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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, I'm with you there. Okay. All right. So other teams though, we haven't brought up. I just want, because I'm, I'm curious to hear your thoughts here. Miami.


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[Assistant] Miami, you listen to most people on TV right now, that they're going to the Super Bowl yesterday after Bradley Chubb. They're going there. Just mark it down and they're going.


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[Assistant] You know, I'm, you know, I like Miami. Obviously a playoff team. Obviously dangerous. Do a lot of things. Defense, to me, has got to change to your point that you said earlier. I mean, that defense, it's not going to get it done when they got to play Josh Allen or Mahomes again for, you know, another time. They're going to tear that apart.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but do you look at them as being a team that could be more than just a playoff contender and win a game or two? Do you think they have the potential to make, maybe make a run and upset one of these better teams and get there when all is said and done?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I-I-I'd agree too. And, you know, the-the run game, I think will come along. They have moments of it.


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[Assistant] But I think to your point, the RPO, the quick design maybe looks like an RPO, play action pass, get it out of your hands, the screens, get it to Waddle, get it to Tyreak's hands on the outside, I feel like they're kind of using that as their defacto run game as their own line gets used to it.


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[Assistant] Yeah, yeah, no doubt. It's perfect for him. They've orchestrated the perfect offense that fits his skill set.


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[Assistant] And they got the right guys around for the Mike McDaniel offense. So it really is. It's, I think they're dangerous too. They wouldn't be one of my top teams in football, but yeah, I wouldn't want to, I wouldn't love seeing them come into town if I'm a playoff team and having to deal with that, that group of weaponry. All right. All right. So those are Superbowl teams.


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[Assistant] But I want to talk about some other teams that like, and I, you know, we haven't even really talked about this, just you and I as, you know, father, son, football talking guys here is the, the teams that everybody thought were going to the Superbowl before the year.


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[Assistant] The, you know, the, the Buccaneers, the Rams, the Packers, right? Just, I'd love to hear, you know, your assessment a little bit there of just those three teams first thought that jumps out to you, you know, and do you think they can get into the playoffs as we go along here? First off, the Rams.


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[Assistant] Just right away, what do you think of the Rams, 3 and 4, and do you think there's any way they can create some magic here and actually be a force in the NFC?


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[Assistant] I agree. They were, you can say what you want. They were outclassed by the 4-4 49ers last weekend. I want to go, what I want to raise everybody's questions, like the people who think that this thing is going to get fixed with the Rams, I want to go, what do you think would have happened in that game if Eric Armstead and Javon Kinlaw played?


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[Assistant] I mean, there's no chance. There's just no chance. They can't run the ball, Lick. They can't run the ball even enough.


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[Assistant] To get into second down to where you think, ooh, they might actually run it again to now use the play action pass. They can't even set up the down and distance to use the play and play action pass to their advantage. And Sean McVay, you know, I know you watched the 49er game last week.


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[Assistant] I mean, there's only so many screens he can have in a game to slow down the pass rush and help things out. I mean, they had 75 screens in the football game. So that, that's, that's, you know, I'm with you. I was at a few weeks ago where I was going Rams team that,


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[Assistant] Gets in the playoffs at 9 and 8, there's a number 7 seed, and oh, you're, if you're gonna play them, you're going, oh damn, it's the Rams, and they're tough like you said. But I'm at the point here after the last few weeks where I go,


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[Assistant] I don't see any seed coming up. They're not going to the playoffs. I think it's a blessing in disguise that they didn't get a trade yesterday and used some more of their assets because they're not one player away. They're like eight players away. This is different than New York's past.


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[Assistant] And it sounds like they, you know, were in even trying to get Carolina to train Brian, trade Brian Burns, probably for the same reasons you're, you're talking about. That they realized like, hey, we might have to go through the defense here to, to screw things up.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm going to say no playoffs for the Los Angeles Rams. Let's go to another team and in fact they play each other this week. It's going to be interesting. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers.


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[Assistant] Right? I think there's things about their team I look at and I still like. I don't give a shit that they're three and five or whatever. There is some aspects about it that I go, I'm not


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[Assistant] I don't know if I see Super Bowl in their future, but I can still have a say and be annoying in the playoffs, Tampa Bay. What do you think, man? What's your assessment of how they are and do you think they can maybe turn it around and be a pain in the butt here down the stretch?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I hear you. I know. There is some things there. And if they can run the ball like that, maybe that'll finally open up some more aggressive pass game looks. They're frustrating. You know, even the other night, as much as I want to give them credit for their toughness, there's a part of me that was going in the fourth quarter,


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[Assistant] You know, I think you know what I'm going to say here. I'm going, I don't even know if they're trying to win the game. They're just trying not to get blown out right now. And I know they were running the ball and doing that and it was good, but I just was going, I felt like, man, am I really watching?


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[Assistant] Fourth quarter, Aaron Rodgers, like the Green Bay Packers, let's just not lose by 30 and let's lose by 10 or 12. Like that's kind of what it seemed like. And it's just crazy we're at that point a little bit, you know, with the Green Bay Packers.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, that's a good point, and that's probably something I even overlook too. Alright, so Rams, Tampa, Green Bay.


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[Assistant] If you had to pick one out of that group there to turn it around and go, okay, you know, who, who's the one out of those three that you like? I think we both know the Rams are not that team. I think we're both going there. So then out of Tampa, I'm going Green Bay. You are going to go Green Bay.


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[Assistant] Yeah, uh, I, I know, I, I think if I had to choose between the two, I, I, it's, it's really close for me. I'd probably go Tampa over Green Bay.


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[Assistant] And you know what, I don't know if my reasoning is either that great. I guess I just, I think Tampa still, when they get Akeem Hicks could still have a defense that I go, wow, they can make some plays and do some things. Maybe I'm wrong to think that.


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[Assistant] I know, that's where it's, I guess that's the aspect I look at. The offensive line does scare me. I don't know, I guess the Brady, Godwin, you know, Chris Godwin.


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[Assistant] Mike Evans thing makes me think that they can get it done too. Uh, I know the division, but it is definitely favorable for them. But yeah, I guess I have more, I have more faith in them in Green Bay. Green Bay, I don't know what it is about them.


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[Assistant] I don't, I just, again, to me there's a, it's a tightness in how they play and the game has to be played so perfectly that I almost sometimes think it takes away from their ability to play free in big games and, and just go and let it all hang out. I guess that's what scares me a little bit, but it's, it's, it's a tough one to call for sure.


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[Assistant] Who, we're going week nine. Okay. Before the year started, I picked 49ers chief, Super Bowl.


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[Assistant] Uhm, I picked 49ers versus Eagles in the NFC Championship game. I picked Bill's Chiefs in the AFC Championship game. I kinda went, you know, chalk as far as that's concerned. If you had to pick two teams right now, Super Bowl, that you just go after these eight weeks, it looks good. Who you gonna go with as a Super Bowl matchup?


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[Assistant] It is not. The only weak spot was maybe the pass rush and that was addressed and they got such depth and versatility there. I know. There's nothing.


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[Assistant] Definitely, definitely. Darius Slay is on fire this year. There's no question about that.


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[Assistant] Alright, two to two other teams I want to hit on here before we go in. And I'm, I'm, I'm, I think I'm with you two.


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[Assistant] If I had to pick a super role right now, I am going Buffalo, Philadelphia. It's, it's, it's hard not to. In fact, I don't know. There's a part of me that, that thinks I'd, I think maybe Buffalo is the best team in football. I don't care that they're, you know, the Eagles are undefeated. I think if you ask me and who's going to win in a head up matchup, I'm going to take the Bills and Josh Allen and company. I am.


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[Assistant] Alright, two other teams we haven't hit on here just before we move on to some other fun stuff. Uh, cause I think we're on, Buffalo's winning the AFC East, Kansas City's winning the AFC West, we're both on Tennessee winning the South. Alright. And I think you were, we're both on Baltimore winning the AFC North. Me too. Right? Right? So.


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[Assistant] Philly, we're on that. Minnesota, you're going to say they're going to take the NFC North, right? I think you're, you're kind of... Yes. We're going to win the division. Right. We're going to win the division. Now we've got two other, you know, division, divisions there and we haven't talked about this and I want to talk about this because I've talked about you when I've talked about this subject. Do you think Seattle, I want you to talk about Seattle in general.


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[Assistant] I want you to talk about Gino Smith. I used you as a big jump ball point early in the year to just go and, you know, I'm a believer in Gino, always liked him, felt like he got a bad rap. And then I've always furthered the conversation that, you know, you and, and my brother, Matt, you used to see him and throw with them and,


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[Assistant] You were always amazed and telling me how big time his arm was and he's a better athlete than you think when you see him in person and all of that.


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[Assistant] So, you know, one, can the Seahawks hang on to win that division? Do you do that? And then two, just give me your little spiel about the Seahawks and what you like, you're, you're seeing from, from Big Gino so far.


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[Assistant] Exactly right. Exactly right. Let alone we knew just from other people that he loves football. We could see it from himself just in what you talk about working out with him and how he approached it. And he's, he's smart.


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[Assistant] He's smart. He loves the game. He can work at it and he can pick up an offense. So yeaah. And then you add in the talent like you're talking about and you go, why couldn't it work? That's for sure. Now can it work?


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[Assistant] Do you think they can hang on to the NFC West or do you think the 49ers walk them down before all said and done? And do you think the Seahawks stay in the, the playoff conversation here throughout the year?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I'm with you too. If you made me pick, I'm going to go 49ers, do walk them down and win the NFC West. But I think Seattle is going to be in the playoff conversation and


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[Assistant] There's a part of me that really wants to say they're going to be in the playoffs all together. I do. First off, I think the defense has got a little creativity and toughness to it this year. And we're not seeing them do dumb shit like we saw the last few years where you just were like, wait, no one covered this guy. He's running for a touchdown. Where is anybody in the screen?


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[Assistant] You know, they got some guys on the outside and Michael Jackson and this Tariq Wolin who can cover some people. And Diggs is a great safety. And you know, Brooks at linebacker is good. And then you said it, like, Uchenna and Nubosa is probably their star up front.


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[Assistant] But they got a lot of good up front. It's a lot of good. It's a lot of like, oh, hey, he's pretty good. You don't ever look at any of them and go, well, he stinks and he's horrible. Whoa, he's a liability. They got a little depth and they're solid across there. And then I think you add that with the explosive ability on offense and Gino. Uh, I'm with you. I'm with you there.


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[Assistant] Yeah, well, uh, producer Pete's in my ear and he's going, I am one of those that bet the under, so he's lost some money. And, uh, that'll take me.


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[Assistant] Alright, so I hope everybody out there likes that. We gave them some of our love, the division leaders, teams to watch out for. I'm with you. If you made me sit here right now and go, okay, yeah, the 49ers win the West.


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[Assistant] Seattle gets bumped down, right, at some point there, and, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if they ended up, you know, maybe...


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[Assistant] Knockin' the Giants out of the playoffs cause they're, you know, tiebreaker there either way. But I'm with you too, dad. I'm rooting for the Seahawks. It's the one, to me, one of the best stories in football this year. It's showing one that you don't have to have a top five pick at quarterback to win a game. You can actually build a team and do it.


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[Assistant] Like we don't have to always have Mahomes or Josh Allen. So I love that aspect. And yeah, how could you not love that with the Russell Wilson drama and all that? So I'm with you there. Uhm, I'm glad I made you laugh.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know. It is. It's annoying. It is. Alright, and here we go. Alright, so let's have some fun with just some, like, uh, things to go around, like, awards for the year. Alright? Oh. First one. Just MVP right now. Who do you think? Tyree Kill. You're gonna take Tyree Kill over Josh Allen right now?


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[Assistant] But you're right. I'm sitting here looking at the Bet MGM odds right now for guys that are in the MVP conversation. Tyree Kills should be in that, in this, on this graphic. Is that on it? No, no, you know, because it's again, it's, it's Mahomes, it's Josh Allen, it's Jalen Hurts. Three names that of course we all know deserve to be there.


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[Assistant] But, uh, you're, we talk about value to a team. You're right. I think he's right up there with any of them. He's changed their team.


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[Assistant] He's making the quarterback look like


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[Assistant] The quarterback that everybody in Tuanan and Miami and Alabama wanted him to look like. So, there, there is a good one. And right now...


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[Assistant] Pete, what did you say his odds were right now at Tyreek Hill? Oh, so it's not that bad. He's...


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[Assistant] Alright, so Josh Allen is plus 100, Jalen Hurts is plus 350.


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[Assistant] Oh, 20,000 to one. Okay. There we go. Okay. Well, so yeah, he's way down. That's a good value bet then right there.


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[Assistant] Just to add to this conversation, cause this is what I like to do, and I know I haven't even talked to you, I'm gonna throw you a curveball, we haven't discussed this or anything. I think we're both in agreement that


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[Assistant] At least, at least I don't know if we're both in agreement. I am one to say that Josh Allen and my homes are head and shoulders above the rest of football quarterback right now.


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[Assistant] That's just my thought. I think they're in a class of their own. There's some other ones that are, you know, not far down there, but I, to me, the way their physical ability, the way they're playing in the pocket, the decision making, all of that, I think they are the best quarterbacks in the game.


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[Assistant] Yeah, alright, so it brings me to, I wanted to bring this up when we were talking about Tyree Kill. You know, it is fascinating how great he was for that offense and what he does for Miami.


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[Assistant] And then, you know, what's your, uh, my thing I've been saying with like Kansas City, I've kind of before the year said, I think that in a lot of ways this could be a blessing in disguise.


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[Assistant] Because big plays are not a problem in Kansas City. Mahomes is always going to look for the big play and the big throw.


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[Assistant] And in fact, I think Tyree Kill at times made him look forward too many times and made him pat the ball or hang in the pocket too long waiting for that play to happen. So that's gone, that tease or that want to there. You got an assessment on why you think Kansas City's been so sharp on offense, you know, without Tyree Kill?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't disagree. I wouldn't put the game against the 49ers that far behind it. He was absolutely phenomenal in that game too.


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[Assistant] Yeaah, no doubt about it. Alright, here, last thing in this quarterback conversation.


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[Assistant] Who's the third best quarterback in football right now? Not like the guy that's in the MVP conversation. I know Jalen hurts his stats or you're all gonna de facto put him there third. But if you had to take, if you had to pick a quarterback right now,


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[Assistant] You know, is, eh, you still gonna go Herbert? You know, I'm gonna go Joe Burrow still right now. To me, it's not, Joe Burrow ain't the problem there in Cincinnati.


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[Assistant] Right, so I'm still taking Burrow, number three. Do you feel the same way? Is Lamar that guy? Is it Justin Herbert? Is there somebody else I'm missing in the conversation?


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[Assistant] You know, but I get this conversation a lot right now, or just people when I'm walking around even here in the office, like, you know, who's, who's next after Mahomes and Josh Allen? Who would it be for you, big guy?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I know, that's why I've, again, they're running games coming along here. That's why I'm not sleeping on Baltimore. I think they're going to have a say when all this is said and done.


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[Assistant] Coach of the year, let's jump to that. Just as far as right now, if you had to give it to one or anybody to jump out, you know, of course you talked about Pete Carroll, the job he's doing. We're both in love with Brian Dayball, Robert Sala, Mike McDaniel.


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[Assistant] Kevin O'Connell with the Vikings. This is a tough year. There's some damn names there in this one that are, that are very deserving. You know, who would you give the edge to right now through the first half of the season?


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[Assistant] Yeah, I hear you. I think he's probably is the favorite. You know, I guess if I was going to play devil's advocate, I go, damn, that's some team there, but I don't want to still, it's his formula, what he's doing. He got him. He did. I know. I know. I guess if I was going to throw another guy in there and Matt, I love what's, you know, Pete Carroll and solid are doing, it would be day ball because I mean, come on.


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[Assistant] Who, who, anybody that, you know, wasn't doing heroin on a daily basis thought the Giants were going to be 6 and 2. It's insane. It's insane. I just never would have thought we'd be sitting here going into week 9 Giants in a bi-week and we're going Giants are 6 and 2.


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[Assistant] Alright, defensive player. Who's like number one guy you're taking right now in football if you had to start a defense. Who'd be going, you know, aka the defensive MVP so far.


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[Assistant] That's alright. I mean, I'll throw the obvious names at you. You know, it's, I mean, it's Nick Bosa, it's Miles Garrett, it's Micah Parsons. I think those are probably the guys that would lead the list as far as just like top guys that are pass rushers.


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[Assistant] You know? Micah Parsons. Micah Parsons is the guy you're going with?


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm going with you. I think Micah Parsons, I'm on record where I was saying last year, I think Micah Parsons should have been the MVP, defensive MVP last year, defensive player of the year. I know TJ Watt had the 22 and a half sacks, but I just went by, hey, TJ Watt came on strong at the end of the season last year.


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[Assistant] And our Sunday night pregame, you know, football night in America show. I said, we talked about Michael Parsons every week where we were like, holy cow, he did this this week. Holy cow. He did that this week.


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[Assistant] And that's what we're doing again. I mean, we do it every week. It is. So I'm with you there. I think he is the best defensive player. I love Nick Bosa. I think he's the man. I think Michael Myles Garrett's the man.


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[Assistant] Um, I love Roquan Smith, you know, in some corners around football, but damn. Yeah, I'm with you. Micah Parsons. Miles Garrett.


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[Assistant] Any, any, uh, last question here, Dad, and we're gonna wrap it up, but, uhm...


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[Assistant] Any question, or any rookie, sorry, that kind of jumps out to you? Who's like the number one rookie? I know you brought up Kenneth Walker before. We got Sauce Gardner as far as what he's doing with the Jets, right? You know, Aiden Hutchinson has had some moments.


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[Assistant] There's the corner out in Seattle, Tariq Woollin has been really, really impressive. You know, am I missing somebody else on the offensive side of the ball? I don't think I am. Uhm, but you know, any of those guys caught your eye or just that you're amazed by?


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[Assistant] You know, as you were sitting here, I was kind of going the same thing and just trying to think off the top of my head too, if there was anyone that we were missing. You know, Kansas City's had a few that all play well. You know, the kid Jack Jones up in New England.


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[Assistant] He's been damn good, right? But yea, I don't know, I think maybe as far as Dee Lyman we're talking about, those pass rusher types, I think we're...


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[Assistant] Yeah, I think so. You know, again, Trayvon Walker's real close too. Damn, he's, he is good. Uh, Carl Aftis is another guy. Kansas City is one of those rookie guys.


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[Assistant] No, definitely not. Definitely not. Dad, you, you're the man. Thanks for doing this today. I really appreciate it.


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[Assistant] Alright, dad. Love you, man. Uh, and uh, happy birthday from all the homies out there. I know it's tomorrow, but uh, we'll probably put a few snarky things on social media, making fun of you and doing that, so. Really? Okay, thanks. Yeah, that's what we're here for.


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[Assistant] We're here, well you know, just like WFAN with your Halloween costume. That was, that was great. You know, what they did yesterday.


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[Assistant] The, you, the Boomer Esiason in your jersey. Oh, I did see that. You did see that? Yeaah. Right, right. So that was, that was funny. I gotta chuckle out of that.


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[Assistant] Oh, there it is. There we go. There we go. See? A costume. You know, I wasn't sure when I first saw this. I go, I don't know. Are they making fun of dad or are they making fun of boomer? I'm not sure which one they were really getting on here.


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[Assistant] Alright dad, we'll talk to you soon. Thanks so much man. Alright man, see ya.


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[Assistant] All right, that was Big Phil. And as we talked about earlier, there's no Ahmed here today, but Ahmed still has to say in this podcast, come on, he's the cohost. And even though he's hanging out with some


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[Assistant] He traded one horse's ass for a bunch of horse's asses, alright. We still got the Ahmaud, Ahmaud Farid big butt awards to talk about, and he did. Even though he's in Kentucky right now, he made sure he sent the group who his award winners were. And first, his first big butt


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[Assistant] Award winner on the edge will go to Myles Garrett this week. How could it not? I mean, Myles Garrett, geez.


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[Assistant] I mean, he was all over Joe Burrow the other night. It was embarrassing and it's still an issue for the Cincinnati Bengals. So I hear Ahmed there all the way with Myles Garrett and just like my father was just talking about, he's special.


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[Assistant] And probably a game, a guy that would be more firmly in NFL defensive player of the year conversations if the Browns were just a little bit better the last two years. Cause he is...


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[Assistant] Definitely one of the five best players in all of football on the defensive side. Last week, whooped Jonah Williams at left tackle, uh, when he was over there and, and really was not only the sacks, but the tip pass.


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[Assistant] Right? Tip pass that caused an interception early on in the game when the Bengals were driving. Had another, you know, big sack, uh, as they were driving to on a third down. So he was phenomenal. And then as far as the defensive tackles for Ahmed Fareed's Big Butt Awards.


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[Assistant] Maya, Jeffrey Simmons, I almost said Miles Simmons. Jeffrey Simmons, Tennessee Titans. Watch out for this guy right now. This guy's kind of on fire.


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[Assistant] You know, it's, again, we've talked about the Titans a little bit before in their defensive line and how it's starting to really dominate. Jeffrey Simmons is, he's phenomenal. And last week, I mean, not only just stopping the run game of the Texans, which, they're not a bad run team with Damian Pearson company, and you gotta watch this play every year on YouTube.


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[Assistant] I mean, Miles Simmons, Miles Simmons, I can't get this name out of my head. Jeffrey Simmons pushing Kenyon Green into a hole.


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[Assistant] That's three gaps away from him. Kenyon Green, by the way, is like 330 pounds. And then pushing him to make the tackle on Damian Pierce. So like, Jeffrey Simmons gets a tackle for a loss without actually ever touching the running back.


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[Assistant] Because he just dominated the guy he was blocking. Welcome to the NFL, Ken Young Green. Yes, that is Jeffrey Simmons and he's a pain in the butt. But those are two guys. They're phenomenal. And Jeffrey Simmons has been absolutely out of this world as a blake. That's why I do think Tennessee.


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[Assistant] You know, can be a pain in the butt here. If they can just get a little bit more out of their past game, watch out for them. There it is, the Ahmed Fareed Big Butt of the Week award, Simmons and Miles Garrett.


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[Assistant] Alright, this week on NBC, we got a good one. Like, we got a hell of a weekend. A big event weekend. Big! We're talking big event weekend.


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[Assistant] 3.30 on Saturday. Breeders Cup. Ahmed Frito be there. You should be there. 7.30 that night. Clemson, Notre Dame.


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[Assistant] That's a big one here. Clemson's had a little bit of a quarterback controversy as of late. They're number four in the new, you know, uh, playoff rankings. Notre Dame coming off two good wins.


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[Assistant] They're a well coached team. Uh, this'll be scary for Clemson going into Notre Dame and having to deal with them in that environment. Notre Dame can run the ball and chew up some clock. Then followed by Saturday Night Live. And then on Sunday, it doesn't stop either. We got the NASCAR Championship at 3 Eastern Time.


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[Assistant] Followed by, oh yeah, my homie, your homie, my homie, your homie, whenever he's on, I watch Patrick Mahomes. That's right. They'll be hosting the Tennessee Titans. That's going to be a great one. Titans defense run game, Mahomes.


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[Assistant] I'm still giving that a lot of good information and picking a lot of games right.


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[Assistant] You, as far as best bets are concerned, just do the opposite of what I say on those ones, okay? But there's still a lot of games I pick right and break down the right way. It's a tough league right now and I am totally cold on best bets. Check it out tomorrow. Florio and I.


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[Assistant] PFT Chris Sims on button collaboration. We'll do that podcast Thursday morning. Should be out by early Thursday afternoon. All right, everybody be good out there. Stay safe. Ahmed Farid will be back next week. Monday podcast. You know what we'll be doing. Total recap of week nine in the NFL.


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[Assistant] Enjoy the weekend, college football, big event weekend, NBC. Enjoy Sunday's games. Peace out. Clap it up.


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


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[Assistant] The views and opinions of Chris Sim do not reflect the opinions of this show or any of its other hosts.


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[Assistant] I'm good, Chris, how are you? I have a question for you. Oh, good, good. I like it. Come out in the fire. I'm making my debut appearance on the Sims Unbuttoned podcast, right? Yes, right. And I was looking at you last night and I noticed that you and I have been on air a few times now. You were looking at me last night, huh?


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[Assistant] I noticed this yesterday as well. I've been in meetings with you as well. You always button the top button. It's kind of your look. It's your thing. It is my thing. And so I was thinking, because they told me yesterday like, oh, you're doing unbuttoned tomorrow. And I said, oh, that must be the thing. That must have been.


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[Assistant] Got it, got it, got it. But you're still, so you are loose in thought but tight in clothing. No doubt about it. That's okay.


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[Assistant] A couple of 18s, a couple of 17 3 quarters, yeaah, just in case, in case you have one of those fat days.


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[Assistant] When we do our Sunday morning show, uh, coming up, uh, at the start of the season, I'll probably be in a, in a blazer, you know, um, so, uh, I, I, I dress for the platform. This is awesome. And so, right for this podcast, I thought,


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[Assistant] Honestly, I felt like I could probably show up in boxers with a beer and I'd be fine, but out of deference to you and our viewers, I thought I'll throw on some jeans and a t-shirt.


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[Assistant] Yeah, you're insane love for Joe Burrow. That's what it is. Like you have Joe Burrow over Tom Brady, who by the way, has never, like, I get it, Burrow had an amazing year last year, but the idea that, that,


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[Assistant] Fantasy wise, which is what I'm looking at in terms of numbers, that Tom Brady, who has, I believe, led the NFL in passing attempts since he's come to Tampa Bay, who's led the NFL in passing yards and passing touchdowns since he's been in Tampa Bay, who had a better fantasy season last year than Joe Burrow, when everything could have possibly gone right for Joe Burrow.


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[Assistant] I get it. Burrow's, you know, whatever he is, 24, 25, whatever, and Brady's 45, so they're probably gonna play about the same amount of seasons remaining in their careers. But no, like, so I get it on Burrow. Burrow's a franchise guy, you can build around him, he is fun to root for, he's great in the community, like, he is everything you look for in a franchise quarterback.


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[Assistant] I'm just saying for this year, honestly, even though the Bengals got to the Super Bowl and the Buccaneers didn't,


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[Assistant] I still think I would rather, I think I would rather if I was an NFL general manager for this year, give me Brady over Burrow to try to get my team to the Super Bowl. I think they got a little fluky on their way there. They might have. They got a little lucky on their way. I get that. I think the Raiders got screwed.


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[Assistant] That one I don't know, but the one thing I will give you, the one thing I will give you is that, right, if there is an Achilles heel to Tom Brady, it is pressure and pressure up the middle. And so, right, given the offensive line woes of the Bengals, I agree with you.


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[Assistant] Burrow is younger, he's more mobile than Brady at this stage of their careers. So I agree with you, Brady would have struggled on the Bengals more than Burrow did last year.


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[Assistant] You played the game. All serious, it's like, I like some, a lot of times NFL players or ex-NFL players will say to me that they will be apologetic, like, I've never played before, I just played. I'm like, dude, you,


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[Assistant] You don't have to play fantasy football because you played actual football. You grew up around it. You, you know, you were a star in college. You played pro football at the highest level in this world for eight years. Like you, you don't need to play fantasy football because you lived the fantasy days. It's fun nonetheless.


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[Assistant] Can I just address that though? Running back is the most fragile position in fantasy football, obviously, because they take the most contact, they get hurt the most, and so I don't know that you want to come out of your draft with like loading up on running back, but it does affect your strategy, and so


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[Assistant] I'm a big believer, and there's a lot of controversy about this in the fantasy community, but I am personally on board with insurance running backs. If you had Dalvin Cook, I would have said you should have gotten Alexander Madison. Last year with McCaffrey, you should have had Chuba Hubbard. So you stay on the same team.


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[Assistant] You stay on the same team when there's a situation where you know.


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[Assistant] The starting running back goes down, there is a clear cut backup, and we have high expectations that that backup will produce at a decent level. Madison's a great example. Tony Pollard in Dallas behind Ezekiel Elliott. If Zeke were to miss a game, we think Pollard would be very, very good. And so, there's situations like that where, uhm, where you know there's a clear cut backup.


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[Assistant] Players will come into the league, by into the league I mean into the free agent pool, the wave wire pool, into your fantasy league.


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[Assistant] And so what you're doing on draft day is you're basically creating a blueprint. You don't have to leave your draft with a team that you're going to start every single week because that's not going to happen. There's going to be injuries and so you're going to make trades, you're going to pick up guys up the waiver wire, guys that are backups on draft day will have value. Weeks 9 through 12 last year, Devonte Freeman,


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[Assistant] Who was sitting on his couch a year ago. Right. Devonte Freeman was a top 16 fantasy running back for the Ravens because J.K. Dobbins and Gus Edwards both, they both went down. They're a running football team. They're a running football team, great offensive line. And so Devonte Freeman showed he had a little bit of juice left. And so for a month there,


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[Assistant] He was a top 16 fantasy running back. He was a usable piece in fantasy. And that's what's gonna happen over the course of a season is all you're doing on draft day is creating a foundation that you're gonna mix and match over the course of a season.


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[Assistant] Fantasy football is a weekly game. It's not a season long game. It's a weekly game played over the course of a season. And so that's sort of the point and running back is one of the biggest positions where you can make a difference on a weekly basis.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I don't have an issue with that. I love Austin Eckler. Austin Eckler was my fantasy ride or die last year. He was going late in the second round, obviously finished as the second best running back in fantasy, running back three on a points per game basis. Is that right? Is that how high he finished last year? Wow.


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[Assistant] He had 20 touchdowns. He had 20 touchdowns. And in PPR leagues he had 70, you know, he caught 70 balls. The receiving is big with him.


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[Assistant] Joel Lombardi came into, into, into Los Angeles and said, you're my new Alvin Kamara.


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[Assistant] Like, the anti-Eckler argument going into last year was, he's not gonna get the ball at the goal line. We know he's a great pass catcher, but they're gonna use, I swear to God these were arguments that I was-


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[Assistant] The fact of the matter is, Eckler, Mr. Shapiro, Eckler is a special player.


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[Assistant] Um, if you are nervous about the injuries with McCaffrey, I get it. Certainly the last two years have made a concern. If you watch the, uh, if you watch the Rotoworld Draft Guide show, you know, uh, we talk, we talk with our expert, right? And, uh, you know, former head trainer of the Jacksonville Jaguars, and he said,


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[Assistant] You know, Mike Ryan said, hey, I'm nervous about


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[Assistant] McAfrey, you know, with these ankle injuries, they build up over the years and I'm, I am a little nervous about them.


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[Assistant] Here's what I will tell you, just in general draft philosophy.


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[Assistant] As soon as the, as soon as the draft is over, as soon as one snap is played, rankings are out the window. Right? I mean, think about where Cordero Patterson was ranked last year and where he finished in fantasy. Even Austin Eckler, again, he was going late in the second round, he finished as a top three overall player.


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[Assistant] As soon as the first snap is, is played, rankings are out the window. So get your guys.


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[Assistant] You want Eckler over McCaffrey? No one's looking at you weird. I don't think that's stupid at all. Eckler's a special player, he's gonna have a monster year, I'm at three. Like, so...


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[Assistant] Get your guys, and the other thing is, you got the second overall pick. Like, Eckler ain't coming back to you. If you want Austin Eckler this year, that's your one chance at getting him. Go get your guys.


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[Assistant] I spend more time on rankings than I think any other person on the planet. I've spent my life dedicated to fantasy football and even I use rankings as a loose guideline. My own rankings as a loose guideline.


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[Assistant] We haven't and, you know, again, Rotar World Drop Guide Show. Check it out on the NFL and NBC YouTube page. I'm a company man.


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[Assistant] Uhm, uh, Mike Florio came on, our buddy Mike Florio, and said, you know, he's talked to the NFL, and even though the NFL has the ability to suspend Kamara now, it appears...


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[Assistant] Because it's been this long. I mean, you know, this happened, you know, back in February. It's been this long. And you think about how long the, the NFL has taken to, you know, with the Watson situation.


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[Assistant] The expectation here seems like that the NFL is willing to take, uh, to take a step back and let the legal process play out. See what happens in the legal case. Let this case be tried. Let, let Kamara and his team present their case. Let the prosecution present theirs. See how that nets out. And then once,


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[Assistant] There is a ruling in the legal case and they have more information, then they can decide whether or not to make a suspension and what that suspension will be. So if they're gonna wait until the legal case is done,


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[Assistant] Uhm, you know, and injuries are always a concern. Obviously, he missed a few games last year with, uh,


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[Assistant] Ultimately, my thing, my belief is that Alvin Kamara will be eligible.


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[Assistant] To play in all, all 17 games this year. And if he's eligible to play in all 17 games this year, then...


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[Assistant] You know, he's a first-rounder. This is a guy who was a top five running back in fantasy points per game last year, right? Like, I just got some crazy stats here.


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[Assistant] We know, I don't need to sit, I gave you a lot of stats, but you already know this and you sit here and you see, I'm at six. You see it on your screen right there in front of you. I'm at six overall because I think he's playing every game and I think he's a special player.


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[Assistant] All of a sudden you've got a lot to deal with if you're a defense coordinator. And so there's so many things that you can do with Khmerra in terms of spreading them out wide, putting them in the slot, getting them in the backfield. They have Ingram as well. You can see two, two back sets. Like, I also think.


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[Assistant] One last thing here and Chris, I think this is something you can speak to. This doesn't happen a lot in fantasy analysis and I think it should. Too often what happens in fantasy football analysis is that people, they just look at NFL players as statistical pieces of meat. They don't understand these are people, they are humans, they have emotions.


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[Assistant] I did a, I did a, I did an episode of Peyton's Places and Peyton told me like, I used to hate fantasy football because people would come up to me and say, hey man, you had a bad game. He's like,


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[Assistant] My point is, is that players are humans and they have emotions and football teams are like any other office in America in that there are politics, there are, uh, there are relationships, there are good relationships and bad relationships, and so I believe, again, not that Alvin Kamara hasn't tried before, but Alvin Kamara is not a stupid human being. He understands that, uhm,


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[Assistant] You know, there are a lot of questions about his character given the, the, the, uh, the allegations against him. Right. And that there's gonna be a lot of eyes on him this year. And if ever there was a year that Alvin Kamara needs to ball out. A little motivation. This is the year. Yeah, so you're playing the person.


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[Assistant] Yes, I think that, you know, Alvin Kamara who has gotten nothing but usually positive press in his career up until that incident in Las Vegas, um, now all of a sudden I think, you know, uh,


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[Assistant] Look, I think it's a factor, but there's so many things that factor, right, into it. You know, I think about somebody like, look,


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[Assistant] The Steelers obviously had a absolutely brutal offensive line last year, right? Yea. And yet, Najee Harris had a great.


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[Assistant] Right, so, so yes, so offensive line matters, but it matters more, uh, on players that aren't getting a ton of touches, right? So it, it, it all the, it's, it's


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[Assistant] Looking at, like, with Najee Harris, not the most efficient, to your point, the numbers aren't gonna be there, the efficiency numbers aren't gonna be there, but his volume was so insane, that it didn't matter, right? But, but by the way, it has mattered the last couple years with Saikhan Barkley.


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[Assistant] Right, but the other piece of that is, so it's all sorts of things, right? So it's one piece of the puzzle. You look at the offensive line, you look at what the usage is going to be, you look at the coordinator, you look at the quarterback, right? And so is it, I mean, listen, Saquon was done in not just by his offensive line,


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[Assistant] You know, a good quarter, a strong arm quarterback in a big passing game can open that up again, like, like we're talking about with, with New Orleans, you know, having the ability to go downfield.


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[Assistant] I don't, like, it'll be really interesting. Obviously the, here's a good example.


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[Assistant] The Miami Dolphins had a bad offensive line, and this year they've made a lot of improvements to that offense. But if, if they were going into the season with just Miles Gaskin, and obviously they added Chase Edmonds, they added Raheem Moster, they added Sonya Michelle, but if they were going with just Miles Gaskin, I would be like, I'm actually more bullish on Miles Gaskin this year than last year, even though last year was a disappointment because


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[Assistant] That happened somewhat on, on Jonathan Taylor. You know, his, and so I think


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[Assistant] They weren't as scared about Wentz. I think they'll be more scared about Matt Ryan this year.


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[Assistant] There have been bad fantasy running backs behind very good offensive lines, and there have been good running, good fantasy running backs behind bad offensive lines.


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[Assistant] I'm talking with, uh, sources around the, the Washington Commander's team. McKissick was an important resigning for them. Yes. And so, uh, so that, so yeah, and by the way, and there's reports out of practice that he's, he's been taking special team snaps.


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[Assistant] It's awful signs, but what I can't figure out is...


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[Assistant] And I'm punting on this, so I apologize on not giving a strong answer here, but I'm being honest here. I don't know. I don't know. Because logic tells me that this is, that


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[Assistant] Yes, he did. Right, exactly. He spent time in both rooms. He was in the wide receiver room and the running back room in Washington his rookie year. And so, and he was good last year. Played hurt. And so, when they drafted Brian Robinson to me, I thought, well that's just, that's just a depth signing.


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[Assistant] You know what I mean, like again, like Robinson's a nice player and they can, they can use him for some depth in case anything happens. They had Jared Patterson, he's a little undersized. They've got McKissick as well, but these rep...


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[Assistant] The first pre-season game wasn't, wasn't great for Antonio Gibson's fantasy value. Neither is the reports coming out of practice.


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[Assistant] I'm still banking on the fact that the guy's really talented, that they're going to want to use multiple running backs, and it's the first preseason game. Yes, that's right. The only thing I can think of, Chris,


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[Assistant] I don't know if you ever, uhm, spend any time, but, you know, Coach Rivera is a, you know, he's a military guy. He's a no-nonsense guy. No doubt. Players love playing with him because there's no BS with him. Yeaah. He's honest as hell.


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[Assistant] So I wonder if this is a little bit of tough love on Antonio Gibson.


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[Assistant] Yes, they absolutely, they have tremendous respect for Coach Saban and the program he has down there.


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[Assistant] So how do you think that plays out? Yeah, I mean, you know, you're talking about Zamir White. Yeah, Zamir White, yes. And, uh, Amir Abdullah, when we were at the game, uh, uh, at Football Night in America, we, we, we all kind of like, okay. Yeah. You know, Amir Abdullah is going to be... He's going to be the James White kind of guy. James White, 100%. He's going to be the James White and Josh McDaniels.


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[Assistant] So, I would say no. Seventh round is fine for Josh Jacobs. I don't have a problem with, like, do I think you got a massive steal? I don't. Uhm, but do I have a problem with you drafting Jacobs in the seventh? I don't. Here's my concern on Josh Jacobs. Josh Jacobs, to date, in his fantasy career,


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[Assistant] Um, has been a volume and touchdown based commodity. Meaning that like, he's never been a guy that's gotten high yards per carry. He's needed a ton of volume to get there. In games in which, uh, I put this out of my 100 facts column, which is up on NBCSportsEdge.com, RotorWorld.com.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and that in games in which, for his career, in games in which Josh Jacobs has gotten less than 20 touches. Right.


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[Assistant] He averages less than 13 fantasy points per game. Yeaah. Right, he's basically like a, you know, like a, he's basically JD McKissick. And JD McKissick's a nice guy, nice player, but


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[Assistant] He's like a flex playing PPR, he's not somebody you wanna, you don't want him to be your starting running back in fantasy. Correct. And so, well if he, last year he actually got involved in the passing game, Jacobs did. But now, with Amir Abdullah there, doesn't look like he's gonna get nearly the target share he got last year. I know they like Zamir White.


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[Assistant] And think about what Josh McDaniels did at the Patriots. Yeah. Multiple running backs. Constantly multiple running backs. Josh Jacobs had at least 260 touches every year of his NFL career.


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[Assistant] The last time a running back under Josh McDaniels got over 260 touches, I want to say it was Garrett Blunt. Right. In like 2012 or something like that. Right, right. I mean like they like, Josh McDaniels likes to use multiple running backs. So I think you will see Jacobs and Zamir White and Amir Abdullah and you'll see like a lot of guys and so,


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[Assistant] If he's not getting the volume, he becomes really touchdown dependent. And that is a little fluky. You just never know who they're gonna use at the goal line. Especially now that, by the way, they just signed one of, if not the best red zone wide receiver in the NFL.


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[Assistant] What I would say is, I would agree with that logic.


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[Assistant] If this wasn't a team that had postseason aspirations. This was a playoff team last year. They spent big money on Devontae Adams. Like, it's obviously, it's a brutal division.


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[Assistant] But the Raiders think they've got a real shot. Josh, think about how many times Josh McDaniels has been rumored for a head coaching job and he's like, no, no, no, he didn't go to the Colts, right? He's just like, no, I'm staying here, I'm staying with Bill, I'm staying with Bill.


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[Assistant] But then here comes the Raiders, a playoff team with a, with, you know, with a legitimate quarterback, has a bunch of nice pieces there. And Josh is like, okay, I'm going to go into a situation that I think is good where I think I can win.


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[Assistant] I think in that first game of the season.


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[Assistant] When Derek Carr didn't play a snap. When Devontae Adams didn't play a snap. When Darren Waller didn't play a snap. The guys they care about didn't play a snap.


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[Assistant] I'm, I'm down on him in this sense. He used to be my number one wide receiver, now he's number four. Oh gosh. Right. Still has him as a borderline first round pick. Like, here's Devontae Adams' problem. He ain't Cooper Cup. Right. I mean, right? I mean, just like, he didn't get fed the way that, I mean,


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[Assistant] Going from Aaron Rogers to Derek Carr, that's a downgrade. Yes. It is. Right. Right? It's a, it's a downgrade. Right. And when he was in Green Bay, he got a 32% target share.


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[Assistant] Okay, a 32% target share, that second highest in the NFL. He's had a 30% or more target share each of the last three seasons. And given a Darren Waller, given a Hunter Renfro, given the running game and how McDaniels likes to mix it up.


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[Assistant] I just don't see him getting, look, he's still gonna get his, but like, maybe not a hundred.


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[Assistant] Is that a 22% target share, a 24% target share, not a 32% target share. And so again, you downgrade them slightly.


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[Assistant] He'll see less defensive coverage because of Waller and Hound or Renfro, but still.


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[Assistant] Make no mistake, defensive coordinators aren't going to be like, eh, we can just do single coverage Devontae Adams because we got to worry about Hunter Renfro and Darren Waller. Like, those guys are awesome, but they ain't Devontae Adams. Devontae Adams is still going to demand the most defensive attention in the uh, in the secondary of any team they play.


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[Assistant] And Derek Carr is a good quarterback. He's not Aaron Rodgers, but he's a good quarterback. So yes, I don't have him at one, but I have him at four, and I think he's going to have a monster year. You shouldn't be scared of Devontae Adams. If he's your number one wide receiver, you're in great shape.


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[Assistant] I used to, I used to, I used to motherfuck Chris Sims every, cause I grew up in College Station. It's Giga Mags. And so, um, you drove me crazy cause you would kill us every year. Every year you killed us.


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[Assistant] You know, one of the tweets that I've seen pop up, uh, on your timeline every once in a while, cause everyone's, I'll dive in there. I'm like, what are they saying to Chris? And then I got to get out of there. Cause I'm just like, it's like, this is, this is negative. It's too negative. It's too depressing. I go, Pete, you go in there. I'm not going back in there.


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[Assistant] Chris, what's the, what's the Twitter hate that you get that sets you off the most?


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[Assistant] That's our promise to the homies. We go through every game and got damn okay. Give me the headlines. We got Monday Night Football. We'll do a little preview there. Let's start with the heavyweight fights. Because there were a couple of them. One of them was on Sunday Night Football with the Eagles and Cowboys. We'll get to that game second. We start with Mahomes and Allen.


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[Assistant] Was there any game ever in the history of the NFL that you loved more than that game, which you couldn't totally watch it because we were doing football night in America during that. I mean, but this is, this really is, this is the matchup now in the NFL, isn't it? This is the game.


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[Assistant] Fairly similar. That's right. Very similar. 40 throws for both of them. Right. 338 yards from a Holmes. It was 329 for, for Alan.


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[Assistant] Yeah, what does this passing chart show you? It looks like Josh Allen deep outside the numbers. I think we have a number on that, right? Uh, deep outside the numbers. He was 16 of 20 for 229 yards in all three of his touchdowns.


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[Assistant] You've mentioned it a lot of times. I know. Alfon Miller has changed that defense. A team high five quarterback pressures, three quarterback hits. He had a pressure on that last game deciding interception. Taryn Johnson.


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[Assistant] We might be seeing the best of the Eagles, uh, this year because they took on the Cowboys, one of the best defenses in all of football and they scored 20 on them in the second quarter alone. That's more than Dallas had given up in any game this season.


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[Assistant] It's crazy, the Eagles in the second quarter, have you seen this stat? An NFL record 112 points in the second quarter through six games. I knew it was something like that. 11 teams have not scored 112 points this entire season. That's incredible. They're outscoring teams in the second quarter alone if you just take all the other quarters out of it, but it was...


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[Assistant] A complete game, it seems like. It wasn't like they really let up. Maybe early in the third quarter, Cowboys got back into it, had a chance, Cooper Rush, but uhm.


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[Assistant] I don't know, after this Sunday, we talked about this on the show. The Eagles. When you talk about complete teams in the NFC. I mean, is there a debate that there's a more complete team, all around team than the Eagles?


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[Assistant] So, so Micah Parsons, you know, the guy that you're zeroing in on if you're the Eagles and trying to protect your quarterback, he had two pressures. His only two pressures came in the second half when he got a little too pass happy. First half he had no pressures on 10 pass rush attempts and I thought one of the most fascinating things is


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[Assistant] How do you stop Micah Parsons, maybe the most dominant defensive player in the NFL?


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[Assistant] Eagles gotta win, they were the favorite. You know, it was a tough day for favorites out in the NFL.


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[Assistant] We're going into the upset section of the podcast now. And we have four games that were pretty significant upsets. One not quite as much, but the Steelers beat the Bucks.


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[Assistant] Jets beat the Packers, Falcons beat the 49ers, a banged up 49ers team, and the Giants beat the Ravens. Look at you now, you're saying Giants are the authority, I love it. You have to, when you're five and one, you have to say it like that.


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[Assistant] Those four games, we're gonna do them in the order of what you think was the biggest upset. Right. On Sunday. So which of those four games was the biggest upset? And we'll do that first.


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[Assistant] They have been held to 21 or fewer points in five of six games this season. They had one touchdown in four red zone possessions this last game.


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[Assistant] Uh, and Brady loses to a rookie starting quarterback for the first time since 2014. However, Kenny Pickett didn't play the whole game. Um, so that's the crazy thing about this game. If you were to say who is going to make the most big time throws down the stretch of this game, you'd guess Tom Brady. Wrong. You'd go, I guess it was Kenny Pickett.


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[Assistant] Wrong. It was Mitchell Trebesky coming back in. Pickett had to leave because of a concussion, unfortunately. Uh, but Mitchell Trebesky, there was some significant third down and long. We're not even, that's not third and short, third and long.


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[Assistant] And he found Chase Claypool on a couple of those. He made the big time throws when they needed him. He definitely did.


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[Assistant] Here's what I'll say. If they make the playoffs, you'll kiss my feet. We already did that last year. I will do it again. Okay? If they make the playoffs.


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[Assistant] Neither of us want this. I don't know, like, even the homies are like, no, we don't want to see that again. This is a bet nobody wants, but we've made it once again for the second year in a row. They were a nine and a half point underdog against the Bucks and won the game. Alright, what was your second biggest upset of those?


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[Assistant] I think so. Seven and a half point underdogs. The Jets not only beat them. Yes, that's the point. Green Bay, it was like they never had a chance. Right.


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[Assistant] Yeah, if you're a Packers fan right now, you're staring at something that doesn't look real good. You're like, oh boy, are we nearing that rebuild phase? The post Aaron Rodgers, who knows how much longer he's going to want to play for a team that might not be that good. It's still early. They're three and three right now, although it is their worst start.


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[Assistant] Uh, Thomas Pettinelli, though, says, love your pod, Chris. Thank you, Thomas. Might want to throw some respect on this defense. Hashtag cheese sauce. So I think there's a couple players that we do need to mention here. Let's do it. The cheese head. Right. I loved that. Oh. At the end of the game. It looked like he was having so much fun. He had a great game. So why not enjoy it? He's...


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[Assistant] Two sacks for Quinn and Williams. Three quarterback hits. Couple tackles for a loss. Forced a fumble. Blocked a field goal. Jets as a team. Blocked a punt as well. Yea, some big plays. And Breece Hall was big on the ground again. He went over 120 total scrimmage yards. And a touchdown second straight game for him. He's a player.


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[Assistant] So I think it only makes sense to go from one New York story to the other.


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[Assistant] Your giants. The G-men. Proud Papa over here. Beat the Ravens. In a game that they didn't lead until the very end. Basically.


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[Assistant] They've already surpassed their win total from last year. They were 4-13 last year. They are 5-1. In your wildest dreams, did you ever think this team would be 5-1?


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[Assistant] It was our first pick of the year for the Giants. It's amazing. I mean it was, those two plays changed the entire game. It changed the entire game.


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[Assistant] It went from first down, you're right. 30 seconds left maybe, if that. If that, if you're gonna get it back, right. Uhm, to then they go down, then they score with Saquon. Uhm, but yeah, it was the defense that made it happen. Wink Martindale, it's gotta be a great day to be Wink Martindale. Right. Against his former team, now his new team is the defensive coordinator for the Giants. Alejandro Blanco says, how about a damn okay for Kavon Thibodeau?


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[Assistant] The Giants defense in Wink vs Lamar. Kayvon was the one that forced that fumble at the end of the game to basically seal it.


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[Assistant] They're one of those teams where it's like, alright, give them another month.


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[Assistant] Losing to the Falcons, the spread was only three and a half points because I think Vegas knew about the injuries for the 49ers. On defense, I mean, they didn't have, who? Bosa was out, no Armstead.


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[Assistant] Like, you don't want to make excuses for teams. That seems kind of lame, right? And the Falcons did a lot of things to win this game. But Glinchy hurt. Yes. Offensively and defensively, yeah, good point. At a certain point, I mean, no team can make up for the number of injuries that the 49ers have.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Mariota only one incomplete pass the entire day. 13 to 14, 129 yards. Here's Jimmy G's...


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[Assistant] A little different chart than Mahomes and Josh Allen.


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[Assistant] Little closer to the line of scrimmage. The two touchdowns are basically just over the line of scrimmage. Yes.


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[Assistant] Uh, here's a question from Derek Weatherford. I don't know how closely you were watching this game at the end, because there was a lot going on with all the other games. Yeah, cool. Let me hear it. But he said, thankful to have Kyle as the coach of the 49ers. So he just wants to put that out there. But then he says, but I have noticed that he is not a fan of the hurry up. They are down two touchdowns. They seem to be showing no sense of urgency.


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[Assistant] Is this Kyle's style? Is this because the defense was tired? What are the reasons? I don't know how much you saw.


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[Assistant] Yeah, I mean, they had new guys in there. You know, the offensive line you mentioned already with some injuries there. Jake Brendel had some issues on a drive where he had an illegal downfield penalty, then a holding penalty, then a false start penalty all in the same drive. So who knows? They had a lot of different guys in doing different things maybe.


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[Assistant] He was upset early in the game too because the Falcons blew that 14-0 lead. It was 14-14. So they had to reassert themselves. They did that. The Falcons improved to 3-3. The 49ers fall to 3-3. Those are the upsets. Now it's time to move to damn okay.


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[Assistant] Damn okay to the Indianapolis Colts. They came back, they beat the Jaguars. Highly entertaining game. Good things for both teams and bad things for both teams in this game. But we're gonna give the damn okay


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[Assistant] They did have an NFL High 10 turnovers entering week number six. None in this game for Matt Ryan. He gets our damn okay. Yeah, he deserves it.


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[Assistant] Casey Andy says, Hey Chris, long time listener, is your back hurting from padding it so hard about your Alec Pierce evaluation? Not just that, Paris Campbell too, showed up in this game in a big game, in a big way and you've been


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[Assistant] He had seven catches, 57 yards in the touchdown, but Alec Pierce had his first career touchdown. That was cool too. The Colts could have settled for a game winning field goal potentially. Matt Ryan was like, no, we're going for the touchdown.


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[Assistant] Left the Colts with just three minutes, but that was, uh, that was enough time for Matt Ryan and the Colts to get a win there. So Jaguars lose, Colts wins. Jaguars have now lost 14 straight on the road.


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[Assistant] The Bengals got their third win. BAM. It was a little dicey at times.


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[Assistant] Joe Burrow, Jamar Chase go back to the Bayou. They're in New Orleans, site of their national championship in 2019. Burrow comes walking into the stadium with a LSU Jamar Chase jersey. Jamar Chase's family was there.


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[Assistant] But they were in a dog fight in this one, tiger fight in this one with the saints. They do pull it out 30 to 26. We're going to give the damn. Okay. To Jamar chase. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he's worthy. Um, as here is Joe walking in with that Jamar chase.


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[Assistant] So Joe Goodbury has been listening to you. And he goes, is this better? And so he attached a shot of Jamar Chase's Routetree, week five to week six. So you saw week five here on the left, if you're watching on YouTube or on Peacock.


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[Assistant] And then week six is on the right here. So week five, you're saying, you know, slant, go. That's about it. Yeah.


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[Assistant] Not as much as you would like to see though. What, you'd like to still see more cross?


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[Assistant] And runs for a touchdown. Game over. I do give credit to the Saints though, because they did not have Michael Thomas. Yep. They did not have Jarvis Landry. No doubt about it. They did not have Chris Olave. Uh huh. They did not have Marshawn Lattimore in this game. Right, right. And they were in this game.


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[Assistant] And don't give up on the Seattle Seahawks either, while you're at it, as we move on to our last damn okay.


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[Assistant] Kenneth Walker III, another darling of the Chris Sims draft class. Love him. He popped once again. He's gonna have the full-time role now that Rashad Penny unfortunately is out for the year.


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[Assistant] He forced 10 missed tackles in this game. Is that right Pete? That is crazy. That's a giant number. Uh, he goes for 97 yards on 21 carries. Gino throws for 197. I didn't see a whole lot of this game. This game was happening while we were on TV and during another game that was pretty significant with Alan and Mahomes.


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[Assistant] It looked like the Seahawks dominated. 19 to 9, you called the Seahawks the worst defense in the NFL, and they hold Kyler Murray and company to no touchdowns, couple turnovers, and 9 points total.


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[Assistant] Yeah, it was better, but still, yeah, 430 yards they had given up weeks one through five on average. That was the worst in the NFL. 315 in this game.


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[Assistant] So Frank Knowles wants to give a damn okay nomination to Pete Carroll and John Schneider. He says the Seahawks rookies, he says those two guys, Schneider and Carroll, have struck gold with the draft class. Mentioned Kenneth Walker already. Tariq Woollin, third rookie since 2000 with four straight games with an interception. Special.


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[Assistant] Rookie Kobe Bryant, NFL high four forced fumbles this season. Right. So you got them with Walker. Yes.


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[Assistant] Okays are done. Now it's time to go into the newsroom.


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[Assistant] Give me the headlines presented by Hyundai. Three more games to go through here. This is where Chris will give us a headline that has been given to him by Pete and he will repeat it and claim it as though he thought of it originally. Thank you. Thank you for doing that. See, that's why this will be


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[Assistant] Nope, nope, nope, this was all Pete, this was all Pete. No, not all, the third one was a team effort. The third one was collaborative. But Pete, but here's the thing, you know what a team does? They, they. Work as a team? They isolate the people who are special at certain things. And Pete has come up with some very good headlines. Right. And so maybe he's just the best in our group at coming up with these headlines, so we should.


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[Assistant] Four quarterbacks. That's insane. You had ten pressures in a game.


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[Assistant] It's been real tough for the Dolphins, right? You have the quarterback injuries too. Unfortunately, it looks like he will be coming back for Sunday Night Football against the Steelers coming up this Sunday.


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[Assistant] Um, but yeah, so the last two weeks they've kind of had to reshuffle their plans. Skyler Thompson has to come in last week. And then this week, Skyler Thompson starting, then he gets hurt out with a thumb injury. So here it comes.


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[Assistant] Uh, Teddy Bridgewater again. So it's crazy. It's been tough for Mike McDaniel. So I don't know how much you can evaluate there. They had some opportunities to make some big plays. Jalen Waddle with a fumble late. Oh, right. It was what? A third


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[Assistant] That was it. That's basically the summary of the game. So 5-1 for the Vikings. Shocking. Where do you put that 5-1? It's a little like...


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[Assistant] You mentioned the Patriots in that stretch. They got another win.


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[Assistant] He had eight different receivers in this game, so he spread the ball around. I think we have a...


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[Assistant] We have a chart on what he did in this game. Yeah, there are the numbers, two touchdowns, no interceptions, first rookie with a win and a 100 or more passer rating in each of his first two starts since Sonny Juergensen did so in 1957. Wow. Got to go all the way back there.


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[Assistant] Probably played or coached with a Bill Belichick back in the day, cause he's been around forever. So here's the crazy thing about, we'll get into Zappi, I want to hear what you think about him. But this is like the Patriots, like if any other coach was coaching this team, I think we'd be like, wow, well done.


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[Assistant] But when it's Bill Belichick, it's just like, of course, of course he did that. Of course he faced the number one offense in the Lions last week and shut him out. Of course he goes to Cleveland and wins by three touchdowns with a rookie quarterback.


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[Assistant] Yeah, Tyquan Thornton was a weapon. He's back first time. Rookie got hurt in the beginning of the year, made some big plays, touchdown and then.


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[Assistant] Uh, looked fast out there, but Cleveland definitely did help. There was a muffed punt in there. Yep. Interception early by Jacoby. Fumble late led to a short field for New England. So they kind of pulled away late there and they got them out of their.


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[Assistant] The running attack, they had 30 or more rushing attempts in each of the first five games. They just had 18 rushes for 70 yards yesterday.


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[Assistant] Wow, huge two weeks for them. Huge two weeks. This was a big week for the Rams, taking on a Panthers team that's in disarray, firing their head coach. They got an interim coach in there. You gotta win this game. It looked hard for them early on, but they do get the win. They pull away late. 24 to 10 was the final score. Your headline for this game is?


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[Assistant] Uh, wasn't a huge day, but still was as best day as a Ram so far. Five catches, 63 yards, and a touchdown. I think that's a good place to start with this game, because if the Rams are gonna be anything, like, he needs to be part of it, right?


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[Assistant] How do you like PJ Walker's numbers as a quarterback? Did you see him? Yes. 10 of 16 for 60 yards.


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[Assistant] They gotta buy next week, this coming week, and then what, they have the 49ers and the Bucks?


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[Assistant] And then at the Bucks. So yeaah. It'll be interesting for them too. It will be. Who are they? Who are those other teams too? I find it a lot. Agreed. Uh, that's our last game. And that was give me the headlines presented by Hyundai.


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[Assistant] Before we go though. Okay. There is one more game. Yes there is. On ESPN, Joe Buck and Troy Aikman, they make us say that. No. Actually they don't make us say that. No, but let's say it anyways. Out of the kindness in my heart. We don't avoid that. No. ESPN, that's fine. We can say ESPN, right? I love Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. I really do. They're very good.


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[Assistant] And I feel like he's very similar in a lot of ways. You know, very minimal. We see it. We don't need to hear a whole bunch. Exactly right. Be excited in the big moments. I'm with you. And then let us just kind of enjoy the game. Yeah. We'll hang out. Yeah. Uh, okay. That is our uh, hat tip to ESPN and those two guys. Wow. That was big of us. Yeah, it was. Right. I don't think, I don't think people realize how big of us that was.


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[Assistant] Okay, moving on. BetMGM parlay preview. Broncos and Chargers, on Thursday you said the Chargers would win by three, so you're picking the Chargers to win but not cover because the line in this one is Chargers by four and a half.


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[Assistant] You're going with the under too, cause the over under is 46. I am going with the under. You're going 43. I am going with the under.


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[Assistant] And then we have another week in the books. Another exciting week. We've learned more!


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[Assistant] Good pod. We made it through in good time here too, and all we needed was like three fewer games or whatever. Three fewer games. Whatever it was.


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[Assistant] Taking a, taking a bye week. You know who doesn't ever take a week off? Mo Salah in Liverpool. Oh, that's right. I don't know who that is, but sounds good. What? Mo Salah is like one of the most famous soccer players out there.


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[Assistant] Really? Really? You're gonna go in the year with that as your backup? Are you sure?


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[Assistant] Hopefully my picture, I'm in an all time low. Like I don't even know what to do anymore. I'm in, so in my own head, I feel like I'm way over detailed with film watching and things like that too. I look at nuances that


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[Assistant] I picked games about and then again come Sunday and I go, why, why was I so worried about that nuance right there? It's not that big of a deal. Uh, let's get back to basics. I'm way too in the weeds right now. And I'm like,


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[Assistant] Totally feeling the pressure. Like totally. Where I'm like literally thinking about picking games tonight and going, whatever you pick, let's just go back a few minutes later and then do the opposite. I mean that's really where I'm at. Especially with the ones that I think are like the best bets or the locks. I mean I've never been so bad. I've never.


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[Assistant] I honestly thought about like maybe not watch film for a week and let me just watch TV copies and kind of just get out of the weeds a little bit and be like, okay, stop worrying about like, can they block the three technique when defenses play this? Like stop that kind of shit, which I think I get lost in to where yes, that has crossed my mind of like,


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[Assistant] And I might do it. If it continues, I might just go, you know, I'm going to just watch games on TV this week and just get a little bit more of a natural feel and get back to my roots and how I used to be that way. Back to my roots. Back to my roots.


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[Assistant] Right. Just a little splash of trickeration here and there.


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[Assistant] Well, yeah, they did not leave their comfort zone. It was not like, uhm, I didn't look at it and go, oh wow, they broke out something new here for the chiefs. The chiefs were...


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[Assistant] Very well equipped for what to expect and what they were going to get from the 49ers and they were spot on and all over it. They were all over it. You know, and again, the Chiefs, let's, let's not sugar coat things here or, or maybe we need to sugar coat. It's, it's special.


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[Assistant] It's, it's, I, you know, the 49ers, either you got to get more exotic or you got to be totally a hundred percent healthy and need a special defense to play that way. And without Kinlaw and Armstead and Bosa maybe not being totally a hundred percent himself, but close. Yeah, they're, they're not special enough to play the way they did.


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[Assistant] You know, I think the game came down to, they tried to mix it up a little bit.


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[Assistant] It wasn't like it was just total bland, but it was mixed it up within the comfort zone of what they want to do. And it was still way too heavy, probably in quarters coverage, and then man to man. And because of that, and because they, they do a good amount of that, and then what the Chiefs do off of that,


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[Assistant] They had an incredible game plan as far as ways to attack it.


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[Assistant] Right? And a lot of teams have ways to attack things against the 49ers where you go, this looks good on paper, but then you get out there and you go, whoa, they're just faster and better disguising. And, you know, even though we were about to have it open, the pass rush got to me just before I was about to throw it and we didn't take advantage of it. And,


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[Assistant] The Kansas City Chiefs, I guess if I'm going to start off with the first thing is just how unbelievable Patrick Mahomes played. That's the first thing.


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[Assistant] You know, even within that and these great plays that I go, ooh, this is a cool little play, there's still so many throws where I just go,


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[Assistant] Yeah, it's, it's a cool little play. It puts tremendous stress on the 49ers, but the 49ers know what stresses them too. So they know how to like, Oh wait, they're doing this to us cause they, they see teams do this. So they're very good at like still making those things very hard on you.


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[Assistant] To where you go, well that should work, but they've seen teams try to do it to them so much that, you know.


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[Assistant] It's should work is like, whoa, you gotta make a really good throw in there to should work against this schematical coverage, right? And he just did that time after time after time.


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[Assistant] And I think that's where, you know, it's impressive, let alone the rest of their team's better there.


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[Assistant] Yes, between man to man plays and some really great


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[Assistant] Quarters beaters. Plays where you just go, whether it was, you know, the deep pass to Valdez Scantling on the 3rd and 11 that he had, he had another


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[Assistant] Post down the middle, I want to say that was Valdez scaling again, but still, ways to beat quarters, it was a great game plan, and then I just think we're seeing a Chiefs offense that's...


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[Assistant] Really special, and it's gonna take a special defense like the Bills was where it's creative and has the horses up front to slow it down and not compromise themselves. And the 49ers are not that right now. They can kinda do it all right now.


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[Assistant] Well I think it's that. I think they're drawing up plays for them. I think their offense and Mahomes. Mahomes is playing the offense to a tee right now.


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[Assistant] You know, I think that's the other thing. Again, that's the Tyree kill effect that we've kind of talked about, where I thought maybe this would happen.


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[Assistant] You know, and it is happening. I mean, it's happening right in front of our eyes with just some of the, you know, the spreading of the football and letting the offense and the system do the work instead of let me just jam it into Tyreek deep down the hill field or, or, um, or Travis Kelsey.


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[Assistant] And, you know, what's great with them too is they've added some other elements to their offense that keep you off of their bread and butter too.


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[Assistant] Pacheco adds an element to their team where you go, you got to respect their run game. They don't want to run it a ton, but their run game is good enough and he's violent enough getting to the line of scrimmage where you go, we can't disregard it. You can't. You can't just go, oh, we're going to play pass defense and so what? They can overpower you in the way he runs where you can go, whoa,


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[Assistant] They just ripped off, you know, 25 yards in two run plays here.


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[Assistant] You know, cause we're so worried about the pass and we didn't believe they were going to run the ball. You think he gives them a different element than they've had, Pacheco? He definitely does. He does. And I felt like they got underneath center in the game a few times just because they were like, let's let him go downhill instead of being in shotgun, right? And then him taking the ball and then having to restart.


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[Assistant] Where they just went, let, when this guy goes downhill, he breaks tackles, he moves the pile, he gives us another element that way. And then of course that played into their ability to give some speed sweeps and do that. So, you know, between, I said this on Monday, they did some 49er stuff.


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[Assistant] That took advantage of the 49ers aggressiveness, whether it was the screens and like, hey, let them come up field and we'll just throw a screen behind you or let them come up field and just, you know.


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[Assistant] Sounds like you're pass blocking and they got by and let them go and now we want you to go up and block the linebackers in the safety of the second level.


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[Assistant] And we really didn't have to block two or three of the D linemen because they just flew upfield and hey, here you go, Nicole Hardman. And now all you gotta do is just weave your way through those linemen blocking at the second level and it's a touchdown. And I think that's where they have more inventory. And then I think with him playing smart.


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[Assistant] And within the realm of the offense, and then of course we know him playing within the realm of the offense.


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[Assistant] It's gonna be some crazy explosive plays too, cause he's always looking for it. He's never gonna let the, the team, uh, have their easy way out. So that's where it was, it was fun to watch. They have a zig for every zag.


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[Assistant] That's one thing that's really come to me more than this year than other years. Where I see plays on a weekly basis where I go, oh, last week they did this a lot, and now this week...


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[Assistant] They got a two plays that look like this, but they're that, right? Everyone's breaking out and now this week they're all breaking in on the same look. They have so much of that. So it's hard to like go, Hey, we're just like we were two and three years ago when we were on the podcast. There we go. Well, you know, teams that play the Seattle three and just play deep and all that.


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[Assistant] They're not good enough to be patient and surgical and do all that. Now they, so many teams have played them that way that they have such an inventory that you can't play them that way anymore. You have to change it up. You have to blitz a little every now and then.


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[Assistant] You know, if you just think you're going to play, oh, front four is going to get there and we'll take away the big play. There's no way. They protect too good now and he's too smart and that's, that's changed them too. You think that offensive line is better. I just think they're going to continue to get better too. I do. They're not, because they're actually showing a little bit patience with the run game.


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[Assistant] And like here's a game like where I feel like they came off the Bills game, they were probably a little underwhelmed with how they protected a little bit. So they're, it was typical Kansas city. They were on their game this week where we're not going to go into the by four and three.


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[Assistant] Right? And when they just, when they do that, you just go, that's where they're special. And here they are seven weeks in with probably the toughest schedule in football through seven weeks and they're five and two and they're clearly one of the best teams in football.


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[Assistant] You know, I think they, in a lot of ways they are, I don't think I've ever felt like they're this systematical and have this many answers for things as we go on through each week. You know, and, and like I said,


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[Assistant] Where it used to just be like, hey, Kelsey deep-crosser, Tyree kill deep-crosser, and another guy crossing the other way, and so what, it's a cool play, and my homes will just throw it in there.


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[Assistant] They have so many fakes off of that stuff now that are awesome. And that makes it tough. So uhm, it was a great game plan. They're a tougher football team altogether.


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[Assistant] And it's as good as I can remember them playing really throughout, uh, as far on that side of the ball. And that's what's scary. And again, it's just where...


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[Assistant] You know, I, like, 49ers, they're, they have the formula, if healthy, to be one of those teams that could be really annoying to Chiefs if they got to play them in the Super Bowl again or something like that.


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[Assistant] Well, it's where, well it's a little, where I wanna go is like the 49ers would have to change some things up and they're gonna have to play special offensive football too to keep up. Because I don't think like the 49ers team of a few years ago that lost to them in the Super Bowl, where that was even a better defense than what they have right now,


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[Assistant] I don't think that same team would boat as well against this Chiefs team. Like I said, they have more answers for that Robert Sala Seattle 3. And then they're better at pass protecting to where that's just not going to ruin them anymore like maybe that matchup caused some issues for them the first time. And that's where it was a lot of fun to watch.


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[Assistant] I think, you know, I'm gonna, not to say I'm always right, you know I come in here some days and say things on a Monday and then we get to a Wednesday and go, man, the film was different than I thought. I gotta change my thought there. This was one where I went, Chris, I think you were pretty spot on here.


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[Assistant] I mean, it was fake to Debo, fake to McCaffrey, screen to Kittle. You know, fake to Debo, fake to McCaffrey, pop pass over the middle, little short post to Ayuk. Right? You know, it's a little screen here to Debo. So put McCaffrey out at


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[Assistant] At Flanker, like I talked about, playing Z receiver. You are doing it again now. Well, I know I am. I can't help it. You know, but my baseline is this is the week we're going to see the unveiling, right, for the 49ers and this whole, we'll see at least another


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[Assistant] You know, they have uhm, they're gonna pose some problems too from teams in this manner.


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[Assistant] You know, again, McCavrey can block downfield, so you can play him at receiver and toss at the debo.


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[Assistant] Right. You could put Debo and McCaffrey both in the backfield and of course fake one guy running this way and the other guy goes this way and you know, okay, we pulled a guard now we faked it to Debo but McCaffrey's now running behind the pulled lineman and we gave him the ball.


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[Assistant] You know, it's going to create space for both of these football players because everyone's going to be so scared of, oh wait, he's got it. And they're dangerous in space. And then it's going to create matchups across the board. But also too, where I get into it and go, like when they get into 21 personnel, two backs and one tight end.


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[Assistant] You know, you're sitting there going, okay, it's the 49ers, when they're all lines healthy, it's, it's, it's gonna be good. And we know Shanahan can play Smash Mouth and be creative. So now you got McCaffrey at tailback and Juszczyk at fullback, who I know is a little hurt right now.


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[Assistant] But then you got Deebo and IU can kiddle. Alright, so oh man, we gotta worry about the Shanahan run game and they're coming downhill on us. And oh man, there's issues here.


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[Assistant] But then it's the, it's the speed that they have, which is very rare in that 21 personnel. And then where I want to go is, okay, so now you're in somewhat of a base defense because you're worried about this Smash Mouth. Now they go empty. And now it's Jimmy in the shotgun. First off, like if you play zone,


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[Assistant] Shanahan's too good at going, okay, they got a zone and I know how to expose this and we'll get six and seven yard completions everywhere. But then you play man and you go, well damn, we have our base defense on the field because they've been running the ball.