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[Assistant] I hope it does work. I got leverage here at NBC if it works. No doubt about it. Boom. Uh, I don't really, I don't really want to do that, honestly. So that's not going to happen. But, um, we'll see where it goes from here. You'd be a better GM than a head coach. I would hope so. That's what I'd rather do that.


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[Assistant] Well, the Colts will be interesting. The Colts, the one thing we gotta realize with the Colts here, and again, I don't know if I even, I don't agree that Frank Reich should have been fired. I'm one of those guys that doesn't really think that. I understand it, but I wouldn't have done it. Coach Stungy agrees with that.


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[Assistant] Like, you were set up to, I have to bench Matt Ryan and play somebody less, and then have to try to make that happen, and now you're gonna hold me accountable for those losses, even though I didn't get to play the guys that I'm professionally the one that should be telling you who should be playing. And I was still 3-5-1. Exactly. That's where it's kinda fucked up in my opinion.


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[Assistant] Four, five, and one. With a top ten defense. That's really a top ten defense. Like, it's not like, oh, this is just, you know, some like, oh, they got lucky with some matchups. No, the Colts defense with Gus Bradley


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[Assistant] Is a legit top five defense across the board. They're good at stopping the run. They're very sound and pass defense. They make a few plays and then if they can run the ball like they did yesterday, they're going to be a pain in the ass here. So we'll, we'll see where this goes with the Indianapolis Colts, but Matt Ryan back in the fold. He was very efficient.


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[Assistant] For now. Yeah, Joe Thomas is like a troll to everybody. He never has a comment of his own, but he just likes to troll everybody else. So I don't really like Joe Thomas and, uh, we can let that be known. Please be more candid. There we go. I don't care. Yeah. He's a, he's like an internet troll. All right. Either way, let's move on to a little segment that you've never been a part of. Okay.


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[Assistant] I almost want you to kick it off. I'm aware of damn okay. That's all I can say. Damn okay. Damn okay. Let's kick it. Damn okay. Damn.


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[Assistant] No, definitely not. Definitely not. And, I mean, who could come up with the lines of illegal gamble-izing like me? That's something that still should catch on. That's a special one. That's a special one. That's a Simzism for sure. Uh, alright. Alright, let's get into a little damn okay. Let's go to last night's game.


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[Assistant] And that's where we'll start with our first damn okay. With one of the best defensive players in all of football, Nick Bosa. Had three QB hits, had a sack.


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[Assistant] Either way, last night, again, I'll start it off here, Mike, with the damn okay. Bossa looked good. We saw, you know, the Christian McCaffrey, Debo, Samuel, you know, combination a little bit. I wasn't impressed with the Chargers.


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[Assistant] In the first half, and really actually throughout the game, they played about as physical of a game as we've seen them play the whole year on the defensive side of the ball. They weren't just bludgeoned by the run game or anything like that. But in the second half, I do think the 49ers wore them down to a degree. And the big thing is, the defense of the 49ers just suffocated the Chargers really.


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[Assistant] You know, so, so that's where, that's where, and it's 35 pass yards. You know, again, I know that there's injuries with the Chargers and all that. There's injuries with the 49ers too though. Exactly right.


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[Assistant] No, no, I don't think so either. You know, they do at least have a defense that's built to play that pass defense, that type of game. We don't have to worry about the run. So that's one thing. But I think the thing that we're both seeing here is the offense has to change. There's got to be something.


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[Assistant] They gotta, they gotta do something to, you know, something I said in the pregame. I've kinda been saying this on the podcast. It's just too predictable. It's too West Coast by the book offensive attack.


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[Assistant] And, you know, I know they don't have their main firepower out there, but you could still come up with some game plan design plays of taking some shots down the field, backing the safeties off. And they did that early on in the football game. That was kind of impressive. They came out and I went, ooh, they're hitting, they're stopping the run a little bit.


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[Assistant] You know? And then they were taking a few shots down the field. To me that was the big story of the first half. That really was. That's why they went in with the lead.


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[Assistant] They ran out of tricks. The 49ers got a feel for what they do. There's no run game for the Chargers.


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[Assistant] You know, throw a ball into a six, you know, six yards down the field into a tight window. It's just too tough with a team like the 49ers who, you know, don't have to blitz. And when they do blitz, they're creative and they're, you know, of course a very fast, aggressive defense as is.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, again, I'm a believer in the 49ers. I thought that was a good start last night. It wasn't a great game altogether. It was not.


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[Assistant] Well, let's go there. I got a question here from Derek Weatherford. The 49ers won, but it was closer than it should have been. Does Kyle let Jimmy G make changes at the line of scrimmage if teams are stacking the box? Maybe a quick out to Ayuk or Debo. Seems like the play is the play even when there are six to eight guys in the box.


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[Assistant] It's a good question. I think there are, there's check with me's and he has certain things, but it's not, he doesn't have overall freedom maybe like some of the other quarterbacks in football.


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[Assistant] No, of course not. It's just not. No. I mean, again, I don't think Jimmy-


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[Assistant] Well, I, I think there's, there's some reality to that. I do. I mean, you talk to anybody. I think that's, you know, whether you go back to New England days or whatever, I think there's that thought out there. Yeah. And, and then also I think to that point, Derrick Weatherford, the 49ers, Shanahan, you know, he's, he's,


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[Assistant] You know, he, he trusts in his running game and okay, there's too many guys in the box, but I'm going to block it the right way. And we'll leave the one guy that can't make the play unblocked in the box too. So he's going to kind of rely on that a little bit more maybe than, than other teams in football. Uh, but.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, they do need more from Jimmy G. I think that's the big thing. They just gotta make, gotta just add a little bit more of a...


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[Assistant] You know, a scare factor or he's got to get in the trust tree a little bit more to where it's not so predictable where they're throwing the football and relying on the run game so much.


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[Assistant] Well that's one thing that's a real thing right now. People believe the helmets are too heavy and that they're hitting the ground because they're so into protection. I've heard this from a few people around the league because we're seeing more people hit their head in the ground in concussions than ever before.


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[Assistant] I mean, at least in my opinion. I don't remember in the 80s, like guys doing this all the time, where the head hit the ground and they get up wobbly.


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[Assistant] Well, that's what I mean. And they were getting hit on concrete. So I know, and Jason Garrett actually was the one that kind of started this conversation. I've asked a few people around football because he goes, I think the helmets are too heavy. It's adding to the whiplash and they are heavy. I know that. So maybe that is part of it. I didn't mean to cut you off. Sorry.


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[Assistant] Yeah, horrible call, they're ruining it, New York, I don't understand, it shouldn't even have been a penalty, let alone an ejection. If it's a running back, it's not a foul. Well, that's my biggest thing here. That penalty was called, and I said this on the Peacock post game show, for one reason, because it was a quarterback and it was Justin Herbert.


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[Assistant] I could go back through every game yesterday in the NFL.


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[Assistant] And we could see probably three to four plays like that with a running back who's going to the ground and gets crushed in the head and there's not a penalty.


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[Assistant] Or another handful of plays where the running back lowers his head with the crown of the helmet and crushes some defensive player and nobody cares. But now we're going to care. And then the biggest moments of the game too. That's where it just bothers me.


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[Assistant] And again, Justin Herbert knew what he signed up for, he was a running back at that point. Horrible call, ejection, I mean, I don't even, ejection is so crazy to me, I don't even know where to begin with that.


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[Assistant] I know, I know, I know. And again, it's a brutal sport, but that's just the way it is, uh, but that's enough on that game. Damn okay, Nick Bosa. 49ers, I think we both believe are real.


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[Assistant] I can't even get over it. I can't get over it. It really is. He's quite the soldier there. And for the 49ers too. You know, 22-16, Ayuk fumbles early, gives the Chargers the short field, they hold them to a field goal. That was a big moment. You know, the 49ers had a punt block.


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[Assistant] They held the Chargers to a field goal once again. The 49ers defense was phenomenal. Jimmy Garoppolo played good. He did.


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[Assistant] But there was a game where, yeaah, you know, again, yeaah, I think there were some opportunities probably with the way the Chargers played defense that you'd hope the pass game could be a little bit more relevant and scary. Alright, next damn okay. Let's give it to this guy, Devon White, alright, for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Nine tackles, two sacks, his father passed away last week.


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[Assistant] Alright, that was a great performance. The Seahawks, with that offense, has been explosive all year long.


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[Assistant] They really couldn't get it going at any point in this football game. And I think this is why Tampa is a little dangerous. I know you've brought up like nobody wants to see Brady in the playoffs and nobody is going to want to see this Tampa Bay defense now that it's healthy in the playoffs. That's where they're to me scary. It's going to be kind of defense, run the ball, Brady be clutch.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Even in his prime, he ran like a 10 man, let alone a 45, but that wasn't impressive when the run game was the key. The Seahawks, you know, a little like Dallas, they create, they want to create chaos.


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[Assistant] You know, there are, there are defense that does a lot of different things. People at the line of scrimmage, they can't get to the quarterback with their front four.


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[Assistant] So they try to manipulate that with different looks and things, but there's Brady and the Bucks. They're well coached. They know how to block some of those looks and then they know how to pick up some of the blitzes and that just led to them gashing them on the offensive side of the ball. They gashed that Seahawks defense throughout the day and really suffocated.


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[Assistant] I mean, really suffocated the, uh, the, the Seahawks offense for the most part until mid fourth quarter. I know Gino played well, but it was late in the game before he ever got any stats going.


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[Assistant] Exactly, right. Brady doesn't throw an interception late, which was kind of shocking. You know, his first interception since week one against the Cowboys. You know, that was pretty amazing. But the Seattle Seahawks, they've been great on third downs all year. They went one for nine. I'm telling you, and you're telling everybody too. I don't mean to just talk about me. Devin White's still a baller.


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[Assistant] Devin White's criticism a few weeks ago to me was a little unwarranted. He's kind of the guy, Mike, and this is where I'll stick up for him to a degree. He's kind of the guy that's always put in the toughest spot on the defense. Kind of like, like Xavier Howard of the Dolphins, right? Where you're like, well, he got beat a lot. You're like, well, he's playing man to man against the best team's receiver every week. It's going to happen.


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[Assistant] And Devon White at times gets put in that, wait, you gotta stop the Seagap run and we want you to stop the RPO pass. And it's just like,


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[Assistant] Okay, well, that's, you're asking him because he's a phenomenal football player and sometimes it's not going to work out quite that way. But either way, I think this defense is real in Tampa and watch out for the Bucs. I think they're going to be a pain in the butt here down the stretch.


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[Assistant] Well, let's give a damn okay to the German fans. At Sam Bivalent kind of talked about how logistically possible it is to have a European division and what cities would you want the teams to, to, and what cities would you want to have teams except London. So alright, I think he's saying London for sure. There will be two in London if it ever happens.


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[Assistant] Right, right. It'd be interesting to see if they can pull that off. I know it's on the radar, I've heard from people too.


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[Assistant] Uh, it will be interesting, but that atmosphere was special. It was. The fact that the game was 45 minutes over, an hour over, and it was still like half the stadium was full and they were enjoying the players on the field and the post game shows. It was pretty special. Uh, no doubt about that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, be interesting to see. Hopefully the field is okay. All right, we got two more damn okays, all right? Damn okay to Chris Jones. All right, Chris Jones, the Chiefs beat the Jaguars 27 to 17. Jones, a sack and a half. He's got five sacks in his last four games.


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[Assistant] He's unbelievable in the run game. I think it's official for me, Mike, and that Chris Jones and I think Jeffrey Simmons have passed up Aaron Donald as the best defensive tackles in football.


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[Assistant] I know that's a bold statement, but Jones is so effective and changes the game in so many ways and such a mismatch in so many different areas. Really one of the best defensive players in football.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, definitely. Uh, the Chiefs looked really good yesterday. You know, even, uh, I'll say this. The Jacksonville...


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[Assistant] Had some chances to get in this game. This is one of my best bets. I'm pissed off. And of course I lost by half a point in this one. Still lost. I know, still lost. Doug Peterson starts the game with an onside kick. Great job there, right? They don't capitalize on that. Next drive, Kansas City gets the ball. They're driving down the field. Pacheco fumbles. Jaguars don't capitalize on that. And then it became


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[Assistant] I mean, the Jaguars have been running the ball with ATN on just about everybody. They couldn't run the ball at all yesterday, and of course they pressured Trevor Lawrence, they made some


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[Assistant] Uh, they made a mis- they made a comeback, I should say, Jacksonville, to make this game competitive and close for a little bit, but never a point where you felt like they were gonna control the game. Kansas City always felt in control, even when they were making some mistakes and giving Jacksonville second life, but, uh, I think it's official, Kansas City's probably the best team in the AFC right now.


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[Assistant] And then the element we've talked about with OBJ where I've heard from some teams around is,


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[Assistant] He wants, from what I've been told, significant money. Yea. A little bit. And he wants some security into other years. Beyond this year. Right. And I think that's going to be a little bit of an issue because teams are going to want to evaluate him at first.


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[Assistant] Uh-huh. I-I-I-Cadarius Tony, again, he's a guy that I will say, when-when he's healthy, we saw it last year, he has some very special physical attributes.


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[Assistant] Well, I wouldn't count the Chiefs out. The Bills, I think, are still a really strong possibility, and I do think the Cowboys, again, show that.


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[Assistant] Or the, or the Giants, even though I don't know if they're gonna throw the ball enough to give them, you know, enough love there.


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[Assistant] Buffalo, he has a chance to be, like, save the day superhero. Like we need another guy.


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[Assistant] Uh, on this opposite of Stefan Diggs, Gabe Davis is good again, but he ain't a game breaker. He's not a superstar that way.


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[Assistant] And that's where, uh, I think he could be, you know, helpful to them or the Cowboys. I really do. All right, let's hit another game. Kansas City look good. They're seven and two. They're officially the best team in the AFC. Uh, and my homes is playing awesome football. Now let's go to the G man.


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[Assistant] Why at least seven and two? Seven and two? I think yesterday kind of like seals.


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[Assistant] It seals the playoffs for them to a degree. I mean, it would have to be almost a monumental meltdown here down the stretch, but we're going to give damn okay to Dexter Lawrence. You know, again, I know this wasn't a marquee game yesterday, but all you had to do is just glance over every now and then to see Dexter Lawrence was unbelievable in the football game.


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[Assistant] He was awesome in the run game, push in the pocket, around Davis Mills, Sexy Dexy as they call him, uh, he had a sack.


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[Assistant] He had eight QB hits. Did you hear me? Eight QB hits. That's kind of insane for a defensive tackle. Leonard Williams had a team high, nine tackles, had a half a sack and a forced fumble, you know, and then here's another great stat about the Giants. All seven wins this season have been


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[Assistant] Eight points or fewer, and this was the first game all year they did not trail in a game the whole season.


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[Assistant] It's Daniel Jones, efficiency once again, with just a, hey, ooh, that was a good play on that throw there. The touchdown throw off his back foot, pressure to Darius Slayton. Slayton showing his explosive ability here as a blade. They need that. And then the Giants defense with some, some big turnovers. 24-16.


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[Assistant] Man, the Texans were in the red zone and Damian Pierce fumbled. I mean, and then there was, I think it might have been the very next drive. They drive down again at Davis-Milstow Center Reception in the end zone, in the short left corner at Giants Stadium there. So, you know, that was what the Giants do. Run the ball.


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[Assistant] My man at Aru811 heard it yesterday and he said, please talk about the big effort stealing.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't, it's really amazing. It's schedule, it's playing the right way, it's creating an opportunity and it's the belief you talk about.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it definitely is. Alright, that was our uh, damn okay segment. Sexy Dexie, Dexter Lawrence, handed it off with the Giants and their big victory.


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[Assistant] Right, they have somebody for this. This is not my expertise. I just write the meat and potatoes here. Well, I wrote this headline and we're going down to Miami to start it right off. Dolphins defeat the Browns, 39 to 17. And here's the headline. To a much credit.


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[Assistant] To and on, alright? There you go, alright. But either way. Hey yeaah. That's alright, you wanna join? Let's crap on Big Cat while we're here. Big Cat, Big Cat. He's trolling us constantly.


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[Assistant] You know, I do. I just get sick of the Tua talk a little bit and it's the greatest show on turf right now. I've never seen more people wide open and people flying around the football field. And again, I'm not trying to take away credit from Tua. I'm trying to just give it a little reality of just like it is.


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[Assistant] Just maybe a little bit more of an explosive two weapons on the edge to play with there. I think that's the biggest difference. You know, I do. And then, to a...


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[Assistant] You know, I'll say this, compared to Jimmy Garoppolo, he can make more plays off schedule and do stuff like that to Jimmy Garoppolo, right? Correct. You know, so that's where you look at it and go, well, he's got those advantages right there, but you're right. He is taking Shanahan's system and with those guys waddle,


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[Assistant] And of course Tyree Kill and now Jeff Wilson added to the mix with Motster and Wilson's become the main guy there. And Gosecki work in the middle and you gotta worry about Sherfield who's a really good, I mean they just have a lot of things to play with let alone he's got a lot of the Shanahan creativity and understands defenses and how to expose it.


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[Assistant] That, that, that to me is the big thing. I said this last week, even, you know, I think on Dan Patrick, I said it, I actually even think I said it to Dan Lebatard a little bit, where, it's gonna continue to look good, everybody. I'm not like, this isn't like, this is a well-orchestrated


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[Assistant] So the stats are going to be there every week. But what we want to see is like,


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[Assistant] You know, what's it, yeaah, what's it gonna be with some of the elite defenses in football?


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[Assistant] What's it going to look like in the cold weather up in New England, up in Buffalo? That's the big question. Those are the things that people doubted too that had been down there in that organization that he's going to have issues there. So the good thing for him is.


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[Assistant] There's not a lot of defenses in football that can match up with them.


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[Assistant] But they're gonna have play some real defenses here down the stretch and we'll see when they be able to take away some of the.


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[Assistant] You know, screen to waddle here, short pass to waddle there. You know, again, yesterday Cleveland was so worried about stopping


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[Assistant] Waddell and Tyreek kill on the edge and all that. It opened up the run game. It opened up everybody else in the offense. That's what yesterday was. Yesterday was a day of, whoa, we're going to stop Waddell and Tyreek. Okay, great. You did a good job containing them, but everybody else was open all over the field. So we'll see where it goes in Miami. They are, I think, still.


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[Assistant] I mean, Miami in my opinion is a team that could go to the Super Bowl. I don't know how do you feel about that.


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[Assistant] But they do. They got at San Francisco, they got the bye week this week, they got the Texans after that, but then they're at San Francisco, at the Chargers, at Buffalo, Green Bay at home, at New England.


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[Assistant] You're right. Yeaah. That's going to be interesting to see how that plays out. But yeaah, that's going to be to me the, the final test for Tua, the offense, and, and of course how strongly we feel about them, you know, maybe getting to the Super Bowl or making a run in the, uh, AFC playoffs. Alright, next headline.


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[Assistant] It's amazing. And they're one and four. One and four. I know. It's, it's, it's amazing thing of this year of teams rushing for 200 yards or dominating in the run game where our whole football lives have been, wait, if you dominate in the run game like that, you're going to win a game. And this year we're seeing teams lose more than ever with that. Um,


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[Assistant] Justin Fields is phenomenal. And that's, you know, again, we had fun there with the no home fields advantage, but his skill set and what he did, what he does is change their football team. I mean, again, this is four weeks in a row of 30 points. I know one game was 29 points in Dallas, but you know what I'm saying here.


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[Assistant] The unveiling of that quarterback design run offense has absolutely changed their football team. It's changed him. They're fun to watch because of it. And I think he's officially the best running quarterback in football. He dethrones Lamar Jackson to that.


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[Assistant] This is a little bit of a heartbreaking loss in my opinion for the Bears. You know, I'm happy for the Lions.


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[Assistant] Well, right. And let's just hit that. Look, there's one point in the game that I think is, was a, uh, another referee taking over the game in a moment where you just go, please stay out of it, and you didn't really see what happened here, so don't throw the flag. But it's 24 to 10.


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[Assistant] The Bears are total control of the football game. I believe it's first in ten.


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[Assistant] Lion's got the ball around the 18 yard line, it's right around there. Jared Goff throws an interception down the middle.


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[Assistant] They call illegal hands to the face on, I think it was Johnson, uhm, the corner for the Chicago Bears. It was not. He just had a phenomenal jam at the line of scrimmage where he hit the guy in the chest and the guy fell down. And I think the referee just saw the guy on the ground and said, oh, I think he's did something illegal.


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[Assistant] So that gives Detroit the ball back. They then score a touchdown two plays later. It's 24 to 17.


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[Assistant] Then two, three plays later, Justin Fields throws a screen pass, forces it, shouldn't have done it. His worst mistake of the game, interception pick six by Jeff Akuda.


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[Assistant] And now it's a 24-24 game where it should have been 24-10 Bears with the ball and their offense is kind of unstoppable at that point. They were going up and down the field on Detroit at that point. And that to me changed the game and that's a shame, but I will give the Lions continue to fight.


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[Assistant] Jared Goff made some plays for sure, and a good win for the kneecappers.


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[Assistant] It really is. He's, uh, he's a special talent. I don't think there's any doubt about that. Uh, but ultimately, golf made some big throws. Last drive of the game, the biggest throw being to Kennedy down the middle on like a crossing route for a 44 yard gain. I really think, I'm gonna say this again, I've had some people like,


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[Assistant] What do you mean by this? Jared Goff went to the Super Bowl. I said this is Jared Goff's best year of his career. And I, I stand by that statement and I just say that because


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[Assistant] You've heard me say the years with Jared Goff, we were just, like, it was silver platter. It was, oh, hey, throw a screen to Gurley and he runs for 90. And, oh, we fake the run to Gurley and fake the speed sweep. And I throw to a guy out in the flat for three yards and he runs for another 70. You know, he is actually making throws and plays and bigger moments.


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[Assistant] It's not just delivered to him with McVeigh, mad scientist plays there. So that's where I say that, but good for them. Three and six. And you're right, still got a fighting chance here as far as the NSC is concerned.


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[Assistant] More likely than not that they're gonna be, uh, out of the playoffs and just a pain in the butt.


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[Assistant] Tennessee Titans defeat the Broncos 17 to 10 and the headline for that game


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[Assistant] That's right. I mean, their defense is phenomenal, but 21-42, 286, 1 TD, 1 interception, probably had 2 or 3 other passes that should have been intercepted that he was very lucky with.


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[Assistant] You know, continues to struggle, continues to have moments of sitting back there where you go, I don't know what exactly he's looking at. And I don't know, it's just one of those games, again, where...


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[Assistant] Just incredibly creative on the back end. They had a little bit of a, uh, creative. They do a lot of stuff. And that's why they gave up that first 66 yard touchdown pass. They kind of blew the coverage. Um, but man, after that they settled in and they were dominant. And then it's always like, Vrabel has that feel, right? Of like Belichick or even.


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[Assistant] Right, and then I know when to call a trick play. And then, really, the big play of the game was the, uh, the flea flicker to Westbrook Aquina that gave them the lead. They never really looked back from that point on. And Tennessee, 6-3, not sexy, but man, I wouldn't want to see them coming into town in the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Right, right. That's who they are. I don't think they care. And they're a team that's like, we're going to win by a touchdown with three points and that's just the way it's going to be. I wanted to give Ryan Tannehill a little credit. They didn't run the ball very well yesterday. He made a lot of big throws.


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[Assistant] You know, of course the Flea Flicker was a great game plan design, but on their first drive too, the 13 place, 75 yard drive that made it 10 to 7 when the Broncos had the early lead, he, I just, I just had to reference it cause I made the, in my notes, I mean, it was an incredibly clutch drive and he had a


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[Assistant] Tremendous amount of high level big passes that got them down there. And again, where I just want to give him a little credit too is there's no weapons there in Tennessee in the pass game.


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[Assistant] So it is really going to be run game and him having to thread the needle in the pass game and relying on that defense. And, uh, I think they're very comfortable with that. All right. That was give me the headlines presented by.


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[Assistant] Hyundai. Hyundai, excuse me. It's always important to have that.


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[Assistant] I mean, Hyundai, excuse me, I don't know, I can't talk right now, I'm still waking up, alright? Uh, but that was a good segment, had fun with that as always, and uh, thank you to Hyundai for, for giving us money and hosting a, letting us have a great segment like that.


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[Assistant] Let's talk about your team, one of your pasta and meatball teams here.


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[Assistant] You know, and either way, it was a disappointing game by the Saints altogether. It really was. They let the Steelers and Najee Harris run the ball on them.


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[Assistant] Pickett was great scrambling throughout the day. He was efficient in the pass game. It wasn't a lot of big plays or anything special that way, but played well. Warren, the other running back, he adds a nice little flavor in the pass game and the run game.


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[Assistant] You know, that was a nice team win. T.J. Watts certainly gave them a boost on the defensive side of the ball. And then, yeaah, they created some turnovers. It's typical Steelers, what they did there. And DeMonte, DeMonte Kazee, his interception, right? That was the big one that really kind of, uhm, got the momentum back for Pittsburgh and really helped them control the football game.


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[Assistant] He's special. He's definitely one of the best coaches in football over the last 20 years. You are seeing that with the Saints.


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[Assistant] Lack of imagination on the offensive side of the ball. Lack of toughness, really on both sides of the ball.


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[Assistant] And to not be able to run the ball at all yesterday on a Steelers defense that's not very good at stopping the run. I mean that, that was embarrassing for your defense to let the Steelers run the ball on you the way they did.


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[Assistant] You know, that's where Sean Payton, like, we always talk about his creativity, but, you know, you're kind of saying it, you're saying it the right way. His edge he brings to the team.


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[Assistant] There was a toughness, where the saints, yeaah, we're gonna throw and...


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[Assistant] You know, Drew Brees gonna put all these numbers, but they were still always physically one of the toughest teams in football. And they definitely missed that and don't have the same edge about them right now. And yeah, I'm, uh, the Saints are officially done. The Steelers are done too, in my opinion, but I wouldn't be shocked to see them pull off, you know, upsets us down the stretch here and ruin some teams playoff chances for sure. Three and six. Right.


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[Assistant] Alright, let's go to a team that I am definitely done with as well.


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[Assistant] And the Cardinals defeating the Rams. 27-17, anybody that's been listening to me, I've been saying the Rams, they don't have a chance. I don't care what happens this year. They can get Odell back or whoever. It ain't gonna happen.


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[Assistant] Cardinals defeat Rams, 27-17. Colt McCoy played well, 3-1 as a career starter for the Cardinals. Uhm, 8 for 11 for 123 yards with TDs on, and a TD with throws 10 plus yards down the field.


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[Assistant] Really a dominant win yesterday. There was no point in that game where you felt like the Rams had control or were even in the same class of the Arizona Cardinals. McCoy, efficient, few plays there, defense was really good, and the Rams just can't do anything on the offensive side of the ball. They stink.


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[Assistant] They don't have that. You're right. They don't have that. From years and years of being top heavy and going for it and F them picks like you're saying and all that. That's where, and then they lost some second level players last year.


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[Assistant] You know, no Troy Reader. Darius Williams is on the Jacksonville Jaguars. Sebastian Joseph Day, like we've talked about. You know, three different offensive linemen gone. Guys that weren't stars, but guys that were good, solid starters for their football team. And now there's less than players at those positions and that's hurt their football team for sure.


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[Assistant] Interested to see how quickly Stafford comes back here. Three and six.


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[Assistant] But man, I just don't see anything. The Rams defense, of course, is still good. And it's nothing's going to be easy against them.


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[Assistant] But I don't think it's to the point to where they can dominate or win games by themselves with strip sack fumbles and interceptions and the, the offense as we've discussed the whole year. The old line is so bad that I don't think you can really do anything on the offensive side of the ball on a consistent basis.


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[Assistant] Alright, that's it. We did it. We had all the games. Wow. I can go home now. We did. We got a bet MGM parlay preview, okay? First off. Oh, there's one more page here. We gotta do that, alright? And uh, tonight we got Eagles commanders. I have a best bet with the commanders here.


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[Assistant] Covering the 11 point spread. Wow. Right. Wow. Which, I mean, I'm, you know, the way yesterday played out, I mean, I'm, the Eagles, I'm sure will, you know, win by 11 and a half. I said 35-10.


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[Assistant] Well, you still got Minnesota breathing down their neck a little bit, even though they have the head to head there. Uhm, alright, you got 35 to 10. You're expectin' blowout. I'm sayin' 24 to 16. Right? And, you know, again, I think the big thing I look at here is just the fact that


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[Assistant] I think Washington's defense, as you've heard me say, is really good. And I thought they did a very good job of defending what Philadelphia wanted to do the first time around. It was just some jump balls to AJ Brown that were the difference in the football game. So, uh, or not the difference in the football game, but a big reason or why they got out to a 24-0 lead.


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[Assistant] I just, it's one of those where I think Washington, that defense.


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[Assistant] Gonna give them a tough time, and Heineken.


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[Assistant] They've run the ball a little bit better in Washington as of late.


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[Assistant] Heineken didn't play very good last week. I'm kind of looking at this to be kind of a bounce back football game. I do like their weapons and I think they'll keep this close for a majority of the night. I really think they're going to hang around and it'll be like a late touchdown that kind of puts it away. But we'll see. It's always scary with the Eagles. They're clearly the best team in football right now.


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[Assistant] Tuesday night. And they're, and they're not out of this, Washington. No, no, no, no. They're four and five. I know. All right. So we got, uh, uh, you know, bet MGM, one of the, the, the, the, the biggest prop bets, AJ Brown over 71.5 yards receiving tonight. You like that? Minus 110. Yeah, I like that. Yeah.


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[Assistant] You know, he can throw the ball to double coverage. That's the thing, he can get it in one play. I would take the over here as well, because I think Washington's gonna have to put a lot of people around the line of scrimmage to stop that Eagles run game and be very worried about that.


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[Assistant] Sure, sure. And I think A.J. Brown looks at himself as being the best receiver in football or in that conversation. And to be that...


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[Assistant] Pre-COVID. Obviously pre-COVID. Good to have you back. Good to be here. You're the man. Alright. Safe travels. Okay?


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[Assistant] Episode 420. Look at this. What? That's a great graphic right there. That's well done by our man EJ who does a lot of this stuff for NBC Sports. Should just be the normal graphic. It really probably should be. That with like, you know.


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[Assistant] Some captain planet stuff flying through because today's the day I'm passionate about where like if I have another person talk to me and go, what a great day, I go, it's


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[Assistant] It's fucking weird, it's 80 and it's the middle of November. There's something fucking wrong. I'm sorry, alright, sorry. Sorry to start the podcast off that way. Maybe you're just high. Maybe it's not. No, if I was high, I probably wouldn't be bothered. I'd be like, dude, it's okay. No, I don't smoke and do work. I don't.


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[Assistant] I did. I mean, I did, yes. It seems like it was like, you know, a long time ago when we started this, but I think, I guess I figured when they re-signed me for a new contract, I was like, good chance I'll make it before 20 now.


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[Assistant] We are. We're buddies. Yep. You're a full time host now, so that's cool too. We've got some extra camaraderie. Big props to Paul Burmeister who was here helping us out for a long time. But it's been great. I mean, did you think you were gonna last 420 episodes with me?


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[Assistant] He's gonna probably have a pretty interesting life from here on out.


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[Assistant] Well, well, there's a few things here. You know, one...


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[Assistant] This is a tough matchup for the Kansas City Chiefs. You know, every, I always talk about this, right? You've heard me say this in years past. Every team has their, kind of their kryptonite team they play where it's just like,


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[Assistant] Ma'am, totality, we might be better, but the way they play and how their team built, it gives us issues. It's, hey, I've been crappy on best bets all year, but that's why I picked this game as one of my best bets on Thursday. I was like, I think Tannahill is going to play, but even with Malik Willis, I'm going to go with Tennessee.


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[Assistant] Just because they have a feel for that Kansas City offense. They really do. You and I.


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[Assistant] Right? We had so many great looks last night, especially in the second half. You and I really paid attention to the game. And then we could look over to the other screen.


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[Assistant] And see the sky cam shot, which was like five seconds behind. So we got to see like, Oh wait, there's the play. And now let me see exactly what the coverage was. Uh, Tennessee, let's just start there so I can pay them some props because I love Tennessee Titans. I love Mike variable.


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[Assistant] He'd be like one of those guys where I go, if you built a coach in a lab, he'd be kind of the guy, the attitude, the mantra I'd want coaching my football team.


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[Assistant] Haircut too. Right. Love it. Right. That was old sexy dad, Chris Simms look. Now I'm, uh, um, uh, um, what was it last week? Somebody said I'm now I'm, I'm an accountant dad. I was sexy dad and now I'm accountant dad. Yeah. Smarter. Maybe a little smarter. I agree. I'm smarter. No doubt about it.


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[Assistant] But yeah, I mean, his way of coaching team, managing the game, the way they play, their defense.


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[Assistant] I mean, again, last night, I don't know, Pete, maybe you can look this up on the fly. I would, I don't think they blitz more than one or two times a whole night. Their defensive line's real. They're game plan specific in the back end, like we talk about. So they do some different stuff and what's ever specific to that matchup, let alone they're young and talented back there. And then, you know, offensively,


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[Assistant] The offensive line just continues to get better. I just thought, I didn't know if this offensive line was going to be capable of what they're doing here as of late. But, you know, again, yesterday to hang in that game,


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[Assistant] Was special, let alone hang in that game. I shouldn't even say that. To really be controlling the game, it seemed like for a good part of it. Uh, I give them a lot of credit. They're scary. Don't anybody count them out. They can go to the Super Bowl, the Tennessee Titans.


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[Assistant] I worry about them lack of receiver, right? They need that one thing. There's no doubt. That has to, there has to be an emergence of


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[Assistant] Robert Woods or Traylon Burke when he gets back, or one of the tight ends. They gotta have some go-to element, right? I mean, they completed five passes in the game. None to a wide receiver. And then you could talk about last week, right? And they did it to the Texans kind of the same way, and it didn't dominate them, but won the game, you know, somewhat easily. It's cool that a team can be


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[Assistant] That's what I think is cool. Exactly right. They're kind of like, it's, it's old school where it's a little bit like, Hey, we're going to run right here. You know, we're going to run right here and you can't stop it. And I love that attitude. I do. That's Pittsburgh Steelers of the seventies, you know, the giants of the eighties, the Cowboys of the early nineties. There's a little bit of that element. So that's where I respect it. But let's pay respect to the team that is just


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[Assistant] I don't see a lot of teams that ever out-hit the Kansas City Chiefs. I give them respect. For some reason we just talk, well because they're in the shotgun, they're not tough.


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[Assistant] They're punny tough. They were fine mixing it up with Kansas City, I mean, uh, Tennessee, getting it in their face.


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[Assistant] Hanging in there with nobody open and waiting till the last second and-


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[Assistant] Never really throwing a perfect spiral or feeling comfortable all night, but just getting it done cause he is one of the greatest football players we have ever seen in football. That's just my take on it. It's like backyard football. It's like backyard football. We were watching the end of the game going,


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[Assistant] Again, we had that cable cam so we could see it, but I mean, we were going, look, nobody, I'm in, nobody's open. And you're, you're right. But he's just, he's just going to make it happen. He doesn't care.


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[Assistant] Uh oh, nobody's open, nobody's open. Oh, still nobody's open! Okay, I'm gonna have to run. Or, still nobody's open, I'm about to get killed, but I'll throw a crazy ball, and oh my god, we completed it, and it's the first down. I mean, it's the damndest thing you've ever seen.


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[Assistant] It really is. And, I think that brings me to the point, like, you know, the other thing that we talked about while we were watching the game together last night. That was the first time


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[Assistant] Where I watched the game and there was a different approach by a defense to Kansas City that I had seen. Where it wasn't about necessarily take away the big plays. It wasn't about let's just sit back and stay patient underneath. I think they've come to this point of the year and seen 8 games or 7 games of film before this and went, you know what?


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[Assistant] They're pretty patient and surgical underneath in the short and intermediate pass game.


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[Assistant] And they played a game plan where, how many times during the second half did I go, look at the safeties almond, this is Kansas City.


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[Assistant] They got safeties at eight, nine yards cause they were looking for the short stuff. They were going to stop the five yard Kelsey throw and the 10 yard Juju Schuster throw over the middle where then he runs for eight yards more after the catch and Kelsey same thing. And that's where I found it fascinating. It might've been the first time I went, Ooh, they kind of missed Tyree kill. Might've been the first time.


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[Assistant] And they gotta have, you know, an answer for that type of defense. Cause now you know, teams are gonna dabble on that in certain situations and their counter to that is gonna be, okay, maybe we gotta have a few ways to maybe take some shots down the field and back the people off again. To your point, the Titan.


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[Assistant] I don't think people are quite realizing this yet. And I'll even take it to Thursday night with the Eagles Texans game.


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[Assistant] You know, Al Michaels, Kirk Herbstreit, they're doing a great job, right? I'm really enjoying listening to them. But they were talking about like, oh, I'm surprised, you know, the Texans are running the ball on the Eagles. Listen, I was surprised too. But what I don't think people have really realized, and if you haven't studied Tennessee yet,


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[Assistant] Their defensive line is epically good right now. It's, it is as dominant as there is.


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[Assistant] Jeffrey Simmons, Danico Autry and company. We're going to stop it. It doesn't matter.


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[Assistant] They would be scary good if Harold Landry was healthy, but I really like their team and I think they're only going to get better on the defensive side of the ball. You know, one Christian Fulton just got back. He's a special corner in my opinion.


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[Assistant] The rookie they got out of Auburn, Roger McCreary, he was one of my six or seven corners in the, in the, uh, the draft process. He's damn good. They got good safety play. Their linebackers are good.


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[Assistant] And we saw some of the coaching and the things they do as far as the defensive side of the ball. Ryan Tannehill back and then.


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[Assistant] An emergence of a receiver is going to make them dangerous, but damn, Kansas City, I give them respect for their toughness. And let's, let's keep it real. I mean, they fucked up the Tennessee run game in the second half, right? It was non-existent.


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[Assistant] And they got torn up in the first half. In the second half, they went in, they readjusted, they manned up. They played a little bit more big people at the line of scrimmage. They played a lot of eight and nine man fronts. And finally just said, I think, fine, you know, if you want to throw a go route or a fade route and we're one-on-one, so be it. But we're not going to let you run it up the middle with Derrick Henry all game long. And they, they really did a great job.


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[Assistant] You know, even though they're gonna understand, they're gonna be like, they get it. He's like, I can't get open. I'm sorry. I mean, it's, he's, I'm sure a little bitter. He wanted to be there.


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[Assistant] I mean, he did. He wasn't looking to break the record in money as we saw the contract he signed, but obviously Tennessee wasn't willing to do that. And, what's crazy,


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[Assistant] Is, you know, I just go back to that, you know, gif. I don't know if we got it, Pete, and you could pull it up just when they traded him away and then Mike Vrabel had to get up in the draft room and shake his head and like, like, whoa, we just.


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[Assistant] Like, you know, we had the perfect formula in the world. Running up the middle. You gotta put everybody in the middle to stop it. Oh, now there's nobody down the field. Look at AJ Brown. Nobody can stop him. And honestly,


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[Assistant] That to me is the only thing that maybe stops Tennessee from going where they go, is that move right there.


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[Assistant] Do you really think he's gonna wanna go there though? You think he's gonna wanna go there and go, well, maybe I'll get three balls on a Sunday playoffs after they run it for the 74th time. I mean, I don't know. It could be good.


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[Assistant] Cause you could be the go to guy, but I don't think he's going to be ready to be the go to guy right away too, which could lead to unnecessary pressure. But yeah, they got a little problem here with this. I mean, I don't know what they're going to do.


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[Assistant] They're, they got a great working relationship and they're on the same page, but if you're watching, here he goes. Look, here's right after the trade. Look at this. Watch, watch the crick in the neck right here. Look at that. I love that crick in the neck. He, he, we'll let him play one more time if we can. It is so good. Watch as he, just as he's turning around on it, like the crick in the neck, like.


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[Assistant] Damn, we just traded that guy. Look, look, he's shaking his head, shaking his head, and then watch this crick. Right?


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[Assistant] Tennessee is a team that definitely could upset our Buffalo-Kansas City matchup in the AFC Championship game. I know there's other teams there too, but you know, Tennessee is definitely one of those culprits that would be a tough matchup for, for Kansas City for sure.


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[Assistant] I like it. Well, the guy, he's, he's f***ing keeping it real. He knows. And one guy didn't have to make one hard throw. He, he had to make a few hard throws. But his point is, you know, he's never gonna, that's not what he's gonna be doing. Throwing the lasers into tight coverages or whatever else. But what he's asked to do, he is doing very, very, very well. He is phenomenal. And the point is this with both of these guys. Right?


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[Assistant] They're doing what makes sense for their quarterback, and they're making the best of it, and they're accentuating all the strengths, and they've limited the, okay, yeah, we're not gonna throw 20 yard comebacks with two, that's not what he's good at, so we're not gonna do that.


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[Assistant] The pressure's off a little bit. He's making plays. He feels good. I made a few runs. All right. Now the pressure's not on me because I, I didn't hand the ball off, hand the ball off and now it's third and eight and I have to throw a strike. He's in the game. He's in the flow of things. It's opened up the field, but man, this was a fun game to watch. It really was.


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[Assistant] I, I, you know, I really look at really the, the, maybe the difference of the game of this, and I know it was really, really close to begin with either way, but the block punt that happened, you know, midway through the second quarter,


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[Assistant] End of game referees refereeing the game differently than the start of the game. And that's gonna be an issue here. It is. I don't know what else to say, but yea, there was the, the third, late in the third quarter,


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[Assistant] No, no, that was fourth quarter. Eddie Jackson pass interference, where, on Jaylen Watto, where you want to go, I, was that perfect defense? But they called a pass interference, which I believe led to the last touchdown for the Dolphins. So that was late third quarter, I think. Maybe I'm wrong. But either way, it was a big field position change.


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[Assistant] And yeaah, that's what we saw yesterday consistently throughout. We had a number of games that drove Tony Dungy crazy. And listen, Tony Dungy doesn't go crazy easily.


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[Assistant] So, when he starts to see that, it's bothersome. And then yea, to your point on that play,


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[Assistant] I mean, come on. He bear hugged him. He bear hugged him. He literally had both hands around the guy and didn't let a guy who has a 40 inch vertical jump and he only jumped two inches off the ground. It wasn't because he was like legs are tired. It's cause there was a guy that was 180 pounds hanging on him.


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[Assistant] So that's where I don't get it. And listen, I'm all for rubbing his race in some context going to happen down the field.


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[Assistant] But there's gotta be a point where you just go, okay, I know it's late in the game and I don't want to get affect, uh, you know, affect this game as a referee, but this is above and beyond rubbing his race and or contact down the field. That's incidental. This was blatant. And I think that's what's going to bother some people in Chicago today and the next day on talk radio and everything.


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[Assistant] It's four, four or five weeks ago, I was just gonna, I mean, you know, it's, it's, it's not bad, but it's certainly not good. And there, there are concerns. I mean, I had people in Chicago on talk radio calling me everywhere.


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[Assistant] You know, I went on and did a little NBC Sports Chicago. You saw me do it, right? I talked to them for 20 minutes. All they asked me about was Justin Fields. I answered the same question seven different times. Right? I mean, I really did. That's what it was because they just can't get off the subject.


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[Assistant] On Monday night against the New England Patriots, when they brought out the quarterback design runs.


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[Assistant] It may, it makes defenses have to play a different way now. Where before they were, you know, old school traditional and we're going to run up the middle and we're going to high percentage passes and we're going to play that way. And it's just not the way they're, they're built. So this is, he's the best weapon they got on their offense right now.


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[Assistant] His running is some of the greatest running we've ever seen in the history of football.


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[Assistant] 100%. And we're seeing a guy that I think has already shown growth in throwing the football. Is he where he needs to be? No, but it's, it's going all in the right direction. And to me, this was my point all along. Why did we, I was saying this last year and everything, why do we draft guys like this if we're not going to utilize what they can really do for themselves and for the team?


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[Assistant] And it's just made them different. They're fun to watch now. I mean, they really are.


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[Assistant] So yeaah, that was extremely impressive. And the Dolphins are a lot of fun to watch too. They are. They put you in so many different binds. McDaniel is the closest thing to Shanahan and football.


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[Assistant] He's got great knowledge of defenses and knows how to expose the rules within the defense. And it all just fits with Tula, who's great at playing that style of football anyways. This is why we thought maybe this marriage could work.


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[Assistant] He's great at doing, you know, the stuff we've talked about or maybe been negative about with Jimmy Garoppolo. This is right in his wheelhouse.


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[Assistant] You know, unbelievably quick release, unbelievably accurate in those short intermediate throws. Guys run and catch after the throw. He's got great movement skills and they utilize all that. So I love watching them play. I really do. Their defense is still concerning. They're too talented on that side of the ball to be letting up some of the plays they are, but their offense is so


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[Assistant] You know, it's going to be a little bit like Kansas City, where teams are going to empty the kitchen sink on the offensive side of the ball when they play them because they're going to go, we really can't stop them the whole day. So you guys are going to have to kind of push the envelope. So that's going to lead to them giving up some plays and doing some things. But yea, Dolphins, you know, they're legit.


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[Assistant] You know, last night I know we talked on the show, like Seattle's a definite playoff football team. I guess I haven't come to the thing, the sense of like, oh, I think they can actually get to the Super Bowl yet.


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[Assistant] But they're like, they're getting close to me saying like, hey, they're a team that I actually think could get to the Super Bowl. I think it's real. You know?


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[Assistant] You know, one, we've, we've praised the defense. The defense is, it's different this year. It's playmaking, it's creative.


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[Assistant] There's not as many blown assignments, so there are different animal on that side. And then...


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[Assistant] The offense is a little bit like Miami, I mean it's not quite as creative.


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[Assistant] I didn't know Seattle was capable of. I mean, so one of the most fun teams to watch and that wasn't easy yesterday because


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[Assistant] Arizona's defense is good. I mean, it was, it was, what? What was it? Before the pick six, we had a, it was a 10-7 game halfway through the third quarter, right? Somewhere in that range. It was, nothing was coming easy at that point.


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[Assistant] Really to me the, the, the problem or the difference in the game is that Seattle's defense


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[Assistant] You know, smothered the Arizona offense once again. Arizona's offense just isn't good.


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[Assistant] That's the problem. The defense is plenty good. They play good, but it's like we always talk about. When you're out there every four plays, eventually the damn breaks. They've been saving them all year. But here we are there, yeaah, with Arizona, and it's just, it's, nothing comes easy to them.


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[Assistant] And, uh, yeah, Seattle's a force. They really are. Kyler made a few plays, all that, but the playmakers and the overall playmaking of the Seahawks on both sides of the ball is very fun to watch. It makes them


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[Assistant] We talked about this a little last week, just their ability to create and make plays. There's no doubt. One, they're towards the top of football and sacks.


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[Assistant] They have, yes, 13 forced fumbles, 8 of them have recovered, 5 interceptions, so that to me is, you know, creativity on the defensive side, and they got some guys that are


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[Assistant] Maybe a little more dudes than I thought. I mean, Uchena Nowusu, I'd never expected him to have the year he's having. I always liked him with the Chargers, but he's like...


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[Assistant] Right now proven to be one of the better edge players in the NFC in football right now. And then, you know, what they've gotten out of some of the young corners. And, and of course the Tariq Wolin is special. You know, Jordan Brooks, the middle linebacker. And then the defensive line has a little of everything. I don't know if there's a star outside of Uchena Nwosu.


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[Assistant] They can do, they can play like that matchup game and they have depth, right? We talk about where, oh, it's a big team. They got a lot of big people they can do. Oh, we got to play a little, you know, pass defense, Corral, Kyler Murray. Oh, we got a lot of those guys too to do that. So there's depth and versatility in their front. And then just, you know, with Pete Carroll.


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[Assistant] I don't think I picked them any game this year, and this is one of those games where...


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[Assistant] You know, I just kind of thought maybe Kyler and DeAndre Hopkins would make a play or two and they'd win a game by the field goal. You know, I, I,


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[Assistant] You know, not every game, you can't go down the league and just pick like, exact with like, they're a better record, I'm picking them to win. You know, I try to find those two, three games where you don't


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[Assistant] You know, you don't see it happening or, you know, I didn't think this could happen and this was one that I thought maybe, you know,


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[Assistant] Right up the sideline, right? It just, again, shows their explosive ability and that they're scary that way. They really are. And, uh, they believe right now and


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm not ready to say Super Bowl team yet, but I'm definitely, you know, playoffs for sure. Win a game in the playoffs for sure. They are definitely capable of all that, but they're starting to maybe change me to think they're a little more serious than I'm giving them credit for.


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[Assistant] That's a tough year, I mean, Dim, I mean, Mike McDaniels, you know, I mean, what he's doing, Robert Sala, I mean, you just talk about Dayball, I mean, Sirianni is certainly very willing of that.


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[Assistant] I mean, why isn't Mike Vrabel in that conversation once again? Yeah. Right? I mean, that would be another one I'd throw in there. Uh, Mike McCarthy would be the same thing. Like, there's some guys this year where I go, holy shit, you know who won't be on there? It's Frank Reich. Cause he just got fired.


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[Assistant] That's alright, that's alright. I just had to add it, I just felt like it was too, we were just talking about coach of the year and I knew he was fired, I got a text.


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[Assistant] I don't disagree with you there. I don't at all. I mean, it's, the offense is stale. It's, the team is built for the offense to be special. And it's not at all. The defense outshines it. Like we're talking about with a bunch of guys that, you know, most people, if we went on the street and we said, who's on the Arizona Cardinals defense? People would be like,


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[Assistant] J.J. Watt? Yeah. And that would be it. And you'd be like, yeah, okay. He's there. He's still good. You know? But yeah, some people might know Buddha Baker to Pete's point, right? I mean, people who get in the weeds are gonna start to know more and more of those guys. But yeah, their offense is the disappointment of their football team. No doubt about it.


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[Assistant] It radiates in that building, Ahmed. Just like you heard me talk about, not only I know you heard me with him or Joe Burrow.


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[Assistant] And you know, I haven't been in Kansas City yet, but I know enough people to know that that's just the, they, they, these are.


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[Assistant] And yes, you know, dad always, dad always has a saying that, you know, he could get those guys to eat out of his hands. See, they're in such the trust tree with him. He'd literally go, here Deion Dawkins, eat those little crumbs I got in my hand. I mean, he literally, they would do anything as you just heard.


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[Assistant] Listen, the end of the game against Green Bay, that was such an ass kicking. We talked about that last week. They took their foot off the gas pedal. That was unmotivated football down the stretch. And again, it was a team in Green Bay that was desperate and, you know, down.


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[Assistant] Uh, but did he do some dumb things at the end of that game? Certainly. Through what? Two stupid interceptions? Or you just go, wow? And listen, you could say what you want. His two interceptions are what lost them this game. That's why he went away with this. He left 14 points, at least 10 points on the board.


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[Assistant] You know, let alone, I know they missed a field goal, they did some other things that were stupid throughout the day. But to start the game off with, you know, big plays, right? And it's, it's, you're gonna go down the field and put the pressure on the Jets right away and get the game where you want it.


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[Assistant] And he throws a ball in the flat, and I just don't think he saw the guy. He had a defensive lineman in his face, remember? And he kinda threw a casual sidearm like, oh, he's wide open, let me just get the guy. And I don't think he saw the DB behind him. I'm guessing. I mean, this is a pretty smart guy. I know he takes chances every now and then. But that was like,


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[Assistant] Hey, the Jets, all the pressure was on the Jets in this game. So there you go, you gave the Jets a little go in there. And then the interception, what was that, later in the second quarter, right? Somewhere around there. Uh, third quarter.


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[Assistant] Right, it was 14-10, right? 14-10, and you give them the short field in the third quarter, just how your defense had, what, made a stop, and okay, here we go, we can go up by maybe a touchdown or two scores, and you deliver a ball and just make a,


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[Assistant] And absolute, again, I don't think he saw him. I think he took for granted that he thought, wait, they're playing this coverage and he should be here to stop this, but he wasn't there and he tries to throw a hole shot and the receiver wasn't in the hole.


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[Assistant] So that leads to a short field touchdown and, you know, all of a sudden now you're, oh gosh, we're in a, we're in a dog fight here. And, uh, you know, that allowed the Jets to be patient on the offensive side of the ball and continue to stay with the run. And if there's a weakness to Buffalo we're seeing right now is their run defense a little bit.


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[Assistant] A little scary and I'm, I'm, I just hope they don't get, it just was all Josh Allen yesterday. We couldn't run the ball, they couldn't do anything like that, right? It was just a Josh Allen show. He had to do everything.


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[Assistant] And that's when it's not good. They're not going to get to the Super Bowl playing that way. But I think that credit has to go to the Jets. Well there we go. Alright. I was like enough about the team that lost. Well the Jets front four and their front seven are fast and they're amazing.


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[Assistant] At, you know, Saga & Company, the secondary is talented.


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[Assistant] That's a good ques- I need to probably like dive into corners right now. You've said that a couple times. I know.


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[Assistant] Well, it's one of those things where we talk about, like, it changes quick. It changes in a hurry. Like, it's corner is one of those where, hey, you're the best and you're the coolest thing going, wait, you're in year seven, you lost a step, you're not the best anymore. Like, it can fall, it falls off just like that.


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[Assistant] And again, I love Jalen Ramsey. I don't think anybody's calling Jalen Ramsey the best corner in football anymore. That's, that's gone. See you later. So, uh, but yeaah. Mmm. I just...


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[Assistant] It's a pretty special duo. Uh, I'm just gonna just...


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[Assistant] Yeah, the duo in Dallas with Anthony Brown and Trayvon Diggs is pretty damn good. I'm just trying to think, is there anybody out there?


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[Assistant] Yeah, the guys in Green Bay are solid. You know, Denver's not bad. It's, you know, the guy is certain and, and, uh, gosh, it's opposite of him is, is, uh, is right. Is that or, uh, Mathis or, yeah, I guess so it's Mathis and man does Darby's hurt, right? Is Darby hurt? I can't even remember. Yeah. So,


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[Assistant] Yeaah, they're in the running there. They're secondary. They're four. Is certainly...


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[Assistant] In the running, cause Jordan Whitehead is a special safety and LaMarcus Joyner is damn good to go along with it.


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[Assistant] That's a good question by our guy there, and I think they're definitely in that conversation to answer it. I know it's not like concrete best duo, but definitely up there.


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[Assistant] Definitely part of the game plan. Don't let Buffalo, Von Miller, Greg Russo, and that company, you know, strip sack fumble, get us playing. The Jets got back to what we saw in the four game win streak. It's run the ball, it's defense, fly around, make a play or two.


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[Assistant] You know, Zach Wilson, be somewhat conservative, and that splash play will kind of pop, and then we need you to make that big play when that kind of appears. And that's, that's what he did again yesterday.


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[Assistant] You know? Let alone, again, a number of great escapes. I don't think he's getting enough credit for that. Where I wanna go, listen, like, literally the other 30, like 22 quarterbacks, 28 quarterbacks in football are gonna get sacked and they're gonna be in third and 15 here, and he gets out of it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so we'll see, but they're growing and of course they're offensive line. They're kind of patching it back together after some recent injuries and I think that was the impressive thing.


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[Assistant] You know, to go down the field at the end of the football game and go, we're gonna run it down your throats for an 86 yard drive. I did not expect that. I did not at all. And, uh, it was a big time win for the Jets. Jets are real. Jets aren't going anywhere. They're, they're going to be in this, this conversation all year long.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just think they hit a little, little lull. They hit a team in New York who was coming off a bad loss and is more talented than I think people want to give them credit for in the New York Jets. Uhm, it was a bad day. It was a bad day, but they'll learn from it and, uh,


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[Assistant] They'll, they'll trust me, they'll mark this on the calendar to get their revenge on the Jets when they come up to Buffalo here in the second half of the year.


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[Assistant] There's a lot of things that he does great, I agree. I mean, there really is. You know, the management of the game a little bit and some of that, I'm still at times like, uh,


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[Assistant] Like, am I wrong to remember that you guys went forward on fourth and one on the five yard line to start the game? Yeah. And didn't get points. You know, I didn't love that. I understand it. So you got that offensive line. They think they can do that.


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[Assistant] You know, but, but, you know, again, it's, it's the Packers where I want to go points are hardened for Green Bay. But other than that, it's still tough. And, I mean, they were fortunate. Fortunate? They were. They were fortunate, but.


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[Assistant] But, but, but tough and gritty. I mean, you know, yeaah, fortunate in the fact that can you depend on Aaron Rodgers to throw the ball off of a defender's head on a consistent basis? This year, maybe. Aaron Rodgers at the end of the game, he goes piped.


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[Assistant] You know, I don't know what we're going to talk about in a minute, but between Brady and Roger, see one thing I saw, Roger's the body language, the mistakes, the rolling of the eyes, the tilting of the head, all that. It is. It's too much.


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[Assistant] He's got to keep his own emotions in check for the better of his own football team. The young guys, keeping them cool and like, wait, this isn't that bad. We can overcome it. They're dumb. They don't know. They're just looking at you. If you're panicked, they're panicked. You know, I thought Brady made a concerted effort yesterday watching that game to not be that way.


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[Assistant] Like there was a lot of times where I think people f***ed up protection, somebody ran the round rat, he just kind of, he kind of looked, looked down the field and walked off the field instead of like, what are we doing? And like doing all that kind of stuff and then getting the sideline and questioning things, right? I thought he made an improvement there. Yeah. Roger still has a ways to go there.


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[Assistant] Uh, he's frustrated, obviously, but yeaah, we've never seen him do that. And like, you know, honestly, I don't mean to...


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[Assistant] Be mean here, but they outplayed you guys. It was those plays, you know. It's good, you guys have outplayed people and got screwed over by some bad turnovers and then some unlucky, unlucky stuff too. But, yea, RPO.


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[Assistant] Again, this is the problem with that kind of play. Oh, I mean, what play of the drive was that when they threw the RPO interception? Play 12? Play 13? You know, again, that's where I just go, it's arrogant to think that you're going to run 70 plays, 80 plays every game at three yards a clip and not going to have mistakes or turnovers happen.


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[Assistant] And that's what came back to bite him in the ass. The Tackle Eligible Interception by Aiden Hutchinson. Great job.


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[Assistant] They're like, we're going to embarrass the Lions. David Bakhtiari is going to catch a touchdown. Oops. Cool play. Shit throw. He was open. I mean, right? We watched that from how many different angles he threw the ball five, six yards short. Bakhtiari was going to have to dive back and try to get his hands underneath the ball for him to catch it.


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[Assistant] So that was bad, and then the interception down the middle, uh, the second one of the day for Joseph, right?


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[Assistant] That was the post route down the middle. I believe it was Tanyan going down the middle. Maybe it was Daguara. I can't remember exactly. But either way, he was open. Rodgers was late to throw it. And threw it behind him.


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[Assistant] And again, to me too, late to throw it because he's never looking to be aggressive and go, Oh, as soon as he comes out of the break, I'm throwing the rifle. It's kind of like, I'm looking everywhere else. Oh, I think he's opening. It's a little late.


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[Assistant] Uh, they did make some plays in the pass game, but between those three interceptions and then Allen Lazar dropping that fourth and two pass, those are four huge mistakes by Green Bay where


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[Assistant] You know, they certainly gotta put some pressure on, on a day where their green base defense looked like it had a hold of your offense a little bit.


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[Assistant] So, I think Matt LaFour is a good coach. You don't get those type of results in what he's done there without being a good coach, you know. Mike McCarthy wasn't getting those results there at the end. You gotta remember some of this stuff, and I know not everything's the same here.


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[Assistant] But I don't know if that's totally his fault. I think he's got a quarterback that kind of wants things in his comfort zone and doesn't want to add too much. Like we talked about two weeks ago, it's, it's...


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[Assistant] But I, my take Marty is just that the, uh, of course the weapons on offense is a real issue and Rogers has compounded that issue by not really having the aggressive frame of mind throwing the football too. And really living in the, let me look to throw the ball underneath, they don't attack that way.


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[Assistant] Their defense is very good. It's not, it hasn't been dominant like we thought. I thought they'd make a few more plays here and there.


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[Assistant] But that's my biggest thing. Lack of explosive plays, we've talked about that for six weeks. Marty, it's just, it's hard to win going 12 plays, 75 yards every time you drive down the field.


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[Assistant] At some point, you gotta have some plays that take some pressure off the team, and they don't have that, and uh, now they're starting to make mistakes too on top of that, and yeaah, they're in deep trouble.


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[Assistant] It's like they got scarred by K.Dotten catching the ball down the middle to start the drive, right? And they were like, whoa, we can't let them do that. And no, the logic is let them do that because they're going to run like three less plays.


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[Assistant] And they might not be able to, you know, get down to the goal line and get the passion interference. It was crazy.


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[Assistant] Tony Dungy, that was the second most passionate thing he was crazy about yesterday. You were in there. I mean, he's always, you know, looking at management and what you're doing on defense. Those are things that Tony Dungy was, he was famous for. So he doesn't...


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[Assistant] He was winning games 13 to 9 with Tampa Bay for like five years. It wasn't cause he was going, Hey, throw the out route and the two minute drill so you can go out of bounds and you know, you can keep it going.


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[Assistant] And that's how they won so many games, so he doesn't understand it. I don't understand it either. To not protect the sideline with a team with no timeouts and play defenses where the outs, the receivers on the outside get free access and


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[Assistant] Defenses where the guy covering the, covering these outside receivers have to respect the go route because they don't have help behind them.


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[Assistant] So now, yeaah, they're not going to let you go run right by them. So as soon as you threaten them up the field, they're backing up, right? Going, oh no, I got to protect the go route. And then you throw a 10 yard out and a 12 yard out. I mean, yeaah, I don't get it. I got to look at it a little bit more closely.


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[Assistant] Let me just say this. I know they needed that to win the game at the end.


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[Assistant] I felt very, as the game was going on, that Tampa was the better team on the field. I really did in a lot of ways. I really felt like we were sitting there watching like LA, you know, just


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[Assistant] It was two plays the whole game. I guess that's the way I felt. It was two plays. It was a long throw to Cooper Cup.


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[Assistant] And it might have been another long throw to Cooper Cup. And that was like the whole day on the offensive side of the ball, right? He threw the seam down, uh, to Cooper Cup for the 69 yard touchdown pass. And then he had that play where, remember Stafford rolled out?


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[Assistant] And like, Cooper Cup acts like he's gonna run the corner route and then he comes across the field on a deep post route. You see the Rams do it every now and then. There was that big pass play and I felt like that was it for the day for the Rams.


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[Assistant] The Bucks, it just drops, you know, of course Ram's defense was good and they did a good job of pressuring Brady and company and they couldn't sustain drives.


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[Assistant] I don't know, am I crazy to think, even though they were down there lately, I just felt like they were the better team. And they just couldn't make the play or two to kind of get them over the hump to get in the lead of the game or ever get in control of the game that way.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this is a tight one. This is a tight one. But I'm gonna say they do not make the playoffs. I know. Me too.


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[Assistant] I don't see it. I don't see it. It's just too hard. And again, I give them a lot of credit. I do because they're tough. They are. Their defense is a pain in the ass. You know, but just everything's hard.


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[Assistant] And I just, you know, I'm going to pull up their schedule here because I feel like I remember off the top of my head, the schedule gets tough, right? I mean, they start to have...


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[Assistant] Raiders at home, at Green Bay, Denver at home, yeah, I don't see it happening. This is not the kind of schedule they want right there.


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[Assistant] It's not. I don't. I think they miss, they miss out on this year. You know, even before the year, I think we, you and I just looking at their roster, we're like, I don't know. If they get in, they're not going to be great. They'll get in. And that's kind of the way I looked at it. Um, but yeah, if you made me sit here right now, I don't, I don't see it. I had them getting


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[Assistant] They're four and five, but what? That puts them atop that division. Well, that division sucks, so I give that that, right? I still, there's a part of me that still goes, I think their defense can still be a real force here. I do.


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[Assistant] You know, there was even the moment, you know, they went up 13 to 6 yesterday.


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[Assistant] The game was 10-6 and Todd Bowles and company went forward on 4th down around the mid-field and I was like, why? The Rams can't move the ball. Why are you gonna give them the ball at midfield where they get one first down and all of a sudden they can kick a field goal and then extend the lead and go up by a touchdown? I was a little surprised by some of that yesterday, but yea, I think Tampa what I look at is, yes, they're still Brady, you know.


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[Assistant] I think Godwin is still getting healthier as we go here.


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[Assistant] And I do think the defense as it gets healthier here, we saw Carlton Davis back, you know, I believe Murphy bunting. Yeah, he's back. And then Akeem Hicks was back yesterday. So I guess I give them some hope to go, you know, it's never going to be pretty this year by them, but I could see them winning a lot of games.


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[Assistant] The teams in their division, they still, you know, Carolina, Atlanta, New Orleans are still on the, uh,


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[Assistant] The schedule? I mean, again, those are, yeah, I mean, none of those teams we look at to go, oh, I think they're going to beat the Bucs. No, every one of those games are going to go, we're taking the Bucs. You know, there's the Browns left. So yeah, I'm giving Tampa, Tampa, ugly playoff team.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that's gonna be, no one's gonna be happy to see them coming to town cause you're gonna go, damn that defense and it's Brady and that's scary. It is time now.


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[Assistant] Yes, this is how camaraderie starts right here. This is how teams believe. You know, that was the thing I said to you last night, right? It was the first thing I said. This is like, this shows you the state of their team. They're having fun.


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[Assistant] You know, and they're close, and you see that, and I think that's what is resulting in, whoa, late in the fourth quarter, we're okay, let's stay together and pull this out. Alright, so that's where I love it. I do. You know, Kevin O'Connell has brought a breath of fresh air there to Minnesota, and


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[Assistant] It's just funny where it just seems late in the fourth quarter in these type of games where I used to go, well, it's Kirk Cousins in Minnesota and there's the stigma of like, oh, they'll kind of blow this. It's a close one.


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[Assistant] And we were watching together. It's 17 to 7. Washington, the commanders were, their D is, it's here, it's real. They're controlling the game and it feels like, oh my gosh, they're about to, they're going to put this way. And they had a third and long and he hit the go route down the left sideline. Right? It was third and seven, you said Pete?


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[Assistant] It reignited, it lit up the flame one more time, you know, and that was like, to me, the momentum changer that went, whoa, back to Minnesota. They went down, I believe in that drive and got the fuel goal, right? Am I right about that? And then came.


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[Assistant] Not Heineken Magic with the Interception and Minnesota capitalized on that. That's kind of what they've been doing all year.


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[Assistant] Special talent at that position. He's gonna be their tight end for a long time. And he fits the way football they wanna play. He's a good blocker.


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[Assistant] He's very George Kittle-esque to me. He is. Maybe not quite as athletic as that, but, you know, that along those type of lines and of course came from Iowa and is good that way. But that was a big win. Like with Minnesota, they're a team that I'm going to, again, we're going to classify as like, yes, playoffs, certainly.


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[Assistant] You know, I guess I'm further down the road with Seattle, I feel like, than I am with Minnesota, and I guess that sounds disrespectful. We just haven't seen it with


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[Assistant] Well, and the schedule has been favorable for them so far. They haven't had to play any juggernauts really. When they did.


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[Assistant] They got, they got blown out, like right, right. That's where, you know, some of these teams that are six and three, where I look at them and just go, well, I have a little more hope in them because they've showed.


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[Assistant] I guess some stretches of games where you've heard me say this, where they just really were dominant or elite. And Minnesota has shown stretches to that, but not throughout. And I guess their defense, their defense worries me a little, but maybe I gotta change my thought with that a little bit. Because like to what you just talked about,


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[Assistant] What was that? Cameron Dantzler stripping the ball out of the Bears receivers hand late in the game, right? To win the game. And then, of course, yesterday with the interception. So, they got some of that magic and, uhm, yeaah. They're a pain in the butt. They're going to the playoffs.


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[Assistant] I guess I'm just not quite totally, I'd like to see a few more games against some higher level competition so I can just measure it a little bit differently.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it is cool. I mean, it's crazy to think of, you know, what he's doing there and Texas Longhorn just winning games for teams. Oh, he's a Texas Longhorn. Pretty sure. Pretty sure he is, right?


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[Assistant] Yeah, they're cool, and they got a cool name, they're, uh, I thought he was, am I wrong there?


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[Assistant] Are you with the college? Texas? Okay, got it. Rightly claimed. Well see, that's what happens too when you smoke weed. You start to go, wait, maybe I'm wrong and shit's just dazed and confused in my head. You're right quite a bit.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, all the things we worry about with the Chargers I think still hold true.


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[Assistant] This is one of those games where I picked them to win by a field goal. Cause I thought, well, there's not enough passing game with Atlanta that the Chargers will be able to kind of sell out in the run. And even with that, they're still not, they can't still can't stop the run very easily. I mean, the Falcons ran for over 200 yards on them.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, it's, you know, again, it's not always easy for them to get in the end zone. That's the big thing. The drives are few and far between. Uh, but,


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[Assistant] Same issues, again, respect the Falcons. I think they're gonna be in a lot of games like this throughout the year. This won't stop and they're gonna continue to be competitive and that offensive line and how they run it, it's gonna make, you know, teams have to squeak it out to beat them. The Chargers, they have more talent and more potential than what they're showing in my opinion.


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[Assistant] You know, the, the, the run defense is certainly an issue. And again, the same thing as what we talk about really the last few weeks with the Chargers. And I know there's no Mike Williams and Keenan Allen. That certainly hurts them.


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[Assistant] Assemble in some aggressive passing game has to be a little bit more.


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[Assistant] And, uh, he made the big play like you talked about the Palmer there after the fumble by the Falcons. There was, they were down 10-0 early and had a third and 13 backed up. He threw another big pass to Palmer where he bought a little time. To me that was like one of the plays of the game that led to their 15 play 83 yard touchdown drive. But that kind of got momentum back in their way.


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[Assistant] And yeah, they were just tough and gritty in this game, I feel like. And just kind of hung around and Herbert made just enough plays to win. But yeah, the Chargers are a team that's.


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[Assistant] Have potential, but I don't know if they're anywhere near it, and I don't know what to think of them right now, and this is gonna be interesting to see what they do here down the stretch.


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[Assistant] They are. They're efficient, you know, as far as because his ability to throw the ball with the tight windows and move the chains that way. And uhm, they don't seem to be making the stupid mistakes that we've seen the Chargers make over the last decade, even prior to this, that they had this whole mojo of.


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[Assistant] They've been helped out twice this year. That was a big moment, and then the Cleveland game, Cleveland gave them some gifts as well, but here's a team that I still look at and go,