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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, cause you look at all of the past quarterbacks that have played for Bruce Arians and they're amongst the tops of air yards downfield. They're, they're expected to stand there, wait for those receivers to get deep downfield. The good thing for the bucks is they got a couple of good and fast ones that can get down the field pretty quickly. And so, so that could help too. So definitely.


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[Assistant] Yeah, that was the, that was the one thing, the one fit. I was like, okay, it seems like a good fit with the weapons there. And we said last year, there were multiple times where we said, Chris, we're like, we like this Bucs team. This is a really interesting, fun team, both on the offensive side of the ball, but also on the defensive side of the ball. And they've been able to retain a lot of that.


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[Assistant] That totally makes sense to me, because honestly, you hear a lot of people say, and for good reason, like why would he ever want to leave New England, a place where he's had so much success for 20 years, but I'm a guy who's, I've had


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[Assistant] The same job for about a max of five years and moved all around the country and been in New Jersey and at MLB Network and then out in the west coast in the Bay Area.


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[Assistant] Like I get it, like you only, it really is true, it's a cliche, but you only live once. That's right. And why not experience something at the end of your career for Tom Brady, exactly for the reasons that you pointed out right there. It's a different vibe, you're maybe more appreciated there, you get to have a new experience, because at the end of the day,


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[Assistant] That's pretty cool too, is playing two more years in New England better and you're gonna remember that more than a totally new experience in Florida? I don't think so, so I don't blame him at all for wanting to do something completely different.


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[Assistant] So I want to get your opinion on who now the favorite is in both the NFC South and the AFC East. I think those are fascinating discussions. The market for Brady seemed kind of small.


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[Assistant] Right? I mean, in the end, when you look at it, it's like if he, if it doesn't work out in Tampa or Jamis Winston has a great last couple games and they stick with Jamis there,


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[Assistant] He goes back to New England or else he has to make that sacrifice and move out West Coast. I mean, it really seems like it was a very, very small, a small market.


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[Assistant] Could justify it at all. Alright, so let's look at the, uh, let's look at the AFC East first. So you got a Brady List New England Patriots who have dominated that division forever.


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[Assistant] I was looking at some of the odds here, some of the NFL futures that have been updated. Yea, what are they?


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[Assistant] So, odds to win the AFC Championship on one side I'm looking at. The Chiefs are still on top. And then you have the Ravens. Then you have the Colts. And then you have three teams at 15-1.


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[Assistant] That is the Steelers, the Bills, and the Patriots. Okay. So at least according to this one place, the Patriots and Bills have the exact same chance to get to the AFC Championship games, so I guess a neck-and-neck race for the AFC East.


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[Assistant] I have a hard time believing that New England is not going to be the favorite when we get to week one in the AFC East, but I mean, the bills have improved as well with Stefan Diggs. I don't know. That's, that's close. I don't, I don't know who would be the favorite right now.


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[Assistant] Oh baby. So this is where it gets interesting. So last year there was no contest. The Saints were 13 and 3. Yup. Then you had the Falcons and Bucks both at 7 and 9.


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[Assistant] I think the bucks were better than that record indicates. You can't overcome 30 interceptions that easily. It's hard for any team. Right. So let me look at the futures now in the NFC.


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[Assistant] To get to the NFC Championship game, it is the 49ers first. Then you have three teams at 13-2.


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[Assistant] It'll be close. I think it'll come down to the final, final week or two, week, week 19 or however many weeks we have now in the NFL season.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so that's gonna be interesting to follow. Okay, can we go through, cause you've been talking with Mike about all the free agent moves, but I don't think you have given your top five winners yet. The teams that you think so far have won in free agency. Have you done that?


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[Assistant] That's cool, I'm down for that. I've got my top five. Okay.


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[Assistant] And we can compare it against your top five. And if our top five uniforms and helmets are any indication, there will be no agreement amongst these two lists.


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[Assistant] So in, yeaah, that same way, I've got like so many honorable mentions, cause I just, I was like, oh I like those moves, I'll put them honorable mentions. And I was like, oh, I've got like five or six, like one, two, three, four, seven honorable mentions. Okay, so not allowed. Of my top five. Let's start right there.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go 49ers as my shout out. Okay. Cause I think figuring out a way to keep Eric Armstead. Yeah. I think you get a mid first round pick, 13th overall for DeForest Buckner. I think that's huge. Right. I think you keep Jimmy Ward. I think there's some doubt whether they could do that.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and all this maneuvering with the cap, they got Paragma Murate over there, who's a genius with this stuff. A genius. Maybe paves the way for an extension for George Kittle. So I think I almost put them in my top five, but they just got edged out, but I think they've done well here.


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[Assistant] They were one of my 21 honorable mentions. They were in that group as well. They were in your honorable mention too. They were in that group. Okay, let's do it. So my number five, and here's the rule, so if you have one of these teams in your top five, you can withhold comment until we get to them. Okay. That'll be the rule here. Okay. So my number five,


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[Assistant] Is the Miami Dolphins. So they got Kyle Van Oy obviously. Big money deal. 51 million. Byron Jones. Highest paid corner in the league. Now they got him and Howard together back there.


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[Assistant] And I, I know a lot of the commentary is like, well, they severely overpaid for both of those players. They're spending too much in free agency. But when, when you have the money and you have the cap space and from, from what I've read, it's not really going to.


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[Assistant] Keep them from doing anything down the road. They still have a lot of room even with those two deals.


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[Assistant] They went big and they got a couple of the most coveted players at their positions in, in free agency. And so I had to put them in my top five because they had a down year. People thought they were tanking. It's like, well, if you think you're tanking next year, go for it. And so now, now they're going for it. I like both those players.


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[Assistant] Yeah, the opposite side of the Darius sleigh is my Detroit Lions. It seems like- Are you voting for Bernie Sanders?


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[Assistant] That's my guy, that's my guy, my favorite lion just ahead of Matt Stafford. Just ahead of Matt Stafford. But I know, Slay has been awesome for him and I don't know what happened.


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[Assistant] With him and Patricia, but there seems to be a falling out, falling out there. So, uh, they're, they're moving on and it's good. You're right. It's good to see the Eagles go for it because that division is wide open. You know, the Cowboys are keeping their guys, but if you're going to do it in any division, that's the division to do it. Spend big, try to, try to get the advantage there. Cause it's seriously wide open. Uh, my number four. You ready? Yep. The Indianapolis Cole. Whoa.


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[Assistant] The Indianapolis Colts, they get Philip Rivers, they may have overpaid for him just a little bit on a one year deal, but they got him, they got DeForest Buckner as we previously mentioned from the 49ers.


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[Assistant] Uh, and I think a real big deal for them was, was retaining Anthony Costanzo. Yes. On a pretty good team friendly deal. Definitely. So that's important. And, and here's, Philip Rivers, I think the past, I don't know, maybe three or four years.


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[Assistant] That offensive line in San Diego has not graded out that well. So this is going to be the best offensive line he's been behind in quite some time. And so I think that will help. Even if you think Philip Rivers best days are behind him, I think he could still have a huge season with


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[Assistant] Some added protection. So I like what the, I like what the Colts did. I think they are, they're deserving of the number four spot.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they didn't get the value for all those moves. They upgraded, but it could cost them down the road.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you see some of the smart teams and how they're able to do it, you know, move around, move around some assets, have some redundant parts of the team that are deep and try to figure out how to get more draft capital that way. That's, that's the one reason why I thought the 49ers maybe would make a play for Tom Brady because they knew he wanted to go out there.


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[Assistant] And you could replace Garoppolo with him. Even if you didn't think Brady was better than Garoppolo, you could get some draft capital for him and try to supplement your team other areas. And so it seems like the Ravens are able to do that. And I love Matt Judon. He's my guy.


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[Assistant] Number three. Number three team in free agency so far. These are not final grades, right? Because this could still change. You don't know.


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[Assistant] But a lot of these teams have made their significant moves already. The Arizona Cardinals number three.


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[Assistant] Could probably just start and stop with, uh, DeAndre Hopkins.


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[Assistant] But they did that, they got out from under that David Johnson contract, which it didn't even look like they necessarily liked him as their backup anymore in Arizona.


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[Assistant] Got Jordan Phillips, three-year deal, had nine and a half sacks last year. About three weeks ago, middle of February, they kept their 26-year-old offensive tackle DJ Humphries on a three-year deal. So overall, I think it's been a really, really positive off-season for Arizona. Number three.


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[Assistant] Who you're not as high on as a lot of people, but you still think you sell.


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[Assistant] I left something off. It was late breaking news on my cardinals. So can I go back real quick on my cardinals? Did you see that? Devondre Campbell.


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[Assistant] My number two team is the Chargers. I had them at number two for all the reasons you just said. And I will, I will add this. Uhm, I don't know if you mentioned Lin-Volt Joseph too? Yes. Did you mention him? I did. I did. Oh, sorry. It's alright. All good. Don't worry.


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[Assistant] I think, you know, I, I was working in, uh, Norfolk, Virginia for, uh, for about six years and covered Tyrod Taylor when he was at Hampton High School. Right. And then also when he was at Virginia Tech. And


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[Assistant] I think he has a shot to be the guy that's kinda like in that Ryan Tannehill mole, uh, from last year. Sure. The guy that, that...


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[Assistant] Showed flashes, uhm, and given an opportunity on a good team and a good scheme around him, I think he could have his...


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[Assistant] And in high school and I think he, he has that ability and I would like to see him get that shot. You mentioned Cam Newton. I think that would be a good move for them, but if they don't go that route, I think it'd be interesting to see Tyrod Taylor get a legitimate shot.


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[Assistant] Ultimately you just want to get the player. You want to get the player and they were able to do that with both of them.


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[Assistant] The interesting thing is that if you bring in Kyle Van Oa, you bring in Byron Jones, you pair him up with Howard. I mean, this is a team in many respects that's built to win now. A lot of people think they go with the rookie quarterback.


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[Assistant] Uhm, in, in the draft and, you know, kinda do the Kyler Murray thing where you give him some experience in, in year number one, but,


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[Assistant] You don't want to necessarily waste one year of Van Oyen in Jones either.


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[Assistant] I've never even been to Tampa. Uh, but Tom Brady, uh, you sign him. Yeah, I know he's not the Tom Brady of old, but it, it totally changes the whole dynamic of the franchise with one player.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so you bring in Tom Brady and then you get the reports that there are so many other free agents out there, veteran free agents that want to go play in Tampa right now and want to go play.


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[Assistant] I'm sure the no income tax, state income tax doesn't hurt there in Florida, but


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[Assistant] You got Tom Brady. You don't know who they're going to add yet. You hear the rumblings out there. Todd Gurley, Brandon Cooks, the Rams may be moving on from some guys. Antonio Brown. There's going to be someone else that comes out there that wants to play with Tom Brady on the offensive side.


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[Assistant] You franchise Shaq Barrett, you get to, you keep him for another year to hopefully work out a long-term deal with him. You mention Jason up here, Paul, on the two-year deal.


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[Assistant] I think when you step back and say which franchise totally remade their team and their image and their trajectory, I think it was the Bucks.


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[Assistant] I wonder what the percentage of making the team that drafts you in the 5th and 6th round and 7th round. It goes down.


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[Assistant] A lot of times there are those players that are going to be drafted in the sixth round or seventh round. They don't want to be drafted. They want to have their pick of teams out there. They want to be the undrafted free agent so they have a better chance of making the team than the fifth and sixth round.


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[Assistant] So lemme ask you real quick about that, cause I'm curious about how he pairs with


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[Assistant] With Josh Allen because Josh Allen hasn't been known to be the most accurate passer out there and Stefan Diggs is known to be maybe the most precise route runner in the NFL.


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[Assistant] Right now, do you think that Diggs being there makes Alan better? Do you think Diggs being there will, he'll become frustrated because Alan's not hitting him where he wants to be hit? How do you think that works?


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[Assistant] I didn't have him in my top five, but I'm not mad at you. I'm not mad at you. I'm not mad at you for putting him in there because I do. I'm with you. I'm always, I'm all for getting the player.


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[Assistant] I think a lot of people have fallen in love over the past few years in every sport. I think baseball, I see it a lot. In football, you see it a lot. They've fallen in love with the potential of that.


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[Assistant] That prospect, the number one pick. Give me the player, especially in football when everything changes from year to year. You have no idea if you're going to be relevant two years from now. You might as well go for it this year.


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm, I'm with you. Get, get the player, which is I think why I had the Cardinals in there and getting Hopkins, which Bills I think are one of the.


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[Assistant] Get, get the player, give me, give me the known, known commodity and then see how it plays out.


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[Assistant] And what a good dude that DeAndre Hopkins is too, coming out and saying that, that all the stuff was blown out around. Yeah. Billy O'Brien was blown out of proportion. I mean, you knew, you knew DeAndre Hopkins was a, was a standup guy. All his teammates love playing with him and you've met him before you hung out with him in New York city, right?


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[Assistant] Alright, you mentioned, you mentioned a guy already, I forget who it was, uh, in your Robin Hood, uh, category. Can we do a couple Robin Hood players? Do you have a couple written? Oh, there you are. There's Chris.


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[Assistant] So who are, who are some other, you know, under the radar guys who maybe we're not talking about that could be a huge sign. We're talking about them, you know, week nine or something.


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[Assistant] Durable, productive. I think you led the Browns in tackles this past year. 5 year deal with the Jaguars, so that's kind of interesting to me. The Packers signed a guy with a little bit of an injury history.


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[Assistant] He's a good team guy too. I was reading up on him a little bit more. He's a former captain at, at Iowa and he was a team captain for the Browns in 2018. He was just 25 years old.


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[Assistant] And so win healthy out there really well respected and hopefully he can, he can stay on the field for the Packers. And the last one was that, uh, that Denver acquisition, not a free agent signing, but when they traded for Jerell Casey for the seventh round pick from, uh, from Tennessee.


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[Assistant] Uhm, had a shoulder injury last year, but he's been key for Tennessee over the last nine years, and that could be huge for her.


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[Assistant] This is not the family feud, it's the Brady feud. And the contestant is me.


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[Assistant] I'm the contestant, you have the answers.


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[Assistant] For this, uhm, we're gonna talk about the best things about being a Bucks quarterback. One through five.


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[Assistant] Survey says, uh, before we get to that, uh, I believe we have a picture of you and Tom both sporting the Buccaneers uniforms. There it is. This is before the update, Chris, is what you're wearing there.


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[Assistant] Although that hair may be photoshopped too. We really don't know. I mean, clearly the jersey is photoshopped. I don't know if that is genuine hair.


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[Assistant] I go, that's not Brady's neck. I know Brady's neck. That's a half and half. Okay, so I still think you look pretty good in the uniform. Alright, so top five things about being


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[Assistant] Alright, so that's the number three. You gotta go survey says before you reveal if it's on your list or not. Okay. Uh, my next one I'm gonna go with...


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[Assistant] Okay. All right. I'm going to go, my next, uh, answer is, I'm going to go the fans because you've, you've spoken very highly of, uh, of the fans there in Tampa. Did they make your top five? No.


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[Assistant] I think that is a misconception though about, about Tampa. Right. They don't care, you know, but I think they've just been given some teams that have not been very good throughout the years. And so that, that hurts the fan base in general. It doesn't matter where you play in New England, that could happen.


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[Assistant] You immediately stopped practicing and didn't put in the effort after that because you already achieved the pinnacle.


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[Assistant] I think we're good. We hit everything. Yeah, that was, that was fun. That was probably the most fun hour I've had over here the past few days. So that was cool.


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[Assistant] I'm not gonna say smarter, but he was way smarter than me. And he just had that innate ability. You know when you start talking about older athletes and you're like, oh he's got this natural instinctive innate stuff about him? I think he had that at early ages, like most kids do. I don't think I necessarily had that. As we got older,


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[Assistant] I think I worked at it more and learned how to specialize my athleticism. That's a term I can use. And because of it, I became a better athlete. So towards the end of my career, you can ask Tiki. He'll say, you know, Rhonda can do stuff I couldn't do.


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[Assistant] If it's an at home day, I just am at home in my sweatpants. And so I've had to, I've had to change that philosophy here with being home for now like 12 straight days in a row. So I've showered and, and before today I did shower and I put gel in my hair. So I'm feeling really professional.


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[Assistant] I did that today too. I was just in there for like 30 minutes. I was just like, okay, this does feel, feel pretty good. But yeah, we're, we're back. We're back in our homes and, uh,


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[Assistant] We've got a good one today because there's not necessarily a whole lot of breaking news. You know, we had all that last week, right? With the free agency news and Tom Brady going, thank God that happened so we could fill a week talking about that. Uh, but we do have the drafts coming up in a couple of weeks here. What is it? Four weeks away.


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[Assistant] Last year you were really high on Drew Locke, who impressed last year as well. So what do you say we do that this year for 2020, Chris?


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[Assistant] Yeah, and you are not alone on being, being wrong about Daniel Jones. There are a lot of people that were shocked with, with that pick, but so far so good for the Giants. So here we go. This is the Chris Sims 2020 draft quarterback prospect ranking. Uh, how deep did you go here? I was kind of curious to see how deep you're going to go.


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[Assistant] What do you mean we don't have time? We're just sitting at home every second of every day, Chris. We have nothing to do. We are so bored.


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[Assistant] She goes, I know this is I know it's bad for your health, but you need to go outside because it's way worse for our health for you to be here with us every second of every single day. Alright, so I'm guessing you did top five then? I did top five. I did. Okay.


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[Assistant] Number five, the number five draft quarterback prospect in this upcoming 2020 draft for Chris Sims is...


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[Assistant] So is he a guy, and there are a few quarterbacks in this draft class that are foregoing their senior year.


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[Assistant] Is he a guy that maybe could have benefited from returning to Washington for one more year?


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[Assistant] One of the things I noted here, I was just writing down a few things that a lot of the different scouts are saying with these quarterbacks and one of the scouts noted that, you know, powerful arm.


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[Assistant] But what he'll do is he'll drift back in the pocket, just keep drifting back, drifting back knowing that he has the arm strength to, to make a throw.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so just like little things like you're saying, raw talent that still needs to be developed but has these little quirks that maybe an extra year at Washington would work out or maybe he does need to turn the page GoPro and get some pro coaching there as well.


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[Assistant] Jacob Eason, your number five quarterback, number four for 2020.


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[Assistant] I know. Wow. See, this is why I didn't want, I didn't want to know your list beforehand because I wanted to be shocked like that. And I am shocked because in talking to you previously, I mean, you've interviewed him. You thought he was pretty good guy, good character guy. I kind of liked his talent. I'm curious about this one.


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[Assistant] Oftentimes, and was noted by a few scouts that I saw, to stay behind the line of scrimmage, buy him time.


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[Assistant] Overpowering arm, he doesn't have that blazing speed. But it does seem like, you know, he's able to do those things. Albeit, like you say, behind a really good offensive line and some really good receivers. But there are some things that do seem advanced with Tua, at least have been noted by some of the scouts out there.


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[Assistant] So that's tough because a lot of the consensus mock drafts out there right now have him going in the top five. Uhm, but I think that's crazy. I just, I think that's crazy. So if you were, if you, so you think it's, if you were counseling your old friend Brian Flores there sitting at five with Miami, you say don't, don't take two of them.


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[Assistant] Your first shocker of your quarterback ranking list too at number four. So I know who's in your top three. At least I think I do right now, but I don't know the order. So we'll go number three for Christmas.


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[Assistant] Well, because there were a lot of, yeaah, there were a lot of people that were saying he is a poor man's Patrick Mahomes or comparing him to Patrick Mahomes and some of the things he can do. And you were very skeptical about that, that comp, even if it was qualified with quote unquote, the poor man's Patrick Mahomes.


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[Assistant] Jordan Love has a, has a chance to be the most overhyped prospect and most overrated going into the draft because of some of those things where it's like you, you fall in love with the ability, the different arm angles, the, the comparisons to Patrick Mahomes.


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[Assistant] And you downplay the fact that maybe the decision making is a problem and wasn't just a function of being around, you know, a bad teammates like a Jameis Winston, right? It's like you think, okay, once he gets some coaching and Bruce Arians offense, he's not going to make some of those silly mistakes and he still made those mistakes, 30 of them. So I guess that's the thing.


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[Assistant] You can't totally dismiss the fact that the decision making might be a problem going forward for a guy like Jordan Love.


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[Assistant] And that's, that's what makes him exciting. I'm, I'm, I'm pumped to see how he develops because he, he probably is. He's right. Like you said, the most volatile of all the quarterbacks is his range. His volatility could be, you know, top quarterback in the class, or he could be either the decision making doesn't come and he doesn't translate the pro game. And then he's.


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[Assistant] You and your, and you and your dad share that philosophy, talking to both of you guys. It's just like, do you have the, the arm talent to make the throws? And that's where you, you have to start and stop for a lot of these guys. Although, interestingly enough, and we won't get to your number one guy though, your number one guy doesn't have quite the arm strength of the number two guy, but that's for, uh, that's for later on in the vlog.


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[Assistant] What about the concern with him, cause yeaah, great size, great mobility, great arm strength, quick feet.


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[Assistant] He does so many things so well, but what, what about the criticism that sometimes it can appear robotic or it's just not, not as fluid as, as you'd want, not as natural.


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[Assistant] He couldn't come out last know where he would have been drafted, but it's likely it was a top five pick, maybe, you know, certainly top 10. I think a lot of people were high and Justin Herbert last year decided to go back to Oregon for his, for his senior year. And there are some teams, I don't want to say, see that as a.


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[Assistant] As a red flag, but see it as a negative of not wanting to come out and play pro ball when you were ready to play pro ball.


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[Assistant] It's funny you bring that up too because one of the notes that I wrote down was often waits too long to cut it loose. And I just assumed that maybe he was going through all of his, all of his progressions. But you're saying a lot of times it was just trying to get that number one, uh, receiver, uh, open. And sometimes the offense was only for that.


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[Assistant] So that is your number two quarterback, which means your number one quarterback in the 2020 draft is Jake Fromm, State Fromm, Georgia quarterback, you met him, you like, uh, no.


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[Assistant] So what about the same argument that you made against Tua? I mean, this is an LSU team that was stacked at offensive line. They had a good running game. They had a lot of good receivers as well. And so he also was playing in an environment, albeit against a good competition in the SEC, but he was playing in an environment with teammates that are going to be NFL players.


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[Assistant] So, so how about your tiers? Is he in a tier by himself? Do you put him close to, uh, Justin Herbert at two? How, how do your tiers just from your top five quarterbacks look?


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[Assistant] So where would they stack up to your guys last year? Cause your top five last year, your five was Jarrett Stidham, your four was Ryan Finley, three was Dewayne Haskins, two was Drew Locke and number one was Kyler Murray. Would you still have Kyler ahead of all the, all the quarterbacks if you included the ones from this year?


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[Assistant] And so you would probably, if I'm gonna guess here, you'd probably have Burrow and Herbert ahead of Drew Locke from last year.


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[Assistant] It's interesting to look back and just see kind of like where they, where they all stack up.


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[Assistant] Alright, so we'll see how that changes over the next few weeks here. Hopefully the draft happens. You know, I think if it does, it will be a, you know, it's all


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[Assistant] Signs are pointing that it will happen, but everything seems to be changing by the hour. But I think that'll be a, that'll be a really fun event to kind of lose ourselves in and, and, and watch that, that unfold here in four weeks.


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[Assistant] New was gonna happen, but, uh, it's breaking now. The, the Panthers said goodbye to Cam Newton. They've released him.


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[Assistant] Uhm, this just came out a few minutes ago when we were taping this, so no real surprise there. It was the end of an era, but I'm super interested to see what happens next with Cam and where they go.


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[Assistant] Here's what I think with him. And I've talked to you about the chargers before too. I kind of want to see Tyrod Taylor get his.


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[Assistant] get his chance because I think he could be really good, but if you got the chance, the chance to get Cam Newton, I don't know. I think he's highly motivated. I don't know if he still has it, the physical abilities, if he still has it, we haven't seen it in a year, but.


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[Assistant] I wouldn't bet against him. You know, he's taken a lot of big hits in his career, but he's bounced back many, many times. And so a highly motivated Cam Newton.


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[Assistant] That was, I think that was it. We got through your top five quarterbacks. You shocked me with two at four. My jaw dropped if we could do the instant replay. I was at a wide open.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, ask me anything on Thursday. So questions from the homies out there, anything they want to know from free agency or what else, throw it at us. We need them all.


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[Assistant] You're a jerk, but you're not like a mean person. So everybody back the F off my friend Mike Florio.


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[Assistant] Oh, you heard Phil say? Big Phil from Kentucky. I mean, he just, he couldn't, yes, that was coming out of his mouth. No doubt about it. He was scared. I was on.


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[Assistant] What up? You know the deal, rate, review. We got it all going. We got an AMA today. Ask me anything, okay? Uh, yes, you heard Mike cause a stir last week. Do we have to go there again? And to make this even more odd. Dun, dun, dun!


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[Assistant] I mean, if you're not being heckled, you know I'm going to egg everybody on to heckle you anyway, so you're gonna get heckled. We know that. Why did I agree to do this? I don't know why you did, but you're gonna have to deal with it.


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[Assistant] And we're going to have fun. And then also for our week of PFT, we have an amazing week. I mean, we have star studded guests after star studded guests, uh, an amazing, whether it's Stefan Diggs, Kirk Cousins, Alvin Camara, uh, Russell Wilson, Drew Brees. I mean, come on, Tua McCaffrey, Derek Henhouse.


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[Assistant] I think he probably got a like quick rundown. Probably he's probably getting it like today where he's getting like the rundown of the things he's probably went. No, he's not going to cancel, but I bet you when they told him pro football talk, he probably pause and was like, wait, you mean the, the one with Floria and they're like, and he was like, all right, I'll do it. All right. Yeah. I bet you, yeah.


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[Assistant] He didn't let it happen. So all right, let's get into it. You want to read them off? You want me to read them off? We got an AMA. Let's go back and forth. Go ahead and let's answer. I'm going to start right at the top. Okay. Gigi McDonald. What's up? What kind of scheme do you think Shanahan and Salah will come up to stop Casey's passing attack?


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[Assistant] Coverage, disruption, all of those. Well, okay, Gigi, uhm, it's a good question, but I think this is something Mike and I have hit on a lot, you know. Let me ask you this first.


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[Assistant] Sala or does he get involved? I think for the most part he, he delegates it to Sala. I think this might be a week because of the extended time and the nature and dangerousness of the Kansas city chiefs.


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[Assistant] To where maybe he butts his head in there a little bit more. I don't know that, uh, but I just, this is just me knowing my friend as a person and on a personal level.


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[Assistant] I would think that they're going to have at least one trick up their sleeve, but Gigi, this is a defense in San Francisco. They don't change what they do. This is what they do.


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[Assistant] They play the Seattle scheme, the Seattle defense. That's where Robert Sala came from. They really don't change it much. It's one of my complaints. Now they get away with it because they have great talent on that side of the ball right now, and especially a great front four. But, uh, I think it is one of the interesting aspects of this matchup too is because Kansas City sees this defensive scheme a lot.


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[Assistant] They've seen it four times the last, you know, two years with the Los Angeles Chargers and they've seen other teams go along with it. So, uh, I don't think they're going to change it a lot. I think there's just going to be a change in approach in their pass rush attack maybe. And that's probably the biggest change.


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[Assistant] You know, hey, their analytics department, of course they have an analytics department to keep track of these type of things. So I would bet you they're going to be a big part of Shanahan last week at some point looking about what he's done as of


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[Assistant] Whether it's, you know, he's going to exhaust every angle. And that's one of the good things about Shanahan. That's why I think there's some Belichick parallels here too. He dives into every angle of making an organization successful. You've spoken from time to time about your


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[Assistant] Mahomes has proven that he can, he'll be able to beat that. He's just too gifted of a player right now.


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[Assistant] So, I think what you'll see is some curve balls and some blitzes to...


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[Assistant] Just stop him from the floating around, moving around, attacking the line of scrimmage, keeping the eyes. I think they're going to try to claw lanes. They're going to have to take a little bit of a Russell Wilson approach here.


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[Assistant] So that's a benefit the 49ers do have is they played a guy like that to where, yeah, there was a conscious effort in week 17 and that great Monday night game we saw between the Seahawks and the 49ers where, uh, rush five, rush six.


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[Assistant] Not, not as, not always just about confusing him and doing that, but to take away the scramble rush lanes. And I do think you gotta do that a little bit with Mahomes. You can't link into a rhythm.


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[Assistant] I think it's risky. I think they'll dabble in a little man, but I don't think they're going to live in it. I don't, I don't think that's going to happen. I just don't think they have the man demand corners to play that style of football. You know, I think ultimately, uh, they're going to continue to play their Seattle cover three scheme and try to limit big plays.


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[Assistant] And hope their front four can get there. I think that more than, more than anything is what they're going to do. They're just not a team that switches it up a whole lot. And yeah, when they play man, okay, yeah, they might do it every now and then, but they're going to be wary too. Again, Richard Sherman's he's real good. Mosley's good.


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[Assistant] I did. I mean, if you asked me this question five weeks ago, I said yes, but the Kansas City offense evolved really ever since I feel like.


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[Assistant] Honestly, the Chargers game in Mexico. All right, Mike, that was the game that turned it to me. The Chargers game in Mexico. If anybody remembers. And again, the Chargers play the same scheme as the San Francisco 49ers. Gus Bradley's their D coordinator. He came from Seattle was with me in Tampa before he went to Seattle. So, um,


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[Assistant] And uhm, uh, I-I-I think they have the answers now, I guess is what I wanna say, as compared to then, where they were still going like, hey, this is 2018, we're gonna throw for 50 touchdowns, send everybody deep, do all that, people caught on to a little bit, they had to adjust, they did adjust, and now they're rolling. They really got an answer for everything right now.


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[Assistant] Well, and it's two teams that we have just seen who can really thrive on momentum. I mean, that's where I think both of these teams, I mean, we've, we've seen the 49ers during the year have periods of just ripping off points and dominating a certain part of the game. And the same with Kansas city chiefs. I don't, I mean, Mike, I don't know. I mean, I think we're,


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[Assistant] You know, again, I'm going to predict this game to be a three to six point type of game, but it is the first game to what you're saying, Mike, in a long time. And I don't even know when I have thought of it to be like this. When's the last time we really had this thought where I do look at it a little bit. I won't lie and go, I do think there's more of a chance of.


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[Assistant] One team loses control of the game totally because one offense just catches on fire and then you're right. Defense makes one play why the offense is on fire and all of a sudden, you know, 14 points swing becomes a 24 point swing. Who knows what it may be. I do feel like there's more of a possibility this year. I'm not going to say that's what's going to happen, but I think there is more, more of a chance.


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[Assistant] Uh, but the, uh, at the Bartender 420, should the Niners take an 0-1 Patriots approach?


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[Assistant] First, the greatest show on turf and give the Kansas City wide receivers the underneath to try to put, punish them physically. Hey, careful. Don't talk about punishing people physically. It's a valid question and I would say yes. I think that will be the approach more times than not drop back, try to make them.


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[Assistant] Execute and go down the field that way, not let it be a two play drive with two bombs, a Tyree kill or whatever it may be. But as we just talked about, I do think Kansas cities learned to how to play that style of football as well.


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[Assistant] They have enough of a short passing game and an attack that way too to where it's not like last year where, oh, you took away all our bombs and now we don't know what to do.


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[Assistant] They, there's more inventory to their offense. So I think they'll be able to, even if the Niners did take that approach, they'll, they'll have the answers for almost like converting the cover three into a Tampa two type of a defense. It's similar in a lot of ways.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think that's going to be a very real attack for them in general. I think they, I think that they look at it that way. If we're making Kansas City have to drive 10 plays for touchdowns, I bet you the 49ers feel like we're going to win the game. All right, here's a good one.


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[Assistant] Right. Well, and I just, I just want to say this too about that. First off, like I'm with you on the Andy Reed thing. I just don't understand why.


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[Assistant] Again, there's, I feel like other people with this resume have already been looked over and we don't even talk about it. Like I brought up Dan Reeves today on PFT. He's been to four super bowls, went to three with one team and one with another. And then some playoff appearances with the team in between that nobody ever talks about like a hall of fame for Dan Reeves. Here's the


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[Assistant] Well, I know, I mean, Mike Shanahan, I just, you know, I guess this is what we're only into like his first or second year eligibility. But I mean, I've just haven't heard his name. Like he's a shoe in, like, I don't even understand that why we're, he's like, why we have to have a special category to get a guy like that in. I don't understand. I want to fast forward. Yeah.


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[Assistant] That would be awesome. I love how it's called a trucker hat too. First off, like he's so not a trucker. He's such a, he's a skater. All right. That's what he is. That's a skater.


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[Assistant] Yes, he keeps, he likes that white top and the red trucker hat. So we'll see. Um, all right, Tyler Skelton. All right. If there was a hunger games between the Niners and the Chiefs, every man for himself.


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[Assistant] Who would win? I love these questions, Tyler Skeleton, because anybody that listens to me, you know I'm into the bar the bar fight theory, right? I mean, to me, yes.


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[Assistant] You know, you take a lot of the good teams in football and I just say if a bra, a bra broke out between the good teams of football, a lot of the teams we see in the final four, the final eight would be in the, the final four, the final eight of the NFL bra to who you take in a hunger game.


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[Assistant] Yes, this is acceptable. Yes, this is acceptable.


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[Assistant] Right. I think that's Armstead and Buckner. They're the Balrogs. They're like the two...


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[Assistant] Well, I, I'm, I'm taking the, I'm taking the 49ers as well. First off, the 49ers, we saw them in person. You heard me raving about it. They're one of those teams where you just watch them go in the field and you go, holy are they big? Holy shit. It's just one good looking guy after another. Now, and let me just say this.


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[Assistant] Well, I'll say this. I met, I mean, I've met Nick Bosa's father and I was talking to Joe and Nick Joey Bosa, Nick Bosa's father before the 49ers Vikings game.


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[Assistant] But then I also got to meet Mrs. Bosa. All right. So, you know, for all those out there, you know, I'm into scouting all things, body parts, moms, dads, whatever it may be. Here we go. All right.


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[Assistant] Here we go. I think we're in the 49ers and we're gonna go to El Taco, okay?


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[Assistant] The bear versus the lion, where the lion starts out the fight dominating, but


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[Assistant] From one end to the other. He could. To Mike's point, Aaron Donald is like one of those guys that has muscles in his ears. And if we stuck a knife in his chest, the knife would bend. Not nothing, no puncture. Stuck a knife? Stuck a knife.


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[Assistant] Marshmallow Mafia, okay? Doesn't sound like a real tough mafia.


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[Assistant] He got it right. He did. He got it right. No, to, to, to, to that point when he was in Tampa and I was the starting quarterback and he was quality control, I would have interviews every now and then.


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[Assistant] Special teams that really are. I mean, I, okay. The 49ers, I'm going to give them an advantage with field goal kicking. I am with Robbie goal, but it's not like the four, uh, the chiefs are hurting in that department. But I think you, you made the point. The McColl Hardman is a game changer. Both these teams play all three phases, but we've seen in this playoffs already that


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[Assistant] Hardman can change the momentum of a game like he did in the Texans.


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[Assistant] Once they pay Patrick, he's a movable piece. I do look at that way. I think you're, you're a hundred percent right there. Uh, and, and the production doesn't match what they're paying them again. I mean, listen, guys, everybody they're, they're paying him like, you know, he's Antonio Brown or Odell or Mike Evans or Deandre. And it's just not so.


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[Assistant] To me, he is a very real chance of not being a part of that team, uh, next year. And part of that is cause I'm a Cole Hardman. Where do you want to go? Pete? Come on, let's go, man.


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[Assistant] Here we go. Number nines. I got it. So read and let me listen to this. All right. Listen to this out. Here we go. Steven pipes.


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[Assistant] Steven Pites replying. Okay. That's him. Now Ruben M gets in.


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[Assistant] In order to win a super bowl, if anything, he wants them to win. And then Michael Williams sent morons. Yes. They found my burner account.


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[Assistant] He is your favorite player. I mean, he is. I don't care what you say really ever since preseason of 2018. He's your favorite player. I don't know what you think. Who is your favorite player? I'm just telling you, nobody you talk about more glowingly than Patrick Mahomes.


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[Assistant] That's the point. I know, your point's right, Mike. And he did to, uh, to my man, Steven Pipe. And I don't hate Richard Sherman.


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[Assistant] Player comparison is this is from at Brian Walton 23. It's a good question. Debo. I will say this just to start off this conversation. He's a part of this new breed at wide receiver in football that I don't even almost look at them as wide receivers. They're more like weapons to me.


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[Assistant] Uhm, because they can do so much. He's, he is a, he is a wide receiver in a running backs body. That's where he is different than most out there. And when I think of guys like him right now, I don't know if there's a whole lot of like, Juju Smith Schuster maybe. Juju, but I think he's more explosive than Juju with the ball in his hand and stuff, right?


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[Assistant] I thought of, like, Pete Dimalilaitis just said Percy Harvin. I get that. I think he's bigger than Percy and not as fast as Percy. I mean, Percy was world class there for a while. I've also thought of, like, even a Jarvis Landry.


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[Assistant] That way where, you know, it's just he can get the full speed in two steps and he is aggressive and can make people miss when he's got the ball in his hands, but.


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[Assistant] I agree. And you know, to what Pete them a little, a little light has just said too. That's that was the Percy Harvin role too. He was one of the first guys to be that type of player. Put them a tail back. Hey, think about Andy Reed, Tyree kill.


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[Assistant] We're out of here. We're done. They want to wrap it. They don't want to make it long. We got more. There's more stuff coming as the week goes on. Remember, check out me and Florio.


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[Assistant] Uhm, yeah, I met him once at the Lake Tahoe Golf Tournament, actually, when I was younger. It was kind of cool to meet him. I didn't know how big of a deal he was then. Uh, but check us out.


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[Assistant] Yo yo, what's up? Come on man, subscribe on YouTube to Chris Simms Unbuttoned Podcast. I need you, please hit the subscribe button, please!


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[Assistant] You had a long week, too, there. I mean, I feel like you're always high energy. You're super high energy all the time. I was like, how do you get it? Because you work every day. You work like eight hours every day, it seems like. But even you, for that whole week in Miami, you're coming back and being like, wow, that was a long week. Yeah, I'm tired.


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[Assistant] All three of their playoff games, trailing by double digits, came back to win all of them by 10 plus points too. So it wasn't even like they came back and eked it out with a last second field goal. They were able to extend the lead. Did you think it would happen? I mean, cause watching that game for three and a half quarters, I was like,


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[Assistant] It's not gonna happen. This is defense wins championships for the 49ers. I know it's Patrick Mahomes. I know what he's done in the other playoff games. It's not gonna happen. And they did keep getting to him. He was flushed out of the pocket. He was never comfortable the whole night.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he would have done things differently in Atlanta, and you place a lot of blame on Dan Quinn, the head coach at the time, for not, you know, being more assertive and saying, yeah, I do run the ball here, but whatever. I think ultimately what happens is if it doesn't work out, we always second guess. And that can't be the process. You can't say, well, if it didn't work, it was a bad decision, because sometimes good decisions don't work out. But he's going to hear the heat because of what happened.


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[Assistant] With Atlanta and the Falcons up 28 to 3. Right. And then here you have the ball with 11 minutes to go up 20 to 10. Yes. And you've got the running game that the 49ers have maybe hadn't been featured to the extent that we've seen so far in the postseason. Right.


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[Assistant] You're gonna hear the same things again. What do you think? Do you think it's fair? Do you think it's fair that he, he should have pounded that running game?


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[Assistant] Oh, you're right, and then the next, uh, series, then they go first and ten, run, first and ten, run, one yard run. One yard run. Okay. And then they go play action incomplete. And, and here's what I'll say about the play action, super effective, all game, the play action for the 49ers. Yes. I mean, it was obvious, right? And they were doing it a lot. There was one stat I saw in the third quarter, up to the third quarter, Garoppolo,


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[Assistant] Uh, had used the play action on 60% of his drop backs. Most of any quarterback in a game so far this season. And they were 11-12 for 111 yards and a touchdown. So those were situations where it could have been maybe pass rush. Here, you figure the Chiefs are selling out for the rush. And so yea, why wouldn't you think the play action would work again?


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[Assistant] And they made a, they made a play there. And this was part of the question, was Jimmy Garoppolo going to be the guy that if the Super Bowl relied on his arm? Yes. If you couldn't run the ball as effectively or if you weren't, was Jimmy Garoppolo the quarterback that could win your team a Super Bowl when you needed him the most? That's right. And in this one, he was not.


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[Assistant] When Kansas City used their timeout, and that led to the pass to the middle, and the pass to Kittle, which I did think was pass interference. It was pass interference. I don't think Kittle, I think the mistake was Kittle, I don't think he needed to do that. I don't think he needed to push off.


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[Assistant] The third and 15. Right. Cause I think that was where, you know, you're down, you're, you're Kansas City. You're down 10. You just had that big catch by Hill overturned by Kyle Shanahan. Good challenge there. So now it's third down and 15. And this,


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[Assistant] I mean, this might be the game, right? If you don't get it here, you have to punt, because you're not going to get a fourth and fifteen, or, I don't know. You gotta, you gotta make a play here. Uhm, so, RO.


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[Assistant] That, you, you run that play, you're in that situation 100 times, you win 96. Right. Uh, you're the 49ers, it might even be higher than that, because it doesn't really adjust for the strength of your defense.


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[Assistant] Uh, to Hill, it was just, I mean, it was, it was beautiful if you're a Kansas City Chief fan. It was. Got you right back in the game. So, so let's hear, before we get into that play a little bit more, let's hear Peter King caught up. Cool. With Patrick Mahomes after the game, talking about that third and 15 conversions.


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[Assistant] That was with Peter King, of course you can download the Peter King podcast, wherever you get your podcasts, nbc-sports.com slash podcast, and I always recommend that because Peter always talks to the most important people in the NFL.


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[Assistant] In an impossible spot. Because at that point, Hill could break towards the post, and then you might be screwed. Break towards the flag, which he did, and he was screwed. He was screwed, right. Like either way, Jimmy Ward's trying to cover the fastest guy in the world. In football. With a full head of steam. Right. Running 20, 30 yards down the field.


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[Assistant] You get the next play, the pass interference on Moore. Yes. And then very next play, Mahomes rolling and throwing to Kelsey. And then it's a three point game and then the pressure.


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[Assistant] Amps up on the 49ers. Exactly. And they have their first three and out of the ball game. Right. So, and it does, goes back to your point on, on the 49ers offense, when it mattered the most in the Super Bowl, could they do what they have done all season long and milk some clock or get some first downs and play action pass and they couldn't do it? No, they couldn't.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeaah, that 38 yard gain to Watkins again. I was, I was looking at that play a little bit more because that really was the key play leading to the go-ahead touchdown in the Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] Uh, the 49ers set a defensive back that time, Quan Williams. Uhm, and then Ward rolled to the middle of the field and then Watkins just ended up one on one with Richard Sherman. Exactly. What do you think of Richard Sherman? Because all season long, he had one of his better seasons. Sure. And you never know, right? Some of it, you say the scheme is, is


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[Assistant] Fairly cookie cutter for what Robert Sala runs there. But you never know if it's, you know, is that Sherman? Is that the scheme? Is that the way they're playing it? Is that Tart helping out? You know, is it Ward? Uhm, but for whatever, Sherman had statistically one of his best seasons ever.


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[Assistant] You get to the Super Bowl, and he had his worst game. Yeah. Uhm, and it's not like he just all of a sudden got slow in the Super Bowl. You see, first 17 games, receptions allowed per game. Two in the Super Bowl. Five. And they were all five thrown his way. So it was 100% completion percentage. 72 yards given up. That quarterback rating, so much more than it was in the regular season.


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[Assistant] Richard Sherman, is he culpable for the comeback here for Kansas City?


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[Assistant] And we saw it in the Saints game when they had to win in New Orleans and they did and they went to George Kittle late and he's just bowling over people. Right. Is George Kittle running routes here? Of course one of them you have that deep throw. So that's the third. You want to see those two plays, right?


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[Assistant] Kittle, a player who, some people have said, maybe he's the MVP of the NFL. Right. If the MVP award wasn't just a total quarterback award, maybe it goes to George Kittle. I thought we'd see him featured, but did he stay in and block on both of those plays, or what was it?


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[Assistant] So I get that. And he had Sanders open down the field. And he had Kendrick Bourne, if you look at it too, open over the middle for a first down. He did. And within this, they're trying


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[Assistant] So is Spagnola, is he almost, is he sending the pressure? One, because he wants to pressure Jimmy Garoppolo, but is part of the mindset too, is that maybe it keeps George Kittle in?


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[Assistant] So. And so I just thought that was unfortunate, right? Your season's on the line, final play of the season. Yes. George Kittle was not running around. Yep, that's right.


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[Assistant] Which they could've on 3rd and 10 cause Sanders was open for the 50 yard play. But you also, you also put the offense in some difficult situations.


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[Assistant] And I think I follow a lot of people from the Bay Area on Twitter still from my time out there.


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[Assistant] That was the one saving grace for most people that were in pain after the 49ers blew the lead. Andy Reid? Andy Reid won it. No doubt. You could at least feel good. It got me too. That Andy Reid won because it seems like of all the coaches, I've talked about this before with you, and I think it was almost not, not disrespectful, but to call him, oh, he's the greatest coach never to win a Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] He's one of the greatest coaches in the NFL. Yes. He's done it with multiple teams, multiple quarterbacks, multiple ways. And so now that he's won a Super Bowl, I think he's one of the best coaches to have won a Super Bowl. I think he's, he's still up the rankings. He's still up.


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[Assistant] Showed me. Which is even more worrying if you're a 49ers fan because the opposite is true with Jimmy Garoppolo and Kyle Shanahan now. I mean they've gotten to this point and now they, next time they might feel a little more pressure. You're right.


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[Assistant] Kansas City is special. I want to do our demo case here in just one second, but you brought up, up by 10 with less than 7 minutes to go. So in the NFL this year, teams were 164 in 2 this year when leading by 10 points.


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[Assistant] With less than seven minutes to go. The two losses are the Super Bowl that we just saw. Right. The other one was Week 15.


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[Assistant] You mentioned the running game for the Chiefs, so we gotta give a damn okay to Damian Williams. Yes. Over a hundred yards, who I think had a good case, you're never gonna beat the quarterback, but could have been the Super Bowl MVP. Yeah, I wouldn't have been


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[Assistant] Who I was reading out there was nearly perfect on the six targets in coverage as the nearest defender. Played really well, yeaah. Played well. Got the interception at the end to seal it, good for him. Sammy Watkins, we've mentioned, I don't know if we showed the numbers for Sammy Watkins though, but this, uh, this postseason he was, uh, he was back. He had some really big games, you see what he did. Huge. Week one he had 198 yards.


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[Assistant] And Clark was really good in the post-game interview, too, with Chris Myers on the field. Did you hear that? Oh, I did. Well, is that where he shit on Jimmy G again?


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[Assistant] And another damn okay to Nick Bosa again. You've mentioned him already. Oh, I mean he's just a freak. Is this right? PFF said 12 quarterback pressures in the game for Nick Bosa that ties the most by any defender in the game this season.


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[Assistant] I want to give credit to both coaches because I think they took chances in the biggest game of the year with the most eyes on them. Right. You know, you have the Chiefs and Andy Reid who go for fourth and one twice in the first half, you know, where you can, you wouldn't argue if they took a field goal and took the points early in the game, but he went for it and it paid off with a touchdown.


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[Assistant] Yeah, they all kind of did a 360 and then shifted and uhm, my dad said it was an old single wing play. My dad was a high school coach. Yeah, so he respected that play.


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[Assistant] Eric Bianneby said that they're watching, uh, the Rose Bowl from like 1959 or something, or 1948. And that's where they got it from? Michigan versus USC. Wow. Someone found the video.


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[Assistant] And it was, it was the same thing. They all shifted over direct snap to one of the running backs, misdirection. So it was cool. It was cool. And then you had Kyle, there was a, what the end of rounds to Debo that were very creative. One I think was designed to be a pass back. Oh bless you. Pass back to Jimmy Garoppolo.


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[Assistant] Say in a world, we saw Tom Brady in the Super Bowl commercial yesterday, right? He's still gonna play football. We don't know where, right?


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[Assistant] Had one season next year, you have this current 49ers team with a great defense and the weapons around, a good running game.


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[Assistant] Would this team do better in 2020 with Jimmy Garoppolo at quarterback or Tom Brady goes back to the Bay Area?


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[Assistant] And quarterbacks, the 49ers. Which team finishes with a better record? A Tom Brady quarterback, 2020, 49ers or Jimmy G.


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[Assistant] Who would have guessed? Who would have guessed? So I wanna know if you actually could have seen this happening, or if you're like, man, if you would have told me that, no, I would not have, I would not have ever guessed that. Uh, Kansas City has seven more rushing attempts than the 49ers. Never. Absolutely never would have guessed that. That was the F word that really solidified that.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it just doesn't make sense, but that's what happened. 29 to 22. Right. Uh, who would have guessed that the Chiefs would win the time of possession by seven minutes?


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[Assistant] Would you have guessed that Garoppolo would end up with more yards per attempt than Patrick Mahomes, which he did, 7 to 6.8. Wow. No, I wouldn't have. I wouldn't have. I might have to check that again.


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[Assistant] Would you have guessed that the leading rusher in the game would be Damian Williams? Probably not. No, probably not. No, definitely not. Boaster was the highest for the 49ers with 58. Yep. Would you have guessed that Kansas City's three leading receivers in the game would all have more yards than the 49ers leading receiver?


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[Assistant] So far that ever said, yeah, okay, I would have been on that one. Hill had 105, Watkins 98, Kelsey 43, and then Kendrick Bourne led the 49ers with 42.


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[Assistant] Final one, who would have guessed that Mahomes would have two?


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[Assistant] Right, and still won? Right. First time he's had multiple interceptions since that Monday night football game between the Rams and Chiefs over that last year. Yeaah, right. That shootout where they threw like probably a hundred times in the game. Dude, he is insane in the membrane.


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[Assistant] Yeah, he's amazing and he's the best player in the sport. Requiem for a team, I'm absolving the 49ers for the week. They're just too down. They can't take it. That's such a high alarm.


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[Assistant] And you have Saints, New England, even though the status of Tom Brady is pending at 14-1. Steelers, 15-1. Both Packers and Dallas, 18-1. Seattle, 22-1. Ooh, I kinda like that.


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[Assistant] And then you have the Eagles, you have the Rams, you have the Browns, and the Vikings at 25 to 1. The Browns are at 25 to 1? The Browns are back, baby. That's crazy.


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[Assistant] Analyticsland! Who are you more, are you more excited about the future for the, over the next five years? The 49ers or the Chiefs?


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[Assistant] Career Super Bowl victories for Patrick Mahomes. Over, under, three and a half. Would you take the over? He's already got one now. He's 24. Youngest Super Bowl MVP ever.


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[Assistant] Before we go, you were in Miami for a week. I was. You did so many interviews. I did. It was like each week. Right. I was doing some Premier League shows and we were promoting the guests you had for that day. Yes. And it was like 10. I was like, just for today? And it was like, yea, they're talking like 10 people just today.


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[Assistant] Uhm, what did you learn that you didn't know previously about any of the people that you talked to? Does any come to mind? Right off the bat? Uh, well I, uhm...


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[Assistant] Because we kind of know these people pretty well, and in these interviews you don't always get the best stuff. Usually, usually if you're going to get something really newsworthy, it's Peter King in a dark room, you know, one on one, but.


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[Assistant] Did you learn anything from Russell Wilson? He's pretty guarded. He is very guarded. He has the aura of like, I'm open and I'm, but he doesn't really say anything.


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[Assistant] He's getting, the hair's getting out of control for him. Jerry Curl Central. I didn't, I'm not a big fan. He's just letting his soul glow. Uh, and Christian McCaffrey. You talk to him, you learn anything from him? Beautiful eyes.


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[Assistant] Crystal blue, silver eyes. Striking, striking man. People think Jimmy Garoppolo is hands down the most attractive person in the NFL.


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[Assistant] You have to be your own hype man, Chris. You know, we're in our basements in random rooms in our homes. There's no atmosphere. Every once in a while I just gotta pump up my room by clapping for myself.


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[Assistant] We were gonna have, uh, your dad on. It's become a tradition here on Thursdays now, but he's ditched us. Chris, he's bailed on us. What happened?


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[Assistant] I have two here at home, and I feel like sometimes that was one too many. I'm like, man, these kids are a handful. They're a handful here, but uh,


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[Assistant] But yea, congratulations to the Sims family out there. Big Bill will have them on next week. But we still have a lot to talk about here, Chris. We got an AMA that Homie's always coming through and supplying us with really good questions that we hadn't thought of that makes us think.


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[Assistant] It takes you down a road that maybe you hadn't previously thought of. So we'll get to those in a second. We'll also preview your, your top 40 is coming up pretty soon. Your top 40 quarterbacks. We'll look at that.


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[Assistant] Let's start with some news here, Chris, because I know this caught your eye with what is going on in Tampa.


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[Assistant] He got the team together, at least a handful of them, which you can do in Florida. Gatherings of 10 or fewer, that's allowed. He did it, Chris, and he's out there working.


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[Assistant] But he also caused some heat a couple months ago for gathering when gathering was not really allowed. It was the most strict the policies were.


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[Assistant] We're in America at the time. So I think that's part of it. And here's a question for you. Do you think that Tom Brady would be doing the same thing if he was still in New England? Is it just a function of him being with a new team and trying to learn his new teammates? Where I know he missed the last couple OTAs with the Patriots his last couple years.


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[Assistant] Dows and baby powder, no more ass sweat. That's the advice from Tom Brady to Ryan Jensen, Chris. Well, it's some great advice.


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[Assistant] It's why he's the GOAT. It's why he is always in, uh, the upper echelon of your, of your top 40 quarterback countdown list, which a quick preview of that, Chris, is that


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[Assistant] Last year you created a lot of controversy when you had Tom Brady.


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[Assistant] In retrospect, Chris, you should have been roasted more for Lamar Jackson at 30 than Tom Brady at 9 or 10 because you might even have had Tom Brady high at 9 when it was all said and done.


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[Assistant] You can't predict injuries, and so that's always gonna play a part of where these quarterbacks end up at the end of the year. Matt Stafford, you had middle 15 there, but he was hurt for the most, biggest injury of his career so far.


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[Assistant] Uhm, with Jackson, what? I forget, cause I was with you when you did this last year. Why was Lamar down so far on your list? Because I know you really liked him and you were super high on him, higher than most people when he was drafted by the Ravens. How come he was 30 on your list? Have you just not done it yet? Proved it yet, I guess?


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[Assistant] Some of it is unforeseen. You don't know what quarterback is going to make that, that big leap and what quarterback is going to basically show you what they've shown you up to this point. And so Lamar Jackson certainly made that big leap. So that's, I'm looking forward to that. We're starting it up on Tuesday. You're back with Paul, the bottom of the list there. I'm kind of curious to see where these new quarterbacks pop up for you. That's always interesting for me, the Joe Burrow.


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[Assistant] Justin Herbert, I imagine they'll be in the top 40 somewhere and they could be.


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[Assistant] Who is kind of related to your top 40 countdown. He says, who do you think will be the most improved quarterback in the NFL?


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[Assistant] This season. And I thought that was a really tough question because we just mentioned with Lamar, how do you know? It's really tough to say if okay, what you did this year, I think you can do better unless you just go with raw talent and you've seen enough raw talent with this guy. Do you think I think you'll figure it out eventually? But how would you go about tackling that question?


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[Assistant] Cause I was going to say, you see a lot of those players the rookie year and then that sophomore season to make that big jump. And so that makes more sense. And I was wondering if there are some veterans out there, even like a Jamis Winston, if he gets a chance to play under Sean Payton and can improve his game, elevate his game. But yeah, why do you say Derek Carr?


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[Assistant] I knew he was going to be in your potential improvers list. This one comes from Dan Woolsey and this is similar, but it's about Mitchell Trubisky.


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[Assistant] Uh, with him regressing, who is most responsible? Matt Nagy seemingly is trying to force Mitch into something he isn't.


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[Assistant] Why wouldn't Nagy play more of a run-controlled offense and let Mitch use his legs with a great defense? That would make the most sense. So thoughts here on, on Mitchell Trubiskin, why it hasn't worked out with Chicago. A quarterback who, Chris, you were not real high on when the Chicago Bears took him with what? The number two overall pick back.


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[Assistant] And now you have Nick Foles over there. What's your over under for game started for Mitchell Trubisky this year? Oh, I'm going to go zero.


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[Assistant] You don't think you'll start any. You think you'll lose the job in training camp.


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[Assistant] What do you think? Am I wrong? What do you think? I hadn't thought of that before, but I like that a whole lot. I think you're exactly right. From day one, if Mitchell Trubisky is your starter, you're just waiting for Nick Boles to come in. Might as well get that train rolling early and then go back to Mitchell after that. I think that makes a whole lot of sense.


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[Assistant] Thanks for backing me up. I appreciate it. I always support you. If there's a controversy out there, Chris, I will support you no matter what that is. Uh, let's go to Jimmy. There's a few out there.


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[Assistant] Let's go to Jimmy Garoppolo here because he's another quarterback. I would say, you know, maybe the similar light is Mitchell Trubisky. Obviously had a whole lot more success last year in the Kyle Shanahan offense taking him to the Super Bowl, but still some questions on.


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[Assistant] How good he can be. This one comes from AW0. He goes, what's up with Jimmy G and the deep ball? Is Kyle Shanahan getting all those yak guys? Cause he knows Jimmy cannot throw deep.


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[Assistant] So I looked at some of the numbers here, Chris. Pro football reference, and it was true. Jimmy Garoppolo was aided.


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[Assistant] By, uh, the yards after the catch more than any other quarterback out there. Yards after the catch per completion. He was 1, 6.6 yards per completion. Ryan Tannehill was 2. But then Patrick Mahomes was 3. So I was like, oh, that's a good group to be in. I also looked at yards traveled downfield per pass.


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[Assistant] James Winston number one, Ryan Tannehill was four, so he still was throwing the ball down the field even though he was aided by the yards after the catch. Patrick Mahomes was nine.


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[Assistant] Jimmy Garoppolo was 24th, just ahead of Kyle Allen. So he was not throwing the ball down the field like those other quarterbacks. So, so what is it? What's the deal with Jimmy G? Is Kyle protecting him or is that just his offense?


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[Assistant] And you wonder, these are professional athletes, the top physical specimens in the world.


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[Assistant] They should be able to change stuff like that. It's easier said than done. It seems like for a lot of players, especially if you've created a habit over the years and you're, you get in the heat of the moment in a game with a 300 pound defensive lineman chasing you and you throw all the stuff you learned a week ago out the window. But it seems like those are things that Jimmy Garoppolo could improve upon. Are you optimistic about that?


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[Assistant] I'm going to remember that when I become an NFL quarterback. That's a good, that's a good piece of advice right there. I might just throw the ball. No problem. I have my moments. Uh, so this one comes from Feet.


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[Assistant] On Twitter, his name is Feet. F-E-E-E-T. So an extra E in there. Who is going to crash the playoffs? This is his question. So I think he's asking which team that was not in the playoffs this past year has the best chance of getting there. So over in the AFC, here are the teams that just missed out.


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[Assistant] Steelers, Broncos, Raiders, Colts, Jets. Those last four all finished 7-9. In the NFC, Rams missed out at 9-7.


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[Assistant] Bears, Cowboys, Falcons, and Buccaneers. So of those teams, who do you think is most likely to crash the playoff party this year?


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[Assistant] What stat would you like to see be officially recorded? I'm sure you can figure out a way to quantify F up the play.


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[Assistant] Uh, so this is the, uh, the question from Edward Mason. So what, what would you like to see tracked out there? Maybe that's not tracked right now. He makes a good point. The F up to play guy, if you had F'd up five plays. I don't know how you'd quantify that or what you, how you would qualify for an F up to play.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but what do you think? What do you wish could be tracked out there and developed into a new stat, you think, Chris?


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[Assistant] I would love to see if you had little sensors on your body, how, how much impact you're delivering a linebacker, a defensive back, or a safety, or even as a running back when you're promoting contact, I would love to see some way of tracking hit force in the NFL.


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[Assistant] One thing I think we're really close to, Chris, is, and I've seen some prototypes out there, I think ESPN's doing some work in this.


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[Assistant] If you can take a play and know where everyone's looking at that moment to see why didn't he go over there? Oh, cause he was looking in this direction. There's a lot of cool stuff they can do with player tracking that I'm looking forward to.


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[Assistant] He had the tools, size, speed, results, but flamed out, not currently on a roster.


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[Assistant] He wonders who are one or two wide receivers that could be this year's.


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[Assistant] Kevin White, and then he ended it with, I forgot to say I love the show and the pod, which we got a lot of those, Chris, because we made a point to say last time, if you included that in your tweet, I would read it. So we got a lot of people loving the show and the pod, including Connor McGinnis. So I did look back at Kevin White.


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[Assistant] He, uh, was drafted seventh overall by Chicago. Amari Cooper was in that draft. He was fourth overall. A rough career for Kevin White. He was injured all three seasons for the Bears. Caught just a total of...


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[Assistant] His most in a year was just 19 catches, but he just had injuries, and they were separate injuries too. Stress fractures, rookie year, high ankle sprain, fractured shoulder blade.


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[Assistant] Uhm, he had one good year in college and people thought that that was going to be the building block to a huge pro career but it just didn't work out for Kevin White. I think it's hard to say who could be the biggest bust here because who knows what he could have done if he didn't have those three separate injuries.


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[Assistant] The first one off the board at 12. Also, Connor, at the end of his question, mentioned this too, and I'll throw this in here, Chris.


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[Assistant] Now that I guaranteed myself the question will be asked because I love the show, I also gotta say I almost dropped my jaw when Ahmed said that he is on team bidet.


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[Assistant] So he remembers me saying that I am on team bidet and he almost dropped his jaw, which I don't think, I think of all my takes Chris is the least controversial take that I have out there. It just boggles my mind how more people have enjoyed team bidet to be honest with you.


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[Assistant] There is no competition between, there is no competition between the cleanliness of a water hose being used or dry paper. I'm going to be, I could go, I could rant this for 15 to 25 minutes, but there's, so wait, are you on team bidet, Chris?


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[Assistant] We just got a text from Pete. He's probably telling us to stop. Oh no, Pete said he almost bought one after that pod. His, uh, his wife.


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[Assistant] His wife was concerned that the toddler would play with it, which is a giant concern. Because it is a very fun toy for anyone under the age of five or six years old. So that is a concern.


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[Assistant] Who is the one draft prospect where you think, how did I miss that? So who is the guy out there that you just were not convinced could produce at the NFL level that somehow has done it and surprised you the most? Who jumps into your mind first?


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[Assistant] You know, the common fan, I think, for myself included, even though I played a little bit of high school football, you watch the ball, you see the quarterback, take the snap, you watch him in the pocket.


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[Assistant] But with, when you, as a, as a, you know, you grew up in a football family, former NFL quarterback, how do you watch a game and what, what are you focused on the most?


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[Assistant] It is not, and Pete mentions, you know, take your eye off the ball is the piece of advice that a lot of people are given if they want to take that next step in how you watch a football game. I think so.


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[Assistant] You watch in high school, you look for the polling guard and that way it can tip you off if it's a run. But it seems like so many NFL teams do so many decoy things that that could be just as confusing as trying to do anything else because they're trying to pull off the other team.


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[Assistant] If given the choice, would you prefer to watch the game on the all 22 shot? Would you like to see the whole field? Are you okay with the way it's shown? You would like to see the whole thing.


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[Assistant] We're going to probably get that soon at some point. We're going to, I'm sure we're going to have the ability to choose multiple feeds and take the all 22. And I think that would be kind of interesting to, and maybe some people wouldn't want to watch it for the whole game, but it'd be kind of cool to see maybe a couple of series early in the game, your team from the all 22. And I think


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[Assistant] That probably is coming at some point. Alright, here's a group of...


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[Assistant] Questions that I have just, uh, grouped in says, Chris Random. So these are just random questions from the, uh, the fans out there. This one from Finn Weeks.


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[Assistant] What did it take for you to do the Lowe's ad with Kurt Warner? So he wants to know about it.


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[Assistant] What took for you and that's Welk Chronicle. You pulled back and forth last year when you came out with your top 40 quarterbacks list and had Tom Brady 9 and Drew Brees at 10. Kurt Warner was one of the most vocal about disagreeing with you on that. But then you, you came together


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[Assistant] You put all your differences aside and came together for the advertisement. How, how was that?


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[Assistant] That makes sense. Uh, this one comes from Darragh H. O'Connell. He says, If you could have picked where you were drafted, where would you have gone? Loving the pod from Ireland. So he's out in Ireland.


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[Assistant] Wondering if when, uh, when you were drafted by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the third round, correct? Yes, right. Uhm, where, where would you have preferred? Where was your number one destination where you're like, man, I really hope they take me?


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[Assistant] You might have played that first year too because 2003 Grossman started three games. I don't know if it must have been at the end of the year. Chris Chandler started six of them and then Cordell Stewart started seven. So there was a lot of opportunity there in Chicago.


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[Assistant] Roger Armeo asks, my wife wants to know who's your barber. Chris, are you willing to give that up? They like your haircut. They like the short on the sides and then you're going a little longer on top now.


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[Assistant] I think there are a lot of things that this pandemic and the quarantine are shifting in what we want to do, and we're just like, what do we really need to...


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[Assistant] I cannot wait for the day that I can walk back into the barber shop.


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[Assistant] It's gonna be so weird as things start to ease and, and just seeing how comfortable we really are with getting back into the real world. This is gonna be a, as, as strange as this time has been up to this point I think it's gonna get.


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[Assistant] Even weirder, but hopefully we can get back to normal sooner rather than later. That was, that was good, Chris. That was the, uh, AMA. There are more questions out there. I'm saving some because I know we're gonna be doing this, uh,


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[Assistant] We're going to be doing this once again. Oh, one more. This one was for me, Chris. Can I ask Ahmed a question? Ahmed, what is the best beach on the west side? Grand Haven, South Haven, Saugatuck. This is a Michigan question. Right up my alley. Uhm. I love it.


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[Assistant] I'm gonna say, so I spent a lot of time, one of my really good friends worked at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. And so I spent a lot of time in Holland, Michigan. The beaches there are pretty good. Uh, but I think Grand Haven probably wins out there on the west side. But I'll tell you what.


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[Assistant] Those Michigan beaches, if people have never been there and think, oh, it's a lake. No, this is like an ocean basically. And you really could, outside of not tasting salt when you go in the water, you would not notice the difference between


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[Assistant] Swimming in Lake Michigan and swimming in the Atlantic Ocean. Waves aren't quite as big, but uh, those beaches in Michigan, I mean, things that you say you miss about being back home, that's certainly one of them for me. But I'd give the nod to Grand Haven, but I'd say Holland's not that far behind for me, Chris.


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[Assistant] It's cold, but I think it does heat up. It's been a while since I've been in Lake Michigan. But you know what's funny? It's like I've come to like the salt out of the oceans, like the Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean. So in a weird way, I miss it when I go back to Michigan. There's like, where's that salt in my hair and the taste of it, but


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[Assistant] I love, I love Michigan, especially in the summertime. Alright, Chris!


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[Assistant] I got one more thing before I let you go. I almost forgot it. We got coming up on Friday, if you're flipping around the channels on NBCSN, we're going into the vault once again. We got some classic baseball games.


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[Assistant] 1996 ALCS game number one, the Jeffrey Mayer game. He took that Derek Jeter ball that was going to be caught at the wall by Tarasco and hauled it in for a controversial home run. You remember that Chris?


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[Assistant] Uh, 30-27 in the quarterback countdown. We got Paul Burmeister's quarterback, Jeffery edition, part three, which has been a lot of fun. And then we're going to hit a few PFF quarterback rankings and things like that. I think that pretty much.


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[Assistant] Thumbs it all up, but uhm, everything good. I didn't take a lot of crap on social media about my last few unveilings of quarterbacks. I'm surprised about that. I'm guessing people somewhat agreed.


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[Assistant] Uh, but I have a feeling coming soon I'm going to ruffle some feathers, especially next week.


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[Assistant] I can get people that I know maybe don't know a ton about the sport or haven't been involved into it to kind of just see things the correct way or at least with the way I'm trying to paint them however it may be. So, uh, yeah, it's been fun and it hasn't been too bad so far. Other than one guy from Miami who just can't believe anybody's ranked ahead of Tua.


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[Assistant] Well, you know, that's just going to be strictly, that's like a team comment again. You know, if you put Jared Stidham with that Alabama team last year.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, it's driving me absolutely f***ing mad because it's constantly, this is all I argue with people, you know, on anything, radio, other podcasts, it's, it's, oh, the team won, the quarterback, the team lost, oh, what's the quarterback? No, it's just, it's not as simple as that. You know, Jared Stidham's last year in college football,


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[Assistant] He had the worst offensive line out of any of the quarterbacks coming out in the draft. No big time receivers to really talk about. You know, they were a mess. He had no chance to succeed.


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[Assistant] You know, and again, you know, you gotta stop looking at it that way. The best quarterback in football was losing games more than he was winning them his last two years in college. That's because even for as great as Patrick Mahomes is,


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[Assistant] He couldn't carry that team. How come he couldn't beat Oklahoma? What's wrong with him?


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[Assistant] Why, why did we draft? Man, we shouldn't have drafted him in the first round. He can't, can't win the Big 12? The Big 12 sucks! Flag football, can't win? Oh, that's right, because nobody else on his team can help him, you know, and he can't do it himself. So, you know, that's what I would say to that. And we just have to stop. I'm trying to beat that into people's brains more than anything.


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[Assistant] So, and then of course experiencing the NFL and everything about that. And yeah, I just want to make, want to make sure people know. I really think the biggest thing that set it off, okay, just sorry to go down this wormhole.


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[Assistant] That's okay. Manning and, Manning and Brady, to me that's where it set it off. Because eh, since they were every year basically on the top two teams in football, people just started going, well, it must be all them. And I understand it was a lot then.


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[Assistant] But I think that's what started this franchise quarterback. If you get the quarterback, he can carry the team. And I want to be like, I know, but.


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[Assistant] And, uh, I get it, but I also don't think it's the truth, and I just want people to realize, you know, it's more than that.


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[Assistant] Oh, that's right. No, he doesn't, he chokes. No, has nothing to do with Richard Seymour and Ty Law and Bill Belichick's great game planning, which he, I don't know, stifled Joe, Stifled Joe Montana's and the Jim Kelly's of the world before had nothing to do with that. It was all Peyton. He choked it. He lost the game by himself. So those, those like early on.


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[Assistant] You know, I always loved Peyton, but that made me like him more because, you know, you and I both knew that was not the reality of the situation. And a lot of those years, those teams weren't even there or where they should have been if it weren't for Peyton Manning and his magic and all the things he could do. So.


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[Assistant] Uh, yeah, I just, you know, I don't like that assessment all the time. It's, it's an ultimate team sport. People try to tell me that all the time. And then we start talking about a specific team and it goes to one player. And that's where I go, well, that makes no sense. You've, you've told me, you know, two different, you're talking about both sides of your mouth is what I'm saying. So.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, it's a valid question. You know, first off, it's more than just that.