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[Assistant] Yeah, I love this game on. He looked really sharp early on. He knew who to get the ball to, where to get the ball, when to get the ball out. And like if he does this, then the 49ers should probably be the Super Bowl favorites in the entire NFL because the


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[Assistant] Well, they were the third favorite like coming into the season. So it's not that crazy, but like the coming out of the NFC, if you have their roster, I mean, it's just them and the Eagles and the Cowboys. We'll get to them later, but it's like those three teams and maybe the Lions too, I guess, but like.


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[Assistant] Just so much better than everybody else in the NFC. It's, it's hard to imagine. Um, if Purdy plays like this, the $40 are going to be freaking awesome this year.


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[Assistant] Does it, the Tray Lance trade, after you see Brock Purdy play like this in week one, the Tray Lance trade feels a little bit, and like again, Brock Purdy only played, he was a third string quarterback last year. He only played because of injury last year. So that's why I thought it was so weird to give up your third string quarterback, but like,


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[Assistant] You know, you see Brock party play like this. It makes more sense where you're like, all right, we're not even messing with this anymore. We screwed up on Charlie Lance, but we nailed this by accident with Brock party. We're going to go to him.


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[Assistant] You say Brock Purdy is like the perfect like, but Christian McCaffrey is the perfect player for Kyle Shanahan.


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[Assistant] He's like everything Kyle Shannon would want. I mean, they have three unicorns in George Kittle, Devo Samuel, and Christian McCaffrey. And then they have Ayuk, who looks like he might be in for a big time breakout year, who they drafted the first round.


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[Assistant] I mean, we all talk about the, the, the hall that they could have gotten for the, you know, like when they get Bradley chubb, Terry kill or Jaylen wattle and Tyree kill. And it's like, yeah, that is a ton of stuff. It's like.


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[Assistant] Well, it's like, uh, it's like the, um, that the old tweet that's like, it's like, it's like, uh, sewing.


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[Assistant] I leave Pat Peterson left with a, uh, he's doubtful for next week with a broken soul.


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[Assistant] What was the, uh, the Greg Gabriel tweet last year? He's like.


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[Assistant] All the experts said the Bears would finish in last place. He's like...


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[Assistant] They were the worst team in football last year by, by, not a wide margin, because the Texans were bad too, but like, they went and got, look, they went and got Nate Davis, good signing. The draft are alright, great draft pick. DJ Moore.


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[Assistant] I mean, I, I think this, I think you sort of see what we saw in the preseason where, you know, 15 to 27, like you see the overall stats, like you, the completion percentage is just not ideal, but like, I felt like he was more accurate that watching them though.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I did too. Uhm, I think that you're going to have some highs and you're going to have some lows with Jordan love like that. And that's just sort of the player. He is like he is. He is not like a consistent high floor low ceiling guy. He is an incredible ceiling and if they harness it and Matt LaFleur gets him to be to become consistent.


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[Assistant] We're not a low floor. I'm just saying like, like you, you'll see him and this is, you would see him at Utah state, like, and then you would see him in the preseason and regular season games. You'd see him make great throws and then like miss like throws. You're like, how did he miss that? And so that's what I mean. He's just, he's, he's his.


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[Assistant] He is athletic upside is huge, but he also has inconsistencies to his game.


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[Assistant] I mean, frankly, pretty similar to Aaron Rodgers and the way that he came into the Packers and like how he had the time to learn sitting behind a future Hall of Famer and how now he's in there and he's confident in the offense and they have a good enough defense. It looks like and a good enough run game. It looks like.


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[Assistant] And enough, you know, stuff around him, it looks like that they could win some games and be a playoff team.


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[Assistant] There was a report that it was just precautionary. Jay Glazer said it was, uh, on the Fox post game show. It was just precautionary. He doesn't think it's a thing at all. Uh, let me ask you this, Wilson. Yeah. Would you right now?


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[Assistant] Knowing what we've seen from the Packers in week one, but not knowing, because we're recording this on Sunday night, what we'll see from the Jets in week one, who would you say is more likely to make the playoffs, the Packers or the Jets?


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[Assistant] No, no, no, no. I mean, he's, he's like, yeah, I mean, he's, he's still young. The problem is like you, you're running through, you're running through coaches, but I breach. I think you're, I mean, look,


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[Assistant] People get so hyped up because of his athleticism in the run game, but he's only running like that because the Bears offensive line is trash. He doesn't have any good weapons and you know, he like they can't, they can't protect him and they're always losing. So like at the end of the year, they basically like like four or four or five games of the season, everybody's like eff it. We're just going to play to his strengths and let him run like crazy.


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[Assistant] I don't think they trusted their offensive line last year.


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[Assistant] It's gotten better. Yeah. I just think that people, people expected the Bears to be like a nine or 10 win team. The Bears are probably going to be a five, a total of seven and a half.


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[Assistant] Jordan loving the Packers because the Bears are who I thought that they were to quote the late great Denny Green. Didn't let him off the hook though. What do you think Breach?


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[Assistant] Hey, uh, by the way on this, um, our research team usually does a great job with the, the packet they put together, but I see they left out a digit on Joe Burr's passing yards. It just is 82. Like there has to be like a one or a two or three next to that. What was, what was his actual number? It can't be 82.


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[Assistant] Like, 2.6 yards per attempt, that's, uh, I believe that the late great Chris Wessing coined that the Gabbard Zone.


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[Assistant] It's gotta be the defense and, uh, Denzel Ward came out afterwards and said that they had the best quarterback group in the entire NFL. Um, I don't know if that's entirely true. Like, um,


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[Assistant] Yeah, because I think the Jets are pretty good, but I mean, maybe he's onto something. Um, I mean, Breach, you watch this game closely, obviously. Um, the weather was pretty bad, right? Like it was raining sideways. Wasn't it, Breach?


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[Assistant] Well, no, I mean, he had the fewest yards per attempt by any quarterback of the season opener since Vince Ferragamo in 1984.


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[Assistant] Yes. And I don't want to like, I'm not, I don't want to like not give the Browns the credit that they deserve. Like they, they, I think I, I, I'll be honest, like I didn't pay as a ton of attention to this game in the one o'clock slate because it was like,


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[Assistant] The Browns get a field goal early in the second quarter and then Watson was like at the right before halftime runs in for a touchdown to make it 10, nothing at halftime. So like, I mean, it was just.


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[Assistant] It was just, and then the weather, it looked, I think, kept getting worse and worse. And it was like the Bengals just weren't doing anything. Uhm, I mean, so what's your, what's your panic level breach on a scale of one to ten? On a scale of one to ten, it is negative five.


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[Assistant] Yeah. I mean, but mostly it's because of Brown's fans in my mentions on, on X or Twitter or whatever it were like.


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[Assistant] Remember when you said that the Bengals would suit the Browns? Like, you know, I, I think.


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[Assistant] Seven out of four. Um, no, I mean, I think it's like, but it's only, it's only seven because it's like he didn't, I didn't think he looked that great the preseason. Um, you know, like I, I'm, I've said repeatedly,


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[Assistant] That I will give Sean Payton, like blindly give Sean Payton a pass and believe in Sean Payton and his ability to get the most out of his quarterback. But I think you'd be crazy not to be a little worried about Russ, although he definitely looked better. It's just like this Raiders defense shouldn't be, he looked a little, he looked better than he did last year.


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[Assistant] Okay, well let me, that's great. But we're now approaching...


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[Assistant] Three straight years where Russ may have not played well.


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[Assistant] Well, yeah. And I, I think that he's, I mean, I thought, I thought all along he was an upgrade because his, his familiarity with Josh McDaniel's, um, it's going to be Myers played really well for the Raiders to find out. Just fine. Uh, a nasty dirty hit late, late night game. Um, neither team could really run the ball effectively.


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[Assistant] And you know, the weapons just weren't there for, for us in that passing offense. Like the 34 passing attempts, 177 yards, no bueno.


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[Assistant] Well, I, so I think that this game could end up being a little bit like, um,


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[Assistant] I think with the other game that I sort of thought this about, but it's like, I think that this game could be one where we're like in a couple of weeks.


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[Assistant] Like, ah, okay. That was just a weird week. One game.


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[Assistant] Let's settle down the, you know, the Raiders have settled down. The Broncos are sort of picked up the pace a bit. That's, that's just my opinion. But this is, so this is what I always say like.


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[Assistant] Early in the season, you know, if you're, if you're picking games, you have to, you have to learn how to change your priors, right? If you're high on the Broncos and low on the Raiders and the Raiders beat the Broncos, you have to decide, okay, was I wrong on both of these teams? Was this a fluke game? How much do I need to adjust these? You know, RJ White does his power rankings and all that, but it's like,


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[Assistant] I think that this may look like a little bit of a abnormality in a couple of weeks is, is my, is my initial gut feeling, but it's certainly on my radar as a possible, like, okay.


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[Assistant] Maybe with Garoppolo here, if he's healthy, the, the Raiders have something cooking and, and maybe, maybe we were just wrong. Maybe anybody who was high on the Broncos at all was just dead wrong.


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[Assistant] Both the, I watched the Jaguars and Indy and the Panthers, uh, Falcons games pretty closely.


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[Assistant] Well, uh, so Bryce, the two picks he threw that, uh, Jesse Bates, former, uh, bingo turned Falcon and free agency who looks like a great signing, uh, were basically the same play.


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[Assistant] And uhm, it was like, you know, you, you know, that's one where it's like, you've got to learn.


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[Assistant] He really wants your quarterback to learn from that first mistake and not make the exact same mistake. And Bates sort of, you know, no pun intended. He baited him into like, you know, kind of to making that throw and Bates came down and picked it off twice.


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[Assistant] My, I thought, but I thought in general that Bryce Young looked good and I would be enthused as a Panthers fan, even though the final result 24 to 10.


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[Assistant] Obviously not what you want. Hayden Hearst, by the way, took the only touchdown for the Panthers in the game throw to Hayden Hearst from Bryce Young and through the football his first first first career touchdown passing through the stands in Atlanta.


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[Assistant] Mercifully, some, uh, whoever caught it, whether it was a Panthers fan or a Falcons fan, threw it back so that way Bryce Young could have his football. Um, but yeaah, I thought the protection was generally better than I sort of expected it to be for, for Carolina.


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[Assistant] 6.7 yards per carry. Nice Chuba. Had a longer 21, 9 carries, 60 yards. Love Chuba Hubbard. Uhm, I call him Chuba Purdy. I know. But the, like, and it was one where the Panthers had the ball early on and...


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[Assistant] Ran the ball really well and then got down to the red zone and sort of, it sort of got bottled up a little bit. Um, he was without of course, uh, DJ shark.


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[Assistant] And, uh, was there somebody else missing? I thought John Domingo looked okay. Um, Hey nurse, nice little addition. Adam Thielen was sort of banged up and didn't do a ton. But like, I thought in general that the Panthers offense, I think you're optimistic about what it can become. I also think the Falcons defense might be better than people.


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[Assistant] I mean, the win thing is like, the win thing is like basically why Frank Red got fired. Um, I, I thought that the offense wasn't.


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[Assistant] I thought it was, I thought it was, I thought it was, it was, it was good, not great. Um, they had some chances to score, like they had some chances to score points. He got aggressive on fourth down in some spots. Um, but I thought, I thought I would, I would be pleased with Bryce Young's performance, even if he had some bad mistakes and like overall, you know, the paper's office didn't do a ton.


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[Assistant] I thought Richardson looked exactly like what, I thought he looked like a better version of sort of.


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[Assistant] Like when he, you know, and he didn't throw the ball down, like Michael Pittman did a little work on that touchdown pass. Um, you know, it was a short shorter pass Pittman ran at the sideline, but it was a good pass delivered on time and spot you wanted it. He had some stuff that was pretty off. Uh, you know, he had that interception, which was a really bad one and you know, he ran the ball well, but it's also like.


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[Assistant] You see him get banged up in his first game as a pro and you, you remember, man, it's, it's, you run the ball that much as a quarterback and it's dangerous.


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[Assistant] Well they got, they got the craziest touchdown on defense.


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[Assistant] Okay. Call games. Um, so Trevor Lawrence throws the ball. It gets hit. He started by the forest Buckner and the ball comes out and it looks like it's an incomplete pass, but there's no whistle. One tank. Bigsby picks it up and is holding it and a cold. So he's just standing there.


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[Assistant] They had like Richardson probably played about as well as he could have played in his first start, given all the things that he had to do. He was dealing with, um, in terms of this roster, no Jonathan Taylor. They get this crazy touchdown. They missed some fourth downs and like, I still think that like,


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[Assistant] The fact that the Jaguars still put up 31 and won this game and you see there at 17 with 230 left in the third. Like I think that says a lot about Jacksonville here too.


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[Assistant] The, um, the, the one thing I'll say about the divas too, like, and this is not taking away from the Cowboys by any stretch of the imagination, but like the giants gave them anything they wanted.


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[Assistant] They were overshadowed by the Vikings, but the Giants were a lucky team that felt like they were being coached up really well and getting the most out of it. And that's why their win total was like six and a half or seven and a half.


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[Assistant] I did not know. It wasn't Daniel Jones. Daniel Jones ran some, but like, I mean, yeah, that was, I mean, that was just an ad. Like that game was over before it began. Like it wasn't even close. Jones finished 15 to 28 for 104 yards and two picks, uh, ran 13 times for 43 yards.


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[Assistant] You know, Mike, uh, you know, it's like the, the, the problem for the Cowboys is the Giants are, are really like taken away where they do best on defense by, by virtue of like running the ball and getting the ball out quickly and then like,


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[Assistant] My, my comp for the 2023, uh, giants in the 2022 giants has always been, uh, so the 2017 Buffalo Bills, Sean McDermott's first year.


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[Assistant] They have Tyrod Taylor. Remember they benched him for Nate Peterman against the Chargers disaster. They make the playoffs and like everyone was kind of like that team was a fluke.


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[Assistant] But then they get Josh Allen. I'm not saying that Daniel Jones, Josh Allen is just like, like there was going to be some regression for the Giants here and they just got a whole face full of it in week one. And this could be a longer season for the Giants. But I think if like the bigger problem is that Daniel Jones didn't look good.


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[Assistant] Uh, unless that's comfortable and you need, you need him to, like, if he plays well and they win six games, I think you're fine with it if you're a Giants fan.


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[Assistant] Well, so with the, with the past, I think like, I mean, obviously the Patriots didn't win the game and didn't even cover. Um, they, they certainly could have, there, there were some mistakes there, like the, on the two point conversion where they had a false, uh, a holding call, which is brutal. I can't do that on two point conversion because then you got to 10, you're 10 yards back.


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[Assistant] So the first, the, the Eagles went 14 plays, 56 yards and, and look, it looked good. Like it was good scripted stuff. Um, you know, Jalen Hertz looks sharp. They get the field goal and then.


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[Assistant] Then the Patriots come back and they throw the pick six, but it wasn't like.


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[Assistant] I would say it was like 50-50 on Kendrick Borden and Mack Jones for that, for that pick six. Cause it was like.


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[Assistant] Like he threw like a slant, didn't see a safety coming in and he just took it to the house. Mack also had a terrible tackle attempt there. And then Zeke Elliott fumbles.


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[Assistant] And the, and the, immediately the Eagles score and it's like, it's 16 to, um, it's 16. Oh, they missed the kick. 16 to nothing. Yeah. Cause it's 16 to nothing. You feel like this is going to be a bloodbath. And it's like the, the, you know, the, the turnovers, this Belichick hates that so much. The Patriots defense.


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[Assistant] Tighten the screws for that rest of that game. I mean, you know, if you take the pick six away, right? I mean, the eagle scored eight or 18 points and.


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[Assistant] It felt like Jake Elliott was banging down long field goals. He had a 56, a 48, and a 51 in the second half.


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[Assistant] You had AJ Brown who stepped up and like really dominated, uh, in certain spots when the Eagles needed to get some first downs. But I thought the Patriots defense really, really tight in the screws on the Eagles, which was impressive. And Mac Jones got his act together. You see it like seven to 14 to start the game. 28 to 40 with three touchdowns and.


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[Assistant] I don't know that this is going to be a situation where we're like, Oh, the Patriots are going to steamroll people. But I think the way that they responded after getting down 16, nothing.


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[Assistant] Given like the expectations from this season was really impressive and I think the Patriots are going to be a very tough out every week.


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[Assistant] I don't feel bad. I know that the pick was wrong. I don't feel bad about the pick. I think that the pick, the Genesis behind the pick was correct.


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[Assistant] You need to add Kendrick Bourne in your fantasy leagues. Like he is involved in this Patriots offense and Bill Belichick praised his rushing, uh, his, his run blocking skills in the preseason. Like this is, this is the guy who's going to be heavily involved.


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[Assistant] Jalen Carter looks freaking awesome. Um, yeah, they like Jordan Davis actually has a nice place too. Like the Eagles, the, yeah, I, I like, I really think that like, I think the Eagles are fine. The Eagles are a good team.


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[Assistant] Well, I think that the Cardinals are fully aware that they possess the Texans pick and their own pick and that the odds are quite good for them to get a top pick in this draft and that if they aren't good this year, they're fine with that. But I don't think that the players on the team and the coaching staff are actively tanking.


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[Assistant] I don't think that would happen in the NFL because, like, you're- That doesn't sound like you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, it's like, but like the players, like they're playing for, they're playing for their financial future and.


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[Assistant] Like, like, yeah. And the coach, like, you know, John, the Gannon's coaching. So he didn't get fired. So like, I don't, I don't think there's, I don't think there's, Jesus.


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[Assistant] They, like, I think everybody really forgot who Aaron Donald is. And he, and I think he wants to remind them, um, you know, the one pot mark on his, on his otherwise like almost perfect resume, aside from the fact that he went in first team all pros rookie year is that.


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[Assistant] Last year, he missed some time and didn't make the pro bowl. What an all pro. And I think that that bugs him. And he was a force of nature. Have you seen the genus Smith clover? I think he's a Gino goes.


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[Assistant] That is hilarious. Uh, Matthew Stafford, 2438 for 334. Didn't have a touchdown, but didn't need to.


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[Assistant] You know, he didn't have Cooper cop and he had two, two receivers, 119 yards. Can you name who they were? I'm looking, so I won't.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Pukka Nakua, BYU. I actually couldn't remember his first name, so I was hoping Wilson would say it. And the run game was fine. Uh, not the worst in the world, but like,


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[Assistant] The CLX got banged out. They lost. They lost their two story tackles during this game.


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[Assistant] This is sort of my hypothesis with the Rams is like, maybe it looks like the roster is terrible, but they've got some skill position guys. Matthew Stafford is a really good quarterback when he's healthy. He wasn't healthy last year. He looked pretty good. Yeah. If the offensive line protects him, it does


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[Assistant] Get Cooper cut back, like, I don't know, I think, I don't think the Rams are gonna win ten games to go in the Super Bowl, but I think there's a Rams team that can win eight or nine games and like, flirt with the playoffs. Breach, what happened to my Seattle Seahawks?


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[Assistant] How would you, how would you rank, how would you rank the, do you think the Seahawk, do you, how would you rank, obviously the 49ers won the Cardinals 4, would you re-rank the NFC, uh, West now? Or is this, or is that never?


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[Assistant] I'm just saying like, is it an overreaction to say the Rams might be just better than the Seahawks this year? No, not yet.


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[Assistant] No, that's not an overreaction. I think the Browns are good. How good? Just that's the question. How good are the Browns? I don't think.


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[Assistant] God, you're saying a lot of words. Take a stance, man. I said it's not, it's not an overreaction. You just sit on the fence, Brenton. I think they're a good team.


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[Assistant] Ironically enough, I don't have a fence in my yard. Alright, here we go. Brenton, you're up. Breach, you follow. Jordan love is the real deal.


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[Assistant] Not an overreaction. Jordan love is the real deal. I think he's got the skillset. I liked his skillset coming out of college.


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[Assistant] And I think the Packers, you know, by virtue of the Aaron Rodgers winning two MVPs, they drafted a quarterback in the first round. We're patient with him and they have the infrastructure around him, especially when Christian Watson comes back to, uh, to help him develop into a legitimate top 15 quarterback. Breach.


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[Assistant] Like the, the, the live scoring system on CBS sports.com kept projecting me to lose my matchup because it was the Cowboys defensive point total was going to go down.


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[Assistant] And it was just like, just, it kept going up. Like they were 30, they were 30. And it was like, well, they're gonna finish at like 15. Then they were at 35. Then they were at 40. Then they were at 41. Like it just kept going up. Uhm, the, I, I think that the,


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[Assistant] Cowboys are going to be, are very even, plain-ish with the Eagles. I'll defer to Philadelphia for now because I think we've seen more of it. And in San Francisco to me, clearly the best team in the NFC behind the Rams.


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[Assistant] Wait, you're using all quarterbacks or just Sunday's quarterback? Just Sunday's. How quarterbacks played on Sunday.


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[Assistant] Lawrence up to number two. The head of Brock Purdy.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I just think, yeah, I mean, Lawrence, dude, Lawrence, I mean, I would buy into more Trevor Lawrence every piece.


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[Assistant] But he, I mean, he is the truth. So, uh, yeah, I think two, I think two is one. Oh, okay. I didn't know if you guys would agree with that. We'll see. Four or six, six yards. Um, and he played really well. Uh, Trevor to, um,


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[Assistant] Yeah, and then, uh, uh, Brock Prody 4 and Jordan Love 5, and I could, Mack Jones honorable mention.


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[Assistant] You can do whatever you want. I don't know if you like my list on mine. Do what you want. Wilson's going to grade you and then you'll find out. Are we tied? So this is like for all the marbles, which are whatever you do right now.


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[Assistant] I think, I think two at one, Brock Birdie at two. You know, you know who's like sneaky? Go ahead and like, and get any credit for it. Yeah. And we didn't talk about this game at all. Baker Mayfield.


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[Assistant] No, unless you, uh, no, I mean we did not cover Tampa Bay, Minnesota and Tennessee, New Orleans. And those were like, I will say that the one o'clock slate.


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[Assistant] No, I was going to say that the one o'clock slate was a very boring slate for the first time. Like, I can't remember the last time the one o'clock slate on week one was like kind of a boring... Four o'clock made a four.


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[Assistant] Four o'clock was fantastic, yeaah. Uh, I will say on... Wait, you want Tampa Bay or Minnesota or Tennessee or... I don't.


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[Assistant] And Kurt Cousins, there was some frustration. I am curious to see how this Justin Jefferson plays out because he had 136 receiving yards in the first half, finished with 150.


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[Assistant] And like, did some frustrated stuff after an interception by Kirk Cousins.


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[Assistant] And just, just to, just to tag on that too, like the Titans, uh, their defense in, I, I'm curious to see if like, what's the trend here with that defense? Is the Titans defense potentially good or cause if it's not, it wasn't during the preseason, like that's, that's foreboding for the Saints offense.


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[Assistant] I said, I'm going under 10 and a half wins and Brady, we know this in the NFL. You usually have a timeframe where your team is a legitimate shot to win a Superbowl. And it's usually like a three or four year span. Now, obviously when you have guys like Patrick Mahomes, that kind of gets extended.


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[Assistant] Eagles, Chiefs, Cowboys, Chargers, and Dolphins to finish off the season.


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[Assistant] We notice you want to be playing your best football at the end of the season, head into the playoffs. I think they will struggle during that stretch and then we could see.


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[Assistant] That issue between Stefan Diggs and Josh Allen rear its ugly head around that, that point. Now I'm with you on the wins for the division. I went back and forth with this. I believe they push at four and probably do get the four wins. I believe everybody.


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[Assistant] That is going to sweep the Patriots in this division because like you said, everybody has gotten significantly better except for the Patriots in this division.


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[Assistant] Alright, I don't see that. I feel Belichick might be in trouble after this year in regards to his job prospects after this season.


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[Assistant] I think he is. There's been rumors supposedly his friends are concerned about him keeping his job after this year.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm more comfortable taking the over nine and a half wins. And to Brady's point, we were just talking about the health of two, a tongue of our lower. It's going to bank on that, but you just stated it. Well, they were eight and five when he was under sitter for the Miami dolphins split games with the Buffalo bills, uh, split games with the jets. Now he didn't play in either one of those jets games.


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[Assistant] But this Dolphins offense is one of the most explosive offenses in all of football now. They did already catch a hit on defense with Jalen Ramsey being out to maybe December, right?


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[Assistant] But I have faith in Vic Vangio. I believe that defense will take a step this year. Again, this offense is a four by 100 meter relay team on offense. We're going to be extremely explosive. So I feel more comfortable.


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[Assistant] With the dolphins in that over nine and a half wins with two of being on the center. Now again, a lot of that is banking on Ken to a tongue of my lowest stay healthy. And that's been a question for his whole career so far, but you see it eight and five last year when he was under center. I think they did a really good job also.


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[Assistant] Bring it in Mike White, a guy that is familiar with this system, played in this exact system with the Jets. Just in case Tua does go down for a few games, I believe he can fill the void and get them over the nine and a half wins.


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[Assistant] But I mean, if you look at it as a whole Brady, right? We talked about two other AFC East teams. The common denominator is the schedules. I mean, these teams have the hardest schedules in the league. They got the AFC West and the AFC North coupled with playing each other in a division. I just don't see the Patriots when we talked about it earlier, how everybody else, the Jets, the Dolphins.


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[Assistant] The bills got significantly better this all season. It kind of seemed like the Patriots kind of stayed pat. Now I do agree.


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[Assistant] Them bringing a viable offensive coordinator should help.


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[Assistant] With them on offense, more specifically, we talked about them being one of the worst third down offenses, one of the worst red zone offices. Some of the things we saw from the Patriots on offense last year, we're not accustomed to seeing them as far as just execution, right? We usually don't see that from a bill Belichick team, but I just feel like those other three teams in division are just so much better.


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[Assistant] Coupled with playing the AFC West and the AFC North, I just don't see the Patriots getting over seven and a half wins.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I like the, the over on the nine and a half wins, the three and a half division win. We just talked about how competitive the AFC East is going to be. I believe they do sweep the Patriots and I believe they haven't beaten them in almost four years or maybe.


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[Assistant] Over four years, but I believe they split games with the dolphins and the bill. So at three and a half over three and a half, that hook kind of scares me right there. Um, I don't, I don't trust it. They could potentially go three and three in a division. We'll see. But the over nine and a half, let's just put this into perspective guys. The jets won seven games last year.


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[Assistant] You were, you were right on that man. He was not the guy. I thought he was going to turn the corner. It just never did. Um, I thought the office was perfect for his skillset.


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[Assistant] And you know, hopefully now that he's got a mentor and Aaron Rogers, we've already seen some progression with them throughout training camp. Hope that continues. But again, they won seven games with that trio of quarterbacks and you went to Flacco in there too. So four different quarterbacks played for the jets last year. They lost six games, Brady and will buy one score.


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[Assistant] So even if they just split or even went to those games, they go over this number right here. So I believe even though it's a gauntlet again, Brady, we talked about the AFC West, the AFC North. I believe they get right around 10 or 11 wins this year and they get over that nine and a half win total.


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[Assistant] What I'll say before we move on is you brought up a really good point, Brady, about the defense, right? Having the top five defense. Let's not forget in 2010 when he had a top five defense, what'd they end up doing?


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[Assistant] That's what you bring them in for, but to Will's point, also the gauntlet to start the season in the first six games, they go two and four, three and three. I think they killed this over as well. Cause it's easy. It's opposite of what the bills have to deal with. Like the bills start off with an easier schedule, then have a gauntlet to finish the last seven games.


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[Assistant] Brady, we all, we always know this offense takes about a month to jail coming out of training camp and everything. So they do go two and four, three and three. If that offense is clicking in that back half of the season where the schedule is formidable for them, they could win this division and potentially fight for that number one seed.


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[Assistant] That makes the most sense. I'm right there with you, Brady. I like the over on the winds. They routinely hit this number. I mean, let's not forget. Well, Lamar Jackson being hurt last year, Tyler Huntley is the quarterback. They went over this number. They got 10 wins last year and they were.


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[Assistant] The division, I'm with you when, when it comes to the divisional wins though.


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[Assistant] Because it's so tight in this division. I mean, the Browns we'll talk about later. They're significantly better. I mean, the Steelers never have a losing record at all and Cincinnati has dominated that division.


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[Assistant] The last two years, so I would juice heavy on the over wins over nine and a half wins. I think they get 10 or 11 wins and potentially maybe win this division. But I'm right there with you with the division total as far as wins because it's so tough in this division. I believe everybody can mess around and go three and three in this division.


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[Assistant] You want Brady there that back half of the season, cause I think they have a gauntlet to finish those last three games.


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[Assistant] And you want to be the best version of yourself heading into the playoffs. Now they do kind of get a reprieve because I do believe they play the NFC West. And if I'm not mistaken, the AFC South, which are two divisions that are kinda up in there. I mean, you got two teams in the NFC West and the 49ers and Seahawks, but other than that, I mean, the Rams.


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[Assistant] Cardinals are probably an essential rebuilds, right? But then also, let's look at the secondary Brady. People haven't been talking about this enough. They lost both of their starting safeties this off season, right? Uh, Cheddar Bay or Wooze is coming off a major injury.


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[Assistant] Cam Taylor Britt played some last year, but wasn't the start of the whole season. So you're talking about four new pieces back there. Lou and a room who's done a really good job. There's a reason why they play Trey Hendrickson, all that money for it at one year extension. They have a young secondary, right? I'm talking about having an explosive offense with the Baltimore Ravens. You're going to have to play the Sean Watson.


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[Assistant] Focused on football this year with the pieces on offense they have. That 11 and a half scares me. I would juice the under on this. I believe they get maybe right at 11 wins. I don't like them to go over the 11 and a half wins.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Brady, I'm right there with you and to your point, right? There's going to be somebody that goes 10 and 7 in the AFC North or AFC East that doesn't get into the playoffs, right?


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[Assistant] Uh, if you look at the Browns, right? Again, the, the over two and a half division wins, not a lot of value there. I think that's obvious for how we've been talking about how competitive the AFC North is. I mean, I believe all four teams could go three and three in that division.


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[Assistant] But I'm with you. I'm taking the over nine and a half wins and the Browns are my sneaky team in the AFC. Hmm. Brady, you can speak to this.


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[Assistant] As a player period, whether you're quarterback, no matter what position you're playing, when you're away from the game for almost two years, it takes a while to get your mojo back, to get back into the swing of things, right?


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[Assistant] From everything that you've heard and also that I've heard coming out of Brown's camp. It looks like the John Deshaun Watson is almost back to that player. He was in 2020 when he was a top five quarterback electric electrifying on the field.


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[Assistant] Talking about Elijah Moore, supposedly he has a real rapport with him already. Elijah Moore definitely is motivated this year after being traded from the New York Jets and they actually played them later on in the year, I believe week 17 up in Cleveland.


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[Assistant] I think the biggest thing for the Sean Watson is even though he's got that $230 million tag.


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[Assistant] He doesn't have to do it by himself, Brady. One of the best run games in all of football with Nick Chubb back there, he can lean on the run game. One of the best offensive lines. He can lean on that offensive line. He has weapons on the outside.


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[Assistant] with Amari Cooper. People who forget, Donovan Peoples Jones had a really good season last year. He's going to be their big receiver that you can throw the 50-50 jump balls to.


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[Assistant] David and Joku can stay healthy. I think he's going to be a big red zone target, but defense. That's the thing that was there. Achilles heel last year, bringing in Jim Swartz, revamping that defensive lines that Darius Smith, Dalvin Thomas and.


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[Assistant] Uh, the win total for nine. And I think that's what they're going to go nine and eight. Um, so I like them to over on a division wins. If you look at what they've done the last three years, they've hit over on that number. Mike Tomlin just knows how to win AFC North games. It's gritty. It's muddy. It gets cold. He knows how to get his team ready.


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[Assistant] to win those games. So I like them to go over the two and a half division when it's kind of what we talked about earlier, Brady.


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[Assistant] I would not be surprised if all four teams with three and three in this division, right? Because that's how talented each roster is. I'm staying away from the total wins of nine. I believe they go nine and eight because Mike Talman just doesn't have a losing record, but I don't feel comfortable saying they're going to get 10 wins. Right? So I like the, the, the over two and a half.


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[Assistant] Divisional wins because that's what Mike Tomlin does. He just gets at least three divisional wins.


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[Assistant] Pretty, pretty devastated. Like as a, as a, as a sports fan, like I just have a, uh, a general rule that like you should just try and see greatness whenever possible.


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[Assistant] Um, and especially when it's that accessible and cheap, like I don't know how much tickets were, but they couldn't have been more than like $20 to get in the door for, for two games. But, um, I got the chance to, to randomly cover a game each in the Braves and, uh, Padres series, like over the last month.


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[Assistant] And, uh, Acuna hit a 460 foot home run. It was the longest home run I've ever seen in person. And I was like, well, that was awesome. Uh, and then so when Soto came, I was like, okay, like, remember that, you know, pay attention.


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[Assistant] Uh, I've been watching a lot of tigers. I could have surmised that, uh, uh, you know, complete game, one hit shut job and a, uh, two Homer performances was on the table. And I had, you know, I just overlooked it.


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[Assistant] Well, I don't necessarily disagree, and I think that this is an offense that's kind of been built to, to suit him. Uhm, and that was obviously by design, like that is, you know, to, to get the most out of your players, you kind of got to,


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[Assistant] And I think that's allowed them to kind of grow together. I think Ben Johnson did a lot of growing last year. I think Jared Goff did a lot of growing last year.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and definitely, you know, I think that that's something that can be built on going into next season. I think Brad Holmes said around the draft, uh, it's a lot harder to get.


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[Assistant] better at quarterback than it is to get worse. Uh, and Jared Goff got better at quarterback last year, so there's no reason to believe that he might be able to, to take a similar, um, you know, I don't want to say similar type of jump because he was already playing so well, but like just the consistency weekend and week out for 18 straight weeks, I don't think is not a question at all.


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[Assistant] Again, I don't disagree and I think like the numbers and the production kind of proved that at the end of last season and I think a lot of people will point to


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[Assistant] Um, the season before where he necessarily wasn't as good for a solid, you know, 10 to 12 games or whatever it was. And then you can, you can point to last season and say, um, yeah, you know, the offense was putting up points through those first seven games when they were one and six, but.


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[Assistant] He was turning the ball over and that was true. Uhm, but I think what really the most powerful thing that has happened to him.


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[Assistant] Uh, over the last half of the season last year is the fact that he, I think, stopped feeling like he had to do everything. I think he finally stopped feeling like he had to do too much.


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[Assistant] Um, and he could just play football exactly the way it was drawn up. And when he is in a position where he can do that, he's a very accurate passer. He can, you know, he can, uh, he thinks the game very well.


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[Assistant] And, uh, again, like I don't see any reason why we can't be sitting here a year from now and say, wow, okay, Jared Goff, he had an even better year than he had the year before.


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[Assistant] That's a super tough, uh, question to answer right now. I would say yes, like, uh, cause I think, you know, what they're gonna do with Hen and Hooker, they kind of been transparent through this, uh, throughout, is they're, you know, essentially gonna let this year be a redshirt year for him, and who knows, you know, what that'll actually mean and what that'll look like for him down the road, but, um,


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[Assistant] You know, I don't see any way where, you know, Jared golf plays at or better than the same level he did last year. And then the team goes, okay, we might want to move on from him and they might, you know, that kind of happened with, uh, the Kansas city chiefs and Alex Smith and Patrick Mahomes, but that was Patrick Mahomes. That was.


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[Assistant] Uh, a team that, that hadn't won anything. And I think if Jared Goff can win something this year, be it a playoff game, be it the division, be it literally anything.


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[Assistant] I think that's enough to kind of keep that momentum going and keep those, those good vibes rolling because I think right now.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, Ben Johnson, Jared Goff, they love working together. And, um, you know, obviously Ben Johnson, uh, possibly leaving might change some things, but, um, I think Jared Goff is, is very comfortable here in Detroit and I think Brad Holmes likes him a lot.


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[Assistant] Uh, well it wouldn't surprise me at all if Sam Laporta kind of jumps in and he becomes a, you know, a big target right away. His chemistry with Jared Goff so far in training camp and what we've seen of the off-season program seems to be on point. Uh, Goff trusts him a lot.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and so it wouldn't really surprise me if he kind of jumped out there, and I know that's a tight end, but uhm, I just think that they're building this offense to not necessarily be positionless football, but I think you have a lot of guys who can just do


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[Assistant] Uh, a lot of different areas and, uh, Khalif Raymond is still a guy who is a little bit bottom, uh, of the death chart, Josh Reynolds, but guys who've been around for like two or three years in this system and they've kind of stuck around and they've made big plays every time they were given the opportunity.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but that's, it's, it's a great question because it's something that somebody mentioned to me earlier today was


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[Assistant] You know, you look at this team and they added Chark, they added JMo last season, you're like, okay, this might be a position of strength for them. And now you kind of feel like it's flipped and it might be the weakest position group in the offense. I think it is actually.


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[Assistant] No, I think you're completely correct out of all that. And that's something that I was saying to people kind of right after the draft is, uhm, you know, a lot of people had the reactionary take of like, oh, he's just like Swift, but like, you know, people love Swift.


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[Assistant] They were high on swift, whatever. He was, he was an electrifying player at times.


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[Assistant] But like, I think when you just look at the complete player, like he brings so much to this offense that, that I, I really agree with you that the only comparison


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, we used to see what the Andre Swift here, he would hit the hole, he would get about, you know, 30 yards and then all of a sudden.


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[Assistant] Somebody's going to track him down and, and I'm really interested to see what happens with, uh, Jameer Gibbs when he gets out in space, because this is an offense that has been designed around speed. Amon Rahe's speed.


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[Assistant] Jameson Williams has speed. Uh, and now you add, you know, one of the quickest, shiftiest guys to come out of the draft in a long, long time.


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[Assistant] And they haven't been shy about how they're going to use him in all those different ways. I think like Brad Holmes is reluctant to even call him a running back so far, which will be interesting when it comes time for him to get paid.


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[Assistant] But, he literally just keeps calling him a weapon. He's a weapon, he's not a running back, he's a weapon. And obviously, you know, at the end of the day, he is a running back, he's just gonna get his touches, but like...


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[Assistant] I think that you will see him in a lot of different ways. It wouldn't surprise me if there were games where he played more slot receiver than he, than he carried the ball, you know, um, and he's just, he's a fascinating guy.


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[Assistant] I've been thinking about that a lot, just like how it at like, again, four or five years down the road, so many things, the entire landscape of the NFL can change, but like,


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[Assistant] Is he gonna get paid somewhere in the middle? Like how is that gonna end up going? Uh, because like he has so much evidence to back up. Like I'm not a running back. You said many times I'm not a running back. So it'll be, it'll be fun.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, uh, you know, it's, it's kind of amazing because like that second half of the season, uh, their defense was like very...


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[Assistant] Average, like which is exactly like if they would have just had an average defense all along, uhm, they would have made the playoffs, but.


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[Assistant] I don't want to say recognize their opportunity or whatever it may be, but uhm, I think, you know, you, you go back to when they fired their, their cornerbacks coach, Aubrey Pleasant, uh, after week seven, uhm, and they, they had this defensive meeting where,


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[Assistant] A bunch of the veterans on this team who had kind of been phased out by these young guys, uh, you know, Michael Brockers being one of them, called a team meeting and, and he was like, guys, like,


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[Assistant] You know, your actions have consequences. Like, you know, we're, we're all family here and like, you need to fight for each other and you need to think about those things. You can't just be out there.


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[Assistant] Playing football and from that point on, I think you saw a legitimate change in the way that this defense played.


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[Assistant] And obviously you would have liked to see them playing that well all along, but I think you do have a little bit of a cop out there where, I can't remember who put this data, I think it might have been pro football insiders, but they were not just like a young defense.


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[Assistant] Per snaps, like they were the, one of the youngest defense in 25 years in the NFL. And you saw so much growth. You saw the Aiden Hutchinson. You saw James Houston come on late. You saw Kirby Joseph, uhm, Ed Reading, uh, you know, Aaron Rodgers in the final game of the season, twice. Uh, and it just,


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[Assistant] Yeah, you have a lot of optimism. They got veterans, I thought, where they needed to get veterans at cornerback. They got Cam Sutton. They got Emmanuel Mosley. Who knows if they'll be ready, uh, by week one. I think they're a little optimistic.


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[Assistant] Uh, that he'll be able to, but he's still a little banged up right now. Um, but I think that they really just kind of plugged all of the major holes and the unknowns like, you know, defensive tackle.


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[Assistant] Uh, and, and linebacker who not necessarily an unknown, but you don't necessarily know who's going to be starting there right now. Um, I think is going to be something that can really elevate this team. And like I said, if they're just average, that should be enough. That should be enough to win the division.


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[Assistant] That was one of the weirdest things I've ever, I've ever been a part of. I was sure that Batman's knee was treaded. Like, and everybody was. Like, people have worked there like, you know, decades.


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[Assistant] Uh, covering NFL football been like, I've never seen anything like that where a player was like that catastrophically.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes, exactly, exactly. Getting carted off for a cap string. That's just one way to stress everybody out. But, uh, no, I really do think that like his, his presence on this defense is going to add so much because you


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[Assistant] You kind of look at it like that was maybe the, the last hole that needed plugging is that nickel position. Like you got Will Harris who was probably going to start there up until they signed CJ Garner Johnson or maybe up until they drafted Brian Branch. Uh, but you know, last year you're kind of looking at the secondary, like,


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[Assistant] Yeah, I wonder if Mike Hughes can make a difference here. And it's just like, it's, it feels so far removed.


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[Assistant] Uh, Gardner Johnson had a more natural position for him. It's just going to do wonders, uh, for this team. And I can't wait to see how it looks.


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[Assistant] Man, uh, since Dan Campbell has been brought on, I can't remember how many it was, but I had to do a story when they cut Badgley and I was going through all the kickers they had. There were names in there that I've never heard of, or names in there that I-


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[Assistant] I only recognize from that one game day, Eldrick Rosas, uh, Dominic Eberle, uh, just like the most random names ever, uh,


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[Assistant] I think it's going to be Riley Patterson in the end.


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[Assistant] Really like Riley Patterson. They gave up a draft pick for him to get him before he hit waivers.


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[Assistant] I think Romo was brought in to maybe push him, but ultimately I think they really like Riley Patterson.


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[Assistant] There's never been anticipation like there is right now, just across the entire city. Like people, my dad, you know,


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[Assistant] Want anything, which makes it really interesting. They still haven't made the playoffs under Dan Campbell yet, but like I have likened this upcoming season to like.


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[Assistant] It's, it's a failure and I think that they would probably agree with that.


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[Assistant] I feel like they're pretty good. Like, I feel like that is, uh, what the odds are saying right now is probably accurate. I think what makes it interesting is like,


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[Assistant] You just, I feel like the other three teams are completely unknown entities. I feel like you can kind of confidently say that maybe, you know, the Bears might need another year, but who knows if Justin Holm or Justin Fields becomes, uh, that guy, like it's very possible that they win the division.


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[Assistant] I'm super interesting to see what the Packers do this season, but I think like all of these teams in some way, and this, this probably isn't fair to them.


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[Assistant] But they're like, they're all the same team. Like they all have the same kind of like range of volatility that they could all hit. Like it wouldn't surprise me if.


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[Assistant] Any of those teams won five games. It wouldn't surprise me if any of those teams won 11 games. Uhm, and I think that is more than anything what makes the upcoming season so interesting for the Lions is how hard


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[Assistant] Is this division going to be, um, because Dan Campbell has, he's been great within the division. I think he went, I think he swept or five and one against the division last year and.


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[Assistant] I think he had a winning record against the division the year before, so uhm.


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[Assistant] I, I, I am very, very curious to see what happens with these other NFC North teams and I honestly have no idea what's going to happen.


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[Assistant] Do you, would you say that the reason that the Bengals finally, like, were able to shake all of it, they shook all of it, all the allegations, they got to the Super Bowl, they won those playoff games, they won on the road, they beat Patrick Malm's, like,


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[Assistant] I don't think there's anything that you can say that is carried over from those years.


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[Assistant] Would you agree that it's all because of Joe Burrow and his mentality?


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[Assistant] And, and it's a lot of those guys too, St. Brown, like he's a freak, Peney Sewell, he's a freak. Um, when it comes to like that, just like I'm a psycho, I'm a winner. I'm not letting that doubt creep in. And I think that's, that's ultimately what you need is that doubt to just go away in those, those moments where they creep in.


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[Assistant] Well, and they need him, like, we kinda, we kinda already touched on, like, they,


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[Assistant] They were expecting to have Jameson Williams through these first couple games, and now it's like, okay, well we need that speed to come from somewhere. And I think, you know, on top of him having a fantastic offensive line, him being in an offense that's coached, uh, by Ben Johnson, plus 700 seems like, seems like pretty good value to me, for my money. Breach, what do you think?


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[Assistant] There have been my years, you know, you've heard stories that have leaked out of there, multiply them by 100. That's how bad it was. I mean, there's even more stories. You keep hearing them over and over again, just how bad it was. It was terrible.


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[Assistant] He was in way over his head, had no idea what he was doing, treated those players like they were children. It was just a bad environment. Then you get a pro in there, like Doug Peterson, who won a Super Bowl, but more than that, played in the league and understands what it takes to coach NFL players. And that was the biggest difference. And so.


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[Assistant] You saw that across the board with the way the guys played but more than that the way they handled their business.


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[Assistant] They get Desmond Ritter, who didn't play. They get Baker Mayfield, who's on a resurgence tour.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they have some tough out of division games. You know, they play the Chiefs and the Bills, but they got to break against Buffalo. They get, instead of going to play the Bills up there, they get to play them in London by staying there for a week. So the schedule's favorable. I think they're ended up with the 1C. It doesn't mean they're the best team in the AFC. It's just when you look at the other teams, look at the Jets.


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[Assistant] And the, and the Bills and the Dolphins all in one division.


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[Assistant] They should have the one seed, and if they have the one seed, Trevor Lawrence is gonna put up big numbers, uh, even more so than a year ago, and that's why I think he's gonna win the MVP.


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[Assistant] We discount that. Teams don't go out and sign pre-agents. They say, well, how are they going to get better? We're going to get better because guys are going to get better.


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[Assistant] They're in the system for a year. They were learning a new system last year. So they will be better as a group. A lot of young players on that team. So one more year for every one of them, they will all be better or they all should be better. And I think that's the biggest difference with that team.


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[Assistant] Big time. Uh, you know, and I remember at the combine talking with some of the Jaguar people and they told me this is before he showed up to their facility because he wasn't allowed there. They had heard reports that he was running 23 miles an hour on the treadmill and he was in unbelievable shape. Well, he gets there.


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[Assistant] And he was in unbelievable shape. And they were raving about it. Now he tweaked his hammy a little bit, but he's 100% for training camp.


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[Assistant] He is going to add a dynamic dimension to the offense. That's the number one wide receiver. He was a number one wide receivers last year in Atlanta.


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[Assistant] Uh, the last full year in Atlanta. Remember he had the one year where he missed time because of off the field stuff. And then he came back and he was suspended. But the bottom line is this is a number one wide receiver. He's 28 years old. He's in the prime of his career. And what he does, he will open up Kirk in the middle of the field more so to get one-on-one matchups.


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[Assistant] And then you get the one-on-ones on the outside with, with Jones who can fly and Ingram will get more one-on-ones. So all of a sudden you look at the passing game, they should be significantly better because of Ridley. I think Ridley is going to have a monster year and he's going to open it up everything else for everybody else.


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[Assistant] Play as well and Juwan Taylor went off and had a great year and then got paid by the Chiefs. Well now fast forward to this year where Little played at left tackle when Robinson went down last year and played really well and I think he's their left tackle of the future.


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[Assistant] Harrison's a big physical player. I think he can get by playing right tackle. You know, rookie's going to have some struggles at right tackle or left tackle, wherever he plays. That's just the nature of the piece, but he's good enough. So what happens when Cam Robinson comes back? He comes back in week game five, which is Buffalo.


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[Assistant] And I mean to England and play against the Bills and you put them right in at left tackle. Here's the other thing in that whole equation.


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[Assistant] He's due to make, I think, I think they can save a bunch of 16 million or something next year to let them go. So if Little and Harrison are playing really well in the first four games of the season, what do you do?


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[Assistant] Do you make that change? Do you put Robinson in? There's some thought you put Robinson in at left tackle and move Little to left guard.


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[Assistant] But I think if Little's playing well at left tackle, why take him out of there? That would make no sense to me. So I do think there's some other factors at play as to see what happens when Robinson does get back.


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[Assistant] One of them has to get double digits, the other one has to get seven, eight, nine. You have to be in that vicinity, at least, you know, 21, 22 sacks. I think they have to get to that level. Walker was a tough physical player in year one.


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[Assistant] Didn't have any pass rush moves. He'd run right in smack dab into the middle of the tackle stomach. It was just bad. But that's what you do. Year one.


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[Assistant] You go and play on your physical abilities year two, you start using your moves and your techniques. And I think he's going to be a better inside pass rusher this year in some situations. Alan's in a contract year, so he's going to play for his money. He's going to go out there and play hard. Here's the other thing. Devin Lloyd.


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[Assistant] Was just his head was spinning all year long.


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, you look at the NFC North, because we went through the AFC division, the NFC North, you're talking about teams that are all about the same. You know, everybody's on the Lions. They gotta learn how to win.


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[Assistant] So I think that's something to keep an eye on for the Lions. And then out west, you know, if San Francisco fixes that quarterback situation, that Purdy is what everybody thinks he is. And I mean, we're racing that real quick, but if everybody thinks he's going to be a star player, then the Niners could,


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[Assistant] They're going to be a pass happy team that scores a lot of points and large part for some of the reasons we talked about on defense until that group can prove that they can stop people consistently, you're going to have to outscore them. So I think that's going to play into all his numbers going over the total.


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[Assistant] Right, right. So you take 10 to 1, and again, we go back to their division.


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[Assistant] The division is, you know, four games automatically against rookie quarterbacks. Four. And it might be five, it might be six, because when do they play the Titans? I think midway through the season, then late in the season, I think it is. So if Ryan Taneo's not playing well, that could be Will Levis by then.


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[Assistant] And so you might get six games against. And I don't know, do you have their schedule up? I don't have it right in front of me, but I think they play.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's going to get seven or eight, nine. That's a little disrespectful. I don't think he's going to get 10, 11, 12, but I think he's going to get seven, eight, nine. So yeah, that's definitely a little disrespectful. I think he's going to go, what's his catches? I think he's going to get.


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[Assistant] And, and, and then yet you probably go over and look at Hopkins numbers in Tennessee, and they're probably right in the same area, if I'm not mistaken.


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[Assistant] Not only that, Bigsby Bigsby is going to come in there and get some short yardage carries as well. He's a physical, he's a physical player and they had problems. That was one of the problems of the offense last year with short yardage situations. So I think you're going to see tank Bigsby take away some of those touchdowns as well.


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[Assistant] Hello everybody, welcome to the Pick 6 podcast. Katie Mox and Will Brinson here, and as you know, this is our All 32 series.


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[Assistant] The series where we catch you up with insiders to give you all of the information that you need on every NFL team. And today we're talking Buffalo Bills with Bill's Beat Reporter for Syracuse.com as well as the host of Shout podcast, Matt Perino. Matt, thanks so much for joining us today. How you doing?


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[Assistant] I mean, I don't know, Brinson, any, and I feel like you've got a follow up to that one about Josh Allen.


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[Assistant] I do too. What is going on with the Stefan Diggs drama at this offseason? Like, why are the Bills vibes so weird right now?


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[Assistant] Let's talk about Von Miller actually, Matt, because I think a reason why the bills didn't go as far as they were projected to go last season was when Von Miller went down and it does feel like


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[Assistant] His ACL tear is something that the Bills are going to want to monitor for the rest of this offseason and probably early in the year. Last year, they were aggressive about not playing him too much in blowout. Should we expect to see more of that? Uhm, are they going to kind of slowly ramp him up? What do you think a snap count is going to look like early on?


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[Assistant] If y'all, if y'all are falling on tables for fun, I don't want to know what happens when you are pissed off. But in looking at the backfield, when you see the running back position, do you think that the bills are set with James Cook and with Damien Harris?


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[Assistant] Great, uh, before we let you get out of here, I do want to ask you about Josh Allen, because we talked about him at the top of the show before Brinson abruptly left us there. It seems like...


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[Assistant] Rushing touchdowns, six and a half. How are you betting Josh Allen ahead of the season?


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[Assistant] Well, all signs point to overs for Josh Allen then. Uh, thank you so much for joining us today. Matt Perino, you can check out his articles on Syracuse.


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[Assistant] Thank you so much again for, uh, for being on with us today and talking bills and make sure that you stay tuned for more from our all 32 series, the daily drops in your podcast feed and on YouTube. Remember to like comment and subscribe if you're watching this video and again.


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[Assistant] You get away from football for a little bit and then you start missing it and you get that itch again.


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[Assistant] For me that first catch is everything. Once I get one catch I'm in the zone.


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[Assistant] Yes, yes, the first, the first stop of many, right? When you come back from vacation, you gotta, you gotta catch up. You got a long laundry list of things that you have to do, but, uh, decided to join you guys first thing first. So, uh, excited to be here with you.


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[Assistant] Yeah, no, they just don't be right into the deep end, right? It's like, wait, hold on, what's going on? So yes, I always say I need a vacation from vacation. Absolutely. Once you get back into civilization, when you actually have to start thinking about real life situations, then it's like, wait a minute, hold on, this is, this is not what I was expecting on my first day back.


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[Assistant] Right. It's, it's really strange when you think about the quarterback situation, especially when Derek Carr was there for nine years and you knew consistently, okay, he's going to be there. He's going to be that guy. And now you have Jimmy G and the first thing that I always concern myself when it comes to Jimmy G obviously is injuries because that's what he has and well,


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[Assistant] Sure enough, he's injured right now, right? And so it looks like he's on track from everything I've understood. He's on track to return for the beginning of training camp. So that's good. That's a positive, but that's always going to be a question mark when it comes to the Raiders in this upcoming season. And that's one of the reasons why I don't have a good pulse of what this team is going to look like this year, because who the hell is going to be under center? If it's not Jimmy G.


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[Assistant] Then you have Brian Hoyer. I think we all know who Brian Hoyer is. No disrespect to him. He might be good for a game or two. And then you have a fourth round pick in Aiden O'Connell that you drafted out of Purdue, who maybe he's going to be somebody.


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[Assistant] Maybe he won't, right? I mean, it's just like he could end up being a glorified backup for all I know. So that's really one of the biggest question marks I have is, you know, this quarterback situation.


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[Assistant] How, how long is it going to be the Jimmy G show? How long is it going to be someone else's show? Are they going to dip back into the draft next year and try to get a guy? Like that's a big question mark.


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[Assistant] I would say with Tom Brady though, there's, there's no question that he's not coming back. He's not going to be under center for the silver and black anytime soon. He's enjoying.


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[Assistant] Vacation. He's enjoying, you know, his family time. He's enjoying his other adventures, including by a minority ownership of the Raiders as he's a minority owner of the Las Vegas Aces also owned by Mark Davis. So, I mean, I think he's got so much going on that playing football is the last thing that he's even thinking about.


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[Assistant] You know, that's a great question. Of course, that's probably the biggest concern right now with Raider fans because Josh Jacobs means so much to the team. You saw what he meant to the team last year leading the league and rushing, but.


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[Assistant] I don't see him holding out. I just really don't. I don't think that that does anybody any good. Now, there's reports that he could hold out to like week one or something. I feel like when they play, when they fly to Denver week one,


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[Assistant] He'll be there. He'll be ready to roll and he'll be, you know, it'll be either a long term deal, multiple years, or it'll be the one year franchise tag. I just don't understand how it would make sense for him or any other running back to decide to sit out a year like Le'Veon Bell did. We all know that that never worked out very well for Le'Veon Bell. Josh Jacobs is a very smart dude.


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[Assistant] Uh, he's also a young dude. So I think that he is, like I said, smarter than that. Uh, he knows that he can capitalize. It goes out and balls out again. Uh, and he has it in him.


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[Assistant] So I think that he's going to be under center, but of course, Josh Jacobs in the contract situation with or not under center, but he'll be there playing behind Jimmy G who will be under center. I think that they'll, they'll figure out a way to get something worked out. So he is playing week one. I just don't know exactly when they're going to come to terms. Of course, July 17th is that date we're all paying attention to to see if they get that long-term deal done.


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[Assistant] Kind of, uh, reports about, you know, where all these things are going with Josh Jacobs and their, and their contract negotiations. But from everything that he said to us when we've had opportunities to talk to him at different events around town or whatever the case may be, he always sounds like the communication.


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[Assistant] Is pretty good, but then he also says, but we haven't dug deep into negotiation. So you know how that changes and he's put out a couple of cryptic tweets, you know, uh, villains or hero turned villain, which is something he said at the end of the season, cause he was the hero for the team. And you know, he's the villain now because he wants the money.


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[Assistant] Uh, you know, he wants what he earned and then, uh, you know, he put out a tweet the other day, bad business. So that clearly to me let it be known that, you know, the way that they're going about negotiations, him and his camp aren't very happy. And so this is just the negotiation period. I think it's going to be fine.


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[Assistant] I know that Dave Ziegler and Joshua Daniels really respect the hell out of Josh Jacobs. So something that Joshua Daniels talks about all the time. And I think that that came as a surprise. Like I don't want to put words in Joshua Daniels' mouth.


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[Assistant] But I think that came as a surprise as who Josh Jacobs really was as a person and a player as they got to know him last year. And they didn't go into the season thinking that they were going to do.


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[Assistant] Josh Jacobs was going to be the main workhorse running back. They thought it was going to be committee running back by committee like it always has been in New England. You know, that's why they went out and drafted Samir White. That's why they went out and drafted Britton Brown and brought in Brandon Bolden and signed Amir Abdullah and had a horse, a horse cable stable basically of running backs, right? I mean, they, they just had too many of them.


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[Assistant] And then all of a sudden, Josh Jacobs was like, yeah, I'm not coming off the field, right? I'm this guy. I'm going to be him. And so he was. And so Josh McDaniels talks about him in great length all the time, how much he loves the kid. I love JJ. I love JJ. I love JJ. Love what he brings to the table. Love what he does to the table or to the team. And he's even mentioned that.


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[Assistant] You know, running back by committee is his approach and he didn't do it last year because Josh Jacobs basically wouldn't allow it because he was just too good on the field.


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[Assistant] Well, I think so. And the thing about it is, and Darren Waller was a great tight end for the Raiders when he was healthy and available. And obviously last season he wasn't healthy and available as much as the Raiders would like. I thought that offense was going to be dynamic with Darren Waller. I was like, oh my gosh, this is going to be cool. You got Devontae, Darren, Hunter.


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[Assistant] Uh, Josh Jacobs, man, what else do you want, right? And so obviously with Hunter and Darren not being there, it didn't, it didn't turn out to be what it was supposed to be. But the one knock has always been on Darren Waller has been his lack ability to block. And now you bring in, you know, mayor from title from a Notre Dame, as you mentioned, and.


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[Assistant] He's a guy that can block. Is he perfect at it? No. I mean, he still has to improve, but he's more of a guy that can help seal the edge. So when a Josh Jacobs hits the corner, it's not all of a sudden the liability. And also they would bring in Thayer Munford last year as well as a offensive lineman. He was a seventh round pick out of Ohio state.


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[Assistant] And he basically came in for those jumbo packages. Well, you knew that they weren't throwing the ball to the Thayer Munford, right? He's just going to go out there and block. Basically you're saying, Hey, by the way, look over here. We're about to run the ball.


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[Assistant] Right? And so it kind of tipped off the defense to what they were going to do. Now, when you put Mayor into the mix and he can block and he's not a liability out there, he can catch and block. Now you have to be honest on defense because, well, he can get the ball. And if you saw him play at Notre Dame, he caught the ball from


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[Assistant] Second round pick, as you mentioned, I was surprised that he didn't go in the first round, but he's a guy that can get it done in the red zone and that is.


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[Assistant] That's really what the Raiders need the most because their red zone offense has been bad. And this is not just a one year thing. This is a multiple year thing. So they have got to find a way to get better in the red zone. And so hopefully that's a healthy Jimmy G and a lot of the tight end Michael Mayer.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't think, I don't think it's worth it there. I really don't, uh, I can't see him being offensive rookie of the year. I think he's going to be very productive in the Raiders offense. I really do. But unfortunately, and I've been saying this with every conversation, of course, doing all the Raider covers that I have, uh, from different shows and everything, everything always goes back to, yeah, but who's going to be throwing the ball?


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[Assistant] I can look at this offense and tell you guys this offense is going to be dynamic.


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[Assistant] Because they have the dynamic weapons. They really do. Especially bringing in Jacoby Myers, a guy that knows Joshua Daniels' system really well, a true number two wide receiver. They had Mack Hollins as their number two wide receiver last year because of default. Because Darren Waller was out and Hunter Renfro was out. So Mack Hollins, a glorified special teamer, became their number two de facto wide receiver. Outside of Devontae Adams obviously being the number one guy. Jacoby Myers is way better than that.


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[Assistant] I think he's a little bit of both. You know, he's a guy that they drafted number seven overall to be a great bookend to Max Crosby, but he's also been brought in to be a really good player this year, right? And there's going to be times I expect to see what everyone calls that NASCAR package to see all three of those guys out there together. You know, Jones Crosby and Tyree and


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[Assistant] You want to talk about some wingspans, right? I mean, if you look at those three guys, man, I mean, they spread across the field. I mean, those guys.


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[Assistant] Are, uh, you know, are some, some dudes that can really get after it if all is good. And so I'm excited about what it could look like.


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[Assistant] I know that Tyree Wilson is just still scratching the surface. He's nowhere close to being a finished product. So that's exciting. Uh, but he's got to be healthy, right? And so of course that foot injury that sideline him is last year there at tech. He had surgery on it. It looks like he's going to be available for training camp. Uh, I'm assuming it's going to be the very beginning of training camp. I'm hoping it's going to be the very beginning of training camp, but there's nothing.


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[Assistant] And it's been a while, right? They got Max Crosby and it's like Max Crosby and them.


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[Assistant] You know, and so instead of being, instead of sounding disrespectful like that, I want to be able to say, okay, this guy stepped up, this guy stepped up, this guy stepped up. So you're hoping that Tyree Wilson could help bring that and help, uh, you know, upgrade that pass rush that they have, uh, going to get supposing teams. And remember you got,


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[Assistant] Patrick Mahomes, Justin Herbert, Russell Wilson in your own division. So, uh, you see them twice a year, so you gotta get after those quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] Right, exactly. And that's, that's the, that's the big question. They, they made a lot of additions on the defensive side of the ball, which they had to for every reason that we just mentioned. Six guys that they drafted six out of nine were on the defensive side of things. They signed a bunch of one year, two year guys on defense as well, but it was nobody that


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[Assistant] You just looked at was like, wow, that's going to change the game. That's going to be that difference maker. So they're hoping that a bunch of young guys like a Marcus S who played.


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[Assistant] Some really good ball. They're hoping that he takes that next step. Like a guy like Brandon face on these are not household names. These are not names that guys are rushing out to the store to go buy their Jersey because the Raiders just signed them, but they could end up being good players. But the problem is they could end up being good players, right? And you just got to see if they're able to come together. So the biggest question is going to be,


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[Assistant] How quickly can these young guys that they brought in, you know, Chris Smith, for example, out of Georgia, like him a lot. They got him in the sixth round. He's a really good safety ballhawk. You know, kind of got what? Six interceptions the last two years at Georgia, something the Raiders have had a terrible run of luck with getting causing turnovers. Maybe he can.


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[Assistant] Help in that category, but when does he get on the field as a six round pick? You know, I mean, there's so many questions about this young defense that they have. Can they blend? Can they jail quickly and help help out Max Crosby, who again is the one guy that you know exactly what you're going to get from year in and year out.


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[Assistant] Well, I mean, it's, it's going to be tough, right? And the one thing I can say about the Raiders up until last year, every time that the totals were out on how many wins they were going to have, they always went over it, which was funny. They, they went over it the last two, two, three years, except for last year. Last year, they obviously ended up with the, you know, six wins and that wasn't enough, but they they've gone over it. So I want to say that they can.


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[Assistant] And again, this is going to sound like a broken record. I think that they can definitely get to eight wins. Like I do believe that in my heart with the ability that they have and the talent they have on the team, they can get to eight wins. But a lot of that's going to be led by the offense, which is going to be led by.


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[Assistant] If the quarterback is healthy, it's never good when your conversation starts off. If he stays healthy, then they can do this. If he does this, you know what I mean? Like that's never a good part of the conversation if he can stay healthy. But when I talk about Jimmy G, I always have to put the asterisks. If he's healthy, they can do that. I think he's a good quarterback.


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[Assistant] I can see that. I guess, I mean, he had what? 1600 in 2022 leading the league. But I mean, that was the first time he's played every single game.


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[Assistant] Of the sea, uh, of the year, uh, you know, he had the most carries ever in his career, right? I mean, so it was, it was a contract year. It really was. And, and he went out there and balled out. I do think that his carries will be a little bit less this year, regardless, whatever the contract looks like. I think they'll get less than, I think he had what, 340 carries in 2022, which was.


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[Assistant] Exactly, and then he had what, 52 more touches by way of, uh, receiving.


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[Assistant] Uh, in 2022 as well. So he was, he was the guy, you know, between him and Devontae Adams, they were the guys. I think that his workload is going to get reduced a little bit. I think you'll see a little bit more of Zamir White in 2023 is just, just my gut feeling. A lot of other people I talked to think that you're going to see the exact same thing with Josh Jacobs again this year. I'd be surprised to see that, but again, that's just my gut feeling so I could see him.


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[Assistant] Increase a little bit. So yea, I mean 1600 plus yards is a lot. So I think, you know, it's safe to say he'll get around 1100, 1150 yards.


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[Assistant] Right. Well, I'll tell you what, man. It's, it's, it's, it's gonna be exciting. It is very exciting. And this year in general in Las Vegas is exciting for sports, but that's just gonna really cap it all off.


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[Assistant] With the Super Bowl, but I mean, we've got F1. The Golden Knights just won the Stanley Cup final, so we just had a huge parade for them.


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[Assistant] The aces just won their championship. They look like a really good team this year. Hell, the A's want to come here. I mean, it's like everyone wants to be in Vegas, all these different events. We just had final four here. I mean, there's so much, but yeah, the, the, the capper is going to be the super bowl. There's no doubt about it. It's going to be bananas. I've covered.


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[Assistant] Plenty of Super Bowls and this one I guarantee will be like no other. Allegiant Stadium is beautiful. If you've never been there, you definitely want to go check it out. Um, it's, it's, it's something, it's going to be something. It's man, I'll tell you.


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[Assistant] Well okay, FAU wasn't a heartbreak, that was all just, that was.


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[Assistant] A couple of eight seeds going to the finals.


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[Assistant] Uh, well, I will say this and I wrote about this today, a little slight product placement right there on ProFootballNetwork.com about how, um,


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[Assistant] Craziest thing is the Dolphins from the outsider's perspective has the best chance of all these teams. FAU, UM.


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[Assistant] The Panthers and the Heat to win it all. They're, they actually have a roster that's ready made to win. Can it win at the highest level? The AFC is absolutely brutal. AFC East in particular. Uh, but, I mean, they're only like 25 to 1, 22 to 1 to win it all. And those are pretty good numbers for,


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[Assistant] Uh, for a team that hasn't won, I think they won their last playoff game in 2001. I wrote today they haven't reached the conference championship game, which you can kind of do by luck every decade. They haven't done that since 1992.


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[Assistant] So for all the insanity we've seen down here, watch parties, I had a couple of cookouts at my house for Panthers games. It would be nothing compared to the Dolphins going on a sustained long run and, and having a Superbowl appearance.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, I would argue that he's already made the leap.


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[Assistant] I don't know how much more improved you can expect of the guy. I mean, at the end of the day, he does still have a BB plus arm. He's not going to be Josh Howe and Patrick Myhomes. So he's already in the perfect system. He's already got the perfect set of weapons around him. Maybe the pass protection could be better.


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[Assistant] Can he make the throws he made last year? We'll have teams figured him out about halfway through the season after he came back from his first concussion, maybe two thirds of the way through the season.


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[Assistant] Uh, it looked like teams had started to figure them out a little bit, right? Uh, certainly that Chargers game was eye-opening, and the Niners, they just manhandled that, that, that, that.


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[Assistant] Alright, well, they're going to be a very good team again this year, as well. But I do think that's the question, whether or not this offense, which was kind of gimmicky last year, I mean, they were explosive too, it was incredibly efficient.


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[Assistant] Uh, EPA, uh, passer rating, QBR, anything you want to look for in a quarterback, those numbers were great.


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[Assistant] But it was kind of on the backs of a lot of broken play touchdowns and Tyree Kill just running go routes.


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[Assistant] And, and, and, and going up and getting the football. Um, once teams kind of started to figure out how to take away the middle of the field, the offense took a step back. So that's where McDaniel really needs to figure things out. They can't just be a slant team, a slant and a go team. You gotta have other, you know,


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[Assistant] So that's question number one, and obviously question number two, which is the biggest question surrounding this franchise is,


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[Assistant] He's missed games due to injury in each of the last at least four years and maybe five going back to Alabama. I knew he had that tight rope surgery as a sophomore. I can't remember if it kept them out of games or not.


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[Assistant] But he wasn't, wasn't he, wasn't he, I see the championship game wasn't either knocked out or benched. Cause Jalen Hurts definitely played hero his sophomore year to get him.


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[Assistant] Back to, it was either the SC Championship game or the National.


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[Assistant] Okay, crazy that the Jalen Hurts now, by far the best talent from that quarterback room of Mac Jones, Tua Tung Avaloa, and Jalen Hurts, right?


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[Assistant] I would say that's a time when the market isn't based in reality. I think that there is a real chance that Dalvin Cook goes to the Miami Dolphins, but maybe one in four.


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[Assistant] Uh, one in five even. Uh, look, they built that running back room long before this possibility came up.


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[Assistant] And I'm not saying that you wouldn't move on from Miles Gaskin and Savan Akhmed to bring in Dalvin Cook. That would be absurd for me to say. Uh, but they've only got like 13, 14 million dollars in cap space. If Dalvin Cook once 8, 9, 10 million dollars a year,