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[Assistant] So they're 11-10 and ATN busts it up the middle and you're going, oh, he might score or get down close here and fumbles and the Giants recover.


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[Assistant] And now instead of being down 18, or who knows with Jacksonville, you know, it could have been 17, 10, it could have been 18, 10, it could have been 19, 10. Who knows what they would have done? They might have gone for two.


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[Assistant] Either way, that fumble, Giants recover, and then they go down on a long, ugly field goal drive to go up 13-11. I thought that was a big moment of the game, where I thought, ooh, Jacksonville's kind of got the Giants reeling, they're in a little trouble, I don't know if we can stop them here, and uhm,


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[Assistant] But, am I crazy to think that like he misses four or five kind of game changing throws almost every week? I, I, yesterday there was another two or three plays where you go, man he's too good to miss this right here. They shouldn't settle for a field goal, and they settled for a field goal because he missed two, what I would say like,


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[Assistant] Most quarterbacks in football are gonna throw a touchdown pass there. It's just a little inconsistent sometimes with the aggressive throwing down the football field. Those are two things that jumped out to me, I'm sorry. Not too different than what you saw.


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[Assistant] There's been those moments of like, you know, and again, I'm gonna pull up their schedule where I just go, oh, like, I mean, even last week, I know we had a few plays like that. Last week was really a lot of short completions and he played it pretty close to the best. The Texans game, the Eagles game before that.


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[Assistant] There was chances and plays there to be had that he missed, along with yesterday. You know, and again, it's still really good, and I'm not trying to over judge the guy, he's young, he's still really talented, and does a lot of good things there. But yea, there's just a, a, a, a polish in his throwing that's still not quite there, uh, that I think would help them, you know,


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[Assistant] Get over the top in some of these close football games. Yeah, they're off to London.


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[Assistant] So, he's a really big dude. I mean, he's a really big dude. He's bigger than me.


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[Assistant] And I'm a pretty big guy. I'm, you know, 6'5", over 230 pounds. He's definitely bigger than me. So, that's what people don't realize, and then he stands in there, and again,


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[Assistant] You know, you say what you want, I know the passing game's not overly explosive, but damn does he make a lot of good throws right now. And again, I know it's, it's almost like he's running, it's not sexy, you kinda go, doesn't look that cool, it's kinda robotic,


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[Assistant] Man, he hits the bulls eye a lot. He really does, and I'm glad. I mean, they're going down the road where Danny Dime's gonna be our quarterback in New York for the next few years, so let's get behind him and get used to it.


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[Assistant] I'm right there with you. Saquon Barkley does some things that remind me of Barry Sanders. Right, right. Saquon has those ability to like, he gets the ball and he hops like four times and you're like, wait, he didn't even run and he just hopped like six yards and made four people miss.


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[Assistant] And he didn't even run. And then he starts to run. And then you're like, oh my gosh. Yea, there is some element there. I'm with you there. And I'm also with you in my lifetime. Nobody's...


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[Assistant] I mean, I think Barry Sanders is the best running back I've ever seen in my life.


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[Assistant] I honestly think probably put Adrian Peterson in his prime as number two. Yea. And then, you know, we can start going from there. But to me, those are the two guys that, yea, they're special. And Saquon has some of those special traits that you're talking about.


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[Assistant] Can you imagine? They got the Seahawks, the Texans, and the Lions with a bye week after this Seahawks game.


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[Assistant] They're gonna, the ratings machines are gonna blow up. Cowboys and Giants? If the Giants roll in there at 9 and 1, and the Cowboys are...


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[Assistant] You know, 8 and 2 or 7 and 3 or something like that. That is gonna be as big a Thanksgiving game as we've had in like a long long time. And you will finally pick the Giants and they will lose 30 to 60. Seriously, that's how it'll go. This'll be the week I take them against the Seahawks and of course this'll be the week.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, I think we should. I mean, the Cowboys, again, I don't think they broke from their mold, right? I mean, it wasn't their best football game. The Lions did some good things. I mean, as we know. I mean, what was the game? 6-3 when Jamal Williams fumbled going in the end zone? 6-3 in the third quarter, no.


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[Assistant] Just, not enough there. I would have liked to have seen what it would have looked like if you had Deandre Swift. Because...


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[Assistant] Swift is, to me, like, at another level better than anybody else you guys got at the running back position. Amanrao St. Brown went out early. Exactly, he got hurt early too, right, so that hurt them.


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[Assistant] No doubt, but the Cowboys I think kind of just what we talked about. That was the good thing for me, is they didn't really change the way they've been playing throughout this winning streak. And they didn't go, oh Dak is back to like what you said and let's throw it 45 times. Oh.


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[Assistant] They played through their defense, again, showed the ability to run the ball again a little bit, played balance, and kind of just, they wait you out a little bit. And they just go, we're better, we got a few more playmakers, we'll make our plays, you'll make some mistakes, we'll out-hate you.


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[Assistant] And I feel like that's kind of the way the game went. I, you know, I don't have, I feel like I don't have great feel for this game for some reason. And I know because it was so choppy I think for so long to where it was like, I don't know what's going on, it's 6-3, I mean I know,


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[Assistant] Dallas fumbled on the three yard line, right? Noah Brown had a ball, and so you're going, oh, they're about to kind of get going here. They fumbled, you guys fumbled, the interceptions by Goff to start the third quarter. You know, there was just a few things there that I think, uhm, yeaah, I guess what I'm saying is just it was hard for me to have a total feel of the game. It was an ugly game against


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[Assistant] Okay, that's, that's, that's the point where I was yelling at the TV yesterday. This is, this is the other thing that's bothering me. It just went on a few times yesterday and Pete, maybe you can remember some of them where I went, why are we, what are we rushing for?


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[Assistant] You're at the one yard line, let's see if you scored, there's no guarantee you're gonna score the next play, or the next play after that, or the next play after that. And we saw it, I know in the Bengals game they did it once or twice, and I think things worked out for them.


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[Assistant] Like, we're gonna hurry up to the line of scrimmage because we think you're gonna be flustered by this pace of our play here. Yeah. And then we're gonna try to run the ball real quick, and it's just like, wait, there was a play before here that was, it was very close. I thought he got in.


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[Assistant] It did. It definitely did. Uhm, you know, damn okay. Javon Holland, you know I love him. I think he's already one of the best safeties in football.


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[Assistant] You know, Igbanogone, he's had some issues. He was a first round pick out of Auburn. You know, but yeaah, big play and big moment right there. Last night.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the last play I think he got a little panicked where he was like, wait, I'm gonna run, and then I think he did, like Collinsworth explained, he goes, I think he realized, oh wait, I have no timeouts here, and if I run and don't get out of bounds, we're gonna get, we're gonna have like 12 seconds left by the time we snap the next ball here.


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[Assistant] So, I think he tried to like, oh wait, let me throw it instead of run, and he made a rushed, hasty decision. But, you know, that's a little...


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[Assistant] You know, I mean, how many interceptions did he throw in the Jets game?


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[Assistant] Was there two, three in that game? Right? I mean we're, he's, you know, we all jumped on Mitch Trubisky here, and how dare he not throw bombs more?


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[Assistant] And now we got a guy that's, you know, not protecting the football. And yeaah, those were big moments of the game. The interception before that to Javon Holland, it wasn't much better. I mean, it was a 10 yard curl route. He just didn't see Javon Holland. I don't know really what happened there. You know, so uhm,


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[Assistant] It was amazing that Pittsburgh hung around the way they did, in typical Pittsburgh fashion. Of course, Mike McDaniel with a dumb decision, go up 19 to 10. Why would you, it's fourth and three on the 19 yard line. That was, you're playing Kenny Pickett in the Steelers. That was one of the dumber decisions of the night there.


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[Assistant] You know, Pickett, like you said, he's got good feel. I'm actually more impressed with his athletic ability more than anything. I will say it's the second week in a row, I've kinda gone...


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[Assistant] I'm gonna sound like a hater here, where I just go, I don't see anything special with Kenny Pickett. I just, I know we can play the position, and he can read defenses, and he, but I just, like, I thought his arm looked weak last week against Tampa Bay, before he got hurt, I thought it looked extremely weak last night too.


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[Assistant] You know, so that's my only concerns there, just overall with that conversation.


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[Assistant] You know, but I do give the Steelers a lot of credit for hanging around in there. And then the Dolphins, you know, hey, Tua was a little rusty like you said. He had some bad decisions and throws that should have been intercepted. Did a great job early on in the football game. They were wheeling and dealing. Had Gesicki drop a touchdown pass. They should have been up by one of the drives they had to kick a field goal.


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[Assistant] You know, but, but I will say I have my concerns with him still too. I'm not gonna like, just because they win and two and nine, I'm not gonna back off of what I'm seeing in my eyes and what I study.


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[Assistant] And the fact that again, once you saw some of the easy completions and tricks taken away, there was nothing else. Okay, so when are we going to make a throw in the pocket to move the ball down the field?


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[Assistant] You know, it can't always be Mike McDaniel, this guy's that way, this guy's that way, this guy's that way, and I threw a screen, and then I threw a guy wide open over the middle. And even on, this is where, this is another place where stats don't tell the whole picture.


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[Assistant] Some of those throws he had to the guys over the middle, watch him back. I mean, if he throws them better, the guys should run for significantly more yards, or they should get more out of it.


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[Assistant] Let alone I thought there were some other plays there to be had too, but either way it was a good start for them, good win, it was ugly, and they were lucky to escape with that one. They're four and three now.


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[Assistant] That's usually the way it is. That's usually the way it is. You know, when you're in it, you don't, you just keep going, I'm a player. I keep playing. I don't know what else. I love it. This is what I do. You know, I almost died on the field and I was literally eight weeks later going, I think I can come back and play the last two games. I went to the doctor to go,


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[Assistant] You think I can come and play the last two games even though we're four and ten? Like, you think I can come? And then he like looked at me and he's like, he literally started drawing on, you know, the sheet of paper you sit on, on the doctor's little thing, whatever. He started drawing on there, like, questions and things and like,


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[Assistant] You know, almost died, lost pint of blood, you guys are four and ten, you know, not sure you're totally a hundred percent yet. And he was like, so why, what do you want to come back? And I was like, I don't know, because I want to come back, I want to play, I think I can play. I don't know, so that's just, that's the way they're wired.


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[Assistant] I do, he can't lower his head though, like he did on those two runs. That's, gosh, and it sounds like they said something to him on the sideline. Cause after the game with Melissa Stark, he said like, they were on him a little bit. So, yeah, hopefully he can learn. But again, those are also the type of things that the team will like that he did that.


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[Assistant] Players are gonna look at, look at our guy, he's a football player. Like doing that right there. He doesn't care about his head or whatever. That'll give him some respect in the locker room for sure.


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[Assistant] Just, you know, watch out, here they go, right? They did seem like they protected a little bit better, for sure. Chase is special, you know. The Falcons lost AJ Terrell early on in the football game.


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[Assistant] AJ Terrell is like definitely one of the best corners in football. So that hurt them. My biggest thing is this, Ahmed, where I just, you know, I bet you, you know what I'm going to say a little bit and just going,


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna play you man to man until I really have to. Like, I'm just not gonna do it. I'm gonna go like, runnin' with Joe Mixon. I keep running it. I don't think you can do anything that way.


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[Assistant] Nowhere did that really seem like it was going yesterday. I don't know really what, I was surprised by Atlanta, it's like Atlanta wanted to take away everything. And I wanna beg, you can't take away everything. You gotta pick your, what, what's your,


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[Assistant] What's your thing you're going to take away and go from there? And it's like, no, they were going to take away the go route, the shallow cross and the run game on every play. And it's like, okay, well you're not though, because they're having a field day here. You know, I just was shocked by some of the looks they got.


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[Assistant] And as you know, and the one thing I love about Burrow, and that's why he's awesome, and again, why he's definitely one of the four best quarterbacks in the game right now, is he's not looking to ever check it down.


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[Assistant] He is literally like, oh, it's one on one with Jamar Chase? Oh. What was the play? I don't care. I'm throwing to Jamar Chase. I mean, he literally says that too. Like, when it's one on one, I gotta go to him.


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[Assistant] And that's what he is. He's a freak show. So I guess I was just shocked by that, by Atlanta's approach and playing that way. They did a good job kind of battling back.


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[Assistant] For a little while, where I went, oh my gosh, like, we might have a game here, like, this is crazy. It's total domination, but uhm, you know, then again, they made one more, a few more plays in the pass game and really put their foot on their throat, and that was, that was that.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. I don't wanna go like, what? This guy like every time he's in this position catches it. It's almost like a hundred percent catch rate. But here, I mean here's the example of what I'm talking about anyways. A little bit. Look at these. Look at this if you're watching on YouTube. It's man to man bump and run.


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[Assistant] On Jamar Chase, you know, and you see the safety, they try to cheat him over there, right? It's a single safety coverage though, right? So you got the three receivers, all have man to man. The safety just follows Joe Burrow's eyes and tries to get over there in time.


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[Assistant] That's just not enough. It's, it's again, Jamar Chase is in the classification of you have to be really careful and you better double him when in doubt. And, uh, yeaah, that's why I, you know, again, I think he's, he's right there with the best receivers in the game in my opinion.


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[Assistant] Yeah, fair. Yeah, I think so. Exactly right. Like they're- The game's gotta fall the right way for them.


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[Assistant] And they don't have like a special running back, especially with Cordell Robinson out.


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[Assistant] You know, they're trying to play like the Giants, they're just a lesser version of the Giants. Right? Mariota might be a little faster than Daniel Jones, but not much. But he's not nearly as good a thrower as Daniel Jones, so that hurts. You know, they want to run the ball and have a good all our lives, but they don't got Saquon Barkley.


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[Assistant] You know, that's just the other thing too. Saekwon, like you said earlier, they had a few runs in that game yesterday where you go, ehh, there really wasn't that big of a hole. He just like, did some crazy shit and got a 20 yard run.


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[Assistant] You know, and so that's where, you know, they're a little, they want to play the right style. I was shocked by the defense approach, like I said, but yeah, I think they're kind of one of the, like you said it right. They're going to hang around.


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[Assistant] They might end up 6 and 11. I don't know. Maybe they go 7 and 10 or 8 and 9. Maybe I'm wrong. Uhm, but I don't think it's like anything, anything better than that.


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[Assistant] They, they need him. They do. You know, especially now with J.K. Dobbins back hurt again a little bit and gonna be out for the next few weeks. Edwards is a sledgehammer. You know, who has better speed than your normal everyday sledgehammer type?


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[Assistant] You know, for the second week in a row, yeaah, I'm a little underwhelmed. I wish, you know, I think we're seeing teams kinda...


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[Assistant] Maybe catch up to the Ravens past defense, uh, offense a little bit. Right? And this is always a thing here with the Ravens. This is why their run game has to get going, because it has to help their, they're not built to throw the ball 40 and 45 times a game. That's not who they are. So.


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[Assistant] You know, that's where they gotta get this going. But I think it's like, you know, the other thing I'll say here is special teams, defense, those were positives. Running the ball again were positives. It's not great. The Ravens are, you know, I, I'll put you up, I'll put my hand up. I've, I've misvalued them. I, I think I thought they were gonna be better or had a little more talent than I, than I, uh,


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[Assistant] You know, or I, yea, am I saying that right? I thought they were gonna have more talent than I thought. Or give them credit for it. I don't know what I'm trying to say there.


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[Assistant] But, you know, offense was a struggle. Duvernay has the great, what was that, the punt and return, right, that set him up for a short field. What a playmaker. Right? He makes some plays, you know.


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[Assistant] The, the, the strip sack fumble by Callias Campbell with the Browns backed up a little bit. You know, and then of course Justin Tucker and his ability to kick long field goals and do all that, like, you know, again, it wasn't, it wasn't pretty, but I don't know, like, the Ravens aren't, like, that much more talented than the Browns. They're not. I don't know that they're that much better.


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[Assistant] You know, Berset, the passing game, they kinda carried the rounds early on in the football game. It wasn't until later in the game until the run game started to pop a little bit for Cleveland and they started to take over in that department.


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[Assistant] I just don't get it. I didn't, I didn't see it. I honestly feel like this is where the coach and like some veteran players came into, into play for the Ravens. Harbaugh, Kalais, Cannibal, a bunch of them. It's like as soon as the penalty was called, they started going like, no it was them, it was them.


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[Assistant] And, you know, they called a fall starter, who was it, 66 I believe? 68. And I just, you watched the replay, I, I, I don't know, I didn't see it. I didn't feel it.


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[Assistant] I don't feel like any of the other, the announcers really saw it either. So I think they dodged, they dodged a bullet there for sure. Michael Dunn. Michael Dunn. Did you move?


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[Assistant] Text us in to the pod and we'll talk about it Wednesday. I want to look again just to go maybe they just called the wrong number. Was there another guy that we're missing that moved? Uhm, but yea, that looked like the Ravens got a little lucky on that one.


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[Assistant] How much? Do you think they're like, uh, 10 and 7? Yea, you think they're 10 and 7, 9 and 8 type of football team. Like if you were to sit here right now, you're gonna take the Bengals to win the division. There?


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[Assistant] You know, the Jets are one of those teams where, like again, almost like the Falcons or the Giants that we talk about, they're just gonna hang around and they just go, one of our guys will make a play. You know, and they have more, they honestly have more playmakers than the Giants or the Falcons do. Where they can go, oh wait, somebody's gonna do something here.


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[Assistant] You know, he certainly was, I think the guy you classify as like, enemy number one of the state to make a play for the Jets in a big moment. We saw that last week against Green Bay. Yeaah, it stinks. You know, again, there's not a lot of guys in football where you can just give a toss sweep to and go,


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[Assistant] Well, he's gone for 70. See ya. Like, that's not easy, you know, to replace. Michael Carter, I really like him. There you go. You see it? I mean, the speed to kind of crease it, it was the special thing there. He's a freak of nature. He really is. He's awesome in the pass game. He's a home run hitter in the run game. And, you know, I wish you'd


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[Assistant] Maybe ran with a little bit more aggression, that would still be my only negative about him, but yeaah, that's gonna hurt them. It is.


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[Assistant] He is, he's a good player. He's a good player. He is. Their offense will be, you know, still fine without Brice Hall, but it's just this you're gonna miss. Like Michael Carter, I don't think can go down the sideline for a 70-yard touchdown, quite the same style Brice Hall can.


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[Assistant] I'm glad, because I'm about to go in this direction no matter what, so go ahead.


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[Assistant] You would think the Jets lost and Zach Wilson, and Zach Wilson threw seven interceptions. I, I, it's unbelievable.


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[Assistant] It's uh, it's unbelievable up here. I go to the gym as you know. There's mainly jet fans there.


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[Assistant] There wasn't, it wasn't like they were missing wide open people. Denver's been doing this to everybody that comes to Denver. Jets fans, come on!


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[Assistant] Did Zach Wilson not escape out of like seven sacks yesterday and throw the ball away? Like, and keep them in manageable situations? I mean, he made some magical escapes yesterday where I went, whoa, like that was unbelievable. He had no pass protection. I mean,


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[Assistant] To me, I'm looking at it going, a young quarterback like Zach Wilson usually would have thrown three interceptions in a game like that.


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[Assistant] Same with last week in Green Bay. He outplayed Aaron Rodgers last week in Green Bay, but they were, we're still gonna talk about Zach Wilson. It's not good enough.


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[Assistant] He made the biggest play, the biggest throw in the game last week. An on the run, out and up, 45 yard dime down the sideline to Corey Davis. But, we're gonna talk about Elijah Moore and that shit.


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[Assistant] It's just, the Jets fans are frustrating me right now. They're, you're five and two. You're playing the way you're supposed to. I didn't watch that game yesterday and I got to see it pretty good. There wasn't many games on at four o'clock where I went, I didn't come away going, man, Zach's missing people. They're wide open everywhere. Like, man, they should have thrown for 300 today. Come on.


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[Assistant] That is an awesome defense. In fact, if that offense was better in Denver, it would probably be the number one defense in football. I mean, really. More time on the side.


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[Assistant] Exactly, right. So yeaah, I just, I don't understand it. So sorry, you got my rant there?


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[Assistant] I, I, I just, I see Kenneth Walker. I don't see anything that's like a negative about his game. I think he's every bit as like...


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[Assistant] I mean again, tell me, tell me who's clearly better than him. I know it's only been three, four games or whatever, but I think we've seen enough here.


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[Assistant] You know, Saints game, Arizona last week, Arizona last week he had 90 something yards and I'm not, I'm not joking, he shouldn't have had that. He, if it's not, if he's not like crazy gifted, he had nowhere to run anyway, at any point in that game.


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[Assistant] You know, and then yesterday, you know, I, I just...


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[Assistant] What? I mean, first off, he's built like a shit brick house. A brick shit house. Okay, sorry. A shit brick house would be really not that stable.


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[Assistant] I don't know. Well, there is the brick shithouse, right? Is it? Yea, there's a real thing, like brick shithouse, right. You know, it's sturdy. Pete, is that a real thing? Yes, it is.


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[Assistant] What is it? It's where you go to the bathroom? Yeah, it used to be like a sturdy thing. Brick shithouse, right.


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[Assistant] Maybe Saquon's the only guy that can break ankles more than this guy right here. And then that speed? I mean again, he's special. Like I said, he to me is in the classification of Nick Chubb, Saquon Barkley.


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[Assistant] You know, uhm, Jonathan Taylor, who is not having a great year and still, you know, coming back from his little injury there. So, I think this is a special football play. That was a big win.


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[Assistant] Big win. Pete Carroll can't say enough about him. Gino can't say enough about him. They're fun to watch.


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[Assistant] They're like that, you know, like NBA league pass team, right, where you just go, like, yeaah, I'm gonna watch this game, I don't really care about this team, but they're fun to watch, like they're gonna score 130 and shoot a lot of threes and dunk on people. That's the Seahawks to me. And then Peeps running around the sideline.


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[Assistant] I mean just the energy they had on the field compared to the chargers, I thought that was tangible.


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[Assistant] And they have more creativity on the offensive side of the ball, explosiveness, all of that. So yeaah, that was a big win for the Seahawks. I was really impressed. I really was. Seahawks, I think, are here to stay.


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[Assistant] It plays hard, and at least compared to the last two years,


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[Assistant] We're not seeing like, I don't know, just for lack of a better way, dumb stuff happen where you just go, wait, nobody's covering this guy or this guy. Whoa, like we have nobody in this gap in the run play and he just ran for 60 yards down the sideline. So they might not be dominant, but they're not messing up or doing dumb crap. And then you can't couple that with.


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[Assistant] I don't know, is it arguably the most explosive offense in football right now? I think it is. You know, I think you throw that into that, I just, and then you throw in Pete's magic of like, I'm 71 and yet I can still run 4-9, it's, they got some good things going there.


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[Assistant] No, you're right, they're not. It's not the final, they're the product we thought that was going to be out there on the field on a consistent basis. But I also think he's,


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[Assistant] Staley's not helping himself either. You know, again, Iriga early in the game, they go down the field, they're in field goal position to start the game. Just go up 3-0 and kick a field goal, they go for it on 4th down, they don't get it. Alright? And that was after the Geno interception. So Geno threw an interception, now they have the ball, and hey!


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[Assistant] Then they have the, they do a little trick play where they put Dwayne Eskridge at tail back, and they're gonna toss him the ball, and he just drops the toss, and Khalil Mack comes in and recovers the ball. So now you go, wait, we've kinda dominated this game, and holy shit, it's 17-14, but they have no problem, just kinda like, okay.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and they can do it like, not only with big plays, but they can, Gino's showing he can be kind of like surgical and patient in the pass game too. It's not just like a one trick pony that way. Uh, so I, I, I, I enjoy watching them like I said. And then my other thing too, to your injury thing with the charger thing. Yep. It's just again,


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[Assistant] And I know they're banged up. They gotta find some ways to stretch the field with the chargers. It's just...


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[Assistant] It's too much west coast basics. They got all the right plays like you've heard me say.


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[Assistant] You know, just a few plays where I go, oh I saw this team do this to this team, or I saw this in another offense I was studying during the week. I'm gonna steal it from them and put it in our offense.


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[Assistant] Like that's where they, they gotta find some ways to manipulate some, some explosive plays. It can't always be Herbert making the perfect decision and perfect throw. Or Eckler making something happen. Or that too. Right, exactly. Well that's the problem with the stat line. When he's leading your team and receiving


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[Assistant] And up there, week after week after week, that's not a good thing to me when you have Justin Herbert at quarterback. That's not. You're, you're, you're, you're missing an element of your offense that you could be stressing defenses out and helping your offense out with and, and that to me is they gotta find a way to attack down the field a little bit more.


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[Assistant] I mean, that's, yea, you know, it didn't look bad on the field. You seemed to be like, I'm alright, I'm alright, but then it was immediately ruled out. They need to maybe check the turf with LA. Cause like, first off, J.C. Jackson's knee looked just like Odell's did. I'm just running and my leg got caught in the seams of the turf. And his, his, his kneecap got dislocated.


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[Assistant] Which is, again, right there by the patellar tendon. Which is, you know, again, similar to what D.K. Metcalf had. I don't know, it's just, those are things I think about. And again, I'm still in amazement that in the NFL, with all this money we invest in the players, that we don't play on grass fields. It's, to me, crazy. Alright, time now for our final two games. For that, we're going.


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[Assistant] I mean, it just can't, I mean, is that where we're gonna be? I mean, like, Matt Ryan, at this point of his career, we're just gonna go, hey man, you gotta drop back every play and make it happen for us. All the time, all game long. It's just too much to ask. You know, that's, I think, what bothers me about them.


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[Assistant] You know, the Tennessee Titans, they did what they always do, right? I mean, run the ball.


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[Assistant] Tannahill hit a few throws, they're just okay, good, and, and then they just try to play like mistake free football. And here they are sitting at four and two. Just, you know, an ugly four and two. It really is, it's an ugly four and two. It's an ugly four and two. But that's a credit to Mike Vrabel. It's the way, it's the way he does. And they're just gonna continue to get better.


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[Assistant] And they'll continue to find a guy to infuse into this passing offense. They need Traylon Burks to get back. They do miss a guy. Right? They really do.


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[Assistant] You know, again, yeaah, that, and then they played a team where, this is where I do like the Titans, the Titans are creative in the back end. So they, this is a good matchup, and then they didn't have to worry about overdoing it to stop the run game. And that allows them to be creative in the back end, and we saw two straight drives.


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[Assistant] Some bad interceptions by Matt Ryan. And of course, you know, like we talked about with Rogers and Brady being jittery, Ryan's not jittery.


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[Assistant] Ryan is tough and hangs in there and makes some of the damnedest ugly throws you'll ever see where you're like, whoa, that was a 10 yard out route and that ball was in the air for five seconds, but he put it in exactly the right place and they caught it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, there's, to me, asking too much of him. And then, and, and then they don't protect that well. And yeah, he's gonna make mistakes. Pick six was bad.


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[Assistant] One, it didn't even look like Paris Campbell was expecting the ball. Two, it was a bad read. He had his double cover. There was two guys there. The next one, the little, like, ball over the middle, was another bad one as well. You know, it had some people around him. But, uh, yeaah. You know, that's where the Colts, like,


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[Assistant] They're 3-3-1, but it's a struggle, 3-3-1, and then there's Tennessee, it's 4-2.


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[Assistant] I don't know, nothing's easy for them either, but I feel kind of somewhat like, you know what, I've seen them go down this road before. They're gonna get better. Get in ugly and then see what happens once they get into the playoffs. Game plan, a great defensive game plan for a game, and they're gonna run the ball and chew up the clock, and that's where they're tough.


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[Assistant] Uh, but they do need a little bit more to help them out other than Derek Henry. Uh, they need some other element on their offense and that's what they're really missing on that side of the board.


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[Assistant] My guy Rashad Weaver, I think he always, uh, pops a little bit.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, I always sit with them, I just think, just man, what would they look like if Harold Landry was healthy? I mean, cause that's, that's another thing. We know they lost AJ Brown, but the fact that they lost one of the better pass rushers right before the start of the season,


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[Assistant] That was a big loss for them, but yeaah, they're getting it going and they are one of those teams that yeaah, it's ugly 4 and 2, but I don't know, I got confidence in them to kind of continue on the right track and trend upwards. Bud Dupree, he recorded 8 pressures and 6 quarterback hits in the game.


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[Assistant] Well, this is what I'm talking about. It's just, Matt Ryan, think about these numbers we throw out there every week about him under pressure, getting hit. You know, I was like, I'm too old for this. I mean, he's gotta be sitting there as sore as hell, but it's just, it's a lot. It's a lot to ask of him at this point of his career.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, it is, it is. They're, they're, they're, it's, it's gonna have to play through their demons. Ugly wins. Efficient, run the ball, chew the clock. That's, that's who the Titans are gonna


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[Assistant] That's probably an awesome. There was just a point in the second quarter of the football game where


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[Assistant] The Raiders scored right before the half. Carr threw an unbelievable throw down the middle. Hollins made a really tough contested catch and came up with the touchdown to make the game 10-10.


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[Assistant] And, it's like the Raiders became unstoppable from that point on. You couldn't stop, no matter what they wanted to do, they did it. Carr was efficient and smart and got things going. But the run game, and I think, hey, you know, they're getting used to the Josh McDaniel style of offense and play too. I think that's the other thing too.


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[Assistant] Again, they're, they're a team that's, you know, with Gruden for years. It's more west coasty. It's more inside, outside zone running. Here they're, you know, pulling guards, smash mouth football that way. And Jacobs, as we're seeing, is a pretty special back. I mean, now he's, he's got,


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[Assistant] Tremendous power, he can really weave through traffic, breaks a lot of arm tackles, and


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[Assistant] You know, not that he's like a 70 yard touchdown type of runner, but a lot of good 10 and 15. Whoa, that was explosive how he kinda exploded the hole and got to the second level. That's where he's really good. Uhm, the Raiders are not out of this. The Raiders are one of these teams where I look at to go, yea, they're 2 and 4, but the way their schedule shakes up,


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[Assistant] And then the way they're playing as a team, again, they don't have a lot of stars, but I think their offense is kind of finding their way and their defense is really well coached to where I wouldn't be shocked if we're sitting here a month from now just going, Raiders? They're in the playoff conversation here.


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[Assistant] I don't think you're crazy by saying that. I don't. And you know, and again, even with some of the losses early on in the year, I mean again, just think of how close they were.


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[Assistant] And we came away, I came away in a few of them, the Arizona game, week one against the Chargers. You know, of course Kansas City, they went toe to toe with them.


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[Assistant] Where, you know, but in some of those games where I go, ah, you know, Derek Carr, you know, he stole, he, he left some plays on the field. He was on the number one read too long a few times and he's getting used to it. It's a different, he's, trust me, this is some learning curve I bet he's had to go through this year.


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[Assistant] You know, he'll probably let everybody know after the year when he gets to talk about it a little bit, especially if they're successful and he can really expound on it, expand on it, excuse me. Uhm, but yeah, good, good, gritty win by them. You know, Texans did some good things too. I don't want to, like, Davis Mills, they made some plays. You know, had a, the, the interception.


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[Assistant] Pretty big point in the game because it was still in the balance and I feel like that was the, I want to say it was 24-


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[Assistant] It was 31-20. Okay, I thought it was 24-20 when he threw the pick six to Doron Harmon, but I was wrong there. Okay. Uhm, but yeaah, that game got a little bit back and forth for a little bit. And Damian Pierce was running the ball well and everything there. It kinda got fun to watch in the third and fourth quarter and the Raiders just kept the gas, or pedal on the gas and pulled away.


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[Assistant] I did make it my best bet, but that doesn't, that means run the other way with me. They don't want to listen to me. They're favored by eight over the Bears. I, I can't pick best bets right now.


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[Assistant] Thank you for that. Pick me up. Thank you very much. Yeah, I used to be really gifted at this. I used to be the guy that like, my friends who were rich would be like, what's your game this week? Like, we're going with that.


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[Assistant] They have. One of them said I quit, he left me a text message last night while I was on the pregame show and said I quit you weeks ago. And I was like, you should. You definitely should. I don't know what, I have to evaluate myself a little bit with these picks and I'll get to the bet MGM parlay preview here in a second, but I gotta evaluate it. I'm great with some of my


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[Assistant] My, you know, prop bets and things like that that I've done for Thursday Night Football. I mean, Pete, what did I think tell you? I've done a pretty good job with some of those. But like, my, some of these games, I just...


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[Assistant] I gotta think, I gotta start infusing look forward earlier in my week. Cause I'm all over worried about is breaking down this pass game, breaking down the pass game, breaking down the pass game. And then it's like, okay, man, I just did the longest breakdown podcast in the history of football. Now tell me who's gonna win tomorrow.


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[Assistant] And I'm like, and I'm like, what's going on? And that's, I gotta, I gotta reevaluate.


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[Assistant] It gives me a great help as far as the overall team sometimes. And that's where I try to tell my, I have a great feel for the overall team, but sometimes I don't think of, I don't get to enough of the specifics of the matchup that are gonna make the difference. Or there's just a few things where I'll be sitting there, you know, on a Saturday watching an NFL show going, damn.


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[Assistant] I wish I would have thought about that when I was picking the game the other day. Gosh, that's gonna be a- Like I do like Carolina over Tampa. Well that definitely wasn't one of them. There's not. But as far as this game tonight, Yep. Defense, defense, defense. I think the Patriots are gonna play this close to the vest. They're gonna expect their defense to smother Chicago.


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[Assistant] And they're gonna run the ball and just wait, like we've kinda seen to go, wait, is Chicago stopping the run? Oh, they are, they're just loading up. Okay, we'll unveil it from there. You know, but I think this is one that's kinda close and ugly early on.


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[Assistant] And slowly but surely the Patriots wear them down. There's just not enough on the Bears offense for me to sit here and think, Oh, they're going to consistently move the ball.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they run the ball, but we know their pass game's simple. I don't think they totally trust Justin Fields that way. And I have a hard time thinking that


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[Assistant] You know, the Patriots and that defensive staff won't have a good game plan.


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[Assistant] I mean, those are phenomenal. I mean, the fact that we're even picking 159 yards for a pat, that just tells you about the struggles of him and the offense in general.


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[Assistant] I mean, I picked the 2413, so I guess I like the under a little bit here. You know, again, I didn't know what the...


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[Assistant] But yeaah, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go the under slightly. You know, one thing I do feel good about is I, I of course feel like the Patriots will cover here. And I wouldn't be shocked to see this be a 30-13 type of football game. You know, something along those lines. Justin Fields, 159-5.


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[Assistant] That's, it's a low number. I'm gonna say he goes over, but barely.


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[Assistant] You know, this is where I look at it and maybe I'm wrong to think about it. I just look at it and go...


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[Assistant] He isn't afraid, he throws a pretty nice deep ball. He's not afraid to chuck it loose on that, and I do think that the...


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[Assistant] The Patriots will give him some chances, one on one, to maybe make a few throws down the field.


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[Assistant] No, I wouldn't either. That's the dumbest hundred dollars you ever did in your life. If you win, you'll get three hundred and ten dollars. But if you lose, you still get a hundred dollars worth of free bets, Ahmed. I just don't like the bears.


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[Assistant] Alright, we're outta here. Peace out, everybody. You know what it is. It's Wednesday. We'll be back for What the F Happened podcast, aka the Treasure Hunters. Ahmed Fareed, thank you again for leading the charge. So nice to enjoy our Mondays together. Good morning, and we'll see you later. Clap it up.


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


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[Assistant] Today, you know, uh, you know, I'ma have to give you this whooping, but I still love you though, so. That's what the hug came in at the end.


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[Assistant] Yeah, for those that, uh, are listening, uh, it was, uh, the marijuana leaf. It was all green, the logo, and 420. I think that should be our new look.


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[Assistant] We made it here. Did you ever in your wildest dreams think you'd make it to 420?


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[Assistant] We have come a long way. We've grown closer as a family. Morgan, Pete, Kristen, Gabby, yes everyone.


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[Assistant] And, uh, we'll have a theme for the podcast today. Oh yeaah. We'll keep it in the theme. Good. Uh, as we go through every game, that is our promise and our, uh, guarantee to the homies out there. Guarantee to the homies. Which was easier this week because there were some buys. Yeaah. We had six teams off. Right. And so that'll make it a little bit easier, but, uh, we had some big, big,


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[Assistant] Performances? Hold on one second. Oh no. One more thing. Oh, you're already pulling out the Columbus. I am.


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[Assistant] Uh, no, so it was good. It was good to celebrate. It's not like a tradition now. I celebrate my birthday with the horses in Kentucky. Yeaah. It's kind of cool. Yeaah. It's kind of a cool deal. Yeaah. Next year it's going to be in LA. You're a glass half full kind of guy. I always am. That's very good of you. I always am. That's very good because it ain't that cool to have


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[Assistant] So it's good, 43 now. So I got one on you. You got one on me. I'm the young man on the podcast. I'm wiser. Alright, old man with the greys. Let's go. So let's do it. Now as a 43 year old for the first time doing episode 420, we're going through all the games here. Let's start.


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[Assistant] Yeah, with what we did last night. How high. Our game last night. So this is the section where it's the contenders, they got big wins. Right. Or they got wins. Some of them weren't that big, they were just by the hair on their, what, chinny chin chin.


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[Assistant] Not a blowout last night. It was a good competitive game. It was beyond that. Not a high scoring game, but a really good competitive game. The Tennessee Titans always give the Chiefs a battle. Uh, Chiefs pull it out. Patrick Mahomes had to throw the ball 68 times.


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[Assistant] That seemed like such a struggle. It was. For the Chiefs out there. Right. To throw for 400 and some yards and 400 total yards of offense. Uh, but they won in overtime. I-I-I'm impressed with the Titans. Just keeping it that close and basically doing nothing offensively the whole second half. Right. What was your biggest takeaway from that game?


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[Assistant] It's the opposite of like the west coast offense, where it's like boom boom boom, get it out. Boom boom boom, get it out. It's like boom boom boom, alright, run around back there for a while.


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[Assistant] Okay. Uh, and the Chiefs really had no running game to, to make them worry about there. Patrick Mahomes was the leading rusher, 63 yards, his most ever in regular season game.


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[Assistant] He is the first player in the Super Bowl era with 400 or more passing yards, a pass TD, and 60 or more rushing yards, and a rush TD in a single game. So follow that away. That's special. Another thing that Mahomes did there. But yea, no real running game from the Chiefs. Is that a concern for you moving forward?


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[Assistant] They really did. Zero combined yards in the final seven drives for the Titans. That factors in sacks and all that stuff. Derek Henry had 92 rushing yards in the first half, couple touchdowns, second half, just 23.


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[Assistant] Uh, we mentioned it a couple of times, the wide receivers, they don't have that guy, they can separate, they can get, they did!


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[Assistant] He did delete those tweets. He deleted them? He did delete them. That's what Pete notes here. What is up with that?


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[Assistant] Yeah, no one's open. He might have felt bad, you know, he might have some friends on that team who are receivers, I don't know. Uh, yeah, that's probably really it. Probably felt bad.


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[Assistant] He has 718 receiving yards. The Tennessee wide receivers combined have 658. And I don't know what they can do at this point. I mean Odell Beckham's out there. Maybe he could help.


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[Assistant] Suit yourself! Uhm, so yeaah, they're still competitive despite not having that big play guy.


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[Assistant] We'll see moving forward if one of those wide receivers emerges, but both these teams are going to be in it late, which is cool. I like both these teams. I like the way they play, obviously.


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[Assistant] We got four six-win teams in the AFC. Titans had the chance to become one of those teams. The Chiefs did. The Dolphins became one of them as well. Booyah! In the highest scoring game in the NFL this week. Who would have thought that? The Chicago Bears scoring some points here. They do go down by three to the Dolphins. Uh, it was Tua. It was Justin Fields.


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[Assistant] I mean that, that was a cool back and forth. It was really fun to watch those quarterbacks work and those offenses work.


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[Assistant] Uh, at JakeGP, says would love for you to highlight the fields versus two, a match up here. One is a quarterback with all the passing stats, but didn't have to make one hard throw. The other had to fight for every yard. Is that you that wrote that? Did you write that? Are you JakeGP?


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[Assistant] It was a lot of fun to watch. How about at the end of the game? Yeaah. Pass interference not called on Chase Claypool.


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[Assistant] So as they say, ball don't lie. Uh, but at the end there, I would have put them basically in field goal range to.


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[Assistant] I kind of want to give some more love to Justin Fields. Let's do it. Because there was a point, I was like kind of teetering, right? It's like, man, is this guy going to be able to do it at all on the NFL? Four weeks ago, we were saying that, right? And he just ran for the most yards a quarterback has ever run for in a regular season game.


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[Assistant] I mean, we just got done talking about the Titans who can win a different way. And so you may still have questions about Justin Fields throwing, which I think there obviously still are, but there's no reason to believe that you can't win a different way in the NFL with a guy that can run like that.


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[Assistant] I mean, of course, Tyreek Hill, 1,104 receiving yards, most ever by a player through the first nine games of a season. I loved that 18 yard touchdown to Jalen Waddle in the end zone where he came back to the ball. What great ball skills. Great ball skills. It was like he came out of nowhere, was coming back to the ball.


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[Assistant] Both these teams gotta feel pretty good about where they are right now. Bears not gonna be in the playoff mix, but the Dolphins could definitely do some damage, I think, in the playoffs. Oh, no doubt about it. The Dolphins. See if they can do it in cold weather.


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[Assistant] They get pretty high in the air. You're right. Uh, they'd be in first in the West and it's by a game and a half. Right. Oh, you're right. That is a lot of high connections there. They beat the Cardinals 31 21 was the final score. Gino Smith threw a pick six in the game and that just got him angry.


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[Assistant] After that, he led three straight touchdown drives. They got an offense. It's another team.


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[Assistant] With an offense that can make some big plays. Kenneth Walker got those receivers and you got Gino playing like Russell Wilson from five years ago.


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[Assistant] I think, I don't know that we've seen Coach of the Year odds lately.


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[Assistant] Pete Carroll's name has not been in there, but he's gotta be rising. It is now, Pete says. Nick Sirianni is still the leader. Uhm, but I mean, Pete Carroll, do this without Russell Wilson, maybe because...


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[Assistant] Well, it was a three point game. Cardinals went down and scored with three and a half left. And I love that the Seahawks then got the kickoff. It was three and a half to go. And the kickoff return like went to the 15 yard line. So they're back farther. And I think a lot of teams would be like, all right, let's just, we got Kenneth Walker. Let's just run it three times. Maybe we'll get the first down.


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[Assistant] First play, get Gino out, roll out a little, uh, in the flat, Noah Phant, and then he goes 51 yards. Right up the sideline, right.


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[Assistant] Bet MGM has our coach of the year odds, Nick Sirianni is the favorite, minus 130, but then you got Kevin O'Connell. Right. From the Vikings, plus 700, and then Pete Carroll right with him, plus 700.


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[Assistant] Wow, uhm, okay, should we save, let's save that for Colt's talk.


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[Assistant] Uhm, that's not surprising. Well, let's light up a doobie and get it better then. I am kind of, I am kind of glad you brought that up though here though, because I was going to say the same thing about Cliff Kingsbury. And I know that they maybe worked a new extension or something, but it might be kind of a fake extension. Yea, right. I think you might be in trouble.


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[Assistant] Uh, so, we'll get to Frank Reich. We will. Who's, uh, gonna join Chris and his, uh, activity probably later today. Uh, so now we enter, those are the teams that are soaring high, flying high, very high in Seattle, the Seahawks. Now are the teams that might be a little dazed and confused. Yeah.


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[Assistant] And we'll begin with the Buffalo Bills and your boy Blue. Yep. Jets get a big win against Buffalo, 2017 the final score. Uh, before we get your analysis, let's get the analysis of your guy, Josh Allen. A couple picks in this game. Was not all that pleased with his game. Here's what he had to say. And then Deon Dawkins, uh, after that.


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[Assistant] Nothing is his fault ever. That's pretty cool to hear. So, if there's an unsolved murder in, uh, Buffalo, could be Deon Dawkins. That's not Josh. No, I'm just saying, he would kill for him, so he's prematurely admitted it. No, he would not do that. He might lose a finger, though, for him, if it meant saving Josh Allen. That's cool. You can just tell how much that locker room respects Josh.


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[Assistant] I already love you, that's a little weird. Uh, Orion Chuzlewit says to you, in his last six quarters of football, Josh Allen has a grand total of 20 points scored, zero passing TDs, four interceptions. What is up with your boy Blue? PS, congrats on making it this far guys.


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[Assistant] You've said that a couple times. I think we're sniffing a top 5 here.


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[Assistant] Omri Pitaru tweets you and says, I would like to offer my official apology from Jets fans to Zach Wilson. He played great yesterday. Damn okay to the Jets. D, what a performance. All around game. Uh, but Zach Wilson, so it's interesting. Last week, uh, the week before this one,


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[Assistant] His time to throw, 3.27 seconds. That was the sixth longest in the NFL. This week he was getting the ball out fast, 2.39 seconds. That was the fifth quickest in the NFL.


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[Assistant] Who sacked more in this game? Well, it was Josh Allen sacked five times and then Zach Wilson sacked just twice.


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[Assistant] Michael Carter looked good. James Robinson, their new toy from Jacksonville. Great trade there getting him, no doubt about it. Put him right in the offense. And so yea, Jets have six wins, six and three. Are the Bills just dazed or completely confused?


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[Assistant] I think the three-win Packers are completely confused at this point. We're past the dazed phase. Right, we don't have to converse on that one. They go down to my Lions, 15-9 the final score. Felt so good in there.


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[Assistant] I mean, this is crazy, and it does seem, it's like, people need to prove things to me, it's, you talk about bad vibes, I'm sensing pretty bad vibes.


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[Assistant] Vikings lead this division by four and a half games. Packers have lost five straight, their longest losing streak since 2008 also was the first year that Aaron Rodgers was the starter of that team.


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[Assistant] Marty tweets in, says love the pod, Chris. Hey Marty. Long time listener, since the BR day, so he's been with you for a long time. What is your take on the fall of the Packers? Is Matt LaFleur a good coach or did he just luck into a Hall of Fame player that made him look great?


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[Assistant] A game that neither team deserved to win. It was, it was ugly until the end. Looked like the Rams are going to win an ugly game. And then they stopped Tom Brady fourth and one, they're late two minutes to go, but then the Rams couldn't do anything. Had to punt it back and Brady had 40 seconds and they went down and scored and Tom Brady at the end of the game said that was effing awesome.


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[Assistant] What's going on here? Why are they turning into you? Just like swearing up a story. Right? I like it. That's right. That's right. It's inappropriate.


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[Assistant] Lead Papa says, what's up with that soft coverage the Rams gave Tom Brady on the last possession?


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[Assistant] They had 8-3 analysis to the Rams. Right, that's what I mean. Including 3 straight, right before the Bucs game winning drive. Okay, right, right. Yup. Uh, they had 206 total yards, 69 on that Cooper Cup touchdown. Uh, they had a 23 yard run by Darryl Henderson, which was their longest by a Rams player this season, if you can believe that.


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[Assistant] So yea, what do you think? The rams dazed? Or completely confused?


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[Assistant] Rams are three and five right now. Are you willing to say you don't think they're going to play off team? Are they going to squeak in as the seven seed?


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[Assistant] If they make the playoffs, I will say the F word on this podcast.


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[Assistant] Arizona next week at New Orleans at Kansas City. Whoa. Seattle. Seattle. Yikes.


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[Assistant] I mean, it looks like, who knows, Seattle, although the 49ers are coming on now strong. So yeah, I don't see it for the Rams here. What about the Bucks? So you think they're just dazed? I think they're dazed. I mean, they're wobbling. It's a wobbly dazed, but I,


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[Assistant] These are teams that we think are good. They're in the playoff discussion, but they're not fully baked yet. They're not like, well this is a solid, solid Super Bowl team, but they're like getting there. They're half baked.


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[Assistant] Not fully baked yet, but they're half baked. They're half baked. They just need to take a few more hits of ice shit and they'll be full baked. Some people might say that the Vikings are fully baked. There's seven in one right now, but we still don't know. They got a good upcoming schedule coming up here of some tough teams. And so after that, maybe we'll say they're fully baked. Uh, but our damn okay for this win against the commanders goes to Kirk


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[Assistant] If you're watching, you can see it. If you're listening, you just have to imagine what that would look like. Kurt Cousins is actually quite ripped. He is, got some muscle structure, no doubt about it. And on our Peacock show last night, he goes, now this is how you know they've kind of arrived. Like they're turning a corner here because when the white guy quarterback dorky dances on the plane, you got something. Exactly right.


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[Assistant] Uh, still completed it, and yeaah, they were off and running there, and Heineken throws the interception, Harrison Smith gets there, I think it, what was it, the third straight game with a pick for, uh, Smith, fourth on the season, and so yeaah, they were, they were off and running. It was one of those rare games where when the game is gross and close,


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[Assistant] It's because he fell down and hit a ref. The ref took him out. If you have not seen the highlight, go look at it. Um, so there were three guys. I mean, Heineken threw into triple coverage. Yeah, it was not a good decision.


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[Assistant] I'm getting a touchdown to commanders. Yeah. And so that made it a 10, uh, seven game. Yeah. They didn't touch, uh, they didn't touch Samuel after he caught it and then he rolled in the end zone, right? Yeah. But there was.


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[Assistant] Not enough magic after that though. That was the only magic for, uh, Taylor Heinecke and T.J. Hockinson in his first game with the Vikings trade with my Detroit Lions comes in nine reception, 70 yards. So he'll be a big part of that offense moving forward. No doubt about it.


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[Assistant] Alright, we've seen them. Have good seasons, get to the playoffs.


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[Assistant] We'll see you coming up. I think their next four games against teams that have a winning record right now. But I'm feeling pretty good about my Vikings because they were one of my picks as a playoff team.


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[Assistant] I'm like the smartest guy in the room right now. Although I also picked the Chargers to win the Super Bowl. Oh, you idiot. And that's got me a little nervous right now. They've had a lot of injuries, but they did get a win. Last second win against the Falcons, uh, yesterday. And our damn okay goes to the kicker, Cameron Dicker.


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[Assistant] Who just signed with the team earlier in the week and now has two career games and two career game winning field goals. He played for the Eagles week five when Elliott was hurt at Arizona, kicked the game winning field goal in a game that also ended 20 to 17.


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[Assistant] And, uh, so our damn okay goes to a kicker that just goes to teams, first game in, kicks a game winning field goal. That's pretty cool.


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[Assistant] You just claim guys that you want to be Texas Longhorns.


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[Assistant] You're right quite a bit, you're right quite a bit. This game was kind of ugly back and forth.


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[Assistant] The play of the game was when it was tied late and the Chargers are driving. It's like, ah, they're in field goal range. Perfect.


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[Assistant] Oh no, Austin Eckler fumble picked up by Taquan Graham, another Texas guy, I think, isn't he? So there you go. You got the good and the bad in this game. And Graham's going back number 95. Just got, we got it. Just drops the ball. Just dropped it.


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[Assistant] And Matt Filer picks it up for the Chargers, and then next play, Herbert goes 22 yards to Josh Palmer.


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[Assistant] Well they have trailed by double digits at the end of the first quarter in four straight games, and they are 3-1 in those games. So that's, I mean...


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[Assistant] We talked about hot seats in the NFL, now that Frank Reich has been fired, Cliff Kingsbury, I think Brandon Staley, probably also on the hot seat a little bit, if it goes south.


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[Assistant] Random stat of the day, according to Optistats, it is the second time in NFL history there were four games with the exact same score on the same day. So we had four 20 to 17 games. It happened back in 1924.


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[Assistant] Duluth Kelly's, remember them? Great team. Oh, dude. Duluth, they're a powerhouse. Minneapolis Mariners 3-0 and the Akron Pros defeated the Rochester Jeffersons. Damn.


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[Assistant] I don't know any of them. Pete has a pop quiz. What? Who was the champ in 1924? Was it the NFL then? Was that still the NFL? Yea, it was the NFL.


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[Assistant] Don't look it up. You should know this. You know all the champions of pro football.


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[Assistant] Is it Chicago Cardinals? It's the Bulldogs. The Bulldogs? Shit. What city are the Bulldogs from? Wow.


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[Assistant] If you think about it, Pete says you can figure it out. Well, he's thinking about it though, Pete.


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[Assistant] Mascot Logos. Not official logos, but Mascot Logos. He's only confusing me more. I know, I don't... The dog pound. Cleveland! Damn, okay.


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[Assistant] Keith's gotta look into it now. Now we're going down a rabbit hole that will take us nowhere to go. Look at you making the podcast long. Look at you.


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[Assistant] Our final damn okay, well uh, speaking of uh, Ohio teams, the Cincinnati Bengals, big play Bengals, Defeat the Panthers, 42-21, that was closer, the scorer made it look closer than it actually was, and the score does not even make it look close. Joe Mixon went off.


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[Assistant] He goes five touchdowns in this game. That's a franchise bass. Now we've never seen that before for the big play bangles. And here's what he had done up to this point in the season. He had two rushing touchdowns through week eight. He had four rushing touchdowns week nine, one through the air.


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[Assistant] I was working in Kentucky. Give me a break. It is time now for give me the headlines presented by Hyundai. Two games to go here. We go into the newsroom. We got a newspaper.


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[Assistant] There's breaking news in this game, too. There is. The first one that we're doing, Patriots and Colts. We'll get to that, but first we want to start with a headline of the Patriots' shellacking of Indianapolis. You ready? Yep. Nah.


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[Assistant] I mean, it's just insane. The Patriots, this was not even, I mean, this talk about blowout games. What? 26 to 3, Colts could do nothing.


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[Assistant] I mean, the Patriots have played a couple of games that have just been like so boring because the Patriots have dominated so thoroughly. They do.


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[Assistant] You'd think maybe, right? I would think so. I would. I knew that. The new thing now is the young coach that coached with Sean McVeyer, Kyle Shanahan. I know. So I don't know, maybe he won't, but.


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[Assistant] I think he's got some credentials. I think he does too. Kind of ahead of the ball game too on being aggressive, going for some things. Yep. But it was bad. Sam Ellinger's come in. I don't know, I don't know if he's gonna be the future. It was rough for him. No, not looking like he is. Nine sacks, a pick six.


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[Assistant] Uhm, not good. Not good for Indianapolis right now. We'll see where they go moving forward, but the Patriots are like the Patriots again.


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[Assistant] Uh, but a playoff, playoff team probably. Uh, one game to go. The Jaguars defeat the Raiders. They come back and win 27 to 20 despite the Raiders having a 17 point lead in the game. Your headline for this game is... Woah, hold on. Moe leads Moe probably.


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[Assistant] And, and, well, it's funny because I think a lot of people didn't pick them to go to the playoffs. Yeah, well, I, they're like, oh, they take a step back. They're like, oh, everyone thought they would, right?


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[Assistant] Man, he threw 80% of his passes complete. 25 of 31 in the game. Uh, not that many yards, but, uh, 235, but yeaah, they were efficient. Travis Etienne goes over 100 scrimmage yards for the 5th straight game.


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[Assistant] Looks like he has a weapon, a dynamic part of this team, and so you're back on board. You're back on board with the Jaguars, they snap their five game losing streak, and here you go. I picked them though, again. I picked them again to win this one. That's right, I heard you on that podcast. I did, I'm not gonna


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[Assistant] Thanks to our friends at Hyundai. Thanks to our friends at BetMGM as well for sticking your name on this podcast. Yes, thank you, BetMGM. Our parlay preview of Monday Night Football, Ravens at Saints. This is a good one. Oh, I'm excited for this. I'm looking forward to seeing this one. Ravens favored by a point and a half.


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[Assistant] The over under now is 46 and a half on the Thursday pod.


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[Assistant] You picked Baltimore to win by four, so the favorite to cover. Yeah, I don't feel good about that though.


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[Assistant] Uh-oh. No. Well this is- Wait, hold on, your best bets this week, you were 2-1. I know, well- Which is like 3-0.


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[Assistant] The over under for Lamar Jackson and Elvin Kamara, pretty similar on rushing yards, 60 and a half for Jackson, 62 and a half for Kamara. Do you think they, who has more rushing yards between those two, you think? I'm gonna go with Lamar. I am, yeaah, I am. What you said.


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[Assistant] Simply download the BetMGM app today or go to BetMGM.com enter the bonus code SIMS to make your first wager risk free up to $1,000. So you could do the $1,000 bet if you really wanted to. It's a good app. I like it. Good app to navigate, get the odds on. Yep. Uh, and now we are done.


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[Assistant] That is it. That's it? We promised the homies we would talk about every game. We came through. Again.


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[Assistant] Well, Chris has been talking about Josh Allen all off season, so I knew that that was going to be number one.


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[Assistant] What the, what the real challenge was was placing Aaron Rodgers for me, uh, as I knew that Chris has been talking a lot about how.


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[Assistant] His movement skills weren't as great as they were, you know, he's talking, and I know that Chris loves athletic traits in guys, you know, big guys who can throw it, can run it, uhm, and so, you know, getting Joe Burrow and Justin Herbert, you know, uh, in front of Aaron Rodgers, that was kind of like,


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[Assistant] I knew that none of your, no players in your top 5 from a previous year had ever fallen out of your top 10. And that's why I maybe put Deshaun Watson's number 10. Look at you! You're doing analytics on my brain here! I like that!


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[Assistant] I've been listening since Chris started appearing on PFT. Uh, like I first got into football around 2018, 2019, you know, around there and I, I liked how


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[Assistant] You know, Flurio can sometimes put out some like, ehm, whatever stuff, but.


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[Assistant] In the realm of possibility, there was other shows that were very, uhm, hot take-ish, and I appreciated how you guys were thoughtful in your process, and uhm, so I've been watching you guys ever since, and started watching when the pods started being made.


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[Assistant] Well, I would say that I agree that right now he's number one. I saw, I was at the Buffalo playoff game. It was my first, it was my second.


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[Assistant] Gonna be really locked in this year. Yeah. And by the end of the, by maybe your mid-season QB rankings or the end, I feel like he's, he's going to be the guy. I think that Josh Allen is absolutely incredible.


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[Assistant] I, you know, with the finger, Russ was just a little bit off that last year. I'm sure he's going to come back and do Austin and Denver. Uhm, I'd also, I, I've really been trying to figure out whether I'd switch Burrow and Herbert. Right. Uhm, you know, but I went back and forth.


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[Assistant] So, there's not a whole lot of change, honestly. I was, I was again, like with, you were saying like the 9 to 13 range was, was a tough range. Uhm, I,


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[Assistant] You know, I agree, uhm, I really kind of agree with a lot of your lists, I gotta tell you, at least the top ten.


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[Assistant] And now it's, you know, it's kind of like 2007. You got a big time, great wide receiver. Josh McDaniels is going to be your head coach, special offensive coordinator. I feel like, you know, they could really explode.


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[Assistant] Just walked up with a cake. Yeah, right. I don't know, I was, I definitely was freaked out. You don't like cakes anymore. And when they said surprises for where we got on you, and then I hear somebody in my ear and I'm going, oh no, they're gonna try to do something to me. But that, that was a nice surprise there. That was good. See, I was reading the highlights, talking about the Giants, not on camera, and


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[Assistant] It's raw, who cares, right? It's football, behind the curtains, it's, you know, whatever. It's a lot of fun doing our job, there's no doubt about it. And yesterday was a lot of fun.


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[Assistant] You know, had all the games on in front of me. Have a good, you know, feel for all of them, especially the major football games. And then even as the games are over throughout the day, you know, the good thing is here, yeah, we're working at a TV company that


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[Assistant] I still get to see a lot of these games as even the day goes on, different highlights, things like that, to where I go, oh, I missed that play, oh, okay. So, but either way, my main goal during the 1pm hour when there's 9 games going on is just to


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[Assistant] Right down themes of the games and the things that jumped out about the game. Not into every little detail. Hey, that's what our Wednesday podcast will be about. When we break down the film, I'll really get into, oh wait, they played this coverage, or whoa, they messed up the clock management here at the end. I didn't understand that. Here, I'm just gonna tell you about things that impressed me about the game. Things that I felt like,


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[Assistant] Didn't impress me as far as team mess ups, blow ups, whatever else. And, uh, just some of the obvious things that we saw on Sunday.


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[Assistant] The way to put it, you know, I do. Listen, like Pittsburgh, let's put them first off in the class of like,


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[Assistant] It's a little bit like Baltimore, you know, who I got the privilege of playing once in the start of a season, and it's just not fun because


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[Assistant] Their defenses are different than most. There's a lot of moving parts. They break some rules where you go, wait,


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[Assistant] You shouldn't be able to do this. That's not totally sound, but they take a chance and do it. And you know, you get sacked for seven yards cause you're like, wait, wait.


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[Assistant] They, football, they shouldn't, they don't have all the gaps accounted for. They can't do that. So it's a tough game for a quarterback to start the year with, especially when you haven't played preseason football. But I think like your point is real. And I think that's like one of the things I kind of was like saying on the post game show a little last night was like, I don't know, the Bengals, there's, there's a silver lining there.


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[Assistant] Right? In fact that you played and made those, that many mistakes. Five turnovers? I mean, just self-inflicted wounds for the most part. Injured long snapper? Right, injured, and there you were and really probably should have won the game. I mean, you know, no disrespect to the Pittsburgh Steelers.


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[Assistant] But just hung around and continue to make plays and do that. And then you're right, Pittsburgh, you want to go, hey, that was a gritty performance and way to gut it out, but.


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[Assistant] What? It was, I mean it was 5-0 in the turnover margin and you had a shamrock up your ass to win the football game. So that's where it is a little weird, there's no doubt. But they're gonna take it as a positive. Where I look at it is I don't panic about Cincinnati. I don't. The way they look as a football team, first off,


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[Assistant] Here's why I'm disappointed with Cincinnati. Read the room. Read the room. You're playing the Steelers, a team that hasn't been worth a shit on offense the last two years, and now they got a new quarterback. You saw that we've talked about it, right? All through the preseason, their O-line's not very good. Like, why so aggressive?


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[Assistant] Excuse me as I drooled on the mic there. Why so aggressive by Joe Burrow and the offense? You know, and again, I know some of these plays were great plays by the Steelers defense.


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[Assistant] But I do think this is a game, and especially if you look at last year's game one. What did the Steelers do last year? They went into Buffalo and beat Buffalo. Buffalo was careless. Oh, we're gonna put on a show. I'm Josh Allen. Boom, boom. Oh, strip sack fumble. Oh, a block punt.


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[Assistant] And I feel like Cincinnati kinda went in the same approach that like, we went to the Super Bowl, we're gonna put on a show, instead of just, let's play to win the game here. And let's just do the right thing to win the football game. So that was disappointing to me from that standpoint. But I think, either way, yeaah, the Steelers won.


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[Assistant] I feel better about the Bengals. I do. I mean, the Bengals, the defense is better. The offensive line.


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[Assistant] Is better. It wasn't perfect yesterday. I know that. And listen, TJ Watts, arguably the best defensive player in football. So he's a beast. And Cam Hayward's damn good too. But I do think it looked better. It has a better look. They were able to open up some holes in the run game. Uhm, but yeaah, you know, when you turn over the ball that many times, I don't care what happens. It's hard to win the football game.


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[Assistant] Really, big, I mean, their playmakers did for sure. Whether you want to go Minka, TJY, yeaah, I mean, you're right. Those are, they're money guys and they made it happen. But yeaah, from the Steelers standpoint, you know, they had like, what, a half a drive basically in the middle of the game.


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[Assistant] And if I, if memory serves me correct, you know, had a good play where I think it was Chase Claypool on the little like reverse or sweep for like 15 to get it going a little there on that, it was that drive.


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[Assistant] Other than that, yeaah, it was Strugglesville. There was no rhythm to their offense, no holes in their run game, and to me, it looked like...


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[Assistant] I don't know, could Pittsburgh throw a ball down the middle of the field or anything like that? Every ball was outside the numbers, jump ball type of thing. So yes, I was not overly impressed with Pittsburgh, but that's Pittsburgh.


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[Assistant] You know, when you got a tough SOB like Mike Tomlin as your head coach and then Brian Flores as a linebacker coach, you know, they're fine playing that. We're just going to knock your head off and make some turnovers and make some plays with our studs on the defensive side of the ball. And, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if they won a few more games like this this year, but the T.J. Watt injury is huge for them.


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[Assistant] Wow. We do. We made it. Go. Good job. We really like, we went up the, the totem pole in a hurry here the last few weeks. Very fast.


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[Assistant] They did. They got lucky to get the ball back, you know, and we were kind of talking about this a little bit before the show started because on the next year, so they score the touchdown or they don't score the touchdown. He throws a ball into the corner, the left corner on fourth and two. And then the next drive.


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[Assistant] They're, they're not gonna get the ball back with as much time left, with the fact that...


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[Assistant] Najee Harris got hurt. That helped him out, seriously. So that was a, he bumbled that situation. And my big thing too here is, you're right, it wasn't like the most egregious ever, but


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[Assistant] What was the hurry, first off? What was the hurry to line up and get to the line of scrimmage and not give it a good look? Second thing is, in the NFL, don't ever take anything for granted.


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[Assistant] Get, scoring from the one yard line can be extremely hard. Cause the deep, first off, you don't, everyone thinks, oh, we'll just run it up the middle. You, you think you're just gonna run it up the middle, a bunch of, bunch of crazy


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[Assistant] Like the Pittsburgh dealers and you think you're just, they don't think you're going to do that too, right? You know, so that's where that one yard and just thinking we're going to run the ball in.


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[Assistant] Is so much easier said than done. And it's, it's, it's, I feel like harder now than ever before in the history of the NFL because we have so many freaky defensive tackles and defensive linemen and linebackers there. So I did not understand the rushing of that. Either way, they escaped that situation.


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[Assistant] And we're able to go down the field and score a touchdown, you know, with how much time was left there. Four seconds left. Four seconds left.


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[Assistant] And to add on that, where I want to go, what was Pittsburgh doing on that play?


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[Assistant] Off coverage. The Jamar. On Jamar Chase, Akilah Witherspoon.


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[Assistant] Maybe they're coaching something different, maybe something's happened, but, but my experience, and again, not that I played on field goal a whole lot, but I was in a lot of special teams meetings. You always take the inside guy, right? Always.


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[Assistant] Your body goes to the inside guy, you try to get a piece of your body on the outside guy. Okay, wait, I'm gonna stress situation here, they did something creative.


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[Assistant] I gotta protect the shorter path to the field goal kicker, which would be the inside guy. You protect that and then try to get a hand or an arm on the other guy just to push him, slow him down to a degree. And yes, he made the


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[Assistant] Wrong decision there, without a doubt. And Minka, who got off the ball like incredibly quick there, as a special athlete, a guy I've been watching since high school really, he's a star. That was a big time moment. He's got great instincts and feel, and he's just a real awesome football player. I really like watching Minka Fitzpatrick play.


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[Assistant] Well, it was Bonehead. I mean, you take every second in that situation. And that's one that, you know, Wednesday, hopefully we'll be able to break down it a little further to where I can get a better look at it. But, at the time of the play,


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[Assistant] I remember Coach Dungy who sits in front of me as we watch these games and he goes, well why wouldn't you take it down to, you know, zero or one here?


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[Assistant] And of course it came back to bite him in the ass. It did. Hey, Chris Boswell, like McPherson for the Bengals, and like Justin Tucker, if you get them in the f***ing zip code, watch out. That's all they want. I mean, if you get them within 60, 61, 62,


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[Assistant] They got a chance to win the game. They're really a weapon that way. And Churbisky hit a few big passes and that was that. And, uh, it was a big time win. But yeaah, the Bengals played poor. They did. They showed, they looked like a team that didn't play in the preseason. They looked like a team that went


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[Assistant] No reason to panic if you're the Cincinnati Bengals. Defense look good. Mixon look good. Joe Burrow is the least of my concerns. He won't do stupid.


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[Assistant] It is fun. It's fun in little league football. It's even fun to a degree in high school football. It's not fun once you get to college or the NFL and your life depends on it and passing the football is a real part of like your game.


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[Assistant] Like it's fun, everybody else might be having fun out there, but the quarterbacks like literally every play.


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[Assistant] You know, one thing, you know, we talked about the Bears a little bit in the preseason. The Bears, even though are not overly talented,


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[Assistant] Are well coached. That has jumped out to me. Like even just watching preseason football, the plays, the way they were coached.


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[Assistant] The certain plays they called against certain coverages where I went, that's the right play. That's the way how you attack that. Defensively, Ibra Fluse, you know, it's a, it's a defense that, you know, in years past, sometimes I go, I wish they would do a little more and be a little more creative or do something crazy.


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[Assistant] They're always sound. They make you earn it. You're not, you know, they're very rarely you're gonna get people to just pop wide open against their team in general. And then when you add a guy like Justin Fields and


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[Assistant] You know, the way I played yesterday, I mean, Justin Fields just continues to impress me. You know, he really does. He's, you know, I uh, I look at him and just go,


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[Assistant] Man, he's, he's got a calmness about him and a self-confidence about him that I do think like kind of permeates throughout the rest of the football team. And his plays were the difference in the game. They were. I mean, them down 10-0, really being able to do nothing and


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[Assistant] You know, I know we threw the interception early on in the football game, and that was a bad mistake.


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[Assistant] He was under tremendous pressure in the first half of the football game. I mean, every time we were watching, it was like he was dropping back and the 49ers were like, let's have a party at Justin Fields. I'll meet you there in a minute. And it was like,


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[Assistant] Those elements, for the most part, taking care of the ball, playing tough, and then just waiting for his moment, and then gets out of the pocket and makes an unbelievable play, an unbelievable escape, throws the ball safely to Pettis, who gets payback on the 49ers a little bit, and the game was never the same after that. It really, the total momentum swing,


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[Assistant] And the Bears defense I think got a, got a good feel for how the 49ers were attacking them. And the 49ers couldn't get much going on that side of the ball.


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[Assistant] He did a great job and anybody that watch what he did, he really did a great job of kind of looking to his right.


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[Assistant] And making the coverage go with a few underneath guys, knowing he had Saint Brown coming over the top, across from the left side. So he kinda looked everybody off.


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[Assistant] And then went, okay, I got them to move. Boom. Put it in a nice spot.


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[Assistant] I do agree with him. Now I'm not gonna say, you said it right before we got into this game.


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[Assistant] Let's not over-judge it. It was a f***ing monsoon. Okay? And he's still young and raw. But, to the point of durr, okay? Durrs make some good points, and they are a Super Bowl football team. Look, you got you giggling now. They are a Super Bowl football team.


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[Assistant] And I, you, to do justice to your organization, your fan base, and more importantly to your football team, the guys in the locker room.


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[Assistant] You gotta play the best players. And I think there's guys, you know, I've heard through the grapevine, there's guys in that locker room that go, Jimmy G's the best player. I know. He's proven it. I know.


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[Assistant] I know, and I'm not, I don't want to call people out here, but I've heard from people that I know around the NFL to go, yea, there's some prominent people in the 49ers locker room that go,


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[Assistant] Jimmy Garoppolo's better, okay? So that's, that's a real thing. On the offensive side? Well maybe, but I'm not telling. Okay. So, but either way, yes, I think that the leash has to be short. You know, I don't think we can wait till game six and us be two and the 49ers be two and four and be like, now let's do it.


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[Assistant] It might have to be week three. I mean, again, if it doesn't look good against Seattle this week, and we know the 49ers are a more talented team than Seattle, and if it doesn't look good,


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[Assistant] And the fact that Jimmy G is back, and that they couldn't trade him, and the way Trade Lance looked in the preseason, I feel like they realized this. And this is, again, this is just me talking. I haven't talked to Kyle Shanahan about this for one second. Uhm, but yeaah, it's concerning. And the interception itself is a concern.


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[Assistant] This is, he is a problem with this. He stares down receivers. He does all the time in the preseason. He gets away with it in the preseason because there's a lot of vanilla coverages and, you know, sometimes it's their first team playing the second and third teamers. Well, Eddie Jackson's like, no, I know where to go and I got a good feel and I got great instincts and I'm Eddie f***ing Jackson and I make $12 million a year, $10 million a year.


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[Assistant] And you know, you're not going to just stare him down and I'm coach told me to go to this spot. I'm going to kind of play the way I want to play it.


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[Assistant] So that was disappointing. You know, they left some points and some plays on the field early in the game to really control the football game.


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[Assistant] He misses, I believe, Dwelley, right, on a wide open, would have been a touchdown pass, or maybe down to the, you know, inside the 10.


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[Assistant] Debo Samuel fumbled inside the red zone right on the first drive of the football game as they drove down. So the 49ers had a chance to really put the Bears in an uncomfortable spot.