the Giants.


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[Assistant] You know, do they want to risk a Darius Katoni out in the edge? You know, one on one. Or maybe even a Darius Slayton who can make one guy miss and run 70 yards. So that'll be interesting.


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[Assistant] But like you said, if the quarterback is smart and just gets it out right away, it takes away the whole pressure thing and now it becomes one-on-one football.


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[Assistant] Last thing, wait, other thing I want to say too, last thing. You know, I guess we should have shown this, I thought we were gonna, I might have messed this up. You know, they'll do that, or even the cam, cam's interception, his first interception of the game. They showed the all out, it was a little different looking, right, it didn't look the way. They dropped the cover too.


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[Assistant] And he threw an interception. It was a bad throw. It actually was a good play call and everything like that, but Cam just didn't throw the ball well. Cam missed some throws in the game too.


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[Assistant] You know, to, uh, to that point that hurt the Carolina offense a little bit.


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[Assistant] Let's dive in, to hell with him, let's go into the next one. This one's quick, we got the Patriots, so let's go. Alright.


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[Assistant] You know, again, Tennessee's not going anywhere, everybody. They're not gonna go, they're not gonna fall apart here. I know they lost to the Texans and they lost to the Titans, and it didn't look good. I mean,


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[Assistant] I will be shocked that if they're like, this just totally falls apart on them. They might lose a game or two more, I understand that, but I still think they're a force of nature here. Their O line is too good, their D line is too good. They're gonna get the receivers back.


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[Assistant] He knows what Belichick doesn't like to see in certain formations. That would be the first thing. Which is what?


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[Assistant] There's, there's, I'll show you here in a minute. Just certain things that he knows from working there or playing there that he knows like,


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[Assistant] Oh, Bill always used to say if a team got in this formation and we played this defense, man, we got to watch out for this because I don't like this. You know, that's how things are orchestrated in New England. I mean, that's how their offenses are. The New England offenses is orchestrated off of Belichick telling McDaniels and Charlie Weiss.


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[Assistant] When I, when I see this, I don't want to have to defend this. I mean, that's literally how it started. That's why he's the genius and the greatest coach ever. They used some New England plays to beat New England, and then also, he knows, he knows the guy on the other side. He self-scouted thyself a little bit to know like,


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[Assistant] In these situations, we always do this. I got a zig when he thinks we're gonna zag. If you think you're just gonna line up and beat New England with what you've been doing and just go, here it is, this is what we do, you're crazy. You gotta do some things where you go, this is what we do.


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[Assistant] They were, but I will say I don't think these are that hollow of stats. I think this is a game where the score is misleading. The stats in the game, like I didn't look at the game and go, New England just overwhelmed them. They were just better, they physically dominated them. That's not the case here.


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[Assistant] Tannahill missed a wide open touchdown pass and they missed a field goal.


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[Assistant] You know, they get a long run, the guy breaks it, fumbles. They're on the one yard line, they throw an interception.


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[Assistant] Right? There was plenty of points in this game where it was like, oh, this game's about to be dead even and we're gonna go into fourth quarter and this is gonna be fun to watch. It's just, the Patriots made a few plays.


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[Assistant] Bill's gonna know this. They're the greatest breakdown coaches in the history of football. They're gonna play pass defense. Now, New England's also one of the kings, in my opinion, of, like, if it's third and three, they'll run the football and gash you that way if they feel like you're playing too much pass defense.


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[Assistant] I think that's again, that's the point. This is not like an overwhelming, oh my gosh, unbelievable play schematically that I'm about to show you here. It's just, it's again just knowing what you're gonna get.


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[Assistant] It's, it's three down linemen. It's a bunch of linebackers and secondary players. You know, it's, it's linemen, linemen, line, uh, Matthew Don. It's safety.


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[Assistant] They're expecting they want to stop some sort of short pass. And really what they're doing here is they're playing man, and he's playing man.


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[Assistant] And, he's playing man on him, he's playing man on him, he's free, and, I just want to make sure I get this right, I think Hightower and Van Nooy, I got a million plays in my head, sorry if I'm not exactly right, are gonna drop out,


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[Assistant] Because they want to stop, oh, just in case they run something like this or he comes off and comes through this way, we got guys inside that we're not going to ask our corner to stop here and then chase across the field and try to stop a shallow cross right? That's impossible. They're in New England. They don't expect any human on earth to be able to stop that. They're going to have some sort of like


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[Assistant] We gotta help the guy out a little bit. He's not Superman. He can't just cover 4-3 receivers all over the field all day long. Right? So, here we go. You can kinda see.


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[Assistant] Two, three. He's here just to kind of eat up the block, the, the, the blocker a little bit. And he's gonna like help out and get out. He had the tight end man to man. There's Van Noy. I don't know, maybe Hightower is actually


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[Assistant] There, he might just be clogging up a lane to not let like Tannahill run or anything like that, but you can see he's not really rushing the passer, right?


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[Assistant] Three man rush, draw up the middle, block perfectly. Got em. Yeah? Yeah.


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[Assistant] Defense alignment off the field, a bunch of linebackers and secondary guys, see you later. Yeaah. You know. Perfect play call. A perfect play call, that's all I'm getting to. And again, that's something to me where it's like, that's something New England usually does to other teams.


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[Assistant] So four rush attempts the whole year to that point. Man, and then they did it four times. Four times in this game for 90 yards and a first down on three of the four. So that's just, again, when you're playing New England, if you're not zigging when you're supposed to zag, you're going to zag yourself to a loss. I can tell you that.


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[Assistant] Almost. I mean, it really is. You know, this is, again, this is to the point of what I was trying to say with the stats. Like, it's 19-13, and they're gonna break a big run here, and you're gonna go, damn, they're in a field goal position. Here we go. This game's gonna be awesome. It's gonna be awesome. But again, this is like, Vrabel and company knowing how to block,


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[Assistant] A 3-4 front, you know, you got one, let me just clear that. You got one, two, three. You got your outside linebacker in Vannoy, there's Judon, Hightower, Jawan Bentley, who I think is the best thumping middle linebacker in football right now, alright?


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[Assistant] On either side of them. And then the linebackers react off of it.


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[Assistant] So it's not easy always to run the ball on New England or these types of defense. That's why the Ravens and the Steelers all these years are amazing at stopping the run for the most part.


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[Assistant] Alright, now the thing that's key to this play, one is Ben Jones is a really good center, and he reach blocks and stops, uh, I think this is Godshaw, but I'm not really sure. He stops the nose tackle from getting to this gap on his left, the A gap to his left.


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[Assistant] He doesn't let that happen. Alright, so that's where it first starts. The second thing they do is they're basically running outside zone.


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[Assistant] of that a gap I just talked about where the center you see you can see he's got him reached here right you know here's guy who's trying to two gap either side right now here's saffold who it's like you see what I'm talking about a little bit as far as


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[Assistant] How he kinda came off the ball here. Just wanna show this again, like, look how, look how he comes off the ball, Saffold, right here. Alright? You know, it, it's very, a different approach for an outside, uh, sorry, dammit, I messed, messed up. Outside zone look, but,


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[Assistant] The brilliance of it is, alright, is the fact that


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[Assistant] Now guy who's trying to read it and play either side, he's got a guy that's hitting him.


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[Assistant] And Hightower's taught to now just blow up the gap, alright? Blow it up. Run in, you see the gap, you're a big body, blow it up. That'll give the guy nowhere to run, alright? But the key is because Sapple does this little aggressive move to his left,


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[Assistant] He makes, and it's hard to see from this angle, he makes the A gap here, and you'll see in a second, it's 8 yards wide.


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[Assistant] So even though he does his job and clogs the gap.


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[Assistant] He's not the size of a Mack truck. He can't clog the whole gap.


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[Assistant] And because of that, they get exposed. You know, let me see if I can pause to the right. Like, it's really hard to tell from this angle. I showed Pete on film and he was like, oh my gosh, yes, the gap is huge. So if you could really see between center and left guard here, high tower hits him. He tries to stick out his left hand.


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[Assistant] I would be shocked if it wasn't intentional. I would be shocked. I don't think you're gonna see an outside zone play all year unless they play a 3-4 team that looks like that again. But I know, I wish we had an unzoned cut to show you, but this gap's so huge that they


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[Assistant] Even though like schematically are in their gaps, that a gap is eight yards wide and that allows him to run through it. And then you got JC Jackson.


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[Assistant] Uh, who's, I don't know, maybe the best corner in football right now? He loves to run people down, hawk them down, and cause some issues. Hell of a play. It'll be fun to watch the Patriots.


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[Assistant] Right? Who does Flea Flickers? New England is the king of Flea Flickers trick plays. They did that to get down there one time. You know, they used a lot of New England-y stuff against New England and, uh, yeaah. I don't think Tennessee's going anywhere. I know they're not perfect yet.


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[Assistant] But if you can move that front and get some yards running against that front, then you're gonna be able to move the ball against just about anybody.


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[Assistant] Yeah. Can be. I'm gray or blue, period. They're not getting anything different from me. Not getting anything. And yes, dad, uh, dad had a long Thanksgiving. We were at the house, so it was good when he got home that night.


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[Assistant] And, uh, we had some fun. He didn't even eat, like, leftovers that night. It was too late. He didn't want to do it. He's officially hit that old age where his stomach just can't handle it too late at night.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Shanahan's on fire right now, he really is, and he's got people's heads on a swivel in the run game, there's no doubt about it. And yeah, you're right, to your point, you gotta have those little nuances, uh, within your run game, within some of your staple plays, to be able to adjust, like, well, this week, this team plays like this, we gotta change this just a little, even though it's the same play.


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[Assistant] At this part of the season, no doubt about it. And that's where I think, you know, Ray Bull is tough on Belichick, and of course Belichick's tough on everybody that way. Hey, last thing with the Tennessee Titans in that game too.


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[Assistant] Tennessee gets their corners and they're secondary healthy a little bit. I'd be interested to see where that goes. Okay, that'll be a different matchup the next time. Uhm, they did a great job of stopping the Patriots run.


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[Assistant] They couldn't get any pressure on the passer though. And that's where they'll need Bud Dupree back to get healthy and be a pain in the ass that way. That'll be, you know, something to watch for if they ever do match up. But uhm, I'm sorry, I just had to get that out.


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[Assistant] Uhm, alright, so dad wants to hit three things here today. I have no idea. I just know Baker Mayfield, Matthew Stafford,


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[Assistant] Daniel Jones. Those are the three things we want to hit on, Dad. I know you want to hit on that. I told the audience at the start of the show that those were, that's where you wanted to go. I'll give you, you know, free pass here. Where do you want to start between those three?


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[Assistant] Yeah, no doubt about it. And I think you're right with Stafford. I mean, the elbow, he hurt his foot maybe in like week three or four or maybe it was even a little later than that, five or six. He's obviously a little beat up. First month of the season, I mean, it was on fire.


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[Assistant] No, he was not, but I think that's the thing that jumps out. Hey, there's a few throws in the game the other day, like, he's got a corner route against Green Bay. I mean, it's, it's, I would go, man, Matthew Stafford, the way this looks right now before he throws it, he could get down on a knee and close his eyes and he's gonna hit this. And he didn't, he barely got it there.


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[Assistant] I mean, he barely got it there. There's just too many throws that are off target right now. And again, yea, Dad and I are Matt Stafford fans. We're defenders of him a little bit. We understand he's been a little wild and stupid in Detroit at times. We get that. But there's still no denying the thrower and the player and his ability to hit the bullseye. There's no denying that.


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[Assistant] And right now that's where I just think we're both a little surprised in the fact that, you know, there's just


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[Assistant] I don't see it, dad. I don't know about you. Maybe you've watched a hair closer, but I don't look at it and go, oh, he's, you know, not letting his arm rip or let it go.


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[Assistant] It looks the same to me too. I don't look at anything like mechanically and go it looks different other than it's just not on point and it seems it's got, instead of a 101 mile per hour fastball, it's like a 94 right now.


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[Assistant] Lower back. Those are all the three things that are bothering him right now. I mean, all those things would be, you're gonna throw the ball more arm then. Yea. You know, you're not gonna get your legs, you might not torque quite the same, cause your back's a little sore. Hundred percent. You know? So there, there, there's, there, that will affect your throwing and, and I think dad's spot on with that. Alright.


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[Assistant] I did, I like him. I had him like three. Dad thought he was like the best one. What did you judge, Phil?


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[Assistant] Well, it does. It affects his accuracy too, because his head starts to move all crazy. That's the biggest thing. It affects his accuracy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it really does. And dad, I think you're right too. Like, what's the rush? Why do we gotta sign them to a long-term deal? They already picked up a fifth-year option.


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[Assistant] He's, he's gonna get north of 20 million dollars next year. So, so why? We don't have to get the long term deal, nor do we have to like, sail him down, sail him down the Ohio River just because there's other issues there in Cleveland. Alright, so that's true.


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[Assistant] Let's go to the G man. Okay. And Daniel Jones, right. Because again, it looks like he's in a practice today. I'm hopeful he can play.


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[Assistant] You know, I, I know, yep, I know I'm a, I think we're both defenders of Daniel Jones. We are to a degree. You know, yea, do I think he was overdrafted? Of course I do. I didn't think he was a top ten talent. Okay. He's been better than the people up here in New York when I give him credit for it.


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[Assistant] And I think, like, dad, you'd back me up on this. Hard to play quarterback when you're behind the worst offensive line in football. And you've had three different offensive coordinators to start your career. Hard to be really good. I don't know what people want to say. It's just, I mean, again, I could give you some greats. All time greats. Put Tom Brady behind that offense in New York. See how that works out. I promise you, it ain't gonna be good.


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[Assistant] I don't care who it is. Yeah, maybe Mahomes and Dan- and, and Josh Allen and those guys can make a little more plays.


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[Assistant] It's tough living the way he has. But, that's gonna be one of the conversations, Dad. Daniel Jones, should they pick up his fifth year option? You know, they have to make that decision by April. Like, you know, what do you do if you're the Giants?


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[Assistant] They have to do it by April, so they gotta make that decision. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that's right. I got to see Brady play once and, you know, against him, right? In like a real game. And I remember up in New England just...


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[Assistant] But it was the right kind of jerk. Like a tilting of the head and, what are we doing? And that, and that goes a long way.


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[Assistant] It went the other way around. He's like, all right. He's like, you look, you understand the game. You're ready to let's go a hundred dollars this game. And I was like, yeah, sure. I got it. You know, I thought I had it. I beat him in a game because of like, I rolled the dice the right way. Yeah. Not because of the, the, the game that's going on. I think I'm, uh, what? North of 25,000. I own right now. I told him I want to.


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[Assistant] It really, it kinda went down like that. Like, he, he, we literally played a game or two, he taught me how to play, I beat him like in the second game, cause I rolled like double fives and double sixes.


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[Assistant] And then he was like, are you ready? You got it? Let's, alright, a hundred dollars this game. And you know, like the first day I was down like a thousand dollars, right? Cause we also play, I don't know if you know how to play backgammon. I actually just learned during the pandemic to play with my wife or something to do. It's fun. It's a great game. It's a great gambling game.


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[Assistant] You know, because of the old line and their issues, they can't be overly creative at times. You know, what are you going to do? Oh yea, we want to call the deep post corner route here with a guy running a 25 yard


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[Assistant] Crossing route. Yeaah, well good luck. I mean there's no way he'll be able to throw that ball. Yeaah. So then, you know, it's a ripple effect after that too. Now we have to call certain routes and certain plays to get the ball out of the hand quick. Now the defense starts to expect that. They can play aggressive all the time. You know, so there's a lot of issues there that he's had to deal with. And, you know, I'm with that too. I don't think, I don't think you give him the fifth year option.


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[Assistant] Because of a lot of things. Yeaah, so what? He can, he's a big boy, he'll be alright. Yeaah. He understands that- There's an option in between.


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[Assistant] Alright, I mean, so I just, I look at it that way, and you know, also, hey, the politics of the situation, yeaah, there's a lot of people up in New York here in this area that don't believe in Daniel Jones, you know, I'm always arguing with them to a degree.


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[Assistant] So, don't give him the fifth year option. My point I wanted to make, and I meant to say this with Dad, is you don't want to be in the Carolina Panthers spot.


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[Assistant] Where they committed a 5th year option to Sam Darnold. Oh great. You're gonna pay Sam Darnold $20 million next year. He's not gonna be on your team. Not gonna be on your team. So why? Don't do that. Let's see a little more evidence. There's things you like, like you said. We know it hasn't been perfect. But we don't think he stinks. So let's see where it goes from there. And then we can sign him to a long term deal.


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[Assistant] We're not doing the 5th year option too, we back off the fan base a little bit to show like, hey we're not stupid, we're not just committing to him just to say, he's a top 10 pick and we're trying to prove we're not wrong. Right. We're gonna see how this goes.


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[Assistant] Everything from running shoes that propel you forward to hoop shoes like the ones that I got on right now that give you insane grip. And they're damn comfortable too. Alright. And they match my damn logo. So I like that. They even make hoodies that reflect energy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, right. Yeah, they're, uh, but in the, in the air, it's like, uh, Sesame Street cookies. Yeah. Cookie Monster not released yet.


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[Assistant] Right, and I didn't know what cookies meant in basketball, and I've had some basketball people who actually have listened to the pod. What does it mean? See, it's like steal, uh, steal. Steal, the cookies is a phrase of stealing the ball, uh, in basketball, which I was unaware of, so. I didn't know that either. I didn't know either. I don't know. You got hoop spins? Taking cookies from the cookie jar. You got hoop spins?


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[Assistant] Hoops centered. Gotcha. Right. They talk a little football and stuff, but I guess they're listening to, and we played the pot on Sirius XM during the week. Yeah. And we brought this up, I guess last week or the week before and someone heard it and they were like, oh dude, cookies means this in the basketball world. And I was like, all right.


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[Assistant] Just do it all. Hey, whatever the team needs, you do it. Run over the middle, get killed, block in the running game, play running back, play receiver, whatever. He's a weapon. The entire thing. I think he's the most...


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[Assistant] You know, I could still fight back with some ones that have hit too. That one hit. And Deebo in the second round has hit. Yeaah. I mean, definitely one of the five best receivers in football right now. Shanahan's on a roll.


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[Assistant] You know, it's a shame Deebo got hurt a little this week. So he's gonna probably miss this week. Really, I bet you he misses two weeks with a groin injury. You know, uh, Fred Warner got hurt in the game a little bit. But man, they looked like a different team on the field the other day. Jaquiski Tartt was back. Dre Greenlaw, a linebacker was back.


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[Assistant] And of course they've been on fire on the offensive side of the ball, and I still think the 49ers are a team that's capable of winning the Super Bowl. Wow. I really do. Wow. Yes. I, I, I...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I really think they have still the February magic. I do. When I look at the NFC...


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[Assistant] I said this on Monday, I think the top six seeds can all win the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] And I got less questions right now about the 49ers as compared to the Dallas Cowboys or maybe even the Rams. That's how they played recently. Right. So, I mean, if you made me rank the NFC, I'd probably put the 49ers like the fourth best team in the conference. After the Packers. The Cardinals. Yep. And the, uh, Bucks. Okay.


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[Assistant] Good Mitchell. Yes, works Mitchell. Right, no doubt about it. And I mean the run game with Shanahan, of course to me is, it's the best design run game in football.


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[Assistant] It is. It's just out of this world creative, you know, like my dad said, he was bringing it up a little bit. It just, there's so many different looks, motions, everything. It's hard to defend it all. Let alone, they're really good at a core bunch of plays that they make look different.


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[Assistant] To make the defense think and, you know, they can screw you over that way.


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[Assistant] So all the pre-stab motions and movements, they really stress the defense out. He's just looking for one little angle or issue that he can find to give his offense a run game, you know, the advantage there. You know, so between the way their defense is playing, you know, the run game, healthy on offense.


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[Assistant] You know, to where, you know, like we, even that Arizona game, drop passes, fumble on the three yard line, muffed a pun, I believe, you know, it is just dumb crap. So they fixed some of that up for sure. And you know, the other thing too, just to add to it, because I, listen, we could have showed 30 plays from this game because it was, it was a offensive showing, you know, he just has,


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[Assistant] And he's really good at sequencing plays, where, okay, here's a great run I just gashed you with.


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[Assistant] He might go right back to it with just a different look, which I'm gonna do right here. It's the same play, twice, just a different way of doing it. Or, he's got like,


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[Assistant] Oh, I ran this play. Now here's the play action off of it. Screen to the tight end. You were all worried about that play. I just ran where I gashed you for 15 yards in the run game. And now you got the safety of the linebackers and they're like, Oh my gosh, here it comes again. Let me get all over it. Oh, he me with the screenplay. That's where he's the master. He's the master.


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[Assistant] Yep, 7-0. Jimmy G threw a pick in the middle of the field. Harrison Smith made a great play. It's outside zone. And listen, this is not like,


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[Assistant] Oh my gosh, this is the Shanahan outside zone. This is where they're amazing. Alright, but what I want to show you is just like a little bit of the nuances of why he makes it so good. First off, like I like one of the nuances that I've seen more this year than ever is he has the quarterback reverse out and they run it on a toss play.


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[Assistant] Not the old traditional, you know, quarterback run out here and give the guy the ball out here.


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[Assistant] And what that's doing, and why, to me, it's just a nice little nuance, is when, when second level defenders see toss, they all think it's, oh, they're running outside. It's a toss, right?


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[Assistant] It really creates hard flow to get there. The other thing I think I like with the toss on the outside zone too is


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[Assistant] It's easier for the running back to see the cutback lanes because now the quarterback's not like right there in his face to where he's gotta like get the ball and clear the quarterback now to see the cutback lane. Does that make sense? You know what I mean? He gets the ball and the picture's clear so he can really read it.


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[Assistant] I'm not, again, it's not about here just being like the most amazing thing in the world, but you can see everybody's trying to get a reach block here, he's trying to edge that guy, you know, he's trying to get there, there, he's there, he's there, he's trying to get the outside edge of this, you know, and what he's really reading


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[Assistant] Uh, Elijah Mitchell in this case is, he's gonna look at two things. He gets the ball, he wants to see if anybody actually set the edge to stop him from running outside. And they probably tell him to key the backside weak linebacker. Because if he flies too far, then yes, look for that cut back lane. Alright, so as we go here, you're gonna see, he gets it, alright.


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[Assistant] Anthony Barr, look where he is right now. He set the edge. He's in a pretty good spot.


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[Assistant] You know, he's got the outside arm free. He's on the outside angle of the tight end there. That to me does not look like you're going to be able to run the ball outside, right? You know, they're probably keying the linebacker again like I talked about. Look where he is. He's really over here far right now, right? He's starting to move this way pretty aggressively.


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[Assistant] I'm sure he's been caught all week to kind of key these type of things. What they do tell you to do is kind of press the edge about as long as you possibly can press it. Trent Williams does a great job of getting the backside defense alignment on the ground.


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[Assistant] Harrison Smith's responsible for that outside gap, but as we see here a little bit like what we talked about with New England a little bit and the Titans.


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[Assistant] This gap right here is getting way too big, right? Way too big. That middle linebacker sprinted out of there so fast too. That's what I mean. He's flying over, right? So between that guy and this, he's now attention cut back, attention cut back.


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[Assistant] Boom. And I think the great thing is just how well


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[Assistant] He can read it, you know, and how well he does as far as he's still pressing the edge right here. He's still pushing people this way to where people are still flying, flying and trying to get over there.


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[Assistant] He gives this all the chances it needs to work on the front side before he finally just says, boom, there's the cut back lane. And again, like with these schemes, Shanahan's the best at doing it.


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[Assistant] It's like, you know, again, some guys aren't even really blocking guys. They're just like, hey, just keep pushing this guy and we'll just try to get people on people. And he gives him a few things to read and bam, there you go. Take it back, Chris. Yeah, sure.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. Well done. It gives them that idea. It gives them that ability. And to your point, you know, what you're saying is,


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[Assistant] But, like, what you're gonna see here is a totally different alignment, alright?


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[Assistant] It's a totally different alignment than what we just saw. Alright? And now,


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[Assistant] You know, again, it looks okay, but before we had a tight end right here, right?


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[Assistant] You had a tight end here, and I believe even though there was a wide receiver way outside in the screen that we couldn't see, who blocked the corner, right?


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[Assistant] Now it's like moving parts, motion, here's a full back, here's Deebo Samuel offset, you know, there's Jeff Wilson in motion, right? So you got your running back. And the first thing that I think people need to realize is they create a personnel mismatch.


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[Assistant] Because this is 21 personnel, right? It's two backs, one tight end. But wait.


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[Assistant] Plus you got Kittle who's one of the better run blocking tight ends, and it becomes a little bit more of a run heavy 21 or 31 personnel like we're saying. So that's gonna cause some issues as well. Now, this is where like, again,


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[Assistant] It's pretty much, it's the same play. It's outside zone. Look, everybody's trying to reach. The defense was lined up a hair differently. But, now this time,


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[Assistant] Once Anthony Barr out here, remember before the tight end was lined up on him and he got on the outside and got that outside arm free to where you weren't gonna run outside of him.


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[Assistant] This time, the tight end doesn't get him. He slips right inside to stop the second level linebacker, Kendricks, right? Kittle.


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[Assistant] He kinda takes a little step inside for a second, and what does that leave? It leaves you checked to now cut him off from not setting the edge. Right? So he's got that. Now Wilson's gonna go in motion, and he's got leverage already on Bashad Breeland. He's gonna run him up the field and eventually block him.


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[Assistant] Now, this is one where, yes, Debo Samuel is allowed to look for the cutback lane too, and man, maybe if he got the ball and did it right away, he would have been able to do it, but they don't want him to do it that early. Again, they're telling them to press the edge. See if somebody did set the edge, or did we set the edge and stop it, and


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[Assistant] It's the same freaking play, different look, we're machines at blocking the run play, and he's got enough of an edge here where he trusts it. Like see, he's seeing it right here and he's going, wait, he's not totally on the outside, my guy's gotta got a pretty good


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[Assistant] And, you know, he did a little hesitation, which is where he's like, he's very natural runner.


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[Assistant] He kind of, he kind of did a good job of like helping set the edge. And I want to see if I can really slow this down at the right point. Watch him do a little like hesitation in just for a second. Like he slowed down, like he might cut there. It helped Anthony, Anthony Barr get reached just a little bit more to where he could get around the edge.


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[Assistant] And he presses that and they got bodies on bodies everywhere. Alright? And he runs for a touchdown.


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[Assistant] Right around the edge. Touchdown San Francisco 49ers. Same play that they've mastered.


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[Assistant] So they're coached up on it, but it gave you a lot of window dressing and some different looks to where you can't react to it quite the same way, and it gave them a little bit of a different advantage to get on the edge.


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[Assistant] Yes, he's a genius with this stuff. And hey, put this play back up, Pete, because I want to show one more thing here. Right? Yeah, just because this is the last thing. And this was kind of a part of the game. But yeah, like you're exactly right. It's a real skill by Shanahan. He's got checks and balances for everything.


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[Assistant] So, anything you overplay too hard, he's gonna play to go,


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[Assistant] Well, you're overplaying this. Now I got this. You gotta slow down and take care of this too. Don't forget about this. He always has something. And like I said, you know, you'll, you'll see all the fake to this and now it looks like this and all of a sudden kiddles under here with the inside screen and it was all the same action.


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[Assistant] Right? It became a thing. Wait, where'd the play go? I need the play. Would you stop taking it off? Holy crap. Leave it up here. Here's Kittle and Kendricks. You know I'm a 49er fan. I root for Shanahan.


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[Assistant] Kittle got away with some egregious holdings in this game. Zimmerman was right in this argument. You know, Kittle's the man, and hey, they didn't call it, screw it, keep going. But watch this right here as this unfolds. Just watch. Because Kendricks is a phenomenal football player. I mean, he's, he's, he's in the convo for one of the best middle linebackers in the game. It's egregious holding. Egregious.


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't know. Is it egregious or is it egregious? I mean, is that not holding right there?


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[Assistant] Tell me. That happens all the time though, right? I mean, I don't know. To me, that's when you got a call. He's on the outside edge right here. He's got, he's being pulled. Now he can't, he's doing a 360 because he can't get away. He's still being pulled and held.


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[Assistant] And now, I know, well he's trying to get the referee's attention. Uh, but look, he's yelling at the ref right there as he goes by. Uh, so they got away with that. They got away with about three in the game. That was one of them. And the other, there was one other good run that they got away with, but that's part of the Shanahan genius right there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, good, good, yes. It all comes back to the Hawkeyes, yes. Kiddles are awesome. But yeah, he got away with a few in this game, no doubt about it. And then, they were some big plays where I can understand Zimmer being kind of pissed about it.


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[Assistant] Again, it's the same run play that we've just showed. That's where I just want to, I want to get into the, this is just the checks and balances thing. Where, you know, it's the same thing. It's outside zone. It's all the same reach block, reach block, reach block, reach block. They're all trying to do the same thing that we've just coached up here.


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[Assistant] They're getting to a point where they're really kicking people over here. I mean, look, they got eight people with a line of scrimmage. You know, the, the backside of the eight is on even with the backside tackle.


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[Assistant] So you really got one, two, three, four, five, you know, you got, you got six guys who are out like the right guard and over to stop anything going this way.


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[Assistant] So this is one of the things they do again to not let you overplay their stuff. Checks and balances always. And on this play, you know, I don't think they call it this way all the time, but I'm sure Shanahan started to see, wait, they're overplaying our stuff, and he gives Jimmy the option to like X dart, X slant, whatever it is, to throw the ball to him if


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[Assistant] He feels like the backside guy is being too aggressive. And you gotta watch Jimmy G here as he goes through the run fake.


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[Assistant] It becomes a little bit like a read option. It's an RPO, right? His eyes are gonna go right to this guy. And he's just looking. He's gonna give the ball if the guy kinda stays here and hangs. But if he sees him start to go...


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[Assistant] He's gonna pull the trigger and hit Debo Samuel over the middle like they do. Hey, they were pretty good at stopping a lot of their over the middle stuff. Zimmer was aware of it. And that's how they got the interception and all of that. So here we go.


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[Assistant] So, you know, you can see here, as you go back, you can see, watch Jimmy as he gets the ball, look at his eyes, you can tell he's looking at the backside guy, but look at 48, right? 48, backside linebacker, just watch him here.


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[Assistant] Boom! He's way, they're way too aggressive. They're leaving a window. He knows he can't block all those people frontside.


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[Assistant] Shanahan's too smart, he's just, we're not gonna be able to block everybody over here. They got a guy on the edge, they got a million guys in here, like we're not gonna get it done. It's not fair to ask my running back or my offensive line to stop this. Well, 48 went too far, you can see there's a huge passing lane right here, and


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[Assistant] Boom, over the middle, and this is where it gets scary, because, you know, yeaah, again, Harrison Smith is awesome, but how many times have we seen him catch that ball, break a tackle, and then it's off to the races? That's where he's special, that's where Shanahan's special. There's always a checks and balances.


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[Assistant] Let alone maybe a creative playoff of what he does that you just never feel comfortable as a defense with him when he's in a group like this with his run game. Watch out.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. Well, I think he's one of those guys, again, that just falls under the category you brought up in the last conversation, right? 12 through 24. Somewhere in there. If he's got the right help. He's been closer to 12 than 20.


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[Assistant] That's exactly right. He's been closer to that. Exactly. And yeaah, he's seen the field well. The ball's coming out of his hand pretty clean. And the one thing I'll say about him, he's got a quick release.


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[Assistant] And he's a tough SOB. Yea, he is. He's not afraid to stand in there and make the throw and take the shot. Of course, that's what led him to get injured a few times, but you know, there is that aspect about him that I really admire. And man, he's been under a lot of adversity, so let's give him some love for some positive stuff he's certainly doing right now.


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[Assistant] You know, they've let games get out of hand a little bit because of their own mistakes. You know, this game, again, strip sack fumble to start it. Alright, touchdown Green Bay.


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[Assistant] Go for it on fourth and one on your own 40 yard line. Field goal Green Bay. So you have a warmed up and you're down 10 nothing. Right there. Bam. They've done that for three weeks in a row. It's hard to win football games that way.


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[Assistant] You know, they're, they're doing things to hurt themselves, let alone, you know, they're not running the ball as well or as consistent as we've seen in the past from McVeigh and company. I think they're becoming a little too drop back pass game happy. You know, I'd like to see them tie some things together a little bit more. Man, in the NFL right now,


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[Assistant] It's hard to just drop back and pass it every play. There's a lot of good DBs and linebackers and pass rushers that make that hard. Uh, so they're hitting some struggles, no doubt about it.


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[Assistant] Has gotten better. You know, I would bet the stats would show probably the first seven games they weren't as good. The last four...


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[Assistant] Somebody's gotta get a strip sack fumble, get a pick six, interception, seeing none of that right now. You know, so, you know, it's a Hollywood feature here right now and it's a box office bust ever since they made some of these moves.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you know, listen, they're not an incredibly deep defense. They're not big up front. That's one of their issues. They're built to stop the pass. They're built to...


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[Assistant] Offense gets a lead, now you have to throw a little bit more and we can fly around and play pass defense and rush the passer and do that. That's what they want to play. They don't have big like tush hogs like my dad was talking about. They don't have those guys. That's not what they are. Right? So between that and I'd like to see them


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[Assistant] Have Jalen Ramsey match up versus the top receiver more and let the rest of the defense do other stuff to help them out because


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[Assistant] Teams are finding ways to avoid Ramsey when they do match him up, and they're a little too simple with their approach. I think that's what bothers me, you know, a little bit in this conversation as well. Okay, and yeaah, this is a, you know, third and two.


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[Assistant] Davante Adams is on Troy Reader. It's a zone defense, but they're gonna break it down to where it's gonna be a one match, yea, linebacker Troy Reader. You know, and I know it's a zone.


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[Assistant] They're gonna, this is Matt LaFleur and Aaron Rodgers, they're gonna run a play to where they get him manned up in that zone.


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[Assistant] Here's Jalen Ramsey at the top of the screen. Good thing we got him covering that all pro tight end Green Bay has. Oh right, that's right, they don't have one. So that bothers me. This is, I don't want to see this. I want to see him on him and then you do crazy shit with the rest of these guys, okay?


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[Assistant] I don't know. And they started to do it more as the game went on, and they have been doing more of it the last few weeks. So I don't want to totally crap on it. Alright? And they, they did stop rushing five so much all the time. Now, third and two though, you know this is my pet peeve, third and two we're gonna rush five.


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[Assistant] So, this is, again, I'm just trying to show, this is just a play that's a little bit of a synopsis of them right now. Alright? But here you go. This is as simple as it gets. It doesn't, they don't need to do anything. It's go, it's stick route out, stick route out.


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[Assistant] Right? But they don't need to do anything else. They know they got the matchup they want. This guy's gonna have to press out here. Adams does a good job of just kinda pushing him inside. And then he's gonna break out and basically, I mean,


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[Assistant] Becomes easy. Like, what? Handoff. What? Handoff. Right. You might as well let Aaron Rodgers just say, hold on guys, stop. Let me run over here and just give him the ball. You're exactly right. Handoff.


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[Assistant] Boom. Oh, great. Third and two, that became a 17-yard gain, too. Right. Thank you. Thank you. So, like, that to me is just not acceptable with... I respect Raheem Morris and think he's awesome, and they've got too much talent on defense to let that happen.


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[Assistant] Well, and I don't really know what, I mean I know what happened, but I don't know what happened. See, and I wish we could have showed all this, and I should have told Pete, this is my fault. The tight end over here, you see this tight end right here, he started over here, and Taylor Rapp


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[Assistant] Who was right here, okay. So he was matched up with this tight end over here, alright. The tight end goes all the way out and Taylor Rapp then comes over and bumps


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[Assistant] Everybody. You know, he tells this guy, I don't know why Ramsey was on Adams at the start of this play.


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[Assistant] But for some reason, the call, or the adjustment, they decided now to, you play Randall Cobb, Deon, I'm not sure if I'm saying his name quite correctly, and Jalen Ramsey ends up on the tight end.


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[Assistant] This guy told that they all bumped out for a reason, for some reason. So now it went to, wait, I'll take the inside guy, you take Adams, and you take the tight end. What a waste of a 20 million dollar corner. Let me just tell you.


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[Assistant] That should not have happened. Exactly right. No, that's where I, you know, I got mad a minute ago. I just wanna go, let him play him, and you figure out crazy shit to do with the rest of these guys. That's, that's what we gotta start doing with the Rams.


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[Assistant] Alright, you know, I want to see Jaylen Ramsey get in the face. He's the best when he's a jam man to man corner. He's great at jamming receivers in the line of scrimmage. He did it a few times in this game and I went.


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[Assistant] The play's over. That guy's not open. He jammed him with a line of scrimmage, it's over.


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[Assistant] Let him start doing it. Yeaah, he'll get burned once in a while. So what? Make people start to earn it. This is not making earn anything. They like, yes, must have been aware of this to now where he is over here gonna guard the tight end on the hitch route and Devonte Adams gonna run a go route down the sidelines against a guy that's not in his class to be covering him.


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[Assistant] You know, and you can see, like, he starts to realize it.


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[Assistant] I mean, Jalen Ramsey starts to realize it as he goes down the field, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't understand that man-to-man adjustment. I don't. You know, to me,


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[Assistant] It should be like Taylor Rapp should be out here on them, or Dayon should be out here. Were we matching them up because of size purposes? That doesn't make sense to me. Yea, Jaylen Ramsey is the big corner, so we'll have him cover the big tight end. I don't understand that. But it's man to man coverage, and here we go.


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[Assistant] Boom! Down the field, I mean you can see the linebackers taking the back out of the backfield. They got man here. I mean man here. They got a guy looking for crossers or anything over the middle. They got a little robber, rat coverage, right? And...


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[Assistant] Boom. You know what's gonna go on. It's Green Bay. They're gonna try to throw the Devontae Adams on every third down in the history of football. Right. It's not gonna change.


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[Assistant] I mean, he's got 21 day on beat by 6 yards by the time the ball gets there. I mean, that, that is just, to me, not smart, unacceptable, annoys the crap out of me, as you could tell.


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[Assistant] Please stop Raheem Morris and the Rams. You're too good. Let's not let that


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[Assistant] Can't be both, can't be both. If you're going to be simple, you better be on your crap, alright? You better be on your crap. You know, I mean there's no point in being simple if we're going to mess it up. Then be creative and mess it up. Maybe you'll at least make the quarterback and offense think a little bit, alright? Now, you've heard me talk about this, it's a bunch formation, right? Bunch formation.


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[Assistant] Ramsey, I like this. Ramsey's on him. Alright, cancelled out. We don't have to worry about that.


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[Assistant] That's, I'm great. Look, it's all him inside leverage. He ain't going to let you run a slam or anything inside breaking. You're going to, if you want to throw to him, you're going to have to throw a fade to one of the better hands corners and all of football who can pick it. Rogers ain't stupid. He's like, well, I got better options than that. And then what they're doing on the other side is they're playing


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[Assistant] Zone. And I love this. And this is what shows me they're capable of it and everything. Guy here is gonna drop out. Here.


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[Assistant] Okay. Let me make sure I got this right. So yea, alright, hold on. Here.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna start it over. They're gonna box the bunch as we've talked about. There we go. Right? Okay, box the bunch. It's gonna be inside corner, outside corner, down here, in here. So those four guys are gonna handle these three guys.


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[Assistant] He's gonna stop him and play outside releverage in case he runs the option out. Okay? He's not expecting to have to help inside. That's where Troy Reader is supposed to be helping inside. And watch how the play unfolds. Troy Reader follows Roger's eyes over here, which he has no business being over there. None at all.


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[Assistant] I mean, none. So you see the box of the bunch, right? Short guy, little guy here, little inside corner of the box, outside box. This safety's out here for anybody who runs a post or whatever. You have no business here. None.


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[Assistant] Your job is to be over here to bracket Randall Cobb coming out of the backfield who wants to run this or run this. Right? They've called the right defense here. They've called it. Rapp is going to jump outside and take away the outside option for Cobb. And as you see, boom.


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[Assistant] He doesn't get there, and you're gonna see WatchTaylorRap. He's gonna look at Troy Reader going, where the hell are you?


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[Assistant] And I wish we could show it more. Cause he's, he's looking at it and he's going, well what the hell, that was your guy. Why, we already had four on three on the other side. Why, why were you worried about the other side? What was, it was not your job. We didn't need five on three.


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[Assistant] So, you know, that's what stinks there. They blow it, and that's frustrating. And that's little things like that, that are not making them a great defense, or quite living up to their potential.


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[Assistant] He's a man. Rodgers is like, we talked before the show. He's the MVP of football right now.


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[Assistant] MVP, I mean to me, there's nobody that does more for their team right now, and it showed too, again, like, they're not even, they're not even the same team if he's not playing. Oh my gosh. They lost to Kansas City in a game, yea right, I mean you saw it, to me it almost boosted his ability to be in the MVP conversation, you see like, he is truly the essence of an MVP.


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[Assistant] Phenomenal at breaking teams down. You know, you can see that as the game. It goes back into our old adage that you and I have talked about before. Just when a team wants to throw the ball over there, he always seems to have a whole bunch of people dropped in that area. He's really good.


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[Assistant] You know, we'll do some game plan specific things to take away things he thinks you're going to do. This is actually going to be a negative for Joe Barry and the Green Bay defense.


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[Assistant] But I think it's a positive. This play? This play. This is going to be the bomb to Van Jefferson for a touchdown. Oh yeah, yeah. You know? So, okay, I mean, you know, again, great defenses, you try to take things away and stop teams in certain situations. Third down and eight. Third down and eight. I'm sure the numbers, of course,


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[Assistant] It's Cooper Cup time! Who gets the ball more in third down than Cooper Cup?


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[Assistant] So they're not gonna let that happen. And then the numbers probably behind that were like the backside guy gets it to second most and it's Odell Beckham Jr. So let's make somebody else beat us, alright? And what you're gonna see here, and I wanna make sure I get it right, I think I will, is you're gonna have


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[Assistant] He's gonna be doubled by both these guys, right? They're not gonna let it happen. And I'm sure in the breakdown they have a certain breakdown that shows the Rams run in cuts from this split. He reads something frontside and then comes back to this guy. Alright? And then you're gonna have Cooper Cup.


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[Assistant] Go back, and this guy's gonna take away the inside, and this guy's gonna take away the outside. So, the two best receivers on the Rams on 3rd and 8th are gonna be double-teamed. Again, I know this doesn't end up being a positive play, but I like the call.


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[Assistant] Rather than just being like, oh, simple, we'll do this. Like, again, they're taking a chance. It was a calculated risk. And the Rams have million-dollar players, too. I mean, they're gonna make some plays every now and then. It's life in the NFL. But there you go. You see that's Troy, Troy Aikman, right in that last yellow there.


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[Assistant] He's coming down on the end cut. He's got this. He's bracketing cup on the outside. He's got the inside. They left.


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[Assistant] They left, uhm, Stokes one on one with the outside. You got a backer on there. It's a four man rush. They took a chance and left. I can't remember who that was actually covering him right now. Alright, one on one.


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[Assistant] You know, again, I just, I think it kind of shows like the creativity and the smarts of Joe Barry. Alright, they lost this play. So what? But it shows you how they're being coached and kind of cool right now and, hey, we're giving the Rams a little love on this side of the ball too because it shows you they are explosive. Right? They answered them blow for blow for a little while. They just put themselves in a hole.


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[Assistant] And then he, then they dropped the punt later in the game and he threw a pick six and they put themselves back in another hole and that was the game. Uhm, but Green Bay's defense, like not super talented, really well coached, got a lot of good players. They know what they're doing and they're outside the box defensive coordinator who can think and, and take things away.


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[Assistant] They, they, they, uh, 100% know what they're gonna do. You know, again, this is kind of a West Coast staple, this play in general, alright? And I'm just gonna watch it once just to make sure I reassure myself and get it here, alright? So here we go. This is a West Coast staple. It's 382 Y-Stick Lookie, alright? That's the play.


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[Assistant] Go route, really not even in the play. Go route, really not even in the play.


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[Assistant] Stick route, he's gonna run stick nod and try to, you know, they're gonna try to double movie if he gets the right look to where he gets that and gets it up the seam. And then the looky route where Cooper Cup has a two-way go.


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[Assistant] He can, he really is a three way go. He can push the guy in and then come out, or he can just go in, or he can even sit if it's the right coverage.


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[Assistant] Green Bay knows the play is coming. I mean, watch their attention and what they do to Cooper Cup here.


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[Assistant] Right here, lookit, guy inside, he's ready for the out breaking route, in case he goes this way, he's gonna break on it. He's not gonna let them get that easy completion. Right? The guy back here, he played off coverage, cause he probably knew it was gonna be a go route.


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[Assistant] You know? Again, look, he's here, he's here, he's over that. They got a safety over here for the guy coming up the seam. I mean, they had a good feel of what to expect here. And he wants to, Stafford,


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[Assistant] Go to the lookie, because he's been taught with this type of coverage and everything, this is who I go to. McVeigh taught me to go with, when they play this type of too deep coverage, I'm supposed to have this route. In fact, I'm not supposed, we're not supposed to ever be wrong, because he's gonna make me right no matter what. And, as you see,


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[Assistant] He's not gonna be right. There's a guy inside. And you see Adrian Amos out here. He was ready for the out breaking part of that route. And they weren't gonna, again, another big pass play in an obvious passing situation when they were like,


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[Assistant] Unlike what you're, what you didn't do to us in Devontae Adams on third downs, we're not gonna go down letting you just throw to your favorite guy all game long.


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[Assistant] No doubt about it. It works, it works great. And like, you know, they had this guy kind of doubled too. He was eyeing him down. They got a couple guys doubled. So he was on the inside. If he did turn up, he was ready for it. And now you got these two guys on that guy. And again, that's why Joe Barry and Green Bay are one of the top defenses in football right now.


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[Assistant] Very next play. I gotta shut up. Very next play. Let's watch third and ten. And I, uh, I gotta, I gotta, again, I gotta watch this just to make sure I got all my crap right here. I mean...


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[Assistant] This is unbelievable here, alright. They are literally waiting for people.


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[Assistant] Alright, the only thing Stafford might have had on this play, and I wish I would have got to see a little bit more of this, is a tough angle. He maybe could have just thrown the out wrap. Everything else is like perfection as far as how they


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[Assistant] Cover everything downfield, alright? I mean, first off, you can see right here, they got three on two. He's ready for anything breaking out. Doesn't matter who it is. If it's that guy, whatever. He's ready for anything inside. And then another guy here just to help as a body presence. So they got that, let alone there's another guy back here.


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[Assistant] So, they got it all locked down. And just watch how, again,


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[Assistant] I mean, look. Look at Higbee. He thinks he's gonna be running free. This guy goes, wait, stop. That's not my job anymore. He's in the stop and get him. Oh wait, here comes Henderson. Oh wait, this is my area. Like, they know how to pass people off in a zone.


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[Assistant] It's a match up zone, exactly right. But they're not going to leave their zone. Once you leave my zone, I'm not responsible for you anymore. And they're all over it. And I wish we could see a little bit better angle.


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[Assistant] These two receivers who he's looking at over here, I mean, there's nothing. That's who he's originally looking for, but it's basically like four on two. He knows he's got nothing there that he can go to.


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[Assistant] A hundred percent. That's exactly it, right?


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[Assistant] I would, I would think they're all going to be that. Of course it is. It is. And that's what the good defenses are doing right now, like we've talked about. They find ways to make it look like a blitz, but it's still four guys because two guys drop out. And that's where Green Bay is absolutely killing it right now. And they're really well coached.


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[Assistant] They've got a good D-line, it's not great, Rashaun Gary's kicking butt as I talk about every week. You know, and their secondary's got some talent. And if they get Jair Alexander back, watch out, cause they'll leave more of a pain in the ass.


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[Assistant] This is Stafford being off, and I don't know if he's necessarily making the right read here either. It's a little bit of everything. Pocket's good.


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[Assistant] I would think, again, this is where I think it's a little off, like, would that body language


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[Assistant] He's coming out to here, I don't know, maybe could have thrown the ball out there. It doesn't look as clean right here from this look. If you saw the sideline angle, right, it might be there. You know, either way, what I also don't like is just the way the coverage is, you know.


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[Assistant] Right? And to make this throw around a guy, semi-sidearm, this guy's kind of driving on it. Cooper Cup kind of screws him over and doesn't cross his face. He kind of slows down as the ball comes. Right? So it's a little on everybody.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, I don't think, you know, this really shows it. Like, you know, to me, I think he was open.


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[Assistant] Just watching on Coach's film. But if not, don't worry. And don't make Cooper Cup always your little favorite guy to go to. You know, go here. This would have got the first down. That would have. It would have easily got it. Either way, it's pick six.


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[Assistant] Russell Douglas does a great job of driving it and that was it. The game was over. That was it. No more.


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[Assistant] I would think so, yes. Jaguars good, pretty like good at stopping the run, not the greatest pass defense. I would think they can have their way there. Their offense is struggling. The Jaguars can run the ball a little bit.


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[Assistant] That might be able to give them some issues, but if you can get them in third and sixth or more, you know, Trevor Lawrence still being young, you know, their offensive line not being the best of pass pro and that, I would think they're going to be able to make some plays this week and maybe get some mojo going.


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[Assistant] Twelve and a half, that's a big number. Yeaah, that is a big number. You like them that much? Yeaah, mmmm, I probably do. You know, it's, it's in LA, right? It's in LA. Pete? Twelve and a half, yes, yeaah, there it is. Yeaah, I think I would, I would probably take the Rams at twelve and a half. I would, you know, again,


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[Assistant] You know, it doesn't take quick to snowball in the NFL. Right. You're up by 7, you're up by 10, Trevor Lawrence throws a pick because they're down. Oh shit, we're down 17 now. And they need, like, they need it. They need it. I would think they're going to be pissed off and hungry this week, no doubt about it. Over under 47.


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[Assistant] 47, mmm. I'm never really, I'm not any good at these. You? No, I mean, I'm, I'm okay. I mean, I'm not, nothing special. Mmm, I would say, I would probably take the under.


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[Assistant] Because I think it's going to be like 30 to 13. I was going to say, you can see 31 to 10 pretty easily. Yea, exactly what I mean. 31, 14. 47? I don't know, that to me would entail that, you know, Jacksonville is scoring some points here too, and I don't know if I see that happening. Alright. Alright. We did it. There's a show? There's a show, that's a show.


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[Assistant] That is a lot of football. Holy shit. I think we had two hours. No. I'm gonna tell my wife to be quiet and don't talk to me. Alright. I'm done. Now that's it. See ya.


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[Assistant] Alright, try it. See how it goes. Let's see. We'll probably both be in trouble later tonight. Christmas tree purchase at our house. Oh, good job. Way to go. That's awesome. Yeah, we got some Christmas decorations up already. It's nice, isn't it? It is. It's great. I love this time of the year. Happy holidays to everybody out there. Hope you enjoyed the podcast.


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[Assistant] Sponsorship tomorrow, PFTPM Collaboration Podcasts with Florio, our PICS podcast. Alright, we're kind of doing good in our best bets lately.


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[Assistant] Wow. Breaking me on and just slap me all around. That's what we do here.


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[Assistant] I said, I guess I wore a blue suit. Somebody goes, you know you wear blue every week. Well what other color is there you want me to wear? I wear some lavenders or whatever. I don't know.


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[Assistant] Yeah, eating. Eating at night? Oh my god, it's the worst. It keeps me up all night, so I've learned.


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[Assistant] Oh no, no. I try to never to eat dinner any later than 7.30 now. My gosh. We're late night people.


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[Assistant] We're late night people and I, you know, I gotta get out of that habit because my god, here I am waking up at 5 o'clock on


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[Assistant] Oh, that's all good, a lot of stuff. I'm enjoying, I love my Wednesdays and Thursdays, uh, because, okay, all I get to do is what I want to do. And, uh, it's fun doing it. I, I, it's amazing. After all the, I love watching the games.


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[Assistant] And just seeing things that we don't see on TV, that TV can't show.


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[Assistant] You know, as I've always said to you guys and to everybody, TV lies.


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[Assistant] And really get the true essence of games and what's going on because of time and lots of reasons, but, uh, it's just interesting to see things and have a whole different opinion about what I think at the beginning of the week and how it changed by the end of the week.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I was really interested about New England. That's my next watch, so I'll watch with that play. I know exactly the one you're talking about, and uh, yes.


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[Assistant] And, you know, people are thinking one thing, but it's just, that's really so cool. And of course, when you're a run football team, you gotta have a great, a bunch of different


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[Assistant] Ways to do th- Exactly. I'm watching the 49ers this morning, oh my god.


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[Assistant] Just here we go the first quarter, you're gonna get every damn thing in the world. Yes.


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[Assistant] No, it's really tremendous in how they're so versatile and how they read on the run. You know,


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[Assistant] Kittle could be coming across the line and be going full speed and redirect to get his block, lineman downfield. I mean, I, I, I...


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[Assistant] I haven't watched him really seriously in a few weeks and I just, I'm blown away with all the stuff.


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[Assistant] Tennessee is great, that's alright, Tennessee is of course good against the run and they're getting better because they're humongous.


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[Assistant] When they get down in their stances, if you're behind, you can show a double feature on their rups.


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[Assistant] And that's, I heard that from Earl Leggett, or hey, you know, I need some guys in there, that when they get down, they call them tush-hogs.


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[Assistant] You know, you gotta have big people in there. It really you do to be a good run defense. And that's what Tennessee is. They're a run offense. And you know, as I said,


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[Assistant] That's right. They don't have it constructed with plays, players, whatever.


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[Assistant] So they gotta manage this somehow and keep running the football, which they did against New England to, you know, keep their team in balance and how they built it.


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[Assistant] Well, that's good. I guess I'll start with Matt Stafford. Okay. I've been thinking this for weeks.


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[Assistant] And, I don't know why, cause sometimes we never say a word about him for three weeks, but when I, I just, I wanna see what they're doing, and I'm a fan of Match Tech.


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[Assistant] Uh, on my Friday show with Chris Russo, but I've said it on...


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[Assistant] CBS, I think, once or twice. I'm not sure, cause you know, I talk so much, can't remember.


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[Assistant] And, uh, so that, to me that's always a sign.


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[Assistant] And of course, you know, he had that little injury too, that changes things, which we've seen with Russell Wilson, who's now just not throwing the football the same as he has before.


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[Assistant] Missing Charles that we've never seen him miss and what it's amazing and what it does, there's other reasons.


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[Assistant] And it did with Russell. He made, you know, what can I say, terrible decisions.


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[Assistant] Against the Washington football team, and really, probably cost them the game.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, it's definitely a difference in speed, uh, velocity, all that. You know, I don't know, maybe it's me, I think, it looks like he holds the football higher. I don't know why, it hit me and I went, is he holding the ball higher than he did in Detroit? But yeaah, you know, the long story of it is,


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[Assistant] You know, you sure, we know they're throwing a lot in practice because that's what they are. They're a throwing football team and all that, but.


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[Assistant] You know, you gotta be careful with that, especially here late in the year, even though he has a rubber arm and he's shown it his whole career. But I think, too, the injury, what week did he get that hand injury?


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[Assistant] Is that during the pre-season or I can't even remember now.


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[Assistant] But, you know, that can affect you and strain your arm. It doesn't take much.


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[Assistant] But when I got a high ankle sprain on my right side, my right ankle, Oh my God did my arm hurt.


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[Assistant] It was like a toothache that was no recovering for.


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[Assistant] And it, it stayed there with me for the whole rest of the year once I had that high ankle sprain. So it hurts your hand, anything else can affect it.


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[Assistant] Put a strain on another part of your body and we always see that with lots of players with different kinds of injuries.


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[Assistant] I want to go real quick, but the last thing you did say this morning, and I, you know, he looks, uh, too thin. Trimmer than I've ever seen him.


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[Assistant] You know, those legs, it is, it is true, you know, those legs are part of throwing, and if you use them, which you can, if you get in the right position, all that we know, but whatever, that helps too, so, but,


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[Assistant] He takes a beating like no quarterback I've ever seen or heard of in the, uh, it's unbelievable. It's, they can, the crowd can't wait to bench him, get him out of Cleveland, it's just him. And I haven't watched that game yet, I will here soon.


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[Assistant] And I want to know, were there people running wide open where he missed them and all that? That's what I want to know in the game. That's how I judge guys and see what they've done and what was there for them to have.


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[Assistant] So, why do we think, oh, well, he's gotta throw the ball, let's just rip it up and tear it up. Now, let's don't forget, last year, maybe the last what, six games of the year, and the playoffs


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[Assistant] He threw the living heck out of the football. Yes he did. I mean it was, I interviewed him and I've said to this you guys, I said, Baker, are you throwing the ball the best you've ever thrown it in your whole career? And he goes, absolutely. I mean, he didn't hesitate.


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[Assistant] He knew it. He had it going and he was throwing the ball great. And now he's beat up. The offense is not quite the same. You know, the team.


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[Assistant] Definitely, I want him coming back next year. Do I sign him to a long-term contract? No. What's the rush? Let's get one more year of...


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[Assistant] Oh, we're going to wait for Russell Wilson. Oh, Aaron Rodgers. I just go, what the hell are we talking about? You know, everybody can't get these guys.


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[Assistant] You gotta be careful moving on to a quarterback. So what's next, Carolina Panthers?


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[Assistant] We just talked too much about this moving quarterback carousel, and let's get the next guy, and everybody ease up, you know? Pay attention to what the heck's going on. And they really have an opinion that has some validity to it, and has some facts behind it, instead of, I heard a guy on the radio coming home the other night. Now, I just watched the Charger game.


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[Assistant] Oh, Justin Herbert, he's not Patrick. He was horrendous today. Well, you're a moron. Excuse me, I shouldn't say that. You're wrong.


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[Assistant] And oh my god, now I will say this. He was too aggressive.


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[Assistant] But, Damon Guy's got a little speed, I do like him a little, but-


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[Assistant] I'm just saying, if you watch the game, you go, it was all about Justin Herbert. They couldn't run it.


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[Assistant] The past defense, the secondary played so well, it led to sacks.


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[Assistant] It's a shutout every play of almost every game of life.


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[Assistant] If I could vote for the Rookie of the Year, everybody say what? He's been, to me, the most impressive rookie in the NBA.


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[Assistant] I don't care what the stats say. I've watched it. I've watched it, you know. I'm a charger guy. I watch them every week. And, uh, cause I wanna see what they're doing. I wanna see, you know, I wanna see Herbert. I just wanna see the whole thing.


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[Assistant] And uh, I always go, I wrote all the notes today in the game and I just put, triple star.


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[Assistant] Please make sure you talk about Slater a little bit if you're gonna talk about the charge.


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[Assistant] Chase Young was over there with, hey, after I think maybe the first quarter, he went to the other side the rest of the game. He didn't line up against him once.


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[Assistant] You gotta have a secondary move in the NFL, that's for sure. So we'll see if he gets that.


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[Assistant] And it's affecting his throwing, which we know, you see, he's overthrowing. I mean, even on the game, uh, was that Monday night or Sunday night?


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[Assistant] Go down there in Miami and play that defense, which you've talked about, Paul, you've watched it, we know, and it's, man, that is one headache. That's all I can say. Because they got a good secondary, and everything they do up front, you know, in the time of a game, that's a lot of thinking, adjustments,


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[Assistant] Hey, the Ravens, we talked about this. The Ravens did everything against it. And they were one play behind always.